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The chapter we've all been waiting for! At least I hope so. Here's more information as to who/what she is. With more Original bonding time.

Chapter 17

They were all sitting in the living room. Sara had insisted on doing dishes. She wanted a few minutes to think before sitting down with all of them, and although they objected she did it anyways. She sashayed joyously into the living room, and plopped down on the three seat sofa with her legs up on Kol and Klaus. Sage and Finn were in a love seat to their left, and Rebekah and Elijah each took a single chair directly in front of them.

"Excuse me, love. Do you mind?" Klaus said signalling towards her feet.

Sara shrugged and got more comfortable. "I'd love a foot rub." She winked at him. He just laughed. None of them knew how to handle his genuine laugh, but none of them commented either. No one wanted to break the moment. "So, should we all make a pact about how none of this leaves this room?" She and Kol laughed at her joke. Klaus looked irritated, while the other three Originals just smiled and shook their head.

"What's funny about that? It's probably good idea." Sage said.

Sara simply turned into Rebekah and turned to Sage. "Call someone and try to tell them what you just saw." Sage looked confused. Her eyes were wide and she seemed unable to form a coherent thought. The poor red head was so lost to the entire situation. She didn't understand why they weren't worried, nor how Sara became Rebekah.

"Do it, Sage." The real Rebekah said.

Sage called someone named Troy, and tried telling him only to find out she was incapable of vocalizing the event. She quickly made up some excuse, so she could hang up. "Okay, what the hell was that?" Sara shifted back.

"That's Sara's odd little trick." Kol stated. "Unless you have her full trust or express permission, you can't inform people about her. I am able to speak of her and you may all discuss her amongst yourselves, but you cannot tell others."

"Fascinating." Sage said, as she earned forward. "How many have your complete trust?"

Sara thought for a moment. "Five." She motioned to Kol. "Him, Dad, Stef and two other very close friends." She seemed to think for a moment before smiling and shaking her head. She was met with skeptical gazes. "They're all men!"

"Ya, 'cause bitches be crazy." Kol said, causing Sara to laugh. She couldn't help but wonder where he had eve head that.

Her eyes met Elijah when she'd finished laughing and he seemed to ask if the man that'd stolen her away on the dance floor was one of them. He titled his head to the side and Sara nodded. "So, now that that's established, ask away! I have questions too!"

Kol settled in and leaned on his best friend. He knew most of, if not everything she had to say and wanted to sleep. He needed it seeing as he hadn't the night before. Sara wrapped her arm around him, as he leaned over and rested his head on her shoulder. "How did you two meet?" Rebekah asked.

"Kol tried to pick me up in a bar." Sara and Kol smiled at each other. "I mean he's hot and all, but I was not going home with him. He's nasty." Kol poked her in the leg, hard. "Ow!" She mockingly glared at him. "I made fun of his cheesy lines and we became friends."

Rebekah had noticed the way Elijah looked at the girl, so she asked the question that he wanted the answer to, but would never ask. "So you two never?"

"She's a minx." Kol said, earning a slap from the witch.

"Once, when we were drunk. It just felt weird. We're friends. Plus I've seen the women he takes home. I'd probably catch something." This time Kol slapped her leg. Her eyes swept the room, landing on Elijah. His eyes were glued to Kol hand resting on her thigh. She kept her gaze on him. "Plus, I like my men a little… Older." His eyes flicked to hers and she smiled at him.

The hybrid scoffed. "If you're quite done undressed my brother with your eyes." Klaus interrupted. "How can you become Rebekah?"

"Watch." She looked at Elijah who nodded. She turned into him and quickly back to herself. Seeing Kol wrapped around Elijah was not at all comfortable for the others. "I can become any one from seeing them, but their are certain extensions."

"Like?" Sage asked. Rebekah, Kol and Elijah already new this part.

"If I touch someone while shifting I gain all of their memories. I pretty much entirely become them. Like if I became Kol I'd have the same weaknesses. If I turned into a human, I'd be easily killed. But not entirely. There's a loop hole. I'm pretty much dead as them and then all of a sudden I'll shift back and vampire blood can heal me." She shook her head at a memory. "That was not fun to figure out." Kol squeezed her hand. "If I hold something of someone's I get all the memories associated with the object. Like Rebekah's ring that night. I can only access the memories when I am them." They gave her slightly confused looks. "Say this house is a person, and there's a camera in each room recording." They all nodded. "So there is one room where I can access all of the footage, but only when I'm in that room. Though there is a panel in each room that lets me see the footage for that particular room, only." She looked around. "Does that kind of make sense?"

"Yes, actually." Rebekah said.

There was barely a pause before the next question was spoken.

"Why did you save me?" Finn asked. The room turned to him abruptly. Sara pushed Kol off of her and stood in front of the depressed vampire.

She squatted down. She was directly in his face. Her gaze bore into his. "Because you deserve to live. They deserve to keep their brother. You all deserve a chance to fix your family. Sage deserves to see her love again. And you deserve to live." Finn swallowed and nodded. Sage had tears in her eyes and the rest of them had mixed emotions.

She kissed him on the forehead and went and sat on Elijah. Sarafina wasn't one for subtle. She knew he was going to give her the answer she wanted because she would make him. "My turn." She shifted so she was across him. Her butt was on one side of his legs and her feet were on the other. Her body faced part of the room.

She turned her face to the man she sat on.

There was barely two inches between them.

Sara's eyes bore into Elijah's.

The tension radiating from her shifted the atmosphere of the room. There may have been a smile plastered on her face, but there was ice in her eyes.

"Why did you take Kol from me?" Sara asked in a sing song voice, but they could all hear the anger behind her words.

Pain and regret crossed the honourable vampire's face. He couldn't hold her gaze. He looked at Niklaus.

"It doesn't matter now." Kol spoke. He knew Sara wouldn't stop till she had her answers, but he had to try. He stopped talking however when she froze him place with her gaze.

She turned back to Elijah and ran her fingers lightly up and down his chest. It moved along the top of his collar. Her hand came to rest under his chin. She turned his face towards her. Elijah's eyes were down cast.

"Love, it wasn't his fault." Klaus defended his brother.

She turned to look at him, her hand still on Elijah's chin. "You think I don't know that?! I'd ask you, but you wouldn't tell me!" She snapped at him. "Elijah will tell me because I've now saved his family twice." She turned to him as she spoke. "And because he knows his honour is part of why I care for him." Her hand caressed his cheek.

His eyes snapped towards hers. There was a fire behind the chocolate brown orbs she'd never seen before. An 'ooooo' could be heard from Kol followed by a muffled curse. Rebekah had thrown a pillow at him. Elijah's eyes searched hers for any sign of her manipulating him. He found none, as there was none to find. Sarafina Salvatore truly cared for him. "He was rallying forces against all of us." He said. "I am truly sorry for what we took from you."

The sincerity in his beautiful eyes melted away the last of the hurt caused by her best friend's death. She kissed his nose. "All's forgiven, but one second." Sara winked at the man she was drawn to. She got off of him and turned to Kol. "How stupid are you?" She stalked forward, an animal on a mission. He started running. Where the raven haired beauty once stood, was now a white wolf. It chased the youngest brother throughout the house. Destruction could be heard following them. Suddenly, Kol ran back into the room and was tackled by the ball of white. She pinned him down and licked his face.

"Stop! Please stop!" He laughed and wiggled around underneath her. She backed away and shifted.

"Hey, at least I didn't go all chihuahua on you! Again." She moved back over to Elijah and sat on his lap. His arm wrapped around her waist and held her close. He liked the way she felt in his arms. They seemed to fit perfectly together; two long lost pieces of the same puzzle.

"Don't remind me of the dreaded creaton you subjected me to." Her best friend wiped the slobber from his face using the bottom of his shirt and sat back down with the hybrid.

"What's a chihuahua? Is it some fearsome beast?" Finn asked, causing the room to erupt in laughter. Sage pulled out her phone and searched a picture to show him. "It's minuscule Kol. Why was it such torture?"

Sara laughed and Kol scoffed. "Because she spelled the leash so I couldn't get rid of her for a week. Do you know how hard it is to feed or enjoy the company of a woman with a tiny dog stuck to you." He glared at her playfully. "Plus, she liked humping my leg at inopportune times."

"He was trying to undress a girl and I kept biting his ankle. It was the best thing ever."

Elijah held her tighter. "May I ask you something?" She nodded, and turned her eyes to him. "When we were in the forest you said something to Emily Bennet. I want to know what it meant." He looked at her for a moment. "You called yourself, and I believe this is the phrasing, an Embodiment of the Old Way, a Protector of the circle and a Child of Emerys."

"Oh." She looked to Kol, eyes flashing with uncertainty.

"You do not have too tell us." Elijah said.

"She does," came from Klaus.

"She doesn't," said the rest of the room.

"No, no, it's okay." She looked down at the ground. Sara felt Kol come over. He placed his hand on her shoulder in a show of support. "The night I turned 18, I was sucked into the Other Side for a month. I was basically in a coma. Damon and Stefan lost it. I was with the Elementals. They're like gods. They rule witches and nature. They must have told me thousands of things, but I get fractions of them over the years." Her eyes slide up to Elijah. "That's how they greeted me. By calling me those. I still don't really know what the first one means, but I have an idea bout the other two." Her voice cracked a bit.

"She's a true protector of the circle of life. She explained about vampires being a part of nature earlier. Most witches think they know what nature demands, but she actually knows. She's spent a month with the spirits of nature, the gods." Kol spoke for her, because he knew she needed a moment.

He leaned down and spoke the next part directly to in her ear. "I will protect you."

He moved to stand beside her, facing his hybrid brother. "I'm a child of Emerys. I'm the last descendant of Merlin."

Klaus growled and went to launch himself off the couch, but quickly found his siblings in the way. Elijah holding the woman very protectively. "Do you understand what that means?! The power she wields?!" He bellowed at his family.

"Our mother damed you for a happenstance of birth. You will not be allowed to do the same to her." Finn's eyes were like a black hole. He dared his little brother to disobey him.

Sara stood and stepped through her barricade. Her hands moved to Klaus' face. He was vibrating with rage, but at her touch he felt himself calm. Suddenly his mind was invaded by her voice. Allow me to sooth your fears.

After a moment, she showed him some of the strongest moments of her life. Being abandoned by her father and uncle so they could chase Katherine. The way Katherine used to taunt her. The countless times her grandfather had told her she was worthless. The times her family had been whole, and when they'd been broken. She showed him meeting Kol. She showed him the pain she felt when she mourned him, and the joy of seeing him. She allowed him to experience some of the feelings she had for each of his siblings. Finn; compassion, sympathy and hope. Elijah; respect, passion, happiness, interest, an undeniable pull and a lust. The later made his face scrunch up, and she giggled. Rebekah; kinship, anticipation for friendship and joy. Kol; love, understanding, loyalty, protectiveness, and a bond, the likes of which he hadn't felt in years. And himself; hope, compassion, sympathy, understanding, irritation, interest and a need to stand beside him.

She took a deep breath and tried to step back. She found she couldn't. He had wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a hug.

"What the hell did you do to my brother?" Rebekah asked incredulous.

"Yes, how did you manage to do that?" Elijah asked.

Sara and Niklaus broke apart, and she stood beside him. "I may have, um, shown him why he doesn't have to worry about me."

"You are strong enough to enter his mind?" Sage was awestruck. Most vampires weren't strong enough to step into a newbies brain, much less the most powerful creature on earth's brain.

"Yes, but I don't use it. Like I won't become someone without permission, to save someone or as a last resort."

They all returned to their seats and she sat on the arm of Elijah's chair. His arm was around her and his hand rested on her upper thigh. She held it in her hand. Kol was the next to speak. "What did mother mean when she said she thought you were extinct?"

"Beats me. It'll probably come in one of those fucking flashes from the Other Side."

"I actually may have some idea." All eyes turned to Elijah. "When I was away, I asked around about you, in what detail I could, as well as asked about the link." Elijah looked at Sara. "Before even our time, there used to be other supernatural creatures. Most are extinct, but there are some very rare ones. I learnt of a couple, but none of them fit properly. You may be one of the ones that's been extinct for millennia."

"Well damn." Sara said. "I always new I was special, but I'm even more interesting than then the undead dog over there."

There was a pregnant pause where everyone waited for Klaus' response. He laughed. "You should know better than to insult me, love."

"Meh, you're adorable." His answer was to growl. She stretched out, unphased. Her back cracked audibly. "Can we be done for today? I'm restless. I got to spar a couple days ago, but I could really use a nice run. Anyone up for it?" She looked at Klaus. "Fido? I can make the shift painless." She sang at him, wiggling her eyebrows.

In the end, Elijah, Kol and Klaus all offered to run with her. Sage was going to teach Finn how to cook, and Rebekah just didn't want to run. They ran for a couple hours, and Sara had to keep Klaus from killing people. Which made him try to make her submit. He was probably the only wolf she'd met that didn't submit to her, she was fascinated by it. Her wolf was extremely comfortable with him. He kept nuzzling into her. He was a glistening silver to her shining white.

Elijah was not amused with how the two wolves were behaving. He was very jealous. Kol noticed this and took pity on his brother. "A lot of this is pack behaviour, and fighting for Alpha. Sara never has to fight for Alpha, even if she isn't a true wolf. She's still herself when she's a wolf, but her primal side is very strong. If she was attracted to him, we wouldn't have made it out of the yard. Same goes for him. Werewolves have very little control. I don't know about hybrids, but he's probably similar to her. If he wanted her, they'd be going at it." Sara heard their conversation and sauntered over to Elijah. Her eyes were locked with his.

She rubbed up against his leg and closed her eyes when his hand touched her head. She sniffed his hip and rubbed her snout up the inside of his leg. "Sara, get a room." Kol injected.

She tackled him and licked his face. "Yuck! Stop. Hellhound!"

I hope this answered at least some of the questions everyone had about her. There is a lot left untold and as time goes on, everyone will discover more and more. It will be a slow road, but an interesting one.

Soo... What do you all think of Sara and Elijah so far? Or Sara and Klaus' friendship? How about the other Originals?

Enjoy,

-Nicole