Hey adorable, wonderful, sweet, and absolutely loyal readers of mine,
Let's see if you can find the MCMU character I've hidden here and yes Gabe Turner is one of the references. Well at least his face and physique is from Seb Stan in CA:WS. ;) I like to hide little bits like this and Iris Winchester being Natasha Romanoff. I'll occasionally sneak someone else' physique or their face.
Anyways back on track now. A great big thank you to all of you newer followers and Favorite-ers that have enjoyed reading Rayen's story. I would love it if y'all would write a review then maybe it will come faster to me wanting to write for all of you to get excited. And yes, I need to feel like y'all get excited when you realize that this story has been updated. ^. ^ I would also love to thank those that have been with me since the beginning or since the first couple of chapters.
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I am so sorry, but the death of her and Klaus's child in the previous chapter needed to happen not only because she's a 17 year old that lost her mother, older, cousin, and in the passed her father. She isn't as grown up as I write her out to be, she just doesn't have the correct mental health just yet. But it's also so that other things can work out in the future between them. Please don't kill me. I promise I have a plan for her and Klaus to regain a child that they just lost.
Your writer,
Beautiful Dreaming Warrior
P.S., I don't own any of the Vampire Diaries cast or their canon actions. I only own those that you don't recognize. MORE REVIEWS = FASTER REACTION TIMES FOR ME TO UPDATE.
Previously on Divine Beauty:
"Sisters forever." we whisper in our fathers' native tongue.
"No matter what." I whisper back as we look at one another her eyes glowing white slightly while I think she sees mine glowing gold since that's what Nik used to tell me they did. "Someone's gonna get hurt
Na-na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na
Someone's gonna get hurt
Na-na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na
And it's not gonna be me
Good morning gorgeous
I drove your truck in the lake last night
Hope she was worth it
Don't worry, I slept just fine," I smile softly as we sing in unison and Riptide purrs as he gets comfy between us. His paw on Mel's arm, "You keep throwing punches but you won't win this fight
You're just fucking yourself when you don't read the signs
I'm going to the kitchen, coming back with a knife
'Cause I've had enough this time
This is your final warning
There's a dark cloud overhead
This is your final warning
Just remember what I said
Someone's gonna get hurt
Na-na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na
Someone's gonna get hurt, na-na-na-na
And it's not gonna be me," We start falling asleep to Melody's old favorite celeb crush's panty dropping voice (according to her) and we giggle sleepily as we hold hands feeling our different magic healing each other. "Good afternoon dear
How does the rope feel around your neck?
Just one more error
Could be a fatal step
You keep throwing punches but you won't win this fight
You're just fucking yourself when you don't read the signs
I'm going to the kitchen, coming back with a knife
'Cause I've had enough this time," The haunting song about a mistress that was the center of a failed murdered plot plays on in the background as our breathing evens out.
Rayen's POV:
I am the first to wake up with Mel getting hugged by Riptide and I smile before I go into the bathroom to take a small sponge shower. I take my time and I look down to my incision and let a couple tears fall before I dry it off carefully. I rewrap it before I get redressed into my pj's and towel dry my hair. I walk downstairs and I see my dining room table is still broken. I sigh softly before I put my hand on one of pieces and I close my eyes before I push out my magic. I hear the wood cracking slightly, but as I open my eyes I see that where the impact was and the cracks spreading out from it were pulled together by oak instead of the pine that it was before. My house phone starts ringing and I answer.
"Hello?" I ask as I pull the chairs up.
"Ray? It's Carol Lockwood."
"Mrs. Lockwood? What's wrong?" I ask as I stand up straight, tense as a board and I look out the window.
"Tyler's gone." I gasp and my mouth goes dry all of a sudden.
"Gone? Gone where?"
"He's run away from home. I- I don't know what to do. Did he say anything to you about running away?"
"No. I-I had no idea. We haven't talked like we used to since my trip to Europe."
"Oh, well um I-i'm just worried about him. Will you let me know if you hear anything from him?"
"Y-yes, I will. I'm sure he'll come back. I'm so sorry, Mrs. Lockwood." I say before I hang up and stumble to the ground before I let the tears fall down my face. My best friend is gone and he hasn't even messaged me. I cry for a bit before I get it together and make myself some food.
Anya/Iris's POV:
Last night
I wait for Ray to get back and for some reason my body gets a cold chill. I look up as I see the underside of the stair case glowing gold before it opens it up and it reveals Ray with her socks slightly splattered with blood. I see her face and I see her face painted with betrayal. "Anya, tell Klaus that I know and that if he ever loved me... then never come near me again. I know that he wanted to use me as a battery to kill the doppelgänger." She says as I watch her take her socks off and throw them into the wash before she walks up the stairs to go up to her room. My jaw drops as she tells me what she' just found out. "Girl's night is cancelled." I hesitantly grab my phone and call Klaus.
"Anya, How is she did the surgery go alright?" He asks and I can feel the love in his voice.
"She's fine and recovering nicely, but she has a message for you." I hear him let out a little hitch in his voice.
"What is it?"
I lick my lips nervously, "She says and I quote, 'Tell Klaus that I know and that if he ever loved me... then never come near me again. I know that he wanted to use me as a battery to kill the doppelgänger.'"
"Sh she thinks that's true?" He asks as his voice grows cold with hurt.
"I believe so. From what I can tell, she has never been any male's first choice romantically, and she still has that mindset in her brain." I say as I clean up the kitchen and everything we were going to use for girls night. I hear the girls singing upstairs and I walk up once I lock everything up being mindful of the vervain infused wood.
He sighs, "I thought I got rid of that when she spent those four months with us."
"For someone like this you have to reassure her with words and actions not gifts that there's an ulterior motive to loving them." I say as I get dressed into my pjs putting my key necklace next to my music box.
"Then that's exactly what I'll do."
Rayen's POV:
Next day
In my sleep I kinda smartened up and forgave Anya, so when I hear her voice to wake me up I'm not grumpy. Because I know Nik and he likes to keep his secrets about himself to himself. I open my eyes deciding to forgive her because my logical subconscious side had a bunch of good points. I sit up and stretch my arms before pulling her into a hug after seeing her teary and upset. "Don't pout. It's unbecoming of a woman your age." I say sleepily.
She giggles, "So you forgive me?"
"Yeah, Nik keeps things to himself, so it's not like the love for me was real. So after we have breakfast and re-do our girls night and have a girls day." I say as I roll over as best I can and wake the two of them up. After we finally get Melody to wake up we start our day and after breakfast we all do mani-pedis on one another, Anya and Melody make a mixture for a couple different masks while I make some chocolate chip cookies.
"So after we chow down on these and do our little photoshoot in the woods we should grab some takeout from the Grill." Melody says as she comes into the kitchen with her hair up and baby hairs pushed away. Her face painted with the mixture of face masks and she puts the little bowl and brush.
"That sounds good. We'll see how busy it is otherwise we can just get some junk food." I say as she helps me put the cookie into the oven.
"Okay good." She says as she and I start cleaning up. Anya walks in and starts helping us before she makes me sit down. "How long do we keep the masks on?"
"Like 10-15 minutes." Anya says as she and Melody hand wash all of the mixing utensils as Riptide jumps onto the counter next to them to watch. I smile and start putting the mask on before I hear the door being knocked on. I walk over after putting the mask on and I open to see Alaric.
"Alaric, what are you doing here?" I ask as he raises his eyebrow after seeing the stuff on my face.
"We want to join you us for dinner." He says as I raise my eyebrow.
"I have my cousin and my friend from Russian here are they okay to join?" He looks behind me and I hear Anya and Melody come out from the kitchen. He nods and I smile. I turn and look at the girls. "After we have girl's day you wanna go to the Boarding house for dinner?"
"Sounds good. What's the dress code?" Anya asks and Alaric smiles at her.
"There's no need to be too fancy for a dinner party." He says and I nod. "Starts at 6."
"Thanks for the invite." I say as I close the door and I see him grab some small vervain flowers from my little patch that's blooming. I smirk and turn around. "Let me guess, raiding my closet time?" The girls give me evil smiles and we get to work.
Time Jump
Anya is wearing my favorite dark green off the shoulder scoop neck, a pair of her own white slacks, paired with a black belt, and a pair of black ankle boots. I loaned Melody my white turtle neck with a little black cardigan, a pair of black slacks, and a pair of dark green heels. They put me in a black keyhole top with ¾ sleeves and a dark green corset to hold my gauze along with a pair of white knee high boots on top of a pair of dark green curve hugging slacks. All of us bare faced except for mascara, lipstick, and our eyebrows done since our masks' residue is still cleaning our pores. We have Anya drive and we sing, "Why am i always hit on by the the boys i never like
I can always see them coming from the left and from the right
I don't want to be a priss
I'm just trying to be polite
But it always seems to bite me in the-
Ask me for my number
Yeah, you put me on the spot
You think that we should hook-up
But I think that we should not
You had me at hello
Then you opened up your mouth
And that is when it started going south
Oh!
Get your hands off my hips
'Fore I punch you in the lips
Stop your staring at my-
Hey!
Take a hint take a hint," We stop the car and get out. We walk up with our different textured hair tamed and pinned back with one of the triple moon goddesses on the left side holding our bangs back.
"Let's go girls." I say as the girls smile and flips our hair over our shoulders as we see Elijah standing at the front door.
"Good evening." We hear Elijah greet Angel with an incline of his head and I see Anya tense up.
"Thank you for coming. Please, come in." Angel moves aside, giving him a friendly smile.
"Just one moment. Can I just say that if you have less than honorable intentions about how this evening is going to proceed, I suggest you reconsider." Elijah warns lightly and the three of us quirk an eyebrow at one another.
"No, nothing, nothing dishonorable, just getting to know you."
"Hmm. Well, that's good. 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 threatens with his voice sounding friendly, but there hidden under it is this underlining danger to it. He reminds me of his younger brother.
"Crystal." Angel swallows.
"Jenna." Elijah smiles. "Wonderful to see you again. How are you? You look incredible."
"Thank you." Jenna smiles back and we walk up the steps.
"Hey Angel, we were invited to come as well?" I say as he turns around and I see his eyes widen.
"Wow, um... who are your friends?" He asks as he looks to Anya and Melody.
"Melody Harjo, my cousin she's older than me by 3 months older than me." I say as Melody smiles and wraps her arm around my waist. "And Iris Winchester, we met when she and I kicked some wannabe muggers asses in Germany." Iris winks at Angel and puts her arm around my shoulders. "Now Angel, are we allowed to come in?"
He lets us in and we start getting our food and talking with everyone. For some reason, I have this ominous feeling in the pit of my stomach. I take a sip of my sprite since I'm still on no alcohol until the doc says I'm all healed. "Andie did most of the cooking." Jenna admits with a slight blush when Elijah comments on the food and I notice Anya trying to watch Elijah out of the corner of her eye.
"That's because you let, Alaric cook for you." I say with a smile Alaric laughs a little and I see Jenna trying to hide her chuckles.
"Hey, I did get the dessert recipe from Rayen's mom's list though." I smile as she brings that up and I giggle lightly remembering that's what gave her for her birthday.
"I hate to break it to you, Damon, but according to Elijah, your family is not a founder of this town." Jenna asks and both Mel and I lean in as we rest our chins on the back of our hands.
"Hmm, do tell." I hear Angel murmur.
I watch Elijah eyes him. "Well, as I mentioned to Jenna earlier, a faction of settlers migrated from Salem after the witch trails in the 1690's. Over the next hundred years they developed this community where they could feel safe from persecution."
"Hmm. Because they were witches." Jenna adds like she was telling a ghost story and she winks at me. "Scary." I smirk and wink back at her. Anya smirks as she takes a sip of her wine as she looks at me.
"So scary." I say as I see Elijah looking at Anya with a hint of curiosity.
"Yeah, but there's no tangible proof that there were witches in Salem." Andie speaks up from her spot.
Angel tilts his head with a smile. "Andie's a journalist. Big on facts."
"Well, the lore says that there was this wave of anti-witch hysteria." I say really quick before Elijah continues it for me.
"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 as they were consumed by the fire. Could you pass the..."
"I wouldn't repeat this to the Historical Society." Jenna laughs as she takes a drink of her wine.
"It's starting to sound a little like a ghost story to me." John adds and I roll my eyes as I wave my hand at him.
"So why do you want to know the location of these alleged massacres?" Angel asks and Anya flickers her eyes up to him.
"Well, you know... a healthy historian curiosity, of course." Elijah shrugs not batting an eye at his lie which is very smooth.
"Of course." Angel scoffs and I roll my eyes as I dab my lips, so I won't smear my red lipstick. "Would anyone care for some cognac? I have a bottle I've been saving for ages." Angel asks as he stands up.
"None for me thanks. Nine bottles of wine is my limit." The girls and I giggle and smile as Alaric jokes. I see Angel nod towards Andie slightly.
"I think that the gentlemen should take their drinks in the study." She says and the three of us start stacking our utensils and plates. We take them to the kitchen before we check on the dessert.
I look at Anya and I motion to her ears then out to the boys. She smirks and nods before we start rinsing off our dishes. "I'll be back. I'm going to get the rest of the dishes." I say as Mel and Anya nod.
I walk in and I see John and Alaric sizing each other up. I see Alaric narrows his eyes at the guy. "What did you do now?"
"I merely mentioned that you haven't been completely honest with her about your dead wife." My eyes widen and my jaw drops.
"You son of a bitch." Alaric hisses and quickly grabs him by the collar of his shirt but before he can do anything I quickly puhs them apart and push john against the banister.
"Alaric, don't do anything stupid. The weasel isn't worth your energy."
"I think I've been very clear with you, Ric. I want my ring back." John snaps and before he glares at me and walks off. I flip him off and make one of the board in front of him hike up and trip him.
I look up at Ric, "Ignore that waste of space." I say before I turn and head back into the kitchen with the girls where Jenna and Anya are drinking more wine while Melody is checking on the dessert. "Should probably pull the dessert out now otherwise it's going to burn." I grab oven mittens and open the oven before pulling out the pan with the oreo creme filled pie. I close my eyes and take a deep breath in. "Mel can you tell Alaric that the desserts done?" I open my eyes and she nods before going out of the kitchen. I lean into Anya's ear and whisper, "They're up to something. I'll be back. Keep her here." I speak to her in Russian and I walk out to the dinning room as they all sit down.
"So I know this is a social thing... but I would really love to ask you some more questions about the work you're doing here." Andie smiles at Elijah and we all sit down. "Would you mind? I just love to hear about all the local history."
"I'd love to answer." Elijah smiles.
"Great. Alaric, can you grab my notebook from my bag. It's just over here." She points to the table and Alaric nods before heading over towards it.
"Elijah, did Elena tell you that John is her father?" He asks with a small smirk.
"I'm well aware of that." Elijah nods and I roll my eyes.
"Of course, she hates him, so there's absolutely no need to keep him on the endangered species list."
"What I'd like to know, Elijah, is how you to intend on killing Klaus?" He asks and my eyes kind of widen. I calm down and look at Elijah as he pinches his eyebrows. I'm hoping that he didn't hear my heartbeat jump when he said that they wanna kill Nik.
"Gentlemen, there are a few things we should get clear right now." Elijah and I tilt my head slightly. "I allow you to live solely to protect Lady Harjo since she has no adults to watch over her. And I allow Elena to remain in her house living her life with her friends and family as she does as a courtesy." His eyes narrow at Angel as I get my magic ready to use if need be. "If you become a liability, I'll take Rayen away from you and you'll never see her again. Because I need both. If it came down to which girl I would take right now, make no mistake in knowing that it would be Lady Harjo first. That is a promise." Andie comes back to the table and smiles at Elijah.
"Okay. My first question is when you got here to Mystic Falls-" I yelp slightly covering my mouth with my eyes wide as I see Alaric standing behind Elijah and I see a dagger tip sticking out of his chest. Elijah looks at me stunned and in pain before he slumps over as his skin grays and dies. Alaric jerks the dagger out from his back and places it onto the table.
"Now, get rid of him before Jenna comes back with dessert." He orders Angel and I stand up.
"All right."
"What have you done?" I ask in horror as I look at the two of them. "You've broken the deal that Elena and I have put in place. I can't believe you."
"It had to be done, Poison. You know that." Angel says as he looks back to Alaric. "Alaric get his arms."
"I can't believe you." I say as I turn and leave the room.
No one's POV:
"You said there wasn't going to be any violence." Alaric looks at Damon as they stand above the dead Original while they set Elijah in the basement to keep others from seeing him until he can do away with the body.
"Says the guy that did all the killing." He smirks as he rolls his eyes.
"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." Alaric punches his arm and Damon playfully smirks. "Hey, I am you friend, damn it. And you don't have any friends. So, no more lying." He nods at him.
"No more lying." Rayen wipes at her eyes in the bathroom before she turns around and turned around. She gasps as she see a very much alive Elijah and he has a very pissed off expression on his face.
"Elijah?"
He has her pinned to the wall in a matter of seconds with a hand over her mouth. "You are coming with me. Quietly. If you so much as make a sound, I will break your neck and everyone else's in this house's. Is that understood?" He threatens and Rayen nods actually completely terrified. Roughly, he takes her arm and zooms them out of the house. Once they were far off in the woods, he releases her and since she's was unstable she hits the ground. Trying to get her bearings and she grips the ground using her magic to get relaxed. The cool air hitting her as she shivers and wraps her arms around herself.
"What's going on, Elijah?" She asks softly as she watches him pace.
He points at her. "You're a talented little actress, Lady Harjo, I'll give you that. You allowed me to put my trust in you and then…"
"Elijah, I swear I didn't know what they were doing." Rayen says as she looks up at him. "Please, listen to me. I had no idea."
"Quiet. I don't want any more of your lies."
Rayen shakes her head letting her curls fly around her slightly. "You lied to me, Elijah." She says as she glares at him. "You told me that you wouldn't let Nik have me for his stupid ritual."
"And I also told you that my family was in his possession. And that I would anything necessary to get them back. To which you also agreed to, did you not?"
"Yes…But you should have told me that I was going to be used to kill Elena."
"But you see, therein lies our little dilemma. If I had not just been assaulted by your baby bodyguard and your old history teacher I would have whisked you away without any mess, however…This party was your idea was it not?"
"There is no baby to guard anymore and no, it wasn't my idea. The three of us were invited as well as you. I think they wanted us there to throw you off." He grabs the back of her neck and makes me look in his eyes.
"I apologize, but since you have no child now." Then he hits the right pressure point and making Rayen fall unconscious. He zooms to the lakehouse and he tosses Rayen on the ground leaving her unconscious, Elijah walks towards the Gilbert lake house. He stops to pick up some pebbles from the driveway and he smirks before with a precise toss, he uses the pebbles to blow the door off its hinges.
"Stefan, I'm okay. He can't come in the house." Elijah hears Elena say.
"You know, I might not be able to enter this house...but I do have a friend of yours. And I'd really rather not snap her neck, but I will if it is necessary."
Elena appears in the doorway holding her sides. "They shouldn't have done what they did." She murmurs as she sees Rayen on the ground behind him. "Is Rayen okay?"
"The deal is off." Elijah says firmly. "She's fine. Now step outside or I will kill her."
Elena shakes her head. "I'm renegotiating."
"You have nothing left to negotiate with." Elijah counters with a smirk. "And I'm running out of patience."
She pulls a knife out from her side and she looks at him with a strange amount of confidence. "I'd like to see you lure Klaus into Mystic Falls after the doppelgänger bleeds to death."
"Stefan won't let you die." Elijah smirks knowing how much he loves her.
"No, he won't. He'll feed me his blood to heal me, and then I'll kill myself and become a vampire, just like Katherine did." Elena warns him.
"But then that leaves Lady Harjo as the only option doesn't it?" He asks while frowning.
Rayen's POV:
I open my eyes and try not to groan as I see that we're at the old Gilbert Lakehouse. I see Elena as she pulls a knife out from her side and she looks at Elijah with a strange amount of confidence. I roll my eyes as I start regaining my functionality of my limbs. "I'd like to see you lure Klaus into Mystic Falls after the doppelgänger bleeds to death."
"Stefan won't let you die." Elijah says.
"No, he won't. He'll feed me his blood to heal me, and then I'll kill myself and become a vampire, just like Katherine did."
"But then that leaves Lady Harjo as the only option doesn't it?"
"I know you wouldn't let anything harmful happen to Rayen either. But I do know that Klaus would want her more." Elena says as I sit up and stand up quickly, but a bit woozy. I stand up quickly make a stake before pressing it against the end of my ribs.
"Which is why I'm the one who's going to bleed to death." I say as I quickly run the stake through my corset yelping slightly as I watch him turn around and somehow someone zooms me into the house. I whimper as I fall to the ground and pull the stake out of my body before I lean back. I gasp and cough some of my blood as I wipe my chin. I look up as I watch my blood pour out of me.
"No!" Elijah calls out before he tries to bum rush the door only to be forced back by the barrier. "Yes. Yes, you can have your deal." He says to Elena hastily. "Let me heal her." I smirk as I stand up as best I can and lean against one of the banisters near the door.
"Give us your word." I whisper slightly as I feel my eyes close and my knees wobbling.
"I give you my word!" Elijah replies as I stumble out of the house and letting Elijah catches me. "Rayen…"
"M'sorry." I rasp out.
"No, you…I should have told you." Suddenly I feel him go stiff as I open my eyes and I see that Elijah is dying once again.
I shake my head, "Trust me. I won't go back to Nik. Not after he lied." I switch to Wikang Filipino and he closes his eyes.