Trying to love (Elijah Mikaelson)

Chapter 16

*Amelia's POV*

Wow, the werewolves have been wandering the quarter for almost a week now and there have been no casualties, nobody has stepped out of line, I was surprised

I walked downstairs to greet the other vampires, when I saw Hayley

"Oh Hayley" I fakes the surprise in my voice, it was mixed with slight disappointment, obviously, where Hayley was, Elijah always stood next to her, drooling "I didn't know you would be here"

Maybe I'm paranoid, I've never really had to share Elijah with another girl before, jealousy takes over. What makes it worse is that she is pretty.

Hayley smiled at me and rested her hand on Elijah's shoulder. I tried to ignore it, but I just stared at the contact. "Oh yeah, I came by to thank you again for letting the wolves back into the quarter"

"For the fifth time?" I smiled, grabbing Elijah's arm and trying to pull him further away from her. I've never felt jealousy like this.

"Yeah" she raised her hands, thinking of something to say, but shook her head and dropped them back to her side. "Well anyway, I'm gonna go and do some stuff" she smiled before turning to walk away.

"How many times does she have to come round here, I know I let the wolves back in but I'm still uneasy around them" I growled and turned to walk through the compound with Elijah trailing behind

"She's just thankful" he made an excuse for her, which I immediately realised and snapped my head to face him

"How come she always leaves when I come into the conversation then? She's only here for you" I mumbled, crossing my arms and attempting to look angry

"Am I sensing a bit of jealousy?" A corner of Elijah's lip curved into a half smile

"Well should I be?" I asked, this time, serious and my voice trembled

"Of course not, why would I want to be with someone else when I have you?" He smiled more, which made me smile

"Okay" I patted his arm and left the compound to track witches down

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I walked through the French quarter, to find a witch or any witch in fact. Like every ruler of New Orleans, we all want to broker peace and now the wolves are free, all I need to do is befriend the witches.

I stopped in the middle of the path and began to giggle

"Niklaus are you stalking me?" I smiled and turned around to see him smile

"I'm sorry if I startled you, but I have something to say"

"Couldn't it wait until I returned home?" I asked curiously, wanting to know

"Not nessasarily, I needed you away from Elijah to say this" the name caught my full attention, what did he need to tell me that he couldn't tell Elijah?

"I'm listening" I raised my head to see Klaus' face under the light of the street lamps

"I feel that you have to know something about Elijah and Hayley" he started

"What about them?"

"They have a history, when we were in the quarter, they were, how I say, in a relationship" he explained

"And why didn't Elijah tell me?" I asked, growing even more curious

"Well, he ended it because of his feelings for you still burnt in the depths of him, but now that he's seeing her these past weeks, his feelings are growing for her" a smirk wiped across his face , like he enjoyed causing drama

"How do I know that you're telling the truth?" I snapped back

"We had a conversation, when he first saw her again, his thoughts screamed loud, here I'll show you" he raised his arm out for me to take it and as soon as we made contact, I saw what he was talking about

"Wow" I managed to hold tears in "it looks like he has some strong feelings for her" I nodded to get my attention of it but it didn't work, I just needed to talk to him. I turned around and began to walk away

"Where are you going?" Klaus shouted

"To make sure where I stand" I replied

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I returned to the compound, without a witch but with some questions I needed desperately answering

The place was empty, Elijah must be upstairs in the study, that is the first place I immediately looked

I opened the door and shut it quietly behind me, gazing at Elijah sat on the chair reading a book. I walked over and shut the book before putting it on the table

"Is everything alright?" He asked innocently

"It will be" I smiled and exhaled "I just need to know a couple of things first" I sat down on a chair in front of him

"What is it you ask?" He sat forward

"It's about Hayley" I began "I know you had a thing with her, when you thought I was dead, which I don't blame you on but why didn't I know? Why didn't I know when she came round?" I asked

"I thought it wasn't necessary to inform you on past lovers" his comment was vaguely snide and hit me

"Well you have been spending a lot of time together and I fear that you're feelings grow for her when your feelings for me are slowly drained" I replied with the same tone of voice, inviting him to an argument

"How on earth can you accuse me of that when you have nothing to prove it" he stood up and I mirrored him, squaring up like I was in for a chance of leaving the room without a broken heart; but obviously I wasn't

"Niklaus showed me, the conversation you had, the thoughts he could hear stir in your mind, thoughts about Hayley" I sniffed, trying to mask my devastated expression

"And is that all you're going off?" He raised his voice

"No because ..." I began

"Because what?!" He interrupted

"I can hear your thoughts now Elijah! They're screaming at me, your feelings for her certainly outweigh your feelings for me" I shouted, louder this time and then the room went silent "do you love her?" I asked after some time

Elijah's head was bowed and he was looking at the ground. At the sound of my voice, his head perked up and he looked at me, his eyes red from the tears "what?" He whispered

"Do you love her?" I repeated the question, only a bit louder and slower

"I I I" he stuttered

"It's okay Elijah" I re assured him "just tell the truth" I made a fake smile to show him that I was okay

"I do have certain... Feelings for the girl but I also have those feelings for you" he confessed. The words ran me down like a truck, I was expecting him to say 'I love only you' or 'I will never have feelings for anyone else' but the words were laid out in front of me, replaying in my mind over again until I stood up

"Okay then"my voice trembled "I'm going to go back to my room, and I guess we could be friends" I lied, the words of hate and anger swirled in my mind, hate against the woman who tore him away, the wolf, the vermin. Elijah stood up quickly and grasped my wrist before I could leave

"What are you saying? Are you breaking up with me? But I love you" he began, the tears fell down both his and my face like a waterfall

"I know you love me Elijah, and I love you but you also love Hayley, and if you truly loved me, you wouldn't have let yourself fall for someone completely different" I wriggled out of his grasp and head for the door "you can have Hayley now, what I've realised about you Elijah, is that you want things you can't have" I left him with that message as I walked out the door and out of the compound.

My dream for peace had now been flushed and I needed the witches on my side to help me