Sorry about the long wait and any mistakes you see, my co-author/editor is unable to help me for the foreseeable future so bear with me, there will be mistakes. Also I just got back from a vacation, and forgot my computer so I couldn't upload.

A/N: Yay for Klaus! I am amazed at the feedback this story has gotten, so thank you all for reading.

Third Person POV

Chapter Eleven

Alaric, no Klaus, turned away from Katherine and to the other presence in the room.

"Hello, lovely." He moves towards her until there was only a couple inches between their chests.

Josie swallowed nervously, staring in mute horror at the being in front of her, "Klaus." She whispered.

Klaus inhaled deeply, he could feel the stirrings of his long-dormant wolf in a way only the healers ever managed, "In the flesh... or not quite. I must say, I've wanted to meet you for quite some time."

"Why?"

He smirked secretively, it looked out of place on Ric's face, "Let's just say you're going to help me." He lightly gripped her chin in his hand. "Now, my little dove, tell me all about your friends and what they have planned."

Josie was horrified as the words spilled out of her lips, unbidden, no matter how much she told herself to shut up. Tears slowly slid down her cheeks as Klaus asked her question after question, sometime early on he compelled Katherine to also share any information she knew, which was a lot more than she should. By the end of the interrogation it was early morning and Josie was nodding off in her seat.

"Well, love, I really must thank you. Although you really don't know much, it's almost as if you're friends don't trust you." Josie looked away at the barbed words he spoke, hitting many of her insecurities dead-on. Seeing how the girl's eyes were drooping he looked in her eye, "Now, I want you to go to sleep."

Even if she wanted to Josie couldn't fight the command as she slumped forward in her chair, dimly aware of someone catching her before she hit the ground.

Klaus scooped his healer into the history teacher's arm, internally wondering at how small she was, he brought her to the bedroom and laid her on the bed. He couldn't resist taking another deep breath of his healer's scent. Looking around he pulled a couple of shirts out of the chest to get ready to meet his doppelganger.

"Oh! Who is this guy, Safari Sam?" He shows the shirts to Katherine. "Okay, bad, or badder?"

Katherine looked murderously at him, "The dark colors suit you better."

He smirked, unfazed by her glare, "Oh, thank you, honey. Okay, pop quiz. The dagger and white ash are in the Salvatores' possession, correct?"

Katherine agreed, "The dagger was used to kill Elijah. You'll find him in the basement of the Salvatore house."

"Okay, that dagger needs to stay exactly where it is. The last thing I need to do is resurrect Elijah. Oh, that guy is a buzzkill. Not to mention, he'll come in riding on his white horse to rescue the fair damsel from her captor." He looked at the face that ruined his family, "You know if you begged he might save you too."

Katherine gritted her teeth at the insult, "Don't forget you're on the outs with your girlfriend Jenna."

Klaus smiled maliciously, "Right. Elena's aunt. For all the lies about Isobel. What else?"

"That's it." Katherine spoke quickly, nerves saturating her voice.

He gets closer to her, touching her face. "Oh, so jumpy."

Katherine looked at him beseechingly, "Please, just… kill me. I've told you everything that I know."

He leans over her, an arm on either side of her body, "You see, I believe that you believe that, but what would you not know? What could they be keeping from you? Hmm? Anything? Tell me."

Unable to fight the compulsion, "They were trying to see if Bonnie could find a way to kill an Original without a dagger."

"Bonnie the best friend? My sweet Josie" his voice wrapped around the syllables like a caress, "said she didn't have her powers anymore."

"She doesn't or didn't. I don't know. You kidnapped me, remember? I'm kinda out of the loop." she told him with a pointed look.

"Well, we'll have to get to the bottom of that."

"Please, just kill me, Klaus, and be done with it."

Klaus' smile dropped, "And show you kindness? I've searched for you for over 500 years. Your death is going to last at least half that long." He takes a pocketknife from Alaric's pocket, opening it he hands it to Katerina.

"I want you to take this knife...And stab yourself." With a deep breath, she takes the knife and stabs her thigh. "Now take it out."

She does so with a hiss. Her wound heals in seconds.

"Now while I'm gone, I want you to do that over and over and over again and if you get bored, switch legs."

Katherine sighed, "Where are you going?"

"I'm gonna go lay eyes on my precious doppelgänger." He kisses her on the forehead. "Oh, don't look so glum, Katerina. The fun is just beginning. Again." A thought occurred to him, "You are not to harm Josie in any way." He compelled again.

Klaus leaves the apartment with a smirk on his face, the sound of metal meeting flesh following after him.

Klaus walked out of the classroom hiding thinly veiled his distaste for the humans bustling naively around him. The lesson in the history teachers body had been interesting and he had finally laid eyes on the latest doppelgänger. In his opinion there wasn't anything appealing about them, anymore a traitorous part of his mind whispered.

Redheads were his type he decided, thinking of the striking contrast it had made when paired with the healers' trademark emerald eyes and pale delicate features, his hand had been itching for a paintbrush since laying eyes on her for the first time.

He shook his head to clear his thoughts, he had more pressing matters at hand.

He caught a passing student he vaguely recognized, "Hey, Dana. How would you like some extra credit?"

With a groan of protest Josie buried her head deeper into the pillows. Five more minutes she thought to herself. She took a deep inhale and jolted at the sight of the unfamiliar bedroom, closer to the edge than expected she landed on the floor with a full thud!

"Finally! You're awake."

Josie looked up and saw Katherine standing above her bemusedly.

"I almost thought you wouldn't wake up." She continued.

"Where are we?" Catching sight of the other woman's legs she gasped, "What happened to you?"

"Alaric's apartment. Klaus captures us last night. And this," she gestured to the blood stains on her thighs, "is what Klaus does to those who betray him."

She was interrupted from saying more by the sound of the human's stomach growling ravenously.

Josie blushed and stood up from the where she had fallen on the floor. Walking past the vampire she made her way to the kitchen to look for something to eat, dimly award that she had not eaten in over a day.

Katherine watched the small girl move around the kitchen as if she was not being kept in the house against her will by the most feared vampire in history. She was distracted by the mouth watering smell of pancakes and bacon.

"Want some?" She offered, not wanting to anger a vampire as vindictive as Katherine Pierce.

Katherine shrugged, "Why not."

Josie sat the food down on the table, rummaging around Ric's cabinets until she found plates and silverware, she felt kinda bad and internally promised to do the dishes and buy some more groceries for him.

Josie had almost finished her meal when the sound of a door opening reached her ear and suddenly Katherine was gone and sitting in the chair across the room.

"Ah, you're up. Perfect!" Klaus directed at Josie, ignoring Katherine completely, "How was your day?"

"I've been kidnapped, again." She snapped. It was getting old and she had to resist checking for a neon sign above her head saying Kidnap me!

He smirked at her anger, he liked the fire in her eyes, "Many apologies, sweetheart. I just couldn't help myself when I learned about your existence."

"Apology not accepted." She spat, much like an angry kitten, turning back to her food.

Klaus moves until he was leaning over her chair, his breath fanning her ear. "That's too bad, love." He delighted in the slight shiver she gave, there was the slight tinge of fear, but it was overpowered by another more prevalent scent, arousal, he realized with a smug smirk. So he wasn't the only one feeling the connection.

Josie could feel him behind her, Alaric's larger frame dwarfing her small one in the chair. She resolutely didn't turn around even when she felt his warm breath blowing across her neck, "That's too bad, love." His voice had dropped in tone, much lower than normal and she shivered, unable to stop it. Her breathing hitched at the unfamiliar warmth pooling between her legs.

She sat frozen until he slowly moved back, her heart was pounding so hard in her ears she was sure both vampires could hear it. She resolutely refused to look away from her plate, sure her face was the color of a tomato.

"There you are Maddox." Klaus exclaimed.

Josie turned, looking past Klaus to see the warlock from last night moving into the kitchen.

"I brought everything you needed."

Klaus turned to Katherine, "Ah, you were right. This witch is all juiced up and aiming to kill."
"That's terrible." She deadpanned.

Ignoring her tone, "We're gonna have to kill her, Maddox.

He opens a dresser drawer, "Do you think this Alaric guy has anything vintage?" Rummaging through the drawers there is a click, "Crossbows, wooden bullets and automatics? Who is this guy, again?" He shows them the crossbow.

Josie spoke without looking up from her pancakes, "He's the local vampire hunter."

"Ah. Well, that explains the clothing."

He takes the glass offered by "The warlock "s, "All I could find. Guy likes his bourbon."

"I knew there was something about him I liked." he muttered. "There's a high school dance and I'm gonna need you to take out witch bitch."

"Maddox shook his head, " shook his head,"If she has that much power, she can sense me coming from a mile away. I won't be able to get near her. You have to do it."

Klaus scoffed, "In this body? I'm a haggard history teacher. She can easily hurt me. I mean, not me, Klaus me, but you know what I mean."

"What a shame." Josie mutters under her breath.

Klaus chuckled at his girl's wit. "No witch could handle channeling that much power. It'll kill her. It would kill me. You just have to make her use it."

Klaus looked thoughtful, "You mean like provoking her to death?" He looked up at his healer's sharp intake of breath.

The warlock nodded, "Won't take long. Just keep attacking her until it kills her. His body, Alaric's, will last longer than hers will."

Klaus narrowed his borrowed body's eyes, "How? He's human."

Maddox smirked, "I can help in that department. I can do a spell to protect you."

Josie looked to Katherine her worry shining in her eyes.

"Perfect, let's get this over with." Klaus told him.

"I'll go gather what we'll need." The warlock walked out of the apartment.

Following his departure, Klaus turned back to where Josie sat. He smirked at her, amused that she had the gall to not only ignore him, but also to sass him. "How has your day been?"

"Still kidnapped." A thought occurred to her then. "I need my phone."

"And what, pray tell, do you need your phone for?" He murmured darkly in her ear, internally he was quite entertained by her gumption.

"My dog is at home, and hasn't been fed since the day before yesterday, she hasn't been let out either." At his still suspicious look, she continued. "I'm not going to call for help."

Klaus searched her eyes, looking for some sign of deceit, finding none he pulled her phone out from his back pocket and sat down across from her at the table.

She picked up the phone and scrolled through her contacts, wondering who she should call.

"Hello?" Came the answer on the other end of the line.

"Jeremy, it's Josie. Can I ask a favor?"

"Sure, what do you need?"

"Would you be able to stop by my house and get Olive for me? I need someone to watch her for a couple days. Her stuff is by the door in the kitchen."

Jeremy sounded confused, "Wait! Where are you going? Where have you been?"

Josie was stopped from answering by Klaus holding out his hand for the phone. "I have to go. Bye."

"Wait, Jos-"

She hung up before he could respond, and placed the phone in the Original's outstretched hand.

"Thank you." She told him, sincerely.

"You're welcome, love."

Josie was saved from answering by the reentrance of Maddox with the supplies for the spell.

"We've got a dance to prepare for."

"Yes, we do." Klaus agreed with his warlock.

Katherine listened intently as Klaus and Maddox's footsteps faded, before turning to Josie.

"Do you have a death wish?" She bit out.

"No?" Josie stated, but it came out more as a question.

"Mouthing off to Klaus. He's punished people for a lot less than simply ignoring him."

"Well he's already here to kill my friends and has already kidnapped me, if he was going to kill me I think I'd be dead."

Katherine shook her head, "That's not how Klaus works, he likes to play with his food before he eats it. And besides, killing you isn't what I was talking about."

"What do you mean?" Josie asked, not sure she actually wanted the answer.

"You haven't noticed? Oh, but I think you have. The way he looks at you and is always in your personal space, calling you love. You better watch out Klaus is The ultimate predator." She smiled, pityingly, "And you're kind is his favorite prey."

Josie blanched, the stark paleness of her skin making her eyes seem to be an even brighter green. "No."

"Deny it all you want, but why did you think Elijah was so intent on keeping you away from him." Her piece said, she turned around and walked to the living room. Leaving a pale and sputtering Josie sitting at the dining room table.

At the Boarding house, a girl sneaks into the basement cell, where a single body lies. Elena looks contemplative as she stares at the daggered body, before she grips the dagger in her hands and pulls it out. She needs all the help she can get if she wants to kill Klaus before he kills her.

A/N: Klaus/Josie! I love Klaus and hated how little love he gets, this story will be a happily ever after type. I just love writing villains, they're so interesting! Katherine will probably be kept around (I haven't decided) as a character I like her a lot more than I like Elena, I also think Elijah deserves his happy ending (I love Kalijah).

I think I'm going to up the rating to M just to be safe, there is nothing too explicit (yet) but it might be heading that way, I haven't decided.

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