To kill a monster (Elijah Mikaelson)

Chapter 18

"Elijah" Rebekah's sharp voice woke him up "Elijah are you alive?"

"Yes" Elijah turned over so he faced his pillow. He daren't even look out of the window at the sun, or the moon. He wasn't sure what time it was

"You need to get up" she opened the curtains and pulled the covers of his body "you haven't even changed out of your suit Elijah"

Elijah sat up and rubbed his forehead.

"You need to decide what's happening with the body" Rebekah said

"I don't want to talk about where we are putting her body Rebekah. Her dead body"

"I know it's hard" Rebekah said "but unless you want her consecrated in some cemetery then I suggest you speak up, Louise is taking her body"

Elijah Sat up quickly at the sound of someone taking her away.

"Louise" he shouted as he ran down the stairs, flattening his hair as he did. "Don't touch her"

Louise's eyes widened at the sight of his red eyes and messed suit. "I've never seen you like that" she whispered to herself

"What?" He asked

"Nothing" Louise said kicking herself for thinking out loud.

Something was wrong. Elijah knew.

"Don't touch her" Elijah said "you're not taking her"

"We need her" Louise argued "she needs to be at rest"

"With people who've cause nothing but heartbreak for her?" Louise argued. "She needs to be with family"

"I'm her family" he retaliated

"I thought you liked that Hayley girl, why've you got this feelings for me..." She paused for a moment "...Sasha all of a sudden?"

"How do you even know about Hayley? You haven't even met her let alone know anything about past events" Elijah stopped and thought for a moment, how did Louise know this. Just how?

Louise paused. Completely speechless. "Elijah please" she said in a tone of voice that almost mimicked Sasha's pleading voice. Her eyes glimmered like Sasha's did and that was something he had never realised before in Louise. The resemblance to Sasha, not her looks, but the way she acts, dresses. Her makeup, her hair. All of this has recently changed.

"Take her" Elijah said in defeat. "Lay her to rest"

"Thankyou" she said

"Let me just see her one last time" he said sadly. Louise nodded her head, she understood. She knew she understood more than anybody else and more than Elijah could ever imagine.

She stood to the side and allowed Elijah to walk into the other room where Sasha lay in a padded coffin. Louise swiftly followed behind him after giving a sympathetic look to Rebekah and Marcel.

She quietly slipped in and watched as Elijah's fingers intertwined with Sasha's limp ones. "I'm so sorry" he said. And then he turned to Sasha. "I saw her. Before she died, the real Sasha"

"It's going to be really tough Elijah" Louise said "I'm sorry for talking about you not loving her"

"It's alright" Elijah turned back to Sasha

"I've lost people I've cared about. It hurts a lot" Louise said "everyone asked me if I was okay, I obviously wasn't but from then on I vowed to never do what people did to me, I won't ask you if you're okay, I won't say it'll be alright because it won't" she said holding back tears "You loved her and you've lost her and I've not seen you cry once. You need to let it out, whether it be to me, on your own or to Sasha"

"I-" Elijah didn't know what to say but hell, he wasn't going to cry in front of someone he had only known for a couple of weeks. Though he's grown comfortable with her around, strangely comfortable. He wasn't going to cry.

"I've lived 1,000 years" he began, she obviously wanted something from him "I've only found love but twice. It's rare and beautiful and Sasha was just so different from the girls Niklaus would say I'd go for. It's probably a good job she never got to meet my brother, innocence does not fair well with him"

"I know you're going to miss her, but I think it's time we put her to rest" Louise said "people say this out of kindness, but I know she will always be with you, I can feel it"

Elijah kissed the back of Sasha's hands and allowed Louise to close the box. "I'll get the car" she said before leaving the room.

Rebekah and Marcel watched as Louise sped out and Elijah emerged from the door shortly after.

"Is it me or is Louise acting a little strange lately?" Rebekah asked as they looked at the door where she had just exited.

"Very" Marcel added on. Elijah didn't really want to join in the conversation. He was stuck in the moment of having to watch Sasha's body be wheeled away.

Louise sauntered back in and walked up to Elijah. She took his hand. Which felt weird yet familiar to him. He was sure that Louise had never touched his hand before and he was aware of how comforting it was.

"Stay strong" she said "at least for these next few weeks" she said vaguely. Elijah knew that it was going to take a lot more than that to get over this.

He nodded.

Louise slowly wheeled the coffin away on her own, refusing any help. She had things to do and she needed to start them quick.