Allure of Darkness ↠ Klaus Mikaelson [3] ✓

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

"Are monsters born or created?"

I'M just laying on my bed, laying on my stomach, reading one of Elijah's journals. Hayley was right beside me, listening.

"August 1359. I have noticed a difference in my siblings. Our bond strains beneath the pressure of our life as vampires. Each day removes them further from the humanity we once possessed. My sweet sister, Rebekah, has grown quite indifferent to brutality. However, the true problem remains my brother, Niklaus.He continues to hide his loneliness with cruelty. Still, I cling to the hope that I, as their eldest brother, can lead them down the correct path, a path charged with the power of a family united. For if I fail, our family's legacy will end in darkness."

I then heard arguing so I stopped reading and listened in on what Rebekah and Klaus were talking about. I glanced to Hayley, raising an eyebrow as she buried her head under a pillow, making an annoyed groan.

"I cannot believe you disposed of those vampires without me. You know how I love to set things on fire," We could hear Rebekah yell at her brother.

"Was I supposed to leave them in the front yard to rot?" Klaus questioned sarcastically. "Besides, they were my responsibility. They attacked the helpless pregnant girl who's carrying my child," I heard Klaus say which made me growl. I was not helpless. And he knew that.

"Oh, I am so moved by your newfound sense of fatherly duties towards your ex werewolf girlfriend who you left in the middle of the night, carrying your hybrid bun in her oven," Rebekah told him, sarcastically.

"The ex werewolf girlfriend and her friend would like to know what the plan is," I said, gesturing between both Hayley and I as we both walked into the room, Elijah's book held closely to my chest.

"Well, that depends what plan you mean, love: My plan for global domination, or Rebekah's plan to find love in a cruel, cruel world " Klaus said, with a cute smile that made my insides twist. No, stop that. He hurt you, I though to myself.

Rebekah grabbed a pencil from the desk beside her and threw it in Klaus' direction, but of course he caught it easily before it can impale his face.

"The plan to rescue Elijah. The one who is now in the possession of your mortal enemy after you stabbed him in the back," I told him with a frown, raising my eyebrows.

"In the front, if we're being specific," Klaus said with a small smile on his face. I just shook my head at him, mad, but a traitor smike appeared in my face which I quickly stopped. I don't want him thinking that I have forgiven him, because that's not what happened.

"You two said that you would get him back. So is there a plan, or what?" Hayley asked them.

"Okay. Well, firstly, Marcel is not my mortal enemy—he's my friend, albeit one who is unaware that I'm trying to sabotage his hold over the supernatural community of the French Quarter, but a friend nonetheless. And secondly, I daggered Elijah in order to gain Marcel's trust. If I had known he would place my brother in the hands of a particularly nasty teenaged witch, I certainly would have weighed my options a bit differently. And thirdly, sister, please." Klaus said, turning to Rebekah. Both Hayley and I looked at Rebekah, waiting for whatever she had to say.