A/N: I apologize for the length between updates, I had wrote this chapter during the holidays but then my computer crashed and I lost all the work :'(. So I had to rewrite it but anyway hope you like this long awaited chapter and please review :)
Sophia's POV
I looked around the table at all the familiar and unfamiliar faces that I was being forced to spend my evening with sat at Niklaus' right hand side as he sat at the head of the table with Marcel across from me on Nik's left side, the reason I was mainly here because of Hayley sitting at the other end of the table looking like she wanted to be anywhere else but Nik was keeping her on a very short leash and I was trying to keep her safe from everyone in this compound right now including Nik.
"Let us begin with a toast to our shared gift...immortality" Nik spoke up raising from his seat clinking his fork on his flute of champagne. "After a thousand years, one might expect life to be less keenly felt, for its beauties and its sorrows do diminish with time but as vampires we feel more deeply than humans could possibly imagine" he gestures toward a group of waiters and waitresses to have them join them at the table, standing between each guest and I avoid looking at the one standing next to me. "Insatiable need, exquisite pain..." the servants slit their wrists with knives, filling the bowls with blood for the vampires and I frowned looking over at Hayley with worry that this might turn her stomach but she was barely looking up at anyone. "Our victories and our defeats" he adds as he looks at Marcel. "To my city, my home again, may the blood never cease to flow..."
"...and the party never end!" Marcel exclaims finishing Nik's sentence as he raised his glass and I frown when I notice him look over at his old right hand, Diego who looks back then finally holds up his own glass.
"To New Orleans" Diego states.
"To New Orleans!" Nik smirks holding up his glass even higher.
"New Orleans" everyone else raised their glasses before they all took a drink.
"I understand that some of you may have questions regarding the recent change in leadership and I invited you here tonight to assure you that you are not defeated, no my intentions moving forward are to celebrate what we have, what Marcel in fact, took and built for this true community of vampires"
"What about her?" Diego suddenly says and he points toward Hayley. "The wolf" I narrowed my eyes at him and sat straighter.
"She is none of your concern" I snarled out through a glare but felt Nik's hand touch had hand which was dangerously close to grabbing the knife next to my plate.
"Had you'd let me finish Diego, you would know that there is of course one further matter I would like to address" Nik speaks up giving me a look before he walks over to the other end of the table where Hayley sits. "As many of you know, the girl is carrying Sophia's and I's child-"
"Which means you will all pay her the appropriate respect" I snapped cutting Nik off and they all turned to Nik as if questioning if he was going to allow me to talk this way but Nik only smirked.
"I understand that some of you are concerned by this vicious rumor that I intend to use the blood of our child to create hybrids, I assure you I do not"
"Father of the year" Hayley remarked sarcastically and I shook my head at her while everyone else stared impassively and untrusting.
"It appears I will have to earn your trust" Nik states letting out a sigh as he returns to his original side of the table. "Very well, we'll eliminate the root of your anxiety you see how I can I sire any hybrids if there are no more werewolves alive in the bayou to turn?"
"What?' Hayley immediately said sitting up straighter. "Klaus, no!" she adds but Nik blatantly ignores her.
"So...eat, drink and be merry and tomorrow I suggest you have yourselves a little wolf hunt, go ahead have fun kill them all!" Hayley stood up pushing her chair away from the table hard walking out of the courtyard upstairs and I frowned following her out with my eyes before I turned towards Nik with a hard look since he couldn't be serious but he avoided my eyes so I huffed and stood walking out heading upstairs.
I walked into Nik and I's room and picked up my phone checking to see if I had any messages from my stubborn and idiotic brothers but there was still nothing and seriously I was increasingly getting worried about their silence and while Nik had promised me that he'd go with me to check on them but I doubted that was still in the cards now that he had an empire to run but I guess I could always ask...I walked out of the room to find him.
"...And so then I bit Elijah and left him in the bayou with my hybrid venom in his veins. Serves him right, for making such vile accusations against me" I followed the sound of Nik's voice into the upstairs study walking in frowning when I spotted Cami sitting on one of the couches typing and I rolled my eyes at the fact that he was still getting her to write his memoirs. "And then..." he turns to see that Cami had stopped typing. "Are you taking this down?" he asks her.
"To be clear, if the Quarter is yours now you still need me why?' Cami asked him right as I walked in and walked over taking a seat across from Cami seeing her look up almost surprised to see me.
"My memoirs, a thousand years of history isn't going to write itself" Nik replied smiling when he saw me but we both turned to the door when Marcel joins the party.
"Cami. What are you doing here?" he asked looking at Cami in surprise.
"My question exactly" Cami replies standing up and looking at Nik.
"Oh it's quite alright, she knows" Nik smirked and Marcel's eyes hardened.
"She does?" Marcel questions looking at Nik.
"That you're vampires" Marcel turned back to her. "Don't worry, he's compelled me to forget everything as soon as I leave, that way I'm too busy agonizing over whether or not I'm losing my damn mind to realize I'm playing spy for an immortal egomaniac"
"You compelled her to go out with me, didn't you?" Marcel asks looking at Nik again before he turns back to Cami. "And I thought you really liked me"
"So did I"
"I mean to be clear, I only compelled you to give him a chance, anything you felt for him was quite real" Nik argued and Cami and Marcel exchange confused glances.
"...and for the record, the level of awkwardness we're all currently experiencing is entirely genuine" I added looking around the room but Cami turned back to glare at Nik.
"You think you're so clever don't you, compelling the poor naive bartender" she turned and pulled something out of her bag. "Look what I found, real me, not your compelled therapist" she shows Nik the page, I stood and looked down at it seeing it was a picture of Nik, Marcel and me from 1919 at an event we had gone to.
"Actually I prefer ...'devoted stenographer'..." Nik argues instead of talking about the photograph.
"You think this is funny messing with my mind, my sanity is not a joke!" Cami yelled at him.
"No love, I don't believe it is" Nik replies before he meets her eyes. "You never found this, you will remember nothing of our life as vampires when you leave here, do you understand?" he compels her and I roll my eyes sitting back down watching as Cami nods. "I think that just about does it for the day, you may go" Cami immediately grabs her her things and leaves.
I let out a sigh knowing that I wasn't going to get a chance to talk to Nik about going to Mystic Falls with Marcel there so I stood up and let the room with neither of them noticing and went downstairs to go to the kitchen but stopped when I noticed Hayley creeping towards the doors that lead out of the compound looking around to see if she's being watched which just makes me smile until Diego suddenly cuts in front of her.
"Going somewhere?" he asks her and just as I took a step forward to interfere, Elijah appears and breaks Diego's neck by throwing him into the wall.
"Elijah, you shouldn't be here Klaus has his guys watching me"
"I wouldn't worry about them" Elijah points out right as Rebekah comes along, kicking down two other vampires who were hiding around the corner. "Come, we mustn't linger we'll get you some place safe"
"No, you don't have to worry about me I'm fine" Hayley protests.
"She's been been deemed under protection by the almighty Klaus" I cut in walking up making Hayley jump a little but I was looking at Elijah and Rebekah. "And to be fair, I wouldn't let anyone harm her either" I narrowed my eyes at them.
"It's the werewolves who need help, he ordered a wolf hunt as some jacked-up peace offering to Marcel's crew, you have to help them"
"Out in the bayou, do we look like a bloody vampire-rescue-squad I think you should be grateful we came to save you!" Rebekah argued and I rolled my eyes.
"Listen Rebekah, all my life I've wanted to know who my real family was and just as I find out that they're out there in the bayou, Klaus orders them killed, you wanna help me help my people...please" Rebekah and Elijah turned towards me and I nodded.
"I'll keep Niklaus occupied" I turned and walked away going to the kitchen to grab a blood bag that I had been going for before I returned upstairs walking back into the office knowing that's where Marcel and Nik still were by the sound of their voices.
"...I haven't thought about this night in ages" I stopped by the door looking in at them as Nik dropped the photo Cami had revealed onto the table. "1919, the opera house, just before it burned" I smiled at the memory, it was a couple nights before we were to attend that fateful night to watch the show before it moved on and I begged Nik to take me. "This was the end of an era"
"That's one word for it my lover" I smirked making them both turn towards me as I walked in and sat down on the lounge next to Nik where pulled my legs up placing them in his lap as I ripped the cap from the bag and drank a little greedily as I hadn't had much blood the last few days and was actually quite starving.
"Well in the interest of new beginnings, I feel there are some things I should probably confess to you" Nik said looking over at Marcel while his hands smoothed over small circles on my calves. "But where to begin?"
"Probably from the beginning" I smirked offering Nik some blood from the bag and he took it from me sipping at it while he looked at Marcel.
"Thierry was never disloyal to you I set him up in an attempt to locate my brother, he's you friend and consequently he can return to the compound at your discretion" Nik informed him taking another sip from my bag before handing it back to me. "Cami's part you just learned and then there's young Joshua" he stood up making me frown as my legs dropped down from their comfy resting place as he walked over to the liquor stand and poured out a couple glasses. "I've been compelling him from the beginning although I suspect you already knew that as he was the one who led us into your trap" he added coming back over and sat back down placing the extra glass on the coffee table for Marcel before he leaned back and pulled my legs back up into his lap making me smile.
"I may have fed the kid some misinformation" Marcel nodded taking the offered glass.
"And then there's Davina, she's a powerful weapon" Nik went on making my smile drop since the girl shouldn't be treated as a weapon, she was a teenager and shouldn't be dragged into any of this. "At this point, I'd like to keep her close at hand I think we should have her move into the compound here with us"
"Eh, she can't leave the attic, I already tried to move her once" Marcel argued to which Nik and I just shared a knowing look given we knew about her deal with Elijah at the time.
"Yes about that, turns out your little witch is quite the actress" Nik smirked turning back to Marcel.
"She made a deal with Elijah while he was in captivity, tricked you into staying" I added seeing Marcel's almost glare at the betrayal.
"In exchanged for some spells from our mother's grimoire" Nik carried on
"Good to know, is that all?" Marcel asked us.
"I do believe it is" Nik smirked sitting back in the lounge.
"Appreciate the honesty" he replied and Nik merely waved him off. "Meeting is in an hour" he added before he stood up and left the room.
"What meeting?" I asked turning back to look at Nik once he was gone.
"The human faction see it fit to have a meeting with the new leader of the vampires" he waved it off like it was nothing but I frowned since I doubted that was good. "Nothing for you to worry over my love" he added right before I felt him tug on my ankles making me let out a small shriek of surprise before it turned into a small laugh when he was suddenly over the top of me kissing every inch of my face.
"Nik knock it off" I pushed on his chest. "What's brought out the affectionate side of you today?" I questioned.
"It hasn't been that long since I've shown you how much I adore you is it?" he asked making me smile as I reached up and gently ran my thumb over his arched eyebrow before cupping his cheeks.
"It has been a short while but with everything going on, I understand and frankly feel like we haven't really been able to have any Klaus and Sophia time" he shook his head at me.
"It's Nik to you" he growled playfully before leaning down and capturing my lips and I didn't fight against him as I was done holding grudges, first steps to learning how to trust him again was to start trusting him and after the last couple weeks we've had I needed him just as much as he needed me.
"Marcel did say that the meetings in an hour" I smirked suggestively and he smirked back.
"Well that's not nearly enough time for everything I want to do to you right this moment but...I think I can manage something" his smirk grew before I suddenly found myself over his shoulder staring at his backside as he walked out of the study.
"Nik!" I laughed/exclaimed as I tried to get down but he kept a secure hold of my legs and the more I struggled to get up his grip tightened before I felt a slap at my ass. "Niklaus put me down or so help me-" I cut off as he dropped me on our bed smashing his lips to mine and just like that I forgot all about the animalistic caveman behavior and I ripped the front of his shirt open kissing his chest as his lips trailed down my neck.
"We only have an hour, no time for foreplay my love" he said right before I was flipped onto my stomach and the sound of my dress ripping followed as I leaned back kissing him as he bent over me tugging at the end of my hair. "You're mine" he growled out and I could see golden hues to his iris' from the corner of my eyes, his wolf was out to play.
"I'm yours" he pushed me back down and my god...I loved his wolf side during sex.
I could feel Nik's eyes on me as I got dressed pulling up a pair of jeans unable to keep myself from smiling as I couldn't help replaying the past hour in my mind especially with his eyes still on me feeling like they were undressing me even as I was getting dressed pulling on purple bustier top tightening the front strings before I grabbed a white cream leather jacket putting it on right as I felt arms wrap around my waist.
"Nik, we don't have time" I warned him as he kissed spot where my neck met my shoulder and it was a sweet spot for me and he knew that.
"Your so beautiful" he whispered before biting down gently making me flinch a little.
"Not so frisky lover, I don't feel like blood sharing as we don't have time for the aftermath of that" I turned and kissed him before nipping at his lower lip. "Now come on" I slipped my feet into some brown ankle boot heels smiling when I was the same height as him as it always pleased me to be the same height then walked out with him following to his car where we got in and drove to the church walking in immediately hearing Marcel already here talking with his witch upstairs so Nik walked up the stairs and I followed to keep in in check.
"...can't be lying to each other, I'm trying to protect you with the witches still looking to kill you for The Harvest, believe me you're safest to us"
"Plus, there's excellent light in the afternoon" Nik interrupted alerting them to our presence. "I see you're an artist" he pointed out walking into the room looking around at all the paintings she had done during her time up here. "Wonderful, I look forward to witnessing your many talents" he smirked at her while I just shook my head at him from the doorway.
"Was this their idea?" Davina asked turning back to Marcel and I made a face since why was she making me sound like a bad person, she didn't believe me to be bad, did she?
"Davina please, I understand your devoted to Marcel but Marcel is devoted to me, I assume you want what's best for all of us" Nik said before Marcel could even answer her before he started walking back towards the door. "We have a meeting to attend downstairs" he reminds Marcel before he walks towards me and takes my hand kissing the knuckles then leads me down the stairs with Marcel following quickly after to see the human leaders of this city waiting with Father Kieran in the churches main area.
"Klaus, Marcel thank you for coming" the priest said as soon as he saw us and I frowned at the exclusion but when he turned to me I realized that I never really gave him my name, not when I'd come here with Rebekah and not when I had come here with Nik but now wasn't really the time for introductions which he seemed to understand as he turned back towards Nik and Marcel. "Now we are aware of the change in leadership in your community and we thought it was time to make the appropriate introductions" he gestured to the others in the room who all stood up
"We wanted to be sure you understand how things work around here" the man who I assumed was the mayor spoke up looking at Nik.
"Is that so?" Nik smirked smugly and I frowned stepping up beside him as the priest laughed nervously seemingly picking up on the tension in the room as I was.
"What the mayor means, is that we just want some assurance that this new development isn't gonna endanger our city or it's inhabitants" the priest delegated the peaceful way here, he was clearly the middle man here.
"Look you...freaks do your thing and we'll uh...look the other way" the chief of police added and I glared at the word 'freaks' since that was just uncalled for. "As long our pockets stay full" my eyes narrowed even further that they expected us to pay them off...for what? "We won't have a problem"
"More importantly, there are rules!" the priest cut in again more forcibly this time, even raising his voice an octave higher. "No feeding on the locals, don't bring any unwanted attention to the city, now history has proven that we can coexist peacefully however if you cross the line-"
"You answer to us" the chief of police finished for him and I didn't even try to stop Nik as he laughed at the balls of these humans.
"Ok, I'm sorry let me get this straight I'm to play supplicant to this pompous ass and his ridiculous group of petty thieves?" Nik asked looking at Marcel but was met with silence. "Ah, here are my terms, you will take whatever scraps I see fit to leave you and you will be grateful, if that doesn't suit you I may decide you've outlived your usefulness" he pretty much spoke directly to the ass of the police force then turned holding his hand out towards me, I smirked not even needing to say more as I agreed with Nik 100% on this and stepped forward taking his hand as we walked out once again with Marcel following us and this time he lead us to his guys hangout where the nightwalkers kept out of the daylight where they could feed as well and while Nik went to get drinks I sat at a table with Marcel who was not good at hiding his true feelings, never has been which just made me smile as I sat forward in my chair.
"Don't look so glum sire-brother, be thankful that no heads rolled" I remarked with a smirk.
"Don't call me that" he immediately said.
"Ouch, here I thought we were on a path to forgiveness"
"You seem to have finally forgiven Klaus for whatever you two were arguing about for the past couple months"
"We haven't been arguing" I argued.
"Sure, you never could hide anything from me Soph" he replied right as Nik returned with a bottle of bourbon and three glasses.
"What are you hiding my beloved wife?" Nik smirked at me as he took the seat beside me.
"Nothing, although Marcel here seems to believe we'd been arguing for the past couple months"
"I call 'em as I seem it" Marcel shrugged before sitting back in his seat and I rolled my eyes looking around at the vampires feeding around us.
"Well aside from this lovely topic, I think I was far more gracious than they deserved" Nik went on changing the subject pouring out the drinks. "You're disappointed by my lack of diplomacy" he pointed out Marcel's look which was still brooding. "Well you above all people should need no reminder of the human capacity for cruelty"
"Nik" I scolded as he slid a glass to Marcel, there was no need to bring up Marcel's past which I knew seeing as he told me after I'd told him of my father's cruelty to me, we both suffered at the hands of the men that were supposed to be our fathers which is why Marcel and I had been close before the atrocity that dragged us away from this city but before Marcel could say anything to reply Nik's phone vibrated and he stood answering it.
"Hello?"
"Mr Mikaelson, just wanted to let you know the faction has considered your terms, we've reached a decision" I heard the chief of police's voice.
"Have you?" Nik questioned them right as the glass shattered around us and I ducked my head out of instinct before the chaos of the windows set in at the first scream as we all looked up and saw a man on fire burning in the sunlight that had been shielded out by the blacked out glass and two more just like him were screaming as they burned, Marcel ran over to one of them whose legs were burning and pulled him to the shade but then the bullets started and I saw Marcel get hit.
"Marcel!" I screamed standing up only to feel multiple piece through me.
"Sophia!" I heard Nik yell out over the gunshots as I fell back groaning in pain as I tried not to move until I saw him and he cupped my cheek. "Tell me where?"
"I'm okay" I assured him but he ignored me and started doing a whole body check pulling out a couple of wooden bullets from my stomach and one from my leg. "Check Marcel" I told him and he quickly went over and checked Marcel who was fine with two in his stomach, I groaned and scooted myself backwards to a beam and sat myself up groaning out in pain since getting shot really sucks.
"Here, drink this" I looked up at Nik as he held out a glass and I saw blood in it with two punctures on his wrist healing before my eyes, I smiled reassuringly at him as I took the glass from him while Marcel was already standing and taking in the loss of his friends.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" he exclaimed and threw a table up overturning it making me frown as I looked around at the carnage, so many lives lost with nothing but charred bones remaining. "This is on you!" he turned pointing at Nik. "Now that you're in charge, those are your guys laying dead, your guys" I understood Marcel's anger but they were his friends, his sires. "You're gonna run this city that better mean something to you otherwise no one worth a damn is gonna follow you, no one" Marcel added walking away to take a breath.
"I was beginning to worry about you" Nik smirked and I let out a sigh throwing back the blood to help myself heal. "I don't think I could've taken any more of this deferential nonsense, I mean clearly I underestimated the faction" I let out a scoff since wasn't that the truth. "That won't happen again but tell me now that we've arrived at this point, now that they have come into our home, visited this upon our people, how would you counsel me to respond?" I raised my eyes for the fact that Nik was generally asking Marcel for guidance.
"Lets go kill them all" Marcel replied and I rolled my eyes not seeing how that would benefit us but these humans have clearly gotten too big for their boots and needed to be set back into place.
"Well before that, do me a favor and help me up would you gentleman" I reminded them of my presence and they both turned towards me and held out an arm each which I took and let them pull me up only letting out a small grunt of pain due to my leg still healing. "170 years old and getting shot still hurts"
"You sure your okay, you can go back to the compound" Nik suggested and I scoffed.
"And let you boys have all the fun, uh-uh, that police chief is mine" I argued and watched him smirk. "I just need another couple of minutes to heal then I'll be good to go" I balanced myself on my good leg as I started walking out.
"Just take it easy love" Nik complained as I walked down the street not really sure what I was doing but I needed fresh air, Marcel clearly stayed back to take care of his guys.
"I've been shot before Nik, lucky this time there's no werewolf venom added to the bullets, I'll be totally healed soon" I argued looking around at the crowds walking past us.
"What are you looking for?" he asked but I shook my head.
"Food, I'm starving and clearly need a power up"
"You really think that's a good idea, why don't you just head back to the compound and heal"
"Because I told you, that police chief is mine, he called us freaks and was clearly the front-header on that little trick-"
"Sophia stop" he grabbed my arms turning me to him. "Take a breath love, your acting crazy" I narrowed my eyes at him. "I don't want you getting hurt again, so please-"
"I'm fine" I protested.
"One of those bullets could have easily hit you in the heart Sophia-"
"But it didn't"
"But it could have" he argued before letting out a breath. "I just want to keep you safe Angel" my eyes widened since he hasn't called me that in ages. "I'd be lost without you"
"I know Nik but I don't want to be seen as weak, those men looked at me today and saw me as your weakest part and I can't have that happen again"
"Again?" he questioned.
"Mikael, he knew you would do anything to protect me and today that's exactly what those men saw, this wasn't just a hit to show you that they can have control, this was a way of showing that they can get to you through me since what you said is true, what if one of those bullets had hit my heart or I didn't have a daylight ring...I'm the weakest part of you because I'm physically weaker and I can't let them see me that way, I am more than Klaus Mikaelson's ordinary vampire bride"
"You're right, you've never been weak Sophia" he smiled brushing his hand through my hair. "Okay but if you want to power up" he held out his wrist to me and I grabbed it with one hand before looking around but no one was really looking as he'd pulled me between two buildings. "Drink up, my love" I extended my fangs and drank straight from him letting my bloodlust take over as I pushed him against the other wall and his other hand stroked through my hair as he let out a sigh of ecstasy as blood sharing like this was extremely sensual especially with the kind of love between us already and he let me drink as much as was physically safe for him before pulling me off. "I love you"
"I love you" I smiled pulling his lips down to mine before my hands immediately began grabbing for his belt unbuckling it.
"Really, right here?" he asked cocking an eyebrow at me and I nodded getting his belt and jeans undone before he was pushing me into the other wall a little further down the alley we were currently in hungrily kissing at my neck as he cupped my ass and squeezed as he pulled my legs up to wrap around his waist keeping me there with one hand while he hastily undid my jeans and pulled them down then took me right there against the wall with me stifling my moans into the crook of his neck with only his soft grunts as he thrusts up into me being heard around us as we lost all sense of our surroundings except each other.
When night fell we met back up with Marcel who looked almost surprised to see me and looked us up and down since our clothes were still a little messed up which just made Nik and I smile at each other before we walked into Rousseau's where the human faction was having a meeting in which had been set up by Nik.
"...You've been gone for over 8 months Kieran, we got used to doing things on our own" we heard the mayor say as we made our way stealthy into the building.
"This Klaus Mikaelson, I don't care who he is or what the rumors say he needed to be taught a lesson" I heard the police chief add and my eyes narrowed down into a glare since that was going to be his biggest mistake.
"You are gonna start a war" the priest...Kieran argued being the only logical person in that room.
"I'd like to see them try" the police chief scoffed which made me smile since I take that as an invitation but Nik held his hand out signaling me to wait which made me frown and he smirked at my clear eagerness. "Oh and Kieran, this is the last time you call a meeting, next time you want to criticize our leadership send a damn email"
"I thought you called this meeting" Father Kieran quickly replied and Nik nodded walking in while I stayed back with Marcel waiting for the right time.
"The hell we did"
"Actually I did" Nik spoke alerting them to his presence. "It appears I made a grave error during our earlier conference, my friend Marcel offered me a wise counsel and I failed to heed it"
"Well I'm glad to hear you've learned your lesson" I rolled my eyes at the chief's words.
"Oh I won't be making that mistake again" Nik replied being as careful with his words as Elijah usually was which made me smirk. "Marcel..." Marcel moved out speeding over knife from the table and used it to stab the mayor in the neck. "Sophia" I moved in and did the same with the chief of police making sure his eyes were on me so he knew who was the cause of his own demise as he choked on his own blood while Nik laughed. "Shall we?" he gestured to the rest and I smirked pulling the chief's head back.
"Gladly" I vamped out and bit down drinking what was left of his blood as we ravaged our way through the room leaving no one alive but the priest seeing as he had no part in what happened.
"There he is" I heard Nik say right as I pulled my lips back and let the woman that I just drank dry drop to the ground and saw him walking towards the priest. "Our lone survivor, such as sad day for our city" he clapped his hand down on the mans shoulder. "Some of it's best and brightest killed in a tragic boating accident on the Mississippi" he fed him the cover story seeing as these weren't just tourists. "Rather nasty explosion I heard" his grip tightened as he turned Father Kieran towards him. "What am I going to do with you?"
"Okay, hold up" Marcel quickly stopped feeding and intervened. "I've known Kieran for a long time, he's smart and he's fair, alright he can do us more good alive than dead, not to mention he's Cami's Uncle" he reminded Nik and I rolled my eyes especially when Nik looked over at him. "Don't see you care about much, its kind of hard not to notice when you do"
"Give me a break" I scoffed walking towards the bar and picked out the oldest bottle of whatever I could find.
"Kind of like you two returning with messed up clothes and clearly on a high from wherever you found to get down to some nasty business"
"Shove off Marcel" I glared at him especially seeing his smirk.
"Very well, use this reprieve to remake your human faction" Nik cut in changing the subject before Marcel and I went at it, high on blood right now it was a definite possibility.
"And how do you expect me to remake the mayor?" Kieran argued.
"Well surely there's a deputy mayor, choose new leaders then we reopen negotiations" Nik replied before walking out and I watched him go then smirked as I followed him with the bottle but stopped just shy of walking out.
"Say anything like that again to Nik and it'll be your ass Marcellus" I spat barely above a whisper before I walked out finding Nik and handed him the bottle. "Now my love, I'm not usually the jealous type but to see you hesitate when Marcel reminded you the priest was Cami's Uncle...well it makes a girl wonder-" I stopped when he pushed me against the wall.
"I like the girl yes, as an interesting person to talk to but it is you who I love with my entire heart Sophia Mikaelson, question my feelings again and you'll be punished"
"And how pray tell will I be punished?" I smirked as his hand came up to wrap around my throat.
"I have my ways" he smirked back before he kissed me and it would have continued if not for Marcel choosing that moment to come up.
"Really, I got see this in the middle of the street?" he asked which only made Nik and I smirk at one another.
"You have a woman as beautiful as this and you have to make sure everyone knows who she belongs to" Nik remarked putting his arm around my shoulders as we started walking back to the compound.
"Excuse you Niklaus, I am no object to me owned"
"No you are my wife" he replied and I scoffed rolling my eyes at his smirk.
"Can you guys keep the mushy stuff in the bedroom, I really don't want to throw up"
"Don't like it, don't look" I reminded him before kissing Nik's cheek and skipped ahead finally feeling that homely feeling of New Orleans again with the bickering, only downside was the lack of Kol since he had been my wingman against Nik and Marcel before Nik daggered him.
"To a united front" Nik toasted as we walked into the compound and held up his flask. "This act of yours, the imitation of friendship...don't get me wrong you play the part well enough I should know having played it myself but there was a time when the affinity between us was quite real" and just like that my good mood was gone.
"Oh sure and then you got it in your head to take what I created, when I picked up that coin I swore loyalty Klaus, not friendship" Marcel replied shaking his head. "Alright I'm holding up my end, the other one has to be earned"
"Fair enough" Nik replied surprising me a little. "Then you should probably know the whole story, my decision was not entirely my own" he added and Marcel turned to look at me but I shook my head signalling it wasn't mine either.
"If we didn't agree to usurp your power the witches swore to kill our unborn child" I told him and Marcel looked at us, his expression almost unreadable.
"At first the promise of an offspring meant little to me" I looked up at Nik with a frown. "But then I recalled my father, how he held me in contempt from the moment I was born as yours did with you" he nodded at Marcel. "I will not do to my child what was done to me, to us" I looked towards the ground since hearing this from Nik was hard.
"All this...the spying, the manipulation, that's just something you were forced into, is that it?" Marcel asks us. "And what now, you feel kind of bad...'hey buddy, it's nothing personal'...is that it?"
"I admit..." Nik trailed off and my frown grew as I touched his arm. "I was jealous, I saw the empire you created on your own without me, I saw it and I wanted it"
"You're wrong you know, I didn't do it on my own" Marcel argued shaking his head. "I stood in the shadow of my father my entire human life and I never would've gotten out from under it if not for you, you're the one that taught me that a man can't be defined by anyone but himself, so what now?"
"This community that you've built, you have their respect, their love, I can rule them but I cannot win them not without you...so rule with me side by side as equals...friends...brothers" Nik held out his flask towards Marcel, extending him a preverbal olive branch and Marcel took it smiling which made Nik smile in contempt...for now.
"Well you have your queen Niklaus" I smirked winking towards Marcel. "I'll be going then" I went to walk away but was suddenly pulled into a pair of arms and off my feet.
"Aw don't be like that Sophie, you're the only stuck up little queen here"
"Let go of me Marcellus!" I yelled out kicking but he wouldn't let up his grip. "Nik!"
"Don't look at me love" Nik smirked making me glare at him.
"You traitor, I'm never having sex with you again!"
"Well we all know that's a lie" Marcel replied and finally let me go and I turned raising my fist to punch him but he ducked out of the way. "You two go at it like rabbits, always have and by todays displays I'm guessing always will"
"Your vile Marcel and you..." I turned to Nik. "Can sleep on the damn couch" I turned and stormed off ignoring their laughter but smiled since it felt good to hear them laughing again.
I went in search of Hayley just to check how she was doing seeing as she was stuck here all day but didn't find her in her room so I began to check the other rooms when I heard her voice down the hall so I headed towards it.
"Funny, I was under the impression everyone was afraid of you" I frowned confused on who she was talking to.
"The witches are after me" Davina's voice answered.
"You mean that crazy witch, Agnes?" Hayley asked her. "Yeah, she tried to kill me too, the thing is she's dead, Sophia killed her" I tried not to laugh since that bitch deserved it.
"But...Agnes was the last living Elder, if she's dead then I'm safe, Marcel would've told me" Davina protested.
"Maybe he didn't wanna lose his secret weapon against the witches?" Hayley suggested and I frowned at that.
"You're lying" Davina spat.
"Why would I lie to you?"
"Because you want something from me, everyone does" Davina replied and I scoffed as that was a bit entitled, I didn't want anything from her.
"Do I want something from you...?" Hayley replied. "Yeah Davina actually I do, thanks to your friend Marcel most of my family is cursed they're stuck in their wolf form, except on a full moon, now I'm smart enough to know that every curse has a loophole and well you're the strongest witch I've ever heard of but I wouldn't lie to you to get what I want, I'd ask you...I guess that's the difference between Marcel and me" I frowned at Hayley's reply since I felt like that was gonna come back to bite us and watched as she walked out, I let out a sigh knowing she was safe for now at least and started walking towards Nik and I's room to change but saw him heading out.
"Where are you going?" I asked him making him stop at the top of the stairs and turn to face me.
"Seems my siblings decided to undermine my rule and save the wolves" he replied and I frowned which made his eyes narrow almost suspiciously at me. "Need to have a chat with them, I'll be back soon" he continued on and I let out a sigh knowing this was likely gonna need a referee as it always did when it came to Mikaelson sibling fights so I ran after him and we went to the plantation house but neither Rebekah or Elijah was here...maybe I could calm Nik down before they got back.
"Hey remember when you tried to teach me how to play?" I asked walking over to the piano and sat down on the bench seat lifting up the cover.
"Vaguely" he replied coming over and sat next to me.
"Ouch" I smirked and began playing a soft tune.
"Elijah was always the more musically inclined, I preferred to paint...as you know"
"Alright well remember when I would play while you painted"
"Now that I definitely remember" he smirked as I started playing a soft 'Claire De Lune' as it was one of my favorites and one of the few songs I actually did know how to play and he just sat and listened until he began to travel his hands along my thigh making my breath hitch and fumble with a key.
"Don't make me mess up" I laughed but he ignored me and leaned in pressing a kiss to my neck and my hands stopped altogether and I tilted my head closing my eyes from the sensation, I don't know why but lately it's like we can't keep our hands off each other but once again the moment was ruined when the door opened and Rebekah walks into the room but she clearly doesn't notice Nik or I.
"I stink of the bog!" she complained.
"Serves you right, for your pathetic attempt to undermine my rule" Nik spoke up alerting them to us and they both turned.
"Nik, listen-"
"When I order werewolves to be hunted to extinction, I expect you to stand aside and let the blood flow" Nik cuts Rebekah off.
"How delightfully democratic of you" Elijah replies and I let out a sigh before he he throws a something at Nik who catches it. "Do you recognize it, perhaps you don't it has been a thousand years since you last saw it grace the hand of our mother" I looked over and saw a ring in Nik's hands. "The ring was in possession of one of the very wolves whose extinction you just ordered so naturally I questioned him, he spoke of a legend...a legend wherein long ago a chief of theirs had fathered a child to a very powerful witch their mythology further states that this child, a son was later transformed into something this clan had never before seen, something werewolf and vampire" my eyes widened in shock.
"Nik we're trying to make amends, we found remnants of your family...the bloodline of your true father and we saved them from being slaughtered at the hands of the vampires you command" Rebekah adds.
"Niklaus, your ambitions have come before this family for far too long, I beseech you please come home" Elijah all but begged.
"What home?" Nik asked looking up at him. "This pathetic substitute?" he gestured up at the roof meaning the plantation house. "You see despite all your doubts, all you attempts to thwart me, I've reclaimed our true home, I took back the entire city" .
"You have the audacity to boast of your victory when the woman carrying your child remains your prisoner?" Elijah asks him and I frown looking down at the wood top of the piano hating it whenever someone said that, Hayley might be carrying it but that child was mine too.
"It all comes down to the pretty little wolf, doesn't it brother?" Nik asked him, a hand touching my thigh hidden from their view as if he sensed the discomfort I was feeling hearing that.
"Stop it, both of you!" Rebekah yelled at them.
"Even if this is what you say it is" Nik stood up and held the ring out in front of him. "I have had enough of family to last me a lifetime" he sets the ring down on top of the piano. "Why would I possibly want any more?" he takes my hand and we leave going back to the compound but just as we were walking through the front gates he stops and I turn. "I'll be back soon love"
"Nik-"
"Don't worry" he cupped my cheeks and lowered my head planting a soft kiss on my forehead before he was gone with the sound of wind and I sighed looking up seeing that he was gone so I walked into the courtyard letting out a deeper sigh as I went up the stairs to our room looking around before I stripped down to my undergarments and kicked off my boots then walked over to our bed and climbed under the sheets reaching for my phone scrolling through the contacts stopping on Damon's and debated whether to call, it's been weeks and still no answer but maybe it's because they didn't want to hear from me, maybe they lied about accepting my relationship with Nik...or something had happened to them.
"Damn it!" I yelled and threw my phone across the room hearing it smash against the wall before I pulled my knees up and sobbed into them, why did everyone in my life leave...Kol was gone, Stefan was wherever he was, Damon was wherever and they clearly didn't care about me and Nik...yeah we seemed okay but I could feel it, he was hiding something from me...Am I so destined to be alone.
"Sophia?"
"Get out" I replied not even looking up from where I had my head head buried in my arms.
"Soph-"
"Get out!" I picked up the lamp from my bedside and threw it at him sobbing even more especially when he ignored me still and had used his vampire speed to duck from the lamp and grab me around the shoulders in a single motion.
"Calm down love, tell me what's happened?"
"I can't do this anymore" I cried shaking my head until he stopped me by cupping my cheeks.
"Do what, talk to me?"
"I can't...it hurts"
"What hurts?" I sobbed pulling my knees to my chest again grabbing them.
"Why does everyone I love leave me?" I asked even though I didn't really want an answer.
"You're not making sense love"
"Everyone I care about leaves me, it's only a matter of time before you leave me too"
"Has something happened?" I refused to answer him as he looked over. "You're brothers?"
"They don't want me, nobody ever really wants me...I'm better off alone"
"They said this?" I shook my head.
"They didn't have to, I haven't spoken to them in months...I've tried calling them, I've waited for them to explain why their not answering but they still haven't called and I can't leave Hayley to go see them"
"Sophia"
"They probably don't even want to see me anyway"
"Of course they do, you and Damon are twins" I sobbed again. "Sophia, we'll go and see them...I promise you, once I get a better control of this city and I can trust Elijah more to take of Hayley we'll go...I swear it"
"No...It's better I just disappear, they're better off without me anyway since everyone I love dies...Kol-"
"Is not your fault love, Kol's death is on me not you" he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer. "Please talk to me before your emotions get like this, I can't stand to see you this way" I frowned as I laid my head against his chest not saying a word, I just felt numb now...all my tears have been used up and all that was left was numbness. "I will get to the bottom of your idiotic brothers silence and make them pay for making you feel this way"
"I'm tired" I sighed out loud and removed myself from his arms to lay down but he was laying down with me, lying side by side our faces only inches from each other.
"I'll never leave you Sophia, you are mine and I am yours, Always and Forever" his arm wrapped around and pulled me close and I nestled my head into the crook of his shoulder closing my eyes unable to say anything back since I wasn't so sure anymore that we could promise that.
