Alrighty chapter 45

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Chapter 45

Cassie walked up to Alaric's apartment door and knocked.

"Dad?" she called through the door.

Alaric opened the door.

"You look terrible" Cassie commented seeing her father hung-over

"Well, I feel terrible" Alaric quipped and opened the door wider so Cassie could come in.

"What happened?" Cassie asked

"I had a dose of reality last night when you were taken in front of me and I was stuck in the van" Alaric said sitting down on the couch next to Cassie.

Cassie felt guilt flash through her "oh" she mumbled "I'm sorry, I didn't think"

Alaric looked her at "I'm not going to tell you things if you keep blaming yourself for them."

"But, this is my fault" Cassie said leaning her head back and covering her face with her hands "I thought bringing you but keeping you away from harm would be the answer"

"It's was a good thought" Alaric told her trying to comfort his daughter.

"Obviously not if you had to get this hammered last night" Cassie exclaimed. "I'm trying to so hard to bring the two parts of my life together and its not working"

"Cass" Alaric said putting a hand on her shoulder, Cassie removed her hands and rolled her head towards her dad "what's going on with you?"

"Nothing" Cassie said "I'm fine, it's just hard to see other people in pain because of my actions"

Cassie stood up "I have the perfect cure for your hangover." She said walking towards the little kitchen in his apartment.

"Thanks" Alaric said dropping the subject for now.

Cassie was like Damon; Alaric noticed they both just keep things in until it just explodes. He'll get it from her.

Eventually.

"So tell me what happened after you poured your first drink?" Cassie asked handing Alaric a cup.

"Honestly, I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure it involved a drunken two hour phone call to Meredith." Alaric said taking a drink after he finished.

"Ouch" Cassie said "but I know Meredith, she'll be pretty forgiving"

"How do you know Meredith?" Alaric asked trying to get more information from his daughter.

"Jenna and her were close" Cassie told him "she used to help babysit me when Jenna would come over."

Alaric nodded "so tell me about you and Klaus" he prodded.

Alaric could have sworn that he saw Cassie's cheeks turn a faint pink.

"There isn't a whole lot to say," She shrugged, "I told him he has gotta work for it, and me to. We're not stupid we both know that it's going to be hard. But he wants to try"

"And you?" Alaric asked

Cassie took a breath "I want him to want to try" she said looking at Ric "does that make any sense, I'm not trying to play him or string him along, but its good to know he is going to make an effort."

Alaric let out a breath "thank god, I was so afraid you were head over heels in love and planning to run away with him."

Cassie looked at her dad, one of her eyebrows were raised.

Alaric looked down sheepishly "Elena might have mentioned the fact that you tended to fall in love pretty quickly and I was concerned"

Cassie scoffed "dad, I was with Mason for seven years, and besides a few one nighters, I haven't been with anybody else long term"

"Oh" Alaric said a blush creeping up his face "now, that is taken care of can we talk about anything else"

"please" Cassie said sliding a plate of eggs and toast to Alaric.

"how about we talk about what you plan on doing after we get the cure?" Alaric asked.

"I kinda want to stay" Cassie said quietly "if you guys let me"

"Don't be ridiculous Cass, of course we want to stay" Alaric said taking a bite of the eggs "especially if you cook like this all the time" he finished.

Cassie gave a small smile "I'm not quite sold on Elena wanting me to hang around"

Alaric walked over to her and hugged her.

It broke his heart a little bit that she tensed and didn't really know what to do, but eventually hugged him back.

"I just found you again" his whispered kissing the top of her head "I'm not letting you so easily."

Cassie pulled away and smiled up at him. She turned back around and washed the pan she had used.

"Well, I have a younger brother to go train, so shower and finish all of your teachery stuff so we can hang tomorrow as a family" she said and walked out the door.

"I love you Cassie" Alaric said once the door shut behind her.

Cassie was walking back the Gilbert house when Damon blurred in front of her.

Cassie not knowing it was him, kicked him in the chest. Knocking him down and Cassie jumped on top him, straddling him; a stake raised high and poised to strike.

"Cassie" Damon yelled.

Cassie froze, seeing Damon. "Damn it Damon" she said getting off of him.

"You should really know better then to sneak up on me" she finished stretching out her hand to help him up.

"I needed to talk to you," he groaned using Cassie's hand to help him up.

"And you thought sneaking up on a hunter was the way to do it?" Cassie asked.

"Point taken" Damon said.

"Well talk" Cassie said as she continued walking, Damon soon fell into step.

"Heard you've had a conversation or two with my brother and your sister" Damon said.

"I do tend to talk to people I call friends" Cassie said

"What did you talk about?" Damon asked.

Cassie and Damon arrived at the Gilbert house and they both walked in.

"Why do you want to know?" Cassie asked throwing her jacket and keys on the side table before walking into the kitchen.

"Why are you hiding the conversation from me?" Damon asked plopping down into a chair.

Cassie sat in a chair as well, "I'm not hiding it from you, and none of them had anything to do with you."

"Humor me" Damon deadpanned.

Cassie shrugged her shoulders, "Elena and I had a heart to heart about how stupid she was last night, and Stefan and I were talking about what we think Mikael's plan is"

"Care to inform what daddy original's plan is?" Damon asked.

"you asked for it, we think Mikael has compelled you and Elena to be together so I could be with Klaus." Cassie said looking in the eye.

"You're with Klaus?" Damon asked.

"That's what you got from that?" Cassie asked

"Well its ridiculous so I didn't pay attention to the first part." Damon replied.

"Why is it so ridiculous?"

"Because Mikael didn't play match maker with me and Elena"

"Are you sure?"

"Extremely sure Cass, I'm not compelled"

"Are you drinking vervain?"

Damon stopped and paused "no" he said after thinking about it, "we stopped drinking vervain when we all teamed up to find the cure"

"So your not extremely sure" Cassie told him.

Damon stood up "why is it every time I finally find someone there has to be an ulterior motive?" he asked looking at her. "Are you still that hung up over what happened?"

Cassie stood up as well, "get over yourself Damon, I'm over you, been over you for a while, I'm with Nik and it starting to piss me off that everyone thinks that I'm still crazy about you." she snapped.

Damon was stunned silent.

"And I don't care if you're happy with Elena, that's great. But don't you want it to be on your terms? After everything Katherine put you through, do you really want someone else manipulating your feelings?" Cassie asked.

Damon sat back down "I just want" he trailed off.

"I know" Cassie said softly

"What did you say to Elena about last night?" Damon asked.

"The usual, you're a dumbass for trying to ruin the mission and putting the kids in danger." Cassie said.

"Ya" Damon said running his hands through his hair. "About that, if I apologize now, can I avoid the lecture?"

"Depends, if you mean it or not" Cassie said.

Damon grabbed Cassie's hand "I'm sorry, truly I wasn't thinking about the kids or what it meant for you and your friends when we walked in." he said his blue eyes shinning.

"I believe you, and I forgive you, no harm or foul but Damon if one of those kids had been hurt" she warned

"I don't know what I would have done," Damon said, "to earn your forgiveness"

"You wouldn't have gotten it no matter what you did, those kids were innocent and I don't know your pathetic excuse for crashing, and honestly, after hearing Elena's I don't want to hear yours," Cassie said

"I understand" Damon said removing his hand from hers. "But what I don't understand, after I woke up in the van I saw you and Katherine with those kids"

"And?" Cassie asked.

"And I was shocked how good you two were with them, you two are some of the scariest people I know, and it was strange to see you two so caring and willing to do anything for those kids." He finished.

Cassie took a deep breath and put her face in her hands for a second.

"It could have been our kids" Cassie said quietly in her hands.

"I don't get it" Damon asked confused.

Cassie looked up at him, "I don't know if I can make you understand," she told him honestly.

"You don't have to try" Damon said "I just thought maybe you would talk to me about it."

"Why?" Cassie asked

Damon shrugged his shoulders "we have this older sibling team badass thing going on, and I know we have told everything to each other before, so I thought"

Cassie rolled her eyes "well since we have this older sibling team badass thing. But your right, we have been pretty up front with each other."

Cassie was just about to start telling him when someone knocked on the door.

"I'll get it," she said getting up and walking the way to the door.

She opened the door. "Nik?" she asked seeing him leaning against her doorframe. "What are you doing here?"

Klaus held up the post it note "I wanted to talk about your forms of communication." He said with a smirk on his lips.

Cassie laughed.

Damon sauntered over to the door. "Well, if it isn't the big bad hybrid" he said standing next to Cassie.

"Damon, what are you doing here?" Klaus asked standing up straight, his playful tone gone.

"Oh, you know just two old pals catching up, discussing Jersey Shore and baking cookies." Damon said smirking at Klaus.

Cassie pinched the bridge of her nose "guy, can we not have a pissing contest between the two of you, same team remember." She said.

"Of course love" Klaus said.

"Ya, of course sweetheart" Damon said slinging his arm around Cassie.

Cassie's head snapped up and she elbowed Damon in the ribs, "no," she said sternly to Damon "I'm with Nik, I don't play games."

Klaus smirked at Damon while Cassie wasn't paying attention to him.

"Dually noted" Damon said "well, thanks for our lovely talk, I'll be back later to finish it, maybe in your bedroom" he finished before blurring out of the back door before Klaus could attack him.

Klaus growled and tried to get through the barrier in front of the Gilbert's house.

Cassie raised an eyebrow at him "seriously?" she asked.

"What love, he just made plans to meet my girl in her bedroom right in front of me," Klaus said looking down at Cassie.

Cassie gave him a small smile and took a step over the threshold and wrapped her arms around his waist, looking up at him she told him "you can't get into my room without another invite, besides the one to get in, it was built on"

"And he doesn't have it?" Klaus asked.

Cassie shook her head "only Rin's has one"

"Oh" Klaus said sheepishly.

"Oh" Cassie said teasing him.

Klaus cupped her face with his hands and kissed her lightly on the lips "I have to say I enjoyed how quickly you shot down Damon" he said after the kiss, his hands still cupping her face as he looked down into her eyes searching for the emotions that passed through them.

"I told you, I don't play games when it comes to this" Cassie said.

"I know, its just warming to see it in effect," Klaus told her.

Cassie closed her eyes and pulled Klaus tighter to her, she rested her head on his chest.

Klaus's hands moved from her face to over the top half of her body he started to rub circles on her back.

"Something wrong?" he asked placing a kiss on top of her head.

"It's been a long day," she told him

"Do you want to talk about it?" Klaus asked.

"I don't know" Cassie said honestly "I've never really had someone to share this kind of stuff with."

"You mean Mason never talked with you?" Klaus asked.

"No, we did, but that was before we were both thrown into the supernatural world, and the only thing we had to worry about was the baby." She said.

Klaus felt her stiffen tightly at the mention of her child. "Well come on" Klaus said reaching down to grab one of her hands "lets take a walk and we start with what you were thinking putting a post it note on my forehead"

Cassie laughed "you mean you want to know how I managed to do it without waking you up" she said

"Exactly love" Klaus told her.

They starting walking.

"So tell me" Klaus said "why were you so quick to dismiss the contest between Damon and me, you know sometimes I have be a man, stake my claim on things that are mine."

"well first things first, you can't stake your claim with me I'm not property" Cassie said

"apologies, love" Klaus said quickly

"And second," she said looking up at Klaus smiling "because there was no contest."

AN: so another sort chapter, i know its the second in a row, but college is in super hard mode with finals in two weeks so i've wanted to get something out for my lovely follwers, and i really didn't want to just post an author's note to tell you school is rough, (most of you guys understand that) so i comprosmised this and am posting small chapters. i hope that its ok with you guys.

so this chapter i wanted to focus mainly on Cassie and her relationships with three important guys in her life.

First up alaric, yes, they have bonded quickly but Cassie is really a lone wolf (no pun intended) at heart and having someone to lean on is a new and scary experince for her.

second up damon, we really haven't had much interaction between them lately and i felt the need to show them together and show that the two of them really understand a part of each other, so while cassie is not completly open with him, its more the Ric.

and lastly Klaus, i feel like its the same energy with damon because i really feel like damon and klaus are the same in alot of aspects. but cassie is really starting to uncounciessly (spelling?) rely on him and vice versa, where it goes? well only i know it ;)

So i hope it makes as much sense with you guys as it does in mine.

Love it? Hate it? don't really care about the love part and just want to get to the big bad plan? let me know.

this is fanfiction and while i love writing, if the fans don't enjoy where i'm taking it.

well whats the point?

so thanks for reading an authors note that might almost be the length of the chapter!

-rycbar123