Holding On To You

Chapter Twenty Five

Hey hey hey!!! You know you been waiting for it and as evil, as I was with the ending of the last chapter... I decided to give you the next piece of the puzzle.

Seatbelts everyone!

Yes, I am crazy that I will not deny.

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Forty-Five minutes earlier....

Davina sat hunched over the table biting the nail of her thumb as she looked over the same passage again for the hundredth time that evening. She was learning nothing new and it was beginning to frustrate her as she shut the cover with a slam.

"What was it you told me earlier when I did the same thing?" Elijah asked not looking up from his own book. "Cool it was it?" Davina looked over to see Elijah's eyes peeking over his book at her a small smirk gracing his face.

"I know I know," She sighed as she sat back in her chair. "I'm sorry," Davina muttered as she looked at the cluttered table. "It's just we have been at this all day and we have found nothing that we don't already know."

"It is very frustrating," Elijah said as he looked at his wristwatch surprised to it was nearing 10 in the evening. "And it is quite late."

"I think we have looked at each one of these books here about 50 times," Davina said as she rubbed at the back of her neck where she felt a crick. "I have hit my limit for today."

"Have you heard from him lately?"

"Not since he left this morning." Davina looked up and she could see that Elijah was distracted. "You could have gone with him you know," Davina told him gently. "I could have handled all this on my own with no problem." She waved her hand at the table. "So why stay?"

When he said nothing. "Aren't you older than him?" Davina asked as she turned sideways in her seat finding the new position a bit more comfortable.

"I am," Elijah replied looking up his eyes meeting hers.

"And then why did you listen to him?" She questioned as she laid her head sideways in her hand.

"Kol asked me to stay," Elijah answered her as he placed his book on the table and finished the rest of his drink. "So I stayed."

"So he did ask you to stay because of me?" Davina guessed as she closed her eyes.

"I have never seen Kol care about someone the way he cares about you," Elijah told her as he stood up to begin clearing the table off. "He only asked me to because he is very worried about you Davina and he has good reason to. The world we live in is not the safest one," He added as he started stacking books together.

"I know it isn't," Davina sighed tiredly as she rubbed her eyes before getting up to help Elijah the cleanup.

"Are you hungry?" Elijah asked after they were finished after everything was cleared or stacked in a neat order.

"No," She said shaking her head. "Thanks for the offer, but I am just gonna go to bed," She said wanting nothing more than to let her head sink into her pillow and hoped that the demons in her dreams would be kept at bay.

"Very well," Elijah said as he poured himself a scotch as he pulled out his phone to see if he had any missed calls.

"Night," Davina nodded as she pushed her chair under the table and walked into the foyer to so upstairs. Suddenly she stopped in her tracks as she felt the painful pressure of magic on her head. She grabbed a whole of a nearby table letting out a pain filled groan.