Rebekah cheered as finally she and Damon won the little tournament. Katherine would have gladly rip all that blonde hair out of the Original vampiress, but she kept her cool somehow.  

Stefan shot the last of his drink and put the cue away, ready to leave. 

"You can't leave just now Stefan!"- Damon wanted to play more. 

For him it was fun to see the way Katherine and Rebekah battled every shot out trying to outdo one another when they actually had to use less or none of their speed and power.

But Stefan's emotional lever again moved drastically and he now wanted to be by himself. Damon always was the effort arm, but Stefa just had enough.

"Come on then... these two will think we are the absolute bore-" 

"I really don't care..."- Stefan said. 

"You can come and see my new house!...a house-warming party is just what you two need...I will even invite this blond cheater here!" 

Rebekah was seething but the announcement that Katherine got a house made everyone open their eyes wide. 

"A house?!"- Damon said- "since when do you play small town?" 

"Why not...someone's brother here is out of this world..." 

"That does it!"- and Rebekah charged now at Katherine holding her by the neck and if both Damon and Stefan didn't intervene this would have been Katherine's last moment in this world. 

"Now what did we say about the rules of the game?!"- Damon reminded them. 

Rebekah moved away. She could never stand Katherine, but there has never been a legimitate reason why. It was once again Klaus' doing, drumming into Rebekah's head that Katherine was the ultimate enemy. 

"You better start compelling everyone here"- Damon said to Rebekah- "cos Sheriff Forbes is on her way!" 

Rebekah did as he suggested. When Liz had arrived, everything seemed to be fine. Just a misunderstanding. 

"We are about to leave..."- Stefan said- "the guy had a few too many drinks and Damon sorted it!" 

"Right"- Liz said doubting that it was anything like that but she knew that it had been vampires business.She looked at Damon, who told her not to worry and that all is under control. 

"I think it is best you leave the Grill!"- Liz said and went away. 

"And so..."- Damon looked at Katherine- "show us your new little picked fenced house!" 

Rebekah left the Grill and went back to the Boarding house. Stefan followed her as he didn't wish to stick around Katherine. 

Damon's curiosity was bigger than anything, and so he followed Katherine to her new Mystic Fall's home.

**** 

As Jeremy left the Mikaelson Mansion, Elena went into the woods to look for Elijah. she was concerned for him. Although she has witnessed his cruel side, and then one that could distance himself from pain, she also knew that he was caring and that all mattered to him, that he now was helpless and that he was to depend on someone else. 

Her eyes ajusted to the night like it does to all nocturnal beings of this world. Instinctively she focused on the sounds around trying to locate him. 

'Listen to your heart'- she thought she heard a voice say. She closed her eyes and then she could see where he was.  

"The caves!"- she utterd- "I should have known!- she hurried to find him now.

********** 

"Elena is with Elijah"- Caroline moaned- "Damon and Stefan are probably drinking the barrels of Bourbon...I am bored" 

Matt then looked at her. 

"You are bored...why don't we crash into a festival...you love to dance.. let's forget the Werevolve, Elena, The Originals and have some fun!" 

"Fun...come on then...I really like the vamp you... You should have turned ages ago!"- Caroline's eyes sparkled. 

"Strange isn't it... and when I think I wanted to die..."- Matt hopped into his car and Caroline followed. 

The night now looked promising. 

*********** 

Sophie took the first flight available from Richmord airport. Jane- Anne had reread the prophecy and something wasn't really clear to her, but what was more alarming to her was that the first sighting of Hundings were seen in town, and that a vampire Marcel had one of his man killed and the other barely managed to escape a strange looking werewolf he had never seen before. 

She had found a strange old spell that had stopped them coming in to the  French quarter. 

******** 

In the Boarding House, Stefan took a drink from the fridge. 

"Want some?"- he offered to Rebekah. 

"Thank you"- she took a mug and he poured some of the blood. 

"Type A"- he said. 

"What happened to you? You've been so much more fun in the 20s?!"- she said. 

"I was a psychotic killer without emotions then... not going there anymore" 

"I know...but having fun is something that is allowed, especially after you break up with something... ok, then we did what we wanted, without caring... "

"I want to care!"- he said. 

"It's a vicious circle...I know...oh, do I know...but you will get her out of her system..." 

"Really?...Are you going to compell it out of me?" 

"No..."- she said- "I'm done with the uberoriginal... do you think that only Elena deserves love...? That I don't want it... that I am just a girl who goes from one brother to another because they are hot?!" 

"Yes.. you are like Katherine...no different!" 

"You are doing this to hurt yourself..." 

"No.. I am doing this to get it all out of the system!" 

"OK...has there ever been another woman... that was not Katherine or Elena- the one you had genuine feelings for but never crossed the line because you thought that if it goes wrong it will ruin everything?!"- Rebekah inquired. 

"Yes!"- he admitted and she was surprised that he would be so honest. 

"Who?"- she wanted to know. 

"Lexi!"- Stefan said and Rebekah looked at him astound as he never had expected that answer. 

"I never crossed the line, because the friendship meant so much to me..." 

"But you wanted to ?!" 

"Oh yes...she gets me and she...has these eyes and a smile that makes the world a better place..." 

Rebekah now smiled a little. 

"I lived for a thousand years and when a man speaks of a woman like this- that is not friendship only- you were in love with her...but... fear takes over in a man- when she is the one- at times the... most of the times men just run away and don't take the chance!" 

"Now...even if I wanted to...she isn't here anymore!"- Stefan said- "good night!" 

He left her and went to the bedroom that once belong to Zachary. 

********** 

Katherine showed Damon around her little house. It was a family house, with four bedrooms, kitchen, living room and a nice garden. 

"You were not kidding!"- he said- "something doesn't add up here... what are you trying to prove?"- he teased her. 

"Nothing... just though I get a house too!"- she said. It was far from the real truth but she was acustomed to subdue all that she really felt and always showed Katherine Pierce, the monster, the cheat,the vixen. Katerina Petrova couldn't come out at all, and yet it is Katerina who longed for a family house and friends, as well as someone that truly loved her. 

"Something doesn't make sense anymore"- Damon then said- "this witch that saved Elena, must have done something to all of us... you are getting a house... Rebekah is hanging around us...Elena has apparently fallen for Elijah..." 

"What...?? I can't get a house?! Why...? Only you and Stefan can look for some kind of normal life..." 

"You see...when you came here last time- you were this vicious creature that wanted to kill us all and get your deal!" 

"As I remember you weren't a peach yourself once not so long ago!"- she shot back at him. 

"Now you will actually say that you actually care?!"- he spat back at her. 

And before he knew she grabbed him and kissed him. Damon could never restit her, before he managed but only barely. Now he pulled out of the kiss and looked at her with mixed feelings of loathing and yearning. Then he pulled her to him and they crashed on the sofa. He only now wanted to feel her kisses and ease some of the pain that roamed his soul. 

************* 

Elijah stood in front of the caves where he once held Elena captive. Elena neared him calling out his name softly. 

He didn't turn around but acknowledged her presence. 

"Please talk to me!"- she pleaded and now took his hand as she came from behind him. 

"For the first time I cannot do anything..."- he said. 

She didn't know what to say, but just being there, made everything easier. He was now facing her. 

"How things turn around...we have powerful enemies!" 

"I can only imagine!" 

He looked up at the moon again and then at her saying- "I never trusted anyone...just myself!" 

Elena's compassion streamed at him and he could feel it glowing out of her at him. She said assuringly-

"Now... you should trust ...your mother!... I feel that she is not bad...I really do!" 

"You are such a believer in good..." - he caressed her face lovingly. The faint light of the moon caught  her and he couldn't believe that she stood there, and that all this was for real.  The good shines on you at the worst moments in one's life. 

"You can trust me...I know...maybe it is crazy to say this... I betrayed you..." - she said.

"Well,... talking of betrayals... actually I don't want to go there anymore... you give as good as you get..."

"You are right!... let's now start from the beginning... we have to trust one another now... if these werewolves are dangerous...we only have eachother now...and... my friends!...I have to tell you that Sophie left to New Orleans...but she said that she will be back.. 

"Why?" 

"Her sister is in some kind of danger!"- Elena said. 

"What kind of danger?" 

"It didn't say in the message!"- Elena said. 

Elijah thought for a moment. Then looked at her seriously. 

"What is it?" 

"We need to follow her...she must have some clues about the Hunding?!" 

"Why do you say that?" 

"Her sister had problems with vampires and werewolves in New Orleans..." 

"You managed to help her, right!" 

"Yes, Elena... I'll tell you all on the way come on..." 

He took her by the hand they went back to the Mansion.

The night had an unusual rytham. Elijah looked at Elena, and he knew a long time that she was  the mate he was looking for. He had always wanted to have someone by his side, who could lift him up when his spirits were down, the one that would share his worries and he had hoped that he would be able to give as he gets. So it was about all, even the betrayals. At one moment just before the house he stopped and without saying anything he simply kissed her.

In the boarding House, Rebekah knocked at Stefan's door and then walked in. 

"I don't want to be by myself"- she said. The Original vamp now looked more like a young woman, who was in need of a some compassion and love. Stefan was silent for a moment. He had never seen Rebekah so sincere, putting her feelings up on the sleeve. 

"Come in..."- he said- and she walked up to him and he took her by the hand and they layed down on the bed. She nestled up to him. 

"Thank you, Stefan!"- she muttered. 

"Shshshs..."- he said.

******** 

Matt and Caroline danced to the song Rhythm of the Night and the night really was full of magic.

YOU CAN PUT JOY UPON MY FACE

OH SUNSHINE IN AN EMPTY PLACE

....

OH I CAN EASE YOU OF YOUR PAIN

FEEL YOU GIVE ME LOVE AGAIN

ROUND AND ROUND WE GO.....

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