Chapter seven

Causing trouble

Elizabeth

"Seriously, Klaus, Lily will have my head if I don't have these done by tomorrow," I said for the fifth time, pushing him away as I tried to stay focused on the god forsaken nameplates.

"You can take a break for ten minutes, Love," Klaus told me, nuzzling my neck, trying his best to distract me.

I shook my head and gritted my teeth. I had to stay strong. "No, I really can't. I'm going to be up all night doing this anyway. And my fingers hurt." That had nothing to do with anything, but they really hurt.

"All the better to take a break." He kissed my neck, in my most sensitive spot. Klaus was playing dirty. I bit my lip to keep from moaning out. I felt him smirk into my skin, like he knew the affect he had on me. The bastard.

"I can't, Klaus. Really," I said exasperatedly, as I dropped the nameplate in my hands. It landed on the table.

"Mmhmm," he mumbled, pushing my dark, messy hair away from my neck and face as he continued to try to seduce me.

"Seriously, alright? So just give up okay," I said, my mouth pressed firmly closed to keep from exploding.

"Whatever you say, sweetheart." Klaus pulled away from my neck and shot me a smirk. I could read his thoughts in his eyes. You and I both know you're going to give in eventually, Elizabeth. When have you ever been capable of saying no to me?

I let out a sigh. Lily was going to murder me tomorrow, but it'd be worth it. Besides, I'd never be able to focus on the stupid nameplates with Klaus kissing my neck in hopes of getting me to sleep with him.

"You need to protect me when Lily-zilla tries to rip my throat out, alright?" I said eventually.

"Of course, Love," he agreed with a nod.

I threw my arms around his neck, my lips meeting his in a hungry kiss. Klaus easily lifted me out of my chair, and my legs wrapped around his waist as he tried to get us to our bedroom as fast as possible.

We slammed into walls along the way, leaving dents in them and breaking pieces of priceless art that were hanging on the walls. I took the brunt of the force, but I was too focused on Klaus, on kissing him, on his hands that were too close to my ass, to even take note of the brief pain.

Finally, after what had to be hours of destroying the hallways, Klaus finally found our room, and pushed the door open with a slam.

"This house is too damn big," he muttered against my lips as he tossed me effortlessly onto the bed, only pausing to close the damaged door.

"That's what I've been saying for years," I replied, practically ripping Klaus' shirt in my haste to get it off of him.

Lily was going to be pissed at me, alright, but sex with Klaus was worth it.

~LGM~

"I don't like this Josh guy."

"His name's Jack," I said, an amused smile on my lips.

"What's so funny?" Damon raised an eyebrow at me, and I just shook my head.

It was the next day, and I was at the boarding house, sitting at the kitchen table with Damon. We were supposed to be going over the seating arrangements, but really we had just been talking about Jack. I had met him a few times over the years. He was a good friend of Lily's.

He was a nice guy, Jack. He was nice to me and treated Lily really well. There was only one problem with him, one thing that could possibly ruin this wedding I had put blood, sweat, and tears into.

He was completely, irrevocably, and irrationally in love with my best friend.

It was funny, how much Damon and I were alike. We both saw what the others refused to see. We both had the same reactions to the two people who could singlehandedly ruin the relationships with the people we were in love with. That's what I found amusing. I didn't say so, though.

"Nothing," I said, looking over to where Lily and Jack were talking. "He's a good guy, Damon. Really."

My brother just shook his head. "He's in love with Lily, Liz," he muttered.

"I know."

Damon looked up, surprised. "You do?"

I nodded. "Of course. I'm not blind. He's been madly in love with Lily since I can remember. He used to be a ripper, a really nasty one. She fixed him, though, and he grew really attached to her. She has no idea, though. She just figures that they're really good friends." I rolled my eyes. Lily could be so oblivious sometimes.

"So, what am I supposed to do?" he asked, standing up to get himself a drink.

"Absolutely nothing," I said simply.

"Nothing?" Damon raised his eyebrows at me.

"Nothing," I repeated. "There's nothing you can do. Lily will just think you're being a jealous, possessive asshole if you say anything about it. Besides, you two are getting married in less than a week. There's nothing Jack can do about it. He'll just have to live with his unrequited love until he gets over it," I said with a shrug.

"I think you're forgetting about the 'speak now, or forever hold your peace,' part of the wedding," Damon said, handing me a glass of bourbon.

"Then we'll just have to make sure he holds his peace," I said with a smirk.

Damon raised his eyebrows again. "Why do I have the feeling you're willing to go to very low levels to make sure Lily and I get married without a hitch?" he asked me.

"Because I am. Do you know how much time I've invested in this wedding? How much pain? How much sex I've sacrificed? If you and Lily don't get married, I'm seriously going to kill both of you," I said with a glare.

Damon made a face. "Too many details, Lizzie. I don't want to hear about you and Klaus' dry spell," he muttered.

"Oh, we're not going through a dry spell. We had sex last night. It was really good, by the way. We broke a couple of walls," I said casually. Damon looked ready to throw up. "But that's not the point. The point is that I've sacrificed even more hot sex with my hybrid lover because of Lily's obsession with this wedding."

"Oh, I really hope you're just saying that to get a reaction out of me," he muttered, looking green.

"I am," I said with a smirk. "It's really fun. Pay back, for all the times I've walked in on you and Lily going at it like sex deprived animals."

"Well, thanks to you, I have a lovely mental image of you two burned into my brain," he complained. "And I never want to hear you call him 'your hybrid lover' ever again."

"Why not? That's what he is."

"Less bickering, more planning, you two."

We both looked up at Lily, looking disapprovingly at us.

"Whatever, Lily-zilla," I muttered, taking a sip of my drink. I found that alcohol helped a lot with dealing with Lily lately.

"Don't call me that!" she whined, before frowning. "Are you done with the nameplates yet, Elizabeth?"

I bit my lip. "Yeah, about that. Funny story…"

"Elizabeth!"

Sex with Klaus was still worth getting yelled at by Lily.

~LGM~

"Next time you and Elizabeth decide to have sex at two in the morning, can you not make so much noise?" Mina complained, as she walked into the kitchen.

Klaus smirked slightly. "You heard that?" he asked, a little smug.

"Even if I didn't, there's enough evidence in the halls," she said.

"I'll tell Elizabeth not to be so loud next time," he said, his smirk growing wider. "But, in all fairness, her attention was elsewhere."

Mina found herself grinding her teeth together. Why? Why was he with that wench? She didn't see it, didn't understand it. There was nothing extraordinarily special about Elizabeth. She was pretty, yes, but not nearly as gorgeous as Mina. She was just an ordinary vampire. Yet, Klaus loved her. Klaus was having obnoxiously loud sex with her.

It pissed Mina off intensely.

"Do you remember that night in the 12th century, when you and I went skinny dipping in the lake?" she said suddenly, sitting down across from Klaus. It was a completely inappropriate thing to say. Klaus was in love with Elizabeth, and they had had sex in that lake, for the first time, actually.

But that was exactly why Mina had said it.

A hint of a smile flickered across Klaus' face as he remembered that night. Then he cleared his throat. "No, not really," he said. "It was a really long time ago, Mina."

She frowned. "We had fun together, Klaus, didn't we?" she asked him.

He nodded. "Of course we did. We had a lot of fun, got into a lot of trouble." Klaus frowned. "Why are you bringing this up now?"

Mina ignored him. "We were good together, Klaus. Really good together, you know?" she continued, sounding almost desperate.

Klaus looked uncomfortable. "We were never really together, Mina. We had sex, we got drunk, we were friends, but we were never really in a relationship. It wasn't what Elizabeth and I have. I've never had what Elizabeth and I have before. That's what makes her so special."

The look on Klaus' face when he said Elizabeth's name made Mina sick. He was so madly in love with her in was sad, and very, very pathetic. It made her blood boil.

Why didn't he look at her like that? Why didn't he say her name like that? Why didn't Klaus love Mina like that?

"We had a lot of fun, Mina. We did. You reminded me about what was so great about being a vampire, and I needed to be reminded of that," Klaus continued. It was true. He had met Mina during a dark period in his life. He met Elizabeth in an even darker one. "But Elizabeth reminded me about what was so good about humanity, and I needed that even more."

"There's nothing good about humanity," Mina hissed at him.

He merely shrugged. "I beg to differ."

She glared at him. "Elizabeth ruined you, Klaus. She made you soft."

He narrowed his eyes at her. "I haven't gone soft-"

He was cut off when Mina reached across the table and kissed him.

~LGM~

"Hey, Lily, can we talk? Alone? In private?"

Lily looked up from a bridal magazine, to see Jack. He looked nervous, and she frowned. "Sure, let's go to my room."

She set down her magazine and led her old friend to her bedroom. As soon as she shut the door, Jack began pacing. He really was nervous.

"What's wrong, Jack?" she asked. "What do you need to talk to me about?"

Jack stopped at took a deep breath. "I need to tell you something, Lil, alright? Something really, really important. And you need to listen."

Lily nodded and sat down on her bed. "I'm all ears."

Jack looked like he was giving himself a pep talk, and took another deep, calming breath.

"Lily, you can't marry Damon."

~LGM~

A/N: Holy crap, I stayed up late writing this. That's how much I love you guys :)

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