I was on the couch and Klaus was standing above me, kissing me gently but not so gentle it tickled. I was relaxed. He smiled at me before he stopped and sat me beside him. He sighed before he called for his witches, I rolled my eyes and leaned back to get comfortable again.
"Crystal! Get in here! NOW!" She came running in a few minutes later. "Quite late on that aren't you? You need to exercise again. Or not, speed is key my love. Now-" Angelina came in a few seconds later. "where are we? I've seemed to have forgotten. Are we in London?"
"No sir, we left London for Bismark. We're in Bismark." Angelina shook her head, vigorously.
"No you idiot we're in Chicago."
"Chicago or Bismark, which one is it?"
"Chicago, Klaus, I'm sorry. I had forgotten."
"Maybe you need a map. I don't blame you however, we've been moving around a lot lately." He smiled at them. "Your services are no longer required. Go back to whatever it was you were doing." He waited for them to leave and they waited for him to change his mind, but he didn't. So they left. "Apparently we are in Chicago. I honestly forgot where we were. Well then. I'll leave you here. I have to get this city back under control. You can have anything your heart desires while I'm gone." He smiled at me before standing up.
"Does that include calling my friends?"
"Do you mean Damon Salvatore? Are you still harping on about that? How's this, you call Damon and then I'll chain you to the basement?" I rolled my eyes at him.
"No thank you."
"Well then that is your answer. Anything else you can have." He kissed my cheek before heading out. I turned the TV on a channel and began to watch something. I wanted to just know what he was doing out there. All I know is that he said 'I need to get this town under control'.
After a while, Klaus came back and sat beside me. "Missed me? Aurora? I'm taking you to a club tonight, along with my witches. Don't worry, you'll be the one who hangs on my arm tonight." He beamed at me before looking over to Jack, who had just walked in. "Get the girls ready mate. Tell them tonight's theme is pretty. I have to go do some shopping, Elena's got nothing to wear tonight." I opened my mouth to complain but he just used the opportunity to kiss me. I smacked him but he dodged me, grabbing my wrist. "See? She's ready to get up and go." He dragged me out of the house and sat me in the car before buckling me in. "We are going to go shopping for a dress. A good one, not a proper one." I raised my brow at him but he slammed the door, vamped over to the driver's seat and drove off. I smiled at him.
"We're going out tonight?"
"Well yes, we are."
"Well you can't, because you still have that watch on." I pointed at it and he looked, sighing.
"Sure I can. I'll just get an escort or something. I'll make sure that Crystal and Jack stop it from telling them where I'm at. I'll stay not all night of course, they'll eventually notice it's not working. I'm smarter than I look Elena."
"Good, I don't want you going to jail."
"Jail? Please, me go to jail?" We arrived at a mall before he dragged me into there. "I'll fix you right up for tonight." He led me to the clothes aisle before looking through the dresses. "Warning, though? Run off and I'll have you punished and not to mention barricaded into the house. Just fair warning." I rolled my eyes at him.
"Why? Afraid that I'll actually get away?"
"No, because I'm actually beginning to like you, I'm actually beginning to trust you. If you show that my trust is misplaced, instead of clipping you I will punish you." He smiled at me before pulling out a gold coloured lace dress that would show my boobs and most of my back until the middle of it. I shook my head and he threw it away from himself and continued looking. He pulled out a blue metallic sequin mini dress and I shook my head again. He, this time, raised his brow, dropped it next to himself and kept digging. "Look for a dress my sweet. And before you choose a horrendously boring one, remember it's a party in a club. I'm meeting some 'big' guys over there. I'm kind of making a truce. However it's not a truce, he just thinks it is." I looked through the dress too, just to help find something to wear. He wasn't making any sense anyway though… "Changed my mind, look for a sequin dress, most of them are over there." He pointed in their direction. "I will keep looking here. Sequin is good."
"I'm sure one of your witches can find a dress for me."
"No, you deserve a new dress, not a hand me down or whatever it is that they do to get the clothes." He picked out another dress before looking at me, I was just standing there watching him look. I didn't trust him… or maybe I didn't trust me. "I forgot one important detail. What is your favourite colour anyway?"
"Purple." I answered automatically and watched as he dumped everything that wasn't purple on the ground. "Are you allowed to do that?" I asked, worried we'd be kicked out or something.
"Kicked out? I'd love to see the humans try something." He finally pulled out a sleeveless, backless purple sequin dress with a long trail. "This is yours." He smiled at me before offering me his hand. I took his hand, smiling, and he led us to the shoe department. "Now we need to do your shoes and finally your hair."
"My what? My hair?" I asked, disbelieving.
"Yes, I'm getting it done to be pretty. I don't need a Katerina look alike right now. You are pretty, we just need better for tonight because I'm trying to impress and I'm not leaving you at home. You'll be surprised to see how big my gang is. Choose something that compliments this dress." He began to look, so I looked too. I didn't need Klaus choosing my entire look for tonight. I wanted to say no, but I knew he'd get it done anyway.
"Well what do you mean by getting my hair done? You talking about style or colour?"
"Don't worry love, I don't want your hair cut, I want a different style so you look like a party girl who's done this for years. Your wardrobe says 'boring high school girl'." I scoffed at him.
"Oh, wow. Thanks for the compliment." I replied, my voice dripping with a bit of sarcasm. He smiled at me.
"You're very welcome my dear. I found shoes for you. Spiked high heels with sequin gold. Goes perfectly I believe. It makes you look rich." I looked over and gaped. They were beautiful. I followed Klaus to the cashier.
"That will be $730." He pulled out the money and gave it to him and he put the money away, smiling. Klaus smiled back before the guy put the dress and the shoes in a bag, handing it to Klaus. Klaus gave it to me before taking my other hand and walking us off.
"There. Elijah should be pleased. My good deed of the week. I actually paid for it." He beamed at me before leading me into another shop. He sat me down and picked up some books, looking at the hair styles. "It has to be good. Like I said, no colouring and no cutting, actually no cutting ever this year." I scoffed at him before I actually began to laugh. I put my hand over my mouth to make myself quiet. He smiled before showing me a picture.
It had braids for around the head, long hair that goes down to the back and from there the hair turned into curls, the rest was straight. "You'll look just like a princess, which you will be treated as. You are my girl."
"I'm not your girl. Do I need that one? Could I get one that's more simple?" He shook his head.
"You will not be doing simple tonight. Tomorrow I'll take you out on your ideal of a night out, but right now I need to get you pretty and ready for showing off to other people. Which means it needs to look pretty but effortless. Since your hair is curly anyway, then all that needs to be done is the braids. I'll take you out for pizza tomorrow, I promise." I smiled at that, I hadn't had pizza in a month or two. It wasn't just the fact it was pizza, it was that he hardly ever let me eat something like that.
"Sure Klaus, do what you want."
"If you think differently, if you can find better then here." He handed me the book and five others. I began to look for easier or more simple hair styles. I showed him one that had long hair that went down past the shoulders and kind of hid the face, hid the chin almost and then opened up at the bottom just to close at the very bottom. It basically open and closed and repeated itself. He smiled at the picture and compared them together before showing me. "Which look do you want to go for? Princess or wild?"
"Wild."
"Wild it is then." He snatched the book from me.
"Niklaus where are your manners?" I heard someone say. I jumped but Klaus stepped between Elijah and I. Elijah looked at him, puzzled.
"Elijah, go away. This has nothing to do with you. I'm letting you and the others live in my house aren't I?"
"And I am here to tell you that Esther has called Mikael here. She intends to be a real family."
"How the hell did you even find me brother?" Klaus stepped up to Elijah, I on the other hand worried if I should intervene before something happens. Elijah pointed at the watch thing on Klaus' wrist and answered him.
"I found you because I've known your scent for years Niklaus. What is that on your wrist?" He cautiously tried to take his wrist in his own hand and Klaus let him before yanking away from him.
"One minute Elijah. I need to finish this so that I may talk to you." He walked over to the desk, with the picture I had chose, and stood there until someone came over to him.
"How may I help you?" He pointed at me and showed her the picture.
"I demand you give her that hair style, it's the one she wants anyway. Now get to work." He demanded. She stared at the picture before looking at him. Elijah stepped up there and talked to her too.
"What he meant was, can you help her hair mirror the one in the picture? We would appreciate it very much. Thank you." I did nothing but watch the Elijah-Klaus relationship play out. I did need to know how he treats all his other siblings. He treated Rebekah well, giving her everything her heart desired. Right now all I could tell was that Klaus treated Elijah with respect and disrespect at the same time. I guess he can't decide?
I saw her come my way and I stood. I sat down where she asked me too, apparently she was going to wash my hair. When she was done with that, she dried my hair after leading me to a different seat and she began to style my hair like the picture. When that was done she helped me up.
"How much money do you want?" Klaus asked, Elijah was still here.
"$15." He paid for it before grabbing my hand and leading me somewhere else now.
"Let's see if we can find you some make up, I'm only suggesting love. So don't get judgey on me. I don't think make up looks good on you, however we will get perfume if you so desire."
"So much effort to dress me up Klaus, why is that? You've never cared before."
"Because you didn't ask me to do this nor did you ask for this. You've not been asking for anything but a call so I don't see how this is my fault. I've always cared. I've taken you shopping before haven't I? Twice."
We arrived at a make up place, it did make up and nails. Klaus got them to work on my nails, giving me a manicure, a base coat, a gel, then they painted my nails my desired colour of purple done magnetic in stripes going down diagonally, which was then covered by matte nail polish, which darkened the tone of the purple. It was kind of amazing, she'd used two different purples for the magnetic but they were both very bright vibrant colours, meaning you could still see the colours even though they were toned down. This time, Klaus just dragged me out but Elijah staid behind and caught up in a few minutes.
"I paid for it, it was only $20."
"Well you're always doing that aren't you? Paying for things I don't yet I still take?"
"Yes, but I assume that you paid for the things in your bag?"
"Of course Elijah. Elena, is there anything more you can think of right now? We've done you're hair, your nails, and clothes."
"No, I'm ready to go back."
"Well you're going to have a salad for lunch because you're going to be having pizza tomorrow."
"Trade one for another right?"
"Yes, my love, that is exactly what your doing. I, however, do not believe you can pull off a wild personality. Weren't you always the good girl? You, Bonnie, and Caroline both? Why else would you be revolted by me at first?"
"Maybe because… I don't know… you wanted to kill me?"
"It's over and done with Elena. Move on." He put me in the car and I noticed Elijah was no longer with us. I was disappointed. He got in and began to drive us home. "Focus on us, on learning the art of wild. I could teach you a thing or two. I never really was a good kid to begin with."
"No thanks. I don't need any 'How To Be A Psychotic Bastard' lessons." He laughed at my statement and drove us home.