Stiles goes to New Orleans

Chapter 4

Klaus' POV

It's the next day and Klaus is leaving his bedroom. He can hear talking coming from downstairs and he walks over to the balcony to see what on earth has everyone so chatty. Klaus sees a large table with food and plates set out. It seems that Elijah most likely, has invited everyone to have breakfast.

Klaus is looking at all the different people talking to each other when he spots it. Stiles holding his daughter while talking with Hayley.

Klaus immediately starts listening to their conversation.

"...no are you kidding? Talk about a traumatic birth."

"I know, most women only have to deal with the pain of pushing their baby out of them. I had to do it with a knife practically at my throat."

"Well at least it was worth it though, right? I mean look at this little one. She's so cute."

"She's definitely worth everything..."

Klaus' eavesdropping gets interrupted by Cami coming to stand next to him.

"He's cute."

"Who?" Klaus says acting as if he hasn't just been caught being creepy.

"You can't lie to me Klaus. So...how long have you known him?"

"A few years." Klaus answers

"So, you do know who I was talking about." Cami says happy that she caught him in her little trap.

Klaus simply looks away from where Stiles is and looks at Cami with a raised eyebrow, clearly unimpressed.

Cami just ignores him, "How did you meet him?"

"I kidnapped him." Klaus replies.

"Of course, you did. Why did I expect anything else? So, is this some form of Stockholm syndrome then?" Cami questions.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Klaus denies.

"Oh please. From the way he keeps looking up here, it is obvious that he likes you and with the fact that you aren't rushing down there to remove Hope from his arms it's obvious that you trust him."

Klaus doesn't answer her. Instead, he ignores her and walks down the stairs towards the crowd of people.

"Ah Niklaus, now that you are here, we can start breakfast." Elijah says bringing everyone's attention to him.

Everyone takes a seat at the table. Most continue their previous conversations. Klaus can hear Davina and Danny talking about how Hawaiian magic is different from normal ancestorial magic. Lydia seems to be flirting with Marcel as they talk about maths...Klaus skips over their conversation not wanting to look any closer than that. Elijah and Hayley are talking as Hayley feeds Hope, it seems that Stiles has handed her back at some point. Cami, Vincent, and Freya are talking together. That just leaves two people talking together and Klaus can feel dread filling his stomach.

"Wait so you came up with the idea of dark objects?" Stiles asks excitedly.

"Came up with, helped develop." Kol answers.

"That is so cool. I don't have a lot of research on how dark objects were made I just have information on specific dark objects. Would you mind telling me about it?" Stiles queries.

"Of course..." Kol starts but before they can continue their conversation Klaus speaks.

"So, Stiles, what do you know about curses?"

Stiles head whips around away from Kol to look at him with those large brown Bambi eyes.

"I see what you're doing brother, you don't want me to break you new toy." Kol says disappointedly.