Contaminations

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

"How's it possible? " I ask more to myself than to the others grouped on the Salvatore's living room, Stefan's message was enough to find them all here when we came back from the basement where he put Elena.

"It must be a side effect of Wes' virus, Katherine told me he was able to extract the werewolf venom from Nadia's body" answers Bonnie.
"Well the solution is simple, Blondie you just need to call your personal original hybrid while we search for a cure; and everyone lived happily ever after" Damon answers with his usual sarcasm careless of Tyler's grunt. I don't even know why he's here in the first place as he's been infected too, not from the same virus but still.
"I'm not going to call him, he wouldn't come anyway" I say as firmly as my condition permits, luckily the pain eased but it's still there and I have at most a day before the hallucinations begin.
"Are you afraid that now that he got what he wanted he's no longer interested to you, to the point that he'd let you die? " the bitterness in Tyler's tone is tangible, it's absurd how in a moment like this he still focus only on his hate towards Klaus.
"It's not this" I answer.

I will walk away and I will never come back, I promise.

"That means that someone should go to New Orleans to ask him his blood" intervenes Stefan to continue "Tyler, please take care of Elena and Damon, I'll go".
"No, I'll go" I say standing, the others look at me astonished "if I'll be there, there won't be a risk of delays and you have to search this cure, they're just a couple of hours of flight and I'll be there before the hallucinations begin. As soon as I'm done I'll come back to help".

So now I'm here in a plane full of people, near a disgusting fat man who keeps on sprinkling the sauce of his hamburger while he eats. Maybe it wasn't the best idea knowing the phases of the bite, even though the lethal thirst is the last one I still feel uncomfortable despite the two blood bags that I drunk before leaving. Lately the pain was replaced by a growing nausea.

I move slightly the scarf from the neck to check on the bite and I find it more extended than I expected, I'm already starting to sweat despite the air conditioner and I hope that I didn't miscalculated.

Generally the entire process lasts about two days, even though when Klaus bite me in the Gilbert's living room it was enough less than a day to go near the end, I suppose it was for his state of original hybrid. Speaking of original I can't predict his reaction when I'll find him, maybe Tyler is right and after getting me his interest just faded. After all what should I expect from someone who promised me that he would never come back?
I hate this situation, I hate go there and plead him to save my life and I hate that he has so much power over it.

I check the time, I've been bitten approximately five hours ago, I needed two of them to pack a bag and compel whoever I needed to get on the first plane for Charlottesville, the nearest airport to New Orleans. The plane should land any minute now when the nausea grows exponentially, I run towards the toilette ignoring the flight attendants and I throw up blood for about five minutes.

"Hey, everything all right ?" the voice through the door awakes me but I can't seem to find the force to answer her, so I just lay down trying to find some energy without feeding.
"The plane's going to land, you should come back to your seat" she has no idea of how much she's risking right now, if it wasn't for my self-control and my strict moral I'd have already opened the door to satisfy my thirst; no longer after fortunately I can hear the sound of heels moving away indicating that she left, before I could seriously consider that idea.
I wait for everyone to get off to go out and take my handbag where I'd previously stored a thermos of blood for emergencies.
When I get out of the airport I call a taxi hoping to arrive as soon as possible.

I don't think it's asking too much to just be left alone for at least half an hour but it seems the human faction's representative disagree. It's the third time in a day that I'm forced to bear her, at first during a stupid meeting about one of the many city events, useless to say that my presence was needed just to fund the event, then a complete meeting with every faction to state for the nth time rules that no one's going to attend. Generally Marcel and my brother manage diplomacy, because I'm not really known for my patience, but unfortunately this week they're all over the country to find the witches and plot some plan doomed to fail leaving me the burden. The only reason that prevents them to plot against me is that we have a common enemy, Celeste also known as former lover of Elijah and heir of our mother in the primacy "destroy the vampires once and for all". It seems that she's holed up somewhere plotting against us with the others extremist witches.

I go downstairs to meet Eloise, the new human in control after the departure of father Kieran, that unfortunately I can't kill without starting a war that would give the witches the opening to attack.

"What a pleasure to meet you again, I see that you can't stay too long away from me".
"Klaus, this isn't a courtesy visit. One of yours has just committed a massacre, in full daylight " I don't like her demanding tone "Who do you think you are? If you need support take one of mine but leave this house now!" I answer intimidating with the intention of frightening her but she dares to stay there and reply: "Otherwise?".
Unfortunately she's aware of her temporary immunity, indeed she's not surprised of my lack of response and keeps going "you're not going to send someone, no one will ever take this seriously otherwise. The leaders must punish whoever break the rules, especially in cases like this when is someone of the inner circle ".

Angry is not enough to describe me right now, I'm forced to obey to a human and I'd love just to forget the consequences and rip her hearth out, but I just take a deep breath and answer "let's go then, Diego you drive".

In the car I've to bear her endless chatting, how she's satisfied that I'm finally taking my role seriously and how her mans have been capable to isolate the curious and to stop the guilty. Eventually we get in the place, surrounded with cops that we have no problem passing through that are trying to restrict a woman covered in blood. It seems they weren't so capable as they haven't thought of using vervain.
I get closer and the mans leave her immediately, she tries to flee and turns in my direction and I suddenly recognize her: "Caroline".

I near her impatient to know what happened, she moves the hair away to show me the cause of all this.
"Take it sweetheart" I say to her handing my wrist that she quickly bite. Absently I register the shock of who surrounds me but I don't care, as soon as she finish drinking I take her gently and I lay her in the car ready to depart, leaving behind Eloise and her confusion.