AN: In this story, Elijah is a bit of a ripper, like Stefan.

Chapter 4 Inner Demon

Elijah pulled Katherine into his own room after excusing himself. He smiled at her at first and took her by the hand so she sat on the bed with him.

Katherine smirked at him; she was one to play games, but this time, she wouldn't do it. The truth was that she had felt a magnetic pull towards the vampire the moment she spotted him; not only had his looks captured the brunette completely, but the aura that surrounded him was a calm one, one that made Katherine forget her worries.

"So" Elijah mumbled. "the first thing I have to say is that you look beautiful, Katerina.

There is no denying in that."

Katherine felt herself blush heatedly; Elijah extended his hand to touch her cheek and gently stroked over the blush with his thumb Katherine's heart was beating so fast, she thought Elijah could hear it.

She was so not used to this position, the position of being the lamb, not the lion, the position of being the partner and not the leader of the dance.

And that was exactly what worried Katherine; she liked being the boss and she knew that she would have to manage to control herself around Elijah, to show him that he was not the leader... yet.

For some reason, Katherine had decided that she and Elijah fitted together perfectly; in her head, they were Romeo and Juliet, Snow White and her prince, ... And so many other romantic figures that existed in plays, fairytales and books filled with lies.

Elijah leaned into her and his lips brushed hers. Katherine didn't know why she wasn't fighting it; she should, shouldn't she? Wasn't that the role of the person who was being seduced? Besides, she hadn't come here to get kissed by Elijah anyway, had she? And yet... why did it feel so right?

Elijah knew immediately that he was falling in love with Katherine he just felt it and on the other side his darker side wanted to grab her and claim her on the bed and bite her repeatedly on her swan like neck. He wondered briefly if his younger brothers had this problem.

Klaus not so much, seeing as he was a bloody Hybrid for god's sake and had a thousand years to handle his werewolf side, but Elijah and Finn had that problem.

Elijah grabbed a handful of Katherine's dark brown wavy locks and pulled her closer to him so she was sitting on his lap and her neck was bare to him.

Just one bite, His inner demon whispered. Just one bite of her rose blood.

Elijah ignored it as Katherine placed a hand to the side of his face and tenderly stroked his left cheek.

A growl rumbled through his chest and he pulled Katherine closer kissing her passionately his lips joining with hers a moan escaped her and just as he thought to hell with tradition a cough escaped someone's mouth and they looked to see his father looking at them.

"Shit." he cursed mentally and pushed a gasping for breath Katherine off him not looking at her.

Katherine felt humiliated how long had Mikael been looking at them she felt like a whore and slapped him for it.

"That's for humiliating me!" She screamed at him and ran off.

Mikael looked amusedly at his eldest son "That went well." He sighed. "I will calm her down."

Katherine sat in the rose garden tears falling down her face she missed her mother. She didn't know why, but she felt a connection to Elijah.

Mikael sat down next to his daughter-in-law, Katherine, quietly. She reminded him so much of his daughter Maria it was startling.

"You must think me an idiot." he heard Katherine whisper.

"No." he said, "You love my son but you are afraid. Go to him in the ballroom" he said smiling down at her kindly. He and his wife loved the three young women as if they were their own.

Katherine took a deep Breath and nodded.

"Thank you." she said looking at him gratefully and hurried off to the ballroom.

"Elijah," he heard a voice call and glanced behind him to see Katherine there as he walked towards her he bowed while Katherine curtsied.

"I think a dance would be, at this point of the game, safer for us, my love".

Elijah said to a blushing Katherine, while presenting his right hand palm to her, feeling a moment after, the softness of her delicate skin on his, and closing slowly his hand on hers, before sliding his other hand around her small waist, and pulling her in full contact with his muscular chest, making her blush at the intimate contact of his body in such close proximity of hers.

"I believe you are maybe taking too much freedom with me my lord, and making me react like a low class lady." Katherine said shyly.

"Oh, but my dear Katherine,I believe that these delightful moments between us, are for ever a secret that I am swearing to keep in my heart." He mockingly whispered to her, his mouth at a near proximity of her left ear, while starting to waltz with her, in slow, regular tempo dance steps, raising his hand in her back, while slowly caressing her skin through the fabric of her dress, his thumb circling a forbidden and secret caress on her bare skin, just where the lace of her dress was showing a inch of her skin, creating a range of delightful sensations in all her body.

AN : next up is Klaus and Bonnie and please review.