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"Enough with all the racket!" Klaus shouted as Torsten sighed from his bedroom as a loud drilling sound could be heard. Picking himself out from the bed he shrugged on some pants and walked outside to where the noise was coming from standing beside Klaus. Elijah smiled up at Klaus and Torsten asking the men to give them a moment.
"You do realise living in a compound with you two, it's impossible to get any sleep." Torsten complained groggily.
"Yes well I agrees to a general sprucing up not a three ring circus." Klaus spat.
"Speak for yourself I didn't agree to any of it." Torsten huffed walking down the stairs about to make his way out but Elijah stopped him holding out shoes and a shirt.
"I have gotten complaints of a man walking around almost naked all month, now while this isn't unusual, they do not expect the same man to be doing it all hours of the day especially not when visiting a country club." Elijah sighed with a frown and Klaus looked to Torsten with a large smirk and a raised eyebrow. Torsten snatched the shirt and shrugged it on before placing the boots on.
"Yes well perhaps they can sod off. I was in the mood for sophistication not backwashed high school drops outs who don't know the meaning of eloquence much less how to spell it." Torsten complained as he stormed out of the compound making Elijah chuckle rubbing the back of his neck. Once Torsten made it out into the open street he saw Faith standing there and a small smile formed on his lips as he appeared in front of her. "I'm Torsten Mikaelson" He held out his hand.
"The brother of my sister's baby daddy," Faith commented with a smirk.
"Hm sounds about right. Now what is it a pretty little girl like you doing roaming the streets with no shoes?" Torsten added gesturing to her feet but Faith smirked letting her body turn to the side for a moment as she met his gaze challenging.
"Now why would I ever have to answer that huh? Are you like my babysitter?" Faith inquired as she brushed past him making Torsten roll his eyes following after Faith.
"Not your babysitter. I bet you've probably been to New Orleans before." Torsten shrugged as he held his hands behind his back and Faith glanced up at him with a shrug.
"Oh yeah, but I've been to a lot of places." Faith shrugged uncaringly.
"Why aren't you staying with Hayley in the bayou?" Torsten inquired lazily.
"Um I value hygiene, I'm not ass-backwards poor yet and I don't own anything under $200 so I am not stepping foot in that rat infested swamp." Faith pointed out coldly. "She offered I declined." Faith pointed out with a shrug.
"Sister of the year." Torsten huffed.
"If she wants to get to know me I'm sure she can do it in civilisation." Faith huffed as she turned the corner to walk into a bar and Torsten followed behind closely.
"Charming. Well can I offer to buy a drink for the beautiful lady in front of me?" Torsten asked leaning closer to Faith and he noticed she didn't back away only grinned as she leaned closer to him.
"Cute, I'll take a rum and coke. Maybe try for some gumbo or something I'm starving." Faith groaned walking away unaffected by his compliments. Torsten gazed as her leaving to a booth and chuckled before turning to the bar with a sigh.
"Hello Cami darling, I'll have rum and coke, a gin and tonic and some gumbo." Torsten huffed looking at Cami.
"Okay who's the girl?" Cami asked as she began to mix the cocktails. "And you know I always thought gin and tonics were for old white men with too much money." Cami bit with a mean smile. Torsten took the drinks in his hand with a pout.
"That my darling Cami was rude but considering I'm older than your great, great grandfather and probably one of the richest people in America you aren't far off." Torsten shrugged as he turned around and walked back to the table handing her the drink. Faith took it with a smile and took a sip. "SO why don't you tell me a bit about yourself sweet Faith?" Torsten asked with a small smile making Faith roll her eyes.
"Well I got a 4.0 GPA, I was prom Queen, on the honour roll, I won a hot dog eating competition when I was 17 won $50, total rip off but it paid for the pie I ate afterwards. Um I have a house in the Hamptons and an apartment in Venice. Oh and I'm a witch, my father's dying. Can't wait for him to kick the bucket. I'll be taking over his company after he finally dies. I'm currently single and not looking for a relationship oh and I took some kind of martial arts class throughout high school and elementary school, can't for the life of me remember what it was called. And that's pretty much sums me up excluding a few details." Faith informed him with a proud smile.
"A hot dog competition you say?" Torsten asked as Cami delivered the gumbo and Torsten smile up at him as Faith dug into her gumbo nodding.
"Yeah, you could say all those years of my up close and personal relationship with them finally paid off." Faith bit back with a proud smirk as Torsten nodded.
"Well aren't you a treat that's hard to beat." Torsten chuckled impressed as he took a sip.
"Yes I am now after I finish this are you going to take me around this city or are you going to leave me all on my lonesome?" Faith asked with a simple shrug her smirk growing as Torsten huffed turning his head to the side.
"I think you are more interesting than I gave you credit for initially. Now I don't have to venture out to the country club to find people half way interesting." Torsten drawled out as Faith finished her food off and slipped out of the booth.
"Oh I'm all kinds of interesting." Faith drawled out lazily as she turned away sauntering out of the bar. Torsten chuckled as he stood up running after her. Once night had fallen the two made their way to the streets of the parade witch festivities both with gifts in their hands. "So which one is your lady love Davina?" Faith asked teasingly as her eyes gazed over the crowd.
"She is hardly my lady love but if you must know she's the beauty in the orange dress." Torsten pointed out with a grin and his eyes met with Davina as he waved flinging his hand everywhere and a grin formed on his lips as he jumped forward watching Davina intently. Genevieve walked up on stage standing in front of the girls.
"And now on accordance with the La Fete des Benedictions the witches of New Orleans bless you all." Genevieve spoke and Torsten and Faith reached their hands out clapping and Faith glanced to the side as she watched Torsten clap his hands together like a love struck puppy. Monique took a step forward with a proud smile as she raised her hands moving the earth beneath their feet. The girl in the middle raised her hands and wind blew from all around them. Davina then turned around raising her hand exploding the firecrackers causing an explosion of smoke and sparks. Fireworks then went off and Torsten and Faith clapped their hands together cheering on. Torsten then turned to Faith with a cheeky grin.
"We're going to the after party darling." Torsten drawled out as he slung an arm over Faith's shoulders pulling her along with him.
"And here I thought it was impossible to have three dates in one day." Faith shook her head confidently.
"Well you underestimate me my dear." Torsten continued, his laugher never fading.
"Of course, so those are New Orleans witches?" Faith asked curiously, she always wanted to meet the witches she belonged to. She guessed there were covens and such as the books and tv shows suggested. But she never thought she'd ever actively pursue it.
"Yes and you are one of them from what I hear." Torsten pointed out as they walked closer to metal gates. Torsten then smirked walking forward and slapping Elijah on the arm and Faith laughed lightly as she looked up at him.
"I'm Faith Fitzroy." She introduced herself with a smirk and Elijah looked down with a small smile.
"Pleasure to make your acquaintance." Elijah bowed.
"Hm I'm sure it is." Faith commented glancing over Elijah before turning and walking away. Torsten let out a loud chuckle following Faith into the building. Torsten gazed around as he watched the Harvest girls standing up there proudly and Genevieve his the glass ready to begin her speech. "Welcome as is our time honoured tradition, you are all welcome to deliver your offerings, it is our custom that no one should be turned away. No blessing be denied." Torsten watched with a frown as Hayley walked to Davina and was directed to Monique and then to Abigail the witch in the white dress. Torsten frowned as he watched it continue. "I'm all for a mean girl but why are they doing that?" Faith inquired with a frown.
"It's because she betrayed the witches by siding with the Vampires before the harvest ritual. It's brutal but that's what the witches of this town are like." Torsten informed her with a frown just as he noticed Klaus dragging Josh to the stairs with Davina trailing behind.
"Ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention please?" Klaus called out. "We are gathered here today to pay thanks to our beloved witches, but one very special witch has been utterly ignored. That seems a little unfair to me." Klaus then held out a box.
"No I don't want your gift." Davina sneered and Torsten chuckled rubbing his nose.
"I understand why you would reject me given our past. Many of us here today have been wronged in the conflict that my brother's treaty ended. Your friend Josh was involved in a plot to kill me. It would be well within my right to execute him here and now, but in the spirit of solidarity and for your favour Davina, I hereby pardon him. Josh from this day forward you have nothing to fear from me." Klaus then smirked handing Davina the box. Once she took it her eyes landed on Genevieve and Torsten laughed as his hand landed on the small of Faith's back and he then led Faith up to Davina who looked at them with a big grin and Torsten pulled her close wrapping his arms around Davina's waist.
"Well don't you just look like the belle of the ball tonight?" Torsten asked with a large grin as he handed her a gift and kissed her cheek. "I couldn't leave you without a gift of my own. Trust me I think you'll love it." Torsten added with a smile and Faith then walked up holding out her hand.
"Hi I'm Faith, I meant to give this to you a while back but anyway, happy whatever day this is." Faith offered holding out another gift making Davina beam.
"Thank you so much, it's nice to meet you. I'm Davina." She introduced herself making Faith nod. "But wait, you look just like Hayley." Davina added.
"She's my twin. Trust me I'm much prettier." Faith added with a coy smile as she went to turn away and walked towards Hayley and Torsten laughed meeting Davina's gaze.
"She's wow." Davina laughed loudly making Torsten nod rubbing the back of his neck.
"She's a lot, but we need to have a little chat later about her, away from prying eyes and ears." Torsten informed Davina seriously and Davina nodded.
"I'll text you when I can." Davina added and Torsten then grinned again as he kissed her forehead and his hand softly held her face so she would look up at him.
"I'm proud of how far you've come Davina. You truly have blossomed into something un-comprehensively amazing." Torsten breathed out with a soft smile.
"Thank you Torsten." Davina smiled back at him. Faith walked up to Hayley with a smirk as she eyes her eyed her sister up and down.
"And every time I see you it just keeps getting better." Faith commented with a proud smile.
"You know you should come down to the bayou really. Meet your family." Hayley sighed not impressed with Faith's comments.
"I'm still taking it under consideration but you know the way this works Hayley is if we meet on both our terms, I came to New Orleans leaving my life and university so come visit you and now you want me to relocate to a swamp? No. I think I want to get to know you when I'm not complaining about mosquitos or dirt on my shoes." Faith commented with a tilt of her head making Hayley frown.
"I don't know how you are my sister. You honestly don't act like my sister." Hayley pointed out.
"I know the feeling." Faith bit back her lips turning into a bitchy smirk. "You wanna bitch back and forth be my guest, I played this game all throughout my high school. Wanna know why? Because I was the mean girl. Now when you feel like a civil conversation come talk to me but I don't take shit from people who demand without giving alternatives and compromise." Faith snarled brushing past her sister with her head held high leaving Hayley standing there slightly shaken.
Torsten smirked as he watched a marching band walk up to them. "We have a message to all of you from Marcel Gerard." The band called out slitting their wrists and Torsten glanced around seeing the vampires eyes darken.
"We do not violate our agreement." Elijah demanded as the lights went out. Torsten frowned as he saw the vampires attacking the humans. Torsten's ears perked up when he saw Faith cry out in pain as a vampire bit into her neck. Torsten ran over to there grabbing her and ripping the heart of the vampire out dripping the heart to the ground. He then ran her out of there as soon as he could. Once he got Faith home he saw her standing there stunned as her eyes gazed far off into the distance. Torsten went to touch her shoulder but she moved away as her eyes met his.
"Getting sentimental on me now huh? Come on, you've only known me a day." Faith bit her voice much colder than Torsten ever heard from her in the day he'd known her. He watched as she walked up to her bedroom shutting the door firmly. Not once did she let her emotions slip. Torsten frowned as he heard her showed turn on and once that showed came, not a word or movement from her could be heard. He then glanced down at his phone screen seeing a text from Davina. He then appeared in front of the cemetery frowning as he stepped closer to her.
"You know Faith?" Torsten inquired making Davina nod. "She was born a werewolf, Hayley's twin sister. But was stillborn. Due to this from what I have heard, her parents begged the ancestors at her funeral to grant their child life, the ancestors agrees granting her life and in the process somehow turning her into a witch, the ancestors power running through her veins. It's quite odd but in future times I wish for you to maybe help teach her magic while I try to do as best I can." Torsten breathed out making Davina look at him wide eyed before nodding.
"I understand." Davina whispered and Torsten sighed as he met Davina's gaze.
"And for the record Davina, you outshined the other harvest girls." Torsten whispered making Davina smile.
"You're different from your brothers. You go out of your way to compliment me, you give me smiles and every time I see you, you make my day better with your kindness. But tonight I saw you rip out a vampires heart. You are a monster but yet I you're kind as well." Davina muttered confused making Torsten smile. He'd never been called kind by someone who knew of his monstrous self. When they knew of his other side they called him dashing, charming, charismatic, passionate. But never had he gotten kind.
"And you Davina Claire, whenever I see your face light up it brings a smile to my lips. But do you want to ask a little question no one has ever been able to figure out the answer to? When is a monster not a monster?" Torsten asked as he leaned closer to Davina who looked at him genuinely confused.
"When?" Davina asked but Torsten only smiled gingerly as he pulled away from Davina.
"I'm hoping one day you'll be able to answer that." Torsten smiled as he disappeared from Davina's sight.