Last Labonair- Book 2

Chapter Nine: Reigning Pain in New Orleans

I was sitting at the head of a dinner table set up in the Abbattoir. Marcel, Klaus and some of Marcels closest people are sitting around it. Klaus taps his glass with a fork to get everyone's attention. "Let us begin with a toast to our shared gift - - immortality. After a thousand years, one might expect life to be less keenly felt, for its beauties and its sorrows to diminish with time. But as vampires, we feel more deeply than humans could possibly imagine." Klaus gestures towards a group of waiters and waitresses to join us at the table, having one for each vampire. "Insatiable need, exquisite pain..." The waiters and waitresses slit their wrists with knives filling the glasses with blood. "Our victories, and our defeats." Klaus looks down at Marcel. "To my city, my home again. May the blood never cease to flow..." Klaus said before Marcel raises his glass to join the roast. "And the party never end." Marcel said

I see Diego and Marcel share a look before Diego raises his glass to the toast. "To New Orleans." Diego said "To New Orleans." Klaus said "New Orleans." Everyone else said and they all 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 into this... a true community of vampires." Klaus said "What about her?" Diego points at me. "The wolf." Diego said and my werewolf eyes come out. "Point at me again and you lose the finger." I say

"Had you'd let me finish, Diego, you would know that there is, of course, one further matter I would like to address." Klaus walks over to where I'm sitting standing behind my chair. "As many of you know, the girl is carrying my child. Consequently, I trust you will all pay her the appropriate respect. However, 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." Klaus puts his arm on my shoulder and I look down at it before looking back up. "I assure you, I do not." Klaus said "Father of the year." I say sarcastically smiling. Klaus walks back towards where he is sitting.

"It appears I will have to earn your trust. 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?" Klaus asked "What the fuck? Klaus, no." I say sitting up but Klaus ignores me. "So eat, drink, and be merry, and tomorrow I suggest you have yourselves a little wolf hunt. Go ahead. Have fun. Kill them all." Klaus said and I glare at him.

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I'm trying to sneak out of the backyard of the Abbatoir. I look around to see if anyone is watching me and when I turn back around Diego is standing in my way. "Going somewhere?" Diego asked before Elijah appears throwing Diego into the wall breaking his neck. "Elijah. You shouldn't be here. Klaus has his guys watching me." I say "I wouldn't worry about them." Rebekah walks behind me kicking down two other vampires. "Come. We mustn't linger. We'll get you some place safe." Elijah said turning walking away with Rebekah walking past me. I roll my eyes. "No. You don't have to worry about me. I'm fine. I've been deemed under protection by Klaus. 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." I say "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 said "Yeah, well I didn't ask you to. But listen, Rebekah. Since I found out, 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." I say

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I hear Davina and Josh talking in the garage so I walk that way to catch some of the conversation. "It's okay. You can trust Marcel, and if Klaus tries to hurt you, I'll hurt him." Davina said "I'm sure if you could actually stop Klaus, you would've done it already." I say making myself known. Davina turns and looks at me. "You're Hayley. Klaus' wife." Davina said "Ew. No. Never." I walk towards them. "I'm the pregnant werewolf, and you must be all-powerful super witch, Davina, and let's not forget Josh- - newbie vampire way out of his element, voted most likely to die next." I say "Oh, fantastic." Josh said "Hey, I'm just another one of Klaus' prisoners. Of course, it would suck if he found out you're still lurking around." I smirk a little. "Maybe there's a world where we can all look out for each other." I say

-time skip-

Klaus is reading in the living room when I walk by so I walk in. "Those werewolves you ordered killed, that's my family." I say "Not for long, love. I mean, this so-called family of yours, they haven't done you much good, have they? You said it yourself. They abandoned you, left you on your own and then put you in foster care until you were put in a family that lied to you about your age and about a lot of things. Now it's simply your turn to do the same." Klaus said "Maybe they had their reasons." I say and Klaus slams the book sitting it on the coffee table as he stood up.

"Yes. Well, I have reason, too, little wolf. If the werewolves are dead, then the vampires have less desire to kill you. I am trying to keep you safe, not that you appreciate the effort." Klaus said "And as soon as I have this baby, what happens to me then?" We stare at each other in silence. "Right. Well, lucky for me I have a little while before I find out, and in the meantime, I will find a way to pay you back for this. As long as I'm in the family way, well, you can't do a damn thing about it." I say backing towards the door holding my arms out before turning around walking out the door.

I walk past Davinas room and I see her searching through a cardboard box. I walk in the room. "What are you looking for?" I ask "My violin. I must've left it in the attic." Davina said "So just go get it." I say "I can't. It's not safe for me out there." Davina said "Funny, I was under the impression everyone was afraid of you." I say "The witches are after me." Davina said "You mean, that crazy bitch Agnes? Yeah. She tried to kill me, too. The thing is, she's dead. Elijah killed her." I say smirking a little knowing this will cause her to go off the rails. "But.. Agnes was the last living Elder. If she's dead, then I'm safe. Marcel would've told me." Davina said "Maybe he didn't wanna lose his secret weapon against the witches." I say "You're lying." Davina said "Why would I lie to you?" I ask "Because you want something from me. Everyone does." Davina said and I smirk. "Do I want something from you? 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 say walking out of the room.

-time skip-

I'm standing on a balcony looking out onto the city when I hear the whoosh of a vampire using their speed. I look over and I see Elijah standing there. "Are they..?" I ask before Elijah cuts me off. "They're safe. All of them." Elijah said and he smiles at me. I look over the balcony again before walking over to him hugging him. "Thank you. What you did, Elijah, it means a lot." I say and that's when Elijah noticed my bare shoulder and my birthmark. "You should keep this covered up." Elijah said pulling my sweater to cover my shoulder. "I will." I say "If any of the others saw this - -" Elijah said before I cut him off. "I promise." I say "I should go." Elijah said "Right." I say and I look back over the balcony and Elijah vamp speeds away. At that moment, I decide to go see everyone in Beacon Hills.

AN
So next chapter is going to be really long because I'm writing basically all of S2E11 and 12 of Teen Wolf before going back to The Originals. It's already at 5 thousand words and I'm not even started with Episode 12 yet.