I sat on his bed for a minute before digging through his things, hoping to find a phone. I needed to call Damon. He was my only chance out of here. Sure Klaus is acting all nice now but just wait for when I piss him off again. He gets angry too easily.
"What are you doing?" I slammed the drawer closed.
"What are you talking about?"
"Wouldn't you like to come downstairs and see something? I heard it's from his last visit here, Curtis? I think he's here to finish both his jobs. I can't wait til you see Tony's friend. He's awesome. I've been with him for quite some years. You're like me, he won't EVER let you turn vampire. You'll live a long life as a human, give birth to a kid and he'll take charge from there. It'll be an endless cycle. I also know what you were doing up there. I suggest you stop before he just turns you into his prisoner. Here, I'm calling someone right important right now. She, you will love."
"Who's Curtis? Who are the Vipers? I don't understand Chicago."
"You won't have to with him around. He'll keep you safe, you know that. If anything that is what he cares most about. Your safety. Get close enough to him and you will learn that inside he is nothing but a big softie. Or when it comes to me he is. Oh. Hello. This is Cindy. I'm Tony's friend. I thought you might like to know he's back in town and his place is a dump…. YAY! I love you…. You think he'll deal with it? You are insane. Get over here, quick. Can't wait!" She hung up. And began to dial again. But the door opened and Klaus came back. Before I could stop myself, I threw myself at him.
"You're back!"
"Hmm. I take it you like me again."
"When you're not being an ass." The door was knocked on and twelve more men came in.
"I asked for only the ONE! Riley get your ass in here and you guys LEAVE! I said we would meet tonight!" A man with spikey hair stayed and I looked up at Klaus.
"Ah, your girl looks mighty fine. Can I have a taste?" Klaus snatched me.
"Ah ah. You know better." I could tell he was smirking. "I haven't even tasted her since I got here. Well why don't you come in?" He took us to his living room where there was a TV and some broken glass. I went over and looked to see a hole in the window.
"Kla-"
"Shut it sweetheart." he walked over to me. "You are supposed to call me Tony." He whispered. "I call you Aurora. I can tell your new at this but at least try to keep up please?" He picked up the glass. "Ah I remember this. Curtis broke my window. Blasted bastard. I need it repaired." He turned to Crystal and she instantly fixed the window. "Good girl." He kissed my cheek before sitting down, plopping me right beside him. He said Curtis weird.
"Who the hell is Curtis, K-Tony?"
"Wow, girls got fire."
"You know how I love to play with fire! Curtis is an old friend of mine, he's not exactly kid friendly."
"Well you did kill his brother. He sent you to jail. So tell me. How'd you get out?"
"… How'd I get out? Easy, I'm Tony Reece. You can't touch me. Touch me, you're dead. Which brings me to why I'm here. Hear any news about the Vipers? The Crotans? I can't exactly remember which gang Carlos is from."
"Crotans. Didn't we beat those people just a few years ago?"
"Yes, this time I plan to finish the job. Turn on the TV genius." He turned the TV on to a crime channel and began to watch I Almost Got Away With It.. something like that.
"What's her name? What happened to Cecilia? Didn't find her yet?"
"Nope, but it's all good." He leaned back farther in the couch and then there was a knock on the door. I groaned. I was actually beginning to like it here, but if there were always knocks on his door… "… Who wants to answer that? I don't. I'd rather watch this. It's getting interesting, tell me how you fucked your plan up mate." He laughed, his body shaking from his laughter.
"I'll get it!"
"NO! They'll eventually go away. I promise Lucinda." She looked confused for a minute before just sitting beside him on the other side, Riley was sitting in an armchair. The knocking came again. They ignored even harder. The commercial came and Tony growled before getting up and going to the door, I ran after him, not feeling safe in there with a real life gangster.
"What the hell do you want?!" He opened the door and I saw a woman, dressed in a blue apron and a shirt with plaid pants.
"That is NO way to speak to your elders. This place needs cleaning up." He tried to slam the door but she was already in.
"I'm sorry but I don't fucking remember asking for room service! So if you don't want a bullet in your head, get out!"
"Tony! Riley? Get off your lazy behind and help us clean this house, the sinks a mess, the floor needs dusting, the ceiling needs dusting, the bathroom probably needs to be cleaned as well. Don't think I won't wash your mouth out!" He went to hiss at her but stopped himself, was Tony supposed to be human?
"And who do you think you are? Talking to me like I'm 5? This is MY house, I do as I please!"
"Just because you're out of jail and on probation again doesn't give you a right to let this place waste away."
"Probation? Ohh, I remember." He practically said to himself. "Still, get out. I don't want you here, I'll call the cops and have you escorted."
"You know they'll probably send you somewhere else until they get this place cleaned, so come on, let's get to it." She turned the TV off and I smiled. "Riley! Get your feet off that table!"
"Mom? I thought that was you ranting."
"Get up off your behind and clean."
"Well you're not my mom so I can just sit around, besides, I'm not on probation anymore."
"You took it off?" I turned away, seeing her hit him with a frying pan. How terrible.
"Can I help?" I asked.
"Yes, why don't you go deal with the kitchen sink. Tony, you can clean the bathroom. Riley, you can clean up the living room. I'll clean the beds." Klaus growled and vamped upstairs, closing his door.
I was dumbfounded. If I didn't know any better, he'd created this himself. Like he said, role playing. I went to the kitchen and began to clean the sink and screamed when I saw worms. He came down and began work on it himself, cleaning anything I tried to clean.
"I didn't mean to leave it in such a mess. There, clean. I'm done. Go home."
"Not until this whole place is clean." He rolled his eyes.
"You sound like my mother. I hate my mother."
"It would make sense since she left you with your father to raise. He-"
"Elena, follow me, she's a raving lunatic. I came here, sure but I ruined my experience with this woman. I had hoped she was dead. Maybe I should just upright kill her." He vamped upstairs and I heard rummaging and other things from up there. "It's clean up here!"
"Good, come help me clean out your other rooms." He vamped downstairs and kept cleaning.
"A little help Crystal." Soon the whole place was clean. "Thank you. It's clean in my house again, thanks. Now leave."
"You know, you used to like me. I'm surprised at you. I practically raised you with Riley. Which is why I was surprised you dared to curse at me. I'm leaving and I'll be back tonight. I better still find you here." Klaus made fun of her with his own mouth. When she left he slammed the door. He walked over to the couch again and plopped himself down.
"That was horrible. I hate your mom. Can I kill her?"
"NO! What's wrong with you?"
"Where were we? Have you heard from anyone while I've been gone?"
"Are you really on probation again?"
"How should I know? I don't listen to anyone. Sit by me Aurora. You worked hard."
"How'd the house get clean so fast anyway? You've been gone for months."
"Because I use my back bone. And there were four of us working." He easily lied.
"I heard that Curtis is still out there, living a great life without you in it. I guess that'll be short lived."
"Yeah. It will, I can't wait to see his face." I wandered upstairs and found his phone. I looked around and took it to text Elijah to come over. Maybe he'd come. Maybe not.
'Here's Elena. Can you come to Chicago?'
'Yes, I was actually just asking a witch to locate you. I'll be there as soon as possible.'
'Thank you. Now delete this and the prior messages. I'll do the same.' I followed up with what I said and put it right back where it was, hoping he wouldn't notice. I already knew I didn't have to worry about minutes so… Apparently Klaus was on probation. He was still walking around like he owned the place. I really wanted to get to know all the lives he's lived but I also wanted out. Elijah might be the way out since I couldn't get hold of Damon.
"Aurora!" I heard Klaus sing. "Come down please." I ran downstairs and he grabbed me. "What have you been doing? I need to show you your room so that later when you're tired you can. Besides, we're going to have a long night. So I suggest you get some sleep. I'm going to do the same but I'm also going to watch the rest of that episode." He led me upstairs and showed me to a room with a queen sized bed. I smiled before hugging him and curling up under the covers. I went to sleep, feeling like I was on a cloud.
