To Love a Phoenix (Elijah Mikaelson story)

Chapter 2: The Beginning

After Mason's death, I didn't leave my house. I decided to start my life here again by beginning the job that Elizabeth had as a cartoonist. I found that whatever skills she had, I knew how to use them. This was one of them. Elizabeth had plotted the story-line first and made some basic storyboards and all that was left was to draw the cartoon out. That itself wasn't too difficult.

But when I had finished my job and realized that I didn't need to go back to do it for a while, I just sat there and tried ripping through every aspect of Elizabeth's life to try to figure out something about her that I could utilize.

And my life like that seemed calm and chaotic at the same time until I got the call from Damon Salvatore. I sighed as my phone vibrated on the table. I desperately wanted to ignore it when I caved in and answered.

"Come to our house. Now."

With that, he ended his call and I just stared at the phone with disbelief. Did he just order me to go to his house? I just stared at the phone for a bit debating on whether I should actually follow those orders before sighing and quickly changing out of my pajamas. I changed into a grey sweatshirt with a black leather jacket along with grey jeans. I wore my black sneakers with it. Tying my hair back, I felt a loose strand act like a bang and didn't bother fixing it.

Once I arrived to the Salvatore's I walked in while saying, "Damon Salvatore, you'd better have a good reason for calling me here with no explanation!"

Suddenly, Caroline was in front of me and I saw tears brimming her eyes as she hugged me tightly and said, "I saw Katherine today."

I wasn't sure how to respond, so I awkwardly patted her back. But when she didn't move and held me even tighter, I winced and said,

"Caroline, I'm not sure I'm a hugging person now."

Immediately, Caroline jumped away from me and apologized fervently. I just chuckled and said,

"Don't worry about it. It's just that I don't know how to hug people."

"Aww... Does Beth need lessons in cuddling?" I heard a familiar voice taunt from behind me.

I immediately glared and turned around as I said, "I don't need you to guide me with that thank you very much."

Caroline laughed a little at that while Damon stuck his tongue out at me. He was so mature, wasn't he?

Noticing my look of disdain at Damon's immature acts, Stefan said,

"Well, now that Katherine has made her move, we need a plan."

Damon looked at him and said, "She's running scared. What she did to Jenna was desperate. She's out of tricks."

I frowned, not having remembered this part of the episode and yelled out, "Jenna got hurt?"

Then that was when it all came back to me. Jenna had stabbed herself with the kitchen knife due to compulsion. But the vampires in the room hadn't remembered this and explained what had happened to Jenna.

And once they finished explaining, they went back to talking about Katherine.

"We can't underestimate her. We have to play this smarter than her."

Caroline looked uncomfortable as she asked, "Can we just give her the moonstone so she'll leave?"

Damon shook his head and responded with, "No, Katherine's not getting dick. I'm gonna go to the masquerade ball and I'm gonna kill her, tonight."

Shaking my head, I said, "If you think it will be that simple, you're wrong. What if she gets a witch to link Katherine and Elena together?"

There, I had literally told them what would happen, but for some reason, they just waved my idea away as if it was never going to happen.