Chapter 8: Shadows

By Fireworks8725

"I'm bored Beth!" Annie whined, "I miss my Kol Bear…" She pouted and flopped down on the couch. "You are sure no one knew where Kol was? You think he really bailed on me?"

Beth squirmed in her seat across the room. They were sitting in the dark, perhaps taking the statement "in the shadows" a bit too literally, but if that was what Elijah wanted, they needed to obey.

"I just don't know. Just trust Elijah." She said.

"I do trust our Elijah, I just wish he would talk to us! We have been hiding for weeks! Where the Hell IS everybody!" She hollered.

Beth's phone rang and the light from the screen lit up the room. "It's time!" Beth cheered, once she put the phone to her ear. "Elijah is coming and he is with Niklaus!" Beth frowned. "What? How!"

Annie was by her side in a split second. "Is everything alright? Is Elijah harmed? What did Klaus do to him?!" She panicked.

Beth dropped the phone. She had to explain that Niklaus was now a full hybrid.

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The next day, Elijah returned to the girls. He seemed paler than usual and very stressed.

"I don't have much time. It's unsafe for you here any longer." Elijah said.

Beth ran at him to hug him, but she fell right through him.

"I am sorry I have to appear to you this way, but I am simply a projection. I have been daggered by Niklaus. Until a time when he can be stopped it is not safe for you." He urged.

"You expect us to just leave you?" Annie asked, prepared to deny him this.

"It will soon be time for action to be had, and my plans to undagger Kol and Rebekah…"

"WHAT!" Annie blurted, not letting him finish his sentence.

Elijah seemed momentarily shaken at the outburst from his faithfully sired friend. "I was on my way to save them, I promose you! I simply misjudged Niklaus yet again."

Beth slumped down, feeling guilt for loving Niklaus while he tore apart her family. More so, she was growing afraid of the colour of Annie's eyes.

"You knew Kol was daggered? You KNEW he was DEAD and you didn't tell me!" Annie flailed at the ghostly shape of Elijah, unable to inflict any harm whatsoever.

"I HATE YOU, YOU RUIN EVERYTHING!" She screamed, throwing the couch she had momentarily been sitting on.

"That is a first dear, and I am sorry to hear it." Elijah said sorrowfully. He had grown attached to the love from the two girls. He glanced at Beth. "Surely she should bear some blame as well?"

Annie spun in slow motion to Beth. "You KNEW TOO?" She was in shock. "I have been crying from missing Kol and you couldn't have mentioned!"

"You did not tell her that you spoke to Klaus?" Elijah asked, not used to the girls lying to each other.

Annie continued screaming and wrecking furniture since she couldn't actually hurt anyone physically. She tossed a lamp at Beth, who dodged it gracefully. Annie glared at the both with reddened eyes of a psycho killer and ran from the house, emerging from the shadows they had been living in. It was that moment she realized she was no longer sired to Elijah.

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Beth needed a plan. She had to decide to leave town, or find Annie. She was conflicted about Elijah and his plans for Niklaus and how Nik had betrayed Elijah yet again. Would life be better away from Mystic Falls? And what was with Annie? Was she having some meltdown? Surely they could rescue Kol anytime…right? Or, had she been lied to as well?

Beth decided for the night the best thing she could do was to not stray from Elijahs' words. She remained in the shadows and awaited news.

Maybe the Salvatores' could help her?