Athena sat on a wooden chair in the compound. Her elbows leant on her knees and her back arched over, focussing on the small ornament on the dresser of Elijah's room.
Her fingers spread out and then scrunched back together in a fist. She did this multiple times as Elijah paced the room.
"All of it" she broke the silence "he took all of my power"
Elijah didn't look surprised. He just glanced down at her.
"I'm nothing more than a dead girl walking now" she grinned sickly "I wonder who will do it"
"Don't be so stupid" Elijah said
"On one hand, we could relive past events and have you kill me, Klaus could jump in and save you the bother, I'm sure Marcellus wants me dead because I killed his vampires and the list goes on" she said
"I for one am not going to kill you" Elijah continued "I can keep Klaus and Marcel under control, we can keep you hidden"
"Good luck with that" she sat back and slowly stamped her heeled boots on Elijah's desk
"I give you my word I will try my best to get you back your immortality" he promised
"Maybe I'd be the one to do it, I mean you can't save me from myself" she ignored Elijah's promise totally "I could just jump out of a window or something"
"I didn't think you were that weak" Elijah sat down on the desk and slid her feet of the desk
"You don't know how much strength it takes to jump of a bridge" she said "though I've tried it so many times it doesn't seem that big of a deal"
Elijah raised his eyebrow to her remark. "I didn't know" he said
"Come on Elijah, we're in the same boat. I'm sure you got sick of breathing and tried to kill yourself, only to be greeted by the gift of life ... Again" she sounded unimpressed. She stood up slowly, her nose almost touching Elijah's.
Athena tilted her head "and after all of this you still want to kiss me" a playful smirk wiped across her face. "I'm not a witch but I'm not stupid"
Elijah shook his head and looked at the floor "would it be scandalous if I didn't protest?" He asked in his usual accent
"Hm" she said, her hand found his cheek and she caressed it "maybe" she walked to the other side of the room. "Being human and having these stupid feelings now, when I was immortal, I could ignore them but now they just eat away at me, hate, anger" she glanced up at him "sorrow, betrayal, affection"
Elijah slumped a bit, her touch was almost magical though she did not hold any of her magic anymore.
"But for now I'm going to divulge a great family secret, how on earth do we kill my brother?" She asked sarcastically.
Elijah stood up and spun around to look at her.
"Well, this one is rather random, Arcadius wasn't one to hold sentimental things like the rest of us" she began to explain "so my father decided that something of my mothers would be best, so we all could care for it and Arcadius couldn't lose it"
"What is it?" Elijah asked
"Everybody laughed at me for wanting to keep it safe at all times. I wanted nobody to find it and why on earth would someone carry something that can kill their brother with them at all times?" She tilted her head, pulling out her grey stained necklace with a black stone in the middle. "Guess I'm smart right?"
Elijah stared in awe "does he know you have it?"
"No, he thought he lost it ages ago" she smiled playfully
"Well that makes our job a whole lot easier" he smiled
"I think it's just getting Klaus on our side, or I'm afraid I'll have to run" she said "I'll be in hiding until you tell me he agrees" she picked up her jacket
"You'll hide in this room" Elijah said "here I can see where you are at all times"
"Is that because you trust me to be around your family or don't trust me to be anywhere else?" She asked
"Because I want to know your whereabouts otherwise you could be out getting yourself killed" Elijah replied. "You will have your life back again"
"Please, I miss my ability to strike people down with my mind" she said, pretending to do it
"I'm particularly glad you don't hold that ability right now, seeing as you still do not trust me" Elijah said
Athena shot him a glance "how?"
"You're human now" he said "I can read your mind like an open book, and right now I'm getting a slight feeling you want an explanation" he skipped the part about being able to read her thoughts about wanting to kiss him. That'll be for a different time.
"I want an explanation, but I also want to sleep for a bit, I want the greasiest burger and some tablets for a sore throat" she said "this human body is absolutely disgusting"
"Well, what do you want to do first?" Elijah asked, he already had his speech prepared. He would make her forgive him.
But Athena threw her jacket on the floor. "Right now I want to sleep" she said "I'm guessing you have a shirt I can borrow?" She asked as she raided Elijah's closet.
She picked out one of his favourite shirts, but surprisingly he didn't mind.
"I need you to stay with me until I fall asleep" she said when she emerged from the bathroom in the shirt. Her long legs showed, catching the attention of Elijah. "I'm human and now very paranoid"
She hopped on to the bed and under the covers. Putting her head on the pillow, she looked at Elijah who sat again on the desk.
"Aren't you going to sit over here?" She asked.
Elijah hesitantly stood up and walked over to the bed, perching on the edge.
Athena looked at him and then slowly lowered her gaze to the bed, as if she were thinking. She sat back up, and bit her lip.
"Say it" Elijah said, knowing she wanted to say something but was stopping herself "you want to say something"
"I- I'm um" she stuttered "I might be afraid of falling asleep" she muttered under her breath
"Why?" He asked in surprise
"If he can take everything from me he can haunt me in my sleep" she said
Elijah flung his legs on the bed and sat with his back against the headboard.
"What are you doing?" She asked flinching as he got closer
"In my time, I've found out that having someone there to help you get to sleep is very helpful" he said "now I'm here and you can at least try, if you have a night mare then I'm here to help you"
"I've had plenty of nightmares where you killed Me" she muttered "it still doesn't help that you're here; you could kill me"
"you're human now are you not?" Elijah asked. She nodded in confusion "as I recall, vampires can create dreams and scenarios within someone's mind, I can do that as you sleep" he said
Athena looked up at him with wide eyes and then down at his chest before resting her head there. "This better be good" she said.
Elijah put his arm around her and began to caress her hair. He smiled down at her and closed his eyes to begin the dream.
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Dollhouse {Elijah Mikaelson Story}
Fanfiction{"Everybody thinks that we're perfect; I never really thought we would break apart like this. We are supposed to be legendary"} 2,000 years ago, in ancient Greece. A series of devastating events lead a caring father to change his children's life for...
