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Chapter 7
Elijah looked up at the house in front of him where the doppelganger Elena was with her friends talking about last night. And how Damon Salvatore had slept with his sister, Rebekah. Apparently, the girls were attempting the privacy spell Esther had used, but that wasn't going to well, as the vampire friend – Caroline – informed them. And Esther visited the Bennett witches. At this point he started properly listening in, despite not liking to travel m eavesdrop, his family was in danger. The situation called for it.
"And all this time you let me rant about Damon?" Elena asked, staring at her in surprise.
"I didn't want to worry you."
"Well, what did she want?"
"She just wanted to introduce herself. Abby and I brought her back. She's channeling our entire ancestral bloodline for power. I think she thought she was being polite." Elijah tuned out of the conversation and walked up to the door, knocking politely, mind racing. Maybe this link was what brought her back from the dead this morning. A few seconds later, a blonde – he thinks she might be the one Niklaus had shown interest in last night – opened the door, looking confused. When she saw him, she turned and shouted up the stairs.
"Elena, Elian's here!"
"What's Elian doing here?" came Elena's voice as she came down the stairs. "Elijah?" she asked surprised.
"Wait, what? This is Elijah?"
"That would be me, yes." He smirked slightly at the look on the girl's face. "I need to talk with Elena in private, please." She gave him a suspicious look.
"No."
"Caroline-" Elena started.
"No, Elena! After everything his family's done to us, you think I'm just thing to let another one be alone with you just because he asks nicely and he's new in town?! It's not happening!"
"Miss Forbes, I understand that you're concerned for your friend, and I agree that my siblings actions against her are reprehensible, but I assure you, I mean her no harm. I need to speak with her about Esther's plans. You and your witch friend miss Bennett can join us if you wish." Caroline looked at Elena with a wide eyed shocked look.
"You told him!?"
"Of course I did!" Elena defended herself. "I might hate Klaus for everything he's done, but I don't think the rest of them deserve to die! I'm not even really sure about Klaus dying anymore!" Caroline opened her mouth to retort that of course Klaus needed to die, how could she think differently, when Elena interrupted her. "Don't give me some speech about him needing to die Caroline. I know what he's done, but I also know that he can still be redeemed."
"No," Caroline said. "He can't."
"Yes. He can. Because no irredeemable monster can love like he does you." Caroline got tears in her eyes at the verbal confirmation from her own best friend that Klaus loved her. "And I know you feel the same way, because if you didn't, you wouldn't let him get you so worked up. All those moments you've had, all the times you've complained about him being 'creepily' romantic, the gifts you've kept," at this she gave a pointed look at the diamond bracelet just peaking out from where it was usually hidden by her sleeves, "you love him, Caroline. Don't deny that. And he loves you, so please don't tell me that he doesn't deserve a second chance." Caroline bit her lip. Elijah, who had been silent the whole time, Now decided to speak up.
"Personally, I don't know my brother very well." The two teenagers turned to look at him. "And forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn, but I've heard the stories, and I've been told the true history by Elian, and everything that Elena just listed? You mean something to him. He feels something for you that I can tell you he had never before felt for anyone else. If anyone can help him find himself… it's you."
After a few silent minutes, Caroline sighed and moved away from the door slightly.
"Do whatever you like. But Bonnie and I are staying." This last part she said pointedly, looking at Elijah. Elijah nodded. This should include them as Elena's friends anyway. They should be in danger too.
"Elijah, come in."
He entered the house, looking around. He may not need an invitation, not being an actual Vampire, he could walk in anyway, but it was polite to wait outside until the host invited you in. Pictures hung on the wall on sat on tables and the fireplace of her friends and family and various achievements. There was a teen about the same age as the other two girls walking down the stairs with a suspicious and surprised look on her face. Elijah assumed this was Bonnie Bennett. The four of them went into the living room where the three girls took seats on the couch and Elijah stood standing up the fireplace.
"Did you wish to call anyone else?" Elena momentarily thought about calling the Salvatores, before brushing the thought away.
"No. Just the four of us." Elijah nodded.
"As you know, Esther attempted to link my siblings and I together as one. Her plan failed."
"Wait, what?" Bonnie and Caroline exclaimed at the same time.
"The lovely Elena," she blushed slightly at the nickname, "alerted me to the linking spell in the champagne. I warned my siblings against drinking it. After the ball, once Esther had discovered that her plan has failed, Niklaus killed her and daggered Finn."
"But Bonnie saw her this morning," Elena interjected.
"Yes. She's now been brought back. Again. Now that her original plan has failed, I am expecting her to attempt something against you as the cause of her failure. I was planning on staying with you in order to protect you."
"Why not just send a minion?" Caroline asked, now suspicious of something else. Why would a 1000 year old vampire personally protect an 18 year old doppelganger?
"Because, while I have completed faith in my contacts abilities to protect themselves and others, I also have no doubts that against Esther, they will be able to do nothing. I'm the best you will get to stand against her."
"Why, because you're an all powerful Original Vampire who can kill her on sight?" Bonnie asked sarcastically. "How did that go for you guys last time?" Elijah smirked at her slightly, before answering her.
"I'm your best option because while my brothers and Rebekah could just kill her, and Freya will not be able to harm her despite not considering her true family, I'm both immortal and capable of casting the spell necessary to block her from your ancestral magic long enough for her to be permanently dead." Silence reined for a moment as the girls – apart from Elena, obviously, having seem his magic herself – looked at him in shock. Finally, the witch seemed to come to her senses.
"What?!"
-TO/TVD-
"You realize that the Salvatores aren't going to like this, right?" Caroline said to Elena as she looked towards Elijah who was in the kitchen making chicken Alfredo for lunch.
"I know," she said. "But this isn't their choice. It's mine."
Bonnie smiled slightly.
"It's good that you're taking your life back," she told her friend. "It's not healthy for them to be running your life the way they do."
"I know, but they don't give me much of a choice."
"It's your life, Elena," Bonnie told her seriously. "It's always your choice." Elena have her best friends a look, before heading out into the kitchen to get a of glass of water.
"For what it's worth," came Elijah's voice from behind her by the stove. "And forgive me please, if I overstep my bounds… I think they're right. These boys… They control you. You need to stand your ground against them."
"I did that last night," Elena said. "Look where that got me. Pissed off Salvatores which usually isn't a good thing. And that's without telling them that I stopped Esther's plan. Just got even worse after I told them that."
"Who cares what they think?" he asked softly, coming up to her just as she turned around. They gazed into each others eyes, caught in some kind of spell. Elena looked away and took a deep breath, steadying herself. She knows they've only just met, but God, there was something about him that drew her in, like a moth to the flame. But like the moth, she couldn't get too close. He was a Mikaelson. She gets too close… she'll burn.
The doorbell rang just as she pulled away and she went to answer it, leaving him standing there, confused. There was a pull to this young girl like he had never felt before. There was no love, not yet, but there was something. And he needed to know what that something was.
He followed her out to the front door and she opened it to see Finn and Esther on the other side. Elijah pulled Elena away from the door and put her behind him.
"Finn."
"Elijah."
"I see Esther pulled you away from the house. So determined to destroy the family you've known for centuries."
"A family who left me abandoned in a box for 900 years!" Finn spat, glaring at him. "A family who killed the woman I loved!"
"You're talking about Sage," Elijah noted. He had heard about the red haired young woman his brother had fallen in love with. The strange thing was, he'd heard nothing of her death. Last he knew, she was in New York, three years ago.
"You are not even worthy of speaking her name! She was the love of my life, and Niklaus and Kol, killed her centuries ago!"
"Centuries ago. Who told you this? Her?" he asked, pointing at Esther. "Because she's lying. She has done nothing but lie her entire life. Sage lives, brother. I saw her myself."
"Don't listen to him, son. He's clearly sided with your monstrous siblings. He cannot be trusted."
"She thinks turning you all was a mistake. She would do anything to manipulate you onto her side. Even kill Sage herself." Finn turned to look at his mother and clearly saw something he didn't like, because he stumbled back a few steps, horrified.
"You lied to me? About her?!" The last word was said with anger plain in his tone. Elijah saw Esther raise a hand and quickly used magic to snap her neck, sending her back to the Other Side, no matter how temporarily. Finn's head snapped towards him and Elijah let his arm drop to his side.
"We should talk."
I've been watching Saving Hope again, recently, and you have no idea how often the things I've written Elijah saying in this has been in my head with a New Zealand accent instead of Elijah's. And Caroline did seem a little bit Salvatore-y at one point, what with making the decision not to leave her alone with Elijah, but she did have a point.
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