NOTHING CHANGES | e. mikaelson

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Arabella has decided, as much as it annoys her because she doesn't think she did anything too bad, to ignore the whole James thing for now, and found Stefan standing in the doorway looking at Elena.

Stefan looks at Elena the way Elijah used to look at Arabella, or Aria has he called her. He figured since she had a nickname for him - 'lijah - that he should have a nickname for her, so one day he started calling her Aria, he says he shortened her name but she didn't, and still doesn't, know where he got that from, but it didn't matter, she was his Aria, and she loved every second of it... until it ended, and she wound up alone.

Looking at Stefan and Elena, she realises that she misses her old life, in New Orleans, with the Mikaelson's, with Elijah

Stefan feels a pair of eyes on him and looks around until his eyes fall on his twin, looking at him with a distant look on her face, she hadn't even notice that Stefan was walking towards her until he was right in front of her

"You okay?" he asked, worried. He's never seen his sister looking so distraught, not even when they're human, so something bad must have happened

"Um, yeah" she wipes a tear before it has the chance to fall "um... I think I just need some air" she goes to move past him, but he stops her before she can

"What is it? You can tell me" Arabella wants to tell him, but she doesn't for two reasons

One, if she tells him about Elijah, then she has to tell him about Klaus and the rest of the Originals and that whole story, which she absolutely, under no circumstances does she ever want to do that

And two, she simply doesn't want to talk about it. The only other person who knows Elijah and that whole story, was Lexi, but thanks to her wonderful brother, she is now dead

She smiles sadly "It's nothing, I promise, I just need some air, that's all"

Stefan, knowing that he wasn't going to get any answers out of her, lets her go.

Arabella pushes her way through a crowd of people, trying to get outside. When she gets there she sits at a bench she sees a few feet away, and takes deep breaths, trying to get the thoughts of her former lover out of her head before she explodes

She thought she was over him, that after 90 years of being without him, that she had moved on. She was obviously wrong if she was reacting like this at the mere thought of him

She needed a drink, and not just bourbon, something stronger, something that will make her forget, even if it's only for a few hours. So, she made her way to the grill, ordering 4 shots of straight vodka when she got there.

A few hours later she was still sitting at the same spot, and had gone through 2 and a half bottles of vodka, and half a bottle of bourbon, when her phone rang

She took it out of her pocket to see the name 'Day' written across the screen, she picks up the phone while taking another sip of bourbon

"Heyyy, Day" she lets out a giggle as she speaks

"Where are you?" he questions "Stefan said you went to get air hours ago and haven't came back, and James is still at the school so I know your not with him"

"I-i'm at the grill" she laughs "Hey! Have you found out who the new vampire in town is?"

"Okay, first of all, stop shouting" Arabella, once again, starts laughing, noticing everyone staring at her "Second of all, are you drunk?"

"No" she denies "I'm not drunk, vampires can't get drunk, Damon" she says in a 'duh' voice

"Stay where you are, and don't drink anything else" he demands and is about to hang up before Arabella stops him "What is it?"

"Um..." she laughs, sadly. Her happy mood being brought down by all the thoughts she has been ignoring the past few hours "Am I annoying?"

"What?" he asks confused

"You heard me, Damon. Am I annoying?"

Arabella had come to the conclusion that the reason she ended up alone was because Elijah got bored with her, that he thought that she was annoying

"No, Arabella. You're not annoying" he replies "Why would you think that?"

She smiles and shakes off all the bad thoughts before replying "No reason. So, who's the new vampire"

Damon hesitates. He can hear from his sisters thoughts that she was really up set about something, and he doesn't care, about anything, I mean that's the whole point about no humanity, but his sister has always been his weakness

Damon knows she won't tell him what's wrong until she's ready, so he tells her what she wants to know "It's Logan Fell"

Arabella gasps, dramatically "Did you turn him" she asks, remembering when he snapped Logan's neck

"No, I didn't turn him. I don't know who did" Damon scoffed

"Okay, that sounds good" she yawns, putting her head down "I think I'm gonna go to sleep now"

"Stay there, I'll send someone to come and get you" she hears before the line goes dead

After hanging up the phone to Arabella, he rings the absolute last person he wants to, but has no choice

"I need you to go get Arabella and take her home" Damon demands "You take her home, then you leave, I don't want to find out that you stayed there with her, if I do I will rip your heart from your chest"

"You have great methods when you want people to do something for you" James smirks

Damon rolls his eyes "Are you going to get her or not" he asks, getting frustrated with his old friend

"Where is she?"

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Arabella had been sitting alone at the bar for hours, she couldn't get Elijah fucking Mikaelson out of her head. No matter how much she drank, or how many people she feed from, the brown haired Mikaelson that broke her heart all those years ago wouldn't leave her mind

He had lied to her, he promised he would come back to her, but he never did, and, slowly, that broke Arabella Salvatore, once Arabella Mikaelson

She was half way through yet another bottle of bourbon, despite Damon telling her not to drink anymore, when she felt someone sitting beside her. When she looked to see who it was, she was met by the guy who was mad at her for no reason, James

"Heyyyyy" she slurred. Carefully, he took the bottle sitting in front of her away "Hey! I wasn't finished with that"

She tried to garb it from his hold, only for him to pull it further away from her "I think you've had enough"

"Pleaseeeeee" she moaned, hoping that he will give the bottle back

"No" he said, firmly "Your brother told me to bring you home, so that's what I'm going to do"

"Stefan?" she questioned

"No, Damon" James corrected, as he made a move to put her jacket back on her so they could leave

"Damon asked you to take me home?" she questioned, shocked. Damon didn't seem to like when her and James were together, so it surprised her when he said that "Seriously?"

"Yes" he pulled her off the seat, keeping his arm around her waist so she doesn't fall "Now, come on"

He helped her get in the car and drove her back to the boarding house. When they got there, no one was home, so James helped Arabella get into bed, knowing if he didn't she would have passed out on the stairs

As he was about to leave, he felt a hand on his arm, and looked down to see Arabella looking up at him "Can you stay, please"

She didn't want to be alone, when she was alone, all she thought about was Elijah, even when she wasn't alone she still thought about him, but when James was with her, even when they didn't talk in the car, she didn't think about him, not once

James, knowing Damon would kill him once he found them together in her bed, got under the covers with her and wrapped his arms around the half asleep girl as she put her head on his shoulder. Both of them falling asleep within minutes