Chapter 18

Recap: Elijah and Elena enjoy their time alone together. Elijah gives Elena a tour of New Orleans and brief history. (P.S the history was actually true in real life the part of the paranormal and voodoo part. Especially about the so call Queen of Voodoo. You can look it up.) Elena seems fascinated by Elijah's past and stories. Kol and Bonnie are alive and deciding what to do now that they are. Little did they suspect Qetsiyah alive along with them?

"Qetsiyah,"

Bonnie stared at her. Not believing what she was seeing in front. Her ancestor the one from when she was a spirit was alive. Just like Kol and she was. "How?" She shook her head confused.

"Silly girl, I am Qetsiyah your most powerful ancestor. I was so powerful that I locked Silas away for all time. Till that vampire released him from his prison. Not that I didn't want him to be release. I wanted him to take the cure and die so that we could be together." She said. Kol raised an eyebrow.

"I'm sorry but I must have heard a different side to the love story of yours. Silas seemed like he was in love with another not you. So wouldn't he just hate you for all eternity in the other side?" Kol mused. Qetsiyah glared at him. And then he grunted in pain. He gritted his teeth and placed a hand to his forehead.

"Mind your tone with me boy, I am far older then you and more powerful. Dear Bonnie I thought you had learned you lesson. You're a witch and shouldn't trust vampires especially this one. He is an original. I thought our little talk would have made you realize that you shouldn't have brought him back into this world to cause more chaos in your hometown." She shook her head and smirked to Bonnie.

"How are you alive?" Bonnie questioned.

"The blood that I took from you wasn't just to help cross to the land of living. I knew if I told you just that you would have done the spell as soon as you could. The blood wasn't just for that. It was to also ensure that when you did the spell to return to the land of the living you would also help me return. So we were basically bond. Whatever happened to you happened to me as well." She said. Bonnie couldn't believe how stupid she was not to figure out that she could have been trying to do that. "I really must thank you. Now I can do what you failed to do when you were alive. I can kill Silas and send him to the other side. And don't worry I will join him there. That's all the reason that I came here was to do that one simple task that you could not." She sneered. "Now here's what I am going to do. As long as you both stay out of my way I won't have any means to kill you. Stay out of my way and you can go on with your life." She smiled. "Until next time Bonnie," She turned and walked out of the restaurant. Bonnie cursed.

"I can't believe I was so stupid to not realize that she could have bond herself to me so that she could return to the land of the living." Kol glanced at her.

"It's not your fault, she is older then you and has more experience I mean she was powerful enough to put Silas to death in a sort of way. And create the other side." He said. She shook her head.

"But that's the oldest trick in the book. Just like what happened to Elena. She was linked to Katherine. So whatever happened to her would happen to Elena." Bonnie said.

"Maybe this is good. Silas will be gone and-

"Wrong," Bonnie looked up to Stefan.

"Stefan," Stefan pulled up a chair and sat down.

"Actually it's not Stefan," He smirked.

New Orleans:

Elena and Elijah made their way back to the house. Elena had noticed that it looked like it was going to rain tonight and right when they drove up to the house it was starting to rain. Elena and Elijah went into the house and Elena had wring out her long hair because it was soaked. Elena listened for Caroline and Klaus. But they weren't home. In the next second lighting flashed and the power went out.

"Great," Elena said. "You think Caroline and Klaus are ok?" She asked.

"She is with Niklaus I don't think there is much to worry about. Even if they did get struck by lightning that wouldn't kill them." Elijah said. "Perhaps we should both get changed and I will find some candles." Elena nodded and was glad to be a vampire because she could see a little better in the dark then if she were human. She made her way upstairs and found sweats and a tank top. She quickly took a towel and dried her hair a little. When she walked downstairs she found Elijah in the living room reading a book amongst the candles that were lit along with the fireplace. Elijah glanced up to her and smiled. She returned the smile and sat down on the couch facing him.

"Where do you think Caroline and Klaus are?" She asked. Elijah shrugged.

"There could be many places. I suspect they might be enjoying each other's company somewhere. I'm sure they wouldn't wanted to bother us or for us to bother them during their time together." Elena was still getting use to the idea that Caroline was with Klaus now. And she had seen a change in Klaus she would give him that. But it was weird still to think of them as a couple since she kept replaying the Klaus that killed her in the sacrifice to become a hybrid and the one that only wanted her blood to make hybrids. But he could careless of her and that her blood created them. His attention seemed on Caroline for most of his time.

"So what is your favorite place that you have been to?" She asked. He thought about this for a second before speaking.

"London,"

"Why?"

"The culture, it fascinates me. I have always thought that it was a wonderful place. And art, music, the history there." Elena smiled.

"Stefan use to say things like that. He said sometimes it would be with his best friend Lexi." She said. Elijah raised an eyebrow.

"Lexi?"

"Lexi Branson. Stefan's best friend."

"Could her full name be Alexia Branson?" Elena thought about this.

"Perhaps she had long blonde hair and seemed like tough vampire. She was 362 or something years old." Elijah smiled and nodded.

"Ah Alexia, she is a good friend of mine. Though I haven't had contact with her since 1774, when the revolutionary war was brewing." He said.

"You knew Lexi?" She asked.

"Yes, she is kind and caring and one of the strongest vampires I have seen since your friend Caroline." Elena looked down. He didn't know?

"Well um Lexi is dead." Elijah looked at her confused.

"Dead?"

"Damon killed her when he first came to town. She came to visit Stefan for his birthday." She said. Elijah thought about this.

"So that is why she wasn't at the ball." Elena turned to him.

"You invited her?"

"Of course she was a friend and we had more connections then since I cell phone was invented. That must be why I also haven't heard from her." Elena nodded.

"How did you meet?" She asked.

"I was the one that turned her." Elena stared at him.

"You turned her?" He nodded.

"I didn't turn her against your will if that's what you're thinking." He said.

"Tell me how you met her and turned her?" He smiled.

"Well I don't know it is rather long story," She gave him a look.

"Come on Elijah, I would love to hear it." He shrugged.

"Alright," He closed his book. "Well it was back in 1692, the year of the Salem Witch trials. You know the history I assume of the Salem witch trials." She nodded. "Well I had arrived weeks after it had just begun."

Flashback:

Elijah had come to Salem after receiving a letter from an old friend Mary Gates a witch who was asking for his help. She had not been accused of being a witch but she was hoping for his help in getting her out of town. Elijah agreed because he had owed her a favor. As he arrived in the town that was turning itself from a puritan society into bloodshed. He could hear many men and women talking and discussing what was happening. He shook his head. He found that it absolutely disrespectful that people did not mind their own business. As he made his way to her house where she lived he heard a scream. He turned to find three women and a man along with other men. He watched as a girl seemed to be hiding and pointing at another girl. A girl with blonde hair in a bonnet and brown sienna eyes. He could see what was going on. The girl pointing and hiding was accusing her of being a witch. He could see the men rounding this young woman up. The girl that was pointing started screaming and crying out in pain and yelling that she was doing it to her. Elijah watched as the blonde girl's family was screaming and trying to protest. He looked to the man that was probably her father yelling at the men about his daughter not being a witch. But the protest weren't getting anywhere as they brought the girl onto the wagon and tied her up. Elijah was debating whether to intervene or just get Mary out now. Elijah decided to just get Mary. He knocked on the door and Mary opened the door.

"Elijah, thank you for coming," He nodded.

"Of course, you require safe passage from here I understand truly." He said. "I have a servant already waiting to depart, you will travel to Virginia. You will be safe there I promise." As he walked outside to where the man was waiting by the carriage. As she got in she turned to him. "I will meet you in Boston in two days time." She nodded and with that the carriage left. Leaving Elijah to have to stay in Salem for the night. Elijah was walking the town of Salem watching as many also stared at him and talked. They did not know that he could hear every word that they were saying. He looked to a girl that he had seen when he first came to this town. She looked maybe thirteen, fourteen years old. The girl watched him.

"I know what you are." Was all she said. Elijah raised an eyebrow.

"Mary Gates talked about you."Elijah moved over to talk to her quietly. "You're a vampire." She said. Elijah put his finger to his lips.

"Yes, well I wouldn't say that around here with everything happening."She now looked like she had tears in her eyes.

"Please, save my sister, she isn't a witch yet the judges won't believe her. She has been made guilty and is being framed for a crime that she did not commit. She faces the gallows tomorrow morning. Please save her. Please!" She cried. Elijah watched as the young girl had tears in her eyes. Elijah nodded.

"I can save her. But only if she agrees with the way that I could save her. I won't take the choice from her." She nodded. And she explained where she was at the moment. Elijah nodded and headed to the jail cells. When Elijah got there the guard tried to tell him he could not enter but Elijah compelled him to let him by. When he was inside where he sees many women and girls that were in chains and in ruins. Their looked as if they were dying within the very cell. Which they probably were, at least the ones that had decided to confess even when it wasn't true. He found the cell with the girl that he had seen before. She had long blonde that was a mess now and her wrists were in chains. She leaned against the wall with her eyes closed with stained cheeks from tears that she had shed. Elijah opened the door. When he unhinged the door it made a loud sound making the girl jump and turn to him. She looked at him slightly with fear in her eyes. Elijah put his hand up. "I mean you no harm Miss, my name is Elijah…Smith. Your sister asked me to come find you. Thee are?"

"Alexia Branson," She said. He kneeled down in front of her.

"Alexia, your sister asked me to come to you because she knew that I could save you somehow. But I am offering you the choice. What if I could save you? What if you could live forever at your age and what if I told that you will never die? What if I told you that I could make you stronger and faster than anyone? And what if I told you what I am." He said.

"W-what are you?" She asked staring at the dark and mysterious man.

"Do not be frightened for I mean you no harm just as I said. I give you my word that I will not harm you or anyone." Elijah took a deep breath. "I am a creature of the night, someone who has lived forever and is stronger and faster than any human but with a price. A curse in which to drink the blood of the living. I my lady am a vampire." He finished. She stared at him feeling slight frightened.

"How will you save me?"

"By turning you into a vampire yourself." She swallowed hard. She now knew how powerful this man was. She knew she wasn't guilty and didn't want to die.

"Y-yes, I want you to turn me," She answered. He nodded. He bit his wrist and let his blood flow out of the wound that he created. She stared at the blood and looked at him.

"In order to turn you will first have to drink my blood." She nodded and slowly brought his wrist up to her mouth. She hesitated before drinking his blood. She never thought that blood could taste sweet and good. His was like a sweet dessert or fruit of some sort. She drank greedily.

In the morning when they brought her to gallows she was scared. Scared that it all had been a dream and she was going to die. Or that it hadn't and it wasn't going to work and that she would die. Elijah watched from the crowed as she was brought before them to be hung. She felt tears in her eyes. But when she looked up and saw Elijah he made her believe and felt stronger. She felt them bring the noose around her neck. And she could hear the drums as the executioner walked to the leaver. She found herself praying to God. He pulled the lever.

When she awoke she found herself in a house that she had not seen before. She looked around and found Elijah watching from a chair along with a man by his side. She swallowed hard and looked at him.

"Am I a vampire?" She asked. Elijah shook his head.

"No you are dead but not alive either. Now you have to make the choice to become a vampire or die? And you don't have long perhaps a day before you go back to being dead." She nodded.

"I want to be a vampire." He stood and walked to her also waving for the man to follow.

"Then you must drink blood." She watched him as he bit the man's wrist and offered it to her. She didn't want to hurt the man but she needed to do this to turn so she took his wrist and began to drink. At first the blood tasted awful. But after that she felt something. Her gums began to hurt and she felt this hunger grow inside of her. She cried out as she felt sharp pain in her gums When she turned to the mirror on the wall with her mouth open. She found her eyes black with veins descended from her eyes. And when she looked to her mouth she found a pair of sharp fangs drop. She gasped when she saw what she looked like. She couldn't believe that she was a creature now. A vampire.

Note: So there is another chapter. I thought I owed you guys another one today as soon as possible. So here you go. I love when I can add a flashback to my stories especially ones from like the 1700's. It's so much fun to me. I hope I did well with this flashback. I don't know if Elijah turned Lexi or not all I know is that she was turned in the 1600's somewhere. I just thought it would seem like Elijah turned her. I am thinking of having a flashback for Silas, Qetsiyah and his lover maybe on what I think happened. I am also thinking of bringing the group back together. As in Kol, Bonnie could perhaps meet up with Elena, Elijah and Klaus and Caroline. Or the other way around. I will also be adding another drabble for The Original Drabbles today. As soon as I can. So if you like that read it. J Reviews thanks.

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