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June comes back from the restroom seeing an empty bed. She walks into the next room seeing the weak King of New Orleans pour himself a drink. Shaking her head she chuckles.

"I think you have a serious drinking problem because I'm not sure that helps." June walks over to him snatching the drink from his hand downing it.

"Not sure it doesn't." Klaus grumbles taking his glass back pouring himself another one.

"Self pity is not a good look on you. Anyways I really don't care what you drink no matter what your know-it-all brother says." The woman with silver tips rolls her eyes ignoring the growl that comes from Klaus.

"Don't speak to me of Elijah." The hybrid yells at her.

"And why not? He loves you."

"Yes. He does, and he proves it time and again, even when my father enlisted him to kill me."

Klaus begins to tell Juniper about when his father tried to convince Elijah to kill him.

How his father called him an abomination and would stop at nothing till he's dead.

Juniper listens intently as he then explains about the one stake that can kill an Original, the white oak stake, it was made by the Mikealson's father in order to take away their immortality.

The Claire woman already knew about the stake; she read about it in one of the supernatural books that the witches have when she was younger.

Klaus continues his story by telling June that Elijah has always felt guilty for not stopping their psychotic father.

"I told him not to blame himself. When your father wants to kill you, he wants to kill you, nothing you can do about it." Klaus stares off into space.

"Same goes for mothers," June comments.

Klaus's phone begins to buzz catching Juniper's attention.

Klaus smirks at his phone telling the woman with silver tips that Marcel and Rebekah are still in town.

June frowns. There is one reason why Marcel would stay in New Orleans and that's for Davina, June knows it.

Klaus knocks a statue off one of the tables.

Bending down he picks up a wooden stake with melted gold on the bottom that trailed down the sides.

"Is that...?" June goes silent watching Klaus admire it.

"A white oak stake? Yes. My own special version, and unlike my Father's, this one can not be destroyed." Klaus smirks trying to leave the Queen of Demons behind by using his vampire speed but June stops him.

Juniper grabs him by the neck and throws him backwards. Klaus hits the wall, groaning. June takes the stake.

"You are not killing Rebekah." June snarls.

Klaus stands. "Why not? All she has done is betray me! After everything I've done for her that is how she repays me!" He growls barring his fangs at Juniper.

Klaus rushes towards June swinging at her but the Queen dodges all of his moves.

She kicks him in the chest, both of them a panting mess.

Klaus put his hands on his knees, and hunches over to catch his breath.

June falls down to the floor, sitting on her butt, her hands balled into fists to stop them from shaking.

The stake lays on the floor in between the two psychotic rulers waiting to be grabbed.

They make eye contact with one another before looking down at the stake.

Both of them dive for it. June grabs it first but Klaus shoves her to the side causing her to hit her head on the corner of the coffee table.

The Queen falls unconscious. Klaus can't decide on whether to grab the stake and run or to check on June.

Deciding on the former the King of New Orleans grabs the white oak stake and speeds off into the busy city.

A couple of minutes pass when June wakes up. With a groan the Claire woman carefully stands up. A sigh escapes her lips when she realizes that Klaus left with the stake. She uses her powers to follow him.

The Claire woman wipes the black blood from her forehead as she appears in front of Klaus who is feeding on an innocent bystander. Klaus tosses the person onto June, wiping his mouth clean as the black veins from under his eyes disappear. June struggles to hold up the man.

"What the hell are you doing Klaus?!" June yells, giving up, letting the man hit the floor.

"Obviously you hit your head a little too hard June because I am going to kill my sister, but first I needed some sustenance with a little less vervain in it. No offense." Klaus smirks.

June's eyes begin to water her nose scrunches up in disgust. She smacks Klaus across the face.

"When you tried to kill Davina I should have kill you right then and there but I didn't. I didn't do it because of the regret that I would have felt because it wouldn't have brought her back and the regret that Elijah would have felt because he didn't help you.

And I know for a fact that if you hurt Rebekah you'll regret it.

You can't hurt your sister. For fucks sake she is your sister, Klaus.

As a person who has lost a sibling and so much more, who has felt that pain, you won't survive if you kill her. "

"I'll tell you what I almost didn't survive, love. My sister bringing the most vile creature ever to walk the Earth down upon me." Klaus glares keeping a stone face on.

"Yes I know, she brought your father, but by you hunting her and Marcel down to the ends of the Earth the way you are makes you exactly like Mikael." June steps closer to him.

"I've been called every shade of monster, but that's new. My father? Mikael was the monster, monsters were afraid of." Klaus forcefully grabs Juniper's arm. "Come let me show you." He grumbles forcing her to walk with him.

The two stop in front of the old spot where the Opera House was; Klaus lets go of June's arm before stating. "That night in 1919 when the Opera House burned down on this very spot. That was Mikael at his worst."

June stares at the four story long, blue and white corner building.

Listening to Klaus once again tell her about his past. He tells her about the date that Marcel and Rebekah had in public and Marcel was late.

Klaus explains that once Rebekah left to wait in the lobby for her lover Mikael came into the booth pointing the white oak stake at Klaus's back.

If Mikael were to stab him it would've killed him instantly.

Klaus tried to reason with Mikael but the vampire who hunts vampires just laughed at his bastard son.

Mikael had threatened to kill all those who remember Niklaus Mikaelson as a good person so he will be forgotten.

Klaus talks about how the vampire who hunts vampires told him about the very few alterations that he made for the show, how when the curtain rose everyone began to laugh and applaud.

Marcel was tied up while the wolf, Klaus was sleeping with at the time was killed, she had a large piece of wood embedded into her chest. Other vampires that were loyal to Klaus were also dead; their bodies scattered upon the stage.

Klaus continues by telling June that both he and Rebekah tried to help Marcel, but Mikael made sure that didn't happen.

He had injured both Rebekah and Klaus and shoved his hand in Marcel's chest threatening to rip his heart out if either of them tried to attack him.

Elijah showed up telling his two siblings to leave the beloved Marcel behind because he was a goner.

Mikael had started that fire leaving everyone in the Opera House to die.

"I lived, but all that we had built died, as did the last shred of me that felt human.

That is what my father took from me that night.

I assure you June that I will not hunt my sister and her lover down to the ends of the Earth for centuries.

Nor will I humiliate and torment or dehumanize them.

No, none of that. I will simply and quickly end them.

" Klaus tells the Queen of Demons before vanishing.

"Klaus wait!" Juniper yells turning around to quickly. The floor sways from underneath her feet, she reaches out to lean against the brick wall putting her hand on her head.

June searches her pockets for her lighter but doesn't find it.

Quickly she uses her powers to teleport back to the Compound.

She falls onto her knees when she arrives in her room.

The whole world around her begins to blur, her breathing becomes labored as all of the demons of panic begin to scratch their way into her head whispering to her.

Her hands begin to tremble along with the rest of her body.

The Claire woman falls to the floor completely unconscious for the second time that day.