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Chapter 52

Cassie had drifted off to sleep as she healed, so Klaus just wrapped his arms around her and laid down with her.

One hand kept playing with her hair, as what she said to Elijah kept replaying in his mind. She was shaken up by Mikael? Was it just because she was injured or was this man that raised him actually scaring her?

Cassie rolled around so she was facing him. Klaus cupped her face and his thumb traced her cheekbone.

"Nik, are you ok?" she asked through her sleepy eyes as she started to wake up.

"I was just thinking" he replied.

She opened her eyes fully, taking in his face, although not making any motion to move from where she was.

"Ask Me," she said after studying hiss face.

"What?" he asked.

"That is your I'm thinking about the worst possible scenario instead of just asking face" she said.

"You told Elijah that you were shaken up from Mikael" he said

Cassie nodded her head "I did, and your question?" she asked softly.

"Were you just shaken because you were injured or does he really scare you," he asked.

Cassie took a deep breath "Nik I'm not arrogant in my abilities, I can take on any vampire just fine and I can hold me own against your siblings sometimes, but you and Mikael, my best hope is to just not die until someone else can come help." She told him.

"Me?" he asked.

"Yes, Mr. original hybrid, your powers are better then mine," she teased him.

"I would never ever hurt you Cassie," he said.

"I know that" she soothed mimicking his movement with her own to his face.

"But Mikael would" Klaus said.

"Mikael has" she corrected him "and today, I was alone and hurt. I had no idea if my siblings were stupid enough to invite him in when they were working with him."

Klaus was quiet.

"Nik?" she questioned.

"Turns out my worst case was the right case," he confessed.

"I don't understand"

"Cassie, that man raised me. And you are scared of him"

"No, Nik you are not him"

"Damn near, he is chasing down his children to the ends of the earth. Cassie I stored my siblings them boxes for years. Not to mention ripping my mother's heart out."

"That was in the past, your changing yourself and you feel remorse for your actions, that's what you different from him"

Klaus didn't say anything. "Hey" she said snapping him out of his thoughts "do you trust me?" she asked.

"Of course" he said

"Then trust my judgment. I trust you, I feel safe with you. Do you really think I would be with anybody who I thought could even remotely be a monster?" she asked.

Klaus just smiled and leaned down to kiss her, laying her back on her back.

Jeremy was sitting down with Matt on their break from the grill.

"Man I screwed up," Jeremy said.

"I'll say" Matt agreed "you pretty much threw all of Cassie's work down the drain and have to start back at the beginning."

"I just never thought that this hunter thing would take over my life completely." Jeremy said

"Cassie has never been one to over exaggerate" Matt told him.

"I was talking to her earlier and she thinks that going away is the best thing" Jeremy said

"Where are you thinking?"

"I'm hoping the lake house and not where Cass trained."

"I don't see her taking you away from school, so it's probably just the lake house"

Damon was laying on the floor in the living room.

"What are you doing?" Stefan asked seeing him.

"Thinking" Damon, said.

"Do I want to know?"

"When you black out, what's it like?"

"What?" Stefan asked sitting on a couch. "Why?"

"Never mind"

The two brothers sat in silence, not knowing how to be around each other.

"Look" Damon said still staring at the ceiling. "You know I don't do heart to heart thing but I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry"

"What?" Stefan asked shocked.

"This sucks for you, seeing Elena like this."

"You know I'm not mad at you Damon, for once this isn't your fault"

Damon gave a heartless chuckle. "Why is it so easy for you to do the right thing"

"Its not easy for me, its hard" Stefan confessed

"Then why do you do it?" Damon asked.

"Because it's the right thing to do," Stefan told him.

Damon stared at the ceiling for a little bit longer.

"Damn it" he groaned and then got up and left.

Stefan smiled at his big brother and then left to go to the grill.

Alaric was still drinking at the grill when Rebecca sat down next to him.

"Are you here to kick my ass" Alaric slurred.

"Ug" she said "well first I'm going to give you a breath mint" she finished handing a mint "and now I'm going to talk some sense into you"

"I'm way past sense," he said.

Rebecca rolled her eyes, "ok your daughter needs you"

"She doesn't need me" he protested, "I just beat her"

"She doesn't blame you" Rebecca said, "she never did"

"Rebecca, would you forgive your father?" Alaric asked.

Rebecca ordered a drink and a glass of water for Alaric.

"That's different," she said softly downing the shot while Alaric sipped the water.

"How? Your father has chased you to the ends of the world, and now I attacked mine." He countered.

"My father wants to kill my brother, has made it his life mission." Rebecca said "you hurt your daughter once when you weren't yourself and once when you walked away from her today."

"Did she tell you that?" Alaric asked finishing his water and getting a coffee.

"She didn't need to, I know how it feels" Rebecca said. "So sober up, stop feeling bad for yourself, and be there for your daughter. Because we need you."

Alaric nodded and Rebecca got up and left.

Cassie was still in bed curled up in her sheet watching Klaus as he wondered around her room.

Klaus seemed to stop at every picture, of her dancing, of her with her friends.

Cassie was just content to watch him he stood up straight, like he had been taught to do when he was growing up, he was in his dark blue boxer briefs so Cassie could see his tattoos. There were faint scars on his upper back and shoulders from what, Cassie could only guess.

She was enjoying today, it was like they got to finish their date, she figured by now everyone in their Scooby gang knew about what had happened between her and Alaric so they were giving her the day. That was fine by her.

"I love these pictures of you dancing" Klaus said looking at her.

Cassie smiled "I love to dance, it's my escape."

Klaus just smiled at her and went back to looking at her room.

"Ok, what do you think" Cassie asked, "I have to know"

Klaus turned "I think you have a lot of people you care about."

"Is that it?" she asked.

"Well I haven't gone through enough drawers," he said turning towards her dresser.

Cassie squealed and jumped out of bed and jumped on his back. "That's for a rainy day," she whispered in his ear.

"Well," Klaus said looking into the mirror so he could see her. "What should we do?"

"I don't know" she answered "lets go somewhere"

"Nope sorry" Klaus said letting her down.

"Excuse Me," she said putting her hands on her hips. "Why not"

Klaus's lips quirked up, at seeing her short frame wearing his shirt with her hands on her hips.

"Because I'm not letting you leave until my blood is out of system." He said.

"Because going out to eat might kill me," she countered.

"The world is filled with dangers," Klaus said wrapping his arms around her.

"Well luckily for me I have my own knight in shining armor to save the day." She said putting her arms around his neck.

"I already saved you today" he reminded her.

"Oh I have a limit?" she asked laughing.

"Well, I cant have you thinking that I spend all my time saving damsels in distress, have to keep the mystery of who I am going" he said.

Cassie scrunched her nose "I'm not interested in playing a game of clue" she said.

Klaus kissed her nose "who said you could figure me out?" he countered.

"Is that a challenge?" she asked.

"I guess it is" Klaus said smirking,

"Well then that is my new task, finding out who you are" she said.

"In one sentence or less" Klaus added.

Cassie thought for a moment "ok, challenge accepted." She said smiling at him.

Klaus leaned downed to give her a soft kiss.

"So since we can't go anywhere, what are you going to do with me?" she asked biting her lip.

Klaus snaked his hands down to cup her ass and bring her closer to him.

Cassie's breath caught in her throat as she looked into his eyes. They were burning with an emotion that Cassie hadn't seen before she made a note to think about it later.

When she was a little less busy.

"I can think of a few things," he whispered leaning down to kiss her.

Reality came crashing down over her as Cassie took a step back form him.

"Cassandra?" he asked, all teasing gone from his face.

Her eyes shot up to meet his.

"Oh my god" she whispered.

"What?" he asked closing the gap between the two of them again "Talk to me" he begged cupping her face and staring into her eyes.

"What are we doing?" she asked.

"We are spending time together," Klaus answered hesitantly.

"Exactly" she exclaimed pulling away from him "Mikael showed up today, confirmed our suspicions that he wants us to be together, I have to start from ground zero with Jeremy which involves getting him to the lake house, not to mention that my dad has a killer alter ego which we have to take care of. And here we are flirting like the world isn't going to hell in a hand basket and like we aren't two major players in this game."

"You were just beaten," he said trying to calm her down

"You healed me," she said "I'm fine," she continued making her way back to where their clothes were "and now its time to figure this out"

"You can have twenty four hours Cassandra," he said.

"I have had months to try and figure this out Nik" she said, "it's the end of November and the only thing I have managed to do is get some creepy ass professor locked up. I can't afford twenty four hours."

"You aren't doing anything today" he said firmly.

"I have to" she protested fully in her clothes that were now jeans and a teal button up "we can't afford to waste anymore time."

"Well I can't afford for you to run yourself ragged" Klaus said "what if your father attacks you again, and you're to tired to defend yourself."

"And what if its Carol next or Liz or Meredith. And they die because I took time off" she yelled.

Klaus ran his hands through his hair. "Cassandra" he said, "you have vampire blood running through your veins, and if something were to happen and you die."

"I'm going, so the question is if you are or not." She said and stormed out of the room.

Klaus could feel his temper rising. Why couldn't she just stay with him? He looked around the room for the rest of his clothes as he heard her shut the door and leave.

He growled to him self as he put on his clothes.

Damon met up with Elena at the grill.

"Hey" she said smiling at him giving him a quick kiss before sitting down across from him at the table.

"So, I'm about to take a very annoying road for the first time in a long time" Damon said.

"I don't understand," she said.

"We cant do this" Damon said "its not right"

"What's not right about how I feel about you?" Elena asked.

"Because we have been compelled to feel it" Damon said "and it's not right and we shouldn't act on it"

"Damon, how I feel about hasn't been compelled of me" she countered.

"Well mine has" Damon said quietly.

"What?" she asked.

"Elena, my feelings for you have been compelled, I can feel it because whoever did it didn't remove my memories, just my feelings. And I remember kissing you at the party and I remember telling you that I didn't feel anything for you. " He confessed.

"So what are you saying?" she asked.

"I'm saying" Damon began, taking a deep breath "that until Mikael has been taken care of we cant be together." He finished before standing up and getting ready to leave.

Damon turned to leave before running into Cassie.

"Cassie" he said while he steadied her.

"Hey" she said hesitantly remembering what had happened between them the last time they saw each other.

He eyed her "I thought Alaric beat the shit out of you," he asked.

"Nik healed me," she answered, "how did you know"

"Well I am your dad's drinking buddy, plus he didn't have the handy dandy boy toy to heal him up like you did." He said smirking at her.

Cassie rolled her eyes and smacked him on the shoulder. "I didn't call him or ask him to heal me," she said moving past him to get to the counter.

"So what are you doing here?" Damon asked walking with her.

"Food" she said, "I'm grabbing some for me and Rebecca"

"Original Barbie is going to eat a burger?" Damon asked skeptically.

"Why are you here?" she countered, ignoring his remark.

"Ah" Damon said rubbing the back of his neck "I was having a talk with your sister"

"Ok, shouldn't you be getting back to her?" she asked looking at the menu.

"Well, we had just finished which is why I was leaving when I ran into you."

"So that's why Elena is glaring daggers at me?" she asked turning to the waiter to order her food.

Damon turned to look behind Cassie's shoulder and saw that indeed Elena was glaring at her sister. "Yep" he said popping the p.

"Well, you are more then welcome to come over," she told him as her food arrived.

"Can we paint my nails first?" he asked.

"Only if you bring the ice cream," she countered grabbing the food and starting to leave.

"So you aren't even going to ask what we talked about?" Damon asked.

"Do you want me to ask?" she asked him.

"Its just that most people would be digging to find out." He said.

"Its not about me" she answered simply "if you want to tell me, you will"

Damon nodded.

"But, seriously" she told him " we are all planning on how to stop this son of a bitch, so you're more than welcome to come."

Cassie was walking back to her car, throwing the food in the passenger seat; she was reading the text that Danny had sent her. "Cassie" she heard her name being called.

She looked around and saw her sister. "Elena" she said smiling "what's up?"

Elena was glaring at her "what did you say to him?" she demanded.

Cassie raised an eyebrow "can I buy a vowel?" she asked.

"Don't be a smart ass" she snapped, "Damon, you said something to him."

"I told him that if he brought ice cream I would paint his nails" she said still confused to what Elena was talking about.

"This whole thing about us being compelled to like each other." She said, "you told him to break up with me!"

"He broke up with you?" she asked.

"Oh don't act like you didn't know" she spat "you told him to do it."

"Elena, I know you were listening to our conversation, so you know this is the first time I have heard this" she said.

Elena just rolled her eyes and crossed her arms in front of her chest.

"Are you ok?" she asked concerned about her.

"Save it," she said walking away from Cassie.

"Elena!" Cassie called after her.

Cassie got into her car and texted Rebecca that she had one more stop before going over to their house.

Klaus walked into his house and saw everyone sitting in the front room.

"What is this?" he asked

"Book club" Stefan said "its your turn"

Klaus was about to retort when Cassie walked into the house with two bags and a bottle of something.

"I'm here," she said walking into the room.

Cassie handed Rebecca her food and tossed Alaric the bottle.

"Danny says drink one a day" she said "should keep your evil side at bay"

Alaric nodded.

Cassie laid down the bags and then turned to face Klaus.

"You came" she said smiling. "Are you still mad?"

"I did," he said. "And no, I'm not mad"

"Well good, and don't worry I didn't have to slay any dragons without you." She said.

Klaus darted forward and grabbed her in a hug and kissed her quickly on the lips "good, cause I left my sword in my other jeans" he whispered in her ear.

"Let me name the hundred of other things I would rather watch then the two of you kissing" Stefan deadpanned.

Cassie turned around in Klaus's arms and stuck her tongue out at him.

"So lets get started," Rebecca said getting the attention off of her brother and the girl who Rebecca was starting to see as her sister.

"Sorry I'm late" Damon said walking into the house "had to grab something" he finished tossing Cassie a pint of ice cream and a spoon.

She smiled as he sat down and looked through the bag that held Cassie's food from the grill.

He turned around and held up her French fries. Cassie nodded and Damon smirked as he turned back to face Rebecca "you can continue" he said.

"Oh thanks" Rebecca said sarcastically.

Cassie however wasn't paying attention.

She was eating the mint chocolate chip ice cream that Damon had gotten her, giving Klaus a bite every once and a while. But Klaus was playing with her, his fingers making circles and other shapes over her lower stomach and sides.

"Stop it" she whispered elbowing him into the sides.

"Never" he whispered in her ear after stealing a bite of her ice cream.

"So Cassie" Rebecca said "what are your plans for Jeremy?"

Jeremy and everybody else turned to face her.

Cassie swallowed her bite and answered. "We are heading to the lake house, start from the ground up and work on the mark"

Jeremy nodded.

"Who do you need to take?" Rebecca asked.

"I just need Jeremy" she said "everybody else has school and they can't miss it for this."

"I'll go" Damon volunteered "good way to get out of town for a while,"

Cassie shrugged her shoulders but Klaus tightened his grip around her.

"Easy tiger" she whispered to him.

"Ok, so Nik" Rebecca said, "we can work on finding Mikael, and trying to figure out what he wants"

"Well he wants Klaus dead" Jeremy said.

"Not an option" Cassie said glaring at her brother.

Jeremy held his hands up in surrender "I'm just saying.

"Easy tiger" Klaus whispered to her. Cassie rolled her eyes and elbowed him again.

"There has to be more then that this time" Rebecca said "he is involving Cassie and all of us."

A light bulb went off in Cassie's head. "I'm so stupid" she said stepping out of Klaus's arms.

"Cass?" he asked.

She turned to face everyone. "Nik killed Mikael and who brought him back?" she asked

"Ester" Alaric answered.

"So we are assuming she only brought him back and not her," she said.

Klaus catching to where she was going with this "so why wouldn't she bring herself back as well." He finished for her.

"Exactly" she said smiling at him.

"So now, we have mama and papa original on our asses" Damon asked

"But this is a good thing" Cassie said.

"How?" Bonnie asked.

"Because, when the line was severed the last time she was here it rendered Ester powerless, the line is still severed so she is still powerless." Cassie said. "But Bonnie, you aren't and if it's a spell that brought the two of them back."

"Then there is a spell that can kill them again," Bonnie said.

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