Elijah didn't want to scream, but sometimes no matter how controlled you were pain got the best of you. There was a distinct difference between witch inflicted pain and vampire inflicted pain, and both of them hurt just as much as the other. His head felt as if it had been smashed against the concrete multiple times, and almost every other place on his body hurt because of Mikael's constant stabbing or breaking of bone in between the witch's mental assaults. Elijah didn't even want to think of what his face looked like now, all that he had been thinking about is how the hell had his siblings not come bursting through the door.

Elijah knew he should've been more careful, ever since the vale had lifted he had run into a number of enemies he was not so pleased to see. He hoped they were having a swell time on the new other side, well maybe not all of them. After the vale had been lifted his family collectively moved, or more accurately ran, out of Mystic Falls. For some reason seeing old family friends that had been long dead had driven his family out of town faster than any white oak stake could. Elijah had been the first one to go when he and Kol were walking down the street with Katherine and Bonnie when a man named john from their village came to them and yelled Little Elijah Mikaelson I haven't seen you in ages! And Kol its been a long time last time I saw you, you, why were only a little baby! At that point Elijah and Kol had packed their bags and accepted their new lives in New Orleans.

The only change Elijah detested was the agreement of letting Esther back into their disaster of a family to help Klaus sort out his "baby" problems. Kol and Elijah had speculated how utterly hilarious it would be to see Niklaus changing diapers on a regular bases. Finn had also come with them, but they hardly ever saw him due to his love Sage, who was truly becoming annoying. Katherine had only been able to visit once or twice, now hell bent on getting revenge for Elena vervaining her and trying to give her the cure. Esther had actually had the audacity to give Elijah relationship advice. Relationship advice. Elijah had chosen to ignore every word Esther would ever have to say on the matter, since her relationship was not exactly "stellar". Considering she had a child with another man, kept from her husband let the child believe he was in fact Mikael's son and only telling him when he had been turned into a vampire.

So Elijah thought it was the best idea to not listen to Esther.

"Where. Is. The. Girl." Mikael asked grabbing Elijah's wrist so tightly that he though they might explode.

"I. Don't. Know." Elijah spat back as he did every time Mikael had repeated this question.

"You're a lot more like me then you would like to admit Elijah, same stubbornness that I always possessed, even my rage is there if you look hard enough." Mikael spoke looking intensely into Elijah's brown eyes.

"Well at least I'm not a homicidal maniac who tries to kill his children on a regular bases." Elijah replied. He knew it wasn't a smart move to enrage Mikael, but as much as Elijah hated to admit it, Mikael got under his skin. This was almost an impossible feat, but there Mikael was tearing down the walls Elijah had worked so hard to build.

"Don't hold yourself all high and mighty boy, you are no better as much as you like to believe it."

"I'd like to think maybe I was a little bit better." Elijah replied snidely.

"You are only what I have made you to be Elijah, Nothing more." Mikael shot back.

This insult worked. Elijah held Mikael in the highest form of hatred anyone could. In the seven hundred years Elijah had only heard whispers of his name, stories of his hunting's of Niklaus, he had grown to loathe him. The reason he did was buried deep within him and one he expected to take to his long overdue grave.

"I. Am. Nothing. Like . You. " Elijah whispered in a tone so menacing it caught Mikael of guard. This made Elijah smile, so he could surprise his dear old father after all.

"Will you all be quiet?" Esther yelled over the screaming of her children. Kol, Klaus and Rebekah were standing in the living room yelling at the witch Sophie to perform the tracking spell so it would "work". Her children just had not grasped the concept that maybe their will didn't magically get the impossible done.

Elijah had only been taken a day had the family had already started to fall apart. Even Finn who rarely cared about his younger siblings affairs, even though he seemed quite interested in Elijah's relationship with that awful Doppelganger, was still shaken.

In the weeks Esther had been with he family she had finally been somewhat accepted back into the family. Of course Elijah who had been surprisingly the most against her returning, had sulked around the house for a couple days and was found often watching movies with Kol avoiding everyone else at all cost. Esther had rarely seen his face after she had told him the Katherine girl would only lead to heartbreak. Looking back on it now it might not have been the best thing to say.

With Elijah gone the whole family was in mass panic. Not only had an unknown adversary snatched a family member, he had snatched Elijah. Elijah the most capable, the careful one, the vampire who would rip your head off in an instant without thinking if you were rude. This made the whole family shaken, and quite desperate. It didn't help with Kol's crazy theories that he would spout every second.

What if he's dead?

What if he's a mole?

Did he run off with Katherine?

Is he plotting all of our deaths right now?

It was no wonder everyone was panicking.

"Why won't your stupid spell work? It just a stupid tracker!" Klaus snapped at Sophie.

"It being blocked by the other witch! I've told you this a thousand times Klaus, if you're not happy with me trying to find him DO IT YOURSELF!"

Now that got everyone's attention.

"Fine, Kol, Rebekah I want you to go around town and ask anyone if they've seen Elijah. I'll go talk to Marcel."

"I swear to god if he's off with Katherine I will fucking murder him!" Kol snapped.

"Kol language!" Esther said, as if she had any influence over Kol.

"What about me?" Finn chimed in.

"Oh I'm sorry are you listening to us I thought you were to busy playing tonsil tennis with sage!" Rebekah yelled.
"Tonsil what?"

"I DON'T KNOW I'VE BEEN WATCHING A LOT OF CRAP TV ALRIGHT."

"JUST GO FIND HIM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!" Sophie yelled surprisingly.