Ch. 5

Elijah's room

He was so hungry! Human food was never a need for him, but it usually did help with his urges. But now it makes no difference to him if he eats or not, his hunger has evolved. The beast in him was starved for far too long, and with its freedom blood would be the only thing to bring him peace.

He can hear everyone downstairs talk about his abrupt departure. He pays no real attention to what they are saying, it makes no difference at all. Whatever they have to say won't affect him or make him reconsider his situation, and he knows his words would be received with…

He opens the door to the balcony and looks into the night. 'The city is so full of life!' He has to remedy this.

The dinning room

Hayley kept looking at her plate even if she was no longer hungry. What had just happened? This is not how their reunion was supposed to go.

What the hell just happened?- Klaus was shocked, how could he get mad if he didn't understand what had happened?

- Oh brother! You don't know what to do with someone acting like you do?- Kol was definitely having his fun with this.

- Don't push him Kol- Freya had enough dealing with Elijah, she cold not deal with her brothers fighting too.

- Dearest sister, could you be so kind to explain us why you and our brother act so unaffected to Elijah's out of character behavior?- Klaus decided to ignore his younger brother, finding out what was wrong with Elijah was far more important.

- Why don't you ask him? – Freya was answering to Klaus' question, but she kept staring to Hayley.

Hayley also left the room, she needed to calm her feelings and put her mind in order.

A Bar in New Orleans

He could still feel the hunger, but he would be damned if he missed the joy of hunting just for a quick meal. He had prided himself by being the most controlled in his family, it had been centuries since his last kill while eating. But now the whole process excited him. He no longer criticized Kol, sometimes they would go together hunting and even share the price.

Not tonight, this nigh was just for him.

Elijah sipped his bourbon while he looked for the perfect meal. Tow blond girls were staring at him, when he smiled in their direction they just giggled. They were pretty, but it would be too easy. Moving on. There was a lonely girl in the corner, she smelled healthy…. But way too bitter for him.

Just when he was giving up on finding the perfect meal as a price for his well behaviour at his prior dinner. He saw them. A couple walked past him holding hands and smiling to each other. It was time to apace the beast.

He stayed in the bar waiting for them, and just two hours later and several bottles of scotch, they were ready to leave and for him to follow. He slowly walked behind them, the inly sounds in the narrow streets were their breaths and his footsteps. Elijah was intentionally stepping loudly in order for them to know they were being followed. Their footsteps began to increase their pace just like their heart rate. Adrenaline was in the air lurig him to dine.

He slammed the man to the wall and before he could recover Elijah's fangs appeared before their eyes. She screamed but that did nothing to prevent her lover to be bitten by the vampire. Elijah drank every last drop of blood from his body and when he finished he let the body drop to the floor. When he turned to the girl ready to end her life.

Elijah walked very slowly towards his prey, he didn't even bother to clean the blood covering his face. He was a monster, why hide it from someone who was about to die because of it?

I loved him…- she managed to say between her sobs. The monster before her needed to know the pain he had caused. If that thing felt anything at all.

Arg! That was it. She had ruined his meal. Annoyed by her words he just pierced his hand through her chest and graved her heart. Before pulling it out he looked into her eyes, those eyes showed her broken heart.

Well, she thought she has a broken heart. So he pulled the heart out and squished it… now she really knew what it felt to have your heart ripped from you and shredded into pieces.