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Some Kind of Progress:
Klaus started to drink one of the beer cans they had. Beth couldn't help but notice that he was disappointed but more than that, he looked upset. Beth took a step back and leaned against the trees to give Klaus some space. It wouldn't be smart of her to antagonize him now and she knew that. A few minutes later they saw Stefan coming out of the trees, he had Ray over his shoulders except this time he looked dead for real.
Stefan looked around at the dead bodies and then at Klaus was still there looking miserable. "They went rabid." He told him and Stefan put down Ray. Klaus stood up and walked over to them. "Some of them, I killed. The others just…bled out. In the end…they're all dead." Klaus yelled and threw his beer bottle up against a tree that was behind him in anger. He looked at them. "I did EVERYTHING I was told!" He shouted out. Beth saw his eyes wet with tears. She couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for him. He had spent centuries trying to break it and probably lost most of his family too and it wasn't working. "I should be able to turn them."
I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the doppelganger." He counted them all off. He suddenly stopped and looked up at Stefan. Beth tried to keep her heartbeat steady. She was almost sure he realized that Elena was still alive and at Mystic Falls. Stefan tried to keep a straight face too, neither of them saying anything. "You look like hell."
"Last I checked, I'm dying…and you don't want to heal me." Stefan reminded him calmly. Klaus looked at him and then at Ray who was lying on the ground. "I had to take him out. I didn't have a choice. I failed you. I'm sorry. Do what you have to do." He told him taking a step forward.
Beth took a step forward too. She couldn't let Klaus kill him, no matter how much he wanted to die. Klaus was too concerned with him though. "It should have worked." He said. He turned around and grabbed an empty beer bottle. He stared at Stefan and Beth before turning and biting his hand. He clenched his teeth as he squeezed his hand and let the blood run into the bottle. He held it out to Stefan who took it. "We're leaving." He told Stefan and Beth. He walked away to leave them but stopped, looking back. "It appears you two are the only comrades I have left."
He took one last glance at Beth, who's eyes held sympathy and walked away, further into the woods. Stefan drank from the bottle. Beth sighed. She knew this was a bad idea but she followed Klaus. She moved away from Stefan before he could argue and into the woods. It was getting darker but she managed to find her way. She couldn't find him though. "Did anyone ever tell you to not kick a dead horse when he's down?" Beth jumped as she turned and saw Klaus was leaning on a tree. He was still upset, that was apparent. "But, knowing you, sweetheart, you wouldn't listen."
"I came…I came to see if you were okay." She said softly. He raised his eyebrows at her but saw she was serious. He shouldn't have been so surprised because she had always been compassionate, even towards him but she hadn't shown she cared about him once since she met him again in the school. She bit her bottom lip, hoping she didn't set him off.
He let out an uncomfortable cough. "Thanks, love." He said quickly looking down. He hated to seem weak in front of anybody especially her. But she wouldn't ever use it against him, no matter how much she disliked him. Beth nodded. She turned to walk away before stopping, and turning back to look at him. She nervously started to
"Um…thank you…for saving my life." She thanked him so quietly that if he weren't a vampire he wouldn't have heard her at all. She averted her eyes from his, until he finally spoke.
"Don't mention, sweetheart." He told her. "Seriously…don't." She nodded in agreement. She wasn't used to trying to be nice to Klaus. He made her come with him and she just wanted to get back home but she couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Beth didn't know what else to say to him. She started to walk back to Stefan. "Wait….. why don't you call that godfather of yours? You've been good so far, I trust you'll keep our location out of your conversation." Her mouth dropped open. He handed her, her phone and started to walk away to give her some privacy.
Beth smiled a little as she began to call Alaric. Her other hand was fiddling with her necklace. She could finally tell him she was okay and that she was safe. The last thing she wanted was for him to worry about her. She asked him to please pick up under her breath while she waited for the call to connect. Her heart sank into her stomach when it was his voice mail. She sniffed up tears that threatened to come as she began to talk. "Hey, Ric. It's, uh…its Beth. I'm okay." She assured him first off. "I can't tell you where I am but I'm okay. I promise. I don't know when I'll be able to speak again but…just stay safe." Beth's grip tightened on her pendant as tears fell from her eyes. "I love you and I miss you." She hung up the phone.
Leaving the message made her realize how much she really did miss them all. She missed being with her friends and with Ric. She couldn't help herself as she started to cry. She sank on the ground, leaning on the tree as she cried out her tears, not knowing that Klaus was only a few feet away and heard everything.
After a few minutes, Beth got herself to stop crying. She took a few deep breaths and stood up. She heard the sound of a twig snap and quickly looked behind her. Klaus walked up to her, where her eyes were still red but she was glad she was no longer crying. The last thing she wanted was to seem weak and have him use that against her. His face was unreadable though, "Elizabeth…."
"He's not there." She told him quickly. "Let's go."
"You can try again tomorrow morning, love." He offered softly to her. She moved to walk past him but he grabbed her arm and she struggled to pull it out of his grip but he was too strong. "Elizabeth."
"Don't, Klaus!" She told him, shaking her head. The tears in her eyes were threatening to spill but she wouldn't let them. Klaus felt guilty enough as it was. He felt worst knowing that she was crying because of him. "Just don't. I don't want fake sympathy, or you mocking me or taunting me about it. So just don't!"
"If you'd stop being so bloody stubborn, you'd see I wasn't trying to mock you." He said not letting her go. She finally got out of his grip and took a step back.
"And I'm supposed to believe that?"
Klaus tried not to show how hurt he was. If anyone ever believed anything he said it was her. She could always tell when he was lying to her. "No, but it'd be nice if you did."
Beth wasn't convinced though. "Why? You don't care, you never have. Why the hell should I believe that you care now?" She yelled at him.
Klaus took a few steps forward and Beth resisted the urge to step back as his face turned to anger and frustration. "You don't know a bloody thing, sweetheart." He told her in an icy tone. "I've had a bad night, so I'd suggest you take your winnings tonight and shut the hell up."
Beth was slightly taken back but she knew she shouldn't have been. She scoffed. He had a bad night? She's had a bad summer! He took her away from her home and her family and her friends and he had the nerve to say he had a bad night! "So sorry, you've had a bad night, Niklaus!" She snapped at him. He glared at her.
"I told you not to call me that!"
"What are you going to do? Threaten me? Go right ahead! I have nothing to lose! Everyone I love is…. dead! Or I'm never going to see them again." She shouted at him. A traitor tear fell down her cheek and Klaus actually felt his heart sink, which he didn't think was possible. He thought that he could change her mind about him and they could go back to how they were. She always loved to travel with him, sometimes she asked him to bring her but he just made her miserable and made her feel, like he did…alone. He hurt her, more than she even knew. But he knew better, she wasn't alone.
"You'd be surprised in who you have left, love."
She scoffed sadly as she sat back down on a rock. "I seriously doubt that, the only family I had left, I had to leave to keep safe." He felt worst cause there was nothing he could do. He wasn't used to trying to comfort someone. It wasn't him. "Why do you hate me so much, that you took me away?"
Klaus was surprised. That was the last thing he expected her to ask, especially since it wasn't the least bit true. That was the thing about Elizabeth. You usually couldn't help but like her, even a little bit. "Never said I hated you, love. Quite the opposite actually."
"I'm sure it's pretty obvious by how you made me leave."
"And who's to say this wasn't for a bonding experience?" He asked her. Beth looked up at him and saw he was completely serious about it. The big bad original hybrid and her, with Stefan all on a bonding trip. It was the least likely combination of people that you would see together. She started to actually laugh at him. He surprising smiled at her. He had at least done something right. He had finally gotten her to laugh.
"Bonding? Why? I'm just me?" She asked when she finally stopped laughing. She wasn't really anything special. She was just your average witch.
He chuckled. It was ironic coming from her. "You don't know how important you truly are."
She rolled her eyes at him. "Vague much?"
"Of course." He smirked at her. She rolled her eyes at him but he was glad that she at least had taken her mind off of her misery, even if it was just for a little while.
"You originals. One lies, one's vague. What about the others?" She asked him.
"Kill, love, bit bratty, nothing new." He shrugged as though it was nothing but Beth was curious now. They both seemed to be cool down and this seemed to be a good time as any to ask him.
"And Kol?" She asked.
Klaus wasn't going to let her know that easy. "He was included in that list."
"Anything else?"
Klaus pretended to think about it for a minute. "Maybe, tomorrow, if you're nicer to me." He smirked at her.
"Come one! I nearly got attacked today! Okay? I deserve something!" She reasoned with him. She wanted to no more, about someone that he claimed was her 'greatest love', seeing as Elijah lied to her about it. He sighed. He knew she was right, plus it made him feel better that she wasn't angry any more. "Two sentences? Please?"
"Fine. He liked a lot of things." He told her crossing his arms over his chest as she listened to him intently. He thought for a minute and she waited patiently for him to continue speaking. "He was…. insanely passionate about one girl."
"Who was she?"
"You've got your two sentences, love." He reminded her with a grin. He knew this would be the way that he could get her to talk to him. She wanted to know more about his family and her life before and he knew. As of right now, he was the only one that could tell her about it. She was about to argue with him but he interrupted. "Rules are rules. No loopholes."
"Fine, but I think I deserve to know since I'm here. Tomorrow?" She asked standing up and brushing herself off.
"Only if you're nice to me." He replied with a smirk.
"Aren't I always, Niklaus?" She asked innocently with a smile as she walked passed him, to find Stefan. He scoffed at the remark and rolled his eyes before following after her. He made her truly laugh, which he hadn't done before. They weren't exactly on the best of terms yet but she didn't hate him. It was a start.
