Klaus's Pet Book 1

8

Lorelei:

I walk into the bar with Hayley and we sit at the counter.

"How many witches do you think you could take on at once?" I ask
"Eight at least. You?" She says
"That theory remains untested."

We laugh and chat. The bartender, a happy blonde haired blue eyed 25 year old named Camille O'Connell known as most by Cami, walks over and asks us what we'd like.

Years ago Marcel had compelled Cami to forget everything she hears about supernatural. Hayley and I had objected to this until Elijah had explained the issues it could cause.

At around 2-3 am most mornings the bar is full of supernaturals who can speak freely and don't have to worry about humans overhearing.

Hayley orders a beer and I ask for fries.

A few minutes later she hands Hayley a beer and gives me a shot. I look at her confused.

"From the gentleman across the bar." She says

I turn to look and Klaus waves at me.
Hayley laughs.

"He really does stalk you." She says with another laugh.

I roll my eyes and grab the shot glass and down the alcohol.

"He's a pain in my ass." I reply

Klaus rolls his eyes, no doubt hearing what I said. Hybrid hearing and all.

When I look back up he's gone, no doubt heading home to spend time with Hope.

"So how's it going with you and Elijah?" I ask
"To be honest Im not too sure if it's going to work out. He's a little overprotective, like he's keeping me behind glass." She says with a sigh

It's no secret that I'm not the biggest fan of Elijah. However, I do care for Hayley.

"How's the pack of Cresents?" I ask hoping the chang of subject will make her feel better.

"It's so odd. I went from having no family to two. One's a pack of werewolves and the other is the Original family of vampires."

"I hear that. My family was a bunch of werewolves who were a bit much to say the least. They had these competitions where they'd pair us up and only the strongest out of the pairs of fighters would be allowed into the pack. It would keep population in the pack down and trigger our curse all in one."

"Is that why you left?" She asks gently
"One of them. They always wanted to be the top pack in the area which unfortunately meant taking out the competition." I say
"Oh my God that's awful."
"Yeah. Luckily Nik found me."
"You never told me how you two met. You know my story, werewolf in the Alps, unsired his entire hybrid pack... One night stand and a magical miracle baby."
"We met in Georgia. I had just split from my pack and ended up crashing a vampire feeding frenzy. Klaus and the rest of the family were there. Needless to say I didn't go down without a fight." I say
"You fought a bunch of vampires?"
"Newbie vampires. I'd hardly call it a fight. Then I tried to fight Nik."

She chokes on her drink.
"You tried to fight the Original hybrid as a human?" She laughs
"Yeah it wasn't the best plan. I hit him so hard I broke my hand and bruised the bones in my arm." I say with a laugh

Hayley laughs so hard she chokes on her drink.

"Yeah it's a riot." I say shaking my head at the memory
"It is though." She says

We order a few more drinks then head home almost crashing into Hope.

"Hey honey what's going on?" Hayley asks slightly concerned
"I was waiting for you guys! I want to show you this new spell I learned." Hope says trying to drag her mom by the hand to the kitchen

Hayley and I sit down as Hope rushes around turning off all the lights.

"Post tenebras spero lucem!" Hope chants

A glowing white ball of light appears in her hand.

"Thats so cool!" I say
"Nice job!" Hayley says and gives her a high five.

It breaks Hope's concentration and her light vanishes. We all laugh. Hope turns the lights back on.

"I've been practicing that for hours!" Hope says beaming
"That was awesome Hope! You're getting to be quite the witch." I tell her
"Hey you know what we should do?"Hayley asks
"What?" Hope asks
"It's a secret." Hayley says and motions her over

Hope moves close to her mom and Hayley whispers about making brownies.

Hope whoops with excitement and takes a moment to put her bracelet back on.

I grab the eggs from the fridge while Hope grabs the box of brownie mic and Hayley finds the bowls and pan.

I put on some music and together we make the brownies, laughing, singing, dancing and making quite the mess as we do so.

Hope and Hayley go to find a movie and some blankets as I speed around cleaning. Five minutes later we're all sitting on the couch watching Moana.

Hope and Hayley are asleep by the end of the movie. I quietly turn the TV off and head off to bed.