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Chapter 17 - "I'm not an idiot, Silas, so don't play me for one."

As soon as Mariposa heard that Klaus had been approached by Silas, she made her way over to his house. "Klaus?" She yelled as she ran through his house. "Klaus!" In return, she heard his screams of pain, causing her to demon speed to where they were coming from and saw him by the mirror.

"Oh, my god!" Mariposa gasped as she went to rush forwards but Klaus shook his head at her.

"No, Maria!" He told her. "You can't be by me, he could come back at any moment and could dagger you with the dagger that can kill you." Klaus told her as he moved away from her. "You can't be by me and I can't be by you, not until he's gone."

"Klaus?" Caroline called out. "We need to talk." Mariposa spun round and saw Caroline standing there. Caroline looked at her for a few seconds, before her focus was on Klaus again. "What happened to you?" She asked.

"Silas." Klaus said as Caroline walked closer to him. "He attacked me. He stabbed me with the White Oak stake." Klaus began to breathe heavily. "A piece of it is still inside me."

"Klaus, that could kill you." Caroline told him, making Mariposa roll her eyes at the blonde vampire.

Klaus began to chuckle nervously, but to Mariposa it just sounded like he was going crazy. "I certainly feel like i'm dying." He told her.

Caroline grabbed his face in her hands and Mariposa rolled her eyes as she poured herself a drink. "As much as I would love to watch you die, you still haven't found me that cure." Mariposa dropped her full glass on the floor and spun around.

"Silas!" Klaus yelled as Silas pushed Klaus to the floor.

"Chr-" she began to say, but Silas put his hand over her mouth as he changed from Caroline to Chris.

"Shhh!" He told her softly as he still had a hand over Mariposa's mouth as he peered at her. "You don't want to be calling your little guardian angel here. We're just talking." He said as he threw her into the wall and she hit it with a groan of pain.

"Last night I looked like Shane. Today I looked like Caroline and now I look like Chris." Silas told them both as Mariposa stood up. "And tomorrow, who knows?"

"Show me your real face." Klaus said from the floor, before Mariposa helped him to the sofa.

"Now, why would I do that when I can look like whomever I want you to see." Silas said as he walked closer to them both, and Mariposa stood in front of Klaus protectively. "Resist me all you want, Klaus. But until you bring me the cure, I will bring you nothing but misery." Silas raised a hand to Mariposa's face and caressed it slightly. "As for you, we'll meet again and have a little chat, before I kill you. And just keep in mind, I know where you live." He said before he disappeared.

Mariposa turned and faced Klaus, and decided to put on a brave face for him. "Mariposa-"

"I'm not scared of him." Mariposa told the hybrid. "Sure, he can kill me. But is it really fair for me to walk around these streets and be happy that I can only die by the dagger. With him on the loose, I'm just like the rest of you. Walking around with things that can kill me just around the corner."

"I think you should go home, just stay there, Maria." Klaus told her. "I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let you stay with me, and he came back, just to stab you in the heart. I don't care that you're not scared of him, you need to leave, for your own safety."

Mariposa sighed angrily. "Fine!" She said sourly. "Have fun getting it out yourself, though." With that said, she turned and left Klaus alone in the Mikaelson Manor.

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Mariposa knew Stefan and Damon weren't in town, not anymore, and she knew she couldn't go back home, not when Silas knew where she lived. She had text Chris telling him that she wasn't gonna come home, due to Silas knowing where she lived. She assured him he was safe as Silas was only after her, and assured him she'd keep herself safe in the Salvatore boarding house.