Perhaps it wasn't Murielle's finest moment when accidentally mispronouncing a spell had an unconscious Original landing slap-bang in the middle of her home. Though at first this mistake may have seemed horrible, it leads to a whirlwind of a life tha...
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"How come I'm the only one who hasn't met Murielle before?" Bonnie asked, seeing as each one of the people closest to her—and Rose—had recognised the woman with varying levels of familiarity. Alaric seemed the closest of all of them, then Rose, then Damon, then Elena, and lastly her, who had had no idea this woman even existed until five minutes ago.
Bonnie wouldn't be surprised if Caroline turned up and said that Murielle was her long-lost sister or something.
"Yeah, you seem to have wormed your way into this group one by one. Was Bonnie your next target?" Damon accused, he still didn't have the most favourable feelings towards the woman. Because of her, he'd watched his only brother die before his eyes as the rest of the world remained unaffected. Only Elena felt similarly to him and even she put on an air of indifference, refusing to let herself feel too sad because necessity rendered it too dangerous to feel.
Murielle rolled her eyes, she dropped her hands from Alaric's face but he was quick to pick her hand back up. Holding his in hers. She sent him a puzzled look but he simply replied with: "You're alive."
Klaus had watched all the people in his life either destroy themselves or try to destroy him. When she had become the former, he had been distraught, of course. He had daggered his siblings to stop them from meeting the same fate; he shut them up in a tight box where the world's dangers could not get to them but he hadn't done that for her. Should he do that for her? She'd died so easily and at one point he'd wished he had done that but now she was alive.
And some small part of him had become attached; she'd become a symbol that not everything in his life had to meet a horrific end. Not everybody who cared for him had to pay for it. He had to hold onto that symbol, that beautiful hope. He had to make sure that ideology was not lost to him; she would become a permanence in his life he had scarcely been freely allowed before.
If that meant that everybody in the room stared at him with weird looks, given that Alaric Saltzman was being so affectionate with someone who was practically a stranger, then so be it. If he could have just one constant in his life, then his blown cover would be worth it.
"Klaus made his first move." Elena said, keen to dispel the tension in the room. However, she hadn't really thought that through, as it simply added another layer of tension to the atmosphere. The threat of the original vampire looming over all but two of them.
Klaus, because this threat was him and it was hardly as if he was a danger to himself. Murielle, because the hybrid was something she didn't need to worry about when Finn and Elijah were on her side.
Actually, with regards to him being a hybrid, should she let them know that? It wasn't as if he fully was one so it would make little difference but extra information could help.
Only if it was necessary, she decided after much contemplation on the morality of secrecy. Something told her Niklaus would challenge her steadfast morals greatly, she knew that now and she hadn't even met the man.
