Chapter 12: The Dinner Party

Anastasia woke up the next morning, still thinking about what Elijah told her the night before. 'Dome will fall upon my father, when the daughter of return and the son of wolf and vampire unite' The words rang in her mind. She didn't know what to think about it, she didn't know what to do. Mikael was a thousand year old vampire, and she was an eighteen year old human teenager. How was she supposed to take Mikael down, or maybe she didn't have to, maybe she just had to wait until Klaus took care of him. And anyway Mikael was looked up somewhere.

Elijah had driven Ana home, they didn't really talk about what he said to her, he just told her that he was going to protect her at all cost. 'How reassuring' Ana thought, since Elijah had told her that Mikael had killed her before, in one of her previous lives.

Ana was on her way to that Mystic Grill to meet up with Damon. He had called her, and asked her to meet up with him and Ric.

The Mystic Grill

Alaric, Damon and Andie are sitting at a table, talking about Elijah.

"Other than your lecture on the history of Mystic Falls, did you get anything out of Elijah?" Damon asked Ric. Ric had met Elijah earlier at some old property in Mystic Falls."No, it was boring. Of course, Jenna thinks he's charming." Ric said too Damon. "You sounded jealous. Sound a bit jealous?" Damon asked Ric. "Kinda do." Andie said to Ric. "Maybe we shouldn't talk about this here. And anyway it's not me who is in love with Elijah's girl." Ric said to Damon, whispering the last part so that Andie couldn't hear it. Damon looked annoyed by the last part.

"Andie, she's been compelled not to divulge my secrets. Haven't you?" Damon said, smiling at Andie. "Uh-huh." Andie answered.

Ana walked into the Mystic Grill looking for Damon and Ric. She found them sitting at a table. Ana walked over to them.

"Hi" Ana said to them. Damon looked up, "Ana glad you could make it." Damon said to her, while Ana sat down beside Ric.

"You call, I come. So what do you want?" Ana asked him. Before Damon could answer her, he sees Elijah and Jenna enter the Grill. Elijah and Jenna walk up to their table. "Hey, guys." Jenna says to them. Elijah looks at Ana and smiles. Ana smiles back, Damon sees the exchange between the two. "So I hear you two had quite a meeting of historical minds today." Damon says too Jenna and Elijah. "Yeah, I guess you could say that." Jenna says.

"Well, as much as I'd like to continue this, I've got papers to grade." Ric says, and puts down some money and gets up from the table. "No, you know what? We should continue this. Let's have a dinner party." Andie says. "Ooh, my girl. Full of good ideas. I'll be happy to host. Say tonight. Maybe?" Damon says. "It's good for me. Jenna?" Andie says. "I don't know if tonight works…" Ric says. "Yeah, I'm free." Jenna says. Damon looks at Elijah. "It'd be a pleasure." Elijah then looks at Ana. "As long as Anastasia is invited as well." Elijah says, looking at Damon. Damon looks annoyed, "Well of course. You will be there Ana won't you?" Damon asks Ana. Ana looks around "Sure" She says. "Great." Damon says.

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Ana went home after the interaction at the Grill. She really didn't want to be there, when Elijah got daggered. Maybe that was Damons plan, for her to be a distraction, and she didn't want any part of that.

A knock on the front door made Ana slip from her thoughts. She went to that door, and saw Elijah stand there. She took a deep breath and opened the door. "Elijah, what are you doing here?" Ana asked him. "May I come in?" He asked, already walking in. "Sure." Ana said, closing the door after him. "I think your friends are planning something, especially Damon Salvatore." He said, walking into the living room. Ana was home alone, Liz was working and Caroline was doing god knows what. "You might have a point, which is why I don't understand why you would go to the dinner party. Or have me there." She said to him, they were both standing in the living room.

"Damon won't do anything while you're there." Elijah says, then continues. "Not while he is in love with you." Elijah says, staring right at her. "Damon and I were a thing back when he was human, when I didn't know about you." Ana said to him, walking closer. "It doesn't matter, at least not to me, not when you're here." Ana says and smiles. "What happened between Damon and I was not real, I didn't have my memories of you. I still don't, not all of it. I love you, Elijah" Ana said and walked up to him, taking him by surprise and kissed him. Elijah kissed back. Ana had probably never felt so happy in her life, as she did now, being with Elijah made her happy.

Breaking the kiss, Elijah looked Ana in the eye. "I love you with all my heart," Elijah said to her. Ana couldn't stop smiling.

Elijah and Ana were heading to the Salvatore Boarding House. When they arrived Elijah opened the car door for Ana, they made their way to the front door, and Elijah rang the bell.

Damon opens the door. "Good evening." Elijah says to him. "Thank you for coming. Please, come in." Damon says, looking mostly at Ana. "Just one moment." Elijah says, and stops Ana from entering. "Can I just say that if you have less than honorable intentions about how this evening is going to proceed, I suggest you reconsider."

"No, nothing, nothing dishonorable. Just getting to know you." Damon says, with a big smile on his face. Ana knew what he was going to do, and was just hoping that Damon wasn't stupid enough to do it in front of her. "Hmm. Well, that's good." Elijah says, and leads Ana into the house. "Because, you know, although Elena and I have this deal, if you so much as make a move to cross me, I'll kill you and I'll kill everyone in this house. Are we clear?" Elijah tells him.

"Does that include Ana?" Damon says, clearly challenging Elijah. Elijah looks at Damon. "There won't come any harm to Anastasia, not while I am here. Are we clear?" "Crystal."

Ana looks at the two. Then sees Jenna. "Jenna!" Ana says, walking away from Elijah and Damon. "I have brought dessert," Ana says, holding a container with home baked cake. "Ana, you are an angel" Jenna says, giving the girl a hug, and leading her into the kitchen.

Damon, Andie, Elijah, Ana, Jenna, John, and Alaric all sit around the table. Jenna pours some wine for Damon

"I hate to break it to you, Damon, but according to Elijah, your family is so not a founder of this town." Jenna tells Damon. Damon looks at Elijah. "Hmm, do tell." "Well, as I mentioned to Jenna earlier, a faction of settlers migrated from Salem after the witch trials in the 1690s. Over the next hundred years they developed this community where they could feel safe from persecution."

"Hmm. Because they were witches." Jenna says. "Yeah, but there's no tangible proof there were witches in Salem." Andie says. Elijah looks at Andie. "Andie's a journalist. Big on facts." Damon tells him.

"Well, the lore says that there was this wave of anti-witch hysteria. It broke out in the neighboring settlement, so these witches were rounded up. They were tied to stakes in a field together and, uh, burned. Some say you could hear the screams from miles around us. They were consumed by the fire. Could you pass the…"

"I wouldn't repeat this to the Historical Society." Jenna says interrupting Elijah.

"It's starting to sound a little like a ghost story to me." John says. "Isn't everyone" Ana says quietly. Elijah looks up at her with a smile. "So, why do you want to know the location of these alleged massacres?" Damon asks Elijah, trying to figure him out. "You know...a healthy historian's curiosity, of course." Elijah tells him. "Of course." Damon says with a smile, clearly not buying it.

After some time and a lot of talking Damon stands up. "Would anyone care for some cognac? I have a bottle that I've been saving for ages. "None for me, thanks. Nine bottles of wine is my limit." Ric says. "I think i'm going to decline, as I'm still under 21" Ana says, though she had some wine and dinner.

Everyone starts to get up from the table. "The gentlemen should take their drinks in the study." Andie says. 'Sexist' Ana thought. "I have to say the food was almost as wonderful as the company." Elijah tells Jenna. "I like you." Andie says to Elijah. Ana looks weird at Andie.

They start clearing the table, Ana helps Jenna wash the plates. While the others are in the living room. When they are finished, they walk into the dining room. Jenna pours coffee into a cup for John. Elijah and Andie enter the room. Ana looks at them, a little jealous.

"Sorry, guys, dessert is taking longer than I thought. I usually just unwrap food." Jenna says and walks back to the kitchen. "I will help you" Ana says and follows her. Knowing what will happen next.

Meanwhile

"So...I know this is a social thing, but I...I would really love to ask you some more questions about the work that you're doing here." Andie says to Elijah. "I'd love to answer." "Great, that's so great."

Damon and Alaric enter the room. Damon sits down and glares across the table at John.

"Ric, would you do me a favor and grab the notebook out of my bag?" Andie asks Ric. Ric walks over to her back. "Elijah, did John tell you he's Elena's uncle-slash-father?" Damon asks Elijah. "Yes, I'm well aware of that." "Of course, she hates him, so there's absolutely no need to keep him on the endangered species list." Damon says.

"No Ric, it's in the front pocket. On the...you know what? Excuse me, guys. Sorry." Andie says, walking over to Ric. "What I'd like to know, Elijah, is how do you intend on killing Klaus?" John asks Elijah. "Gentlemen, there's a few things we should probably get clear right now. I allow you to live solely to keep an eye on Elena. I allow Elena to remain in her house living her life with her friends as she does as a courtesy. If you become a liability, I'll take her away from you and you'll never see her again." Elijah says, making the situation clear.

Andie comes back with her notebook and sits down. "Okay. My first question is when you got here to Mystic…"

Alaric comes up behind Elijah and stabs the dagger through his heart through the back of his chair. Elijah screams and dies. Everyone at the table gets up in shock. Alaric pulls the dagger out and places it on the table. He looks at Damon. "Now, get rid of him before Jenna and Ana comes back with dessert." Ric says.

"All right." Damon says.

Alaric and Damon have moved Elijah's body down to the cellar.

"You said there wasn't going to be any violence." Ric says too Damon. "Says the guy that did all the killing." Damon starts to walk out, but Alaric grabs him. "Hey, I took the shot because I saw an opening, not because I planned to do this with Jenna in the house. Now, you can't lie to me like that." Ric says mad. Damon tries to leave again, but Alaric grabs him. "Hey, I am your friend, damn it. And you don't have any friends. So, no more lying."

Damon nods and leaves. Alaric looks down at Elijah's body, walks out, and closes the cell door behind him.

Ana went home after Damon had told the others that Elijah went home. Ana gives Damon an all knowing look, but Damon didn't have time to talk to Ana.

Chapter 12: Do you prefer the more compact lines or them being more spread like in my previous chapters? I know it has been a while since I last updated, but inspiration is hard so…. Feel free to leave a review/comment.

Mette