July 7th 2015
New Orleans
(Klaus POV)
I woke in bed and realized it wasn't mine. I looked around and when I saw Kara, I knew where I was. Shit. I need to leave or Elijah's going to figure it out. What time is it? I lifted my head enough to look at her alarm clock. It's only 2 AM. I stretched as much like a human as I could, but not hard enough to make it obvious I was trying to wake her up. She yawned and opened her eyes towards me.
"What is it Klaus?"
"I need to go. I have a-" I yawned. "-meeting to prepare for. Do you have any problems that I can address from the witch covens?" She shook her head, closing her eyes.
"We have no problems, you've fixed the ones we've had for now." Then her eyes opened. "Are you leaving?" I nodded after a few seconds. "So that's why you woke me up?" I rose my brows and then gently smiled at her. I kissed her cheek.
"Yes. I thought it better to talk to you then to leave a note for you. That way I could say goodbye to my beautiful lover." I replied, yawning again. She nodded before grabbing my face and giving me a kiss on my lips. I kissed her back before getting off the bed.
I quickly dressed and then quietly made my way out of her house and out of the city before finally vamping off to the bayou to pretend I've been with my father's pack and get rid of the scent of Kara. The wolves wouldn't be able to pick up the scent but my brother would… as would my father and Mikael but they wouldn't have the same reaction as Elijah. Father would just think I've been hanging around Genevieve, Sophie, Davina, or some other witch.
(Jeremy POV)
We were all awake and Damon and Stefan were talking to Lily while Enzo was flicking through the channels with his feet up on the coffee table. However when Lily said something about it Enzo quickly took his feet down.
Tyler, Kai, Kol, and I had talked about what we would do today and Tyler had come up with a great idea. He walked right up to Damon and spoke.
"Hey, Damon, I remember that yesterday or a few days ago you complained that we hadn't told you that we were going to my house so I thought that today I would tell you, or rather, ask you if we, we being Kol, Kai, Jeremy, and I, could go over to my house today?" Damon looked straight at him, standing up.
"Why?"
"To play games and hang out. It would give you and her time to talk or whatever you want to do and we don't have to be in your way." Damon stared at him hard. Tyler didn't even budge.
"How long?"
"We'll come back anytime you ask us to. All you have to do is call." Damon tilted his head.
"Fine. But Stefan has to go with you." He said the last sentence quickly, as if he wondered if he would back down to Stefan coming with us. Tyler however smiled a bit more.
"Fine with me Damon." Then Stefan spoke up.
"Damon-"
"Just go with them Stefan. It's not like I can send Enzo or let them out alone. It wouldn't be the very responsible thing to do would it?"
"Damon, two of them are teens. Ones an ancient vampire and the other is a young adult. They don't need supervision."
"If you don't count their personalities. Kai's a sociopath, Kol's a sociopath, Tyler's a freaking hybrid, and Jeremy is a drug addict."
"Weren't you-"
"Stefan!" Stefan rolled his eyes and stood up before heading out of the house and we all quickly got out and went to Tyler's house before Damon could change his mind.
When we got there we sat down in Tyler's living room and Stefan quickly picked up his phone and dialed someone and started talking to them. Kai turned on the television and looked for something to watch. Kol went looking for a video game system or a board game we could play. Tyler went somewhere else. I just sat down and started texting Matt.
In no time Matt came by and Tyler and Kol came back. Tyler had beer bottles and a pack of smokes. Kol had a board game. Tyler snatched the remote from Kai and Kai was about to snap at him when Tyler put the television on Pandora and gave the remote back to Kai. Kai grinned before beginning to type in something to listen to.
"One minute." Stefan said to the phone. He hung up on the phone before looking at Tyler. "Tyler, why did you bring that? You know Damon won't approve."
"What? And you don't?" Stefan smiled, tilting his head up.
"Oh I do. But I also plan on joining you. If you have something else I can add to it." I coughed. I knew Stefan was a vampire but I also knew Stefan was a ripper. Tyler nodded. He looked at Kol.
"Kol?" Kol smirked.
"Right on it." He vamped off and out of the house. I think I know where he's going. We're getting ready for a party. Tyler offered me both but I shook my head. No way in hell am I getting into trouble with Damon. Tyler shrugged before offering to Kai. Kai smiled before grabbing both of them. He stuck the lit smoke in his mouth.
"Look! I'm a gangsta!" He said through his clenched teeth on his cigar… Damon said I couldn't smoke cigarettes. Not cigars. Are they the same thing? I looked at Stefan as he accepted both as well. Matt accepted neither like I did.
"Stefan? Is a cigar the same thing as a cigarette?" Stefan seemed to think about it.
"… Not that I know of. Their similar, not the same." I smiled. I took one of the cigars.
"Where did you even get these Tyler?"
"From an old stash I had from before I ever left Mystic Falls." Tyler smiled, chuckling.
"I should have guessed." I heard something boom on the television and looked to see that Kai had settled on something that wasn't music but was comedy. It was Jim Gaffigan. I sat down and began to… try to smoke the thing.
Kol came back ten minutes later with an arm load full of blood bags. "I stole them from the bank." He chuckled. "Get it? The bank?" I gave him a disgusted look. "Okay I actually compelled them to give it to me." I opened my mouth to tell him that's the same thing but Stefan cut me off.
"Thanks Kol." Stefan snatched a bag before walking off with one of the beer bottles. Kol plopped down beside me and started humming the song about Gaston as he pulled it up on his phone. Tyler began setting up the game board and Kol quickly started to help him. I started helping too. Soon all four of us were setting up the game and in no time the game was ready.
"You choose something to listen to yet?" Tyler asked Kai. He nodded and grabbed the remote, putting it in his own lap. I grabbed a card and handed the cards out to the others. Soon everyone had a card. We were playing Bingo first. Stefan put his card back.
"I'll call out the numbers." He said, getting the first number. Stefan called out numbers and we quickly tried to daub our numbers. By the end of the game, Tyler had gotten two whole bingos and Kai had gotten one. I threw my card down. I don't know why I even played. So they had me and Matt go up against each other to see who gets to play with Stefan and Kol. Matt won. I put my card and daubs away. I was in sixth place. Kol and Stefan then played a match against each other. Kol won, Stefan really wasn't trying. So Tyler, Kai, Matt, and Kol were playing all together to see who got fourth, third, second, and first place. Stefan got fifth place. I took turn on calling out numbers, Stefan and Kai had already gone. Kol won fourth place so he took my place as number caller. Tyler got third place and took the place number caller. That left Kai and Matt for first or second place. Matt won second and that left Kai as first place. He jumped and cheered for his own win.
"You know, it's more fun when your not the only one there playing. And winning actually counts." I grinned… frowned? I don't know how to feel about that. Then he picked up the remote and waited for the track that was playing to be over so he could change the station. "By the way, what are we playing now?" Tyler handed out more beer and cigars, to those who had actually finished their first one.
"Why not play Monopoly?" Stefan offered.
"Do we have Monopoly?" I asked Tyler. He stood up with Kol and they both went looking for more games. Kai changed the station to the XX, because it was the first thing that popped up on Tyler's Pandora before he got on his phone and looked up more artists.
"Didn't we already play Monopoly though?"
"No, I think that was Life." Kai replied. I was surprised when they actually came back with the game Risk. We played two games, the second game taking the longest and the first game took two hours max. Kai changed stations six different times. I won Risk, which was awesome!
"What happened to 'whenever you call, we'll come'?" Damon asked. I looked up, startled. I sighed in relief.
"Oh it's only you." I said. Tyler smirked.
"Yeah, we were worried it was somebody important." Tyler and Kol snickered. Kai cackled. Damon glared at them and then all of us.
"What did you do? Something smells like smo-ke." His eyes had landed on the empty bottles and box of cigars. Stefan quickly kicked them under his seat.
"Um, let's all go home, eh? I mean, there had to be a reason you wanted them back, right Damon?" Stefan asked. Damon glared at Stefan. Oh. Shit. We're dead. I was about to open my mouth to admit to having a cigar when Damon grabbed Stefan by his collar.
"Stefan." He said, in a strange tone I've only heard him ever use once with him. Which was clearly weird, right? Since the first time I met the Salvatores, it was always Stefan nagging Damon? "Tell me you had nothing to do with those things?" Stefan smirked at Damon.
"I don't know. Did I?" Then he chuckled.
"While he isn't King, he's still so proper." Kol called, and Tyler and Kai were laughing on the floor. Clearly we're having a Lion King moment. "No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain!" Tyler pointed at Kai, smirking.
"Well he started it!" Kol fell over laughing.
"You all think this is funny?" Damon almost snarled. My mouth let out a long 'E' noise as I suddenly started laughing with them.
"Damon, it's nothing major. Besides, I've bet you done it quite a few times in your life?" Tyler and I suggested.
"Shut up!" Damon yelled. "We're going back home. Now!" I flinched a bit before laughter came back. Why am I laughing so much? As we made our way home we all seemed to settle down. Now we could all feel the dread of what was coming, except for Kol. I wish I had Kol's confidence!
When we got to the house, Damon had Elena, Bonnie, Enzo, and Lily leave as he shoved Stefan hard onto the couch. Lily scolded Damon for that. Damon gave her a warning look but she gave him a look that made him back down.
When that was over Damon had us go to my room with food, mostly bread and blood. Tyler looked up after a minute.
"At least it's not my Dad?" Kai flinched. I looked at him.
"What? Suddenly afraid of Klaus?" He scoffed at me.
"You wish."
"Do you think Stefan and Damon are fighting down there?" I asked. I had nothing to do but wait for the judgement that Damon would pass onto all of us. Matt had gone home after the first game. He said he had to get ready for his afternoon shift.
(If you don't want to see what happens next then you don't have to read. I'll be changing POVs now.)
"Stefan! I thought you were on my side! Instead you gave them that stuff?!" Damon yelled at me. I rolled my eyes at him.
"No. I didn't really give them that stuff."
"Oh? Then who did? And don't you dare lie to me, Stefan Salvatore! You're in enough trouble as it is!" I closed my eyes. Would it be wrong to pretend Damon wasn't here? Yes! I opened my eyes and stood up and looked Damon in the eye.
"I. Don't. Know. Like I've told you twice already." Damon did something I wasn't at all prepared for. He quickly unbuckled my belt, pulled my boxers down and threw me over his lap as he sat down on the couch. My eyes widened in surprise. "Damon!" I complained. "What do you think you're doing?!"
"Teaching my lying little brother that it's not okay to lie to me." He said before smacking me with my own belt, hard. I yelped in surprise more than pain from the first swat. However he quickly caught a pace to go with as he always does.
"I wasn't l-" SWISH! I almost jumped off his lap, yowling. I flinched.
"Who's was it? Jeremy?" I shook my head. He swatted me again. I gritted my teeth. "Kai?" I shook my head and he swatted my thighs. I threw a hand behind me, trying to protect myself from his onslaught.
"Damon!"
"Answer the question, Stefan!" He said, pinning my hand to the middle of my back. I laughed nervously. I buried my head into the couch as he quickly made on with the belt. "Kol?" I shook my head.
"Damonnn." SWISH!
"I could easily go get a switch Stefan." I gasped in horror.
"You wouldn't!" I demanded. I regretted that because the next thing I knew he was smacking me with a fine cut switch. I began to moan in complaint at each swat, threw my other hand back to try to protect me, and I felt tears begin to slide down my cheeks. "Damonnn."
"Was it Tyler's? I mean it was his house." At the next swat I felt myself gasp and hitch, meaning I was close to sobbing… I might as well answer the question. I nodded.
"It was Tyler's, Damon. I'm sorry, please stop! It hurts!"
"It's supposed to hurt, Stefan. That's what brats like Jeremy get. Now was it so hard to tell me the truth?" I shook my head vigorously.
"Nooo."
"Now maybe you'll answer my questions honestly. Did you promote that type of behaviour from them?" I shook my head. He placed the switch on my undercurve. "Stefan." He said warningly.
"I didn't promote or discourage the behaviour, honest." I felt a very firm smack with the switch. I yelped and pushed my head as close to Damon as possible, sobbing out the pain.
"Next time, discourage it." He pulled my boxers and jeans up before setting me on his lap. He held me close to him. I wrapped my arms around him like I always did after this happened. He rubbed my back and whispered. I calmed down after a few minutes. I removed my head from under Damon's chin from where I'd put it when I was trying to be as close to Damon as possible.
"I'm sorry Damon." I whispered. He kissed my cheek. Smiling.
"It's fine Stefan. You're not really underage anyway." … Poor Jeremy and Tyler. He led me to my room and told me not to come out until the girls and Enzo were back. I nodded as he closed my door. I went and laid on my bed.
(Jeremy POV)
"Tyler, you and the humans are going to get it, but Kol, I'm calling Klaus to tell him what you did." Kol opened his mouth to complain.
"Wait, Damon! I'll take whatever punishment you see fit!"
"Nothing I do to you will be effective Kol. You're an Original. Only an Original can hurt an Original."
"Yeah, but we're still affected by vervain, not as much as normal vampires but we are!" Damon seemed to consider that.
"Then why was Katherine able to resist?" Kol chuckled.
"Well she isn't anymore. Nik made sure of that."
"That's not an answer."
"You'll see! Can I be excused? I'll get it set up for you and everything!" Damon also seemed to consider that before agreeing.
"You have an hour, if you don't produce whatever it is that you're talking about by then, then I'm calling Klaus. Jeremy. You're up first." I sighed.
"Do I have to?" A look from him and I quickly ran out of the room but staid close to Damon. He grabbed me by my arm and dragged me to the living room. He threw me over his lap and swatted me, I had no chance to prepare myself. I yelped.
"That's for questioning me!" Then he began a steady rhythm of swats. "Jeremy, how many times have I told you to stop drinking? Or smoking for that matter?" He scolded.
"You gave me weed for a graduation gift!" I complained. "I didn't drink, I swear! I didn't even know that smoking a cigar was the same thing as smoking a cigarette! Stefan said it wasn't!" That's the first time in my life that Damon ever paused during a punishment.
"Stefan said it wasn't the same?"
"Yeah, he did, you can ask him yourself!" I replied, being as respectful as possible.
"I believe you that you didn't drink, I can't smell it on you. I also don't blame you for the cigar. However, just to get it through to you, if you ever hear the word smoke then you know your smoking, got it?" He asked, continuing the punishment. I nodded vigorously. I gasped in pain at the last swat before he shoved me off his lap. I caught myself on my feet before he stood up. "I'm going to go have a word with Stefan, you go tell Tyler that he's up next and to come down here." I nodded and hurried off before Damon could change his mind.
I went in the room and looked at Tyler. "What is it?" He asked.
"It's your turn, that's what Damon said." He frowned. He headed downstairs and I went to my room, leaving Kai alone.
(Tyler POV)
A few minutes later and Damon was down here in the living room. I'd sat down on the couch wondering how long it would take him to come get it over with. Usually it happened very soon for me… when I was at home. I found myself quickly over Damon's lap, bared, and Damon had taken my place on the couch.
"What made you think it was a good idea to hand out cigars and alcohol?" He asked, quickly starting the punishment. He was using a belt.
"A party."
"Does Klaus allow smoking in his house?"
"To be honest, I really don't know." I was being honest, not one time do I remember him scolding me for smoking. But then I don't really smoke anyway. Just something I do on some occasions where I do want to party.
"Well smoking here isn't allowed, understood?"
"Understood." I replied.
"Also I don't approve of you giving Jeremy alcohol! I know Klaus doesn't care if you drink, you're a hybrid, but you can't be giving beer to people underage!"
"I'm sorry Damon!"
"Also you lied! You said that you'd come as soon as I called, I called twice." He's very inconsiderate.
"Kol says it's three before you strike out."
"Actually I called all of you twice." …Oh.
"I don't approve of lying." He swatted my thighs and I jumped a bit. That hurt. He gave a few more swats before letting me up. "Retrieve Kai." I stood up and vamped off up to see Kai.
"He wants you to go see him now."
"I don't see why. I'm too old to get in trouble for either of those."
"Just go see him Kai." He stood up and walked down to go see Damon.
(Kai POV)
I knew it wasn't smoking or drinking I was in trouble for. He'd called me and I had been less than respectful. Not to mention I'd been taunting Alaric. Damon had told me that Joe told him about it. I had hung up immediately after saying something else that wasn't exactly civilized. He called me again a few minutes later and I had answered and then hung up. So I'd been disrespectful to him. That's why I'm in 'trouble'.
I reached Damon. He shook his head. "You never learn do you Kai? What's so hard about showing respect? I called and you hung up on me! You also need to stop sending creepy texts to Alaric and Joe, they don't appreciate it Kai."
"Excuse me, but I think that's what being a sociopath is called. How can I refuse doing something that freaks my sister out?" I was over his lap in a minute with a firm swat to my backside. I flinched. That had hurt.
"What did I just say Malachai?" He scolded, beginning the punishment. I flinched every few swats.
"That I was called by you and I texted Alaric and Josette?" I asked, supplying my answer. I felt him swat my thigh. I tried to stand up on my knees and hands but he forced me back down.
"What did I say after that?" I smiled.
"And I quote, 'What did I say after that?'." I almost regretted my reply when he pulled down my jeans. Oops. I smiled, Damon was so easy to push… though getting myself into this position is painful. At least now I know what a 'spanking' is? I actually remember Joe getting at least two of these, I remember the noises in the house anyway. I had always thought it was domestic violence… I laughed at that memory. My family was messed up.
"Malachai Parker, do you think this is funny?!" He growled at me.
"Do I think what is funny? If you're talking about the spanking, then no."
"I'm going to answer my own question. I said you should show respect!" I smirked a bit with the left side of my mouth.
"Respect who?" The next thing I knew and I was feeling a little uneasy. He had me bent over the back of the couch, boxers down and he was now using a belt. I yelped at the first swat. I grabbed the couch with my hands and tried to pull myself up and over. He landed a hand on my waist. I received a swat for doing that.
"Your elders! Sometimes I wonder how long you've been left on your own." I fell silent. Now was not a time to reply to that. I tried shoving off of the couch but it didn't work either. Now all I have to do is refrain from apologizing. That would be easy because Damon was swatting and scolding all at the same time. "I want you to call Alaric and Joe and apologize."
"Fine, fine. I'll do it. After all it is getting old. I should be moving on from that now."
"Don't bother your sister or Alaric." He said, swatting me harder.
"This just crossed my mind, but am I not too old to be yelled at about messing with my sister?"
"Apparently not." He said, letting me up and thrusting his phone into my hand. I heard it ring and pulled up my boxers and pants before the ring ended and it was answered by Alaric.
"I'm here to apologize to you guys. I'm sorry for sending creepy texts to you and promise it will stop." Doing that was getting old anyway. I could tell because she wasn't freaked out by it anymore. Alaric sighed.
"Did Damon make you say that?" Damon snatched the phone and pointed to the stairs with his thumb, motioning me to leave.
"No I didn't make him say that."
"No, you didn't. It was an honest apology." I said before running back up the stairs.