Chapter 8

A week later

Hidden in the shadows were two vampires-a male and a female-who were staring at Rebekah and Elena. The blonde female Original and the human Petrova girl who were talking and walking back to the car from cheer practice; Caroline had bribed Elena to rejoin the team. After doing recon and always seeing them together they had decided to go for the two of them. Though his main target was Rebekah-who rejected him four centuries ago-while his partner was just bored, he had decided to step up in front of them.

Elena had no idea who he was and neither did Rebekah but the male smirked maliciously as he taunted them.

"So I see that Rebekah Mikaelson and the newest Petrova are best friends nowadays. Tsk tsk, you should pick your friends better Petrova girl." He threw a stake and before it could hit Rebekah, Elena took the hit in the stomach causing blood to splutter out of her wound as she fell to her knees.

Rebekah looked on wide eyed and horrified at the same time but as the male vampire made a move to attack the Petrova girl on the ground, a small scream from behind him had him turning around to face Kol Mikaelson and a blonde baby vampire who was already running to the Petrova girl.

His partner in crime, Lara, was on the ground and heartless.

"Kol old buddy…" he tried to say until the familiar presence of Elijah Mikaelson nearly suffocated him and as he looked, Elijah was all vamped out. The guy opened his mouth to say something when Elijah ripped out his heart and dropped it onto the ground. He turned to see Caroline pulling the stake out of Elena and she let out a moan of pain.

Elijah's heart broke and he bit into his wrist, begging her with his eyes to drink his blood which she did.

"I'll clean this mess up," Kol said to Elijah who nodded his thanks and left with Elena in his arms.

He was never so thankful for Stefan driving with him to the school to pick up the girls from cheer practice.

As Stefan and Rebekah were in the car with Elijah and Elena, Rebekah was still catatonic while Stefan was worried about her. Elijah was just holding Elena close to his chest and as he caressed her hair back, her eyes fluttered up to meet his.

"I'll be…okay…" she trailed off. It was obvious that even that small amount of speech took effort. Okay or even fine didn't sound that promising but it was something to calm him down with but that backfired instantly.

"You nearly died…for my sister…" he was speechless and a little surprised about it. Not many outside of their family would do something of the sort for them. It was…nice, to know that he was right about her-she was compassionate to a fault.

"She didn't deserve to be killed." Elena whispered to him as she felt herself falling into a warm sleep against his chest. "Your whole family doesn't…deserve to die…" fell from her lips as she fell into a deep sleep.

Elijah knew that she'd be safe and as the car pulled into their driveway, he managed to open the door and flash out of there to go back into the house where he ended up placing her on his bed and lying down with her.

He wanted to make sure that she was safe and this was the way to do it.

Stefan, Rebekah, Klaus and Caroline were all in the living room and discussing what had happened.

"I swear-he somehow knew that you all had amnesia and I know I never told anyone about you all being in that condition!"

"I believe her," Stefan told them. "It's not really in Caroline or even Elena's natures to lie to anyone and if they do lie, they really suck at it." Caroline had to agree though she hated the way he said it.

Klaus also had to agree with her and Rebekah knew that the girl was being truthful-she had heard the girl lie earlier to their teacher, saying that Elena was out sick with a 'stomach flu'. She didn't sound convincing enough and had to use compulsion to get the teacher to believe her.

"The question is…who else knows about this?" Stefan and Caroline looked at each other and whispered, "Esther."

When Elena opened her eyes, she saw Elijah was asleep beside her and his arm was wrapped around her waist, causing her to giggle.

"Good afternoon Lovely," she stopped her giggling and stared at him wide eyed. "Is something wrong?"

"You still call me Lovely," she whispered. "You've always called me sweetheart or Lovely while Kol throws around the nickname darling and Klaus says love." She smiled. "I missed being called lovely."

"You are lovely sweet Elena." She blushed brightly. "Now…why did you save my sister?"

"Like I said in the car," she answered him as she curled herself into his arms. "No one deserves to die and in such a way."

"I nearly lost you." He admitted, feeling a bit sad and heartbroken about her brush with death. "I do not think that I can live with that on my conscious."

She shook her head. "Maybe," she murmured. "But there is always going to be someone to save me from certain death; I know too many vampires." She cupped his cheek and gave him a kiss on it.

He looked unconvinced but let it slide and nuzzled her hair, smelling her tea tree mint shampoo, just enjoying the feel of her in his arms and being alive.

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