Summary: After Damon and Stefan rescue Elena from Elijah, they forget to also rescue Maddison Bennett, also known as Maddie. Elijah ends up finding her and as time passes they grown an instant connection with one another. Maddie knows that it's wrong and she ultimately shouldn't be with Elijah, but she doesn't care. This is her story.
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Before the Sun Sets
CHAPTER 37 ~ Thankful
I DO NOT OWN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
"Hey Matt!"
"Hey Maddie," Matt gave Maddie a smile. It was the day before their Thanksgiving break and the two were waiting for biology to finally start. "How are you today?"
"Living," she added a laugh even though the two of them knew that had more meaning to it then it should. Then again, they were living in Mystic Falls. "You ready for Thanksgiving?"
Lucky enough they had the day off tomorrow and then the day after was Thanksgiving. Maddie had taken her parents two days before so that they could catch their flight to Buffalo and then she had to wait around so that she could be there when Cordelia's flight landed. Now she was just anxious to get the hell out of school.
"I guess so."
"Do you want to come to my house?"
From the look on his face she could tell he wouldn't be coming, "Thank you for the invite but Caroline has already called dibs."
"No problem," she said, "maybe I'll just take you for Christmas."
Matt laughed allowed, "You know you don't have to worry about me."
"Well I do," it was honest. She knew he didn't have the best home life and anyway that she could help him or spend time with him she would. As their teacher walked in Maddie let out a long, exasperated breath, "I am not ready for this double period."
"Just look at it this way," Matt muttered, "after this you get to go home."
"Nope," she muttered, "I'm supposed to go to gym but I have a band lesson."
"Why?"
"Our concert is coming up, besides who needs gym when you are about to start lacrosse work outs, mind you the actual season won't begin until end of February, early March," she threw him one of her fake smiles.
"Ouch," the smile on his face stayed, "you know I think your coach works you guys harder than Tanner worked us."
"You miss him?"
Matt looked at her and she him before they laughed together. Noting the look on their teacher's face they instantly quieted down, but they were still chuckling. Going into the second part of bio they were done with their lab early, mostly because Maddie had worked on the questions at home so she was able to help Matt.
"Where's Ric?" She asked as they sat back and chatted, "I haven't seen him in a while."
"Ric is away." She understood by his tone that he was uncomfortable.
"What do you mean by away?"
"You really don't know, do you?" She shook her head as a no.
"Do I want to?"
"Probably not but for your safety I'm going to tell you anyways."
"Alright."
"How far along are you?"
"I know that they're still linked," she chose not to mention the possibility about their being wood out there that could be turned into stakes and kill the originals. Even though Matt was her friend she was still wary about how much she mentioned.
"I don't know all the details," his voice turned quiet so she leaned into him to hear better, "but Damon knew some girl that could get into Rebekah's head."
"Great another witch in town," she muttered.
"I don't know if she was a witch but she found out that there was a possibility to kill the originals with some wood in town."
Her heart almost stopped, "Go on."
"She also happened to be in love with the oldest brother Finn, I think he's the oldest anyways and she read Damon's mind about wanting to kill them all. So together, she and Rebekah burned down the bridge."
"That's what happened?" She had overheard her parents talking about it but she hadn't been paying that much attention.
Matt nodded, continuing, "Yeah. So anyways Damon was pissed but they ended up with some wood and Stefan made twelve stakes." Fuck. "We all got one, but Rebekah got mad at Damon for using her so she took him to her house and was torturing him. While all of that was happening, I was able to kill Finn with one of the stakes I got."
"You what?" She felt her eyes getting bigger, because she spoke a little louder than intended she looked around to make sure that no one was paying attention to their conversation, "Matt please tell me they don't know it was you who killed him."
"I'm not sure," he answered honestly.
"While they might not get along he was still their brother," she spoke, "and I really don't want to end up at your funeral next."
"I don't know if they know that I did it."
She processed everything that he had said, "I don't understand though, how are the other originals still alive if you killed Finn?" She had just talked to Elijah the night before so he was obviously still alive.
"Klaus got Bonnie to remove the link." Thank god. "The problem is Klaus and Rebekah still had Damon. From what Care said before Stefan could go get Klaus Sage busted in and wanted to kill them all."
"Sage?"
"The girl in love with Finn but she ended up dying before she could cause any real harm."
"What do you mean dying?"
"When an original dies so does everyone of their bloodline."
"And do we know whose bloodline Damon, Stefan and Caroline belong to?"
"Not yet. Damon and Elena are away trying to figure it out now."
"So basically you have a whole bunch of stakes that can kill all of the originals and you're just waiting to find out whose bloodline everyone comes from?"
"Not exactly." Matt looked around and was satisfied when he saw people working on their labs or invested in their cell phones, "When Stefan went to go get Damon from Klaus and Rebekah he brought some of the stakes over there and told them Finn was dead. He wanted to exchange the stakes for Damon."
"But?"
"But he had already been there so long that Klaus was able to compel Damon. Stefan told Klaus there were eight stakes but there were really eleven left."
"Right, and then?"
"And then they let Damon go."
"And now?"
"And now Damon and Elena are going to see Jeremy."
"What can Jeremy do besides talk to the dead," she said sarcastically. Matt gave her a pointed look, "Oooh. Well who do they want him to talk to?"
"Some chick named Rose."
Rose. An image of her popped into Maddie's head. She first remembered the woman that kidnapped her and then though of her dying from a werewolf bite.
"Well," she said after about a minute of silence, "there's always something happening in this damn town, isn't there?"
Matt nodded at her. "Listen, for what it's worth, I hope that they don't kill Elijah."
"Thanks, but unless they are from his line, which would most likely be to good to be true, Elijah is fucked." Matt looked at her sadly. "But you forgot to tell me about Ric."
"Right, well um, I don't know how to put this," he looked to be deep in thought, "Ric has been killing people."
"What do you mean killing people?"
"I mean his ring did something weird so now he has an alter ego and hates vampires," he leaned in closer to her, "he also killed Care's dad."
"He what?"
Matt nodded sadly, "Yeah, it's crazy. He's just staying away right now."
"Is there anything that anyone can do to help him?"
Matt shook his head, "I don't think so."
"So most likely we'll have another funeral to attend."
Matt nodded, "Yeah, probably."
"Did you bring the list?" Cordelia asked Maddie as the pulled into a parking lot at the grocery store. Maddie nodded, getting out of the car. Her sister followed. As they began walking towards the carts Maddie could hear the sound of the doors locking in the distance.
"Of course I did."
"I think mom doubts our abilities to pull this off," Cordelia noted as they made there way inside the store. "We'll prove her wrong."
Even though their parents were going to be in Buffalo for Thanksgiving Maddie and Cordelia had decided they would still cook. Janette had thought that they were joking until they video chatted the night before. The girls didn't miss how miserable their dad looked. They later texted him that night telling him how sorry they felt that he had to deal with Janette's mother, but they were more so happy that they didn't have to deal with her.
"Do we need cold cuts?" Cordelia wondered.
"I'll get them, you go get the fruit." The two nodded at one another going their separate ways.
The store was packed with people but the line wasn't too long so Maddie was able to get her things pretty quickly. She met back up with Cordelia as she was leaving the fruit section. Together they went toward the meet.
"Please don't tell me there are no turkey's left," muttered Cordelia.
"I think we're out of luck."
"Well that's just great."
"Not so fast love." Both girls turned around at the same time.
"Klaus."
"In the flesh."
"Now what are you doing here?" Cordelia wondered, gesturing around, "This is a grocery store."
"I'm quite aware."
"Don't tell me you needed some extra stuff for Thanksgiving."
"I was actually coming to invite you and your sister to my house for the holiday."
"Really?" Cordelia crossed her arms, "And why's that?"
"Well, my family and I will be getting together and I think you and your sister would be a great addition."
"Mhm, any other catch?"
"What if I told you that you fascinate me?" Klaus wondered, taking a step closer.
"I'd tell you she has a boyfriend," Maddie said, loud enough so that they could both hear her.
"I thought that they were no longer together," a glint appeared in his eyes.
Cordelia cocked her head to the side, while Maddie stood there with her mouth opening and closing. She turned to face her sister, "You and Nathan broke up?"
"It's complicated," she muttered, ignoring her sister and giving Klaus her full attention, "now how would you know about that?" She hadn't said anything to anyone about it considering she wasn't really sure where they stood anymore.
"I know about everything when it comes to you."
Maddie felt her eyes go wide. What the fuck was going on, she thought to herself. She had thought that Klaus was into Caroline but now it looked like he was into her sister.
"Sound stalkerish."
Klaus shrugged, "Call it what you want. But my offer still stands, so what do you girls say?" The sisters looked at one another, not saying much of anything.
"Who's cooking?"
"I've hired-," Klaus was cut off before he could finish.
"I don't think so," Cordelia stated, "how about you just come to our house. I'd rather cook my own meal than eat something you hired the help to do. No offense."
Maddie felt out of place, like she shouldn't have been apart of the conversation, "Right," Klaus said softly, "well then, what time should we be there by?"
Cordelia looked at Maddie, "What time should they be there?"
Maddie shrugged, "I wanna be on the road by seven that night."
"Going somewhere?"
"Black Friday shopping."
"You actually do that?"
"We don't all have money at our disposal," Cordelia said in a smart mouthed manner, her eyes were locked with Klaus', "some of us like to go out and catch sales."
"My apologizes," there was a glint in his eyes, "I thought you just spent all of your dad's cash." The smirk that had been on Cordelia's face faltered.
"If you keep talking like that I might have to stake you at dinner."
"Wouldn't want that."
Maddie decided it was time to stop their little banter, "While this is cute and all, we have to finish shopping and we have to go find a turkey."
"No need there's one at my house. I'll drop it off."
"Why don't you have Rebekah bring it over tomorrow night."
"Rebekah?"
"Yeah, she can hang out with us."
Klaus looked at her for a moment before nodding, "Fine. And I will see you both Thursday."
"I'll text you a time later."
Klaus nodded giving Maddie a sideways glance before his eyes landed on Cordelia, "See you later love." And with that he walked off.
"He has a hot back," Cordelia mumbled out. "A really hot back."
Maddie moved so that she now fully stood in front of her sister, "Would you like to tell me about Nathan now?"
"Nope," Cordelia said while moving the cart so it slightly hit Maddie before she walked off.
"So what happened?" Maddie wondered as she followed Cordelia out of the car.
"Nothing." Cordelia spoke grabbing two hands full of groceries before walking to the door. Maddie grabbed the rest and followed behind.
"You're really not going to tell me?" Cordelia decided to act like she didn't hear her as they walked into the house. "You can't ignore me forever." Maddie had dropped some of the bags that they carried in on the floor. Her sister put down her own bags down on the floor. She looked slightly irritated.
"What do you want me to say Maddie?" Cordelia asked before crouching down to rub Lucy's fur.
"Why didn't you tell me you broke up with him?" Cordelia looked at her sister, not saying much. Maddie understood then. Her voice got softer as she asked, "What happened Cord?"
Cordelia, who was still crouched down by Lucy said nothing. When she finally moved her head up Maddie could see tears welling up in her eyes. Her heart broke for her sister. It was often she saw her cry. In fact, the last time she saw her physically shed tears was when grams died. When she had appeared while all the ghosts were out to roam free Maddie had suspected her sister cried but she didn't see her do it. She didn't really know what to do or say at the moment. It was usually always her sister who consoled her, not the other way around.
"I don't know," her voice was a whisper. "I thought that we were good and then after I got back from your birthday I went to see him and he wanted to take a break." Bullshit. She wasn't going to actually say that to her though.
She moved closer and hugged her sister, Cordelia put her head in the crook of Maddie's neck, holding onto her, "I don't know what I did." Because she said it so softly Maddie barley heard her, but her voice cracked.
"You didn't do anything," Maddie said moving away, "Nathan doesn't deserve you."
"You're only saying that because you're my sister."
Maddie moved her hand and wiped a tear off of Cordelia's face, "I'm saying it because it's true. There are plenty of fish in the sea. Like Klaus." When Cordelia smiled Maddie knew that the mood had been lightened a bit. "Or should I have said there are plenty of hybrids in town?"
"I think we should probably start prepping now," Cordelia commented. It was the day before Thanksgiving and both girls had been in their respective rooms doing nothing. Well Maddie had been texting Matt, making sure that he had somewhere to go tomorrow.
Both girls were in their pajamas in the kitchen, "We probably should."
"Did you invite Elijah?" Cordelia wondered.
Maddie nodded, she had called Elijah and invited him to come over but she wasn't sure if he actually would, "He hasn't given me a straight answer yet."
"Whip him into shape!"
She laughed until she saw how serious her sister was, "You are crazy!"
"What," Cordelia shrugged, "you should ready Fifty Shades of Grey, might kink up your sex life," she then put her hand to her heart and feigned shock, "I'm sorry, I forgot you don't have one."
"Not by choice," she muttered.
"I think tomorrow night when we go shopping we'll stop into Victoria's Secret and get you some sexy lingerie."
"Oh god," Maddie muttered.
"What? Oh come on Maddie you are my sister and I'm helping you."
"Did you have sex with Nathan?" Maddie wondered.
Cordelia nodded, "No but I got a whole lot farther than you did."
"Whatever."
Cordelia was ready to respond when the girls heard their doorbell. Together the two walked out of the kitchen, Maddie stayed back though, already having a good idea of who it would be.
"Oh, it's you," Cordelia spoke, seeing Rebekah.
"Did you sister not tell you that I was coming?" Rebekah wondered.
"No," Cordelia turned her head to look at Maddie, "she didn't."
"Well here I am. It's rude to keep your guests waiting you know."
"Right," she moved to the side.
Rebekah smiled seeing Maddie, "I bring gifts," she held up the turkey in her hand.
"I'll take that," Cordelia walked by and took the turkey before heading into the kitchen.
"How are you?" Maddie wondered.
"I'm good, I can say that I've been better though." Right, with your mom trying to kill you and all, Maddie thought to herself.
"I haven't seen you in school for a while."
"Not to worry, I have a dance to plan."
"Dance?"
"I'm thinking nineteen twenties."
"Why is it always decade dances?" Maddie asked allowed. She might have had more interest in them if it was something different, for once.
"You'll come right?"
"I don't really attend school functions considering most of the time someone that I know ends up dead."
Rebekah looked at her, a frown on her face, "Well, I'm sorry to hear that."
Maddie shrugged, "Come on, we were just about to start prepping."
"Prepping?"
"You know, getting stuff ready for tomorrow. I'll probably end up making the potato salad tonight." She said the last part more to herself than Rebekah.
"I know what it means I just don't understand why you and your sister are cooking instead of just allowing my brothers help to do it."
"Because," Cordelia said allowed since they were all in the same room again, "it's nice to make a meal with your sister. Besides this holiday is all about family. Isn't that something you care about?" She raised an eyebrow at Rebekah before continuing, "Your brothers 'help'," she made air quotes around the word, "should be at home with their respective families."
"And what if they don't have a family?" Rebekah asked.
"Then that's different, but did he really care to ask them before he compelled them?"
Rebekah said nothing at first, "What makes you think that they were compelled? Some might find my brother to be charming," a glint appeared in her eyes, "the way you were looking at him at Maddison's birthday I would think you were one of those people who liked him."
Cordelia semi glared before looking at Maddie, "I kind of like her."
Maddie just chuckled, and Rebekah looked shocked before she gave a genuine smile, "Well if you are anything like your sister I might like you as well."
"I'm nothing like my sister," Cordelia commented, "in fact I'm better."
"It smells so fucking good in here."
Maddie just wanted to moan. The aroma of food was making her mouth water. She loved this time of the year, mostly because she ate well but still it was a nice way to just enjoy company with her family. She, her sister and Rebekah had crashed on the couch a little after midnight, although Rebekah wasn't really sleeping, more so resting. She even put the turkey together and put in the oven before Cordelia and Maddie could wake, silencing their alarms and allowing them to sleep.
Maddie had woken up to her sister shaking her like crazy and yelling about their alarms, only for them to both be shocked when they saw Rebekah in the kitchen.
"Good morning," Rebekah spoke with a smile, "hope you don't mind but I decided to make myself a cup of coffee."
"We have to start the turkey," Cordelia said allowed, she began walking to go get it when she frowned. Both Rebekah and Maddie watched her smell before looking around, "is it in the oven?"
Rebekah responded quickly, "Yes."
"You did it already?"
"I thought I would let you two sleep in, now drink your coffee or it will get cold."
Cordelia frowned slightly, "You like coffee?"
Maddie felt like smacking her sister's arm, of all questions that was her first one. Before she could say anything her nose was hit with the smell of food, "It smells so good," she muttered to no one in particular.
"Both of your cups are on the counter," Rebekah commented, "thought you guys might like a morning drink. My brothers would like to know what time they should be here."
Cordelia and Maddie looked at one another, Maddie just raised an eyebrow at her sister before giving a tiny shrug.
"Um, tell them two."
"Two?"
"To late?"
Maddie glanced at Rebekah and then her sister, "I think it should be fine if she already put the turkey in. Everything else doesn't take that long."
Cordelia shrugged, "Besides dessert."
"I thought you weren't gonna do the pies!"
"I said I wasn't sure if I should or not."
"Same difference!"
"Relax! I can have my cup of coffee," Cordelia went over to where the two coffee cups were and walked over to a bar stool, sitting down. Maddie followed, taking the spot next to her. They both turned to face Rebekah who was sitting at a small round table that they had in their kitchen. It was where they threw stuff, like mail.
"I think I could just marry this right now," Cordelia said, holding up her cup for a moment before taking a long sip.
Maddie just rolled her eyes, taking a sip of her own. It was pretty good. While she was glad Rebekah had started and let them sleep a little, she also wanted to stay on top of the time. "I'll do the potato salad."
"No one wants that shit."
"Well I do."
"Don't make a whole bunch."
"Blah blah blah."
"Childish. You better get it together before Elijah get's here," she didn't have to be looking at her sister to know that she was smiling.
"I hate you."
Cordelia said nothing only threw her a smirk. The three quickly finished their cups of coffee before Maddie collected all of the mugs and washed them. After that she began to make the potato salad. Her sister helped her cut them before she went off to start some of the other side dishes. It was quiet for a while, the two sisters working. Rebekah felt slightly out of place.
"What can I do?" Rebekah wondered.
Cordelia looked up from the cheese she was cutting, "You can start dessert if you want to."
"Very well and what would that be?"
Cordelia studied her for a moment, "On second thought, let's switch. You can finish cutting up this cheese and I'll start dessert. I'm going to put on the macaroni so that it can cook and then we can bake it." Rebekah nodded and Maddie almost chuckled. She knew she probably had no idea what she was doing but then again, she had managed to put together a turkey by herself and done she had been around for over a thousand years.
While Maddie finished up the potato salad she kept an eye on Rebekah. Not that she really needed to, she just figured she would in case she needed help or something, but she seemed to be doing just fine. When she finished she placed it inside of the fridge. That was one of her favorite meals and she usually always made it. The three worked in silence mainly after that. Together, Rebekah and Maddie finished up the macaroni and cheese before placing it inside of the oven. Cordelia continued to work on whatever dessert's she was doing.
When Maddie did finally look at a clock, Cordelia's desserts were baking and they just had some other side dishes to finish. "We can probably get some showers in," she noted, seeing as they were all still in their pajamas. "Where is Lucy? I haven't seen her all day."
"Probably on one of our beds enjoying that she has it all to herself and one of you guys can go first," Cordelia spoke with a shrug, stepping onto her tippy toes to reach something in the cabinets.
"Where did you put your bag?" Maddie asked, looking at Rebekah.
Rebekah frowned, "Bag?"
"Yeah, didn't you bring one with a change of clothes?" Rebekah shook her head no, "C'mon you can borrow some of my clothes. We'll be back," she said the last part to Cordelia who nodded before she and Rebekah headed upstairs. Rebekah had only been downstairs so going through Maddie's house she looked around.
"There are photograph's everywhere," she commented.
"My mom likes to savor the memories," Maddie responded, looking around. Wow, she thought to herself, there are a lot of pictures around. Most of the pictures consisted of her and Cordelia but there were some hanging around of Janette and Christian. There wedding picture was one of the biggest ones in the house.
When they entered her room, Maddie looked through her drawer, she handed Rebekah a bra and a thong she found that still had the tag on it, "Here, you can use those and you can borrow whatever from my closet. There is stuff in the bathroom for you to take a shower with."
She turned her back, ready to go back downstairs when Rebekah asked her, "Why are you so nice to me?" She turned back around, "I have done nothing to deserve it."
"And you've done nothing for me to not be nice to you. I know it may seem like I'm just a bitch," she chuckled and so did Rebekah, "but I'm really not that bad. I tend to only be rude or mean to people who deserve it."
"I'll try and keep that in mind," Maddie nodded and turned her back, "and by the way," she turned back around to face Rebekah, "I don't think you're a bitch. I think you are an amazing person."
"What should I wear?" Cordelia wondered, walking into Maddie's room, a towel wrapped around herself. Maddie and Rebekah, who had went in her room to look through some of her shirts were interrupted by Cordelia's walk in. Both girls had already showered and changed but Maddie was considering changing into a different top and Rebekah came along to help her look.
"Instead of asking me don't you think that you should be checking your closet for something?"
"Well since you have a tendency to steel my clothes I thought that I might come look in yours first," she stepped inside before looking around, "Jeans are an obvious yes," she continued to push hangers, looking at some items before pushing them again, "perfect, I will definitely be wearing this shirt." Maddie watched open mouthed as her sister grabbed a pink off shoulder top that she had. "It is so nice out Maddie, I think I'll end up going with shorts instead of the jeans."
"Are you going to take those from my closet to?"
Cordelia turned her head, giving Maddie a smirk, "I just might." She turned back around, "But seriously, it's nice out, so if I were you I'd change out of the jeans."
Maddie got up from her seat on her bed, moving to look out of her window. The sun was in fact shinning. She probably would be better off in shorts than jeans. "Maybe I will."
Cordelia turned back around, facing both girls, "See you downstairs."
"I BETTER GET MY SHIRT BACK!" Maddie yelled.
"Yeah yeah yeah."
"Is everything done?" Maddie asked her sister and Rebekah, she moved a piece of her hair out of her face and behind her ear.
"YUP!" Cordelia yelled from somewhere. They had been moving things from the kitchen to the dining room table.
"Great."
Cordelia moved coming to join them in the dining room, Maddie gave her sister a once over. She was in her shirt and a pair of white shorts, "Nice top."
"Nice shorts," Cordelia countered back. "Last time I checked those were mine."
"Last time I checked finder's keepers."
Cordelia raised an eyebrow, smiling, "I want you to remember that you said that." Maddie smirked at her sister but before she could say anything she could see Rebekah standing tall. Cordelia beat her to speaking first though, "What's wrong with you?"
"Company has arrived."
"You mean your brothers?"
"Only one so far."
"Which?" Cordelia wondered, just as the bell rang. "Never mind, let it be a surprise. C'mon Maddie."
Cordelia left the dining room, heading for the front door. Maddie behind her. Before she opened the door she looked over her sister. "Those jeans are a little tight, aren't they?" She wriggled her eyebrows at her, "I see what you're doing."
"You do realize that everyone can hear your right?"
"Embrace it sister." Maddie looked down at herself. She had on white capri pants, that cut off just before her ankle and a blue top that was off shoulder. It had a design at the top with triangle cuts. Her hair lay flat.
Maddie walked so that she was standing directly behind her sister as she opened the door, "Who are you?" A smile came to her face. Kol.
"Your dinner guest."
"This is actually considered lunch time," Cordelia stated. Maddie couldn't help but chuckle.
"Hi Kol."
"Maddison, you look ravishing," he said giving her a smile before his gaze turned to Cordelia, "is this your sister? She is just as ravishing as you are, if not more."
Cordelia turned her head to Maddie, "He looks like Elijah."
"Right?"
"As nice as this is are you going to invite me in or not?"
"Are you going to abuse your privileges to enter my house?"
"Of course I am."
She rolled her eyes, at least he was honest about it, "Fine, come in."
Kol grinned, entering her home, "Lovely home that you have here. So simple."
"They aren't us Kol," Rebekah said, making her presence known to him.
"Ah I see you're here Rebekah, where is your best friend Nik?"
"On his way," Maddie wasn't sure if there was still some tension there. After all Kol had been the one to practically break Matt's hand. "If I were you I'd watch out, Nik seems to be interested in her sister." She wasn't sure if she was saying that to irritate Kol or because she was actually warning him. It made her wonder about Klaus' intentions with her sister, especially since he had seemed to infatuated with Caroline. She wasn't going to allow him to use her sister as a pawn in his game. Then again, he did seem interested in her, but then Maddie had to remind herself that she had thought the same about Caroline at one point in time.
"Right," Kol spoke, catching their attention, "I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Now, can we eat?"
"Nik isn't here yet," Rebekah noted.
Maddie looked to her sister and they exchanged a knowing look, Elijah as well, even though his attendance wasn't confirmed yet. He had never answered her when she asked him.
"And what about Elijah?"
"We don't even know where Elijah is." Both Cordelia and Maddie made sure to keep their faces composed.
"Maddie," Cordelia said allowed, "help me carry the wine."
"Wine?" No one missed the way that Kol's voice perked up, "Aren't you girls a little young to be serving alcohol?"
Instead of answering both just smirked at him, when the got back in the kitchen, Cordelia began to look through some of the wine's and other kinds of alcohol that their parents had in the house. "You do realize I'm not drinking right?" Maddie wondered.
"Why not?"
A frown came over her face, she wished she had something in reach to throw at her sister, "Wasn't it you who was all excited about shopping tonight? Who do you think is driving us there?" She gestured to herself.
"You right, you right," she began to nod her head like a bobble head, "Well, we have soda here for you. That should give you some kind of buzz."
"Have you been drinking already?"
"Why would you ask me that?"
"You're acting like you've had some drinks."
"Well," Cordelia looked around eve though she knew they were the only ones in the room, "I did have a glass of wine after getting dressed, but let's keep that between you and me," she had a smirk resting on her face.
"A glass of wine?"
"A glass of wine," she said again before hysterically laughing, "Would you relax? I am fine. I haven't had any real alcohol yet, but I'm sure if we are going to get through this little sit down I am going to need something," she pulled out the bottle of Vodka that she bad been looking for, "oh yeah, time to bring out the good stuff."
"And now you're going to drink vodka?! You are going to be incoherent tonight!" Maddie hissed.
"I'm going to be fine," Cordelia said with the wave of her hand, "watch!" Ding dong. "Door's for you."
Giving her sister one last look, Maddie went and exited the room, going towards the door. A smile rested upon her face as she swung it open. "You look perfect."
Elijah smiled down at her, "I try."
She raised an eyebrow, before chuckling walking closer to him and embracing him. She slightly relaxed as he kissed her head before taking her face in his hands, "How are you?"
"Better now that you're here." She felt like she was in a movie after saying that, but the thought didn't dwell to long since Elijah leaned down and touched his lips to hers. She gave him a quick peck before pulling away, "your siblings are here."
He had already known that since he could hear them and smell them from outside, "Of course they are."
She pulled away allowing him to come into the house, "Oh would you look at that," both Maddie and Elijah looked to see Cordelia, "your boyfriend's here."
"Thanks for noticing."
"Such a smartass you are."
Maddie studied her, "Cord, are you sure you aren't drunk?"
"No," she gave an exasperated sigh before grinning, "but I will be."
"Great."
"Elijah," Kol said allowed, "nice to see you brother."
"Kol," Elijah nodded his head, "Rebekah."
"Elijah," Rebekah breathed out, "I wasn't aware that you were coming."
"Well, I was a little late on confirming my attendance."
"Right."
"I'm sure Nik will be happy to see you," Kol's eyes had something hidden behind them, "we have a lot to discuss."
"I'm sure they do," Maddie heard Cordelia mutter. She knew she was right. There was so much going on with them that it was bound to all come up. She couldn't help but wonder if they all had a plan. She also wondered what was going to happen now that Finn was gone. "Be a good host and put his jacket away."
"You know sometimes I want to jaw wire your mouth," Maddie said before grabbing Elijah's arm and leading him upstairs, "we'll be right back."
"Maddison," Cordelia feigned shock, "at least let him eat before you have your wicked way with him."
"I hate you Cord," she yelled as she went upstairs with Elijah behind her. Her arm still wrapped around his wrist. When they got inside of her room, Maddie looked at him, "Here, you can leave your jacket in here."
Elijah took it off handing it to her, "So are you going to have your wicked way with me?"
She chuckled, "Even if that's what I brought you here for would you let me?" She thought of her birthday and how we would let things get a little hot and heavy before ending it, "Or would you just push me away at the end?" He didn't anything, "But that conversation is for another time, I have a question for you."
"And what would that be?"
"Why didn't you tell me Finn was dead?" His face didn't move. She opened her mouth before closing it and then opening it again, "Did you not know?'
"I had heard."
"And?"
"And what?"
"Doesn't it bother you? I know he wanted to die anyways but he still your brother." Elijah said nothing. She was about to just let it go when she could hear footsteps, looking down Lucy wandered into her room, however she ignored Maddie and began sniffing Elijah's shoes. "Luce."
"She's fine."
"I think she likes you. This is really the first time that she's come around today."
"I guess I have that effect on people."
"Ha ha." Because of the quiet moment they were able to hear the door downstairs. "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that your brother is here."
"I'm going to have to agree with you."
She nodded her head, standing tall and looking him in the eyes, "Well let's go say hello." Walking ahead she stopped when he grabbed her wrist pulling her back to him. "What?"
Instead of answering her question he cupped her face kissing her effectively. Wanting a better angle, she moved up onto her tippy toes. He cut her off quickly though, giving her a knowing smirk before entwining their hands, guiding her out of her bedroom. "Ass," she muttered which caused him to laugh.
As they came down the stairs they could both see Klaus. He had a slight smirk on his face even though it was obvious to them both from his first expression, which was shock, he hadn't been expecting to see Elijah.
"Elijah, I wasn't aware that you were in town," Klaus said, looking at his brother before moving his gaze to Maddie.
"Yeah yeah, your siblings have already said that to him, can we move on with it," Cordelia spoke, "I'm thirsty and hungry."
"Don't you think you've had enough alcohol?" Even though she had claimed to only have wine Maddie wasn't sure.
"Shut up Maddison," Cordelia said walking out of the room. Maddie chuckled, following her sisters. They could hear the others behind them. Everything was already on the table.
"Are you tipsy?" Love Klaus wondered aloud.
Cordelia looked over her shoulder, "You wish."
As they all entered the dining room they took their seats. Cordelia, Maddie and Rebekah sat on one side, Klaus, Elijah and Kol on the other. Maddie smiled, seeing as she was directly across from Elijah. He gave her a small smile back.
"Well," Cordelia spoke out first, loud and obnoxiously which made Maddie glare at her. "Now that you have all graced us with your presence we can eat."
"That's it?" Kol wondered.
"What do you mean?"
"That's all that you're going to say?"
"What else should I say?" She wondered, a smirk resting on her face, "please don't kill each other in our house. Hiding the bodies isn't something that I want to do today."
"Out of curiosity, if we did end up killing one another where would you hide our bodies?"
"That's something I'll keep to myself."
Klaus then piped up, "Hate to break it to you love but I can't be killed."
Cordelia raised an eyebrow, "I thought that Alaric was still out there, trying to kill you," Maddie kicked her sister under the table, "don't kick me." She looked her sister in the eyes shrugging, "I'm just stating facts."
"I literally can not deal with you."
"Love you too sis."
"Maybe we should change the topic," Rebekah suggested.
Maddie muttered, "I couldn't agree more." She did however notice Klaus giving her sister a look, Cordelia only looked back with a blank face before she eventually gave him a smile and looked away.
"Anything else you'd like to add about rituals or can we just eat?" Cordelia wondered, looking at Kol.
"By all means feast away."
"Don't mind if I do," she spoke reaching for the turkey. She had already sliced it which Maddie was thankful for, by the time it came her way all she had to do was grab a slice. She was hungry and didn't care that she would be stuffing her face in front of Elijah. When she had everything that she wanted on her plate she looked around. It seemed that no one had touched their food yet.
"Why are you all just staring?" Cordelia wondered.
"Don't you want to give acknowledgments?" Rebekah asked. She had been to many different Thanksgiving celebrations in her life and she found that was something people usually did.
Cordelia looked around, Maddie just shrugged when they made eye contact. "Fine, I will say something that I'm thankful for," she paused before a moment before smiling at Maddie, "like my little sister. My little, very annoying sister who won't be joining me at Stanford."
"Ha ha," Maddie gave a laugh that held no humor, "you don't even like Stanford."
"It's ight," she said with a shrug before looking straight ahead at Klaus, "your turn."
"Alright love, I guess you can say that I am grateful that I am grateful for my family, even though they have their ways of getting under my skin."
Elijah who was next to Klaus held up the glass of wine he had poured himself a little while ago, "To family," he then looked away from his brother to Maddie, "and to love."
She felt her heart melt and she didn't miss the exaggerated smile Cordelia threw her way, "To family and love," she responded holding his gaze. It was like no one else was in the room besides the two of them. And then of course the moment went away as Kol decided he was ready to speak up.
Kol looked around, "Well I guess you could say I'm grateful to be out of a box even though now I other problems to worry about."
Klaus looked at his little brother, "I assumed those problems were taken care of since you're back from Denver." Maddie thought about it for a second, remembering what Matt had said about Elena and Damon going to Denver to see Jeremy. She then remembered that they needed to find out whose bloodline they came from before they went off killing another original.
Cordelia chuckled at that one, "Yeah, your family is fucked up," she then took a gulp from her own glass to which Maddie put her head down.
Rebekah then commented, "No matter, we'd still do anything for one another because family is the most important thing," she and her siblings all looked around sharing a look. It was like they had some secret message that they were sending to one another. It was interesting for Maddie and Cordelia to both watch their dynamic with each other. "Always and forever."
"Always and forever," the originals said. Maddie and Cordelia glanced at one another before looking away.
"Well," Cordelia spoke getting everyone's attention, "I'm really eating this time," she took her fork and poking it into food before taking a bite. She hadn't even looked to see what she was eating.
Klaus threw her a smirk before going into his own pile of food to begin eating and everyone else followed in suit. Maddie figured that everyone was enjoying their food since it was quiet. The only sound was forks hitting against plates. Inside she was smiling and laughing with triumph, she her sister and Rebekah had did it. They had created a fantastic meal, not that she had any doubts on whether or not they could do it.
"Well I have to say you three have quite outdone yourselves," Klaus noted.
"Did you doubt us?" Cordelia wondered, finishing her glass of wine.
"I wasn't sure what to expect love."
She let out a laugh before reaching for a bottle of wine, Maddie grabbed her hand before she could reach it, "Don't you think you've had enough."
"Stop being a buzz kill."
"Yes Maddison," Kol commented, "don't be a buzz kill. If your sister wants to drink all day you should let her."
Maddie glared at the youngest Mikaelson boy, "First, don't call me that! And second," she turned back to her sister, "I need you to be sober tonight."
"Listen," Cordelia held up her hand, "I got this. I am going to be fine and we are going to have the best time tonight. Besides what time do you want to leave tonight?"
"Six, seven? I don't know, I'm not picky."
"Let's make the most if it."
"Meaning?"
"Let's go at midnight!" Cordelia said, her face lighting up like a Christmas tree. That reminded Maddie that Christmas was right around the corner. She was sure her mom would want to decorate when she and her dad got home. In all actuality Maddie didn't mind going shopping at midnight exactly. Usually she went out when sales first started but she wondered how the crowds would be at this time. "I'm cool with that."
"Might I ask where you are going?" Kol wondered.
"Shopping," Cordelia spoke as if it were obvious. "You know gonna catch those black Friday sales."
Kol looked confused. Rebekah decided to speak up, "You'll have to excuse my brother, he's been locked in a box so he doesn't know much about today's customs."
Kol gave Rebekah a vicious smirk, "And who helped get me in that box Rebekah?" Maddie looked down slightly, grabbing the cup that was in front of her she took a sip of the soda inside all the while thinking, awkward.
"Like I said their family is so fucked up," Cordelia noted.
"You have no idea," Elijah responded to her. Not expecting anyone to actually say anything to her she flushed a bit. Maddie just laughed.
"Oh c'mon, don't tell me you don't have family drama," Kol piped up.
"Not like that," Maddie noted.
"But from what I understand your cousin Bonnie, the witch, you don't speak to her. Why's that?"
"And where did you get that from?"
"I have my sources."
"Mhm. Well no we don't speak to her, not really."
Cordelia corrected, "Try not at all. Maybe when she drops Elena we can rekindle our family relationship."
"That's never going to happen," Maddie said to her sister.
"I know it's just wishful thinking. You would think after Damon turned her mother she would focus on something else."
"She did," Klaus said, "how do you think we became unlinked?"
"But not before Finn died," Maddie said, frowning. Even though they might not have agreed with his choices he was still their brother.
"Don't feel bad for him." Kol said a sense of anger in his tone, "Finn was weak. He hated what we were always did. Let's not forget he wanted to help our mother get rid of us."
Cordelia looked at him, "He was still your brother whether you agreed with the choices that he made or not. Family will always be family, no matter how you look at it."
"What a long day it's been," Maddie noted. She and Elijah were back at his house. After they finished eating and hanging out for a bit she had decided to spend some more time with Elijah before going back home later and then going shopping. When they had left her sister and Klaus were still there, talking.
"That it has, nonetheless it was a good day."
"Couldn't agree more," she noted. "I'm glad you came today."
"I am too."
They looked into one another's eyes, both of them smiling before Elijah leaned down and gave Maddie a soft kiss. He moved away afterwards, resting his head on top of hers. The silence that went on was nice. Thinking over the day Maddie moved her head slightly to look at back at Elijah.
"So what do you think is going on between my sister and Klaus?"
"What do you mean?"
"Don't tell me you haven't noticed the looks that they've been giving one another."
"Is your sister no longer in a relationship?"
"Nope and even if she was I don't think Klaus would care about that."
"He probably wouldn't," Elijah confided.
"Do you think he would actually date my sister?"
"He might."
"Has he dated before?"
"Klaus has had many women over the years."
"I'm sure he has slept with many people but has he dated." She slightly turned so that now she was fully resting on Elijah and could see his face.
"He has been known to be faithful."
"Is that all I'm going to get from you?" He smirked with a short nod. "Fine."
"Don't pout."
She pouted some more to see what he would do. Moving closer to her Elijah took her bottom lip between his before sucking gently. She titled her head back slightly laughing before looking into his eyes. Brown stared into green. When he let her lip go she leaned in to kiss him, moving her hands around his neck. All discussion of Klaus and Cordelia was forgotten.
"I don't want to leave you," Maddie spoke giving Elijah one last peck. The two were currently sitting outside of her house, Elijah having dropped her back off so she could go back out with her sister and friends tonight.
Elijah smirked, cupping her cheek, "I don't want you to leave either but you should spend time with your friends."
She knew he was right and nodded, "When can I see you again?"
"Anytime you want, you know where I live."
She smirked, "That I do. Alright, let me go before my sister blows up my phone some more."
"Your sister is quite the entertainer."
She rolled her eyes, "Who are you telling. Okay, I'll see you later." There was promise in her voice. She gave him one last smile before slightly turning her head to open the door. Before she could physically push on the handle she felt a hand around her wrist. Turning her head she looked at Elijah.
"No kiss before you go?" Her head went back as she laughed looking at the pout he put on his face.
Moving her body closer to him she leaned in, "How could I forget," closing the distance she rested her lips on top of his. She moved slightly so she was up more before running her tongue along his bottom lip.
"Don't start something you can't finish," Elijah murmured against her mouth.
She grinned, "We'll be quick," she tried again pressing her tongue against his bottom lip and he opened up. She let out a moan, loving the feeling of her tongue entangled with his. Within seconds she was no longer on her side of the car but swiftly moved to his lap. Her hands moving to his shoulders. She was ready to tell him to take her back to his house.
"And," Maddie jumped slightly while Elijah remained composed, "as cute as this is, it really is cute to see you guys like this, we have shopping to do!" Maddie glared at her sister. "Don't glare it's not becoming of you, seriously let's go. You have to change and then we have to go get Katie."
"What's wrong with my outfit?"
Cordelia looked her up and down, "You are going to be walking around a mall shopping and then in and out of other department stores. Sweatpants is the way to go."
Maddie looked down, she still had on her outfit from earlier today, "I guess."
"Yes, now give your boo one last kiss before leaving."
Elijah slightly chuckled as Maddie pressed her face into his chest, "Nice to see you again Cordelia."
"I'm sure I'll see you when I get back, you know it's Christmas time!" Elijah didn't miss the secret smile she gave him. He was sure she had something up her sleeve. "Goodbye. Maddie you have three minutes." With that she closed the door and walked back into the house.
Maddie looked at Elijah, "As much as I would love to stay here I don't want her to come back," Elijah chuckled, "so I will see you later."
He nodded giving her a slight peck, "See you later."
All she could go was gaze into his eyes before she finally got up and let herself out. She gave him one last longing look before walking up the porch steps and into her house. She could hear her sister moving around in the kitchen but she just ran upstairs to her room. Looking through one her drawers she found a pair of sweatpants that she slipped into before grabbing a sweatshirt. Looking into her closet she slipped on a pair of sneakers before making sure that she had everything she needed for tonight. When she went back downstairs her sister was waiting by the door, Maddie's car keys in her hand.
"Someone had a nice time."
"Sometimes I can't stand you," Maddie said grabbing her keys and walking out the door, Cordelia following behind.
"Yes but then you remember that you love me."
"Mhm, how was your nap?"
"It did its job," Cordelia noted as they got into Maddie's car.
As soon as they were buckled up Maddie was off driving for Katie's. Cordelia plugged in her phone and began playing songs from her playlist. Katie was walking out of the house by the time Maddie had pulled up.
"Hey hey," she sang as she got in the backseat.
"You ready to shop 'til you drop?" Cordelia asked.
"Of course," Katie said leaning over to look at Cordelia.
Maddie was listening but more so on her cell phone, "Who are you texting?" Cordelia asked her.
"Rebekah, I asked her before if she wanted to come but she hasn't gotten back to me yet," Maddie said typing away on her phone.
"Cheerleader Rebekah?" Katie wondered.
Maddie nodded. She was about to say fuck it and just stop by Klaus' mansion when her phone buzzed.
Rebekah – Thank you for the offer but have some things to take care of tonight.
Maddie – No problem, see you later.
"Alright," Maddie dropped her phone in her cupholder, "mall first or Target?"
The three all looked at one another before laughing allowed, "Mall."s
"We can hit target at like three," Cordelia said enthusiastically.
"If I'm not sleeping by that time," Katie laughed. "My mom thinks I'm gonna be knocked by two."
"You're with us," Cordelia said as Maddie pulled off, "there is absolutely no way you'll be sleeping. Besides we might see guys."
"What happened with Nathan?!"
"Long story."
"Well we have a long night."
Thank you all so much for reading and supporting this story! So as you guys know I'm not really following the plot I'm kind of just doing my own thing. When the beginning starts it's around the heart of darkness episode since Matt tells Maddie that Damon and Elena are going to see Jeremy, they need to find out whose bloodline they come from. I know at the end of that episode Rebekah goes into the caves with Alaric but it's revealed to be Esther instead.
In this chapter ... Matt catches Maddie up with what's been going on. She find's out that Finn is dead. Thanksgiving.
Next chapter ... Roaring 20's''
Sorry, I didn't realize I didn't add in the line breaks until I saw a review. I re did a lot of this so when I did I guess I never put them back. Sorry again.