CHAPTER FOURTEEN: dangerous liaisons

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JENSEN GILBERT PACED BACK AND FORTH IN THE HOSPITAL. They were waiting for Alaric.

"How's Mr. Saltzman?" Matt asked when Elena and Jensen walked up to him.

"Resigned to spending the night in observation, so long as I promise to change the lock on the house," Elena answered. "So I talked to Bonnie earlier. She and her mom are fine. Have you talked to Caroline?"

"Yeah, she's holding it together, considering how close she and her dad used to be. Any word on who's behind these attacks?" Matt asked back.

"No, Sheriff Forbes said there's no real suspects at all." Jensen answered

They're now walking outside the hospital in the parking lot.

"How are you dealing with everything? I mean, you keep getting dragged into all of this." Elena told the blue-eyes boy.

"Honestly...I'm kind of lucky, the only thing that I have to worry about for tomorrow, is showing up for my shift at the Grill."

"Thank you, for everything today. Really."

"Get home safe."

"Thanks."

Elena sighs and walks to her car. Matt gets into his car and reverses out. Elena and Jensen's wave to him from inside her car as he's driving away. Elena starts her car, starts reversing, and hits something. She stops driving immediately.

"You are not allowed to drive anymore!" Jensen told her, as he got out.

She gets out of her car and checks her bumper. The twins look at the empty space in confusion. They turn back around, Jensen following to beat Elena to the front seats, when suddenly, Rebekah appears.

"Drive much?" Rebekah asked.

"Rebekah." Elena gasped out.

Rebekah grabs Elena and pushes her against her car. Jensen moved to pull Rebekah back, the girl ignored him. "Surprised? You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt." Rebekah gets tired of Jensen moving to pull her off-making her use more pressure on Elena- and pushed him back.

Jensen doesn't hit the ground, arms wrapping around his waist and easily lifting him up. He was quickly placed on his feet. And then Rebekah was pinned to the car, making her left go of Elena.

"Elijah?" Jensen questioned.

"Leave." He releases his grip. Rebekah steps forward. "Are you challenging me?"

"You're pathetic. All of you." Rebekah looks at the twins, then speeding away.

"Well...I believe we have a little catching up to do," Elijah tells the twins.
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Elena, Jensen, Stefan and Damon are all in the Gilbert kitchen. Elena called the Salvatore brother over the next morning after Elijah revealed everything that has happened.

"It was their mother Esther who was sealed in that coffin," Elena tells the brothers.

"As in the Original Witch?" Stefan questioned.

"No. As in the fucking tooth fairy," Jensen sarcastically snapped.

"He hasn't slept much. Or eaten," Elena tells the brothers when Stefan raised an eyebrow at the other.

"That happens a lot, doesn't it?" Damon sarcastically asked, teasing the human.

"I will vervain your bourbon," Jensen threatened.

Damon ignored the threat. "How is she even alive? Thought her hybrid freak show of a son ripped her heart out a thousand years ago."

"I don't know. I'm guessing she has a couple connections in the witching community. Elijah said that she wants to live in peace with her family, including Klaus," Elena says

"She was supposed to be the weapon to help us kill Klaus." Stefan sighed.

"Maybe it's a trick," Jensen joked.

Elena slid the cup of coffee to Jensen. "Drink."she turned back to the vampires. "Well, not anymore...at least not according to Elijah."

"That coffin was the only thing stopping Klaus from tearing us to shreds," Stefan speaks again.

"Anyone else feeling a little used right now?" Damon questions.

"Look, Elijah promised Jensen and I that his family wouldn't hurt any of us," Elena says. The doorbell rings.  "I believe him."

Elena goes and opens the door. No one is there, but on the doormat is an envelope with an ornately-handwritten "Elena Gilbert" on the front. She picks it up, pausing when seeing that there was another one, different hand writing then the first, with Jensen's name, she picks it up then closes the door, and turns around. Damon and Stefan are in the lobby near her.

"What is it?" Damon asked.

Elena hands Jensen his letter, then opens her own. "It's an invitation. "Please join the Mikaelson Family, this evening at seven o'clock. For dancing, cocktails and celebration.""

"Who the hell are the Mikaelsons?" Stefan asked.

Jensen looked up at him. "So, I expect this from Damon, but you? Did your IQ go away with your humanity?"

Elena slapped his arm. "Jensen!" She scolded. "The Original Family."

"It's not bad enough they're moving into town, now they want a housewarming gift?" Damon asked.

She turns the card over and sees there's writing on the back. "Wait, there's a note on the back. "Elena, I think it's time that we finally meet, Esther."" Elena took Jensen's note, flipping it over. Then handing it back to him. "Weird. It's not from Esther."

Damon sighed. "Let me guess; Elijah?"
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"If Esther wants to talk to me, maybe I should find out why," Elena said.

"Well that's a dumb idea, she already tried to kill you once," Damon says.

"No, Elena is right." Stefan spoke up. "Bonnie was led to open that coffin for a reason. I think there is more to this than just some family reunion."

"Can we go back in time where the old Stefan cared if Elena lived or died?" Damon asked his brother.

"What for? It's your job now."

Jensen sighed, throwing his head back. "Children ."

"Stefan has a point, Damon. I should find out what she wants." Elena tells the dark-haired vampire.

"You can't protect yourself."

"Okay fine, then I'll go," Stefan offered up

"You've pissed off enough Originals to last a lifetime. I'll go." Damon snatches the invitation out of Elena's hand.

"Hey!"

"End of story."

"You're rude," Jensen tells Damon.

Damon snatched the invention from Jensen, flipping it to the back. "Oh, how sweet," Damon mocks. "he wants to dance with you."

"This! This is the reason you have no friends! The only friends you have are your friends because of trauma!" Jensen waved his hands around. "Great. Now I've got to get a tux."

"Didn't you steal one of Damon's ties?" Elena asked. "And-"

"You were supposed to give that back!" Damon told the male doppelgänger. "And the shirt!"

"It's a different tie." Jensen argued.

"You stood two of my ties?"
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Jensen had arrived a bit earlier. Or earlier than Elena had. Jensen had taken a taxi, and had been avoiding Damon. Damon and Stefan both said that neither twin was supposed to arrive. And Jensen didn't have a sarcastic comment up for when Damon would find him. That was the only reason he kept dodging Damon.

"Jensen," Elijah smiled.

"Elijah," Jensen smiled back.

"You look nice."

Jensen hoped his face wasn't too red, feeling it heat up.  Don't say something stupid. "I plan to poison your brother's drink with vervain and wolvesbane." Immediately, he shut his eyes closed. You said something stupid. "I mean- that's not what I memento to say. I mean, I totally would do that, he deserves it. He killed my aunt. But, I don't even know how I would manage to poison him. And-"

Jensen kept ranting, Elijah smiling while he does. "And he's looking this way." Jensen realized, actually, the entire family was looking at the two.  They didn't pretend to not be watching the two when they noticed Jensen saw them watching. "Oh fuck. How am I gonna poison the motherfucker now? I mean-"

Kol has walked up to them, despite a Rebekah telling him not to. Klaus looked amused, and Finn looked both disappointed and embarrassed.

Great. That's fucking great.

"Elijah, who's this?" Kol asked.

Jensen turned to Kol. "Hey, you're the one who stabbed Klaus first." He says, wanting to hit himself in the face.

Damon walked up behind Jensen, pulling him a step back from the two Original brothers. "He doesn't handle his liquor very well," Damon gave a smile, one clearly forced.

"Fuck you," Jensen replied. "You're the one who drank vervain bourbon."

"Because you put it there," Damon replied, not looking at Jensen.

"Don't kill my brother." Jensen turned to Kol, extending his hand. "Jensen."

"Kol," the Original took the doopleganger's hand, looking at Elijah as he leaned down. Elijah looked like he was ready to dagger Kol again.

Damon grabbed Jensen's hand, pushing it down. "Oh, look, there's your sister. She looks absolutely deviated you haven't spent a single second with her," Damon says, pulling Jensen.

Elijah reached to stop Damon, side stepping in the way. Kol moved as well, but to watch Elijah threaten Damon.

"You wonder why you have only a few friends." Jensen tells Damon,  then smiling at Elijah. "You look handsome." He quickly said, moving to walk away.

"Oh, so you can say something other then threatening people five feet away from you," Damon says.

"I do have vervain in my pocket. Don't make me use it on you." Jensen threatened.

Rebekah and Klaus walked up to Elijah and Kol.

"Really, Elijah?"

"We have an announcement to make," Elijah says, turning to walk up the stairs. The Mikaelson siblings gather on the steps. "Uh, if everyone could gather, please."

All the Originals are standing on the staircase as Elijah addresses the company. Esther walks down the staircase from upstairs. "Welcome, thank you for joining us. You know, whenever my mother brings our family together like this, it's tradition for us to commence the evening with a dance."

The Salvatore brothers notice Esther.

"Do you see who I see?" Damon questioned.

"Oh, yeah."

"Tonight's pick is a centuries-old waltz, so if all of you could please find yourselves a partner, please join us in the ballroom." Elijah finished.

Esther retreats silently back upstairs. Elena moves to go upstairs, but Damon blocks her way. "Don't even think about it."

Jensen shifted in his spot, stepping closer and closer to the door.

"She wants to see me alone, Damon." Elena replied.

Jensen walked past the two, acting as if he was going to get a drink. Stefan has given him a look when he noticed the other heading towards the door.

"Jensen," Elijah stood behind him. "Why aren't you in the ballroom?"

"I didn't think anyone would notice if I-" Jensen started, pausing as he gesturing to nothing in particular. Jensen didn't finish the sentence unsure of what to say

Elijah waited for the other to finish speaking, but when Jensen didn't speak up again, he held out his hand. "Would you dance with me?"

Jensen grinned back at the other.
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Jensen had followed Elijah's dancing, who had pulled Jensen closed to dance.

When it had came to switching the partners, Jensen had been a bit worried that he would have to be forced to dance with Klaus. He did think it would be easier to poison him if he had. Instead, he had ended up dancing with Kol.

"I see why my brother fancies you," Kol says.

Jensen tilted his head up. "What?"

Kol hummed. "Right. Klaus mentioned that you don't seem to know."

Jensen looked at the other, confused.
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"No wonder Klaus kept Kol daggered, he's confusing as hell," Jensen says, after he had found Elijah, approaching the other.

"What has he done?" Elijah questioned, worried for Jensen, he scanned him, but saw no sign of injuries.

"Nothing. He's just-" saying that Klaus and him talk about you liking me. "a very bad conversationalist. It's like he's trying to catch up in everything that happened in the years he was daggered on a span of a minute."

Elijah knew that Jensen was lying, having not trusted Kol and listened in on the two. He knew Kol was either dropping hints about Elijah's feelings for Jensen, or plan out telling the doopleganger about them.

"Hey, do you know what your mother wants with Elena?" Jensen asked.

Elijah shook his head, taking the empty glass from Jensen, placing it in the tray with the waiter who was walking by before taking one that was filled, handing it over to him. "Well, my mother's ability to forgive my brother after everything he's done to destroy this family strikes me as a little strange to say the least."

"Yeah. I thought she was going to kill Klaus," Jensen replied. "But, I could ask Elena about it."

"Neither of the Salvatore brothers are with you," Elijah points out.

"Yeah. I have no clue where they went. I swear they've been watching me all night, I've just had this odd feeling of being watched." Jensen glanced around. "Oh! There's Elena. Come on, I'm going to ask her about Esther,"

Jensen had moved without thinking. He took a hold of Elijah's hand, pulling him along through the the crowd to Elena. Elena raised an eyebrow at the way Elijah shifted his hand, so instead of Jensen holding his palm, fingers between his thumb and pointed finger, that Elijah had moved it to intertwine his fingers into Jensen's.

Elena knew her brother noticed the change, by the way his face was redder then the last time she had seen him. Jensen didn't drop Elijah's hand.

"So how was my mother?" Elijah questioned.

Elena glanced at the two, back and forth before looking at Elijah. "Intense."

"And for what reason did she need to speak with you in private?" He offers her a glass of champagne. Elena notices Esther on the staircase looking at her. Jensen tilted his head to the sides seeing that Elena was hiding something.

"Elena? Should I be concerned about my mother's intentions?" Elijah asked.

"She just wanted to apologize for trying to have me killed." Elena lied.

"So it's true, then? She's forgiven Klaus?"

"It's true." Elena nodded.

There's a sound of a Crystal ringing. Esther addresses the guests from the staircase. She has a glass of red-tinged champagne in her hand. "Good Evening, Ladies and Gentleman. Waiters are coming around with champagne. I invite you all to join me in raising a glass. It provides me with no greater joy then to see my family back together as one. I'd like to thank you all for being part of this spectacular evening. Cheers!"

Elijah had handed Jensen a glass. Everyone related the last word, cheering back. Everyone drinks from their glasses, including all the Original vampires.

"Cheers," Jensen clicks his glass with Elijah. Then turned up his head. "Hey, have you guys picked out, like, instrumental music or something?"

Elijah raised an eyebrow.

Jensen took a hold of Elijah's hand, smiling widely. "Is there another room? I want to show you a song that you should use if you guys throw a ball like this ever again." He began to pull the other towards another room, taking his phone out. "So, it's a really good song. Personally, I would listen to it on repeat all day."

Jensen typed on his phone, flipping it to show Elijah.     Elena's lying. Whatever was said, wasn't that.

Elijah looked at the screen, he looked at Jensen, making the other know that he had read the screen. Elijah looked up, towards the door. "Stay here. There seems to be a situation."

Elijah left. Jensen waited about two seconds before following.

"Far be it from me to cause a problem," Damon says, looking at Elena before he walks away.

"What the fuck?" Jensen questioned.
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Jensen was unable to stay, having to leave despite him wanting to stay and talk to Elijah longer.

Jensen walked pass Stefan and Elena into the Gilbert house. He had heard what Elena said, heard that Esther planned to bind the Mikaelson siblings together, before killing them.

Jensen took out his phone, scrolling through the contacts before he clicked on Elijah's he paused. Stefan was still here, he would head everything. Jensen looked out his window, he turned on his tv, pulling open his window.
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