Above All Else

Chapter 26

Klaus walked down the hall and into the upstairs study full of purpose, knowing he had to utilize the time that was granted to him with Caroline out of the house.

Kol glanced up from the grimoire he was leafing through with a cock of his head, "What has you looking so chipper Nik? You look as though you just found the one person you've been dying to kill."

Klaus smirked, "Perhaps I have." His gaze turned serious as he demanded, "I need you to contact Silas for me. Tell him to meet us here within the hour."

"Why wait that long when I am standing here now?"

Klaus turned on his heels looking towards the doorway in mild disbelief to find Silas himself strutting into the room with his hands in his pockets. "How did you get in here? Furthermore, when did you get here?"

"I have my ways." Silas spoke cryptically with a grin as he meandered his way around the room picking up random trinkets here and there. "The real question of the day would be how you could screw up so royally on obtaining the cure from your own brother." His displeasure with the outcome bled coldly into his eyes and tone.

Klaus opened his mouth to speak and Silas angrily slashed his hand through the air cutting him off. Klaus tried valiantly to push the words out of his mouth, his eyes widened as he discovered that he could not utter so much as a growl. His sharp angry eyes shot an accusing glare at Silas.

Silas's hand that he held in the air out towards Klaus turned to point a shaking finger in his direction, "You do not get to speak Hybrid." He spat with rage pouring off him with every word, "I entrusted you with her safety. I expected you to treat her and this situation with the upmost care and finesse that you are widely known for. However I find that you let some petty grudge get in the way of holding the only thing that can save my daughter's life?!" Silas's footsteps pounded across the wooden floor until he was nose to nose with the Hybrid in question, "Please," He sneered, "tell me your pitiful excuses for failing my daughter! For failing me!"

Klaus released a pent up growl as Silas freed him from his hold. Shooting daggers at the man from his livid blue eyes he rubbed his throat, "It was a miscalculation on my part that, I assure you, I have a plan to rectify immediately."

Silas narrowed his eyes at Klaus as he shifted through his thoughts, "Hmm. Yes I can see that."

Klaus ground his teeth together as he spat, "I don't care if you are Caroline's Father. You would do well to stay out of my head!"

Silas took hold of a chair at the table were Kol was seated, spinning it around to straddle it with his arms flung over the back in front of him with a wide grin, "Why waste time with pointless planning and negotiations when we can just skip to the part where we execute said plan?"

Klaus's eyes lit up with pleasure, "You will do it then?"

Silas shrugged his shoulders while studying his nails, "Imitate you in order to gain the cure but also leave you open to carry out your petty revenge against your brother and his lover? Why not? It could be mildly entertaining."

Klaus grinned roguishly as his well thought out plan would be coming to fruition, allowing him to gain everything he wanted. His grin fell swiftly off his face as Silas spoke once more.

"Though I am curious, if you had to choose between your revenge or the cure. Which would it be?"

The unwavering answer flashed through Klaus's mind in an instant bringing a true smile to Silas's face.

"That is what I thought Niklaus. You are lucky, if there had been any hesitation what's so ever I would have struck you down where you stand."

"It's quite possibly that I would have allowed you to." Klaus muttered unsure about how he felt with this man, no matter who he was, rifling through his mind.