AN: An update finally. I'm going to be able to update regularly from now on. However I don't plan on this being a really long fic. Anyways here we go.
Dahlia tries to blast Klaus and Hope, but something blocks them from being hit. Hope holds the pendant in her hand and starts prodding at it. Candles throughout the crypt flicker, some go out. Hope stops and looks up at Klaus, who smiles at her. Klaus then looks at Dahlia.
"Looks like she'll do better than I thought," Klaus smirks. Dahlia glowers and tries blasting them again. Hope, who had resumed playing with the pendant, gets a slight shock from it and whimpers. Dahlia is thrown back. Klaus sees her hit the wall and slip into unconsciousness. He carefully takes the pendant from Hope.
"We'll figure that out later," Klaus says comforting her. He rocks her as he walks. As quickly as he can with Hope, he grabs the handcuffs he'd hidden outside and puts them on Dahlia. They should hold her magic until he can get her somewhere else. He's deciding how to move her when his phone rings. He checks who it is, considers and then answers.
"Hello Camille," he greets. Hope turns at his voice and scrunches her nose.
"Klaus what is going on? Are you ok?" Camille asks.
"I would've thought my siblings would've told you," he replies.
"Just the quick version, but I want to hear it from you," she answers.
"Well after I undaggered myself, I took my daughter and left. Then I joined Dahlia to protect my daughter, attacked the others and got what I needed. Now I'm taking care of Dahlia. It's been a productive day," Klaus quickly goes through his actions. Camille is silent for a moment.
"You're taking care of Dahlia?" she asks.
"Well I can't have her linking herself to my daughter now can I?" Klaus responds.
"Is Hope ok?" she asks hesitantly.
"Of course she's ok. I'm with her," he answers.
"Klaus don't run from your family. You and Hope need them, don't do anything out of anger," Camille tries to reason. Klaus tenses up slightly, but relaxes when Hope wiggles in his arms.
"I see you've been recruited to stop me. I keep getting more disappointed with them, I expect better. I'll do what I need to. I'm not as angry at my siblings as they believe, although they should've thought about this before. Tell them I hope they enjoy their wish," Klaus says.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Camille asks.
"It means they both have get to live without me," Klus answers.
"Klaus you're family, just because you fight doesn't mean you give up, they always stick with you," Camile advises.
"It's not forever, that's a long time for us, but right now it's time. They've wanted to be free of me and now I wish the same of them, the daggers aren't enough this time. They'll forgive me in time, we always get back eventually," Klaus says.
"What about the city? After everything you've done. What about Kol? What about me?" she finishes quietly. Hope starts squirming and Klaus quickly checks on her and Dahlia. He fixes his hold on Hope and the phone.
"My family will still have the city, even if Rebekah and Elijah leave and do as they wish, New Orleans will still be ours. I can find a way to bring back Kol wherever I go," Klaus replies purposefully ignoring her last question.
"No you don't get to do that. You don't get to act like you don't care," Cami commands.
"I'm not-," Klaus starts.
"You always hide your feelings for everyone else. I won't let you do it with your family and I certainly won't let you do it with me. I know how you look at me," Cami declares.
"Camille," Klaus sighs ,"you're right I have grown to care for you. You're brave, but I know that you've already realized why this isn't going to happen."
"You wouldn't even try?" she asks.
"It wouldn't last. I've been alive a thousand years, you may have come to accept who I am now and who I've been lately, but you wouldn't accept who I am all the time. You're human and you have different expectations from me, but I won't be able to live up to them. And I'd be fine with that, but you'd come to resent me and I would then come to resent you for trying to change me, because eventually you would try. It is better that we stay friends because I'd rather not kill you," he explains. There's silence on the other end and then a sigh.
"I guess you're right," she concedes. Hope starts squirming and crying.
"I have to go, tell my siblings it's in their control now," Klaus hangs up. He puts his phone away and comforts Hope. After she quiets down he sets her down and quickly grabs Dahlia and hybrid speeds to the car he has waiting at the entrance of the cemetery. He makes sure she's secure in the back and unconscious before going back to Hope. He picks her up and takes her to the car. He settles her in her car seat before climbing in the driver's seat and heading to the one apartment he knows will help.