Sophia's POV
I stared blankly up at the ceiling, my hands outstretched beside me as I forced myself to feel next to nothing, my humanity was barely holding on by a thread and it's only because of Nik, because he constantly reminded me that I had to feel the pain and I had to hold onto my humanity because that's what Kol would have wanted since no matter how much fun I've heard having no humanity seemed...it was lonely and I didn't want that, I didn't want to lose how I felt for Nik.
I also had to feel the anger that fizzled beneath the grief determined to one day get revenge no matter how long that took since the day after Nik and I were released from the Gilbert's and they all returned did we find out majority of what happened, they had found Silas and the cure but shocking to everyone that Katherine had shown up and swiped it right out from underneath their noses and killed Jeremy by practically serving him up to Silas who was missing...meaning Kol's nightmare had come to pass.
"Get up my love, we have a werewolf that needs rescuing" I lifted my head to see Nik standing at the foot of the bed staring down at me.
"What werewolf?" I asked barely moving an inch.
"The one that tipped off Katerina that we were after the cure" I frowned knowing that only one werewolf besides Tyler Lockwood knew about the plan to find the cure, that girl that had warned Nik that his hybrids had broken their sire-bonds, which sent him on a blind rage to kill the lot of them, all except for Tyler of course who had fled like a bitch so Nik had killed his mother instead as revenge.
"Why would I do that?" I spat shutting my eyes with a huff since I wanted no part in anything to do with that werewolf bitch as I believed that she used Nik for something.
"Because in exchange for her telling me about the hybrids betrayal, I said that I'd protect her, she's called and requires my assistance"
"So go" I shrugged hearing him let out a sigh.
"Unfortunately I cannot leave you like this, my love" he was suddenly grabbing my feet and dragging me off the bed.
"NIK!" I screamed trying to cling onto the bedcovers as he dragged me off and my head hit the ground but he didn't stop dragging me. "Nik I swear to god...alright, alright" I called out and he let go of my feet and I flittered to my feet slamming my hands against his chest. "Don't ever do that again" I glared at him before I headed into the closet pulling out a burgundy red skirt and a black corset singlet slipping out of my clothes and into them feeling Nik's eyes on the back of my head as I was getting dressed. "Couldn't I have five minutes to myself to dress" I scolded him as I grabbed a pair of heels heading back into our room putting them on before I quickly ran a brush through my hair.
"I've left you alone for days" he argued making me frown since he has been giving me some space while I mourned Kol's death, within reason as he was checking up on me and making sure I was still emotion-filled and hadn't turned it off...yet.
"Sorry" I apologized hanging my head as I brushed my hair over one shoulder so that I could clasp my necklace in place but I was fumbling with the clasp which he clearly saw as I felt his hands take the ends of the necklace from me and he clasped them together before he leaned down with his lips next to my ear.
"I'm sure you can make it up to me later" I looked up into the mirror meeting his eyes in the reflection smiling a little for the first time in days before he kissed my neck once than walked out of the room leaving me to finish getting ready applying make-up to cover the heavy bags under my eyes and just as I was finishing up with my mascara he walked back into the room but this time he had a glass of blood and he held it out towards me.
"What's that for?" I asked.
"You" he stated like that was clear.
"I don't want it" I argued turning away from it seeing his frown in the mirror.
"You need it Sophia, you haven't fed since Kol died which means your starving yourself" he retaliated making me frown feeling the dryness of my throat especially when I stared at the glass in his hands, he was right with the fact that I haven't fed on blood since before Kol died and being trapped in the Gilbert living room meant I hadn't had any then but even after we'd gotten out I hadn't fed given I was mourning my best friend and haven't even thought about feeding until now.
"I'm fine" I argued again and he frowned narrowing his eyes at me before he turned and put the glass down onto my vanity bench.
"Fine, we need to go" he walked out of the room at that while I hesitated back a second looking at the glass feeling the burn of my throat and the scent of the blood wafted towards me before I frowned and walked out of the room leaving without even a sip and meet him outside waiting by his SUV where he already had the passenger door open for me to get in which I did and he closed my door as per usual before he was getting in himself and he started driving.
I laid my head against the passenger window feeling like nothing was right anymore, Nik and I had barely spoken since Kol died with today being the first real conversation we've had with one another in days, I know he had to be hurting as well but right now I couldn't focus on anything but dealing with my own grief and my own healing before I lost that battle and turned it all off.
The car ride was silent and riddled in tension but neither of us spoke up, whether it be Nik's pride or my stubbornness which prevented us from talking we'd never know and it was like that the entire drive to where he had told this werewolf girl to meet him, we both got out once Nik had stopped the car and headed towards the gas station but quickly heard the sounds of a fight between two of the trucks which Nik wasted no time with speeding in and grabbed the one standing over the girl.
"Have care mate, that is no way to treat a lady" Nik growled at the guy before sinking his poisonous fangs into the vampires neck before throwing him to the ground before he looked down at the girl.
"You came" she stated with a tone of surprise in her voice.
"Well you did say it was urgent" he shrugged his shoulders holding out a hand which the girl took and stood making me glare slightly before her eyes looked at the fallen vampire behind him who was struggling to stand up as he held a hand over the bite on his neck before he sped away disappearing to his death. "Oh don't worry about him, love" Nik added seeing this look.
"He'll never make it through tomorrow night" I pointed out which finally drew this werewolf's eyes to me as she appraised me up and down, clearly trying to wager if I was a threat or not.
"What if there are more?" she asked clearly speaking to my husband as that's who she was looking at but her eyes wandered over towards me.
"You were foolish enough to make a deal with Katerina Petrova, she used you to find the cure and now your nothing but a loose end-"
"She'll be lucky if she lets her live" I sniggered finishing Nik's sentence and we shared a look knowing full well of Katherine's ways to never leave her lackey's alive given it was her pattern that we had spent 150 years tracking to find her, Nik had spent over 500 tracking her to know this since I had been the one loose end of Katherine's that he had prevented.
"You said that you'd protect me" the girl growled out shoving past Nik hitting shoulders with him making me glare and move towards her but Nik caught my wrist.
"And I will" he argued with the girl. "Just as soon as you tell me everything you know about Katerina" he added and she stopped turning back to face him, the two sharing looks which I didn't like.
"My husbands has neglected to introduce us, you are?" I spat getting their attention watching as the girl turned and appraised me carefully again.
"Hayley" she finally told me her name. "And you?" she asked.
"Sophia Salvatore" I introduced myself seeing Nik frowning in the corner of my eyes given I had said my maiden name.
"I thought you just said he was your husband?" she pointed between us. "Your married?" she added looking at Nik.
"Biblically" he nodded turning towards me. "She forgot to add the tail end to her name which would be Mikaelson"
"Yes well it makes my name so long when I've hyphenated my name in this decade lover" I smirked watching him roll his eyes at me.
"Lets go" he states and immediately begins walking in the direction of our car clearly intending on the fact that we'd follow him.
"Your really married to Klaus?" Hayley pressed for clarification making me turn to her.
"Yes, for the past 100 years" I nodded my head before I began walking in the direction Nik had gone.
"You said your name was Salvatore, does that mean-"
"My brothers are Stefan and Damon, yes again" I nodded cutting her off to get to the point.
"So Katherine turned you too?" she asked and I made a face at that.
"Ew no, I'd never let her blood anywhere near me, I'm directly turned by Mikaelson blood"
"Klaus" she pointed and I nodded my head. "How-?"
"Look I could tell you my whole life story but it'd take up more of my patience than it's worth to you so let me just say this, I'm an old vampire turned directly by an original which means you do not want to see my bad side as I'm stronger than I look, so keep your eyes off my husband and we'll get along fine, understand?" I asked but didn't even wait for her to reply before I sped forward into step with Nik who was smirking clearly having heard all that. "Shut up"
"I didn't say anything"
"You don't even have to for me to know what you would say, so just shut up" I told him right as we'd gotten to the car and I got in not even waiting for him to open my door like he always liked to do.
The drive back to Mystic Falls was just as quiet as the one leaving the town and once we got back home I made sure to keep myself busy with anything that didn't involve having to babysit the werewolf leaving that to Nik but that didn't mean I wasn't listening to the conversation especially not to notice when my twin brother decided to show up and felt the anger go through me since they haven't even attempted to contact me for my opinion on the fact that their girlfriend and her brother literally tried to kill me after killing my best friend.
"So I just came up with a list called things you suck at, number one: finding Katherine, ever, number two: covering up your secret phone conversations to that little backstabber Hayley"
"Not like you can talk about phone conversations Damon" I spat walking into the room and he turned to me with a frown.
"So where is she and what does she know about Katherine?" Damon went on seemingly ignoring my existence.
"I should help you?" Nik argued and Damon stubbornly nodded his head. "After you lot killed my brother and imprisoned your sister and I in the Gilbert living room?" I saw Damon look over at me with a look that was hard to read but he almost looked surprised to hear that I had been with Nik when Bonnie trapped us.
"You might want to prioritize Klaus you have much bigger problems, Katherine has the cure, my guess is she's gonna want to cram it down your throat, you help me find Katherine I'll get the cure I'll give it to Elena everybody wins" Damon reasoned but I glared at him since nobody won in that situation except the doppelbitch. "Just let me question Hayley about Katherine" Nik smirked walking down the few steps towards my brother.
"Can't help you mate, Hayley's off limits" Nik protested sitting down on the couch. "Although I did have a run-in with a vampire who may know where Katerina is, too bad for you I bit halfway through his bloody neck he probably won't have much time for chit-chat" Nik smirked as Damon's eyes narrowed at him before they drifted over to me.
"Sophia we need to talk" I raised an eyebrow at him since now he wanted to talk.
"We have nothing to say to each other Damon" I told him moving over to sit next to Nik watching as Damon's eyes narrow once more as he frowned before he left in a clear strop that he didn't get his way.
I had watched my twin brother leave before I let out a sigh and stood walking towards the stairs fully intending on going back upstairs to return to my previous actions but felt Nik catch my hand before I could get very far.
"Soph-"
"Please Nik, not now" I sighed keeping my eyes locked on the ground. "Just talk to the wolf so you can find Katherine and put this damn cure behind us" I spat but he wouldn't let up on his grip of my hand. "Nik-"
"At least join us for something to eat, you've barely eaten in days"
"I'm fine" I argued but looked back just in time to see him roll his eyes knowing what a bunch of crap that was especially from me, nearly 150 years of being together as friends and lovers had taught him never to believe those words from my mouth and I hated that he knew that.
"Your not the only one that lost him, Sophia" I heard him growl back at me and that finally made me stop fighting as I turned to face him.
"You think I don't know that, I know he was your brother but all those years ago he had become the closest thing I had left of a brother figure in my life too and this is how I mourn my dead Niklaus, you should know that" I spat back at him and his lips turned into an even deeper frown.
"Do you remember the time last time you shielded away with your grief?" he asked making my frown grow deeper as well as my mind involuntary flashed back to the 15 year anniversary of what I had thought was my brothers deaths, how he'd found me drowning my sorrows alone on the banks of the Mississippi River, the moment that I began to feel something more than just loyalty and friendship towards Niklaus Mikaelson.
"What's that got to do with this?" I asked him.
"You hid away then as well so that you didn't come off as weak but you are not weak, your allowed to mourn but don't shut me out"
"I'm not shutting you out"
"Yeah you are and I'm not letting you do this to us"
"To us?" I questioned him.
"You have the habit of shutting down when your emotional-"
"I do not" I protested and he actually smiled a little as if that proved his point. "I don't want to deal with this right now Nik"
"Well too bad, your sticking by my side while we deal through this...together" he grabbed my hand again and dragged me into the dining room where a full lunch was spread out on the table waiting for us undoubtedly by some servants in which Nik still had compelled to serve us giving that there was vervain in the towns water supply but luckily Nik had installed water filters meaning our house was safe from the vervain but everywhere else was toxic for us to touch water.
"I hate you right now-"
"Give me an hour of your time Angel" he traced his hand over my cheek sliding it into my hair. "Then if you still want to go upstairs I'll let you leave"
"You'll let me leave?" I asked quirking my eyebrows at him.
"You know what I mean love"
"Bah fine" I growled out taking a seat at the table right as Hayley walked in and I watched her carefully especially as Nik sat down at the table and she watched his every move before she finally took the last seat at the table and seemed life running or whatever she was doing had left her without real manners as she immediately started eating and sipping at the wine in her glass.
"Eat love please" I heard Nik barely say in Aramaic, Hayley couldn't have possibly heard since she didn't have vamp hearing and wolf hearing wasn't as strong out of the moon cycle.
I let out a deep breath as I picked up my fork and stabbed at my food lifting it to my mouth just to appease him that I had actually eaten something and he smiled which made me roll my eyes as I ate more considering now that I'd started to eat I actually felt hungry with the real lack of food and blood running through my system and we just all ate in silence, neither one of us talking.
"So you're rested, you're fed" Nik spoke up the moment that Hayley was finished with her food and was sipping at the last of the wine in her glass. "Tell me about Katerina"
"Most men get their power kick from torture and intimidation, with you it's drinks and fine dining" Hayley replied and I turned to look at her.
"Well in your case I favor hospitality over unpleasantness but I have been known to change my mind on a whim" Nik shot back with a not so subtle look my way making me smile a little as I continued to pick at my food.
"Where is Katherine?" I added turning back to Hayley giving her a look that signaled that it was better for her to get straight to the point on the reason she was here.
"You seriously think I know?" she argued and I narrowed my eyes.
"You tipped her off as to what we were up to and set her on a course to find the cure, in return she sent her lackey to snuff you out, tell me what did Katerina promise you?" Nik asked her.
"I was in new Orleans trying to find information about my real parents, Katherine found me and told me she could help" she finally replied and I scoffed since only an idiot would trust Katherine.
"An orphan, well that does explain your charming bravado abandonment issues will do it every time" Nik smirked and I looked up at him raising my eye in question to that statement.
"Sounds like you would know" she replied making me frown at the interaction.
"I'm the only one that can protect you, I'm happy to do so provided you cooperate" Nik warned her that in order for us to keep up his end of the deal than she had to give us more that what she already had but before I could even voice my displeasure I felt my phone buzzing in my pocket so I pulled it out frowning at the text I'd received.
Could use a little help, if your my sister than I need assistance finding this vampire that your psycho husband bit, please help Sophia – Damon, I glared down at the phone for the very fact that he doesn't even realize that I'm mad at him, that he didn't care enough to even seek me out after they came back from the failed cure hunt nor had he said anything when Nik revealed to him that I had been trapped in the Gilbert living room no thanks to their troublesome teenage witch.
I didn't even notice Hayley and Nik had stood up from the table and moved into Nik's art room while I had looked at my phone until I heard Hayley's voice scrutinizing Nik's paintings which made me frown as I stood up grabbing my glass sipping at it recoiling a little as I had expected wine but it was blood and rolled my eyes at Nik's trickery which he had clearly seen as he smirked over at me while Hayley kept flicking through the paintings which were stacked up against the table.
Go the hell Damon – Sophia, I quickly texted back at vamp speed in order to lock my attention back on Hayley feeling very territorial right now.
What did I do now? – Damon, I read after feeling it buzz in my hand and rolled my eyes stuffing my phone back into my pocket ignoring him, let my brothers stew see if I care anymore.
"Hate that...too much...I don't get that...hmm...I don't care" I rolled my eyes as I glared at Hayley before she stopped at a painting that was laying on one of the tables. "Hmm...this one, it doesn't make me want to puke" she stated holding up a painting of a tree and a couple standing beneath it. "Why'd you paint it?"
"Painting is a metaphor for control, every choice is mine..." I smiled over at Nik as I recalled when he tried to get me to paint but that was never my thing. "The canvas, the color...as a child I had neither a sense of the world nor my place in it but art taught me that one's vision can be achieved with sheer force of will, the same is true of life provided one refuses to let anything stand in one's way" Nik went on, his eyes on me the entire time as I moved towards him.
"So this is your thing...show a girl a few mediocre paintings, whine about your childhood and I swoon and spill all my dirty secrets?"
"Technically you showed yourself to his paintings and he has a lot more charms than just fine wine and dining" I smirked winking towards Nik who smiled over at me.
"I'm enjoying myself" Nik shrugged his eyes still not having left mine which Hayley either didn't notice or chose to ignore that we weren't even really acknowledging that she was in the room with us.
"And you do whatever you enjoy, up to and including hunting my friend Tyler for the next century" she growled out which finally drew our eyes from each other to her.
"Oh, surely not the next century only until I kill him" Nik argued making me smile a little knowing that Tyler wasn't really high on his priority list right now meaning the kid was safe so long as he didn't do something stupid and return to Mystic Falls while we were still here.
"You talk a good game but the truth is you let him go" Hayley called his bluff making me cock an eyebrow in her direction at the boldness in her voice, very rarely did anyone speak to Nik this way and get away with it.
"If I simply killed Tyler, my revenge would be over in a moment sentencing him to a lifetime of paranoia and fear...that's Tyler's true punishment" Nik argued with her and she glared at him which finally made a few things make sense to me.
"You like the Lockwood boy?" I questioned with an almost laugh since she didn't stand a chance seeing as Caroline and Tyler were very much attached at this point in time.
"You never really thought there was a future for you two, did you?" Nik added onto my question with a smirk on his face.
"I don't know, he might have left Caroline for me if I'd used the cure to kill you" she argued and the smile fell from my lips as I glared at her for practically just threatening to kill him in front of me even after my warning at the truck stop.
"You know if Tyler has even half your resolve, he may actually make it through the year" Nik retaliated either missing the part where she threatened him or ignored it which was unlike him not to snark back a threat of his own.
"It doesn't take resolve it takes allies, a network of people willing to do anything for you, including chase down loose ends to their death...that's how Katherine escaped you all this time" she shot back and I raised my eye at her since she clearly did know more about Katherine than she was letting on so I stepped towards her.
"Perhaps you know the names of Katherine's special little helpers?" I asked narrowing my eyes as I stood in front of her.
"Maybe I know one or two, maybe I'll even tell you" she replied before walking out of the room and I glared at her back before I went to follow but Nik caught my wrist.
"Let her go for now" he told me making me frown. "She's not going anywhere" he reminded me and I rolled my eyes before I turned back towards him. "What was with the phone earlier?" he asked clearly referring to Damon texting me.
"Just my twin being his usual condescending, stupid self by attempting to get me to help them" I replied and he frowned. "I didn't if that's-"
"I know you wouldn't help them, not after how they haven't even come to see you" he replied and I scoffed.
"Judging by Damon's shock when you said that I'd been with you at the Gilbert's meant that they haven't even told my brothers that I'd been trapped with you, probably keeping it a secret to protect the doppelbitch" I remarked as I walked further back into his art room picking up my wine glass which I had put down and sipped at the blood since like the food once I had gotten the taste of it reminded my mind and body of how much I needed to replenish my appetite. "Much less that Little Gilbert almost drove the white oak through my heart"
"Yes I'm dreaded to be reminded of that fact" I heard Nik mutter to himself but pretended that I didn't. "Your lucky that your twin is incapable of teaching a hunter the basic skills on staking a vampire or you wouldn't be here" he spoke up a little louder and I frowned turning my eyes back towards him seeing him looking down at the ground with a haunted look in his eyes which made my frown deepen as I put the glass down and moved towards him cupping his head in my hands as I lifted his eyes to meet mine.
"I'm right here Nik" I spoke softly knowing the scene was playing in his head without even needing to go into his mind to see it from his point of view, for a second all he'd have been able to see was Little Gilbert stab me through the back not even knowing if he had gotten my heart and I had forgotten to even think about how Nik felt in that second or in the minutes that passed afterwards where he'd had to dig through my back for the splinter which had broken off and wedged itself into my lung and had been pushing closer to my heart with each passing second, I had been an inch away from death right in front of his eyes and I knew how that felt, to watch the one you loved get staked, not knowing if that was your last second with them.
Lucky for me that Nik had found a loophole even if I hadn't liked the fact that he hadn't told me about it and I'd been forced to think he was actually gone and that I'd never see him again but I wouldn't have wished that sight upon him having to watch me go through the same thing while he was powerless to stop it and these thoughts made me feel guilty because I had been shutting him out this past week, I'd left him alone with that image.
"I'm sorry" I quickly apologized as I came to realize this.
"What for?" he questioned leaning into my touch as I stroked my thumb over his cheeks, they weren't wet with tears since very rarely did I see Nik cry but I had that night even if he had tried to remain strong in front of me I had felt a few tears fall onto my face as he'd cradled me against him as I healed after he removed the splinter from my back.
"For shutting you out, you were right" I sighed since I hated saying that but it needed to be said and he smiled a little knowing that very rarely did I admit that he was right just like he hated it when he had to admit it to me when we argued about something. "For not seeing that you were in pain, you didn't just watch your brother die that night, you'd had to see me get staked and for a moment you couldn't have known that Jeremy had missed, I know what that feels like and I wouldn't wish that sight upon anyone to watch the one they love so close to death, I'm so sorry Nik"
"I'd thought I'd lost you, for a moment I felt like I'd..." he trailed off clearly fighting back the emotions that clearly begged to be released but with Hayley lurking wherever she'd gone to I knew he wouldn't do that right here, right now because he never let himself appear weak to anyone expect me so I stood on my toes and wrapped my arms around his neck.
"I'm right here Nik, I'm alive and here with you" I whispered, my voice barely heard by myself as I spoke into his ear and felt his arms tighten around my waist signalling that he'd heard me. "Always and Forever"
"Never do that to me again Sophia"
"You and I both know neither of us can promise each other that" I smiled a little before I kissed his neck slowly trailing my lips up his jaw.
"Why must you be so bloody stubborn?" he questioned making me laugh a little.
"You married me" I replied not relenting on my kisses along his neck and jawline.
"That I did" he replied and I could hear the smirk in his voice which made me pull my head back a little to see it since I missed his genuine smirk and smiles, they were all too rare a sight. "Remind me again how much you love me?" he asked making me roll my eyes but was unable to hold back a smile as I leaned forward pressing my lips to his backing him up until his legs hit the edge of the couch he had in here which I usually sat on reading while he painted and he fell down onto it before pulling me down into his lap.
"I love you Niklaus Mikaelson, a century is still not enough time with you, you make me crazy..." I kissed the corner of his lips. "Wild" I kissed his jawline. "You challenge me" I kissed his neck as my hands reached for the buttons on his shirt undoing them to expose the small amount of chest right over his heart before I placed a kiss over it. "Love me without conditions and I am forever untangled, for we share one heart, one life...Always and Forever" I vowed feeling like more of my soul became his and smiled as my favorite line of my favorite book came to my mind. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" he pulled his lips back from me.
"Did you just quote that god awful book you love so much to me?" he asked making me smile a little.
"You can't say that statement doesn't ring a little truth to us, you and I are the same Nik, there's always been something that pulled the two of us together and no matter what we go through, we end up right back to each other" I argued unable to wipe the smile from my face as he rolls his eyes at me.
"Fine I'll agree that it might be a little true to how I feel about you but its still awful" he argued making me laugh a little before I lent forward and captured his lips again, it getting more heated and passionate than our previous ones...well that was until I felt a buzzing against my inner thigh and tried to pull back only for Nik to hold me in place and try to deepen the kiss ever more.
"Nik-" he cut me off forcing his mouth back onto mine making me smile a little for the fact he was being a hormonal teenager right now. "I cannot focus on kissing you while your pocket his vibrating since that is not the friction that I crave" he growled out some profanity in a language I didn't know and pulled me up a little to fish his phone out of his pocket.
"What?" he answered a little harshly and I rolled my eyes at his impatience and anger towards whoever was on the other end for interrupting us.
"The vampire after that werewolf is dead, Damon ripped out his heart" I heard Rebekah say making me frown since why would Damon do that when he had been so adamant to get answers from the guy.
"So sorry little sister that once again you've proved incompetent and have allowed the cure to slip from your grasp" Nik replied and I glared at him for being so harsh, none of us had predicted that Katherine would show her face and steal the cure and Rebekah clearly shared my sentiment as she hung up without so much as another word to her brother, the two still at odds with each other making me roll my eyes but then I wasn't one to talk about sibling pettiness and loathing.
"Do you really have to be so cruel when you and I both know none of us predicted Katherine was onto our plan" he just shrugged his shoulders and cupped my cheek bringing my lips back to his clearly trying to reignite the previous fire we had going but I pulled back.
"Sophia-" he growled out annoyed.
"As much as I'd love to continue this Niklaus, we seem to had forgotten the certain Little Wolf in which is occupying this house with us tonight, perhaps you should tell her that the vampires dead and that's she's free to go, then you and I can get back to...this" he pulled me forwards again and I groaned a little feeling the slight bulge in his jeans. "Definitely getting back to this once she's gone and were alone"
"Fine" he spat annoyed as he removed me from his lap and stood leaving his art room to inform Hayley that she was free from Katherine's lackeys. "My sister informs me that your vampire assailant is dead" I heard Nik say as I stood smoothing out my skirt as I followed after him out of the art room finding them in the main parlor room.
"Which means your safe and free to go" I added walking into the room and gestured to the door, she looked at me for a second before moving her eyes over towards Nik and I narrowed my eyes before she put down the glass of scotch in which she had so graciously helped herself to before nodding her head and headed for the door and that's when I noticed the birthmark on her shoulder as the shirt she was wearing had fallen just slightly on her shoulder. "Hey Hayley" I called to her and she stopped.
"What?" she asked and I raised my eyes at her bitter tone, clearly she wasn't happy about being kicked out but this had been only a temporary thing, she had to have known that which is why I felt a little gracious enough to give her something she wanted since she had helped us a little given I had also taken note of the paper on the coffee table containing names I could only guess were the contacts of Katherine's she's willingly written out for us to track down in our search for the bitch.
"That mark" I nodded at her shoulder. "I've seen it before" I told her and she turned towards me.
"Yeah it's a birthmark, people have those" she replied but clearly didn't understand what I'd meant by I had seen it before as I shared a knowing look with Nik who nodded agreeing that we owed her something for the intel she'd provided us.
"In my considerable lifetime, I've only seen that mark on a handful of others, all from the same bloodline..." he spoke up and her eyes widened as she slowly began to understand what I'd meant. "A werewolf clan that once thrived throughout much of what we now call Louisiana"
"Don't lie to me...not about this" she retaliated glaring at us clearly thinking we were making a joke or leading her on.
"I wouldn't dare, matters of family are sacred" Nik protested.
"Tell me" she insisted while Nik and I shared another look.
"We'll give you a hint, you were in the right place when Katherine found you" I told her and her eyes widened even further as she understood what I meant by that.
"Thank you" she nodded at both of us before she took off out of the house and I smiled a little hoping that she did in fact find some connection to her family since although I hated my brother 95% of time when I had found them again I had felt relieved that I still had blood family left and so I did hope that she found hers knowing what that meant and clearly how much it meant to her.
"Now where were we?" I heard Nik say and before I even had the chance to turn around I felt my knees getting swept up with an arm underneath them and another around my back before my eyes met Nik's.
"Your very impatient tonight"
"You started it my love" he argued as he carried me up the stairs towards our room.
"And I do intend on finishing it lover" I smirked once we'd reached our room and maneuvered myself out of his arms speeding behind him smiling as he spun a little surprised by my quick movements before I pushed him down on the bed before climbing up and straddled his waist holding him down especially when he tried to sit up and take control to which I pushed more forcibly slamming his body against the mattress letting my vampire face show as I growled out at him. "I'm in control right now" I warned him waiting until I felt his fight slack off before I moved my hands to his shirt ripping it down the middle as I wasn't bothered taking it off the normal way.
"I'm at your disposal Angel" he smirked watching me as I let my features return to normal as I pulled my black singlet over my head leaving me in the dark lace bra and my skirt as I moved to unbuckle his jeans.
"You are mine tonight"
"I am yours" his smirk widened as he replied hands gripping my waist hard that he was undoubtedly leaving marks which would heal so I didn't give a damn especially since the moment we were connected in the most biblical of actions between a married couple my nails racked down his chest leaving bloody scratches and marks in their wake as we healed what had been missing between us this past week, all in this one simple and loving act pouring our souls into each movement in which connected us together.
