Always and forever Logs

Falling -part 2

Several months later, Elijah met up with his friend for lunch. It was Thursday.

"So you moved back to your apartment in the city. What are you going to do about the house?"- Marcel asked.

"We agreed to put it on the market."- Elijah replied.

"Seriously- one moment you are redecorating a house and then you break up. It's over that blog-girl right?!"

"Blog girl?!"- Elijah repeated chuckling a bit.

"EG. I've seen you reading it when you were in the meetings. Klaus told me that you were meeting someone. It's not like you to have an affair- or?"

Flashback

Elijah walked into the house one thursday evening when he returned from the city. Hayley was writing something on her tablet.

"Ah, you are back. Want a glass of wine?"- the woman said standing up from the armchair.

"No, thank you."- Elijah said seriously.

"What is it? Something happened? "

"What are we doing here, Hayley?Playing house"- Elijah then said.

"What?"- she said confused as to where he was going with his conversation.

"Yeahz well- I can't go on pretending that this relationship is real. Not anymore."- Elijah said.

  "No - not it's not. You are right."- Hayley said.

"No."- Elijah said.

And they both knew that his heart was somewhere else.

"I know- Hayley said- "because-  you have been different for a while- there is someone else, isn't?"

"Yes."- Elijah admitted-"I met somebody- but it's nothing like you think it is. "- Elijah said.

"No-  it's- much worse"

"Worse?"- he didn't quite understand what she meant by it.

She looked at him calmly.

"It's love-?!"- Hayley uttered.

Elijah nodded.

"It wasn't an affair."- Elijah said to Marcel- "we- we would just meet before the train- and talked- that's all."

"Don't tell me you haven't even kissed her?!"- Marcel joked a bit now.

"No. I didn't even kiss her."- Elijah said with regret in his voice.

"So, it's the old-fashioned kind of a thing? You fell in love with a woman - and for some crazy loyalty to a relationship that was more like a habit than anything resembeling love- you let it go. You and Hayley were so incompatible, that we all wondered what you were doing with her all these years- and then she went off with Jackson"

"Yes,  I have got the wedding invitation."- Elijah said.

"Nevermind that anyway. so what are you going to do about your blog-girl then?"- Marcel asked.

"She is in New Orleans at the moment. We mail eachother."- Elijah said.

"You e-mail?! Elijah, wtf- You should take the first plane to NOLA!"- Marcel said.

"I just do what- go over there- she has met someone as she was travelling- forget it"

"I serioulsy can't believe you?! You will let this girl go because she met someone. You design amazing buildings, houses-  but when it comes to women- you are hopeless."-

They left the conversation about Elena at that, as Marcel had to leave.

Elijah finished his lunch, going back to Elena's blog, and read the latest she had written.

*****

A few days later

In New Orleans, Elena had met up with her best friend Caroline, who jetted over to the city for a short holiday.

"What do you want to do first?"- Elena asked her friend.

"Let's have brunch. I want to hear about the latest-  all about Stefan. and where do you plan to go next?"

"First- about Stefan- it was just a thing and that's it"

"Wait- don't tell me you are still hanging on Elijah?!"- Caroline looked at her friend's sad face.

"Yes. I think about him everyday- last thought before I fall asleep and  first thought when I awake-  I love him-  and you know what is crazy- we discuss my blog over e-mails-  and -  I don't know why I am letting this go on."

"Because you fell in love with him and that's that-  why don't you just tell him-  write to him."

"Caroline, you are just so-  I am not like that"- Elena said.

"I know. The romantic you! But, Elena, you have to actually act."

"Act? how? He has got a fiance."- Elena said.

Caroline sighed in frustration.

****

A few months later

Elena wrote in her blog-

"Maybe I will believe that there is someone who waves with a magic wand. Maybe it is the universe- or maybe it is just one of those things when things are meant to be. Two people were supposed to meet always and forever, again and again. The story started some time ago-  and it is still ongoing. And everything feels so different and new."

Elena stopped for a second flashing back as she looked at a photo

Flashback

A few days after talking to Marcel

Elena walked into the cafe at the New Orlean's airport. She stood still as she saw a very familiar face sitting at a table.

She walked to the man.

"Elijah"- she said.

"Elena"- the man said standing up.

"How- are you here?! Why-  "- she uttered.

"I - well- this is - ok- now that - "- Elijah got all flushed for some reason, but then waited no longer to come out with it all-

"there is something I didn't tell you- nearly a year ago-  and then you left-"- he now neared her.

"Tell me- What?"- Elena said with thousand butterflies raising up in her stomach.

"I love you"- Elijah said dearly.

Elena looked in a slight astonishment, though it was utterly silly to react like that.

"I love you! I do!"- he repeated.

Elena smiled tearing up now. 

Then they swam into a kiss.

The people around them watching the scene would say that it was like something out of the movies.

💌Elena now continued with the blog

"But as you, who are reading this, now know that there is one more person on the photographs and he has interesting input. So I hope you will enjoy it- Ah, I didn't introduce him. It's my husband- Elijah Mikaelson."