Thanks for the follows, but please review!
Thanks to Lourdes 08 for my first review! And here's the 2nd chapter, how's that for a fast update!
Blaze stood with Klaus in the ballroom both of them chatting idly, she'd received information from one of her contacts in Atlantic City that there was not one, but two Original's looking into her and Klaus's past. One Original she could understand, she was a new unknown factor, in a town that was already bursting with supernatural creatures, but the fact that there were two members of Klaus's family looking into her was concerning. It suggested that they would not be sharing information, which meant clearly they were on opposing sides. He'd been telling her about Caroline, the pretty blonde baby vamp who had somehow managed to catch his attention. He'd invited her to come to the ball tonight and even sent her a dress to wear, Blaze was just excited to meet the girl that had captured her friend's attention, and if she nudged the girl in Klaus's direction, where was the harm? As Klaus's breath hitched, she knew that the girl had just arrived, Blaze turned to see the girl and smirked in amusement. "A Vampire Barbie Klaus?" she raised an eyebrow at him but found that he was still so caught up in the vision of the blonde girl in front of him, he'd barely been paying attention. Blaze gave him a subtle nudge towards the teen, "Go get 'em tiger...or should I say wolfie?" she gave him a cheeky grin as he took a moment to glare at her before making his way over to his date.
As soon Klaus had left, Elijah suddenly appeared by her side, a glass of champagne in his hand for her, "I see my brother has left you unattended in favour of... more recent interests..." he eyed the couple in the corner by the bar before turning his attention back to the woman before him.
Blaze shrugged off the strange feeling she got when he spoke to her, "I don't blame him for trying to get laid or whatever it is he's doing with her, it's not like I'm his girlfriend."
"Ah so you're telling me that you sitting in our kitchen yesterday morning wearing nothing but Niklaus's shirt and supporting a bite mark meant nothing?"
"Uh duh," Blaze rolled her eyes at the older vampire, "I stayed over and didn't have anything to wear so Nik leant me a shirt, and then took me out shopping to get some clothes. And the bite was just that, a bite, he got hungry, so what? A girl can't offer her friend a bite to eat when he's feeling peckish?"
She was being defensive Elijah realised, implying that she and Klaus had a more intimate relationship was apparently one way to get on her bad side, and given that Kol hadn't managed to come up with anything on her, it was probably best not to make her angry at him. "My apologies, you are correct of course, friends can offer each other...food, it just seems highly improbable."
"Well in our case it's not," she replied icily.
Elijah offered her a tight smile "Indeed, moving on, have I said how beautiful you look in that dress?"
Blaze allowed the subject change and gave Elijah a genuine smile, "No you haven't but thank you, and I must say you look simply ravishing in that Tux Mr Mikaelson."
"Please, call me Elijah."
"Well then Elijah I'm Blaze Talon, but you may call me Blaze, now are you going to ask me what is that you want to ask or what? Without Nik here to entertain me, this ball is becoming dreadfully dull."
Elijah opened his mouth to reply but stopped when he heard his mother on her way downstairs, "Excuse me for a moment," he rushed away from her and she watched as the rest of the guests congregated in the hallway of the mansion. Elijah climbed up the steps and was met by the rest of his siblings and his mother. Turning to look at the crowd he smiled "Welcome! Thank you for joining us. You know," he looked at Esther, "whenever my mother brings our family together like this it's tradition for us to commence the evening with a dance. Tonight's pick is a centuries old waltz so if all of you could please find yourselves a partner, please join us in the ballroom." He moved off the steps and the rest of his family followed, all bar Esther.
Blaze made a move to get out of the way of the dancers when Elijah stepped in front of her, "May I have this dance?"
Blaze stared at his outstretched for a moment before clasping it in her own, "You may."
The pair stepped into the midst of the crowd and when the music began, their movements were flawless, "I must say you are an exquisite dancer," he commented.
Blaze smiled as he spun her and brought her to face him, "Cut the crap Elijah, what do you wanna know?"
To Elijah's credit he didn't look fazed by her remark, "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Oh come off it, I know that there was an Original in Atlantic City looking for information on me, not that they found anything."
Before he could reply the couple's switched and Blaze landed in Klaus's arms. "Well darling, how have you been enjoying my brother's company."
"He's crafty as hell, but I have to admit," Blaze glanced over at Elijah, "he looks damn fine in a tux," she saw Elijah's lips quirk upwards into the tiniest of smirks, "and he's totally listening in on our conversation."
"He's can't possibly look better than me," Klaus commented, twirling her as they moved across the floor.
"Of course not," she rolled her eyes, "there is not one being alive more attractive than you, it's not possible."
"Just so we're both clear on that," he replied.
"So what are we doing for your birthday tomorrow?"
"You mean you haven't planned it out?"
"Seriously?! It's like I have to do everything in this relationship."
It was Klaus's turn to roll his eyes at her, "Always the drama queen."
It was a few hours later when Esther called her guests and her family back into the foyer for a toast. As the waitresses moved around the room handing out fresh champagne glasses Blaze couldn't help but feel something was wrong and when Klaus took his glass off of the tray she nudged him to get his attention. She turned away from the rest of the crowd so Esther and the rest of her family couldn't see what was going on, 'don't drink it' she mouthed and he nodded. He didn't know why she didn't want him to drink but he had learnt the hard way that if you didn't listen to her weird gut feelings you usually ended up dead. So when his mother raised her glass and watched as each of his siblings drank from their glasses he brought the drink to his lips and pretended to drink like the rest of them.
It was around the same time that Damon shoved himself away from Elena in the Mikaelson's ball room and headed straight upstairs to the balcony, his fingers clenched around the railing of the balcony and he could feel the metal shift under his hands. In that moment that she spoke to him, the way she looked at him and told him that 'his love was the problem' broke something in him. When Stefan had been taken away by Klaus, he was the one that was there for Elena, he comforted her when she cried, went along with her stupid insane plans that she had to try and get him back, just to stop her from getting killed, and all she could say to him was that his love was a problem? Even with Stefan still being his Ripper self she still trusts him. Damon heard Esther go out to the crowd and propose a toast and he bit back a snarl, all he wanted to do was revert back to his old self, the one that didn't give a crap about what anybody thought and that could go out party till four in the morning and then kill whoever he was with and not care. And if it wasn't for the fact that his brother was completely off his rocker then he would just turn everything off and deal with it in a few decades.
Growling to himself he focused on his breathing trying to calm down before he did something he'd regret later. He was so focused on himself that he didn't hear anyone come up behind him, "I'd be a little easier on the balcony if I were you, my brother does hate it when people break his things." Damon stiffened at the sound of the cocky British voice and turned and met the dark brown eyes of another Original.
"Right and you must be what? Elijah 2.0?" Damon smirked looking the older vampire up and down.
"Close, but no, I'm Kol, and I'm much more fun than my big brother, and judging from your attitude, not to mention the fact that you were just dancing with the doppelganger I'd say you are a Salvatore...hmm... Damon yes?"
Kol saw Damon's eyes darken as he mentioned the Katarina lookalike and filed that information away for later. "What do you want Mikaelson?" Damon was so not in the mood to deal with a cocky Original.
"Ooh touchy, I'll have to remember that," Kol smirked and stalked towards Damon, "I'm bored, and as it turns out, mother has an issue with me killing humans, so I figured why not kill something else." Damon recognised the glint in Kol's eyes, it was the same one that he'd had in his own only a year ago, and because he recognised the look in Kol's eyes Damon did the one thing that he'd been dying to do since Elena had chosen to rip his heart out and throw it away (again). He attacked. He launched himself at Kol with a snarl, the two fought for a few moments before Damon managed to throw Kol over the balcony and he quickly followed. In the back of his mind he could hear the back door to the mansion open but ignored it as he got his hands around Kol's face, before the older vampire could react Damon snapped his neck. Damon looked up at the shocked gasp that came from Elena and frowned, "Sorry," he said standing and straightening his jacket, "didn't mean to cause a problem." He spun around unconcerned and headed straight for the grill, leaving Elena, Stefan and the Mikaelson's to deal with the recently dead-undead Kol.
/?/?/?/?/?/?/?/
Hours later, after he'd been rejected by Caroline and dropped off her latest gift, hours after Kol had had his neck broken and then run off to go and find the oldest Salvatore, hours after the guests had left the Mikaelson mansion and his mother had retired for the night and Finn and Elijah had gone off to feed, Klaus headed into the spare room that he'd designed for Blaze and watched as she got ready for bed. "What did you sense?"
Blaze settled into her bed and contemplated her answer, "Honestly?" she looked at him and he nodded, "I don't know, I just... sensed something ancient and wrong and powerful, I sent the contents to my brother for analysis but whatever it is I'd say your mother had a hand in it. I mean the way she was watching you and your siblings, and Finn, I'm sorry Klaus but-"
"But it's more than likely that she is trying to kill me and Finn is a part of it." He cut her off with a sad smile, "Truth be told I'm not surprised, mother can't look me in the eyes anymore, and Finn, well after Sage disappeared he hated what we were. And I very much doubt that after I daggered him when he tried to become the favourite son of Mikael again, is making him pause to think about what he's doing."
"I think it's more than that," Blaze said, her eyes flashed black and a dark mist surrounded them, it stopped anyone from hearing or seeing anything that was going on inside the room, "I sensed it everywhere, I think whatever that magic is, it was in all of the champagne, even Finn's glass, which makes me think that whatever your mother is doing, it's too all of your family."
Klaus shook his head in denial, "She may want me dead, but she'd never kill Rebekah, or Elijah, she adores them, I mean she loves them with her whole being."
"You didn't see the way she looked at them this morning, whatever your mother is trying to do, I'd bet my life that it involves your siblings." Blaze replied, tugging Klaus towards the couch in the room, "Look, it's past midnight and therefore it's technically your birthday, so let's not think about your mother anymore and focus on what we're doing today."
/?/?/?/?/?/?/?
Rebekah sighed as she walked into the small sitting room of the mansion, Kol had scared away Matt and she was not happy, in fact the second she got her hands on him, she'd kill him (temporarily of course) but for now she was single, upset and she didn't get the happily ever after ending that teenage girls desired after a ball. So in short she was pissed off and depressed, and Nik was too busy with his 'friend' for her to go to him with her problems, and she wasn't about to go to Finn with her teenage girl issues, (they'd never been close and he had no idea how to comfort her) so that just left Elijah, before he'd abandoned Nik and herself, they'd been nearly as close as she was with Nik, but now it'd been almost three hundred years since she'd seen him and she was unsure of how he felt about her now. Shaking off her feelings of uncertainty, Rebekah moved further into the sitting room to find Elijah sitting on the love seat alone, reading a book. So ignoring the niggling doubt in the back of her mind that said that Elijah did not care for her as he once did, she slid into the space between her eldest brother and the armrest and snuggled into his side. Elijah looked down for a startled moment, not expecting his sister to be so affectionate given the way that they had last left things between them, but nevertheless he gave her a small smile and lifted his arm so she could move closer to him and rest her head on his chest.
"I take it things did not go the way you'd hoped tonight sister," he asked softly.
"I'm never going to be good enough for anyone," she murmured sadly, but relishing the fact that Elijah hadn't turned her away.
Sighing, Elijah put down his book and turned to her, "Bekah, he was not good enough for you."
"No Elijah," she moved slightly to look up at him, "I've never been good enough for anyone, first any man who wanted me was too afraid of my brothers, and then Stefan was perfect but was compelled to forget me and now that he remembers me he's too in love with the doppelganger to care, and now some human has decided that my family and I are too monstrous for him."
Elijah couldn't bare the pain in his baby sister's voice and tightened his hold on Rebekah, "Listen to me sister, and I can't believe that I'm going to say this being as I'm your big brother. But one day, you will meet someone who isn't afraid of our family, and who embraces every part of you. You're a brat, you talk too much, expect everyone to bend over backwards for your needs, whine incessantly and you torture and or kill anyone that crosses you..." When Rebekah moved to rush off Elijah tightened his hold on her. "But... you are a beautiful, smart, powerful woman, and I promise you, one day you will find happiness with a man who deserves everything that you can give him, with a man that adores you."
As Elijah spoke Rebekah began to smile, "You really believe that Elijah?"
He nodded in reply, "My dear baby sister, of course I do...but I will never say it again."
Rebekah let out a laugh and threw her arms around Elijah's neck and he returned it, he may be seen as the cold, aloof yet noble Mikaelson, but he would be lying if he said that he didn't miss his sister, even with her bitching, moaning and generally spoilt brat like behaviour. She was his baby sister, and if there was anyone that he would lay down his life for, other than Klaus, it was her. The only difference was, there had yet to be a moment in time where he wanted to kill Rebekah, and he doubted there would be.
I just realised that I forgot what Kol and Damon's night after the ball, I'll put that up in the next chapter. But Please review, it means you'll get the next chapter faster, and find out exactly what Damon does now that he won't be sleeping with Rebekah.