✓ KILLER QUEEN² ☾ 𝐊.𝐌𝐈𝐊𝐀𝐄𝐋𝐒𝐎𝐍

|A DRUNK KLAUS|

"I'll get it" I shout as I stand up and walk towards the door, knowing that Jackson was the only other person in the house who could answer the door

"Odette De Marie?" the stranger behind the door asks making me look at him confused as he was a new face and human

"Yes" I say confused as to why a man with a garment bag was asking for me

"This is for you" They say making me take the garment bag in their hands

"thank you" I say quietly as they turn around to leave either compelled or back to doing their job. I close the door before I walk back up the few steps to set down the garment bag on the dining room table and taking the card stuck to the garment bag

"Who was that?" Jackson asks making me look up confused and worried as I didn't know what any of it meant meaning I had to get answers from the house next door

"I'm not sure" I say while looking up at Jackson worried and then open the garment bag to find a purple ball gown dress so I zip it back up, "Can you babysit? I need to go find answers"

"Go ahead"

"Okay. Well when she starts crying you can either give Hope her pacifier which she has near her and if not there is one in my room near her giraffe. And if she throws her pacifier at you or the floor is hungry and you know-"

"Odette, go" Jackson cuts me off making me shut up and nod my head

"Thank you" I say before I walk over towards the Mikaelson compound with the garment bag in my hand and the business card in my back pocket.

No one was down stairs and I lay down the bag on one of the sofas before I walk up the stairs to check in the living room to see if that's where I'd find someone

"Oh great everyone is here" I say as I enter the compounds upstairs living room to see Freya, Hayley, Elijah and Klaus standing around talking but got quiet once I entered making me cross my arms behind my back, "is there something you all aren't telling me?"

"Why would you assume such a thing?" Klaus says making me look around the room as everyone seemed a bit guilty but I wasn't sure of what yet

"Because of this" I say as I raise a black card which I read out loud its invitation "'7041 St. Charles Ave. Midnight. I do wish you will join us' signed the Strix. Some one dropped it off along with a ball gown to the apartment. So which one of you signed me up for a cult?"

The first thing I learned from Elijah was who the Strix were and how they weren't a cult. They were just a group of old vampires who are one of the most powerful organizations in the world, responsible for countless wars, assassinations and plagues throughout history. Yet that just convinced me more that it was a cult.

He used to be the leader and then when he went on the run because of Mikael he had to leave them behind. Now the Strix's leader is some old vampire called Tristian. As to why they invited me, it was up to interpretation meaning no one in the room knew why. Meaning I was going to attend the gala to find out the Strix's intentions

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I sit in front of a mirror doing my make up as I'm dressed in the purple gown the Strix had gifted me. I thought it was the best thing to do as I didn't want to rummage through Rebekahs dresses like Hayley was doing. I place the eyeshadow brush on the table in front of me wondering if there was anything else I had to do. My hair was curled so my dark brown hair which went past my ear now could look natural as it blended in with my dyed blond tips which I had let grown out. I wore my dress which didn't show anything it didn't have to, I had my heels on that were hidden by the dress and Hope was in the care of Jackson.