RESURRECTION • ELIJAH MIKAELSON [ON HOLD]

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CHAPTER TEN; Him

It had been a frustrating day and a long one at that with more that was only to come as the day progressed. The only good part about it though was seeing Scarlett, he thought. She was a woman so full of light and curiosity that brought a comforting effect to the Original vampire.

Even as he sat at the dinner table, surrounded by only Niklaus and Finn, bickering over the sudden return from the dead of their mother and Finn, he couldn't stop replaying the conversation he had not only hours ago in a small store owned by a witch. On an errand for Marcel to train a newly turned vampire, he couldn't help but ask the witch about the foreign lettering as well as spells about body switching, a skill his mother had seemed to acquire.

"Soul-branding," Lenore, the witch, explained the answer to Elijah's first question. "It's a sacrificial spell. I'm gonna need an item spelled by the witch in question and a python. As for these," she held up the aged papers, "I don't know this language. An ancestral witch might be able to give you more help. From what I can tell though, it looks like a prophecy."

There was something in the way she spoke about it set a suspicion in his mind. There was something hidden is her voice, that she wouldn't tell him. Even from the moment he walked inside her shop, the strong sense of distrust between a witch and Original vampire was obvious, yet this feeling was stronger.

He couldn't say much else but respond with a curt nod and an agreement to get the required objects for the spell. But he maintain eye contact with the woman until he and Gia disappeared from the shop, both knowing full well that their conversation of the 'prophecy' was far from over.

Later in the day, he had told Scarlett of the outcome, and neither were willing to give up. The thought of a prophecy written for her was something neither could ignore.

But now that the sun had reached its lowest point in the western sky, Elijah found himself settled at a dinner table, surrounded by Niklaus and Finn, recently brought up from the dead along with their brother Kol and mother. Tension weighted the air as Finn continued to drag on of his centuries of injustices his siblings brought on to him, and Elijah couldn't help but grow more impatient at the undefined arrival of their mother.

"You might reside - somewhat parasitically, I might add - in another body, but I assure you, in nine hundred years, your tedious sentiments remain quite the same." Elijah began. "You see, Finn, like Father, you've always despised our supernatural existence. Father, of course, slaughtered and consumed his own, whereas you became pretentious and dull. Much like this meal. I will not ask you again - where is Mother?"

"Oh my darling son," a light voice came into the room, following the entrance of a woman small in stature with cropped red hair. She couldn't have been a day over eighteen, still a teenage witch under the possession of their mother, "I've missed you too."

All of the Mikaelson children were left in awe; Finn even rose to his feet out of shock and respect. He was always the one to obey her despite everything she had done. Few words were exchanged as the woman settled at the head of the table, the servants continuing the ply the table with food.

As the air was tense before, it had now boiled into a storm.

The dinner carried on as well, only little eating had taken place, the teeth grinding of Elijah and Klaus fulfilling both of their appetites along with hypocrisy.

"Why don't you say what you came here to say, so this wretched night can end," Niklaus fired.

"It pains me that you and Elijah look at me with such disdain. I wish you could see that my every action has been to protect you," Esther said. Niklaus scoffed at the remark, knowing that the statement was an utter delusion.

"Were you trying to protect someone else as well," Elijah asked, "Particularly a certain line of witches."

"What do you mean Elijah," she questioned in return, her eyebrows furrowing into frown.

"Well, mother, I happen to come across these this morning, and for some reason, this all looks like your doing," he revealed the files that were tucked away in his suit pocket. He handed them to her, watching the expression of surprise cover her face. Even if it was for a brief second, he still noticed the admission nonetheless.

"I have no idea of what this is Elijah, and I don't happen to approve of your accusa-"

"Save it mother," Elijah cut her off, his eyes flickering between her startled eyes and Klaus' encouraging ones. "I know that is in your home language."

"I truly don't have any clue of what this is," their mother in the disguise of a red-headed teenage girl shook her head.

"Although you are delusional mother, you are not a good liar," Klaus added. "So tell us, what else are you trying to hide besides the fact that you've returned to kill us once more?"

"Well," their mother paused, her eyes wide like a deer caught in headlights, "How would either of you possibly know of a Charleston witch? I've watched from the other side, and I haven't seen one for..." her words slowed to an abrupt stop at Elijah and Niklaus' onward glances. "Well, I can only assume that that isn't the case anymore. You both have met one, haven't you?"

Neither spoke for they couldn't tell her about Scarlett. Niklaus had Elijah's back on this despite his mixed feelings about the witch.

"She's beautiful, isn't she," she took their silence as an admission, "smart, and charming? You've already begun to like her too."

"This is ridiculous," Elijah yelled, his voice bordering dangerous, "You have set up an innocent woman to life that she didn't want with a target on her back for witches to syphon off her ability!"

"She's the one with a target on her back," her words came out in a laugh, "Elijah, she is far from being the one with the target on her back. She's the one with a bow and arrow, aiming for the kill."

But Elijah wouldn't believe that; he couldn't. He had known Scarlett for weeks, and she would never be one to harm others. It wasn't in her nature. Gritting his teeth, he prepared to uttered an outraged response, but she stopped him short.

"Even if you don't see it yet, my son, trust me you will."

"Mother, what is on those papers," he demanded.

"Elijah, enough of this," Finn countered, "You haven't bother to hear out her deal of a new life for us."

"No Finn," Niklaus responded, "She only has her best interests in mind, no matter the lies she has told you."

Sitting front and center and with all three sets of eyes on her, Esther began to glance around in confused frenzy her breathing growing unsteady. Their stares soon turned into confused looks as she began to fall forward. Elijah quickly caught the girl, but it was already too late.

Their mother had disappear from the body of the innocent witch into another, leaving Elijah with his questions of the Charleston witch unanswered.

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