Chapter 22

"You son of a bitch!" Elena stormed into the café and slapped Klaus round the head. Luckily Alex was holding Archer or it would not have ended well with the strength that Elena put into the slap.

"Alex, Stefan is outside can you take Archer to him?" Elena sounded furious and everybody in the café was looking at her, Alex stood up from the table and then Klaus started,

"What the fuck was that for?" they were both shouting which made everyone look at them even more.

"Who cheated on you wife, my best friend with that bimbo!" at that moment any children in the room were ushered out by their mothers, unless they wanted to know what happened.

"What?" Klaus was now standing and fortunately he was not much taller than Elena, but he was an original who had the power to kill Stefan.

"The watch Caroline gave you for your birthday, the one that says 'I love you Niklaus Mikaelson -Caroline' you left it on the bed side table after your drunk 'n one night stand. Lucky for you this one didn't end in a child!" everyone in the room made a face or started to whisper to the person next to them. "Why would you? She is your wife, she takes care of Alex even though he is not her child, and she loves you no matter how many stupid, inconsiderable things you do. Why Klaus? That is all I want to know."

He was frozen, Elena had never talked to him like that, and he didn't like it at all, but he remembered the night, the worst night of his life, the one where he was unfaithful to Caroline.

"I was drunk, and you pointed out, it was the night Haley died, Alex was with his grand-parents and Caroline was not even in New Orleans at the time." Hearing him say it now, she could hear the sorrow and regret in his voice. "I decided to go drinking and then well you know how it ends. I never told Caroline about it and I just told her the watch got stolen. You know the month when I disappeared and no one knew where I went?"

Elena nodded slowly, thinking weather or not she wanted to know what was about to come out of his mouth.

"I was with Rebekah and Elijah, I needed the time to think." He turned to everyone who was still watching and who hadn't made a swift exit already, "Rebekah is my sister and Elijah is my brother. I have never cheated since." He turned back to Elena at the last part and she could see it in his eyes that he meant it.

"I torture myself about it because, I hurt Alex, he needed me most then and I want there for him, and instead Caroline was."

Without hearing the rest of the conversation, Stefan came in and walked straight up to Klaus and punched him in the face, as hard as he could.

"That is for cheating on my friend." Just as Klaus was recovering from the first blow, Stefan lifted his foot and kicked Klaus right in the balls, he hunched over and then fell to the floor,

"And that is for trying to sleep with my wife 5 years ago." The remaining crowd gave Stefan a round of applause, and Stefan took a little bow for a bit of humour to lighten the mood in the room.

Klaus was regaining his manly hood and managed to get a quick word in,

"She wasn't your wife then!" he shouted and then Stefan kicked him again in the balls, hard.

"We were engaged! That counts!"