Sorry this update took so long, I just took a major break from writing. This chapter 'Better Than Revenge' is supposed to be because Elizabeth is getting revenge on Klaus and Klaus is getting revenge on Elizabeth. But we also learn a bit more about Charlotte and Klaus' relationship.

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Chapter 5: Better Than Revenge

Elizabeth knew it was petty, but since her and Matt and started hanging out, she kept hoping that Klaus would somehow see them together. She needed him to see that she was serious about moving on from him, and she really needed him to beg her to go back to him. Even before the thought occurred Elizabeth knew it, she still however sucked in a breath of air as she realised that that was legitimately all she wanted from Matt.

She frowned to herself, sitting in her new apartment and looking out the window at the town. How could she be so shallow, and even a little bit manipulative. Matt seemed to really like her, every time they were together and they had one of those moments (the kind where you just expect a kiss out of it) she heard his heart speed up which made her own heart seem to melt with excitement. He was so sweet to her, this was why the thought that she was just using him was so utterly shocking. Maybe, Elizabeth thought to herself, maybe she didn't want only that.

If she was being perfectly honest, she had wanted to kiss him every time they'd gotten close to it. She had nearly done it on more than one occasion as they'd been hanging out, but Elizabeth firmly believed that if he wanted to, he would kiss her. But then maybe he was thinking exactly the same thing. Elizabeth sighed and stood up, going over to her impressive closet and stripping off into her underwear and just standing there. Here came the tricky bit, trying to find something to wear.

She knew it was shallow, but as she was a prostitute she really couldn't get past how people viewed her, she was terrified that they would figure it out, and yet they really couldn't have. With her long blonde and luscious curls, and her beautiful kind smile with her white teeth, she really didn't look like the hooker type that she had branded herself. In fact, only a few people even knew about her dirty past, and those people – bar Charlotte – she trusted entirely.

Almost too entirely. Elizabeth sighed and pulled out a rather provocative dress that she'd bought to wear the next time she anticipated she'd run into Niklaus, she held it in front of her body for a few seconds and then shook her head and threw it on the couch, turning back to the closet once more and selecting a much more modest dress and sighing again as she put it on, not even looking at herself before she left to go and meet up with Matt.

While Charlotte had never even thought about her appearance much, it was a lot harder to decide what to wear tonight. Her and Klaus were having drinks at a bar not far from Mystic Falls in order to celebrate kidnapping (although she was pretty eager to go with him) Elena and stealing several quarts of her blood in order to make Hybrids. Charlotte however was celebrating for another reason, Elizabeth was out of Klaus's life.

To her that seemed to be something worth celebrating, Charlotte had been with Klaus almost constantly for the last 2 days and never, not once, had he had word from Elizabeth. It was just like it was when they first became friends and Elizabeth hadn't even been born yet. Those were the days! Charlotte knew it was wrong, but a part of her would always hope for Elizabeth's death, or at least that she would stay away from Klaus for, well, ever.

She knew that her death would hurt Klaus, but it wouldn't hurt him nearly as much as she had been for the last 900 and however many years her repulsive sweet and annoyingly perfect body had walked the earth. Charlotte sighed and picked up a sexy black dress that showed a bit of breast and smirked, holding it up in front of her. This was perfect, she'd either seduce Klaus and have her way with him, or simply seduce someone else who was just as worthy of her time.

Klaus was going to knock, really he had planned on it and then he thought about the possibility that she was… indecent and he decided that they were friends and had been friends for a long time. Besides, it was nothing he hadn't seen before. He walked inside and saw Charlotte standing there looking at him in black lace lingerie. He smirked at her and she rolled her eyes at him, slipping into a dress.

He couldn't control his thoughts, it was like he was a teenage boy all over again, going back to the days where he had not seen or felt Charlotte's naked body before. And now that he had actually let the thought into his head he shut the door behind him, just looking at her. He knew that she would probably be able to recognize the look on his face, he knew she'd seen it several times before.

He took a few steps towards her, stopping her from putting on the dress completely, the back was still unzipped and he slid the shoulders off of her. He saw her perfectly shaped eyebrow arch up into a moderately amused face and he flashed her a quick smirk before letting his hand come up and slide gently around behind her neck, pulling her face towards his and kissing her gently. He knew that this was partly just because he's seen her getting dressed, but mostly because he did not feel like he could control himself anymore, he needed her and he hated that he did.

It was the same feeling that he felt around Elizabeth. Klaus nearly cursed as her name popped into his head, it was like he couldn't shake her from his memory and he felt like he really needed to. He knew that Charlotte was ecstatic that she was no longer a part of his life and Klaus knew that this meant he didn't exactly have to make a choice, he was sort of hoping that he could have had them both however. But he knew that Elizabeth and he were far too different for anything to really come from it. Which he truly hated.

Charlotte smiled as his lips touched hers, she was glad that she was this irresistible to him. However sure she was that Elizabeth was still playing on his mind, she was still glad that it was her that he was spending time with. It killed her to think about how much he meant to her though, it really did. She hated how many feelings she had now, compared to the years where she was ruthless and harsh and a killing machine.

She wished she could go back to the way things were when she first turned, when her and Klaus tore across entire countries and killed millions upon millions of people. But Charlotte knew she couldn't go back, which was a thought that she truly hated.

When Charlotte first turned.

Klaus was waiting, he was moderately petrified that she wouldn't wake up. He had asked his mother if it was possible to turn another being into a vampire and she said that it was but they hadn't tried it, and the certainly didn't know if they could turn Charlotte as she was a witch. The thought of her not waking terrified Niklaus to no end. This was Charlotte, his best friend. His most loyal friend. She was his only friend that had not completely ignored him when his mother turned their entire family into vampires. And Niklaus honoured loyalty. He sat there, staring at her unmoving body and just sighed.

It had been three hours since he had snapped her neck. Niklaus' brother Kol placed a hand on his shoulder in a comforting way and Niklaus just sat there, he closed his eyes for a moment before standing up and just looking at Kol and then Elijah and lastly Rebekah. Rebekah and Charlotte were friends as well, honestly she was moderately friendly with the entire family, even Elijah and her got along.

Rebekah wiped a tear from her eye and Niklaus nodded a little, going over and pulling his sister into a hug. Niklaus pulled away after a moment and looked back at Charlotte's body "Mother told me that it would work…" he said quietly and Kol nodded along with it. Elijah frowned a little and just shrugged, not knowing what to say. It was then that Finn perked up, he was standing in the corner of their little hut and he had been fairly silent before hand, Niklaus knew that Finn was opposed to turning Charlotte in the first place, he thought she deserved a human life.

"Mother may have lied, not wanting another abomination on the earth" was all he said simply before walking out of the room. That was the night that Finn left the family. Kol and Rebekah left to go and feed and Elijah and Niklaus were going to deal with Charlotte's body, Niklaus supposed that they should perhaps tell Charlotte's brother what had happened too.

Niklaus had never gotten on well with her family, especially her parents… not that it mattered considering they were dead. He sighed and looked down at her body once more, he knelt beside her and lifted her up gently. He hated to see how her head dangled slightly, and he hated to feel how limp she was in his arms. He really hated it.

He and his brother took her out to where they had buried their brother Henrik and they dug her a grave, Niklaus had wrapped her in a blanket and by this stage Rebekah and Kol had returned, Kol had brought her some flowers which Rebekah but through Charlotte's beautiful red hair. They all just stood and looked at her body for a while before Klaus gently put her in the ground.

They could see her face as they slowly filled the grave with dirt. They all stood there once the grave was finished, everyone slowly left though and eventually it was just Niklaus standing there alone. Staring at the pile of dirt. The guilt and sorrow he felt was truly unbearable, his emotions had been heightened and this pain was just too much to really understand.

It was then that Niklaus left for a while, when he returned he was covered in blood. His mother's blood. He heart was still in his hand, but her body was not near him. He put her heart on top of the grave, it was his mothers fault that Charlotte was now dead, it was his mother who had promised that creating another vampire from the blood of an existing one was possibly and he had tried it, killing his best friend.

Niklaus was just about to leave when he heard a strange sound, he turned back to the grave to see the dirt pile moving strangely, it was then that Charlotte's little hand clawed it's way out of the grave. Niklaus just stood and stared in shocked.

Once Charlotte was completely out she let out a few coughs and just looked at him, "You freaking buried me?!" she half yelled. Niklaus just laughed and hugged her tightly, grinning when she hugged him back. From the look on her face Niklaus could tell that she had no idea what was going on, he couldn't help but laugh at the expression. She raised her eyebrow, her face covered in dirt as was her body.

Charlotte looked at Niklaus for a long time, confused as to why he buried her, he hadn't told her that it was part of the process and so she was sceptical. It wasn't until Rebekah saw her and started crying that Charlotte actually got told that she was dead for almost an entire day and that it seemed like she was gone forever. Charlotte was sick of hugging all the Mikaelson's, especially when she was still covered in dirt and really just felt like washing up.

It was then that Niklaus snapped at his family members, telling them to leave them alone and as always they seemed to listen, although they each kicked up a fuss. Eventually though, it was just Charlotte and Niklaus and she smirked at him, her eyebrow raised. "Were you worried about me Nikky?" she asked, a hint of her cheeky attitude colouring her voice.

Niklaus scowled at her when she called him by the much too familiar nickname that she had donned on him when they were children, he hated it so much but he always seemed to accept it when it was from her. He rolled his eyes and stood up from the ground where they were sitting. "You are covered in filth, Charlotte." He muttered to her, a smirk on his own face now, "the stench is remarkably horrible" the look on his face clearly hinted that he was joking and the small grin on her face hinted that she understood. Niklaus then winced as Charlotte punched his arm with her very slight new found strength.

They looked at each other for a while before he spoke "Go wash yourself, I shall wait for you here and then we shall go and have some fun" he said gently to her. His gentle tone was rarely given to anyone other than Charlotte and his baby sister, it was a rare occurrence for him to even show an ounce of care towards anyone else. Even before he'd become what his brother Finn classed as an abomination he'd always been very distant, anyone could have seen however that it was all due to his father – well, step father, he supposed.

Mikael had always hated him and with Niklaus having recently made the decision to end his dear unfaithful mothers life, Niklaus was sure that Mikael would soon be drawn towards him full of hatred and vengeance in mind. This thought scared Niklaus, more so than he cared to admit, but he would admit it to one person, Charlotte. The person who he knew would always be there for him. Well, her and the rest of his family. He would never however, tell the others who had killed their mother, when they found out Niklaus would sure as hell tell them it was Mikael. A lie is not a bad thing if it aids in keeping family together.

He waited for Charlotte returned, he knew from because of what Esther had said before he ever so gently ripped her cheating heart out of her cheating chest, that Charlotte needed to feed, otherwise she would die, and Niklaus obviously didn't want that. Once she did return her simply took her hand and lead her into town, it was just on dusk and they went into the local tavern where their neighbour sold their wine to the locals.

They looked around the place and as they walked in, people looked at them. The townsfolk where far more accepting to Charlotte and her family since Niklaus and his family had become 'monsters' even though the wolf folk viewed the witches as meddlesome and the cause for their unhappy curse, now that there was a common enemy they viewed them as friends rather than foe. Although Charlotte's parents had just been killed by wolves and so the friendly nods in her direction were not well received.

She instantly had one of the men by the throat and was glaring at him, Niklaus just raised his eyebrow and looked around at the many many shocked faces in the tavern as Charlotte viciously ripped into the throat of the man. Niklaus then joined in, together they slaughtered the entire tavern and then went on to kill many others in the town until there was barely anyone left. The only people left un-attacked were Charlotte's older brother and his fiancé.

Present time

Charlotte was kissing Klaus, every inch of her filled with desire and passion. Ever since she first met him she'd known. Obviously when two people like them meet, and this strange feeling is between them, like an electric spark. It's hard for a person to ignore, especially when that person is Charlotte, who picks up on every single little thing. His hands slid all over her half naked body and she almost shivered with his touch, slowly and gently her hands slid up his arms and around his neck, and in a swift motion Klaus had her pressed against the wall with her legs around his hips.

They went on like this for hours, just kissing until he eventually pushed her down onto the bed, their clothes seemed to just vanish and he gently slid himself deep into her. It was incredible to feel his hard length fill her entirely. The feeling seemed to reach her entire body rather than just one area, it was so completely captivating, and as they both let out their soft moans of pleasure, they each knew. It was that moment that they both knew that they did indeed love each other.

So there ya go. Klaus and Charlotte are in love, but he can't get his thoughts of Elizabeth and Elizabeth can't get her thoughts off of him. What will happen, no one knows. Not even me.

I'm really interested to hear your thoughts on the lovely ladies, because I have my own preference as to who I'd like Klaus to end up with but you may think something completely different. Let me know and you may sway my decision. PLEASE REVIEW GUYS! 3

I'll update next week, I promise! I'm starting to write it right now!