It has been now two weeks since Elijah saw Katherine for the last time. He had tried everything, calls, texts; he had gone to her apartment and even to her office where her boss told him she had took some holiday. He had no idea what happened, when she had left his office everything was fine and then this text, he didn't know what to think but something was sure is that he was becoming crazy. He needed to see her and to talk to her.

Katherine had just got back her suitcase in her airport when she recognized a familiar face. It's been two weeks since she had left LA to go back at her aunt's home, she had needed a break and she took it, now it was time for her to come back to reality. She tried to pass next to him, acting like she hasn't seen him but he had obviously saw her.

He talked loudly to her "Are you really gonna act like you haven't see me, Miss Pierce?"

Katherine stopped to walk and made a grin as he couldn't see her face, she turned around to face him and fake a smile. "Kol! What are you doing here?"

Kol smirked back at her and took a step toward her. "I'm back from a business trip what about you? It's been a while since the last time you were in LA, two weeks if I'm right."

Katherine frowned at his words and tilted her head. "Yeah, I went to visit my aunt. How do you know that?"

Kol laughed at her question, she was so suspicious. "It's actually very simple. It's been two weeks that my brother doesn't sleep. He has been trying to reach you in every way and now I know that you couldn't answer to his call and text. If you would have want to answer is another question."

Katherine smiled in her head at Kol's words, she shouldn't be happy from this and yet she was, he miss her. She shook her head. "It doesn't matter; I have nothing to do with your brother anymore." She prepared herself to walk away but Kol grabbed her wrist.

He shrugged lightly. "You will have to face him one day or another, you know that right?" A light smirk suddenly appeared on Kol's face. "Take a coffee with me."

Katherine frowned. "What? No, Kol I'm not going to take a coffee with you, I don't even know you."

He smiled widely. "Then you will get to know me while we share this coffee. Come on, I'm not going to let you go anyway, and I need to know what happened with Elijah."

Katherine sighed deeply, she had no choice. "Ok, but after that coffee, you let me go."

Kol laughed at her request. "Yep, promise."

They sat in a bar near the airport and both ordered their drinks. Kol started, he didn't want to directly ask about his brother so he tried to go slow, but he wasn't really talented to do that. "So, you won't work for our company?"

Katherine looked down at her drink, she hated that, the only fact that she had loose a client because of a man makes her feel terrible. She swallowed before to answer. "No, I won't. But not only because of your brother. Some people don't want me in the company."

Kol frowned as he took a sip of his coffee. "Who? I totally want you to work in the company!"

Katherine smiled softly at his answer. "No, not you Kol. I'm talking about your parents."

Kol rolled his eyes up. "It's not you the problem for them. Elijah could have hired anyone they would have hate him or her too. My parents hate the fact that Elijah controls the company and they also hate the fact that he is going great, they were waiting for him to fail."

Katherine was looking down, making circle with her spoon in her coffee, when she suddenly asked quietly. "With how many girls working in the company Elijah has date?"

Kol kept quiet at her question for a while. So that was the problem. Elijah's past. "At least two. If there are more, I don't know them." Kol shrugged, he was telling the truth and for him two wasn't a lot. "Now tell me, what exactly happened. Pretty please."

Katherine sighed. At least. There were probably more. "When I was leaving the building, I heard you parents talking about Elijah and me. They obviously knew about us" She stayed silence after saying the "us", what the us means was too much. "They said that I was just another one and that Elijah was use to choose his girls like that, which means in the company. And they also said that he just wanted to have fun with me." Katherine swallowed once again, she memorized all their words. "How long Elijah stayed with these girls?" She finally looked up at Kol.

Kol looked sadly at her, his parents has made so many people unhappy, starting with their own children and now Katherine was just one more of these sad people. "Don't believe them. Don't believe only one of their words. Their gold in life is to ruin other and I'm totally serious saying that. One of the girl name was Tatia, she was…"

Katherine cut him in his sentence. "I know who she is. Elijah told me about her, they stayed 4 years together."

Kol laughed softly. "That's not really polite to cut people in their sentence miss Pierce." He gave her a playful gaze. "Yes, it was a long and serious relationship, so no Elijah doesn't play with girls. He is serious, and sometimes way too much for me. And for the record you are not like any other girls for him, I can see it." He smiled softly and drank the last sip of his coffee before to get up. "Do you need me to drive your home?"

Katherine smiled lightly, she was reassured but she needed to talk Elijah. And she had no idea when she will be ready to face him. "No, I'm fine. And thank you for the coffee and the talk." She finally smiled widely at him.

Kol smiled back at her. "It's good to see you smile!" He quickly kissed her cheeks and went in his car.

Kol knocked at Elijah's office and walked in without waiting for an answer, he casually sat on a chair and started to play with one of his ring, staying silent.

Elijah kept his gaze on his paper and asked, signing. "Hello Kol. How was your business trip?"

Kol shrugged. "Oh you know, it's always the same thing, I have met some men and women in suit." He slowly turned his head toward Elijah and added with a smirk. "Oh and I have also met our sweet little new lawyer at the airport."

Elijah suddenly lifted his gaze on Kol. "What? She was leaving?"

Kol laughed quietly at his brother's reaction. "No, she was coming back. She had spent the last weeks with her aunt, without being capable of receiving texts or calls. I took a coffee with her. We talked a lot!"

Elijah was relieved because he knew that she hasn't been ignoring his calls all this time but he was also stressed, they probably had talk about why she was mad at him and even though Elijah knew he hasn't did anything, this was stressing him so much. He sighed before to asked full of hope. "What did you told you?"

Kol smiled softly and hide it by faked coughing. Elijah had feeling for her, it was so obvious. "She had heard our parents talking about your past, especially about your love past. In their discussion it seemed like she was only one more with who you were playing."

Elijah's blood started to boiled, he closed his fits in anger. "Thank you, Kol. Sincerely." He quickly get up and grabbed his phone and his jacket before to walked out.

Kol quickly said before Elijah walked away. "You need to talk to all of them. Not only her and not only them."

Elijah nodded and smiled softly at his brother before to walk quickly toward the elevator. He was quickly searching for his parents, when he found his father. He suddenly grabbed him by his jacket suit and pushed him against the wall. "Don't ever go near Katherine. Don't talk to her. Take care of your own fucking business, you'll have all the time you need for that now, you are fired. And it's the same for mother." He finally let him go and walked away without letting him the time to answer.

Finally at her home, Katherine took a shower and ate some snack before to crash herself on the couch in pajama, watching some reality-show. She heard someone knocked at her, she quickly at got up and looked to see who at was through the eyelet. Her breath stopped, Kol hasn't waste a minute to go tell to Elijah that she was back. She closed her eyes and laid herself against the wall next to the door, she slide to the floor and crossed her legs, staying silence.

Elijah heard her sit on the floor and slowly whispered enough loudly that she could hear me. "Katherine opens the door. Kol told me what happened, we need to talk. I need to tell you myself what past is."

Katherine swallowed, she couldn't escape him. "I can't talk now Elijah. Please go."

Elijah shook his head. "I won't go Katherine. I… Don't believe them, please. Don't believe what they said." He sighed against the door.

Katherine kept her eyes closed and slyly asked him. "With how many girls in your company have you slept with?"

Elijah frowned tightly. "What? Katherine this has no point, just…"

Katherine cut his sentence, repeating more loudly. "With how many girls in your company have you slept with?!"

"Four! I've slept with four girls in the company!" He quickly answered to her, letting the pressure come out. He didn't let her the time to add something and continued. "There is Tatia; you know my relationship with her. There is Celest, it was ages ago, and it didn't last long. There is Elena, just a one-night-stand. And finally there is Hayley, it was seriously a mistake. But fuck Katherine! You're not like any of these girls!"

Katherine yelled back at him, her voice was broken. "Oh really? That's not what you parents think! Do you hire all the girl you sleep with?!"

Elijah shivered when he heard Katherine's voice. He answered really calmly. "No. Of course not. You know what, don't work in the company. I want Katherine more than Miss Pierce, the lawyer."

Katherine didn't answer and hide her face between her kneels, shivering and sobbing.

Elijah sighed desperately. "Katherine please, just opened the door."

Katherine lifted her arm and slowly turned the lock, staying scrolled on the floor.

Elijah quietly opened the door and walking in; he looked down at Katherine and sighed sadly. He kneeled next to her and slowly wrapped his arms around her; he carried her toward the couch which was in the same room. He sat on the couch and wrapped a blanket around them.

Katherine was still sobbing and grabbed Elijah's jacket, squeezing it, trying to calm herself down.

Elijah slowly rocked her and stroked her hair, whispering. "Shh, it's ok… calm down."

Katherine swallowed without being capable to stop her shivers. "It's just a lot of pressure."

He nodded many times slowly. "I know…" He allowed himself to kiss her forehead.

After a while Katherine calmed down and kept staring at his shirt, without wanting to face his gaze. She firmly said. "Take me to your home; I need to see where you live."

Elijah frowned at her request and looked down at her "What? Now?"

Katherine nodded and finally looked up at him. "Yes, now."

Elijah raised his eyebrows. "Ok, then." He helped her to get up and get up with her. "But, it's late Katherine. Do you want to sleep there?" He bit the inside of his cheek, waiting for her answer.

She shrugged. "Yes, why not. Just let me take some stuff."

Elijah nodded once and watched Katherine walked to her room and closed the door behind her. He started to look at some picture which were on the television console. There were one with a middle-age woman, she might be her aunt, and some picture shows Katherine with friends. Elijah focused his gaze on two pictures, there was a picture showing a little girl with two people, it was probably Katherine and her parents, Elijah sighed at this though. The other picture shows Katherine with a dark-haired man, he was really dark, it was in contrast with his really light blue eyes, and they actually seemed really close. He put the picture back at his place when Katherine came out from her room, a bag in her right hand. "Ready?"

She nodded once and walked toward the door. "Yes." She was still wearing her pajama. Once they get in the car, Elijah grabbed a blanket in the trunk and covered Katherine legs with it. She smiled softly at his move and laid her head against the window during the drive, none of them talked. Katherine quickly opened her door when they arrived; she stayed speechless in front of Elijah's house. "I knew you were rich, but not that much."

Elijah coughed and grabbed Katherine's bag, walking toward the door. He opened it and let Katherine step in before to follow her and closed the door. He let her bag in the entrance and asked hesitant "Do you want to visit?"

Katherine tuned and faced him. "No, I'm actually tired Elijah. Can I sleep and you will show me tomorrow?"

Elijah nodded smiling. "Sure. Hum… Where do you want to sleep? There are many bedrooms here…"

Katherine shook her head slowly and came closer to him. "I can sleep in the same bed as you."

Elijah's gaze went to her lips and bit his at the same time. He turned suddenly his head looking away as he took a deep breath, he grabbed her bag again and lightly stroke her arms going down to her hand as he passed next to her. "Ok, then followed me." He walked toward his room as Katherine was following him; he put her bag on a chair. He pointed at a door at the extremity of the room. "The bathroom is here if you want to change yourself." He put his hand in his trousers' pocket, ill at ease.

Katherine looked closely at his bedroom and sat on the right side of the bed. "I'm already in pyjama." She smiled sweetly at him, trying to make him feel more comfortable seeing how stressed he was.

Elijah closed his eyes and took off his jacket. "Ok, then I'm going." He walked in the bathroom and closed half the door.

Katherine took off her shoes and lay in the bed under the blanket. Elijah's room was so clean, everything was orderly, she looked at the picture on his nightstand, there were Elijah with Kol and another blond girl she didn't know.

When Elijah came back in the room, he saw Katherine looking at the frame. He came quietly next to her on the bed. "It's my sister, Rebekah." He left a soft kiss on her shoulder.

She kept quiet for seconds and finally said. "That's what I don't like. I don't know anything about you. I didn't even know that you had a sister." She looked few seconds more at the picture before to put it back on the nightstand.

Elijah sighed softly, she was right. "But you are here to go to know me right?" He passed the back of his hand on her lower arms.

She nodded and turned toward him, finally facing his naked chest. He was only wearing a trouser of pajama. She swallowed softly and laid her head in the pillow. "Yes, yesterday I will."

Elijah joined her under the blanket and turned off the light. They kept looking at each other for a while, during few seconds Elijah could have sworn he has felt the same thing than when they met. He slid a strand of her hair behind her ear and finally closed his eyes.

Katherine looked at his peaceful face, smiling. She rolled closer to him and laid her head on his chest.

Elijah didn't waist a second and wrap his arms around her. They both fall asleep while Elijah was slowly caressing Katherine's hair.

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