An angel's voice 2

Elijah was now preparing himself to meet with his brother in order to try and convince him to let him save Elena Gilbert's life after his curse breaking ritual. He had contacted him earlier but got delayed by Rachel Berry.

Her Sectional competition had come and since he promised her he'd go, he went. He got angry when he understood that the other teams stole their musical numbers but it took him only a couple of seconds to remind Rachel that she was talented enough to come up with something new at the last minute, which she did. She sang Don't rain on my parade to the perfection, like her life depended on it and it made him proud to know her.

Before he left, he had given her flowers, telling her that he couldn't stay and reminding her that he was only a phone call away. Then he started heading to his brother, stopping a couple of times on the way because of Katerina rumors he wanted to clear out.

Lately, Rachel ad Elijah had spent a lot of time speaking on the phone together. Apparently, her two gay dads worked hard and weren't home very often, which led her to call him to stop herself from being too lonely (and because she enjoyed their conversations). He didn't complain, he enjoyed every one of her phone calls. They had gotten very close, best friends kind of close and she was completely honest with him.

He was as honest as he could with her. He had never told her that he was a vampire, but she hinted out that she knew he was older than he seemed and that she really believed him to be supernatural. They didn't speak about it much, he wanted to wait until she figured it out on her own, to see how she'd react and they both had much more important subjects to talk about.

"So, Elijah, I waited one more month to break my curse because you asked me to. I brought our family, even if they're still in their coffins and I'm even willing to reconsider my position on the doppelganger's life. What do you have to offer me?" Klaus asked him.

"My apologies." Elijah replied.

"Come again?" His hybrid brother asked, surprised.

"I never really apologized for helping Mickeal and Esther put the curse on you. I let myself get convinced that they were doing the right thing and I forgot to trust you and be on your side. I know it's late but I'd still like to apologize for that. I'm not about to say that every evil thing you've done so far is my fault, but maybe things would have been different had I stood by your side as I should have been. I'd like a fresh start for our family. I can't promise that I'll stay with you forever because I have a... well, because I have..." Elijah suddenly seemed to be trying to look for his words, making his brother smirk in amusement and wonder when Elijah's phone rang.

"Don't rain on my parade? Really brother? Who's ringtone is that and who is singing it?" Klaus asked him.

"A...friend?" He replied before he pressed the 'answer' button.

"Hey Rachel, how are you doing?" Elijah asked, knowing there was no point in hiding it from Klaus.

"Elijah... I know that you're busy with your brother but... I... I needed to talk to you..." The girl told on her side of the phone, her voice shaking and sounding broken.

"What is going on Rachel? Are you crying? Do you need me to come?" He asked her, worry obvious in his voice.

Klaus was wondering who this girl was and how she became so important in his brother's life.

"I know I told you that everything was fine for the past few weeks since Sectionals but... First, I went to spy on the Vocal Adrenaline to find out what we were up against at Regionals and found out that their coach, Shelby Corcoran, is my mother, then she gave me hope of a relationship because she's apparently the one who sent hints my way so I'd get in touch with her but she crushed it all by telling me we can't have a relationship because what she wanted was her baby back. My dads aren't even home because they're always working or in some convention or something. Then Jessie transferred to McKinley to be with me, claiming he loves me and I was happy, you know? It helped me forget that my mother didn't want me. But today he broke up with me, joined the Vocal Adrenaline and egged me in the parking lot with his team mates. There was about 15 of them, throwing eggs at me... He knew I'm a vegetarian and now every time close my eyes I see those baby chickens mad at me... He was just using me to break my heart before the Regionals Elijah... and my mother put him up to it... My own mother..." Rachel cried the entire time she talked and Klaus could see on his big brother's face the kind of anger that he had rarely seen.

Obviously this Rachel was important to him.

"Listen to me Rachel, you're stronger than this. They only went after you because you scare them, because you're better than them and they know you'll go further in life than all of them put together. As for your mother, she's the biggest idiot on earth for not wanting a relationship with you. She's the one who's missing out. Don't worry about this Jesse boy, he'll get what is coming to him." Elijah told her.

"I want him to get hurt... It's not like me Elijah but I'm actually wishing for him to get eaten by a lion or something..." Rachel sighted.

"Or a vampire maybe?" Klaus said loudly enough for her to hear.

"What was that?" She asked, not sure she heard right.

"Just my brother joking..." Elijah relied with a glare at his brother.

"Oh, and he can hear me? I guess I'll add super hearing to the list of your supernatural qualities. To answer him, yes a vampire would do, as long as he takes his time to make Jessie suffer. Although a wolf seems a more attractive idea to me... if you know any, feel free to guide them to this free dinner." Rachel replied, feeling better already.

"Listen Rachel, tomorrow is a full moon so I'll help Niklaus deal with this curse thing and I'll be with you right after that. As soon as it's over I'm heading to Lima. I'll help you prepare for Regionals and make sure everything is as perfect as your talent." He said, trying to raise her mood.

"Won't your brother miss you? You just reunited..." she asked him.

"I'll come with." Klaus said in a loud voice, wanting to meet this girl that had his big brother wrapped around her fingers.

"He'll come with apparently, he wants to meet you." Elijah said with a smile.

"Thank you Elijah. You're the best friend a girl could ask for. You always know how to make me feel better." Rachel told him.

"You're welcome. Now come on, I have some planning to do. You go and practice. Grab a mic and sing all your favorite Broadway songs. I'll see you soon, I promise." He told her.

"Thanks. Bye Elijah." Rachel said in a quiet voice before she hung up.

"So, I believe you have some explaining to do..." Klaus smiled at his brother.

"I hope you won't make me break my promise to her by daggering me brother." Elijah said in a very serious tone.

"You have me intrigued brother... I give you my word I won't dagger you. Here, you can even take the last dagger, as long as you tell me the story behind this girl. She sounded rather young and attached to you." Klaus promised.

Knowing that he had no choice, Elijah told his brother of how he met Rachel, how it made him feel to hear her sing, how he cared for her without knowing why and how she seemed to have some hidden and undeveloped psychic powers.

Willing to find more about this Rachel soon, Klaus agreed to spare Elena's life and the next day, he broke his curse using Katerina, apparently caught by the Salvatore brothers to serve as a peace offering, as his vampire sacrifice. It was done quickly and the next day, they were both on a flight to Lima, Ohio, where Elijah had bought a small house to be able to stay close to Rachel whenever he could.

"So she doesn't know that we're vampires but she knows that we're supernatural then?" Klaus asked his brother as they waited for the rest of their siblings to wake up.

"Yes. I don't want to tell her, I want to wait until she figures it out." he replied.

"Exactly how much do you care for this girl?" Klaus asked him.

"Too much I think... It doesn't matter, she's too young and deserves better than a vampire in her life." Elijah replied with a sad sight.

"That's why you're staying in the friend zone... because you don't want to burden her with a vampire life?" Klaus asked him, serious as well.

"Yes, that's it. I texted her that we were here. She said she'd come by after rehearsals. Everyone should be awake by then and we should be able to calm everyone and deal with our most urgent issues before she arrives." Elijah said.

"You want us all to meet her?" Klaus asked him, surprised.

"I know it sounds weird, especially after I said that I didn't want her to be darkened by a vampire's life but... If anything happened to me, either because of someone else or because we have an argument and you decide to dagger me... I want to be sure she'd be safe, that there would be someone to protect her... Could... Do I have your word that whatever happens between us, whatever happens to me, you'll keep an eye out for her and make sure she's happy and protected?" Elijah asked his brother and Klaus knew right there than if his big brother wasn't ready to admit it to himself in such words, he loved this girl.

"I give you my word brother. I'll never use her against you and I'll do my best to keep her safe and protected whatever happens to you." Klaus nodded, knowing he would keep this word.

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When Elijah's siblings woke up, things had been tensed but as soon as they learned that their elder brother had given Klaus a second chance and was willing to try and work things out, everyone decided to follow his lead and do the same. Of course, then the time for Rachel to come by came closer and so Elijah explained the situation to them quickly, knowing that Klaus would fill in the blanks while he waited for her.

He could hear his siblings talk in the background but he didn't pay attention to their words, up until they heard a car parking in front of their house.

"It's her, she's here." Elijah said before she rang on the door bell.

He rushed to open the door after asking his siblings to behave.

"Rachel, welcome. It's nice to see you again." He greeted her with a quick hug.

"Elijah, thank god you're here. I was starting to think I was the only sane one left in this town. Mister Shuester wants us to sing a Journey Medley for Regionals. Now don't get me wrong, I don't hate their songs or anything and I can definitely sing it just as perfectly as anything else but this is not going to get us to win. We've lost before we even performed all because nobody wants to listen to my ideas. They keep on treating me like some power angry idiot that doesn't know anything and because of this our Glee Club's life is over." Rachel said after greeting him.

"Well, your friend has fire brother, I like her." Kol said, making Rachel turn towards them.

"Oh, you brought all of your siblings..." The human singer said, blushing suddenly.

"Rachel, meet Kol. This is Klaus, whom you heard on the phone two days ago. This is my little sister Rebekah and Finn." Elijah introduced.

"Finn? Well, this isn't awkward..." She muttered.

"Right I forgot." Elijah chuckled.

"What are you talking about?" Finn asked.

"One of her class mates is named Finn. He's in the glee club with her." Elijah replied.

"You can say it Elijah, I'm not made of glass. Finn is my big crush. I've always been in love with him and he only started seeing me when I started dating the lead of the competition... Although he went back to ignoring me ever since Jessie broke my heart... I think he talks to me just enough to feed my crush and maintain it alive because it makes him feel better about himself. I'm like a pair of glove he'll take out of his dresser when he needs it. It hurts but what can I do? The heart wants what it wants..." Rachel replied honestly.

"In this case, you can call me Finnik, it's my original name." The tallest Mickealson told her gently and she smiled.

"Very well. It nice to meet all of you. Klaus, I hope everything went well for you curse thingy?" She asked him and having it called a 'curse thingy' made him and his siblings smile.

"Yes, everything went well. Thank you for your concern." He replied.

"So, what do you know exactly about us?" Kol asked, bringing silence to the room and earning himself glares from Elijah.

"What do you mean?" She asked the youngest male in the room.

"Elijah mentioned that you knew we were supernatural. What is it you know exactly?" Kol insisted, ignoring Elijah.

"Oh... Well, I know you're over a thousand years old because Elijah let slip some things when he helped me study for my World history exams over the phone the other day. I know you can be deadly. I know that you have some kind of super hearing and that you're very fast. Elijah let slip that he was the same kind as Katherine Pierce so I guess you can convince people to do as you wished by looking them in the eyes and I know that I need to wear this vervain necklace or the the vervain bracelet that Elijah got me to be protected." She listed.

"And you don't know what we are?" Rebekah asked her.

"I don't think I need to know. In movies, the minute the talented brunette learns the truth, something tragic happens and she ends up either dead or very hurt. I think Elijah will tell me when I need to." She wisely replied.

"So, speaking of Elijah he mentioned that you had the voice of an angel. Would you sing something for us before we hear you at Regionals?" Klaus asked, smirking at his big brother's embarrassed face.

The rest of the evening went by well. Rachel sang "Being good isn't good enough" for them and they ate together before she went home and got some rest with the promise to see them after school for the newt few days until Regionals, even if they were bound to lose.

"She didn't make us promise not to compel the judges to make them win..." Kol hinted.

"Because she already made me promise not to interfere." Elijah replied.

"I like her. She's confident, driven." Rebekah said.

"She looks ready to crush her best friend if it'd be the way to get what she wants. I like her." Klaus added.

"Well, I'm glad you all like her. I want to make sure one of us will always be around to protect her and watch over her, even if I can't be." Elijah said.

Of course, just like Rachel smartly predicted, the New Directions lost Regionals but it didn't stop the Mickealson's from sending Rachel a big bouquet of flowers to congratulate her on a great performance. They all saw Elijah cringe when Finn Hudson declared his flame to Rachel right before they performed and he knew that she would date him.

Elijah tried not to think about it though. He was too old, she was too innocent. He couldn't be allowed to feel this way. He'd stay her friends for as long as she'd have him and that would be enough for him. It had to be enough.


So, this is the second part... I developed it more than I first intended to... Is it good or bad?

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