Everyone spun around at the time with the help of their partners. Masks covered everyone's faces, but mostly everyone knew who was there and who they were dancing with. Except for her. She never seen the man before, yet she allowed him to dance with her rather than dancing with her fiancé. Both kept eye contact during the entire dance. Though neither of them spoke a single word to one another. It was odd, but it felt right. She didn't ask for his name or say anything. Just them continue their silence intimate dance. He swirled her just went the other dancers swirled their partners before he brought her into his arms for dip. When he brought her back up their faces were barely touching. She excused herself as soon as she could. Picking up her skirt before running off away from him the party. She went out to the balcony where she took of her mask and necklace that her fiancé had given her. It felt like it was suffocating her.
The man had followed her out and picked up her necklace for a moment. Then he placed it back down and picked up her mask instead. He held it out to her, but she rejected it. Her heart was beating fast against her chest ever since they started dancing. Her cheeks even were pink boarding on red. Thank god she wasn't sweating.
Rather than saying anything, he just held her and they looked off into the sky. Both of them wanted to say so much, but neither of them wanted to speak either. It was a small issue. Needing to say everything but not wanting to say even a word. Eventually one of them would walk off before either of them got a chance to speak. So rather than speak, he just kissed her softly on lips. They didn't want to say everything, just one word they both were feeling, yet they couldn't. She was a taken man, and he was a man with no name to give her but his own.
Her gloved arms wrapped around his neck, bring him in closer while his hands went around hers hips. His lips didn't leave hers until they could hear her name being called. It was her that pulled away from him to look up to see her fiancé walked out on the balcony. Clearly, he didn't see her in a heated lip lock with a stranger. Her fiancé though seemed to be amused by the grin on his face.
"Elena Marie." She hated when he called her that. In his mind, it made her sound regal, but in hers she sounded like a rip off. Her full name was Elena Marie Gilbert not Elena Marie. "I see you met my brother Niklaus. He just finished his years in the service." Elijah patted his brother's back while Elena's partner removed his mask.
There was barely any resemblance between the two. Elijah's hair was darker than Niklaus's hair, and their eyes were different colors completely. How as she to know that her dance partner was her fiancé's brother since she never met and was never told too much about said brother. Elena had met Finn, Kol Rebekah, and even their parents. No one dare utter the middle child's name. Elena was now wondering why Niklaus was so taboo is parents never even spoke of the man.
Niklaus bowed, but did not say anything. Rather he left to rejoin the party leaving the two standing there with as much distance between them as there was in their relationship.
"Forgive Niklaus he knows no manners as a bastard." Elena's eyes went wide at her fiancé's words. For the first time, he was speaking about his young brother, and that was the way he was talking about him? "Mother should have never slept with the help." Elena went right past him to go meet up with her dancer. But she had lost him in the crowd, and couldn't spot him in the sea of hoop skirts and the same black suit the guests were wearing. She started to back up until she ran into a hard chest. One of the man's arm wrapped around her waist, pulling her into him before she could move away.
"Let go of me!" Elena demanded.
"I don't think you want that Elena." Her name coming out of her lips sent chills down her back. Without even turning to see him, she knew it Niklaus. Her eyes closed and rolled back into her skill as his lips brushed against her shoulder. "I think you don't want my brother, but rather me. You want me to kiss you, make you feel things my brother only wished he could do to you." His hand began to up her waist to the curve of her breast. "You want to feel pleasure, excitement, but you want danger too. Is that what I am to you? Danger?" Elena didn't have an answer to his question, and he was wanting one. Wasn't going to let her go until he got one. Though she tried to escape his arms when she saw Elijah enter the room. "Don't worry, he can not see us." He whispered to her as he pulled her with him into the shadows.
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Why did I have to announce my pregnancy on the open streets that any supernatural creature could have heard me? I thought to myself as I watched Sabine's eyes widen in pure shock. But oh she isn't the one that spoke. Not only did I reveal it to Damon, but unintentionally revealed it to Sabine and to the soon to be uncle, Elijah. All their eyes were on me, but geared to my still flat stomach.
"I suppose I should wish congratulations." Sabine spoke, but she didn't know who the father was. That was something no one should be celebrating.
"Sabine, you are free of your time." Elijah dismissed her. The older woman glared me before storming off into the night. Elijah set his eyes on me next. "That is not possible."
"I have been telling myself ever since I took the test Elijah." I told him. "I am carrying Klaus's unborn child."
"Elena." Damon spoke like a wounded animal. I guess he believed now that Klaus was gone, that he and I had a chance again, but now pregnant with Klaus's child, that belief was stomped on and ripped apartment. "How?" Damon asked the question I had been asking myself before my little meeting me with Lenore.
"During the night, Klaus and I spent together, my insides were human. Klaus can reproduce without needing to be human as he can due to the fact he is a hybrid. That night, we convinced our child to break the curse." I tried my best to explain to them both with the knowledge I know.
"Does my brother know?" Elijah asked before I shook my head "Were you going to tell him?" Once again I shook my head. "Don't you think he deserves to know that he is to be a father?!"
"Hey! Watch the tone." Damon defended me, standing in between Elijah and I to protect me. "She is a young girl, vampire or not, and just found out she is pregnant with a psychopath's child!" Damon told Elijah. "Do not be yelling at her just because she doesn't want to tell Klaus."
"Damon, thank you, but I can I fight my own battles." I said to him before looking at Elijah. "But basically, everything he said is right." I muttered under my breath even though I knew they could hear me. "I just need time to think." I made a movement to Damon's car, but Elijah was faster than me moving at mortal level.
"You can't leave to think, that is running away." I had to roll my eyes at him.
"No, it is me going home to put on some sweats, pig out to some Ben and Jerry's and watch some terrible reality TV. I am tired, I have been here all day, moving around. I just want to go home." I told him. "I could also use a bite to eat."
"You have eaten all day!" There he goes with the yelling, but Damon joined in with him.
"I had some food, but no blood. I wasn't going to feed on some local." I defended my thought, but even though, now it was kind of not smart. "I will eat one of the bags of blood in Damon's car. You can't make me stay here."
"I can. That child is my blood."
"That child is mine, and I get to make the choices here." I glared at Elijah. I have never seen him this way, but I know how devoted to family he was. The devotion was what kept him around Klaus, it was what had him stand behind Rebekah, and it was the devotion that was causing his way towards me now. I know he wasn't going to let up, he would fight us all the way to the border if he had to. A part of me knew he was concerned about my safety, and he was also concerned that I would keep the baby away from Klaus, away from Elijah and the rest of the Mikaelson family. "I can't stay here, for long." I said. Elijah eyes lit up with glee, while Damon just scowled.
"Stay here the weekend at least."
"I'll stay as long as Damon stays." With that Damon grabbed my hand and looked at me. We locked eyes, silently pleading with him to stay with me. Even though all I wanted was to be alone at the moment, I didn't want to be staying with Elijah and god knows who else, without some back up. Big girl or not, I know Elijah could compel me. If Damon was around, I know he would stop Elijah from compelling me. Damon slightly nodded then turned his gaze to Elijah
"We will stay the weekend, but where will we stay?" Damon asked Elijah. "We aren't staying where Klaus is staying."
"That is a little petty now don't you think." Elijah spoke before Damon let out a growl and I just glared at Elijah. It wasn't petty, it was a simple fact. Damon and I weren't staying where Klaus was. Sure, I was pregnant with his child, but I haven't decided yet if I was going to tell him. Then there was the fact, I was still so mad at him for the fact he slept with my best friend while he was telling me that he wants a future with me. Elijah looked into my eyes, could see the anger, but I think he could also see the sadness. "Alright, I own an apartment not too far away from here, you both may stay there."
"Let's go then." I said. When Elijah started walking Damon and I followed right behind him. "Are you okay?" I asked Damon. I could understand if he wasn't. He just found out the girl he loves was pregnant with another man's child. I know he still loves me, I see the way he looks at me
"I'll be fine, how are you doing?" Damon asked back to me. I just shrugged my shoulders, I didn't have an answer. I don't know how I am doing, I don't know how to deal with the problems I have been facing. I wanted to face them alone, but maybe that isn't the best choice. I can't just shut the world out and pretend everything is normal when it is not. I am going to be a mother to a hybrid child, and Klaus is going to be a father whether I tell him or not. I couldn't just hide away. I knew when I got home I needed to tell the others, they deserve to know…just like Klaus.
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Another day had passed. After Elijah had taken us to his place, I feel asleep right away not even bothering to take my clothes off or anything. When I woke up, I found a dress in my size with fresh lingerie and a pair of heels. A note from Elijah, saying he got my size from Damon. Damon also received fresh new clothes for Elijah but without the note. Damon and had breakfast with a couple of blood bags before we headed out. Spent most of our day at Jackson Square, but we did do other things. Had late lunch in a small place in the Quarter and spent the rest of the afternoon exploring. Mostly walking along the Jazz players. Damon told me other than rock, he enjoyed Jazz. Threw me for a loop since most of his music was from the 80s or 70s. Never think I ever found a single Jazz song on his phone. I myself like the 80s rock, never was one to listen to Jazz. But the more I spend listening to it, the more I find myself liking it. Damon's mission was to keep my mind off my unplanned pregnancy and he was succeeding.
"Can we go here?" I pointed to the bar that read Rousseau's.
"You want to eat at a bar?" Damon raised an eyebrow at me, and I couldn't help but laugh.
"Read on this blog, best gumbo for the cheapest price. Won an award I think."
"For what? Worst place for vampires, look at all that wood." Damon smirked. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms at him. "Seriously you want to go in here?"
"Duh." I couldn't help but laugh at my own attitude towards Damon.
"Fine." When he caved, we went inside to get seated at a table for two. Damon ordered himself just a bottle of bourbon with a glass while I ordered water and a cup of the gumbo. "You know I could have taken you somewhere nicer. Somewhere without plastic menus or greatest cheapest gumbo.
"And people also say things don't get better with age." He countered my point with making one of his own. Sayings are just that not facts. I knew people who hate the taste of older bottles of wine aka Jenna. But that may be where the cheaper, the better saying came from. "How about if we are here tomorrow night, I take you to a nicer place? I will stop my complaining about this place."
"Sounds like a date." I noticed his lips finally turn into a smile rather than smirking once again since we had entered this place.
"Elena?" The voice made chills run down my back and every tiny hair on my body stand up. He was here. He was in a bar. I felt frozen in my seat, I couldn't even lift my head up to see he was standing not too far behind Damon. Luckily Damon's body wasn't frozen. He darted out of his chair to prevent Klaus from coming any closer. The spell broke on my body and I was able to look up just to see the leather of Damon's jacket blocking the view of Klaus. "Juvenile tactics. I have seen Elena since after that night, now move Salvatore."
"You don't order me around Klaus." Damon argued. I was about to intervene when I opened my mouth I could not speak out. No words formed, though that didn't stop me from trying. It was when I went to stand, I found myself being dragged away without being able to scream for help. When I tried kicking one of the chairs, I was knocked out. Found myself staring into darkness.
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When I finally woke up, I found myself in a tomb surrounded by several women including Sabine. They were probably all witches. I remember Damon saying most of the witches hung out in the graveyard. I started to sit up slowly as the women kept standing around me. When I tried to move, I found that could due to the salt on the ground, they were using it to keep me in the small circle. Every time I tried to move, I found an invisible shield stopping me
"What is going on here?" I asked them.
"My name is Sophie. Sabine has told us you are a vampire and pregnant." The woman with brunette hair and the one closest to me said.
"Yeah, and Lenore knows this too."
"I know who Lenore is." Sophie spoke with venom. Clearly Lenore and Jane-Anne had some problems. "You also know who Celeste is, and Monique."
"Yes and yes." I repeated. "Did you just kidnap me to answer questions you already have the answer for or is there a certain reason why you kidnapped me?"
"We took you to use you as a pawn." Sophie answered me.
"A pawn for what?" I knew I was going to regret that question but I might as well ask questions if I am going to be trapped.
"To take down the vampires. Marcel has refused to let the witches use their magic, and banned it. For those who break it are killed. We are forced to hide and go against everything we have known." Sabine spoke, as Sophie was flipping through a book. "Recently Sophie's sister was killed for using magic to try to force Celeste out of her daughter's body. Sophie wishes to do the same as her niece is the only one left."
"And why would Marcel or Celeste care what happens to me?"
"They don't, but Klaus Mikaelson does." Sophie spoke once again. "Klaus is the only one strong enough to stop Marcel. But Klaus won't just help us. We tried that already. So now we need blackmail. The woman he loves and the child he is to be father to, should work." Sophie nodded her head at Sabine before Sabine walked off. Sophie began to chant something while the other witches were chanting something else. I was stuck just watching them
"Klaus doesn't love me, and he doesn't know he is going to be a father." I countered with them.
"He will know when he gets here." Sabine said as she walked back into the room. "Now shut up." I tried lunging at her but I was just knocked on to my ass. I glared at the witches trying to think of a way to get of a way. When I tried kicking the salt, my foot just hit the shield.
"May I ask, why you tried to lure my brother out here?" I heard Elijah from outside as he was walking into the tomb. "Elena?"
"Elijah." Once Elijah was close by, Sophie kicked away the salt and let me run over to Elijah.
"I called you brother, not you." Sabine spoke.
"Well, I answered the call. You really should learn the difference between my voice and my brother's, Sabine." Elijah said as he was draping his suit jacket over my shoulders. "Was there a reason why you needed my brother?"
"Yes. We need his help, and now he has to help us." Sophie said as she stepped closer to us.
"My brother does not have to do anything to help you witches." Elijah snapped. I could see he was growing angry and annoyed with these witches.
"He does or Elena dies." Sophie told Elijah, but her eyes were on me.
"What?!" Elijah grabbed Sophie by the neck tightly, cutting off her airway. I knew that he was cutting her airway off as mine started to struggle. I couldn't breathe. That evil bitch. She linked us. Even though as a vampire, I felt human once again struggling for air. "Elena?" Elijah asked while he looked my way to see me struggling to breath. Elijah let go of Sophie's neck, and we both regained our air.
"I linked her to my life. If I let Sabine kill me both Elena and the baby die with me."
"She will heal." Elijah countered. Elijah helped me back up and looked down at me to make sure I was fine.
"Not if Sabine rips my heart out. Let's see a vampire heal from that." Sophie smirked.
"Undo it!" I snapped at Sophie and the rest of the bitch squad.
"Not until Klaus agrees to help us with Marcel." Sabine said.
Elijah looked back and forth between the witches and me. I could tell he was thinking about his choices. Though there was only one really one that would be the best for everyone including myself. "I will speak to him." With that Elijah picked me up and flashed me out of the tomb to get away from the witches. But that wasn't going to happen until I was unlinked from that Sophie bitch. Until then my life, my child's life was linked to Sophie's. If she did, we both did with her. If they tried killing her baby slitting her throat, I would heal and so would she. Same with snapping her neck. Any pain or harm that came our way would affect the other one.
Elijah took me to where he was staying with Klaus. When we got there both Damon and Klaus were pacing with a drink in their hand, but stopped when they saw me. Klaus was faster than Damon getting to me.
"Are you okay? What did those witches want?" Klaus asked Elijah, but kept both his hands and eyes on me.
"We have to help them, they linked a witch to Elena's life." Elijah wasn't telling the full truth, but the rest Klaus did not need to know.
"They did what?!" Damon snapped as he broke the glass that was in his hand. "Get them to unlink her, kill all the witches if you have to."
"It isn't that simple." Elijah said. "If we start killing witches the witch linked to Elena will kill herself with a stake to the heart."
"So I take my city back and our home. I like the plan already." Klaus spoke calmly but I could see the fury in his eyes. "Is that the only thing they want?"
"They want Monique's body back without killing her." Elijah said.
"Sabine was able to come back, why can't they do the same to the little witch?" The two brothers were having a chat like Damon and I weren't even in the room. It was easy to sneak out without their full attention on me. But we only got too far as we back got stopped by Klaus. "You are not leaving love."
"Yes we are." Damon made it clear. "Elena wants to continue her life back home, not here."
"Why don't we let Elena speak?" Klaus turned his gaze to me.
"I want to stay." I admitted.
Sorry for the delay. I have been busy with school, life and well just blah. This week is my spring break so I will have a lot of time to write. Like a few more chapters of this along with publishing the next chapters in my other stories. I will also be writing The Mates, a Klaus and Elena story.