The Fallen Slayer {1}

Tether Me

Buffy sighed and downed her drink before focusing on Kol first "Give it." She ordered causing him to laugh but without much complaint handing over one of the many shots laid out in front of him.

Downing the shot in one gulp, Buffy slammed the glass back on the table before focusing on Klaus "You not dead yet?"

He grinned at her teasingly "Don't sound so excited love."

"Sorry just waiting to dance on your grave."

Klaus chuckled before raising a glass toward her "Join us for a drink?"

Buffy just quirked an eyebrow "And interrupt brother bonding night?"

"Oh please take him." Kol begged teasingly "He is such a bore." Standing Kol tapped his brother on the shoulder before leaning over to Buffy, a little too close for comfort given the way his lips grazed her ear "When you find yourself bored, come find me, darling."

"Sod off Kol!"

Kol chuckled before winking playfully and making his way over to the pool table while Buffy took her seat beside Klaus "How long is he going to keep doing that?"

"He is trying to infuriate me. It's a younger sibling trait as you well know." Klaus told her as he handed over his drink to her, while he grabbed the one Kol had left for himself.

Buffy laughed before clinking her glass with his "You are not wrong there."

Given all of the trouble her younger sibling had caused today, Buffy was seriously starting to miss the stage in her life when Elena had just been considered her cousin.

Being an older sibling was exhausting!

Klaus smiled in amusement as she scutched up her face in disgust at the taste of his scotch before slowly her features relaxed and the harsh taste settled in. She was getting the hang of it, slowly but surely.

"You cut your hair."

Buffy's hand automatically moved to her much shorted curly locks, she hadn't expected Klaus to be the kind of guy to notice something like that.

Buffy was pretty sure Damon had only noticed because his nickname supply for her was being affected.

"Yeah.." She whispered as she twisted the charm Sandra had given between her fingertips "Needed a change."

"It looks nice." The fact that he seemed nervous complimenting her, had Buffy grinning slightly.

She hated the fact it was slightly adorable.

"So how much of the town's supply of booze have you and Kol drained tonight?" She asked as he started to refill her glass, this time with a bottle of rum given that it was her selected drink for the evening.

Klaus chuckled slightly as he nursed his own drink "Only half so far. Just warning it may take a few centuries for you to have that kind of tolerance." Spotting the offended look on her face he just laughed "Love shall I remind you of our night drinking bourbon? I had to drive you home."

Buffy hid her face in her hands at the memory.

It was the night when she had freaked out after being back at college for the first time. After her fight with Damon, she had ended up with Klaus, drinking a lot of the night away. She had been tripping over her own feet after their first bottle of bourbon and he to drive her jeep back to the Gilbert house.

Luckily, he had disappeared before Giles could even question who had gotten her home.

Though, if she hadn't been throwing up, Buffy had a feeling Giles would have dug a bit further for information.

"Oh please don't remind me."

"You scratched me for even daring to touch your car keys." He teased.

Buffy laughed, before downing her rum in one gulp "Not my fault. Protective over that car. It was my mom's."

Jeremy and Stefan were still the only two people who were allowed to drive it. Elena was forbidden given she had crashed the car once already.

Klaus smiled slightly as he spotted the faint touch of pink filling her cheeks. She was blushing and it was the most adorable thing he had seen.

However, his smile faltered as he spotted a set of eyes glaring at him from across the bar.

Alaric Saltzman looked ready to skin him alive.

"You have eyes on you." He whispered as he leaned in closer, his voice barely above a whisper.

Buffy frowned in confusion and turned her head only to sigh as she spotted Alaric and Meditch watching her. Alaric had that full over-protective fatherly glare on his face. The same one Giles had been wearing the second he met Stefan on her 18th birthday.

Rolling her eyes, Buffy picked up another shot downing it with one gulp "Great. Spies."

She could only imagine that Damon had sent Alaric to make sure that Klaus and she weren't left alone for too long.

Was she never going to be allowed a moment without eyes watching her constantly in this town?

Sensing her annoyance and frustration as her body tensed up, Klaus purposely glanced over at Kol, subtly nudging his head in Alaric and Meredith's attention before gesturing to Buffy.

Kol smirked playfully before bowing.

He was going to owe Kol later, Klaus could feel it.

But he would suffer through that, he just wanted to help Buffy regain that relaxed demeanor that had instantly vanished when she realized she was once again being monitored.

"How about some fresh air?"

Buffy couldn't help but nod, truthfully, that sounded like a fab idea right now. Not only was she supposed to be playing distraction, but she was starting to have some fun and she couldn't enjoy herself for even a moment if Alaric kept watching her ready to get in the middle at any point.


"You know what, it couldn't hurt." 


Klaus grinned before placing a hand on the small of Buffy's back, leading her to the exit just as Kol started to hover around Alaric causing his attention to finally shift off Buffy and onto the other Original in the bar.