Chapter 9: Another Day, another School
[Isa's POV]
Monday she drives to Mystic Falls High School, Stefan follows her for her first day. They arrive early before the first bell. He shows her the office so she can pick up her schedule. She breathes a sigh of relief; PE is not required for seniors. She is cleared for her last class to be study hall in the library. Stefan escorts her to her first class. She is the center of attention yet again. Just a few weeks to graduation, she just has to complete her state and local history classes and put her hours in and she will graduate. She is doing this so Renee and Charlie can watch her graduate from High School. During lunch Charlie calls. He is scheduled to be at graduation, along with Renee and Phil.
Her reactions to the new school are different. This time school is a cover to protect her new family. She is friendly to her fellow class mates. She joins the Mystic Falls gang midday in the lunch room. She tells them her story the non-supernatural one, while they munch on pizza. She tells them her dad is the Chief of Police in a small town in Washington State. Caroline is thrilled to have something in common with Isa. She exchanges a few stories about Charlie with Caroline. Caroline tells her more about her mom.
Bonnie got weird vibes from her handshake with Isa and doesn't trust her. She consulted the spirits after their meeting at the Grill, they won't say what Isa is only Bonnie is not to touch Isa and not supposed to use magic spells on Isa, including scrying.
Alaric is her history teacher and he asks her to stop by his classroom after school. Before class he hands her a list of make up history assignments for both State and District requirements for graduation. He hands her a sheet of topics on the history of Mystic Falls for the District requirements. She can write on any of the topics listed.
All of her classes are standard college prep, she has makeup assignments for each subject. She is glad that her last class is study hall in the library.
Isa chats with Alaric after school. He thinks she should know as much as possible about the supernatural in Mystic Falls since she is rooming with Stefan and Damon Salvatore. He suggests using the Salvatore personal library for some of her history topic research. They have family diaries dating before the Civil War.
Stefan told him about her encounters with Cold Ones. Alaric is curious about them and asks her a few questions. For her safety he wants her to understand the dangers of the werewolves and their version of vampires. She learns that he is a Vampire Hunter and he fills her in on some of the supernatural history of Mystic Falls. He gives her a vervain necklace so that she can't be compelled. Then he gives her a vial of wolfsbane. Can this town get any weirder?
Alaric tells her about his former wife Isobel and the research in her office at Duke. If she wants to research a history topic or the supernatural more in depth, he has the keys to her office. Mystic Falls seems to be the capital of the supernatural world and she thought Forks was bad.
The rest of the school week goes pretty smoothly. Some of the newness from her being the new student has worn off. The classwork is easy. She just has to skim over the textbooks so homework is a breeze.
[Elijah's POV]
He misses his wife. He knows she is safe. He has been searching for the hiding place of the family coffins that Niklaus recently implied were at the bottom of the ocean. He will skin his brother alive and mount the pelt if he has done so. His cell chimes with Isa's ring tone. She calls and wants to be with him. He is looking forward to her being in his arms again.
[Isa's POV]
I wake up to a beautiful Saturday morning, the sun is shining. I can really appreciate it, living in Forks seeing the sun is rare. I am caught up in all my class assignments for the following week. I reach for my phone I really want to see my husband.
He answers on the first ring. "Elijah can I come see you?"
"I am at Richmond estate, I'll see you soon."
[Elijah's POV]
Isa's car approaches. He is at the car as soon as it stops, opening the door for her so he can pull her quickly into a tight embrace. God she feels so good in his arms. They tangle in the sheets for a few hours exchanging blood and enjoying their physical time together. Elijah senses a change in his mates scent. "Isa, is it possible you could be pregnant?"
She blinks at him, "I'm not sure if it's possible. Why?"
"Your scent has changed. You still have the scent of my blood, but there is another scent I don't recognize."
"I'll pick up a pregnancy test before I get back to the boarding house. Something else is bothering you. Do you want to talk about it?"
Elijah sighs. "Niklaus and I are fighting again. He has daggered all of our existing siblings over a period of time. I am the only one undaggered. This time he alludes that he tossed them into the ocean, so that I won't find them to undagger them."
She blinks at him. "What does he accomplish by daggering your siblings? What happens when you take out the daggers?"
"It is Niklaus' way to subdue us until it is safe for us to join our family again. A magical dagger dipped in the ancient white oak tree ashes, inserted into our heart will subdue us but will not kill us. He places our bodies in coffins so that when he has to move he takes the caskets with him."
"What would make him dagger your siblings? Why would he need to subdue them?"
He softly groans. "Niklaus believes he is protecting our family from Mikael our Vampire Hunter Father. If our feeding gets out of control or we are too destructive both of which draws public attention he can find us. If our father has a locator spell he can find us to kill us. Niklaus' usual trick is to move the caskets whenever he relocates to another area."
"You have one weird ass family. I thought other people had problems with their families; you have the best story yet. If you say that he does this to keep you safe then I don't think they are very far from him. They are definitely not at the bottom of the ocean. That would be too far out of his control. By the way I think I actually met Niklaus."
Elijah just blinks at me. "You think you met him?"
"I was sitting in the garden in the late afternoon on the day I moved into the boarding house. There was a greyish white wolf with golden eyes staring at me from the woods. He let me get close enough to pet him. I believed that it was Niklaus, so I told him that it would be nice to meet him in person. Then the wolf left."
Elijah is so stunned, not sure if he should yell at her for being near a wild animal or take her word that it was his brother."
"If he is curious enough to check me out, then I don't think he is too far away from your siblings. If you want I can check with Marie and see what she has to say."
He hugs her tightly. "Please be careful, I can't stand the thought of you being hurt."
They make love one more time in bed and enjoy a slippery round of shower sex together before she needs to return to Mystic Falls.
[Isa's POV]
That evening when she returns to the boarding house, she runs into Damon getting a drink from the living room bar. Isa tells him she ran to the drugstore to get some feminine products, showing him the bag. He wishes her a good night.
Isa pulls out the one of the test strips and heads into her private bathroom. She takes the test and waits the few minutes required. She isn't sure if she wants to know, but Elijah does so she glances at the results. There is a positive sign. She blinks. She will have to schedule a doctor's appointment soon. She decides to tell Elijah after she sees the doctor. Heading into the kitchen to get a glass of orange juice, without thinking she tosses the test into the garbage.
[Stefan's POV]
Early Monday morning Stefan takes the kitchen garbage to the outside bin. A little stick falls out as he is trying to tie the bag. He sees that it is a positive pregnancy test. He wraps it up in a paper towel and tosses back in the bag. He wonders about who could be pregnant.
[Isa's POV|
After school on Monday she gets a call from Charlie. Ben Cheney was killed in Seattle while touring the University of Washington campus a few days ago. Then another tragedy, Angela's folks and twin brothers were killed in a freak accident. It involved a jack-knifed logging truck that lost its load crushing the Weber's car when they were leaving Ben's funeral. He believes she needs a change of scenery. Isa agrees. She calls Angela and gets her to agree to come to stay with her in Mystic Falls. She informs Stefan and Damon that she has a friend that needs to stay with her for a while, she tells them Angela's story and they agree to let her board with Isa. They move another bed into Isa's room.
Isa calls Elijah and tells him Angela's story. He arranges for his valet service to pick Angela up and take her to the airport to board his private jet to bring Angela from Seattle to Richmond tomorrow. Her flight will land midafternoon.
Isa tells him that Stefan and Damon have agreed to let Angela stay with her at the boarding house, and she will drive to Richmond to pick her friend up tomorrow after school lets out. He makes her promise for them to have dinner with him before they drive back to Mystic falls.
She also promises him she will drive back to Richmond on Friday Night and spend the weekend with him. They may have to share their weekend with Angela. They will make plans later in the week. Elijah has been so good to her and now extending that caring for her friend. How did she get so lucky?