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Author in: Rose and Trevor still seek out the Salvatore brothers for assistance with the whole Klaus thing, but Rose holds onto the fact that Harry was more important to Elijah so the safest place to be is protecting Harry. She knows that what is important to Elijah would be important to Klaus.
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Elijah came to slowly, function returning quickly after the initial twitch of his fingers. He pulled the stake from his heart and the revitalization was complete. The rage came next; they took something precious from him. The Doppelganger was a loss, but the boy was so much more. The boy's body was weak, he had smelt the fever and had felt the shivers and cold sweat. If the boy was harmed, he would tear Mystic Falls apart. There was no doubt in his mind that they were both from Mystic Falls, everything seemed to lead back to the beginning. Elijah contemplated messaging Klaus but his older brother had daggered any sibling that did not follow his every whim and there was no trace of his siblings to be found.
Elijah returned to his car and pulled out his phone. "Jonas I believe that it is time that we move our efforts to Mystic Falls, it seems as if the key to retrieving your daughter lie there. Enroll your son into the high school and appear to settle. The game should be moving into the final stages. Time is of the essence." The tires squealed as Elijah put his car through its paces to reach Mystic Falls with all due haste.
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Harry came to slowly to find himself surrounded by Remus, Sirius, Damon, Tyler and Mason. They were all hovering around him and he had a copper taste in his mouth that told him that Damon had fed him blood at some point or another. "Alright, I vaguely remember walking with Elena and then everything went dark. I know that I was given something that didn't react well with my system, there were other people, a man and a woman with us. I also remember another man arriving but little else."
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Harry had a feeling that he wasn't going to get another moment's worth of peace. Tyler was walking so close to him that they would merge at the edges soon. "You do know that you're a junior and I'm a freshman so you won't be able to stalk me in class right?"
Tyler pushed down his growl at the reminder and shook his head. "You have your phone on you and you need to use it if anything goes wrong or looks the least bit suspicious."
Harry was going to answer when his senses went haywire. His magic had been sluggish after the sedative but now it was sending all kinds of signals. He followed his magic's mental arrows and saw a teenager near Jeremy and Bonnie that his magic pegged as magical. "Does another new witch in town qualify as suspicious?"
Tyler followed Harry's gaze and locked his eyes on the same boy. He didn't look dangerous but in Mystic Falls that didn't mean shit. "A new witch pops up right after an Original vampire finds out about Elena, sounds suspicious enough to me. Avoid him."
Harry was more than happy to follow that advice; new problems were completely unnecessary. "My magic is different so he shouldn't be able to out me as another witch unless he touches me or Bonnie squeals, but she's making eyes at him and probably won't want to draw his attention to another witch. She is trying to prove that she's the bigger witch. I'm sure her Grams has filled her head with stories about how great the Bennett family is and she won't want to risk losing his interest."
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Author in: The trip to Slater's is essentially the same except some little details: Trevor obviously goes along and after the initial questions about the Sun and the Moon Curse things turn toward why Elijah was more interested in Harry. Elijah times his attack to block Damon from showing a picture of Harry to Slater for cross referencing against his database. Elena gets permission to talk to Katherine from Stefan and that whole story time thing happens the same way without Caroline. Stefan removes the door and leaves before Katherine emerges. Damon won't touch Rose and she isn't emotionally compromised like in the show. No Jules either.
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"So you got a mysterious message from Slater that just said that a witch could dispel the moonstone." Sirius shook his head and wondered just how stupid people could be. "A thousand or more-year-old cursed object can't be dispelled like a parlor trick. Your friend is obviously on something. The moonstone is safer in the tomb with Katherine, both gathering dust. Leave it the hell alone."
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Author in: You'll get tired of me eventually. Elena and Rose still go to Slater's with Trevor, to check his information and for Elena to pull her suicide plan. And then things go a little different after Damon arrives and then Elijah pops up.
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Elijah was suddenly glad that he had Jonas cast the spell to find the Doppelganger, who knew that this Petrova was so ready to die? "Good gentlemen you have been incredibly helpful." Pulling out their hearts was a little messier than his preferred method of slicing their heads off, but easier with two targets. He contemplated leaving, the boy was not here, but his curiosity won out. "Has the boy recovered?"
The instant tension in the elder Salvatore, Damon if he remembered correctly, gave away an emotional attachment. "He's fine. I had to give him some blood to clear the sedative from his system. Why do you care?"
Elijah nodded as his curiosity calmed down and left in a blur with the sound of Damon's cursing following him out. He would deal with the fact that Rose and Trevor did not keep to his orders to protect the boy later.
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No trapped Stefan, no bitten Jeremy, no channeled Lucas, and Elena still gets put on house arrest for suicidal thoughts. We will pick back up when Elena finds herself negotiating with Elijah.
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"So do we have a deal?" Elijah could see the knowledge in the girl's eyes that proved that she had noticed the omission of her own life in the deal. He was a man of his word, most just didn't notice that he omitted the things that he would not honor.
Elena only had to contemplate for a moment or two, hardly a heartbeat. "There is one thing that I want to know. Why were you so interested in Harry?"
Elijah withheld a smile, now he had a name. "He greatly resembles someone that I once knew, so much so that there is little doubt that he is that person reborn. Only the Petrova line has Doppelgangers with separate souls as far as I am aware. The line that he would have come from is also extinct. It is a personal interest and has little to do with you and our deal."
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"Your mother wants me to go to high tea." Harry was trying to get his tie straight while talking to Tyler over the phone. "You and Mason need some time to bond and he needs to reassure his old pack in Florida that he's fine and just helping out the family, the last thing that we need is a big werewolf pack finding out about this whole Sun and the Moon Curse and thinking that they need to kill all the vampires so they can break the curse instead and I would rather not find out just how far this werewolf nip idea can go. I'll spend my morning safely being bored out of my mind."
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In a thousand years of life he had never enjoyed parties such as this. Humans trying to find some connection to their pasts by dwelling on the history of their ancestors as if it would make them feel closer to their families. The mayor's wife, Carol, was enjoyable to watch as she directed the attendees with a well-practiced flurry of motions and veiled threats.
Elijah was so absorbed in watching Carol that he noticed the instant lighting of her features at the entrance of the newest guest for her to greet. "Harry! I'm so glad you could make it. I can never get Tyler to come to these things and the Potter's have been invaluable over the generations when it comes to the Historical Society. We actually have a scholar here trying to learn about Mystic Falls' buried history. Follow me."
Elijah was suddenly extremely glad that he had decided to pose as a history scholar as Carol Lockwood was leading a slightly embarrassed Harry behind her. The look on his face was a mirror to the one that he had almost forgotten seeing from his time as a human. It brought back memories of laughter and better times. Carol had her arm threaded through the boy's, Harry's, arm and matched her stride to his perfectly. "Elijah, this is Harry Potter. His family predates the Founding Families and has an enormous library full of historical documents and maps that I'm sure will make your research much easier than the ones that the Society has." She came to a stop before Elijah and Harry's eyes locked on him with a glow that indicated magic coming to the fore, how intriguing. "I have to return to greeting all of the guests, but I'm sure the two of you will get along very well."
Harry patiently waited until Carol was out of earshot before looking at Elijah was a slightly raised brow that mimicked the expression that Kol had often made. "Now I'm pretty sure that after I came to they all told me that you were staked right in the heart and did the whole dead vampire thing." A smile followed that almost took Elijah's breath away. "Now, I may have reached the part of my library that details the fact that Originals are fairly death proof except in certain cases. I even told Tyler that the Originals could only be killed by a special wood but he was kind of reeling from the whole 'vampires are real' thing."
Elijah felt a long forgotten smile curl at his lips as he offered his arm to Harry. "Why don't we walk and talk? The grounds here are beautiful and I have a feeling that we have much to talk about."
Harry threaded his arm through Elijah's and a sense of calm overtook them both. "Carol takes great pleasure in spending quite a bit of her husband's money maintaining the yard. She told me that the image that it presents makes sure that all of the people that come to this home know that every inch of the property is seen to and that nothing is missed."
Elijah hummed and waited until there would be no one to overhear them. "How much of this town's history have you unearthed?"
Harry tapped his fingers along Elijah's arm as they rounded one of the tiers of rose bushes separating the main yard from each of the separate party areas. "Some of what I have learned about Mystic Falls has come from the massive libraries that the Potter's have created. You might have known them by another name though."
Elijah could feel his interest peaking, Harry's speech patterns and mannerisms all matched up. "Oh, by what name would I have known them by?"
Harry shot a smile up at Elijah that screamed of Klaus when someone was playing into his hands during a game or scheme. "I am sure that the name Peverell should sound slightly more familiar."
Elijah tensed as he remembered the family of magic users that had delved into the dark so far that no one dared to go against them. Their mother feared the family as most witches had and had warned them away. "That family was one that earned respect and fear."
Harry nodded and turned to look at the small pond to their left. "Yes, they were a family that kept a close relationship with Death. They did no harm to those that did none to them but to those that harmed them they gave nothing but destruction. About five hundred years ago the branch that I came from changed their name to Potter and buried their darker natures behind a lighter image. They also had branches in almost every country."
Elijah could not take his eyes away from Harry, such a happening that would have seemed so far-fetched just a short while ago was becoming more believable by the minute. If any family would have been able to spur such a thing, it would be the Peverells. "You mentioned that only some of what you have learned is from your family library?"
"Yes, the rest comes from dreams that are much too clear and accurate to be an imagining of my mind. There is little specific listed about the Originals other than legends of their creation and possible destruction. There are no real descriptions of them." Harry turned his gaze to the tree line before returning his gaze to Elijah. "You are Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, Finn, and Rebekah. Children to Mikael and Esther and elder siblings to Henrik."
Elijah felt his dead heart bleed, having confirmation was far more than he could ever have hoped for. "So much has changed since then, we are hardly family now. Klaus has devoted his entire life to breaking the curse that keeps his werewolf gene in check as he was not of father's bloodline. Any of us that went against him were killed."
Images flashed across Harry's mind of an older brother that took time to make him feel wanted even though he could never be what his parents wanted. He was always sick and talented in neither magic nor swordsmanship. Klaus was volatile in nature, always angry, always possessive, but also protective of who and what he considered his. "Basic nature does not change. White oak ash and a dagger will send an Original to a death like slumber from what I have found. If my spotty memories are any indication of his personality I can guess that he keeps them close. He would still feel that they belong to him. I'm sure that if he even got a sniff that I was here he would find a way to keep me close and safe, like a locked box with air holes."
Elijah let out a startled laugh at the all too possible image, of all of their siblings Klaus' love for Henrik knew no bounds. Klaus would destroy the world for Henrik and he had never recovered from their youngest sibling's death. "He told me that he had spread their bodies out and had sunk them into the sea so no one would ever find them."
Harry sighed and tilted his head to the side. "I could almost bet that he has all of their coffins, including one for you, that he takes with him wherever he goes or stores in a place nearby that he guards jealously. Unfortunately, our time is up."
Elijah was seconds away from asking about what Harry meant when he heard the sound of a vampire running toward them and then Damon was in front of them with what Elijah assumed was supposed to be an intimidating glare. Young vampires were always so arrogant. "Harry, are you alright?"
Harry smiled and detached his arm from a very reluctant Elijah before linking arms with Damon. "Carol introduced us as Elijah is playing the part of a history scholar and I do own the largest historical library in Mystic Falls."
Damon's glare increased in intensity and he used their linked arms to pull Harry closer. "How nice. I'm sure that he can use the Historical Society's documents to do his 'research' or the library at the Bunkhouse."
Harry leaned against Damon's arm and the look that he aimed at Damon was the same one that was once used on Klaus to take Henrik to the place where the wolves turned into men. The look seemed to be just as effective on Damon Salvatore. "I wouldn't really want to get on Carol's bad side and I would like to spend some time to figure out how to save Elena and I'm sure that Elijah would allow me to bounce some ideas off of him. Please."
Damon tried to look elsewhere but seemed magnetically drawn towards Harry's eyes that were starting to fill with tears. "Fine." Damon locked eyes with Elijah in an impressive show of bravery. "From what we were able to find out about you from Rose and Trevor you are a man of your word and won't break it once given." Elijah nodded though confirmation wasn't necessary, it was the one part of his humanity that he refused to give up as it was the part that Henrik most admired. "Then I want your word that Harry will not be harmed in any way while in your company nor will you take him anywhere against his will."
Elijah smiled and that seemed to disarm the Salvatore. "I will not allow any harm to befall Harry at any time I am near enough to prevent it and I will not kidnap or trick him into going anywhere with me."
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