Summary: Set in S3E1. After Lucien comes to town claiming that he wants to help Klaus, bodies start turning up. Lucien goes too far one night and is found out. What will happen?400Please respect copyright.PENANAU0YXvom7PV
It was a dark night in New Orleans, as a human and injured Katherine Pierce walked, heading for the compound, needing help. She had ended up in New Orleans after somehow ending up alive again and human.400Please respect copyright.PENANA2xbVYciXh0
Suddenly, seeing who she assumed to be a vampire, she stopped, and he pulled her into an alley; like he had with the others. He was here to cause trouble for Klaus, instead of helping him. He had lied to Klaus, but figured that he wouldn’t be found out.400Please respect copyright.PENANAURBFoRRrGq
“Well, haven’t you had a rough night,” he greeted and then gave a smile, but it wasn’t a friendly one.400Please respect copyright.PENANAzxRLhybYvZ
“More than a rough night,” she corrected him.400Please respect copyright.PENANAobqlSsmS06
He pinned her to a wall in the alley, before vamping out and drinking from her. He’d have a little, before he did to her what he had done to the others. Unlike some of the others, she was human.400Please respect copyright.PENANAhY4fVHE8HT
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Klaus was walking, skewering the city for evidence of who was doing the recent vampire murders that Cami thought was the doing of Lucien, because they had started when he had arrived in town. Klaus saw her point, but he didn’t think Lucien would kill his own kind without a good enough reason. Besides, Klaus had sired him and they were old time friends. The trouble was that his friends tended to turn on him and become his enemies.400Please respect copyright.PENANACPLPzW7DFs
He stopped, smelling human blood, Lucien, and a very familiar scent that he’d know anywhere. She was supposed to be dead, though.400Please respect copyright.PENANAiFDCt1JbG5
Before Lucien could kill her like he had the vampires, he arrived at hybrid speed and through him away from her. No matter what, he wouldn’t let an old friend or enemy kill her.400Please respect copyright.PENANA13eIrAoaeT
He stood between her where she now lay on the ground and Lucien got to his feet.400Please respect copyright.PENANA4jLvQ24HRo
“What are you doing?” he questioned the Original hybrid.400Please respect copyright.PENANAglwshVyqPR
“I could ask you the same thing,” Klaus answered.400Please respect copyright.PENANAWpk8rfhhEG
“So, what? You’re protecting a human now?” Lucien accused.400Please respect copyright.PENANANjq0VZErih
“She’s not just any human. Let’s just say she and I have a long history. So, it is you. You’re the one killing vampires.”400Please respect copyright.PENANA2DeOdeDOSi
“And if I am? You wouldn’t kill an old friend, Klaus. It isn’t in you anymore. You’ve gone soft. You’re like a tame dog that doesn’t quite have the guts to bite back.”400Please respect copyright.PENANAWfaSEMNTJN
He gave a growl and then ripped out his heart.400Please respect copyright.PENANAOVqweJFWqY
“No one threatens me like that and gets away with it,” he growled.400Please respect copyright.PENANA6BiymQxDKh
A moment later, he was knelt at Katerina’s side.400Please respect copyright.PENANAvOdscVyBsa
He gently pulled her into his arms and bit his wrist, putting it to her lips, making his blood go down her throat to heal her.400Please respect copyright.PENANAQPk7XmD4Tw
“Stay with me, Katerina. You’ll be okay, luv. Just stay with me.”400Please respect copyright.PENANAITgWOEYyyC
After her wounds healed, he took his wrist away which instantly healed, and got to his feet, her in his arms, heading home to the compound. He wasn’t a complete monster. He couldn’t leave her there; especially, when he assumed she didn’t have a place to stay.400Please respect copyright.PENANATUsSCQbZSP
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Once in his room, he gently layed her down in his bed. He then sat on her bedside, waiting for her to come to.400Please respect copyright.PENANA6YlN3r776X
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Hours later, when she finally came to, she realized where she was and saw who was with her.400Please respect copyright.PENANAtziLBkatyZ
“Klaus?” she questioned.400Please respect copyright.PENANAjlMLTfrulH
“It’s me, luv. Feeling better?”400Please respect copyright.PENANAymknjzYXMR
“Yeah; thanks.”400Please respect copyright.PENANAmUXgu5Ck19
“You’re welcome, Katerina. Now what are you doing in New Orleans? Last I heard you were supposed to be dead.”400Please respect copyright.PENANAQt3c1QqQck
“I don’t know. Somehow I was brought back. I don’t know how,” she explained.400Please respect copyright.PENANAynHb4A4pdk
“Welcome to New Orleans then, luv,” he replied with a smile.400Please respect copyright.PENANAju38NYbQc7