Elijah Mikaelson’s reaction to you asking him out would include...
there’s a loud pause in the room
you didn’t think pauses could be loud but there it was
Elijah took a good few seconds to respond
you could practically see the words sinking into his mind, being processed, sound waves being decoded and translated for meaning as all conversation works, and then it just coming out as just ???????? result in his brain
it’s a little bit adorable but a lot nerve-wracking
Elijah does the narrowed-eyes thing that he does when he’s trying to understand something
you just wait for him to reboot
you’re sort of scared that you broke him
he doesn’t exactly give you an answer
he’s more trying to figure out what just happened
he tells you that he thought he’d be the one to ask you out
you get the feeling this has to do with the whole traditional thing but you also know Elijah is, in his own words, a devote feminist.
you point this out to him
his lips quirk up in a smile and he concedes to your point
he says you can pick him up at 7
now you’re the one standing there like ??????
you can’t believe that he said it
like you kind of got the idea he would but just hearing it out loud is
you just
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