A GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE
Fan Fiction sequel of: "A gentleman and his mistress"
From: Lovely Vero
Chapter 11
"All aboard the ship…"
Previously on: A gentleman and his wife…
"The location is not the problem; the "time" is the problem." Elijah responded.
"What do you mean the "time" is the problem?" Katherine asked, while opening her arms and shaking her head in disbelief. "Is there a time limit to find the missing coffins?"
"No, you don't understand, Katherine. There is no time limit to find them. The "time" is the problem because we are as of now living in the wrong year of their location. The missing coffins can't be found in the present, the coffins can only be found in the past, in the year: 1494." Elijah responded to the speechless audience placed in front of his sight. "And that is why I need you to send us back in the past, Charles."
A death silence filled the room for the time space of a few minutes, only disturbed by the chirping of a few birds placed on the ledge above the windows.
"Well…" Charles finally replied, with sarcasm. "I don't see why not? It seems to be a rather simple spell to make for a warlock. I just need to make you travel back in time, centuries ago. Do you need me to make an additional spell for you, like let say, making you the "King of the Universe" at the same time, Master Elijah? I don't see why I could not achieve both spells at the same time?" He added this question, while tilting his head and crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Is this sarcasm and humor I hear coming from you, Charles?" Elijah mocked. "I perfectly know that this spell seems a lot to ask of you, but it is the only chance that I have to find my family again." Elijah replied, with a more serious tone of voice.
"It seems a lot, really?" Charles repeated, while pacing back and forth. "It's the most ludicrous idea that I've heard in my entire life!" He exclaimed, while gesturing with his hands and arms. "And not to mention, it is also the most dangerous spell to perform, and also almost impossible to achieve."
"You just said it is almost impossible. But you did not say: absolutely impossible?" Elijah smirked, while raising an eyebrow.
"Don't put words into my mouth, son." Charles responded, while waving a finger at him.
Katherine reached Elijah's standing position, before grabbing his right arm, and drowning her sight in his.
"Do you really want to go back in time, into the worst period of our life?" She asked him, before taking a quick glimpse at Finn, who'd turned his gaze away to avoid hers.
"I've met the woman that I fell in love with at that time, how could it be the worst period of my life, Katerina?" Elijah replied, while grabbing her chin to raise her sight into his. "We'll do as I please, don't discuss my say or my orders."
Katherine stepped away from Elijah, before turning on herself and take a few walking steps to reach the window, while drowning her sight into the garden. There was no need to discuss with Elijah when he was in this particular state of mind.
"Master Elijah isn't it taking an enormous chance to see Charles gambling his warlock power and life while performing this unique spell." Elizabeth asked, while rubbing her hands nervously together.
"I thought long and hard about that fact, Elizabeth. I know that he can't go against the law of nature. That is why Charles needs to stay here with you, especially in your pregnant conditions." Elijah replied, while nodding his head.
"Did I say that I could perform this spell?" Charles objected, while shaking his head.
"Oh… Just stop you incessant bubbling, Charles, I know you can!" Elijah replied, teasing. "It will put another star in your book of warlock achievements."
"Is this true? Can you perform that specific "back in time" spell, Charles?" Elizabeth asked, worried.
"I've never performed such a powerful spell, my dear, but I've heard about it." Charles responded; both of his hands firmly placed on each side of his waist.
"We need to go back at a specific period of time." Finn added, while getting out of the room penumbra, before walking toward Charles's standing position. "Would it be possible for you?"
"It "could" work, and I emphasize on the "could" word. But, I couldn't guarantee the exact date, or neither the exact emplacement. But, I could probably send you back into the exact year." Charles started explaining. "Just know that a long list of loopholes is to be taken into extreme consideration with this kind of spell."
"What time is that exactly?" Elizabeth asked.
"It's in 1494, aboard the Princess Ship." Katherine replied, from her position in front of the window, before turning her sight toward Finn's. "Am I right?" She asked him.
"Yes." He replied to Katherine, while nodding his head, with his fiery sight lost in hers.
1494, the Princess ship…When and Where Finn had falling in love with Katerina Petrova… Or was it Katherine Pierce, the name she was calling herself then? Which of these two women was she for him?
Princess Ship, 1494
Katherine wiped her forehead of little drops of sweat that were running down her face. She soaked the brush back into the bucket filled with soap and water. Her knees were killing her; she had been scrubbing the cabin floor of this ship since a good two hours, now. The dirt had seeped into the corners of the wooden planks, but the Captain wanted his private quarter to be impeccably clean.
She heard his chewing noise in her ears, while closing her fists in anger. He was cutting an apple with his dagger, while bringing the juicy pieces near his mouth. Devil man that he was!
She was famished for both blood and real food. But a deal between them had been made: "You'll be my servant, while attending every of my needs and wishes, and in return I'll grace you of your vampire life aboard my ship."
Unfortunately, and since there were still several days of travelling at sea, she had no other choice but to oblige to this cave man demands.
"I think you've missed a spot near the porthole, my lady." He mocked, while grabbing a brass cup filled with wine, before raising his feet on the table.
"Go to hell!" She replied, yelling, while throwing the brush in the bucket, in a splash of water. "I'm tired, I'm famished, and I won't scrub your damn dirty floor anymore, unless you are giving me blood." She warned him, her closed fists firmly placed on each side of her hips.
She was wearing a pair of man pants, their bottoms entered inside a pair of high leather boots, a man shirt with the sleeves rolled on her forearms, that was covering her feminine curves to the men's eyes. Her hair was in a bun, with strands falling freely around her angelic face. Strangely enough, she was even sexier dressed this way, thought Finn, while sliding his sight on her.
"Well, I could grant you a pause and a few drops of blood." He replied, amused, while pushing a cup on the table, toward her. "Come, I won't bite." He added, while crossing his arms over his chest.
She approached the table, before grabbing her pittance and rapidly gulping its content.
"You see, I can be quite nice to my favorite slave." Finn added, while twisting the corners of his lips into a smile.
"I'm not your slave." Katherine replied, while narrowing her sight on him. "And I'm certainly nobody's property." She affirmed, with a raised chin.
"And what are you exactly, if you are not my slave? What is your name, my lady?" He asked, with a raised eyebrow. "You care to join me? You want to sit? Would you care for an apple?"
"Is it poisoned?" She asked, before taking a sitting position, while facing him at the table.
Finn lowered his head, before bursting into laughter.
"If I had wanted to kill you, beautiful, you'll be at the bottom of the ocean by now." He responded, before handing an apple to her.
She grabbed the fruit, before biting full teeth into it.
"Do I deserve to know your name?" He asked, curious.
"Do you have a female name that you're fantasizing about?" She replied, maliciously.
"Yours" He replied, tit for tat, a smile blessing his lips.
"Let say my name is …." She started, before finishing. "… Katherine."
"Does Katherine have a last name to give?" He demanded.
"Katherine Pierce." She responded; her sight lost in his.
"Katherine Pierce." He whispered the name on his lips, sensually, languorously, to savour the sound in his mind. "I like it" He smiled, before adding. "Though, I don't believe it is your birth name."
"Does it matter?" She replied, while shrugging her shoulders.
"No, it doesn't. I only presumed that it's the vampire name that you've just decided to give yourself." He added, while shrugging his shoulders. "When did you turn?"
"Not of your concerns?" She replied, dryly.
"I'm just bored on this ship." He replied, smirking. "I need entertainment, give me this pleasure, would you?"
"Two years…" She blushed, and finally responded. "It's been two years since I've turned."
"You're a baby vampire." He murmured, while losing his smile. "And you hate it, don't you?"
"It's not of your business what I feel or not about my vampirism, Captain." She replied, slyly.
"You wish that you could redo the moment that you wake up as one." He added, in a more serious tone of voice. "You probably did it in spite of your good judgement, only for a bigger reason than yourself and your obvious need to die."
"Stop it!" She mumbled, angrily, between her teeth, while rising on her legs. "Thank you for the blood and the apple." She added, before turning on her heels, and walking toward the bucket of water, while taking her kneeling position back on the cabin floor.
She heard him push his chair under the table, before hearing his boots' steps reach the cabin door.
"Katherine?" He called her, in a murmur.
She kept her sight on the floor, while immobilizing all her movements.
"I hate it too." He confessed to her. "I mean, I hate to be a vampire, and I wish I could redo everything, and be human again."
Surprised by his admission, she turned her head to take a glimpse at Finn, but he had already left the cabin.
Present time …
Katherine kept her sight in Finn's for an additional minute, lost in the memories of another time and place….Before turning her gaze back to her husband.
"You wish to reach the Caribbean aboard the ship, don't you?"
"Yes" Elijah replied, while nodding his head, before sighing and lowering his sight away from hers. Witnessing a personal exchange between his brother and wife was hurting him more that he could even say. "If we are able to be projected into the past at the same time that you were both aboard the Princess Ship, and to find the missing coffins, we have higher chances of succeeding."
Charles reached the desk, before opening his Grimoire on its desktop and flipping through the pages.
"What can you tell us about what needs to be done to achieve the spell?" Elijah asked Charles, while approaching his standing position.
"The only way I see this spell work is for your bodies to stay in this present time, while your spirits will be travelling back into the 1494 year, aboard the Princess Ship." Charles responded, while lowering his head to read specific pages. "As for you, son, I'll need to add a location spell that will be projecting you aboard the ship as well."
"What do you mean their bodies need to stay in the present time?" Elizabeth asked, dumfounded.
"By transferring their spirits, souls, back in the year 1494, I'll avoid doubling their presences aboard the ship." Charles explained to her.
"You mean that otherwise that spell would be creating two set of each one of us." Finn asked.
"Yes, and believe me when I say that one of each is quite enough!" Charles exclaimed, while rolling his eyes.
"Is this humor coming from you that I hear for a second time in a row?" Elijah mocked, smirking, before regaining his seriousness.
"What about mummifying?" Katherine asked.
"You spirit and past body will be connected to the one left in this present time, as long as you keep nourishing your vampire body of blood, you'll keep this one alive." Charles explained.
"What are the warnings related to the spell?" Elijah inquired.
"There are several actually." Charles replied, while scratching his chin. "The spell will only work for a period of 72 hours before you'll be all projected back into your body in this present time, which also means that I'll need a date related to your exact arrival to the Caribbean."
"I'll give it to you." Finn nodded his head.
"Perfect. Also, you can't change the past, in anyway or form or change the one of people in close proximity of yourself. You would automatically put yourself against the law of nature, and changing the future in the meantime." Charles explained.
"But isn't it going against time and nature to bring back Master Elijah's family?" Elizabeth asked.
"No" Finn disagreed, while shaking his head. "Except for mine, the coffins were sent in the past, by my father, with a location spell and with the help of powerful, dark resources; therefore, they were not really present at that period of time."
"It's exactly right." Charles agreed by nodding his head.
"Any other constraints related to the spell?" Elijah demanded.
"Yes, one gigantesque one." Charles answered.
"What is it?" Katherine asked, while approaching his standing position.
"I can't be certain that you will be brought back into the same exact year that we are all standing in this present time." Charles sighed.
"What do you mean by that?" Katherine demanded, while grabbing Charles's right arm.
"I could bring you back into your present life, but there's a chance that it could be years ahead of today." Charles responded, before lowering his head. "Or it could actually work, and you'll come back in this present time."
"Charles, could you find a way to make it more probable?" Elijah asked, in nervousness, while passing a hand through his hair.
"No" Charles shook his head. "When you are playing with time with a powerful spell as this one, time plays with you in return."
Elijah paced back and forth, before turning his back to his auditory, both of his hands placed over his face.
"I'll go back! You and Katerina you'll stay here." Finn replied to his brother.
"What good that will give us when past father will enter the dagger in your chest?" Elijah replied.
"I did not think of that." Finn replied, while closing his eyes.
"Katherine, you'll stay here." Elijah ordered, while turning on his heel and facing them. "I'll go with my brother."
"No!" She replied, before approaching her husband, her chin and sight rose, her closed fists on each side of her waist.
"Theodore, Katerine? Think about our son, would you?" Elijah said, while drowning his sight in hers.
"That is what I'm doing." She replied. "We won't have a minute of peace if we are not putting an end to your father supremacy over us, and succeeding by bringing your family back, Elijah. And my heart will die each day without being at your side. You'll both need me by your side, and you perfectly know it."
"Two points for Master Elijah, one for Mister Finn." Charles murmured into Elizabeth's left ear, while lowering his head near hers and instantly bringing a smile to her lips.
"We'll, me and Charles, keep Theodore safe for the time you'll be gone, Miss Katherine." Elizabeth replied, while nodding her head. "You can rely on us. It's my promise to you."
"Thank you." Katherine whispered to them. "Elijah, please?" She added, while begging.
"Fine, you'll come." Elijah agreed, while nodding his head. "When can you perform the spell?"
"I will say the sooner the better." Charles replied.
"Where will we place their bodies for safety in the meantime?" Elizabeth asked.
Elijah smirked at her question, before lowering his head.
"The donjons, of course, you thought of everything, did you, son?" Charles rolled his eyes, while shaking his head.
"This castle location is unknown to my father; therefore the shelves of our spirits will be kept in maximum security in the donjons." Elijah nodded his head at his own way. "Are we all ready to do this?"
They all nodded their heads in an approval to his question.
"Then, I believe we have hit the "show time" of our daily program. How's your talent for theatrical play, my dear Elizabeth?" Elijah's questioned, with a smile blessing his lips.
"We're about to find out, Master Elijah." She replied, while blinking an eye.
Mikael was sipping a glass of Brandy, a newspaper placed on his laps, when he suddenly raised his head while being abruptly interrupted in his peacefulness, with the loud sound of the parlour room door being suddenly slammed on its arch. Elijah stormed inside, while narrowing his sight on his father, closed fists placed on each side of his tensed body, with Elizabeth on his tail.
"Master Elijah, please calm down, your father assured me that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of Miss Katherine and the young Theodore."
"My father was born a liar, Elizabeth; not a single word that is coming from his mouth can be trusted." Elijah replied, before reaching Mikael's sitting position in one of the leather armchairs.
"Finally…" Mikael exclaimed, "The return to his home, of my oldest son!" He added with joy, while rising on his two legs, before being pushed with vampire speed on the wall behind his back, with Elijah's right upper arm firmly placed under his chin, pushing directly on his throat.
"What are you doing?" Mikael suffocated, while trying to free himself from this sudden imprisonment.
"It's such a pity father, that I can't kill you this way." Elijah mumbled, angrily, between his teeth, while keeping his grip on Mikael. "Now, you're going to tell me what you have done with my wife and son?" Elijah yelled at him.
"Mister Elijah, what are you doing?" Elizabeth exclaimed, while trying to pull him away from his father. "Please, stop!"
"Answer me, father?" Elijah ordered him, while ignoring Elizabeth's demand.
"I have no idea where are your wife and bastard son, Elijah." Mikael managed to respond, short of breaths. "But, I won't lie that their disappearances is filling me with joy."
"What in God's name is going on in here?" Charles asked, while entering the parlour room, suddenly alerted by the loud voices.
"Oh, Charles, you're here, finally … Please separate them!" Elizabeth begged him.
"I'm not sure I want to separate them, I'm actually enjoying this view." Charles smirked, while approaching the scene, and crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"I'm not even surprised that you would enjoy this brutality given by my son." Mikael whispered, while squirming to free himself from Elijah's grip.
"Master Elijah, can I be of assistance?" Mikael mocked. "Helping you while holding him immobile, perhaps?"
"Where are they? Where did you hide Katherine and Theodore?" Elijah asked, once more, lost in his state of rage.
"What's in it for you?" Mikael busted into Elijah's face. "You abandoned them, while leaving your own home."
"The dispute between me and my wife is not of your concerns, father." Elijah responded, angrily.
"Charles, please…I beg you, separate them." Elizabeth pleaded, while rubbing her hands together.
Charles growled, before pulling Elijah away from his father, while pushing him toward the other side of the room. Mikael coughed several times, while bending his upper body.
"Thank you." Mikael managed to mumbled, while regaining his strength.
"Oh, don't thank me." Charles replied, while glancing disdainfully at Elijah's father. "I barely did it for you. This young man needs to calm down if he wants to find his wife and son." He added to Mikael.
Mikael strengthened his upper body, while glancing at his progeny.
"You're a fool, Elijah." Mikael yelled at him. "It's obvious that your beloved Katerina had left your home in hope that you would chase after her. Isn't it what you have done the major part of your life, chasing after this woman?"
"I swear if I learn that you kidnap them, I'll put my revenge on you, father." Elijah replied, while pointing an accusatory finger at him.
"I would be proud if it was me who had concocted their abduction, because I want her out of your life." Mikael busted to his son's face. "The Petrovas are a curse on this family, as well as the bastard son of your mother has always been."
"Maybe if you had been more of a husband to our mother, and more of a father to all of us, maybe, we'll be able to live our life in peace, now." Elijah responded, while sighing loudly, his stare lost in the one of his father.
Mikael lowered his head, while biting his bottom lip, and closing his fists in anger.
"I'll leave to find my wife and son now, and you won't be the one to stop me." Elijah mumbled, angrily, while turning on his heels and waking toward the exit of the room, before suddenly stopping abruptly in front of a maid that was standing in his path.
"I'm so sorry." The common look woman said, while blushing, and lowering her head at Elijah's view.
"Are you new?" Elijah asked her, while narrowing his sight on the maid. He had the distinct and strange impression of having seen that woman before?
"Yes… No, I mean … My name is Eleanor, I'm the personal help of your father, Master Elijah." She replied, while nervously raising her glasses on her nose, and nodding her head in respect.
Elijah gave her one last glimpse before storming out of the parlour room.
"Eleanor?" Mikael yelled.
"Yes, Mister Mikaelson, may I be of service." She demanded, politely.
"Bring me a glass of water for God sake!" He ordered.
"Yes, of course." She mumbled, nervously, before making a reverence and leaving the room as well.
Mikael raised his sight in the one of Elizabeth, while taking a step to reach her standing position.
"Come Elizabeth?" Charles called, while sliding his right arm and hand around her waist.
"Thank you my dear, for coming to my rescue." Mikael said, humbly, with a timid smile blessing his lips.
"Don't flatter yourself, Mister Mikaelson, I did this for the good of Master Elijah, certainly not as a favor to you." Elizabeth responded, while raising her chin to him. "Because, as for me, you could rot in hell, and I would not even lift my little finger to save you from the flames." She added, before turning her back at him and leaving the room with Charles on her heels.
"How was I?" Elizabeth asked Charles, excitedly, while hiding in Charles' private quarter.
"Well…" He whispered, amused, while encircling her waist and bringing her into the comfort of his arms, before lowering his head near hers. "I believe the mother of my child is becoming an actress."
"You … You've just called me the mother of your child…Really?" She repeated, breathless.
"Yes my dear, really." He replied. "Though, I forgot to mention something important." He added, his lips murmuring the words in top of hers.
"And what is that, Charles Brownston?" She whispered.
"You are certainly the mother of my child, but you're also the woman that I fell deeply in love with." He murmured, before crashing his mouth on her smiling lips.
"One day, in a not so far away future, you'll become a king like your father, Theodore." Katherine whispered, while holding the infant in her arms.
The night had lowered his curtains of darkness on the Castle estate, and she was now standing in front of the glass window of the nursery, while holding her adoptive son in her arms. Katherine's sight lost in the gardens of the property.
"And you'll meet a beautiful princess, and you'll fell in love with her..." She continued to murmur the fairy tale story into his ears, her lips placed on top of Theodore's head, before being interrupted in her sentence.
"And the beautiful princess will fell in love with you, and that will be the end." She heard Elijah's voice finish the story, before feeling his arms encircling her waist, his head now resting in the hollow of her right shoulder.
The silence filled the space of the nursery room, for a few minutes, and they kept immobile in their family embrace for a few more.
"Everything went as planned?" Katherine finally asked, while turning her head to drown her sight in his.
"Like a charm. Elizabeth could have a new career as an actress as we speak. If I am not careful, I'll lose my maid in chief." Elijah smirked, while taking Theodore from his wife's arms. "Hello my son." He greeted him, while kissing the infant forehead and rocking him in his arms, under the happy bubbling sounds of Theodore.
Elijah laid Theodore in his crib, before turning the baby monitor on and turning on his heels to raise his sight in the one of his spouse.
"Why are you looking at me this way?" He asked Katherine, surprised.
"Every time I want to be mad as hell at you, you find the way to make me feel the way I feel now." She busted at him, while swallowing a nervous lump in her throat, a pointed hand in his direction.
"Katherine, it was a long, exhausting day. If you can't elaborate, please, leave it at that." Elijah murmured, while pulling on his tie.
"I'm talking about you looking sexy as hell in your three pieces man suit, while holding our child in your arms." She added, while pouting and crossing her arms in front of her chest. "God shouldn't allow a specimen like you to walk on this earth!"
Elijah held all his movements, before raising a smirking face at her.
"Forget what I've just said, it will go right into your huge ego." She added, while shaking a hand in front of his sight.
"So? You find me sexy as hell while I'm holding our son in my arms?" He repeated, proudly, while throwing his tie on an armchair, before getting rid of his blazer, who found its rightful place near the tie.
"Don't!" Katherine warned him, a forbidding finger under his nose, while taking a few steps far away from him. "I'm still so angry at you."
"I'm not doing anything…Yet." He mocked, smiling, while opening a few buttons of his man shirt, before rolling the sleeves on his forearms. "But, Katerina….You must understand that you can't throw a seductive move like this one, without having me replied to it.
"Well, I'm not in the mood to have you reply to it." She raised her chin at Elijah, in a confrontational gesture.
"That is too bad, woman." He said, before pushing her shaking body on the nursery's wall, holding her two wrists in a firm grip above her head, before slowly lowering his lips on the silkiness of her neck skin, and then…lower on her neckline.
"Elijah" She whispered the name on her lips, while closing her eyes and moaning sounds of pleasure. "We need to talk about…"
Elijah raised his head, before drowning his sight in Katherine's.
"I don't want to talk; I want to kiss your lips." He murmured, before crashing his mouth on hers, in a demanding kiss that would not take no for an answer.
He released his firm grip on Katherine's wrists, before feeling her hands raise on his muscular chest, higher on his shoulders, while crossing her arms around his neck and returning his kisses.
Theodore rose on his shaking little legs, while grabbing the bars of his crib to help his ascension before joyfully clapping both of his hands at the view of his parents. Mummy and daddy were kissing … And everything was right in the world… And for him it was the best fairy tale story… The end…
Thank you for reading this chapter, my dear readers.
What a nice surprise it was to see Elijah and Katherine in the pilot of The Originals. My heart is missing heartbeats each time I see them in my t.v. screen.
I hope you are all prepared for the finale chapters of this first sequel story, because it will be a bumpy, adventurous ride.
Till my next update, much love.
Lovely Vero
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ChrissyBB: Jealous Elijah is certainly very sexy, but I take him in any kind of state of mind … lol … Thanks for the review, sweetie.