All I Want for Christmas

Chapter 1

Elijah lifted his head taking a break from his journal writing. He was waxing poetic about Elena again and getting nowhere. He glanced across the room to see Rebekah staring over the back of the couch and out the window as "Blue Christmas" played in the background. She looked like she was gearing up to have a blue Christmas indeed. In fact she had become increasingly withdrawn and depressed these last few months.

Kol entered the room a while later and switched the music to "All I Want for Christmas". He had been out on yet another walk. He settled on the other couch with a sigh and poured a bourbon.

Rebekah stared vacantly out the window.

"Elijah it's almost Christmas," Rebekah said. "When did we stop celebrating Christmas?"

"I don't know," Elijah said. He tried to think back to the last time they had all celebrated Christmas as a family.

"I want a real Christmas Elijah, with a tree, snow, presents…everything…" Rebekah said.

"I'll make sure you have one sister." He said, trying to smile but failing. He was missing Mystic Falls as well as the girl who lived there.

"Do you think it's possible that we could go back? To the town?" She asked, her eyes pleading as she looked at him.

"We've surfaced for a while now so we'd have to snake our way back. We'd need to know we were clean. They've had more than their share of trouble already," Elijah told her.

She smiled at him, feeling joy that he was willing to sneak back into Mystic Falls to give her the best Christmas of her life.

She hugged him and kissed his cheek.

"You're the best big brother in the world." She told him, happily.

Later that evening Klaus, Kol and Elijah were in the study when Elijah broached the subject.

"Rebekah…"

"I thought she was doing a little better this evening," Klaus said optimistically.

"That's because I told her she could have her real, family, white Christmas in Mystic Falls," Elijah said. "You should have seen the way her face lit when she described lights, snow, a tree with all of us gathered around. I told her it would take work that we'd have to split up and sneak back in once we knew we were clear but the look on her face made it worth it for me."

"And a certain long-haired brunette with eyes the color of chocolate had no influence on that what so ever," Kol teased his brother.

Elijah shrugged. That benefitted him more than the others.

"What about a little Bennett witch who can have you down on your knees." Elijah remarked.

Kol looked anywhere but at him.

"She would have quite a bit to do with it for me," Kol confessed. "When do we leave? I want to surprise her!"

"I told her that we would have to be quiet while sneaking in." He added. "We would have to do it one at a time. Rebekah first."

Kol sighed, "yeah I've got three that I can't account for."

"Eight," Nik replied.

"Rebekah and I are the only ones who know where our sires are." Elijah said, smirking. He let out a sigh. "Do you think I should go after Rebekah back to Mystic Falls?" He suddenly asked.

"I'm not talking about sires. I'm talking about people that would like to hurt me or my family through me. I don't actually have any sires."

"Virgin!" Klaus teased him.

"Not hardly but they didn't survive," Kol said. Then he looked to Elijah, "you know Rebekah can slip in the easiest. Let her go and make sure it's quiet. Then you'd better get up there and finally do something about those feelings you keep pouring into your journal. You can't possibly be writing that many pages about us moping around this house."

"Why are you reading my journal?" Elijah asked, though silently cursing his hiding spot.

"Haven't read a word Elijah - though you just confirmed my thoughts. I've just seen you writing a lot and I know Elena made quite an impression on you," Kol replied.

"Yes well you should read it some time," Klaus piped up, "the eight pages on her qualities he admires are illuminating."

"Nik," Kol berated him. "He doesn't pry in your sketchbooks."

"I actually have and each page is covered in sketches of Caroline." Rebekah piped out from the doorway. "That bust of you that it was hidden in...worst hiding spot ever."

Kol chuckled. It was good to see Rebekah smiling again. He had no idea what was going on with her - none of the brothers did but she had definitely been withdrawn and lonely lately. He was so glad something had given her smile back. He had initially thought about calling Bonnie but now decided to surprise her. Ever since she had gone against Esther's wishes and helped save his siblings the two of them had become friends and he hoped it was going to be more. It had turned out she wanted that too but he hadn't found out until they were late one night on the telephone. So even though they considered themselves together they'd never even kissed and she'd never told anyone of their relationship and he'd only told Bekah and Elijah.

"So Rebekah first, then Elijah...maybe Kol and I will be last." Klaus decided.

"Sounds fantastic!" Rebekah cheered.

"I packing right now so the rest of you better get going!" Kol said. "Bekah do you need me throw luggage in that SUV for you?" He raced off to start packing and Elijah was glad to see he'd stopped brooding as well.

"I'm going off to pack up as well." Elijah said with a smile on his face.

In amazingly short order they were packed up. Kol loaded Rebekah's luggage in her Buick Encore before he stuffed his in his red Ferrari 458 Italia. As he shut the trunk, Elijah was putting the last of his things into the trunk of his BMW as well. Then Kol and Elijah generously if somewhat impatiently helped toss Klaus' large collection of necessary things he couldn't travel without into his black SUV and shutting the house they all four split up. They had already discussed the fact that they wouldn't call unless they ran into trouble and they wouldn't come to Mystic Falls until they were as certain as they could be that they were clean. They had an alpha-numeric code to text Elijah each couple of hours so he could keep up with where they were.

"See you later!" Kol called out before he revved the engine of his car and they all split up. Each of them was happily Mystic bound.