Did everyone have a good Christmas? Or whatever it is they celebrate?
This chapter isn't really the chapter I promised, but I felt that this was needed first. Next chapterer should be the 12 week scan.
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Unexpected 2 Chapter 4
Elena watched again as the skin on her palm healed. She picked up the pairing knife and sliced into the flesh of her hand once more. It still healed. Every time, it healed. What was going on?
"Can you stop that?" Elijah snapped, snatching the blade from her and wiping her hand on his handkerchief.
"But I'm healing!" Elena said, still staring at her hand. "How am I healing?"
It had been about half an hour since she had gotten cut in the shower, since she and Elijah had discovered her little quirk. Elijah had skipped his and just changed, he had come downstairs to find her slicing open her hand and watching it heal.
"I don't know, my love," Elijah replied, letting go of her hand and cupping the side of her face. "Still, I don't want to watch you get hurt. It's probably the baby healing you. Execeptionally powerful witches have been know to perform magic from the womb."
"So, that's your answer?" Elena asked, feeling irritated. "It's the baby? I don't think so, Elijah. I've been healed by magic before, that looks nothing like when Bonnie has healed me. It looks like vampire healing!" Elena held her hand up to his face, the unknown of this scaring her.
"I know what it looks like, Elena," Elijah said, soothingly, if a little short. "It scares me as well. I was human when we conceived this baby, so my vampirism shouldn't be affecting this pregnancy in any way. You've not ingested any of my blood. And you are most definitly not a vampire, so I'm at a loss as to why you healed. Has it ever happened before?"
Elena opened her mouth to deny it, but stopped. Now that she thought about it, when was the last time she saw a scabbed cut or yellowed bruise on her body? Weeks? Months?
"I - yes, yes, it's happened before." Elena whispered, her brows together. "Remember last week? When I cut my finger slicing apples?" Elijah nodded, mutely. "I don't remember having a cut the next day. Or last month, when your mom cut my hand to turn Ric - it was a fairly deep cut, too. I'm almost positive it wasn't there two days later when we went to the lake house!"
"Has this ever happened before you got pregnant?" Elijah asked, running his finger over her palm, where five minutes ago it had been bleeding profusly. He knew it had not, but still he asked.
"No," Elena said, walking to the kitchen sink to wash the dried blood from her palm.
"Perhaps we could ask -," but she never found out who Elijah wanted to ask. At that moment there was a knock on the door. "One moment, my dear," he said, holding up his index finger and going to answer the door. He returned a minute or two later, followed by Bonnie, Kol, Klaus, Caroline and Rebekah. "Bonnie's had another dream," was all he said to Elena's inquisitive look. "I'll wake Jeremy, Kol's calling a family meeting."
Elena gestured for every on to sit at the table. "There's two extra chairs in the study by the front door and the table expands." She then turned to Bonnie, "What's going on?"
"I'll tell you in a minute, 'Lena," Bonnie said. Caroline returned with the extra chairs while Kol and Klaus worked on the table and Rebekah poured herself and everyone else a coffee.
"So, how's my little niece in there?" Rebekah asked, placing down her coffee mug and rubbing Elena's tiny baby bump.
"You mean 'nephew', right?" Kol said, walking around the table and was now cupping Elena's stomach, too.
"Baby's fine, I'll tell everyone later about a... thing Elijah discovered this morning." Elena said, trying to not get irritated at everyone touching her. Hormones were really driving her nuts lately and her mood was all over the place.
"Thing?" Caroline echoed, "What thing? Is the baby okay?" She looked at Bonnie, "You didn't dream about something bad happening to the baby, did you?"
"Like Elena said, Caroline, the baby's fine. Healthy." Bonnie said, "I'll tell everyone what I dreamed about when we're all down here."
"You bleeding, love?" Klaus asked, sniffing the air.
"Crap," Elena cursed, washing the knife and throwing Elijah's handkerchief into the laundry room, closing the door behind her. She then grabbed an air freshener and sprayed. "I was," Elena told Klaus, "It's stopped, but since Jeremy's still only a baby vampire, the smell of fresh blood still gets to him."
Elijah returned then, with a half asleep Jeremy behind him.
Jeremy grunted, "Good morning," to everyone, then took one of the mugs of coffee that Rebekah had set out for everyone. "So, what's going on?"
Everyone was seated around the table, they all looked to Bonnie.
"So," the witch began, swallowing, "Everyone knows how I've been having some weird dreams lately, right?" She recieved nods and 'yes' or 'yeah' in confirmation. "Well, last night my Grams visited me in my dream. First things first, the Founders Council are up to something, and they must suspect Caroline, since Mrs Forbes hasn't said anything to any us, meaning they don't trust your mom, Care."
"Mrs Lockwood hasn't said anything either, must mean they're on to Tyler, too." Caroline said, chewing on her lip. "I'll give him call and warn him later."
"Grams didn't say anything else on that, just to keep an eye out." Bonnie said, fiddling with her fingers nerviously. "But she did mention you, Elena." Bonnie turned her eyes onto one of her best friends. "And the pregnancy."
"And mother dearest," Kol said, sarcastically.
"Mother?" Elijah spat, news of his mother momentarily pushing information about the pregnancy out of his mind. He reached for Elena's left hand. "What is that vile woman up to now. She's dead."
"Mother's not up to anything right now," Kol reassured his siblings, all of who looked a little worried. "Just that she might try to return again and kill us."
"Well, that's comforting," Klaus deadpanned.
"She's after the baby, isn't she?" Rebekah asked, reaching out and grabbing Elena's free clenched fist and squeazing it. "Don't worry Elena, we won't let her touch the newest, little Mikaelson. Or any of the older one's either, for that matter!"
"There's more," Bonnie said, sending shock through the table.
"More? Seriously?!" Was Caroline's outburst.
"This is about the baby," Bonnie went on, looking directly at Elena and Elijah here. Elena felt a tightening in here chest, she kept trying to remember that Bonnie had just said that everything was healthy and she knew Bonnie would never give her false hope, but still, she could not stop the dread from filling her. Elena held onto Elijah's hand, holding her breath. "Grams said that the spell that turned the Originals human last year, didn't turn you completely human. A tiny bit of vampirism was left, hardly any at all, to link you to your sire lines."
"What does that mean?" Elena whispered.
"Well, add that to the fact that a thousand years of being a vampire has altered the Mikaelsons' genes," Bonnie said, "I would say it means that the baby, on top of having the witch gene, is now also part vampire. It'll be a hybrid, like it's uncle." She nodded her head in Klaus's direction.
"My - my baby's a vampire?" Elena asked, once she had calmed down. Elijah just sat there, staring. "Well, this explains it then. Thank God, it's just that. I'm sure that between myself and Elijah... and all you guys, we can handle what's going on, yeah?"
Everyone agreed.
"But, what do you mean, 'this explains it then'?" Jeremy asked.
Elena stood up, Elijah's grip had gone slack, and walked to the sink where the pairing knife still sat. Elena brought it back to tthe table with her and took her seat again. Elijah shot her a hard look, as if telling her not to do what she was about to, there was no reason to, explaining would suffice.
"This," Elena said, bringing the blade to her palm once again and slicing a familiar path through her flesh. Good thing she had a rather high pain threshold.
"What the hell!" Jeremy yelled, standing up, his chair falling over, the veins under his eyes darken and his teeth grow. Still, her stays where he stands, locking his muscles into place, throwing his hand over his mouth and nose.
"Elena what are you doing?" Caroline asked, her eyes wide, a flash of darkening veins show under her eyes too, just for a second.
"Elena, stop!" Elijah said, placing some balled up tissues over her hand. "You could have simply told everyone you now heal, there was no need to keep taking to your hand with kitchen utensils!"
"They need to see this," Elena said, holding up her hand just in time to show the cut mesh back together. Three seconds later, it was gone and the only evidence that Elena had had a cut worthly of stitches on her palm just before was the blood smeared around where the slice in her skin had been.
There were several exclaimations of 'oh, my God' and 'what?', Kol muttered "Holy shit!" and Rebekah and Jeremy were speachless.
Bonnie just smiles, as if she had expected it. "The healing is the baby's vampire genes, it's blood is your blood. Also, this is why your 'moning sickness' lessened a few weeks ago, when you stopped taking vervain. You use to vomit right after, remember?" Elena nodded, "It was your body's way of rejecting something that would be harmful to the baby."
"Okay," Elena muttered, "So stay away from vervain and... What about invites? Would I need to be invited into houses?"
"I think you're safe," Bonnie said. "You haven't had any problems with that, have you?"
Elena shook her head. "I don't think so. But, what about sunlight? Or would the baby be like Klaus? Immune to it?"
"I'm resistant because I'm half-werewolf love," Klaus said. "The baby's half-witch so maybe that'll cancel it out. Plus, while your still pregnant with the little terror, I'd say it's safe for now anyway."
Then Elijah asked the question they were all wondering. "What about blood?"
"Bonnie?" Elena asked, breaking the silence that fell after Elijah's question. "Will the baby need blood?"
"Possibly," Bonnie answered, bitting her lip. "As of right now, I theorise that the baby is simply taking nutrients from your blood, which is why the doctor said you're anemic. But that may change as the baby gets bigger. Maybe soon, not yet, but soon, you might need to drink blood."
"I think I can handle that," Elena muttered.
"One last order on business," Kol said, sittiing up straighter. "Has anyone heard from Finn?"
"I haven't heard from our brother since he called me a few days after Christmas saying he would be back for New Years and his birthday on the seventh." Elijah said, looking at each of his siblings in turn. "That was weeks ago."
"He's either still holding a grudge or something's wrong," Klaus said. "I'm inclined to believe something may be wrong. Finn may be dull and rather annoying, but if he says he's doing something, he usually does it."
"I left messages for both him and Sage a week or so ago," Rebekah told her brothers. "I haven't heard anything back, from either of them. I think something might be wrong, too, Nik."
"You don't think it's this council Vakker's been dreaming about, do you?" Kol asked, turning to Bonnie.
"I'm sorry, Kol, I don't know." Bonnie told them, "I can try a locator or a tracer spell, but it doesn't work so well with vampires - especially older ones- since the blood is distorted by age. But just knowing where Finn could be, it won't give us the answers on if he's in trouble or not."
"The council need to be avoided," Caroline said. "It could get messy otherwise. With them, it's always best to lay low." After a minute or two, Caroline stood. "I don't mean to be rude, but I need to run. Mrs Lockwood would have my head if I'm late to the set up today. I'll keep my ear out for any council stuff, just in case." She waved bye and left.
"I think I'll head off, too." Klaus said, he had a lot of planning to do.
When Jeremy had made some breakfast and was now eating at the kitchen counter and sipping on a bloodbag, the sight of which did not disgeust Elena at all. Rebekah was talking to Kol by the door and Bonnie asked Elena if she could run a few spells, just to check on the baby.
Elijah helped Elena up onto the table and she lay back. Kol returned, having walked Rebekah out and getting stuff from Bonnie's car, he started to place candles around where Elena lay. With a thought, Bonnie lit the wicks and Elijah closed the curtains around the first level.
"I'm going to need you to take off your bracelet," Bonnie said to Elena, who undid the latch and let it fall to the table top. Bonnie started to chant in latin and the flames on the candle grew.
"Wait," Jeremy said and Bonnie's eyes snapped open, with a smile. "Don't you two hear that?" He asked Elijah and Kol. "That echo."
"Echo?" Elena repeated, "What echo? What do you mean, Jer?"
"Hold that thought for a moment, sweetheart." Elijah said, he closed his eyes and concerntrated. "There is an echo coming from you. From the baby's heartbeat - it wasn't there before. Or at least from what I had noticed."
Bonnie gave out a huffing chuckle, "This is what Grams meant. When she said that the surprises weren't over, this is what she meant."
"What are you talking about, Bonnie. What surprises?"
Kol burst out laughing, "Your grandmother has a wicked sense of humour, Vakker, I'll tell you that."
Bonnie gave a cheeky smile, "You have an appointment on Friday, right?" Elena said she did. "I'll let you find out then." She clicked her fingers and the candles went out. "I'll try this spell after the appointment, I don't want to ruin the surprise." She and Kol collected the candles up and made their way to the door. "Bye."
"Bonnie!"
Stefan's mouth felt like sandpaper and his head throbbed. Just because vampires healed, didn't mean they could not be hungover. There as a blindingly, bright light shining on his closed eyelids, it made him realise he had forgotten to close the curtains in the motel room. His head pounded and the sunlight made it feel as though someone had gouged his eyes out. He stumbled, blind to the window and pulled the currtains shut, throwing the room into shadows. After a minute of two, Stefan threw himself back onto the bed, letting his, probably, still drunk mind catch up with what happened last night.
He remembered feeling sorry for himself. He also felt worry for Damon. Katherine had given him a bottle of scotch and they had promtly emptied it along with several others. His memory was fuzzy after that. Although, if what he could recall was correct, he already regret it. It was at this point that Stefan realised he was pretty much naked, only wearing a pair of underwear. He heard groaning from next to him on the bed and jumped up, his tired eyes adjusting to the dim light.
Long, dark curls covered the pillow and smooth, tan shoulders disappeared beneath the sheets. Katherine rolled over, squinting at him, one smalll, dark nipple just visable above the covers. She smiles at Stefan, like a huntress who has captured her prey.
"Well, good morning Stefan." She says, proudly, "Whoever you've been with in the last hundred and fifty years, I owe them a very big thank you." She bit her lip and fanned her face with her hand. "Wow, I mean, you were good before, but now... Wow!" She repeated.
"Thanks," Stefan muttered, trying to remember if she was telling the truth, groaning. Damon will never let him live this down if he ever found out. "I guess. But you know I was drunk, right? So it doesn't count."
"I know you were drunk, but it still counts," Katherine smiled. "And it also doesn't mean I still can't think of it fondly."
"Yeah, I think I'm going to head back to Mystic Falls today." Stefan muttered, "I'll drop you in Pennsylvania on the back." He pulled his jeans and grabbed a shirt, throwing stuff in this duffle bag on his way though the room.
"No need, handsome," Katherine said, prancing through the room, naked, showing no shame and making no move to get dressed, either. "I'll tag along with you, if that's alright? These last few weeks have been nice."
"I'm not going to sleep with you again," Stefan said. "I was in a bad place last night." Katherine just smiled. He tossed Katherine's lacy panties and bra at her. "Get dressed. You can do whatever the hell you want, but if Klaus finds out you're back in town, well, I doubt even Caroline could keep him distracted."
Katherine caught her underwear and put her bra on, not looking away from Stefan, before bending low and sliding the delicate boy shorts up her shapely legs. Katherine watched Stefan's eyes trace the path of her panties up her legs and smirked. Dispite the fact that Stefan did not particularly like Katherine, she was still an incredably beautiful woman and she knew it.
"See something you like, Stefan?" Katherine asked, looking into his eyes, wiggling her hips at him.
"Just hurry up," Stefan snapped, turning away from her and shaking his head. He had no time to be distracted! "I'm leaving in half and hour, with or without you."
"I love it when you get bossy!"
"I get why we can't kill Klaus," the female hybrid, Kim, spat at Tyler, "But what about that doppleganger. If she's dead, Klaus can't make more hybrids."
"Her name is Elena, Kim and she's off limits." Tyler said, authority in his voice, yet still, Kim was defiant.
"Why? Because you know her?"
"No," Tyler yelled, "because she's my friend. Because she's innocent. And because not only will Klaus kill you, the rest of the Originals will too!" Tyler stood, glaring out at the unsired hybrids, none of them knew just how far the Originals would go for Elena or the baby she was carrying. "This topic is over! We find a witch and desiccate Klaus, then we run. That's all we can do. We're free of the curse of turning every full moon and we're not sired to Klaus anymore."
"We could kill the rest of the Originals," Kim still continued on. "There's a stake out there, we just have to find it."
A few of the others in the background nodded in agreement.
Tyler met Hayley's eye over the crowd, he nodded. "Hybrids are werewolves first and wolves need an alpha or they fight eachother for dominance. Show them who runs the show, Ty." Hayley had said that to him only a week before, now was time to step up.
"Have you ever seen the other Originals in action, Kim? Are you really that arrogant as to consider yourself on their level?" Tyler asked, his eyes narrowed. "They will destroy you. Did you know that Kol is considered psychotic? Not even his siblings can handle him. I heard a rumour that he once slaughtered every attendant in a church once because he needed to get into one person's house." He paused and watched a few hybrids shift. "Rebekah is leathal, catty and a bitch. A real mean girl, with fangs! You do not want to fuck with her. And Elijah, he may look like the most level headed of his family but... well, let's just say, I've heard his favourite hobby is ripping out hearts. Plus, he once bitch-slapped a five hundred year old vampires head off. You so much as touch Elena and all of them will be after you." Kim still glared at him and Hayley, but most of the others looked convinced. "We don't want to make an enermy of the Originals, we just want to be free. Because if you make an enermy of them, not only will you be on you own, you'll be dead!"
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The Mikaelson family meeting was interesting, right?
So, is anyone else looking forward to Katherine causing trouble in Mystic Falls? I am!
Does the hybrids scene feel right? I'm not sure about that, but I had to fit it in somewhere.
Review, new chapter should be up in about a week or two.
Happy New Year!