You always know there's going to be trouble when teachers say they're picking your partners. Katherine is no idiot, she knows there's only two possible outcomes when you get paired with a person you've never said a word to; your friends pressure you into dating them (only the really hot ones, but Katherine seems to be a magnet for the really hot ones. Or so Caroline says), or they end up to be a control freak that hates you and thinks you're going to ruin the entire thing so they do all the work. Katherine would prefer it be the second one, but that's just personal preference. ¨Pierce, Mikaelson.¨
¨Which one?¨ Katherine's voice mostly sounds like she really could care less which one it was. Somehow it seems to slip this teacher's mind that he has two Mikaelson children in his class.
¨Elijah.¨ Mr. Lumsden is really good at the whole if I could put duct tape over one student's mouth it would be yours, Ms. Pierce tone, he has to be. Well, at least Elijah Mikaelson is smart, and good at hard work. He is the polar opposite of Katherine. ¨I know a few of you that will be praying for mercy by the end of this week, all I'm saying is don't come to me.¨ Sometimes Katherine feels like this guy should be king of hell, not teaching high school.
When she sits down next to the guy she's never spoken to, yeah it's one of those, she can't help but feel like her usual snarky personality has to be put on the shelf for awhile, like he's freaking royalty. Half of her is telling her is yes, half of her is how about no. Whatever the hell kind of sorcery he was using to make himself seem important was so not on her list of priorities, and frankly, a little douchey.
¨Hi. I'm Katherine, Kat, your new best friend for the next week.¨ That seemed like something that should come with a handshake, and yet she sat stock still next to him. Honestly, this guy's eyes were looking into her soul and it had been a fraction of a second she had known him. Gosh, this might be the weirdest thing to happen to her in high school so far, and that was saying something, she was graduating this year.
¨Elijah Mikaelson, not really knowing how to describe himself.¨ Wait, she knew she had seen this guy somewhere. He was almost always reading at lunch, the good stuff too, not young adult vampire romance novels. She knew him for the copy of To Kill a Mockingbird he had left sitting at his table last year, so she gave it back to him. Right, so they had exchanged a few words.
¨You're book guy. I bet you also like classical music and have a sad backstory, right?¨ That was Katherine, always making sarcastic little comments.
¨Spot on.¨ Elijah says with chuckle and a smile directed at the girl who already knew he would love that joke. She calls it her spidy sense for sarcastic comments, or maybe she's really just that good.
And so Elijah Mikaelson proves himself to be someone who can joke around, good, good, she would need that if she were to survive this. ¨Alright, on to the actual work. Wow, never ever thought I would say that,¨ Katherine pauses for a few moments because yes she did just say that they needed to work and was now somewhat convinced that Elijah was a sorcerer, ¨literally, ever.¨
After even Katherine freaking Pierce saying they needed to start working, the two ended up spending most of the class period discussing movies and how they should've ended, before realizing that they now only had six days to work…crap, well now Katherine had an excuse to invite him over to watch some of the movies they debated, and explain to him that she was right, or I mean, work, on the project…
So that's how they both ended up at midnight on Sunday, scrambling to finish a project that theoretically could have been finished on Wednesday, if they hadn't spent all of their time watching movies, and Elijah convincing Katherine to read a book for once (to be honest she had loved reading when she was younger, and then parties happened, and Caroline Forbes happened). So as Katherine was stabbing each letter on her keyboard like they had done something to personally offend her to finish a Powerpoint presentation, Elijah started speaking. Katherine was only half listening, she was more focused on how she had to put everything from the website on the presentation without making it look like she copied all of her information from the internet, when the words ¨Will you go on a date with me?¨ spilled out of Elijah's mouth, and if Katherine had any sort of drink this would be a great spit take moment. She was pretty sure what he said next was something along the lines of ¨I really like you and I think we have real chemistry because we always have so much to talk about...¨ and ohmygod he was rambling and it was really cute.
Turning to face him, she catches his lips while in the middle of a word. When she pulled away and goes back to typing she can't help laughing at the gigantic grin on Elijah's face. ¨That answer your question?¨
¨That was a really nice way of telling me to shut up. And um, yeah, it does answer my question.¨ Elijah moves to her side, and Katherine guesses he either wants to be kissed again, or wants to actually work on the project. Whatever the reason, she's glad he's there, because it does give her the excuse to kiss him again.