Yes, this chapter has the Elijah and Cami conversation from the first episode as well as part of the prologue
We also see why Elijah isn't all into protecting Hayley and I made it a good reason!
Chapter One: My promise is ALWAYS AND FOREVER Lovely
He was in his favorite bar-Rousseau's, a martini in front of him as his mind was playing out the letter Katerina had left for his brother.
"So, what brings you to the Big Easy?" His head turned to stare at the waitress. He already knew that she wasn't his type but she could be his brother's.
"I used to live here."
"Really? When?" She asked.
He let out a small laugh. "Oh, it feels like a hundred years ago."
"I just moved here myself. What brought you back?"
"Well, my brother's here somewhere. I'm afraid he might have gotten himself into a bit of a bind."
"You say that like it's a common occurrence."
"Well, he's complicated. Defiant, ill-mannered, and a little temperamental. See, we don't share the same father. Of course that never bothered me, but my brother resents it deeply. Never felt like he belonged. All told, he has a long history of getting himself into trouble."
"And I'm guessing you have a long history of getting him out of it. What kind of bind is your brother in?"
"He believes there are people in this town that are conspiring against him."
"Wow. Narcissistic and paranoid." Elijah seemed to have an amused expression on his face. "Sorry. Bartender with a grad degree in psychology. Total cliche."
Out of all her ideas, this one will definitely make her wish that she never ventured into playing with magic.
Elena Gerard stood, on a rooftop, after shaking her escorts-Diego and Thierry-off, just watching the scene her father was playing out for the blonde male Original. He was making this trial seem real but the little reality she knew when it came to Jane-Anne was that this wasn't a trial, this was her execution.
Jane-Anne was the one who lured her away from her father when she was five years old, it was a year earlier that she began to practice the various forms of magic. Those days that she was with the witches and some wolves who were apart of the kidnapping, she was being subjected to brain aneurism after brain aneurism, until her daddy found her and had slaughtered them.
Her trust in witches and wolves were non nonexistent.
Letting out a deep breath, she closed her eyes and said a Hail Mary for the dead witch.
She may have hated the bitch but that didn't mean that she wanted her dead. It wasn't in her nature to do cold blooded murder because of her damned compassion she had.
Even after what she'd been through, she still held on tight to her compassion, a part of her afraid of what might happen if she let it go.
She still had the nightmares of her time being subjected to torture and can barely let anyone-besides the vampires in her father's army and Davina-in.
"May God have pity on your soul," the doppelganger-witch girl murmured. "Cause I don't."
"May I ask why?" she turned to see a man that looked like he blended in well with the darkness. He had short dark hair, suit with a tie, dark eyes and just a very…sinful…aura.
She recognized it instantly.
He was an Original.
"Sure Mister All 'B-A-M-F' Original but I'm not answerin' you." She replied evenly.
He stared at her in shock. No one even knew that he was in the city and yet this girl knew exactly what he was? It was unsettling him.
"Will you at least tell me your name?" he asked her. She looked him straight in the eye and he was startled to realize that she was an exact copy of not only Nova Gilbert-a vampire who is now emotionless-but that of Katerina Petrova herself.
"All you need to know is that Marcel is the only father figure I've had and ever known in my life." She answered before throwing a question out at him. "Will you tell me yours Mister Original?" the last part she drawled out like a real southern lady.
For some reason, this girl seemed quite surprising. "Elijah. Elijah Mikaelson." He answered.
She nodded and before she turned around to leave by using the fire escape, she kissed his cheek and whispered, "Elena. Hope to see you around Eli."
They both felt a spark that ran through their veins and made her heartbeat faster-like that of a parakeet's or a hummingbird's.
She knew that she wasn't just stating a random fact-she was being honest. The second she felt his...aura...she had a feeling that he was someone who could be as deadly as most of the predatory animals she'd seen on Animal Planet.
The second she took him in: his dark eyes and hair which was cut into a more modern style that blended well into the night, his black suit that seemed to be tailored to fit him well...to her in that moment, she would have sold her soul for any reason she could have thought of.
Elijah Mikaelson was the sexiest demon she'd ever met.
Focus, she thought to herself coldly as her teeth bit down on the inside of her cheek, causing some blood to fill her mouth before spitting it out. Just focus about where to go so you can teach those fucking witches a thing or two about crossing you!
With that in mind, she felt her magic revive within herself and used a locator spell to find them.
She found herself laughing as she saw in her mind that they were in Lafayette Cemetery, where the beautifully failed Harvest Ritual was.
He wanted to believe her, he really did, but from what he'd heard from snipped conversations between the little Scooby Doo gang back in Mystic Falls and the seven times he's been burned, he vowed that it wouldn't happen for an eighth time. When the witches found out that the werewolf Hayley Marshall was pregnant, Elijah Mikaelson wasn't feeling any desire to protect her or the child she carried, at all.
For all he could know, it was revealed to him just a few minutes ago that there was a possibility of the child being his brother's pet Hybrid Tyler Lockwood's or even another wolf's baby.
The first time he'd been burned was five hundred years ago when he fantasized about the alluring Katerina Petrova.
Why did you think it took him five hundred years to find her again?
The second time goes to Niklaus, his brother, when he had his lover Celeste killed, had him daggered numerous times and lied to him about killing their siblings.
His familial trust issues still need a little work.
The third time was by the tempting Nova Gilbert. The newest doppelgänger who lied to him, daggered him, almost helped his mother Esther kill every single vampire all over the world, did kill two of his brothers and made most of his promises taste like acid in his mouth.
His obsession with doppelgängers was over and finished with.
Esther and Finn were his fourth and fifth burns simultaneously as they wanted to end the vampire race.
The sixth and seventh times go to Katerina and Nova together. While Katerina wanted to use him to make a deal with Niklaus, Nova wanted to manipulate him for protection. After what she had done with her brother Jeremy, he felt satisfaction that Jeremy was killed by the bastard Silas and compelled her to turn it on and never again turn it off.
He could still hear her agonizing cries and left her for her idiot Salvatore brothers to find in an alleyway off the diner they were in.
Was it wrong for him to smile in such a sadistic way?
So you see, he didn't want to get played and began holding onto his heart much closer, not afraid of letting anyone in but not wanting to get played or burned in anyway for an eighth time.
Especially by a wolf who was known to flitter around from one guy to the next.
Oh, he knew about her deal with Katerina and her ploy with that Professor, one Atticus Shane.
Did she really think that he didn't know?
The saying: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me?
He's been beyond shamed.
He knows that it was his own fault the first two times.
Sure, he could have showed her everything about when they were children and growing up as Viking warriors, but he didn't. He decided to show her only certain events such as his brother turning into a vampire and then a hybrid- before the curse and a thousand years afterwards, when it was broken.
His eyes fell on his brother who appeared and wanted to kill Hayley, asking him to do it.
Just as he was planning the perfect way, she came in like a glorious war goddess.
Perfection in his eyes.
Elena.
As soon as he learned what her full name was, he wanted to know more about her.
Elena Rebekah Gerard, Marcel's adopted daughter.
Hours later, as soon as they entered the house, Elijah showed Hayley to her room before going back to see what Elena and Marcel were going to discuss with Niklaus.
"I'm willing to deal with the both of you," Marcel told him as Elena sat beside him with her booted feet on one of the two mahogany tables made in the 13th century for each brother. The goddess was staring at her cherry red painted nails as she took over what her father was saying. "If you abide by some certain...guidelines...I come up with, the two of us will tell you whatever you want. More info on the Ritual, you got it. Where witches like to hang? I'll lead you there." She kept her eyes steady on Klaus, knowing that of she were to stare at Elijah, her cheeks would burn red from what they had done in her room...
Shaking her head, though mentally admiring the scene that was playing, she had a feeling that someone may try to kill him.
"Why should I trust you?" The Hybrid King asked, raising an eyebrow. "It seems that you're willing to sell out the witches." Klaus finished, looking at her with a dark smile on his face.
In an instant, all those thought about the noble one beside Klaus vanished and she froze as the memories of what happened to her all those years ago played over and over in her mind.
"I hate the witches and the wolves," she snarled out. "They had me prisoner for three days without food and water, I nearly died." Her voice was going lower and sounded like she was now growling under her breath. "If I could, I'd kill them all and set their homes on fire with them trying to get out. They don't care about me, I care even less about them."
Klaus knew that there was more to the story, especially by the cold look in his son's eyes.
If he pushed this subject further, he had a feeling that he would hate to know everything that happened. Flicking his eyes towards his brother, he could see that he was in the same mindset as he was but he seemed more curious.
"I'll look over the guidelines if you want brother," Elijah offered. Klaus thought that there was more to it but shook his head.
Elijah was allowing his eyes to scan the brunette's body, remembering how soft it felt and was against his, how perfect she fit against him and the small little scars which were in the shape of crescent moons that adorned parts of her back. He could remember the words he whispered to her as she asked him if he was serious about protecting her.
"My promise is always and forever Lovely"
"I'll give you twenty four hours. Make sure they are good brother."
Though Marcel hated it, he agreed with the man. He was putting his trust in the elder man, Elijah Mikaelson.
Elena smirked before it grew wider.
"And get your feet off the table! It is vintage! I had it made in the 13th century!" Klaus yelled from where he was, at the doorframe of his study.
One by one they were gone. Klaus was checking on some investments he was dealing with, his baby with the level-headed brother who couldn't stop eyeing her and he was with his second adopted daughter Davina.
The second she nodded, he knew.
The Originals were staying...for good.
So, how was it?
Yes, we will see a flashback scene featuring a little Elena with the witches!
You see a little bit as to why she's such a badass-don't worry, more of her time with the witches when they had her will be seen as well as some Marcel/Elena father/daughter bonding time
