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The morning came all too quickly. The early light of dawn shone through the wall of windows that crossed Elijah's face, stirring him from his much needed rest. He had fallen asleep with Eternity resting upon his chest, curled tightly into his side. They had made love like desperate lovers for hours and true to his promise, he hadn't stopped loving his lady's body until she was hoarse from screaming in pleasure - and then carried on till she begged him to stop.
Though exhausted afterwards, they hadn't fallen asleep immediately. Instead, Elijah talked about the plan to deal with other the Coexisters. He spoke of how they could go about dealing with the faction families before they could retaliate. She had told him about her teleportation powers and said that she could get them to each location instantaneously, but the way she spoke was as lethargic as she had been before he had seduced her into his embrace. It was disturbing, but Elijah tried to ignore it, knowing she had been through a lot earlier in the day with Loki. Regardless, they had agreed to use her powers to dismantle the Coexisters once and for all, and soon after they had fallen asleep cuddled together.
Elijah should have seen her lethargy as a warning. He should have known that something terrible was going to happen, when he awoke the next day. What a damned fool he was!
Stretching in the morning light, he sleepily opened his eyes with a contented smile. That is until he realized that he was alone in bed. Immediately, he sat up and felt the place where Eternity had been sleeping. It was cold. She had been out of bed for hours, but for how long precisely, he couldn't say.
His blood ran cold, his heart dropped into his stomach, and a sense of dread took hold of him. He was out of bed a moment after realizing his lady wasn't there with him. He searched the room, searched for any sign that she was still in the room, knowing deep down that he wouldn't find her.
Yet, his desperation spurred him to check anyway.
Then when Elijah finally came to terms that she had gone. He felt his legs give out and he backed up to catch himself on the bed. Though Eternity had disappeared on him before, back at the Mitchells' bed and breakfast, and he could rationalize her disappearance with her stepping out without telling him again, telling himself that she'd be back. Yet, in his gut he knew that this time she wasn't coming back this time.
Eternity had left him!
Crippling pain and burning anger coursed through his veins and he proceeded to tear apart the room on in his fury. He threw furniture around, smashed glasses against the walls, and then fell to the floor as tears began to fall from his eyes.
It may have seemed dramatic, especially considering he hadn't known Eternity long, but to him, their relationship felt like it had been a life time instead of only a month or so. It was true that loving someone like her left such a profound and immediate attachment that it was impossible to forget or move on from her love. He already knew he'd never be able to love another fully again.
Elijah didn't understand it. Why had she gone? To where? Why would she sleep with him, make plans with him, and then disappear in the middle of the night? They had places to go, battles to win, enemies to defeat, and a promise to keep to return to the Mitchells. Why would she be so cruel?
He hung his head as he sat there on the floor, unable to do anything but weep.
Just as he was about out of tears to cry, Elijah felt a tiny hands comb through his hair tenderly. A glimmer of hope sparked within him. His head shot up to find Eternity kneeling there before him, a sad smile upon her lips as she gazed brokenheartedly at him.
"E-Eternity?"
"Do not look so hopeful, my love, for it shall devastate me further," she said gently, her own voice shaky with emotions. "I am not really here. This is what you might call a hologram of myself. I am but a ghost with a final goodbye for you."
Elijah reached for her, not wanted to hear her goodbyes. He only wanted to beg her to stay. Yet, when he made the attempt to touch her, his hands went right through her, as if she were really a ghost.
"What have you done? Damn you! What have you done," he exclaimed at her, unable to hold back his anger, his pain.
"I cannot stay with you, Elijah," replied Eternity calmly, seemingly unperturbed by the abuse slung at her. "I should have never dragged you into my life. I should have never involved you. Though I never expected to fall in love. So long as Loki is out there, you will always be in danger. There will always be a bounty upon your head. It's not fair to you to live like that. You deserve better."
Elijah stood fluidly, despite the weakness he still felt from the blow she had dealt him by leaving. She followed his movements, rising gracefully to her own feet in mirror to him.
It was then that he noticed that she was dressed as the Universal Queen again. Her white gown glowed as ethereally as the rest of her. The crown on her head and the diamond chains around her upper arms sparkled. Even the white starburst mark on her forehead seemed to shimmer in the light. She was truly a goddess.
"You think that leaving me is fair, is better?" Elijah growled, not as fazed by her godlike appearance this time, as his anger was too great.
"I suppose it is not fair either," she admitted, "but it will save your life, and that my love, does make it better than the alternative. I will protect you at all costs, even if that means I have to sacrifice our love to do it."
"And what of your mission to determine if the supernatural community should remain on Earth? Or our plans to eradicate the Coexisters?"
"I have already decided on the fate of the supernatural community. They will remain here on Earth."
Elijah's brows furrowed, "When did you decide this?"
"Yesterday, after dealing with Loki," shrugged Eternity. "I thought hard about it and I concluded that while I've only seen a very small percentage of the supernatural community, that they were safer here on Earth than in the Immortal Universe. All but the vampires are still mortal, human. It would be wrong of me to send them away from their home world, where they would face nothing but persecution at the hands of those immortals that would find them inferior. So, you and yours are free to continue to live here."
"And our plans?"
"I will deal with the Coexisters on my own, before I leave this world to return to my duties abroad."
Elijah found himself collapsing into a seated position on the edge of the bed again. He didn't look at her. Instead he gazed outside at the bright morning that was filled with much beauty that he couldn't see. He couldn't believe what was happening. He didn't want to. Yet, as was the case with a dissolution of a relationship, even a short one, he hadn't any power to stop it from happening.
"I am sorry, Elijah," Eternity spoke barely above a whisper. "I love you so much. Perhaps one day, we will find our ways back to each other."
"You lied to my face," he muttered bitterly.
There wasn't any response.
That prompted him to look and he found Eternity was gone...again. This left Elijah feeling hollow. It was difficult to breathe. She had left him to the devastation of a broken heart, the very thing that Niklaus had warned him about, just yesterday.
Niklaus had been right all along.
He hated it when his brother was right, especially in the current situation. He had wanted to prove his little brother wrong, had wanted Eternity to remain with him forever. Yet, it seemed he wasn't going to get what he wanted after all. How typical.
After some time, Elijah found the will to move. He dressed for the day in the same suit he had worn the day before since he hadn't brought a change of clothes with him to California. Not something he normally did, but at that moment he couldn't bring himself to care. Though he didn't wear his tie, deciding to leave it behind since it held such happy memories of intimacy with his lady. No, with Eternity. She was no longer his.
From there, he left the hotel behind as well and his Bentley too. Too many memories lay with the vehicle. He couldn't bear to drive it, knowing he would only see Eternity's smiling face in the empty passenger seat.
Finding a man with a nice mustang in the parking garage, Elijah compelled the man to relinquish his car to him, giving the human his keys to the Bentley as an exchange.
Just as he was about to get in the car, he saw Veren standing there by the back of it with a mournful look upon her face. Eternity must have told her cousin about her leaving him already, he concluded. While he wasn't in the mood for pity or apology or excuses, he couldn't very well turn Veren away.
"What do you want," he said curtly.
"Her Majesty told me she has left you," Veren replied. "I cannot believe it. This has happened so fast, especially after only just introducing you to me. She seemed so happy, unlike anything I've seen before. I don't know what possesses my cousin to act so impulsively like this. I am so sorry, Elijah." She sighed frustratedly, running her figures through her hair.
Elijah whirled on her, speaking with calm anger, "I do not want your apologies nor your pity."
"No, I suppose not," she responded with a curious tilt of her head. "Though you should know that you are not the only one who has been loved and abruptly left by my cousin."
"I don't give a damn," he growled.
"She's been this way ever since she separated from Loki," Veren carried on as if she hadn't heard him. "Fearful of him and always on the run from him. Yet, she's a hopeless romantic, always giving her heart freely to new loves. She's always hopeful that this time she can have love and companionship with another, but Loki will never let her go. She needs to kill him, but cannot bring herself to, for reasons too complicated to understand. I do what I can to help her, but this is her fight. So, instead of a happily ever after, there is only the devastation of heartbreak and in some cases the death of the new lover. Such a shame."
"What is your point, my lady?" He didn't have patience for her ramblings.
Veren sighed, "Don't judge her too harshly, Mr. Mikaelson. She never means to fall in love nor dies she mean to leave so abruptly. She did what she has done to protect you from Loki. So long as she leaves her lovers, they will remain alive. She loved you enough to let you go for your own sake. How selfless is that?"
Elijah slammed his fist against the hood of the car next to the mustang. "I would rather die at Loki's hands than to live my life without her," he ground out. "I am dying anyway. Do you understand? I can feel it all around me, the decay of my very soul rotting inside me. So, with all due respect, you can take your explanations and defenses of your cousin and go to the deepest, darkest part of I don't give a damn. Good day, my lady."
Veren looked sadder than ever, but respected his wishes to be left alone. She vanished before his very eyes without a trace.
Elijah immediately climbed into his new car, and without hesitation or a set destination, sped away. He didn't even see the shimmering white figure standing above the parking garage, watching him go, nor the darker figure that stood beside the white one. He simply refused to look back.
The End
Author's Note: So this is where I am ending the first 'part' of the Elijah's Eternity saga. Up next is the sequel or continuation entitled: Elijah's Eternity: New Orleans. Should be up soon.
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