Chapter Eleven

Jax was on the phone with Katarina. Katarina said "every things gone, she took her clothes, her bed sheets, even the scrap paper in her desk. How's it at you parent's house?"

Jax said "she took everything except the damn hinges of the doors. It's been three days, where the hell is she?"

Katarina said "I have no clue but we need to find her."

"I know, I'll call you if I find her" Jax said.

Kat hung up the phone and sat down on Thalia's bed. She put her head in her hands.

Clara walked into the room and said "well you look like hell."

Katarina looked up "Clara what are you doing here?"

Clara said "Joseph and I broke up."

Katarina said "are you okay?"

Clara said "I'm fine. Plus we have a friend in serious need of an intervention."

Thalia walked into the room with a dozen shopping bags, said "I don't need an intervention, I'm fine" and put the shopping bags on her bed.

Katarina said "Thalia where have you been?"

Thalia said "starting over, new everything, new clothes, new bed sheets, I even got a new curling iron. Oh my god Clara's back, I thought you were on Kaldera."

"I was but Joseph and I broke up" Clara said.

Thalia said "oh" as she pulled her clothes from the bags.

Katarina said "we've been worried about you."

"You mean you were worried about those around me" said Thalia. "Like if I killed them. Okay funny story, you remember Eric. So Kat had this fling a hot doctor but realized she still had feelings for Axle, so she dumped him."

Katarina said "what did you do to Eric?"

"I ate him and he was delicious. Cute guys just naturally taste better" said Thalia.

Clara said "you killed Kat's ex."

Thalia said "can you let me tell my story, remind me why we're glad she's back."

"Please tell me Eric's not dead" Katarina said.

Thalia said "fine, so I was feeding and that voice inside my head that tells me when to stop, never popped up."

Last night. Thalia released her teeth from Eric's neck. Blood was all around her mouth. She had her hand on his shoulder and said "more please." Eric fell onto her and she pushed him back to his feet.

Eric said "what are you doing to me?"

"Well I was going to kill you but now I don't feel like dragging your body through the woods" Thalia said. "Especially not in these heels, I could throw you in a dumpster but you could be found. Since I was the last person to be seen with you, I'll be questioned by the police."

Eric said "what are you talking about?"

"It's your lucky day Eric, you just got complicated" Thalia said.

Back to the next day. Katarina said "so you didn't kill him because it would be inconvenient."

Thalia said "I turned off my humanity, I didn't become an idiot. The last thing I need is to give you a reason to ruin my life."

Clara said "this is so weird, it's like she's Thalia but she isn't."

Thalia said "in return for my good behavior, I want a year, where I don't have to feel pain, grief, or remorse. You're not gonna try to trigger my humanity, you're not gonna lock me up."

"So, all you want is for us to leave you alone and you promise you won't kill anyone," Katarina said.

"That's all I want, but if you try anything, and I mean anything to get my humanity back, I'll become your worst nightmare. I'm gonna get a smoothie" Thalia said and walked out of the room.

"We need to call a council meeting," Clara said.

Katarina said "I know I'll call Jax." Katarina quickly explained to Jax that she saw Thalia and that she would tell him the rest during the council meeting.

About thirty minutes later every original was on Antar. They were in a secret meeting place on Antar. Jax said "Clara, Kat, tell us what happened."

"We were in Thalia's room talking when Thalia walked in the room" Clara said.

"She told us she fed on my ex-boyfriend Eric" Katarina said.

Klaus said "so we need to search for his body."

"No, she didn't kill him" Clara said. "It's weird, it's like she's Thalia but she isn't."

Xan said, "what does that mean?"

Katarina said, "Thalia has control and she wants to make a deal."

Jax said "what kind of deal?"

"She said in return for her good behavior, she wants a year. A year where she doesn't have to feel pain grief or remorse" Clara said.

Katarina said "she also said that if we try anything to turn her humanity back on, she'll become our worst nightmare."

An original vampire named Sophie said "what are we gonna do? We can't let her run around with no humanity."

Cora said "yes we can, she has control."

"Until she snaps and strangles someone with all her control," Jax said.

Klaus said, "Jax is right she may have control now but she won't for long." They argued about Thalia for an hour and finally came to the conclusion that it's too dangerous for Thalia to have no humanity.