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You were standing in front of the mirror in your’s and elijah’s bedroom adjusting your dress.
Tonight there was the opening night of the new opera at the theater and was also the first event that marcel and rebekah were allowed to attend as a couple, while Klaus and Elijah and you celebrated the unification of the city.
Elijah entered the room breathtaken as always by your figure in front of the mirror. You were wearing a dress of high fashion of the time and you looked stunning.
‘ready to go?’ you asked him adjusting your earrings. He smiled at you as you looked at each other in the mirror reflection and he approached you
‘you look stunning my love’ Elijah told you, placing his hands on your hips hugging you from behind as he placed a kiss on your neck before looking at your reflection on the mirror, his chin resting on your shoulder his lips inches away from your ear
‘you don’t look bad yourself, ‘Lijah’ you smirked placing your hand on his that were resting on your hips. as he smiled back before placing soft kisses on your neck and collar bone, you got lost in the sensation tilting your head to give him more access, eyes closed. he took note of that and hold you closer as he continued his assault on your neck as you bathed in the pleasant sensation. then you remembered you had to go to the premier so you opened your eyes reluctantly
‘stop it or i will not allow you to leave the room, and your brother would be quite mad if we don’t show up at his precious premier’ you tell him as he realizes you are right as your turn now facing him, your hands resting on his chest
‘sorry you just look so ravishing’ he says honestly and his eyes scanning your features with adoration and lust adjusting a stray of your hair that had fallen on your face before resting his hand on your cheek, you lean in his touch
‘as much as I crave your expert touch we can have fun later, now we must go out’ you tell him tying his bowtie for him as he looks at you with his usual expression of full adoration while he chuckles
‘you are quite right’ he tell you before cupping your cheek to give you one last caste kiss. You kiss him back smiling before you let out a broken whimper and go still. Elijah opens his eyes worried and shocked at your cry, just to see a normal wooden stake going through your heart, blood dripping in your dress as you murmur his name coughing blood
Elijah eye’s widen in shock, he catches you as you fall limp in his arms your skin grey as you temporary die, he rises his eyes just to meet the ones of his father, Mikael, standing in front of him
‘now we have some privacy to talk’ mikael says unimpressed‘ I saw the same opera in venice, marvelous production’ he adds putting the tickets in his pocket
Elijah’s shocked dementor changes at the threat in front of him, he quickly pulls you up, taking away the wood from your chest and places you laying you on the chair as he stands in front of you ready to tear his father apart if he attempts to touch you again
‘get away from her. Or god help me I will tear you apart’ Elijah threatens his father, teeth gritting.
He knew he was no match to Mikael but he needs to keep him away from you enough to give you time to come back from death and run. He did not care if Mikael was going to kill him in the process, he needed to save you, you were all that mattered.
‘easy son, I’m not here for your little witch. If I wanted her dead she would already been. Don’t forget that I was the one to bring her to our village and into our family, sparing form the death of her coven. So you should thank me’ he says pacing the room
‘the death you had caused’
‘you seem to forget what it was like back in the days, kill or be killed. And I see that after a millennium you two are like the day you married. It would be heartwarming if love wasn’t a weakness’
Elijah lets his father talk, his eyes glued on him with pure anger ready to defend both of you
‘what do you want’ elijah spatted his fangs threatening to show
‘easy son I just want to talk’ Mikael replies careless
‘you mercifulness hunted us for centuries for half of Europe. You enter my house. temporary stake my wife, and now you simply wish to talk’ Elijah says mocking his father as he gets closer wanting to put as much space between you and Mikael
‘it was your bastard brother I was hunting. Not you. Never you. You are my blood. I’m proud to call you son. I came here to give you a chance to put down that welp for good’
Elijah shoved Mikael against the wall but mikael took him and throw him at the other side of the room,
‘ you really do not know me’ said Elijah getting up and grinning his teeth at his father again standing between you and mikael
‘do you think I could, or would, believe in anything that you say. after what you have done to my wife, to me, to our child, turning us into vampires and then hunting us down. And do you honestly believe I would betray my own brother, for you? than you are a fool without equal’ he mocks mikael
‘I’ll forgive your sentimental affection for that abomination that you call brother. But you need to realize as I did when I learned his mother laid with a beast to beget him. niklaus is an abomination. You do not talk with abominations. you do not reason with them, or try to change them. You erase them. So yes I’m asking you to help me kill your brother’ Elijah looked at his father in disbelief as Mikael talked about fratricide as if it was a normal and honorable thing
‘you are crazy to believe that’ elijah spats
‘I’m doing you a favor son. By getting rid of your brother you and your lovely y/n will finally be free from him and from me. No more running, I will leave you alone. And no more having to try to make reason that monstrous beast you are trying to protect.’
‘never’
Mikael is not impressed by elijah’s loyalty as he tries a new approach. ‘maybe I should stake her, that would teach you a lesson. Knowing your precious wife died because of your stupid sense of duty towards the beast you call brother’ Mikael threatened
elijah let out a scream of battle taking his father and throwing him again the wall, but mikael was stronger and faster and caged elijah against the wall.
Mikael raises his white oak stake, pushing Elijah to the wall and rising it to his heart as elijah tries to block him
‘stand with me, or fall with him. choose son’ Mikael says giving him an ultimatum, elijah tries to push him away and he manages to
‘ I will always choose him!’ he shouts at this father
Mikael takes another wood stake from the door and stabs Elijah, that turns grey his eyes fixated on your temporary lifeless figure on the sofa as his father sighs in disappointment and leaves
-.-.-
‘first time out as a couple with my blessing and marcel stood you up’ klaus mocks Rebekah as the opera is about to start, them seated in their private balcony
‘something must have delayed him’ she says with false confidence looking around and feeling anxious
‘or now that your illicit affair is out in the open he is not interested anymore’ klaus continues mocking her
‘don’t be such a pain, I will check the lobby’ Rebekah gets up offended
‘as you go see if you can find our brother and y/n. hopefully they had the decency to leave their carnal instincts at home and enjoy the premier with us. Which I highly doubt, those two are worse than rabbits in mating seasons, but curtain is about to go up and I would hate for them to miss it’ said Klaus to Rebekah as she leaves while he smirks looking at the opera theater he helped build
Then klaus feels the white oak stake lied against his back, held by Mikael that was sitting behind him
‘If I were you I would not try to flee boy’ Mikael tells him as panic surges in klaus
Klaus talked with his adoptive father, his stand proud before Mikael threatened to end anyone who ever knew him so that he would be forgotten.
But klaus had just to wait, you and elijah would come to his rescue as always. As if Mikael could read his thoughts he said ‘don’t worry about your precious y/n and my son, they will not come for your rescue, I made sure of that, boy’
Klaus closed his eyes fear pervading him, no he thought, you could not be dead but before he could languish in his fear the stage curtain opened revealing marcel and many others Klaus loved dead or drying while the audience clapped, being compelled
Klaus managed to flee to the stage trying to save marcel but Mikael stopped him and Rebekah, staking them both before you and Elijah rushed in as always saving the day.
You pushed Mikael away with your magic, snapping his neck with the flick of your hand as you helped the other mikaelsons flee, but Mikael was already recovering
‘marcel!No!’ you cried seeing him and trying to reach him where klaus had failed
‘brother, y/n, we need to go, it’s too late for marcel’ elijah said painfully as he helped klaus stand up that was looking devastated at his dying son, before launching him towards Rebekah with a nod, klaus picked her up
‘No!’ you tried again as elijah brought you away as you cried
‘y/n listen to me. father will not stop until niklaus is dead. We must go’ he said hurried looking at you, that made you come back to your senses as you fled the building
The three mikaelson siblings and you stood outside the opera breathing for a minute as Mikael set the opera and everyone in it on fire, killing everything you had built and also Klaus humanity
‘are you okay?’ you asked Klaus that bit his own wrist feeding it to Rebekah to revival her
‘I’m okay y/n’ he said nodding at you doing his best to keep his façade up ‘drink sister’ he prompted Rebekah pressing his wrist to her mouth
You could hear Mikael shouts getting nearer
‘we need to go’ you prompted them in a hurry
Elijah broke a metal bar ready to defend you all as Klaus put down Rebekah feeding her more of his blood to make her ready to run
‘marcel’ she asked as all of you looking at the opera in flame as she regained consciousness
‘he is gone sister’ Elijah replied sadly
‘I’m sorry bex’ a tear rolled down your cheek. You had almost been a mother for marcel, but right now you had no time to cry, you had to flee for your life, the one of your husband and the one of your best friends
‘you will flee the city, I will hold him of’ said Elijah
Panic surged over Rebekah as anger took over Klaus
‘no we fight him together’ Klaus said ready to end this
‘no we cannot fight him. all we can do is do what we always done we deceive him, we lead him far away. I can do that as well as anyone’ continued elijah ‘you take them away from here. to a safe place. I will find you’ elijah promised to Klaus
‘no Elijah you can’t’ cried Rebekah in horror ‘this is my fault’
‘no this is my fault Rebekah. I’m so sorry. Marcell…’ cried Klaus looking at his sister
The opera was burning more as mikael shouting grew nearer
‘ I though we found a home here’ klaus said sadly as a tear rolls down your cheek. You had been happy in new orleans more than ever and for almost two hundred years
‘nikalus please’ Elijah pleaded him, ‘sister’ he said before kissing rebekah on the cheek
‘elijah is right you two go, let us handle him’ you said standing closer to elijah ready to fight Mikael
‘you too my love,’ he says to you looking at the ground
‘what?’ you ask him holding his arm as panic pervades you, he finally looks at you
‘I’m doing this alone, you go with them’ he says again firmly as his heart breaks, his mind trying to impress in his memory every feature of your face
‘no! I’m not going to leave you elijah!’ you shout at him taking his face in your hands your eyes pleading him, he cups your hand that is resting on his face and gives a kiss to your palm ‘nicklaus and rebekah can go I’m staying you will need my magic’ you try to make him reason
‘my father will spare me but I can’t risk him not being generous to you.’ He says wiping your strained cheeks, you had not even noticed that you had started to cry again
‘Brother, take her away and protect her, please’ elijah begs klaus that just nods at him before getting closer to you ‘come on y/n’, klaus tried avoiding your eyes
Elijah cupped your neck bringing you forward in for a kiss. he kissed you in a way he hadn’t kissed you in centuries like, maybe the last time when you thought you were dying. It felt like a goodbye’ you clinged to him not wanting to let go as you opened your eyes Elijah pushed you gently toward Klaus that immediately hold both your arms bringing you towards himself and preventing you from escaping
‘please leave. Go’ elijah begged and Klaus looked at him with teary eyes doubting what to do, he felt like a coward to abandon his brother to mikael
‘no! elijah please’ you begged him crying trying to free yourself from Klaus’s hold
‘leave!’ Elijah shouted firmly to all of you
‘no not without you! niki let me go’ you shouted and begged trying to get rid of his hold but klaus keeps you caged
‘I love you y/n. I will find you. I promise you that’ elijah says giving you a last teary smile as his voice almost breaks
‘klaus let me go!’ you shout again kicking and screaming, you manage to get rid of Klaus lauching yourself at your husband
‘elijah! Please! No!’ you beg elijah again your hands firm on his face as you cry. and he has to close his eyes for a moment, his heart broken by your pleas, but he knows this is the only way to protect you. He opens his eyes again this time a single tear rolling down his cheek, he moves his eyes from you to klaus’s his jaw clenching as the two brothers have a silent conversation just with their eyes
‘I’m sorry sister’ klaus says vamp-speeding forward and snapping your neck as you collapse in your brother-in-law arms.
Elijah kisses your forehead shading a tear, he gives a last nod to his siblings as he vamp speeds away towards Mikael, while klaus with you unconscious in his arms and a crying Rebekah next to him flee the city you called home for over two centuries