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The Time to Break Free Is Now

Previously: "Rest now my love," he said as he pushed her arm back into her cell and held her gently in his arms. He felt his body slowly heal itself, in a matter of time, he'd be strong enough for them to break free and escape.

As Elena slept soundly in his arms, Elijah couldn't help but think about Katerina and when he first met her those many years ago. He was immediately smitten when Trevor first introduced her to him.

Elijah had been ready to pursue her, but by then she was claimed by Klaus and of course he knew that she was no longer approachable. He could only consider her a common friend, anything more would cause a rivalry between him and Klaus. When Katherine forced herself to become a vampire so that she could escape the sun and moon curse, Elijah felt more determined to find her and be with her. That also would never be possible since he promised to find her as per Klaus' request.

Now that Elena had recently confessed her love towards him, Elijah knew that he would have his chance to love a Petrova—and indeed, a far more better one. He smiled knowing he needed a little before he was stronger enough to get him and Elena out of here.

Stefan and Damon had reached the top of the stairs and were discussing how to tell Klaus about his prisoners, without the situation being turned on them and becoming a death sentence for them. Stefan knew Klaus would not be happy about the Elijah/Elena situation, but he wanted to be sure he could tell it in a way where it wouldn't give Klaus a reason to rip the Salvatore's hearts out of their chests. They had just about reached Klaus' room when they were approached by Annabeth.

"Well well well, if it isn't the Salvatore brothers, what are you boys up to?" she wondered with an evil grin.

"We have to tell Klaus some important news," said Stefan, only partially paying attention to what she was saying.

"Really, and what would that be?" she asked with a sly smile, unable to conceal her curiosity.

"That's for Klaus to know, not you," Damon interjected before Stefan could say something. He glared at her. "Besides, we know that once we tell you, you'll probably run to Klaus himself and take credit for it yourself."

"Aww c'mon boys," she pleaded childishly with a pout, "I promise to keep it a secret."

"Forget it," Damon said as he attempted to move past her, but Annabeth blocked him.

"Look you better tell me now or else I'll just turn around right now and tell Klaus that you're keeping secrets from him," she warned with a growl.

Stefan sighed. "Fine, we'll tell you," He took at deep breath. "We found Elena and Elijah downstairs together."

"What do you mean together?" she asked with eyes narrowed into slits.

"Oh for Christ's sake, we found them sleeping together you idiot," Damon rolled his eyes in an obvious motion.

"What the hell?" Annabeth nearly screeched, "We better tell Klaus about this fast."

"I get tell him first," Damon said.

Elena woke up and moaned as she stretched her aching limbs. She opened her eyes and looked around; she was still in her cell. She sat up and looked the direction of Elijah's cell seeing him sitting in a corner, watching her.

"Hey love, how are you feeling?" she asked with a smile.

"I'm doing fine, thank you," he said returning her small smile.

Elena slowly got up. "Are you healed yet?"

"Almost, I should be fine soon. Then we can get out of here." He held out his arms for her, and she complied by falling back into his arms.

Elena sighed in temporary contentment. "Where are we going go?" she wondered.

"There's a house my family used nearby. It's where we'll stay when we're in town."

"Is it safe, will Klaus be able to find us there?" she asked with fear in her voice; that he hoped the answer was no.

He reassured her by planting a tender kiss on her forehead. "Yes, but don't worry because we had a witch spell the house so that he was the only Original who couldn't enter it."

"Won't I want to go outside once in a while?"

Elijah answered, "Well, if anything happens, as long as I'm with you, I'll be fine."

Elena smiled at his sweet words. "Well that's good to know, but what about Stefan and Damon? We can't just leave them here."

"Once I get you safely inside the house, I'll come back for them. I promise. Don't worry about anyone else coming for you, no vampire but an Original can enter and can only be invited in by an Original."

"Well that's good to know," Elena sighed with relief. "All we have to worry about now is Klaus finding out about us."

"Well don't worry about that, I have a plan to keep us safe," he said with an encouraging smile and a determined look in his eyes.

"They are what?" shouted Klaus as he threw his goblet across the bedroom shattering it against a wall. "You dare tell me that my brother is alive and in love with the doppelganger?" he spat out to the trio.

"We don't know for sure that they're together, just they were found sleeping beside each other in the cell," Stefan answered in the most calm manner as he could grasp.

"I didn't even know they were put in adjacent cells!" Klaus exclaimed as he paced back and forth. He sped to the trio, his blue-green eyes ablaze with anger. "You're lucky I don't rip that ring off your finger right now and leave you as a pile of dust," he said in a threatening tone as he pointed to Annabeth. "The same goes for you two, I'm so close to ripping your hearts out right now," he said to the brothers, with the same fury in his eyes.

"We'll go right now and stop them," Stefan said—he was trying to earn brownie points with the Original—as he made his way for the door.

"No, Annabeth with go," replied Klaus.

"Why her?" said Damon.

"She's wearing vervain, Elijah won't be able to compel her," he said. "Now hurry up before my patience becomes MUCHthinner," he said to Annabeth.

"Right away Klaus," she said as she ran out of the room.

"Now as for you two…" he said with an evil smile to the brothers.

Elena watched in anticipation as Elijah prepared to break open the bars on his cell. She was relieved knowing that he was strong enough now to do this and soon would be free of these bars that were holding her prisoner. She couldn't wait to be away from here and in the safety of Elijah's arms.

Not that she was never safe when she was around Stefan – or Damon for that matter – it's just that she felt more protected when she was with Elijah than she ever felt before. Elijah looked at her, like he could tell what she was thinking.

He smiled and softly chuckled to himself knowing that Elena was putting so much trust into him and his abilities that he almost was surprised by it. He knew how much faith Elena had put into trusting the powers of Damon and Stefan and had realized that Elijah could do much more than they ever could because he wasn't affected by many of their weaknesses. It was because of this that Elijah had hope that his relationship with Elena would be stronger than ever and therefore harder to break.

He prepared to grasp the bars and bend them apart. Just as he grabbed the bars, he felt a searing pain in his hands as they began to burn and sizzle. He cried out in pain and immediately let go watching as his hands then began to heal. Elena saw this and immediately ran over to him, or as far as she could go since she was blocked from actually reaching him.

"What's the matter, what happened?" she cried in a panicked and concerned tone as she watched his hand heal.

"Dammit I should've known he'd do something like this," he said as he swore under his breath. "I must admit I didn't think he'd be this clever."

"What's the matter with the bars? Why did they burn you?"

"There's vervain on them, I only wonder how I didn't smell it before?"

The hope that was running through her just minutes ago was starting to fade. "Great, so how are we supposed to get out now?" Elena said as tears started to form in her eyes.

"Don't worry my love," he reassured her as he walked over to her and cupped her face in his hands as he wiped the tears away from her eyes with his thumbs. "Everything will be all right I promise. It'll just take more time since I have to use more strength to break them and fight the pain."

"Don't spend too much of it though, or else you won't have enough to get us out of here," she cautioned as she held his hands.

"Don't worry I won't," he said as he went to try and bend the bars again. No matter how much it was going to hurt, he was going to get them free and away from there.

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