Azalea lounged on the sofa the next day, staring at the ceiling, thinking-
Over a thousand years... and she still knew that there were secrets. Big secrets that Klaus was hiding from her.
But the biggest, she'd find out later.
"Oh love?"
She looked up now to see her husband holding a dress in his hand, a beautiful black and red lace one. Azalea raised an eyebrow, then went, incredulously.
"You went shopping-? And bought me a dress?"
He scoffed and raised an eyebrow, going. "I am capable of shopping you know?"
"Pfft, I wonder at times."
Azalea took it, then smiled. "I like it anyway."
"Thank God."
She stripped out her clothes and pulled it on, smiling. "It's lovely. But what's it for?"
"The dinner tonight of course. Elijah's back, blah, blah. Although..." he leaned forwards and kissed her cheek, going. "You could be a sweetheart and spy on the Salvatores."
"Umm... why? What are you after so much anyway? You have Kol and Finn back."
"Yes, I do."
"Then-?"
"There's... another coffin." Klaus admitted now, and Azaleas heart dropped, making her step back and next to gasp. "Wha-? Who! Who is in it-!"
"Lea-"
"Are you... lying to me again-? Keeping secrets-? Nik."
Klaus groaned, then raised a hand to her cheek, sighing lightly. "Who is in that coffin... they could hurt you. They will... hurt you."
Azalea shook her head, stepping away. "Then tell me who it is."
"...I can't."
"Then enjoy your dinner with your brother alone." She snapped, then was gone, leaving Klaus stood alone, cursing himself.
-AtY-
Azalea went for a walk to clear her mind, knowing that was the only thing she could do-
Klaus was lying again-?
First Faye being alive... now another person-?
Azalea...
Her head snapped up at that, then she frowned at the figure in the distance, watching her. Azalea frowned, then called. "Hello?" She started forwards, then stopped dead-
The same figure from that dream the other day.
The figure stood, watching for a moment, then Azalea frowned as it was gone in a flash-
Something... or someone was stalking Mystic Falls.
After her strange encounter, she opted to go back to the mansion, humming and randomly pulling leaves off the bushes as she passed them.
When she heard the voices inside, she went. "Hi honey I'm home."
The group looked around at that, and Damon chuckled. "I was wondering where Bitch Original was."
Azalea smiled sarcastically. "Nice to see you too Damon." She walked over to her husband now, then sat down on his lap, reaching down and picked up a bit of meat, popping it into her mouth, going.
"So what are we chatting about?"
Elijah set his fork down, then went. "We were just discussing the Original doppleganger actually."
"Urgh. That bitch. Seriously, she was such a slag. Elijah, I don't know what you saw in her. You too Nik."
Damon smirked. "Sounds like yoursel-" but he hissed as Azalea threw a knife from the table at him, catching him in the shoulder as she scoffed.
"That bitch was-"
Elijah suddenly spoke up with. "Let's not bring up the past."
"Well I like bringing up the past." Azalea smirked, then went. "Tatia, the first one-"
"Tatia-? Why are we bringing her up?" Klaus frowned, and Azalea rolled her eyes. "Because you almost fucked her. Now shush." She sighed heavily, then went. "Her mother was a witch. And of course, all the men around her fell for her-" she looked to the pair of Originals. "Including these two."
Elijah rolled his eyes as Azalea said. "Tatia fell pregnant and tried to blame it on Elijah. Fucking whore. She was my friend at one point. My own and my good friend Laurel-" She smiled at Elijah. "Elijahs would-be fiancee if she hadn't already been engaged. But no, all that went down the drain and viola. I'm stuck with Nik."
And Elijah still loves me... a thousand years, and he still did. She added in her head, looking to the man, not wanting to meet them.
He was a good man. Truly.
Elijah now laughed lightly. "Ah Laurel. Sweet little Laurel. I'd almost forgotten about her."
Azalea raised an eyebrow, knowing that tone well- he was lying. But she never outed him as Klaus said. "My knee's going dead Lea." She got up at that and Elijah went to give her his seat, but Klaus went, looking to the Salvatores. "Enough niceties. I want my coffin back."
All Azalea could do was roll her eyes as the situation escalated, and she folded her arms, going. "Bloody hell. Seriously Nik-"
"Lea, shut up and go with Elijah and Damon."
She was taken aback by his tone, then scoffed. "Fine." She stalked out, the pair following her.
It was when they reached just out of Klaus' earshot that Elijah suddenly grabbed her and slammed her against a tree, clamping a hand over her mouth, going quietly.
"Hear me out Lea. Please."
Azalea scowled, then pushed him away, hissing. "What the hell-! You could have just asked!"
"Well, we know what side you're on." Damon said, folding his arms, and Azalea put two and two together, looking to Elijah, nodding.
"All that inside was an act?"
Elijah was silent, then he pulled out a silver blade, the one that had been in him, going. "I don't want to Lea. Really and-"
"It won't work. I'm a hybrid sweetie." Azalea chuckled, reaching forward and took the blade from him, sighing as she turned it over in her hand, then looked up and went.
"That coffin... who's in it?"
"That's what we want to know." Damon said, and Azalea scoffed. "You think I know."
Damon smirked. "Well Bitch. You are Klaus' wife. His, ah, most trusted hybrid you could say. I'm betting you know."
"Well, hope you didn't bet much, because I only found out earlier. Why do you think I was late? Twat."
Elijah could tell Azalea was telling the truth, and also that she was angry. Angry at her husband like hell...
This was worth a shot.
"Work with us." Elijah asked now, and Azalea frowned. "What? Against Nik?"
He paused, then sighed. "Kol has been dead for almost a century, Finn almost as long."
"You want me to help you wake them up?"
"Yes." Elijah said, then stepped forwards, taking her hands in his own, going quietly. "I know how much family means to you Azalea. I know how much you miss them, miss the days we were human. I do too. When everything was so much simpler... I've never, ever asked for your help doing anything against Niklaus before. So please, just this once... help me."
Azalea looked down to the hands holding her own, then finally met his oak eyes that were next to pleading. She sighed, then just said quietly. "How can you ask me this El?"
Damon rolled his eyes to the stars as he muttered to her. "I love you. I don't want to have to play a part in your death for standing with Niklaus."
Bloody hell, this was going to go on all night.
"I'll be waiting near the gate."
They ignored him.
Azalea just gazed at him, then said quietly. "Stop saying that."
"How can I?" Elijah growled, then took her face in his hands, hissing. "It was never Tatia, it was never Laurel... it was always you. I don't care about any other..."
Azalea closed her eyes, feeling tears leak out from under them, then went as he continued. "You loved Laurel. I know you did."
"Yes... I loved Tatia too. But when they left me, who was there to help me pick up the pieces?" He told her, wishing he hadn't made her cry. That had never been his intention. He raised a hand higher and wiped them away gently, muttering out. "It was always you there, looking after me and my heart."
"But I never... had those feelings for you, Elijah. I don't... I can't have these now." She groaned and he went quietly. "You have feelings for me, don't you?"
Azalea didn't answer, but just let him pull her into a hug, sighing into her hair, hearing her say.
"I'll help."
Elijah knew she was slowly seeing Klaus, who he really was...
That man didn't deserve her from the things he'd done.
To her and her family.
-AtY-
Azalea couldn't help but think about how she was betraying her husband... but Elijah was speaking the truth-
He wasn't that same Niklaus anymore. The Niklaus she knew now...
A mere shadow of his former self.
God.
The Original Family of monsters they were now.
And it saddened her so very, very much.
While Elijah went to find Rebekah with Damon, she handled Kol and Finn-
The shock they were going to get when they saw her... alive.
How long they'd both been dead, she wasn't sure, but from the clothes they were wearing, Kol especially, it had been hundreds of years. She yanked the daggers out, then waited.
Azalea looked to Finn now moving the hair from his eyes, smiling lightly as she said. "Finny? It's your little sister Lea here. Wakey wakey."
When there was no reply, she looked back to Kol, sighing, raising a hand and put it to his cheek, wondering if he felt as cold as he looked.
As soon as her hand touched him, his own flashed up, grabbing her wrist with a low growl, fangs bared at her, eyes going dark. But as soon as they fixed on the woman, he frowned, going, unsure. "Azalea-?"
She smiled. "Hello sweetie."
Kol was taken aback, then he let her go, fangs receding, groaning lightly as the hunger ripped through him.
"Stay there a moment-" She ordered him, then sneaked into the kitchen, grabbing some blood bags, saving a few for Finn when he finally woke up.
Kol grabbed the bags and drained them in a minuet flat, then looked at Azalea as if seeing the sun, going. "You're dead. We mourned you. We had a burial... all that was left was your ring."
"Well it's a good thing I'm alive then hm?" She smiled, helping him out, then he just grinned, pulling her into a tight hug, saying into her shoulder. "We thought we lost you. Lea... "
Azalea held him for a moment, trying to remember the last time she had...
But that was when they were human.
A tear behind her alerted Azalea to her big brother ripping into the blood, and when she turned, she giggled. "God Finn... you look like Sirius Black with that hair."
Finn raised an eyebrow, finishing off the blood, then went. "I have no idea who that is, little sister."
"Oh you will soon." She vowed, stepping away from Kol, then he chuckled. "You just won't die, will you?"
"No way in hell..." she muttered, throwing her arms around him, smiling into his chest-
A family again. Was that even possible-?
A second later, Kol growled. "Where is Niklaus."
"Kol-"
"Lee-Lee. I'm sorry, but I'm going to rip that mans heart out." Kol snarled, and as he went to stalk forward, she hissed, raising an arm and stopped him dead.
"I'm angry too. But-"
"You've not been dead for next to-!"
Finn just went. "Shush. Let her speak."
Kol next to glared, then Azalea continued. "Look- things have changed. It's the year 2012 now. Mikael did kill me, but I was woken up two hundred years ago. We just-"
"Yes, let's go." Finn butted in, deeming her speaking enough, pushing past her as she snarled. "You both never change-! Finn! You were supposed to be the sensible one-!"
"After Nik's dead love. Then I will."
She rolled her eyes, then ran after them, knowing just before went into the room that Rebekah was awake.
Only she could make a racket like that.
But as his brothers walked into the room, Klaus was staring at the daggers in Azaleas hand, realizing that she'd been the one to wake them up.
And he just shook his head, going. "Why Lea?"
She just said bitterly. "Together, always and forever. What have you become Nik? This isn't the man I fell in love with a thousand years ago."
Klaus shook his head, then snarled at his siblings. "Of all things... you turn my wife against me-?"
Kol didn't realized that they'd gotten married for a start, but then when he looked to Azalea, she nodded, making him flash forwards and ram the silver blade into the hybrids stomach, making him yell out in pain.
Azalea took no part in it, but she felt utterly numb as Klaus raged at his siblings...
And she'd been the one to let them.
They deserved it. This... revenge. Klaus couldn't die, and he needed getting taught a lesson in pain.
Even if he was going to be so pissed off at her.
Klaus now said to Azalea, shaking his head a little, tears sparkling in his eyes. "Is this what it's come down to-? Do you... hate me-?"
Azalea was silent, and the other Originals looked to her as she went quietly. "You made it come down to this."
She'd broken his heart...
But he'd already broken her own. So long ago.
The day she died, a thousand years ago, was the day Niklaus died, and Niklaus the Monster was born.
And it tore her apart inside. It really did.
Klaus seemed to snap now, and he yelled at his wife and siblings. "I'm a hybrid! I can't die! I don't have to be afraid of any of you-!"
Azalea couldn't help but notice he was saying it directly at her...
Were they really drifting that apart-?
But then the door opened, and for some reason, Azalea took a wild guess that it was going to be another member of the family...
How right she was.
Both fear and shock went through her as she saw the woman, shaking her head, backing off, going. "Esther... Mother..." The woman stepped over to her son now, and he just couldn't look her in the eye, making her go.
"Do you know why I am here?"
Klaus didn't look up as he next to muttered. "You're here to kill me..."
Esther almost sighed, then went. "Niklaus. You're my son, and I'm here to forgive you."
She now turned to her family, all my children Azalea realized, and went. "I want us to be a family again."
But Azalea was looking at her husband, unable to believe it-
It was Esther-? The one he'd kept secret all those years-?
"You bastard..." She just muttered now, stalking over to him, tears streaming down her face. "Fuck you. I thought..." she just couldn't continue, then she looked at Esther, meeting her eyes, seeing the sadness there-
Because they both knew what she'd done-
Her adopted mother had been part of how she'd died that time.
And her adopted daughter was terrified she might become a ghost again
It all became too much, and Azalea rushed out the house, dodging Kol as he went to grab her, tears burning in her eyes, hurting so much...
But she didn't care. She just had to get away from this place, with its lies and secrets. A place of no trust it seemed to her.
A broken family.
She ended up in the woods, and slowed down, feeling herself sink to the ground, letting out another sob-
This was just... how could Niklaus keep these things from her for so long-? Didn't he trust her?
Esther was alive-?
Azalea let out another sob, looking around- it was completely and utterly pitch black, but she could see ok through the shadows. She sniffed the tears back, then sighed heavily-
Crying wasn't going to solve anything.
She just wanted a hug. Someone to show her some love...
Azalea tried to find her way back to the town, but she found herself lost.
She just sat on the earthy ground again, feeling numb as the moon slid from behind the clouds, bathing the area in a soft silver glow.
There was footsteps now, and she didn't even bother turning around as they hurried forwards, then someone took her shoulders in their hands, going in concern.
"Lea-? Are you ok?"
Azalea was silent, then the figure moved round to the front, taking her hands in his, going softly.
"Lea?"
She looked up and met dark eyes, oak colored in the daylight, but now she just muttered. "I'm... I don't know what to do anymore Elijah. Nik just... I want to love him like I did when we were human. But I can't. He's changed. He's... evil. How could he-?"
"Shush. Come on love." Elijah sighed, pulling the woman into his arms, hugging her tightly, going. "It's ok my dear. Really. I promise, I give you my word I won't leave you. The others too."
Azalea let him hold her as she sat on the ground, head against his shoulder, winding her hands into his white shirt, closing her eyes.
They weren't sure how long they next to sat there together, but then Azalea looked up, meeting his eyes, feeling herself get lost in them as she leaned forwards, kissing him softly, briefly for a moment. She closed her eyes, then Elijah muttered against her lips.
"You don't want to do this... I know you Lea. I love you... but you don't love me that same way."
"I can-" Azalea replied, wrapping her arms around his neck, kissing him once more, harder for a second. She paused once more, then Elijah asked her, not inclined to offending the woman he'd always loved. "Azalea-"
Azalea put a finger on his lips, smirking a little-
"Niklaus has slept with so, so many women. In my whole life, I've only slept with him. So-" she kissed his cheek, adding. "I think I deserve my chance to break his heart a little."
Elijah knew she was mainly doing it to piss her husband off, but he wasn't one to pass up such a... such a brilliant and beautiful opportunity, and he did love this woman.
Loved her so much.
He pushed her down onto her back now, the earth staining her vintage red and black dress, kissing her neck for a moment, Azalea closing her eyes, hearing him growl a tiny fraction as he moved back to her lips.
Azalea traced her hand up his chest, then popped open a button, the kisses growing in intensity, Elijahs jacket coming away with his shirt, Azalea flipping them over, kissing up his chest to his own lips, letting him unzip her dress, yanking it off and away.
She grinned against his lips, hands roving the others body, exploring them as much as they could- both knew that this was the first and last time they would ever do something as stupid and reckless as this.
Ever.
A pair of Originals making love by the light of the cresent moon.
SO! Just watched Bringing Out The Dead, and this chapter was already half done, so viola! Kol... man he is gorgeous! Finn-? You look like Sirius Black mate. I'm sorry. And Tatia... pfft. What a name. At least we have a name for her now, so I might go back and change the other ones to that:) Esther! Hello Bitch Original Witch! Anyway, some Elijah and Azalea! Maybe not for long, but for now, enjoy watching Klaus going apeshit when he finds out;) thanks for the lovely reviews! Glad you're still reading! Hehe, keep a lookout for my Kol and Finn fics that will be up tomorrow! Hope you like and review^_^ x Nic