Chapter 12: Month Six, part 2- Bonds and Marriage

Elena was running as fast as she could but even in her pregnancy, it wasn't fast enough as the dark haired witch-Dahlia, she said her name was-didn't stop chasing her or using her magic to try to slow her down.

She needed to leave this dreamscape but she couldn't find the exit.

As the Parker twins and Davina were working on undoing the spell on Elena, the compound was filled with Hayley and her pack.

"What happened to my sister?" She raged. Elijah bit back a growl and had to lock his muscles in place instead of standing near Elena.

Rebekah was going to try her hand at playing peacemaker.

"None of us are sure-one minute she was fine and the next she collapsed in Elijah's arms." Rebekah reiterated. "We think a witch had something to do with this and we have three witches helping us out with this problem."

"Maybe I can go into her dreamscape and help her." Hayley saw a dark skinned girl say as she appeared. "There's another spell that we can use to send a blood relative to help her but because the baby…we can send two people into her dreamscape."

"I'm going." Hayley growled while Elijah nodded.

The girl nodded and as she had them sit on either side of the pregnant wolf's head, the two blondes and Davina began to do the spell.

Elijah and Hayley were in the dreamscape and as they heard Elena scream; they ran as fast as they could.

They found her, pressed up against a door and a dark haired woman with her hand around the wolf's throat.

Hayley and Elijah both saw red and as they attacked the woman, she was surprised and she vanished.

Elijah was in front of Elena, his hands cupping her cheeks and a small smile was on his face while her face broke out into a wide smile.

"You're okay! You both are." He whispered.

"There's something you should know." Klaus told Bonnie. The Anchor looked at him. Davina realized that he was going to tell this girl what he had her do.

"What is it?" Bonnie asked.

"Davina here did a spell for me…that changed that baby's parentage." He told her. "That baby is a hybrid like I am. Elena is pregnant…with Elijah's child now."

Bonnie was wide eyed in shock.

"She wants my baby Elijah!" Elena whispered. "That witch-Dahlia-said something about wanting what is rightfully hers and it's this baby! I'm not going to give up my daughter!"

"Our daughter my lovely wolf." He whispered. "Even if she isn't mine biologically, she is mine no matter what."

Hayley turned her head, allowing them to have this moment. It was touching and sweet, seeing how he was attentive to her sister and the baby.

He was good for her sister, that much was known with the way he was protective and before they even entered the dreamscape.

"If you two are done with that…we have more pressing matters to attend to." Hayley called as her eyes spied a man running at vampire speed towards them. "We got company."

"Are you sure that this is going to work?" Klaus asked the Anchor. Bonnie leveled him with a glare.

"Right now, this is just a probability." She snapped. "We have three witches and one of them is a little teen."

Davina bristled at the 'little teen' comment and used a spell to break most of Bonnie's bones until Kol held Davina and was whispering to her something in her ear that made little sense to him but it calmed the girl down immensely.

"Please tell me that the spell can be done quickly as we're on a tight schedule." One of the wolves barked at Bonnie.

"If we do this fast then something horrible could happen so we need some time for it. Understand?" Bonnie managed to snarl out at the wolf.

"You take Elena somewhere safe while I hold him-" he stopped as the dark haired woman appeared and stood in front of Mikael with a dark gleam in her eye.

"If this is my dreamscape…why am I seeing two people who I've never met in my life?" Elena asked and that made them look at each other.

"What does your dreamscape look like?" Hayley asked and as Elena closed her eyes, the surroundings changed to that of a lake.

"Zephyr Cove." Hayley breathed.

"This is my peaceful place." She admitted to them. "I don't know why but I always feel at peace here."

"She was six and I was ten when our parents took us out on a trip here." Hayley explained as Elena sat down. "It was the only family trip we went on."

Elijah ended up thinking that he was going to have to rectify that. He was going to take her and the baby girl on as many family trips as Elena wants. As he sat beside her, he held her hand and laid them over her bump.

"I was thinking of naming the baby Hope." He told her softly. Elena smiled at him.

"That sounds perfect." She told him lovingly as she laid her head on his shoulder.

As the spell had been practiced about twenty times already, Klaus and Kol could see how peaceful Elijah looked, as he lay unconscious next to his wolf love.

"Are we ready yet?" One of the wolves snarled when another one barked back at him.

"Calm down Oliver!" The one who was snarling-Oliver-growled.

"Why do we even need to be here? That girl isn't a member of our pack!" The one who barked at Oliver was glaring at him.

"Though all of you disowned her she is still a Labonair by blood! She is still a member of this pack no matter what you believe!"

"Luke, Liv, Davina…start the spell." Klaus ordered.

The three witches began to chant.

Elena, Elijah and Hayley felt their consciousness' float away from where they were.

Elena gasped as she sat up but Elijah, who woke up before her, calmed her down by pulling her into his arms. He was pressing kisses to her neck and clavicle as his hands were rubbing her bump lovingly.

Hayley looked away from them again, the sweet moment again that they shared in the dream dimension was now playing out here and as her eyes met Jackson's, she smiled at him.

As she got up from where she was sitting, she began to walk towards him and he met her half way.

"Elena?" The pregnant wolf looked at her with a furrowed brow. "Bring Elijah with you to the Bayou tonight."

Elijah was worried as he and Elena entered the Bayou when the wolves were on either side of an aisle. As Hayley came walking down the aisle, a crown of peonies atop her head, the wolf queen stood in front of Elena.

"You and your child will be a part of this pack just like Elijah." The queen told them. "This is for your bonding ceremony."

Elijah tensed up at the words. From what he knew about werewolf bonding ceremonies is that the wolf and their intended mate have to be stripped down to their underthings. As the wolf bites their intended, their intended bites them, causing the intended to be a wolf once they have their first kill.

"Has this been done between a wolf and a vampire?" Elijah asked. Hayley shook her head.

"No. This would be the first one." She said with a smile. "It's why I asked for Sophie and some other witches to be here for this."

As soon as the words escaped her mouth, not only was his family there but also there was Sophie, Davina and a few other witches that he's never seen in his life. Klaus grinned and as he moved Elijah to another place, he was still smirking at him.

"Go down to our boxer briefs." Klaus ordered him. "You and Elena are going through the bonding ceremony tonight brother. Congrats."

Elijah chuckled and as he stripped down, he looked at him nervously.

"Do you think that I'm going to become a hybrid like you with this ceremony?"

"Possibly. Don't worry, I'll help you with keeping control." Klaus said gently as he was happy that his brother was going through with a wolf bonding.

Knowing that it was rare for the wolf's intended's family to be at one, it meant that they could have peace.

Once they were in the area where the bonding ceremony was going to take place, Elijah was wide eyed as Elena was in her underthings as well though hers were white.

Hayley was standing where the priest would be standing and beside her was Sophie.

"Hold your right hand over the goblet." Sophie ordered as she handed Hayley a golden colored goblet and as the two did hold their right hand over it, Hayley used the knife and slit their palms over the lines on there. "The blood of life and wolf fall together in the goblet."

"Now it is time for you both to drink it." Hayley intoned. Elijah drank first and then Elena. "Elena…you must bite him and Elijah, when she bites you, you need to bite her."

"This won't hurt the baby, right?" He worried. Hayley nodded.

"It won't hurt the baby. At all." He took a breath and as he bared his throat for Elena, she bit him as he bit her. Her blood tasted decadent on his tongue. Once they pulled away from their wounds, Elijah licked the wound on her neck as she did the same to his.

Hayley stepped back and Sophie took her spot.

"Instead of having you kill a human, I'll have to unlock it with magic which will hurt." Sophie said in apology and as she began to chant, he could feel his muscles contort painfully.

It was agonizing and he knew why Klaus had only shifted twice in his life. It was as agonizingly painful that it would make anyone want to shut it off but he must be a masochist because he was embracing the pain.

Once it was over with, he sniffed Elena and bared his teeth at the others who were surrounding them, his protective instincts coming through.

Her fingers went through his mahogany fur and he looked up at her with his dark eyes. She smiled and as he nuzzled her bump, he was rewarded with the baby's kick. He let out a howl of happiness.

"Can you change back into a human for me? Please?" Elena asked him and as he ran off, he felt the same pain in his joints and muscles shift. Grabbing his trousers, he slid them on and walked over to them.

"I love you Elena." He whispered and kissed her.

"I love you more my noble wolf." She whispered back.

"From this day forward, Elena Marshall and Elijah Mikaelson are members of this pack!" Hayley shouted.

There was some applause to her words but Elijah didn't really care. He touched her bump and the baby kicked again.

"This bonding was just a bonding, correct?" Klaus asked, curious because he knew that the blood change at the beginning of the bonding was used in marriage bonds.

"It was a bond and a marriage bit." Hayley admitted to him. "We both know that they would have gotten married so I had it done on my terms."

Why you invited us." He motioned towards his family and their mates. She nodded.

"I thought you would like to witness a marriage and a bonding."