AN: I'd just like to say, thank-you so much for all the feedback that I have recieved and I hope you enjoy the next part of this story. Any questions, please just let me know... A common one that I have had is... Is Charlotte and Tatia the same person...? The answer is YES! But obviously for the sake of this story, I have named her Charlotte as I prefer that waaaaaaaay over Tatia. Uhm... I think that's all.
Without further ado... Read on...
Elena's phone ringtone interrupted the awkward tension that she felt towards Elijah now, she answered the phone instantaneously.
"That would be Damon checking up on you." Elijah teased her
It was Damon; rolling her eyes at his antics, he was purely checking up on her.
Seriously, it wasn't like she was twelve. She could take care of herself, but clearly he didn't think so.
"I'm fine, Damon." She said into the phone annoyed
"Just wanted to see how things were going with Elijah, you know that we can't trust him one hundred percent, not after last time..." she heard through the phone and it was undoubtedly stupid as he would have know that Elijah had heard every word which in itself was quite questionable.
"Okay, Damon." Said Elena, not really caring as she hung up the phone, after all, she was a big girl and could make her own decisions.
"So what happened afterwards? Clearly, they must've fallen in love." Asked Elena bluntly
This is turn, made Elijah chuckle.
"Oh no, to everyone, including Charlotte, it appeared that he hated her. He would deliberately ignore and avoid her at all costs."
There were some good memories of the past, Elijah acknowledged that. There were some not-so-great one too but the past, and previous experiences defined him to great lengths as a person.
"Why?" she asked, this made no sense at all. If he was already in love with her then why would he refuse to acknowledge it? She thought to herself
"There was a prophecy about this curse already told, before it had been re-written. Niklaus knew of this and suspected that he was cursed with Charlotte and he was right." He explained, trying to make sense for her
"Why didn't he just give in then? He already knew that he was going to fall in love with her, so what was the problem?" she asked
"Because Niklaus does not love or do anything by halves, he does it with his full being. He knew that if he had fallen more in love with her than he already was, that he may not be able to handle losing her." Elijah told her
"How did Charlotte take the reje-ction?" asked Elena quietly
"Good day, Elijah," Said Charlotte, greeting each individual person upon her arrival, saving Niklaus for last, "Rebekah," turning her head in the direction of whom she had been hoping to see for the past few weeks, "Niklaus." She bowed her head
He looked at her for a moment before nodding to his brother and walking in the opposite direction, away from his siblings, and her.
At this Charlotte sighed, crossing her folded arms in front of her, her expression dropped.
"He really hates me, doesn't he?" she said, not trying to show the sadness that was overcoming her
"Do not worry, Charlotte, Niklaus simply has some things that need to be taken care of. He doesn't hate you." Elijah tried to comfort her but to no avail, she would not hear it.
"Good day." Charlotte excused herself
"Not good, that was the common reaction that she had and after a few weeks of this, she fell into a deep depression which in the end caused Niklaus to rush to her side." Elijah finished
"Charlotte!" yelled her mother as she saw her thinning daughter fall in the main street of the village, running to her as fast as her legs would carry her, on-lookers also ran to the un-ravelling scene.
"Mother?" Charlotte asked weakly, her head was spinning and she was slowly losing control of her body, she was getting weaker rapidly.
Niklaus was strolling through the town when he heard the slight commotion, this of course caught his attention when he head Charlotte's name, acting on instinct, he ran as fast as he could to the two women lying on the ground, one conscious, the other was not.
"What happened?" he asked out of breath
"Niklaus, you need to help her." Charlotte's mother begged him
"Charlotte," he asked as he reached out to her, placing her in his arms, "What have I done to you?"
Picking her up with ease, her mother followed them not far behind.
"What happened to her?" Elena held her breath, despite the fact that this was in the past and practically in ancient history, it still gave her a sense of thrill that was coursing through her veins.
"She did not awaken from her weakened state for a week, everyday, he would visit her." Elijah filled in the gaps.
"How is she doing today?" Niklaus asked as he brought a basket of vegetables and other food items into the home of the Petrova's.
Charlotte's father was away on a hunting trip with Mikael, his own father, this was something that put ease through Niklaus.
"She has regained some strength but she is still very weak, your presence, I believe, will help her." Charlotte's mother explained to him, she was becoming increasingly worried about her daughter but she was beginning to have her own suspicions that he was the one that would fulfil the prophecy.
"May I see her?" he asked gently, Charlotte's mother nodded and ushered him into a room where Charlotte lay.
"She woke that day." Coughed Elijah, not wanting to relive that memory, "They became inseparable after that." He added as an afterthought, the pain of his own emotions flooding through too quickly before he could stop them.
"The curse bound itself quickly then?" Elena commented
"Too quickly." He agreed with her
Charlotte's hand tightened around Niklaus' left bicep as they walked through the main village, taking a lovely afternoon stroll before dinner.
"You know, I thought that you hated me." She admitted to him as she stepped subconsciously closer to him, as if she was afraid to lose him.
"I could never hate you, Char." He promised her as he took in her mesmerising eyes.
"Promise me, Nik?" she silently pleaded, her expression sad as her hair whipped in the wind behind her
"Always and forever." He answered
"I thought that was something Rebekah pledged to Klaus." Said Elena confused, that didn't sound right.
"Yes and no. Rebekah more or less 'borrowed' it, a way of taunting Klaus." Answered Elijah
Original business was really starting to confuse Elena but she had to know, if there was a way that they could kill Klaus, she had to know.
"Why? Didn't Rebekah and Charlotte get along?" asked Elena
"On the contrary, Elena." Said a new female voice, Elena turned around at once in shock, there was Rebekah, Elena didn't want to know how long that she had been standing there. "She was my best friend, she was like my sister."
"What?" was the only word that slipped out of Elena's mouth before she could even think about it and take it back.
"Destiny is not easy to run from, it will always chase you down, one way or another." Said Rebekah wisely to her best friend, "Besides, at least we'll be sisters." She added
"Look on the bright side, would you? Charlotte, you love him, he loves you, it's only natural that the pair of you marry." Rebekah was practically humming, a smile on her lips
"Klaus?" Charlotte asked confused
"See!" Rebekah teased, "Making more pet names for your future husband."
Charlotte shook her head, "Only you, Rebekah, would come up with that."
"Come on," Rebekah tried reasoning, "Think about it, I could help you, you know."
"You be best to hold your tongue." Charlotte said sternly, trying her best to intimidate Niklaus, this only caused Rebekah and herself to laugh.
"Don't tell me that you're still moping about her, Elijah." Rebekah smirked
"She is dead." He said bluntly causing Elena to look back and forth between the siblings
"I thought you were on team Klaus." The doppelganger spoke up
"In the end, blood is only so thick." Shrugged the blonde, "The last time that Charlotte was alive, he brutally murdered her in cold blood, she hasn't been reincarnated since this. The Niklaus that you know is like an alter ego of his old self. He was never like this."
Rebekah was still very bitter about the situation; after all, Klaus had made her watch the entire thing before he stabbed her in the chest with a dagger dipped in the ash of white oak.
"There was a time that I would have done anything for Klaus." Admitted Elijah, he loved his brother but not this new person that he had become over time.
"That's changed, now he must die." Rebekah finished, she could not and would not forgive him for what he did, no matter how much she loved him. It would never be enough.
This left Elena's head reeling, just what had she gotten herself into?
AN: So did that answer any questions for you? Or... Did it give you even more? LOL - You guys know the drill. I love feedback :) Review? xx
