This Chapter takes place three weeks after Elena finds Rebekah. Elena and Rebekah have bonded. Rebekah has moved out of the house and moved in with Elena. Korey and Kyle are looking for their own house with the help of Elena.

Chapter 9: Indirectly In Love

"You don't have to keep acting like a guest Rebekah… Korey and Kyle are about to move out anyway. I helped them get on their feet over the last few weeks and now they are ready to leave the nest meaning we can party." Elena tried to act like she wasn't sad that Kyle and Korey decided to pack up and leave so quickly, despite her understanding of their situation. They claimed she'd given them the standing they needed to decide what they were going to do with their lives. Kyle was going to school, Korey was going to school and Elena was going to support them financially as they tried to live in their own house in a different town. Korey didn't want Jase growing up around vampires, malevolent witches and werewolves- which was understandable for a mother to want.

Rebekah sighed, "I really need a good party to get me back on my feet." She admitted, "Just like you need to call my brother before you go completely crazy."

Elena laughed nervously, "He won't read her letter, Rebekah. You know what that says? He's not over her. Like you said, he just stares at it as if it's going to open itself. Every time I visit he's reading one of his old journals-" She stopped speaking as Rebekah smirked. "But I don't care, I'm totally over it. He's over a thousand years old, he can make his own decisions."

"I moved out of my house because I couldn't be around Marcel anymore, or the insufferable tension in the room every time I walked in it." Rebekah said, "You moved out of the house because you were developing feelings for my brother after your break up with Damon. Which you're fooling yourself over by the way, you keep thinking about him every time you're about to live your life so you stop. It's sort of depressing and extremely confusing."

"So, if I went to the house right now and knocked on his door and told him that I liked him-which I don't- then you could insure me he wouldn't vanish? I didn't think so." Elena huffed as she fell into her couch, "We need to find Klaus, what if that letter says where Klaus is?"

"What if that letter says she's moving on from her obsessive revenge? By the way, after all the people the family has screwed up- why Celeste? She has to be the craziest of them all, besides my mother of course." Rebekah stood up from her seat, "We really need to get out of this house instead of laying around all the time. You need to talk to Elijah, I need to talk to Marcel and we need to find Nik. We can't find him if we're avoiding one another. Then, after we find Nik we can do whatever we want."

"I promised Marcel I would bring back Davina." Elena stated, "It's not over until Davina is back as well as Klaus."

ELIJAH:

He couldn't stop himself from indulging into the past as he looked at her fine script. The letter was haunting his house in a figurative manner. The only distraction he had seemed to come in the form of Elena Gilbert. She would walk into his house and make her demands, get angry and leave all in minutes.. Occasionally on rare days she would sit in his study and watch him pretend to read. She would touch the books on his shelf and comment about Klaus, reminding him he would have to open the letter one day.

Today wasn't any different-initially. He could smell the scent of honey as she walked into the house with his sister following at her heels. She greeted each stray vampire hanging around the house studying material for Elijah or making jokes with Marcel. The whole house seemed to calm as Elena glided through the walking areas. He wondered slightly if it was the amount of power she had at her disposal that made them stare or her obvious beauty. He liked to think no one knew Elena to the extent that he did when it came to the inhabitants in New Orleans.

It was infuriating and nearly intoxicating when she waltzed through his study with that familiar "deal-making" look on her face. "Elena." He greeted her, looking up from the stack of books on his desk. "I haven't seen you in a few days."

"Yeah." Elena said with her hands on her hips, "You have to open that letter Elijah." She told him sternly, "If you don't I will because I'm not going to stick around here while your brother goes through the same mental and physical pain as your sister- probably more because he is really hated among the witches."

"I just need some time."

"I've given you time, Elijah. I've given you weeks and we are still at square one when it comes to Klaus." She placed her hand on his cluttered desk, leaning in closer. Elijah watched as her eyes flickered yellow for a millisecond. Clearly, unspoken emotions were behind her demands. "Open the letter, Elijah."

"Give me some time to think about it."

Elena shook her head, "It doesn't work that way. The clock is running out of time and if you just sit there hiding behind this…" She waved her hand in front of his placid face, "You'll miss your moment."

I'll miss my moment with you…"Are we still talking about the letter?"

"What else would we be taking about?" The conversation suddenly shifted to a completely different subject right in front of his eyes.

"Please." Elijah begged as he noticed another flicker in her eyes, "I need time."

Elena moved away from him a she darted towards the door, "How long will it take you to break the silence before you tear us apart?"

Elijah stood up, "Our words will tear us apart and its best if we don't address them right now. Elena, you deserve much more out of this life than to be bound by this city. You deserve to find someone that can love you for you! You deserve someone who is not haunted by your face every second of every day and avoids you because they don't want to accept how they feel. After this, you could make a clean break if we settle for silence. You deserve to travel the world and learn new languages and meet new people."

"I'm dead, Elijah. I. Am. Dead. There was nothing that I deserved more than to grow up and have a family…I have a family here. The second I walked into this town…"

Elijah stood inches away from her in one invisible step, "I'm only going to keep you in the French Quarter as if you're in a cage." Elena looked at him with the most upset expression on her face. Elijah couldn't bare it. It broke his heart to see him break her heart over and over again. She had to understand that dating a thousand year old original vampire was extremely dangerous. They clearly had enough enemies in their own town let alone the world.

He went to leave her standing there once more but as he ran off something magnetic-like stopped him in his place. "I don't think so." Elena said as she extended her hand. "You're not going to zoom off every time things get intense. This would be completely pathetic if you didn't feel the same way about me…but you do. You sit and torture yourself because you're missing the most important thing when it comes to life but when it's right in front of it you push it away because you're scared."

"I'm not scared." Elijah said, "I'm a thousand years old, I'm not scared of emotion."

"Then what are you scared of?"

"I'm scared that we're going to go down this road and in ten years, fifteen years or even a hundred years you're going to wake up and realize you've wasted your time loving someone unredeemable." Elijah said, "I only hope to be as pure and compassionate as you one day, and until then I can't drag you to hell with me."

She let him go, "You're so selfish."

"I'm pretty sure I'm being the exact opposite of selfish. If anyone is selfish, it's you!" He looked at her. He couldn't help himself but to smirk after their dramatic conversation. "I'm thinking of you entirely, if I were being selfish I would…"

"You would what?"

"I would kiss you." Elijah moved closer to her, "I would tell you that I want you, that I need you that I have to have you because that's what selfish people do. They don't think about the other person in the situation." He breathed as he moved closer, "You're right, we need to find Klaus."

And with that, she let him vanish once more.