After her statement Vivienne turned away from Kol, scanning the room, and Elijah was shocked when she grinned earnestly for the first time since she had appeared. She turned to him completely and smiled as she asked, "I'd say we were incredibly successful, wouldn't you?"
He nodded in agreement, and his siblings continued to stare at her. Noticing the attention, Vivienne suddenly calmed down a bit and looked thoughtful. Somehow, Elijah knew that she didn't want to introduce herself. When she had announced herself as their protector, he and Niklaus had not taken it well, and he knew his siblings would react much the same. Giving Vivienne a quick nod when her eyes met his, he turned to his brothers and sister.
"This is Vivienne. She aided me in rescuing you. Without her, you would still be in those coffins."
Bekah let out a scoff and waved her hand in the air dismissively before saying, "Yes, yes, fantastic, but what is she and why does she look like a creature from a swamp? Some sort of earthen witch?"
Elijah watched, greatly amused at the incredibly offended look on Rebekah's face when Vivienne shrugged, walking past her and effectively dismissing the question. She approached Niklaus and bent down to check on him, and because their eyes were following her, Kol, Rebekah, and Finn all suddenly realized who was in the room with them.
Surging toward him immediately, Kol let out a snarl as he ground out, "I'm going to tear his bloody lungs out." However, a moment later he hastily scrambled backwards with surprise when Vivienne turned around quickly and stood over Niklaus defensively while hissing loudly with her black veins spreading across all of the visible skin on her body, talons showing, and eyes entirely black.
"No. No one will be killing anyone. You will all talk like the civilized ancient creatures you are, and resolve any immediate quarrels. Without the use of daggers or stakes. Which I will be keeping for the time being."
Elijah had seen her pocket all of the daggers after the confrontation and honestly was a bit relieved that they were in the hands of a third party. But when Vivienne began scanning the faces of his siblings, she seemed to recognize their fear, and almost instantly reverted back to the girl she'd been moments ago in appearance. She straightened from her crouch and ran her hand through her hair self consciously, an idiosyncrasy Elijah had noted she often performed when stressed.
"I apologize. I – am no longer in the mood for violence."
His siblings still seemed a bit shocked, so Elijah turned to her and nodded, saying with authority, "None of us will kill each other tonight."
She nodded back at him, looking distracted as she continued to simply look back and forth between them all, until Kol finally broke the silence, casually looking between Elijah and Vivienne before asking, "Not that I am complaining, but what happened to Nik?"
Vivienne, still unfocused, nonchalantly murmured, "I broke his neck a few times. He was also acting upon a truly startling quantity of homicidal urges, therefore I threw him through a wall. That's why he's covered with debris."
With all of them gaping at her save for Elijah, Vivienne walked out of the room and said over her shoulder, "I'll be in the kitchen, come find me when you're all done and have questions."
In her wake a silence spanned as the siblings looked at one another, each in clothing from a different era and the realization hit that although they were together again, it would not suddenly be a peaceful coexistence between their family.
Once again Kol brought it on himself to break the silence, slapping Elijah on the back and saying, "I like the feisty ones. Care to set me up?"
The moment she was out of sight, Vivienne disappeared. If any of the Mikaelsons were in grave danger she would sense it after she'd performed a discrete blood binding on them all. For now, she had something important to do.
Every time she materialized it felt as though hours had passed when in reality it was a mere second or two – at times instant even. But seeking out those who she had even a vague connection to was immensely easier. And this connection was anything but vague.
When she found the girl she had been seeking, she spoke to her back immediately.
"You must leave this place and never return."
Elena Gilbert jumped a foot in the air before whirling around. Tears began flowing a moment later and Vivienne felt a combination of apprehension and sorrow.
"Viv? Stefan said, but – how are you alive?"
The doppelganger ran over to her and immediately threw her arms around her, making Vivienne cringe just the smallest amount, not yet used to physical contact. As gently as she could, she untangled the arms of the girl and stepped back to meet her eyes. She could sense the younger Salvatore in the room but disregarded his presence. They had more important things to worry about.
"I apologize, Elena. But I'm no longer Vivienne, we merely share a face. And you must listen to me."
Elena shook her head side to side and opened her mouth to protest but Vivienne cut her off.
"The hybrid cannot know you are alive. And he will discover it if you stay here. He will discover you if you turn into a vampire and stay here. There are very few options. The only thing that was shown to me was drastic. You must relocate to the other side of the country. Dye and cut your hair. Plastic surgery, or drastic makeup. It is the only way. And you must remove that necklace."
Elena's hand flew up to her neck and she looked incredibly confused, so Vivienne sped up the process and quickly reached forward to pull it off of the girl.
The Salvatore cut in at this point and sounded angry as he said, "You can't just come in here and tell her what to do! Elena has been through enough, she deserves a normal life-"
Vivienne retorted in an equally annoyed tone when she said, "There will be no life at all. She will die before college and live as a vampire at best." She turned to Elena and spoke more softly to the girl who looked both confused and devastated.
"I ask that you trust me for a moment. That is all it will take. I have not simply seen your deaths. I know of your deaths. The knowledge was given to me as a gift for my service, and I assume your Vivienne would have wanted you safe."
Elena's tears began flooding over the edge of her eyes, but she nodded. Vivienne leaned forward at her agreement and gently held her face as she drew closer. It was only a second later that she initiated the mind blending process and showed Elena every possibility of her death. Vivienne did not know the future or how these would come about, but she was absolutely, completely positive that these were the outcomes. The only way Elena Gilbert would live was if she followed Vivienne's advice.
When she backed away she dispassionately noted that Stefan was on the edge of the repelling circle that always surrounded her species when the mind blending occurred. Her demonic face was on display, and the vampire must have been more than a little panicked. He immediately rushed over to Elena and cradled her as the horror covered her face.
"Stefan – Stefan I saw it. There's nothing I can do," the girl's voice cracked and Vivienne's pity increased before she saw the girl's resolve harden before continuing, "we need to compel everyone. Jeremy first. I need to be dead. And I'm going to need a new name. It's the only way."
The vampire began speaking to the girl in a soothing tone, and Vivienne was done. It had only taken a handful of minutes, but her more pressing concern was to return to the Mikaelsons. She had done her duty and tried to save the doppelganger. Now she had to get back to the family of ancient melodramatic Vikings.