We arrived at the parking lot that led to the hiking trail that we had to follow to arrive at the camp of the pack. I only wish for one thing, to leave the forest before nightfall, having no desire to find myself face to face with werewolves under the effect of the full moon. Stefan lifted Ray and I opened the walk, determined not to make the conversation, unlike my cousin. I could perceive the young vampire's sullen air without him speaking.When we arrived at the camp, Sutton woke up. It was a hilarious drama and the reaction of his pack made the situation even more fun and I had to restrain myself not to burst out laughing.
"It takes human blood to keep your friend Ray from dying," Klaus said.
As no member moves. I take the initiative and walk towards the group, I walk through them and then I feel it. A little further to my left was a young human. Her boyfriend was standing in front of her to protect her. I looked at him and it only took a few seconds for him to fall to his knees holding his head with his hands. I grab the girl's arm, force her to get up and bring it to Sutton. I hypnotize the girl so she doesn't run away and bite the inside of her wrist to make her bleed. I had to admit surprise, because Ray resisted the intoxicating smell of blood while he was in transition, amazing. The Young Salvatore seemed more hungry for the girl than Sutton, I hope he'll know how to restrain himself. I then went to sit on a log around the round of fire uninterested in the subsequent events. Stefan says something to Ray about the girl and his lack of control which had an effect since Sutton bit her and completed his transition. Klaus had his first hybrid. My cousin made a speech to the rest of the pack that they could be with him or against him. Having met people who had tried the second option, none had lived long enough to boast about it. Knowing Niklaus he didn't really give them a choice and would transform them all before nightfall. What soon happened, the whole pack was on the ground, dead, Klaus came to sit in front of me and I looked away. We waited in silence for the wolves to awaken.
It was then that Sutton began to panic and attacked the young Salvatore and fled. I rushed after him without delay. I had traveled several kilometers before losing track of him. I stopped running in search of clues to his passage. Footprints, or even a broken branch that showed me its direction, listening to the slightest noise. However, Stefan was far too loud, one might think that a vampire knows instinctively that they must be silent if one wants to find someone's place effectively. Desperate for his incompetence, I propose to separate to cover more ground.
When I proposed this idea, I did not know that he had been bitten, otherwise I would have treated him by absorbing the magic contained in the bite. It must have been just 5 minutes since we separated when, without screaming, I felt great pain, fangs piercing the skin of my neck and a family burn from the wolf venom. This young hybrid really had suicidal thoughts to do such nonsense. I grabbed him and made him fall to the ground to place me in a position of superiority. I would have ripped that idiot's heart out, but Klaus would see such an action as a betrayal, which would not be very wise of me. Ray was struggling under my grip, trying to bite again. Although I was much stronger than him, he was bigger than me which gave him a significant advantage. I had almost mastered it when he managed to put his hand on a branch that he pushed into my abdomen making me let go. He missed the heart, but it allowed him to get up while I was on my knees trying to remove the piece of wood from my belly. I managed to remove the branch, but before I could make another attack against the hybrid, I was plunged into the unconscious.
Stefan's diary
I found the hybrid and was forced to tear his head off and convince my brother, Elena and Alaric not to try to find me. I went back to the camp and gave Klaus the head, and I saw that he was surrounded by the bodies of the failed hybrids. He took a bottle of beer from the floor and poured his blood into it before handing it to me. He then took out his phone and I saw him select the number of his young cousin. I heard the device ring long before it hit the voicemail. Angry, Klaus threw me against a tree and asked me where she was. I struggled to breathe, but managed to say,
"I don't know, we split."
"Show me where you separated," he ordered me.I hastened to drive it where we had taken opposite directions. "She went that way," I said, pointing north.
Klaus walked in the direction and smelled blood that he followed. We discovered the young woman lying on the ground, the neck breaking and covered with blood and bite. She seemed vulnerable and incredibly young, I almost forgot she was a millennium old. The hybrid knelt and examined the condition of the girl, besides her broken neck and I saw a wound in her abdomen. I don't know if she had any other injuries, but these were obvious. Delicately, Klaus lifted her up and I could see the affection he had for his young cousin. Since the beginning of the summer, I was trying to understand the relationship that the two shared. Half the time the two seemed to want to kill each other and the other half of the time they had an incredible complicity. I now saw all the affection that Klaus had for the young heretic. He carried his cousin to the car, he placed her in the back seat knowing that she would regain consciousness in a short time.
Aurora's diary
As I regained consciousness, I quickly straightened up a little panicking. I calmed down quickly when I saw that I was in the car with Klaus, safe. My belly began to heal. "Slow down, Aurora." Klaus tells me from the driver's bench, looking at me in the mirror. I felt feverish, which had not happened to me for many years. It would not be long before the hallucinations started since the vena had spread while I was unconscious. I tried to absorb the magic contained in the bites to heal, but I could not do anything, I was too weak and unable to concentrate. My cousin entered the highway exit leading to a small town.
Nik,' I said weakly, hoping that he wouldn't see my fear. I knew very well that such bites were not fatal to me however, I had no desire to face the hallucinations that accompanied them. I greatly preferred to keep some memories well hidden in my memory. Some memories are literally the worst kind of torture and I know a lot about it.
"Five minutes, love." Was my cousin's only answer.
Five minutes before arriving where, I didn't know and didn't care? When the car stopped, we were in the parking lot of a motel. He then told Stefan to wait here, and he went out and opened my door. I went out, leaning on the hand he held out to me. I came close to falling, but my cousin held me back and then offered me his wrist while making sure I stayed on my feet. I wanted to refuse, reluctant to bite directly into his wrist. However, he gave me a look that told me to not argue, so without hesitation I bite. As soon as I start drinking, I feel the fever coming down and the bites healing, just as I regain my balance and feel much better. I let go of his arm, I had always done, but I could wait.
"Better?" Klaus asked me.
''A lot," I replied, noting the receding bites on my forearms. I wanted to go to the back of the car to find a new sweater, but Niklaus blocked me.
"What are you doing?"
"I need another T-shirt." I said, passing my fingers through the hole of the one I was wearing to show him the evidence
."No, you come with me, you have to eat first," he says.
"It's okay, I can wait until later." I replied, trying to be the most convincing possible.
"Bullsh*t, you're just standing, you need a lot more than what you just drank." He replied by suddenly taking his role as big brother very seriously.
He was right, I just followed him to the motel lobby. Instead, he went to "book" or hypnotize for the night. As I walked towards the man who was using the ice machine. It was only through many years of practice and control that the innocent were left alive, otherwise he would have died, drained of his blood. Usually, I was very careful to do everything as cleanly as possible, it goes more discreetly like that. That evening, however, I was putting my principles aside and finishing my shirt had borne the brunt of my lack of discernment.
We returned to the car to look for Stefan and our suitcases. Bad luck, there was only one room with two double beds. I was gonna have to share with Klaus, not the first time. We grew up at the beginning of the millennium in a one-room house where the floor was clay or we all slept in skins on the floor. So, a double bed for two is comfortable in comparison.
I put my bag in the bathroom and closed the door to take a shower and clean myself of the blood that covered me. The two men do the same in turn. I sit on my side of the bed and take the trouble to make a cushion barrier against Niklaus. As I mentioned, this is not the first time we share a bed and Klaus always ends up taking up all the space. My cushion fence amused Stefan while Klaus thought it was childish of me, but he did not remove it.
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