this is my version of ‘Pride and Predjudice’ TVD/TO style
Well, blame it on this picture up there for me writing this AU story. As always thanks for reading. A post from @rissyrapp20 just got me look into my archives for this story. Also I love Pride, Predjudice and Zombies 😘😁💕😁
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"Forgive me, I hope you are feeling better." Elijah said as he entered the room where Elena was sitting at the table.
"I am, thank you. Would you like to sit down?!" Elena offered.
Elijah nodded a little and then, instead of sitting down, he walked, in a very huff and puff way to the window looking out and then at the slender brunette. She didn't quite understand the vampire’s sudden visit, and his demeanour wasn't his usual one.
Elena, nevertheless, waited patiently to hear what this announced visit was about, not understanding what has brought him to her friend's house.
As he entered the room, where she waited for him, all that what he felt for her for quite a long time now just came out of him without no restraint and he said looking straight in the eyes, his heart thumping wildlly.
"In vain I have struggled, it would not do. My feelings would not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardetnly I admire and love you. In declaring myself thus I am fully aware that I will be going expressly against my family, my friends and my better judgement. But it cannot be helped - almost from the earliest moments of our acquaintance I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard - which despite all my struggles has overcome every rational objections - and I beg you to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife"
Elena's astonishment was beyond expression. She looked at Elijah with eyes that cried complete surprise. She then swayed to the window looking out for a second and then turned to the vampire, now looking at him with darkened eyes -
"In such cases, I believe, I should say yes. But I can't- I could never marry you. How would my best friend say- oh- she would say this- I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly. I am sorry to cause pain to any one, but was unconsciously done- and, " Elena paused, taking a deep breath said," I hope will be of short duration."
Elijah stepped away and walked over to the chair where he had left his hat and gloves. He turned to her and feeling all the pain cut through his heart he said-
"And this is all the reply which I am to have the honour of expecting! I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little endeavour at civility, I am thus rejected. But it is of small importance."
"What? Oh - you wish to know - well- why with so evident a desire of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character? You see- ahm- even if my feelings hadn't decided against you had they been indifferent, or had they even been favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of my very best friend? But there are so many other things-"
As Elena said all those things, Elijah changed his colour, but he didn't say anything and listened to the brunette.
"I have every reason in the world to think really bad of you. No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted when you separated Bonnie from your brother Kol? You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other? Letting Kol believe that she has decided for Luka Martin and that she only played with your brother's feelings, when it really wasn't so?"
He couldn't deny it. It was so. He had played a part to separate them.
"She is a witch and- you know so very well that vampires and witches cannot be." Elijah said.
"Yes, but- how - do you then percive that we- a hunter and a vampire could? It is absolutely beneath you to be with woman that comes from a family that has killed your kind?" Elena threw at the vampire.
"There is one difference between those you call my kind- We have emotions, and those others- the creatures of the night don't-" Elijah replied.
"Yes, I know that. And even though I am in other ways quite superior to your kind, in many others I am not. I am just a pretty little peasant girl deep down, even though my family does have coats of arms stuck on their entrance door bestowed by the Queen." Elena said.
Elijah was quiet. They looked at one another and one could feel that Elena wanted him to leave, even though deep down her heart was not sure that it was so.
The conversation had come to the end. He knew where she stood and this would be their last meeting, but still he had to know just what were the other thing that she had against him.
"The other thing -" the vampire started but the huntress shot up- cutting him in the middle,"Yes- the other thing! Just before arriving here, in New Orleans, I had the pleasure to meet Lucien Castle, and his friends, the Count De Martel and his sister, who you have brought down to utmost poverty and ruin. How do you defend yourself on that account?"
You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns" Elijah said, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour.
"Their misfortunes have been great. It was not the first time you meddle in the business of your brothers. What about Aurora DeMartel and Klaus?"
"Their misfortunes!" Elijah replied contemptuously. "Yes, their misfortunes have been great indeed. And this," the vampire walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully. My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! But perhaps," he added, stopping. He then turned to Elena, "these offenses might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?"
Elena felt her anger now rising up in her veins every moment his words came shooting out, and yet she tried hard to speak now, keeping her cool. "You are mistaken, Mr Elijah Mikaelson, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner."
"You have said quite enough, Lady Elena. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness." having said that Elijah bowed a little and left the room, leaving Elena in complete state of shock struggling with her own heart and tears that she so furiously wanted to stop from falling down. She turned her head to the window and saw him now mount his horse and ride off. His words drummed in her head like loudest thunder-"
"and I beg you to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife.
