Chapter 11

Welcome to the club

It was kind of like watching a train wreck. You know it's going to happen but there's nothing you can do to stop it. To Elijah everything happened in a slow motion. He saw the bright flash that apparently flew Klaus across the room. Abernathy was saying something but Elijah couldn't tell what. It was something like "that should be interesting". Then she just walked away. Elijah turned around and saw Kol. He seemed stunned. But where was that girl? Oh no… Please no…

"You are so beautiful", he heard Klaus saying.

This couldn't be happening. Elijah forced himself to look behind the couch. Klaus was lying there holding that girl who seemed to be in a shock. No, no, no… This was just too cruel.

"Hey!" Kol said angrily. "What are you doing with my girl?"

Klaus stood up holding Gabrielle tightly.

"She's my girl", he said menacingly.

"You bastard!" Kol shouted and attacked Klaus. They started to wrestle, destroying everything in their way.

"My living room…" Elijah murmured before he managed to think of anything else.

Then he noticed that Gabrielle was running away. Elijah moved in front of her with his vampire speed. She seemed to be hysterical. Elijah grabbed her shoulders.

"Hey, hey, it's ok."

He wasn't even sure did she hear him. Her whole body was shaking. What a damn mess. Suddenly she started to cry. This was actually a good thing. Maybe it would make his brothers stop fighting. Elijah turned her around.

"Hey! Look what you are doing to her!"

Kol and Klaus stopped strangling each other and looked at Gabrielle.

"Sweetheart", they said simultaneously and came to her trying to push each other out of the way.

Gabrielle tried to run in panic but Elijah held her still. He felt sorry for the girl but right now he had to do what he could to control this chaos. Why it was always him who had to clean other people's messes? Elijah sighed. At least his life wasn't boring. Klaus took Gabrielle's hand and Kol her other hand.

"She's mine!" they both shouted.

"Hey, stop it both of you", Elijah said firmly. "Can't you see that you are scaring her?"

"I'm so sorry darling", Kol said.

"I'm more sorry", Klaus said.

Kol scowled him.

"Well I'm the most sorry."

"You just wait…"

"Hey, knock it off!" Elijah shouted.

Both Kol and Klaus turned to him with disapproval look.

"Control yourself, Elijah. You can honestly be so thoughtless sometimes", Klaus said.

"Yeah, use your indoor voice. You're scaring Gabrielle", Kol added.

Elijah wasn't sure should he cry or laugh.

"I'm scaring her? I'm scaring her! You two can just…" Elijah took a deep breath. "Ok, let's all just calm down. Can you do that? For Gabrielle."

Klaus and Kol looked at each other.

"For Gabrielle", Kol murmured.

"For Gabrielle", Klaus repeated.

"Good, good, let's all just sit down and…" Then Elijah noticed that the couch was broken in two.

"My couch, it was antique…"he murmured. "Ok, ok, follow me. But I'm warning you, if you even think about destroying my library…"

"We won't", Kol and Klaus said simultaneously. They followed Elijah keeping Gabrielle tightly between them. She wasn't crying anymore. She just looked like a statue. Elijah thought that she would probably need a drink or maybe some sedatives. This was a lot to handle for a human. Hopefully she wouldn't lose her mind completely. Elijah gave Kol and Klaus one more warning look before he opened the door to the library. There was a big leather couch in front of a fireplace.

"Sit down", Elijah said and poured some brandy to a glass. He hoped it would help Gabrielle.

She was sitting between Klaus and Kol. Elijah leaned towards her.

"Not a word", he said when Klaus was about to say something.

"But…" Kol started but Elijah silenced him with a scowl.

"Same to you. Gabrielle? Can you hear me?"

She didn't say anything. Elijah touched her cheek gently.

"Gabrielle?"

Finally she looked at him. He couldn't interpret her expression.

"Here, drink this", Elijah said as calmingly as he could. "You two let go of her hands."

Kol and Klaus scowled each other.

"Now", Elijah said demandingly.

They obeyed reluctantly. Elijah felt like a kindergarten teacher or something. This would be fun. He gave the class to Gabrielle and helped her to take a sip.

"That's it, good girl."

"What's going on?" she asked quietly.

Elijah sighed.

"Well, this just got a lot more complicated. You see, that woman who was here, she was going to fix this damn mess before someone decided to offend her." Elijah gave Klaus annoyed look. "Now they are both in love with you."

"But… you…you're not…what are you?" Gabrielle stuttered.

"We are vampires", Elijah said calmly.

"I'm more than a vampire", Klaus said. "I'm the hybrid."

"Oh, like that's so great thing", Kol said mockingly.

"You want to see what I can do? I'm going to…"

"No, no, no!" Elijah said annoyed. "Please just shut up, both of you. You're making this worse than it already is."

"But…" Kol and Klaus started.

"Shut up!" Elijah yelled.

"Alright, alright", Kol said offended.

"You don't have to shout", Klaus added.

Elijah rubbed his temple. He felt a terrible headache coming.

"Ok…" he looked at Gabrielle. "Do you have any questions?"

Gabrielle was staring at him disbelievingly.

"So…they think that they love me because of some kind of curse, you won't let me leave and you're all vampires?"

"Yes, that about sums it up."

"Right… right… Can I have another drink?"

"Sure", Elijah said and took her class. Kol and Klaus were watching her like hawks.

"I love you", Klaus said smiling.

"I love you more", Kol said immediately.

"I love you the most."

"No, I do!"

Elijah poured some brandy to Gabrielle's class and drank the rest of the bottle himself. At the moment, he really needed it.