A GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE
Fan Fiction sequel of: "A gentleman and his mistress"
From: Lovely Vero
Chapter 7
"On bed rest"
"Lean on me, Charles. Don't be this stubborn child." Elizabeth ordered him, while taking the first walking steps into the marble floor entrance of the manor, before closing the door behind them.
"I surely can stand on my own two feet, woman." Charles mumbled, moody, between his teeth, while feeling a dizzy spell hitting him all of a sudden. He suddenly leaned his body on a near console table, while closing his eyes.
"Yes, of course, Charles Brownston, what am I thinking, really? You're a real Superman." Elizabeth replied, irritated, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, before raising her chin and adding. "I'll let you walk on your own then."
"And that is how it should be, me, walking with my own two feet." Charles replied, while taking an unsteady step toward one of the corridor, stumbling, and loosing his balance, before being catch in good time by Elizabeth's arms.
"Now, can we put this childish argument to rest?" Elizabeth asked him, while sliding her left arm around his waist, and leading him toward the study room, to rest.
"Did I ever mention how stubborn you are, woman?" Charles asked her, while passing his right arm around Elizabeth's shoulders.
"It takes one like me to endure one like you, Charles." Elizabeth mocked him.
"I don't want to go to my bedroom's quarters. I was lying down in that hospital bed for way too long already." Charles groused.
"You should be on bed rest, but we'll go into the study, for you to sit for a while." Elizabeth explained, before pushing the door, and leaning Charles toward an arm chair. "There, sit!"
"Yes, my lady boss!" Charles mumbled, while sitting slowly and carefully on the armchair, before taking a glance at Elizabeth. "You should sit as well; you're as white as a ghost."
"Don't worry about me, I am fine." Elizabeth replied, while blushing, and avoiding Charles's gaze, before dropping a blanket on Charles's legs, and taking a few walking steps toward the fire mantle.
"The last days have taken their grips on my sanity." She tried to mock, while grabbing a box of matches and lighting up some woods.
"You've stayed quiet in the car, my dear. But now, I need to know, what followed the, well, for the least one can say, the marriage confession of Miss Katherine." Charles asked her.
Elizabeth turned on herself, before sighing, closing her eyes, remembering … And finally getting back at explaining the previous events to Charles.
"Now son, isn't it obvious?" Mikael replied, with a devious smile.
"Shut up!" Elijah shouted, while loosing his legendary control, before pointing an accusatory finger in direction of his father. "Just shut up, Father, I did not ask you … I've asked MY wife…Mine! Katherine?" He exclaimed one last time.
Elizabeth closed her eyes, while raising a trembling hand in front of her mouth, forbidding herself to let out a single sound, feeling a single tear rolling on her left cheek.
Katherine swallowed a nervous lump in her throat, before raising her sight once more toward her husband, before announcing to a petrify Elijah.
"I … Katerina Petrova…Was…. I was married to your brother…Finn." Katherine murmured, while lowering her head.
"Well, you certainly have a way of snatching the Mikaelson's in your netting, my dear." Mikael replied, while smirking, and adding deviously. "But, rest assure, you're not my type!"
"Elijah, please… Grant me a moment of your time." Finn begged, while handing a hand toward his brother. "It did not happen the way you think."
"My wife was married to you in the past." Elijah said, in a lower, and calmer voice than expected, while staring into the emptiness of the room. "What more is there to think, Finn?"
Katherine closed her eyes, while crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"And I say my wife, but seriously, she could still be yours to this point!" Elijah added, while pointing a hand toward his long lost brother.
"Master Elijah, I do believe … I mean, I think you should talk to your wife, and take time to see your son." Elizabeth suggested, while taking a glimpse at a motionless Katherine and timidly smiling to her.
"I don't have a wife anymore, Elizabeth." Elijah mumbled between his teeth, while turning his head toward her, before shrugging his shoulders. "The woman who's standing in front of my sight had lied to me repeatedly."
Katherine slowly raised her head, while drowning her teary eyes in the ones of her husband, before turning her sight toward Elizabeth, who shook her head, while feeling powerless.
"You're putting your anger toward a woman that is more than certainly in love with you, Elijah." Finn exclaimed, while approaching his brother's standing position.
"Don't …" Katherine warned Finn, with a hand gesture, before swallowing a lump in her throat, passing the back of her hands on her wet cheeks, before raising her chin, and taking her first steps toward the stairs. "If there is something that I know about my … About Elijah is that he will always see what he wants to see." She added, before climbing the stairs.
"Master Elijah… You can't let her leave this way…" Elizabeth tried to pledge, while seeing Katherine climbed the stairs.
Elijah shook his head in response, while staring into his father's eyes.
"Are you happy father?" He asked, while raising his chin in a confrontational gesture, and crossing his arms in front of his chest.
Mikael smirked, without answering his older son.
"If you could simply listen to me, if you could listen in which circumstances, Katerina and I, we have met." Finn tried to convince him, while grabbing Elijah's right forearm.
"I'm actually indifferent to how you've met my …" Elijah responded, before stopping his say in the middle of his sentence, and closing his eyes. "… I mean, how you've met Katherine."
The Princess ship – North Atlantic Ocean - 1494
"How many days until we reach the Caribbean?" Finn asked Sylvester, his right arm man, while leaning on a sail rope, his sight lost in the scope of the Ocean.
"Probably near a week, captain." The older pirate replied, while standing on the ship deck, beside his supreme commander.
Finn raised his sight toward the troublesome sky above his head.
"I have the sixth sense that we're heading toward a big storm." He added.
"It seems that way." Sylvester approved, while nodding his head, before spitting his chew tobacco on the deck.
"Captain Finn?" A young sailor screamed.
"Yes?" Finn asked, while raising his head to look at the sailor.
"We're heading straight into strong winds and a raging sea, what should we do?" The sailor asked, perched on a rope.
"60 knots portside, let's try to avoid this bloody nuisance!" Finn shouted from the top of his lungs.
The pirate ship pitched in all direction, with winds swelling sails.
Finn suddenly turned his head to his right, while feeling the first drops of water falling from the dark sky, his attention suddenly attracted by a young sailor who stumbled on his every step on the ship deck.
"Did we take a new sailor aboard?" The captain asked Sylvester, while raising his chin in the air and narrowing his sight on the frail silhouette, both of his thumbs hooked in his leather belt.
"Not that I've known of, Captain Finn." Sylvester replied, while turning his own sight on the sailor. "He must have sneaked himself on the ship; do you want me to give his carcass to the hungry sharks in the sea?" He added, with laughter.
"It won't be necessary." Finn smirked, while noticing the walking path of the sailor toward the stairs in direction of the below deck. "I'll take care of this unwanted intrusion."
Captain Finn followed the sea's robber in the wooden stairs, while keeping his right hand on his leather belt, on a small silver dagger.
"If you have any wish to live, you would certainly turn around to face me." Finn exclaimed.
The young sailor froze all his movements and stood immobile for a few seconds, before very carefully sliding his own knife, stuck in his own belt, under his shirt, before turning on himself, and very rapidly raising his right arm in the air. Finn thwarted the attack, while pushing the young man on the wall, and positioning the dagger under the sailor's throat, and getting rid of the sailor's hat, to finally see his attacker's face, before letting free a brown, curly, long, cascade of hair on the sailor's shoulders.
"For God sake you're a woman?" Finn exclaimed in shock.
"And you're about to loose your manhood, if you do not remove your knife from my throat." Katherine warned, while raising her chin in the air in a confrontational gesture, before pushing the tip of the knife's blade on Finn's crotch.
"So, if you are so indifferent to your…" Mikael started, before smirking deviously and coughing. "…concubine's past relationships, can we finally join you for a little visit in your delightful manor, son?"
Elijah took an additional step to reach Mikael's standing position, before drowning his sight in the one of his biological father.
"Where are the coffins of my remaining family?" Elijah asked, in a demanding voice.
"Well, maybe time will tell you, Elijah." Mikael responded, while returning a smile to his son. "In the meantime, having your brother and I under the same roof, should be the best move in a prospect of a soon reunion of our entire family, would you say? Minus the awful error of your mother of course: my illegitimate son: Klaus."
Elijah stared at Mikael for a few more seconds, before sighing, and glaring rapidly at Finn.
"Elizabeth, show them both to their guestrooms, until further notice from my part." Elijah ordered her.
"I'll help you with the suitcases." Finn murmured, while nodding and smiling to her.
"Thank you." Elizabeth replied, grateful, while returning a timid smile.
Mikael rolled his eyes at Finn's demonstration of concerns toward the help staff, before walking toward the stairs.
"This is a smart, intelligent, move, son." He said to his older son.
"You know what they say, father?" Elijah asked, while tilting his head.
"Enlighten me, please?" Mikael smirked.
Elijah approached his father standing position in front of the stairs, before leaning his head and mouth near his right ear.
"Keep your friends near, and your enemies even nearer." Elijah murmured, before adding with a smirk on his face. "If you wonder, you're in the second category, Mikael."
Katherine reached the upstairs corridor, before entering Theodore's nursery, bending her head on top of her son's crib and reaching to pick him up in her arms. He giggled with joy, while holding strands of her hair in his tiny little hands.
"Oh, Theodore…" She murmured, while holding him near her heart, before feeling tears filling her eyes. "You're daddy is so mad at me." She added, before hearing a low knock sound on the door.
She turned on herself, while seeing Elizabeth timidly smiling at her, while rubbing her hands nervously together.
"How are you holding up, Miss Katherine?" She asked, while taking a few walking steps to reach Katherine's standing position.
"Elizabeth, I had no idea that Finn was Elijah's brother, I swear!" She tried to convince her friend. "You need to believe me?"
"Oh for God sake, my child, don't worry about that, I figured that much." She replied to Katherine, while caressing Theodore's head. "Master Elijah's biological father is a devil and mean man, he'll go to such extreme as destroying his own sons' life to gain point in his twisted and devious plan."
Katherine closed her eyes, while sighing, before kissing Theodore's forehead.
"Seeing Finn after so many centuries, and while being under the impression that he was dead simply took me by surprise, and took my breath away in the same time. In top of everything, I've never imagined that he could be related to Elijah." She explained to Elizabeth, truthfully.
"I know, my child." Elizabeth replied. "These past few days were hard to handle to say the least." She added, before putting a hand on her forehead, while feeling another dizzy spell hitting her.
"Elizabeth, are you alright?" Katherine asked, suddenly concerned.
"I'm fine." Elizabeth replied, while shaking her head. "Don't worry about me; you have enough on your plate already."
"No you're not." Katherine replied. "You're pregnant, and you need to take care of yourself, and your future child, while being on bed rest. If Charles knew…"
"My child, it is not my first child, and there is no rush regarding Charles's involvement in this child's life." Elizabeth replied. "I'm pregnant, not an invalid." She added with a smile. "It's just the last days that had taken the best of my strength."
"Yes…" Katherine nodded her head, before adding. "And it is my entire fault."
"Oh my sweet child, don't say that." Elizabeth replied. "You have no say in this Mikaelson family dispute for power." She added, while caressing Katherine's left cheek. "You are an amazing and strong woman. The things you had to endure the past few days would have been unbearable to any of us."
Katherine closed her eyes, before startling and hearing a male voice addressed itself to Elizabeth.
"Elizabeth …" Elijah called, before asking. "Take Theodore out of this room. I would like a minute with Katherine. But try to avoid being in the presence of my father while taking care of my son."
Elizabeth turned her sight, while nodding her head at Elijah, as an agreement gesture, before picking the little buddle of joy from Katherine's arms.
"Come with me, Theodore. Aunty Elizabeth will prepare you a baby bottle in the kitchen." She said, while smiling to the child, before taking a few walking steps and reaching Elijah's standing position near the arch door.
"You want your daddy to give you a kiss?" She asked Theodore, before raising both of her eyebrows at Elijah.
Elijah lowered his head near the one of his son, before sweet kissing his left cheek.
"I love you Theodore." He murmured in a low whisper, only perceivable to Elizabeth's ears.
"Up we go, young man!" Elizabeth exclaimed, before leaving the room.
Elijah kept the door opened, while turning his glance toward Katherine.
Katherine swallowed a lump of nervousness in her throat, before courageously drowning her sight in the one of her husband.
"If you want me to leave the manor, I won't!" Katherine warned him, while raising her head as a confrontational gesture. "I won't leave Theodore, behind, I'm his mother."
"Tell me something Katherine?" Elijah started asking, while approaching her standing position. "Are you as much his mother that you are my bigamous wife?" He added, with pure malice in his voice.
Katherine startled hard, before raising her right hand in the air and slapping him hard on both cheeks.
"Go to hell, Elijah!" She exclaimed to him, while closing her fists in anger. "You are in no position of judging my past as a vampire, and all my previous relationships, and you know why?" She asked him, while pointing an accusatory finger at him. "Because when I met Finn, you were one of the reasons I had turned as one in the first place."
Elijah growled, while raising his right hand on his now reddish cheeks, before grabbing Katherine's forearms and pushing her forcefully on the wall behind them. He held her wrists in a firm grip of his right hand, above her head, while sliding his left hand, on her waist, on the roundness of her hips.
"Don't touch me, Elijah … Not like this … Not to prove your manly strength to me." Katherine busted in his face. "That is certainly not what a real man would do."
"What do you know about real man, Katerina?" Elijah replied, in anger, while sliding his muscular chest on Katherine's, creating a range of delightful shivers in her spine, before adding. "Or, are you talking about my brother Finn, your past husband. Was he a real man in bed? Did you ever tell him that you loved him?"
"You're mean…" She mumbled between her teeth, while closing her eyes, forbidding him to notice her teary eyes.
"You don't know how bad I can be, woman, especially when pushed to my limits" Elijah replied, before crashing his mouth on Katherine's.
Katherine tried to free herself, while squirming underneath his rock solid body, and keeping her lips tied, only bringing his bad mood even more to the surface. He robbed his hands frantically on her chest, while pushing a knee between her legs. She finally succeeded to free herself, by biting hard, his bottom lips. He swore, while pushing himself away from her standing position near the wall.
"Damn woman!" He mumbled angrily, between his teeth, while raising his right hand to his bleeding lips.
"Leave me alone, Elijah!" She screamed, while putting a hand in front of herself, as a protection gesture against him.
"Gladly…" He responded, before walking toward the exit of the nursery. "I'll sleep at the hotel tonight that will give you a chance to reconnect with you past husband." He added, before slapping the door behind him.
Katherine closed her eyes, while sighing loudly, putting a hand over her chest and one over her mouth, before letting herself fall on the nursery floor, and bursting into tears.
Elijah stormed into his bedroom, before slapping this additional door behind him.
It is at that moment that a shadow came from a corner of the corridor, with a smirk on his face. This was exactly what Mikael had expected to happen, and he couldn't be happier about it.
Princess ship - 1494
"I believe we've reached a deadlock, Madam." Finn murmured, while pushing the blade of his dagger on Katherine's throat, with no real intention of hurtingt the magnificent woman that stood in front of his eyes.
"I believe we did, indeed, Captain." Katherine replied, while pushing her own knife further more on his crotch.
"Do you have any suggestion in this urgent manner?" Finn asked, sarcastically, while raising one of his eyebrows.
"Well, depending if your masculinity is still essential to your present needs, Captain?" She replied, while raising her chin.
"Mm…Interesting point of view, I give you that." Finn replied, before adding. "Depending if your own throat is necessary to hold your pretty head on your shoulders, Madam?"
Katherine forbid herself to laugh, while not being able to hold a smile on her lips.
"Any suggestions, Captain?" She asked.
"I suggest a retaliation for now, Madam." He suggested, before adding. "And, you'll need to give me a serious explanation of your presence on my ship later."
"I did not hear better proposition up to date." She replied, while adding. "If you let go of your dagger, I'll let go of my knife on your …." She made a pause. ""Precious"" She replied, with a hint of humour in her tone of voice.
Finn smirked, before lowering his dagger away from Katherine's skin.
"Madam, I believe I've just obliged to your demand?" He told her. "It is time for you to oblige to mine."
"Indeed." She responded, before lowering her own knife, and suddenly closing her eyes, under a dizzy spell, before falling unconscious into Finn's arms.
"Captain Finn! I'll give my soul to Satan!" Sylvester exclaimed, in shock, while walking down the wooden stairs of the ships. "It's a woman!"
"An unconscious woman, if I may add." Finn replied, while passing a hand on her forehead. "She is burning up! She got a high fever."
"What are we going to do?" Sylvester asked his commander, in shock.
Finn grabbed Katherine's pirate hat on the stairs, before hiding her long, curly hair underneath it. A female presence aboard would raise the attention of his crew.
"I'll bring her to my cabin, and put her under bed rest until I'll know further information on her presence aboard my ship." He added to his right hand man, before raising her unconscious body in his arms, and bringing her to his private quarters.
The Manor – Present time
Katherine was standing in front of the window in hers and Elijah's bedroom, while passing the back of her right hand on her swollen eyes, before sniffling loudly under the uncontrollable flood of tears, feeling a presence in the room, she suddenly turned her head and noticed Charles's standing position under the arch of the opened door, with both of his arms crossed over his chest.
"What are you doing here, Charlie?" She asked, dumfounded and in shock, before adding. "Oh my God, you should be in bed rest in the hospital."
"And stay away, while you're under a real tsunami of events in your life, Miss Katherine? I would miss all the fun then?" He replied, sarcastically. "Elizabeth told me everything, it seems we have company that are staying with us in the manor." Charles said, while shaking his head in disbelief. "I don't think I could stay away with those conditions. Now, come here, sweet girl. You obviously need to be comforted." He added, while opening his arms to her.
Katherine shook her head, while drowning her sight in Charles's. She would not crack under the pressure, she would forbid herself, and she would stay strong.
"This moment will stay between us. You are not a weak woman, Miss Katherine." Charles added.
She rushed into his embrace, while feeling his arms holding her tightly, before encircling his chest with her own arms, under his low murmur of protestation. "Are you in pain?" She asked him.
"Well, considering I've been shot a couple of days ago, I think this old man is not in a so bad shape after all." He winked at her.
"He hates me." She mumbled, while lowering her head on his chest. "He left the manor."
"I doubt that." Charles replied, while smiling, before adding. "He's just being his stubborn self, Miss Katherine."
"No Charlie, he really hates me." Katherine mumbled more, while shaking her head.
"Well, he is maybe a little mad, considering your past actions. For God sake, Miss Katherine, in all the men in the world, and all the past centuries, how did you manage to marry one of his brothers?" Charles asked, while caressing her hair.
Katherine raised her head, while drowning her eyes in Charles's and shaking her head.
"I didn't know that Finn was his brother at that time, I swear, Charlie." She replied to Charles.
"Well … Then he'll need to realize that, and the sooner would be the better." Charles replied, while rolling his eyes and adding. "Or God should have mercy on us!"
Aesthetic chirurgical clinic – Windsor – London
The visitor's footsteps on the marble floor startled the receptionist who raised her blond hair head to show her spotless smile to the wealthy client standing in front of her desk.
"Mister Mikaelson, it's so nice to see you, again." She greeted him, while pushing with her manicured fingers, the interphone button of her sophisticated phone console. "Doctor Sanchez, Mister Mikael Mikaelson is here for you."
"Thank you my dear." Mikael responded, while greeting her with his most seductive smile.
A tall, with greyish hair, middle age man walked toward Mikael's standing position, before handing his right hand to him, and nodding his head.
"Doctor Sanchez." Mikael greeted him, while shaking his hand, before asking. "How's our patient doing?"
"Mister Mikaelson, nice to see you again, and the patient is doing remarkably well, if I may add." The doctor replied, while directing Mikael, with a hand gesture, toward a narrow corridor.
"Is the patient well enough to leave this hospital?" Mikael enquired.
"Absolutely, I don't see any medical reasons that would forbid the patient to leave. We've removed the bandages and the skin is healing perfectly." Doctor Sanchez replied, before adding. "The patient should be released very soon into your good hands, Mister Mikaelson."
"Well this is certainly music to my ears." Mikael replied, while smirking. "May I see the patient, now?"
"Certainly, you may." Doctor Sanchez replied, while pushing the door of a private bedroom. "I'll let you have a private moment."
Mikael nodded his head, before closing the door behind him and taking the first steps toward the mysterious identity. The patient turned its head toward Mikael.
"Hello my dear." He saluted, while smiling, and lowering his head to examine the doctor's chirurgical work. "I'm speechless in front of this magnificent new face of yours; nobody could recognize the person you were before the operation."
"Hello Mikael." She responded, while smirking, and adding. "Thank you so much for my new makeover, it will get handy for our future plan." Elise responded, with the most devious smile plastered on her new face.
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