K I N G • KLAUS MIKAELSON [1]

she's come undone

RIVER sat at the bar placing his empty shot glass in the previous one, creating a tower that he was trying to balance, Rebekah doing the same beside him.

"I was wondering if you were gonna say hello or keep ignoring me" Rebekah spoke as Matt approached them.

"I was working" Matt sighed "I see you compelled the bartenders again"

"I'm celebrating" Rebekah smiled "My brothers and I have parted company, Elijah and Nik have run off to New Orleans, chasing god-knows-what, and I am finally free"

"Yeah, I heard about that" Matt nodded

"I, however, am drowning my sorrows because the man I both love and hate at the same time is about to start a new life, the life I wanted, by the way, with the werewolf slut he slept with after Tyler introduced them and I feel like pulling everyone's intestines from their stomach" River stated "Including my own"

"Did you hear that I lost the cure to Silas?" Rebekah wondered "I was this close to the life that I always wanted and then, poof...gone in a heartbeat"

"I'm sorry" Matt apologised "I know how much you wanted it"

"Please, she knows you were planning on stealing it for Elena" River scoffed.

"I never had a chance, did I?" Rebekah asked.

"I meant what I said, but if you wanna feel sorry for yourself, go ahead" Matt sighed.

"Why don't you stay and have a drink?" River asked.

"I can't, I've gotta go meet Caroline" River informed.

"Are they still keeping Elena trapped in the Salvatore mansion?" Rebekah wondered "I happen to like her just the way she is, it's tragic that they're trying so desperately to fix something that isn't broken"

"Elena was my friend long before she was your mean-girl sidekick, so if you're upset that you lost the cure and your brothers ditched you, why are you still in Mystic Falls?" Matt questioned "Some of us don't have the option of leaving, some of us are broke, and failing all of our classes, and stuck here, so why don't you take your freedom and get the hell out of town? I would"

Matt walked off, leaving River and Rebekah silent.

-

River and Rebekah moved into the Salvatore house, River pulling a takeout box from a brown paper bag he was holding when Matt and Caroline revealed themselves.

"Hi, we don't mean to interfere" River began "It's just, we happen to know all they keep in this house is blood and booze, so we brought a peace offering, burgers?"

"Thanks" Matt smiled as he took the box from him.

"Yeah, we can't really entertain right now, but thanks for stopping by" Caroline smiled gently, not wanting her friend to have to deal with humanity-less Elena.

"I think I might stay" Rebekah said "Matt mentioned that he was failing classes and needed a study buddy"

"You're failing? Wh-why didn't you ask me to help you study?" Caroline turned to Matt.