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?581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡay7WqoBJ42
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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CcrkShTad
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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSteECKaipc
“Well, haven’t you had a rough night,” he greeted and then gave a smile, but it wasn’t a friendly one.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tsWj4XJvE
“More than a rough night,” she corrected him.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmHcM6anoA
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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QSjK9Ff8r
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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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ouoO1VzFy
He stopped, smelling human blood, Lucien, and a very familiar scent that he’d know anywhere. She was supposed to be dead, though.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OMUCO8Y6a
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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5tw4L6ql7
He stood between her where she now lay on the ground and Lucien got to his feet.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHLZBoBjeN
“What are you doing?” he questioned the Original hybrid.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCPIlL8ISY
“I could ask you the same thing,” Klaus answered.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVxYdQphdr
“So, what? You’re protecting a human now?” Lucien accused.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtozSu48PT
“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.”581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGsXOd2CLRU
“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.”581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeg1OHHcDf
He gave a growl and then ripped out his heart.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzh5EpyFCy1
“No one threatens me like that and gets away with it,” he growled.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZdMMcaU32
A moment later, he was knelt at Katerina’s side.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDOp5IJGDa
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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EmyBPo4OR
“Stay with me, Katerina. You’ll be okay, luv. Just stay with me.”581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpwm7g1lto
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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNckz3dhI8S
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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.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCG7j5EW6Ph
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Hours later, when she finally came to, she realized where she was and saw who was with her.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPr9iMkFwrS
“Klaus?” she questioned.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWJa4SeDtp
“It’s me, luv. Feeling better?”581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHhsKTgHyq
“Yeah; thanks.”581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jz9HSMJWI
“You’re welcome, Katerina. Now what are you doing in New Orleans? Last I heard you were supposed to be dead.”581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYwWv8wQfP
“I don’t know. Somehow I was brought back. I don’t know how,” she explained.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUjiby6NXj
“Welcome to New Orleans then, luv,” he replied with a smile.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7eZ7SoqId3
