Elena wakes with a quiet groan and a yawn while she stretches her aching muscles. Looking down at her bare body with a raised brow, she notices a sleeping Klaus lying next to her and freezes.
Her eyes trail over his naked back, lifting the sheet covering him slightly, she fist pumps with a look of appreciation.
Elena slowly gets out of bed, trying not to wake him, and looks around the room for her clothes. Once dressed, she tiptoes to the door, jumping slightly when she hears someone clear their throat.
"Sneaking out? I'm hurt." Klaus says in a husky tone as Elena turns around with a tight-lipped smile.
"Uh, yeah. Stefan and Damon should be back, so I wanted to check on them." Elena lies unconvincingly, causing Klaus to raise a brow.
"Is that so?" He asks with amusement as he sits up against the headboard.
"Fine. I didn't wanna make this awkward." She admits sheepishly, rubbing the back of her neck.
"And why would it be awkward?" He asks with a smug smile. "Is it because we slept together or because we cuddled after?" His smile faltering slightly when she doesn't seem the least bit embarrassed.
"Yeah, that was awesome." She says with a dazed smile. "But this is usually the part where people wanna talk about feelings and relationships, so I thought I'd bail to avoid that." She says, making him grin widely.
"So you thought I'd wake up and what? Declare my undying love for you?" He asks in an amused tone, making her laugh.
"Not those exact words." She grins teasingly.
"That's awfully conceited, love." He scolds as she sends him a smirk.
"You and I both know I have every reason to be." She wiggles her eyebrows as he makes an impressed face, recalling the events of last night.
"Fair enough. But I'm not one to get attached. No need to coddle my feelings, sweetheart." He says, making her smile.
"Really? So, we can keep going to pound town and doesn't have to mean anything?" She asks hopefully, making him laugh.
"Yes. We can keep 'going to pound town' as you so eloquently put it." He assures as she walks back to the bed.
"Like right now?" She whispers, he quickly pulls her into his lap as she places her arms around his neck.
"I don't know." He says with mock worry. "What if I fall in love with you?" He asks teasingly, kissing her hungrily.
"That's a risk I'm willing to take." She replies, trying to catch her breath.
"Hey! Me and Stefan are both here, you sluts!" Damon yells, banging on their shared wall as Elena throws her head back, groaning in aggravation.
"Come on." She says standing from the bed. "Lets go get breakfast." She tells him, handing him his shirt.
Elena whistles and dances around the kitchen, getting food out of the fridge as the Salvatore brothers both watch her with matching awkward expressions.
"What?" She finally asks with a raised brow.
"Nothing." Stefan replies quickly.
"Okay. Let me make myself clear, I do what I want, when I want. And I'll be damned before I let a couple of Salva-whores tell me what I can and can't do with my own body. Got it?" She asks as the both nod frantically.
"Good." She smiles. "Now, which one of you is gonna make breakfast? I can't cook." She says, looking down at the food as Stefan stands with a smile.
Across the room, Elena's phone rings, making her run to it and smile seeing the caller ID.
"Bonjour." She answers cheerfully.
"Hello, gorgeous." Enzo greets. "I got you a surprise, go open your door." He says, making her run to the door, the brothers following.
"Surprise." He says hanging up the phone as she opens the door and squeals.
"Oh my god!" She exclaims, jumping into his open arms and wrapping her legs around his waist. "What are you doing here?" She asks excitedly, as he spins her with a laugh.
"Do I need a reason to come visit my beautiful savior?" He asks teasingly, carrying her into the room and setting her on the kitchen counter, while the brothers silently stand behind them.
"Of course not. I just can't believe you're here." She says hugging him again.
"What do we have here?" Klaus asks with confusion as he walks into the room.
"Klaus this is Enzo, remember that Augustine thing? And Enzo, this is Klaus the dude who sacrificed me." She introduces.
"Nice to meet you, mate." Klaus greets with a handshake as Enzo turns to Elena.
"You replaced me with another brit?" He asks with mock offense, making her laugh and nod.
"Yeah, sorry. But this one puts out." She jokes, making him snort with an eye roll.
Enzo turns to Damon with an unreadable expression as Damon holds his breath.
"You see, it's so tense because Damon left him to die." Elena whispers to Klaus. "And then, a few years later he killed the woman that Enzo loved. And when I say killed, I mean like really killed, like ripped that chick's head clean off." Elena continues whispering while the men all look to her.
"We all know what happened, Elena." Damon says through gritted teeth as Elena smiles in apology.
"Does this mean you forgive me?" Damon asks cautiously.
"I will forgive you. If you fight me." Enzo states with a nod as everyone else in the room looks to him with confusion and surprise.
"What?" Damon asks.
"Yes. I've decided that beating you in a physical altercation will be what I need to move on." Enzo confirms as Damon makes an offended face.
"Who says you'll win?" Damon whines as everyone in the room sends him a pitying look.
"Come on." Enzo says with a laugh.
"Yeah, ocean eyes. Be serious." Elena adds as she and Stefan look to each other with humor.
"You two are supposed to have my back. You're my brother and you're my Ellie!" He exclaims with disbelief.
"Sorry, brother. But, look at him. He's gonna kick your ass." Stefan says sympathetically as Damon huffs.
"So, you in?" Enzo asks impatiently.
"... Fine." Damon concedes.
"This feels kinda sexual." Elena comments. "Can I watch?" She asks, making the others look to her with varying degrees of judgment and disapproval.
"Don't look at me like that. You know who I am." She tells them, making them shrug. "So, you gonna fight now or can we eat breakfast first? I worked up quite the appetite." She winks at Klaus, who rolls his eyes.
"It's noon." Enzo tells her with furrowed brows.
"Kill him!" Elena yells as Damon and Enzo fight and Stefan sends her a curious look.
"Who are you cheering for?" He asks as Enzo swings at Damon.
"No one in particular." She shrugs, Damon falls back, bringing a hand to his bleeding nose.
"What qualifies as a win here, Enzo?" Damon asks with a deep breath as Enzo kicks him to the ground again.
"I'm not sure yet. Maybe I'll just keep hitting you until I feel better." He punctuates with a punch to Damon's face.
"I'm sorry, Enzo." Damon yells as he stands. "Okay? I'm sorry. You were my best and only friend for years and I ruined it. I know, alright. There is nothing you could say to make me feel any more guilty." Damon admits as Enzo takes a step back.
"This isn't making me feel better." Enzo complains to Elena, who shrugs.
"I don't know what to tell you, Zo. I've never had a 50 year vengeance. What do you want to do?" She asks, handing them each a towel.
"Drink." He states as Damon nods in agreement.
"Well we can't go to a bar, the both of you look like you just stepped out of a Saw movie." She says with a grimace. "Let's have a night in."
"Never have I ever killed one of my parents." Elena smirks widely as Klaus and Stefan send her an unimpressed glare before taking a drink.
"Does Klaus have to drink twice?" Damon asks, making Elena laugh and nod.
"I think so." She answers, titling the hybrid's cup higher.
"Never have I ever slept with someone who killed me." Stefan smirks behind his cup as she rolls her eyes and drinks.
"Never have I ever left someone to die a fiery death as I ran away like a coward." Enzo sends a pointed look to Damon as Klaus breathes in deeply and takes a drink, making Elena bite her lip and stand.
"Hey, so you know how I know the future?" Elena asks casually as they all nod with confusion. "Right. And you know how I don't tell people the future because of the potential negative ramifications?" She continues nervously. "Well, that's not the only reason why. I do it to protect you guys." She admits while wringing her hands. "But, keeping it to myself feels like lying. So here goes, Marcel is alive." She says as Klaus's eyes widen.
"What?" He asks with shock.
"Yeah. Mikael didn't kill him. He still lives in New Orleans. And before you get mad at him for not trying to find you, you should know that he's mad at you for not checking if he was still alive." She tells him as she sits next to him.
"He'll get over it." Klaus shrugs still shocked as the other vampires look to them.
"Who the hell's Marcel?" Damon asks as he pours himself another drink.
"Klaus's… ward?" She turns to Klaus as he nods.
"You have a kid?" Damon asks before smirking at Elena. "Aww, you're gonna be a great step mom." He says while she swats his hands away from her cheeks. "Or mom. Didn't you say he can have kids now? What are we hoping for? Boy or girl?" He jokes, she flips him the bird with a scoff.
"As if! I take my yeetus the fetus pills on the regs." She says, noticing Klaus's sigh of relief, making her turn to him.
"Uh, what was that? Why are you relieved?" She asks with a raised brow.
"Bit early in our relationship to be having children together. Don't you think, love?" He replies with a smirk.
"Yeah, no shit. I can't even keep my phone alive. Klaus, you didn't sleep with me without a prophylactic, not knowing I'm birth control, right?" She asks with shock as he scoffs.
"I haven't had to worry about it for a thousand years, Ellie. My apologies, it slipped my mind." He says with an eye rolls as she stares with an open mouth.
"You're a dumbass." She deadpans before turning to the others. "He's a dumbass." She says. "Absolutely unbelievable!" She throws her hands up in frustration.
"Back to the whole trying to protect us thing. What have you been hiding from me and Stef?" Damon asks.
"Umm. Shit. Alright, your mom was turned into a vampire." She admits as the brothers suck in a sharp breath and stare at her.
"No." Damon denies simply as Stefan continues to stare sadly.
"Yes." She says softly.
"No." Damon repeats as Stefan grabs her hand.
"When? How?" Stefan rushes out as she squeezes his hand.
"She was fed vampire blood while she was dying, after she succumbed to the consumption, she woke up in transition." She explains as he listens to her with a lost expression. "She came back." She says as Damon looks to her. "She wanted to take you two with her, but… Stef, she was a ripper. She didn't want to accidentally hurt you, so she left." She finishes, bringing the brothers into a hug.
"So she left me to be purposely hurt by Giuseppe?" Damon questions in outrage as Stefan whispers.
"She's a ripper?"
"Where is she? I don't care about affecting the timeline, where the hell is she?" Damon asks Elena as he stands, pacing slightly.
"A prison world." She answers as she looks to Enzo with sympathy. "In 1903, she was ambushed by a coven of witches, who trapped her in a prison world, it's exactly like our world except it repeats the same day over and over again. Before she was locked away she turned a dying man." She says as Enzo's eyes widen. "Surprise." Mutters as Stefan and Damon look between the two.
"Oh, come on." Damon exclaims with disbelief as Stefan pours himself a drink. "How is that even possible?" Damon asks, taking the drink from Stefan and downing it.
"Is it possible to free her?" Stefan asks as Damon snorts with an eye roll.
"Not with the current coven leader, but I have a plan to uh… bring in new management." Elena smirks as they all raise a brow at the mischief in her eyes.
"Not necessary." Damon tells her with a fake smile as Stefan furrows his brows. "She left us, I say we leave her." He adds with a nonchalant shrug as she smiles at him sympathetically.
"Anything else you'd like to tell us, love?" Klaus asks pulling Elena closer to him as she raises a brow.
"Um… if theoretically, I recently developed the ability to temporarily transport Mikael's soul from the otherside into this plane and occasionally fuck with him, would you want to know?" She asks as the vampires in the room groan.
"Christ, Ellie." Damon runs a hand over his face as Klaus clenches his jaw.
"Excuse me?" Klaus asks in a blank tone, Elena looks to him with confusion.
"I think I was very clear." She says turning to the vampires for conformation.
"How long?" Klaus asks in exasperation.
"Since the procedure." Elena mumbles, making the others groan.
"That was so long ago!" Damon exclaims as Klaus nods and looks at her with a worried expression.
"How often do you talk to my father?" He asks.
"Not that often and usually only while I sleep. It's kinda awesome actually, I have these powers in this like dreamscape thing, super handy when I'm torturing him." Elena rambles as the others look to in question.
"Did you just says torture?" Enzo asks with amusement as she nods excitedly.
"Yeah. Mostly psychological." She comments with a shrug.
"Mostly?" Damon questions.
"Mostly." She smirks as Klaus huffs.
"Any more revelations you'd like to share?" Klaus asks as she taps her chin.
"We should probably kill Lucian." She says, making him groan.
"Of course." He says with a shake of the head as Stefan turns to Elena.
"When can we get to this prison world?" Stefan asks as Damon frowns.
"Soon." She promises.
"So, your mom faked her death, became a ripper, turned me, was sent to a prison world, then I'm held captive with her son years later?" Enzo recaps as Elena shrugs.
"Give or take a few details." She says as Damon clenches his jaw in anger.
"She doesn't matter." Damon snaps before taking a deep breath. "Beside, shouldn't we be talking about how Ellie's a psychic now." He says as Enzo hands him a glass with an apologetic expression.
"As much as I love talking about myself, there's not really anything to say. I've only been able to talk to Mikael and I only saw Amara that one time." She says with disappointment.
"We'll figure it out. In the meantime, Enzo can let us know whether or not he forgives me." Damon turns to Enzo, making her smile.
"Ask me tomorrow." Enzo says, throwing back a shot and pouring another.
"Oh, come on. You can't possibly still be mad." Damon states stubbornly.
"Just, shut up and drink." Enzo hands Stefan and Damon shots. "You look like you need it." Enzo says to Stefan, noticing his sad expression.
"I'm sorry, guys. I really didn't want to spill it like this, but I felt like it was pretty shitty to keep it to myself." Elena apologizes to the group.
"It's okay, El. You were just trying to protect us." Stefan sends her a smile before downing his shot as Klaus runs a finger along Elena's thigh, causing her to raise a brow at him, receiving only a grin in response.
"To drinking our problems away." Enzo toasts as the others laugh and raise their glasses.
"I'm really glad you guys are bonding." Elena says as Klaus stands, pulling her with him. "We'll leave you to it. We're gonna go… have sex." Elena finishes with a giddy smile as the other vampires make a face, she turns to Klaus. "If that's what you want. Because it's totally cool if you don't. Like, if you just wanna cuddle, totally fine by me." She half teases as he leads her out of the room with an eye roll.
After a moment Elena runs back into the room and kisses Enzo's cheek. "I'm really glad you're here." She sends him a sweet smile that he returns instantly.
After she walks out the room, she peaks her head back in. "You guys should probably go out, it's probably gonna get loud." She says with a teasing smirks as the three vampires groan in disgust and stand from their seats. "Love you!" She calls as they leave before walking towards Klaus's room. "Hey, if we could get a witch to, I don't know, spell some original hybrid proof handcuffs, would you be into that?" Elena asks as she enters the room.
