@exquisitecursed sent: “ perhaps i don’t say it enough, but… i’d like you to know that i’m always here, if you ever wanted to talk. ”
. elijah slowly looked at tatia who came looking for him on the backside of the stables, and felt her soft touch on his arm. in her vibrant brown eyes laid nothing but sincerity and the corners of his lips lifted slightly upwards as he blended out their surroundings.
"i thank you for the offer" elijah replied and stepped a little bit closer as his brows furrowed. there's indeed something that's on his mind. his eyes squinted slightly, not wanting to offend her by assuming things so he kept quiet for a moment and instead just looked at her.
tatia is really an exquisite beauty, so of course, it comes as no surprise she had the attention of the men in the village. foremost his brother's attention.
"i noticed niklaus interest in you. is that interest ... mutually?" he did not want to start a war with his brother, so he needed to know if her heart was perhaps already taken.
tatia opened her lips to reply but before a sound could escape her lips, everything went black and elijah woke up.
a gasp left his lips at the unexpected and sudden vivid memory of tatia. although she definitely was never forgotten by him, he hadn't thought about her for a longer time. surely the reason for this dream must lay in the recent dinner with niklaus in which his brother reminiscenced tatia.
▬ a few days / weeks later ▬
before the ball is going to start in the evening, elijah decided to go on a walk stately ground of the mansion they currently occupied. he has a bad feeling about his mother's true intentions, especially because she wished to talk to elena, a human doppelgänger.
as much as he'd like to believe his mother has forgiven niklaus as well as the rest of them for what they are, he had serious doubts about it.
elijah came to a halt at the pond the mansion possessed and let his gaze linger on the water. eventually, he heard a sound and turned his head to see elena.
"you're a little early, as far as i know. the ball starts in six hours."
