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Chapter 25

Meanwhile, Rebekah and Stefan were sitting in the Salvatore boardinghouse with Damon and that dinner was tense. Damon was glowering at Rebekah who was steadfastly ignoring him and Stefan was pleading with everyone to at least try and get along, for his sake.

"You forget Stefan that I've already sampled original Barbie's greatest hits over there," Damon sneered. Stefan sighed as Rebekah growled.

"Yeah well Stefan was better," Rebekah replied haughtily, "every. single. time." Damon's sneer intensified.

"Of course you'd say that as you're allowing him a sample until you get tired of him." He didn't see the knife until it was in his gut and a fuming Rebekah toying with her fork in between her fingers.

"Didn't you also sample Caroline while she was human?" she asked in fake sweetness before her eyes and voice turned cold. "Be grateful that Nik's still clueless about it otherwise you'd be dead before dawn." Stefan put his hands on his face and groaned.

"This isn't the best family dinner nor is it what I wanted."

"I'm sorry," Rebekah sighed to Stefan. She took a deep breath and pulled the knife out of Damon before smiling. "Damon let us try something different. I'm not sampling Stefan. I have feelings for your brother...and you are very important to him so I want to try to do things differently." She offered an olive branch. Rebekah wasn't very good at playing nice but she wanted to; for Stefan.

Damon grumbled but nodded.

"Fine. We'll try to get along for my brother's sake." Stefan could hardly believe what he was hearing. Damon was willing to patch things up with Rebekah for him?

"Rebekah would you care for an after dinner drink?" Damon offered. "I'd offer you dessert but I didn't get any..."

"I'd love a drink," Rebekah smiled. They retired to the living room and Stefan put on some music while Damon got the drinks.

"I wonder how they're all getting on at the house," Rebekah said between sips of her drink. "I imagine Bonnie is trying to throw herself at Kol as we speak..."

"They could be having a nice dinner with everyone." Stefan argued softly to her. "Though Elena did need to talk to her family about the sacrifice and the fact that she's a vampire at the moment."

"I hope for Elijah's sake that her family dinner is going good."

It was at that moment Damon came back with drinks.

"That is one topic that shall remain off limits," Damon said evenly. "Now, how about we talk about..." Soon they were all talking and laughing together.

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Meanwhile at Elena's house dinner had started out awkward and gone downhill.

"YOU WHAT?" Jeremy yelled as he jumped up at the dinner table. "I know you just did not calmly announce that you allowed an original to kill you!"

"Jeremy..."

"Elena what were you thinking?" Jeremy yelled while Alaric took another long sip of his drink and then tried to calm Jeremy down but was brushed off by the angry teen.

"I love him Jeremy," Elena blurted. This had Alaric looking to Elijah for some kind of reassurances.

Elijah looked at Jeremy and offered him a smile.

"If it matters to you," he started. "I did not want her to go through with it but no one can make up her mind when she sets something to it."

Alaric nodded, knowing just how stubborn she is.

"You could have done something!" Jeremy protested, "Stefan would have done something!" Elena snapped and a moment later she had Jeremy pinned against a wall as he stared at her with wide-eyed shock. Her emotions wildly out of balance she bit him in the neck!

"She's lost control," Alaric observed.

Elijah pulled her off him and held her as she felt the tears sting her eyes. She couldn't believe that she bit her own brother! - her little brother, whom she had read stories to.

"Maybe it's best if we could continue this later?" Elijah got out as he held Elena closer in his arms, hearing her sniffles. Jeremy's eyes were full of shock. That shock turned to anger as he looked at Elijah. Alaric stepped in before Jeremy could dig a deeper hole.

"Jeremy this is what happens when you throw too much stress at a new vampire. You need to let Elijah fulfill his role as her sire. Cool down and perhaps tomorrow if Elijah thinks its okay we can visit her at the mansion where there's a little less stress." Alaric said.

"Jeremy I'm so sorry," Elena sniffled out from against Elijah's chest. His anger ebbed away a little bit and sighed.

"I know you are," he said softly to her. "We can talk about this tomorrow, okay?" Elijah inclined his head a bit as to agree with him. Elena was silent on the way home and as soon as the car stopped she had flashed away although that was shaky at best.

"Welcome back," Klaus greeted Elijah as he made it inside. He didn't miss the frown on his brother's face. "Did they threaten to kill us all?" He asked knowing something had gone wrong.

"No, she accidentally attacked her brother while she was under stress." Elijah sighed.

"That must have been interesting," Klaus smirked. "I can't believe they were stupid enough to provoke a new vampire. I'm guessing the hunter knew better so it was likely baby Gilbert. I'm sure the doppelgänger is blaming herself for the whole thing..."

"You have no idea." Elijah managed to get out. "For now, brother, make sure that no one bothers us as I will try to calm her down."

"Of course." Klaus said, making a note to make sure Kol, the little witch and his Caroline not bug Elena and Elijah. The older one nodded and flashed off, intent on calming down his Lovely Elena.

He found her, in their room (he's been having trouble calling it 'his' as Elena's been staying in there with him) and she was on the bed, tearful.

Closing the door with his foot, he stripped off his suit jacket and made his way towards her. Getting on the bed, he held her and begun to calm her down.

"I bit him Elijah!" Elena worried, "he's lost his parents, Jenna and now not only did I tell him I died but I bit him! I could have killed him!" She was out of his arms and across the room in a flash.

She didn't get that far away from him as he grabbed her around the waist and just held her close.

"We all make mistakes-this was yours lovely-but do you believe that I haven't made any?" she didn't look him in the eye but he knew that she believed that he didn't. "There was a village that took me two nights to get to and I slaughtered everyone in there because I wasn't myself. I killed hundreds." She shivered but clung to him, afraid that she'll lose control and turn it off, becoming more like Katherine.

"Do you think that he forgives me? Really forgives me?" He kissed the top of her head, happy that he was calming her down.

"I'm sure of it lovely."

"Elijah I don't think I could come back from something like that. You're still so real but I don't think I could forgive myself," Elena said.

"Elena we can both try our hardest but I can almost guarantee you that at some point you will kill. I can also promise you that we will be there for you, my brothers, Rebekah and most likely even Caroline and Bonnie. What you need to remember is vampires, not humans are at the top of the food chain. You eat hamburgers and chicken, people are no different. We are evolved because we choose to go out of our way not to kill despite the fact that it is in your nature to do so Elena."

She couldn't fault him with that logic, no matter how hard she tried in her head to fault it. She couldn't so she just stayed in his arms and he moved her back into their room, cuddling her close.

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