The Red Herring Returns: A Mikaelson Love Story

Chapter 43: The Re-Awakening of The Beast

~Fiore POV~

"Klaus?" Fiore said as she waited for her ex-husband to answer the phone.

"Yes?"

"I need you to keep your girlfriend busy today." Fiore told him as she walked into the office.

"And how am I supposed to do that?" He asked her.

"I don't care." She replied. "Kidnap her? Have lots of sex? Go to a party? Not my problem. My problem is her and her Mystic gang getting in my way. According to the witch, they're having a girls' night. Make sure she isn't there."

"Why? Isn't that a good distraction?" He continued, slightly irritating her.

"Do you ever stop?" She asked with a sigh as she rifled through the man's belongings. "The witch might let some things slip and the girl might know something that she shouldn't."

"I'll see what I can do." Klaus told her. "What exactly do you need to wake up Silas?"

"Things you won't like. Still sure the girl is worth this? Silas might try to kill you. I'll do what I can to keep him in check, but there's not much I can do." She told him.

"Yes. Definitely." Klaus told her.

"Fine." She sighed and cut the phone continuing to go through the stuff when the man came in.

"You're here again." He said nervously.

"Yes, I am, because you're being far too slow with what I asked you to do!" She snapped. "What do you have now?"

"The Council has already been taken care of." He told her. "The last hybrid is in the process of being unsired."

"Still in the process?" She said with a grumpy sigh. "You understand that you haven't even finished this, let alone the witches. Are you sure you're capable of completing this, Shane? Because right no you seem very incompetent."

"You are putting a lot of pressure on me and I can't—" Shane was cut off as Fiore held up her hand and he began to claw at his neck as Fiore absentmindedly cut off the breath in his lungs.

"Shane, I'm helping you. Don't forget that. Not to mention I can take away your breath before you've even had the chance to process that you need to breathe. Do I make myself clear?" He nodded and she freed her hand before stalking up to him.

"When Silas asked me to find you, he said we had all the time in the world." Shane told her.

"No, Silas has all the time in the world. You have a deadline. A literal one at that." Fiore told him, looking sadly at the man. "Don't trust everything Silas says. Silas wants what he wants and he doesn't care how he gets that. And I know you miss your wife, I know how that feels, but Shane to get her back, you will literally be unleashing hell. You know that, right?"

"I need her." He told her.

"Okay." She said with a sigh. "How's the witch coming along?"

"I suppose you can ask her yourself." Shane replied as the witch came in.

"You." Bonnie muttered angrily. "You're a Mikaelson. Shane, we can't trust them!"

"You say that every time." Fiore said with a roll of her eyes as she compelled her. "How far are you with the expression magic?"

"My magic is coming back slowly." She replied.

"Burn him." Fiore demanded, looking at an appalled Shane.

"What?" He asked in horror but Fiore rolled her eyes and compelled him too.

"You've lost your tongue." The man looked back in confusion but nonetheless, couldn't talk. "Now quick, so you can get to your little girl's night."

"I won't do that!" She said defiantly. "I can't."

"Yes you can, you just don't want to." Fiore told her with a shrug before sitting down on the chair. "Now, please."

"I'm not going to do that." Bonnie told her sternly but Fiore shrugged again with a smirk as she clicked her fingers and the professor was set ablaze, unable to scream in pain.

"How about you put that fire out?" Fiore told the young witch. "He can't scream, but believe me he is in pain. I've had over 2000 years to perfect it."

"I can't do it!" The witch said in a panic.

"Stop panicking. Focus on the fire. And let the magic show how you feel. That's the whole point of expression. You have to express it." Fiore told her. Despite the panic she was in, Bonnie did her best to calm herself down before putting the fire in Shane out revealing an unharmed professor.

"What happened?" Bonnie said in shock. "He was burning! I saw it!"

"You see whatever I want you to see, love." Fiore said with a smirk. "But if you can put that out in your head, imagine what you can do in real life!"

"You're a monster." Bonnie growled.

"Again, you say that every time." Fiore rolled her eyes before going to compel the two. "Bonnie, you need to leave and forget you ever saw me today and Shane, what do you know? You found your tongue! Perhaps you aren't as incompetent as I thought you were."

She walked out of the university and into her car only to roll her eyes when she received a call from Klaus.

"Whatever it is, I probably don't want to hear it." Fiore told him.

"What did you do to, Iliana?" Klaus snapped.

"Nothing." Fiore said. "What happened?"

"She's gone! Not a trace." Klaus told her.

"I still don't know. I still don't care."

"I need to find her!" Klaus told her in a panic.

"She's a teenage celebrity, Klaus. She probably just had a press conference or something." Fiore said as she pulled up at the home. "I'm home now and I don't want Kol to know I was talking to you and even worse, talking to you about resurrecting Silas."

She hung up the phone and opened the boot of her car where Iliana was lay asleep. She sighed and carried her into the house before compelling her to wake up.

"Where am I?" The girl asked in fear.

"Not in Mystic Falls." Fiore said with a smirk. "Which is exactly where I want you."

~Iliana POV~

I looked up at the woman who had kidnapped me, the only thing is, I remember voluntarily walking into her boot. I would've said she compelled me but I've been on vervain. Something wasn't right.

"Why did you kidnap me?" I asked her.

"So that Klaus would be occupied for the time being and you wouldn't be able to interrupt girls' night." She said. "Only a couple days, and you'll be asleep for most of it."

"You're Fiore Mikaelson." I told her.

"Right you are." Fiore said with a smile. "I really am sorry. But you won't remember any of it, unless you turn, but I don't see that happening anytime soon anyway."

"Why are you doing this to me"? I asked.

"It'll make sense soon enough love." Fiore kissed me on the forehead and I fell asleep immediately with no plan to wake up in sight.

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