"Yes, Elijah. It's me, Katherine." Katherine said trying to help Elijah up. Something inside of her wanted to hug him, kiss him, just run away with him, but she ignored it as she had done for more than 500 years. Katherine had always felt something for Elijah, but she ignored it, because he was her weakness, and she couldn't have a weakness. She never knew how she felt about Elijah, but now there were feelings that were starting to surface as she saw him laying awake in a coffin where he was dead a few minutes ago.
"Katerina, what happened?" Elijah asked, he was confused, disorientated. He couldn't remember what happened to him, yet.
"Your half-vampire half-werewolf brother happened." Damon said. "He drove this dagger through your heart and reunited you with your family." Damon said pointing towards all the other coffins. "Just like you wanted."
"Now I remember. I was telling Stefan how Niklaus had promised to reunite me with my family when I turned around and he drove the dagger through my heart." Elijah said angry remembering the look on his brother's face.
"Yes, that's what happened." Katherine said, remembering Klaus driving the dagger through Elijah's heart.
"Have you taken the dagger out of the rest of my family?" Elijah asked.
"Nope." Damon said. "We were waiting for you. We thought we shouldn't bring back from the dead eight angry Originals all at the same time."
"In other words, you were scared to bring them back just in case they killed you." Elijah laughed.
"No." Damon said annoyed. "I thought it would be nice for you to bring them back to life."
"Of course you did, Damon." Elijah smiled. "How considerate of you, when you hate me."
"Can we just bring them back to life and get on with getting Stefan back?" Katherine asked.
"You're right, Miss Katherine." Damon teased.
"Wait. What? Why do you need to get Stefan back?" Elijah asked.
"Because your baby bro took my baby bro and we don't know where they are." Damon smiled sarcastically.
"Niklaus took Stefan? Why?" Elijah asked still confused, but a thought occurred to him but he didn't say anything. Elijah knew why Klaus wanted Stefan, but it was best if Damon and Katherine didn't know.
"That what we want to know." Damon said. "Do you have any idea why he took Stefan?"
"No." Elijah lied.
"And why don't I believe you?" Damon asked. "You know why Klaus wants Stefan and you're going to tell me."
"How dare you come here making demands?" Elijah snapped.
"You owe me. I just saved your life, now I make demands." Damon said angrily.
Damon and Elijah were standing in front of each other looking at the other with hateful, turned on looks. Katherine stood between them and but one had on Elijah's chest and the other on Damon.
"Boys, stop. It's not worth you guys fighting. Unless you're willing to fight shirtless." Katherine teased. Damon and Elijah didn't stop looking at each other. "No? What a shame." Katherine said disappointed. "Well, then let's remove the rest of the daggers, then you can catch up with your family and then we can go and get Stefan."
"Yes, let's do that." Elijah said moving towards the coffin next to his. He opened it to find a blonde woman. He grabbed the dagger and pulled it out. He stood there stroking her cheek and waiting for her to wake up. She opened her eyes and smiled at Elijah.
"Elijah, my dear brother. I have missed you." She said.
"I know my dear Leah. I have missed you too." Elijah smiled.
"I hate to ruin the family reunion, but there are six other Originals to bring back to life and we're in a hurry." Damon said.
"You're right. We'll have plenty of time to catch up, sister. We should awake the others." Elijah smiled at his little sister.
Leah got up from the coffin and went to the next coffin and opened it. Inside was one of her brothers, he had dark brown hair. She pulled the dagger out and went to the next coffin and did the same. Elijah went to two coffins and opened them, his parents were inside. He pulled the dagger out of them and waited for them to wake up, while his little sister opened the other coffins. His mother opened her eyes and looked at Elijah.
"Mother!" Elijah shouted and then his father opened his eyes. "Father!" Elijah shouted again. He hugged them both and smiled. The got out of the coffins very confused.
"Elijah! What happened?" Elijah's mother said.
"Niklaus killed you both, mother." Elijah said.
"No, he wouldn't do that." Elijah's mother said. She had never believed anything bad about her son, Klaus. To her Klaus could never do anything wrong. She had always favored Klaus more than any of her other children, and although the others never minded much, this always hurt Elijah. But now it hurt more than ever.
"Listen to him, Maria. Your son killed us all." Elijah's father said. He had never forgiven her for having an affair with another man, but he loved his wife and family more than anything and he knew that Klaus would be trouble, but he stayed to protect his family.
"No! Niklaus wouldn't have done this to us. There has to be another reason!" Maria shouted crying.
The rest of Elijah's siblings had woken up and rushed to where Elijah and his parents were. Damon and Katherine stood near the Original family, but far enough to not be noticed.
"Mother, you have to stop believing the best of Niklaus!" said Anthony, one of Elijah's brothers.
"He does not have a good side, mother!" said Benjamin, another of Elijah's brothers.
"He only cares about himself!" said Leah
"Listen to our children, Maria." Elijah's father said. "They are right about Niklaus. They are not blinded by love and see Niklaus for who he is."
"You may not be blinded by love, but you are blinded by hate!" Maria said. "I will not tolerate this. Niklaus did not kill us, Samuel." Maria said to her husband.
"Ok, ok. We don't have time for this." Elijah said. "We need to find Niklaus."
"How did you find us, Elijah?" Lucy said, another sister of Elijah.
"I didn't. They did." Elijah said pointing at Katherine and Damon. "Damon and Katerina found me and took the dagger out. It's thanks to them that we are alive and reunited all together." Elijah smiled at them. Elijah was happy. He was back with his family, that's all he ever wanted for the last 500 years since he ran from Klaus.
Leah went straight to Damon and hugged him. "Thank you, Damon…?
"Salvatore. Damon Salvatore." Damon smiled at Elijah's younger sister.
"Thank you, Damon Salvatore." Leah said. "Salvatore, that name has a lot of history." She said and looked at the rest of her family. They looked at each other but never said anything and Elijah shook her head at her. Then she turned to Katherine and hugged her. "Thank you, Katerina Petrova for saving us too." Leah smiled. "I guess I don't have to mention that the Petrova name has history. Right, doppelganger?" Leah laughed.
"You're welcome." Damon said. Katherine just smiled at Leah, not knowing what to say.
"Why did you help us? What is it you seek from us? We have nothing to offer you both." Maria said. Elijah's mother never trusted anyone and she didn't trust Katherine or Damon.
"We need Elijah's help. He owes us." Damon said. "He betrayed us and saved Klaus which was the most stupid thing to do since Klaus then killed him. We need Elijah to help get my brother back."
"You have my word that I will help you get your brother back and that I will find a way to kill Niklaus." Elijah smiled.
"Your word means nothing to me. The last time you gave us your word you didn't kill Klaus." Damon said. "You owe us to get Stefan back and kill Klaus."
"Kill Niklaus?" Maria said shocked. "No, I will not allow you to kill Niklaus."
"Mother, there is no other option. If we let him live we will all die." Elijah said.
"You would rather let your brother die then you die?" Maria asked outraged.
"No, mother. I would rather Niklaus died then to lose any of you." Elijah said looking at the rest of his family with a look of love on his face. "Would you rather that we die than your precious Niklaus?" Elijah said knowing the answer.
Maria stood their looking at her family, looking at Elijah speechless. "No." She said quietly. "Of course not." She said, but the family knew that it wasn't completely true. Maria loved her children very much, but she always had a special love for Klaus. Klaus was the son of her lover, a man she had loved like no other, not even her husband. But her lover was dead and Klaus was her only connection to him, so she had always treated him differently.
"We're in a hurry." Damon said. "We need to leave, Elijah."
"And where are we leaving to, Damon?" Elijah asked. "We don't know where Stefan or Klaus are. Therefore we have nowhere to look. We need a plan."
"We should find out what Klaus wants with Stefan first." Katherine said.
"Do any of you know where Klaus could be?" Damon asked. "And do you know what Klaus could want with my brother Stefan?"
The Originals looked at each other. They didn't know exactly what Klaus wanted with Stefan, but they had an idea of what it was. Damon and Katherine sensed that the Originals knew more then what they were saying.
"Please, if you know something. Tell us." Damon pleaded. Damon wasn't one to beg, but this was his brother and he would swallow his pride for his brother.
"We don't know exactly what he wants with your brother." Lucy said.
"But we think we know what it could be." Leah said.
