Chapter Seven

Flashback

"What is it, Katherine?" Elijah said as his eyes started shifting back and forth through the empty hallways. "We need to be in class."

"I know." Katherine bit her pinky nail. "It's just . . . I heard . . . did you sleep with me because of a bet?"

Elijah didn't answer.

"Elijah?" her voice lowered into a pathetic sounding whine. "I heard that you slept with me because of a bet you made with your friends . . . it's not true is it? Is it?"

Elijah shuffled his feet nervously. "Look, Kat. . .you're a sweet girl, a nice girl . . . I just don't have time for a relationship right now."

Katherine bit her lip. "So it is true." Elijah didn't respond.

Elijah ruffled her curls. "See you around, kid."

Katherine watched as Elijah walked away. The tears slowly started pouring down her face.

End of Flashback

Elijah braced himself as his fiancée, Elena Gilbert closed the door with a thump and let herself in without bothering to knock. She was perfectly dressed even though it was only nine in the morning. It was clear that she had come to visit Elijah before she went into work that morning.

Yay.

Without a single word of greeting she crossed her arms over her chest, in an almost childishly way. "You haven't been answering my calls, Elijah."

"Good morning to you too." Elijah said pretending to be occupied checking papers and staring at his blank computer screen. "And I've been busy."

"Too busy to return a single phone call?" Elena felt her temper rising. She hated it that even though she and Elijah had been dating for a few years he still treated her like am employee.

Elijah held back a sigh. He knew that ignoring Elena Gilbert always came at a consequence, thankfully she was easy to please. Most of the time.

He walked towards her and placed a hand on her bottom, before resting it on the small of her waist. With his left hand, he started pulling up her skirt. He was just pulling down the waistband of her panties when Elena pushed his hand away.

"Will you behave?" she hissed at him as she put down her skirt. "We are not having sex in your office. Especially right now while your secretaries can see and hear us."

"Assistants." Elijah corrected as he nibbled on her ear. "And that never seem to bother you before, my dear."

There was a small trace of a flush in Elena's cheeks before she said coolly. "Well, it does now. Besides it's indecent and we're getting married in a few months, so we should try and behave ourselves."

"You make getting married so much fun." Elijah replied sarcastically as he let her go. "And not to be rude, but I really do have work to do."

Elena pouted as she placed a hand on Elijah's bicep. "All right, but I made reservations for tonight at The Palace. We could discuss some things for the wedding. Eight o'clock." She waited.

Elijah dutifully kissed her. "I'll see you there."

Elena nodded as she grabbed her purse. "Also you might want to get better assistants. The blond one is definitely an airhead and the brunette can be real bitchy."

"I like Caroline, she has spirit." Elijah defended her. His smile twitched as he forced himself to say Katherine's "real" name. "And Katherine well, bitchiness as you said its part of her personality. You get used to it, I'm afraid."

"Do you think they are having office sex in there?" Caroline whispered to Katherine from her desk. Every once in a while she turned her head backwards towards Elijah's office where no sounds were coming out since it was a soundproof office. "Like in those Mexican soap operas that we sometimes watch, but we can't understand.

Katherine wrinkled her nose as she stopped typing up a contract. "I really don't want to think about it, let alone know."

"Oh, come on," Caroline rolled her blue eyes as she turned back towards the office. "Aren't you the least bit curious? Mr. Mikaelson doesn't really seem like the office sex type anyway."

"Neither does Elena." Katherine said, mimicking the brunette's high pitched voice. "Besides I think both of them are too prissy and proper to even have sex, let alone have sex in an office."

Caroline laughed as she grabbed a stack of papers, "You're probably right, I'm taking this to the copy room, and I'll be back in a few minutes. By the way, girls night out tonight-it's Bonnie's birthday tomorrow, but since she's going out with her parents we should take her out to celebrate."

"As long as there is no alcohol, I'll be fine." She said ruefully. "I got her a necklace from Tiffany's. Where are we going?"

"I made a reservation at some place called The Palace." She shrugged. "Anyway she has been dying to go."

Katherine was by herself when Elena stepped out of the office looking happier than when she had arrived. Elena didn't bother glancing in her direction as she went towards the elevator. "Good riddance."

She heard a chuckle behind her, she turned around and found Elijah smirking at her. She flushed. "I-"

"Oh, don't bother apologizing," Elijah replied. "I think we both know that my fiancée isn't the easiest person to deal with."

"I wasn't going to apologize." Katherine replied. "Actually."

"I wasn't expecting you too," he said as he turned around. "It would be very out of character for you, you could say."

"Wear this, and this," Caroline said as she threw Katherine a very short black dress that would probably give her mom a heart attack and the tiniest, frilliest pair of panties that Katherine had ever seen that would barely cover her bottom. "Put on you tallest pair of heels and you'll have a show."

"Yeah, as a stripper." Katherine said as she held the black dress towards the mirror. "This is a bit much for a birthday dinner, don't you think?"

"You can never know who you'll meet." Caroline said as she pointed to her own baby blue dress that looked like a first communion dress compare to Katherine's. "Besides it's just us girls, we can have fun dressing up."

Katherine paused for a moment before she took the frilly pair of panties from her bed. "All right, you convinced me, let me go change."

-End of Chapter Seven-