We were in the car and I could begin to smell MYSELF. I turned to Klaus, who was in the driving seat. "Klaus. Pull over. I need a bath."

"There is nowhere to take a bath. Now sit down and be quiet."

Rebekah kicked his seat. I laughed. "Nik I need a pit stop. I am beginning to smell as if I don't TAKE baths." She growled.

"Well I'm hungry and the only human in here is sitting right in front of me." Stefan moaned.

"Fine." He sighed. "You all act like children. I haven't taken a bath in a week myself but you don't see me complaining." He growled. He drove on. He took the next exit. He smiled. We were in Florida. We had been driving across state and yes. Actually, it had been only a week since we were in Chicago. I just didn't feel clean. We hadn't made any pit stops except for me to use the restroom and to get food. We didn't even get to wash our hands after the food. We ate while he drove. I laid my head on the seat as he kept driving.

"Are you coming to a stop or NOT NIK?" Rebekah yelled.

"HOLD UP SISTER! I need to find an appropriate destination." He replied.

I turned up the cold air and still felt no better. Klaus immediately turned it off. "It sends your scent to Stefan faster. We don't need him feeding on you, do we?" He asked.

I sighed. "Stefan loves me. He would never eat me." They all laughed at me. I felt a tear form in my eye as they did. I was beginning to get moody, ever since Thursday. He smiled and pulled into a hotel parking lot. I sighed in relief. Somewhere to stay.

He parked and ordered a room. We went up and saw that it had connected rooms. There was a shower AND a bathtub in the bathroom. I ran into the shower and pulled off my clothes. I began to bathe.

(Klaus POV)

I quickly took a shower; only long enough to stop smelling and to be clean enough show myself away to the supernatural. I got out and pushed Stefan in. "Get clean enough to not be scented. Then come out and I will have a present for you." I said.

I went outside of the bathroom and to our room. I laid down on the bed and called my witch Angelina. "Hello, love."

"Hello Master." She said seductively.

"Let's cut to the chase, shall we?"

"Fine. What is it?"

"Do you have that address I asked for?"

"Yes Master. I have it."

"Well then. Out with it."

(Stefan POV)

I cleaned my nails, my hair and my body. I would not smell. I got out and dried off. I could smell that Elena girl and she smelled delicious. I couldn't wait for Klaus to say we could eat her. I dried my hair and combed it out. After I was situated and dressed, I stepped outside and heard Klaus talking seductively on the phone. I smirked until he turned to me and hung up.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing." I turned and headed out the door.

"Stefan! We're going somewhere. I promise that if he gives us what he wants that you can eat him."

"Good. I'm starving." I answered. It was true. I hadn't ripped someone up in a week. "So where we headed?"

"You'll see."

I followed him. He led me around some blocks and then we got to our destination. It was an apartment complex. "What we doing here?"

"This man is a poor fellow and he can't afford anything else. We'll send him somewhere he can live and not have to worry about money."

(ELENA POV)

I got out feeling brand new. I began to comb my hair, not caring how long it took. When that was done, I felt my hair and it had dried while I combed out all the tangles that got into it this week. I breathed in all the clean air and smiled.

"You wouldn't last a week in my past life. Nik and I had to drive around for maybe MORE than a MONTH."

"WHAT? How?" I asked. Rebekah was still naked so I looked away.

"Hey. We're both girls. You can look. I won't get mad." She said. I did and she got out of the bathtub. "You know we only took short breaks so we didn't desiccate. The rest we had to deal with. Now he probably just does it like this so it doesn't take too much time. By the way, Nik asked me to watch you so don't misbehave." She said and laughed. I did too. Watch me? What am I? A toy?

"Well where did he go?" I asked.

"Don't know. Don't care. Stefan left with him. That is all I know."

"Why don't we watch TV?"

"Sure." I took her to the room and turned the TV on. I handed her the remote so I could get dressed. I was fixing to put something different on when I realized that my clothes were with Jack and Crystal. I looked at her.

"What do we do about our clothes?"

"Well I stole his wallet. Why don't we go buy new ones?"

"Won't we have to explain why he is missing money?"

"Nope. His witches use his money all the time. I've done this before and he didn't get angry." I put my clothes back on and we went shopping. I came back with a purple top and some black blue jeans. I put them on in the bathroom as Rebekah put on her bubble-gum pink shirt and her darker pink shorts. Where she found such clothes, I have no clue.

"Now what?"

"NOW we get back in the car." Said Klaus. He grabbed me roughly from my wrist and began to drag me back to the car. I stomped my foot. No way in hell was I going back in there for ANOTHER WEEK.

"NO Klaus. You cannot force me to do things anymore. I'm not going in that car of yours again."

"Well sorry love, but that is EXACTLY where you are going." He shoved me into the car and everyone got in with me. Before I could get out, he buckled me in and slammed the door. He was in the driver's seat in less than the time it took to unbuckle the many buckles that his car had. I banged on his car as he drove off. He didn't care, he just kept driving.

Later we were in Memphis. I was feeling drowsy and falling asleep when he stopped at a gas station. I looked up to see him begin to put more gas in his car. It had been six hours since we drove off from Pensacola. I had used two of those giving a fit to which he paid NO attention. He only asked me if I was done by the time, I had no more energy to try anything else. I had shoved him, to no avail, and sat back in my seat.

I heard him get back in. He looked at me, frowning. "Don't worry love. I'll pull into a hotel and you can take a nap there." He said, running his fingers through my hair, I moaned and pulled away from him. He smiled and buckled back into his seat and drove off again.

It took him only a few minutes to find a hotel. He pulled in and that was all I knew before I fell asleep.

(Klaus POV)

I pulled into a parking space and parked in reverse, so that it would take less time for when it was time to leave. I turned the car off as Angelina parked next to me. I could care less. I looked to the back and Rebekah was sleeping with her head on the windowsill, as Stefan was unbuckling himself. I unbuckled myself and pushed her awake. She stretched and got out. I turned to Elena. She had fallen asleep too. Since she had never lived this life I just got out. I went around to her side, unbuckled her, and carried her into the hotel. Stefan had gone in to get the room and Angelina was following me. She seemed upset that I was carrying my doppelganger. Well she would have to get over it. It wasn't as if I was in love with the girl. I wasn't allowed to love.

When I got to the room, there were only two king size beds. I laid Elena on mine and Rebekah laid on Stefan's bed. He was in the bed, sleeping. I sighed. I had the choice of waiting for them to get their fill of sleep or wake him up so we could get to work. I weighed my choices and decided to wake Stefan.

I pulled him out of bed and he woke with a jolt. I dragged him out of the hotel and to Angelina's car. I shoved him into the passenger seat and got in the driver position. She had taken their things upstairs already so I drove off without a care and began to find the house we were supposed to find.

I smiled when we did find it. It was getting dark now, but it was as it should be. It had taken us 6 HOURS to drive from Pensacola to here anyway. I parked down the street and came up with a plan. I shoved Stefan awake and he groaned but did as I said.

"You have until this alarm rings to come out here and help me. Got it?" He sluggishly nodded and fell back to sleep. I set the alarm to a LOUD ring tone and set it for fifteen minutes. I got out and found the girl I was supposed to track down. She jumped in fear when she saw me. I frowned. I chose my American Accent because she was after all a new face and lived in the country.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."

"Can I help you?"

"Yeah, my car hmm, my car ran out of gas a couple of miles back. Eh I feel like I've been walking forever, yours is the first house I came to so I was just hoping I could use your phone." I said, trying to sound lost AND nice at the same time. It worked, as it should have.

"Don't you have a cell phone?"

"Huh, yeah." I took out my 'dead' phone. "Battery died. Look I promise I'm not a serial killer I just wanna use your phone." I tried again. She sighed. I thought it was quite funny that I promised not to be something that I was.

"Sure."

"Soo, I can come in?" I asked, hopefully. Then too late!, wrong voice tone.

"No, I'll get the phone and I'll bring it out to you." I dropped my American accent to replace it with my normal vernacular. I was annoyed that I messed up and I couldn't keep it from my voice.

"I thought you country folks were supposed to be more trusting."

"I'm from Florida." Well this was DEFINITELY the right woman.

"Well, that explains it." I grabbed her throat and her eyes bulged. I began to compel her. "Now show me a little southern hospitality. Sweet pea." She led me into the kitchen where we found another woman. She was frying a pan with food inside. She went over to the counter to grab a container of pepper.

"I bet you a hundred dollars that dog ran off to a house with air conditioning." She turned around and saw us. I smiled, kindly. She still seemed terrified. What was it about me that terrified people?

"What's going on?"

"Please don't be alarmed. I was told Ray Sutton lives here."

"He's almost never here. He's on the road mostly."

"But I expect he makes it home, once a month." I saw a flicker of emotion cross her face. "That's what I thought. Where is he now?" She didn't answer. "If I have to make you tell me… it's going to be infinitely more painful for you." Still nothing. "Hmm" I smiled as she made a break for it. However, a groggy Stefan stopped her.

"Aaaah!" I followed her, guiding the poor girl with me.

"I love it when they run!" She gave up and sighed. She turned to me.

"He's in Tolle. It's near the border. A bar called Southern Comfort, it's on Highway 41."

"Thank you my love." I kissed the first girl's neck. "Now, may my friend come in?" She began to cry. I frowned for a second. I kissed her and she reacts by crying? Women were weird. I smiled at her.

"Yes." The other looked terrified and Stefan came in. I led the woman to Stefan.

"Kill this one quickly." I looked at the other woman. "Make that one suffer. I'll be in the car." I left, smiling. The women were crying. What I wanted to know was why. The first one should be happy. I walked toward the car and buckled myself in. I laid my head down. I was finally beginning to feel tired.

When Stefan came back, he had no sign of blood on his mouth. I smiled, dully. I was feeling tired now and I still had miles to go. I waited for him to buckle in and then drove off. I smiled at the sight of Angelina sitting on the hood of my car.

I got out and she jumped me. I hugged her and kissed her lips. "Master. You're back." She squealed.

"Yes. I'm back."

"So? What is my reward for being such a good girl?"

"Mm. I want you to wait for Crystal and Jack to come. Their hot on our trail. I want you to stay here for a few days. I need to keep check that if Damon is still following our trail that I could come and show him why he needs to stop."

"Must you always be thinking of your next victim?" she sighed. I only nodded in response. I still needed to find Ray Sutton. I let go of her and she whimpered at the loss of contact. Oh well.

I went in to find the girls were still sleeping. I carried them back to the car and let them sleep there. I put Stefan in the car and got in myself. We had more miles to go and I could sense that if Stefan and I didn't get any rest soon we would probably drop. I could go on longer than he could because I have been forced to do so.

I had finally reached the damn bar they had talked about and could not wait for him to come inside. Rebekah and Elena were still tired. I had to wake them up during their sleep because I was not pulling into a hotel this time. I let them wander off to do their thing in the bar. Rebekah was playing pool with Stefan while Elena sat down at the bar with her head on her hands.

I almost fell asleep myself when I caught trace of a werewolf scent. It was Ray Sutton come into his bar. I compelled everyone to ignore him but to keep going about their lives. He walked up and sat down at the bar. Two seats away from Elena. I growled quietly. It was time to close in on my prey.

"Hey Red, get me a beer." I went and sat down by him motioning Stefan to quit the game. He did and Rebekah, pouting, went and sat by Elena.

"Ray? Ray Sutton?"

"Who wants to know?"

"I've been looking everywhere for you. We started in Florida, Pensacola. I met a young chap there who you used to work with before you moved to Memphis, now he directed me to two lovely young women. And they led me here, to you."

"I think I'll be going." He tried to get up but I stopped him. I shoved him back in his seat.

"Not so fast mate. You only just got here, now your type are very hard to come by." He tried to walk the other way but Stefan blocked his path.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He sing-songed. He gently pushed him back to his seat. Too tired to be rough? I smiled at him.

"My friend here is a vampire, he compelled everybody in the bar so don't look to them for any help. I however, I'm something else, a different kind of monster, I've got some vampire, I've got some wolf."

"You what?"

"A hybrid Ray, I'm both. You see I want to create more of me, now you being the first werewolf that I've come across in many a moon, pun intended Ray. I need you to direct me to your pack. So, where can I find them Ray?"

"You can't compel me, it won't work." Oh yeah I could but I would rather make it a game. Stefan scratched his head. I nodded and he turned around and took something out of his pocket.

"Can you bring out the darts please?" He turned to Ray. "Tell you what Ray, We're gonna play a little drinking game, something I like to call truth or wolfesbane." He pulled out a pouch of wolvesbane, poured it in his palm and crushed it with his hand. I smiled devilishly at Ray.

"Oh, this is going to be fun Ray."

I sat down at the bar and fell asleep. A noise woke me up and I stared at Stefan. He had Ray chained to the wall and he had darts in his forehead. He seemed to be in pain. Yet he hasn't given the location of his pack? Stefan dipped another dart in the liquid he had and then threw it at his forehead.

"Ray," He sang. "You can end this right now. Just tell me where your pack gathers for the full moon." He said and then patted his cheek. I laughed. Ray turned away from him.

"I can't."

"I know, I know. You live by code and all that, but see he's not gonna let me stop until you tell me. And I do whatever he says so, that's the way it goes around here." Poor tired bastard. Then again, I could feel myself drifting off for another 2-minute nap. But I could feel Claudine's presence. One of my new witches. She was only new by two years; she had only one year left with her mentor, Zach. Then she would have to spend some time with me. To learn from me of course, how I liked my witches behaving. Weird but that was how I ran my witches.

"Hello Mr. Klaus. I have some more information for you. Angelina told me to tell you if I saw anything." I saw Stefan eavesdropping on her. I smiled at the new witch. Ignoring him. I saw the guys; I mean I spotted Damon and another man at the farm house."

"Well thank you Claudine," I put my finger under her chin and gave her a kiss to her lips before I finished my sentence. "You'll just tell your friends to keep up the good work. Go back and in a few days head to London." She kissed my lips and walked off. "Mm." I watched her leave. She was older than 20 so I could treat her anyway I wanted, including sex. Stefan came up to me.

"My brother is still on our trail?"

"He's getting closer; I'm going to have to deal with that." I got up and stretched. I began to walk out the bar but before I could take a step, Stefan grabbed my arm. I turned to look at him.

"No, no, no. Let me handle it."

"Why should I? I need the exercise."

"Cause, you'll do better with Ray. I would do better with Damon. He'll listen to me?" He sounded like Elijah talking about me…

"Really?"

"You're better at the torture thing. I'm better at getting under my brother's skin."

"Uh, no I learned from you. At least a few things. Besides aren't you even having the least bit of fun?" I pointed to Ray, smiling.

"I'll make sure that my brother doesn't bother us anymore." He walked off, leaving me in charge of the girls and Ray. I sighed. I had needed the chance to be fierce and active then again. It would be fun, torturing Ray into telling me what I want.

I looked at the girls and they were still drinking at the bar. Rebekah better not let her get wasted. I looked at Ray, ripped him off the wall, and chained him to the pool table. I took a knife from my pocket and began to trace his main arteries. He shivered and then blurted out the location of his pack.

"They're in the Appalachian Mountains. Please. Leave us alone." He begged. I smiled.

"Thanks Ray. That was very nice of you. Now, I have bigger plans than to just find out where they are… but… you knew that didn't you?"

(Elena POV)

I was drinking a bourbon Rebekah had given me. She kept refilling my glass, telling me it would help me wake up. Why I was drinking, I had no clue. I was strongly against Jeremy doing it, so why was I doing it? I was being a total hypocrite right now. She suddenly got up and left. I looked around for Klaus. My eyes passed over him but I quickly looked back over to him. He was talking to a man who looked as if he were bleeding.

I got up to go stop him when two men appeared in front of me. I tried to step aside for them but they backed me up against the wall. I smiled. "Excused me please."

"Well look what we have here Shawn. A pretty girl, all alone."

"Wanna come to my crib? I have plenty of beer there we can drink. I've got anything a girl like you could want."

"No thanks. I'm here with someone else." I slurred. I pointed over to Klaus.

"You should ditch that chump. Come on." He grabbed my arm and tried to pull me away. I yanked my arm back and got ready to defend myself, as if I even knew how.

(Klaus POV)

I had Ray still on the pool table. I was poking gently at his arm with my knife, not hard enough to break the skin but enough to make him keep his attention on me.

"Okay, it's a three step process, Ray. This is step one. I want you to drink from my wrist."

"I already told you where to find the pack. What more do you want from me?"

"Have you been listening to a word I've been saying, Ray? I have great plans for you." I replied and put the knife to his throat. So none of that had worked? I was getting fed up of repeating myself over and over again. I had done so three times. I cut my wrist and forced it down his throat. I looked up and saw Elena. Two men had cornered her and they were beginning to drag her out, even with her protests. I sighed. Women.

"You'll thank me for it later, huh. There we go, at a boy!" Stefan arrived and I tried to hurry this up.

"What are you going to do now?"

"It's time for step two, Ray." I broke his neck and rammed myself between the men and my doppelganger. "Can I help you two?"

"Hmph. Step aside chump." He said and tried to push me aside. I sighed, grabbed his arm and began to twist it. I stopped when he began to worry it would break. I licked my lips and looked back up to them. Sure, they were bigger than I was, but I HAD turned when I was seventeen.

"How about now?" I whispered loud enough for them to hear me.

"Okay. Come on Jack. Let's get out of here. Leave this freak to his girl."

"Oh come on. I haven't even broken your arm yet." I mockingly complained. They ran straight out the building. I laughed to myself and then turned to my doppelganger. I glared at her. "You are just a beacon for trouble aren't you, my little doppelganger?" I dragged her off back to the pool table. Stefan was poking Ray's sleeping body. I laughed at him.

"You're back."

"Did you doubt me?"

"Not for a second. I knew you would pass the test. You still care for your brother, for your old life."

"Damon? Where?" Elena began to search the building. I pulled her to me so that the front of her body was against mine. I wrapped my arms around her. Claiming her as my toy.

"Nah, I don't care about anything anymore." I smiled.

"You put on a good show Stefan. I almost believe you. Let's hope, for your brother's sake, he does. You never stop caring about family, do you? But, every time you feed, the blood makes it easier to let go." I turned to Ray, grabbed Elena's wrist and threw Ray over my shoulder. "Retrieve Rebekah will you Stefan?" I asked and headed out the door.

I opened my trunk and stuffed Ray's body in there, making sure that if he woke he wouldn't hit his head. Elena tried to get in. I knew it. Rebekah got her drunk. I gently took her out of the trunk.

"No love. You are sitting up front with me. You're my plaything." I said and sat her upfront. I buckled her in and got in myself. I gave her a present I had Claudine buy and she put it down by her feet. Oh well. We were all tired.

When Rebekah and Stefan came stumbling out of the bar I got out and helped lead them to the car. I buckled Rebekah in and Stefan did himself. I got back in front and began to drive. I was headed to the Appalachians but first we would need time to recuperate before we even tried the hike up the mountain.

(Please R&R. Sorry about some of the things in here. I just wanted to give Klaus a chance to be chivalrous. The life he has with his witches is that he uses them to help him and he has sex with the girls because, as Tyler said, he gets horny as a hybrid. They learn how to withstand using magic for extended periods of time and he teaches them what he expects from them. I thought a drunk Elena would be funny… sorry. I thought that explaining that they are tired would be good since that Klaus made all that happen in a few days' time. I am sorry if there was anything else in here you did not like. :-|)

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