Chapter 13:

When they returned to the mansion Stefan was reading a book with Rebekah's head cradled in his lap. She was sound asleep and the vampires could hear the steady rhythm of the small heartbeat within her.

"Okay what are we going to do about Hayley?" Bonnie asked as everyone but Rebekah and Stefan crowded the study. Kol started passing around drinks.

"How about just out right killing her?" Elena suggested. "She's worthless at the moment."

"No killing." Klaus barked at her and she glared at him, ready to kill him at the moment only for Elijah to play peacemaker.

"How about we erase her memories of the Originals-excluding Rebekah-and bind her to the curse of her own people?" Elijah asked.

"That's...a lot of magic..." Bonnie sighed.

"Compulsion love," Kol reminded her.

"I vote for that plan," Bonnie said.

"It's still not enough," Elena barked. "I want her to suffer for what she did to me," Elena growled.

"Don't you mean what she did to Klaus?" Kol asserted, "I think you need to air your grievances with someone else love."

"I would but who I would have gone after got herself knocked up with Stefan's baby." Elena said darkly as her eyes flashed over to Rebekah. "So I wanted to see someone die."

Caroline nodded in agreement with Elena.

"She also slept with Tyler." Caroline added with such bitterness that everyone had to make sure that it actually was Caroline.

"Well how about I lend you myself or one of my brothers then," Kol offered and then he got a cheeky grin on his face. "You make take us into the backyard and incapacitate us as many times as you would like until you feel better; after we deal with Hayley. Now anyone have another viable plan besides compel her and curse her?"

Her eyes danced brightly. "You promise?" Elena asked and at Kol's nod, she looked like a kid in a candy store.

"That seems to be the best plan so far." Caroline said with a sigh. "Bring her ass down here and let's get it over with."

Kol went to retrieve Hayley while Elijah felt Elena's angry gaze on him. He would let her snap his neck a hundred times if it would help her feel better. Kol appeared a moment later with Hayley. Klaus looked deep in her eyes and compelled her to forget him and his brothers but to remember that she was being punished for betrayal.

"Alright Bonnie," Klaus said, "you're up."

Bonnie began to read off the curse and felt a burning inside her as she did. She didn't want to look and yet she couldn't turn away as she watched Hayley forced into her wolf form. Tattered clothing lay on the floor and Hayley bared her teeth.

"In a room full of vampires may not have been the best place for this," Bonnie worried but Klaus reached down fearlessly and gripped her by the back of the neck. He then pulled her along to the back doors and put her out.

"Good riddance."

"So who are you offering up to me?" Elena asked Kol. "The Hybrid ass or the Noble ass?"

Kol blinked at her. "Elena darling, which one do you want?"

"I'm torn," she said mockingly. "Who to choose?"

"Why don't I pick for you?" Caroline asked her sweetly.

"Your quarrel is with me Elena," Elijah said boldly, "why don't we take this outside?"

"There now," Caroline grinned, "and if he doesn't satisfy you then you can have Klaus afterwards."

"I thought you wanted to have me now love," Klaus grinned wolfishly at his double entendres.

"Oh we will," Elena purred. "Then if you don't satisfy my need for you to be a hell of a lot smarter then I also get Mr Hybrid ass. Care can play as well."

"This will be fun!" Caroline got out happily.

Elijah walked outside with Elena after leaving his suit jacket and tie inside. Elena didn't even wait for him to turn around and face her before she jerked his arm behind his back listening as the bones snapped. She thrust him down onto his knees breaking the bones in his hand before she snapped his neck. As he lie motionless she proceeded to break ribs, arms and anything else she could get to in her rage. Kol winced as he watched the pain Elena was releasing on his brother. It was almost a half hour before Elijah regained consciousness and he cried out as his body finally began to heal; if this helped Elena though he would do anything. As soon as he could he was on his feet. This time when she came at him he began to block her advances. He wasn't attacking her but he was giving her a bit of a challenge.

She smiled at him. "I do love a challenge." Each kick, punch and block she did, he copied her.

She found an opening on his left side and sent a well aimed kick there that had him on his knees in agony.

"Damn it Elena," he gasped. He made no move to stop her and let her continue her assault hoping that it would help heal some of the pain he had caused her.

"I have never seen Elena like this," Bonnie murmured against Kol.

"I have never seen Elijah like this," Kol said tenderly. He had never seen his brother take this kind of aggression from anyone. It was a testament to the depth of his feelings for her.

She did stop but made no move to help him up. Walking past him, she fixed her jeans and halter top before smiling coldly.

"Care's turn to play." Elena said with a wicked smirk covering her face.

Caroline grinned and fluttered to stand where Elena was and she waited for Klaus to get there.

"I'd hurry if I were you," she said to Klaus. "I have a rather important business meeting to get to."

Klaus didn't give Caroline any free shots. He made her work for every agonizing, bone crushing score she got. Finally he groaned as she cut him across the cheek and the chest. She held his gaze with her own cold one before with some effort she snapped his neck and dropped him to the ground. Just for good measure she broke several of his bones so he could enjoy the pain when he regained consciousness.

"That's a move usually reserved for me," Kol said under his breath. The old Kol would have found it hilarious to watch his brothers be beaten by girls but no way was he going to say anything about this because he understood. Elijah tried to pull himself back together.

"Now I should change," Caroline picked at her dress in disgust. "There's gross hybrid blood all over it." Elena chuckled.

"This business meeting you have wouldn't be with three witches in Rousseau's now would it?" Elena teased her. The blonde smirked.

"They wanted to make a deal with me. I'm having Marcel come with me so we can all work out the deal." Elena nodded at her friend.

"Want me to come along?" Caroline shook her head. "Fine-I'll just babysit these idiots, Bonnie, Kol, Stefan, Davina and Jeremy then."

"Next time you can come." Caroline promised before she left with Marcel. Elena turned to look at Kol.

"How long do you think they'll be out?" she asked as she moved to go inside the house.

"It doesn't usually take them that long," Kol said as he looked at his brothers. "I'd say maybe an hour or so... Would you like to have a drink while we wait?" They walked into the sun room and Kol poured them each a scotch from the drink cart there. "Did that help a little?" He asked casually with a smirk as they gazed out at the lifeless bodies of his brothers.

"Not by that much." Elena admitted. "Though maybe now they'll learn their lesson and not listen to little spoiled brats who believe they're entitled to whatever they want." It was a jab at Rebekah and both Kol and Bonnie knew it.

"I could make them see that she's just vain and wants whatever it is but Klaus dotes on her as much as Finn did. Elijah tries to make her see reason but she sees it her way or no way."

"It's a damn shame that I can't physically attack her at the moment." Elena pouted. "It would be much more fun."

"She's pregnant." Bonnie told her and Elena nodded.

"I know-that's why verbal abuse will have to do." Elena told her as she took a sip of the scotch.

"Kol what the hell did you do!" Rebekah exclaimed as she joined them outside a little over an hour later. Klaus and Elijah had just regained consciousness and were writhing in pain.

"Bekah stay out of it and go back in the house," Kol growled.

"They're glad that you're not dead and this is how you repay them?" Her emotions were spiraling out of control and she was crying though she hadn't intended to.

"Oh god blondie!" Elena shouted at her. "Shut up! No one wants to hear you cry at all!" She ended up rubbing her temples. "You're also giving me a headache so be thankful that you're still in fine form otherwise you'd join your brothers out there."

Rebekah screamed at her. "You bitch! This is all your fault! You ruined my family!"

Elena got right in her face and slapped her roughly across the face with enough human force to make her head go back.

"You did that yourself." Elena told her. "You ruined your life, Stefan's life and your family's lives. I didn't and grow up! Did you know that it was Mikael's and Damon's plan to have you daggered? They needed my help so I helped."

"Well you could have said no," Rebekah snapped, "but that's right you never knew how to say no when there was a Salvatore involved! I just hope to hell this will help my brother get over the stupid feelings he has for you!"

"Rebekah please go back inside and lie down. This kind of stress isn't good for you," Kol growled.

"I'm thinking that you didn't hear me correctly." Elena looked at her and shouted. "YOUR FATHER WAS THE ONE WHO HAD THE PLAN YOU BITCH! HE WANTED TO END KLAUS AND DIDN'T WANT YOU INVOLVED!" She sneered at her pale face. "Unlike you, I can say no to a Salvatore but you can't. You bedded both brothers-I never did. Just because it was Damon's blood that sired me means nothing."

Everyone who was surrounding them was watching this in wonder. Elena was putting Rebekah in her place with what she was saying.

It also appeared that Elena was brutally honest.

"You sure as hell don't need to worry about that." Elena snapped. "Everything that I feel is gone. I have no feelings for anyone but my family and happily you're not in it."

Those words hurt Elijah worse than any of the blows Elena had dealt him. He was still lying outside as his bones were healing but he heard every word. She hated him and not only that but he had crushed the beautiful compassion within her. The noble original felt lower than low. Rebekah foolishly made a move to get in Elena's face and Kol had to get in between them. Finally between him and Stefan they got Rebekah to go back in.

Elena needed to leave the house otherwise her impressive 'I feel nothing' façade would be ruined and at this moment, she didn't need it ruined.

"I'm leaving as I'm rather bored here." She looked and waved goodbye to Kol, Stefan and Bonnie with kisses to their cheeks before leaving the house and going back to the Compound where she locked herself in her room and repeated the words over and over again.

"You don't care about what happens to Elijah. You hate him for everything he's done."

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Elijah himself was in his study and made his way over to the bar. He would have poured himself some scotch in a glass but decided to drink it out of the bottle. He should have left and he could feel as low as he wants without it being rubbed in his face but Kol needed him. Pulling the bottle from his lips, he just began staring at the bottle before he turned and threw it at the opposite wall.

It was only seconds later that Kol walked in and saw the shards.

"You got mad and threw the bottle?" he asked as he lounged in the couch across from the desk. Seeing the expression on his brother's face, he felt a little dead inside. "You really loved her, didn't you?"

"I believe that I always will." Elijah breathed out. "I could have had her but I broke her. I broke her Kol."

"I don't believe it's permanent. A very wise man once told me me that love is a strength not a weakness. If it was Bonnie I wouldn't give up. I don't think she's irreparable."

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"Elena are you okay?" Bonnie asked when Elena picked up the phone.

"I'm fine," Elena lied. "Never better." Elena was wondering why Bonnie called.

"I know you Elena and you're not fine so don't lie to me. Okay?"

There were times that Elena just wished that she shut it off but for Caroline's sake, she kept it in the middle.

"Bonnie, I'm fine. Really." Bonnie wasn't buying it at all.

"Okay, well I just thought I'd see if maybe my best friend needed me," Bonnie said nonchalantly. "I'll talk to you later."

She hung up the phone and then found herself enacting the vampire spell again. It was time for her daily dose of Kol's blood and he seemed to enjoy when she did it this way. She put her hand over her mouth as she felt the pain of the fangs breaking through. She stared at herself in the bedroom mirror and concentrated until she got them to recede and she looked normal again. She bounced downstairs in search of Kol and found him in the study with Elijah.

"Are you okay?" Bonnie asked. "I'm really sorry about today. I can't believe Elena actually did that."

"She needed to do it and I don't blame her." Elijah told her as he sat down and stared at the bottles on his bar.

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