Don't own TVD or any relating media, character etc.
The part I most enjoyed of chapter one was the story Elijah told Elena about a child Kol seeing his mum give birth.
Just out of curiosity who is everyone's favourite charater in the TVD/TO universe? Mine is Elijah, in fact most of my favourite characters are Originals.
I'd also like to state, I'm Australian and as much as I tried, what with calling the boot of the car a trunk and mum mom, there may be a few slip ups, sorry.
Thanks for the reviews.
Chapter two
While the Originals deliberated over what to do about their discovery, Elena took out her phone again. There was one bar of reception and over a dozen missed calls and texts. No doubt Stefan and Damon at the very least were out searching for her. "I've got to call Caroline," she said to Elijah. "I could get her to bring my car here, we won't have to wait until three?"
"I'm not so sure that would be a wise decision," he advised her.
"We can trust Caroline, I promise."
He nodded. "Alright."
She walked out of the cave and into the passage, hoping the bar of signal would not be going anywhere. Caroline answered after just two rings.
"Elena? Is that you? Are you okay?" Elena went to reply but Caroline just kept talking. "Where in the hell are you, missy?"
"Caroline, Care? I'm fine, okay."
"Really, you sure?" Reception was bad at best.
"Yes, I promise," Elena reassured her friend. "Look, just tell me who's with you? I need a huge favour."
"Elena, what's going on? I'm worried."
"I told you, Care, I'm fine. Just tell me, are you alone?"
"Yeah, I'm at your place, Stefan and Damon are at theirs probably getting drunk, the bastards and Bonnie is with her mom."
Elena sighed in relief, "okay, Caroline, I need you to go and pack me an overnight bag and bring that and my car, the keys should be by the front door, to the old Lockwood celler. I'm in the cave tunnels."
Caroline grumbled, "Elena Gilbert, you better tell me right n-"
"Please Caroline. I promise I'll explain everything when you get here. The cell coverage is really bad and I can barely hear you. Also can you grab some water bottles and a some food, maybe sandwiches or fruit, please?" Elena was starving and so the Originals must be, too. "Just don't tell anyone where you're going."
"Alright," she reluctantly agreed, "but you had better tell me what's going on, Elena or so help me..."
"I will, Care. And be careful, there's a werewolf out there." Elena hung up then and went back to the chamber with the Mikealsons in it.
Elijah and his siblings were to the side of the chamber, by the wall. They were still discussing the ramifications of a white oak tree.
"You could check the milling records," said Elena, as she sat. "It could've been chopped down when the town was built."
They all turned to her, "as much as I loath to say this, that's not actually a bad idea," Rebekah said.
"Did you get a hold of Miss Forbes?" Elijah asked her, he rolled his wrist as her talked. Elena noted he did this a lot when he spoke.
"Yeah, she should be here soon. I asked her to bring some water and my car, it's a lot bigger then your's. Plus your's is still parked a fair distance from the Lockwood celler." Elena said, "she should also be able to talk to Finn."
"Talk to Finn? What's Nik's baby vamp got to talk to Finn about?" Kol asked her, his eyebrows coming together.
"Caroline may be able to compel some answers out of your big bro," she said. "You know, get him to not try to kill his family or himself? Maybe get some answers, in case your mom had a Plan B." Elena tried and failed to say all this without snark, she had been spending way too much time with Damon.
"Ha, you have spunk, we're going to get along just fine." The youngest Original brother said to her, "I can see why Eli likes you so much."
"Kol, be quiet!" Elijah snapped in a slightly irritated tone, he went back to looking at the walls.
Kol and Rebekah started talking between themselves then and Elena could see that the relationship between the two youngest Originals was probably the most normal in their whole family. Fighting like cats and dogs one moment and best friends the next. It actually reminded her of her relationship with Jeremy.
Elena had not realized just how tired she was and felt her eyes drooping. She briefly wondered if lying down in the soft looking interior of Esther's coffin would be seen as weird. She must have nodded off, because the next thing she knew she was being gently shaken awake by Elijah, "Elena, wake up. Your friend, Caroline is here."
Elena rubbed her eyes and looked to the passage entrence. There stood Caroline, holding a small duffle bag over her sholder and a back pack over the other. She had a very confused look on her face and the arm that wasn't holding the duffle was on her hip.
"Oh, sleeping beauty's awake," the baby vampire snipped. "You want to tell me what you're doing with the oldest and most dangerous vampires of all time? Because last I checked, you were being held captive by Damon's latest squeeze (Kol muttered 'strumpet' and tried to mask it in a cough, Rebekah slapped the back of his head), while Mr Original Badass threatened your life to the Salvatores!" Caroline must be mad, she ranted when she was mad.
"Mr Original Badass?" Elijah asked, his eyebrows raised, looking between Caroline and Elena, the latter of who blushed. Kol snickered.
"Never you mind," Caroline said said to him. "We've been worried sick about you, Elena! What are you still doing with them? We stopped Momma Original's big plan of prolicide, they're still alive. You're meant to have been let go!"
Elijah could see why Niklaus was attracted to Caroline, she wouldn't put up with his attitude and if there was anything Klaus liked, it was a challenge.
Caroline drew in a breath and went on, "Bonnie's mom's in transition because Damon's an idiot, there's an unknown werewolf out there and I find you playing hide and go seek with the Originals! WTF, Elena. You tell me what's going on right now!" She stomped her foot.
Elena would have laughed if the situation were no so dire. Wait, Bonnie's mom was in transition?
"What about Abby?" She asked, "what do you mean she's in transition?"
"Just that. Damon turnd Abby into a vampire to cut Esther's link to the Bennett magic. But don't change the subject Elena! I want some answers! AND HOW THE HELL ARE THEY IN THERE? Vampires can't enter this cave!"
"Calm down, first things first, where's the water?" Caroline passed Elena the backpack, inside was a few bottles of water, some sandwiches, an apple and banana and a few granola bars. "Thanks, Care, you're the best." Elena took a swing of water and bit into a sandwich before passing the bag to Elijah. "Help yourselves, just save me the apple, please?" she said.
"Alright Care, come with me?" Elena led Caroline out the tunnel. "I'll just be here, Elijah. I won't run. You have my word," she yelled back to the chamber, pointing to the bend.
"That should be fine Elena, I trust you," he said in reply, open water bottle in his hand.
As she turned the corner she heard Rebekah mutter, "well I don't, backstabbing bitch."
"That's enough, Rebekah."
"Why Elijah? What is it about those Petrova wenches that has you so taken with them? I think the curse of the doppleganger is really a curse on you!" She threw her hands up, exasperated.
Out in the tunnel Elana and Caroline stopped, "I'll tell you what's going on, but first I need to change, okay?" Elena said to her friend, Caroline passed her the bag and Elena fished through it for a new t-shirt and bra. She got the new items and turned her back to change.
"Elena, why are you covered in blood?" The blond asked when she saw the state of clothes.
"You remember how I said Esther used my blood in the binding spell on her children?" The doppleganger turned back to face the vampire as she finished changing, Caroline nodded. "Yeah well, it linked me with them. So when Kol was daggered ealier, I got the stab wound and nearly died. If Rebekah hadn't have woken up in time and given me some blood..." She trailed off there.
"Oh God, 'lena! That's... just... what the EFF?!" Caroline said, "seriously? That sucks!"
"I know, Care, believe me, I know. But that's not all."
"What, there's more?" Caroline could hardly believe it.
"Yeah, so when Esther did the ritual, it was to turn the Originals human-"
Caroline cut in here, "They're human... that's why they could get into the cave drawings cave!"
"Yes, and when the spell worked, Klaus turned into a wolf. We don't know how Esther forgot to factor in Klaus's wolf side but it gave then a chance to snatch Finn and run. Esther hightailed it out of there when Klaus went after her and Kol knocked out Finn." Elena stopped here to take a breath, her chest still hurt but no where near as bad as before. "Now back to you guys, how's Bonnie?"
"Bonnie's okay, or she will be," Caroline said. "But are you sure that's all you've got to tell me?"
"Yes," Elena wasn't going to say anything about the second possible white oak tree, nor was she going to tell Caroline about what Elijah had told her about his family. That was private and had no impact on the situation. As for the tiny crush Elena had on Elijah, well, Caroline already knew about that. She's told her and Bonnie back in May during a girls night after Stefan went off with Klaus and Elijah was daggered. Caroline didn't need to know that the crush might not be so little anymore.
"No," she just remembered, "They want to stick together for the next month, since we're all linked... at Klaus's, this is going to drive me mad."
"WHAT?"
"Come on, let's go back." She turned back and headed to the chamber where the Originals were. "I'll let Elijah and Kol tell you the plan, you need to compel Finn." Elena pulled her phone out of her pocket then and checked it. She saw that not only was the battery almost dead, but that it was 2:12am.
"Are you sure about this, Elena?" Caroline asked, quietly, before the got back into the chamber. "Elijah kidnapped you not twelve hours ago. Did you know he threatened Stefan and Damon with Rebekah killing you? And Klaus is even worse."
"Elijah wouldn't hurt me, Care. And okay, Rebekah would, but what use is a hostage, dead? And Klaus needs me alive. Plus, Elijah told me himself, I was taken as a bluff." She paused here, "we uderstand each other, Elijah and I. It was for his family. I would've done the exact same thing if it was Jeremy or Alaric or you or Bonnie, hell Stefan, Damon and Matt and even Tyler, too. You guys are my the most important people to me and we're all in this messed up world together. Elijah just happens to be in that group of people who mean something to me, as well."
She turned again before Caroline could say something and went into the cave with Caroline stopping at the entrence.
"Alright, I'm back."
Elijah smiled at her.
"Goody," Rebekah deadpanned, with a roll of her eyes.
"Shush Bex, she's amusing... and so is her pretty friend. You should've seen Nik earlier." Kol walked toward Caroline and stepped over the barrier, he took the baby vampire's hand and placed a kiss on it. "We haven't offically met, I'm Kol Mikaelson," he winked.
"Charmed," said Caroline as she wrestled her hand back, wiping it on her coat.
"Oh, stop flirting. You always were content if the was distruction to be caused or ladies to flirt with."
"What can I say, sister, I'm a simple man."
"Kol, Rebekah, is it possible for the two of you to not act like children?" Elijah said, he turned to Elena. "Did you explan to your friend we may need her to talk to my older brother?"
"Yeah, I see Finn has returned to the land of the living?" She gestured to the oldest Mikaelson sibling, who was now sitting against the wall, his hands and feet were tied using belts, while around his mouth was a neck tie and a handkerchief. Finn glared at his next younger brother before directing his glare at her when she had spoken. Elena noticed Elijah's tie was missing and she'd bet that was his hanky, too.
Kol and Elijah went and hoisted Finn up and carried him between them over the threshold of the cavern, where Caroline was watching with interest. "Caroline, would you please see if you can compel my brother to tell us the truth?"
After proving that Finn could indeed be compelled, Caroline's pupils dilated again and she repeated the questions Elijah asked her to say. "Why do you want to kill your siblings, Finn? That's not right."
"We are abominations, Miss Forbes, it is as simple as that. We go against nature. If we were right in the world, we would all be corpses."
"Please, ask him what mother had planned now, if she had a back up? Even if she was to kill us to right the balance, which by the way has had a millennium to adjust, there would still be thousands of vampires out there." Elijah told Caroline to ask.
Caroline repeated the question, "When Niklaus killed father last month, mother discovered something. If you kill the originator of a bloodline, every vampire that has been sired from them dies. Father may have only created two vampires in one thousand years, but from them there was a bloodline of about two dozen or so and they all died within hours of father having been staked."
Everyone in the cave was shocked, Elijah hid his quite well but his sibling, not so much. Rebekah's hand covered her mouth as sobs started to escape and Kol punched a wall yelling, "son of a bitch!"
"You and mother conspired genocide?" Elijah asked, "what is wrong with you?"
Finn turned to Elijah then, his glare full of resentment. "What is wrong with me? What of you, Elijah? You, all of you," he looked at Rebekah and Kol now. "You left me in a box, for nine hundred years! This cruelty I could understand from Niklaus, but you three? What are your excuses? I know you did not do it for fear, Elijah, you do not fear Niklaus. Did you covert the position of eldest brother, Elijah? Is that why you left me to rot? If you did, you did a very bad job of it. You and our younger siblings have done nothing but cut a path of distruction and bloodshed through the pages of history."
Elijah turned away from his older brother for a moment, Elena saw a flash of hurt in his eyes before he hid it behind the cold mask of indifference that he usually wears.
Kol stepped forward, he grabbed Finn by the collar and got in his face, "You have no right to speak to Eli like that, brother. As soon as we turned, you ran off, we didn't see you for over fifty years. You've no idea what he has done for us, what he's given up." Kol shot a side glance to Elena, "I'll be the first to admit, I'm reckless, but that is on me. Do not blame Elijah for my past. I have no intention of doing anything stupid this time. I haven't been undaggered for longer than a decade in three hundred years. I don't hold resentment, anymore, so why should you. Let it go Finn, it's too exhausting to hold a grudge for eternity." He dropped his eldest brother then.
"Do you have anything to say, sister?" Asked Finn, he seemed to be provoking them, looking at Rebekah now.
"No," she whispered, "I've nothing to say to you."
"We can talk on this later, Finn." Elijah said, "Miss Forbes, if you would be so kind could you compel Finn to sleep undisturbed for the next, say, twelve hours?"
"You really are pathetic, Elijah, having baby vampires do your dirty work."
"Shut up," spat Caroline, she seemed to take the almost eradication of vampires personally. Her pupils dilated again. "You will sleep now, Finn Mikaelson, and not wake for twelve hours."
Finn's eyes closed and he slumped forward, Elijah caught him and hoisted him over his shoulder. "We had best get a move on. Head to Niklaus's and get some rest. There will be time tomorrw to sort through all this..." He paused, seaching for the right word, "drama."
They set off down the tunnel now. Twenty minutes later, they were ascending the stairs from the Lockwood celler. I was still dark out, being just before 3:00am, but the moon was bright, even in the forest and Elena could just make out her car, parked about a half a mile away.
Elijah gave Finn to Kol to carry the rest of the way and Elena dropped back to walk with him, while Caroline took the lead and pulled the keys from her pocket.
"Are you okay?" Elena asked Elijah.
"Ask me again when this whole mess is dealt with?"
Kol was placing Finn in the trunk when they got to the car and Caroline was jumping in the drivers seat. She shot Elena a look, "You're not driving, 'lena. You look dead on your feet."
Elijah got Caroline to drop him and Kol at his car and they would all head to Klaus's mansion together.
Klaus was curled up naked, dirty and bloodied just inside his door when they got there. Elijah gave him his coat and got Klaus to groggily invite Caroline inside, when it was proven that she could, indeed, not enter.
"Well, love," he had said, "if you wanted to see me naked, all you had to do was ask. Come on in, Caroline."
Caroline just rolled her eyes. "Whatever, Klaus."
Elijah told Elena and Caroline to follow him as he helped Klaus up the stairs. Kol was in front of them with Finn still over his shoulder, Rebekah had disappeared through a door down the hall. Kol broke off and put Finn in his room, before going to his own and Elijah did the same for Klaus before showing the girls a spare room.
Caroline walked through the door while Elena lingered in the hall with her favourite Original.
"Get some rest, lovely Elena." He said, his hand on her upper arm, "we'll talk when you have had a chance to rest and eat. Good night... or morning, I suppose."
Elena felt too tired to do anything but sleep, "okay, but you get some rest, too."
He smiled at her then and assured her he would.
She turned around and entered the room to see Caroline on the phone, probably with Bonnie, but Elena just kept walking to the bed not even hearing to conversation. She did not even bother trying to change into pajamas, and collapsed on what felt like the most comfortable bed in the world. Caroline hung up the phone and flopped next to Elena, both were asleep in seconds.
Chapter two done, hope everyone likes it. Please review!
I'll just warn everyone, the next few chapters are mostly Elena settling in with the Originals and becoming friends with Kol, for some reason I think they would be good friends, given the chance. Also I fully intended for Elena to be friends with Rebekah, eventually. Their "partnership" in season four was one of the only things I liked about that season... aside from the Elejah kiss!
Next chapter has the Salvatores and a bit of Kennett flirting (mostly Kol flirting and Bonnie blushing or rolling her eyes).