~~~~New York City, Place unknown~~~~~

The witch stared hard at the book, she had casted every spell that she knew at it. Elijah had been stood over in the corner watching her, she knew that Elijah didn't like failure, he didn't tolerate it at all.

But still every spell that she had sent to the book had came back the exact same.

The book was real.

She looked at Elijah who had been stood there so calmly, it unnerved her the way that he was stood. Despite the fact that she knew he was in the room with her, she turned around and spoke

"The book is real."

She felt those oak brown eyes drill holes into her as he spoke

"You are not the first to say that."

She bristled, had he done this before?

Used a witch to see if the book was real or not?

She felt like causing him a aneurysm, but she knew that if she did her heart would be ripped out of her chest and half way across the room before she even had time to blink. But still if he had people do this before her, why ask her to do it?

He gestured for her to leave which she did so quickly, she didn't like him. Out of every vampire she had met he was the one who frightened her the most, the way he spoke and acted.

It was like he was playing human, as if he was leading people on. Making them believe that he was something that he wasn't.

Elijah looked at the book, he had known it was real after all the first 12 witches he had asked told him. But he had to check once more to be certain, and he was proven right.

But still how had a book like this escaped his notice?

Elijah had prided himself on the fact that he had copies of nearly every book in existence, some of them were first editions, others were one of a kind. So it irritated him that there had been a book that he had never came across, never had heard about or found.

Until now.

Now he had a copy of the book within his hands, staring up at him as if to mock him. As if it knew that it was the subject of his thoughts, but Elijah doubted that. He sat down on the couch and flipped it open to were he had last been

The second stage of the mating process is erotic dreams (sex Dream!)

The second part had been scribbled out then rewritten in brackets, it looked like whoever had wrote this didn't want the writer to know that they had written it.

The dominate of the two will start to feel an intense desire to claim what they will class as 'theirs' not only will they feel a pull to where ever their mate is, they will also experience erotic dreams of claiming his or her submissive mate. Some dominates will go out and search for their submissive within a few weeks and then hide them away until the mating bond has been fully formed, in some cases the dominate is known to resist the mating pull until they have found a suitable location to hide their submissive at.

As the erotic dreams begin they will start off fairly mild depending on what the dominate is like, in one case there was a dominate that had experienced a erotic dream so intensely that he had broken the bed. (he was teased about it for weeks!)

There was the hand writing again, this was the second time that he had saw it. Whoever the handwriting belonged to was a joker at heart that much he could tell, each little note or scribble on the page was designed to make people laugh. Elijah grudgingly admitted that it was a good idea, but it was still defacing a book. But maybe the book had been designed for submissive mates in mind, it would make sense. Which might explain why there was so many scribbles and comments in the margins and in the text, they were trying to put the submissive at ease. So they would not be scared of the mating bond and fight it.

After the erotic dreams have occurred the second letter will appear on the dominates wrist or ankle, meaning that the start of the third stage of the mating bond will begin a few months later, the shortest on record is three weeks the longest is five years. It all depends on the will of the dominate.

Elijah looked down at his wrist, he only had one letter for the moment and if the book was to be believed then he would be receiving the second one soon. But he had no reason not to believe the book. What he had read so far had been true and very accurate, and if he was honest with himself he was not looking forward to the erotic dreams, he hadn't had one of them in years.

But still he had a mate!

It was baffling to him, why would he have one though?

Did it mean that only the originals had one?

He paused thinking of his family, the one that he had lost to Klaus. They had been brother once upon a time, they had fought together, played together and hunted together.

But the person who was called Klaus was not his brother, he had lost him a long time a go.

Elijah knew that it wasn't true, though his brother was still in there somewhere buried deep. Wrapped up in a thousand years worth of anger, betrayal and deceit. If Mikael hadn't of hunted them down and he hadn't of helped his mother bind Klaus's werewolf side then none of this would of happened, they would of still been a family.

One strong front that they showed the world, a family of vampires that would have had every supernatural creature running away from them.

But instead they were all broken and torn, they didn't know how to be a family any more. They didn't even know what one was just a twisted and sick version of it, a version that he wanted to change.