Chapter 7 – Blood Haze

In the kitchen Elena and Sabrina set about fixing themselves sandwiches, while Kol sat and watched. Sabrina opened the cabinets until she found some plates and bread. Elena browsed the refrigerator looking for fixing for sandwiches. She pulled out a ham, blocks of cheese, lettuce and tomato.

Sabrina pulled out a couple of knives that she found in a drawer, handing one to Elena to carve the ham while she cut up the tomato and cheese. Elena took the knife and started carving the ham, when all of a sudden the knife slipped, cutting her hand.

"Ouch!"

Kol perked up at the scent of blood, he stood up unnoticed by the girls.

Sabrina grabbed a towel and was blotting at the cut to staunch the flow. "It doesn't look too bad and with your new accelerated healing you'll be alright." She told Elena.

"I know." Elena grunted. Elena grabbed hold of the towel while Sabrina washed the knife.

"Smells so good." Kol murmured, his eyes darkening as he vamped out.

"Kol!" Elena and Sabrina exclaimed in alarm.

"Come on love, just a little taste." Kol said as he slowly approached.

Elena backed into the counter, shrinking back as far as she could. Sabrina stepped in front of Elena, blocking Kol from reaching her.

"Kol, focus on me. You don't want your new sister's blood." Sabrina tried to reach Kol through his blood haze.

"Sabrina, love, move now."

"Kol!" Elena whimpered, "You have better control than this."

"Normally, but that was before I spelled your blood." Kol replied.

"Kol, you really don't want to do this." Sabrina tried again.

"Sabrina, move out of the way before you regret it." Kol threatened.

Part of him didn't want to hurt the witch, the other part wanted nothing but the doppelgänger's blood. He lunged forward, Sabrina stopped him with a witchy migraine.

Kol fell to the floor in pain, "You will pay for this!" Kol screamed.

"Elena, run!" Sabrina called out. She knew her power would not work on Kol for long. It was part of the deal made with Kol, she was breaking it by protecting Elena. She only hoped he would forgive her for this.

Elena took off running past Sabrina and the fallen Kol, as fast as she could, still clutching the towel in her hand. Apparently vamp speed was also part of her new abilities. She vamp sped through the back door and outside, not stopping, her only thought was running from Kol. She dropped the towel, not bothering to stop for it. She didn't really look where she was going as she ran and she collided with something hard. No, someone. She fell back to the ground and looked up at who she ran into hoping it wasn't Kol. It wasn't, it was Elijah, and he didn't look too happy.

Elena didn't pay any attention to how he looked or why he looked like that for the moment. She was too relieved to see him, she got up and threw her arms around him.

"Elijah!" She shrieked as tears started falling. "I'm so glad to see you!"

Elijah was surprised by her reaction, if it was her predecessor, he would have been suspicious. Katherine was known for being manipulative, and if she had been caught escaping would have tried to manipulate him with her tears. Elena wasn't like that, he didn't think so anyway.

"Elena?" He hesitantly asked.

Elena just sobbed into his chest, clinging to him. Elijah slowly picked her up, and started to carry Elena back to the house. He was surprised how far she had managed to run without being noticed. She was a good mile away from the house and apparently hadn't been paying attention where she was going when she ran because she was heading towards the falls and not town.

Meanwhile in the house, Kol had gotten angry at Sabrina and slapped her hard. Sabrina fell to the floor unconscious at the same time Elena made it out of the house and Kol snapped out of his blood haze. As his face returned to normal he blearily looked around, disoriented, and not remembering what had happened. He looked down and saw Sabrina on the floor.

"Oh no!" He breathed, "Sabrina!" He knelt down to examine her, seeing she was hurt badly, he bit his wrist and fed his blood to Sabrina. "Sabrina, love. Please drink!" He begged her, a few tears rolling down his face. "You have to tell me what happened. You have to uphold the bargain, I've waited so long! I need you Sabrina!"

Sabrina drank the blood and started to regain consciousness. She woke up to see Kol and shrank back a little certain she was going to be punished. Then she noticed the tears running down his face, his now normal face.

"Kol." She whispered, part of her still afraid.

"Oh thank goodness!" Kol cried. "I thought I was going to lose you! What happened?"

"You don't remember?" She asked.

Kol shook his head as Sabrina looked at him confused, unsure what to say. What in the world had just happened?

Elijah had decided to vamp speed to the house so he could calm her down and hopefully find out what had happened. He entered the house calling for his family at the same time. He moved into the living room and moved to lay her down on the couch. Elena, however, refused to let go of him, so he sat down still holding her. He arranged her so that he cradled her with her head resting on his shoulder.

"Shhh." He tried to soothe her.

Niklaus entered the room, "What in the world is going on?" He demanded. Elijah shrugged. "What's wrong with the girl?" He asked.

"I don't know, I found her running full vamp speed towards the falls."

"Vamp speed?" Niklaus asked intrigued.

Elijah glared at him, "Is that all you picked up on?"

Niklaus shrugged, "No, but she's hardly in the condition for me to focus on the fact she was running away."

"Elena was running away?" Sage asked as she entered the room.

"Why was she running away?" Finn asked, as he sat down on a chair pulling his wife onto his lap.

"Hmm. Maybe she had had enough with Nik." Rebekah said from the doorway. "After all most girls run from him."

Niklaus growled at his sister, his eyes flashing yellow. Rebekah smirked and walked to the other side of the room from Niklaus.

"Did I touch a nerve, Nik?" She teased. Niklaus growled again, barely managing from wolfing out and attacking her.

"Enough." Elijah stated coldly. "You're getting off topic. Now can someone tell me what happened to our sister?"

Finn, Sage, and Rebekah shrugged. "We haven't seen her since breakfast." They said.

Niklaus growled, "Don't look at me. She was fine when she left after donating some blood. I sent her to the kitchen to fix herself a sandwich."

"Not Nik," Elena choked out through her tears, "Kol."

"Kol?" Everyone voiced at once.

"'Lijah," Elena whimpered.

Elijah looked down at her and she moved his hand to her right temple. Suddenly, he was on the kitchen watching from Elena's point of view. He watched in surprise and concern as he watched Kol try to attack her, and Sabrina.

"Kol attacked her," he whispered as he came out of her memory. "She cut her finger and he went blood crazy."

"I did what?" Kol asked in shock, coming into the room supporting Sabrina. "I did no such thing."

Elena whimpered and snuggled into Elijah's chest, turning her head away from the room and burying it in Elijah's chest.

"Don't lie to us, Kol." Elijah snapped. "There is no excuse for attacking our sister!"

"I didn't attack her," Kol hissed.

Sabrina winced, she hadn't gotten a chance to tell him what had happened. "Kol." She stated softly. Kol looked down at her. "You did attack her." She placed her hand on his forehead, sharing her memory with him.

"No!" Kol shouted horrified letting go of Sabrina and dropping to his knees. "What did I do?"

"I don't understand," Finn mused, "Kol is impetuous and impatient but he has good control and he has never blacked out before."

"I think I might have an idea." Sabrina whispered as she knelt down besides Kol, putting her arm around him. "I think it was Elena's blood. She took the towel with her, so as soon as she was out of the house there was no trace of it. Kol snapped right out of his blood haze."

The others stared at her, mulling over what she shared. By now Elena has calmed down, she still stayed snuggled in Elijah's arms but now she spoke up.

"I think she's right." Elena whispered, she cleared her throats and spoke a little louder. "I think the ritual messed with our blood. Klaus fed me some blood earlier and I couldn't stop drinking it, it was more desirable that any blood I've ever had before. Kol reacted the same way to my blood as I wanted to react to Klaus'."

"But why didn't Nik react that way to Elena's blood when he was collecting it this morning." Rebekah spoke up.

"Because my blood wasn't really exposed to the air, it was in the tubes and blood bags." Elena responded as she sat up, still leaning on Elijah who had allowed her to move but still kept a protective arm around her shoulders. Elena leaned into his side.

"Hmm, and I was too absorbed in distracting 'Lena with stories of my past, to even think about her blood." Niklaus spoke up.

"It's certainly plausible." Elijah mused. "Sabrina, do you think you can figure out what is going on?"

Sabrina nodded, "I just need some time to pour over my grimoires." She replied. "I want Kol to stay with me, until we know what is going on though."

Kol protested, afraid he was going to hurt her again, but the others agreed with her. She stood, pulling him up and out of the room.

"Well, there is nothing else to be done. I suggest we regroup tomorrow and see what progress the witch has made." Niklaus stated.

The others agreed and everyone trickled out of the room, leaving Elena and Elijah alone on the couch.

"'Lijah." Elena said softly. "Can you take me to my room, I'm tired."

Elijah agreed, noticing for the first time her use of his siblings' nickname for him. He picked her up in his arms, and Elena allowed him to carry her up to her room. She begged him to stay until she fell asleep, Elijah agreed and sat down on the bed, running his hand through her hair. Elena drifted off to sleep, feeling protected and cared for the first time since before Niklaus had come to town.