The prompt for this chapter is:"Let's move on to pumpkin carvings."
Caroline's hosting a small get together, why she insisted Elena invite Elijah is beyond her. Maybe so they can suffer together, she thinks as Caroline announces the change of location.
"What are we doing now?" Klaus asks.
"We are moving onto pumpkin carving!" Caroline announces with a grin. Elena wants to whisper to Elijah like she does at parties where they're surrounded by humans, where he's the only vampire to hear her whispers but refrains. Caroline will hear her sarcastic comment, and she doesn't want to hurt the blonde's feelings.
So they sit next to each other and Elena attempts to cut the outline of a book, not piercing the pumpkin.
Elijah's written something in in a language she doesn't understand, and when Finn walks by, he laughs.
"What?" She can't help but ask.
"I'll tell you later." He whispers near her ear. Klaus walks by and laughs, and when his eyes flicker to Elijah's then Caroline's, Elijah shakes his head slightly. Elena wouldn't have caught it if she hadn't been watching closely.
Klaus lets out a disappointed sigh and continues walking. He won't tell Caroline that Elijah wrote he didn't understand the point of pumpkin carving in the first language they ever learned.
When he tells Elena before he drops her off at home, she laughs and he gives her a smirk in return.
"Goodnight, Elena." He says and she smiles at him.
"Goodnight Elijah." She says, before shutting her front door.