A GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE
Fan Fiction sequel of: "A gentleman and his mistress"
From: Lovely Vero
This sequel story is entirely dedicated to one of my most faithful reviewer,
who was also a writer on this site, member name: Kol & Elena.
I thank her friend for informing me that she had passed away from cancer.
Sweetie, I know how much you loved: "A gentleman and his mistress".
Therefore this sequel is entirely written for you,
I know that you will be reading from heaven.
Chapter 1
"The wedding"
Part 1
THE CHAPEL OF LOVE (Dixie Cups)
Spring is here
The sky is blue
Birds all sing
As if they knew
Today's the day
We'll say I do
And we'll never be lonely anymore
Because we're
Goin' to the chapel and we're
Gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel and we're
Gonna get married
Gee, I really love you and we're
Gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel of love
Bells will ring
The sun will shine
I'll be his and
He'll be mine
We'll love until
The end of time
And we'll never be lonely anymore
Because we're
Goin' to the chapel and we're
Gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel and we're
Gonna get married
Gee, I really love you and we're
Gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel of love
Finally the month of May announced itself with bright rays of sun, the warm of a spring breeze, the blooming of flowers, the harmonious chirping of birds, and a grumpy Charles Brownston!
A previous month filled with cleaning tasks and handling a nervous staff, just before the finishing touches of a wedding, would had made a saint grumpy, and this butler in chief was not a saint by any means. Let just say that pure and angelic thoughts were not in Charles Brownton's mind at the present moment, especially after another blissful night.
Charles opened his eyes widely, while being directly hit, in the face, by what seemed to be a laser, ray of sun. He turned his head toward the alarm clock, placed on his bedside table, and noticed the shining red figures informing him of the very early call of 6:00 am.
He pushed the bed sheet very gently at his feet, while sliding his legs over the mattress, before putting his feet on the hardwood floor. A happy smile suddenly appeared on his face, while feeling feminine and manicured hands caressing his waist, before rising on his muscular chest, a soft touch that triggered a wave of electricity through his entire body.
"It's early; you should go back to bed, my dear." Charles whispered to her.
"Is it a polite way to ask me to get out of your private quarter, Mister Charles Brownston?" Elizabeth whispered in his right ear, while rising on her knees, with only the sheet to cover her naked body, before encircling his chest with both of her arms and kiss the base of his neck.
"Believe me my dear, if this day was not the "D" day, you would not leave my bed so easily." He replied to her, before turning his head to drown his sight in hers, while capturing her lips in a sweet kiss.
Elizabeth moaned sounds of pleasure, before deepening their kiss and sliding her hands in Charles's hair. He turned on himself, while pushing her body back into a lying position on the bed, sliding his own on hers, while grabbing her wrists and pushing her arms and hands above her head, in a firm grip of his own hands.
"Well, Mr. Brownston, aren't you in a feisty and playful mood this morning." Elizabeth giggled, while feeling his lips slide on the right side of her neck.
"Oh my dear, I believe that you bring the worst in me." He replied to her, while laughing and nibbling on her right ear lobe, rubbing his hands over the roundness of her hips.
"What I personally think, Mister Charles, is that you've always been a bad, naughty boy. You were just afraid to show it." She whispered to him, while staring into his eyes.
"What have you done with me, Elizabeth?" Charles whispered, near her lips, while sliding strands of her auburn hair behind her ears. "I'm too old for this."
"My aching body is thinking otherwise. Especially after last night." She replied, while blinking an eye at him, making Charles blushed in an instant. "But, then you have this completely shy and innocent boy attitude inside of you, and my heart missed a beat every time I look at you."
Charles smiled shyly, before caressing her cheeks, and sliding his thumb on the length of her bottom lips.
"I think it would be safer for you…" He started, before being cut by Elizabeth, with her finger placed over his lips.
"For me, to leave your room before the staff wake up…I know." She said to him, while loosing her smile, and gently pushing him away from her, while raising herself in a sitting position.
"Look at me, Elizabeth." Charles asked her, while taking her chin in his right hand, and turning her head toward him. "I'm not ashamed of you, or the thought of us together…But, My dear, you must know that today is the wedding, and we have in our hands two very nervous vampires…It's not the moment to make it official."
Elizabeth drowned her sight in his, while blushing slightly.
"Are you sure it is the only reason, Charles?" She asked him. "Maybe this…This arrangement suits you perfectly, and you are not in need of a commitment." She mumbled in her teeth, while avoiding his sight.
"Elizabeth? If I was a playboy, you would know already…I'm just a grumpy old man, with grumpy manners…I'm not playing with you in any way." He explained, before seeing her smile.
"In that case…" She murmured, before bending her head near his, grabbing his chin, and putting a kiss on his lips. "…It's my time to leave." She added, before dropping the sheet from her chest and sliding her legs on the floor, before feeling the soft caress of Charles's hand in her back. "But, if you continue to caress me this way, Charles Brownston, I won't be able to leave." She mocked him, before turning her head to smile and stare at him.
Charles sighed, while smiling at her. Whatever he had done in his miserable life to deserve this woman was still a mystery to him, even more so, that this gorgeous woman shared his bed since several weeks now.
"Go…It's wiser." He murmured to her, while bending his head, and sweet kissing her left shoulder.
The repetitive banging noise on Charles's bedroom door, made them startle in surprise.
"Who would come to see you at this hour?" Elizabeth murmured, in total shock, while raising the sheet on her chest.
Charles shrugged his shoulders, while putting a finger on his lips as a gesture to stay silent, before reaching for his uniform pants placed on a chair and dressing himself.
"Yes?" Charles replied in a louder voice.
"Charles it's … It's Elijah, I'm sorry to disturb you so early in the morning, but can we talk?" Elijah shouted through the bedroom door, while bending his head near the door, and closing his eyes.
"Oh my God, Charles…It's Master Elijah!" Elizabeth exclaimed in a low murmur, while jumping out of the bed, before pulling the sheet on her naked body.
"I'm coming in the room." Elijah said through the door.
"Hide behind the door…" Charles whispered in panic to Elizabeth.
"Why is the door not locked?" She murmured more, while rushing toward the opposite wall, where the door would open in a matter of seconds.
"Old habits, I guess…" Charles replied, before the door opened in front of his eyes.
"Hi…" Elijah said, a bit dumfounded, while entering Charles's bedroom.
"Well, hello there…If it is not the future groom of the day!" Charles replied to Elijah, while blushing, and passing a nervous hand through his hair.
Elijah narrowed his sight on Charles, before crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Are you alright Charles?" He asked him, while tilting his head.
"I'm awake and cheerful as a Chaffinch!" Charles exclaimed, while putting his hands on each side of his waist, before taking a look in the corner of his eyes at the poor Elizabeth, who was standing behind the door, with the sheet glued to her chest.
"A chaffinch?" Elijah repeated, while raising one of his eyebrows. "As I can see, you're as nervous as me, because of today's event." Elijah replied to him, while putting his left hand on the door to close it.
"No, no, no, no…" Charles exclaimed, while shaking his hands in front of Elijah. "No need to close the door!" He added, while making Elijah startle. "I love the smell of the spring breeze in the morning!"
"It's a door, not a window, Charles…And it's leading to the corridor." Elijah replied to Charles, while opening his eyes widely. "But, as you wish..." Elijah added, before pacing back and forth, while Elizabeth made the cross sign in front of her chest, as a thank you to God.
Elijah started to pace back in forth, while passing several time in front of a petrified Elizabeth.
"You know what she did?" Elijah said, while waving a finger at Charles.
"Well, the list of things that Miss Katherine does in a day can easily add up rapidly, what is the thing that seems to bother you, son?" Charles asked him, while stamping his feet nervously.
"I feel ashamed for saying this to you…" Elijah said, while continuing his back and forth walk. "…I believe it's been a while since, you know….Well, since you've been in a close relationship, Charles…I mean physical one." Elijah started explaining, while nodding his head to Charles.
"Well…" Charles replied to him, while blushing intensively.
"I'm sorry…I am obviously crossing the boundaries, here...But, she forbid me to come near her bedroom since six weeks! Six weeks, Charles…She said that because I wanted to be so traditional, she would be as traditional as me, and we would avoid all intimacy before the wedding night! Can you imagine this, six weeks without the woman you desire in your bed?" Elijah asked him.
"Not at the present moment…I can hardly imagine…" Charles replied, while shrugging his shoulders to an Elizabeth who had put a hand over her mouth, to forbid herself to burst into laughter.
"She plays with my last nerves, Charles…Like a puppet in her hands." Elijah busted more, while shaking his head.
Charles coughed, while hiding his hilarity, before crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"And you would not love her less if she was anything different than what she is now." Charles responded to Elijah, before adding. "What I think, son, is that you are a nervous wreck because today you're marrying the woman that you love, and that is taking the best of your usual reserved attitude."
Elijah stopped his pacing, while raising his sight at Charles.
"Why are you almost, always right, Charles, you know that most of the time, it's getting on my nerves?" Elijah replied to him, with a mocking tone of voice, while nodding his head.
Charles giggled, before reaching Elijah's standing position, and putting a friendly hand on his left shoulder.
"I think we both know, what the real problem is…A big part of the past needs to be put to rest before entering your new life with Miss Katherine." Charles said to him.
Elijah locked his sight in Charles's, before nodding his head to him.
"I don't know how." He replied to his friend.
"You'll find a way, son." Charles reassured Elijah.
"I'm so sorry. I barged in here, Charles, while forbidding you to sleep." Elijah replied to him, while turning on himself, and taking a few walking steps to reach the exit of the bedroom.
"It's a busy day in front of us, I was already awake." Charles replied, while taking a glimpse at a mortified, silent, and immobile Elizabeth.
Elijah reached the door, before grabbing the handle, and pushing the door close, in the intention of sharing a last private thought with Charles, while jumping, and finding himself, face to face, to a mouth open, half naked Elizabeth.
"Oh…Master Elijah…I'm…I'm ashamed right now." Elizabeth mumbled in her teeth, almost incoherently, while Charles while putting a hand in front of his eyes, before taking a peak with an eye. "I can assure you that I was not eavesdropping…I was…I mean … I …." She mumbled more, before raising higher the sheet on her chest.
Elijah stayed immobile for a few seconds, with a speechless expression on his face, before turning on himself and taking a quick glance at Charles, who shrugged his shoulders.
"No, Elizabeth, please …I'm so sorry…" Elijah mumbled, while blushing and trying to avoid looking at her. "I would never think that…Actually for the first time in my life, I'm kind of without words." Elijah said to both of them, while still blushing. "I'm profoundly sorry to bother you…I mean…And petrify at the same time to have…I mean…To have disturbed you both…I'm repeating myself" He mumbled more, while passing a nervous hand through his hair. "Again sorry to have disturbed whatever this is…Well, obviously, it looks like…Wishing you a nice day!" Elijah said finally, before storming out of the bedroom in a hurry.
Charles walked toward the door, before closing it on its frame, and turning his sight toward Elizabeth, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Well, that was not too bad. So much for keeping this a secret for the time being, don't you think?" Charles asked Elizabeth, who was bending her upper body. "My dear are you ok?" He asked her.
Elizabeth raised her head to look at Charles, while straightening her upper body, before bursting into laughter.
"Oh Charles, did you see the face of Master Elijah and his stuttering?" She asked him, while giggling and reaching the bed to take a sitting position. Charles sat beside her, before bursting into laughter himself.
"Oh my dear…I believe it's the first time I saw him speechless." He added, while sliding his right arm around her shoulders and bringing her into his arms, before kissing her forehead.
Mikael directed his steps toward the parlour room of his new Manor, located in one of the suburbs near the downtown of London, while hearing the acute sound of broken glasses. He entered the room, before crossing his arms in front of his chest, and taking a look at Eric, who was standing in front of his latest outburst. He took a few walking steps to reach the bar, before pouring himself a glass of Whisky.
"You know my dear Eric; your uncontrollable temper will be one day your own death." Mikael expressed his feeling to Charles's son, while raising his glass in the air and gulping the amber liquid.
"I can't bear the thought of my beloved father, at the altar with your son and his vampire whore, soon to be wife." He busted in anger.
Mikael smirked, before taking a sitting place in a comfortable leather arm chair.
"Why are you smiling that way?" Eric asked him, while taking unsteady walking steps toward his sitting position. It was obvious that he had his share of alcohol.
"Well, my dear, you always seem to forget the extreme irony of it all." Mikael started explaining, while tilting his head. "Your father seems to have taken my place in my son's life, and I took his in yours."
"Wow! You came out with this idea all by yourself, Mikael? Well, enlighten me even more of your knowledge, Oh, Original!" Eric replied, while bending his upper body in a reverence, before gulping the bottle of Brandy that he was holding in his right hand.
"You're drunk!" Mikael replied, while narrowing his sight at him, and rising on his feet. "I don't tolerate this kind of behaviour. Put yourself together, Eric." He ordered, before pushing him out of his way, and taking a few walking steps toward the exit of the room.
"Or what…What would you do?" Eric asked him.
Mikeal took a few steps backward, while facing Eric.
"You don't want to have the answer to this question, young, foolish man!" Mikael busted in his face, before adding. "I suggest that you put yourself together, we are near the end game, Eric, and I want you to be ready for it!"
Eric stared into Mikael's eyes, before lowering his sight in respect and nodding his head.
"That is better." Mikael said, before asking. "Where are the coffins now?"
"They arrived at the London port this morning." Eric responded to him.
"Perfect!" Mikael exclaimed, while gently slapping, the left cheek of the young man. "We're back in business as scheduled my dear Eric!"
Katherine was standing in front of her bedroom window, on her wedding day, with her eyes closed while enjoying the morning rays of sun on her face. She startled suddenly, and came back to reality, when she heard the vibration sound of her cell phone. She smiled while reaching her bedside table, before looking at the caller ID: Elijah!
"Yes." She responded, while biting her lips to not burst into laughter. The poor man must have reached his peak of tolerance by now.
"This is ridiculous, Katherine! I need to see you. You should have the decency to come meet me, downstairs, in my office; I want to speak to you, now!" He ordered her.
"Nope…" She responded, while looking at her fresh manicured nails, before hearing him growl in her phone. "…It's totally against the tradition to see the future bride, especially on the wedding day." She added to him, while smiling heavenly.
"Fuck the tradition!" He lashed out, making her startle in surprise.
"Elijah Mikaelson just said fuck to me?" She asked him, while opening her eyes widely, and putting a hand over her mouth to control her hilarity.
"Katerina, I swear I will go upstairs and I will carry you on my shoulders, and bring you back here, if I have to!" He warned her, in a too nicely tone to be just a simple warning.
"My dear Elijah, You couldn't. The door is locked!" She replied to him, whilelaying on her bed, and playing with the silk belt of her dressing gown.
"It's not a closed door that will forbid me to obtain what I want, Katherine; you should know me by now." Elijah warned her.
"Mm, you jumped from Katherine to Katerina in a matter of seconds, interesting …A door won't certainly stop you, but a few of your wedding guests who already arrived yesterday night would. You wouldn't cause a scene in front of them, Elijah?" Katherine asked him, while giggling.
Elijah closed his eyes and fists in anger, while passing a hand through his hair.
"You're going to pay for all of this, Katherine!"
"Mm…Is this a promise, Elijah?" She asked him, while passing the tip of her tongue on the length of her bottom lip.
Elijah sighed, while closing his eyes and counting to ten, before smiling.
"You're the most stubborn, dreadful woman that I ever met in my entire life!" Elijah mumbled angrily between his teeth.
"Mm, how charming…And yet you want me to be your wife!" Katherine replied, while smiling heavenly. "Even, if I told you that this marriage will not work between us."
"I always loved a good challenge." Elijah replied to her, while smirking, and taking place on his desk chair, before raising his feet on the desktop. "Did you sleep well?" He asked her.
"Like a baby!" She replied to him. "Did you?" She mocked him openly.
Elijah frowned, while sighing.
"I slept." He simply responded, before asking. "What is the dress that I saw hanging in front of your wardrobe?"
"The dress…" She innocently asked.
"The red, long gown…" He explained to her.
"You snooped into my bedroom, Elijah." Katherine asked him, while smirking. "You're a very bad, bad boy who should be punished…Oh wait! You already are."
"Don't push it, Katherine!" He warned her, while closing his fists in anger, before adding. "No, I was not spying, the door was open yesterday, and one of the maids was passing the vacuum, when I very briefly noticed it hanging in front of your wardrobe." Elijah informed her.
"Mm, interesting…" She replied to him, while playing with a strand of her hair.
"So?" He asked her more.
"So, Elijah…What do you so desperately need to know?" She replied to him.
"What is this dress for?" He repeated, while trying to keep his calm.
"Oh, that is the question?" She said, in a false innocent tone of voice. "It's my wedding dress."
Elijah startled, while rising on his feet, before pacing back and forth in front of his desk.
"You wouldn't dare!" He screamed into his phone.
"Oh, but I would…" She replied to him, while smirking even more.
"It's red!" He lashed out in anger.
"Yes, I believe the dress is red…But, I am certainly not a virgin, so why wearing a white dress? Plus, I thought that it would symbolize perfectly our relationship, don't you?" She asked him, in the verge of bursting into loud laughter.
"I'll rip it off of your back!" He screamed at her.
"Mm…Grr…I love it when you're a real man…Promises, promises, Elijah." She answered him, with the tip of her finger places on her bottom lips. "Ok bye!" She suddenly announced.
"Ok, bye? Katherine!" He warned her.
"What? I'm busy Elijah…I need to take a bath, do my hair, makeup." She replied to him.
"I know something that you don't." He announced, while shaking his bottom and making some dance moves, before taking back his sitting position….Tit for tat Katherine!
"What?' She said, while biting at his bait and straightening her body in a sitting position. "Tell me, what do you know?"
"I'm not sure." He replied to her, while turning a pen in his finger, and smiling. "Would you like to know? It's a big gossip like you love them."
"Of course I want to know!" She busted into the phone, while hitting his close fist on the mattress. "What is it, Elijah, Tell me? Is it Charles?"
"Oh, look at the time…I don't remember actually…And, I am obviously very busy today, wedding to attend, you know…Taking a bath, shave, dressing myself." He listed to her, while grinning.
"Go to hell, Elijah!" She replied to him, before closing her cell phone, and throwing it on the bed, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, and pouting.
Elijah busted into loud laughter, before closing his own, crossing his hands behind his head, while raising his feet back on the desk top. This marriage would be an enjoyable pleasure after all.
"Delivery of 5 hundreds white roses." A man shouted, while reaching Charles's standing position on the front porch of the manor. "You need to sign her." The man added, while seeing Charles signed his paper. "Where do we, me and my man, need to bring the boxes of flowers?"
"Take the cobbled path toward the garden; you'll see a big reception tent, ask to talk to Louisa, she is the wedding planner." Charles explained to the man.
"Thank you Mister…" The man said, before looking at the signature. "…Brownston."
Charles nodded his head, before crossing his arms in front of his chest and keeping an eye at the row of delivery trucks, when he suddenly turned his head to the right, feeling a presence at his side.
"You look beautiful, Miss Katherine." He said, while smiling, before seeing her walk toward his standing position.
"Thank you." She responded to him, while blushing.
She was not wearing her wedding gown yet, but her hair was falling in big, lustrous curls on her shoulders, with two small braids joined in the back with small white flowers placed sporadically on their lengths. Her makeup was sophisticated and subtle at the same time, but very feminine.
"Nervous?" He asked her, to which she shrugged her shoulders.
"Are you?" She asked him, tit of tat.
"Well, Miss Katherine, It's not every day that I walk a young woman to the altar." He replied to her, while shaking his head.
"Thank you for the young woman part." She replied, while blinking an eye at him.
"You're mostly welcome." He replied to her, while blinking back at her.
"Charlie?" She called his name, while putting a hand on his right forearm.
"Yes, Miss Katherine?" He replied, while suspiciously watching her from the corner of his eyes.
"Charlie Poo Poo, I need you…" She asked him, with sad eyes.
Charles turned his head, while raising one of his eyebrows.
"Oh look at the time." He suddenly exclaimed, while looking at his watch. "Well, I need to get going, a lot of things to do, before the big event, Miss Katherine!" He added, before taking a few walking steps toward the entrance of the Manor, while trying to escape her.
"A father of the bride is supposed to be present the day of her wedding, while helping her if needed." Katherine exclaimed, while raising her chin in the air.
Charles stopped his pace, while closing his eyes and counting to ten, before turning to look at her in the eyes.
"What is the problem, Miss Katherine?" He asked her.
"I don't know what to say in my wedding vows?" She said to him, while shrugging her shoulders.
"And you think that I would be able to help you?" Charles responded to her, while leaning his back on the porch ramp.
"I don't know." Katherine said, while shrugging her shoulders, before adding. "Where's Elijah?"
"He took Rosemary for a ride." Charles responded to her, before adding. "I believe that he is as nervous as you are at this present moment."
"I highly doubt it." She responded, while rubbing her hands nervously.
"He is, believe me, Miss Katherine." Charles confirmed to her, while nodding his head. "And you know why he is so nervous? Because, he feels that the past don't give him right to take you as his wife." He added to her. "You need to talk to him."
Katherine turned her head to look at Charles, while swallowing a lump in her throat.
"I can't …" She replied to Charles, while shaking her head.
"Yes, you can." Charles replied to her, before adding. "Wait for his return, and go talk to him. It's a day to start fresh and think of your future with your future husband and Theodore."
Katherine closed her eyes, while feeling a range of emotions hitting her.
"You'll be ok." Charles murmured to her, before kissing her forehead.
Katherine's bedroom door opened on a Max who barked and on an Elizabeth who smiled, before closing it on its frame behind them.
"Hey Max!" Katherine exclaimed, while kneeling on the floor to caress the dog. "Look at you with your black bowtie in your neck. You look very stylish and handsome." She said, while caressing his ears, to which he barked even more.
"I thought that we could dress him up for the big occasion." Elizabeth said to Katherine, while smiling, before taking a few walking steps toward her.
"He looks very nice, aren't you, Max?" Katherine said, before rising on her feet.
"Oh Miss Katherine, and so do you. Look at your hair, you are so beautiful today." Elizabeth exclaimed, while putting a hand over her chest.
"You're not going to cry, I hope?" Katherine asked, while tensing in nervousness.
"Not yet, Miss Katherine, but probably later, weddings always have this effect on me. And, this one is even more special, being yours and Master Elijah's, of course." Elizabeth explained, before taking one more step toward her, and hugging Katherine. "I love you both, so much." She added to her, making Katherine closed her yes, while feeling small tears rolling on her cheeks. "Bless you my child."
"Thank you Elizabeth." Katherine responded, out of words, while detaching herself of their embrace.
"Nervous?" Elizabeth asked her, while tilting her head and crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"A little bit." Katherine responded to her, while pushing the window curtains and taking a glimpse outside.
"The invitees started to arrive. I thought that I would check on you before getting ready myself." She added to Katherine. "And, I was sent in a special mission, also." Elizabeth added, while smirking.
Katherine turned her head toward Elizabeth, before raising one of her eyebrows.
"Is he back from his horse ride?" She asked her.
"Master Elijah? Not yet." Elizabeth responded, while shaking her head, before adding. "But, he was very concerned about a certain red dress?" Elizabeth added as a question.
Katherine rolled her eyes, while sighing and taking a few walking steps to reach her wardrobe, before opening the wooded door and showing it to Elizabeth.
"Oh..." Elizabeth exclaimed, while putting a hand over her mouth to contain her laughter.
"It's my nightgown for the honeymoon." Katherine explained, while rolling her eyes even more. "He took a glimpse while snooping around and thought it was my wedding gown." She explained more to Elizabeth.
"Oh Miss Katherine, you're torturing this poor man." Elizabeth added, while giggling.
"Nothing that he can't handle, I can assure you." She responded, while shrugging her shoulders.
"Well, what am I supposed to tell him now?" Elizabeth asked her.
"That it is still my wedding dress that he saw while spying, that will teach him a lesson." Katherine responded.
Elizabeth turned on herself, while taking a few walking steps to reach the bedroom door.
"Well, I don't know if I'll have the heart to make him suffer?" She replied to Katherine, while smiling, before suddenly loosing her balance, faltering her steps, and putting a hand on her forehead.
"Elizabeth, are you ok?" Katherine exclaimed, suddenly concerned, while holding Elizabeth with her arms around her shoulders. "Do you need to sit?"
"I don't know. I suddenly felt dizzy, all of a sudden, like I would faint." Elizabeth replied while closing her eyes for a few seconds.
"Ok, you need to sit on the bed." Katherine suggested, while helping her reach the bed. "Now, sit, and just breathe."
"Oh Miss Katherine, this is ridiculous, I'm fine, I just felt a bit dizzy for a second…I had nausea this morning, so I did not eat breakfast, and it must have unbalanced my body." Elizabeth responded, while seeing Katherine coming toward her, from the adjacent bathroom, with a glass of water in her hands.
"Drink this!" Katherine ordered, while handing the glass and two aspirins to Elizabeth.
"Thank you, Miss Katherine." Elizabeth said, while drinking the water and handing the glass back to her. "I'm so sorry, it's your day, and I don't want to ruin it for you, I'm fine now." She announced while getting back on her feet.
"You're sure that you are ok?" Katherine asked her. "I'm worrying about you, now."
"Yes, don't be silly, I'm fine! Now, I will go and prepare for the big event, I have the duty of the best man to fill." She added, with a smile on her lips, while caressing the cheeks of Katherine, before opening the bedroom door and ordering. "Come on, Max!"
Katherine turned, before reaching the window and noticing a horseman galloping toward the Manor from a far distance.
"Come beautiful." Elijah said to Rosemary, while pulling her inside the stables.
Rosemary followed Elijah inside, before being stripped off her saddle.
"Good girl!" Elijah murmured, while caressing her back, and turning to put the saddle on top of its bracket, before feeling a presence behind him. Elijah turned and faced Katherine, who was standing near Rosemary.
"That is for you Rosemary." She whispered, while handing a green apple to the horse, before turning and facing Elijah herself.
They stood immobile, face to face; with their sight drown into each other,
"Why did you kill my entire family, Elijah?" Katherine whispered, while staring at him with teary eyes.
Elijah swallowed a lump in his throat, before closing his eyes for a fraction of second, and reopening them.
"I'm sorry Katerina…It was an awful turn of events, believe me." He whispered back, while feeling the tears filling his own eyes.
"You're calling killing my entire family an awful turn of events? That is your excuse for it?" She busted in anger, while gesturing with her hands.
"You ran away, Katerina. Klaus was mad as hell; he wanted me and Trevor to find you, and to bring you back to him. He needed you for his sacrifice, and he was not backing away from this idea." Elijah screamed, while pacing back and forth in front of her. "And then, you made the stupidest move ever. Why did you have to kill yourself? Why did you have to become a vampire?" He asked, in obvious mental pain.
"Why, Elijah? How can you ask me this question, because I was running away from him in the attempt to save my own life….And then, I arrived home, and my entire family had been viciously killed, what do you have to say about that?" She screamed at his face, while feeling the tears falling fluently on her cheeks.
"I could have saved you…But you left." He mumbled in his teeth, while feeling his own tears falling.
"I don't believe you." She responded, while passing the back of her hands to sweep her tears.
"I had a potion, an elixir made for you. It was supposed to bring you back to life after the sacrifice." Elijah explained to her, while reaching her standing position and grabbing her by the shoulders. "Look at me! But you ran away, and I could not find you anywhere, and Trevor had instructions to kill your family. Klaus suspected him to have sentiments toward you and he was mad as hell. So, to prove his allegiance to Klaus, he needed to kill your entire family, Katerina."
"They were all massacred…There was blood every where." She lashed out.
"I know. I'm so sorry, so sorry." Elijah murmured, while caressing her hair. "I never wanted this to happen; I wanted to spare you, to spare your entire family. I wanted you to stay human…How much I always cherished our moments together, and the humanity inside of you, Katerina."
Katherine shook her head, before pushing him away from her.
"You liked the old me, the human me. But, Katerina died the day I hung myself and decided to become a vampire to save myself from your brother." She said to him, with an empty stare.
"I like you as you are now." Elijah whispered to her, while shaking his head to her.
"It's not me you want to marry, Elijah, It's her, the memory of her." She said, while locking her eyes in his, before running out of the stables.
"Katerina!" Elijah screamed, while running behind her, before holding his pace and staying immobile, seeing her vanished from his sight.
Writer's note:
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my dear readers, for this unconditional love and excitement that you already have for this sequel story.
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Lovely Vero.