Chapter 6: Maddening
Elijah decides this conversation has go on for too long. He has accepted that he cannot make Niklaus see reason. It is a lost cause. Nonetheless, it did not perturbed him. He should have expected this. His brother mood is as unpredictable as ever. He lets their sister goes without a fight and Elijah was wronged to assume that he would received the same courtesy.
Elijah pulls Klaus hands away. Putting a little distance between them. He stares Klaus right in the eyes calculating the extent of damage to come. Klaus is smiling back at him expression almost soft and clearly no longer angry but it won't be for long.
Eliijah takes a deep breath to steeled himself and he cupped Klaus face gently with his right hands. He meets Klaus eyes so he could conveys the seriousness of the situation. Klaus hesitantly stares back and his hands covered Elijah's hand on his cheek. Elijah heart feel lighten at this. He hoped that maybe the situation is no as hopeless as he thought.
"I am still leaving, Niklaus. I am telling you, not asking you for permission.This is not me trying to punished you or anything of that sort. I am not angry with you. It is a self discovery journey. I am doing this for myself. He said softly.
The hybrid eyes widen, he can see the anger behind them. He notices every single details how Nikkaus body becomes rigid how his faces marred with lines that means he is angry, furious even.
It sets his anger off too. He pulls away. Elijah grits his teeth. Niklaus has no right. He has no right at all to act like this. Elijah did not owe him anything.
He thinks after 1000 years Niklaus had audicacy to forgets that Elijah is the older brother and he does not need to answer to anyone certainly not Niklaus and he is certainly not going to be guilt into staying.
" I have already made the arrangement." Elijah ended their conversation. He swiftly made his way to the door without another look at his brother. He doesn't want to lingers. He is on tight schedule. He need to say goodbye to Freya too. He is afraid the longer he stays the situation is most likely to escalated further. The smartest thing to do is leave before Niklaus come up with a plan to forced his hand into staying.
"No!".Niklaus screamed petulantly but Elijah is already turning his back on him reaching for the door and Klaus feels the fears gripping him.. that his worst fears is coming to reality...his sibling finally sees him for what he truely is an abomination.
Klaus swapped everything of the study table in fit of anger. His brother froze for a second before continuing not even bothering to look at him. Klaus lets out an anguish scream as he throws everything he could get his hands on. The chairs and tables went flying into the wall. They broke and scatter to pieces all over the floor together with a huge chunk of wall. He breath heavily as he glares at Elijah. Elijah is staring at him. His standing tall untouched with his eyes widen in surprised right in the middle of the wreckage that Klaus had caused. He hated how even when he is blinded by anger. His still unconciously tries not to hurt his brother.
He can smells Elijah's blood. His eyes zero in at the small cut on his brother cheeks. Some small pieces of the wreckage has probably graze him on the cheek.
Elijah froze staring at his brother and the face harden at the satisfied look on Klaus face. He wipe the blood of his cheek. The cut has already healed.
Klaus feels satisfied in knowing he is not the only one hurting. Nevertheless, he resent the fact that he feels relieve at the same times that it was only a relatively small cut. How pathetic that is. His brother could have a sword run through his body and still be perfectly fine. They are immortals. Klaus snorts and here he was worrying because Elijah had a small cut.
Elijah kicked away a pieces of wreckage as he eyes take stock of the damage in the room. The large hole on the wall. The broken trinkets and furnitures. Should he be grateful that Klaus did not take his anger on the precious collection of the rare tomes and books. If he did destroy the book and tomes. Elijah would probably throw him out of the balcony himself to the streets below. He traces the spine of a favourite book of his. He should probably take it with him.
Elijah glares and the closed door in distaste. Klaus tantrum fit has turn this into a scene which has garner curious spectator. He could hear them, Klaus vampire minions. They were talking among themselves speculating on what is going. He even feels several presence moving closer to the door trying to eavesdrop.
He is a proud man. He regards himself highly. He refuses to act like a tool in front the lower class vampires. Apparently, Klaus has no care about that. He barely spare a glance at the door. Of course. It doesn't bother Klaus whether they are being spied on or not.
His face tighten as he grits his teeth.
Elijah feels irritation simmers under his skin. The books forgotten.
"You are making a disaster out of this , you will cease now.. this uncouth, childish behavior. This need to stop." Elijah says angrily above whisper level. He doesn't want the other vampires to overheard.
Klaus glowers at his brother. The fact that his brother cares more about his pride makes Klaus mood sours even more.
"You think this is a disaster. You knew nothing. Oh great noble elijah." Klaus spits spitefully. It doesn't bothers him if they have an audience listening in their conversation. He saw how elijah eyes widen. He revelled in it.
"I dare you to step a foot out of that door, brother. Did you forget what I said to you? The monster in me can only be checked by the monster in you. You will regret this. I promise you." The hybrid threaten hysterically pacing like a cage beast.
He saw how Elijah wills waver. How he hesitate. How he searches Klaus eyes to see his resolve. To see whether Klaus threat is real.
Klaus smirks triumphly when Elijah spare a fleeting distracted glance at the door. Klaus can hears what was on the other side of door. He could hear how the all the newly turn vampire was frighten by his threat. How they wonder will he go through with his threat. Are they expecting a war to break out? They did not sign up for these. Most off them are panicking. The smells of distress makes his fang itch to grow.
Klaus know which button to push now Elijah has always been a little transparent. Always the sucker for the weak and broken ones. He is glad, you know. He knows what to do now.
Elijah has always believe in doing the right thing and in doing whatever needed of him. Klaus know this. However, he also knew that while Elijah would do anything to save his family. Elijah would not necessarily hurt anyone for his own sake without good reason. This is what Klaus counting on. So, he gave elijah his ultimatum.
He stares Elijah in the eyes. Klaus wants his brother to see how dead serious he is. "You know I don't make empty threats."
"I will land waste to all Europe if you dare to leave me. I will starts with slaughterings everyone in New orleans the vampire, witches and human, just for the hell of it."
"You know I would do that and that is only the beginning." Klaus says smirking mirthlessly.
"I would not stop. You know. Klaus says as he stares as his brother. He feels delightful when Elijah shivers at his words.
"I will tear down the world for you Elijah. You know how obsessively focussed I can be." Klaus wonders if Elijah knew about this ugly darkness in his heart and his crave for destruction.
"I will hunt you down." His possessiveness over Rebekah and Elijah has always baffled him. However, that was not a concerned of his at the moment.
Klaus noted. Elijah didn't even bat an eye at his declaration. Calm as ever. Klaus smirks. He doesn't know what he was expecting. He knows that Elijah is not easily scared. Even when Mikael had threaten to stake him with white oak. He was not afraid. He both loves and loathes this quality of Elijah. Niklaus smiles bitterly and change tactics.
"I will sent them after you. The new inexperienced vampire. Knowing you brother, you would probably kill maybe half of them if they pissed you too much." Klaus says in mock whisper.
"They are expendables so it doesn't matter if I run out of vampires to sent after you. I will just make more. After all, this earth is overpopulated by humans."
"Ah, I forget you did manage to evade me for centuries before when I daggered our entire family." Klaus eyes narrow and his lips purse mockingly.
"Maybe after awhile if my vampire army still unsucessful in capturing you. I will start searching on ways to makes hybrid armies again. I have all the time is the world for that and when I am sucessful. Perhaps I should build a hybrid army that is big enough to trigger a world war just to flush you out from your hiding. Imagine how many casualties would that lead too."
Klaus smirks happily. "You know I love a good challenge. What is more challenging that chasing and hunting you all across the globe, brother." Klaus says eyes sparkling.
Marcel who were listening in from outside can feel his eyebrow raised to his hairline. World war? "Oh, hell no. You are not doing that." Marcel says as he busts through the door.
Elijah and Klaus gave him a look that shut him up completely. He raised his hands in surrender and shuts the door. He resign himself to leaning against the closed door. If he blocks the door than Elijah won't be able to leave the room. Klaus won't go berserk and kill everyone and there is no world war III looming in near future. To put simply with Marcel blocking the door the two originals will have no choice but to work on solving their problems. It also help that Elijah tends to be more reasonably calm with the presence of an audience. Marcel hoped whatever going on between these two originals will be solved soon.
"You would do no such things", Elijah bellow indignantly. "This is you kingdom. You are their king..these are you people."
"This is what you want." Elijah says eyes narrow warningly, rage just simmers below the surface threatening to boils over. His eyes tinges with confusion and the feeling of lost.
Why on earth would Klaus readily destroy something that he builds.
World war? What crazy madness he is talking about?.
Elijah understands nothing. He stares at Klaus. "Since returning to New Orleans we have been through a lot but I had always been by your side. Even when I disagree with your ludicrous plans and ways. I stayed by your side and fight for your cause even when you had been unnecessarily cruel to me and killed Gia.
Klaus glowers and his nose flares at the name. He had enough of that name.
"I believed Hope gave you what you need an unconditional love and that is not all she did. She makes you realised that you had always had the unconditional love and support from our family. Maybe not all the time but you have our support when it most matters. Why are you doing this? I don't understand."
"Hn." Klaus snorts and stalked to his brother.
"That is where you are wrong. You are forgetting the fact that I did not want her in the beginning. I could careless about Hayley and the baby she carrying. You are the one that insist on protecting Hayley and the unborn baby. You said it was our family hope."
Klaus approach him calmly. "You were upsets and distraught almost to tears."
Klaus says stroking the skin under Elijah's eyes. "You wanted the baby so bad. That is the reason why I change my mind. Why I work together with you to ensure my unborn child safety".
"As for Haley the reason I keep her around because you were distraught at the thought of losing her at the cemetery. You confessed how much you care for Haley and saying how you had let her in. She also becomes important to me then simply because she was important to you."
Elijah just looks at him and trying to make sense of everything Klaus is saying.
"So I did what you want me to do. I protect the baby and protect Haley. Of course. I come to love Hope in the end. She is my child after all."
"Ah. You didn't know. Are you forgetting that I suggest we cut Hayley open and take the baby when she was cursed and dying slowly."
"In the end, I have come to accept the fact that she is Hope's mother and I can't deprive my daughter of a mother's love. Like Esther deprived me from my real father's love."
"It was lucky that she and I finally bonded over being parents in the end."
Looking at Elijah confused face. His face soften. He strokes his brother cheek gently.
"When are you going to realize that this.." Klaus gesture expansively with his other hand.
"All this meant nothing to me if you are not by my side, Elijah."
"Right now I am admitting something incriminating." Klaus says smartly.
"Do you know the things that I would do simply because you ask that of me." Klaus says breathlessly.
"Knowing all this. Are you still thinking about leaving? You think I would allowed you to leave my side." Klaus says grabbing on his brother neck until their nose almost touching.
"Rebekah is gone for now frolicking somewhere around the globe. She is out of my reach for a moment but I still have you here in front of me and I am not going to lose you too."
Elijah is staring coolly back unaffected and not even a little intimidated.
Marcel swallowed hard. He knew the two of them are fighting but he did not know that the reasons they are fighting because Elijah wanted to leave. He also tries not to think too deeply about the level of the brotherly love going between the two originals vampire.
He knew that Klaus is a possesive son of a bitch. The hybrid was overly possesive of Rebekah. Rebekah even told him about how Klaus murdered her past lovers. He still remember the hell Klaus put Rebekah and him through just because the two of them has fallen in love with each other.
What he didn't know was Klaus brand of crazy possesiveness extend to Elijah too. There were a couple times he witness Klaus possessiveness over Elijah but he has never dwelled on it before.
Yes. Klaus went completely crazy when someone tries to murdered Elijah but that is understandable. Marcel would go crazy too if someone tries to hurt his family. Although, he still did not understand the motive behind Gia's death. He kinds of still holding a little grudge over that.
Did Klaus kills her solely to punish Elijah because he had joined forces with Freya to dagger him? Did she died just because losing her would hurt Elijah? Wait. Isn't Klaus responsible for Celeste death too in the past? He wonders how many of Elijah's lover in the past the hybrid had murdered.
Does Klaus goes around murdering everyone Elijah and Rebekah fell in love with?
Marcel shakes his head to clears his thought. All that does not matter.
What matter is right now. The fact that Klaus threatening to destroy the entire world because Elijah wanting to leave. For what? A couple of years, maybe? At most a few decades. The vampires the live on forever. Klaus going on murdering rampage just because he can't have things his way. It is madness.
" You insist on leaving? Try me, Elijah. You wouldn't like what you will see." Marcel sees the desperation in Klaus eyes, the insanity that lurked beneath his cold mask and deadly tone. Marcel decides that this needs to be stopped.
Marcel had enough..no, all of them had enough of the originals family feud. He will not be drag into another war and watch his home New Orleans burn down to the ground again. Once is more than enough.
"You are not seriously threatening me with destruction of the world if I were to leave New Orleans." Elijah says staring at his little brother contemplating.
"This is absurd. This self destructive path that you continues to go down." Elijah says pulling away from Klaus touch. Klaus face becomes grim. He lets his hand fall to his side. His hands curled into fists involuntarily.
"Yeah. So? You can stop me. You know. Klaus smirks devilishly, eyes glinting dangerously. You just have to stay here by my side. Stop me from self destructive path. Keep me in line. You have always enjoyed doing it, no?
"You loves ordering me around. Restricting me when I am having too much fun. Forcing me into signing treaty and into playing nice with others. You have been doing all this for 1000 years already. Hell. Why stop now?" Klaus says staring at Elijah delightfully.
Marcel can't stops himself from snorting. He rolls his eyes when Klaus throw him a sharp glare.
Well, he can understand why Elijah would wants out. Geez.. he been putting up with Klaus shits for 1000 years. Marcel would want out too.
"You asked me to let go, countless times. Did you forget, Niklaus?" Elijah says unbuttoning his dress shirt collar and looking tired. Klaus eyes flick to the exposed column of Elijah's neck and Marcel does not know what to make of the look in the hybrid eyes. He is overthinking, Marcel convince himself.
"That is nothing new. Didn't he said that every few decades." Marcel comments looking at the two originals. He gets a murderous stares from Elijah.
"I'm giving Klaus what he want. What he ask for." Elijah says flatly.
"That is new. Since when do you listen to Klaus." Marcel interrupts again.
"Well." Elijah says. His brown eyes judging him. "Since when do you care, Marcellus." The original says with a lazy drawl chatasizing him like a child.
"I care since. Your brother.."
"Your pseudo-father,"Elijah corrected.
Marcel resists the urge to roll his eyes. He can feel the amusement rolling in waves from Klaus at their uncharacteristic banter
"Your brother, Klaus". Marcel emphasize. "Did you not hear him threatening to slaughter everyone starting from the vampire outside this door to the whole world?" Marcel asked looking at Elijah pointedly.
"After all that you really think, this really has nothing to do with me? That I shouldn't care?"
Elijah rolls his eyes in response to Marcel frustrated rants.
"Just stay. Do whatever Klaus wants. Just leave me and everyone else out of your family dispute." Marcel says.
He receives no answer. Typical of Elijah.
Marcel frowns. "Why were you leaving anyway? I thought you love New Orleans."
"Thank you, Marcel. For such an opening eye arguments." Klaus says smirking at Elijah.
"Marcel is right.You have never given me a choice before. Why the sudden change of heart?" Klaus asked. His curiosity is sparked.
"Maybe I have seen the errors of my ways." Elijah muses. Doesn't matter if Rebekah and I had stood by you side for 1000 years relentlessly. At the moment when you feel threaten that your sibling has galled to love someone, you take took them away. You killed them. You turn them into burned corpse or cursed them to be trapped in their wolf form except for fullmoon."
Klaus rolls his eyes. Here his brother goes again about what Klaus did to his dear Gia and Haley.
Klaus sicks of it. Elijah knew Gia for a fleeting few months and he is still holding grudge over her death. Ludicrous.
"I'm sorry." Klaus says unfeeling without remorse.
He just wants to put an end to it. She was a poor choice and frankly, Klaus has done Elijah a huge favour by ending her.That girl was undeserving of Elijah's affection and time. A woman like would never been able to entice his brother for long.
Marcel wonders if Klaus notices how Elijah face just falls. The original vampire looks defeated and apalled by Klaus remorseless admission.
Elijah stares sadly at Klaus. He didn't know this person standing in front of him. His heartache as he watch this shell of a little brother that he had once knew.
Elijah sighs deeply, feeling tired deep in his bones. "Maybe I have realized that no matter what I do. I can't change you. I can't save you."
Elijah sighs deeply and laugh mirthlessly.
"The person standing in front of me is Klaus Mikaelson."
"He is a powerful hybrid vampire but he is not the little brother I knew." Elijah says coldly.
"The worst part is the person I become when I am around you. I hate him."
"Maybe the reason why I am leaving is because I was trying to get away from you."
Elijah grimaces as soon the words left his mouth. He saw the hurt look on Klaus face. He saw the the tears running down Klaus cheeks. Elijah swallowed hard. He shouldn't have said that.
He has never intended to hurt Klaus. He just wants to leave New Orleans . He just wanted to be on his own.He is tired of his responsibility to his family, to Klaus.
Elijah watch how his hybrid brother wipes away his tears. How he stares at him with yellow eyes and ominous look in his eyes. Elijah fears that this is really going to escalate into a catastrophe.
