Hey guys, supper glad to see this one taking on momentum. It's a great feeling knowing others are enjoying your work, even if the story line and pretty much all of the characters don't belong to you./span/p
So here's chapter two I hope you all enjoy let me know what you all think.
Cheers!
Recap:
"And we're gonna be on her shit list very shortly." I said before downing a shot of tequila a compelled server gave me
"How's that boss? I mean she just got here." Asked Diego as I turned to leave, looking back at the group I knew by the looks on their face they were starting to believe me
"Because, Klaus just handed us Elijah, daggered in a coffin as a peace offering." I left snorting to myself as I heard a few gasps and murmurs of "Oh shit." Come from the crew.
"Oh shits right, let's just hope she doesn't catch on that we have him and where we're holding him until I get Davina to give him back." I thought to myself as I left to go see my favorite witch.
Chapter two: A family reunion that's not according to plan.
Annabelle drove to the plantation, following Fuzzy's (as she so affectionately decided to call Diego) directions. She bobbed her head to the country tune playing on the radio while her heart was beating a bit faster with every minute that passed, she was going to see him, face to face for the first time in a hundred years. To say she was excited was an understatement. As she pulled up the driveway to the home her eyes narrowed first in confusion then disapprovingly at the building in front of her. Parking the car she sat in her seat for a moment trying to wrap her head around what she was seeing.
"What the fuck Nicklaus? Why the hell couldn't you have picked another plantation? Are you so messed up now that you see it fit to live in the very house that the "man" who controls the French Quarter lived as a slave?" She asked herself as she got out of the car and slowly started towards the front door while taking in the sight of the property.
"Alright whom ever restored the place did an fantastic job I'll give it that." She thought to herself as she knocked on the door, it immediately opened to reveal her sister by marriage.
"What the bloody hell." Whispered Rebekah in disbelief causing Annabelle to smile.
"Hello Becks." Rebekah's face broke into a large blinding smile with tears now in her eyes before she lunched herself into her older "sister's" arms.
"Anna! How? How the hell is this possible? You died, we were all there, we saw you burn." Blurted out Rebekah as she pulled away.
"First off, may I come in?" She asked with a bit of a smile.
"Of coarse you can come in what type of question is that." Said the blond as she gripped her friend pulling her into the house and slamming the door shut.
"Now spill, how is it that your alive right now? Not that I mind of coarse I'm just surprised and curious."
"I promise to explain everything but first, I need to see him." Said Annabelle with a brilliant smile and excitement in her eyes, at the mention of her brother, Rebekah's smile slowly disappeared.
"Anna, he isn't here." Annabelle frowned before looking around the entrance while taking a few sniffs.
"I can clearly smell him all over the place Becks, where is Elijah?" Asked the red head a bit more forcefully.
"He's gone." Came a small voice from behind her shoulder, looking towards the sound she found Hailey standing in the stairs.
"Who the hell is she?" Asked Annabelle causing Hailey's eyes to widened before pitting her "bitch" face on.
"Names Hailey, who the fuck are you?" Annabelle's figure started to tremble slightly, causing Rebekah to grip her arm calming her down.
"Hailey, this is my sister Annabelle, the second original hybrid." The werewolf's eyes widen in surprise.
"I thought that there was only five Mikealson children?"
"Oh there is, only Finn, Kol, Klaus and myself have a sister." After controlling her anger and noticing Hailey's obvious confusion, Annabelle decided to clarify a few things.
"My name is Annabelle Lancaster-Mikealson, I'm Elijah's wife." Hailey's mouth fell open in shock.
"He never mentioned having a wife." Annabelle's gaze fell to the ground with a sad smile.
"Cause I died. He doesn't know that I've came back to life." Hailey's mouth formed an O as she nodded her head.
"So where is my husband little wolf?" Asked the hybrid with a hard glare causing Hailey to take a small step back.
"Don't know, one minute he was here making epic promises about protecting me in this predicament that a bottle of scotch and some bad decisions got me into, he was all poetic about how we're family, and then Klaus told me he bailed. Guess that's what I get for trusting a vampire." Annabelle was stock still in shock.
"A baby? How's this possible, my spell should still work since I'm alive again. But even then, Elijah can't or shouldn't be able to conceive a child." She thought to herself, but had unknowingly sent her thought to Rebekah, who approached her friend placing her hand on Annabelle's shoulder.
"It's not his Anna, it's Klaus's child." She felt a bit better then before but slightly confused.
"But how? He's part vampire."
"Ah, but he's also part werewolf. And since he was born that way and notcreated, all of his reproductive bits still work fine apparently." Explained Rebekah with a look a slight disgust.
"I suppose that that makes sense. Anyways to get back to the problem at hand, Elijah is not just any vampire, and he doesn't break promises, he's too honorable for that."
"Ok then, why isn't he here keeping his promise then?" Asked Hailey in an agitated tone.
"Simple, something or someone is keeping him from doing so." Rebekah's face turned stony as her sister-in-law's words sank in. Her and Annabelle shared a looking, knowing exactly who was behind this.
"Klaus." Hailey looked at the two Originals in front of her slightly confused.
"Klaus! Get out here and tell me what you've done with our brother, you narcissistic, back-stabbing wanker!" Yelled the blond as she stormed down the main hall with Hailey right behind her and Annabelle a few steps behind. Klaus pulled open the two French doors that led to the formal sitting room.
"Enough with all the shouting. Little sister, I should have known. I assume the six dead vampires were your doing?" Asked Klaus.
"They were very rude. Trying to victimize a poor, innocent girl just trying to find her way to the Quarter. So sorry, were they friends of yours? Oh, that's right, you don't have any friends." Annabelle stood out of his view, letting Klaus and Rebekah duke it out for a few moments.
"I do have friends. I have Marcel. You remember him, don't you? Yes, of course you do. He fancies himself the 'King of the Quarter' now, and he has these rules about killing vampires. It'll be fun to see what sort of punishment he comes up with for you." He said with vengeful smirk.
"I don't care about Marcel or his rules. Elijah doesn't welch on deals. What did you do to him?" Asked Rebekah causing Klaus to smirk even more, hinting to his implications with his brother's disappearance when his face broken into a mock serious one.
"Perhaps he's on holiday, or taking a long autumn nap upstairs." He said arrogantly and it was the last straw for Annabelle. She rushed forward, past Hailey and Rebekah, slamming Klaus into the wall behind him, pinning him there by his throat. After a few second he regained his focus, ready to lash out against his attacker, he froze in fear and shock.
"Where is Elijah, Nicklaus?" Hissed out the female hybrid.
"Annabelle?" Chocked out Klaus in confusion. He could not grasp at how she was here in front of him.
"Yes nice to see you again Nicklaus. Now I'll ask again where is my husband?" She asked, growling out the last part. Klaus snapped himself out of his hocked state enough to wrangle himself out of her ever tightening grasp.
"As I've just informed my dear little sister I don't know where he is Well, go on. Take a look around. You remember this house as well as I." Annabelle eyes widened t his gab.
"I remember everything." Spat Rebekah, she turned around and left the room with Hailey right behind her. The two hybrids stood insure of what to say or do.
"Annabelle."
"You're a right asshole Klaus. Daggering your brother and leaving him god knows where. I'll ask again, where is he?" He raised his hands in attempt to calm his sister-in-law.
"He's safe." Her anger went through the roof, narrowing her eyes she reached forward, grabbing his shoulder and threw him clear across the room, sending him into the table. He had just enough time to get to his knees before she grabbed his head and kneeing him in the face. She grabbed a broken table leg and stabbing him in the abdomen. He let out a pained scream as she grabbed a fistful of his hair.
He tried lashing out at her but couldn't reach her. She grabbed hold of both arms, before Klaus knew it there was two loud pops causing him to cry out in pain before she returned her fist in his hair.
"You're much faster then I remember." He hissed out causing her to chuckle menacingly.
"If there is so much as a hair on his head that is out of place or damaged, so help me god Nicklaus. There isn't anywhere far enough, no army strong enough to keep you from me." She said in a vicious tone before wrenching his arms back in place.
"Understood?" She asked softly in his ear.
"Understood." He growled out causing her to smirk again.
"Good. Now I expect you to be brining him home shortly, within a day, two at the most or we're going to need to have another little chat."
"I can't Anna, it's complicated." She growled at his answer. He tried standing up only to have her grip his shoulders tightly causing the bones to shatter and Klaus to gasp in pain.
"Then, I suggest that you uncomplicated it." She said in a tense voice before leaning in closer to his ear.
"Do not forget who is the strongest hybrid Klaus." She shoved him forward before following Rebekah's to wars the kitchen.
"You think Klaus killed him?" Asked Hailey, as they must have reached the governor's secret room.
"We can't be killed, silly girl. That doesn't stop Klaus from finding ways to torture us. He has a set of mystical silver daggers. One in the heart sends us into a deep slumber. Klaus gets his jollies from keeping us in a box, until he decides to pull the dagger out. That must be what he's done to Elijah. This one's mine." Explained Rebekah, Annabelle glared at the ground in front of her at the thought of Elijah being daggered for something as frivolous as loving his brother.
"He keeps your coffin on standby?" Asked Hayley incredulously.
"He likes to be prepared for when his family members inevitably disappoint him. Elijah's isn't here, he must've stashed him elsewhere." Annabelle felt her heart clench at that statement, she had already known he wasn't here but to hear Rebekah confirm it was heart breaking.
The female hybrid stood in the hall with her arms wrapped around herself; the pain of her aching heart consuming her. She leaned against the wall as she too a shuddered breath and tears started to cloud her vision. Rebekah and Hailey came back up the stairs from the hidden room beneath the kitchen only to stop in their tracks at the sight of the heart broken women.
"Oh Anna." Said Rebekah as she took a few slow steps forward. The hybrid sniffled as she tried to compose herself.
"I know he isn't down there. Klaus daggered him but isn't keeping him here, so I'm betting that someone Klaus knows and has some form of trust has Elijah." She explained in a monotone voice, Rebekah's anger grew.
"That bastard! I'll kill him if it's the last thing I'll do." The blond original made to move around her friend to head back into the formal sitting room until Annabelle grabbed her arm. They locked eyes, both trying to win their silent argument.
"Why stop me? After what Klaus did to Elijah, why?" Question Rebekah.
"Cause even in Klaus's state, we both know you wouldn't win. Not only will he over take you, but he is your brother you don't have to heart to truly end him." At that moment a pained looking Klaus walked into the hall, his arms still healing and hanging limply at his sides. He shared a look with them all before leaving the house in vampire speed.
"What the hell happened to him?" asked Hailey with a bit of a panicked voice. She had never heard or seen Klaus being so hurt or even truly over powered.
"He told me about Elijah, didn't even try to deny my accusations of daggering Elijah. So I took it upon myself to teach him a lesson, and put him back in his place." Rebekah smiled proudly at her sister-in-law, giving her a one armed hug before looking back at Hailey.
"Klaus fancies himself nearly unbeatable and all powerful giving the fact that he's an Original hybrid. But he's still no match for Annabelle's four part hybridism." Hailey's eyes widened in fear and surprise.
"Four, what the hell. How is that even possible?" Annabelle shrugged.
"A long story for another time perhaps. But for right now I'll be in Elijah's study if you were in need to find me." She said as she tiredly pushed herself off the wall and started to walk back towards the entrance. Hailey's eyes narrowed in anger, she reached out and gripped the hybrids arm.
"So that's it? You're just going to give up looking for him?" Annabelle's eyes glowed with a light, red shimmer to them as she face the young werewolf.
"If you fancy your hand you'll release me right now." She growled out, her fangs slowly growing. Rebekah, knowing that her sister by marriage had had enough stepped forward and pulled Hailey was.
"Why are you giving up? Isn't he the love of your life or something? Shouldn't you be out there doing everything you can to find him?" Annabelle's eyes soften at the mention of Elijah.
"Truth be told, I'm tiered little wolf. That's why I'm putting everything on hold, if I am getting into the mess that Klaus created then I can tell you it will get bloody. And for me to come out on top without anyone hurting my family then I am going to be needing my strength." She turned back around and walked away.
"What the hell was that?" Asked Hailey, her anger still present in her voice. Rebekah's eyes were glued to the spot where her best friend had just stood.
"In a way, Annabelle is more fragile then we are. When we are all compared as far as agility, strength, speed, power and venom she beats us all hands down. Even if she is immortal like we are she's till one forth human and will eventually need to sleep." Hailey look still confused.
"But if she's a hybrid and immortal why does she need to sleep at all?"
"Nature must always have a balance. I just it's way for nature to control her, when she uses her powers to constantly or over a period of time it drains her." Hailey nodded her head.
"So to her sleep is like recharging herself."
"In a way yes."
"So where has she been all this time?" Asked Hailey.
"We thought she was dead. Our father hunted us for being vampires, about a hundred years ago he found us and he had Elijah cornered, ready to stake him with the only thing that can kill us. Annabelle felt Elijah was in danger and found them before it was too late, she threw herself inform on Elijah at the last second and was staked instead. I'll never forget Elijah's mournful cries as he held her even after her body had caught fire, it took my brother the better part of haft a century to try and move on without her." Hailey's heart felt heavy.
"Of course it took him time to move on she was his wife for so long. They had been together for about 900 years." Hailey said as they walked into the kitchen.
"She meant a lot more to him then just being his wife. She was his confidant, his equal, and his soul mate. She was his best friend." Hailey watched the blond curiously, she watched a flourish of emotions run through Rebekah's eye and notice just how much the female hybrid meant to her as well.
"She must have meant a lot too all of you then did she?" Rebekah smiled a genuine smile.
"She and her brothers grew up with us. I personally don't have many memories without her in them. Hell even Klaus has a large spot in his heart for her. She taught us humility and made sure we still kept a hold on our humanity when we became what we are."
"She seems like a great friend." Rebekah laughed while nodding her head.
"She has always been so kind, caring, selfless, fiercely protective and loyal to a fault. She gained everyone's respect even our fathers." The werewolf raised a curious brow.
"How'd she manage to do that?"
"She took a beating that was meant for Klaus and didn't say a word to her father who was our fathers closest friend. She also killed two werewolves and saved myself and our younger siblings." Hailey's eyes widened in wonder at how a girl, back in those times, could have done that.
"Oh my god what did Elijah have to say about your father beating her?"
"I'm not sure if he was ever told or not. H was gone hunting with her family, sneakily asker her father and brother's permission to marry her. It took everyone somewhat by surprise."
"Why would it? It sounds like they were completely in love with each other." Asked Hailey as she poured herself a glass of orange juice.
"There was another women in our village, Tatia, whom was obsessed with my brothers. She had Klaus wrapped around her figure but couldn't catch Elijah's attention, so she spread rumors of their romantic escapades. It made sense to most, they were always missing from our village feasts r gathering at the same time, but we just never noticed that Annabelle was also missing." Rebekah giggled as memories from the past started to resurface.
"They were so infatuated with each other that they didn't notice the looks Tatia sent him, and they definitely did not hear of the rumors. No one knew what Tatia was saying was lies until Elijah proposed. He showed us all what a possessive type of man he was that, he made sure to plan it for our village's summer solstice feast and he asked her in front of everyone." Said Rebekah as she pulled out a glass and poured herself a drink
"The look on Tatia's face was priceless, but the one clear thing I remember was the look of pure, untainted and unconditional love in both their eyes. You can even ask Klaus, but I don't think that there was ever a time that they were happier then when they were together."
"Sounds like a fairytale." Said Hailey with a dreamy look on her face.
"It does, doesn't it? It can make on infinitely jealous of what they have for it was one of the purest things in the world. That's why it's important, now more then ever, to find Elijah and bring him home. He needs to know that Annabelle is alive, he deserves to be happy again, with everything that Klaus has put him through, he deserves it." Hailey nodded her head with a thoughtful look on her face.
"Agreed. So I'm assuming that we're going to be waiting for sleeping beauty up there to get her ass in gear then?" Rebekah raised a challenging eyebrow at the pregnant werewolf.
"Well you are at least. I'll poke around on my own, see if I can dig some stuff up and get a general idea of where Elijah is. If not, no big loss, cause if there is anyone who can find him it's her. So why don't you go get some sleep as well baby mama, I hear that later into your pregnancy it will be harder and harder for you to get comfortable and sleep peacefully." Said Rebekah with a sweet smile on her face, Hailey gave her a look of annoyance before finishing her juice and doing as she was told.
- With Annabelle-
She had toned out her sister-in-law and the young wolf's conversation of her history with Elijah as she made her way upstairs to his rooms. She opened the door and she walked in, closing the door right behind.
Leaning against the door she took in a deep breath with her eyes closed, letting his scent wash over her, calming her almost instantly. Opening her golden eyes she looked around the room, subconsciously smiling at the fact that it was organized the same way she used to do it. She looked beside the desk only to spot a few trunks that reminded untouched, smiling she walked over and opened it and found herself starting to unpack it like she always used to, remembering how he love it.
~ Flash back ~
Spring 1700.
They had just arrived at one of Annabelle's descendant's manor in Geneva, Germany. Rebekah and Klaus had left their unpacking to their compelled servants in favor to explore their new territory, while Elijah and Annabelle were settling in.
"Are you going to help ma at all my darling?" She asked while grabbing a few more books while Elijah lounged in a chaise across the library, a grimoire open in his lap that was long since forgotten, as he watched his petite wife.
"But I am doing something important right now my love." She raised a brown at him.
"Oh really and what would that be Mr. Mikealson?" She asked teasingly.
"I'm watching the most beautiful creature to have ever walked the earth placing my library for me." She threw her head back in laughter.
"Thank you for the compliment my darling but I do believe that it was a bit of an exaggeration." He frowned as she turned to place a book on its shelf.
"I would never dare lie when complementing my beautiful wife." He said so seriously that she blushed and looked away. Elijah chuckled from his seat.
"I love how I can still manage to make you blush even after all the years we've been together." She playfully glared at him over her shoulder. He smirked and went back to the grimoire on his lap, she turned back around with a smirk, two could play this game.
She lifted her skirt slightly and stood onto the chair in front of the bookcase. Smiling she stood with one foot on the back rest of the chair lifting it's two front legs off the ground. Elijah lifted his head at the creaking of the chair and narrowed his eyes at her.
"Anna." He said, his body tensing up with concern.
"Oh hush Elijah, I've always done this." She said with a smirk, she leaned farther back, causing the chair too almost lose balance and fall. Elijah's eyes widened almost certain his wife would fall.
"Annabelle!" He jumped out of his seat rushing forward at vampire speed to catch her, only to have her slam all of her weight back down onto the seat of the chair, slamming it's legs back onto the ground. He closed his eye tightly as he let out a sighed or relief and irritation.
"Must you always do that?" He asked sternly, as if he was scolding Klaus.
"I love how after all these years I can still get you with that trick." She said teasingly.
"This isn't funny Annabelle." Her teasing smirk slid from her lips and a soft smile replaced it as her mate's concern because very obvious.
"I was fine my darling. I've always done it, beside even if I had fallen nothing would have happened other then a bruise for a second or two at the most." She said as he came and lifted her off the chair.
"I do not care my love, you would have felt the pain. I do not like the thought of you in any form of discomfort." She smiled lovingly at him as he pulled her into his arms.
"I know the feeling well my love." She said as she nuzzled the underside of his chin, purring slightly.
"Come, I think I'll show you how much I love you wife." He said huskily while pushing his hips against hers, causing her to gasp longingly as she felt her husbands arousal against her.
"Who am I to deny you, your right to make love to me husband?" She gasped as he firmly grabbed her ass with both hands, lifting her up with ease. She wrapped her legs around his waist as she kissed him softly.
"Yes it has been far too long my love." He said with a loving smile as he walked them to their room.
~End of Flashback ~
Annabelle smiled at the memory, somehow they always ended up in bed, making love when they were unpacking and settling into their new "Homes".
"You know, I never understood his need to drag around all these books with him." Said Rebekah as she walked into her brother's study.
"He only brings the most important and sentimental ones. The others are a bit everywhere if I remember correctly." Rebekah nodded her head as she smiled fondly at the hybrid. It seemed that Annabelle still knew her brother and his habits better then anyone.
"True, but still, I always found it odd, his attachment to them." Annabelle nodded her head, understanding her sister's sentiment.
"I know what you mean Becks. I thought that it was a waist of time, but I never complained about packing and unpacking them since it was something that we would always do together. Still I didn't understand till he explained it to me." Rebekah gave her a look that told her that she wanted Annabelle to elaborate on that thought.
"Having them with us made, where ever we were, feel like home. He had a hope that he'd be able to fulfill his promise to me."
"And what promise would that be?" Teased Rebekah.
"That one day we would have a home together, someplace safe, someplace that was ours. Like when we were human." They shared a soft smile.
"Who knew that my brother was such a ham?" Both women laughed
"Yes, yes he was a ham, but he was mine. I wouldn't change him for the world." Her voice started to crack and she bit her lip as the stinging of tears came over her. Rebekah watched in a sad horror, as the strongest person she knew was crumbling under the weight of missing her lover.
"I need him back Becks, I need him back." She crocked out as a sob came out. Rebekah hugged her tightly.
"We'll find him Anna, if it's the last thing we do, we will find him." The both stood sat down in the two chairs before the desk in silence.
"I should really kick you to bed like I was going to do when I came in here. You look absolutely horrid." Said Rebekah as she smiled weakly at her friend before she stood.
"That I'm sure I do. But maybe I should chase down a lead or two before sleeping." Rebekah frowned fiercely as she pushed the hybrid back into her seat as she tried to stand.
"Anna no! You cant." Annabelle sighed as she ran a hand through her hair.
"Becks, you know as well as I do, that if I were to sleep right now I'll be out for a few days." Rebekah gave her a boarded look.
"And? Look you are no good to Elijah or us in your state. You've already pushed yourself enough; you are practically sleeping on you feet."
"The only that has gotten me through the as four years was the thought of being back in Elijah's arms. And just when I'm so close it's ripped from me, Klaus ripped it from me by being his miserable self." Rebekah flinched at the menacing growl that accompanied her brother name.
"He didn't deserve this, after everything he has done for Klaus of the last millennium. He doesn't deserve it, none of you never did. What that little gremlin has done to you all is unforgivable." Sighing Rebekah sat back down and looked at her friend with a small smile.
"You're right, none of us did. But we had you on our side and for the most part you did your best to save us from being daggered for too long, well except for Finn. You'd help us either when you found out about our punishment or when Elijah would let you."
"Truthfully I don't know why he'd make me wait sometimes." Chuckling Rebekah shook her head.
"Because of Klaus. Elijah will always try to keep the peace somehow. He told me what his most important reason for doing it was." Annabelle looked at her friend curiously.
"Even though it's common knowledge that you're the strongest of the two hybrids and that you could more then handle your own against Klaus, Elijah couldn't bear the thought of you getting hurt or being punished by Nick. It was his way of protecting you."
"Over protective fool."
"Yes her is, and recently I've found out that he is also a sentimental fool too." Tilting her head in confusion, she watched as Rebekah walked around the desk and pulled out a hand carved box that she remembered.
"He kept all of your possessions all this time. He only brings two pieces everywhere with him, other then your grimoires. Your wedding rings, along with his own, are kept in the jewelry box he made you." Rebekah handed her the mahogany box. Annabelle silently stared at the item as she ran her hands over its smooth surface. After a moment she opened the lid and smiled at the sight of their rings.
"You should put them back on." Said Rebekah as she made her way to the door.
"Not until I know that he wants them there." Rebekah turned with a hard look on her face.
"Of course he does, why else would he lug them around?"
"There's a difference between holding onto something that meant the world and still wanted them to have the same meaning as they once did."
"Tue but I know you'll be eating your words once he's back." Annabelle smiled down at the box in her lap, hoping that her friend was right.
"And what is the second item?"
"He still wears your locket. He has it on his person at all times." Rebekah smiled as Annabelle's face lit up.
"Night Anna."
"Good night Rebekah." The hybrid watched the blond blonde original leave, once the door was closed; she looked back down at the box again. Sighing softly she gently closed the box and placed back on the desk.
Standing up she walked into his bedroom through a connecting door, another form of habit and paranoia he had was the need to be close to the precious books. Taking in the room before her Annabelle smiled, it screamed Elijah and she absolutely loved it. Walking over to his closet, she laughed when she saw that it was manly filled with nothing but suits, he had a few casual clothing but nothing much and at the far back she noticed that he had kept a few of his old tunics.
"A sentimental fool he is." She thought as she noticed the one she pulled on was one that she had hand embroidered herself. Walking over to the bed she started to feel herself relax even more due to his scent being everywhere, it was faint but it was still there. Laying down she sighed as she faced the window and saw the moon.
"Goodnight my love, where ever you are I hope that you are safe. I will find you." She closed her eyes as she nestled deeper into the bedding and let sleep claim her.