For Family

3~Arguments

Ella made her way down the stairs and towards the parlor. She knew Elijah went after Rebekah, but seeing as she put Rebekah to sleep 30 minutes ago he should be back.

As she turned the corner towards the parlor, she saw Elijah standing there in all his glory. A soft smile graced her lips as she looked at him. He had truly grown from the man she used to know.

Elijah was standing by the fireplace with a glass of alcohol in his hand. He heard Ella's quiet footsteps approach him but said nothing. He didn't know what to say. It had been so long since he's confided in his sister that words forsaken him. Ella had learned from the last encounter to let him speak first. She wanted him to approach the main topic first. Ella knew it was something he had to do, something they all had to do. Elijah just didn't know how so they sat in silence until it was unbearable for him.

"Where have you been... all these years?" Though he spoke towards the fire his words were directed to her.

Ella didn't respond.

"Does my question not demand an answer?" His voice rising with each word.

Ella took a calm step forward, her hands folded in front of her, "You will watch your tone with me Elijah Mikaelson. I am not Niklaus, Rebekah, or Kol. You do not demand things from me. Do I make myself clear?"

Elijah was taken aback by her response but briskly composed himself. Elijah had not been scolded in a long time. A part of him felt relieved that he no longer had to be the eldest sibling but another part didn't know what to do.

"I apologize, Esmeralda," there was a moment of silence before he continued, "I apologize not only for my tone but for my behavior as well."

Elijah looked up at her, his glass now sitting on the mantle of the fireplace. He was consoled by the calm, motherly look her face held. A look he had long since forgotten with time. Esmeralda was always patient with him at times like these, though they didn't happen often. Elijah was just happy to have his sister back.

"What we did was wrong. I could have done something, anything but instead I let it happen. I thought of Finn as a threat to the family because of his dislike of what we had become. I should have given it time." The guilt Elijah felt continued to build with the silence. "Please say something."

As requested Ella spoke, "The past is over and done with now. I just wish to rebuild this family in the best way possible." A smile graced Elijah's face but quickly receded as she continued, "Do not mistake this for acceptance over your actions because it is not. I do not agree with what you did or lack thereof. But as time went on I learned to forgive you, all of you, for what was done. As I said, the past is the past."

Elijah didn't know how to feel about her confession. For once his emotions where all over the place and he didn't know how to cope. The calm or expressionless look his face once wore was gone. In its place sat a storm of emotions unable to be tamed. A piece of him expected this response from her, but another did not. You see, Ella was always quick to forgive her siblings for anything that that they had done. She always shown them love and kindness for it was emotions not known to them from their parents.

Ella decided to let her words sink in for Elijah and thought out her last mission of the night. Ella went to find Niklaus.

Apart of Ella wanted to avoid talking to Niklaus knowing that it would be most difficult for her. Niklaus was the reason Finn was stuck in a coffin for 900 years. Also the reason her siblings did nothing about it. For everyone knew Nicklaus's temper was not to be taken lightly. What he wanted he got. What was not given he took. After what their parents did to him everything changed. Though she was not afraid of him, not even in the slightest, she still did not want to confront him. Truth be told she had blamed Niklaus for all of her pain and agony that she suffered over the 900 years without her twin. She had blamed him for her lack of powers, though she had many. Overtime she had tried to forgive Niklaus but a part of her felt like she was betraying Finn. That's why this conversation was to be of the utmost interesting and of the utmost difficult.