Life As I Don't Know It
Opportunities
Over dessert that evening Elena finds out that Kol's brother did indeed hear about it and so did Caroline. Apparently gossip got around fast in their circle. Elena dutifully fields Caroline's squeals and 20 questions like a pro. "His name is Sebastian Smythe, he's in performing arts at NYU, we have one class together and I met him jogging in Central Park. He's got brown, blond hair depending on the light, he's around Stefan's height and he's buff Caroline. Think swimming and lacrosse buff."
"OH MY GOD, I just Facebook-stalked him. You GO girl!" Caroline grins at her over Skype.
"And I gave him my phone number yesterday," Elena adds.
The resounding squeal makes Kol appear grumpily behind her, a blood bag in his mouth. "Shut it, woman, some of us are trying to get some rest over here."
"Don't be stupid, Kol. You were locked in a coffin for 900 years, I doubt you even sleep," Caroline retorts. Elena bites back a laugh.
"Yeah, you would know about Original sleep cycles wouldn't you," Kol leers back at her.
Caroline blushes violently and glares at him. Elena wonders how much Kol knows, because Caroline is unusually mum on what she feels for the Original hybrid. However, she is still very much rooting for Caroline and Stefan because just think of the cute blond babies.
"Oh yeah, that's real scary over a computer," Kol rolls his eyes and Elena squeezes his blood bag, effectively silencing him.
Stefan waves at her from behind Caroline, "Elena, have you told my brother yet?"
There's an awkward pause as neither Caroline or Elena knows what exactly he means. There's a lot Elena's neglected to tell Damon, lest he come storming over and demanding to bring her home again. Caroline speaks first, "she doesn't have to tell him every bit of her life. I'm sure he doesn't do the same in kind to her." That effectively covers the topic.
The moment she and Caroline finish their chat, Klaus calls her cell phone. She tosses the phone to Kol who tosses it back. "Sorry, little Doppelganger, he's your problem."
Surprisingly Klaus doesn't care about her interactions with the human. He even goes so far as to encourage it, mentioning cute little Petrova babies to continue the bloodline. He does rant about Elijah disappearing – again – and makes a vague comment about the state of his traitorous brother Finn and Original Witch-Bitch Esther. Elena asks if he's still living with Rebekah.
"Rebekah is mostly with Damon these days," Klaus doesn't spare her feelings and she's not sure if he even knows how to do that.
"That's good for them," Elena responds because it's not her business to care anymore.
"Neither of them know you're with Kol," Klaus confirms for her, "Rebekah thinks he's missing still." Elena is grateful to him for his out of character discretion, but everything played out the way he wanted it to, so she's not too surprised.
"Thanks."
"Keep in touch," Klaus hangs up and she grins brightly at Kol who's lingering in the kitchen.
Kol raises an eyebrow and smirks, "what did brother dearest have to say?"
"Nothing actually, he mentioned the Doppelganger bloodline and how I'll eventually have to provide him with a continuing bloodline – that spiel again – and that no one has told Damon and Rebekah, who are shacking up again by the way, that we're living together. Oh, and he still has no idea where Esther and Finn are hiding," she dazzles him with a megawatt smile.
He slinks away, defeated for the moment that he can't lock her in a cage away from human boys who are going to do bad 21st century things to her. He expected Klaus to berate her for not being careful and to tease her about letting go of the Salvatores so easily. Kol likes it even less when she yells, "grandpa" from the kitchen.
Elena grins, satisfied that for once she wasn't tongue-tied by the overtly sexual Original vampire. She shrugged it off and chalked it up to his similarities to Damon. A buzz from her phone feels foreign as she doesn't have many friends in New York yet.
Sebastian: Hey, are you free tomorrow?
She pauses to think about a suitable reply. Elena likes him and the whole idea of just having fun because this is what she was like before vampires and witches and werewolves and being the Doppelganger. It's nice when the biggest problem of her day is whether or not a boy is interested in her, not coming home to her guardian figure dying on the stairwell. Wrapping a piece of hair around her finger, she types back a reply.
Elena: I'm off class at around 3. Why, what's up?
The giddy, nervous feeling and the smile threatening to split her face in half are all it takes. Elena's ready for a fresh start.
Sebastian: Me too! Feel like getting a snack after class?
Elena: Yeah, are you still up for that run tomorrow? I'm going to beat you again :P
Sebastian smiled from his bed, damn. He was genuinely excited to see this girl. He tapped out a reply on his iPhone.
Sebastian: Haha, you're on, Elena!
Her reply promptly has him drop his phone onto his face in shock.
Elena: Catch me if you can ;)
Oh yes, the game was on.
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Sometimes I write this and I'm like I don't even know what I'm doing... This is so crack pairing