So, I had surgery the other day. Not fun, but at least it was only a day procedure, I was in and out of hospital in eight hours.
Sorry if this chapter seems jumpy, I'm trying to hurry on the human time, so we can get to the Esther vs her children.
Once again, I don't own TVD.
Unexpected Chapter Seven
It had happened, he had her in his arms and Elijah could barely believe it. Elena had fallen asleep, her head resting on his shoulder, snuggled into his side. She was so beautiful, so pure and while he knew he did not deserve her, it would be a cold day in hell before gave her up. Not now that he knows what it is like to have her.
Elijah brushes the hair off her face, "ek ann þér," he whispers. He has not spoken the old language in centuries, but felt that this was right. He places a kiss to her forehead, then gently removed his trapped arm and covers her with the blanket.
He should probably leave her room, before her friends get here.
Elijah finds his younger brothers and sister making up a tray of food in the kitchen. If he didn't know any better, he would say that they were planning on seducing someone.
"What are the three of you up to?" He asks, pointing to the chilling champagne bottle, flutes, fondue pot and skewers. Klaus is cutting a loaf of crutsy bread, Rebekah are laying out various vegetables and meats and Kol was dipping stawberries into melted chocolate, then putting them aside to set.
"This is not for us, brother," Klaus said, adding the bread to the plated vegetables. "It's for our suicidal big brother and his lady love. Kol found the unlinking spell, it needs blood willingly given by all bound parties to work."
"Ah, so you all plan to keep Finn happy and show him a reason to live, yes?" Sitting down on a stool, one hand in his pocket, his eyebrow raised in amusement. "And all this... will make him compliant?"
"It's worth a try, isn't it?" Rebekah asked him.
"Oh, I'm not denying that," Elijah said. "It's just this feels a little... odd to me. You are effectively attempting to bribe our brother with sex."
"Sex bribes work, Eli. Always have, always will," replied Kol. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
"Where have you been, by the way?" Klaus asks Elijah, his smirk all too telling. "Anything else need to be continued?"
Elijah's face remained impassive, "I'm afraid, Niklaus, that I haven't the slightest idea what mean." He reached out and grabbed a stawberry from Kol, bitting into it. "Mmm, I'm sure Finn will appreciate the effort we are all investing into his love life."
The brownies were good. Elena, Bonnie and Caroline were munching on them, when Kol entered. He walked up behind Bonnie and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Evening, little witch. I missed you, Vakker."
"Kol, delightful as ever." Bonnie said, "can you let go of me, please?"
"Sure, darling, but only if Ellie will promise to make those," he pointed to the brownies, "for me all the time."
"Caroline could not believe Elena. Why did she have to be the one to ask Klaus if they could use the living room with the big television?
"It's because the guy is totally in love with you," Elena had said.
"I don't like him," Bonnie had added, "but I gotta agree with Elena here. Klaus is gaga for you. What was it he said? 'I fancy you, Caroline'." The witch finished it with a bad British accent, copping a pillow to the face from the blond.
So here she was, about to talk to the Original Hybrid himself.
"Um, Klaus," she asks, nervously, "Could we use your lounge room to watch some movies?"
Klaus's attention had been on the baby vampire since he heard her outside his office door.
"As you wish, Caroline," he said, and got the immense satisfaction of seeing Caroline's eyes widen when she recognized the quote. He smiled, he would have to thank Elena for the tip about Caroline's favourite movie. Or maybe he just wouldn't bring up that he knew what she and his brother were doing in the kitchen earlier. Nah, teasing Elijah would be too much fun.
"So," Elena said, looking at her best friends. They were in her room after dinner. She had spent the whole meal playing footsies under the table with Elijah and it had been hard not to smile or sigh. She had to come clean to them, for one they told each other everythin and for two, she just needed to tell someone. "I may have done something today that you, both, may not be too happy with me about."
"What happened, Elena?" Caroline asked.
"I may have realized I'm having feeling for Elijah." She figured she would ease them into it. "And I may have made out with him in the kitchen today." Or maybe not.
"WHAT?" They both yelled.
"Don't tell anyone, please?" Elena begged. "We're not even really together as far as I know, we've just made out a few times, but he makes me happy."
"What happened to Stefan and Damon?" Caroline asked.
"Stefan and I, too much has happened. I don't see us coming back from that and more importantly, I don't think I want to." Elena said, she always knew Caroline would be the more accepting, Bonnie was still speachless. "And Damon has feelings for me that I can't and don't return, even if I wanted to. Plus, I refuse to be another Katherine and drive them apart, they need to realize that family is much more important. "
"What are you going to do when Klaus and Elijah fight over you? It won't be for the same reasons as Stefan and Damon, but it'll still be messy and you'll still be in the middle. Is this what you want, Elena?" Bonnie asked, "I'm not going to pretend like I'm jumping for joy, I don't particularly like Elijah but you're like my sister and if Elijah makes you happy, well, I guess I'm here for you."
"I'm here too, 'Lena." Caroline said, pulling both other girls into a group hug.
"Would this be a good time to say I might be falling in love with him?"
It had taken a lot of explaining on Elena's part before Bonnie and Caroline had calmed down. Thankfully, it had ended in Elena swearing them both to secrecy and them saying that whatever makes Elena happy they would support, so long as no one got hurt.
"So, what exactly does one do on a girls night?" Rebekah asked, from the door of the living room where Elena, Bonnie and Caroline were spread out on the couches, with open tubs of ice cream. The female Orignial had turned down Elena's offer initially, but gave in out of curiosity, longing and loneliness.
"We eat junk food," Elena told Rebekah, "gossip, have makeovers, watch girly movies and no boys are allowed. And despite what Kol seems to think, we will most definitely not be having pillow fights in our underwear or practice kissing with eachother!"
They laughed. (Elsewhere, Kol felt extremely disappointed for some unknown reason.)
"That sounds like fun, I've never had a lot of girl friends before," Rebekah said, wistfully, sitting on the sofa and accepting the frozen dessert Bonnie passed her. "So I've never really had a girls night, plus I don't get to watch many movies that aren't male centric, since I have four brothers."
Caroline's jaw dropped. "Oh, you poor thing. That changes tonight. You can pick first movie. We have," she held up the stack of DVDs, laying them on the coffee table so Rebekah could see the covers, "Clueless, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Princess Bride, Love Actually, Pretty Woman, 10 Things I Hate About You and The Notebook."
Rebekah asked them which movie they think they should watch and got three different answers.
"Clueless," said Elena.
"The Princess Bride," yelled Caroline.
"The Notebook," was Bonnie's choice.
Rebekah chose 10 Things I Hate About You.
Elena wounld not call Rebekah a friend, but by the time they went to bed, they were definitely were warming up to each other.
"Fancy a game, brother?" Klaus asks Elijah, gesturing to the pool table in the games room.
"Why not," Elijah said.
Kol was on the couch by the side of the room playing some violent video game on Jeremy's Playstation. "I got winner," he called, before making his player rip the legs off some opponent and going back into his own little world, ignoring his brothers.
"So," Klaus said, breaking, "have fun this afternoon? What were you doing with the 'lovely Elena'?"
"Niklaus," Elijah warned, glancing at Kol, who was yelling at the TV, before sinking a big. "If you want to say something, say it."
"What are you doing, Elijah?" Klaus watched as Elijah missed the next shot, then took his turn, sinking a ball. "Just because you are stupid enough to have fallen for another one, doesn't change my plans for her, when this is all over. Elena needs to grow up and marry, I need to ensure her blood will continue."
"We are not having that discussion now, Niklaus," Elijah replied. "But, why don't you answer me this, why do you need an endless supply of hybrids? You have family."
The pool game was abandoned. Kol paused his game, turning his attention to his brothers bickering.
"I don't always have family." Klaus took a drink from his tumbler.
"That's because you chuck a tantrum and dagger us for a few decades every now and then. You have no one to blame but yourself." Kol said, looking from Klaus to Elijah. "What brought this on, I thought you two were just playing pool?"
"We were, Kol," Elijah said, sighing and laying the cue down on the pool table. "Our brother, here, was voicing his displeasure in matters he has no business even knowing of. Not to mention his continued quest to create a race of sired hybrids to do his biddings."
"Dude," Kol said, "what's wrong with us? Is your regular family of Original vampires not good enough for you?"
"My hybrids are there to eliminate my enermies, nothing more. But I will admit that for once it is nice to not be the only one of my species. Also, Kol, I was just talking to our brother about what he and our resident doppleganger were doing today."
"What were you and Eliie doing?" Kol asked, going back to the game, now the crisis was averted. He didn't really care what his brother and friend did, it was only a matter of time before they fell into bed together, in his mind. And it was none of his business, anyway. He just looked foreward to the teasing he would get to do.
"Nothing that you need to be concerned with, Kol. Now, Niklaus, unless you have anything better to do, I think I'll retire for the night."
On Sunday Kol gave Bonnie a copy of the unlinking spell and they both agreed that the ritual would have to wait until after the next full moon, since a lot of blood was needed. He also asked if Bonnie would be willing to help him on a project that he started one hundred years ago, back in New Orleans.
"What project?" The witch asked.
"It's nothing bad, Vakker, I swear. It's just that last night I realized that maybe Nik hasn't changed as much as we may have wanted to believe." Kol told her, making sure that there were no eavesdroppers.
"Kol, you're not making much sense." Bonnie plopped down on Kol's bed.
"Look, all I'm asking is that when this mess with mother is over, you help me turn one of those silver daggers Nik likes to shove into mine and my siblings chests, gold. That way they should work on him. Just in case we need it."
"That's your project? I'm in."
"We've got to be careful, though. This is the reason I was daggered back in 1914."
Maybe Kol wasn't so bad, Bonnie thought.
"Caroline," Klaus called to her as she and Bonnie got ready to leave.
"What Klaus?" Caroline turned to face him as he jogged to the car.
"I overheard you girls last night talking about your favourite movies, I wanted to give you something." He holds out a hard cover book with a beautiful pitcure in the front. "You said your favourite movie is The Princess Bride and that you've never gotten the chance to read the book version. Well, love, here."
"Thank you, Klaus." Caroline grabbed the book of him and got in the car, ignoring the flutterings in her belly.
As soon as her friends had gone down the drive, Elena was knocking on Elijah's bedroom door. He opened it and stepped aside, letting her in and closing the door behind her.
"I've missed you," Elijah said to Elena, closing the space between them, giving her a small kiss on the lips.
"And I've missed you," she told him back, running her hand up his chest. "I told Bonnie and Caroline about us, I hope that's alright?
"So long as you have no problem with them knowing, my dear. Though, I should warn you, Elena, that Klaus knows about us, too. I'm not sure how." Elena had been leaning up to kiss him again, when Elijah told her this and she pulled back, abruptly.
"That's not good," she said. "Was he really upset?"
"Probably. Although I must admit, I am not sure. At first he was teasing, then it turned into him reminding me that he still needed your blood for his hybrids. He also did not fail to subtly let me know that he wants you to eventually marry and procreate."
"I won't be procreating now or ever," Elena said, her tone definite. "Sure, once upon a time, I might've liked to have kids, but I won't force my curse on my decendents. The doppleganger line ends with me, Klaus can go and fuck himself on that, for all I care."
"My brother always was quite delusional," Elijah smiled, leaning in closer, again. "But there is no need for a lady to sully her mouth with such language, do not make me have to wash it out."
He was teasing her. Two could play that game. "You know, swearing is not the only thing I can sully my mouth with." She almost regret saying something so blatantly sexual to him when his eyebrows rose, that is, until she saw his smirk.
"Oh, really?" He crooned, his deep voice sounding impossibly sexy. "Perhaps I'll ask for a demonstration sometime, my lovely Elena."
He kissed her then and pulled her to him. Elena thought that being stuck with Elijah for the next three weeks may not be so bad, after all.
"Perhaps I'll give you one."
The next week passed by rather slowly. On Monday, Elena called Stefan and wished him a 'Happy Birthday'. Stefan told her that he and Damon had left town for a bit and were on a brotherly bonding road trip.
On Tuesday, Finn and Sage finally emerged from Finn's room. They still both kept to themselves, though, taking meals in his room and Sage leaving every other day to feed.
Also on Tuesday night, Elena had started to get strange dreams, they were about Wickery bridge and a large tree. She would see each of the Originals and hear Esther's voice telling her that her children were abominations and that the witch needed to right her wrong. Elena usually woke in a cold sweat, and hadn't mentioned the dreams to anyone, yet, afraid they would have a deeper meaning.
On Wednesday, not only was Elena in a bad mood from not having had much sleep and getting her unwanted monthly visitor, but Caroline and Bonnie gave her some bad news.
"It's Alaric," Bonnie said, reaching out to grab Elena's hand. "He's the one that's been killing the council members. Dr Fell caught him, he's developed some kind of evil alter-ego."
"When did this happen?" Elena asked, "I mean, how did this even happen? What did Ric do?"
"Bonnie did a spell," Caroline told her, putting a comforting hand on Elena's shoulder. "The spirits think it has something to do with the amount of times he's died. That's all we know, Elena. My mom has him locked away for his own good right now."
"I need to see him," the doppleganger said, "I have to see him." Elena made to stand up.
"Elena you can't, this is just the opportunity Esther would take advantage of." Bonnie held Elena's hand tighter, stopping her from going anywhere. "Just wait it out, two and a half more weeks."
"Dr Fell is looking into it," Caroline said.
That night, when Elena couldn't sleep, she tossed and turned. For one, she was dreading the dream she knew she would get and two she was worried about Ric. Elena threw off the covers and padded quietly out into the hall. She paused at Elijah's door and debated on if she should knock. Eventually she did and a sleepy Elijah answered the door a minute later, dressed for bed.
"Elena," he muttered, "what's wrong?"
Elena didn't say anything, she just pushed forward, wrapping her arms around his waist and cried.
"Hey now, shh, it's alright. I've got you, Elena." Elijah had stumbled back, slightly, before steadying himself and pushing the door closed. "Come on, what is the matter?" One of his arms wrapped around her shoulder and the other held her head into his chest.
Elijah led he back to the bed and lay down, Elena curled up into his side.
"What is the matter?" He repeated, "Did your friends give you some bad news this afternoon?"
"It's Ric," she sobbed, "something is wrong with Ric. Bonnie and C-c-caroline told me he's losing his mind. He's the one that-that has been ki-killing the council members, only it's not... it's not him, it's some spilt personality. I can't lose anyone else, Elijah. I just can't."
"I can't promise you won't ever lose anyone, lovely Elena, but I will give you my word that I'll do my best to help you protect the ones you care for." He kissed the top of her head and held her closer while she cried.
"You know, you're on that list, too," she said. "I don't want to lose you, either."
Elijah didn't say anything as Elena fell asleep. He would not lose her, he could not lose her.
Thursday night at dinner, Elena told the Mikaelson siblings about her dreams.
"How much blood did mother take from you, Ellie?" Kol asked.
"A few drops, no more than three or four," she told them.
"That's about two or three too many," Rebekah said. "Maybe mother kept the leftover blood and is channeling you with it. Your blood is innately magical. These dreams could be you siphoning her thoughts, when she channels you, kind of like you subconsciously fighting back. But what's Wickery Bridge got to do with it?"
"I'm not sure, but I think that might be where the white oak tree ended up. If Esther's focusing on it, it's got to mean something, right?" Elena said, "don't quote me on that, though. I can't be sure, so we will still have to wait and look into the records in town."
"Well, that would be incredibly convenient, if this were the case. It would eliminate one such worry from our plate." Elijah placed a hand on her forearm and smiled at her.
"I do believe you've just saved us a bit of trouble, love." Klaus said, he had been keeping his distance from Elena this past few days, since Elijah had told her Klaus knew of them. "Do you happen to know what year the bridge was built in, by chance?"
"I think it was early last century, 1910 or 12 or something."
Elena had thought nothing suspicious of Stefan and Damon's departure until late Sunday afternoon, when Jeremy showed up on the doorstep of Klaus's mansion, having been just brought back to Mystic Falls with the Salvatores.
It was Kol who answered the door, "who are you?" He asked, rather rudely.
"I'm here for Elena, where is she?" Jeremy said, trying to push past Kol.
"What do you want with Ellie?" Kol held up his arm, stopping Jeremy from getting inside.
"Look, man, just get my sister. I need to know she's okay? 'Cause last I checked, most of this family has screwed her over and I have to see she's alright. She's all I've got left." Jeremy got a closer look at Kol, "you must be one of the Originals, right? You look a bit like Elijah."
"I am, Kol Mikaelson," he held out his hand, "and you must be Jeremy? Sorry bout the questions, mate, we're a bit on edge here. Ellie should be in her room, I'll show you up. Oh and by the way, that Playstation is your's?" Jeremy nodded, "it's awesome, I got it set up in Nik's games room, we'll play later, yeah?"
"Ah, sure," Jeremy answered, slowly, his eyebrows together, frowning. They were getting to the first landing, now.
"Don't be like that, no one will play with me, anymore. Nik gets pissed when he loses, Bekah can't play for shit, Eli won't even try and Finny's been locked in his room all week, fucking Sage. I swear, it's like the guy's been abstinent for nine hundred years." Kol laughs at his own joke, it goes right over Jeremy's head. "And Ellie is almost as bad as Bex."
"Ellie, you mean Elena? She told me you gave her a nickname. Yeah, my sister sucks at video games." Kol didn't seem too bad, not anything like what Damon told Jeremy he was like.
"That she does, mate, that she does." They were at Elena's bedroom now. Kol knocks, but doesn't wait and opens the door. He immediately wishes he had waited. On the bed in a tangle of limbs is Elena and Elijah. It's hard to tell who is who, they are attached at the mouth and are, thankfully, still mostly dressed.
"Well, looks like we're interrupting something," Kol says to Jeremy, turning away from the room.
"Oh, my God, I need brain bleach!" Jeremy throws his hand up over his eyes.
The couple on the bed break apart, "Kol, get ou-..."
"Jeremy?"
"I thought walking in on Elena and Stefan making out had been awkward..." Jeremy threw back the shot Kol gave him, they had fled the room upstairs where they had seen their siblings kissing and gathered in s sitting room of some kind. "Apparently, it's much worse if you walk in with another person and that person just happens to be siblings with the one exchanging saliva with your sibling."
"You said it," Kol passed Jeremy nother shot, which was promtly drunk, too.
The door opened and Elena ran in, hugging her brother, tears running down her face. Thankfully, she had put her shirt back on.
"What are you doing here, Jer?" She asks, "I thought I told you to stay in Denver. Mystic Falls is too dangerous right now."
"Hey, don't you go lecturing me, Elena!" Jeremy said. "And as to why I'm back, well you can thank Damon. He and Stefan came saw me on Wednesday night, they wanted me to contact that vampire that died from a werewolf bite, Rose."
"They didn't? Oh, I'm going to kill them," Elena ground out.
Kol shuffled back out the door, "I think I'll leave you Gilberts to chat."
"They wanted you to ask Rose who sired her, right?" Elena was mad, how dare they go behind her back and involve Jeremy? And to look into something that they know they shouldn't've? So what, did the Salvatores just plan to kill all other Originals except the originator of their bloodline?
"They did," Jeremy answered, "some vampire named Mary something, Damon called her 'Scary Mary', sired Rose and she was created by Klaus in the thirteenth century. They were majorly pissed when they found that out."
"And now you're back," she said.
"And now I'm back." Jeremy took a seat on a sofa, "So, what to tell me what's going on between you and Elijah? No details, I just want to know what's going on."
"Um, well, I mean, that is to say, he and I... You know what, let's not do this? I like Elijah and he means something to me." Elena sat next to her brother. "We're just seeing what exactly that is. But you can't tell anyone!"
"Wasn't planning on it. Can you imagine how Damon is going to react?"
Meanwhile, Kol was upstairs with Elijah.
"So, brother, when you going to tell me you and Ellie were playing tonsil hockey? What's the go with you two? Is this what Nik was teasing you about the last week?"
"I was not aware, Kol, that you needed to be informed about everything in mine and Elena's life? Tell me, brother, what makes you entitled to this information?" Elijah had also straightened his outfit and redone the buttons. His hair was still a bit of a mess, though.
"Ellie is my friend and you are my brother." Kol said this as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "If you guys make eachother happy, it's my right to not only tease the shit out of you both, but I want to be happy for you, as well."
"Well, I'm glad you can at least be a little mature."
'ek ann þér' means 'I love you' in Norse. At least from the translation I found.
Yay, Jeremy is back!
I would like to state, Elejah haven't had sexy time, yet. You guys will know when they have sexy time!
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