Trying to love (Elijah Mikaelson)

Chapter 18

"You crazy bitch" Hayley exclaimed, walking through the door to face me fully. I greeted her with nothing but a smirk and a small laugh

"Oh Hayley" I faked my surprise "I don't think you should be here, after all, you are a wolf are you not?" I asked

"Why the hell have you banished the wolves?" She lunged forward but was grabbed back by Elijah, he held her strongly, her elbows touching his chest, which enraged me, all contact they make, touching, kissing, angered me

"I felt like it" I laughed, examining my nails to come across uninterested, I think diverted my glare to Elijah, who stood staring at me, his thoughts asking me what had changed "what's the matter Elijah? Are you protecting you beloved? Afraid that I'll hurt her" I smirked

"You're not going to get away with this" she exclaimed "not without a fight" Hayley wriggled out of Elijah's grasp, his grasp of protection, the hold he once used on me to keep me sane.

"Oh sweetie, I already have" I walked closer to her, until we were squared up to each other "you see, Hayley, we have a whole vampire army, and the ability to make more plus we have the witches, so it's your wolves that are in the danger zone, I wouldn't try anything" I hissed and watched her as she turned and stormed out

Elijah turned around, as if to follow her, but didn't. He stood there, staring at me, I was rather bored of the topic so I began to walk away

The footsteps behind my got louder as I realised Elijah had picked up the pace and caught up with me, his hand now on my waist to slow me down

"What really is the cause of this?" He asked, I flicked and backed him up against the wall, my hand on his chest, a defence mechanism to stop vampires from attacking. I didn't answer for a while, I was mesmerised by his half smile, but with reasoning in my mind, I snapped out of it.

"I thought you would have ran after your little girlfriend Elijah, trouble in paradise?" I involuntarily hinted that my jealousy had got the better of me, his smile widened

"Are you jealous?" He replied

"Of course not, it just seemed rather quick for you to move on from a relationship as good as ours was" I huffed and let him go, he didn't make the effort to fight back or release himself. Elijah stood there for a while, I was hoping he would explain that it was something short or just a one night stand.

"How did you find out?" The words tore through me, confirming my fears, he had moved on without me, even though we had separated, I still hoped for him to make an effort to win me back

"It was obvious, you both flaunted each other like trophies" I muttered and avoided eye contact, by the look in his eyes, his heart broke a little when he saw me almost breaking apart.

"Amelia, I'm..."

"Don't Elijah! Don't apologise. It's not your fault, you follow your feelings and that's fine but Elijah, I follow mine too, and now that your feelings for me have gone and I can't have you, I'm following my other feelings"

"What feelings are they?" He asked worriedly

"I've never liked the wolves, they're gonna be out of New Orleans when I'm done with them, I have Klaus on my team, so you're either with us, or against us" I smirked, giving him the option of his family or his love.

Elijah stood there for a while until
I spoke "well you know where to find me and you know where to find the wolves, choice is yours" I walked off, acting as if I had the slightest feeling of happiness, but he was unaware that inside I was falling apart.

*Elijah's POV*

I have never felt so conflicted in my life, and I have lived a long life. I am torn between the person, who I believe to be falling in love with or my family, and the girl I know I am in love with.

I can sense the jealousy in her voice, every time we speak, but I do not want to go back, in case my feelings for Hayley increase, I don't want to hurt either of them.

My thoughts were then interrupted with flashbacks. "Oh Amelia" I sighed quietly to myself. She used to be so sweet, not a vengeful or angry bone in her body, and now look. She is starting an unnecessary war with the wolves over some petty jealousy. I wish I had the old Amelia back, but what was I thinking? I made her this way, I've loved her for over 250 years, what am I doing? She is the one I love, she is the one I choose.

I took off into the bayou, to try and explain to Hayley that I have come to my senses after being mesmerised by her beauty and I will rejoin my brother and my beloved to defend the quarter from her kind. This should be fun to do.

In the distance, the look of a camp glowed, the crescent wolf camp. I took a breath and went in, expecting to go in and blurt everything out. But my ears picked up voices from afar, from the camp

"So, when will we attack?" A voice asked

"We will attack in 3 days, we have the moonlight rings, we are dangerous to vampires 24/7" a voice I recognised at Hayley's answered

"Yes, but they have the witches as well as vampires, how are we going to get to them and persuade them to stop"

"We have Elijah" Hayley's voice twisted, I pictured her smiling at the thought of having someone on her side

"How can we trust him?"

"You can" I interrupted "now, would you like to tell me what is going on" I directed my gaze to Hayley.

I believed that keeping on Hayley's side would be a way to retrieve information and protect the vampires, I may also be able to gain the trust of all factions and attempt to make peace

"We are going to attack the vampires, well persuade them to let us back in, they can't control the city forever" Hayley explained

"Okay so what do you want me to do?" I asked

"Just keep in with them, be our ears and eyes" Hayley walked up to me and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek

"I'll do it" I lied, smiling to make sure she believed me

"Okay then, go and see what you can find, any weaknesses or fall outs within the alliance that will turn in our favour" she said, I nodded slightly and walked back into the woods.

*Hayley's POV*

I kissed Elijah and watched his figure disappear into the bayou. I smiled, knowing that I had an original on my side; an original that I love. I won, over Amelia, he had chosen me, not her.

But there was one thing I didn't want Elijah to know. I walked to the isolation of my small wooden cabin by the river. I leant on my desk and thought silently for a while.

The reason in the first place that my wolves were banished from the quarter were because of her, and look we are in the same situation again and I am not taking it.

I need Elijah out of the way and busy because I know that he would stop me with my real plan. The attack is a cover up, we will go through with it but that is not the real outcome I want.

I'm going to burn the place to the ground, along with anything and anyone in it, and I'm going to make sure that she is in there. I'm going to burn Amelia.