Disclaimer: I own nothing. This is just a writing exercise and semi-obsession. Head's up, I having a little trouble finding the right words for Elijah's vocabulary. So if it sounds off, review and let me know please? Ta.

Chapter 2

"You fucked up," the blunt voice of Klaus greeted me the second he picked up the phone. I dragged my thoughts from Mina and her previous state of apparent comatose and focused on her current state. Pregnant… the word echoed through my head.

"I have… a small problem," I said softly, trying to figure out how to tell him.

"A small problem, try dealing with a depressed sister," he retorted.

"Has Rebekah truly taken my departure that hard?" I asked curiously, I didn't ask her to leave Mina so I had thought she would be okay. Or at least I thought as much.

"Rebekah's been pretty unhappy to," he said shortly. I froze for a moment letting the implications of that sink in. I had no idea any of my siblings had grown so attached to Mina as to think of her as a sister. "I was referring to Mina."

"I need your help," I said after a pause, knowing that none of my siblings would ever let me admitting to needing help go for another thousand years at least.

"And I need you to stop breaking the heart of the person that loves you more than their very breath," he practically spat, "Until then you can take all such requests of help and shove them."

"Mina's been kidnapped by witches," I broke in, "In New Orleans, and they bound her to them. She appears to be alright but I need to get her out of there as quickly as possible. Killing any of them will result in the witch that killed her to commit suicide and kill Mina to, but that isn't all." I paused and struggled to keep my breathing even and bit down on my lip. "Mina… Mina is pregnant, and the witches… they claim that it's mine," I told him, "Her friend Serena, she confirmed that Mina had been showing symptoms of pregnancy for weeks but knowing that I was unable to conceive children did not think it possible."

"Elijah…" he said in a choked sounding acknowledgment of vocal shock a moment passing before he could collect his thought enough for a cohesive sentence, "You… you fucked up."

"I am aware," I said, guilt flushing through me. I continued on to explain about Marcel and the witches, what they wanted and the stipulations over how they wanted it done. Which was completely ridiculous if killing his was there only agenda. If it came to keeping Mina safe I would have already ripped out the man's heart and been done with it.

It wasn't hard to compel the body of Jane-Ann into my possession. I had given her to the witches and collected both the girls in exchange. I wasn't expecting Mina to be awake by now. Logically I knew that she ought to be, but it didn't prepare me for the way she looked at me. Relief, pain, love, all of it swirling around in those mesmerising cornflower blue eyes, and then she masked it all a split second later. That look was intended only for me.

"Shall we?" I asked them, my eyes moving away from her as to not give the witches an ample example of exactly how much I cared for her. She nodded and fell into step silently as carefree as if this were a tour rather than a freedom from captivity.

"I told you that you don't bet against her," she teased her friend with an easy smile. Her voice washed over me and two months of tension disappeared, for a little I let myself pretend that nothing had changed, and that we were on vacation in the Crescent city. They spoke for a few more minutes before she finally spoke to me.

"Are you just going to pretend that I don't exist until you can run again?" she asked and the accusation cut deep. I wanted to let my eyes slip shut in frustration but I was driving.

"No, I… I am not leaving, not while you are in this condition," I replied, something dangerous flickered in her expression and I readied myself for a fight.

"Is that a subtle way of telling me that I won't be in this condition for much longer," she asked with venom coating over everything her words touched. Shocked, furious denial recoiled through me like a whip. My eyes narrowed and I glared at her.

"No," I hissed, only just preventing myself from growling, "No, not… not a chance in hell." Her shoulder sagged and her defensive posture deflated. I was relieved.

"Just checking," Serena chirped cheerfully, "You don't have the best track record with discussing things, so I hear." Oh dear lord, she was going to keep poking in these little digs until she was satisfied I was repentant enough. If only she knew how much. As if you don't deserve more.

"You didn't know," I stated in a calmer voice that before. She shook her head.

"No, I just fainted for dramatic effect," she retorted in amusement, "Of course I didn't know. I didn't think it was possible. You told me that you were unable to have children due to that accident that your siblings and yourself, suffered."

"Vampirism is an accident?" Serena pondered aloud. The panicked look on Mina's face was amusing and somewhat comforting, because if she was panicked then she truly had not revelled our nature nor any of our other secrets to what is, I believe to be, her best friend. "Yeah, we had that conversation while you were out," she continued, "Moving on."

"I have never heard of a vampire anywhere fathering a child nor conceiving one," I said honestly. Perhaps if it were Niklaus, I wouldn't be so surprised, but short of my Original status I was unaware that there was enough difference for it to be possible. No, this did not come from me. "I do not think that it was a quirk of mine that made this possible," I admitted, "I think that it may have been something from you."

"No, not that I can think of. It's just a…" she started before he jaw dropped and she turned to Serena with wide eyes, "Oh." The breathy groan, practically a moaning sound had my hands tightening on the steering wheel as other instances that I had heard that sound filled my head. Usually ones where her legs remain firmly wrapped around me. Child, I hissed internally in reminder, pulling me from my reverie.

"What?" Serena asked, obviously not cluing on to what Mina had discovered.

"A miracle," she said enunciating clearly, "It was a miracle." And just like that the other blonde gasped, getting whatever missing link I had not been able to grasp. "Its possible right?" she pressed.

"Ah," Serena said looking down at her nails and then back at Mina with an apologetic smile, "That would definitely do it. Frustration fizzled in my brain as I so desperately wanted to know what it was that had fizzled in their mind making itself obvious.

"Care to explain?" I asked lazily. Mina's expression resembled a deer in the headlights, as it had on many other occasions that I had asked inconvenient questions. If I did not know better I would have had gone as far as to say that they had forgotten I was there all together.

"The Moon Princess zapped her with her whammy," Serena said and I raised an eyebrow at the absurdity and the amount of cheerful perkiness that exuded out of every syllable of her lie.

"You should at least make an effort to have a more believable story should you insist on lying to me," I said in a bland voice. Mina giggled and Serena smiled unashamedly amused. "Just out of curiosity, where did you ever pull 'Moon Princess' from?" I asked. She jerked a thumb out the car window, the almost full moon sparkled in the sky.

"Add that to the fact that the person responsible is always getting called a princess, well… I thought why not?" she asked rhetorically, carelessness I her tone.

"Because, even though you know how this happened you do not intend to share it with me," I finished. I had thought that maybe with another source of information I might have actually gotten somewhere. I noticed something strange, the second I finished speaking, Mina looked to Serena as if she were… I couldn't place my finger on it, but there was something important that I was missing.

"What does he know about what happened when you were gone?" Serena asked Mina intently.

"Nothing, we never got around to it," she replied, I pulled into the plantation driveway, "I guess it's time we talked." Hearing that she planned to speak of what happened to her while she had disappeared was enough to make me unabashedly optimistic. When really, by now I ought to have known better than that.

So? What did you think? Serena slipped the truth in and eventually, fuck knows when, when Elijah finds out the truth isn't he just going to be kicking himself in the pants.