Rose Thorn| Niklaus Mikaelson[1]

31. Lanterns

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"You know what's weird is that we could have met in 1864 I mean if I didn't get killed." Rosalie says as she laid in the bed and Klaus flipped the covers to reveal himself between her legs.

"Yeah, I suppose but at least I have you now." He says kiss her thigh and she giggles
"I have to get ready in 20 minutes." Rosalie sighs
"That gives me plenty of time." Klaus smirks and then disappears under the covers.

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Rosalie's outfit

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"Are you sure I can't drive you there?" Klaus asks
"I'm sure, I'm getting there with Damon." Rosalie says as she puts on her makeup
"Damon?" Klaus asks
"I know right. He wanted to talk to me, probably has something for me to help with Elena or something." Rosalie says.

Then Rosalie stood up and winced
"Are you sure you are okay?" Klaus asks
"Yeah, my legs are just sore." Rosalie mutters and Klaus tries to hide his smirk.

"Shut up." She scoffs 
"I didn't say anything." He says innocently
"I know that look." Rosalie rolls her eyes
"When have I ever used that look?" Klaus asks
"Every time the subject of us having sex is discussed." Rosalie says.

"When and where my dear." Klaus says and she throws a beauty blender at him and slowly gets a pair of black flats
"Why aren't you wearing heels?" Klaus asks.

"Because my legs are killing me I'll put them on in the car so I just have to walk into the church with them and someone who I will be leaning on so I don't fall." Rosalie explains and then there's a knock on the door.

"Can you please answer it and if it is my brother, for the love of god be civil that's all I ask." Rosalie says and pecks his lips and goes downstairs and opens the door to see Damon
"Klaus." Damon says
"Damon." He says and Rosalie walks down the stairs
"Why do you want to talk to me?" She asks.

"I wanted to apologise." Damon says
"Did Tyler bite you again? Nik you need to heal him." Rosalie says as she checks to see if he has a temperature and Damon chuckles
"No, I'm completely fine."

"I came here to apologise because I am your eldest brother and I am supposed to stop anything from making you unhappy than stopping everything to keep you from being happy, we may not be full blood but you are my baby sister who happens to be bonded with the original hybrid and you didn't chose that and I shouldn't be blaming you for something you can't control and I should be supportive in however you want to live your life because I missed you for over 100 years and I shouldn't be treating you like this I should be treating you like a proper brother." Damon says and Rosalie looks up.

"I would cry but I just put my makeup on." Rosalie says and hugs him
"Why are you shorter than usual?" Damon asks
"I'm not wearing heels." Rosalie answers.
"Why?" He asks
"My legs are sore." She says.

"What did you do?" He asks and Rosalie looks back at Klaus and he smirks and Damon gags.

"Forget I asked."

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"Okay, I have my heels, let's go." Rosalie says and they link arms and walk into the church a dip their hands into the water and make a cross and smile
"Don't know why that always makes me smile." He murmurs and they sit next to Stefan.

"She doesn't look so good." Damon says
"Maybe you should have told me she was rejecting all food sources." Stefan says
"Jealously is beneath you, brother." Damon says.

"Oh, bite me." Stefan fires back
"I will have Tyler bite both of you if you don't shut up." Rosalie says
"Wait when are you so buddy-buddy with him?" Stefan asks.

"Since he apologised." Rosalie says
"Are you sure he hasn't been bitten by Tyler again?" He asks and she smiles and holds out her finger and he taps it with his as a little high-five.

Elena nearly turns in front of the service and now they are singing and Elena feeds on Matt. Then Tyler gives his speech and gets shot.

"Completely normal." Rosalie mutters.

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Rosalie was now at the grill with Matt and Jeremy
"That was insane. How do you think they'll cover this one up?" Matt asks
"Assassination attempt on the mayor's son." Jeremy says as he collects the food
"Alter boy goes postal." Matt says.

"Hey, what happened there?" A man asks motioning on to Matt's neck
"Girlfriend went a little overboard." Matt says and wraps his arm around Rosalie and the man looks over at Rosalie and nods.

Then Jeremy looks at the man and Rosalie does as well
"Nice ink." They say and walk to Matt
"What ink?" Matt asks
"You didn't see his tattoo? It was huge." Jeremy says.

"I saw it." Rosalie says
"He didn't have a tattoo." Matt says
"Yeah he did." Jeremy says
"Also, Matt do that again and I'll skin you alive." Rosalie smiles.

"Got it."

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The group is all at the school as they wait for Bonnie and Damon when they see them get out their car
"Stefan, what are we doing?" Damon asks as Stefan gets out lanterns from a box and starts passing them around.

"Finishing the memorial we didn't get to have earlier, we need to start healing Damon. We've all lost so much, especially recently, we think we're numb to it. We push it away, we make a joke out of it, ignore how we feel. Never just let ourselves grieve." Stefan says.

"Wow, you both are full of amazing speeches today." Rosalie says
"So you're lighting lanterns?" Damon asks
"Yeah. Yeah, we need to do this." Stefan says to his brother.

"What we need to do is find out who this hunter is and what he knows about the death of the Council. We've more important things to doing right now than this." Damon says
"Not tonight, we don't." Stefan tells him and Damon scoffs.

"This is for my Uncle Zach, my friend Lexi, for Alaric." Stefan says and lights the lantern and passes the lighter to Matt
"This is for Vicki." He says and passes the lighter to Caroline
"This is for my dad, and Tyler's." Caroline says and she passes it to Rosalie.

"This is for Juliana, Alexandria, Shelia and Rose." Rosalie says and passes the lighter to Jeremy
"This is for our parents, for Vicki, Anna, Jenna and Alaric." Jeremy says and hands it to Damon
"Now way, I'm not doing that." He says and walks to his car and Jeremy hands it to Bonnie.

"This is for my grams." Bonnie says and Elena stands up with her lantern
"This is for my mom, my dad and Jenna. Everyone that we've lost, everyone that this town has lost. And for me...I guess." She says and they all release the lanterns.

Although Rosalie thought about the people that her lantern was for she thought about one person in particular that she didn't say.

Her mom.