Season 3------Chapter 48

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The women walks out of her home, whistling for her dog. Sorry, he won't be coming back anytime soon. She frowns, walking over and picking up his leash and collar off the ground. As soon as she stands back up, Klaus and I are standing in front of her. She gasps, clutching her chest, obviously freaked out by us. She should be. 

"We're so sorry, we didn't mean to scare you." I smile, lying completely. 

"Can I help you two?" she questions, suspicious. 

"Yeah, my girlfriend and I's car ran out of gas awhile back. I feel like we've been walking forever. Yours is the first house we've ran into, so I was just hopping we could use your phone." Klaus shrugs, smiling innocently at the women and using that fake southern accent of his. He's quite good at it...  But girlfriend, really? Why am I always his freaking girlfriend in situations like this? Can't I be his sister or something?

"Don't one of you have a cell phone?" she accuses, super suspicious of us now. Good.

"I did, until my boyfriend here threw it out the window. He didn't like that I was texting another guy. He has issues sometimes. Major ones." I laugh amusing myself. "So I returned the favor and threw his out the window also. Apparently it wasn't the best time for me to do it."

"Look we aren't serial killers or anything. We just want to use your phone." Klaus sighs, getting fed up with waiting for this girl. 

"Fine." she finally agrees, starting to turn around. 

"So, we can come in?" Klaus smirks, needing for us to be invited in. It's weird not just being able to walk into houses anymore. I actually need permission. Eew.

"No, I'll bring it out to you." she answers, being safe. She should have just let us in...

"I thought country folk were supposed to be welcoming." Klaus glares, very fed up now.

"I'm from Florida." she glares back. I kind of like the sass in her. 

"That explains it." I smirk, speeding over and wrapping my hand around the girl's throat. "Now show us a little Southern Hospitably and invite us in." I compel, having the art of compulsion down now. 

"You two can come in." she cries, freaking out now. Aw come on, where did all that sass go. I liked it.

I look over at Klaus, rolling my eyes at the girls crying. Klaus grabs her arm, dragging her into the house with us. By the sound of it, there is someone in the kitchen cooking dinner. 

Klaus and I, along with the crying girl, come into the kitchen causing the other girl in there to stop cooking. "What's going on?" she asks, her eyes traveling over to her frightened friend.

"Please don't be alarmed, I'm told Ray Sutton lives here?" Klaus says, verifying his information. 

"He's almost never here, he's on the road mostly." the lady nervously replies, checking on her friend once again. 

"But I expect he makes it home once a month." I say, taking the girl from Klaus and dragging her forward a few steps. "If we have to make you tell us where he is, it's going to be so much more painful for you two." I warn. 

The women stares at us for a second, before taking off running down the hallway. Seriously? I roll my eyes, and casually follow her out of the room. She screams when she opens up the door, revealing Stefan who is patiently waiting outside. 

"I love it when they run." Klaus grins, holding the girl once again. 

"He's in Tally! It's near the border." the girl cries who tried to run. "A bar called Southern Comfort, it's off highway 41."

"Thank you my love, now." Klaus moves the girls hair off her face that he is holding. "May my friend come in?" Klaus asks, not even needing to compel the girl. 

"Yes." the girl nods, petrified of Klaus. At least the she listens unlike the other one. 

Stefan opens up the door, stepping inside. Damn, he looks quite menacing these days. Klaus pushes the blond one towards Stefan, "Kill this one quickly, make the other one suffer." Klaus shoots the curly haired one a dark look. "Aria and I will be in the car."

"But-" I start to object but Klaus grabs my arm, dragging me out the door. I glare at him, pushing him away. I'm not some weak human he can boss around. "Why don't I ever get to kill one? Stefan gets all the fun." I whine, giving Klaus pouty eyes. 

"You kill plenty love." Klaus sighs, right as the girls inside start screaming bloody murder. 

I look at Klaus, shaking my head, a small smirk on my face. "Music to my ears."

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I walk up to the werewolf, giving him my best flirtatious smile. "Hi, are you Ray?"

Ray looks me up and down, a smirk coming over his face. "Yes I am sweetie."

Ugh, just eew. "Great, we've been looking everywhere for you." I smirk back causing him to frown. 

"We?" he asks, suddenly getting suspicious. 

"Yeah, me and my friend here." I answer, nodding my head toward Klaus who appears behind Ray. Nice work there Klaus, being all sneaky and shit.

Ray turns around, glaring at Klaus. "I think I'll be going now." he starts to walk past me, but I grab his arm, using my vamp strength.

"Not so fast buddy, you just got here." I fake pout, pushing him into the bar stool. He stumbles back, almost tripping over his own feet. How funny. 

"Your kind are very hard to come by." Klaus tells him, which once again causes Ray to try and leave. This time he runs right into Stefan. See, we got a good team thing going on here. We're like team badass.

"I wouldn't do that." Stefan warns, pushing him back once again. 

"Vampires." Ray accuses, still glaring at us all. 

"Swifty swift, Ray." Klaus grins, picking up Ray's beer bottle. "Yes, my friends here are vampires, and they've compelled everyone in the bar. So don't think you'll get any help....I however, I'm something else...a different kind of monster. I've got some vampire, I've got some wolf." Klaus shrugs, handing me Ray's beer. I smile, taking it from, draining it easily. Klaus knows me so well these days. 

"What?" Ray frowns, obviously confused. 

"A hybrid Ray, I'm both. You see, I want to create more of me. Now you being the first werewolf I've come across in many moons. Pun intended, right?" Klaus laughs, amused by his own joke. "I need you to direct me to your pack. So...where can I find them Ray?"

"You can't compel me, it won't work." Ray says, stating the obvious. I snicker, looking over at Stefan. Stefan rolls his eyes, giving me a nod. Yay. This is going to be so fun. 

"Hey, a scotch on the rocks please." I tell the bartender, causing Stefan to hand me the wolfsbane he keeps around. "Tell you what Ray, we're going to play a little drinking game. Something I like to call, truth or wolfsbane. If you win, you might just get to kiss me." I blow him a kiss, being my normal flirty self. 

"Well, this is going to be fun Ray." Klaus smirks. 

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"You can not do better than that." I tell Stefan, having hit my target perfectly. 

Stefan smirks at me, something he does a lot nowadays. "I so can, watch." he dips the dart in the wolfsbane, before throwing it. It hits Ray right in the neck causing him to scream out in pain, fighting against his chains. Damn...right next to the jugular. 

I roll my eyes, done trying to beat Stefan. I'll never beat him, he's boss at darts. Weather he's throwing at a dart board or a werewolf.

"Ray, you can end this right now." I smile, running my hand over his chest. "Just tell us where your pack is for the full moon." I pull the dart out of his neck, tossing it to the floor. 

"I can't." he grounds out, looking like he is about to cry or something. He's a werewolf. I don't feel bad at all. 

"I know, I know, you live by a code and all that." I sigh, "But you see, that asshole over there isn't going to let us stop until you tell us. We do everything he says, that's just the way it goes around here." I explain, pulling another dart out of his chest. "You're going to tell us soon because I am getting tired of this charade." I growl, stabbing the dart right next to his heart. He gives me a murderous look, panting heavily trying to keep from screaming. 

"Hello Mr.Klaus." I hear a girl say to Klaus who is sitting at one of the tables. I turn around, looking at Stefan who is also listening. "I have some information, you told me to tell you if I saw anything. I saw that girls boyfriend, Damon at the farmhouse." I take a deep breath, trying to get Damon out of mind. I miss him...but I can't let myself think about him. 

"Well thank you Clara, you just tell your friends to keep up the good work being the neighborhood watch." Klaus replies, grinning at her all flirtatious like. Ugh, just no. Klaus is not flirtatious. He's too old. *laugh, laugh*

As soon as Klaus looks up from the girl, Stefan and I are standing in front of him. "My brother is still on our trail?" Stefan frowns. 

"He's getting close...I'm going to have to deal with that." Klaus says, starting to walk away from us. 

Stefan grabs his arm, stopping him. "No, no, no, let me handle it."

"Why should I let you leave?" Klaus questions. 

"Because you've let Aria leave before, and you know I will come back." Stefan answers, having a good point. I can't see Damon right now, I don't know if I'd be able to leave him again. God, I miss him so freaking much. I even miss Elena.

"Do I?" Klaus demands. 

"Yes, you saved my brother's life. I am at your service."

"You sound so tedious, aren't you having the least bit of fun." Klaus grins, gesturing to the chained up Ray. I kind of am having fun with Klaus...I never knew this side of myself existed. I guess I just had to become a vampire to really embrace it.

Stefan stares at him for a moment, "I'll make sure my brother doesn't bother us anymore." Stefan walks away from us, knowing Klaus won't stop him. Hopefully Stefan gets his message across and keeps Damon away. 

I watch Stefan drive away, feeling almost jealous of him. He'll get to see Damon, I know it won't be a good meeting, but he will still get to see him. I keep telling myself I don't want to see him but I do, so much. Especially today... ugh, being a vampire makes me so bipolar. It makes me so emotional too. Stefan accidentally stepped on a plant and I started crying. It was upsetting, the plant never had a chance against a big, monster like Stefan. 

I sigh, going over and sitting down at an empty table, taking a sip of the beer that was left there. A box is placed in front of me, causing me to look up surprised. 

"What is this?" I ask, giving Klaus a weird look.

"A girl should never get nothing on her 18th birthday." he gestures to the box. I frown, opening the box up. What I see inside brings a smile to my face. It's a beautiful silver chain, with a green pendant hanging from it.  "May I?" he smiles. I nod, handing him the necklace. He moves my hair away from my neck, very gently I may add, which is weird for him. He clasps the necklace on, and I bring my hand up, holding the pendant. 

"Thank you." I smile, "How did you know it was my birthday?"

"Stefan mentioned it to me, he also mentioned you love green." Klaus smiles back, a genuine one. 

"Good ol Stefan." I laugh, surprised Stefan even remembered I like green. He only knew it was my birthday because Elena's is today also. Wish I could tell her happy birthday. "Thank you again Klaus...this was actually pretty thoughtful of you."

Klaus stares at me, intensely, for a few seconds before looking away. "Come on love, we have a werewolf to torture." he smirks. 

I roll my eyes, there goes the nice Klaus. If there ever was one....

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"Okay, it's a three step process Ray, this is step one. I want you to drink from my wrist." Klaus states, starting to explain the process of turning a werewolf into a hybrid. Thankfully he can't turn me into one since I am a vampire.

"I-I already told you where my pack is. What more do you want from me?" he questions, sounding like he is in major pain. We didn't even need to tie him down to the pool table. He can't even get up. Guess wolfsbane really sucks. Kinda like vervain. It hurts like hell. 

"Have you been listing to a word I've been saying Ray?" Klaus sighs, glaring at the werewolf. "I have great plans for you." Klaus takes out his knife, slicing his own wrist. He shoves it into Ray's mouth forcing him to drink it. "He'll thank me later for it." Klaus grins, "There we go, at'a boy." Klaus practically cheers as Ray chocks down Klaus' blood. 

"What are you going to do now?" Ray growls, able to sit up now. Did Klaus' blood heal him or something? It might have...

"Step two Ray." I smile before snapping his neck. Klaus glares at me, wanting to have killed Ray himself. I couldn't help myself. Killing is so fun nowadays. Especially if they're idiots, like Ray. "You're back." I grin, looking at Stefan. 

"Did you doubt me also, Aria?" Stefan smirks. 

"Not for a second, I knew you'd pass the test." Klaus answers for me and himself.  "Because you still care for your brother, your old life. You too Aria." he glances at me, almost with sadness...

"Nah, I don't care about anything anymore." Stefan smirks once again, going to take a seat at one of the tables. 

"I second that." I pipe in, needing to convince Klaus. 

"You both put on a good show, I almost believe you two. Let's just hope for Damon's sake, that he believed your message Stefan. You never stop caring about the people you love, do you?" Stefan and I both look anywhere but at Klaus, knowing he's right. "But every time you feed...or kill, it makes it that much easier to forget them."

I shiver, not wanting to admit that Klaus is right. "Excuse me." I mumble, practically running away from them and out the door. Once I get outside, I shake my head, trying to get the tears to go away. My hand goes up to Klaus' necklace and that just makes more tears come. I don't understand what is up with him these days...

I pull out my phone, looking at the picture of Damon and I that I have as my wallpaper. It's a picture of us before we started dating, we both looked so happy. He has his arm around me, and I have a gigantic smile on my face. The smile that only Damon can bring to my face.

I dial his number before I even realize what I am doing. Damon picks up right away. "Aria?" he asks, his voice so full of hope. I let out a small sob at hearing his voice again. "Hey, it's okay baby. Everything is going to be fine. I promise you."

"It's not going to be okay Damon, you don't know the person I've become. You could never love this version of me. I'm a monster." I whisper, trying to keep my voice strong and failing miserably.  I've been telling myself that I like this version of me, but Klaus was right. It's just an act. Speaking of Klaus he is going to kill me for talking to Damon. 

"I will love you no matter what you are Ari, but you're not a monster." Damon promises. 

"Goodbye Damon, this time for good." I say before hanging up the phone. As soon as I hang up, the picture of Damon and I shows up once again. I scream and throw the phone as hard as I can at some car. 

It shatters immeaditly, shattering my heart with it. I have to give up my old life. I can't keep hanging onto it. I can't keep hanging onto Damon. It's going to keep eating me away until I am nothing but a shell of a person. 

Stefan comes around the corner, a look of despair written over his face. Guess he has come to the same conclusion I have. Maybe he called Elena? 

"We can't keep lying to ourselves Stef." I cry, shaking my head repeatedly, looking up at the sky. 

"I know." he responds, taking a few steps closer to me. I look at him for a moment, before running over to him and wrapping my arms around him. He hugs me back just as tightly. I bury my face into his chest, morning my old life. 

This is the funeral that I never got. 

Here lies Arianna Gilbert, sister and girlfriend to an amazing guy. She had a damn good life, even though sometimes it sucked shit. She was free and got to live life to the fullest. She was strong until the end. She will be widely missed, and mourned. 

Rest in peace Arianna Gilbert.

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