Hello everyone! I know it's been a while but university keeps me very very busy! It's not a very big chapter,but as I wrote it became a very dear one. Hope you enjoy!

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PS. I'd recommend to listen to the title song while reading it. I did while I was writing it.

Song title:Lullaby by Low

She was in her bed,her body feeling restless. The room was dark and the only light came out of the window. Laying on her side,facing the curtains, she could not decide what had her more on edge. The attack that took place in there or him,being across her, in the couch.

''You really are going to stay here, awake all night?Just to keep an eye on me?'' Elijah turned his face to her,the dim light showed his features a little better.

''Yes. It only amazes me that it actually surprises you.'' They drove back in silence.

She could feel her chest hurt,both from the bullets Klaus had removed not longer than a hour ago but ever more from what his presence did to her. She hadn't being alone with him for...

''13 years.'' her last thought was loud ''We haven't seen each other for 13 years. I could swear it was yesterday. It was..''

''New York,New Year's Eve. You were wearing a red coat in the middle of black and white crowd. Everybody was cheering the new millennium and you were about to cry. I approached you and without a word I kissed you. It was almost like you knew.

Eloise,you friend there had died that day and you would celebrate together that you had both reached the beginning of the new era. I saw Jack,if I remember correct, telling you that somebody had stabbed her on her way there. You fell into my arms and asked me to take you away and make you forget..''

''And you did. Now I can laugh at the irony. It's being that long,huh? Being who we are,we lost the conservative measure of time. I hate it sometimes.''

''You should get some sleep,you are tired. You had a rough night.''

''Don't tell me what to do Elijah,you know I hate it.''

She adjusted her body,sitting up,resting her back at the pillows. He could see she was very upset. Very on edge. He was responsible for the most. He stood up and started to walk along the room.

''Part of the reason I never told you the truth,was this. The confusion I'd cause you,all the unpleasant feelings you experience now. I didn't want you to feel like this,but being me and not being honest isn't the best combination. I love you too much to hurt you,yet by not telling you I was only prolonging the inevitable.''

She said nothing. She was really trying to be objective about the situation,not show her feelings,but it was very hard. She was very good at this. With everybody, but him.

''You know I try,I really do. And I do hate what you did to me. But tonight,I nearly died and all I could think of was that I couldn't remember our last kiss. I remember it was in New York,in 2000 but I can't find it in my head. I would have died and I wouldn't know.''

He looked at her with all the affection he had. He was the luckiest man that ever walked the earth,that she had looked at him,and loved him and accepted him for everything that he was.

''I've tried Elijah. I really did. I try to hate you. Despise you but I can't. All I wanted to do from the moment I remembered was to hide in your arms. To be...with you. But you lied to me,in the most terrible way and I can't accept that.

You are the best and the worst thing that ever happened to me. I was twenty years old when I met you,and for the six years that we were together I had lived a lifetime. And then one day you left,and I remember the emptiness I felt that I couldn't place anywhere. You left and took a part of me with you. I was never the Irene you met that night,the happy little thing after the performance at Whitehall. I loved you instantly and that's what I got. Six years later and not a goodbye. A few weeks after that I got sick, and a very kind old man changed me,since I didn't stood a chance. I never saw him again but he had written down what I should do to survive as vampire. Slowly everybody I knew started to die and I wasn't getting older. So I left London and my life there,and went to Paris. A little later I found Nik,the rest I suppose you know...''

She leaned forward,placing her elbows to her knees. She exhaled deeply,closing her eyes.

''Irene I... I can't find anything to tell you that will make you any better. You have every reason in the world to loathe me.''

''I can't believe it... I made the great Elijah Mikaelson speechless?'' he gave a small laugh

''It seems you are the only one with that privilege.'' she looked at him without a thing to say as well.

''I hate that you brought me in this situation. Now,wherever I go I'll never be the same. Now I know. Now everything that didn't make sense before,I understand. And it hurts Elijah. It hurts that the only man I ever loved lied to me the way you did. But I can't have it otherwise. You could rip my heart out right now,I wouldn't feel the pain I felt when you left me. All the times you did. Especially the first... I hate you for so many things. But most of all for the way that you made me feel. I know what love truly is. And that hurts. Most of everything. I understand your reasons,but being with someone means share,apart from love,your fear and agony. I would have followed you to the end but you decided otherwise. I can't be with someone who decides for me,you know that...''

''That I do. And I accept every word you said and thought. I would relieve from my presence if you hadn't been shot tonight by a psychotic vampire hunter who believes his cause is to eliminate the earth from our kind.''

''No. Stay. There's no reason to leave now,it'll be dawn soon. And since none of us intends to sleep... we can, I don't know..talk?''

''We used to talk...'' he smiled faintly

''Yeah. It's very weird being around you and feel this way. It felt so easy before. So normal..but I guess normal's overrated...''

''I still haven't remembered...our last kiss.'' she admitted blushing

''It was three days after New Year's Eve..we were at the loft. You were vaguely awake. We were in the bed and we could watch the entire city from the windows. It was like the sky hadn't decided if it wanted the sun to appear. You somehow turned to my side. I bended over and kissed you. And we went back to sleep. Casually,like we did that everyday. That was our last kiss.''

She smiled bitterly and looked at him

''I remember. Vaguely but I do. You're right,we kissed like we would do it everyday for the rest of our lives.''

''For what it's worth, I didn't know it would be our last either.''

''You left the next morning...yeah,I remember that.''

The first light found its way through the curtains. She slightly closed her eyes to the sun. Her body was getting stiff and needed rest. Though her mind felt otherwise.

''I think I'll try to sleep.'' she said,feeling awkward

''You should. I'll be here when you wake up.. she looked at him intensely .. I promise.''