" Oh good, the two lovebirds have finally decided to join us!" Rebekah exclaimed grumpily as Eliza and Klaus entered into Glorias bar with their hands interwined. In the corner of the room, on a shabby leather sofa, sat Gloria and Rebekah impatiently waiting, while Stefan stood by the old photos next to the bar. Klaus had already explained during the journey to Eliza how he'd earlier given Stefan his memories back of the 1920's.
" Oh don't pout Rebekah, you're lucky you've been resurrect." Klaus told her spitefully, suddenly becoming rather protective over Eliza, like he always had been back in the 20's. Turning swiftly, a frown formed on Stefans face as he saw Elizas and Klaus' hands.
" Eliza... you... Klaus." He spoke with confusion in his voice, it was completely obvious that he'd only just remembered. This upset Eliza slightly as now she was the only one who couldn't remember, and nobody knew why. She couldn't remember her own feelings for the man she loved, she was only now feeling the emotions that she knew she had felt in the memories Klaus had showed her.
" I know Stefan. Klaus has explained." Eliza responded calmly, squeezing Klaus' hand tightly as the memory of them kissing replayed in her mind.
" Don't pout? I was in a stupid box for who knows how long! Just because the stupid girl you loved died, but actually didn't die! Now I'm back where half the girls dress and act like whore's, including Eliza." Rebekahs voice raised and she glared daggers at Eliza. Truly, Rebekah didn't mean what she had said about Eliza; they had once been best friends. However, Rebekah knew this would annoy Klaus, and right now that was her biggest aim. As Eliza moved further behind Klaus, still feeling the pain of loss and not wanting to get on the wrong side of Rebekah, Klaus growled warningly.
" Oh shut up with your bitching Rebekah! Eliza was dead. I only found her again a few months ago where she had no memory of either of us. So quit wining and tell me where the necklace the original witch gave you is." Klaus ordered, rubbing the back of Elizas hand with his thumb comfortingly. He'd only just got Eliza back, never would he again let her get hurt.
" The original witch?" Rebekah spat in digust, not liking how Klaus called their own mother a witch.
" Yes the original witch. Now give me the necklace Rebekah." Klaus ordered more threatningly, as he was now losing his patience.
" Just use your own locket Klaus." Rebekah snapped, spotting the familiar locket their mother had given to Klaus when he was younger.
" It's Elizas. Give me yours now Rebekah." With a roll of her eyes Rebekahs hand travelled up to her neck to retrieve her locket, but a small gasp of surprise escaped her lips as she found that her neck was bare. Her expression fell.
" Its gone." Rebekah gasped, looking down towards her neck and checking the pocket in her dress. It was gone.
" Rebekah now is not the time to lie to me." Klaus growled, annoyed by her answer. As soon as his anger began to rise, he dropped Elizas hand so he couldn't hurt her. She kept quiet behind him.
" Nik it's gone! I never take it off! I must have lost it when you pushed me out the door!" While Rebekah was shouting at Klaus Eliza ran through the memory of when she had first seen Rebekah, and vividly, from Klaus' memory, she could see a beautiful silver locket that lay around Rebekahs neck. Thinking hard, she tried to remember where she had seen the locket as she definately recognised it. After a few moments of thought, she realised. Elena. She was the one who had been wearing it. Stefan must have given her it. Eliza looked at Stefan, and by the look of shock on his face she could tell that he had realised. This was bad. Klaus thought Elena was dead, and couldn't know she was alive.
" You could always use your locket Klaus." Gloria suggested camly, and Klaus glared back at her hatefully.
" Now is not the time to anger me, Gloria." He spoke through gritted teeth, his anger rising bit by bit. There was no chance at all that Klaus would be giving up the locket.
" Well maybe this will now please you. A simple locator spell should do the trick to retrieve the locket." Gloria told him, and finally Klaus began to calm down. However, this new suggestion set Eliza and Stefan more on edge. If Elena still wore that necklace daily that would mean that Gloria would soon tell Klaus where to go to get the necklace, and there he would find Elena still alive. Hopefully now that Eliza and Klaus were on better terms she could convince him not to hurt her only family. Surely he wouldn't do that to her after he'd seen how upset she was finding her other family dead.
Rebekah stepped forward with Klaus following behind her, while Eliza hurried over towards Stefan, both of them exchanged worried looks. Taking Rebekahs hand into hers, Gloria closed her eyes and began to mutter the spell under her breath. For a few moments, the whole room sat in a pit of silence. Both Stefan and Eliza were filled with anxiety, and Klaus stood waiting impatiently, still oblivious to the fact that Eliza and Stefan were hiding something from him. Re-opening her eyes after a few moments, Glorias face stayed expressionless.
" Nothing. The necklace has most likely been destroyed." Gloria announced, causing Klaus' fists to clench in anger. As usual, Rebekah rolled her eyes, hiding her sadness for the loss of the only object she had in memory of her dead mother. " Now I must rest, I can't do anything more for you Klaus." Exiting through a door behind the bar, Klaus stayed silent, trying to calm himself down. Knowing that he needed her, Eliza stepped forward and wrapped her arms tightly round his neck, pulling him into a hug.
" You and Stefan must stay here Eliza while I go search with Rebekah back at the warehouse. If we're not back in a few hours then come find us. I'll see you soon my love." Klaus ordered softly, quickly kissing her on the lips. With a small smile forming on both of their faces as Klaus pulled back, Klaus headed out the door with Rebekah, the kiss him and Eliza had shared still lingering on his lips.
" That was close, too close." Eliza said to Stefan, once she'd heard the engine of Klaus' car take off.
" I know. He can't know that Elena's still alive. Are you and him... together?" Stefan questioned with a small, confused frown.
" I guess. He hasn't asked. But you saw how me and him were in the 20's, and right now I'm feeling the same things. But I can't have him hurt the only family I have left, which is why your secret is safe with me Stefan. I won't tell him." Eliza promised. Despite loving Klaus she couldn't have him hurt her family, or any of the people she cared about. She knew he was capable of it.
" Thank you. I'm not exactly pleased with your choice in men, but you're still the same person, unlike me. You're still my best friend, despite all my ripperishness. Now I'm going to take a breather. I might get lunch." Stefan said, heading towards the door. His small speech pleased Eliza, because even though Stefan was his ripper self again, some part of him still cared, even for her.
" Don't kill too many people Stefan. This isn't you." Eliza told him, grabbing his arm before he could go. Pausing for only a moment, Stefan nodded his head slightly in response.
" I know. Stay here. I'll be back soon." With a small sigh Eliza let Stefan go, then went back to sit at a table in the bar. Now she was all alone, and probably would be for a while. Maybe soon she should play darts or something to entertain herself.
" Well, well, well. Even the person Klaus trusts most betrays him." Turning swifly towards the sound of the voice, Eliza stood up, a surge of guilt flooding through her. Gloria stood with her arms crossed over her chest, leaning slightly against the bar.
" W-What are you talking about?" Elizas attempt to keep her voice calm and smooth failed quite badly.
" You and Stefan are obviously hiding something, my guess is it's something to do with the group of girls I saw." Gloria responded.
" What did you see? You told Klaus there wasn't anything." Eliza asked.
" Well I saw a group of girls, one of them was wearing the necklace. They were talking about you and Stefan in fact. So my guess is you know something about this necklace that you're not telling Klaus." Eliza looked down towards the floor knowing there was not a chance she could convince Gloria that this wasn't true." My, my, my... Klaus would not be happy with you if he knew this. So I suggest you tell me what you know, or I'll let slip to Klaus that his precious girlfriend is lying to him." Angrily, Eliza stepped forward towards Gloria.
" Not a chance." She growled through gritted teeth. After a few seconds, suddenly Eliza dropped to the ground, her head pounding and filled with pain, she let out a muffled cry.
" I guess we'll just have to do this the hard way then." Gloria replied, her voice still calm. Picking up Elizas body, Gloria took her down two flights of stairs into the basement of the cellar. Laying her down on a table, Gloria handcuffed Eliza with metal that was coated in vervain. Again, she winced in pain.
" What are you doing?" Eliza wimpered.
" You won't tell me the information I need so now I will take it from you with a little witchy voodoo. This may hurt just a little." Eliza screamed out in pain as Gloria used a vervain coated knife to slit her wrists with. Once she'd placed in metal sticks covered in vervain to stop Eliza from healing, she moved onto her neck. As Gloria slit Elizas neck deeply with the knife, Eliza slowly felt her life drain from her. Eyes now feeling heavy, Gloria coated her hands in different herbs, including vervain. Performing the final stages of the spell, Gloria placed her hands on Elizas chest, burning her vampire skin. With a final, deafening cry of excruciating pain, Eliza fell into unconciousness.
5 hours later, Klaus walked into Glorias bar, surprised to see it completely empty. Right now was when the bar was supposed to open, and Gloria was nowhere in sight. Neither was Eliza. Eliza and Stefan were supposed to return to the warehouse after a few hours, and neither had turned up. As he entered the vacant bar, he hurriedly caught track of Elizas scent, and began to follow it. Just like he had when he'd searched for her here back in the 1920's. The same spot where he'd found her was still vivid in his mind.
Following the scent, Klaus found himself travelling down two flights of staircases, down into the ground below the bar. Opening the door to the only room down there, Klaus stepped in, his eyes widening in pure anger and shock. On a table in the middle of the room lay Elizas unmoving body, with blood seeping from wounds in her arms and neck. Gloria was unconcious on the floor beside the table, but it was obvious that she had been the one to inflict these injuries upon Eliza. Furiously, Klaus sprinted over towards Eliza, checking her heart to make sure it had not being damaged in any way. If it had, that would mean she was dead. Thankfully, she wasn't.
While his mind filled with ideas of how he was going to make Gloria pay for what she'd done to Eliza, he fed his blood to Gloria in order to get answers on why he'd done this to her. The likeliest suggestion being that she'd performed a spell on her. Klaus waited for a few seconds, until Gloria awoke with a gasp of breath.
" What have you done to Eliza." He growled menacingly, grabbing Gloria by the neck and plunging his hand into her chest and grabbing her heart. This way she couldn't use any spell to get away from him. Either way he was going to kill her.
" I-I performed a spell. She and Stefan were hiding something from you. I-I saw a vision of three girls, one of them had Rebekahs necklace. Eliza and Stefan... t-they know something about it. I-I wanted to find out." Gloria replied, not looking as afraid as Klaus had hoped she would be.
" You almost killed her." Klaus growled.
" They're both hiding something from you Klaus."
" And what is that, love?" Klaus growled, sincerely hoping that Eliza hadn't lied or hid something from him. She was the last person he ever wanted to be angry with, and he trusted her. They'd kissed, she shared the same feelings for him again. But what if she was hiding something from him?
" Not a chance in hell that I'm telling you. I like Eliza and Stefan more than you. Eliza deserves someone much better, I'm not even surprised that she's betrayed a monster like you." As soon as Gloria finished this sentence, Klaus ripped out her heart with an ounce of remorse. His heart disbelieved any of the words she was saying, Eliza couldn't have been hiding something from him... But his head was screaming at him to find out what it is that Gloria was talking about. This had to be something to do with the necklace, and the necklace was a key part in his hybrid plan.
Once he'd fed Eliza his blood to heal her, and pulled all the things covered in vervain out of her wounds, Klaus kissed Eliza softly on the lips, hoping that she hadn't betrayed him. If she had, that meant that not only his family had hurt him, but she had too.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Sorry it's taken so long to update I've been very busy lately, but hopefully this was a good enough, drama filled chapter for you. How do you think Klaus is going to react when he realises Eliza has being lying to him about Elenas death? Please review and tell me how I'm doing! It always helps:) Thankyou for the continued follows+favourites.
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