AN: Oooh, some of you really want Adriana to smack Elijah, but don't worry *evil laugh* it will come, it will come...

This chapter was half inspired by Jurassic World (I don't own that either) and is mainly set to inform you of the dynamics between Adriana and the other Mikaelsons. Enjoy!

You Don't Run In Heels

In which the curse is lifted

Adriana dug through the attic, knowing she had put it around here somewhere. After several boxes of failure, her eyes caught something on one of the few shelves, walking closer with narrowed eyes, she picked it up. Smiling when she saw what it was.

Bingo.

"And where do I fit into it?"

That was what Adriana heard when she strolled into the boarding house the next morning, holding a small wooden box in her even smaller hands.

"That's where this little thing comes in." She called, holding the box in the air with a smirk. "Look what I found in the dusty corners of our attic. You're very much welcome."

"Thank you, Adriana." Elijah smiled, taking the box away from her. "Klaus must drink the blood of the doppelganger, to the point of your death."

Stefan took Elena's hand to offer some comfort, while Damon looked at her. Adriana couldn't help it, her eyes searched the three seeing the obvious, and sickening, love triangle that was forming.

Five points to Adriana, called it before it even happened.

"And that's where you come in." Elena confirmed, staring at the now open box.

"This is an elixir that I acquired some five hundred years ago for Katerina. It possesses the mystical properties of resuscitation." Elijah explained.

"So I'll be dead?" Elena asked nervously, looking between the two of them.

"And then you won't." Elijah confirmed, nodding his head slightly.

"But yes doppelganger, that's what the word resurrection means. I thought you knew this." Adriana drawled out, calmly checking her nails in boredom.

"That's your plan? A magical witch potion with no expiration date?" Damon said, not sounding very reassured, looking at Elena for confirmation. "You want to come back to life, what about John's ring?"

"Those rings only work on humans. The doppelgangers a supernatural occurrence." Elijah pointed out, trying to ease the conversation.

"Odds are, sweetheart, the ring won't save your petty life." Adriana continued, not looking up from her nails. "Unfortunately."

"I'll take those odds over your elixir." Damon said, not even looking at them while he spoke. "What if it doesn't work, Elena?"

"Then I guess I'll just be dead." Elena stated, not backing down from her decision.

Damon looked at Stefan, obviously trying to seek support, all her got was an unhelpful shrug. With one last glance at Elijah and Adriana, he left the room.

"Do we know if Klaus has everything he needs to do this?" Elena asked, breaking the breif silence. "Does he have a werewolf?"

"Klaus has been waiting to break this curse for over a thousand years. If he doesn't already have a werewolf, my guess is by tonight, he will."

"Well done, Elijah." Adriana scoffed, clapping her hands together to form a small applause. "Great way to make her feel better."

Elena joined them in the library, several minutes later.

"You'd think he'd understand why I'm willing to do this." She sighed, touching the elixir bottle and lifting it upright.

"Why are you?" Elijah questioned, walking to stand next to Adriana, who was still leaning on the table.

"I'm the key to breaking the curse." Elena stated, Adriana rolling her eyes with how pompous she sounded. "Klaus is here because of me. If I don't stop him, then he's going to hurt people. It's that simple."

"You know, there's a possibility this elixir won't work." Elijah pointed out, seeing the fault in their plan. "I don't want to mislead you."

"I know the chance I'm taking."

"You have too, sugar." Adriana spoke up. "And what in Olympus is going on by the front door? Did someone order pizza?"

They all exchanged a look, Adriana quickly walking ahead with Elena and Elijah close behind.

"Get out!" Jenna screamed, pointing a crossbow at Alaric.

"Wow." Adriana breathed, walking into the room. "Well this is a sight you don't see everyday. Somebody bring out the popcorn, this should be good."

As usual, she was ignored.

What was with everyone and ignoring her lately? Did she miss some very important memo?

"Jenna, Jenna!" Alaric shouted, holding his hands in the air.

"Get out!" Jenna screamed again, lifting the crossbow higher.

"Jenna, put the crossbow down, okay? It's me." Alaric tried to reassure, stepping forward slightly.

"Stay away from me." Jenna cried, stepping back. Elena, Stefan, Damon and Elijah joining them

"What's going on?" Elena asked, walking in.

"What did you do Adriana?" Elijah sighed, standing next to her.

"Nothing." Adriana smiled cheekily. "I'm not to blame this time, surprising I know."

"It's me, Elena." Alaric begged, turning Elena "I swear, okay? He let me go. Klaus let me go."

"Prove it." Damon stated firmly, Alaric turned to look at Jenna.

"Okay, uh, first night you and I spent together, Jeremy walked in right when I was about to..." Alaric trailed off.

"Okay, it's him." Jenna interrupted, a light blush coating her cheeks.

"Aw." Adriana pouted, watching Jenna lower the crossbow. "But I want to know."

"Why did he let you go?" Stefan asked.

"He wanted me to deliver a message." Alaric informed, walking forward. "The sacrifice happens tonight."

"Well, duh. We knew that already." Adriana sneered, turning to Elijah. "He's grown really stupid without us Elijah, thicker than two planks of wood his head must be. Rather inflated as well."

"For once Adriana, I don't believe you're wrong."

"Oi! I'm never wrong, thank you very much."

Adriana and Elijah stood in the library, having returned there when it was confirmed Alaric was not Klaus, listen as sounds of commotion erupted outside the door.

"Well that renders the cure useless." Elijah sighed, glancing at Adriana. "It won't work with the blood in her system."

"Idiots" Adriana muttered, staring at the door. "I swear, I'm surrounded by idiots."

"Would you like to rephrase that Adriana?" Elijah asked gently, walking to her but not taking his eyes off the door.

"Why? It's true." Adriana exclaimed, straightening up when Damon walked in. "Well, well, well. Look what the kitty dragged in."

"Well, it sounds like you won't be needing this anymore. Feeding her vampire blood rendered it useless. Tell Elena I'll be back before nightfall. We'll proceed as planned." Elijah said, stepping forward and closing the box that held the vial.

"Well done, Salvatore." Adriana said patronisingly. "You just made your own life hell."

"We both know that elixir wouldn't have worked anyway." Damon huffed,

"The problem, Damon: you talk a good game but you don't actually know anything." Elijah said, hitting Damon with the hard truth. "She'll never forgive you. And never for a vampire. It's a very long time."

"And the best part?" Adriana breathed, getting into his face. "We had nothing to do with your escapade, nor did anyone else in fact. This is your fault Salvatore, how long is it going to take before you get to terms with that?"

They left him standing there, rethinking his impulsive actions.

Adriana stood alone in the tree, staring blankly at the full moon infront of her.

Klaus had been driven insane, trying to break this curse, that much was obvious.

Adriana had never understood his attachment to it, over the moments in history it appeared he had forgotten, it was peace. Adriana remembered the moment Elijah had severed all ties to his brother, it had deeply upset her to see him like that, the letter that stated all the siblings were dead, buried at sea.

The goal to destroy Klaus had driven Elijah insane.

What drove Adriana to madness? Watching the family she had grown to love tear apart piece by piece.

It was upsetting, to just stand and watch as the family tore itself to death from the inside out.

She missed Kol and Rebekah the most.

Kol, constantly turning up on her doorstep from out of nowhere and searching for a place to hide. Sometimes it was just from a harmless prank, sometimes I was more serious.

She always let him stay, giving him a lecture about how he couldn't just turn up there. He'd stay there for days, sometimes weeks until he thought it had burned over.

Rebekah, also appearing out of nowhere when she was fed up with her overbearing brothers. Sobbing on Adriana's shoulder when she lost yet another lover.

She remembered vividly when it once got so bad that she had shouted and criticised Elijah, Klaus and Kol for it, saying that they should let their sister have even the tiniest bit of freedom.

They had the right to look slightly ashamed.

Adriana Mafiay stomped through the Manor, throwing the grand doors open with a loud bash, smoke pratically coming out of her ears.

"Elijah, Niklaus, and Kol. Get your sorry, arrogant persona down here! Now!"

"Why Adriana?" Kol asked, sauntering into the room with a wine glass of thick, red blood. "Whatever did we do?"

"Yes, do tell Adriana." Klaus grumbled, following in after his younger brother, taking a seat on the table. "You just ruined my painting with that screeching of yours."

"Adriana!" Elijah exclaimed, blurring into the room. "What has happened? Are you hurt?"

"Yes, I'm hurt. By all of your arrogant behaviour." Adriana snapped, shoving him into a seat. "You too Kol, sit down."

"I'm good, darling." Kol said, raising his glass.

"Kol Mikaelson." Adriana seethed, pointing to the empty chair. "Sit down. NOW!"

Raising an eyebrow, Kol sat down, kicking up his feet to rest on the table.

"Now," Adriana breathed, still standing and resting her hands on the table. "Will one of you explain why I have been dealing with your sobbing, heartbroken sister since the early hours of this morning?"

"Because our loving sister has, once again, devised a plan with her lover to run away." Klaus stated, relaxing into his seat. "So we did what any loving elder brother would do, we threw him down the stairs."

"Oh really?" Adriana drawled, crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow. "But by the way my poor maids found him at the crack of dawn, he was long dead before he took the tumble down my very clean staircase."

"Adriana-" Elijah tried to ease, only to be interrupted by Adriana.

"You, Elijah Mikaelson, hush. I can't be bothered to deal with you right now."

Kol snickered into his glass, his smirk growing wider when her stormy eyes fell on him.

"Kol. Care to explain?"

"Splendidly." Kol smirked, setting down his glass. "We may, or may not, give him a few pleasant going away gifts."

"You and Klaus, I can expect. But you Elijah?" Adriana asked, whipping her head around to face a nervous looking Elijah. "What did that poor boy do to you?"

"He was planning on taking you too." Elijah mumbled under his breath, fidgeting with his fingers.

"Seriously?" Adriana huffed, looking each brother in the eye. "You're lucky I convinced your sister that this is all an unfortunate accident."

"Well, that's lucky." Klaus said, standing up. "Can we go now? I have a masterpiece to fix."

"Hold it." Adriana snapped, raising a hand in the air. "I suspect you to do some serious grovelling to earn your sisters forgiveness. And, as my own punishment, remember the glasses turned up on your bedside?"

Each brother paled slightly, remembering the glass of blood they had drained without question.

Adriana smirked, taking pleasure in their reactions.

"You may not have noticed, but it was laced with a potion I got from a very lovely warlock. It's amazing what you can get by playing the damsel in distress. The potion basically slowly shuts off your internal organs. It will not kill you, unfortunately, but it will however render you into a rather uncomfortable paralysis once it touches your heart."

"Why isn't it effecting you?" Elijah asked, leaning forward in his seat.

"He gave me the antidote, that just affected me, rather clever he was." Adriana grinned, tilting her head. "And, oh, look at the time. It should have reached your heart by right about, now."

As soon as she finished her sentence, they all slumped, Klaus hitting the table head first, Kol rolling to the floor, banging his head on the way down, and Elijah's chair colliding to the floor whe his whole weight slumped back.

"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you get revenge." Adriana smiled, rotating on her heel and sashaying out of the room, not bothering to close the doors on her way out. "I've been wanting for an excuse to use that potion for decades."

She missed moments like that, Rebekah complaining about her brothers, Kol going off doing some killing spree, Klaus and his eternal threats to dagger them, Elijah giving lecture after lecture about revealing their existence.

And there, calming the situation from becoming dangerous, there was Adriana. Talking to Rebekah, warning Kol not to get blood on her carpet when he passed by, reminding Klaus that it was technically his fault that the situation got out of hand, rolling her eyes at Elijah when he got to serious.

Even Finn, from the few times she spoke to him, had a huge impact on Adriana's life. When she was human, and one of the head maids, she would knock on his door every morning and ask him to come down for breakfast. When he declined, she would bring him a tray of fresh berries, place it on his bedside, make sure he was fine for the rest of the day then leave.

She remembered the handful of times he actually did come down for breakfast, or any meal, he had always been kind to her. Exchanging several words as she escorted him down. He would always ask how she was, his looks of pity had always confused her at the time.

He got better when he had Sage, no matter how much of a rude tramp she was.

They didn't now, Finn had always valued humanity, thinking he had lost his. She supposed he valued hers, her naïve ignorance of the true workings of the family.

She missed them though, missed how they were when there wasn't any family drama. The Mikaelsons brought a new meaning to the term family, they stuck together, no matter what.

And it upset her to see them so broken.

"Adriana!" A voice called up to her. "Adriana, come down!"

"Why, Elijah." Adriana called down to him. "How ever did you know it was me?"

"Only you would wear heels that large, yet still appear tiny." Elijah said, crossing his arms and staring up to her. "Now come down! Klaus will be transforming any second."

"So demanding." Adriana muttered, landing in a crouch when she jumped from the tree. "Happy now?"

"Ecstatic." Elijah said sarcastically, watching as the last parts off the ritual took place below them. "It's almost time."

"So you're really going to do it?" Adriana asked, following the events below her with a scrutinising eye. "Murder your own brother?"

"Yes." Elijah stated, not looking away from the ritual. "For our family."

"When was I included in your insane family?" Adriana asked, turning her head to him

"The minute Rebekah started running to you, when we upset her too much." Elijah stated, narrowing his eyes at Klaus.

"It's such a shame really." Adriana sighed, her eyes wandering to Jenna's dead body. "I actually liked her."

"You can mope about you minimal friendships later, Adriana." Elijah said, of using on his brother as he started transforming. "It's time."

He kicked off, blurring towards heart off this chaos before she could say anything.

"Oh, the joy." She muttered sarcastically to herself. Still say it would have been easier to just stab him."

She followed him, regretfully, but she did all the same.

Bonnie stopped chanting when they appeared, Adriana mere seconds behind Elijah.

"Elijah?" Klaus gasped from where he lay on the ground.

"Hello, brother." Elijah stated, punching his arm into Klaus' chest, grabbing his heart in a tight grip.

"I'm here too." Adriana waved, stepping out from behind Elijah. "If anyone's bothered."

"In the name of our family, Niklaus..." Elijah trailed off, twisting Klaus's heart.

"I didn't bury them at sea!" Klaus shouted out, gasping in pain.

"Oh please." Adriana spat, rolling her eyes dramatically. "Enough with the speeches, can we just get this over with."

"What?" Elijah asked, relaxing his grip slightly.

"Their bodies are safe." Klaus pleaded. "If you kill me, you'll never find them."

"Elijah!" Stefan shouted. "Don't listen to him."

"Elijah, Adri. I can take you to them. I give you my word; brother." Klaus said, the last word putting the metaphorical icing on the metaphorical cake.

"Wait." Adriana called out, holding her hands in the air. "I'm confused. Who's side are we on now?"

A conflicted look entered Elijah's eyes. Having second thoughts on killing his brother. They were family, and Elijah valued family above all else, no matter how much he had to sacrifice for it.

"Do it, and I'll take you all out." Bonnie stated, fully prepared to do it.

"You'll die." Elijah said, turning to the witch.

"I don't care." Bonnie spat, magic crackling around her as she said this.

"You're digging your own grave, witch." Adriana shouted, stepping forward. "Doing that will tear you apart from the inside out."

Elijah looked down at Klaus, then back up to Bonnie and Stefan.

"I'm sorry." Elijah muttered, glancing at Adriana as he said this.

Stefan and Bonnie ran forward screaming their protest, but it was too late. Elijah and Klaus had disappeared.

"So," Adriana said loudly, spinning around in a circle to face the two. "I guess that means we're the bad guys now." She clapped her hands together, pointing towards the direction Klaus and Elijah had gone in. "Honestly, this family is going to give me a migraine." She smiled, blowing a kiss in their dumbfounded position as she calmly walked backwards. "I'll be off. Bye, bye witchy. Bye, bye Salvatore."

She disappeared, the only evidence she was ever there was a pair of platform heels set neatly in the dirt.

Because running in heels is for idiots.

Especially when those heels were expensive.