MOONS.
032. | ❛ perhaps you should see a therapist. ❜

An emotionless-looking Klaus has just taken a painting off of the wall in the study, revealing a safe that was built into the brick behind it. He spins the lock and puts in the combination to open it. Inside is a wooden box, which he opens gently as he walks away from the safe. Inside the box is a stack of old letters in fading envelopes. Suddenly, the scene cuts to a short time later, where Freya, Luna, and Elijah have joined him in the room.

"You collect trophies from all your victims?"

"Letters to their loved ones, to be specific."

Klaus tries to ignore them as he starts to look through the letters,"It was a phase."

"A phase in which we were forced to learn a different kind of stealth."

He sits forward in his chair to continue the story for Freya and Luna's benefit.

"You see, over time, Niklaus' enemies grew so numerous, we had no choice but to artfully withdraw from the world." Klaus gives Elijah an offended look.

"And then..." Freya gives him a curious and exasperated look, and he turns to address her.

"Well, I wouldn't exactly describe our presence in this city as discrete. Wouldn't you agree, Niklaus?"

Klaus, exasperated and frustrated, finally joins the conversation in earnest,"We all saw the white oak destroyed! Plus, this city is crawling with vampires, all of whom had no choice but to shield me from potential foes! Were I to die, they would die, too. I couldn't have been more safe!"

Klaus is starting to look extremely worried now,"And now my sire link is undone. Those very foes will come for me... Like never before."

"It's only been a few days since the link was broken. Must you jump into crippling paranoia already?"

"It's a default setting."

"And for good reason!" Elijah stands to his feet to walk over to where Klaus is standing.

"Well, Niklaus, if it offers you any solace whatsoever, you've ransacked Aya's belongings, torched Aurora's hunting ground, and obliterated every last splinter of the white oak."

Klaus lowers his voice threateningly,"I would be mad to believe that."

"Perhaps you should see a therapist." Luna speaks to him

Klaus, realizing she means Cami, sighs deeply. He looks over at Freya, who still looks exasperated by his behavior, before walking away without another word. Elijah takes a deep breath, and Freya gives Elijah a skeptical look,"Every last splinter? You're sure?"
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Luna sits in the study, drinking her blood bags. Looking around it seems that she has drunken 10 at most. She drops the current blood bag to the floor as she is still not full.

Freya walks in as Luna wipes her mouth off.

"I assume the baby is of good appetite." She smiles

"It's crazy, I've never craved so much blood in my entire life." Luna got off her seat making her way to Freya

"And right now, I'm craving blood and not from blood bags," Luna says as her veins start showing but Freya gets a grip of her.

"Luna," Freya tries reasoning with her

Luna calms down retracting her fangs and veins as she backs away from Freya.

"I'm afraid that this isn't going to be a normal pregnancy." Freya says leaving Luna with a worried look.
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Klaus has returned to the study, where he is anxiously filling in Freya, Luna, and Elijah on what he's just learned in.

"It was him. It was Gaspar Cortez."

"I assume this is someone from your box of letters."

"The youngest son of a particularly vile family of warlords I dealt with in the 17th century."

"Didn't they burn that philistine pigsty into the ground?"

"Pigsty? Belaga was my favorite artist retreat. Someone had to pay for that, so I murdered Gaspar's brute of a father."

"And?" Luna tries to catch on with the conversation

"And one or two..."

"Five."

"Five of his bloodthirsty brothers."

"Don't forget the mistress."

"That was an accident!"

"The point is that Gaspar was but a footnote."

"Until he became a vampire, hell-bent on hunting me."

Klaus is continuing to panic about this newest development as Luna stays by his side and touches his hand which seems to calm him down.

"He's a cunning deviant, known to compel hoards of the helpless to aid him with his tasks."

"You see, this is exactly what I was concerned about. Devils of all kinds, crawling out of their crevices to strike at me." Klaus pauses when he hears footsteps and unintelligible murmuring approaching him with his hybrid hearing and scowls.

"Speaking of which..." Klaus vamp-speeds downstairs into the courtyard, where he finds Davina strutting inside the front gate and immediately pins her against a support beam by the shoulders.

"Rather foolish of you to come here alone."

Davina looks only mildly afraid as suddenly, another figure vamp-speeds toward Klaus and tosses him backward across the courtyard. It's Kol, and when Klaus gets to his feet and sees him, he looks absolutely stunned by the sight of him.

"She didn't come alone, brother."

Luna, Elijah, and Freya have just come downstairs to figure out what the commotion is as Klaus continues to stare at his resurrected brother in shock and disbelief.

"Now, Nik, I mean, you did go after my girl."

"It can't be."

Davina steps in to mediate,"It's Kol. When I broke your sire link, it created a surge of power."

"You stole the nexus vorti."

"And brought your brother back from the dead!" Kol walks toward his siblings to defend her.

"You should be thanking her, really."

Surprisingly, Klaus lunges forward and hugs Kol tightly, which both pleases and shocks Kol. Once they've pulled away, Kol turns toward Elijah,"Hello, Elijah."

"You haven't aged a day."

Kol turns to Luna who's still a little skeptical about him.

"Luna, I can see you're still keeping my brother in check."

Kol turns to Freya, frowning as though he doesn't recognize her,"And you...?"

"Freya."

"Right. Long-lost older sister. Speaking of twists and turns in our family tree, where might Rebekah be?"

"That's a long story. And one reserved for family. Davina can see herself out."

"Uh, are you--"

Klaus cuts him off,"As per usual, our family faces a multitude of threats. The sooner you become acquainted with them, the better. I won't have you distracted."

"What about Luna?"

"She's a part of this family, if haven't seem to notice. She's been more of my family than my own sire line."

"So I get distracted by Davina? You know, if you could only pull your head out of your..."

"Kol. It's okay. I'll go."

"Davina."

"You can make it up to me."

"And I will. Dust off that fancy dress. 'Cause tonight we're going dancing."

"Okay." The two kiss goodbye before Davina leaves.