The Original Wife

Chapter 2

Someone pounded on her door. Cassandra groaned and slowly got up. She opened the door and the first thing she saw was Rebekah's excited face. She hated waking up to happiness. She was way to grumpy for something like that directly after waking up.

"Mother is hosting a ball!" Rebekah told her excitedly.

"Why?" She didn't like balls.

"Because of our reunion! Cassie, come on!" She was dragged out of her room. Over the next hours she got her hair cut and her nails done. Rebekah and Elijah explained all the while everything that had happened over the years, while she was daggerd. All the time she felt that almost uncontrollable rage boiling in her. It wasn't enough that he had daggered her, no, he had kept her in a coffin for decades! She looked up when Klaus stormed into the room.

"You went after Elena?!" Cassandra just sighed.

"Do you want another dagger in cour heart?" he threatened Rebekah.

"Again with the dagger threats, Nik? Don't you have anything new?" Kol asked provocativly.

"Oh, go back to staring at yourself in the mirror, Kol!"

"Stop it!" Cassandra ordered. "We've only just reunited and you're already at each others throats!"

"She almost killed Elena!" Klaus argued.

"Who?" she asked with exasperation.

"My doppelgänger." he explained.

"You broke the curse?" Surprise coloured her voice. He visibly straightened. "Yes, I also managed to turn hybrids." he said proudly. She watched him unimpressed. "That means, you no longer need her. What is the harm in killing her?"

"I still need more hybrids!"

"For what?"

"Because ... " he faltered. "For protection."

"Against whom? Elijah told me, you killed Mikael."

"What if someone decided to wage war against us?" She gaped at him and stood abruptly. "I just ... I can't deal with this right now." With that she left the room. Half listening she heard Kol and Klaus starting a fight. She almost went back to break it up, but Esther stopped her. "I'll have a word with him."

"Thank you." she said relieved. "I can't stand being around him right now." she explained and was on the verge of crying again and hated herself for spilling tears on his behalf. Esther pulled her into a hug. "It's fine, you don't have to explain yourself, I understand. You are my daughter in everything but blood. I will always help you." she promised. "But now I have to stop them before they destroy the house." Cassandra nodded and pulled herself together. She went to her room and sat on the bed. She needed time to think and to calm down, so that she was able to face Klaus again for the ball. The door opened and Elijah entered. "If it is fine with you, I would like to explain today's technology to you." he suggested quietly. She nodded. "Make yourself at home." And nodded towards the bed. He sat down next to her and showed her a little ... something. "This is a mobile phone." he went on, explaining what the little device was able to do and how it worked. It was fascinating, what humanity had managed to produce.

"Elijah, what exactly is going on with Elena? Shouldn't she be dead? What happened?" she asked when he finished. Elijah sighed. "Niklaus told me, he had thrown you into the ocean and I believed him. That's why I started to search for the doppelgänger, but not to give her to him, but to use her as bait and kill him." Cassandra gasped momentarily paralised by her fear for him, then she remembered that it had happened while she was daggered, and the panic faded. Elijah took her silence as a sign to continue and did so. "I found her and made a deal with her. We were going to work together and I would give her the elixir that I had for Katerina, to save her. One of the Salvatores, you will meet at least one of them tonight, I imagine, gave her his blood to save her. Bonnie Bennett found a spell to save Elena and so Elena lived. After that, Niklaus daggered me because I had betrayed him."

"How nice. My wife and my brother, side by side!" They looked towards the now opened door. They hadn't noticed Klaus sneaking in and listening.

"Well, we all know whose fault this is." Cassandra replied with dripping honey. Klaus clenched his jaw. "I'm going to leave you to discuss the situation." Elijah stated and left. Cassandra tried to do the same and was stopped by Klaus' hand on her arm.

"What do you want?" she asked annoyed.

"Why can't you forgive me, Cassie?" Klaus asked sadly.

"You promised to never dagger me." she reminded him.

"I couldn't risk undaggering them." he explained.

"If you had told me, I wouldn't have tried to undagger them. But you didn't. You preferred to silently stick a dagger in my heart and leave me to rot in a coffin." He let her go and she went past him.

"Cassie." She stopped but didn't look into his direction.

"Will you go to the ball with me?" he threw after her hopefully.

"Esther expects us to go together." was her answer and she left him behind, his face sporting a big grin.