Playing House with the Enemy

Family Night

After our descent of the staircase, I and Rebekah entered the living room. Kol sat in the arm chair opposite to where we stood and where Klaus sat on the other arm chair, Finn and Elijah sat on the three seater sofa facing the television and window that was now covered with the large antique curtains. There was only one seat left between Finn and Elijah yet there were two of us. Upon my realisation my face fell and Kol must have noticed.

"Lighten up Darling, you can sit on my lap, I assure you it would be much more comfortable and I promise that I'll be good...if you ask," Kol smirked with a wink as he patted his knee.

"Kol I'm sure she'd much rather sit with me," Klaus shut Kol up without looking at me. The two remained glaring at the other, identical smirks on their faces, in a staring match. Everyone else in the room, including myself, rolled their eyes at the childish antics of the two youngest men in the room.

"I'll be back," Rebekah whispered to me, although I was sure everyone could hear her with their supernatural hearing, and sped off in the direction in which we came from. With a minute she was back, two quilts, multiple pillows and blankets in hand and over her shoulder, "We will sit on the floor to keep you from being molested by any of my perverted brothers," she said smiling at me to which I reciprocated her smile, ignoring the growling from the men surrounding us. She spread the quilts out on the floor in front of the television so that we all would be surrounding the coffee table, which had copious amounts of alcohol and snacks, along with a game of monopoly, which caused a giggle to escape my thoughts and questioning looks from the men to which I ignored, she put the pillows down in a row on the end of the quilts that were closest to the TV, and placed the blankets in a pile next to the makeshift bed. It reminded me so much of when I was a child having sleepovers with Caroline and Bonnie except now I was being held against my will by the five eldest, most dangerous vampires in the world.

I yearned for the past when my life was not so complicated. I could imagine being with Caroline, Bonnie, Matt and Tyler right now, just like it had been before the Salvatore's had come to town. The Salvatore brothers, stuck in love with an old fling, who had turned them, lied to them and abandoned them, which caused them to be drawn to me, bringing with them chaos and murder. Stefan had been my salvation, I had lost all hope when he came to town but he had shown me that although I had lost my parents I could still find happiness and love, I had fallen in love with his mystery almost immediately as he had me, yet now we had grown estranged since he had left with Klaus, leaving me hopeless and alone, wanting nothing more than my lover, he hadn't been the same man upon his return, he had become vengeful, he only cared about the demise of the hybrid next to me and his family, whom I was playing a game of Monopoly and joking with, such betrayal could not be forgiven despite the circumstances I was in, I was not being forced to enjoy my time here, Stefan did not care about the collateral damage that would be in the wake of his revenge, I couldn't be in love with someone that held such hatred. Then there was Damon, the elder impulsive Salvatore, he had changed since the first time we had met, he had been homicidal and emotionless, I had considered him a monster, yet he had just been betrayed by the love his life, he became a much better man when he had met me, I knew he was in love with me, it was obvious but I could not and would not ever reciprocate the type of love he felt for me. I had grown to love him, the way a sister would a brother, while Stefan had been away, I had seen a completely different side of him and he had made sure I was well taken care of and was trying to make up for the sins he had committed over his lifetime to which I respected.

I was drawn back into the game myself and the Mikaelson's were playing as Rebekah nudged me lightly in the side, "Are you okay?" She whispered and I became acutely aware of their eyes on me and the few tears that stained my face, I quickly reached up to wipe them away, quite roughly I must admit.