Elena rolled over in bed, groaning when she felt a body lying next to her.
Elena: Your still here?
Elijah: It would appear so, yes.
Elena: Go away.
Elena: Please.
She said after she heard movement coming towards her. He smirked at her.
Elijah: You need to get up, Elena.
He said calmly. He smirked when he heard Elena huff.
Elena: Make me.
She groaned, tired and hoping he wouldn't.
Jenna: Elena, wake up! Time to get ready for school!
Jenna called through the door.
Elijah: Now, I could keep you home all day and 'make you get up' But I think we both know that's unnecessary. Your choice Elena.
Since when do you give me a choice?
She narrowed her eyes at the original, he just smirked her.
Elena: Ok, Jenna! Be down soon!
Elena got up and picked out a navy blue shirt, and a black skirt, and shoes, she went to take a shower.
Elijah: You have a text from Caroline.
She sighed and shook her head slightly.
What did she say?
Elijah: She wants to know if you want to go to your family lake house with her and Bonnie for the weekend, right after school.
Tell her I'm down. And then you can get out.
Elijah: Or I can get in.
He said as he stepped in the shower. She gasped as he put his hands on her waist while placing kisses on her neck. She leaned back and bit back a smirk, she rather likes paying for her actions.
At the boarding house..
Andie checks her watch and puts on her jacket as she walks down the stairs. Damon follows behind her, carrying her scarf.
Andie: I'm late. This is such a crazy day.
Looking in the mirror at the bottom of the stairs.
Andie: I'm, uh, covering the Historical Society's High Tea.
Damon: Ooh! Thrilling.
Sarcastically throwing the scarf up.
They walk together down the main hallway leading to the front door.
Andie: Yeah. It's for some visiting writer. He's writing a book on small-town Virginia. It's a big snooze.
Damon: Writer? What's his name?
Andie: Uh, Elijah Smith.
Damon: Smith. He's using Smith?
Andie looks at herself, yet again, in a different mirror. Damon places the scarf around her neck and ties it.
Damon: Okay. You have your story straight in your mind, right?
Andie: I can't say that you bit me or drank my blood, just that we hit it off and I really like you. You are terrific, though. You're sweet, funny, you're honest.
Damon smiles, places his hands on either side of her head, and compels her.
Damon: And you're falling hard.
Andie: You might be the one.
Damon opens the front door for Andie. Alaric, not having knocked yet, stands on the front porch.
Damon: Have a great day, honey.
Damon kisses Andie. They pull apart and Andie walks out the front door, acknowledging Alaric.
Andie: Oh. Hey, Alaric. Later.
Andie gets in her car and leaves. Damon waves goodbye to her. Alaric moves to stand in front of Damon.
Damon: My new girlfriend. Andie Star, action news.
Alaric: It's not called action news.
Damon: I know. I just like saying it. Come on.
Alaric enters. Damon shuts the door behind him and leads Alaric into the parlor.
Damon: So, John Gilbert gave me this to kill Elijah.
Damon unrolls the dagger from its protective cloth.
Damon: Said you have to dip the dagger in the remains of an old white ash tree that dates back to the Originals, if there's any truth in that.
Damon hands the dagger to Alaric and Alaric takes it.
Alaric: So you think it's a setup?
Damon: It could be. Guy's a weasel. Wouldn't put anything past him.
Damon turns around and heads to the bar.
Damon: What are you up to today, Mr. Saltzman?
Alaric gets up and walks over to Damon.
Alaric: Well, Jenna and I were supposed to go to her family's lake house, but somehow, we both got roped into doing this Historical Society thing at the Lockwood's.
Damon: Where Elijah's the guest of honor.
Alaric: Tell me you're not gonna kill him at the tea party.
Damon: No. That would be stupid.
Alaric gives Damon a skeptical look.
Damon: I want to know his endgame before I kill him, but I do think it's time Elijah and I officially met.
Damon annoyingly taps Alaric with the dagger. Alaric looks on at him, clearly not amused.
Bonnie and Caroline are sitting at a table in the Grill.
Caroline: Okay. So tell me about this big, witchy plan you've been cooking up.
Bonnie: We still don't know the extent of what Elijah's up to.
Caroline: No, we don't. Do think he told Elena? I mean, they did have sex.
Bonnie: I don't think so. She said it was a drunken one night stand for them both, she would've told us if he did. So, I'm gonna ask Luka to tell me what he knows.
Caroline: And he's not gonna tell you anything.
Bonnie: I didn't say he was gonna have a choice.
Caroline looks past Bonnie.
Bonnie: What?
Bonnie turns around and sees that Caroline is looking at Matt. Caroline gives him a small wave and a smile, but Matt's face remains stony and he walks away without any acknowledgement towards her. Bonnie looks back at Caroline.
Bonnie: What was that about?
Caroline: Uh, I don't know. I thought that we were...I don't know.
At Brady's trailer..
Jules is waiting outside the trailer, gazing off into the distance. Tyler approaches her.
Jules: Tyler, hi.
Tyler: You're still here.
Jules: Is that all right with you?
Tyler: That guy last night made it pretty clear that you needed to go.
Jules: And we will soon.
Brady and Stevie walk around the other side of the trailer and approach them. Tyler looks at them, nervously.
Jules: Listen. We kind of need your help with something.
Brady: We need you to help us find the moonstone.
Tyler: Somebody needs to explain to me what the big deal is about a rock.
Stevie: That rock helps break the curse of the sun and the moon.
Tyler: I don't know what that means.
Jules: It's an old curse placed on both vampires and werewolves.
Stevie: Vampires break the curse, they're free to walk in the sunlight, but we're stuck only turning at the full moon, aka werewolf Armageddon.
Brady: But if we break it, they're stuck as night-walkers, and we can turn whenever we want.
Stevie: Aka werewolf domination.
Tyler sighs heavily.
Jules: Tyler, if we can turn at will, that means we never have to turn at all, not if we don't want to.
Tyler: I'd never have to turn again?
Brady: There's more. Stevie?
Stevie: If those vamps are gearing up to break the curse, they must have also found the doppelganger.
Tyler: The doppelganger?
Stevie: Evil twin shadow person. We're betting Mason's hot, vampire chick Kathy knows all about it, so we need you to help us find Kathy. I-I have a picture. Mason brought her to the bar once. No one liked her. She was a vampire. Bad news.
Stevie looks through his phone for the picture.
Stevie: Right-right here. The girl next to Mason.
Stevie shows the picture of Mason and Katherine to Tyler. Tyler looks at it and then up at Stevie with skepticism.
Tyler: That's Elena Gilbert.
Jules: You know her?
Tyler: I've known her my whole life.
Jules and Brady exchange a look.
Back at the grill...
Matt is busing a table when Caroline walks up to him.
Caroline: Hi.
Matt: I'm...I'm working.
Matt walks away and Caroline follows him.
Caroline: Yeah, I can see that, but can you work and talk?
Matt stops abruptly and turns to face Caroline who stops as well.
Matt: What do you want, Caroline?
Caroline: Uh, I want to talk about what we were supposed to talk about last night before I had to cancel on you. I want us to clear up the weirdness. I just want us to talk about us.
Matt: Now you're just making it worse.
Caroline places her hands on either side of her face.
Caroline: Uh, I...I don't know what's going on, Matt.
Matt: Where were you last night when you were supposed to be with me?
Caroline: I...
Matt: And don't say you were with Bonnie because Bonnie was here, Caroline. I saw her.
Caroline is speechless.
Caroline: Oh.
Matt: Yeah.
Matt turns around and walks away.
Caroline: Matt!
Caroline struggles to find words but gives up. Tyler approaches her.
Tyler: Caroline.
Caroline: You stay away from me.
Caroline starts to walk away.
Tyler: It's important.
Caroline and Tyler knock shoulders, causing Caroline's bag to fall to the floor, spilling out its contents. Caroline kneels down to retrieve her bag and things, while Tyler kneels down to help.
Caroline: Just stop it, Tyler, okay? You're just...you're just making it worse.
As Tyler and Caroline place Caroline's things back in her bag, Tyler picks up Caroline's phone and swiftly puts it in his back pocket without her noticing.
Tyler: Please, Caroline. I'm sorry about what happened, okay, but there's so much we need to talk about.
Caroline grabs her bag and gets up from the floor.
Caroline: I said just leave me alone.
Caroline storms out of the Grill. Tyler gets up from the floor and Matt approaches him.
Matt: The two of you want to get together, fine. There's nothing I can do about it, but do me a favor, and both of you stop lying about it.
Matt turns around and Tyler grabs his arm.
Tyler: Matt, there's nothing going on.
Matt turns back around and grabs Tyler by the collar of his jacket.
Matt: Hey! I said stop lying.
Matt releases Tyler and walks away.
At the Gilbert residence...
Jenna: Ric. You ready?
She ask as he came down the stairs.
Alaric: Yeah. Let's go.
She nodded and turned back to the stairs.
Jenna: Elena! Come on!
Elena: Coming!
Alaric frowned.
Alaric: Elena?
Jenna turned back and nodded.
Jenna: She didn't do so well on her last english test, teacher gave her an assignment to write half a page on the writer Elijah.
He nodded understanding.
Alaric: And since he's going to be there-
Elena: She can get an A.
She interrupted him. She put a pencil and notepad in her purse as she she got down.
Brady's trailer...
Tyler looks down at the texts exchanged between Elena and Caroline in the latter phone. Seeing that the girls plan to spend some time at the lake house later, he says:
Tyler: She's going to be at Dunham Lake later. Her family has a house up there.
Brady: Nice. And we'll get our doppelganger.
Brady walks away and Tyler reluctantly follows.
At the Lockwood mansion...
The Historical Society's Tea Party has commenced. Elijah and Carol are speaking with each other as they sip their tea.
Carol: Have you spent much time in Richmond for your book? There's such a wealth of history there.
Elijah: No, I'm focusing mostly on the smaller regions of Virginia. Lots of research. Strictly academic.
Carol: That's fascinating.
Elena: Elijah.
He turns slightly and smiles at her.
Elijah: Elena.
She gives him a polite smile.
Carol: You two know each other?
They both turn to her. Elena Slightly shakes her head.
Elena: Somewhat. I was given a little assignment to do a little report on him at school. So I got his number,
She looked at Elijah, trying to hide the fact she's lying.
Elena: and set u
p a time, place, and date.
She looked back at Carol as she said the last word.
Carol: Date.
She said in a monotone. Elena's eyes went wide while Elijah smirked and sipped his drink.
Carol: When did you two start dating? I don't mean to sound rude but, what about the age difference.
If only she knew how big of a difference it is.
Elena: No, I didn't mea-uh. You know what? I'm going to the bathroom.
Elijah chuckled, taking another sip of his drink.
Elijah: We'll have to work on that sometime.
Yeah whatever.
He smirked after her.
Wipe that smirk off your face.
Elijah: Yes, ma'am.
Uhhh, shut up!
Damon enters the house. Jenna intercepts him.
Jenna: Damon, what are you doing here?
Suddenly, Andie walks up to Jenna and Damon, notepad in hand. Damon looks over at her and smiles.
Andie: Hi. You came.
Damon: Hi.
Andie: Hi.
Damon pecks Andie on the lips. Jenna looks at the two, surprised.
Damon: Thanks for introducing us, Jenna.
Damon walks out of the room. Andie smiles at Jenna and stands next to her as they watch Damon walk away.
Andie: Ahhh. Wow.
Damon approaches Carol and Elijah.
Carol: Damon.
Damon: Carol.
Carol: What a surprise.
Damon: Hi.
Damon and Carol exchange kisses on the cheek.
Carol: Hi. Elijah, I want you to meet Damon Salvatore. His family is one of Mystic Falls' founding families.
Damon: Mm-hm.
Looks at Elijah
Damon: Such a pleasure to meet you.
Elijah: No. Pleasure's mine.
Damon and Elijah shake hands. Carol turns to Elijah.
Carol: I'll go find your girlfriend, I wanted to talk to her about something.
Elijah gave a smile and nodded, not bothering to correct her on how she address Elena. He smirked as Coral walked off, his smirk fading as he turned to face Damon.
Why didn't didn't you tell her we're not dating?
Elijah: Didn't have the chance. Why didn't you?
He smirked as she took a moment to reply.
I don't wanna mess up while I compel her.
Elijah: Mm-hm.
He smirked. Damon narrowed his eyes, wondering why he's smirking again but Elijah just continued their conversation.
Whatever. I''m leaving. Caroline and Bonnie are here to pick me up.
Elijah: Have fun.
If you could see me I would be glaring at you right now.
Elijah: Good to know.
He chuckled.
AN: So this is really long. I wanted something more to happen between Elijah and Elena but maybe next chapter, I plan on throwing around 3 or 4 episodes in the next chapter. It might be while for updates to any of my stories, I'm in the in the middle of packing and helping my mom look for us a new house. But I'm working on smut for the next chapter or 2.