My Personal Beast

Chapter 10

Wrapped up in his arms…he kissed her…

The cool air did nothing to help me. That gut wrenching feeling wouldn’t go away.

“I’m so sorry, Aria.” Daniel kept up a stream of apologies. “I shouldn’t have done that. We shouldn’t have acted like that. This is all my fault.” He said, hanging his head in shame.

“Daniel, look at me,” I said lifting up his head. “You didn’t do anything wrong. I did everything wrong. I fell for him, then I let him get to me. This is all on me. Not you.” I said looking him straight in the eye. He sighed, running a hand through his short hair.

“I didn’t think he’d stoop that low. I thought he’d just get pissed. I guess he really is a heartless monster.” Daniel sighed. I wanted to tell him that he was wrong. That Klaus acted in impulse to what I said. But I held my tongue, knowing nothing good would come out of what I wanted to say.

“Aria,” I heard his cruel, angelic voice say. Oh great. Just what I needed. Him to show up at the worst possible time.

“Daniel, can you please give us a moment?” Klaus asked. His tone blunt.

“Daniel.” Klaus repeated again. Daniel stood in the way of me and Klaus, standing his ground to the strongest vampire of all time.

“It’s okay,” I said, resting my hand on his shoulder. He shot me one last look and then disappeared into the crowd of people still on the dance floor.

“What the hell was that?” Klaus demanded.

“What was what?” I asked, looking at the floor.

“You say you don’t love me anymore, and when I kiss Sophie you storm out of there. Why?” He demanded again.

“It was a reflex reaction.” I muttered blankly.

“Don’t lie to me.” Klaus snapped.

“You want to know the truth?” I hissed. I was sick and tired of hiding my feelings, sick and tired of holding back. “The truth is that I haven’t gotten over you. I never did. The day you changed me into a vampire, I knew I was damned to walk this earth living with the choice I made. I loved you, I fell for your stupid charm and I was naïve enough to think you loved me to. I ran away from you thinking I could get over you. A thousand years have passed and not a day goes by that I don’t think about our time near the lake, or when you asked me to marry you. Not a day goes by that I wish I had never met you.” Tears filled my eyes and I let them flow freely. “Then you die and I think I’ve lost everything, I’m broken. And I shouldn’t have felt that way. I shouldn’t have felt like ripping my own heart out to ease the pain, but I wanted to. And then all of a sudden you’re alive again, and I’m too dazed to notice. And gradually you make me fall in love with your cocky, obnoxious, stubborn, cruel evil charm. I fell in love with you again and I didn’t even know it. You don’t know what it’s like to be in love with a power hungry monster who doesn’t care for you. And don’t tell me you love me because I know that is all words to you.” I whispered. My voice had gone hoarse and the tears flowed down my face, clouding my vision.

“Aria, I-”

“Stop. I need to be alone.” I said lifting up my hands to prevent him from coming closer.

“Please I-”

“Klaus we need you. The werewolves-” Sophie interrupted.

“Please, leave us alone.” Klaus begged her.

“The werewolves and vampires are getting aggressive.” Sophie said, ignoring him.

“Go tend to your party.” I hissed before running off into the forest. I needed to get away from him, from that party and from Sophie. I needed to be alone.

After an hour of running I didn’t know where I was anymore. My legs had carried me on instinct but my senses couldn’t make out where I was. I knew I was in a forest. A dark, dreary, werewolf infested forest. And I was alone. I was completely and entirely alone. I can’t believe I told him. After years of building up walls, of keeping those feelings locked up, I spilled them all out to the last person I wanted to know about them. This was bad. Very, very, very bad. He knew now. And he could use that against me.

“Over there. I think I heard something.” I heard a dark, husky voice murmur. Werewolves. I could smell them.

“Looky what we found.” Someone said stepping out from the trees ahead of me.

“She’s a vamp.” Another said.

“She’s pretty.” Another one smirked. There were six of them, and they were circling me.

“I don’t like eating vamps. They taste funny.” One whined. Eating? What the hell were they, some creepy horror movie fanatics?

“We’re not going to eat her. We’re going to have a little fun.” The first one smirked.

“You do realize I’m an Original, don’t you?” I hissed.

“You do realize it’s a full moon, don’t you?” The husky voice said, pointing to the sky. The moon shone down through the trees, lighting our gathering.

“Come here, pretty.” A muscled wolf muttered. His eyes were yellow and fangs protruded out his mouth. How is that possible? How were they able to control their transformation?

“We’re really old. We can do a lot of neat tricks.” Another muttered.

“Look, I think we scared her.” The first guy laughed. They all circled me, blocking out my view of everything else. I was no match for them. I was hopeless here. And with my powers drained, I couldn’t do anything. There was six of them, and one of me. I was dead.

As I felt them rip at my skin, tearing my dress, I couldn’t help but whimper just a little bit. They toyed with me, healing my wounds and then ripping them again. It had started raining and my hair fell flat against my face. So this was how I would die. How very obvious and cruel. I guess this was life.

“How dare you touch her?!” I heard him yell. This couldn’t be happening. He couldn’t have been here.

“What the-” The familiar voice of one of the werewolves said. He was cut short and I heard a whimper.

“You mangy mutts! How dare you betray us like this?” That was Sophie’s voice. Great, she was here to see how pathetic I really was.

“Oh God! She’s hurt really badly.” Caroline muttered. What the hell were they all doing here?

“Don’t touch her.” I heard Klaus hiss.

“Klaus she needs-”

“I said don’t touch her.” He hissed again, this time more menacingly.

“Take care of the wolf.” Elijah muttered. I heard footsteps all around me and yelps, and screams and more yelps. Then piercing howls and then…nothing.

“God, please be alright.” Caroline muttered.

“Aria.” It was his voice. His voice rang in my ears, making me wish I was dead.

“Stop thinking that.” He snapped.

“Stop…reading…my…mind.” I tried to sound fierce, but it all came out sounding really pathetic.

“She needs blood.” Caroline said.

“I know that.” Klaus snapped.

“Let’s give them a little time alone.” Sophie said.

“But-”

“She’s right. Let’s go.” Elijah said, cutting of Caroline’s protests. I heard a sigh and then everyone was gone. Everyone but one person.

“How the hell did you manage to get yourself into this position?” Klaus asked. I felt movement and realized he had picked me up.

“Put….me down,” I muttered.

“No.” He snapped, but I could hear the smile in his voice.

“Bastard.” I hissed.

“Even on the brink of death you still manage to curse me. How typically Aria.” He sighed.

“Whoa…” I muttered. My head felt dizzy and everything else was spinning.

“Here,” Klaus said gently laying my head onto his chest. I could feel his arms wrap around me protectively and I hated the fact that I loved it.

“You need blood.” Klaus muttered. It was still raining. I could feel the drops falling onto my face.

“Here,” He said pushing his wrist against my mouth. I could taste the sweet liquid and I shut my mouth, not wanting to take any of it.

“Please take it. You’ll die otherwise.” He begged. I shook my head and kept my mouth shut.

“Aria please. I don’t know what I’d do if you died. Please take it.” He begged. His voice sounded so hopeless, so lost. I sighed and opened my mouth just a little. As soon as the blood touched my mouth I felt my fangs grow and pierce into his skin. He whimpered just a little and then sighed.

“Good girl,’ He said stroking my cheek with his other hand. I drank until I felt rejuvenated but I guess that wasn’t enough for him. He kept on pressing his wrist to my mouth.

“I’m fine.” I said shoving it away.

“Your cuts aren’t healing fast enough. Take more.” He ordered.

“If I take any more I drain you completely out of blood.” I snapped.

“Fine then. Be stubborn.” He muttered. He still held me in his arms. We were resting against a boulder, and my head was still on his chest. I tried to get up, despite my still bleeding wounds.

“Do you have to ruin the moment for me?” He sighed. I pushed him off of me and stood on my feet. The world started spinning again and I felt myself falling.

“You should listen to me more.” Klaus smirked. He was carrying me bridal style. I glared at him, knowing he was right.

“You’re so cute when you’re angry.” Klaus murmured, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear. It was still raining and the droplets trickled down his face, making him look even more gorgeous.

“Put me down.” I muttered.

“You confess your love for me yet you want me to let go of you. How is that right?” Klaus asked. I started blushing despite myself. I knew I shouldn’t have told him all of that.

“I’m glad you did.” He murmured and I knew he had read my mind. Again.

“Stop re-”

“Let me finish.” He sighed. “I’m glad you told me because now I know your true feelings towards me.” He said.

“And now what? Do you think I’m pathetic and too emotional? Did you finally realize how weak I am?” I muttered sourly.

“I really wish you would stop calling yourself weak.” He sighed. “I realized I wanted you to feel that way about me. I wanted you to love me.” He said.

“Why? So you can use me? Well that won’t work.” I snapped.

“No, because I love you.” He muttered.

“Don’t go preaching that same bull-”

“Why can’t you believe me? Is it so hard to believe that I’m capable of love? Do you see me as that much of a monster?” He growled.

“I-”

“You’ve told me your perspective of things, now let me tell you mine.” Klaus cut me off. “From the moment I saw you I knew. I knew that you were the one. Don’t ask me how I knew, because I just knew. You were different. Kind, caring. You didn’t care what people said about me. And when you told me you loved me it was the happiest, most emotional, moment of my life. Then you found out I was a vampire and you didn’t run away. You stayed by my side. You loved me. Then you broke my heart when you cursed me. And I realized I didn’t care as long as I had you. And then you run away taking with you everything I’ve ever wanted. You left me and I couldn’t go on. I would mourn for you, worry over you. You left without an explanation. And finally I had found a way to get rid of all that grief. Killing. Killing took away all the feelings I had ever had. And I switched off all emotion. I still kept an eye on you though, just to make sure you were safe. Then I saw you in the graveyard and I wanted so badly to switch on the emotions. But I knew they would kill me if I did. Then you killed me, well you tried to kill me. And then I heard you say you still loved me and nothing mattered anymore. Nothing mattered but the fact that you loved me. And I thought we could have what we had before. I thought we could start over. But you kept trying to run away from me. You kept making me doubt myself. Do you know how hard it is to turn back on your emotions after almost a thousand years? And one look at you made me do it. Then you break my heart time and time again. Do you know what that feels like?” Klaus said. His eyes looked so sad and so lost. And his words triggered something inside of me. Something buried so deeply I didn’t think it would ever resurface. And then I kissed him. And he kissed back. The feel of his lips on mine sent me into a frenzy. I wanted more of him, all of him. And he gave it to me. Wrapping his arms around me he pulled me closer to him, filling all the gaps between us. And at that very moment I was sure of two things. One: I loved him. From the very core of my being, I loved him. Two: He loved me. And I was sure of it.