everyonelives | every day a little sting

[She nods, turning her eyes back to the road.]

The sooner we wrap up this end of things, the sooner we drive these hunters back out of town.

To Hell, if we have anything to say for it.

( This is Klaus. He will singlehandedly hunt them down should he feel like it. Let's just say if he ever got his hands on a roster... Oh the blood that would spill. )

[Indeed he will.

They pull up to the warehouse, not far from the bar. As predicted, it's more sparsely guarded than the other two locations, mostly hunters just packing up the supplies and waiting for their secondary orders.

Bela leans back so Klaus can see what they're working with and raises an eyebrow.]

Quiet and fast?

( Hm. Klaus is a bit impatient by now. Quick yes. Quiet, he doesn't try as hard (6), and to get his bearings a (10), but all he sees are hunters packing up supplies. The two, no, three packing up. )

Fast.

[... Can't they at least be a little quiet? Bela looks slightly exasperated at that but she nods. If Klaus wants to be the big loud noise drawing the fire in his own unkillable way, he's welcome to it. She's going to be sneaky (10). And fortunately that's enough because the hunters aren't really listening, but they're listening enough to hear Klaus (7).

Bela zips away just before one of the hunters pokes his head out and sees Klaus Mikaelson, in the flesh, and his eyes widen.

"Oh fuck."

Unfortunately, he does not have the good sense to run. Instead, he raises his rifle on instinct. Double unfortunately, he also happens to be a pretty good shot (18).]

( Call him the distraction.

Klaus' hubris gets him shot, but it only makes him angrier.

"Paltry attempt," he says. He zooms over to grab the gun out of the hunter's hand (16) and smack him hard in the head with it. (12) )

[This hunter is fiesty, apparently, because while Klaus does get ahold of the gun (11), he manages to dodge the blow to the head (15) and darts out of reach shouting back over his shoulder.

"Hey! Hey, the Mikaelsons are here!"

Meanwhile, as his partner tries to wind up to also shoot Klaus, terribly (4), Bela darts forward to grab hold, pulling his head back to sink her teeth in (18 vs. 12).]

( Klaus' (18) sends the vampire behind his assailant, because, yeah, 4. Psh. )

This is what you get when you bring a gun to a vampire fight.

( However, Klaus' words give the hunter enough time to not be surprised as he tries to bite down (3). )

[And Klaus' snack crit fails, so enjoy your meal (1). He'll be over here dying, probably.

Once Bela finishes with hers, she makes her way to the door, pausing to listen to see what might be waiting for them.]

Two ... no, three more inside.

( Yeah, he takes just enough before ripping his fangs out of his neck completely and letting the hunter drop to the ground bleeding to death. )

Ladies first. Shall we knock?

[She nods, before lifting her leg and kicking in the door. There are in fact, three hunters waiting for them inside, two with guns at the ready and one with a stake.

Stake charges forward, aiming for more Bela than Klaus (14 vs. 8), and while Bela twists away to avoid her heart, it does manage to get her in the gut. Bela retaliates by trying to get her teeth in some part of him (5 vs. 20) but he evades her grasp.

Gun 1 and Gun 2 open fire on Klaus, with wooden bullets (7, 3) but they're terrible shots so it's a miracle they didn't hit Bela.]

( (19) and (13) have Klaus zooming out from around where they were trying to fire. He stops equidistant between them. )

No wonder you're held back. Not the crack shots I'd heard about. You didn't take down Allison Argent, did you?

( Waiting if they're dumb enough to open fire on him, he will want to zoom away so they shoot one another. (12) )

[Bela makes another attempt to dig into the hunter's throat (13 vs. 6), and she manages to strike blood, digging in to compensate for the wound he gave her. Eventually the stake slips from his hands and Stake drops to the ground.

Gun 1 does fire, managing to compensate enough to actually catch Klaus (14), but Gun 2 is not so fast (11), but Gun 1 manages to dodge away (16).]

( Ouch, Gun 1. Screw this lot. He's a bit annoyed in how adept these hunters are and aren't, so he goes to toss Gun 2 into Gun 1's direction. Fuck yoooou. )

[Gun 2 goes flying, colliding with his friend (18 vs. 15) and collapsing to the ground. Bela finishes her snack and makes her way closer, kicking their guns away so that they can't rear up and shoot at them again.]

What is the common threat in action cinema? Stay down?

( He'd imply it, but then you'd get up and attack again, wouldn't you. Anyway, he's giving you a chance. A fat one, a but a chance. )

[They intimidated enough that they do as they're told, staying on the ground and not providing any additional interference. Like any good thief, she goes to poke around the stuff they have to see what she can find.]

See if Monroe stashed any of her fun toys here. They might come in handy later.

( Still impatient, Klaus' (8) isn't a sincere effort, as he is also continuing to intimidate the hunters while he searches. It's more of a surface search than anything. Though if any drawers or cabinets are locked? Yeah, he'll use his strength to break them open. )

[Bela does a bit better (16), and finds a collection of magical objects. She can't tell anything about them, but she has a feeling that it'll be useful. She starts pulling them out, letting them rest on the table next to her before she catches sight of a file towards the back.]

Looks like they were organized enough to keep an inventory.

How magnanimous of our assailants.

( It's just like them to hand something to Klaus and Bela on a silver platter. He comes nearer. )

Anything that could prove useful?

( They know these hunters have only been working at half potential, if that, if they had access to these dark objects. He assumes they're dark. )

Given what they've wielded in the past, it'd probably be of great interest to your sister and her new lawyer friend. Maybe they came from the same witch.

[She taps the top of the page she just flipped to.]

Some of them were created for them by a witch called "Maura."

This would explain the dark object found in Prague. Surprising, they kept the cache. Saving it for a rainy day?

( That's to the hunter grunt currently cowering. He can answer if he'd like. )

["Boss wanted them destroyed." The voice is pitiful, but they are still answering the question asked. "But she wanted what they did cataloged in case we found another one."

Bela tips her head to the side.]

I assume you know how to do that properly and not get yourself killed with the magic backlash?

[The hunter blinks at her, confused.]

Lovely to see that she knows how to find true professionals.

Were she concerned with professionalism, she's turn to a better recourse. In this, your choice of leader is lacking.

( Back to Bela.

And, (9) to hear if there's anybody else in the building or possibly approaching them. )

[Nope. All the reinforcements seem to have mysteriously disappeared. Or maybe directed elsewhere. Who knows but they're not here. Bela continues flipping through the files, before she comes up with a face, one that is unfamiliar, but clearly important.

She holds it up and turns it to face Klaus.]

Perhaps our mysterious Maura?

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