I forgot to mention, last chapter I used a few quotes from the season. If any of you stopped them have a virtual cookie ;)

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3rd Person POV:

Elijah's head was still on his arms, when he heard his sisters light footsteps enter the room. She pulled out a chair and sat next to him without a word. Elijah left his head in his arms and muttered, "Yes, sister?" Rebekah sighed, "I hear, you need some advice." The Originals head snapped up to look at his sister, as he registered her smug grin he groaned and let his head fall back to the table, "Niklaus told you." Even though it was a statement, his sister felt the need to answer with a grin evident in her voice, "Yup."

"Well?" 'Bekah sighed and Elijah heard the movement in the air as she shook her head, "I don't know, -" Elijah groaned again and looked up at her, "Then why are you here?" His sister frowned at him and hit him lightly over the head, "I wasn't done! I don't know, I don't know her," She rushed on when she saw Elijah open his mouth to moan again, "But, I can probably guess." Elijah nodded and stood up, he walked to the glass cupboard and got down two small drinking glasses, reaching into the cupboard to the right, he pulled out a bottle of bourbon and took it all back to the table.

Rebekah raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. It was no secret that Elijah tended to stay away from bourbon and beer, preferring scotches and wines. If he was drinking bourbon, it was a definite indicator that he was really stressed, which of course he was.

He sloshed some bourbon into each of the glasses and pushed one Rebekah's way, before taking a large gulp out of his glass, "She was so close, I could see it. Why?" Rebekah shrugged, "She's scared." Elijah's shook his head and finished his glass, "Why? She knows-" Rebekah shook her head, cutting of his sentence before it formed, "Not scared of us. She's scared of feeling." Elijah's face was still blank and Rebekah sighed, taking a sip from her own glass, "Think of it this way, it's no secret that she cares for you." Elijah silently raised an eyebrow and his sister shrugged, "It's not, even Nik sees it." She took another sip and moved forward in her chair. "And you loved Tatiana and Katerina." Elijah shook his head vehemently, "I never-"

"I know," Rebekah cut Elijah off again, "You never loved Katerina. But this isn't about what we know, it's what Elena knows, and as far as she knows, you loved Katerina. You love Katerina." Rebekah finished her glass of bourbon and Elijah tilted the bottle towards her, she pushed her glass towards him and he topped it off, "I still don't see how this effects Elena wanting to keep it off." Rebekah shook her head again, "I'm getting there. So; you've got Elena - who cares about you - and is the exact replica of two women you've 'loved'.

"She's scared.

"She's scared that when you show any semblance of caring or emotion towards her, it's because she looks like Tatiana and Katerina. She's scared that you only care because she looks like them." His sister grinned and knocked back the rest of her glass, "Or at least, that's how I'd feel if I was her. It could be a load of codswallop, but..."

"It all makes sense." Elijah sighed as he quietly finished Rebekah's open ended sentence. A low sarcastic clapping came from the doorway, "Lovely insight there Rebekah." The seated siblings exchanged a glance and looked round at their brother, who grinned and walked into the room. Niklaus grabbed another glass and poured some bourbon into it, "So, when do we get to have some more fun with our lovely doppelgänger?" Elijah shook his head and swallowed the rest of his glass, "You don't." His siblings face changed into a mix of outrage and incredulity, and Rebekah screeched at him, "You can't be serious Elijah! She killed our brothers!"

"I am fully aware, but we are hardly innocents in her life." His siblings raised their eyebrows at him and he sighed, "Niklaus; you killed her aunt, you killed Elena, tried to kill her brother; threatened Elena and her friends, repeatedly, you turned her boyfriend, at the time, into a ripper and compelled him to feed from her.

"Rebekah; you've taunted and tortured her at every moment possible, you tried to have one of her best friends killed and... Oh yeah! You killed her as well!

"I betrayed her and left her in a tomb with you, my sister, one of her enemies, who had been through no effort to make it a secret that you despise her, with no form of protection. I betrayed her and let Klaus live after he killed her and her aunt. And there's probably a lot more! So I would hardly say we have any right to judge or hold a grudge against Elena!" With this, Elijah turned and stormed out of the room, his usual calm composure ruffled beyond that of any time before.

Elena's POV:

A low groan escaped my slightly parted lips as consciousness reclaimed me. My neck cracked as the bones fused together again and I sighed rolling my head side to side as I sat up.

I was in Elijah's room again, but something was different, I just couldn't put my finger on it. I glanced around, taking everything in, same bookcase, closed door, closed curtains, Elijah, a wooden chair- Wait! Elijah? My head snapped back round to look, and sure enough there was Elijah, sat in an armchair reading a book.

I raised an eyebrow and realised he hadn't noticed I was awake, I rolled my eyes and chucked a cushion at him. He hand flashed out to grab it and he replied without looking up from his book, "There was no need for that, Elena." I shrugged, "You weren't saying anything, I got bored." He finally looked up at me with incredulity written all over his face, "You've been conscious for all of a minute."

"I get bored fast." I shrugged again and Elijah shook his head, with that little grin on his face. You know? The one that makes him look like he has his own little joke and makes him look ten times more attractive? Yeah, that one.

I shook my head to clear my thoughts and noticed Elijah placing the book back on its shelf, "Why are you here, Elijah?" He looked at me and placed his hand in his trouser pockets, "My siblings won't be bothering you again, they're done with punishing you." My eyebrows shot up and I felt my eyes widen, even with my switch off I was surprised, it was quite obvious his siblings weren't done, so that means Elijah's told them they're done, "And you? Are you done?"

Elijah's head snapped to look at me from where he'd moved to the doorway, to leave. When he caught sight of my cold gaze his face fell, "Is that really what you think Elena? That I let my siblings torture you to punish you myself? I let them do those things so that they wouldn't kill you. When I found out it was you who was behind my brothers death," He sighed and ran a hand through his hair, "I'm not going to lie to you, of course I was upset. But then I realised my family has wronged you many more times than you have us. I hardly say we have a right to punish you for protecting your loved ones, Elena. I-" Elijah cut himself short and shook his head before striding out of the room.

I felt a tear slide down my cheek and shook my head vigorously, realising that the more I let him talk to me, the weaker my barrier was becoming.

I couldn't let him talk to me anymore.

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