Klaus and Ansel are still by the campfire they made, where Ansel has just finished preparing the merlock orchid roots for Elijah. He puts the poultice in a handkerchief and gives it to Klaus. "This will help Elijah."
"Ansel. I'd be lying if I said your offer wasn't appealing. I've never known a parent to be a benevolent force. I think I would have liked to have been your son. But, a different path was chosen for me, and I have, for the past one thousand years, been son of Mikael. Paranoid. Vengeful. And, powerful enough to protect my children."
"I want to help you defend them."
"I believe you. But, love is what Esther twists. She will take the best of your intentions, and she will use them to get to my youngest...You waited too long before you came to rescue me. I won't make the same mistake with the triplets."
Klaus picks up Ansel's blade, and Ansel turns toward him, confused and hurt. "No...No, Klaus. I know you. You are not capable of this."
"That's the first lie you've told me." Ansel looks at Klaus sadly, and after a moment, Klaus slashes at him with the blade, slicing Ansel's chest open in a diagonal line. Ansel gasps, staggering forward, and Klaus looks horrified at what he's just done. He steps forward and catches his dying father in his arms, slowly lowering his body onto the ground. Ansel, still shocked, caresses Klaus' cheek with his hand before he finally dies. Klaus, overwhelmed, starts to cry, but quickly steels himself.
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Klaus returns with Elijah to the compound and everyone welcomes him. "Where's Ansel?" Diana asks Klaus. He looks down sadly. "Klaus?"
"I killed him...he knew about the triplets and he...he...I had to do it." Diana hugs Klaus. "I think it's time we pay a visit." She says to him.
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Love & marriage
VampireTVD, S3, TO S1-5, Legacies S1-4 When they said for life, nobody expected it to be this long. So when Diana and Klaus got wed, they expected just a few years together before they sent him off to war or the plage killed one of them both...how romantic...
