MOONS.
008. | ❛ roses are red. ❜

I never meant for you to know me. I never meant to let you in. But then, I should not have kissed you.
Not the first time. Certainly not the second. There is a light in you so bright it makes me feel like the man I wish I was... and forget the thing I am. I am chained to certain hungers, and have damned another to my fate... You've seen what we do-- we hunt. We feed. We kill. But what I am, I can't answer. My family are the first-- there is no name for it. But I also desire. Deeply. And I can love... As I love you.

"It was the most beautiful letter I'd ever received. And I did love him, with all of my heart." Aurora says to Luna strapped to a chair with vervain and a cloth around her mouth.

"But eventually, our love-- like the letter-- crumbled to dust. Much like yours will after I'm done with it."

"See, I left this little note for him. 'Roses are red, lavender is blue. Come find me before I find you.' With that he'll know where to go, if he's smart enough he knows that your missing and that I'm the one keeping you hostage. " Aurora twirls around Luna and injects a special poison into her neck much to Luna's dismay, it weakens her at a slow rate but seems to be putting up a fight.

"It won't be long now. How about I tell you a story?"

Flashback

Klaus and Aurora are laying naked in Aurora's bed after having just finished making love. Klaus is still braced on top of her as he smiles happily

"Oh... Oh...!"

"Well, that was fun!" Klaus starts to kiss up Aurora's arm toward her shoulder as he chuckles happily.

"Delightful... delirious... delicious fun." Klaus kisses her on the cheek, and Aurora hums happily

"Mmm... And yet, you would appear to want more. I fear I've not satisfied you." Klaus smiles and leans closer to her face.

"Your fears are absurd." Klaus kisses her on the lips and they both giggle as Aurora suddenly flips them over so Klaus is on his back against the pillows while she straddles him.

"I'm not fragile, you know. You do not have to treat me so gently."

"I do not wish to hurt you."

"Well, then make me like you! Do to me what you did to Lucien." Klaus is stunned by Aurora's request and frowns before quietly replying

"You know not what you ask."

"Well, I know we'd no longer have to hide our love-- not from my father, my brother. Not from anyone. If I were like you, I would be beholden to no one, and we could be together, truly, with no boundaries."

Klaus sits up so his torso is pressed against Aurora's, and he reaches up to card his fingers through her waist-length red curls.

"You are perfect just the way you are. Take, for example, these lovely long locks, hmm? Now, how did you manage to capture the scent of a summer's day in the tresses of your hair?"

Aurora looks at him intensely for a moment before pressing him back against the bed and kissing him.

End of Flashback

Klaus has just arrived at the boutique where they make the perfume in Aurora's clue. He walks slowly through the front door and into the shop, noticing Luna being held hostage, and after a moment, Aurora, having heard him enter, walks out in a short red dress and knee-length boots, smiling widely at him while Klaus scowls.

" I knew you would find me. Hello, my sweet love."

Klaus and Aurora are still standing several feet apart, both staring intensely at the other.

"A thousand years. Can it really have been so long? Looking at you now, it feels like yesterday."

"If yesterday were the apocalypse."

"Are you saying that leaving me felt like the end of the world?"

"Leaving you alive." Aurora snickers at his joke before changing the subject as Klaus walks toward her.

"Don't step too close now, see your little girlfriend here has a poison coursing through her veins. Only I have the antidote to it and you'll only get it by staying here. "

"Are you blackmailing me?"

"My sweet love, do you think I would do such a thing like that? Just hear what I have to say and I'll be on my merry way." She smiles at him, while he looks at her damsel in distress and nods.

"I notice Elijah's not with you. Was he reluctant to tag along?"

"On the contrary, he's been calling me incessantly since I ditched him to find you, raving about some ancient secret and the possibility of using your head as a footstool."
They both chuckle weakly as they continue to stare at each other with only a table standing between them.

"Well, I'm sure he would rather have his footstool that have me share that little secret."

"Let me guess-- in the time between being with me and seeking refuge in the arms of your brother, you slept with mine?"

Aurora rolls her eyes,"Oh, your accusations are so banal. The truth is, I've never been with your brother. At least, not in the way that you think."

"Why are you here, Aurora? Besides torturing the person I care most about. "

"The witches here, they celebrate Fête de Cadeau-- Feast of Gifts. It made me remember that very intimate gift we gave each other so long ago. Shouldn't we clue your
Little Wolf about it?"

Flashback

Aurora is sitting on in the chapel, sobbing loudly and sniffling into the sleeves of her dress. After a moment, Klaus walks in with a large bouquet of wild flowers.

"I always thought the day of one's birth was an event to be celebrated?" Aurora quickly wipes the tears from her cheeks.

"And yet, I wish I'd not been born." Klaus sits down next to her on the bench and looks at her with concern.

"What saddens you so?" Aurora continues to cry, which only worries Klaus more.

"Aurora, what is it? Tell me." Aurora tries to catch her breath.

"The day of my birth is no occasion for joy. My mother died giving birth to me. That's my first act on this earth, was to kill the one who gave me life. It makes me cursed and broken, an abomination. I.." Aurora breaks into sobs once again, and Klaus, feeling badly for her, leans forward to comfort her.

"You believe that you are cursed, but you are not alone. There is a thing that I have done that I never told anybody. It will break Rebekah's heart. Kol would rage, Finn would disown me, and Elijah... would never forgive me."
Klaus takes a deep breath before continuing.

"I killed my mother." Aurora gasps in shock from this confession, and Klaus' voice gets quieter and quieter as he continues talking until it becomes only a whisper.

"Not in childbirth, but in a fit of rage. Twice she birthed me-- once as a bastard, and then once as this thing I am now. She crippled me from becoming who I was meant to be, and then she turned her back on me in shame... And so, I killed her, and I blamed it on my father, and we've been running ever since. Until now. Until you. So, you see, however broken you think you are, you are not as broken as me." Aurora is stunned by Klaus' confession, but not in the way he thinks.

"You see? Once again, you seek to repel me with our differences, but all I can see is how you and I are the same." Aurora becomes excited by the prospect of their shared grief.

"Well, then, let us share this gift with each other! You will forever hold my deepest shame, and..."
Aurora caresses Klaus' face with her hand, wiping away a tear that had fallen.

"I... I will hold yours. Never again shall we speak them to another soul, and never again will they have any power over us." Klaus seems sincerely touched by Aurora's proclamation, and she pauses for a moment before continuing.

"Would you think it base of me to ask one more gift on my birthday?"

"I would give you anything"

"Oh, then please Niklaus... Make me like you." Klaus pauses, clearly torn about what to do.

End of Flashback

Luna looks at Klaus at the secret that he never told her. All this time she thought it was always Mikael who killed their mother. Luna tries to move her hands but to no avail.

"You've had a thousand birthdays since. If I forgot to send a card, it's because I forgot about you. Is that why you're here? To remind me?"

"I am here for the same reason Lucien and Tristan are-- to protect my sire. Now, if you'd turned me that night like I'd asked, I would be here to protect you. But, since you didn't, I need to know... Where in the hell is Rebekah?"

A/N: Felt super nice today so I decided to update again.