Promises (Klaus Mikaelson TVD)

Five

~Adeline~

   It's been  few days since the dance. Klaus has made his first move in his own body. But, I didn't get to see him even though I was the closest person to him. Apparently, he thanked Ric for being a usable body. I still can't process through my mind how I didn't see Katherine in the apartment since I've been back because it was revealed that he held her captive. 

   Tonight is the night he declared he would make the sacrifice to trigger his werewolf gene. As of now, I am walking out to the woods. Might as well find some quiet before everything goes down. I wanted to help and I tried to..but they wouldn't let me. They still think I'm still some fragile human.

   "It's pretty dangerous alone in these woods, love.", a voice that sounded very familiar says. It's sounds so familiar that I was too scared to turn around and look. 

   When I did turn around I nearly started crying. A guy stood in front of me. But, this was no regular guy. He had dirty blonde hair that was naturally curly, stubble on his face and the most captivating smirk. 

   "Klaus?", I breathed out.

   He smiles at me. "My dear Adeline." He walks towards me and uses one and to move some hair from my face. He talks again with tear filled eyes. "Oh, how I've missed you. 168 years of torture by the thoughts that you were dead. That you died a long, long time ago."

   I unknowingly leaned into his hand that still rested on my cheek. "You were the one possessing Alaric. Tonight you are going to kill my friends in some stupid sacrifice."

   "This sacrifice needs to happen. It's for my own good. I'm sorry, love. I didn't know they were friends of yours. But it's too late to back out now. This sacrifice will happen."

   "In my dreams, you weren't this type of person. You were kind and loving. You never tried to hurt me or any one of my friends that I know of."

   "Dreams?", he looks at me with a shocked expression. "What dreams?"

   "When I turned..I remembered that you compelled me to forget you. I remembered that Elijah fed on me and healed me. Someone killed me that night. They were in my cottage after you left me on the steps. When I walked in, I was stabbed in the stomach by him. He was out to kill my whole family that night. He killed my mum, dad, and sister. I was supposed to be dead to but the vampire blood brought me back as one of it's kind."

   "If I had known, I wouldn't have left you. I'm so sorry....I was only trying to protect you. I never wanted you to have to live like this. And you only stopped living at 17 years old..", he looks down. "You were...no. You are the love of my life. I never wanted to leave you. But it was a must. For your protection..but I guess it had the opposite affect."

   I just looked down and took in everything he just said. All the dreams that I've been having, they were all of the moments we shared together as lovers. They showed me how much I loved him them and how much he loved me. When he compelled me, all those feelings were lost. But, I felt like a I had a huge hole in my heart. Like something was missing. Now that he's here in front of me..saying that I'm still the love of his life..that hole feels like it's been repaired. 

   He walks towards me and begins to lean in but I pull away. As I take a few steps back, he looks at me with hurt written all over his face. 

   My eyes fill with tears when I finally speak up. "I'm sorry, Niklaus. I want to kiss you. I want to let you be the love of my life again. I want to be able to express my feelings towards you in the best ways because I do feel for you. With every memory of us, I fell for you all over again even though you were never right here in front of me.

"But you're about to kill my friends in a sacrifice. You aren't doing this for your own good. You're doing this for you. For yourself. You could end this all now, but you won't because you're selfish Niklaus. You're selfish enough to say you love me and then preform a murder on my friends and anyone that gets in the way of your sacrifice. I just don't know if I can love a man who's willing to do that."

   By now, we both have tears falling from our eyes. It hurt me so much to tell him that. I had to tell him what I felt though. I couldn't pretend that I was okay with loving and being with a guy who was willing to kill my friends just to trigger a gene. I couldn't live everyday wit the fact that I would be with a man who murdered people and sacrificed people for himself. 

   I can barely live with myself for the fact that I have murdered people before out of hunger. And everyday, I regret it all. I wish that I could take it all back. But I can't. So I'm sure I wouldn't be able to live with the fact that my would-be boyfriend killed my friends. 

   Klaus walks away with his head hung low and I feel that hole in my chest forming all over again. This time I can't just be compelled to forget this. I wouldn't allow it. Maybe one day I can learn to show him how much I love him and we could be together. I hate that there's a part of me that wants to go after him with what is going on tonight...how could I do that to my friends?

(A/N)

   So a reminder/warning this book will not follow the story line. There will still be some parts that are scenes or incidents on the show, but this book is completely different. i.e.: Klaus will not have feelings for Caroline at all. His mind is set on his love for Adeline.