𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐓, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬

Chapter 2 | The Aftermath

"So..." Rebekah started as she walked into the living room and sat herself down next to Klaus. Klaus sighed and shut his sketch book. "What do you want, sister?" he asked with an eyeroll. He knew that Rebekah would be on his back, asking unnecessary questions that he didn't want to answer. Rebekah chuckled and nudged his shoulder playfully. "Well, at least you're behaving normally," she huffed. Klaus looked at her with a confused expression.  "And what do you mean by that, sister?" he asked, turning back to his drawing. Rebekah scoffed and plopped her head in her brothers lap. 

Klaus looked down at her in surprise before gently leaning his elbow on her soft blonde head. "Well.." she began, deliberately drawing out the word before saying. "Elijah seems happy for once, Finn is smiling," she scoffed. Finn never smiled. He was always serous and formal. He had a massive stick up his ass which made his siblings sick and tired of him. He was basically Elijah 2.0. 

Klaus stilled. 

"Smiling?"

He asked in disbelief. Rebekah nodded and lifted her head off his lap. "And Kol is listening to music of this century," she snorted. Klaus let out a huff, rolling his eyes. "Well, isn't that nice?" he said sarcastically and focused back onto his drawing. Rebekah rolled her eyes, swatting his arm. "You have no idea do you?" she said, a smirk tugging at the edges of her lips. "And what would that be, sister?" he replied. He was rather curious about his brother's strange behaviour.  

"Oh for goodness sake's they're in love!" Rebekah exclaimed. 

Klaus snorted. "Of course they are," he replied rolling his eyes as he added some shading to his drawing. Rebekah was curious at what he was drawing, so she peeked over his shoulder. Her eyebrows shot up to her forehead as she took in the image. She snatched it out of his hands as she sped towards her siblings. Klaus growled and shot up from his seat, chasing after her. Rebekah just cackled and vampire sped towards the other room.

"LOOK AT THIS GUYS!" She screamed, waving the drawing around. Finn, Kol and Elijah rolled their eyes in unison at their baby sister's theatrics. "And what is it now, sister?" Finn asked as he looked up from his book.

"REBEKAH!"

Klaus screeched in a rage, almost tripping over himself to get to Rebekah to beat the shit out of her if she showed the rest of their siblings the drawings. He glowered in a rage as they all laughed and snickered at the drawing. It was of the woman whom had caught his eye at the ball last night. Kol ripped the drawing book out of Rebekah's hand before Klaus could reach it, waving it around in the air. "Awh does our dearest Nik have a crush?" he cooed playfully, making Klaus growl and lunge at him. But he didn't get very far because their mother, Esther had come into the room at that very moment. She raised her hand and threw her magic at Klaus while he lunged, tossing him away. 

Kol and Rebekah howled in laughter.

Finn and Elijah looked away from the scene before they could laugh, but the were unsuccessful with the attempt as they let out loud snorts. 

Esther looked unimpressed as she looked down at Klaus who was getting himself up from the floor from where she had tossed him. She smiled in satisfaction and nodded her head. "That's enough all of you," she said in a tone that held no room for arguments. "I'm inviting the Bennett's over for a meeting today, so I need this whole place tidy," she said, waving her hands around. "I need this place spic and span, so chop chop!" she clapped her hands and they were all thrown out, landing on top each other, shouting and yelling expletives among other things while Esther just glared, making them get up to their feet and run to do what she asked, not wanting to be attacked by her magic again, especially Klaus.

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The Bennett women had since woken up and they were gathered around the kitchen table, trying to make sense of the events yesterday. Idressa was the one who broke the silence. "Well damn, that was a night," she chuckled, looking around the table nervously to see the others glare at her in unison, shutting her up immediately. "Okay, Okay! I was trying to break the silence as it's so fucking-"

"Shut up, Iridessa!" the rest of the Bennett women called out in unison, making her grumble and glower into her coffee.