Dinner with the Mikaelson's:
Beth turned around in her bed to see Kol on the other side. He was sleeping peacefully, making sure she was close to him. She smiled at the fact that even when he was sleeping he wanted to keep her safe. "I know you're awake, darling." He spoke with his eyes closed and she giggled and he flipped her underneath him and kissed her quickly. "Good morning."
"Good morning." She smiled and kissed him back. He trailed the kisses to her jaw but pulled back slightly as she touch ed his cheek getting him to stop as she spoke. "I have to tell you something."
Kol groaned. "If this has something to do with Nik, please just leave it. We'll talk later," He started kissing her neck against making her giggle and slide back up into a sitting position. "Fine. Tell me the news that I know is going to be horrible."
"Well, Klaus texted me late last night, said he wanted to talk about some things we found out about the hunter today." She said with a weak smile and gave him a kiss for good measure. Kol made a face. "Just remember that we're only friends. I just want to make sure no one else is coming."
Kol looked down and kissed her quickly. "I don't like it but if you need to go there's nothing much I can do to stop you. Just please, be careful, love. When Nik wants something he'll stop at nothing to get it." He said playing with her fingers. "And I don't want him to take you away from me."
Beth smiled and kissed him back. "I'm yours, Kol. No one else's." She snuggled into his arms. "Besides I don't have to meet up with him until this afternoon, or tonight rather."
Kol smiled wickedly down at her and leaned down to kiss her. "Then...we...have..all...morning." He said in between kisses. She giggled against his lips before pulling away.
"Yes we do, but I still need to shower and go see Caroline, so we can't take all day." She laughed as he nuzzled her neck. She intertwined their fingers as she looked into his eyes.
"No, darling,You're mine for the morning." He grinned down at her as he sealed her objections with a kiss that she once again, melted into, completely forgetting any other doubts in her mind.
xxxxx
Beth knocked on the door of the Forbes' house. She was greeted by her best friend who was shocked to see her, but immediately hugged her, making her smile. "Oh my God! I've missed you so much! I was so worried! Would it have killed you to send a e-mail or call once in a while?" She chastised her but was happy she was back.
She laughed and hugged her. "I've missed you too, Care. I have so much to tell you." She laughed as she pulled her inside the house. After an hour of spilling everything that had happen since she left, Caroline was left shock and still distrusting of Klaus, understandably.
"I still don't like him, Beth. You should be careful around him. I don't want you to end up dead...again." She said warningly. Beth gave her a weak smile. "And actually leave a message before leaving the country for more than a week again, okay? Especially when you just go off to Europe without a word, probably shopping in the most beautiful shops."
She laughed. Of course her mind would go straight to shopping. "Didn't exactly have time for that, but next time I do I'll be sure to let you know." She smiled at her friend. She really did miss her bubbly persona. Caroline was a great friend and she was just happy she supported her relationship with Kol.
"So, I'm guessing you haven't seen Tyler yet ?" She asked.
"No, how is he? I heard about everything that's happened with the hunter. Is he okay? Does Klaus still have him on house arrest?"
Caroline scoffed. "Practically. He has hybrid surrounding him every moment of every day, And Klaus just wants him protected so he doesn't lose any more hybrids. It's not like he cares about him." She pointed out. Beth sighed. She knew that was it too. He only created hybrids so he wouldn't be the only one of his kind. She knew that had to be lonely.
"I'll talk to him about it soon." She said standing up and giving her a hug. "I'm going over there now."
"Make sure Kol keeps you safe or else he'll have to answer to me. I don't care who's boyfriend he is." She told her half joking. Beth left as she stood up and nodded in agreement. "Be careful, Beth." She sighed sadly as she pulled away.
"I will. I'll see you later." She smiled as she left the concerned blond's house.
xxxxx
Beth walked straight into Klaus' mansion, knowing he would hear her before he saw her. Strangely, as she wandered in she went deeper until she passed a room where there was a torture device. She was shocked to find Connor, she thought died in the explosion was still alive and hanging from the device. Before he could look up to see her, Klaus quickly zipped and shut the door. "What the hell is up with the Red Room of Pain?" She asked.
He pulled her away. "You don't like it? I got it from the inquisition. I thought that it was nice." He smirked at her, but stopped seeing her look. "That hunter has information that I require. Believe me, love, when I say that his death would not bring us any satisfaction. I called you over so I could explain it all over dinner."
Beth raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect him to try and get a date with her. "Dinner? With you?"
Klaus grinned at her, leading her into the other room. "Of course with me, but we'll be having some other company as well. Stefan and of course little sister will be here. I hear them coming now. Come, sit at the table while I attend to them and make sure the hunter is secure." Beth nodded and left him, going to sit at the table, hoping that she wasn't going to regret coming here tonight.
20 minutes later, they were all settled at the dinner table. Beth was seated between, Rebekah and Klaus, across from Stefan. The tension was so thick you could've cut it with a spoon. A blonde girl placed food on all of their plates and Klaus smiled. "Thank you, my love." He grinned at them all as she walked away, sitting back. "I could kiss the council for burning up all the vervain in town. They made my life so much easier. Rebekah, love, eat your veggies."
Beth rolled her eyes. It was obvious that Rebekah didn't want to be there, let alone talk to her brother. "I'm not eating until you apologize." She said to him stubbornly.
"For which indiscretion? There have been so many."
"You broke my neck." Rebekah said upset.
"You threw away Elena's blood so I can't make any more hybrids." He retorted back, as if that was a perfectly good reason to have snapped his sister's neck.
"Because you took me for granted!"
"That's what big brothers do, sweetheart." He explained, frustrated.
Stefan just stared down at the table. "Let me just name the million other people I'd rather be having dinner with right now." He said in a monotone voice, obviously sick of their fighting, though Beth knew he and Damon could be just as bad.
"Klaus! Just apologize." Beth shot him a look.
He sighed. He didn't want to make her angry, after everything he did to get her to forgive him. "Alright, fine. I'm sorry. I often forget how delicate you are. Forgive me?" He asked giving her a small smile, but Rebekah wouldn't budge, completely.
"I'll take it under consideration."
Beth smiled at her. "Okay, good. Now why don't you tell me about Rebekah's hunter?" Stefan inputted, more curious about that.
Klaus nodded and sat up smiling. "Right, Alexander. Nice chap, forgoing the obvious issue. He was looking for creatures of the night, which is why we felt quite safe around him wearing our daylight rings." Klaus continued to divulge into how the hunter was looking for a certain weapon for vampires.
"So that's what this is about? A weapon?" Beth asked them confused. It didn't seem like the Orignals, who were practically indestructible had to worry about any weapon.
"Not just an weapon, Elizabeth."
"Rebekah, love, don't get ahead of the story." Klaus raising his hand as if to quiet her down before she could reveal what this weapon was.
"How is a weapon the answers to all my prayers?" Stefan asked them both. Klaus just gave Rebekah a look saying, not to spill anything. "Okay why don't we just skip the theatrics and get right to the point?"
"Not quite yet, because in order to find the weapon, we need to solve the puzzle, which seems to have disappeared."
"What puzzle?" Beth questioned him but found after a moment of silence she already knew. "The tattoo." She said softly and Klaus smiled. He knew that she would get it. "What is it of, though?"
"A map. Leading us to it's treasure."
Rebekah scoffed at that. "Fat lot of good a tattoo's going to do, if we can't see it."
"We can't, but someone else can." He turned to the girl that was serving them dinner. "Why don't you tell the hybrid to bring him in?" He said before turning back to the table/. "You see, the hunter was so eager to get to the bottom of his mystery tattoos that he mentioned there was only one other person that can see them." One of his hybrids, forcefully pushed Jeremy inside/ Beth was shocked but Stefan immediately ran towards Jeremy but was cut off by Klaus. "I wouldn't. Lucky for us, young Jeremy here, is a bit of an artist."
"I'm not helping you with anything." He said strongly to him, but the hyrbrid grabbed his hand and took off his ring, that allows him to come back to life. He tossed it to Klaus.
"Oh, I'm afraid you are." He said with a grin.
A few minutes later, Jeremy was set up drawing the tattoo of the hunter. Beth and Klaus walked back to the table. "You didn't have to kidnap him, Klaus."
"Desperate times, love." He gave her a smirk making her roll her eyes and he guided her back to the table where Stefan and Rebekah were already waiting for them.
"So tell me more about this tattoo." Stefan said.
"My sister's suitor was unwilling to tell us anything. Rebekah, however, was more than willing to investigate. Isn't that right?" He asked her. Rebekah look down ashamed. Beth gave her a hand a small squeeze. She couldn't have helped who she fell in love with, but they soon found out that Alexander knew what she was and daggered her.
"My sister's boyfriend threw a slumber party that night. Her and his brothers put us all down in our sleep. Elijah, Kol. Finn and me." He said looking over at Beth. She knew that she would ask Kol about this later. Klaus gave Rebekah an accusatory look.
"How was I supposed to know?
Klaus raised his glass mockingly. "Cheers, to my sister's uncanny ability to choose men."
Beth interrupted before it got ugly. "I thought the daggers didn't work on you, Klaus? Because you're a hybrid."
"They don't." He smirked, leading to to tell him how he slaughtered them all. Beth could see something the others didn't though. He was upset and he felt betrayed, by one of his closest siblings. "Go ahead, Rebekah! Tell him! Tell him what the hunter told you the tattoo leads to. What is this great weapon that could bring about the end of the vampire species?"
Rebekah was silent for a minute before meeting Stefan and Beth's curious eyes. "A cure. He said there was a cure." She said calmly. Beth was just as shocked as Stefan. That couldn't be the truth.
Klaus stood up walking into the other room and Stefan immediately followed him with Rebekah and Beth following after him. "There is not cure for vampirism." He argued in disbelief. He didn't want to fall for one of Klaus' tricks.
"He's telling the truth, Stefan." Rebekah said
"Then why wouldn't he had searched for it? Found it?" He demanded as Klaus poured himself a drink.
"Because when the hunters drew their final breath that night, the marks disappeared from their body, the map was gone, the brotherhood of the Five extinct. For nine hundred years, there was not a whisper of another hinter, until our friend in there showed up." Klaus explained happily. Rebekah sighed and took a step forward.
"Well, now that we have the map, what do we do next?"
"We don't do anything. You can't be trusted, little sister. You'll be blabbing this secret to the first boy who calls you pretty." He chuckled as though it was funny to him. "I mean it's pathetic, really, isn't it? How she continues to hand her heart to any man who shows her a hint of affection." Beth sighed, taking a step towards the siblings. Klaus always managed to project his feelings of love and betrayal onto his family.
"Klaus, stop it." Beth warned him. He would never get along with Rebekah if he kept doing this.
"No, Elizabeth, you'd think she would have learned by now from the endless cycle of disappointment and deception." He reasoned with her.
"But, I haven't, instead I stayed with you and let you leech every moment of happiness from my life!" Rebekah shouted back. "You know at least I fared better than Finn, Klaus left him daggered because he was tired of his judgment."
Speaking of his older brother hit a nerve. "No, Finn was a dullard. He was more interesting lying in a box." Klaus hissed at her.
Rebekah seemed to get it. "You want the cure for Elena, don't you? So you can go back to mass producing your hybrids. That's why you brought Stefan here, because you knew that he'd help you even though he hates your guts! And Elizabeth! You have some nerve to talk about me." Klaus gave her a look that was meaning for her to shut up, Rebekah knew how to hurt him other ways. "She's only here for you as your only friend, but once again you'll screw that up as well. You know what? You can shove your cure!" Rebekah yelled as she walked out of the house. Her words really seemed to hit Klaus, but he tried to hide it behind a smile as Beth left after his sister, but inside he felt as alone as always.
Beth had seen Rebekah still in tears and immediately brought her into a hug, letting her vent about her brother. She knew that in some way Klaus wanted to protect his siblings but he would just end of losing them if he continued like that. She began walking back home when she heard her phone ring. "What is it, Klaus? You should really be apologizing to your sister, you know."
Klaus sighed over the line. "We had...a temporary agreement. I know where the sword is, mostly, but I require your assistance to obtain it. Will you join me, sweetheart?" He asked, she could practically hear the grin in his voice.
"And why should I do that?"
"Because I'm your friends and little sister was right, you're my only one" Beth sighed as she heard his answer. He was purposely playing on the sympathy she had for what Rebekah said, whether it was true or not. "Elizabeth?"
"Alright, when are we leaving?" She asked as she got to her street.
"Excellent. Tonight. One hour. I'll meet you at the house. Pack for a few days, maximum. We're going to Italy, sweetheart." He smirked through the phone before hanging up leaving Beth in shock as she climbed up to her apartment. Like she suspected Kol was still up, this time playing with the x-box.
"Hello, love. How'd it go with my brother?" He asked still playing, but still simultaneously watching her take a seat by him. She knew that she would really have to convince him to let her go and getting him to stay here. "Tell me that he didn't do anything stupid."
"No...not to me anyways. You know how he and Bekah can fight." She sighed as she sat down. He paused the game and turned to look at her worried. "But he needs my help with something. There could be a cure...for vampirism, Kol. It could turn them back into humans." She told him with a smile.
Kol looked stunned. "That's what you meant by a hunter. One of the 5, you mean?"
"Yes. He has the tattoo. Klaus wants to find the cure, but to find it we needed a sword, which we know where it is. For that, I have to go away for a day or two. I told him I'd go to Italy with him to find it." She bit her lip nervously.
"You did what?" Kol said shocked and angry.
"I said I'd go help him. It wouldn't be for long, just two days probably. I'll come back afterward, but I promised him, Kol. We want to get it before something else happens to it." She said softly, trying to reason with him.
"Seriously?"He snapped angrily. Beth sighed standing up. This wasn't going to be as easy as she thought it would. He followed her into the other room.
"Here you are, doing Klaus' bidding! For what purpose, Elizabeth? You have no reason for using the cure! He just wants it because he wants the power and he's using you! Why are you so comfortable being at his bloody beck and call!" He snapped coldly. He knew that he might be unreasonable, but he didn't like how his Elizabeth and Nik were still close, after she knew everything.
"I'm not! I'm not his servant! I offered him my help, Kol. That's what friends do. I don't see why you're getting all worked up over this. It's just a few days. I'm not running off to go on a vacation with him."
"You practically are!"
"Would you stop being jealous! I told you it's just a favor! He needs me to track it down! We're friends! Why don't you understand that?"
"Because I don't trust you!" He accidentally snapped. Beth recoiled as though he had slapped her. Kol, though still angry, looked a little regretful of his overly harsh words. She scoffed and shut the door behind her as she went into the room to pack. She couldn't believe him. After she forgave him for cheating on her, he's the one who didn't trust her? Just because she was helping Klaus. She was angry, but more than anything she was upset. She willed herself not to let the tears that were threatening to come, spill over. Grabbing her bag and left, walking to the door. Kol sighed seeing her. He didn't mean to say that. "Elizabeth I..." But before he could apologize the door slammed in his face.
