So I've skipped a few episodes and decided to just jump into when Damon pulls the dagger out of Elijah. This is where our story begins... Enjoy

Previously on the Vampire Diaries

"I-I." I just killed someone. It might've been Mikael, but he was still a person. Oh my god, I just killed a person.

"Abigail." Nik said walking closer to me. I just shook my head.

Then I was gone.

Elijah pov

I could feel the life slowly coming back into my body. The air started to fill my lungs and I could comprehend small movements of my hands and toes. Abigail.

Ugh, where was she? The last thing I remember is walking to that Hunter's home with her and Niklaus. Then, nothing. Slowly I could feel my eyes opening only to be met with darkness. I pushed my hands up only to be met with a solid surface.

Blood hell, I was in a casket. From the outside I could pick up faint voices speaking to each other. One sounded familiar, the other was unknown to me. Finally I pushed open the lid and lightness fluttered into my sight. There was a man I did not recognize, but I could spot the back of Niklaus any day.

Without any hesitation I plunged my hand into the man's back pulling out his heart. I came face to face with the one man I was for sure I wanted to kill. "So Niklaus," I growled.

"Elijah," he muttered sounding off, surprised even.

"What have I missed?"

xXx

"You look surprised to see me," I clarified wiping my hand of any blood from my hands. "So I take it that it wasn't you who removed the dagger from my chest."

"You look like you could do with a drink," Niklaus stuttered trying to be cautious around me. I could not blame him. It took all of my control not to wrap my hand around his heart and demand that he tell me where my Abby was. "And we have a lot to discuss so-."

My control snapped.

I lunged at him punching him effectively on the side of his face. With a little help of my strength and speed I sent him crashing through the door. He rolled back on all fours, like a true dog.

"Easy," he hissed, "I just renovated. He sped back at me, and he got the upper hand and shoved me into a table shattering it upon impact. "You know you have every right to be mad at me, but I kept my word. I reunited you with our family." I got up from the wreckage of the table. As fast as I could on an empty stomach I punched and kicked Niklaus all the way into the room where my family lay.

I went to lunge at him, but Niklaus was faster than I. he opened Kol's coffin and had me pinned against Finn's with a dagger ready to be placed into my heart.

"Don't make me do this to you again Elijah!" He shouted completely outraged.

"Go on," I breathed against his grip on my neck. "Do it, I dare you, then you'll have Kol to deal with." Slowly Niklaus lowered the dagger and finally let go of me.

"Mikael is dead," He told me all seriousness in his eyes. "Abigail helped me."

"What did you say?" I demanded. Abby, my Abby, helped kill our Father? Our thousand year old vampire hunter Father?

"She killed him with his own weapon. He's gone Elijah, forever."

Looking around at my family a million thoughts were running through my mind. "Why does our family still lie in these coffins? Finn for over nine hundred years, Kol for over a century."

"Because of Stefan Salvatore. He holds the one thing that is keeping me from freeing them," what could Stefan possible have against my brother? He's a harmless bunny eating vampire. "There are things that you don't know about our past Elijah, our Mother's death. Things I never wanted you to know, but I am ready to tell you now." I watched, pained, as he walked over to a jar of ash and stuck the dagger in it. "I only ask that you remember you pledge of loyalty to me."

"What are you doing?" I asked watching as he stuck the dagger back into my youngest brother, Kol.

Instead he turned back to me and whispered, "Always and Forever. I need you to stand by my side, be my brother, help me destroy Stefan, and I promise our family will be whole again." I didn't say anything but watched as he shut the lid to Kol's coffin. "Come," he motioned me into what appears to be a dining room.

"What has happened to Abigail?" I asked voice nearly breaking at the end. I had no idea how long it had been, and I needed to see her. I needed to hold her, kiss her, and overall; I just need to be with her.

Klaus stiffened before taking a deep breathe. "I don't know, she disappeared a few days ago, after homecoming when Stefan had nearly killed her. I haven't heard from her, no one has."

"What do you mean she is gone?" I asked rushing closer to him.

"I mean that she left town Elijah, but one call from me and she'll be back here by the time the sun sets."

He held out his phone to me. "She changed her number since the last time you two have spoken. Small details to ensure she wouldn't be found over the summer. Go ahead, she's caller five."

I watched him walk out of the room leaving me alone with the phone. I took a deep breath before pressing the call button and pressing the phone to my ear. The more time I spent listening to the ringing tone the more I felt my heart sinking in my chest.

"My god, stop leaving me messages Klaus!" my heart fluttered just hearing the sound of her voice. "I told you I want nothing to do with whatever scheme you've cooked up down there. So please just leave me alone so that I may live my un-dead life as far away from you and that bloody town!"

"Abigail," I whispered into speaker. "Even over the phone I can tell that you've grown into vampirism well."

I waited a few moments for an answer. The entire time I felt like my chest was going to explode. "Elijah? Klaus I swear if this is a joke I am never speaking to you again!"

"It's me Abby. Damon undaggered me, however I heard that you left town," I said sitting down on a wooden chair. "Abby."

"You're really back Elijah?"

"I promised you I would come back," I breathed out. I heard a chocked sob from the other end and then a lot of shuffling. "Love?"

"I'll be back by dinner," another pause, "and Elijah?"

"Yes love?"

"Please don't leave again," another sob on the other end. "I-I can't come back only to find out you're gone again."

"I promise love, I promise I'll never leave you again. I love you."

"I love you too Elijah."

xXx

The more the day went by, the more I could feel the anxiety creeping into my undead heart. My chat with Damon had resulted in a similar verdict about Abigail. She had left after Stefan had plunged a stake just millimeters from her heart nearly killing her. No one had heard from her since.

I went to the barber shop and chopped a few locks of hair off of my head. I guess I just needed something to distract myself from Abigail's absence. I was curious to know where she went, and what she had done in the past few days.

Then the dinner came and I had to stop myself from that damn tapping of my foot. I felt like I couldn't keep my eyes off of my watch, or my phone, or just any clock to make sure that time would go by fast enough. The more that went by, the closer I could feel Abby getting closer to me.

I had felt angered when Niklaus brought up Tatia, absolutely furious. Ever since she had died I had time to actually think about what she had done to my brother and me. She had played us like a violin. Then along came Elizabeth, and she was no better.

Then Abigail, my sweet little Abby. I would give anything to have her in my arms right now. I needed her to live. If she was dead then I would be the first one to place a silver dagger in my heart. I gave her those illusions over the summer to try and stay in connection, but it was a very weak connection. I only got bits and pieces of what was happening with her.

The dinner concluded with me undaggering my siblings. "Elijah, why haven't you left?" Niklaus asked.

"Where are you manors brother? We forgot desert," with that I pulled a golden cloth off of the tray revealing two silver daggers.

"What have you done?" He asked stepping back cautiously.

"What have you done? You see I've learned not to trust your vulgar promises. We're doing this on my terms now." On cue Kol walked in smirking at his older brother.

Upon seeing Kol I watched Klaus take a step back and hold up his hands in a surrendering motion. "Kol."

"Long time brother," Kol smirked. I saw Niklaus's eyes dart towards the doorway before making a run for it. Only to be met by our older brother, Finn.

"Finn don't," he tried but Finn already had a dagger in his grip shoving it into the middle of Niklaus's hand. He shouted out in pain tryin to run in the other direction. Then came our baby sister, Rebekah.

"Rebekah," she smiled and stuck her own dagger deep into his gut.

"This is for our Mother," she whispered into his ear before shoving him directly into Kol's arms.

Now it was my turn to speak. "You're free to go," I told the Salvatore's, "This is family business."

xXx

Rebekah was walking around the room observing its features while Kol and Finn were being indulged on the new alcohol of the century. "I like what you've done with the place Nik." She said before throwing a glass vase into a painting causing it to fall to the ground.

"I wanted it to be for all of us," he whispered painfully. "A place we could all go home. A place we could all be a family. None of us would ever have to be alone again."

"We won't be," I said walking in front of him the rest of my siblings following me.

"You're staying behind," Finn added.

"We're leaving you Nik, right after I kill that doppelgänger wench," Rebekah hissed saying Elena's name with such venom I didn't know she possessed. There was obviously as story that I didn't know there. "Then you will be alone, always and forever."

"If you run, I will hunt all of you down-."

"And then you'll become everything you hate, our Father," I snapped back at him.

Fury controlled his actions. "I'm the hybrid!" He shouted like a five year old child. "I can't be killed, I have nothing to fear from any of you."

"You will when we have that coffin," I replied calmly enjoying the look of pure fear evident on his face. He really was scared of dying.

We all turned when we heard the door opening. All of us were staring at the woman who had just walked in. "Mother," Rebekah said shock covered her voice.

Instead she walked straight passed us towards Niklaus. "Look at me," she demanded. "Do you know why I am here?"

"You're here to kill me," he whispered sounding broken.

"You are my son Niklaus I am here to forgive you." I was literally stunned into silence. Our whole family was. "I want us to be a family again. With old," she looked directly at me a small smile playing on her lips. "and new members."

"New?" Finn questioned. Another door opening echoed through the silent room.

Then I heard her. "Elijah?" there was some more walking around until she finally entered the room where we all were. The second her eyes landed on me she was in my arms in a moment. She buried her head in my neck and wrapped her legs around my torso making sure that she had a tight grip on me. I, in return, wrapped my arms around her holding her as close to me as possible.

I kissed her on her head. When I looked back at the rest of my siblings Finn and Kol were the only ones with confused looks on their faces. Rebekah looked at me with a small smile on her face, but Niklaus could barely look at us.

I turned to my two brothers. "Kol, Finn, I would like you to meet Abigail." She lifted her head out from the crook of my neck finally noticing all of the people in the room. Even though she was a vampire she still had a slight shade of pink coming to her cheeks.

"Well, well, well, finally caught a beauty Elijah?" Kol asked taking in Abby's appearance. She had on a simple pair of jeans along with a dark brown blouse emphasizing her large brown eyes. She let her legs fall to the ground, but I kept my arms around her making sure that her back was pinned to my chest. I knew how my brother was. A, what they called, player.

"Hi," she mumbled sort of looking towards the floor.

"Come here my dear," Mother said offering her hand for Abby. Reluctantly I let go of my Abby and she stepped forward taking my Mother's hand. Mother placed her other hand on top of hers and gave Abby a warm smile. "Welcome to the family."

Dangerous Liaisons

Still Elijah pov

As the morning sun streamed through the windows I felt a presence next to me. A small amount weight was on my chest breathing softly. I wasn't sure if I wanted to open my eyes or not quite yet. I didn't want to open my eyes and find out that it was just another illusion. Face the fear that Abigail isn't with me anymore.

All though the temptation was too great, and my eyes opened. I was still in the room I had come to the night before after saving Elena from my temperamental sister. I looked down, a small smile coming to my face, and I saw Abby with her eyes still shut. I suppose that a part of me was still shocked that she was back with me, in my arms.

"You do know that staring is really creepy right?" her brown eyes fluttered open and she gave me a big smile. "Good morning 'Lijah."

"Good morning Abby," I said kissing her forehead. We both sighed and she snuggled back into my side.

All was peaceful, until there was a loud banging on our door. "You both better be dressed!" Rebekah called out. "Mother wants all of us to be fitted for the ball tonight."

"Does this mean we have to get up?" Abby whined burying her head in my chest.

I chuckled at her childlike manor before tossing the duvet off of us. She whined a little more, but eventually I got her to get dressed and down the stairs. I watched as she sat down next to Rebekah as they chit chatted about girl stuff. It made me smile to see Abby getting along with the rest of my family.

"Rebekah, Abby, tell me how handsome I am," Kol said admiring himself in the mirror. Oh my little brother, always the vain one.

"Oh Kol you know I can't be compelled," Rebekah retorted.

"Abby tell me how handsome I am," she looked towards me and pretended to be drawling over me.

She pretended to be surprised and looked back at Kol, "I'm sorry Kyle what did you say?"

Finn chuckled from next to me, but Kol was glaring in the mirror. It was hard to tell if it was playful or not. Suddenly the door crashed open and Niklaus came storming inside. "You went after Elena," he snarled at Rebekah.

"Here we go," my little sister muttered.

"Do you want another dagger in your heart?"

"Again with the dagger threats?" Kol asked sitting down. "Don't you have any other tricks?"

"Oh go back to staring at yourself," Niklaus glared at our youngest brother. I knew what was coming. These two were always like this pushing each other until one of them snapped.

"Who are you my Father?"

"No, Kol, but you are in my house-."

"Then perhaps we should go outside." All of us watched the two seeing who was going to back down first. Things were definitely not as I imagined it to be. I had thought our family would be whole, instead we were a bunch of puzzle pieces scattered on the same board.

Our Mother entered the room glaring at all of us. "Niklaus," she spoke. "A word."

The second they were gone Abby was laughing very hard. "And what?" Kol growled. "Is so funny."

She died down her laughter a little bit staring at Kol. "Oh you really don't see it do you? You are exactly like your brother it's hilarious to watch." Kol glared, but went back looking at himself in the mirror.

Rebekah sighed loudly and grabbed Abby's hand. "Come on Abigail we should be fitted for our dresses now." Abby took her hand out of Rebekah's for a small moment before walking over to me and giving me a tight hug. I kissed her cheek and watched as the two girls walked hand in hand out of the room.

Finally an Abby pov!

Receiving that phone call from Elijah was like placing me on cloud nine, and there was no coming back from it. I was slightly embarrassed when I didn't notice anyone else in the room when I came back, all I saw was Elijah. Although I guess that means that we're passed the 'meeting the family' part of the relationship.

I still hadn't really told anyone else that I was back quite yet. I might tell Damon, and maybe Jeremy, but everyone else didn't care. So they don't need to know.

I watched Rebekah as she slipped the glove like green dress. She smiled and twirled a little bit in the mirror. I myself picked at the dark red dress that she had picked out for me. It was a strapless dress that had a dark black ribbon going around my waist. Then the skirt had black lace covering it in designs. Rebekah had also killed my scalp with the curling iron so now my hair was in large ringlets. Rebekah also had done my makeup making me feel like a small child while her Mother placed ribbons in her hair. Not that Rebekah wasn't anything like a Mother figure; I think she could definitely pull it off.

"Stop fidgeting," Rebekah scolded putting the final touches on her hair. "You'll mess up my work of art."

I scoffed and stopped fidgeting by crossing my arms over my chest. "Easy for you to say, you've probably been to dozens of these. I have not, and I keep thinking that I'm going to trip and fall over this damn dress." Rebekah gave a small chuckle.

"I'm sure you'll be fine. Elijah won't let anyone touch you let alone you falling down the staircase. Besides you're a vampire use your new gracefulness."

"I didn't have any to begin with," we were interrupted by a knock to the door. Rebekah was still looking at herself in the mirror so I was the one who answered the door. I smiled at the sight of Elijah standing there. He looked really good in a tux.

Elijah smiled at me his eyes raking down my body. "May I speak to you Abby?" He asked. I looked back at Rebekah only to roll my eyes at her smirk. So I took Elijah's hand and he led me out of the room only to be back in the one I awoke in this morning. I was about to ask Elijah what he needed to talk to me about, but I was interrupted when he placed his hand underneath my chin and brining my lips to his own.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and he pulled me as close to him as possible. When he pulled away I was breathing heavily feeling slightly dazed. I gave a slight moan and rested my head against his chest.

"I thought that I owed you something," Elijah said twirling me around so that I was in front of him staring in a mirror. He still had his arms wrapped around my waist though. He leaned down and gave a small kiss on my collar bone. "I couldn't be there to help you through your transition, and even though I am here now I still thought that I owed you something." His hands were removed from my waist and he dug into one of his pockets.

They returned with a necklace resting their hands. I could only stare in awe at the red heart crystal that he hung around my neck. "Elijah," I stumbled blushing lightly. "You didn't have to get me anything."

"I know, but I do believe that it is common in this decade that boyfriends give their girlfriends gifts, yes?" he had a light smirk on his face when he saw my annoyed one. "I had a friend of mine fill the heart with my blood giving it the red color also a slight bit of vervaine. Not enough to hurt you but enough to protect you. Just a little something of me to always have with you. Blood sharing is really personal amongst vampires whether it is from the vein or not."

I didn't say anything as I pulled my hair to the side so that Elijah could fasten the necklace around my neck. When he was done I spent no time flashing around and brining him down for a kiss. "Thank you," I whispered against his lips. "I love it."

He gave me a meaningful look and pecked my lips once more before offering his arm to me. "Shall we?" I sighed and accepted his arm.

"Might as well get this all over with," I mumbled. Elijah gave me a small smile and kissed my forehead before leading me out of the room. I staid by a majority of the Originals. All except Klaus because he was all nervous about Caroline coming. I had tried to tell him earlier that she loved romantic gestures, and all of that stuff. Then I had to help console Rebekah about Matt.

I was pleasantly surprised when Elijah's older brother Finn asked if he could speak to me. Although Elijah had this look on his face. The one he always got when he was suspicious of something or unsure. Nevertheless I followed Finn up the stairs to a room. When we walked in Esther was standing in the center of the room burning a type of plant. I was starting to get a little nervous at the icy smile she was giving me.

"You wanted to speak to me?" I asked looking towards Finn.

He nodded his head before throwing me, by my throat, into a wall. I gasped in surprise and pain giving him just enough time to pin me against the wall. Finn locked eyes with me his eyes dilating and contacting. Although he got a confused look before eyeing the necklace that Elijah had given me only a few hours ago. My heart clenched when he yanked it off of my neck and threw it somewhere. He then resumed locking eyes with me. Only this time I was powerless against the pull of compulsion feeling a daze set over my mind.

Making sure to keep our eyes locked he began to speak. "You will do anything my Mother says, and then you will forget this ever happened." I nodded my head robotically.

"Come here my girl," Esther said. Against my will I walked towards the elder woman. "Give me your hand." Again I did as I was told and gave her my hand. I winced as she took a nice and sliced my palm open, but I didn't cry out. She took my hand and placed it over a glass and muttered a few things while the blood fell into the glass.

It took only a moment for the wound to heal. Esther then dabbed a rag into a bowl of water from next to her and placed it on my healed hand wiping all of the blood away.

"Give her the necklace Finn," she said picking up the crystal from floor. "Elijah would notice if it was gone."

Finn nodded his head and clasped it around my neck again. He then took my arm in his and we left the room. As soon as we exited I felt a small pinch of pain enter my mind. I groaned slightly before turning towards Finn. "What was it you wanted to talk about Finn?" I asked giving him a small smile.

"Just wanted to warn you to be careful with my little brother. He was always the emotional one," that was all he said before untwining my arm from his and walking back towards the staircase. Okay, what was his problem? Not like he doesn't seem like a nice person and all, but he didn't sound all that sincere when he said that. Did he even care about Elijah? Speaking of Elijah I smiled walking down towards the stairs only to see him making his way upwards.

He gave me a hesitant look. "Are you alright? What did my brother wish to speak to you about?"

"I'm fine, and he just gave the usual big brother speech. You know the 'don't hurt my brother' speech?" I responded. "Why are we just standing on the staircase?" I asked looking around nervously. I met the ice blue eyes of Damon. He looked surprised, and I immediately turned my gaze back to Elijah. He was eyeing the necklace with a look of confusion on his face. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, I am fine," he muttered slipping his arm around my waist bringing me close to him. "Excuse me," he announced as all of the Originals stepped onto the staircase. "May I have your attention please? Welcome thank you for joining us. You know whenever my Mother brings our family together like this it is tradition for us to commence the evening with a dance. Tonight's pick is a century old waltz. So if you all could please find yourself a dance partner and meet us in the ballroom." without another word Elijah took my hand and guided me towards the large ballroom.

I started to get nervous again at the sight of all the people watching us. "Elijah," I hissed glaring at his amused look. "I don't know what dance this is."

He took me in his arms and positioned me. "Don't worry, just follow my lead."

I still felt nervous, and I'm pretty sure I almost stepped on his foot once. "Why do you force me into these situations?" I complained like a child.

Elijah just smirked. "Because I love you, and I want you to try new things."

I groaned.

He leaned down and whispered into my ear, "It is time to switch partners. Damon is right behind you." Then he twirled me into the awaiting arms of Damon Salvatore.

"Well, well, well, long time no see baby Original," he said smirking. "If I had known that undaggering your little boyfriend would bring you back to town I would've done it sooner."

"I was going to tell you I was back," I admitted, "I just didn't really know how without running into-." I stopped. I guess I couldn't really say their names. Even after all this time. It still hurt too much.

Damon gave me a small sympathetic look. "How are you?" he asked.

"Better, now that Elijah's back," I said.

He smirked giving me the, what I like to call, Damon eyes. "Am I being replaced already Abbs? I thought our fling meant something."

I growled at him. "I wouldn't touch you if you were the last man on earth."

"Yeah too weird sleeping with my hypothetical sister," he muttered looking around. "Hey have you seen Elena?"

Every time I thought for a second that I saw a flash of brown hair I immediately turned Elijah and I in a different direction. I think he knew what I was doing, but he didn't push me at all, at least not yet. "No," I muttered in a monotone.

"You'll have to talk to her eventually," he taunted just as the song ended. I stepped on his foot with my heel chuckling when I heard his small grunt of pain.

"Sorry you know me, I'm a klutz on the dance floor," he gave me a 'ha ha' before walking away most likely to find my dead to me sister. I looked around, but Elijah was nowhere to be found. Finn was also missing, Rebekah was talking to Kol, and I saw Klaus walking out the doors. I guess I was now alone.

Elijah pov

Something wasn't right. Finn had requested to speak to Abby earlier on in the evening and when she comes back the crystal on her necklace was backwards. I know for sure that I placed it right when I gave it to her. There was also the small fact that I could smell a small amount of blood on her. It came from her hand, but when I had looked at it there was not a hint of blood on it.

Something definitely wasn't right. One the waltz was over I saw Elena walking away. I followed her waiting for my chance to speak with her.

"Elena," I said making her stop for me to catch up to her at a normal pace. "I understand my Mother requested to see you?"

"Yeah," she whispered. "Why is something wrong?"

"Well her ability to forgive my brother after everything he's done to destroy this family strikes me as a little strange to say the least."

"Do you think it's an act?"

"It has me asking questions I never thought I would ask. Can I count on you to tell me what she says?" I questioned her.

She nodded her head slightly. "Of course, I'll find you later." She went to walk away but my arm snaked around and grabbed hers.

"One more thing," I said anger seeping into my voice. "If you ever think of harming Abby again I do not care what you are needed for or how many morals I break. I will make sure that your heart stops beating. Do we understand each other?"

Fear trickled into her eyes, but she nodded anyway without saying anything. "I can't, though," she whispered. "She left town." Obviously she did not pay much attention to the toast I made earlier.

"You have been misinformed," I told her. "She came back when I called her." I left her there to ponder this bit of information.

I went in search of Abby looking through the house trying to find her. I found her next to Rebekah who looked like she was going to break down at any moment. I knew that it was wrong, but I couldn't help but listen in on their conversation.

"Rebekah you stopped it," Abby spoke comforting Rebekah. "That is enough to make up for thinking about it. The moment you stopped you let your humanity show, that's all that matters."

Rebekah stopped and hugged Abby tightly to her. "Our family doesn't deserve you. Elijah does, but we don't deserve you."

"Go talk to Kol, make him stop," Abby said. Rebekah smiled and walked off most likely going to find Kol for whatever reason.

I snuck up behind Abby and wrapped my arms around her waist brining her close to me. She didn't say anything but leaned down against my body. "Are you alright?" I whispered into her ear.

"Why do you keep asking that?" she whispered back. "I'm fine."

Bending down I gave her a light kiss on her cheek. "You don't need to lie to me Abby I know you're hurting by being here." She didn't say anything so I carried on. "You don't need to be ashamed of it either. Just say the word and I'll take you away from here. Anywhere you want to go."

She smiled but still didn't say anything.

"London, Paris," her smile started to grow a little more. "Tokyo?" she finally laughed turning her head to face me a distant look on her face.

"I keep spotting glances of my sister tonight, and all I can see is the way she locked me up in a cellar and starved me for days and vervained me." She still had that far off look on her face.

Speaking of Elena I saw her walking around. I needed to speak with her. "Speaking of which I need to go speak to your sister. I believe that my sister is giving me a glare. She must want to speak to you." Abby turned around and sure enough Rebekah was looking at her along with that blond football player.

"Why do you need to talk to Elena?" She asked.

"I have suspicions about my Mother. I promise I will explain more later," I leant down and gave her a small kiss on her lips. "I love you."

She smiled. "I love you too." She didn't let go of my hand until she was too far to still hold onto me. I watched her go making sure that she was with Rebekah until I went to speak to Elena. I felt a small flare of jealousy in my body seeing the blond quarterback hugging Abby. I had to tell myself that he was Rebekah's date and that Abby had no feelings for him.

This made me think back to a conversation I once had with her deceased aunt Jenna.

Men were very territorial.

Third person pov

Esther watched as all of the members of tonight's dance gathering at the bottom of the staircase. One by one she recognized that all her children were there, including her new daughter-in-law. Abigail might not be official family, but Esther had watched the way she interacted with her children. Technically speaking she was already a member. Even her eldest, Finn, had grown a small soft spot for the girl. Not large enough for him to not regret compelling her.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen," she began making sure that her voice was clear. "Waiters are coming around with champagne. I invite you all to join me in raising a glass, it provides me with no greater joy then to see my family back together as one. I'd like to thank you all for being a part of this spectacular evening. Cheers!" everyone said the word back clinking glasses. Esther made sure to have her eyes locked upon all of her children making sure that they each took at least a sip out of their glasses. Until her eyes finally landed on Abigail. Her glass remained untouched as she joked and laughed with a blond man and her daughter.

Esther frowned, why would the girl not take a drink? She was supposed to be bound with the rest of her children as well. That was the whole point of taking her blood earlier in the evening. It was a small courtesy to her son. That he could enjoy a few moments of being human with the one woman he loved the most. Now Esther almost regretted it seeing as though she was drinking her champagne. It was too late not to include the girl she already had her blood.

As everyone fanned back out Esther watched Elijah walks up to Abigail. Esther muttered a small listening spell and began to listen in on their conversation.

"You have not touched your drink," Elijah noticed.

Abigail frowned and handed him the glass. "Doesn't it smell a little funny to you?" No, this could not be happening. How did this girl figure it out? There wasn't supposed to be enough of the essence in the champagne for anyone else to notice it.

Elijah frowned taking the glass from her and bringing it to his nose. Esther watched the frown of confusion on her sons face with slight panic. He too must've noticed something because he was telling her not to drink it.

"Someone must've slipped a drug into it," Elijah said. "It normally smells faint like that. Not that you need to drink alcohol anyway."

"I'm a vampire now Elijah," Abigail giggled wrapping her arms around Esther's son. "I'm never going to get to age 21 anyway."

Esther watched sadly as Abigail got a far off look in her eye. Elijah noticed it as well because he took her in his arms and placed a kiss on her forehead. It was at a moment like this, that one of her children really showed humanity, that she questioned what she was going to do.

When Esther found Finn she told him of their latest problem. Finn left saying that he would take care of it. Esther then retreated back to her spell room sitting down on the couch thinking about what it will take to kill her children.

Abby pov

Elijah hugged me. He understood what I was saying. "Sometimes I wish that you had never gotten involved with vampires. Because of my selfishness you are stuck as a vampire."

I placed my hands on his cheeks making his eyes meet mine. "Because of your selfishness I am the happiest woman in the world. Sure there are dark moments, maybe a few things I regret not doing, but look on the bright side. We have forever together. Forever to travel the world, forever to love each other, and forever to be as one. I don't regret anything that has happened Elijah. I might wish I had done a few things or two, but I don't regret anything you've done Elijah. I love you, and nothing will ever change that."

Elijah gave me a small smile. "I love you too."

"Brother, Abigail," we both turned to see Finn there with three glasses with him. "I heard about your little mishap with the champagne. I assure you that Mother is tracking down the person that drugged your glass, but I thought that you might want a replacement."

Elijah was giving Finn this look that I couldn't describe. "That isn't necessary brother."

The two stood there toe to toe, eye to eye, almost as if they were challenging each other to make the first move. Not wanting a fight to break out between the two of them I took a glass from Finn and handed it to Elijah. I grabbed another, and then we all had glasses.

"To love, and family," I said raising my glass towards the two brothers at war. Finn had this glint in his eyes, and Elijah held one of caution. Nevertheless they both raised their glasses with my own and all three of us gave small cheers to each other. We were all watching each other as each of us took a sip from our glass.

Until we heard a commotion from outside. "Kol," Elijah whispered taking my glass and setting it aside before taking my hand. We all walked outside to see Damon getting off of a temporary dead Kol. I guess my instincts took over.

"Kol!" I yelled flying over to his side. I lifted his head, and sure enough it was snapped in half. "Damon are you crazy?" I asked. I heard someone whisper my name and looked over to see Elena standing there staring at me then looking back at Damon.

Damon stared at me with a sorry look on his face. "Maybe a little." He muttered. "Far be it for me to cause a problem." Elena gave Damon this look of longing and disappointment. Everyone watched as Damon walked away. This was started to feel an awful lot like a TV show filled with drama.

"Take him through the back," Elijah said. Finn and Klaus nodded before walking over to their youngest brother and taking him through the back door. Elijah looked between Elena, Stefan, and me. "I'll leave the three of you to talk."

He mouthed 'I love you' to me before heading back inside. One might think I would be angry at him for leaving me out here with the two people who tried to kill me, but I knew that he was only trying to help me. In his own way.

For a little bit we all just stared at each other. Stefan was the one to break the silence. "I'm not sorry for what I did," he said stepping closer to me. "Klaus needs to die." That was all he said before leaving me alone with Elena.

I crossed my arms and glared at her. "What's your excuse? I mean his humanity is off so that might be a little bit of a break for him, but what about you?"

"Abby," she started. "Look at everything Klaus has done to us, he killed Jenna, and he tried to kill Jeremy."

"Because you stole his family and refused to give them back!"

I gave a humorless laugh.

"Wake up Elena, and realize all of those that you're damning by starting a war with the Originals. Think of all the people have been collateral damage. Think of the lives you are tearing apart, then look at yourself in the mirror and think to yourself. Was it all worth it? I certainly hope so otherwise you're getting everyone killed for nothing."

I walked away wanting to find Elijah and have him hold me again. It was ridiculous how much I craved being in his arms, but I guess I realized it when he was daggered. The time away from him hurt so much. So it made me an Elijah addict, I guess.

I found him in at the bar paying the people as he ushered them out. I guess it was official. The ball was over, and no one died. I mean, permanently died. Kol probably had it coming though. His head turned to me and in a moment he was right beside me holding me in his arms. I rested my head on his shoulder.

He knew what I was thinking. Elijah just had this way of always knowing what I needed and when I needed it. Without saying anything Elijah picked me up bridal style and carried me up to our room. He set me down gently on the bed. He pulled the duvet over my body and lightly tucked me in. I watched silently as he leaned down and kissed my forehead. I expected him to crawl in next to me, but was surprised when he started moving towards the door.

"Elijah?" I questioned sitting up.

"I will be right back love," he said smiling at me. "I need to talk to my Mother right now. Get some rest you've had a long day."

I listened to him and allowed my body to finally succumb to the day's events.

Third person pov

A man was staring at a female witch with such intensity in his eyes that it could've burnt a whole through the witch. "Where is she?" the man asked.

"It is not that simple," the witch responded. "You said that she transitioned into a vampire that just makes it ten times harder for me to find her location. You of all people should know how this works." The man ignored the witch and stared at the map in front of the witch.

"I need to find her Annika," the man growled. "It has been almost eleven years."

"I know that is what you want, but are you willing to go through with the consequences? This will affect her greatly, and not in a good way," the witch responded.

The man just nodded his head. "I've been waiting to do this for ten years Annika, I plan on going through with this."

"Why?" the witch finally asked. She had been wondering this ever since the man had come and asked for her assistance in this. "Why are you risking it?"

"I had planned this for my ex-wife," the man growled, "only to find out that she died, and now I know that my daughter is alive. Only to find out that she is a vampire, now I can do it for her. There is only one opening for the blood red comet. Once every thousand years."

"This is a really powerful spell though," the witch said looking back down at the man. "It will take a lot of power."

The man just shrugged his shoulders. "If you have doubts," the man growled. "Now is the time to back out. The Blood Red Comet is in less than a month away, and I need a witch that won't back out at the last moment."

"I won't," Annika said reassuringly to the man. "You are aware of the physical pain in the ritual correct?"

Again the man nodded. "I want her to have a normal life. I want her to grow old, get married, have children, and eventually die. I do not want her to be in love with an Original, and live forever with him."

"Have you ever considered that she might be happy?" Annika questioned.

The man gave her a warning growl causing the witch to flinch.

"I hope you know what you are doing Kyle."

So many words... And there is Abby's Dad. Doesn't he just seem like a nice fellow...

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-Author Unknown.