Contaminations

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

I wake up a little dazed, I look around: I'm not in my room, this is definitely more sumptuous. The large four-poster bed is covered in dark colored pillows and sheets, colors that are repeated in the whole room occupied by two doors, a couch opposite the bed and a couple of high shelves. The wall is covered with paintings of which I'm able to recognize the hand, in the end I was able to find him. I don't remember much of last night, I couldn't distinguish the hallucinations from the reality but it seems Klaus feeding me was real, in fact the bite is gone. The silence makes me think that there's no one nearby so I get closer to the couch to take the bag that I'd previously noticed, someone must have brought it here while I was sleeping. I take it and I try one of the two doors hoping for the bathroom, I am right and I see for the first time my imagine on the mirror. Someone must have washed and changed me, I blush only to think who could have been, trying not to think about it.

I must leave now, if possible before someone sees me, especially if that someone is Klaus. Of course, the fact that I've no idea where I am is not helping; the best plan is to reach the exit and take a cab to the airport. I hear a blip that indicates the arrival of a new message, I take the phone and I see ten new messages and two lost calls; I don't have enough time to reply to everyone so I write to Stefan that everything went right and I'll call him later.

I open the other door and it leads to a small room with three doors, one on each side. The right one is a walk in closet, I try then the one opposite me and I find another corridor where unfortunately I'm seen by a man.

"Where do you think you're going?" he asks coming closer, I don't know why he looks at me like I've done some terrible mistake, maybe he thinks that I'm an intruder.
"I have to go now, I don't want to disturb. Say to Klaus that I thank him" I say while I speed towards the stairs but I stop just in time before hitting the hybrid himself.

"Sweetheart, you know that you don't bother me. Did you wanted to go without saying hi? "

I was distracted for the rest of the day, always wondering what could have happened: there were no more wolves in Mystic Falls so the only left option is Tyler. I regret not having him killed when I had the chance, several times to be honest. Selfishly though I'm happy that she's here, despite the last time I saw her was just a couple of weeks ago I missed the sensations that her presence causes me.

My thoughts are interrupted by the noisy entrance of Rebekah.
"I heard you brought home the author of a tragedy, Since when you occupy yourself in rehabilitation brother?" I ignore her with no intention of listening to her sarcasm and I go upstairs trying to avoid her. Maybe Caroline woke up.

The universe seems to want to answer my question since I found her in the corridor speaking to one of my vampires, she wants to go but I won't let her so easily. I want to know what happened to her at least.

"Sweetheart, you know that you don't bother me. Did you wanted to go without saying hi? "
"Klaus" she whisper, I can see that she hoped not to see me and it doesn't surprise me after the last time we saw each other: after the burst of passion there was a minute when we both stayed still, then she run away without saying anything. I don't know if she did it because she regretted what happened or if she simply felt embarrassed but in both cases I didn't go after her, I promised her that I would leave and I did it.

She still don't speak so I make her follow me and I go towards my office where we can talk without interruptions. As soon as we enter the little room that precedes my office I feel her stiffen and then blurt: "if you think that I'll sleep with you to repay you of saving my life you're utterly wrong".
I send a surprised glaze not understanding what she's talking about and then amused I understand, my office is adjacent to my room where she slept before. I open the door saying: "you can take a seat in my office so that we can talk more comfortably or if you prefer we can enjoy the bed of the other room, I won't stop you ".

She enter hiding her face with her hair, probably embarrassed to have misunderstood, and seats in the couch near the door while I seat in the opposite armchair.

"Can you explain me what happened? Was it Tyler?" I ask watching the point of her neck that was bitten, by now fully healed.
"It wasn't him, it's a long story and I need to come back " she resolutely say raising her head.
"We have all the time that we need, your friends will be able to survive a day without you" I say while standing to take a glass of bourbon.
"She rolls her eyes before explaining: "Katherine took possession of Elena's body before dying, Tyler bit Nadia, Katherine's daughter, and since she couldn't ask your blood for obvious reasons she turned to a crazy scientist that like to experiment with vampires, asking him to cure her daughter. He instead found a way to extract the venom from Nadia's body and added it to a serum that force vampires to feed on each other. In the meantime we found Nadia and we took her to convince her mother to come, so that we could stab her with the travelers' knife, she came and died but she had before injected herself the serum to gain revenge on Elena, that has bitten me afterwards ".

I turn towards her hoping she's kidding but she's serious, I've millions of questions in this moment but one is more pressing than others: "Why on heart would you want to come back with the risk of being bitten again?" she nods like it's the most obvious think in the world and adds: "I need to help the other find the cure for the virus".
It doesn't surprise me, even if the most selfish part of me want to force her to stay here, but it would only get her hating me.

However I don't want her to leave, not only because of my affection toward her but also because I'm worried of what could happen to her. How many times can I save her at the last-minute before not arriving in time? I have to find a way to hold her here.

"What if you search for a cure here?".