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Hey guys, my sincerest apologies for the long wait, I've just been really busy with school. Thank you all for your great reviews and support. Please remember to review and please check out my profile for my other stories and links for the collection. So here is the fourteenth chapter of Petrova. Enjoy!

Chapter XIV

GENERAL POV

The sun was rising over the horizon as Elena and Alex drove back to the house from Fangtasia in Lucy's Mercedes. They were finally out of good hearing distance away from Fangtasia when Elena grabbed her phone from her pocket and dialed Klaus, putting the phone on speaker although they both could hear perfectly.

"Hello love, miss me in your bed already. I…" Klaus said as he answered the phone before Alex cut him off. "Eww, gross! In the car here! Please refrain from traumatizing me!" Alex said as Elena and Klaus both laughed much to their son's dismay. "What's going on?" Klaus asked as he and Elena finally stopped laughing, knowing she called for a reason.

"My cousin was attacked last night." Elena stated and Klaus hummed in understanding. "What was it that attacked her?" Klaus asked and Alex sighed. "The question on everybody's mind." Alex commented, but didn't say anymore as another sigh escaped his lips. "We don't know. The tracks where human, but the scent was definitely animal." Elena explained, but consciously leaving out where she got the information.

"Well that's way too many species to know what exactly attacked her." Klaus said in disappointment. "Yes but its claws' were filled with poison, there can't be many species out there that do." Alexander cut in and Elena nodded in agreement. "Wait, what poison?" Klaus asked, filled with curiosity and concern.

"Apparently its' claws has a poison similar to that of a komodo dragon except it's more efficient...Do you know of anything like that?" Elena replied and Klaus stayed silent for a minute, obviously thinking. "I do…but anything that is similar to what you describe is supposedly extinct." Klaus said and Elena and Alex exchanged worried glances. "I let you know when I find anything."

"Thank you, Klaus." "Thanks dad." Elena and Alexander said in union. "No problem…Jag älskar dig, er båda {I love you, both of you}." Klaus said, causing Elena to tense. "Älskar dig också, papa {Love you too, dad}." Alexander replied, as Elena remained silent. "Goodbye Klaus." She finally said before she hung up.

Alexander sighed as he looked out the car window, watching as the sun began to completely illuminate the day. He wasn't surprised his mother didn't respond to his father's very rare show of emotion, but he couldn't help but wish for his mother to love his father as much as he did her or at least find someone that did.

Alexander remained silent for the rest of the drive as he remained in thought until they arrived back at home, but neither Alex or Elena made any move to get out of the car as Elena turned slightly in her seat and softly placed her hand on the back of his neck as Alex turned to look at her with the emotion written clearly in his eyes.

Elena stared into her son's dark eyes giving him a sad smile as she spoke. "I may not love him…but that doesn't mean I don't love you with all my heart." She said with all sincerity as tears brimmed at the corners of her eyes and Alex smiled. "I know…I love you too, mom." Alex replied, smiling before she pulled him into a hug to which he immediately responded to as he hugged her back vigorously, enjoying the feeling of safety and unconditional love within his mother's arms.

It was while before they finally pulled back and finally exited the car where Lucy, Lee and Jules where already waiting for them anxiously inside the house. "Where were you two, we were worried about you?" Jules asked once the front door closed and they were all in the privacy of their home as Elena and Alexander sat down in the couch by the piano as they began to recite the night's previous events, no detail spared as they all listened intently.

"What do you think it was that attacked?" Lee asked once they were finished. "I don't know. I already asked Klaus to look into it…Lucy do you think one of your grimoires would know?" Elena asked, looking towards her witch/best friend. "Perhaps. I'll have to take a look." Lucy replied and Elena nodded in understanding.

"Alright people until we know what this thing is and how to kill it, no one goes into the forest alone, especially a night…Lets hope we kill this thing before the next full moon. I would hate for this thing to get in the way of our plans." Elena said as everyone nodded in understanding, before they all went about their own business.

When the night had finally come and the sun had set, Elena and Alexander were preparing to go Fangtasia when Elena's cell phone rang. Elena sighed as she grabbed her phone off her bed that sat right next to her designer black leather jacket that she planned on wearing tonight and looked at the caller ID.

Caller ID: Unknown

"Hello." Elena answered keeping her voice void of any emotion unsure who was calling. "Elena." Sookie's voice came from the end as Alexander entered the room and immediately sprawled himself across her bed's Egyptian cotton sheets. "Hey Sook, how are you feeling?" Elena asked letting her voice fill with relief.

"I'm fine now…Hey, are you still coming to Fangatsia?" Sookie asked, sounding hopeful. "Yes. Why?" Elena asked, letting suspicion taint her every word. "Lafayette's here and he's wounded and Bill and I don't have a car with us." Sookie explained. "Wait why is Lafayette there?" Elena asked as she grabbed a sheet from her bedroom linen closet before putting on her jacket.

"I'll explain when you get here." Sookie said, sounding clearly agitated and angry but it wasn't directed at Elena, but to a certain blond vampire. "Okay, I'll be there soon." Elena replied before hanging up. "What's going on?" Alexander asked as he got up off the bed. "I don't know but I guess we'll find out when we get there." Elena replied, grabbing the keys to Jules' Cadillac, heading out of the house with Alexander following behind with the sheet in hand.

Eric Northman smirked as he watched the blond human shout angrily at him about the mistreatment of her human friend. He found it quite amusing how she thought her words had any effect on him, but he didn't care at least he got her to agree to come to Dallas to find the missing Sheriff.

The blond telepath was still raving mad when the sound of car pulling up in parking lot came to his attention and only moments later Elena and Nikolai/Alex walked in. "Hey Sook." Elena greeted casually, which finally got the blond to shut up as she turned around and run to her cousin and pulled her into a tight hug, that Elena obviously didn't care for as she patted the telepath's back quickly before letting her go and Sookie followed the suit allowing Eric to finally get a good look at her since she walked in.

Since the first time he had met, this was first time he had seen her with her hair up. It was pulled back into a bun, a few strands falling loosely in the back but elegantly so, showing the smooth olive skin of her neck. She wore a black leather jacket with a white embroider corset top underneath giving a subtle display of her voluptuous bust and black skinny jeans hugging to her long legs with lace up black ankle suede heeled booties to complete the simple, yet sinful look. {AN: Pic on profile.}

"What are you doing here?" Bill demanded as he entered carrying Lafayette to see Elena, momentarily bringing Eric out of his obsession with the mysterious Elena Gilbert as her eyes that were once again complimented by gold eye shadow that Eric loved, fixed upon the younger vampire in anger. "Bill! I called her." Sookie chastised and Elena smirked at argentum as he made no move to argue with her.

Pussy. Elena thought as she looked back to her cousin. "So why is Lafayette here?" Elena asked, but it was Eric who answered her. "Lafayette was trading sexual favors with a vampire in order to sell his blood." "Well that's just stupid." Alex remarked dryly as he and his mother fixed their gazes on the semi-conscious cook.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Sookie asked as she fixed her gaze unto Alex. "Oh, my bad. Sookie, this Nikolai, Nikolai, this is Sookie." Elena introduced, remembering they never had officially met. "Hello, I'm Sookie Stackhouse." Sookie said, extending her hand, always remembering her manners. "Nikolai Petrova." Alex replied shaking her hand briefly before releasing it and fixing his gaze back onto Lafayette as his mother made his way over to him, unaware that Sookie was trying to probe his mind and listen in on his thoughts, but to no avail.

"Nik's right. What you did Lafayette was very stupid. Their blood happens to be very sacred to their kind, but I kind of understand why you did it, since V is the new crack-cocaine." Elena said as she looked him over, able to smell his filth, in which he was covered head toe in and the possible infection beginning to fester inside his bullet wound.

"I can't hear you! " Sookie suddenly exclaimed looking surprised as she started at a smirking Alex. "Why can't I hear him? It's the same with you. Why can't I hear you either of you. I used to be able to, then suddenly it's like you have this brick wall blocking me." Sookie exclaimed, angrily as the Petrovas rolled their eyes in annoyance but offered no explanation as Bill and Eric looked at them with curiosity.

"Вие бяхте прав, майка. Южна Bell Барби е изключително досадно ... Тя е толкова щастлив, ние нужда от нея, в противен случай просто бих се откъснете гърлото си и да пият всички, че вкусна кръв вълшебен {You were right, mother. Southern Bell Barbie is extremely annoying…She is so lucky we need her, otherwise I would just rip her throat out and drink all of that delicious faerie blood}." Alexander commented smirking and although no one but Elena could understand what he was saying, they all could clearly hear the amusement in his voice.

"Не без споделяне {Not without sharing}. Elena retorted with a smirk of her own, which seemed to make Sookie all the more angrier. "You know it's rude to have a conversation in another language with other people in the room." Sookie chastised, causing Elena to roll her eyes. "It's also rude to listen in on people's private thoughts." Alexander shot back as a small chuckle escaped Elena before she decided to get back to the topic at hand instead dealing with her cousin's nosy attitude.

"Anyway, I'm assuming Lafayette is being let go…so Bill why don't you take Lafayette to the car, There is a sheet laid out in the back, you can put him on it." Elena said as Bill nodded in understanding as he walked over, gathering Lafayette into his arms and began to make his way to parking lot before Elena's voice stopped him.

"Oh and William. Make sure he doesn't bleed on my seats, that car is more expensive than your pathetic undead life." Elena ordered, causing Bill to fix her with a glare that she ignored as she turned to face Eric who watched her in amusement as Bill continued to make his way out to the parking lot.

"Now, Mr. Northman." Elena said calmly as Eric came to stand in front of her, his 6'4" stature looming over her 5'9", 5'11" frame in her heels. "Yes, lover." He whispered seductively, his piercing blue eyes staring intently into her dark brown ones. "I'm not your lover, Eric." Elena replied, keeping her face void of any emotion.

"Not yet." He retorted, causing both Elena and Alex to roll their eyes. "Anyway I'm sure Sookie's made some deal with you. You wouldn't just Lafayette go after such a grave offence to your kind." Elena said getting back to the matter at hand and Eric nodded in conformation. "Sookie has agreed to accompany me to Dallas." Eric replied, still staring into the beautiful dark depths that held all of his desires and the answers.

"Dallas?" Elena asked in surprise. "Yeah, apparently the sheriff of area nine has gone missing and Eric thinks my abilities will be able to help in the effort to locate him." Sookie said as Elena turned around, breaking eye contact with Eric as she and Alexander looked at her with the mix emotions of surprise and concern.

"Площ девет, това си е негов район! Годрик липсва {Area nine, that's his area! Godric's missing}!" Alexander exclaimed, trying control the emotion in his voice but Elena still heard the fear within his voice as she immediately rushed to his side and Eric narrowed his eyes in suspicion. "Успокой се, сине мой. Ние ще го намерим {Calm down, my son. We'll find him}." Elena said calmly placing a hand on his arm, trying to calm her wary son.

"So when do you leave?" Elena asked calmly as she looked back to Sookie and Eric, efficiently hiding the storm of emotions she felt at that moment. "We leave tomorrow night…hey could you come with me?" Sookie replied and Elena resisted the urge to run over to her and hug her. "Of course, as long as I can bring Nik." Elena replied, smiling, which Sookie immediately replicated, thinking Elena wanted to come for her.

"Sookie, I don't think Eric would appreciate you spending more of his money on unnecessary passengers." Bill commented as he rejoined the group and both Alex and Elena fixed him with a glare. "If money is an issue, I can pay for Nik and myself." Elena retorted, smirking as Bill frowned. "Actually I would be delighted if you joined us. I'm sure your presence will make this trip all the more pleasant, lover." Eric said much to Bill's dismay but he didn't argue and neither did Elena as she nodded her head in thanks.

"Well if that's all. I guess we'll see you tomorrow. We need to get Lafayette some medical attention. Goodnight, Eric." Elena said with a finality in her voice as they all nodded in agreement. "Goodnight, lover." Eric replied as he watched her go with Bill, Sookie and Alex following behind her as they made their way to the car.

As they got to the parking lot, Elena pulled out her phone and immediately dialed Lucy. "Луси, Годрик липсва и Алекс и аз ще се насочи към Далас с Ерик, Суки и Бил утре вечер да го намери. Са Лий и Жул започват подготовка на нашите неща за пътуването и да се опитате да работите на локатор на правописа на Годрик {Lucy, Godric's missing and Alex and I will be heading to Dallas with Eric, Sookie and Bill tomorrow night to find him. Have Lee and Jules start preparing our things for the trip and you try work on a locator spell on Godric}..." Elena said as soon as the witch picked up not waiting for her to get a word out as they got into the car.

Elena in the driver's seat, Alex directly across from her as Lafayette, Bill and Sookie were in the back. As Elena pulled out of the parking lot, Elena caught Bill's eye in rearview mirror as he continued to glare at her. "...Също така има нещо друго, което трябва да направите момчета, а ние сме далеч {Also there something else I need you to do guys, while we are away}."

CLIFFHANGER!

What will happen next? How does Elena know Godric? What will happen in Dallas? And what does Elena have Lucy up to? So many questions.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I will try to update as soon as possible.

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