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Neon lights flashed through the club highlighting random members of the crowd, while the base pumped through the speakers making Klaus snarl, he was not in the mood to deal with silly teenagers and 'cougars' desperate for a shag, he just wanted to get a bite to eat and head back to his mansion to join his siblings and mother... well that was hardly true, he loved his family but something was definitely off about them lately. He understood that technically he had killed them all, kept them locked away for decades, centuries in some cases and completely destroyed his mother, but he knew that before his mother had come back his brothers and sister would have eventually forgiven him. But now that she was back, 'enjoying' her time with her children, the ones she'd also torn apart and destroyed, they'd distanced themselves in a way he hadn't even thought possible. So really what Klaus wanted to do, was grab the doppelganger and run, run and create a family that could never hate him, not matter the horrible things he did, run and create a family that would for all intensive purposes love him for what he was.

But he knew that that was impossible, he could indeed kill the Salvatore brothers, but some part of him, deep within himself still longed for the Stefan Salvatore that was his friend, his confidant and his sister's lover, and he knew that if he killed Damon there wasn't a chance in hell he would ever get his friend back. And if he stole Elena away in the middle of the night? What then, he would be chased, and not just by the Salvatore's but by Elijah as well, and no matter what anyone thought, when Elijah looked at him, and all he could see was hatred and disappointment in his eyes, it killed off whatever little humanity he had left. Not to mention the fact that his mother would never approve, she cursed him so that he would never be able to fully embrace what he was, made so that even if he could become a hybrid he would never be able to create anyone else like him, made it so no one could share the same experiences, the same sensations that he did. And the night when his mother came back to Mystic Falls, she had said that she'd forgiven him, but after that she could barely look him in the eye, she couldn't even spend any time with him. Her reluctance to do so was apparent and while his siblings wouldn't show it, he knew that it made them less than willing to spend time with him. So really he couldn't deny the fact that all he wanted to do was disappear.

Eyeing the writhing crowd in disgust, Klaus grabbed the nearest intoxicated female, compelling her and then dragging her out the back of the club. He couldn't kill in Mystic Falls but outside of that dreary little town was different. He sank his fangs into the girls neck, draining her without a thought and dropping the body in a crumpled heap on the alley floor. Klaus looked down and the prone form and frowned, he was empty, he couldn't feel anything but disgust and anger and hatred, his sister hated him, his brother's hated him, his father spent a thousand years trying to kill him and his mother... his mother lied to him for the first twenty seven years of his life and refused to let him be what she had created and now after he had gotten his family back together all he felt was emptiness. Growling he turned around and moved to stalk off when he froze, meeting unnatural but familiar red eyes with his own. "Blaze?" he asked and, for the first time since he'd released his inner Werewolf, let a true smile grace his features.

The woman in question smirked and pushed away from the wall, "Hiya Nicky!" she wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him in for a hug. (And I know what you're all thinking, Klaus- the hybrid- the dude who terrorises Mystic Falls on a daily basis- the dude who turned St Stefan into a ripper- the dude who staked his family and dragged them round in coffins wherever he went, actually hugging someone, smiling at them? No the world is not ending, it just so happens that a ten years ago he inadvertently managed to stumble across someone who understood him, who got that he had no one to love him and therefore hated everything, someone who didn't care that he was a monster because hey so was she. Klaus didn't trust anyone, but he trusted her). "I missed you!"

"What are you doing here love?" he responded wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Well it's your birthday in a few days, what do you think I'm doing here?" she replied, pushing away from him and linking her arm with his.

"I thought you'd be too busy trying to find the last group of people who tried to kill you," he murmured as they walked away from the lifeless corpse on the alley way floor.

"I'm hurt," Blaze gave a mock frown, "You think that I'd ever miss your birthday just to hunt down a couple of nobodies that pissed me off, I mean if that's what you think of me then I'll just head out, I mean it's not like I bought you birthday presents or anything." Her arm slipped from his and she started to walk away but he grabbed her before she could get very far.

"You brought me birthday presents?"

"Maybe..." the coy look she flashed him caused him to give her a cheeky grin, "come on sweetheart, you can take me view your home." Rolling his eyes Klaus scooped her up into his arms and he sped off towards Mystic Falls, while the body went up in flames.

The next morning Rebekah sighed as she sat up in bed, she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before from all the noise coming from her brother's room, all she heard from Klaus' room all night was the incessant giggling of a highly annoying girl (she assumed it was Caroline) and the occasional laugh of her brother. No matter how many times she yelled at her brother through their rooms, they wouldn't shut up. Growling she ripped the comforter off and used her vampire speed in order to get ready that morning, she was not in the mood to hang around the house, especially if Vampire Barbie was going to be hanging around all day.

She headed downstairs and into the kitchen to grab quick blood bag and then get out of the mansion, so she was incredibly surprised when sitting at the kitchen table, wearing nothing but one of Klaus' shirts was a woman she'd never seen before. She had one leg crossed over the other and was smirking at Kol as he eyed her up. But the strange woman isn't what shocked her, it was the fact that her right arm, and left leg looked as though they didn't belong to her, her skin was a light russet but the skin of her right arm and left leg was far lighter than the rest of her. Rebekah couldn't see the majority of the woman's arm but in Nik's shirt she could practically see her whole leg and spied a set of scars four inches above her knee, which made it look, for all intensive purposes, as if her leg had been sewn on. But that wasn't all, her leg and arm looked as though they had been heavily tattooed with swirls of black tribal like designs that covered most of her skin, in fact if Rebekah wasn't a vampire then she probably wouldn't have been able to see the heavy scarring around the woman's leg.

"You know, it's rude to stare," the woman spoke, moving her eyes from Kol to the blonde stood in the doorway.

"And who exactly are you?" Rebekah asked rudely, she already didn't like the woman and hoped that Nik would hurry up and finish his snack before she had to.

The woman smiled and set down her mug of coffee and brushed back the dark hair that had fallen in her face, in doing so, she revealed a bite mark on her neck with two sets of fang marks, a clear sign that Klaus or one of his few Hybrids had been the ones to feed from her, "I'm a... friend of Nik's," she seemed to be completely unconcerned with the fact that she was in a room with two Originals.

Rebekah sneered that the woman, "Nik doesn't have 'friends'."

"Well with sister's like you it's no wonder," she replied and Kol chuckled in amusement, "In any case, I've got to head back upstairs, things to do you know?"

"What like having your throat ripped out?" Rebekah snarled at the woman, ignoring the fact that Elijah, Finn and her mother had wondered into the kitchen, wishing to find the source of the noise.

At Rebekah's words, her mother, Esther focused on the unknown woman in their kitchen, and her eyes narrowed in on the fresh bite mark on her throat, "Niklaus!" she raised her voice only slightly knowing that her son would here the stern edge in her voice and come downstairs.

The Original Hybrid in question arrived in mere seconds and ginned at the look that Blaze was throwing him, "Honestly Love, you were only supposed to get a coffee and come back upstairs, had I known you would cause so much trouble I wouldn't have let you out of my room."

She gave him an impish smile, "What can I say? I'm a trouble maker alright."

"Niklaus," his mother spun to face him, a scowl set firmly in place, "I thought I told you that I did not want you feeding off of the any of the people in Mystic Falls." She was furious that even after she'd said that she'd forgiven him, he was still being the cruel disgusting monster that he'd always been.

"Yes well, Blaze here isn't exactly part of the local populous of this 'charming' little tow-" he doubled over in pain as his mother used her admittedly limited powers to burst multiple blood vessels in his brain.

"Nik!" Blaze exclaimed and shoved past an only slightly concerned looking Rebekah and slid her hands around his stomach, as she came into contact with him the aneurisms that Esther was giving him abruptly stopped. It was as though Esther's magic couldn't compete with whatever energy Blaze was giving off. She looked up as she helped Klaus to stand and shot the Original Witch a scowl as the older woman tried to pretend she wasn't shocked that her powers had stopped hurting Klaus. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!"

Finn and Rebekah moved to stand directly next to their mother, making sure that the other woman didn't try anything, "Darling it's fine," Klaus murmured brushing a hand through his hair.

"No Nik, it's not!" Blaze rounded on Esther, "He's your son, and I don't care what you told him, I'm clearly a willing participant in feeding him, and you have no say over what he does anymore anyway!" Finn growled and stepped closer to the woman propping up his brother and Elijah finally decided that it was time for him to get involved.

"Perhaps, we should all calm down," he spoke for the first time, staring at Finn and his mother, "It is far too early to be having these kinds of arguments."

Blaze had to consciously stop herself from snorting in amusement, "Yeah, right, too early to have these kinds of arguments," Elijah turned to face her with a perplexed look, he had after all, just saved her from getting her throat torn out by Finn, "whatever dude." She finished, rolling her eyes at him before turning back to Klaus, "Let's go back to your room, maybe if you're good you'll get your presents early this year."

Klaus grinned at her and his siblings looked at him with confusion, they'd known him for a millennium and not once had he looked as happy as he did in that particular moment, he had Blaze loop her arm through his and they both headed upstairs, "I do love presents." Klaus muttered just before they left the room.

The rest of the Original family eyed each other for a moment before splitting up, Rebekah and Kol followed their eldest brother Elijah, while Finn followed his mother to talk to her. "Who was that Elijah?" Rebekah asked as they sat down in the lounge.

"You're asking me? Klaus and I haven't been on speaking terms for 500 years, how should I know? Why don't you? You are his favourite sibling after all." He replied.

"Well in case you forgot, he left me daggered in a coffin for 90 years, if anyone should know it's you, you were the only one of us left walking around you know!"

"Look," Kol said interrupting them, it wasn't often that he was the mediator in the family but it appeared in this situation he was going to have to be, "regardless of who was walking around when, we should probably find out exactly who that woman is, because let's face, I haven't seen our brother smile like that since he was human, and that's just plain weird."

Elijah sank into an armchair and looked out of the window at the grounds, "Surprisingly you are right Kol, and I think I know where to start." His younger brother and sister looked at him in question and settled themselves on the couch ready to hear what he had to say, "Before he came to Mystic Falls, Niklaus was completely off the radar," when the offered him confused looks, he sighed and elaborated, "he disappeared, for an entire decade. For five hundred years I kept tabs on him, made sure that I at least knew what country, and if I was lucky, what state he was in, but ten years ago he literally dropped off the map. I had no idea who he was with, where he went, or why, I asked around and from everything I heard, it was as though brother had just vanished into thin air."

"If he disappeared, then how are we going to find out any information on him?" Rebekah asked, frustrated.

"Well I know his last known location, at the time I didn't search the immediate areas just in case he was hiding, trying to draw me in, but one of us could go and ask around the supernatural community and at least try to see if we can come up with something."

"Alright, so where is this place?" Kol asked perking up, usually when Elijah said 'ask around the supernatural community' it usually meant that Kol got to torture something, and it had been far too long since he'd had any fun.

"Atlantic City, Kol you can head out as soon as possible but I want you back by tomorrow afternoon, Mother's throwing a ball."

"What?!" Rebekah exclaimed, "Why does he get to go party?!"

"Bekah, he's not going to party, he's going to see if he can find out what happened to Niklaus, and he's the only one out of all us that mother wouldn't see as suspicious when he's not here tonight." Elijah replied.

Rebekah glared at Kol and he grinned, he stuck his tongue out at her but had to duck when she threw a book at him. "Kol stop antagonising our sister and head out," Elijah said and when he didn't make a move to leave he glared at him, "Now and take a picture of Niklaus's friend with you."

Esther stormed into her room, Finn following closely behind her, "She shorted out my powers!" she exclaimed as Finn eyed his mother warily.

"What do you mean?" he asked calmly.

"I mean, the second she touched Klaus, my powers had no affect on him, they just stopped working. I made it look like the aneurisms I was giving him were meant to stop, but she's clearly going to be a problem."

"What would you like me to do mother?" Finn asked, he hated what he'd become when his mother had changed his family into vampires, and because of this hate, he wanted nothing more that to end his existence. Especially considering that the only woman he'd ever loved, Sage, was probably also dead. Not many vampires lasted 950 years, in fact, the only vampires that could were the Originals. Other vampires weren't as strong, and regardless of how old they were, eventually all died, and without Sage, he had no reason to continue his un-life.

"Find out who she is, what she is and what he connection to your brother is, if it turns out that she's a threat to us, you need to kill her."

"Yes mother," Finn nodded and left the room, stopping before he reached the end of the hall, Klaus was his brother, sure he'd locked him away for nine centuries, but the woman he was with had clearly made him happy. At one point in time, back when they'd just been turned, he'd wanted nothing more that for his brother to be happy, and now a thousand years later, he was about to take away his baby brother's only happiness it seemed. Shaking off his residual feelings of guilt, Finn headed into town so that he could compel a human to drive him to Atlantic City, as luck would have it, he'd overheard Elijah's conversation with his other siblings and resolved to follow the same line of inquiry.

And there you have it, the first chapter in my AU Vampire Diaries story.

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