!editing! MY LOVE ( k mikaelson )

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"who is this guy, safari sam?" klaus says, rifling through alaric's closet. he sighs before taking two shirts off of the hanger, turning to katherine. "ok, bad, or badder?"

"the dark colours suit you better," she drawled. klaus had captured the doppleganger as soon as he'd got to town and now he was using her for information.

"oh, thank you honey." klaus smirked. "ok. pop quiz, the dagger and white ash are in the salvatore's possession, correct?"

"the dagger was used to kill elijah. you'll find him in the basement of the salvatore house." katherine replies, to which klaus nods noncholantly.

"ok, that dagger needs to stay exactly where it is. the last thing i need to do is resurrect elijah. that guy is a buzzkill." klaus says, thinking of his brother. "and what of elle? i know she is or was in town." klaus needed to ask about her, he needed to see her.

"elle.. she came to see me a while ago before going to a dinner party with elijah and the salvatores." katherine tells him. "i haven't seen her since." katherine wouldn't dare tell klaus that she suspected elle had been daggered too.

"and what prey tell, was she going to see you about?"

"she wanted to know if damon knew about the white oak ash and dagger. when I told her he did, she said she didn't think damon would be stupid enough to try to dagger either of them - i guess she was wrong." klaus thought that it was highly unlikely elle would manage to get herself daggered by who he likes to call 'the scooby gang'. but he would check it out, just to make sure. he needed to know she was okay - elle going quiet or laying low for any amount of time was not normal.

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before leaving klaus had compelled katherine to repeatedly stab herself in the leg until she was told to stop, which wouldn't be for awhile. he smirked to himself for he relished in the thought of katherine in pain. he had finally caught up to her and now had the new doppleganger in his grasp.

klaus stared at the class infront of him, stopping when his eyes landed on the doppleganger. he had come to alaric's day job to keep up appearances, luckily he knew alot about history seeing as he lived through most of it. he had tried not to dwell on how humorous the fact that Alaric was a teacher by day and vampire hunter by night was. "hello class." he greeted and the voices soon drowned out, all eyes on him. "what are we learning today?"

"with the decade dance tonight, we've been covering the sixties." a girl answered quickly for him.

"right - uh- the sixties." he says to himself, trying to recall that time. "the sixties. i wish there was something good i could say about the sixties, but... actually, they kind of sucked. except for the beatles, of course. they made it bearable. uh, what else was there? the cuban missile thing, we walked on the moon. there was watergate-"

"watergate was in the seventies ric," elena said before realising her mistake and correcting herself. "i uh, i mean mr. saltzman." she blushed, looking down in embarrassment . klaus couldn't how different the two dopplegangers were. katherine and elena were polar opposites, yet they still had both salvatores wrapped around their fingers.

"right. it all kind of mushes together up here, the sixties, seventies. thank you, elena." he coughs, quickly carrying on with the lesson.

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later that day, klaus was making his way over to the salvatore boarding house after alaric had been invited, most likely to strategise.

"there you are." damon greets him as he enters the room. elena, bonnie, stefan and damon were all discussing what to do. klaus smirked to himself, guessing that they got his message.

"ok, so we find him and then what, hmm?" elena pipes up. "what's our plan of attack?" klaus found it almost adorable that they thought they could beat him.

"me. I'm the plan. he has no idea how much power i can channel. if you can find him, I can kill him." bonnie said forcefully and klaus stared at her briefy. well she could try.

"that's not going to be that easy. i mean, he is the biggest, baddest vampire around." klaus said to the group, boosting his own ego when they all agreed.

"alaric has a point. i mean what if he-" damon proceeds to rush over to bonnie, trying to attack her. bonnie effortlessly throws him across the room using her magic, but that still didn't impress klaus. he had been around for a thousand years and knew every witchy trick in the book. he was prepared to take down the bennett witch and he could to his belief, quite easily.

"it doesn't matter if he's an original. i can take down anyone who comes at me. i can kill him, elena. i know i can." bonnie told her best friend, nodding.

"yeah, come on elena. we've already taken down two originals. bonnie can easily get rid of the last one." damon told her and klaus immediately saw red.

Two?

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niklaus raced towards elle's daggered body, anger coursing through his veins. her eyes were dim and lifeless and her skin was cold to the touch. the only other time he'd seen her in this state was when he'd done the unspeakable 100 years ago. he swiftly pulled her dagger out and picked her up bridal style, sprinting up the stairs and out of the house before he got caught. the salvatores had briefly gone out to get ready for the dance later and so klaus had taken this oppurtunity to undagger elle.

he held her close until he reached alaric's car, where he placed her body in the backseat and drove away quickly. he clenched his fists around the steering wheel making is knuckles turn white when he looked in the rear view mirror and saw her lifeless body in the backseat. klaus planned to take her back to her own place, he knew she wouldn't appreciate waking up to see him in such a close proximity as she hadn't forgiven him. but he would wait another 100 years if he had to. if he wanted her back he'd have to do it right.

once he reached where he'd been informed she was staying, he opened the unlocked door and chuckled at elle's carelessness. He made his way inside, smiling to himself about the fact that everything smelled like her. her scent was intoxicating and sweet and niklaus hadn't experienced it in a century.

klaus strode around the room, taking in elle's living quarters. he noted that her taste had changed a lot from the 20th century. everything had its place and nothing was out of place when nik had known her, now papers, clothing and various objects were strewn everywhere. it wasn't messy, just not the elle he knew. klaus couldn't help but wonder if her personality was drastically different too.

"you're alright love." he brushed her face with his thumb as she started to stir. nik had laid elle on the sofa, waiting for her to come too. klaus would punish the salvatores for what they had done to his girl, but for now he had to keep up the ruse. before she could wake up, klaus made his way out of the house, sparing one last glance at the girl.

when she shot up gasping, elle immediately jumped up, looking around.

little did she know that the person she would least expect not only bought her here, but saved her.