Monsieur le Maréchal.
I'm listening.
The Kaiser has abdicated. Soldiers are refusing to obey orders, deserters are roaming the countryside. The new government will do everything it can to fulfil the duties imposed on it, but the population, through no fault of its own, faces hunger and anarchy setting in.
This is a disease of the defeated, not of the victorious. I don't fear it, I reject any compromise.
I reject any compromise.
Monsieur le Maréchal, please. Be fair to your opponent or else this peace will be hated.
Fair?, you speak of fairness?. Sign it.
Let the minutes record, the armistice here signed shall take effect in six hours from now at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Very good.
The war is over.
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November 11 at 10:55 O'clock.
Klaus was having breakfast that is drinking fresh blood given from a compelled beauty in a cup while hearing the radio, inside a tent on the allied frontline. When suddenly Henrik body starts moving and he wakes up taking a big breath.
Just being in transition into vampire Henrik feels like his head is about to explode while also having all his emotions heightened, Its body its exploding with power, he can hear things from far away, but what stands out above all its the bloodlust, the insatiable hunger to get fed, the hunger cravings are so much stronger and harder to control than the mundane hunger for food that he felt when he was human.
But the sound from the radio suddenly gets him to hear it, taking all his attention trying to only focus on that blocking any other sounds.
"Any communication with the enemy remains prohibited.
Firstly, hostilities on the entire front will be ceased this morning, November 11th at eleven o'clock.
Secondly, the troops will not cross the line reached on this day at this hour.
The front line shall remain unchanged past this hour.
All troops are to return to their station."
"What time is it?" Henrik ask loudly to Klaus
"Listen a minute." Klaus just smiles to him
"It's so still. I must be going deaf." Henrik thought, but its not possible.
"They've signed, the war's over." says Henrik despiretedly
"It's over. Its your fault that I don't get to enjoy until the end of it" Henrik growls to Klaus showing his true face with two sets of fangs and veins around his face to him and yellow eyes just like him, surprising Klaus.
"I brought her for you, she is a gift as a sign of peace. Go on, u can feed on her" says Klaus dismissively of what he talks, showing a smile to him trying to lower his anger while shifting his attention to another place.
Henrik feeling again the monstruos need to feed he leaps over the woman feeding like crazy almost draining her entirely if not were for Klaus who separates him
"Alright little pup, its enough, you have taken enough, you need to learn to control your bloodlust when feeding" Klaus says to him starting to teach him how to be a vampire.
"Who's the little pup, dont call me ever again that, I will kill you" Henrik hiss to him infuriated at his way of calling him
"Calm down, you need to control your emotions, if not you will be a slave to them" Klaus
"Its your fault, I have'd plans for the next 30 years, these were suppossed to be my time for playing and enjoying something historical and great, a milestone in the human race, but you, you ruined everything, damn Marcel, its his fucking fault for searching for me, I will kill him" Henrik enraged yells to him
"You will not touch Marcel, he is under my protection" Klaus looks seriously to Henrik and warns him, but not understanding about what Henrik is angry about.
"What, you think you are stronger than me even now?" Henrik fastly inflicts a aneurysm on him making him cry in pain, but he feels that the magic different than before that was using the elements of the earth now was using the power from his vampirism and werewolve curse for being used, he destroys a wooden chair using the leg has a stake impaling it in Klaus lungs, making him suffer great pain
"Now the roles are reversed, I am the stronger one now." says smugly and then pulls it out from Klaus body, releasing him from his suffering.
"Yes, you are" smiles Klaus looking to him as if getting a new toy, already thinking of pitting him against Mikael hoping that both get killed in the process having never tought before a tribid was possible to exist.
"Mph, as long as you know" Henrik calms a little, then proceeds to exit the tent
"What is your name lad?" Klaus ask him
"Henrik.. Henrik Schnaider" Henriks looks at him and then answers, omitting the Mikaelson part
"What about your family Henrik Schnaider, any parent or brother?"
"No family" Henriks replies plainly "A man is alone when born, he lives alone and on his deathbed is alone."
Klaus looked his expression and wording about his family, feeling sympathetic about the boy already taking a liking to him.
After a while of adapting to his new reality Henrik proceeds to exit the tent to go to the site where he died, because he knows he is unkillable already if not were for that damn tree
"Where are you going Henrik? u cant walk away without a amulet to protect you from the sun" Klaus ask him loudly seeing him go
"To look for something u can come or stay here" Henrik answers not looking back, moving fast like it's magic but crashing and colliding with objects in his path not being accostumed coordinating his body and newfound speed, the sun light doing nothing to him.
After a while of traveling the frontline he gets again into that forest and not remembering well where he stopped he compells a group of troops retreating passing by to search for anything outside of common, trees, rocks, objects, anything that don't blends naturally with the terrain.
"What are you looking for here?" Klaus ask him from his side not understanding what he is doing here, seeing the compelled soldiers doing a carpet searching in the woods even more is the mystery that he can walk in plain day without a daylight amulet
"Trying to look what is nature plotting now, do u remember the exact place where u killed me? its around this place but I don't know where exactly." asks Henrik while observing the area
"There, that its your blood" says Klaus pointing to it, being suspicious of his choice of words and looking his every action
Henrik get near it and starts looking on that point and around it, but founds nothing , no sapling of a tree or anything weird and starts suspiciously to think about his transition, when he died there was just darkness he hasn't gone to limbo or the otherside, so he starts especulating that being in the past its already unnatural and no object capable of killing him being born it means that nature already takes that its not necessary because its not needed, so that leaves to a thought that he will die eventually or disappear after all he is in the past of the timeline, the tribid isn't born naturally yet.
But then, here I am, there must be something to balance nature and the only thing I can think so far I believe is the weakness of a original vampire, the white oak tree, but i think a stake from the white oak tree cant kill me but maybe neutralise me as should be a white oak ash dagger against a original, but in the case of the dagger being used would be as Klaus only momenterily.
Having got to that point he reckons that searching anymore would be for nothing, so he orders the compelled soldiers just in case to burn all the forest, to look for petrol and burn it all, just in case.
After a few hours later seeing the forest burning out of control of any man he goes away
"All this work made me thirsty, wanna go for a drink?" Henrik says to Klaus while smiling smugly to him, not waiting for his answer he vamp speed to the farm near by where he stealed the goose from that french farmer, jumping the wall and going inside the house he compelled the family of three to act normally and dont have fear of him, while he takes the woman in his arms with her back on his chest cupping her breast and drinking her blood from the neck.
Klaus goes inside seeing how fast the kid is adapting to being a vampire, preying in the humans with no remorse, drinking blood as if it were water to a human, but he indulges too much in his desires seeing the woman almost drained of blood, so he takes the woman from him.
"Easy, you drown in your pleasure, learn moderation" Klaus says to him while Henrik growls to him enraged that he took the woman.
Henrik knowing that he is right but its too damn hard to control it calms a little "There u can have the guy and the child for a drink" dropping the two to Klaus feet.
Klaus only looks at them for a second and drinks whats left of the woman dropping her in the floor dead when done. Seeing that Henrik kills the other two.
"What are your plans now?" Klaus ask him while sitting in a chair
Henriks thinks for a moment
"Now that the war is over there is nothing left for me here, I was fighting to be part of this great worldwide event the last 18 months, was a extraordinary experience, one that I gladly would repeat it again, sadly it ended, was already accustomed to the sound of artillery all day and shoots of weapons at every moment, your life pending by a threat that could be cut at any time, there is no drug more powerful than that, it was a highly risk sport being in the trenches for me, along with the experience."
"I lost count of the amount of people I killed during this time until I got numb just another life and death, they were just another number, dont mattered anymore as a thought for a moment" Henriks tells him while remembering this time
"Your life ended, I gived you the gift of continuing living"
"I shouldn't have died there and you know it, you where not part of this war, that guy you called Marcel was and he was about to die at my hands, so i should have lived if it weren't for you who attacked me like a bitch from the shadows, so yeah i dont owe you anything for your gift"
"I should be enraged and pulling your heart even but I know it will not change what i am now" Henrik just tells him that as a defiance, actually he cant do shit to him and even needs to protect him in case something happens, because he needs to continue the history, his survival is depending of that, having a idea that maybe the moment he is born again something will happen.