BTVS/Originals Crossover

Chapter 21

Once they made it back to the compound Buffy and Klaus sat everyone down and explained everything, well the most they could at that moment. Buffy was working on a plan to get everyone their memories back but for right now they were just going to have to deal with letting their family in on that the child was actually Klaus's not Oliver's. She explained to them all about how she just assumed it was Embry's because Klaus was a vampire and since they couldn't have children it just made sense. Then she told them about her run in with Mikael and how it was him that actually told her the truth.

"There is one other thing" She looked at Klaus to let him know that she was going to tell them about their memories being changed. "It seems that me and Embry's relationship was fabricated by someone who must have knew about Mikael and Esther's return because until the end of my pregnancy I never really knew him."

"I don't understand" Willow was the first to speak.

"Actually Will I think you may have been the culprit" Buffy said to the red haired witch. "We only remembered after we found out about Talon, I think he helped with the rest coming back to us."

"But you don't know for sure if it was me though, I wouldn't have done something like this without your permission" Willow said a little frantic.

"This wasn't the first time you had changed stuff around for us but every other time I ended up getting my memories back sooner than I should have, so I'm thinking you thought if I didn't know that maybe they wouldn't come back until later." Buffy said trying to calm down the witch.

"So what's your plan?" Rebekah asked.

"I'm thinking Talon will be able to sort through Willow's head and find what we need but that's going to have to wait until tomorrow, we all need to rest" Buffy told them not exactly lying, she just needed to talk to Elijah before they got their memories back.

After everyone left Buffy and Klaus sat for a while and talked, she told him that she was going to speak to Elijah before everyone got their memories back. She wanted him to have a little time to get use to the idea before all of it being thrown back at him. He asked her if she wanted him to go with her when she talked to him, but she didn't, she needed to do it alone all she asked was that he watched Talon.

It had gotten pretty late by the time she finally made it to talk to Elijah, she knocked on his door. Waiting for him to answer but when the door opened to her surprise it wasn't him standing there. Gia smiled sweetly at her.

"Sorry I hadn't realized he had company." Buffy said embarrassed that she was interrupting them.

"It's no problem, I know you've had a rough couple of days" Gia said as she walked back into Elijah's room expecting Buffy to follow, so she did.

When Elijah seen her he gave her a puzzled look "What's going on?"

Buffy hesitated then she finally looked him in the eyes "Umm we need to talk and privately if you don't mind."

He automatically looked worried. He walked over to Gia "Let's continue this tomorrow alright?"

She nodded then kissed him and disappeared out his door, closing it as she left.

Once Buffy knew for sure Gia was gone she looked back to Elijah again "You should probably sit."

"You're starting to worry me" Elijah told her as he walked toward the bed and sat next to her.

She took her hand and placed it inside of his, looking at the ground she began "You know how I told you about our memories being changed?"

He nodded.

"Well yours was actually changed almost as much as mine was." She said "There's a lot that you don't know that's going to hurt when it comes back."

This caught Elijah's attention "What do you mean?"

Buffy kept fidgeting "I'm scared, I don't want you to hate me."

"How could you think that I could hate you?" He looked confused.

"It's because of me that it's going to hurt you when you get them back, we weren't on very good terms and it was my fault."

He still wasn't understanding.

"Before I became this" Buffy pointed to herself "We were together, we were actually together when I found out I was pregnant with Klaus's child."

Elijah just sat there staring at Buffy.

She felt the tears welling up in her eyes "When I found out it was Klaus's I took off, ready to leave New Orleans but you found me… And even after I told you about the baby it didn't change the way you felt about me, you proposed to me right there." The tears were falling down her cheeks now.

"I said yes…I agreed to marry you Elijah…" Buffy paused trying to calm down "I had never cared for anyone the way I did for you, we were truly happy in every sense of the way…. But then we got married and I changed into what I am now."

She heard him gasp "So your telling me that were married?"

She nodded. "But after I changed it changed me and I took off, the thought of being a vampire made me want to die and I was furious with you."

He looked like he hadn't expected her to say that "Why would you be furious with me?"

"Because you knew it was a possibility and you didn't tell me, you let me become this and didn't even have the audacity to inform me before we got married that I could become one of the things that I'm supposed to destroy… It was already bad enough that I fell in love with an original vampire but when I became one I felt betrayed." Buffy said getting upset remembering that day like it was yesterday.

"That still doesn't tell me why you would think remembering this will make me hate you." He said obviously knowing there was more to be told.

Buffy sighed "When I was gone I had a relationship with someone and it was so bad that I had my memories erased so I wouldn't remember when I came home to you."

The look Elijah gave her absolutely broke Buffy's heart "How could you do that if you say you loved me?"

"You need to understand when I became a vampire it changed everything about me including my feelings for you, I still felt the love for you but I wasn't in love with you anymore." Buffy said softly.

"So where does that leave us now?" Elijah asked.

"We were civil with each other but that was about it, we still ran the Quarter together" Buffy told him.

"So I have to know, this relationship that you had was it serious?" Elijah asked not knowing if he really wanted to know this information.

This was the part she was not wanting to tell him all over again, "Yea and it seems like it doesn't matter what happens I always end up back with him."

Elijah just sat there staring at her, by his expression and his silence Buffy had a feeling he knew who it was. After sitting in silence for about 10 minutes Buffy finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"Please say something" Buffy finally said.

"My brother… You had an affair with my brother… How could you?" Elijah was livid.

"I didn't mean for it to happen, I was angry with you but I never meant for something like this to happen" She tried to explain.

"I cannot believe that I was actually happy that my brother had finally found someone who brought the best out in him… Just to find out that the woman he has been with is my wife… Marriage is something I hold very dear to my heart and to think after 1000 years I finally gave myself fully to someone just to have them break their vows." Elijah looked disgusted.

"I'm sorry Elijah"

"Are you really? After everything that's happened you go right back to him, how sorry could you really be?" Elijah was furious.

Buffy knew he had every right to be pissed "I've never went right back to him, don't you understand that, it has never mattered how much I loved him I did everything in my power to stay away from him… That was until we got into this reality and I didn't know about us and guess what I fell for him once again… I didn't ask for this to happen and if I could change the way I feel than I would."

"You love him?" Elijah asked.

Buffy didn't say anything she just nodded. She felt the tears starting to fall again and was trying her hardest to hide it, she didn't think it was right for her to be upset when he was the one who was getting an information overload.

Elijah stood up so Buffy followed suit, he walked to his door and opened it. "I need some time to think about this."

Buffy understood "Willow is going to start trying to break the spell tomorrow, if you want I can be moved out by the time that happens."

Elijah looked at her confused "You're not living here though."

"Well I'm obviously not moving back in with Oliver, he was just a cover up so no one would know Klaus was Talon's father but now with your mother gone I'm not going to be staying there anymore, I'm actually looking into a few apartments but I won't know anything for about a week." She told him.

Elijah sighed "You can stay here, I don't expect you to take my nephew back around all of them werewolves."

Buffy tried to give him a small smile but knew it fell short "Thank you I'll be out as soon as possible."

She turned and walked out of his room and headed to the room that was once hers before all this craziness. It wasn't no more than a minute before Klaus made his way into her room with Talon, by the look on his face he had heard their entire conversation. She smiled apologetically, she knew it didn't matter how much they felt for each other hurting Elijah wasn't something either of them wanted to do and because of this spell it's going to be like it happened all over again.