Chapter eight

The lover in the city

Sunlight hit Kassandra's face, and her face crunched up. Groaning, she covered her face with her pillow, but it was too late, she was already awake. She sighed but sat up, pulling the bed sheet up with her to cover her naked body.

Kassandra pushed her blonde hair out of her face, then looked over to the other side of the bed, where she expected Elijah to be. Only, it was empty. She frowned. She didn't expect Elijah to be the kind of person to sneak out in the middle of the night, especially since this was his apartment. Then she saw the piece of paper, a creamy color, with her name written on the front in fancy calligraphy. She opened it and read the short note inside.

Kassandra,

I'm sorry if I am not there when you awake. I have some family business to attend to, but I will be back shortly. Please feel free to make yourself at home if you choose to wait for me. If not, we shall see each other later.

Elijah

Kassandra folded the letter into fourths, then slipped out of bed. She decided that she would wait for him. Partly because she wanted to do what they did last night over and over and over again, and partly because she had nowhere else to go.

She grabbed Elijah's shirt from where it was on the ground and put it on. It was ripped slightly and wrinkly, for it had spent the night on the floor, but was in decent condition. She tucked Elijah's note into the shirt pocket and ran her hands through her hair before walking out of the bedroom. She needed coffee. And maybe, if she was lucky, she could find her purse somewhere and call Ruby before Elijah came back. Then she would begin to track down her clothes.

She walked into the kitchen to find a fresh pot of coffee already waiting for her. Kassandra got herself a cup and then leaned against the counter, drinking it. Suddenly, she heard a noise come from the living room, footsteps and the sounds of somebody kicking things aside.

"Elijah?" she called, standing up straight. Then she smirked slightly. "You know, it's bad manners to leave a woman naked in bed all by her lonesome."

She walked towards the living room, still holding her coffee. The living room was a mess. She hadn't even known that they were knocking furniture over last night. There, in the midst of broken end tables and turned over couches, was a man, his back facing her.

"Well, my brother has always been a tad rude."

Kassandra's eyes widened as the man turned around, revealing that he wasn't Elijah. He looked like him, though. Kassandra knew exactly who he was.

Kol.

She took two steps back automatically, crossing her arms over her chest. Kol smirked at her, though she could see clear shock in his eyes. "Well, well, what has my brother been up to?" he mused, his eyes running up and down Kassandra.

She fidgeted, uncomfortable. She had to get out of there, before Kol recognized her. "You two really did make a mess, I had no idea Elijah had it in him," Kol continued.

Then he looked at Kassandra, really looked at her. His eyebrows furrowed and he frowned. "Who are you? Do I know you from somewhere?"

In a blur, Kassandra was gone. She blurred out of the apartment, leaving her purse and clothes inside. She was only wearing Elijah's shirt, but she didn't stop to grab hers. She had to get out of there, and so she did.

Kol sighed. Of course Elijah would attract the weird ones.

~SYH~

Rebekah sighed as she checked the caller ID of her ringing phone, before answering it. "What do you want, Kol?" she asked irritably, taking a sip from the drink in her hand.

"Elijah has a lover in the city."

Rebekah coughed, spitting out the water in her mouth. "What?" She asked, eyes wide. "What on earth are you talking about, Kol?"

"Elijah-our brother- has a lover in New York City," Kol repeated quite calmly.

"Hold on," Rebekah said, eyes wide. She pulled her phone away from her ear and began marching down the hallway. "Nik! You need to hear this!"

"What, Rebekah?" he was in the living room, painting something with dark, thick paints. "I'm busy right now."

"Elijah has a lover in New York City," she said in disbelief, putting Kol on speaker phone.

Klaus' nose wrinkled. "I never want to hear 'Elijah' and 'lover' in the same sentence ever again," he said with disgust.

Rebekah looked at her brother, clearly disappointed at his lack of reaction. "Did you not hear me, Nik? Elijah has a lover. Elijah, our Elijah. The moral, responsible, honorable brother has a lover for God's sake!" she exclaimed.

Klaus rolled his eyes. "This is Elijah we're talking about, sister. The day he has the lover is the day hell freezes over."

"Well, it must be chilly down there, Nik, because I stopped by Elijah's apartment this morning, and there was a very sexy woman there wearing only his shirt. Now, if he didn't sleep with her, I'm disowning him," Kol said.

Klaus frowned. "I don't believe it," he murmured to himself, setting his paintbrush down.

"Believe it, brother. Our Elijah is growing up," Kol said with a smirk that Rebekah and Klaus couldn't see.

"I can't believe he's off sleeping with trollops when we're still connected," Rebekah grumbled. "Esther and Finn are still out there, and he's sleeping with whores!"

"I wonder if he paid her," Klaus mused.

"That's not all," Kol said. "I called him a few days ago at seven in the morning, and he was drunk."

This seemed to shock Rebekah and Klaus almost as much as the news of Elijah's lover. "What?" Rebekah exclaimed. "But Elijah's never drunk, let alone in the morning!"

"Being daggered must have messed with his head," Klaus said, shaking his head.

"Or given him an entire personality makeover," Rebekah said, still completely confused.

"I like this new Elijah," Kol stated. "He's entertaining. He's drunk in the mornings and likes having sex with attractive women. He is someone I can be friends with."

"Well, I don't like it," Rebekah snapped. "This is not the time for Elijah to go running off to New York and having fun."

"Relax, Bekah. Just because-"

"Enough, you two," Klaus said, before Kol could insult Rebekah, and they would get into a fight over the phone. "Rebekah's right."

Rebekah smirked at the phone, and Kol could be heard sighing. He hated it when Rebekah was right.

"Elijah will have to get his priorities straight. We still have to find a witch to break the spell Esther cast on all of us. And then we have to find her and find a way to kill her, so that she will stop trying to kill us," he said, turning back to his painting.

"Exactly," Rebekah said, though her smugness had left at the mention of killing their mother.

"But, until then, why not let Elijah have his lover in the city? I quite like this new Elijah. He's entertaining," Klaus said with a slight smirk. "That means no intervention for our big brother, Rebekah."

"But-" Rebekah started to say, getting cut off by Kol.

"I told you so, Bekah!" he said smugly.

"Shut up, Kol!" she growled, throwing her phone against the wall. It smashed into pieces.

Klaus chuckled as Rebekah marched away, mumbling about Elijah's new personality. Then he returned his attention back to his painting, like the last three minutes hadn't happened.

~SYH~

Kassandra pounded on Ruby's front door, tugging on her shirt. Ruby's creepy old neighbor downstairs- Mr. Walsh- had given her creepy looks in the elevator. She looked like she had been doing the walk of shame- which she had been.

"What the hell, Kass? It's too early for this shit!"

The door opened to reveal Ruby in short shorts and a tank top, her black hair pulled up on top of her head. Her eyes widened at the sight of Kassandra's outfit, as she pushed her way past the witch and plopped down on the battered futon in her living room.

"How'd you it was me?" she asked curiously as Ruby sat down across from her.

She shrugged. "You're my only friend," she replied simply.

It sounded sad, but it was the truth. It was sort of like with Tatia, all those years ago. They were only friends because they had no one else. Only this time, Kassandra genuinely liked Ruby.

"Now, would you like to explain your outfit?" Ruby said, giving her shirt a pointed look.

Kassandra looked down at her clothes. "Oh, yeah. Right. I'm gonna need to borrow some clothes," she said.

"Fine, just tell me why you're basically naked!" Ruby exclaimed, impatient.

"Oh," Kassandra said, as if she had forgotten all about what had happened. "Yeah, Elijah and I had sex last night, and then his brother Kol showed up this morning and I had to make a quick escape, so I left my clothes at his place."

"You did what?"

Ruby practically jumped on top of Kassandra. The vampire groaned. "Get off of me, you goof," she said pushing the witch off of her.

"Details, bitch. I need details!" she exclaimed.

"Can I tell you tonight, at work? I just really wanna go home and take a bath, but I need clothes to do that," Kassandra said.

"Do you wanna take one with Elijah? You won't need clothes for that." Ruby smirked and wagged her eyebrows.

Kassandra rolled her eyes and stood up. "I'm just going to go raid your closet, okay Rube?"

"Kass?" Ruby called suddenly, causing her to stop walking.

"Yeah?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Was it any good?" she asked with curiosity.

Fuck yes. It was fucking amazing, she thought. But then she just shrugged. "Okay. I've had worse sex in my life."

Ruby rolled her eyes. "Whatever, Kass. You know he rocked your world with his original vampire sex god moves."

"Yeah, I know," she replied casually, before walking out of the room.

~SYH~

Kassandra unlocked her apartment door, wearing a pair of Ruby's jeans, her tank top, and then Elijah's shirt over it. She thought that she would keep it- she liked wearing it.

The instant Kassandra stepped into the apartment, she felt like something was off. She felt like… there was something or someone in her apartment. Frowning, she took careful steps into her apartment, shutting the door behind her. She tossed her keys on the table next to the door, her eyes scanning for any threat.

As soon as Kassandra walked into her living room, she saw the threat. She stopped walking, and stiffened at the people in her apartment.

"Kassandra," Esther said calmly, Finn standing behind her, silent but ready to protect his mother if necessary. "I need your help."

~SYH~

A/N: thank you to: DTaylor201989, Lady Wesker, SomebodyWhoCares, CherrySin, Katherine Sparrow, and Samantha meyers for reviewing!

~Abby :)