Contaminations

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

I open the water of the shower to let it warm while I undress, trying to concentrate on the things to do in the near future and not about the fact that Klaus is going to be a father.

I don't have to think about it, I try to convince myself while under the shower, it doesn't matter if the man that promised me to be my last love ended up with the person that caused his beloved hybrids' slaughter. I don't have to give him so much importance, it was just sex, very exciting and satisfying sex but still meaningless.

Maybe I wont even meet her if I manage to find this cure quickly.

I close the water while I get out of the shower wearing the bathrobe hanging in front of me and I find myself surrounded by the aphrodisiac Klaus' perfume, as if I needed a reminder that I'm in his home, in his room.

Maybe I should find a hotel but I decide against it just for not giving him the satisfaction of making me run, despite how hard it'll be to resist him I'm going to demand another room, preferably the farther possible from his.

I open the door slightly to make sure that the room is empty and I take the clean clothes from my bag ignoring the ones laid on the bed; after wearing my dark blue dress I pick up my phone and I call Stefan that answers after a couple of rings.

"Caroline finally, are you ok?" he asks immediately anxiously.
"Yes, I found him and he gave me his blood, everything's all right"
"No strange symptoms?"
"No, why?"
"We found some documents of Wes that says that once you're infected through a bite you should have the serum's symptoms as well"
"So I should feed on other vampires too?" I ask worried, till now nothing similar happened to me even though I don't remember what happened in the last couple of hours but I suppose that Klaus would have mentioned it.
"Did it happen to you?"
"No but maybe it's because I drunk Klaus' blood"
"I don't think it's connected because Elena has no symptoms of werewolf venom, maybe the serum wasn't perfect. Anyway, are you already on your way?"
"No, I think I'll stay here a little longer, Klaus offered the help of a witch and access to his mother's grimoires"
"Are you sure it's not a trap?"
"I'm sure it is, but I'll be careful not to fall for it; we need all the help we can get"
"Alright, there wouldn't be much for you to do here anyway. You should call your mother, Damon told her everything and she's worried sick"
"I'll do it right away, are you sure you don't need me back home?"
"Sure, just search for answers in New Orléans and be careful"
"I will, I call you as soon as I find something" I say closing the call and dialing the number my mother's number to explain her everything.

I stay in my office for a while planning everything for her permanence.
I start making someone prepare her a room not too far from mine, I hope that she decides to share mine but knowing her stubbornness it's better to be ready. I'm interrupted by someone knocking at the door, I let him in.

"Marcel, I hope that you're here bringing good news about your expedition " I say while I prepare ourselves a drink.
"I don't know if you can count them as such. They're both vanished, neither the witches seem to know where they could be. This obviously doesn't mean they gave up, I'm sure they're hidden somewhere by a cloaking spell".
Of course they're hidden and they'll surely be up to something, not knowing what irritates me but I'm keeping under control the entire city and the chances that they're able to do something without me knowing are nearly none.

"Alright, is there something else?"
"Diego told me what happened yesterday".
I knew that at some point he would have asked, the voice would have spread especially seeing the presence of one of his dearest vampires; this goes only to my advantage though: I should have told him about her anyway and if he's the one which brings up the subject I still have a chance of hiding the extent of my affection. Despite this apparent peace I know that he's still looking for a way to regain his position as king and I've no intention of showing him any weakness.

"She's an old friend that will stay here for a while, pointless to say that she's under our protection" I say standing up eager to finish so that I can go to her, maybe there's enough time to tease her before going to Davina.
"What does she offer in exchange?"
"Let me handle this" my tone threatening.

I leave the room and go downstairs to warn the nightwalkers, a lot of them stay in the basement during the day. I'll still have a trusted daywalker keeping an eye on her when I'm not around but avoiding inner threats wouldn't be bad.

I'm interrupted again by my brother that seems to have an urgent need to talk.
"What does Hayley need today?" the sarcasm is tangible nearly as my indifference.
"I've received an annoyed call from Eloise, it seems you disregarded her request of dealing with the author of a massacre and you even healed her from a werewolf bite. I hope this demonstration of power towards the humans was worth the loss of our credibility regard the alliance treaty"
"If you don't like how I manage the humans you can handle it, seeing as your research had no outcome; this if you're not too busy with a certain wolf".

Elijah has no time to answer that Rebekah intervenes: "Elijah I please you not to stoop to his level, Nik would you mind explaining us what happened? I saw one of your slaves prepare a room, are you also hosting this poor victim?". As always my sister and her sarcasm annoy me, and I can't imagine what will be her reaction once she knows who are we talking about.

"I didn't know there was a family reunion but since we're all here, Rebekah from now on you'll search for the witches since the utter failure of the previous appointees while you, brother, will handle diplomacy now" trusting Rebekah with such an important task will be enough to keep her out of the house for a while and by the glow in her eyes I know that even if she was here she would be less untreatable, at least until she finds out about my real intentions of course.

I finally arrive in the basement obtaining silence as soon as I get off the last step, unfortunately it's not the loyalty that I yearn but fear and at the moment I shall content myself.

"I imagine a lot of you aspire to gain the daylight ring, what I'm offering today is a chance to get it; all you have to do is getting information about our enemies: the witches and Celeste. Those of you that will be more useful, at the right moment will get the yearned possibility to walk under the sunlight" this should last to keep them busy for a couple of months and maybe I'll even get some information out of it.