MISS ELIJAH
Elena:
It's never easy making a decision that affects everyone but sometimes it is necessary. As a sixteen year old girl my dreams were what you can say normal, innocent. Be popular, make sure to get good grades to get into med school, decide on my relationship with Matt. By seventeen, I found it difficult to breath, to live day by day as my parents lay dead.
By eighteen I realized that my existence will always bring a curse on this town. By nineteen I am something which I had always hated. A vampire. And yet it never stopped the troubles in my life but only increased it more. As soon as Damon and Stefan heard about the cure, their entire being became obsessed with it. For Stefan the reason being so that I can become the innocent girl he had first met. For Damon because he felt that to be human and live my life would be an ultimate fuck you to the fate that my ancestors had tied me to.
And then there were the Originals who bought a set of mixed feelings in me. Klaus, the reason my Aunt is dead and hundreds of innocents were killed yet who didn't hesitate to take a step back from dream of making Hybrids and freed Tyler from his control when Caroline asked him. Elijah, who made promises and broke them yet he still invoked a trust with his words. Rebecca and Kol who I know literally nothing about.
Today, I came back from a discussion with Damon and Stefan. Both trying to convince me on how to be a vampire. Both showing different opinions. Yet both having the same goal: To make me human. The only problem is I don't know whether I want to be human. I don't know what my dreams are anymore.
My thoughts then drifted to Elijah and my interaction with him. How he shared the Mystic falls history, the school being the site of an Indian village, the caves where his family hid during full moon, the cave he trapped me in with Rebekah yet I found no malice in that act of his because I know that he did that for his family.
Family, a word nowadays I somehow associate with Originals every day passes. Esther's party was the only time I saw genuine smiles on their face, relieved and happy that they were a family again. Yet, everything was ruined again.
Damon and Stefan who both I know love me and I love them. And I will always love them, but now it's not enough anymore. That love which all 3 of us have each other will either consume all of us or destroy the relationship between the both of them. I know that choosing one of them will bring a knot in their relationship that can never be untied and I cannot allow them. I love both of them but I have to let them go.
My thoughts turn to Elijah again. If he was here, he would just look at me, his expression open to whatever I say without any judgement and I would spill everything to him and he will listen nothing except acceptance in his eyes.
I turn and I see the packed bag beside the bed. It is cowardly, but the best. Freedom for Silas has one important ingredient which is the doppleganger's blood and I know sooner or later someone is going to come for me for this blood. Kol's warnings rang in my ears as why it is necessary not to free Silas. I don't know why I am trusting an Original again but I am taking that chance. I cannot let anyone find me so for that I have to go away.
I look at the letters I wrote to each one of them including the Originals and place it on the table, I look around the room one last time and opening the window, take my bag and jump out. I know that if I go through the door, Stefan or Damon will hear me and I cannot afford that. Turning to give the boarding house one last look, I say goodbye.
I stop at Caroline, Bonnie's house, leave their letter's in the letter box and finally I reach my own house, the house I cannot enter anymore. I can hear Jeremy puttering around the room and I know Alaric is there and so it will be time for dinner soon to take place. I don't have much time and so I leave the letter in the letter box.
And finally reach the Mikaelson's house. I step into the driveway, and my heartbeat slightly increases. Taking the letters addressed to Kol, Klaus, Rebekah and finally Elijah, I was undecided on what to do. Finally taking a deep breath, I step at the front door. However, I hear no heartbeats in the house and suddenly I hear a heartbeat behind me. Turning, I was startled to run into Kol.
Kol grins seeing my expression and said "My, My Elena you look like a kid caught doing something illegal."
Kol:
I see Elena narrow her eyes and straighten her shoulders. You know for a newly born vampire, she does have a lot of guts coming to the house especially when two people outright hate her and one person seems to have mixed feelings about her. Me, you can call me simply curious. I have only heard about her and I expected her to be like the others. Yet, her every step is calculated to meet the needs of others. Hearing a breath taken by her, my expression turns to her as she said "I had come to meet you." Gesturing to the verandah, I leaned on the pillar as I see her fidget and play with her daylight ring.
She said in one breath "I am leaving Mystic Falls." My eyebrows raised in surprise. This does not sound like her. I ask her, "That's surprising for you Elena, I mean I thought you were interested in finding the cure." She shakes her head "I don't know what I want anymore, but I do know that if what you are saying is true, then not only we will be destroying something that has been protected since centuries but also bringing something which can destroy us all in the end." I feel myself soften, as I feel the despair in her voice, common in someone who has lost too much and does not have the strength to lose me. But I see her gather herself and she said "I am here to make a deal with you."
I smirk hiding my puzzlement and said "go ahead, I would like to hear this. But you must remember my darling, I am neither Elijah or Klaus so I won't promise anything." Elena said "My friends and I will give up the search for the cure in return you will have to do something for me." I said "And what should I be doing?" Elena said "Teach Bonnie on how to be a witch." My eyebrows raised hearing her terms "And what I know about being a witch? I am a vampire darling." Elena shakes her head and said "Don't fool me Kol. The level of information you have about Silas, can be only from someone who has been around witches for a long time. So you know how to help a witch. You will have no trouble helping Bonnie." I said "And if she refuses my help?". Elena said "Then you dog her until she agrees. Wear her down. Or show her the consequences of the path she is going down right now. You just stop Bonnie from losing herself. And never compel her. She has to make the choice on her own" I asked "And if I have to hurt her to make her stop from doing what she is doing right now?". Elena inhales a breath and I could smell the fear in her breath. I smirk and wait for an answer. Elena said "it won't come down to that." I said "Are you sure?"
Elena said "Positive." I fold my hands and said "Okay. I will agree to the terms but how I know that they will abide by it?" Elena said "I have left a letter telling them to abandon the search." I said "Or? If they don't abandon the search?". Elena takes a deep breath to calm herself "Then I will kill myself and make sure that I cannot be brought back."
Now this time I am surprised. She looks at me with a resolute expression. She has actually told her friends that she will kill herself if they continue the search, I have no doubt about it. I look at her with respect and said "you have my word. Abandon the search for the cure and I will help Bonnie and also protect your friends from unfriendly forces."
She heaves a sigh of relief, and gives me the letters. It is addressed to each of my siblings. She picks up the bag and turns to leave. I ask her "So when are you coming back?". She looks at me now sadness being the prominent emotion in her expression and she said "Never, this is the last time, you are going to see me. I am never coming back into any of your, your siblings or any of my family or friends lives."
As I feel sadness overwhelm me at her words, she walks down driveway. I said "It will be a lonely life Elena." Without turning back, she said "Better that living a life filled with fear everyday."
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