Sorry took for taking forever...life happened and plus my laptop got a virus so I had to take it to a shop. I'm just glad to have it back. :)
Mikaelson Mansion
Omniscient POV
Rebekah pours several drinks as she talks to Hayley. "I don't care if we have to get you a leash, that was your last trip to the Bayou. What is it with you and those wolves, anyway?"
"I feel like we're connected somehow. I don't know. Maybe it's just some pipe dream that I have of finding any real family out there. But sometimes, when I feel like it's me against the world, it keeps me going."
Rebekah gives Hayley a sympathetic look and hands her a drink. Hayley side-eyes her, and Rebekah suddenly remembers that Hayley is pregnant and can't drink, so she drinks Hayley's class of bourbon in one gulp before pouring her own.
"Oh, right. Well, if you ask me, family is a pain in the behind."
Hayley rolls her eyes as Rebekah continues on. "And as for being in it alone, how dare you? I don't ruin a perfectly fabulous pair of boots traipsing through the Bayou for just anyone."
Hayley smiles and Rebekah downs her second drink. Their conversation is interrupted by Klaus walking through the front door.
Rebekah becomes relieved as she saw Klaus. "Nik, finally! What-"
Elijah walks through the door after his brother with a huge smile. Rebekah runs to Elijah and hugs him tight. Elijah sees Hayley over Rebekah's shoulder, and they smile at each other, though Hayley leaves the room right afterward.
"Elijah! You're safe! Now that you're home, is your first plan to kill Niklaus?"
Elijah smiles at her then responds to her by kissing her on a cheek, "Excuse me just a moment."
He walks through the living room toward the back yard.
Rebekah gets confused by Elijah's leaving. "Where's he going?"
Elijah walks out the back door, where he finds Hayley standing on the patio.
Hayley smiles awkwardly. "You're back."
Elijah grins. "I'm back."
The two look at each other for a moment and then Hayley slaps him on his cheek.
"Don't make promises you can't keep." Hayley turns to leave. "Welcome home."
Elijah touches his face where she slapped him and smiles to himself as Hayley heads inside.
As Elijah walks in the living room, Rebekah was talking to Klaus. "Should I call Kayla and let her know that Elijah is free?"
It caught his attention and he stopped, staring at Rebekah. "Kayla? You mean Kayla Henderson?"
Rebekah frowns at him. "Yes….how did you know?"
Klaus turns to Elijah. "You knew her? She's a witch, you know that?"
Elijah unbuttons his blazer, and then sat down on the chair nearby. "Yes, I knew of her. I used to work with her late grandmother years ago. When we were in trouble, I came to her because she was famous for certain things and she was practicing alone, not with the coven. As time went by, she and I got to know each other quite well and that is when she first told me about her granddaughter."
Flashback
June 2009
Maggie Henderson was tending to her garden when she pauses, sensing that someone was here. She then smiles and continued on her garden. "Hello, Elijah."
Elijah walks up behind her and lets out a chuckle. "How did you know that I was here?"
Maggie wipes her forehead with her gloved hand and stood up, facing Elijah.
"I told you, I have a sixth sense... and that I'm a witch too."
Elijah smiles gently. "Of course."
Maggie takes her gloves off and puts them in the basket. "Did everything go well like I instructed you to?"
Elijah nodded and Maggie smiles again. "Great. Now, let's have lemonade like we agreed on."
Maggie walks slowly to her back porch, where the glasses were waiting for them.
Elijah sat down in a white rocking chair while Maggie pours him a glass of lemonade, then pours her own glass and sat down.
Elijah sips his glass, then set it down and paused before responding. "Why did you leave New Orleans, Maggie?"
Maggie set her glass down after sipping and stares at him with her blue eyes.
"Because I had to take my granddaughter out. She was in danger."
"Your granddaughter? I didn't realize you had her with you."
"That is because I am keeping her far away from your kind and the supernatural creatures. Even my kind. She doesn't know that I'm a witch or that her mother was a powerful witch and I intend to keep it that way."
Elijah frowns at her. "Why? Why wouldn't you raise her and teach her about your ways?"
"Because my daughter was killed since she was a witch. I don't want to lose my granddaughter in the same way. She deserves a normal life. As far as she knows about her mother, her mom was killed in a car crash and that I took her in when she was five years old…that's it. It's for her protection."
Elijah shakes his head slowly. "Maggie, what you are doing is wrong. She deserves to know about her kind and other things in the world. Maggie, if she finds out about it, it will be like a culture shock to her and she will have doubts and confusion in her life."
Maggie started to rock her chair while staring at Elijah and taking in what he had said to her.
"Look, Elijah, I know you don't agree with me, but this is what my husband and I agreed on. She will find out when she gets older and she'll learn how to accept this. I know Kayla, Elijah. She's a very smart and strong person and I have a feeling that she'll be okay. Plus, she got you. I am not going to ask you to protect her or anything like that, but just be there for her when she has questions. If something happens to me, come here and meet her."
"Fine, Maggie. I'll be here for her. Where is she by the way?"
"She's at her college. If you would like to see what she looks like, I have a picture of her. Hold on."
Maggie stood up and walks inside for a brief moment, then came out with a picture frame.
"Here's my Kayla," Maggie says, passing it to Elijah.
Elijah examines the picture and smiles. "She's beautiful."
Kayla was posed near the weeping tree, her brown wavy hair flying in the wind, and she had the biggest smile on her face.
Elijah gives it back to her. "She was very happy in this picture because she had found out that she got accepted to her dream college. She wants to be a biology teacher. I think she'll be great with the kids."
Elijah nods. "I'm sure she will be… but she should know about her supernatural side."
Maggie smiles at him. "I know…she will know in the future."
Back to present
"So, you're telling me that Kayla never knew about it until her grandmother passed away?" Rebekah says, sitting in front of Elijah. Klaus had joined her as Elijah told his story.
"According to Maggie, she never did. When I saw Kayla at the memorial service, she didn't know about me. She thought that Maggie was a bank teller. "
"Right. So she's here to find out more about her side." Klaus stood up and walks to the bar.
"I assume so, brother. Now, I am going to see her and let her know about the meeting. We need to have a family meeting and I think she should be involved since she has saved Hayley."
"Fine, Elijah. Go see her." Rebekah says, walking away.
Elijah smirks at his sister's departing back and looks at Klaus. "I know you don't like her, but you must be on your best behavior tonight. Understood?"
Klaus smirks at him and downs his whiskey in one gulp. He sets it down hard, staring at Elijah. "Welcome back, brother. You're in charge of us now."
Kayla's House
Kayla's POV
I chose to take a taxi from the cemetery as it was raining really hard. As I arrived to the gate, I gave the driver the cash for the service and tip before getting out into the pounding rainstorm.
I unlocked the gate and ran to the house before reaching the front door. I was so drenched that I was looking forward to my warm bubble bath.
I was breathing heavily from running as I searched for my keys in my bag. I finally found the keys and put it on the door knob, then realized that someone was watching me. I felt my hair on the back of my neck stood straight up.
I slowly put my bag down and left the keys in the door knob.
I back up from the door slowly, and then turn around quickly. I could see the dark human-shaped shadow sitting on the swing.
"Who the hell are you?" I said loudly to this shadow, preparing myself to do a protection spell.
The shadow stood up and walks slowly to me.
"Again, who are you!" I asked again and the shadow flew at me so fast that I didn't have time to react or do a spell.
The shadow grabs my neck and flew me against the door, hitting my head so hard that it almost knocked me out.
He was strangling me with his hands as I tried to push him away. I gasped for air as I watched this man's eyes changed to blood, realizing that he was a vampire.
I whimper as I tried to cast a spell. "Ah Sha Lana"
It was supposed to inflict pain against him, but he was too strong. I could feel myself slowly passing out as I tried to scratch his hands, but it made him angry and he growls at me, exposing his fangs at me.
"No, please!"
He bites into my neck and I scream in pain. Something pulls him off me so fast and I fell down on the floor, whimpering as I grabbed my bleeding neck.
I heard something squishy, then the footprints walking quickly to me. I let out a moan as I felt someone taking me into his arms.
"Kayla? Can you hear me?" I remember his voice, but didn't know where I knew him from. I opened my eyes for the first time since the attack and saw that it was Elijah.
"Elijah?" I whisper, before the darkness took over me.
Elijah's POV
As I walked to Kayla's house, I heard her scream and I rushed up there, grabbing the vampire off from her and threw him across the porch. I rush to him, punching into his chest and took his heart out. I then drop his slowly pounding heart and walked to Kayla, who was lying on the floor, her hand holding on to her bleeding neck.
I took her into my arms. "Kayla? Can you hear me?" I asked, moving her hair from her face. Her eyes were closed, but she frowned when I spoke to her.
She then opened her green eyes to me and whisper to me, "Elijah?" before she passed out.
"Kayla! Hey, wake up." I shook her gently but she didn't respond. I knew that she was still alive because I could hear her heart beating quietly but knew that it wasn't good.
I let out a grunt as I pick her up and bridal-style carried her, rushing to my house.
Mikaelson Mansion
Omniscient POV
Elijah opened the front door so hard that it hit against the wall, causing a banging noise. Rebekah rushed from the living room and let out a loud gasp as she saw unconscious Kayla in his arms as he rush towards her.
"Oh my god, what happened?!" Rebekah rushed to him, examining Kayla.
"Some vampire attacked her and now she's unconscious. We need to get my blood in her. Come on."
Rebekah nods as she hurried to the guest bedroom with Elijah upstairs. As they arrived in the guest room, Elijah puts her down on the bed and examines her neck.
"Good, it's not bleeding anymore. But we still need to get the blood in her to heal the wounds that she must have gotten from that damn vampire."
Klaus storm in after hearing the commotion. "What the bloody is going on?! What-" Klaus stopped when he saw her.
Rebekah places a cold compress against Kayla's forehead, then left the room to get stuff for Kayla. "What happened?" Klaus asked as he walks near to his brother, who is sitting on the bed now.
Elijah took his blazer off quickly and starts to roll up one of his sleeves up so he could expose his forearm.
"Some vampire attacked her so I got him off quickly, but it was too late. He had bitten her already. She has been unconscious for about 15 minutes now. Now, pass me the knife," Elijah says, holding his hand out for the knife.
Klaus took the knife from the dresser and gives it to Elijah, who then slowly cuts his forearm. He lets out a pained hiss.
Elijah grabs a crystal glass and lets his blood drip into the glass until he was satisfied that it was enough for her to drink.
While Elijah was donating his blood, Klaus watched him. "What about the vampire? What happened to him?"
Elijah looked at him with his angry dark eyes. "What do you think? I killed him."
"You shouldn't have done that! We could have found out why that vampire was trying to kill Kayla and was he sent by Marcel?"
"Why would Marcel send that vampire after her? She hasn't done anything or I've heard so far."
Klaus lets out a frustrated growl and left the room. Elijah puts the glass down on the table next to the bed and waited until his cut healed up quickly. He then took her face in his hands.
"Kayla… can you hear me? Wake up… come on," Elijah whispers, patting her cheek gently. Soon enough, Kayla begins to stir, letting out a moan.
She opens her eyes and her green eyes focused on his face. "Elijah?"
Elijah smiles at her softly. "Hey, welcome back. Now, this is important. You need to drink my blood so you can recover quickly and it'll heal the wounds that you received in the attack tonight."
Kayla gasps softly as she tried to move her neck, but the pain stopped her. "Elijah… something is wrong. I can feel it." She was feeling dizzy and felt like that she was going to throw up any second.
Elijah hushes her. "Shh..shh. You'll be fine. Now come on, it'll taste gross, but you'll feel better soon," he says, taking the glass to her lips.
Kayla could smell the metallic scent of the blood and almost gagged but didn't. She pauses, looking at Elijah.
Elijah nods at her and she leans against the glass, opening her lips gently to the blood. She suppresses her gags as she drank the blood. After she finished, she leans back into the pillow and wipes her mouth with her hand.
"Good, now you should start feeling better."
Kayla nods and closed her eyes for a moment. Kayla begins to feel uncomfortable and felt like she was on fire. "Elijah, am I supposed to feel like that I'm on a fire?"
Kayla opens her eyes to him and he looked like that he was worried. "No, you shouldn't…"
Elijah pauses and removes the cold compress, resting his hand against her forehead. Elijah immediately got concerned when he realized that she was very hot to the touch. He also realizes that her neck wound was not closing up like it should.
"Kayla, you're burning up…."
Kayla begins to sit up, grabbing her stomach. "Elijah, I don't feel so good…." She says before puking up the blood over the bed, which caused him to back up quickly.
She lets out a sob as she finished puking and falls back onto the bed. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry…"
Elijah stepped over the vomit and comforted her by saying, "Hey, hey, it's okay. We'll get you some help. Okay, stay here."
Kayla lets out a moan and closes her eyes. Elijah walks to the door quickly and belt out Rebeckah's name.
Rebekah got there at a lightning speed with a blanket and first aid kit. "What? Elijah…oh my god."
Rebekah saw the bloody vomit on the ground and glanced at Elijah's worried face. "Get Sophie. Something's wrong with Kayla and my blood is not healing her. She's really hot to touch."
Rebekah nodded and gave him the first aid kit and the blanket. "Take those and put the bandages on her wounds while I go get her."
Before Rebekah was about to leave, Elijah stops her by pulling her forearm. "Is Hayley asleep?"
Rebekah nods at him and Elijah lets out a relieved sigh. "Good, make sure that she doesn't come in….I don't need her to worry about Kayla now. Now, go!"
Rebekah sped down the stairs and he heard the front doors close.
He then went back to Kayla. He opens the first aid kit and took out some gauze and tape, and then tended to her wounds.
Klaus came back with the towels after smelling the bloody vomit and Elijah pressed it down on the floor, covering it up.
"What's wrong with Kayla, brother?" Klaus asks, frowning at her as she slept.
Elijah shook his head, pressing the cold compress on her forehead. "I have no idea… I have never seen this before, Klaus. Rebekah is getting Sophie right now so maybe she'll figure it out. For now, we have to keep an eye on her and make sure that she doesn't get worse."
Klaus notices something in her hand and frowned. He bent down and pushed the sleeve from her hand, revealing the black veins growing and moving up slowly on her pale arm. "Elijah…."
Klaus glances up in shock to Elijah and they were thinking the same thing: Poison.
I wonder who poisoned her? Who do you think sent the vampire to poison her? Let's find out soon. Part 3 will be updated soon hopefully. I would love to hear from you guys. Thanks again.
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