Revival § Klaus Mikaelson

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Chapter 19: Fool Me Once, Shame On You

{D. K}

"Where are you taking me?"

"Back to your place," Shawn answers, this time allowing Dakota to ride front seat instead of hitching a ride in the trunk. "I don't have any use for you anymore."

Dakota averted her eyes to her little brother in shock. As he drove they moonlight would cast over his face showing the brooding lines on his forehead that he didn't have when they were younger. "I'm your sister, you can't tell me that the only reason you drive here from your little getaway in Beacon Hills just to ask if I took the cure."

"Well, I just did," Shawn gripped the steering wheel tighter and drove a bit faster.

"Why didn't you just call, or send a letter. Save yourself a trip."

Shawn rolled his hazel eyes, mumbling a slew of words under his breath. "I didn't plan on driving out here at all, but I went to Mystic Falls to visit mom and I overheard this girl talking about having the cure and shoving it down someone's throat."

"Why didn't you just ask her about it?"

"Because, her boyfriend said 'Dakota would've been proud'." He snapped at her, growing irritated by her questions. "I figured you had something to do with it."

The brunette paused, her heart beating a bit faster in excitement at the reminder of the life she had a year ago. "Stefan? Blonde hair, green eyes, brooding face?"

"No actually," He declined, making a quick turn. "He had black hair, blue eyes, leather jacket."

Dakota gave a nod of approval. "Guess Damon finally got the girl."

"I don't really care." Shawn interrupted. "I came here for something and you don't have it so I'm back to Phase One again."

The brunette scoffed, bringing her arms up to cross them over her chest. She felt stupid that she had hope for them when he knocked on her front door. She felt needed by people who only knew her in her time of bad, but not Shawn. He knew the real her and he needed her before the walls were built and addictions were formed.

As a child, Shawn and Dakota were so close they were inseparable and now they couldn't even bother to look at one another.

The ride to her home was silent. "Drop me off at the corner, I'll walk the rest of the way."

"You really think that I'm going to drop my pregnant sister off at a random street corner by herself?"

Dakota shrugged her shoulders, rolling her eyes at his words. He couldn't act like he didn't care one minute then decide he cared the next, her life had enough inconsistencies and she wasn't ready for more. "Wouldn't surprise me."

"I don't hate you, Ko," Shawn admitted, his voice filled with irritation. A defense mechanism he'd come up with, if he sounding like he didn't care then it wouldn't have mattered what words he was saying, it would immediately turn people away from him and he didn't need any unnecessary attachments from humans that were vulnerable and would die anyways. "I hate what you've become."

"You don't know what I've become Shawn!" Dakota yelled loudly in a fit of rage. Tears welled in her eyes as a wave of hormone induced emotions broke through the metaphorical dam. "You haven't even been there to see me change. To see me grow and become a better person so my daughter can have a good influence to look up to. You don't know anything about what I've become, Shawn, and you never will."

Shawn sat frozen in his seat, not being able to react when Dakota got out of the car and retried to her home not even taking an extra second to turn and give him a parting glance.

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"I never should've come back here. This is the town where I fell in love."

"With Marcel?" Dakota sat on the dock, her booted feet resting through the holes in the railing that kept one from falling in the water below. "He was your first love?"

Rebekah stood tall, her blue eyes focused solely on the water before them, thinking. "No. Just the first that Klaus didn't kill. Yet at least."

"He doesn't want to kill Marcel, you know that right?"

She pursed her lips, not responding to the question with words. "Why are you in such a sour mood?"

Dakota allowed Rebekah the opportunity to deflect the conversation that she needed to have, but she wasn't in the mood to push the blonde to speak. "My brother dropped in last night."

"So, I've heard. You went missing last night and gave us all a scare. We were going to greet you when you came in the house but then we heard you and Klaus quarreling and we decided not to interfere."

Dakota kicked her booted feet back and forth for a moment, watching the boat float by and create ripples in the water below her. "He said I worry him to death. Said he'll end up killed all of Louisiana if I keep disappearing so I decided to leave out the part where my little trip wasn't voluntary."

Rebekah looked down at the brunette who was talking too calm for comfort, she seemed too used to the conversation but so detached from her family that it made her light brown eyes seem soulless and cold. "Your brother kidnapped you?"

"Yours killed you. Guess both of our families are incredibly screwed up."

The blonde moved to sit down beside Dakota with a nod. "I don't know how it came to this. A thousand years ago, I looked up to Klaus, I'd have done anything for him and I see myself now and I can't help but feel guilty for being the very one conspiring against him. How is that even make any sense? After everything he's done to me, I shouldn't feel an ounce of remorse, but I want nothing more than to tell him that I love him, but he's taken it too far."

"I know."

"You knew? How? You've said nothing."

Dakota shrugged, leaning her weight back on her hands that rested on the dock. "I heard what you said the other day with Elijah. About how Klaus would use the baby to kill the vampire race. Extinction, just so he can be King. Powerful. And as much as I wish to believe you, just so I can ensure the safety of my child, I can't because I don't believe that's the case."

"Why?" Rebekah didn't really care for the answer, she just wanted someone to convince her that what she was doing was wrong so she could bail and not be the cause for her brothers hatred and betrayal.

Dakota frowned, pausing to figure out the proper wording for what she wanted to say. "Because I truly believe Klaus sees how alone he's become, and his paranoia is getting out of control. I'm all he's got left and I won't be the one to betray him and rob my child the gift of a father."

"Dakota, if you don't leave then you will die." Rebekah said surely.

"If I don't stay to give him a chance to change and be the best man he can be, then he will too."

Rebekah sighed loudly, shaking her head at the woman sitting beside her. "You're crazy."

"I'm in love."