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She walked into his room as she normally did in the middle of the day as to be sure not to run into him. His gift at her birthday party two days ago had been thoughtful but she would not even let herself think that he was anyhting that could resemble decent. He had been harsher on her the past couple days. He was mean and angry when he had seen her picking on her more than he ussually did. She couldn't quite figure it out. She had danced with him once at the ball but they had barley spoken any words at all. there was no reason for him to treat her like this.
She walked to the fireplace to empty the ashes. She put them into a bucket and did some light dusting around the room. She turned down his bed and went to leave when something caught her eye. She walked over to Kol's window and bent down to retrieve something under a chair. It was a piece of painted porcelain. It was a piece of a tea cup no bigger than the top of her thumb. She turned it over in her hand. A flag went up in her mind. A warning of something but it was like trying to rip wallpaper away when you couldn't quite grasp the edge.
Kol must have broken a cup but why had he cleaned it up? He usually would have called her to do it or just leave it for her to find. She turned the shard over and over in hr hand unwilling to let it go. Her mind told her to dig deeper. That there was something just below the surface. 'You think you left this here for yourself by accident' she thought. She wondered then what that could mean but the wallpaper tore down slightly more. She was having conversations with herself again and if she wasn't careful she might start talking out loud and then she really would be in trouble. She pocketed the fragment and went on doing her chores.
Later that evening when she went to make dinner she pulled the broken piece out and opened the tea cup cabinet. She counted them and sure enough there was one missing. She sat down as a migraine began to form in the back of her head. She had taken tea to Kol yesterday and this morning and both of those cups had been in tact when she had gone to retrieve them. Unless Kol had made his own tea. She laughed out loud at this. Kol never would have made his own tea. 'He didn't' her mind said again from somewhere deeper inside her. The only reason she would have forgotten something like this would have been because she was compelled.
Why would Kol compel her to forget breaking a tea cup. That voice again urged her that it was important. So she picked a heavy soup pan up and set the water on to boil as she made her way to Elijah's was sitting as his desk as he always was around this time and he smiled at her as she walked in.
"Hello Annette." He said smiling and setting something down that he had been reading. "What do I owe the magnificent pleasure?"
"I need a favor Elijah." She said in a small voice because she knew that sh was overstepping her boundaries as a servant.
"If it is within my power to grant you something I shall." He said looking at her worriedly now.
"You know how you all can enter people's minds?" She asked tapping her own skull and he nodded seriously. "I need to know if you can undo one of your siblings works in my head?" She asked and his eyes got a little wider but he did not seem surprised.
"If I went into your mind Annette I may be able to retrieve information that was lost." He said
"Will you please?" She asked him hurriedly taking his hands as she walked closer to him.
"Who do you think has taken memories from you?" HE asked "None of us wish you harm." However when he asked she saw in his eyes that he already knew who she suspected. He sighed. "He really doesn't mean any harm Annette i swear to you he just has a lot of deeply rooted problems in his past that create trust issues that run almost as deep as Kluas'."
"I want to remember everything that has happened to me in this house Elijah." She said defiantly. "I don't want things that are in my own mind to be taken from me."
"Have you considered the possibility that you may not want to remember the things that Kol took from you?" He asked her. Annette thought about that now. Perhaps she didn't want to know. But humans were not just allowed to pick and choose which parts of their lives they would rather forget. she didn't want to start now. She shook her head at him.
"I want to know." She said again as he nodded and moved her over to his own bed and sat her on it.
"This may be rather painful as I search for the memory. And I have to compel you myself to do it." He said his hands resting lightly on her shoulders.
"It happened between the evening of my birthday and now. She said "I am sure it did." He nodded before looking directly into her eyes.
"Annette." He said and her eyes snapped up to his as all of her memories began to shuffle through her mind starting from the ball. She expected it to take longer but Elijah stopped and seemed to find almost a void in one area. "Annette what happened after you changed out of your party dress?" He asked her
"I cleaned up a bit." She said
"After that?" He questioned her. She strained her mind to remember. He hadn't lied to her it was painful as she struggled with it. "It's okay Annette you can tell me. Tell me exactly what happened." His words went down like milk and honey so soothing and soft. It helped a great deal as she stripped parts of her internal minds wallpaper down.
"Kol Called me with the bell." She said confused looking at him.
"Why?" He asked another question and she strained to find the answer.
"He wanted tea." She said "But he didn't want tea." She ripped down the walls of her memory as she started to remember exactly what happened.
"It's okay Annette you can remember." Elijah's silk words slipped into hr ears and the memories flooded back taking her by surprise as she relived the night.
Kol had been afraid of the wind so she had stayed with him. She had slept with him in his own bed. Her mind swirled as she delved into the memory.
After they had slept a few hours she had awoken to the morning sun shinning in the window. She was newly mortified for her actions and she sat up in bed her hair cascading around her shoulders as the pins had been knocked loose. She also realized that she wore nothing but her nightgown and wondered how she had let herself get into this compromising position. She didn't have to look very far to find out why. She shifted in bed to find Kol staring at her with a smirk and a raised eye brow looking to where one of her nightgown straps had fallen off her shoulder. She colored and moved it back up and he smiled at her again. It both made her stomach warm and infuriated her at the same time.
She tucked one side of hr hair behind her ear as she faced him on her knees now as he laid back on the bed looking self satisfied.
"Are you going to compel me to forget now?" She asked him a little afraid. He was roaming her body with his eyes which was something that he had done several times but not while she was in a nightgown. She stared back at him in response. Noticing half a day and a nights growth on his face which she wasn't sure she had seen before.
"You know me so well." He said but all she could think was that she had never seen him not shaved before. She must have noticed it the night before but she could not had always been so clean shaven. Klaus was really the only one of them who ever had any semblance of facial hair. "I am afraid that I must"
She barley heard him as she reached forward to feel his face. Her hand slipped across his cheek and her thumb slid along the underside of his jaw.
"Are you trying to seduce me Mouse?" He asked her
"Certainly not." She said shocked as she moved to pull her hand away but he caught it with his own before kissing the inside of her wrist.
"I suppose i could do what i wanted with you if you will only forget it as soon as your feet hit the floor." He said as his mouth skimmed further up her arm to her shoulder
"I wish you would stop." She said but it sounded false to her own ears. He took her head in his hands. Not roughly as he had done the night before but with enough force to make her look at him.
"Annette answer honestly do you wish me to stop touching you truly?" It was compulsion. She had no time to think of a clever way out before the word came to her lips. Whether it was because of the compulsion or because she needed it she didn't know.
"No." She said through clenched teeth as his wining smile came to his face.
"Now that is what I thought." He said kissing along her collar bone.
"Would you like to have fun with me before you have to forget all of this my pet?" He asked her. She thought about it. She meant nothing to him. She was his pet. Something that he was going to play with and throw away when he tired of her.
"I the way i have fun and the way you have fun are different master Kol." She said as dry as she could manage. She moaned softly as he kissed a sensitive spot at the base of her throat.
"Oh I don't think so." He said as he kissed the skin there again. He teased her kissing across her shoulders and down her arms and across her jaw until she gave into the temptation that would ultimately lead to her demise. She put one hand on his shoulder hand one on the back of his neck as she pulled herself closer to him pressing her mouth to his. She fell back across his bed as he kissed her into a stupor. She pulled him closer as she kissed his face and his neck as her hand roamed over his chest and was pressed between them as he moved closer to her recapturing her mouth. He kissed her and kissed her until she felt drunk. She let him kiss her until she had no faculties remaining.
She pulled out of the memory because really there was nothing else to see. As she had expected when she was melted into a pile of complete debauchery and happiness at being kissed by him he had compelled her without a single look of guilt or remorse to show for it. There was nothing that suggested that he felt the least bit awful. In fact he did it with a smirk on his face and had chuckled as she cleaned up the teacup and went on her way.
However she had not cleaned up one piece on purpose. The piece that had brought her to Elijah. Elijah the kind and sweet one whom she would rather be in love with.
She narrowed her eyes at the wall behind him he looked at her with eyebrows raised.
"Well..." He said trailing off
"You saw that?" She asked him her face getting hot.
"I certainly did." Was all he said as she stood up and thanked him. She was too embarrassed and angry to look at him in the eyes.
She hurried back to the kitchen to finish dinner. She Made a tray of tea and took the shard of teacup out of her pocket and dropped it into a tea cup. She walked upstairs with it and she opened the doors to smile at everyone. Everyone seemed rather normal except Elijah who watched her progression like a hawk. They sat around waiting for her and one by one she served them all. She saved Kol for last as she poured both tea and cream into his glass with the shard of tea cup in it. She walked around the table and out of the room as he took a deep drink and raised his fingers to his mouth to remove the piece of tea cup. She closed the doors silently not breaking eye contact with him until the doors closed on his face.
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