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Chapter 14

After my run and work out which were becoming paramount to my need to keep in shape, I sent two texts to Elijah and Klaus with instructions to save my number. Klaus texted right back.

Elder brother dearest was missing last night, Any idea where love?

I sent back, I still wish, knowing that he'd get the reference to our previous conversation and laughed at the text I got from Elijah ten minutes later.

That was cruel.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing. When I got home I decided to re-shower, after what I'd just put myself through I needed it and cleaned the house. I also checked in with the girls, nothing new to report on the enemy front.

This constant waiting was putting me more on edge than actually fighting would be. Still we caught up and I couldn't bring myself to tell them about this strange new world that I'd seemingly fallen into.

That night, Elijah stopped in for a few minutes while I wasn't there to leave me a shoebox and an invitation on my bed. I whipped open the envelope surprised. It was an invitation to a ball. Oh, and Elijah had written a casual save me note on the back. It read…

Stay the night, E.M

The shoes in the box were exquisite, all I could think of was Cinderella. They were like the other's he had bought, a silk and lace slipper, this time in white. It was mounted on milky white quartz, unlike the black metal of the other ones. I sent him a text.

If you're gay, I'll cry on behalf of woman everywhere.

I got a phone call from Klaus who declare me his favourite human in existence and a text from Elijah asking me if I had a suitable dress. I replied that I did, and while technically not true I did have my disguise pen.

There was only one dress I thought that would go with all that, so I though of the one I was where in my dream of Serena's birthday and stripped it off. When it didn't fade I put the pins into a box with the arm cuff.

My chain didn't show up but I could conjure that as soon as I wanted and the dress was hung in the back of my wardrobe. I had six days to wait, and I was excited. That night went the same as the others that I slept.

"I can't believe that we all made it, far out," I said, when I looked down I was dressed like a hippy. A chic hippy, but a hippy none the less I was wearing a pair of jeans with pictures drawn all over them in pen and a multi-coloured shirt.

"Who wants to ride on the rainbow bus?" Serena called. We had all piled into the back of an old rainbow coloured monstrosity with peace signs decorating the sides and gone to some sort of concert. Sitting on the grass someone handed out these little pieces of paper with a smiley face on them.

"Here's to a fun night out lay-dee's," I crowed. I thought this was just a regular dream. Then the laughter started. Except I was so sluggish I couldn't move. Everything was a burst of colours and as people were screaming and dying around me I couldn't find the will to get up, I couldn't figure out which way was up.

I couldn't move when my eyes slammed open. I still felt vaguely out of it and there were colours swirling through the air. About ten minutes later it stopped and I got up. My stomach rolled and the mess, but I just threw it in a pile and stepped into the shower.

Pink water rolled down the sink as I thought. The others made sense. They were probably real. The Venusian city, the Moon Kingdom… I lived that in a previous life. Google helped me figure out where it was; I remembered the concert name so I typed it in.

No massacre but everything looked just like it did in the dream, scrolling through photo's I suddenly became glad I wasn't holding anything. There was a picture of all of us sitting in front of that bus…. in the summer of 1969.

I saved it to a USB and left to do my morning training. When I finished a pretty blonde cornered me.

"So, your Mina?" she asked looking unimpressed. I nodded.

"Sorry I don't think we've met?" I inquired. She rolled her eyes.

"I'm Rebekah, I wanted to meet you to see what Klaus and Elijah were talking about," she said in a huffy voice. I let out a groan.

"Why?" I asked in a long-suffering voice, "It's just not fair. Is everyone in your family ascetically gorgeous? It should be illegal to have that much hot in one gene pool." Her mouth fell slightly open.

"I think I understand," she murmured.

"So, are you kidnapping me to?" I asked her suddenly, she almost jumped and did the facial expression. I stopped myself from laughing by sheer will power alone, and knowing that it was probably a bad idea if I did.

"How the bloody hell did you know that?" she asked me in an astonished tone. I shrugged.

"You meet people, they talk to you. You meet your family, you get kidnapped," I said without fear, "Or that's my theory and so far I'm three for three. So, want to kidnap me shopping?"

The funny thing was she actually sat down and stared at me blankly. I waited for about thirty seconds for her brain to reengage.

"Alright, I needed to go shopping for a dress to the ball and could use a woman's second opinion anyway," she said finally, "Lets go."

"Now you're speaking my language," I said with a grin. I got into her car and we drove out of Mystic Falls and to a dress shop a little few towns over. "So do you have something in mind?" I asked her.

"Something modern, but classy at the same time," she said and I felt alarm bells going off in my head. Something was up.

"You want to fit in with everyone else," I said in a flat voice, "Your pretty and it's your families party. Who care if they're jealous?"

"How do you do that, I didn't even say anything," she muttered frustrated. I giggled and brought out a picture on my friends.

"This is my family… well technically there friends but they might as well be family," I said proudly, "With all us girls you get some practice. Poor Darien is the odd man out."

"Wait what about him?" she asked pointing. I let out a laugh.

"That's Haruka and I thought that she was a he the first time I met her to," I said with a laugh, "Short hair, masculine clothes and a pretty girlfriend, then she took off her jacket and the first thing I could think is… I didn't know guy's could fill a c cup?"

"Seriously?" she said cracking up.

"Not joking," I answered confidently, "I think I actually poked her in the boob to make sure they were real. Looking back I'm surprised that Michiru, that's her girlfriend, didn't slap me."

"Oh my god," she said laughing harder. It took a little while for her to calm down.

"So, let's get shopping," I said with one of my infamous run like hell grins, as the girls called it. I think I made her try on every dress in the store. There was a safe looking green mermaid dress that we'd hung in the dressing room as an option.

"You are beautiful," I told her strongly, "So don't try to blend in." I finally saw the perfect dress, it was a pale jade green and cascaded over her body, leaving her entire back bare, but for the tiny silk straps that crossed over at the small inward curve right above her ass.

It had modest but reasonable cleavage and metallic embroidery all over the dress with the tiniest beading that shone like little rays of sunlight. When she spun it whirled up like a dancer's dream.

"I really shouldn't, it isn't polite or decent," she said looking at herself with longing.

"Buy the damn dress," I demanded, "You look so beautiful that it isn't even funny." She smiled radiantly at me and I was happy I could make her smile. The mermaid dress was hung up and forgotten about.

Later on when she got home Rebekah would find the black shirt that I'd stashed in her handbag. In had words stamped across the chest in bright pink. Born to blossom, bloom to perish.

I hope she took it to heart.

The amusing thing in this is that Mina likes everybody she's supposed to hate and dislikes everyone she's supposed to like. Then again the Originals are some of my favourite characters.