Guilt ▻ The Originals [3]

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"It's yours," Ophelia blurted out, her eyes filling with tears.

Klaus' eyes widened in shock, his mouth gaped open. While Aurora was distracted by Klaus' utter shock, Ophelia used the time to roughly head butt Aurora in the face from behind.

As the vampire stumbled back, Ophelia was able to rip Aurora's hands out of her chest without her heart coming with it.

Aurora became so furious that she hit Ophelia in the head so hard, she was knocked out, and her body dropped to the floor as Klaus vamp-sped toward Aurora and pinned her to the wall of the cage by her neck.

Aurora simply laughed as she looked over at Ophelia's unconscious body on the floor, "Oh, poor, poor little thing. It'll be great to see her die with all of the poison I've given her. Her healing abilities as a tribrid won't even heal her after what I've given her."

Klaus glared at Aurora furiously, taking one moment to glance over at Ophelia's body before vamp-speeding them both outside.

Once they were gone, Cami rushed over to Ophelia's unconscious body in worry.

At Saint Anne's Church, Klaus vamp-sped himself and Aurora outside. He dragged her to the parking lot behind the building as he scowled at her. Aurora, however, seemed amused, "Oh, you're quite cross, aren't you? I haven't seen you this mad in a thousand years."

"If you don't behave yourself, you'll see a lot worse," Klaus replied coldly.

Aurora jerked out of Klaus' grip and stopped walking, turning so that she was looking him in the eye with a haughty expression, "I don't much like that tone! Although, given what I did to Rebekah, I suppose it's to be expected. Unless the source of your ire is the threat I made against your little pet and your therapist..."

Inside the church, Ophelia awoke on the floor next to the fight cage and groaned in pain as a result of Aurora's hard hit, "Oh, my God! Ophelia! Are you okay?"

"Ugh..." Ophelia groaned, weakly pulling herself to her feet with the help of Cami, "I've been through worse. Trust me."

Ophelia turned her head, only to turn her head to see all of the transitioning vampires starting to wake up, "I'm so hungry..." One of the vampires said, he and the rest of them starting walk toward the two women.

Wanting to protect Ophelia, Cami quickly stepped in front of the tribrid, who seemed to have no strength or power to her whatsoever.

Meanwhile, in the alley behind the church, Klaus and Aurora continued to talk, "You really do love her, don't you?" Aurora asked Klaus in disbelief.

Klaus gave her an annoyed look, though he smiled weakly and patronizingly at her, "Well, now I suppose I shall have to kill her, despite the fact she's with child," Aurora threatened Ophelia, which enraged Klaus to the point that he vamp-sped toward her and slammed her against the wall of a nearby building.

Aurora yelped in surprise, "Ooh, are we to play rough now?" She asked Klaus menacingly, "Foreplay's changed in the last millennium."

Before Klaus could react, Aurora spun them around so that it was now he who was pinned against the wall and her who was doing the pinning, "Tell me, can your pathetic Ophelia excite you the way that I can?" She asked, tugging on the lapels of his jacket with a hungry and flirtatious demeanor, "Can she allow you the joy of giving into your most wicked desires?"

Aurora stroked Klaus' chest as he glared at her. Klaus growled, leaning closer to Aurora so that his lips were practically touching her ear, "You don't have a large enough imagination to even think of the ways Ophelia is able to excite me, let alone do them." He whispered to her in a low tone.