𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 ꨄ 𝐤𝐨𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧¹

26: 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞

┏━━━ ————————━━━┓

𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 - 𝐂𝐡. 26
"do me a favor and stop trying
to save me. I'm already gone."

┗━━━————————━━━┛

— "SO A HYBRID WALKS INTO A BAR, says to the bartender..." Skyler called humorously as she entered Gloria's bar, spotting Klaus and Stefan in front of her.

"Stop." Gloria, the owner of the bar, responded, "You may be hot but that doesn't make you funny."

"Aww come on, Gloria, I thought we had something." Skyler whined with a grin. She hadn't been to the bar with Stefan before however she and Kol had come here a few decades after that at the suggestion of Klaus. After meeting the owner, Skyler figured he just wanted to annoy the witch. She was right.

Gloria rolled her eyes before looking over at Stefan, "I remember you." She commented.

"Yeah. You're Gloria. Shouldn't you be..." Stefan trailed off.

"Old and dead?" She replied, "Now if I die, who's going to run this place huh?"

"I could take it over for ya." She grinned, sliding into a bar stool.

Gloria glared at the woman in response, "Over my dead body, child."

"I'm older than you." She pointed out.

Gloria shook her head in exasperation as Klaus told Stefan, "Gloria's a very powerful witch."

"I can slow the aging down some. Herbs and spells." She told him, "But don't worry it'll catch up to me someday."

Klaus looked at his latest minion, "Stefan, why don't you go and fix us up a little something from behind the bar?"

"Yeah, sure thing." He agreed, obediently going over to the bar while Klaus looked at Gloria, "You look ravishing by the way."

Skyler coughed into her hand, "Kiss ass."

"Don't." Gloria told the man as he glared at Skyler, "I know why you're here. A hybrid out to make more hybrids? That kind of news travels."

"So what am I doing wrong?" He asked, "I broke the curse."

"Obviously you did something wrong." Gloria said casually, he narrowed his eyes as she continued, "Look, every spell has a loophole but a curse that old... we'd have to contact the witch who created it."

Skyler snorted, yeah not happening. She had never met her mother-in-law and she certainly didn't want to after hearing all the lovely stories about her. "Well, that would be the original witch." He told Gloria, pausing for a moment before he continued, "She's very dead."

"I know. And for me to contact her, I'll need help." She responded carefully, "Bring me Rebekah."

"That's gonna be a bit of a problem." Skyler replied with a wince. "Rebekah is a bit preoccupied." Klaus told her, glancing at Skyler.

"She has what I need. Bring her to me." She demanded stubbornly while Stefan looked up from a photo he found, looking over at them with his brows furrowed in confusion, "What is this?"

"Well, I told you, Stefan. Chicago's a magical place." Klaus smirked.

"But this is me. With you." Stefan frowned, showing him the photo. Skyler looked over, narrowing her eyes she found the picture was one of her brother and Klaus in this very bar in the 1920s. She hummed, a thought coming to mind.