puppy love } { of bargains and cures

[braveandstupid]

Elena: [looks up as the door opens and frowns, but doesn't push up from where she's leaning against Scott] Matt?

Scott: [and he will look over, and groan] Stiles, what the hell, man?

Matt: Sorry to interrupt. I need to borrow Elena for a moment.

Elena: [glances between the two of them before sitting up more] Borrow me for what?

Matt: A moment of diplomacy.

Stiles: I'm authorized to take Scott here and buy you guys dinner and dessert. For us to pick up while you talk.

Elena: [and given their lives] With who?

Matt: The werewolf in New York City.

Elena: [she nods once before glancing over to Scott] This shouldn't take long, okay? I'm sorry.

Scott: [sighs] Fine, but we're getting the most expensive dinner and dessert in town.

Stiles: [rolls his eyes] whatever you want, Dude. [and he will toss Scott his jacket so they can leave Matt with Elena]

Elena: [she waits for the door to close, before taking a deep breath and turning to Matt] What about Tyler?

Matt: [sits on the table across from her, running his hands over his face] So you know how I can't talk about my job?

Elena: Yeah?

Matt: I've been cleared to tell you about a part of it. And you are not going to like it.

Elena: Of course not. [sighs as she leans back] What's happening?

Matt: [and he will give her the short version of him working for a special team with Hayley and the Mikaelsons current status and the cure for the male side that needs Tyler’s venom]

Elena: [and she can draw the right conclusion without him having to say it] So you want me to talk Tyler into giving them what they need to bring Klaus back.

Matt: Trust me, I'd rather not have Klaus or Elijah back. But if we don't do it and keep Tyler's location safe - Rebecca will hunt him down

Elena: [runs her hands over her face] I don't feel right talking Tyler into this, Matt. This isn't fair.

Matt: I know it's not. It's his choice, and if he doesn't want to do it, we can give him time to run. Hayley's told me she will keep Klaus away from him, which I highly doubt she can do. But... [sighs] Hayley's got a little girl with Klaus. Hope. While she's probably better off without him, I know what it's like not having my dad around. Even if he is an asshat, she deserves to know him.

Elena: [looks down at her hands for a moment, because Klaus is still dangerous, whether he's a father or not, and since Hope and Hayley are living here...] Is Klaus going to be coming here?

Matt: Yeah. Well, not DC. Freya is fixing up a house in Virginia for them. They aren't allowed to return to New Orleans.

Elena: [she swallows, before getting up because she needs to be able to move and not feel like she's trapped. It's clear she's worried about Klaus being here, after everything he's taken from her over the years, and she doesn't know how to negate that threat ... unless Klaus isn't as strong as he used to be. She pauses for a moment, before turning on her heel to face him] I'll talk to him if Klaus takes the cure.

Matt: I'm not authorized to make that kind of deal.

Elena: Then take me to talk to someone who is. But if you want Tyler, the only way he's going to agree is if Klaus can't keep the grip he's held on the world for the last thousand years. Klaus gets the cure, he can live out his life as a human, with his daughter, and we won't bother him. But I need to know that he won't bother us in a way that he can't take back.

Matt: [sighs and pulls out his phone, calling Hayley]

Hayley: [picks up on the second ring] What's up?

Matt: Just as I told you, she's got conditions.

Hayley: And they are?

Matt: We go to talk to Tyler so we don't give up his location to the Mikaelsons, and that Klaus takes the cure to become human so he won't bother Elena anymore.

Hayley: [and there's a deep breath because] I can't promise that, Matt. Making Klaus do anything is a gamble at best.

Matt: He's going to be hungry when you find him. You can just slip it to him. Not like he'll be able to hurt you afterward.

Hayley: I can't do that to him.

Matt: Then you're not going to get Elena's help with this. And I'm not going to lead Tyler into a trap.

Hayley: [takes a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a moment, before she sighs] Give me a few days. I'll try to get him to agree to it. Maybe Marcel can help me convince him. And maybe this will help convince Marcel to leave us in peace.

Matt: Alright.

Hayley: Tell her I'm sorry?

Matt: [looks up at Elena] I will tell her.

Hayley: Thanks, Matt. I know this wasn't easy for you either.

Matt: Yeah, well if this does happen, you're giving me a raise and a paid vacation.

Hayley: Done.

Matt: We can talk more tomorrow.

Hayley: I might not be in the office. But you can call me.

Matt: Will do.

Hayley: Night, Matt.

Matt: Night. [and he hangs up] She'll talk to him and Marcel and see if they can make a deal.

Elena: [she nods again before sitting and burying her face in her hands] I just can't do high school all over again, Matt.

Matt: I know, Elena. That’s why I took this job - to keep that from happening.

Elena: [she looks him at him and reaches forward to give his hand a small squeeze] I know.

Matt: I promised your brother I would keep you safe, and I'm going to do that.

Elena: We both know those promises don't always end the way we hoped.

Matt: No, but if things turn serious between you and puppy boy, we're going to have to train him up on some supernatural type self defense.

Elena: [sighs] Yeah, I know. I've been putting it off for a while.

Matt: You could probably recruit Stiles to help.

Elena: Maybe, for the general stuff. But it's not really his story to tell.

Matt: He can verify you're not crazy at least?

Elena: I guess.

Matt: Well, I don't want to interfere too long into your date.

Elena: [smirks a bit] I'd appreciate that.

Scott: [and they are back and Stiles is carrying everything because there is really, really good and expensive italian food and a full chocolate and berry cheesecake]

Elena: [looks up with a small smile] That smells really good.

Stiles: Yeah, and it's also really expensive and really heavy.

Scott: Go put it in the kitchen then.

Stiles: You're totally being a dick on purpose, you know that right? [but he will go do as he's told]

Elena: [smiles at him a bit, before making her way closer and looping her arms around his neck] I'm sure we will enjoy it.

Matt: Yeah, you two do that. I'm going to probably crash elsewhere so I don't interrupt... anymore.

Stiles: You can crash at my place. I'm sure Lydia won't complain.

Matt: And you?

Stiles: I'll always complain. [smirks]

Elena: [she laughs] Thanks for dinner, Stiles.

Stiles: You're welcome.

Elena: [and she will wait until both the boys are gone before she leans in and kisses Scott deeply, pulling him in close]

Scott: [kisses her back, smiling against her lips] So everything cool?

Elena: [she pauses, considering for a moment before she kisses him again] Can we talk about it after? [meaning after they have some naked adult fun because she needs that right now and maybe it'll make it a little easier to open up about it]

Scott: Sure. [and he will kiss her again] You want to eat now, or after?

Elena: After. [and that's two steps back towards her bedroom]

Scott: Good thing I choose things that reheat well. [and he will follow her]

Elena: [and they will tumble into bed for a bit, having some fun adult time until Elena feels slightly better about things. she has A+ coping mechanisms]

Scott: [and he is all for the adult fun times because he doesn't get them often and he may be a dork but he is a sweet lover]

Elena: [which she appreciates about him. and when they're finished, she'll curl up on her side next to him, tracing her fingers against his chest] So ... did you ever experience anything ... weird, in Beacon Hills?

Scott: Define weird? [his hand running along her arm]

Elena: Like you didn't really blink when Matt said the werewolf in New York.

Scott: Yeah. Werewolves I know about. Stiles’ girlfriend was... and now again is... well she never really wasn't a werewolf, just not always Stiles' girlfriend.

Elena: [she nods a bit] Well, Mystic Falls is a bit like Beacon Hills. But instead of werewolves we had vampires.

Scott: Did you always have a power war of creatures trying to take over the town and nearly destroying it?

Elena: Basically, yeah.

Scott: I'm sorry.

Elena: [there's a pause] A lot of the time they were fighting over me.

Scott: .... Were they all madly in love with you?

Elena: [she laughs] No, no. [there's another beat] I'm not human, Scott. But I don't have any special powers. I'm what's called a doppelganger.

Scott: So how does that make you not human?

Elena: [she rolls back a little so that she's lying on her back next to him, trying to figure out how to explain that in the simplest way] Two thousand years ago, a woman who looked like me took an immortality spell so she wouldn't have to die. And since immortality goes against nature, the magic that made her immortal created a way for her to die - every five hundred years, a girl in her bloodline is born that looks exactly like her so that she can die. But an unrealized side effect is that the blood of a doppelganger has incredible magical properties.

Scott: [blinks] So is that woman still alive?

Elena: [she shakes her head] Not anymore. She took the immortality cure and died about seven years ago?

Scott: So I don't have to worry about her trying to pretend to be you and screwing with me?

Elena: No. I'm the only Petrova doppelganger left, thank God. The one before me, Katherine? She would pretend to be me all the time. She became a vampire so that she wouldn't have to be a doppelganger anymore.

Scott: That's rude. So what kind of magical properties?

Elena: It was used in spells? Like one of the first vampires actually had the werewolf gene, and he became a hybrid of the two when he made his first kill. Doppelganger blood was used to seal the spell that suppressed his werewolf side. So he needed to ... drink a doppelganger dry in order to break it. [and it's clear on her face that the story was way more personal than she was trying to let on]

Scott: So he wants your blood?

Elena: He did. He already broke the spell a long time ago.

Scott: But he doesn't need it anymore?

Elena: No. And someone actually took him down enough that he isn't really a threat anymore and hasn't been for five years. But someone wants me to help bring him back, and ... maybe he won't bother me again. But he's already killed me once, and killed a lot of people I care about, I don't want to run the risk of him hurting someone else I love again. I can't live high school all over again.

Scott: Is that what Matt and Stiles were asking for help for?

Elena: [she nods] And I said I would - with one condition. Klaus has to agree to take the cure so that he'd be human too.

Scott: So human in that no longer a vampire or werewolf or able to become one again?

Elena: I don't know. I guess he'd still be a werewolf? But he wouldn't have his immortality and the strength and speed that makes him so dangerous.

Scott: You think he would?

Elena: I don't know. He has a daughter now. Maybe he would if it meant he got to be with her.

Scott: But he could be worried he couldn't protect her from the supernatural.

Elena: Her mom is a hybrid, and he has three other Original vampire siblings and a super powerful witch sister. There would be plenty of people to protect her - it's just a matter of if he'll too stubborn and paranoid to see that.

Scott: But can they force you to help them if he won't take this cure?

Elena: It's not really me they need. They need my friend Tyler. He's a werewolf of a particular line and they need his venom to make a cure for Elijah and Kol. But he won't help them if it means Klaus being free again, and I'm worried about what they'll do to him if I don't make some kind of deal.

Scott: But wouldn't Matt know how to find him without you if you guys were all friends?

Elena: He does. [she looks down at her hands] He knows that Tyler won't do it unless it's me asking.

Scott: That’s still a dick move.

Elena: Super dick move.

Scott: I'm going to chew out Stiles tomorrow for aiding in this.

Elena: [she reaches over and places her hand over his] He was just doing his job, Scott.

Scott: Yeah, but still.

Elena: [she takes a deep breath and curls into him again] Well, I told them that my deal was nonnegotiable. So hopefully he'll agree to my terms.

Scott: Fingers crossed.

Elena: I just ... wanted to make sure you knew what was going on, because it's likely things are going to get complicated.

Scott: Just as long as they don't get complicated between us.

Elena: [she shakes her head] My feelings for you are very simple. Which is really good.

Scott: Good. And I'm probably the least complicated person you will need to deal with. I'm an asthmatic human with no magical properties whatsoever.

Elena: [she smiles as she looks up at him] It's one of the things I like about you.

Scott: Glad to know being ordinary is a plus. [laughs]

Elena: [she grins] You are the first ordinary boyfriend I've had in a very long time. And I'm really happy.

Scott: Well, if you're lucky, I will be the last one too.

Elena: I'm feeling very lucky.

Scott: [grins and rolls over to kiss her, and they are probably going into round two here]

Elena: [yep, and she is more than okay with that]

Scott: [and when they are done] I think I've worked up an appetite now.

Elena: Me too. Dinner?

Scott: Yup.

Elena: [and she will grin and kiss him again, before wrapping herself in a sheet to go head into the kitchen]

Scott: [and he will pull back on his boxers and follow her. And there is very expensive italian foods and pasta and bread and salad]

Elena: [which she will happily dig into because om nom food]

Scott: [and then the cheesecake]

Elena: [mmmmmm cheesecake]

Scott: [which they can go eat back on the couch with the movies and snuggling]

Elena: [and eventually Elena will fall asleep against his shoulder, feeling safe and comfortable]

Scott: [he may not be special in the skills set, but he will take care of Elena with all his heart]

Elena: [which is all she really needs]