Chapter 6:

Klaus stormed into his brother's Plantation House with said brother behind him and Hayley. Rebekah, who had traveled with them once Matt and Stefan wouldn't give her the time of day, stared at them.

"What's going on?" she demanded.

"Our brother got Hayley here pregnant." Elijah told her as she fell into his arms for a hug. "The other news is that Elena and Caroline are here." He shook his head. "They're ruthless now-especially Caroline."

Rebekah wanted to kill but her brother's calming aura was the only thing keeping her where she was. Looking up, she saw his eyes were dark and flashing.

"She tore into a witch and after, she threw the witch bleeding at my feet before calling me out and saying that I'm boring." He was growling.

"That's nothing brother." Klaus managed to snark at him coldly and with hate just blazing in his blue eyes. "Caroline is dating Marcellus. The vampire I sired."

"So she's going after my leftovers?" Rebekah smirked, thinking that she could get back at the blonde. "I wonder what they would do if they see me."

"Simple-you'll be heartless." They all turned to see Elena just leaning up against the doorway with a sadistic smirk on her face. "Or I'll behead you. I'm torn." She made a show of thinking about it. "Kill her in a simple way or in a more brutal way? Choices, choices." She fake-sighed. "It's so difficult."

"How about I kill you?" Rebekah sneered at her. Elena raised an eyebrow.

"Sorry-not happening if the vampires don't see me back-you'll be saying bye-bye to Hayley and baby because Sophie will be six feet under."

Rebekah scoffed but Klaus got in Elena's face instantly.

"You would kill an innocent child?" She snorted.

"Yeah, I actually would. No emotions, according to the ass in the suit." She smirked at her jab at Elijah who bristled in anger. "So I'm here warning you-come near me and mine, you'll wish you were dead. Understand?"

"No." Rebekah told her as she stood next to Klaus. Elena looked at her and nodded before stabbing her in the chest, snapping Klaus' neck and throwing a dart at Hayley in the shoulder.

"I'll ask again, do you understand me?"

Elijah bared his teeth at her and she snorted.

"So pathetic Elijah," She purred coldly. "You're ready to take care of this bitch after it was known she was banging your brother? Have you gone soft in your old age?"

He flashed to her but she flashed away and appeared behind Hayley, a knife poised at the wolf's throat in a way to make it look like she was going to slit it.

"Fine Elena," he bit out harshly as he glared at her. "I will make sure that my family understands this as well. You don't harm us, we don't harm you."

She smiled and threw the knife, hitting him in the gut. Walking past him as he fell to his knees, she smiled.

"We should never do this again. Hopefully I won't see you anymore." She said cheerfully before leaving the house.

"You bitch." Hayley shouted at her. Elena paused, turned and stared at her with a malicious smirk.

"I'm sorry but weren't you Katherine's little pet wolf but decided that the Originals were better protectors?" Her eyes were cold and playful, but it was her voice that made Hayley's hair stand on edge. "That little deal will be null and void if you ever come near me and mine."

Turning on her heel, she strutted out in a way that would make even Katherine envious of her.

Once Klaus woke up, he wanted blood but Elijah sat him down and handed him a club glass filled with scotch.

"I had to say that we all agreed to her terms," he turned an eye to Rebekah who wanted nothing more than to go after her and make her dead. "She was ready to slit Hayley's throat and there would have been no time to save her. To save your child brother so I said that we would acquiesce to her demand."

Klaus knew that his brother had been put in between a hard place and a rock. Thanking him, he went back to brooding about Kol who had died and to Caroline dating Marcel.

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Elena was drinking blood out of a club glass as she sat ladylike on the chaise that Marcel had bought for her, in her room, listening to a bunch of her favorite songs on a continuous loop as she thought back to what she had done and said to the Originals.

The human her as well as the vampire with humanity her would be horrified but now, she wasn't.

This was the new her and she wouldn't be tied down to her emotions, her feelings…to any loyalty she had felt for Elijah Mikaelson.

No, if she'd ever see them again, it'll be too soon. Sipping, she smiled and slid on her ebony colored peep toed high heels as she wanted to feed.

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The atmosphere at The Beach on Bourbon was hot and heavy as Elena began dancing and grinding up on some poor human. Pulling him out of the club and into an alleyway, she compelled him to be quiet.

Her fangs hit his vein in his neck and she took two pulls when the presence of someone she never wanted to see again was right behind her.

Pulling them out, she healed them and compelled him to go back to the club, which he did and she turned to face Elijah, uncaring about the blood all over her lips.

"Another lecture or are you here to tell me that you're so disappointed in me?" she said with a yawn.

His jaw ticked. "I was walking and saw you feeding off the locals." His eyes were colder. "Were you going to kill him?"

"Feed and bed him, not kill." She told him as she walked out of the alleyway, licking her lips clean. "Do you want your precious little wolf bitch to be dead?" she asked him, cruelly. He made a move to grab her but she danced out of his reach. Closing his eyes, he took quite a few deep breaths before he began speaking.

"Why are you here?" She snorted.

"I've never been and besides," she flashed so that she was right behind him. "I find this place to be fun and just what I want. Got a problem with that?"

He shook his head. "Whatever happened to you? You were so filled with this innocence and purity and light. What happened to make you…like this?"

"Life and humanity." She told him, uncaring about his reaction. "Now, before I find and feed off of Sophie, leave me alone."

She didn't even wait for him to say anything as she disappeared into the night, intent on dancing and drinking. Elijah sighed and wanted to hurt someone-her mostly-but the threat of his unborn niece or nephew hung and he couldn't do anything to save it. He had to abide by the rules, otherwise his family will fall apart and he didn't want that to happen, at all.

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