A/N: Hii, and again as promised - here's the third update for today! :D

Now I'm going to take a break, because my fingers hurt a bit ;)

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xoxo Ascha

Chapter 12:

Klaus insisted on buying me some new clothes, so we walked through the streets of London and he bought everything I liked with no exception. He meant it when he said that he was going to give me everything Elijah couldn't give me and more. After we had been at been t at least ten different clothing stores, he took me to a local café where we could relax.

A thought had hit me when I woke up this morning to the sound of Klaus humming to a song, while he was making breakfast for us, and I wondered if Klaus was being so nice to me because he was up to something big that involved me liking him or staying with him.

However, in the late afternoon when we were about to leave the café, I noticed someone familiar outside among the crowd of tourists and local people, who stood completely still as he looked at me with those warm brown eyes of his. His dark hair was much shorter now, but other than that he still looked like I remembered him. I wanted to leave the café and run into his arms, but when Klaus turned Elijah disappeared and I started worrying of what he would do to save me.

"Klaus, now that I'm back, then what are your next plans?" I asked, trying not to show Klaus that I had just spotted his half-brother. "I mean, do we continue looking for the sunstone?"

"No, I will leave that job to Emmanuel and Sara," Klaus answered. "But I actually do have a little mission for you."

"What do you want me to do?"

Klaus stopped me and made me look deeply into his eyes. I knew that it was only a matter of time before he would compel me to do something and since I was no longer on vervain, he could make me do just about anything.

"I want you to take this dagger, find Elijah, and drive it through his heart."

"But vampires can't use the dagger…" I remembered what Stefan had told me in the time we were alone together. "It will kill me."

Klaus shook his head, though, and continued. "The necklace will protect you. And when you have finished your job, you bring his body to me."

I nodded understandingly and took the dagger he had in his inside pocket. I hid it in my bra, but before I left Klaus gave me a kiss and wished me good luck. I walked alone through the streets and listened to the sounds around me, patiently waiting to pick up Elijah's voice. I knew that he was here somewhere and even though I didn't want to kill him, then I couldn't do anything to stop it.

"Recall you to these arms that were your home…" a familiar voice said.

I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around to Elijah, who stood right behind me. I felt like I had found something I once lost, but I was too shocked of hearing his voice to do anything.

Elijah cupped my face in his soft hands and looked deeply into my eyes. He gently stroked my cheeks and as he leaned closer to my lips with his, I felt one of his hands slide down my neck to my cleavage – right where the dagger was. With one swift move, he took it and when I tried taking it back, I suddenly felt a needle in my neck and the burning taste of vervain burned my veins.

I fell asleep and collapsed into his embrace.

"Dors mon ange…" I could hear Elijah say softly, the sound of his voice sending a warm shiver through my body.

I slept peacefully that afternoon and dreamt about Elijah. In the dream we were dancing together in a grand ballroom and we were all alone in there. His hair was long again and we were both dressed in 16th century clothes, which made me wonder if this was a memory or just a dream.

I tried speaking to figure out if it was a dream or not, but Elijah pulled me into his embrace and pressed his lips softly against mine. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him back with such passion that he was forced down on the floor. I held his arms down and kissed him again, showing him how much I truly missed him and how happy I was to see him again.

"I have missed you so much, Maeva," Elijah said and made me realize that this wasn't a memory. It was a dream and Elijah was controlling it. I sat on him and held his arms down when he tried touching my face. I didn't want to talk with him this way. I wanted to feel him the right way and be alive. "Is something wrong, angel?"

I nodded. "Wake me up. I want to feel you. I… I want the real you." I said, feeling the tears brimming in my eyes.

Elijah nodded understandingly and disappeared from my dream. The next thing I could hear was the sound of him telling me to wake up and I felt his strong arms around me. I forced myself awake and looked at Elijah, who sat with me on a bed with me on his lap and immediately hugged him tightly. I couldn't believe that I was finally with him after all of those years of waiting for him to save me.

"Wait," I said, moving a little away from him so I could take a better look at him. He was wearing a suit and although, his hair was short, then I could still bury my fingers in it and enjoy his face. "Why did you cut your hair?"

Elijah smiled and buried his fingers in my hair, pulling me close to him so he could kiss me and feel my lips the right way. I kissed him back and felt the burning lust inside me take over. I let it take control of me and wanted him so badly. I should never have let him wait – tradition or not – then I didn't want to wait anymore. I loved him and that was all what mattered.

"Eva, please… wait," Elijah said, stopping me from unbuttoning his shirt completely. He held my hands in his and kissed them. "I know you want me and I want you too, but… not here. We're in a house with four other vampires. And don't you want your first time to be special?"

I nodded and merely gave him a tender kiss before I crawled off his lap and sat beside him. His eyes were still so full of love, but this time my love for him was much stronger than it had ever been before. I felt like I was going to explode and missed the touch of his lips.

"I never stopped loving you, Elijah. And I… I fought years after years, hoping that… that…"

I felt the tears trickle down my cheeks now, but Elijah wiped them away and let me cry out on his shoulder. Even after so many years of being a vampire I still had problems controlling my emotions and it was hard to do it when everything was enhanced.

"I was heartbroken when I heard that you died and searched the whole world for you…" Elijah said.

I looked up at him and forced myself to stop crying. I didn't want to cry now that I was finally together with Elijah again. I wanted to enjoy my time with him, because I knew that Klaus would find out that Elijah disarmed me and saved me eventually.

"I have something that belongs to you," I said and took off the necklace with the stone heart. Elijah's eyes widened and he sighed in relief, because he probably feared that he had lost it. I put it around his neck and gave him a sweet kiss that made him smile brightly. "Elijah, I have so many questions for you, but… there is only one thing I need to know right now. What does OMG mean?"

Elijah chuckled and placed me on his lap again, but when he opened his mouth to speak, he was stopped by the sound of someone opening the door. It was James, but he wasn't alone. Caroline and Elena were there too and Caroline quickly took a picture of us with her phone.

"You look so adorable together!" she said cheerfully.

Such an exuberant girl…

"I'm sorry if we're disturbing you two, but we better leave before Klaus finds us." James said.

"Leave? Where are we going?" I asked, looking at Elijah.

"Back to Mystic Falls. We can't stay here and we also need to find the sunstone before Klaus does." Elijah answered.

I turned my gaze back to James. "So it's in Mystic Falls?"

James shrugged. "Not quite. You'll see when we get there."

I nodded understandingly and took Elijah's hand in mine as we stepped off the bed and left the house with the others. We drove to the nearest airport and took the first flight to Virginia, but even though the trip to Virginia went well, then I still feared that Klaus was up to something and knew that Elijah was going get me back no matter what he compelled me to do to him.

I slept during most of the trip and whenever I would wake up I kissed Elijah or squeezed his hand to make sure that he wasn't just a dream, but really here and sitting beside me. Damon did come with a few smartass comments about our relationship, because he didn't know Elijah like I knew him, but other than that everything was back to normal.

Everything seemed to be back to normal with Elena and Stefan too, but I couldn't help but notice that Damon sometimes looked longingly at her as if he loved her as well. It wouldn't surprise me if he had fallen in love with her too, because he and his brother did fall in love with Katherine at the same time, so why not Elena as well?

But when we finally arrived in Virginia and drove to Mystic Falls, I finally began calming down and started worrying about anything else but Klaus. I still had to find out if I truly had powers and how I was going to use them without losing control.

"Elijah?" I said softly on our way to the Salvatore brothers' home.

"Hmm?" he said, keeping his eyes on the road and looking thoughtful as always.

"Did you know that I was… the descendant of Charlotte?"

Elijah looked at me now and frowned, but nodded and drove up to the driveway of the beautiful Salvatore Boarding House. It was much bigger than the house we stayed at before, but the best thing about it was that Elena owned it, so only the vampires she invited inside could get in.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want to worry you and it would be too much for you to handle. I mean, didn't you faint when I told you that I was a vampire?"

"Oh… I see. But I want to know more about it. I… I want to know if I can use my powers to kill Klaus or at least protect myself from him."

Elijah parked the car and opened the door for me. When I stepped out of it, I felt drops of rain hit my face and I looked up towards the gray sky. I used to hate rain, but now I wanted to enjoy it, because I hadn't seen a drop of rain for years.

"Let's go inside first," Elijah said. "I will tell you everything you need to know after we have gotten a cup of warm tea."

I nodded in agreement and walked up to the front door as Elena unlocked it and walked inside. She invited us into the house and did the same thing to the other vampires, until everyone was inside the house and safe from Klaus. For now anyway. I knew that Klaus would make his move soon.

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