Bad at Love

Chapter 8 - Goodbye Tatia

I woke up just before dawn and not knowing where Niklaus was I ran fast to my hut and grabbed clothes as the ones I were in had been ripped off and useless. On my walk out the house, Elijah came outside with a blanket and clothes for Niklaus.
"Are you Alright? Your eyes.. and your bones...mother said your true father must have been a werewolf.. you're not just a hybrid Jessika...you're all three. It's never happened before"
Elijah said sadly
"I'm a monster...a walking plague"
I said as tears fell.
"You're still the same girl I love. Now Let us go find my brother"
Elijah said hugging me.
"So now you're with Tatia?"
I asked already knowing
"It's complicated.I love you....but I love her as well and I feel as though it would make things easier seeing as you are in love with Niklaus"
Elijah said. I sighed nodding my head.
"I do not see what is so special about Tatia"
I said growing annoyed
"She is supposed to be your best friend...why do you speak of her in such a way?"
Elijah asked with a raised brow.
"I just do not care for how she goes back and forth between you and Niklaus...it isn't fair nor right to string you both along"
I said coldly and Elijah pushed me up against a tree,his face close to mine, I could feel his breath tingling my lips...
Our noses were touching..
His eyes never left mine..
"No...no it isn't....but you wouldn't know about that would you....don't be a hypocrite"
Elijah whispered. I sent him a scowl.
"This isn't fair either..I was in love with Niklaus first and then you"
I trailed off as he began to kiss my neck..
He knew my sensitive spots...he knew I'd melt if he kissed my neck...
"And then I what?"
Elijah said as he started to nip and suck on my neck. I gasped. My body reacted to his touch.. My hands ran up his chest to his neck. Once my hands rested there, Elijah kissed me deeply. I was shocked at first...but kissed back. My hands ran through his thick brown hair..
Elijah picked me up and wrapped my legs around his waist.
I could feel an erection on him.I gasped, granting him entrance into my mouth, where he scoped out every inch of my mouth with his tongue. I groaned enjoying this but my brain kicked in and I pushed him off of me, falling to my feet.
"Elijah stop!"
I said panting. He pulled back panting as well
"What are we doing?"
I said in guilt
"What do you mean?We're showing our affection for one another. Do not act like you do not like this.Your body gives in to me and I know you feel something too. Do you not enjoy my touch?"
Elijah asked delicately. I sighed
"I do 'Lijah..but I promised my heart to Niklaus last night so this must stop"
I said pushing him away.

"Jessika I just do not understand you..you are angry when I give Tatia love..and when I give you the my love...you push me away...tell me what am I supposed to do"
Elijah said to my dismay.
"I don't know what to do...I love you so much... but I love Niklaus too and Niklaus and I.. we're more alike now than I ever thought..we need to focus on finding him right now...then we shall all talk about this"
I said and kept walking. Elijah sighed, reluctantly following. Finally, after the sun was high, we found Niklaus, naked sitting up in a curled ball against a fallen tree, crying in front of a dead body, the man's legs were ripped off, his throat ripped out..
"Niklaus!"
I said grabbing the blanket from Elijah and draping it over him. Niklaus held onto me and cried. I held him tightly against me
"It's okay my love...it's gonna be okay"
I said kissing Niklaus ' forehead.
Elijah was watching, heart broken, until he heard a noise in the woods...
I smelled Tatia..
"I'll handle it"
Elijah said and ran off
"What are we? How many?"
Niklaus asked. I sighed looking at him sadly
"Six...I am not sure how many each of us tore through...but we tore through 6 bandits like they were nothing...nothing at all...but you saved me..they were trying to kill me"
I said as a few tears fell.
Niklaus and I slowly stood up and he looked at me
"Jessika...what have we become?"
Niklaus asked crying
"We seem like the wolves in the village... cursed to turn when the moon is full...but Niklaus Listen to me...your father is fuming with rage...it seems this...affliction...it can only pass by certain...conception"
I said holding him against me tightly as we stood
"And do my siblings share this affliction?" Niklaus choked out. I closed my eyes sadly, resting my head on his shoulder
"Do you share this affliction?!"
Niklaus said through tears and anger
I looked down not wanting to hurt him but when I looked back up all I saw was pain in his eyes..my heart cracked for him...
"Esther..she said my real father must have been one of them but..the others..don't"
I said sadly but then Niklaus grew so cold and angry...
"He's not my father is he"
Niklaus asked me in such a cold tone.
"Niklaus you listen to me...stranger than nothing you are my love and your siblings are here for you...they know and they do not care. We will always love you forever..this is not our fault. We were brought into this world unbeknownst to our mother's adultery but one thing stands..we are in this together"
I said gently placing my hand on his cheek. Niklaus pulled me in a kiss. I kissed back and our foreheads rested on one another for a moment.
"Thank you.. my love" Niklaus said quietly but suddenly I heard Elijah yelling
"Elijah?"
I called. Niklaus and I ran off and when we saw Elijah with his back turned to us..we stepped closer. He turned and we found Tatia dead in his arms.Tears instantly fell from my cheeks.
"TATIA!"I screamed running to her and as soon as my knees hit the ground I was sobbing holding her lifeless body
"What did you do Elijah?! WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
I screamed as I held her head in my lap. Her neck was broken and bloody. The skin on her neck ripped to shreds..
"Elijah...what have you done"
Niklaus said in shock and agony as I cried for my best friend's death.
"I didn't mean to!I lost control I...I'm so sorry I'm so sorry...I loved her..I didn't mean to"
Elijah said dropping to his knees and crying.
"Take her to Esther!"
I said and Elijah scooped her up in his arms.
"I'll take her to mother! There has to be something she can do...she used Tatia's blood in our ritual"
Elijah said picking her up and walking off. I just sat there in silence for a moment
"Jessika come here"
Niklaus said pulling me into a tight hug..
without Tatia..
This decision of Elijah and Niklaus just became a lot harder.....
That night Esther erased those memories from me and the rest of us....
this is something I remember now
(in current time)
but before now, after that incident...
I had no recollection of that night....