[I] Freedom {Klaus Mikaelson}

XLV. Expression Triangle

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Faith stepped inside the Salvatore house with Klaus close behind her and watched as Caroline drank from an unfinished plastic cup with alcohol. "If you wanted to go wasted, the Mystic Grill is only a few seconds away with your vampire speed. Maybe I could introduce you to my dealer back in the day."

"What are the two of you doing here?" Caroline asked, not looking at them as she continued to clean up the house.

"Not gushing for starters," Klaus said, "but I do suggest doing it somewhere more sanitary?"

Faith smirked and sat down at the arm of a couch in the room. Caroline turned to look at them with a blank look before taking a cup and drinking the rest of the alcohol in it. "Well, you showed us," Klaus smirked.

"Shouldn't you be out chasing Tyler to the ends of the earth? Or are there still some hopes and dreams you wanna crush around here?"

"Depends," Klaus said. "Do you happen to know where young Brutus is?"

"I know where he's not; with me," Caroline answered. "And he gave Matt the deed to the house, so he's gone for good."

"Tyler made it his life mission to kill me," Klaus narrowed his eyes on the blonde. "And who knows what he would've done to Faith? But I'm sure he told you what he's done to her before."

Faith grabbed his hand in case he spontaneously decided to kill the blonde. Stefan had asked them to come and they couldn't just come in and start killing someone inside the house. Maybe when they were outside, they could.

"He changed," Caroline defended. "Now if you don't mind, I'd like to go back to spiraling, so go away."

"Actually, I asked them to be here," Stefan entered the room causing them to look at him. "We need their help. I think Silas is in Mystic Falls."

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"So some blood goes missing from a few hospitals," Klaus shrugged as he served himself bourbon. "What about Elena? Don't vampires with their humanity off tend to overindulge in human blood or were you just the exception?"

He motioned Faith to take the glass cup, but she only shook her head that she didn't want it. He furrowed his eyebrows for a second before grinning, mockingly at Stefan.

"It's not Elena," Stefan reassured.

"Well, let's say for a moment that it was Silas," Klaus said as he sat down next to Faith. "I'm struggling to see how this affects me."

"Look," Stefan began. "Silas wants to die and be reunited with his one true love, but he's supernatural, so if he takes the cure and dies, he gets stuck on the other side."

"How Shakespearean," Klaus smiled.

"But if he destroys the other side altogether, he can take the cure, die, and pass on," Stefan continued. "But in destroying it, every dead supernatural being will return to our side."