Chasing the storm

04

"They followed me" Alex grunted as he began to wipe away the dried blood smudged over his forehead and cheek "they found me in the restaurant and followed me when I walked Scarlett home, luckily they decided to attack when she was safe inside"

You walked her home? Elijah thought, cursing himself for inspecting the little details instead of looking at the big picture.

"Tristan is closing in and he's making it his priority that he knows the names, faces and everything about all of your family and friends" Alex rinsed the towel and threw it on the floor "Before I killed the last man, he told me that everyone we have ever loved and will love, will in fact die" he let out a small sigh as directed his focus from his leather boots on the floor to Elijah, who was perched on the arm of the sofa next to him "That includes all of us"

"And you still believe we should wait for his move before we act?" Elijah asked smugly, he was right to begin with and he liked... no, he loved rubbing it in Alex's face when he had the chance. Alex would always do the same.

"In my books, he has already made the first move" It hurt and was so embarrassing to at least think Elijah was correct, he was always correct "From now on I will pride myself in making sure Tristan cannot get to any of us"

"And that's where I come in" Freya strode in confidently in her high heeled boots

"Freya!" Alex flinched as she walked into the room "You are looking might powerful today, please don't give me another one of those headaches" Alex wasn't really scared of much, in fact, he wasn't scared of anything. Apart from the Mikaelson's older and powerful sister, one of their first meetings included him trying to figure out if she could be trusted or not, inevitably; Freya had to exercise the extent of her powers by giving.

Freya gave out a small laugh as she walked past and felt the power as the vampire cowered. "I suggest we find a way to infiltrate the De Martel's house" She began to say

"no need" Elijah interrupted "Marcel is out man on the inside, he tells us whatever we need to know"

"I like Marcel but in all fairness, brother, can we really trust him?" Freya pleaded to exercise caution when it came to this sector, it seemed that Marcel was getting quite deep into the strix and Freya even questioned where his loyalties lie.

"I would say you could" Marcel walked in at the right time to clear his name "But you know; I'm with the enemy" the sarcastic tone in his voice indicated that he was slightly annoyed at the accusations. As he walked closer, he threw a glossy piece of paper on the table in front of them.

Elijah quickly picked it up "The seratura ?"

"Yes, one of the weapons Tristan is going to use against you, do you know how to activate it? Because I sure do" Marcel waited a minute for anyone to pipe up. Alex looked at Elijah, Elijah looked at Freya and Freya kept staring at Marcel. "I take is as a no, this little circular rock, the seretura, as you know is the only thing capable of creating a boundary so strong that nothing living nor dead can pass" Marcel gathered all of the information he had gathered through asking, eavesdropping and just normal research, all together in one paragraph that can be understood by those who have probably not listened or had been away for the week, so they wouldn't know, before dropping the bombshell on how to activate it.

Elijah huffed "Tristan isn't going to kill me" he said, interrupting Marcel "or Niklaus or Rebekah" carrying on, he stood up and rubbed is forehead "He is going to pack us away in boxes until we desecrate" and that was what he secretly knew but he wouldn't allow himself to come to terms with it.

"How, dare I ask do we activate it?" Alex asked "as

"We need a powerful witch, a regent to do a ritual to activate it, and thats the only way of getting rid of it too" Marcel delivered the news

"What do you suggest we do?" Alex asked another question, trying to make sense of this whole thing and trying to think of alternatives and ways to gain the upper hand

"I suggest you wait, Tristan doesn't know that you know and we can keep that to our advantage, what I've been hearing is that they aren't going to activate it any time soon. not without leverage for Vincent" With that freya clutched her blue necklace that held Finn inside, thats a lot of leverage hanging around her neck "Do your best to stay as dumb as possible, start killing of vampires and make sure Vincent doesn't do anything stupid with his regent powers"

"I also have another suggestion" Elijah piped up from the silence that they al drifted in to. He couldn't tell if they were scared, angry or surprised, maybe they were all three "Tristan is trying to hurt all of us, I suggest you stay away from that girl, Alex, I don't want any innocent people getting hurt"

Alex opened his mouth as if to argue against the suggestion, he knew Elijah was serious about it and the word 'suggestion' was only a lighter word for demand. He didn't want the girl to suffer, but why should he suffer from not seeing her, out of all his women, she was really the only girl that ever spoke to him in a spiritual way, and he had only known her for the day. "I'll tell her on our next date" he caved

"You'll call the girl now, we can't risk it" Elijah hurt from telling his friend this, but what could he do? Scarlett, from what Elijah knew, was a sweet and innocent twenty year old who worked as a waitress and had a great sense of humour. The perfect specimen of a human being.  He didn't want to do this to Alex, he didn't want to do this to Scarlett.

"Wait" Alex stopped everything "I can't do this, I can't call it off, I know we are merely together and we have only been out once, but the strip have caught wind of it, and it is going to make no difference whether I am to see her or not, they know her face, they know she is associated with me"

"He has a point" Freya argued "Who are we to stop his budding romance? Plus she will be better under your protection than being left to fend for herself"

Another sigh escaped the original vampire's lips "Alright" The pressure from Freya and Alex made him regret is suggestion "Bring her to dinner Wednesday night, it'll be easier to protect her if she is comfortable with our whole family"

"Wow" Alex exclaimed "Second date and meeting the family, lets hope she's not put off"