Regret ▻ The Originals [2]

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  Once he had left, Klaus had brought Hope and a reluctant Ophelia to St. James' Infirmary.

Meanwhile, Klaus was sitting at the bar of the club, upon which he had placed Hope and her car seat. Ophelia sat next to him, resting her head against the bar counter, "You're keeping something from me. What is it?" He asked Ophelia, who remained silent.

"You keep secrets from me, why shouldn't I do the same to you?" Ophelia retorted with an attitude, causing Klaus to sigh.

Before Klaus could continue speaking to Ophelia, his phone buzzed, and when he checks it, he finds it was a text from Marcel that told him that he had found Davina.

Just as he was about to speak to Ophelia once more, Cami walked into the club and made her way toward Klaus, "Camille, I need your help." He began to say, only to be cut off by the woman.

Cami laughed bitterly and held up a finger to silence him. After a beat, she sarcastically and mockingly pretended to be Klaus and had a conversation with herself, "'Hello, Klaus.' 'Hello, Camille. Thank you so much for convincing my furious siblings to join my Machiavellian plan!' 'Yeah, that was good times. Oh, what did you say?" She continued on, raising a hand to touch her neck, "'--How is my neck? It's healed, thank you so much for asking.'" Finally, Cami dropped the mocking act and took a deep breath before continuing, "Now, you were saying?"

Klaus was clearly taken aback by her suddenly outburst before he finally spoke up, "I had to make it seem as if I cared for nothing, for no one." He informed Klaus, quickly glancing over at Ophelia before back at Cami, "Our battle is not yet won, and I need you to protect the two most important things in my life. I need you to do it here, where magic is void," He paused, looking guilty, "And, I'm sorry."

Cami smiled weakly and nodded in agreement before Klaus turned to Ophelia, "Do not leave this bar under no circumstances," He ordered, causing Ophelia to roll her eyes and lift her hands up in mock surrender before she nodded her head.

After Klaus left, Cami walked closer to Ophelia, who avoided eye contact with her, "'The two most important things in my life'?" Cami asked Ophelia, a smile on her face, "Is Klaus Mikaelson finally coming to his senses when it comes to his feelings for you?"

"It doesn't matter," Ophelia replied with a sigh, "I'm spoken for and Klaus is only acting like that because he's trying to win me over after betraying me in a way that I don't ever want to forgive him for."

"You talk as if it's expected that you will forgive him." Cami stated and Ophelia nodded her head in response, "Why's that?"

"There's something I figured out when Klaus had Dahlia placed the curse on my pack. There's a certain reason why I wasn't affected," Ophelia confessed, "But the problem is, there are two different answers to how that 'reason' happened. And I'm afraid if it's the reason I think it is, everything will be going to shit real soon."

Cami's eyes widened and her mouth gaped open in shock, "Are you saying that I think you're saying?" She asked Ophelia in concern, gesturing down to Ophelia's stomach.

Ophelia remained silent, nodding her head as tears filled her eyes, "I slept with Klaus not even two weeks before I slept with Jackson, Cami," She admitted to Cami, beginning to tear up, "Which means I have a bit of a problem."

"Oh, Ophelia," Cami sighed, quickly hugging Ophelia, who began to cry in her arms.

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About an hour later, Vincent had arrived to the jazz club, where he found Ophelia, Cami, and Hope sitting at the bar, "When I invited you to meet me, I had no idea we were gonna have such a gorgeous guest!" Vincent commented, referring to Hope.