"Okay any other bombshell you want to drop on me," Elena asked trying to wrap her mind around Caroline's edited version of the happenings in Mystic Falls
" Oh, I haven't even started," Caroline said faintly.
" Not started, you told me that Lexi had been resurrected by that evil villain Silas, just because she was a doppelganger to his sister. "
"Umm, yes I said that" Caroline replied grinning at Elena's facial expression. She seemed to be in shock. Both of the girls had been sitting on the rocks that were in the lake, facing each other. Someplace away from where Elijah was currently sleeping as Elena had insisted to let him rest.
" And I and Stefan are soulmates,"
" Essentially, "
" But then shouldn't Katherine be his soulmate as well."
" About that," Caroline began, and Elena shook her head,
" I can practically sense that another bombshell is going be dropped on me."
" Well Katherine and Stefan are growing closer, I mean yeah," Caroline spoke that sentence in a rush, and Elena's eyes comically widened.
" Oh my God! He is sleeping with Katherine," she said, looking faint and feeling slightly jealous.
" Yeah," Caroline replied to which Elena fluttered her lashes trying to make sense of what she was hearing before eventually she collected herself and shrugged,
" Not that I can judge, I slept with Klaus. What about Damon how he is doing apart from you know cursing me to the darkest pit of hell?"
" Umm, well he is at times day drunk, but he is kind of going closer with Lexi, I mean they are not a thing yet but they both are nursing a broken heart," Caroline said the sentence In a rushed manner, afraid of how her friend would react. Elena for her part only looked guilty.
" What about Bonnie? Is... is she still angry?" Elena asked hopefully,
" She will come around," Caroline assured her, "It's just that she hates, loathes the originals. She hates Rebekah for killing Jeremy, and Elijah for breaking his promise to kill Klaus, and Klaus, well he is practically the great evil. Everyone hates him,"
" I know, I am after all included in everyone,"
" Yeah, everyone in Mystic Falls who knows about the supernatural is,"
" Not you," Elena said quietly,
" What?"
" I said not you, you didn't hate him,"
" I... I don't know what you mean?"
" Yes, you do," Elena replied staring at her friend. There was silence between the two friends as they both stared at each other the brunette looking at the blonde intensely while the latter's mouth opened and closed as if trying to say something but not having the words to actually say it. Of all the people Caroline had thought she would have to explain the relationship between her and Klaus, her mom, Tyler, and Damon had been at the top of the list and Elena at the bottom. Caroline knew that Elena would hear the rumors even see them with her own eyes and dismiss them as mere idiocy or manipulation, Elena of Mystic Falls would not even stop to consider it having too much faith in her childhoods friend common sense to fall for such a beast such a monster who had done so much to all of them. But this was not Elena of Mystic Falls, this was this girl who had experienced grieved down to science and still managed to survive, to live. This was the girl who had passed the portals to death and comes back alive whole and new. The girl whose destiny, whose fate had always been to be a pawn yet she had never accepted it as such. The girl who had her hopes crushed too many times and yet she had never lost the will to risk it again. There was a new girl sitting in front of Caroline, one who she didn't know but yearned to do.
" Elena, I am not... I am not ... I am ... like, not in ... I," Incorehent words continued to fall from Caroline's lip before she opened and closed her mouth for one last time before closing it.
" Hey," Elena placated grabbing her hand and looking her straight in the eyes, " I am not judging whatever you and Klaus have in between yourselves. I have slept with him, it would be really hypocritical of me to judge you,... but all I want to know is that why you didn't call,"
" What?" Caroline asked confused and flustered at the same time.
" Look, I get why Bonnie hates me now, she, you know has never really approved of any vampire, and it is hurtful but still understandable that she blocked me after she learned I was pregnant with Klaus's child. Matt is still cold but again I understand that he has never really wanted to be a part of the supernatural, something that came as a package deal in being friends with me. Stefan and Damon are hurt and I know they feel betrayed and it's my fault. They certainly didn't deserve my betrayal after they had always been with me, through everything. When they have picked up the pieces of the broken girl in Mystic Fal. Tyler has already expressed his displeasure quite clearly, and no I am not going to tell you what he did you can ask him yourself, he must have returned to Mystic Falls by now," Elena went on," But Caroline, you don't hate Klaus, yes you act like you do but you don't, not really. In fact, I think that you rivel in his attentions. you enjoy them."
Caroline went to protest but Elena raised her hand
" I am not accusing you, I just want to know why it took you almost two months to you know to visit even call or simply leave a text, but you didn't. Maybe you were shocked but I think it would have worn off in a week, or two weeks. Or maybe there were too many things going on in Mystic Falls and you forget about well me, but I mean just a simple text of how you are, would be enough. I texted you a lot, every day, called you many times, you neither picked up the call nor replied back. I want to know why?"
Caroline had listened to Eleana's monologue with rapt attention her face betraying nothing, but her mouth opened and closed multiple times. Before either of the girls could say anything, Elena felt visions swam her mind, too fast to distinguish each a blur after the other, in one she saw the ancestral place of the witches burning as Sophie Deveraux stood with a knife coated in blood ready to plunge it into her own heart all the while laughing madly, in another she saw herself standing lost and alone in the woods, the bracelet Klaus had given her held tightly in her hands as tears fell down her face coating her beautiful skin. In another, she saw herself leaning over a guy in a beautiful white dress coated with blood, speaking something as a women's hand cupped her shoulder guiding her. There was another vision in which she saw Rebekah running through the halls of a place looking half-mad as she screamed Marcel's name. Elena was distantly aware of Caroline calling her name. And she tried to focus on her voice before succumbing back to all those memories that her brain produced only those going over and over in her head each time from a different angle. She thought that they would never stop, keep going again and again before a sharp cry from Caroline's mouth brought her back to reality. Made her took control of herself again like she always did.
Elena took a deep breath as she tried to collect herself together. It took her a few seconds to do so, but when she finally did so she saw her blonde friend lying on the forest ground, with her neck snapped, hair framing her beautiful face. And just above her, standing over her was the same woman who had been following her a rope in her hand. Elena got up slowly her eyes never leaving the women's face. The woman raised her hands in the worldwide gesture of surrender,
" I didn't mean to snap your friend's neck, I just wanted to talk without vampires eavesdropping," Her voice was soft, but carried a hint of steel in it, she was making no effort to hide her opinion of the company that she kept.
" Well, how about introductions?" Elena asked as she raised her hand levitating Carolines' body to the ground. Changed or not Caroline Forbes would still have a fuss if her hair got wet. That, and it was also a gesture of power for whoever this girl was. The girl looked surprised but sat on the rock, occupying the very place Caroline had vacated not long ago.
" I am Eve," she said after she had settled down,
" I am Elena," Elena introduced herself,
" Elena Andrea, " Eve whispered, " I understand you might have some questions."
" Quite a few, but a confirmation first, this book that you gave me, are the people in their my family?"
" Yes, they are all part of your paternal family tree," Eve confirmed,
" Okay, " Elena replied a little breathlessly," Why were you following me? I read a little about the crescents you all are supposed to be a large group of werewolves and yet I don't see anyone, where is everyone? "
" I am following you Elena because you brought an original to a werewolf country. Which is the exact reason, everyone else scattered off. And if you want to know what happened to those people in the family tree, summing it up nice and quick, Marcel happened.
" Did he kill them?" Elena asked quietly, it shocked her how casual and cold her attitude was about death. Was it because someone had died because of her hand, she thought to herself as guilt churned up low in her stomach. She pushed his aside in the corner of her heart where her grief still resided behind closed doors always opening at a moment's notice. She needed to focus.
" Yes, most of them, later the descendants of the ones who dogged death, he sweet-talked a witch into putting a curse on them. We have been searching for you forever, her alphas thought that you would free our pack, your pack from the curse." Eve said. Elena hoped that she was not the key to unlocking another werewolf curse, she had no intention of dying, not now, when she had a hopeful future to look up to. But in the corner of her treacherous mind, she still wondered if she would sacrifice herself for the greater good of many like she had done many times before,
She couldn't find the answer.
" What kind of curse?" she asked aloud,
" Swap nature around, inside out. Made it so their natural state was wolves. They only turn back humans on the full moon. We get hunted by the marks we carry, that crescent moon birthmark" Eve said, and Elena knew which mark she was talking about, it after all had appeared on her skin after the time she first died.
" That's how I saw them, the two wolves..." Elena began but was cut off when she heard a voice crystal and clear,
" Good evening," Elijah said, before looking at Eve " weren't you the one watching us,"
Eve got up from the rock hastily trying to draw up an air of power and confidence which was greatly diminished by the stench of fear. Elena was slower getting up from the rock while Elijah looked from her to Caroline,
" It's a long story," Elena offered as a way of explanation as her feet landed on solid ground," How are you? Are you feeling okay?"
" Yes, I am back to my true self. Your solution however was a risky wager," he replied. Elena turned to Eve,
" I want to hear the whole story. I will come back, I will be going home now," she said to her and Eve scattered away but not before saying,
" You are our last hope, you need to help us. Keep that mark covered up,"
Elena watched her retreating back before walking back to where Caroline's body laid.
" What happened?" he asked,
" I just met part of family and Caroline here got her neck snapped."
" How long had she been out?"
" Not more than an hour,"
" It will take her hours to wake up then,"
" Not if I use magic to wake her up,"
" How do you know you can do so?"
" I just do."
True to her word Elena had been able to wake up Caroline after a few minutes. After the initial anger and confusion had passed from the blonde she had left for Mystic Falls in order to sid her other friends but not before giving the brunette a hug and promising to try to keep in touch. It was pretty vague but Elena would take whatever she was given. The unanswered questions between the girls had remained what it was unanswered, but Elena didn't mind that much for she already suspected that Caroline herself didn't know the answer to that herself.
After that, she and Elijah had driven back to the governor's home. Elena filling him on the visions to which he had demonstrated himself to be highly concerned. On Elena's insistence, he had also shared with her the sad and tragic ending of his once lover Celeste to which she had been both sympathetic and horrified.
" Let's go in and deal with my brother's temper," Elijah said to Elena as he opened the car gate and helped her out.
Elena sat at the staircase hearing the argument between the three siblings, her thoughts churning forming a conclusion of their own. She only got up when Klaus held the car gate opened for her driving her away to the place he had once called home. She wondered if this was the end of there always and forever while in a church somewhere Camille o' Conell finally figured it all out
Hello, Guys so here is another update, before saying anything else I would like to clarify two things =
1) In this fic, I would actually be going in-depth in Elena's character as she changes for better or worse. It is my understanding that grief and circumstances change everyone for the better or worse and it really annoys me that in most of the fanfics that I read the writer doesn't really go into how the character changes into someone braver or a more evil version of what he was. Like even in the vampire Diaries, I was super annoyed that they didn't really show us how Katerina actually changed into Katherine, yes Klaus killed her family and she was on the run for 500 years and she did everything to survive but I wanted to see that, see the change how she learned to manipulate people, how she turned so cold. I wanted to see that. But the point of my rant is that in this story Elena will be growing through a journey slowly of finding herself, of knowing who she really is, of having an identity for herself separate from being a mother, a werewolf queen, a Mikaelson, a gilbert, and a Petrova doppelganger. So don't get annoyed by too many mentions of the past Elena and the new Elena.
2) The reason that I have not yet set my mind for the final pairing of any character is to actually see the relationship take to progress, go slowly into something beautiful. I want to experiment with the relationships in the way I feel about them, and let the story take its way. I particularly want to do this for Klaroline and Kamille, since I have searched and searched and failed to find any particular fic which depicts both of the relationships in how they were. Klaus had something pure with both of them and they both helped him connect to his humanity in their own different way. So in this story, I will contrast them in a way in which they do not express Camille as a replacement for Caroline or a bitch and do not portray Klaus and, Caroline, as something childish in which they both simply use each other.
