TVD - The Originals

Dangerous Liaisons - 4

I pulled away from him and left the dance floor even as everyone kept dancing, going up the stairs to the balcony for some fresh air.

"Are you alright?" Asked a voice from behind that I recognized.

"I'm fine Damon."

"You didn't sound fine just now." I sighed as I looked at him. "You heard, didn't you?"
He nodded.

"You don't mean that right?"

"That's the thing I do mean it. Okay, everyone chooses Elena. She didn't even know Stefan and yet the second he saved her from the accident, he chose her. You did too, the second you laid eyes on her. No one chooses me! I don't mean to sound selfish but its the truth. Stefan will never chose me."

He gave me a sorrowful look "And that's Stefans loss. I mean, I've seen you kill vampires, werewolves, evil witches, actually now that I think of it. You're like a total assassin. Like Buffy the supernatural slayer. Female Green Arrow, Katnis everdean, Artemis-"

"Damon!" I exclaimed with a laugh, shoving him a little. "Okay, I got off track, the point is." He cupped my face and made me look at him, "Whoever chooses you, will be one hell of a lucky guy."

I smiled sadly at him "Thanks Damon."

"Anytime professional assassin." I gasped and shoved him off the balcony, making him land on the concrete below.

"See!" He yelled from below, pointing up at me. I laughed "As a professional I don't like people calling me that"

I laughed as he walked it off and went back in, I took a final breath of air and went back to the party, finding Caroline, her hair was up in a bun with strands of hair curled down her face with an amazingly beautiful blue dress and white satin gloves.

"So how is the evening with Klaus? Is he Prince Charming?" I asked as I took a sip of champagne.

"He's being awfully nice to me." She muttered.

"He is crushing on you."

"No he's not." Caroline objected, I gave her a pointed look and she made a face. "Fine. Maybe he does." I smiled, "He totally does."

I leaned to the side to see Klaus looking over at Caroline. "Prince Charmings calling."
Caroline rolled her eyes at me, "Don't say that."

I smiled at her as she went off to Klaus and now I'm officially lonesome.

Where is my brother?

"Have you seen Matt anywhere?" I asked Stefan who was by the door, also the only one near.

"No." I huffed as I looked around, where is he? Stefan whirled his head to the door, and started running.

I frowned and gripped my dress as I started after him. "Stefan?"

He ran outside, with me behind him as what we found was Damon breaking Kol's neck outside.

"Damon! Are you crazy?" Stefan yells, scolding his brother and his actions.

The rest of the Mikaelsons and Elena come out from the opened door and see what happened.

Damon huffs, standing up. "Maybe a little" he looks at me before looking at Elena. "Far be it from me to cause a problem." Damon turned his back and walked away, I looked at Elena who looked after him with sorrow.

There has to be a reason why Damon did what he did. Where is my brother? "Matt!" I call out and rush up the stairs, running to the balcony.

"Matt!" I yell when I see him on the ground.
"Are you okay? What happened?" I asked as he clutched his hand. "Kol" I'm taken back and run to the railing, looking over. They already took Kol away.

"I'm sorry." He apologized as he clutched his hand in pain.

"Don't apologize, this is all my fault." I muttered as I crouched down to him, wrapping a ribbon decoration around his hand. Why would I think a Mikaelson would be nice to me?

I helped him to his feet and we started down the stairs, "So much for your family's rules!" I spat as I came down to the front with Matt and his broken hand.

Elijah, Klaus, Finn and Esther turned to look at me, Esther keeping a frown on her face. "Whatever are you talking about?"

"Kol almost killed my brother," I hissed at her as the coat lady gave me my white coat.

"Damon stopped him and all my brother got away with was a broken hand." I said as I slipped on my coat. "Keep your family in check."

"So he wasn't being reckless." Stefan questioned as he tried to comprehend. I glared at him, "He wasn't being reckless."

"Ariel, I am truly sorry about my son." Esther apologized on behalf of Kol.

I scowled at her, "Save your apologies for someone who actually cares."

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I brought Matt to the hospital to get his hand checked out, thankfully Meredith was on call so at least I could tell her the true nature of Matt's injured hand. "So how bad is it?"

"He'll be fine. But that's not what I wanted to talk to you about. It's about his health insurance."

I raised a confused eyebrow at her, she looked like she didn't want to talk about it. "What about it?"

"He doesn't have any."

I bite back my tongue to stop the rude insult I wanted to make about my aunt Kelly right now. I clicked my tongue as I looked down at my feet, "Of course he doesn't."

I sighed deeply as I opened up my purse, pulling out my credit card. "I'll pay for the bill." The credit card was my separate account that I made when I inherited Zachs money. I've only used it to pay our most important bills, and I guess it's time to add hospital bills to that list.

"Clearly my aunt didn't care at all about our health either."

Meredith gave me a sympathetic smile as she handed me a few papers, "It'll get charged to our account. Just write down your information."

I exhaled as I nodded and took the papers and started filling them all out. It's just our luck that Matt doesn't have health insurance. I can't believe a simple checkup to see if anything was broken costs around $300-600 dollars.

I inhaled deeply as I handed the papers to the nurse and headed for the room Matt was in. "Hey." I said, knocking on the doorframe. "Ready to go? I signed your discharge papers."

"You have bad news." Matt said as he took his jacket. "What?"
"That look on your face, you have the same face whenever you do the bills. What is it?"

I sighed exasperated as I took the car keys from him, "You don't have health insurance. And don't even ask me if I have because I don't even want to know." I dismissed with a wave of my hand.

"How much is the bill?"

"Don't worry about it. I already paid for it, how about we just head to the grill for a drink? With the events of tonight I think we need it."

Matt nodded, looking like he really needed it right now, "Yeah let's go."

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I swear I was gone for like 5 minutes and in those 5 minutes when I came back I found Rebekah at the bar and Matt walking away from her. "What is she doing here?!" I hissed at Matt, glancing back at Rebekah. "She came to apologize for Kol."

I scowled, feeling pissed. "Apologize! No, no, no!"

"Ariel-" I moved past Matt and stormed up to Rebekah, angry as hell. "Stay away from Matt Rebekah." I yelled at her, slamming my hand on the counter and staring straight at her.

"I'm serious Rebekah. Stay the hell away."