Chapter 5
Cursed
Klaus POV

I follow her back to her home and she stands in the driveway to watch me approach. Once she realizes it's me in the car, she has an expression that's clear she's not thrilled to see me.
They've both got kazoos now and are playing nonsense as she unloads them from the humvee.

"Boyfriend of yours?"

"A pest. I thought you pests could spot your own kind. And if he were, I distinctly remember the words forget me and move on coming outta your mouth. Don't touch." The last two words come out as a growl when I attempt to help her.

"Ooh!" Both boys co.

"You got the mad voice."

"Go on inside. I'll be there in a minute."

"I help!"

"Oh, no you don't. We're not finding melted ice cream in the bathroom because you had to pee and forgot to take it to the kitchen."

"But mama!"

"Okay. Here. Wee little bag."

With a box of brownie mix and crackers in it. Kian takes one side and Killian the other and they take the bag inside.

"I was hoping we could talk."

"If wishes and buts were all candy and nuts, then we'd all have a Merry Christmas. I know I didn't invite you in here."

"Val did."

There's that face accompanied by a huffing growl.

"Val!"

"Yes?"

"You traitor!"

He just grins. "We had a talk earlier too."

She squints at him and again Val just grins. He waves Kians hand at her and the boy grins.

"Val said he'll take us swimming!"

"Oh good. You'll be all tuckered out so you'll have a good nap."

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No nap!"

"Yes! NAP! Ya wee turds."

"I'm not a turd! You're a turd!"

"If I'm a turd and you're half of me, doesn't that make you half turd?"

"No!"

She smiles, "Wait till you're five. You'll get fractions better."

"Why do you call them that? Turd. That's an awful nickname for our children."

"My children. You were a doaner at best."

"I know you don't mean that and you're just lashing out to hurt me. I guess I deserve it."

"Gee, ya think?"

I breathe in deeply. Stay calm, Klaus. You have things to discuss.

"My major concern is Dalilah trying to kill my first born. You were right. If I hadn't jumped into bed with someone else, I'd have never known I could procreate the natural way. Hayley was a mistake but don't you think for a second I regret my daughter."

Her shoulders relax all the way and I get the feeling she has something to say, but doesn't say it. She grabs another set of bags and takes them inside.

"I'm trying to talk to you, Rox. If I wanted to speak to the wall, I'd go home and talk to my ceiling."

The bags float in a line behind her and she attempts to kick the door shut on my face.

"Because I don't want to talk to you."

"Then will you listen to me?"

"I don't want to do that either."

I grasp her by the neck and haul her up against he wall.

"Well you're going to. Stop. Stop!" I grab her hands in mine and she plays mercy with me until her fingers snap under my strength.

I put my arm up to cover her mouth and she decides to bite me instead. I still don't move.

"We need to talk and if you don't want to talk, I don't care. But you will listen to me."

There's something in her eyes I've never seen before. I've seen her irritated, even angry, but this, I can only describe it as rage. And it's directed right at me.

(Still Klaus POV. After he's woken up.)

My chest aches. It aches in a painful way that's not just physical but it's emotional. I feel so heavy. It's like betrayal and ache times a thousand.

"Elijah?" My voice comes out weak. "Freya?"

I want to see her and at the same time I hate her. I hate her so much and I still love her! What did she do to me?!

"Relax, brother. You've just been cursed."

"Wow, I've never heard Klaus cry like that." I hear Hayley from the hallway.

"Bekah, what's wrong with me?!"

She holds me tight in her arms and I can't stop fucking crying! Stop crying! Stop being weak! What the hell is wrong with me?!

"Freya's gone to talk to her. The tribrid you pissed on cursed you to feel what she felt when you broke her heart." Hayley explains.

"This . . . this is what I did?"

How is she still alive?

"Not nice being on the recieveing end, is it?"

"Hayley, not now." Rebekah growls.

"I deserve it! I deserve it."

I feel panicked and I can't breathe and it's so intense I feel like I'm gonna be sick.

( Freya POV )

She's packed up the children and I can tell they're leaving.

"Roxanne?"

"It'll wear off about the same time mine did. So in about a year it'll ease up."

"A year? Roxanne, you're killing him!"

"And he killed me. You were dead until recently. You're telling me you never once looked in on him to see what he was up to?"

"I have and I know he's hurt you, but this is too far, Roxanne! My brother does not cry and now he wails like a banshee. It's only been one day and he's passed out twice already!"

I stop her from leaving the house by blocking her path.

"Roxanne, please, if you won't listen to him, listen to me. I'm not just here to beg you to release Klaus from that curse, but to listen to me about Dalilah. She's a thousand years older than you. You may be powerful but Dalilah is that times a thousand."

She continues to look at me like she's looking through me. Now I understand Niklaus' drunk rambling to me about how she could do nothing and make you feel like you're an insect. I've got that feeling right now. She's not looking at me. She's looking through me as if everything I have to say, she's already seen it coming and she doesn't care to hear it.

"I died because of her. As long as those boys breathe, she's going to be looking for whichever one came out first so she can suck the life out of them. They'll exist, but it won't be on his own terms. It will be a miserable life and the first born of him will be hers, and the next and the next because now that she's found a source of power again she's never going to let it go."

"And you think I don't know this? That I'm completely naive and illiterate to your world? I've had many teachers and I have many friends. Friends that do not like your brother. Please, continue to underestimate me. Dalilah will and it will be her end. Now get out of my way."

"Make me."

She grabs me by the shirt and headbutts me so hard I taste blood and see stars.

"Look at that. I did it all without using magic. How ever will I survive? He's got 12-hours of hell." She gets in to the vehicle and slams the door shut. "PS. thanks for informing me that idiot is linked to her. Dalilah now knows where I am thanks to you tit-heads. Bravo job at keeping his offspring safe. It amazes me how any of you reached adulthood the way you're constantly trying to kill each other. Now get off my lawn."

"Where are you going?"

"Somewhere none of you are."

I sigh and head for home. When I get there, Kol tells me that Klaus has been relieved of his hell because Dalilah has been here. She could feel what he felt and the only way to save herself from it was to remove the collar Roxanne put on him, which could only be removed by a witch.
Dalilah taunted him about his feelings for Roxanne and how she hates his guts, and there is nothing he can do that will ever make him love her again.

"She then proceeded to crush him some more with taunting about how he's lost his soulmate. Apparently our mother had wished for someone for each of us that would give us a chance to redeem ourselves." Elijah explains. "And she's under the impression that Niklaus and Roxanne have met before, in different lifetimes."

"So she's a traveler? That would explain why all her dreams have spawned so many books." Rebekah comments.

"But then she should have some oomph in her witchy side." Kol says with a grin.

"Oh believe me, she's got oomph. You remember how Dalilah threw me around the room like a rag doll? I've seen Roxanne do that to people. Did she even apologize?" Klaus growls.

"She said you had 12-hours of hell, and nothing more. I begged her to listen to me and she basically said she doesn't need my help, or our help, and she's leaving to somewhere we are not."

"And you let her go?!"

"What am I gonna do? Subdue her and steal her children?!"

"Yes!"

"Like Dalilah did our mother? Back her into a corner and rip away her babies? Niklaus, that is cold even for you."

He glares at me. "Excuse me for wanting them to live. I never said stealing them would be permanent. But it will be. When all this is over, I'm kidnapping her and those boys and we're going to fuck off to a drama-free zone."

"Ooh, you still love her even after she put you through hell?" Kol teases.

"He put her there first. I think he had it coming." Hayley comments.

"And for that, I think I just might like her a little bit. You really do love her, don't you?" Kol asks.
"Do you love Davina?"

The look he gives Klaus clearly says for him to drop it or you die.

"Yes, yes, finally he admits it! Now can we get on and catch up to her before she runs into Dalilah while leaving town?" Klaus growls.

"I don't think she's leaving town. She didn't have anything with her."

"Nothing?"

"Nothing. Does that mean anything?" I ask.

"It means her new safe spot already has everything she needs and she's seen this coming, and chances are it's closer than we think. Do a locator spell just over this township."

"That's incredibly narrow."

"Do it!"

Alright. I do the spell and we all know that was far too soon.

"Either someone's playing us or they want us there. Either way, it's where we're going."