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M note: This is a work of fiction. I don't mean to offend anyone/cause triggers/make light of the situation. Just wanted to say that. Alright then, thanks for reading.
Folks this bordering on iffy af territory so you've been warned.
If you are in an abusive relationship -situation you don't want to be in or just in need of help/support and want to get out. There are hotlines, the police-fire fighters, people that can help or resources.
Elijah puts his hand to his mouth as if he is trying to cover the smile that played on his lips before dropping it for a moment that had seemed to have no end in sight Klaus could possibly care to hope for.
He starts removing it completely and sighs clearly disappointed with a hint of evident dissatisfaction.
"It that's it? You act as if you have, had something I hadn't seen before." Elijah rolls his eyes and licks at his top teeth.
"I can't believe it. It's just sad. I'm incredibly disappointed in you Niklaus. You are stronger than that. What I see now. You were supposed to- "
"Eli just stop talking about it. Have your moment. Taunt to your heart's content. Have your fun at my expense just don't do something you know you'll regret when you are ready to start talking to me. And I mean have a real conversation even though it'll do little to fix what's happened."
Elijah looked him over and taking a step forward and kissed his cheek before shoving him to the ground with enough force behind it to leave Niklaus in more pain than the actual shock of it.
Klaus attempted to stand and wait for the string of insults he knows are on the way.
Only to have Elijah looking at him. Giving off the impression that he is more unimpressed then annoyed.
"Stop moving around. Stay a while. You said you wanted the full story. I am feeling generous. Therefore I will show you mercy. Make no mistake however. I am going to make you work for it."
"What do you want?" He meets his eyes feeling a little scared but not for himself. For what Elijah is bound to feel when he comes back to his senses.
"To break you. I will remake you, don't worry. I want to have you little brother. Then restart the process. You've ruined me. Now it's my turn. To be fair you weren't much-" He stopped talking when Klaus reached out for the hem of his pants.
He kicks his hand away, does not want to see him like this. It's pathetic and he knows that his actions have left irreversible consequences.
"I-I still love you, Elijah. Whatever happens. Despite all of this here. What you've done, what you are planning on doing. I need you to remember that. When-when you are yourself again. I can accept you. Always will. No matter what you do or how much you hurt me because I need you."
Something seems to snap within his brother because Elijah bends down. Leaning towards him and kisses him roughly, it is drastically different from the previous ones because despite the pain he can tell Elijah is holding back from hurting him to the fullest extent.
It is unintentional that Niklaus closes his eyes as he feels his heartbreaking all the more at the simple action.
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"Look at me then. You claim to love me. You, Niklaus. Are so serious-keen in thinking you'd love me no matter what I've done. What I'm about to do."
"Well you want in on a secret?" He asked knowing that Klaus wouldn't respond back so he continues because it doesn't matter.
"Between you and me it isn't much of one. Right now, you disgust me. Why are you still getting like this? All worked up for me."
"I bet you'd still beg me to take you again. Despite the pain, shame or fear I'm certain you must feel. You'd let me hurt you and you must like it because you keep coming back."
"But I can see through that, you. This isn't fun or amusing to me. Not anymore. At all. I thought it would have been without having my emotions on. I see I've been proven wrong."
Klaus looks away. Feeling an amount of disgust with himself but knowing that he is not wrong about what he is saying.
"Your silence is deafening. Little half-brother." Elijah looks around the room without moving much.
Thinking Klaus went out of his way to throw furniture away and find almost identical sets his only mistake is that these are missing certain marks on them to look right if he'd paid attention.
"There are moments in time. Events. Perhaps small actions, a lack of it when someone needs it most or words, broken promises. Whatever, well those things will eventually build up or simply cannot be taken back. No matter how much both parties want that.."
"I killed Tatia whilst in a moment of bloodlust. I had people cover it up and I erased it from my memory enough that I could push it back. Keep it under lock and key behind I room. A door I'd have rathered not crossed had I been given the choice."
"I'm not proud of it. What I've done but it happened. No use crying over spilt milk, you know. I have to admit however. Sometimes without my permission or intention I find myself missing her so much I don't want to see you because whether you want to be or know you are pulling at my seams. Working on forever serving a reminder of her."
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"You lied to me." Klaus felt his claws extend without his permission as his fang appear and his eye flashed gold. "I asked you directly...you said you never hurt her. Why did you..how have you hidden the truth from me for so long..whoever provided you aide is going to-"
He isn't yelling or overly acting out with emotion and Elijah can't help feeling how easy it is to not care. Worse yet, how easy it would have been to get over himself if he stopped from trying so damn hard to feel guilty.
"There it is and yes. I did. You'd think I should, would be sorry for what I've done but aside from killing her I have no regrets. I've committed countless atrocities and will continue doing so. It's in my nature."
"Without a doubt or hesitation. I'd do them all a thousand times over if it brought her back to me, to you."
He kisses him once more.
This time plunging his tongue out to meet his. And Klaus wants to push him away but it is apparent in the way his body reacts to his moves, gravitates so readily to him that he is still putty in Elijah's hands.
That he won't ever stop.
"I love you" Klaus puts a hand on his shirt above his heart as his own drums in his ears loud enough to make him swear he's gonna be deaf in some minutes.
"I know that. It makes it all the more..it makes it easier. I don't want to hurt you. Even now that you should be-that you mean nothing to me. What have you done to me, Niklaus? Why are you so integrated in my heart that even forgetting. No. Flat out refusing to turn on. Keep my emotions does not have a lasting or real effect."
"I love you" The words are getting on his nerves because he knows their depth. Why Niklaus shouldn't say them to him. Not after seeing him. Knowing what he did.
"Stop saying that. It won't help you. Save you. Change anything. What's done is done."
"Elijah, I need you to stop-" Klaus knows that it's not the best of ideas to have Elijah so unhinged bit it would be better for him because at least then he wouldn't be so scared.
"If I were to do it again?" He's looking at him basically saying 'try me' if Niklaus doesn't stop and just keep his mouth shut.
"Eli-" He has to power through with trying to get Elijah centered enough that he knows that it's a start and they can try to get through this together.
"I don't love you, Niklaus." He cut him off before he could-dared make good on his promise.
"That's not true." There is not a single doubt in his heart, not anymore. Elijah loves him and he knows that.
"Why would you think that? What have I ever done or said to make you think, have you this deluded. I'm, honestly concerned about it. For you."
"You are it for me. Outside of my children but you are all that matters outside of them."
"If I hurt them? Would you still love me as you do, then." The words echo throughout the room as a heavy silence settles.
"I'd kill you." Klaus meets his eyes and Elijah licks at his lips while he sits back on the floor.
"Some love you have for me. I don't remember you saying that or doing anything when Marcel died, before we knew he became a hybrid." He pulls his shirt off intent on heading to the bathroom to take a shower.
There are safe houses all over the world available to himself and his siblings. His family has purchased in order to lay-low from threats or try and get peace of mind when they think they're crossing lines and boundaries that lie outside of their acceptable standards.
Once he is done here he can leave. Get some rest of see what he gets into now that Klaus won't go after him.
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"I hurt, you know I did. I'd felt nothing like it and you left to fuck Haley when I needed you most but you know what. It worked out for the best. He hates me so that hatred will keep him safe."
"At a distance. Make no mistake. You come at him again and I'll wipe you out, brother." Niklaus honestly wants to believe his own words but he's failed him enough as it is.
He can't do the same with Hope. Does not want to find out what he would do.
"I love him even now but I had to choose." Elijah looks at him for a minute stating what he knows to be obvious.
"Were I to move against Hope is another story. You wouldn't hesitate to hurt me. It's because he isn't your blood? Because I go out of my way to pretend, make sure the whole world can see that I hate him. Or is it you just-"
"He's an adult and Hope is still a child. That's all there is to it. I need to protect her until she can protect herself, until they can protect eachother because they're siblings. Equal in my eyes. Even though I've failed him time and time again." He had to cut him off. Knows he does not want to hear what Elijah would have said.
"I've left scars you can't heal." He sits down next to Klaus but there is enough room to keep a protective bubble.
"I will move from this eventually. I'm not saying it's going to be easy but I have to. Everyone relies on me. Unwillingly and yet I would always be there for them, you. Because you are my family."
Klaus attempted to move a little closer but stopped halfway through and dropped his hand with a loud thud to the floorboards cracking up a number of them.
"I'm not ready yet. And you are in no condition to face them." Elijah bites his wrist and offers it to him knowing it hadn't done much damage or no worse than he own but he did it anyway.
"The things I've done weigh on me, my conscience. Not now but they will. At the time, any given time. I simply act without a care or thought to what anyone says what reprimands may come."
"I am not excusing myself. Even as I am now I would not however lie to you. Keep things from you and use that amongst other things to manipulate you or situations into my favor of course but I wouldn't lie."
"Show me." Klaus pulls at the button on his pants only to see Elijah looking at him with confusion so he swallows his fear even though it's coming for him like a hawk to a snake.
"It worked last time. Nothing else I've tried while you were sleeping has the same effect. Right now you're in control. Not giving a single fuck about me but it's a good thing. I promise. I won't regret this, trust me."
The next second his teeth, lips and tongue are on his too warm skin as he tries to relax.
"So that's how you plan on justifying it to yourself. If you truly believe that then why are you crying? Flinching away from my touch. Jumping out of your skin when I say your name. I think you're being incredibly stupid. If you want the rest I think we should try it again. My way. I'll warn you now. It is going to cost you."