Chapter One

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ONE WEEK AGO

At night, at the Laforge House, Thalia walks inside the living room and slowly walks inside the ballroom.

Zenith is gazing at the fireplace and his wings slowly spreads out.

"So, it's true?" Zenith said as Thalia slowly walks up beside him and his wings turns back into its tattoos. "Christy's absence."

"It is." Thalia replied. "Maybe, if we can draw her out somehow."

"I have an idea to draw out Christiana."Zenith said.

Zenith and Thalia exchange sly grins at each other.

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Out and about in the French Quarter, Klaus is on the phone with Luna.

"I get why Mom left, but Trinity and I still miss her." Luna said on the phone.

"I know, and so do I." Klaus replied on the phone. "But I'll be home shortly."

"Okay, love you Dad." Luna said.

"Love you too, Luna." Klaus said, and hangs up his phone.

"Hi, Klaus." Thalia greeted him.

Klaus turns around to look at her, and puts his phone back in his jeans pocket. "Thalia? To what I asks of this encounter?"

"I know Christy had left. And she hasn't returned." Thalia said.

"My wife will return when she's ready to come back home." Klaus replied.

"Yeah, you're right." Thalia said, and slowly walks up to Klaus. "But maybe, Christy needs a little motivation."

Suddenly, Zenith knocks out Klaus with a neck snap. He and Thalia exchange mischievous grins at each other.

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LAFORGE HOUSE

Klaus slowly regains his conscious and finds himself tied to a restraint stretcher. He tries to loosen his wrist from the restraints, but to no avail. He looks at a IV bag which the IV tube is injected into his arm, with vervain into his body.

"Had a good nap?" Zenith said to him.

Klaus looks at Zenith. "So is this your plan? Kidnapped me and use me to draw out my wife?"

"Christy will come for you, Klaus." Zenith said, and slowly walks up to him. "And when she does . . ." he makes his eyes glow purple and bares his vampire fangs. ". . . I'll be awaiting for her."

A sound of a window breaks in the upstairs.

Zenith and Thalia exchange looks at each other and she walks away.

Thalia walks up the stairs and into the hallway. She slowly walks into the study and looks at the window, which is broken and shattered glass on the floor.

Thalia slowly walks up to it, and suddenly, she's knocked out with a punch to her face, and falls onto the floor.

The light from window shimmers on a pair of gold armor boots and slowly walks away.

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