Light and Darkness•Klaus Mikaelson

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Today was my least favorite day of the year. Caroline and I's birthday, I knew today would be the day we finally talked after our argument. I made sure to wake up before her and get ready.

Around eight o'clock Caroline rolled into my room with a light knock.

"Livy, can we talk?" She asked and I nodded letting her come into the room.

"I shouldn't have said that stuff to you. I was feeling guilty about what I was doing and I projected it onto you." She said very upfront and honestly, she knew it would be the quickest way to end the fight.

"I should've broken up with Tyler the minute I became a vampire. I knew I didn't love him the same, I should've been honest with myself about it." I said and she looked away, she hated that Olivia always apologized for things out of her hands. It made it hard to fight with her.

"I saw the way you look at him, Liv. You've never looked at someone like that, not even Damon. It scares me, because he keeps his family in coffins, what do you think he'll do to you?" She expressed her feelings honestly with nothing but worry in her voice, no judgement.

"I don't know what's going to happen to me, Care. I can be what makes him great or what destroys him, that's what I've been told." I said and she smiled softly handing me a card.

I had forgotten our tradition. We would always write each other out cards every year. This year I forgot.

"I'm sorry Care, I forgot." I said and he just handed me mine.

"Just promise me if you ever leave with him you'll remember to send me one." She said and I smiled taking it.

"I would never leave you behind, Care."

•••

"One more shot for the birthday girl!" Damon said as he poured another shot in my glass. He had brought a bottle and glasses to my house.

He wanted us to have our own little party before I had to go meet Caroline and all of them.

"Before I go can I ask you something?" I asked and he nodded.

"Shoot, birthday girl."

"Could you of ever fallen for me the way you fell for Elena?" I asked and his eyes widened. In his mind he knew without a doubt, yes.

He knew if he would've met her first, the vampire her, she would've been the one.

"I think it would've been too easy, life is never easy for us." Damon said giving her the answer she wanted to hear, and not the truth. He always wished things could've been easier.

"Thank you, D."

•••

I went out to our FamilyMs crypt that night. Caroline had told Elena she didn't want a birthday, and Elena feeling guilty for being the reason she's a vampire threw a funeral instead.

I appreciated the effort, but I sided with Caroline. Elena really didn't know how it felt to be like us.

As much as I loved being a vampire, I hated this part of it. We had to watch everyone we loved age, while we couldn't even make it to eighteen.

"Liv." Everyone said raising their glasses when I walked in. Everyone was here. Matt, Bonnie, Caroline, and Elena the only person we were missing was-

"Liv can we talk?" Tyler asked peaking his head into the crypt.

"You're so lucky I'm already buzzed." I said handing Matt a bottle before walking out with him.

"I just wanted to talk. I feel really bad about how things ended with us and after Klaus sent me to bring you his blood, it got me thinking. I should've been man enough to own up to my mistakes instead of hiding behind them. You deserve a guy who's gonna be there, and I know Caroline thinks it's Damon, but I know you Liv and I know if Damon was who you really wanted you would've taken him already." He said and I couldn't help but smile. He was right, I guess Klaus and I were alike in that way. We take what we want.

"Thanks, Ty. Saying all that really means a lot."

"I needed to make sure we were right before I could tell Caroline I love her." He said and I was surprised.

"You love her?"

"More than I ever thought I could." He said and I couldn't help but laugh. Good for her, she should have someone who loved her, someone who'd always chose her.

"I'm glad she has you, you make her very happy." I said and he smiled.

"Are you? Happy, I mean?" He asked and I really didn't have an answer.

"I'll get there, everything's just a little hectic." I said and he nodded. He appreciated the honesty, it made him feel worse about what he was about to do.

"Thanks for everything, Liv. And happy birthday." He said giving me a hug.

I didn't pull back until I felt a prick in my neck. "Tyler what the hell!" I yelled holding my neck, realizing what he had did. I backed away in shock as Matt came running out.

"What's going on?" Matt asked confused. I backed up into him holding my neck, already starting to feel the affects.

"He just fucking bit me!" I yelled as he wrapped an arm around me to hold me up.

"I'm so sorry Liv it's just-it's Klaus he said to bite Caroline. I can't bite her and I just I can't say no and you were here and I-I'm so sorry." Tyler stuttered out.

I refused to look at him as Matt picked me up bridal style and carried me to his truck. He brought me home and explained to my mom what had happened. I can't believe this was happening again, but this time was worse I didn't have the vervain in my system to keep me unconscious, I felt it all this time. I think the night terrors were the worst.

I tossed and turned all night long. I had flashbacks starting from when my father walked out on us, all the screaming and crying. Then it moved to the hospital when Katherine killed us.

I woke up to my mother lightly tapping me awake.

"He's gonna help you. He's going to make it all go away." She said kissing my head before leaving the room.

After she left Klaus came inside and took a seat beside me.

"You don't look so good, love." He said and I just looked up at him with teary eyes.

"Why does this keep happening to me?" He knew to have her, it would make her a target to everyone, it would make her his weakness.

"Tyler will pay for his mistake, trust me."

"Maybe it's better off this way, maybe I was meant to die this way." I said and his face tensed.

"You cannot actually believe that."

"All my life I've always been everyone's second choice. I wasn't meant to live some stupid happily ever after." I said was the tears rolled down my cheek.

"You will always be my first choice, Olivia. I knew it from the moment I laid my eyes on you." He said biting his wrist and pressing it to my lips.

I locked eyes with him as I drank his blood. Damon, was right. He would always choose me.

"Drink up, we've got a long eternity ahead of us."