The Lockwood She-Wolf

Witchy Offers

Hadley's POV

I walked down the stairs into the courtyard frowning when I saw a table filled with various foods varying from fruit, pastries and juices and I walked up to it picking a grape from the bunch on a fancy silver tray and put it in my mouth relishing at the fresh fruit even if I didn't really need to eat these days it was still nice.

"So which restaurant is missing a compelled chef?" I asked having heard footsteps and turned seeing Klaus walking up.

"It's certainly a card I played in the past" he replied and I smiled a little remembering his last dinning tactic quite well since it's what got us into this messed up courtship situation. "But I had no hand in this" he added making my smile drop.

"Oh well then I guess we have Elijah to thank" I shrugged grabbing another grape since they were so good.

"This wasn't my doing" Elijah quickly protested walking down the stairs earning looks from me and Klaus since if this wasn't either of them and it definitely wasn't me then...

"Where did all this come from?" I asked looking down at the food with a frown before the silver covered tray suddenly rattled and I jumped as we all stared at it in a mixture of confusion and suspicion before Klaus reached out grabbing the handle and lifted the cover off and a bird immediately shot out flying up and disappearing. "What the hell was that?" I asked turning back to the platter seeing folded piece of paper remaining, Klaus picked it up and opened it.

"An invitation from our mother" he stated after reading it and my eyes narrowed since what the hell did that mean...this was from their mother...

"Excuse me gentleman while I go sanitize my mouth" I turned and walked out of the room heading up to my room frowning at the sight of the nursery door between the two rooms was open since I had it shut ever since I'd decided to stay here again.

I walked over and slammed the door shut since it sent waves pain right through my chest every time I saw the crib that Klaus had remade and fixed after my emotional tantrum and so now I settled for keeping the door shut so I didn't have to look at the crib and feel that pain that erupted in my chest where my heart was, I turned and headed into my bathroom running my hands under the water before splashing my face then looked up into the mirror.

I still wasn't used to all these new raw emotions, I never understood it when vampires claimed that they felt things more deeply but I did now and it sucked but now wasn't the time to dwell on any of this since I needed to know more about this woman, Klaus and Elijah's mother since I haven't met her and the bitch is responsible for nearly murdering my newborn baby.

I turned and walked out of my room walking down the hall in search of Klaus spotting him out of the corner of my eyes in his own room so I stopped raising my hand and knocked seeing him turn around and I immediately knew from the look on his face that this invitation had him shaken which further increased my curiosity on the subject of their mother.

"Hey" I offered him a smile as I walked in and flopped down on my back on his bed looking over seeing him staring down at the invitation from their mother and I let out a sigh. "It is times like this I'm really glad I never really knew my mother" I speak up just to break the silence.

"We have enough enemies here and now the war for our home is to be fought against my own family" Klaus replies finally turning completely and walked in from the balcony.

"Your wretched mother and her disciples tried to put a carving knife through our baby's heart, I will happily add to the body count" I spat letting some of my anger be shown and saw Klaus smiles as I sat up.

"You will do no such thing" Elijah interrupts walking into the room. "Esther's a master in the art of possession, we know whose body she currently inhabits we must decipher her intentions before she finds a new host"