another for Day 24 of Febuwhump.
I said I was giving Elijah a break, it seems I lied.
opps I slipped and killed him, but it's fine someone knows CPR.
Familiar Faces - set Season 3 x 15 of the vampire dairies
‘Well’ he thought as he found himself at the bar, alone. ‘at least there was no spilt blood.’
He had arrived with both Klaus and Kol after they had both insisted and Finn had turned them down. ‘A boy’s night.’
It had been centuries and for one night he wanted to forget the tensions that had grown between Klaus and himself.
However it didn't last long as Klaus had left to follow Caroline, once again ignoring Elijah’s past protest over it, Klaus had developed an amazing ability to completely deafen himself every time Elijah argued against his interest in Caroline.
He wasn’t even sure why he was so against it, for Tyler who Klaus had already ruined his life, for Caroline who had been hurt by one of his brothers before, or because he knew klaus and-
Elijah took another drink as his mind reminded him of Aurora, what he had done and how Klaus would take that news.
He sighed as he noticed Kol refusing to take the hint that his charming personality wasn’t wanted, it wasn’t until he recognised the people Kol followed to the corner that he realised something was wrong.
This was meant to be a night out with his brothers, one where they agreed not to kill anyone, he could ignore his concern over whatever his first mother and Finn were up to and forget that the white oak may not be as extinct as they had hoped.
He was just about to stand and follow Kol when a sharp familiar pain stabbed him in his chest, his hand moving automatically to his chest, he couldn't stop himself as he slipped from the stool.
He knew this feeling, he realised, ‘but how was he being daggered?’ He wondered before everything went back.
He didn’t feel the floor as he hit it or hear the shouts that followed.
Meredith wasn’t sure what she expected when she got to the front of the crowd, other than a call for a doctor, she was almost thankful for it as it had given Alaric a cover to leave with the vampire, however as the sight greeted changed her mind; Elijah Gilbert flat on the floor eyes wide open as he stared at the ceiling.
She wasted no time as she threw herself onto the floor beside him, for a brief moment she thought it was another episode, something she was only faintly aware of but some part of her knew it was more.
The wide open eyes, the fixed stare, the stillness.
It was clear he wasn’t breathing and as she started to check his airways she discovered why.
Her fingers pressed to his neck, she held her breath and hoped.
She leant over, pressing her ear to his chest.
No heartbeat. As she let her training take over, placing him in the correct position and opening his shirt with a quick tear ignoring the flying buttons and entwining her hand over the centre of his chest.
As she started on compression she tried to not wonder what would cause a teenager’s heart to suddenly stop.
She ignored the slight cracks under her hands, six, seven, eight, nine,
The boy was someone this whole plan tonight was meant to protect
Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
The shout for a doctor had come just seconds after they had stabbed the vampire, enough time for him to fall.
Nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three
The dagger in the vampires heart and Elijah’s stopping around the same time
Twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine.
She had a horrible feeling it wasn’t a coincidence.
He’d deal with Caroline later Klaus thought ignoring the twinging ache in his chest.
Arriving to find his younger brother limp in his one time body’s arms wasn’t great but easily dealt with, the human hit the wall with a satisfying crack and Klaus had half a mind to stab Stefan with the dagger but he decided as he threw him over his shoulder that having him watch as Klaus killed his brother was a better plan.
Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen-
It was the fourth set she was halfway through when Meredith almost choked on her relief as Elijah woke suddenly coughing, the heartbeat under her hand beating steadily as if he hadn’t been absent moments before.
“What happened?” he wheezed between coughs, eyeing at her with confusion.
She hesitated and he quickly narrowed his eyes to look at her with suspicion.
“Take me to them before someone dies.” he told her before she could reply.
