Elejah Always

You're my OTL

Three months after

"Rebekah, can you please pick up the cake and take to the penthouse. I am still at the gallery. I've just spoken to him and he is mad that he had to stay longer at work." Elena said to her sister-in-law.

"I can't believe we made my father in on the whole surprise party thing. So, Elijah still thinks we are just meeting for drinks?" Rebekah said.

"Yeah. I will then call him and say that I need picking up from the house. "- Elena said-"I got to go- see you there in an hour." Elena said before she hung up.

Flashback

Couple of weeks earlier

Rebekah met Elena in her studio."What's so urgent? Don't tell me you scraping the whole thing- cos I will not let you. The designer dresses are ordered"

"I called you about something else" Elena said."I want to do something special for Elijah's birthday. He doesn't want anything particular. But I want to do something a little bit particular. It is his 40th."

"You want to do a surprise party!" Rebekah sounded off surprise.

"Yeah, let's. He has been so wonderful throughout it all. I want to make it memorable. Let's do his favourite food, his favourite everything, music, cheese-cake."

"You" Rebekah added.

Elena chuckled a bit to the comment."So, will you help me?"

"What are you talking about, of course, I will help you, duh! My company just won best party organizers of the decade!"

"I know, but you got so much work plus Stefan" Elena said.

"Talk about Stefan, I need to cancel our trip to New Orleans"

"Why? Not because of this? Don't."

"He will understand. I'm helping a pregnant woman." Rebekah pointed out chuckling

"No. This is your week away with a guy that you will marry- don't. I will manage."

"What do you mean - marry? Do you know something?"

"Damn" Elena huffed as she realized that she spoiled the surprise Stefan had installed for Rebekah.

"He is going to propose?" Rebekah widened her eyes, suddenly feeling a rush of blood in her head.

"Well, Bonnie heard him talk to Damon about - how you're the one!" Elena tried to wriggle her way out of it.

"But that doesn't mean he is going to propose? It's mad anyway, we've been together three months! This can't be right!"

"It is!" Elena said."Ok - Bonnie said he got a ring. So, don't go spoiling it. And act surprised."

"Really?" Rebekah was completely taken.

"Promise to be surprised" Elena reminded her.

Days that followed, Rebekah was exercising patience, but it was the hardest thing to do. She even succumbed to look into the chest of drawers one night she stayed over at Stefan's while he was in the shower. but she didn't find it.

A day before the trip as she had breakfast with Elena and Elijah, her brother asked her why she was on edge joking."Taking a whole week of work- how will you survive?"

"It's not that." Rebekah blasted.

Elijah was surprised at her explosive reaction." Am I missing something here? You are going on a romantic get-away and it's like you're going for torture?"