Chapter 4-

I hope I did a good job to write Elijah. If anybody wants someone else's POV for a future chapter then I'm open to suggestions.

Elijah's POV-

Last night, I had been in Aria's house because Elena wanted to make a deal to protect her loved ones. I had heard her singing in the shower and wrote her a simple letter.

She had come out and found my letter, the big smile that made her way onto her face, warmed my dead heart. I waited until she fell asleep before I left, her face was so much more relaxed when she was asleep, not as tense or worried. She had such soft hair, like silk and her skin was smooth and warm. I ran the back of my hand across her cheek and savoured the feel of the tingles that shot up my arm.

Right now I was sitting alone in the mystic grill, drinking. I felt a familiar presence behind me. Aria.

"Isn't a little early for that?" she was right it was still light out, but I didn't care.

"Its 5 o'clock somewhere, isn't that what they say?" she nodded with a smile.

"So why are you drinking all alone? What was so bad, that you had to come here and drink?"

Instead of answering her questions, I asked her my own. "Would you like to go out to dinner with me?"

Her mouth was slightly parted in shock and she closed her mouth the opened it again, looking like a fish. I got up to leave feeling slightly rejected, when her hand shot out and grabbed my arm. "Where would you like to go?"

"Is there anywhere good to eat?"

"The food here is mediocre. But it's the best we have."

We sat down at a booth that sat along the wall, she sat across from me and picked up a menu. She was biting her lip in concentration, I wonder if she did that a lot.

She looked up at me and caught me staring at her lips that I would very much like to kiss right now. She smiled and we ordered.

"So, how come you didn't die when you got staked?"

"How did you know I got staked?"

"Elena told me. Or rather Elena told Caroline who told Bonnie who told Jeremy who told me. It's the gossip at the top of the grapevine." She rambled, it was quite cute and when she stopped herself from going on further and she blushed a deep pink that stood out against her pale skin.

"I'm a special kind of vampire."

"Not the kind who sparkle in the sun, live in the forest and watch me sleep, right?"

"What kind of a vampire does that?" she laughed at me and it was music to my ears.

"You've never seen twilight?"

"No. I haven't."

"So if you're not from twilight, then what kind of a vampire are you?"

I told her everything. How Henrik got attacked and killed by werewolves. My mother Esther's spell that turned us all into vampires. Katerina Petrova. Klaus. How he daggered our siblings and threw their bodies into the ocean, lost forever. How I wanted my revenge.

"Wow. That's um, a lot to take in." I nodded, I felt a small hand slip into mine. Aria's nails were painted black and she was wearing a gold ring with a small ruby in it. She squeezed my hand and stood up, "coming?" she said over her shoulder, she still was holding my hand and I got up and followed her to wherever she was taking me.

We walked through the streets till we got to my car, she drove until we got the falls.

"What are we doing here?" it was beautiful here and you could hear the quit rumbling and splashing of the falls.

"I like it here, I come here sometimes when I'm upset." She sat on the hood of her car and patted the space next to her. I sat down and we were so close that our shoulders were touching.

We sat in silence for five minutes and before I knew what I was doing, I reached across and put my hands on her waist and then I pulled her into me and kissed her, our lips moulded together and there was no space between us our bodies were so close. Her hands were buried in my hair and our tongues slipped and slide over each other's. I pulled away and looked into her eyes before I kissed her again. She wrapped her legs around my waist, making us closer. I moved my lips over to her neck and made a trail of soft kisses from her neck to her collarbone.

She pulled away and ran her fingers through my hair, I leaned into the touch and kissed her hand.

"We should probably go, it's getting dark." I nodded.

I drove her to her house and I got out to open her door for her, out of habit.

"Such a gentleman." She grinned widely, showing off her pearly white teeth. Before she could say anything else I pressed a soft but chaste kiss on her lips. "Will I be seeing you again?" she asked against my lips.

"Of course. My whole undead life depends on it." She laughed and stepped back.

I got back into the car and drove off, just as I was about to turn the corner I looked back and saw her still standing there. She smiled and waved.