Fire & Flame | Klaus Mikaelson

twenty

20. Do Not Go Gentle

Klaus stood in his painting room, busy painting a wall, when he felt Rebekah enter the room.

"What took you so long?" Klaus asked his sister, without turning towards her.

"Alaric didn't want to hand over the stake" Rebekah replied, pulling the last white oak stake out of her jacket pocket, "Luckily, I'm quite the charmer".

Klaus faced his sister and smirked seeing the stake, "That's it?".

Rebekah walked over to Klaus and forwarded the stake towards him, "The last of the white oak stakes that can kill us, do you want to do the honors, or shall I?", Klaus grabbed the stake from Rebekah's waiting hand and very eagerly threw it into the fireplace, "Well, that's that, then".

Klaus turned back to his painting, "Pack your bags, we're leaving".

"Today?" a slightly shocked Rebekah asked.

"Why not?" Klaus asked, "There's nothing keeping us here, we'll grab the doppelganger, convince Lily to come with us and be off by sunset".

"But tonight's the decade dance" Rebekah reminded.

"So?" Klaus asked.

"So, I'm head of the committee, we have to go" Rebekah insisted.

Klaus turned to Rebekah, "I'm not going to any dance".

"If you're taking Lily out of this town, the least you can do is give her one last night with her friends" Rebekah retorted, "Please? I have big plans for tonight, just go for me, if not for me, then go for Lily, give her a magical night Nik, she deserves it".

Klaus thought about it for a moment, "Okay, fine" he finally said, "One last hurrah".

Rebekah smiled, "One last hurrah, Nik".

***

"So Alaric is trying to pull himself together, why is that a bad thing?" a confused Caroline asked Elena, the two girls in the school gym, getting it ready for the decade dance.

"I just--I wish there was something I could do" Elena admitted.

"Hey" Lily greeted her sister, walking over to her with a chandelier in her hand, "Where the hell am I suppose to hang this again?".

Caroline looked at the chandelier in disgust, "Argh, you know what?", Caroline took the chandelier from her hand, "If your new bestie wanted to hang this monstrosity she should've shown up to do it herself", Caroline handed the chandelier to another girl, "Just no".

"Wait, Rebekah isn't here?" a suddenly worried Lily asked.

"Nope" Caroline confirmed, just as her eyes landed on Jeremy and Matt standing on the ladder, hanging the stars from the ceiling, "What are you doing?! You can't just hang them, they're supposed to trickle down".

"Trickle down" Matt mocked, letting out an amused laugh.

"Look at them, all bromancey" Caroline observed, as Lily pulled her phone out of her phone and tried to reach Rebekah.