The Wolf - Klaroline

05. Sinners and Saints

Season 1 Episode 5

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Klaus doesn't bother with politeness before tearing Sophie Deveraux away from the kitchen at Rousseau's and dragging her back to the plantation house kicking and screaming and begging for forgiveness on the back seat of his car.

"Shut up," he tells her when he can no longer bear to hear her shrill voice. "Save your excuses for when we get to the house. And you better hope they're good ones. I may not be able to hurt you, but I've got half a mind to leave you without a coven."

Whatever Sophie Deveraux may be, she's definitely not stupid. Can certainly read a room - or a car, in this case - and recognize a real threat when she hears one. For the rest of the ride, she remains obediently silent.

If it had been up to him, he would've gone to the Quarter in the middle of the night to find her. This interrogation would've happened long ago. It was Rebekah who stopped him. "Caroline needs to rest," his sister said. "And she should listen to what Sophie has to say. She's the one who got attacked. This can wait until morning."

"What if they escape?" Klaus challenged. "What if Sophie and her merry band of leeches go into hiding? She's still connected to Caroline, lest you forget. We cannot let them out of our sight."

"I don't think Sophie will. But if she does," Rebekah shrugged. "We'll just hunt down every last one of them, lock Sophie up until we figure out a way to end this nonsense and eat the others for lunch. I could use a good game of hide & seek & kill the witches."

Now that was something Klaus could work with. He almost wished he hadn't found Sophie this morning, just so he'd feel justified when witches started dropping like flies around him. But alas, Sophie showed up for work like it was just another day and she had absolutely nothing to hide. It just sparked Klaus' anger further.

She must've felt every one of Caroline's wounds, must've shared her pain. How can she act so casually when she knows very well her own people endangered the mother of his child whom she had promised to protect?

"We had a deal," he snarls as he pushes Sophie into a chair on his living room, Rebekah and Caroline with him. "You protect Caroline and my unborn child, I dismantle Marcel's army. And whilst I've been busy fulfilling my part of the bargain, Caroline was attacked and nearly killed by a gaggle of lunatic witches."

"I had nothing to do with it, I swear," Sophie says, looking at him instead of at Caroline, who she should be apologizing to. "Caroline and I are linked, remember? She dies, I die."

"I told you it wasn't her," Caroline offers.

"Then who were they?" Klaus demands.

"They're a faction of extremists," Sophie explains. "Sabine stupidly told them about some vision she had about the baby."