This love

This love will make it

'Love'- Elena thought looking at her ring.

"Are you done?"- Katherine said annoyed to Elena as she walked in the living room of the mansion they were occupying for the last year-"you really thing this love of yours will save the day, especially after he finds out you stabbed him in the back?!"

"Do you ever shut up!! You are repeating yourself."- Elena said taking a bag from the sofa.

"We have a mutual agenda, but I am so enjoying this train-wreck."- Katherine continued as they walked out of the mansion.

"If you think that your gloating is making my blood boil- you're so wrong. At least I had love- unlike you sleeping around not daring to fall in love. Drive!"- Elena replied.

Katherine just pouted with her lips and hit the gas pedal.

There was no time to think about what would have been. To bring down the Strix, they needed cool head and no beating heart.

Flashback

Months ago

Elena waited for Katherine in the agreed diner. Her nemesis was late and Elena was ready to leave. How would she ever make a deal with the ruthless self-centered vampire? This was illusory from her part. And yet, she needed her, and they both pledged in blood to stand against them.  

"Ok- I agree."- Katherine said.

"You agree?!"- Elena looked at the doppelganger suspiciously as it was too fast. She didn't put any conditions down. Katherine sneered.

"What?"

"I want it in blood"- Elena then said.

"Right- here"- Katherine said and bit into her wrist letting the blood drop on the rings that were in front of them.

Elena slit her palm with a small dagger and did the same.

"Signati! (sealed!)"- Elena whispered.

"Hate that you have witch powers!"- Katherine said.

"Unfortunately only on full moon!"- Elena retorted.

"Just to be clear-there is no love lost between us!"- Katherine said standing up putting the ring on making a small hissing sound as the ring's magic sealed itself onto her finger burning a little as if branded.

Elena stood up as well.

"I know you would do anything for survival."

"If you were running as long as I am you would do too! In this- it's us or them. There is no inbetween."

Elena had learned a lot about the vampire. She knew of her darkness, as well as she knew about her own darkness and the pull it had. She also knew about the light that resided within them. And at that meeting there was a flicker of light in the vampire's eyes. It was clear that she was not doing it only to destroy the Strix so they would not use her for the upcoming ritual. Yet, she still didn't know what Katherine's real motivation was.  But, at the moment it didn't matter. They were bound to one another and they had a common agenda. This was good enough.

Her thoughts swayed now to Elijah. As much as she tried not to think about him, it was hard not to float away to their night together, as the kisses and his touch, his whole being kept her from freezing completely and be ruled by the hatred that was becoming stronger by the minute. The light of his love kept her sane. 

Flashback

"I wanted assemble minds curious about the world and eager to improve it, along with the time and circumstance to do so. My desire was to create an elite brotherhood devoted to a new, better civilization. It was naive. Eventually, I was forced to abandon them once I realized I'd cultivated a legion of ego-maniacal sociopaths. "- Elijah said to Elena as they laid on the bed holding one another close. 

Elena was quiet. His soul burnt with regrets. Many.
'So many, I can't keep count, Elena -"To kill them, to destroy them that is not an easy task. It's not a simple spell or magic that comes from one source- it's intertwined- they made sure they would have power to go beyond everything we know."

"They made sure that even by killing you- their line would remain in tact"- Elena said.

"Making me still bound to them"- Elijah said looking at her now-"enough of them. Let this be just our night"- he now kissed her and she pulled him onto her wrapping her hands around his neck. 
***

Elijah arrived in New Orleans. He tossed the suit jacket on the chair of his apartment. The witch Aya walked in unannounced.

"I would appreciate if you left"- Elijah said not turning around to face the witch. He carried on undressing, taking his shirt off and tossing it on the bed. 

"I just came to inform you that the Bennett witch is the one who adds to the ritual. Strangely, she's disappeared."- Aya said.

"It is a know fact that she and the Salvatore are no longer on this side. They are dead."- Elijah said.

"Not according to her ancestral spirit. She is very much here, cloaking her whereabouts masterfully."- Aya said.

Elijah now chose a new shirt and put it on, looking at himself in the mirror as he was buttoning it up responding-

"She is one powerful witch, coming from a very powerful coven. Anything else?"

"Nothing."- Aya said- "We are expecting you tonight at the Council gathering."

"Yes"- Elijah then said. He now browsed through his many ties. 

The witch left. 

Elijah took a tie and put it on. Only one thing lingered in his mind. Elena. 

"You and me- it is like dreams of yesterday"- Elena said to him as she held him tight-"this love will make it."

"This love will make it!"- he said dearly to her gazing into her eyes.