Forbidden (Klaus Mikaelson Love Story) #1 in the Forbidden series

Chapter 28

The smell of burning flesh drew me from my bedroom where I was reading Johnathan's journals, I flashed down into the basement where I found Damon using my homemade flamethrower on Elijah's dead, not so dead, body making me roll my eyes.

"You know its not going to work," I said to Damon, who stopped using it and he glanced back at me with a raised eyebrow and a shrug, the only thing it was doing was making Elijah's expensive suit burn.

"Mm, burning flesh" Katherine said from behind me, making my back tense up as she came to lean on the doorframe next to me, I took a subtle step forward and to the left and put my back against the wall inside the cell "if you're trying to get the dagger back, you're wasting your time, he's indestructible" she told Damon, not taking notice that I'd moved away from her.

"Yes thank you for pointing out the obvious, as you can see my brother and I are of little intellect and cannot understand what we are witnessing" I muttered with a glare in her direction.

"No kidding," Damon commented "how do you know so much about Original Vampires?" He asked her, we both knew he wasn't going to ask me, my crumbs of information would be getting bigger sooner or later, Klaus would come to town.

"Spend 500 years running from one" Katherine looked at me, "why don't you ask dear, sweet Alex? She spent years sleeping with one" she winked at me when Damon glanced at me and shook his head.

"Because Alex won't tell me, so when I told you my plan to kill Elijah, why didn't you warn me that I'd die if I used a dagger on him?" Damon asked, he came to stand next to me and I took the flamethrower from his hands while Katherine took a couple of steps into the cell.

"Oh there's so many rules, it's all very confusing" she said playing dumb, she knew it would kill him and so did I, I told him it was stupid but if I'd said it would kill him there was no way he'd believe me, he'd think I'd be protecting Elijah.

"Did you know I would die?" He asked her again, but he was looking at me, I met his eyes and nodded, his eyes flashed with betrayal but he sighed in understanding, he knew he wouldn't believe me in a million years, we both looked to Katherine who didn't answer him at all, her silence screamed the words she wasn't going to say.

"Did Elijah tell you his plan? Did he have a dagger to kill Klaus with?" She asked, the fact that she had used Damon to get her out of the tomb made me want to squeeze the trigger of the device in my hands.

"Why are you still here?" I asked, narrowing my eyes, no one was allowed to kill my brothers except me and from the direction their taste in women was taking them both it was going to be sooner rather then later.

"Because you haven't forcibly removed me" she said smugly, with a grin I slowly raised the nozzle of the flamethrower and pointed it right at her "you wouldn't" her eyes widened when I put my finger on the trigger.

"Oh she would" Damon said with a laugh, I just smiled at her as I watched her panic rise.

"Alex, be smart, I want Klaus dead as much as you do" she raised her hands up slightly in surrender and I moved the nozzle higher so it was pointing directly at her heart "more" she her voice raised slightly and Damon was the one who hesitated, he put his hand on mine, signalling to stand down but I didn't lower the flamethrower "you can hate me, but we all want the same thing... and you know I always get what I want" she takes her eyes down my brothers body and he pushed the nozzle in my hand down forcefully, Katherine decided to take her leave but stopped when she was at the door "didn't matter who paid the price" she said looking over at Damon "of course I knew you would die" with that she left to go make children cry and I glanced at my brother, I raised the nozzle and pointed it to the ceiling, telling him I'd light the bitch on fire but he just chuckled and shook his head.