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Halloween Fun (For havenosecrets)

Elijah wasn't convinced that going to the Grill was the best choice he and Jenna could make, but it was Halloween and there was a party, and she needed to feel like there was some normalcy left in her life, changed as it was. Maybe Ric would stay away and they could avoid the awkwardness all together.

His luck really hadn't been that great, lately, though.

And the knowledge that Stefan was back in town didn't help.

Nevermind Rebekah, if that rumor was even true.

Klaus was gone, and Elijah had avoided him and Jenna was safe, so the worst was surely over, yes?

Maybe his luck was changing.

So, it was, that he put on the costume he'd picked out--Victorian elegance with sweeping long coat, leather waistcoat, goggles on his top hat and clockwork pieces dangling. He'd discovered Steampunk and he was in love. The science fiction element added to the era of clothing he'd always loved best was an impossible draw, even if he felt it was a little silly to get all excited about it. He hadn't been excited about anything in a long time.

...Except he was, admittedly, really excited about going out with Jenna, even if maybe it was a bad idea. He didn't belong here. Maybe he never would. But with her...maybe he could find a way toward some sort of sense of it for a little while, at least.

Finally dressed, he headed to her place, pausing on the porch and hesitating just a moment before ringing the bell and hoping Jenna would be the one to answer and not Elena.

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Truth to told, Jenna enjoyed the feel of his hand against her back and her smile grew as he lifted his fingers to toy with the ends of her hair. It helped her to feel connected and grounded as well, especially since she could sense that he was having moments of doubt. They had chosen to be there but she knew it had to make him somewhat uncomfortable to under the scrutinizing gaze of the girls. Was he worried about what they would say to her?

"Whiskey." She answered him with a warm smile. "What are you having?"

He was more worried about what their disapproval would do to her. He didn't want her to be hurt because of him, especially not by those she cared about. He'd done enough to cause her harm.

"Whiskey, as well, I think," he said, leaning in to brush a kiss over her temple. He leaned against the bar, flagging down the bartender and ordered them both a glass of whiskey.

A sense of another presence drew his attention while they waited, and he turned to find himself staring into a highly displeased pair of blue eyes.

"Damon." He shifted back to Jenna, arm sliding back around her a little more possessively.

Jenna felt a chill race down her spine as Elijah turned to greet Damon but she didn't let it show as she turned around to face him as well. "Damon."

She knew he wasn't going to be pleased to see Elijah there and probably more because of the fact that Damon and Ric were good friends. Glancing sideways, she looked for her ex-boyfriend but saw that Elena was quickly making her way towards them instead.

"Jenna." Damon flicked a gaze at her, quick and assessing before shifting his attention back on Elijah. "What are you doing here?"

Elijah reached for the delivered whiskey, handing one to Jenna and taking a sip of his own. "I heard there was a party."

"You never struck me as the party type."

"You never bothered to get to know me well enough to find out."

Klaus had run off with Damon's brother. Elijah was sorry for that, but he wasn't really feeling particularly generous to the Salvatore brothers, no matter how sorry he might be for what had gone down.

Taking the drink from Elijah, she looked to Damon again. "I invited him."

"Damon." Elena joined the group, keeping her voice soft even as it held a note of warning for the Salvatore to behave. She looked a bit uneasy as she studied everyone for a second before offering a tight smile to the Original. "Hello, Elijah."

Then she looked at her aunt. "I like your outfit, Jenna."

"Thank you." Jenna managed a small smile, sipping her drink again as she looked at Damon and Elijah once more.

Damon shot Elena a displeased look, though he didn't snap anything that was obviously on his mind.

"Isn't that just cozy," he muttered, waving at the bartender to get him a drink.

Elijah gave Elena an answering smile, just as tight, though he didn't move his arm from around Jenna. "Elena."

"Why?" Damon asked, turning away from the bar to face them, shooting Elijah a glare, before fixing his gaze and the question on Jenna. "He let us down, and let Klaus go."

Clearly the fact that if Elijah hadn't done that, he'd be dead wasn't forefront in his mind.

Elena pursed her lips at the displeased look she got from Damon but she didn't say anything. She wondered what Elijah was doing there too, especially with Jenna.

Jenna arched a brow at Damon. "Why would anyone invite someone out somewhere, Damon?" She asked, sarcasm rich in her tone. Then her voice dropped to a lower tone as she glanced around, not wanting anyone to overhear them. "As for the rest, this really isn't the place to talk about what happened."

Elijah slid his arm around Jenna a bit more firmly. He could take their displeasure. Elena's resemblance to Katerina aside, he didn't much care what either of them--any of them--thought.

And he couldn't begrudge them their anger.

"Ric's supposed to be here." Damon didn't respond to the rebuke, but he didn't say anything else that might be overheard and get them in trouble.

That made Elijah flinch a bit inwardly. He knew Ric was never going to be a comfortable topic, and it would appear now he'd lied yet another time. He had said, after all, that he wasn't after Jenna. "We can go," he murmured to her, softly, though he knew Damon would still hear him.

Jenna felt a flicker of guilt at the mention of Ric. She knew how it probably looked to everyone else, for her to end things with Ric only to end up with Elijah. She knew they wouldn't understand what she was thinking or how she felt.

Even as Elijah told her that they could leave, she felt conflicted. A part of her wanted to agree because perhaps it would be easier on them all if they did but a part of her was annoyed. Annoyed that they should be made to feel they had to hide away and that everyone just seemed to expect it.

"He's not here right now." Either way, Ric would hear about her being there with Elijah, she was sure of that much. After she drained the glass, she placed it sharply on the bar.

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Elijah would follow her lead, so he nodded, sipping at his whiskey, but motioning for the bartender to give her another. Causing anyone more pain wasn't something he really wanted to do--but neither did he want to hide away.

He may have failed them, but being with Jenna, so long as she wanted, was not wrong. They were not doing anything wrong. And she needed to be his main concern.

"I heard my sister was in town."

Damon rolled his eyes. "Oh, yeah. She's a treat."

Elijah's lips curved slightly in a bit of a smile. Rebekah was...Rebekah.

Jenna stayed quiet as she struggled to control the emotions rolling around inside of her like a storm. Leaning against Elijah, she looked over the crowd as he ordered another drink and then she glanced at Elena as the topic of Rebekah was brought up.

"Klaus had her stay behind to watch Tyler." Elena frowned, somewhat worried over the idea. She had seen the way Rebekah looked at Tyler and that left Elena concerned about Caroline.

"Why did he leave?" Jenna finally asked with a frown.

"Watch him?" He asked, frowning slightly.

"Tyler's our newest member of the hybrid freak community," Damon said, not noting that Elijah's eyes darkened a little at that. Whatever else Klaus was, whatever he'd done--he was Elijah's brother and the lack of acceptance for what he was--through no fault of his own--was what had started all of this.

He didn't follow the urge to rip Damon's heart out, though he tensed some beside Jenna.

"Yes, why leave then?"

Damon smirked. "Because I told him Katherine had found Mikael."

Which pretty much made the bottom feel like it had fallen out from under Elijah. If Katerina had woken Mikael...his heart ached a little for the girl he'd once loved. No good could have come of it for her, let alone what was coming for them.

"You're all fools."

"Did she actually find him?" Jenna asked with a frown, hoping that it had just been a bluff on their parts. That they had simply said it, using it as a way to chase Klaus off for a little while. "Is he on his way here?"

Jenna didn't even want to think about it if he was.

"So she says," Damon said, giving Elijah a look that said he didn't appreciate being called an idiot. "What? Daddy issues? I know how that goes."

Elijah didn't rise to the bait, just shaking his head. "Mikael would happily kill all of you, simply for existing, or for getting in his way."

"I don't intend to get in his way if his way is headed toward your brother."

Elijah sighed. "Mikael considers anyone in his airspace in his way, sometimes."

"But we're not going to be in his way." Elena pointed out. "We all want the same thing."

Which sounded reasonable enough but Jenna knew that it wasn't that easy for Elijah to hear even if he had agreed that there was possibly no other way. "Are we absolutely sure that he's the best and only way?" She asked with a little frown.

Elijah fixed Elena with a look. "And in the meantime, you are the doppelganger Klaus needs to make what my father will only see as unnatural monsters. He," He nodded at Damon, "has a reputation for recklessness that my father cannot stand to allow to fester. Stefan is Klaus's bosom companion, and a Ripper--in need of putting down by any vampire hunter's definition. Jenna was a piece of the ritual, turned by blood my father has always considered unclean. Tyler is a hybrid--and all those must be destroyed. Caroline might make it out all right, and he might spare Bonnie out of a fond memory of my mother, but, though I know none of you give a damn, Rebekah and I will undoubtedly end up on his list for having ever sided with Klaus and I, doubly, for failing to follow through in killing him."

He reached for his new drink, fingers curling around it. "But, don't worry. He's only been trying to kill Klaus for a thousand years. I'm sure he'll leave you all alone until then, at least."

Elena tried her best to look unafraid as Elijah laid out all the reasons why they shouldn't use Mikael's help to kill Klaus but there was no hiding the way her heart betrayed her fear by racing a little faster. It wasn't fear for herself but fear for those she was close to. Even as she worried about Stefan, her eyes flickered to Damon as the thought of anything happening to him scared her just as much. Then she felt guilty because it took half a second to remember the tohers like Jenna and her friends.

"There must be a way we can reason with him."

"What if there's not, Elena?" Jenna asked with a soft frown. "Elijah is right. What if he comes here, kills Klaus and then comes after the rest of us?"

"Good luck with that," Elijah said, probably a little more sharply than he meant, but honestly--Mikael scared him, a lot. Mikael scared Klaus a lot, and they ought to take that into consideration.

"You're not being helpful," Damon pointed out, frowning.

"My help isn't really something you've ever wanted or welcomed," Elijah rejoined.

"Yeah, well. Your plan sucked. And you didn't even follow through."

Elijah couldn't argue with that--he should have killed Klaus. "Would you kill Stefan if saving him could ensure Elena's safety? ...Would you kill him even if it meant her death?"

"You swore you would. That you could."

"He has my family--all of my siblings--held hostage. I couldn't consign them to eternal death, if there was a chance to save them."

"How's that working out for you?"

For a moment, Elijah looked like he'd very much like to slam another pencil into Damon's neck.

Jenna watched quietly as the two of them went back and forth and she slid a hand down to curl her fingers around Elijah's with a little squeeze since she could tell his frustration with the other vampire was mounting. "It's something we're working on." She put some emphasis on the word that made it clear she was working with the Original while fixing Damon with a cold and disapproving look that he had gotten used to by now.

"Hey, guys." Caroline appeared on the edge of the gathering with a bright smile that was strained at the edges, mainly because she was forcing the cheerful look. "I know things are really stressful at the moment but this is supposed to be a party..."

"Right, maybe this is something we should talk about later." Elena reached out, touching Damon's arm even while she remained focused on Elijah. "And I would like to." She hoped he would understand that she wanted to talk to him, perhaps privately.

"That might be the best idea." Jenna nodded, still looking at Damon.

Elijah's fingers curled back around hers in response, holding her hand tightly, but not too tightly. More than Caroline's appearance, it was a reminder of what he'd wanted for the night--even if he'd been afraid of something more like this.

Damon looked vaguely annoyed at the interruption, but he shifted a little closer to Elena at her touch, almost instinctively, though he returned Jenna's look steadily, not flinching away from the disapproval. As far as he was concerned, he was in the right here, for once.

Elijah glanced between the teenager girls before focusing on Elena and nodding slightly. "Later is fine." If they were all still alive. "If we're done here, then, I'd like to dance with Jenna."

"I would like that." Jenna nodded, looking at Elijah.

"You promised me a dance too." Elena reminded Damon though who knew if she had actually asked him or not.

"Good, everyone get out and have fun!" Caroline flashed them all with a bright smile, pleased. She was convinced they all needed to have fun and to make memories, all that jazz.

Jenna refrained from rolling her eyes in slight amusement though relaxing was hard at the moment. Still holding Elijah's hand, she nodded to the dance floor. "Ready?" Or she wondered if he wanted another drink.

The look Damon shot Elena was not one of his more romantically endearing, but he gave in, if not with good grace. Shifting, he reached to take her hand, still leveling a look at Elijah.

Elijah held his gaze for a moment, then looked at Jenna with a smile. "I'm ready."

Elena knew that Damon wasn't pleased and it worried her. Damon could be a little unpredictable when he wasn't happy about something, so she hoped she could distract him for a little while. Of course, that could be hard at times with everything else going on.

"Good." Jenna nodded, smiling back. "Let's go."

Moving out onto the dance floor, Jenna looked at Elijah. "Are you okay?" She asked softly, turning to face him.

Damon wasn't particularly easy to distract when this cranky, but he was willing to let Elena try.

Elijah, in the meantime, moved with Jenna, wrapping his arms around her when they got to the floor and focusing his attention on her, though part of him was half looking for Rebekah.

"I'm fine," he said, sliding a hand up to cradle her jaw. "I'm sorry all of this got in the way."

Wrapping her arms around Elijah, there was no hiding the wry smirk as she shrugged a bit. "It's okay. You learn to accept that things never really go as planned around here." It was okay that part of him was looking for Rebekah since part of her was keeping an eye out for Ric now that Damon had mentioned him.

"At least we can enjoy ourselves for a little while, right?" She leaned into his touch.

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