Howlin' For You

Chapter 22 - The Witch Bitch Returns

"Breathe Rebekah, we're gonna make it to the dance," Rhiannon yelled into her phone trying to drown out Rebekah's banter. "You really think I'd miss it?"

"Right, great," she muttered into her phone, a little ashamed. "You already got your outfit?"

"Damn right I do," Rhiannon retorted stuffing the last of her clothes into her suitcase and glaring at Elijah who snickered at the conversation with his baby sister from behind his newspaper. "You think Elijah has any of his suits from the 20s?"

That got his attention, making him choke on his coffee and now it was Rhiannon's turn to snicker at him.

"You honestly think you can convince Elijah to go to a high school decade dance?" Rebekah asked, her words drooping with sarcasm. "Hate to burst your bubble, but hell will freeze over before he agrees to that."

"Ha, hundred bucks says I'll convince him," Rhiannon retorted making Elijah glare at her. He was in a deep trouble now and he knew it.

"Easiest hundred bucks I'll ever win," Rebekah quipped playfully. "By all means, go ahead and try. It would to him good to get rid of that giant stick that's lodged up his arse."

"We're almost on our way to the airport," Rhiannon retorted, trying hard not to burst out laughing. Elijah sure was uptight as hell, but not around her. At least not anymore.

"You're not really going to make me go to the dance are you?" Elijah asked with a dread in his voice. She didn't have a chance to respond, since her phone rang once more.

"It's Matt," Rhiannon muttered, worried. "I should take this."

"Hey," the quarterback greeted her after she picked up the phone.

"What do you got for me?" she asked with a knot in her stomach.

"So you know we killed Finn last night do you?" Matt started. "And after that all of his bloodline started dying out too."

"Yea," Rhiannon muttered giving Elijah one worried look. "Go on."

"Well Damon is desperately trying to find out who created his and Stefan's bloodline," Matt started making Rhiannon's blood boil with rage once again. "There's still one stake out there and if they get their hands on it and it turns out that Klaus didn't sire their bloodline, they're still going to try to take him down."

"Shit," Rhiannon muttered. "Anything else?"

"Yea, Tyler's back in town," Matt retorted. "Says he broke the sire bond."

"Alright," Rhiannon muttered, her voice strained, and saying "forget we had this conversation," she ended the call.

"Rhiannon," Elijah murmured looking at her from the other side of the room. His eyes wide with genuine fear.

"Did you - ?" she started but couldn't finish the sentence.

"Sire their bloodline?" Elijah finished for her. "No."

"Well what if it wasn't Klaus who sired them?" she asked pacing around in panic.

"Rhiannon –" Elijah tried to stop her rambling.

"They're gonna try and kill him and if they succeed, I'm done too," she continued. "I'm sure I'm not on their list of loved ones to protect them anymore. Oh god."

"Rhiannon!" Elijah yelled at her, grabbing her by her shoulders and shaking her lightly, making her snap out of it. "Calm down. It was Klaus who sired their bloodline, I know that for a fact. They're never going to go against him. You're safe, sweetheart."