Change one's fate

                                    

                                          
Dream sequence
                          
"I did nothing but love that woman till the day you took her life!"
                          
"You didn't want to hurt her, you loved her. You couldn't fight what you have become. You must be afraid that loving you will destroy her. "
                          
"You will not break me."
                          
"Oh, you are already broken my dear, boy!"
                          
"Noooooooooooooooooo!"
                          
Elijah woke up. He looked around  as if he didn't know where he was and Elena now looked at him with eyes wide open as the scream woke her up too.
                          
"Elijah, it's ok. "- she tried to calm him down.
                          
He was in sweat looking at her with his vamped out  eyes. Realizing what had happened he shied away for a moment putting his hands on his face rubbing them.
                          
"Are you-  all right?"- she then asked putting her hand on his arm gently.
                          
It was clear that he was far from all right. 
                          
"I..."- he gasped trying to steady himself. Although he could  control the nightmares a bit better, he still couldn't anticipate what effect they would have on him. 
                          
"Excuse me."- he got up and swished away in the bathroom.
                          
Elena didn't want to pry and  waited patiently letting him to take as much time as he needed. 
                          
After several minutes he got out of the bathroom. He was quiet. 
                          
"You have bad dreams?!"- Elena then said to break the silence.
                          
"Sometimes, yes."- he said shortly as he got dressed. Still pretty dismayed as the horrific flashback of feeding on Tatia streamed out in his head again.  
He glanced at Elena briefly and said- "I... just need to go...I am sorry."- and  left the room in a flash.
                          
"Ook"- Elena said and dressed as fast as she could  hurrying to catch up with  him. Being an Original vampire his speed was something extraordinary and Elena struggled to keep up with him, but  she managed to get to him  just before he was about to commit the act of carnage on a group of people near the cemetery.
                          
"Stay away!"- he shouted at her his eyes glowing red looking at her like a crazed monster.  The magic inside his head was not letting his soul command  to calm and ease down.
                          
This was the first time she saw him without control. It  was clear that something very unusual was going on with him.
                          
"You will be fine, Elijah, look at me."- she said softly nearing him not exhibiting any fear which puzzled him slightly, battling with all his strength to stop the monstrous side take over.
                          
"Don't come near me. Run...run... I will kill you... I can't...I can't control it"- he gasped a bit trying to resist the urge to drink and kill.
                          
"How can I help?"- she said looking into  his eyes reading that they were desperately pleading for help. 
                          
"I can't shake it...I can't..."- he then scratched his hand feverishly - "I left it here."- he now looked for a herb in his jacket pocket.
                          
Elena then courageously stepped forward and looked in the inside pocket and found a small box.
                          
"Is this what you are looking for?"- she then placed it in his hand.
                          
"Yes."
                          
He opened it with his shaking hands and took something that resembled a herbal pill.
                          
A few seconds later, as the herb got into his system, he was relaxed and now looked at Elena with eyes full of shame and pain.
                          
"I am sorry that you had to see me like this."- he said.
                          
Elena shook her head and  just embraced him. His eyes watered. If something ever could lessen the after effects of this nightmarish experience was her compassion. He held her close to him now too.
                          
*****
                          
 At Josephine LaRue's house
                          
"They think it is the end. It has just begun."- Josephine said to Gia.
                          
"They have the most powerful witch on their side, and she defeated their aunt like she was just a girl and not this witch they feared would crush the world."- Gia said.
                          
"Greed for power always ends like that."- Josephine said- "now, let's see what is it that pains you. Ah, I do know. Broken heart."
                          
Gia never appreciated being patronized or mocked and she showed it in the most unpleasing way.
                          
"Have a seat."- Josephine offered her to sit down  and now by the move of a hand made it clear that Gia should keep her emotions under control making it clear that there is no love lost between the witch and the young vampire.
                          
"We have a mutual interest of sorts. You want the woman he so loves gone and I wish the vampires out of this town. It is not his hybrid brother who rules. It is him. The Bennett witch did us a great favour And so we can strike a deal.  "- 
                          
"I will take him away?!"- Gia said.
                          
"Yes. Here is a herb that you need to feed his vampire girlfriend. Befriend her. Make her trust you."- Josephine said- "we will use his method till it is time to strike. When they are lulled into believing nothing comes their way."
                          
******
                          
Elena and Elijah now returned to his home in Algiers.
                          
He freshened himself up and changed.
                          
"Hey...do you feel better?"- Elena inquired as he returned to the living room. 
                          
"Yes... please sit down."- he said as he gently touched her hand-" I need to tell you what  happened to me and why I am like this."
                          
Elena could see that he was deadly serious. The pain inside of him reflected in his eyes. He sighed a little and started-
                          
"My mothe... Esther returned inhibiting a body of another woman,who also was a witch. To shorten the story, in her twisted way, she had the idea that we all should  leave our vampiric bodies and host another one. Not just any, but a witch's body. She captured me and  tortured me, hoping that I would succumb to her devious plan. She evoking memories that I..."- he stopped there and looked at Elena now as if she was a ghost again.
                          
"Elijah..." Elena said in her meek way.
As if awaken he continued-
"I don't know if it is a memory and what was real....anyway, the magic she left makes me dream of"- he gulped a bit-"You know about the doppelganger Tatia and her blood being used to make us vampires and curse Klaus, but you do not know that Tatia was the woman I loved back then...and the woman I killed."
                          
He needed to come clean with her no matter what the outcome would be. If Elena would walk away he would understand. Whatever happened he owed her the truth. Not just because she saw him in his wretched state. She was not just any woman. She was the one that was everything to him.
For some reason the revelation didn't phase her.
                          
"You killed her when you became a vampire?!"- Elena said.
He looked at her with open soul of a man with great regret.
"Yes, Elena."- he confirmed.
                          
"You see her in me...in Katherine. I triggered this, didn't I? "- Elena then said getting up.
                          
"I guess one's fate cannot be changed."- Elijah then said- "I would understand if you..."
                          
"What? Just give up? And forget-  rush out and never look back?!"
                          
He sighed a little and nodded.
                          
"I think it's time we change our fate, don't you think?  I don't give up on the one's I love."- Elena said.
                          
She now moved to him and took his hands in hers.
                          
"Change one's fate..."- he uttered looking at the way she intertwined her fingers with his.


                          
"Yes"-Elena said looking him deep in the eyes-"yes!"