It was two days later and it didn't take long for Nesryn to notice that Tyler was acting off. Usually, he would make small talk with her as they ate breakfast. But this morning he just kept his head down as he walked out the door. Letting out a huff she stood up and ran after him, wrapping her hand around his arm and pulling him back.
"Nesryn let go, I have somewhere I have to be." Rolling her eyes at him she yanked the bag from his hand. Opening it to see chains and padlocks.
"Tyler, what are these for?" Nesryh asked setting the bag down at her feet.
"It's none of your business what I'm doing, it's nothing for you to worry about." He said before grabbing the bag and walking away.
She let him go before running into the house to grab her keys. Nesryn followed Tyler all the way to the old Lockwood property. Stopping the car a few miles back she hopped out. Walking down the stairs of the old Lockwood cellar. Nesryn saw Tyler putting the chains on the walls. He let out a satisfied sigh before turning around. She had her arms crossed as she spun her ring around her finger.
"Tyler, tell me what's going on." Nesryn said stepping up to the door. He looked at his feet before walking up to her. He grabbed Nesryn's hand and walked them over to the steps. Sitting down beside him, Nesryn let go of his hand.
"Tyler, please tell me, I want to help you if I can." He nodded his head at her before standing up,
"Our family has a curse Nessie, if one of us kills someone then we turn into werewolves." Tyler said as he looked around the room. "On the full moon, I'll turn. I don't want it to happen at home so I thought I could do it here. To keep you and mom safe, and away from me."
"Who did you kill, how are you not in jail?" Tyler looked down at his little sister with pity in his eyes.
"It was Tommy, he was saying things about you. I don't know what happened I just snapped. The next thing I know Stefan and Damon were taking his body away and Caroline was trying to calm me down." Tyler said as Nesryn placed her hands on his shoulders.
"It's ok, but if anyone finds out about you, you could be in danger." Nesryn said as she looked around the cellar.
"I know, that's why only you and Caroline know. Caroline has been helping me to try and understand how to control all of it." Tyler said as he pulled his sister into his arms. The siblings wrapped their arms around one another, taking comfort from the affection.
"Sis, how about you go home? I still have some things I need to do here before the full moon happens." He said looking down at his sister.
"Alright I will, but if you ever need anything I'm here for you. And I mean anything Tyler." Nesryn said before pressing a kiss to his cheek. He nodded his head at his little sister as she turned to walk away.
Getting into her truck, Nesryn pulled out her phone to text Elijah. She asked him if they could talk. When Nesryn sent the text she sat her phone down before pulling off to go home.
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Carol and Tyler wouldn't be home for a few hours, so Nesryn told Elijah to come on over. When a knock rang through the house Nesryn walked out of her dad's office. Opening the door Nesryn saw Elijah standing there with his hands behind his back. Elijah gave her a smile, as Nesryn stepped aside to let him in. Shooting him a smile as he walked past her.
"What is it you want to talk about?" Elijah asked as he followed Nesryn up the stairs. When they got to Richard's office Nesryn shut the door when Elijah walked into the room. Walking up to the desk Nesryn sat down on the corner of it.
"What all do you know about werewolves?" She asked looking down at the ring he had given her. Elijah frowned his eyebrows at her question. If she had been around a werewolf this close to a full moon, she was in danger.
"Why do you want to know about werewolves Nesryn?" Elijah asked stepping closer to her.
"I found out that I come from a werewolf bloodline, I just want to know what I can do to prevent triggering it." She said leaving out the part about Tyler being a werewolf, she tried to make sure he couldn't tell she wasn't telling the full truth. The look he gave her said all she needed to know.
"Ok fine, Tyler killed Tommy. It was an accident, and with the full moon coming up. Tyler won't say it but he's scared, and I just want to know what I can do to help him." Nesryn said as she stood up to walk over to the window.
"Nesryn there's nothing you can do to help him. All you can do is find a place where he can get through the night, but you can not be there. When he is fully shifted he'll be too strong. He won't be human Nesryn, his blood lust will cloud his vision. No matter how much he loves you, he will try to kill you." Elijah said walking up behind her and placing his hands on her shoulders.
"But I can't just sit by and do nothing, if we swapped places he wouldn't let me do it all by myself. Thank you for caring but I'm not leaving him." She said softly as she placed her hand on top of his.
Turning around she walked over to her father's chair. Sitting down Nesryn placed her head in her hands, she hated that her brother was all alone in this. Yes, he told her about it, but she couldn't fully understand what he was going through. She felt tears fall down her face as she tried to come up with an idea of how she could help him.
Elijah brushed her tears away as he crouched down in front of her. Her hands were shaking as she spun her ring around. He grabbed her hands and brought them up to his lips, he pressed soft kisses to her knuckles before looking at her face. She wasn't looking at him, she was looking down at their hands with a far-off look in her eyes. Pulling her up from the chair, he pulled her into his arms, holding her tightly to his chest. Elijah kissed Nesryn on top of the head as he rubbed her back.
"Maybe I should just trigger the curse he wouldn't be alone then, we would have each other." Nesryn said softly into his chest. Elijah pulled her away from his chest and placed his hands on her cheeks.
"Nesryn, I'm saying this as your friend and as a person who has seen what a shift looks like. I would have never let you do that. I would not let you put yourself in that situation." He said giving her a glare, he watched as she looked down at her feet with a guilty look.
"The first shift is the most painful little rose, if you were to go through it that means all of your bones would break one by one. Your body wouldn't let you pass out from the pain either, you would be awake the whole time. You would feel all of it. That is a kind of pain I never want you to be a part of." Nesryn gave Elijah a glare as she pulled his hands off of her face, before walking past him.
She flung the door opened and walked out of the room. With a soft sigh, Elijah walked after her, he followed her into her room. He watched as she dug around on her desk before letting out a sigh. Turning around she quickly tapped on her phone before throwing it onto her bed. Nesryn carded her fingers through her hair, looking up at him, Elijah could see the anger that burned in her eyes.
"Why didn't you tell me about what would happen to Tyler when I first asked you about werewolves?" Nesryn asked as she stepped closer to him.
Elijah could feel the anger rolling off of her, but her heartbeat was slow and steady, her hands weren't shaking anymore and her voice was calm. Never in the time, she had known Elijah had she ever been mad at him. But right now, if he hadn't been her only friend and a vampire, she would have punched him in the face.
"Because I didn't want to scare you, you are still new to this world Nesryn. You still haven't had enough time to process what you know. I don't want you to have a breakdown over knowing too much too soon." Elijah said looking around her room, trying to ignore the holes she was burning into him.
"I've had this world around me for my whole life Elijah. My parents have known about it for I don't know how long. I was kidnapped with Elena thinking I was going to be murdered for something I had no part of. And now my brother is a werewolf and you are keeping things that are important from me." Nesryn said as she paced around her room.
"Nesryn, I didn't keep it from you to hurt you, I kept it from you so you wouldn't get hurt." Elijah said watching as his friend stressed over her brother.
"I know you are just trying to protect me. But please Elijah, don't keep things from me when it comes to my family. You won't want me to keep something from you if it involved your family, so please, don't do that to me." Nesryn said giving him a pointed look, as she sat on her bed.
Elijah just nodded his head at her before walking over to her. Sitting down beside her he placed his hand on top of hers as she laid her head on his shoulder. They sat there for a while in peaceful silence. Elijah could feel Nesryns anger dissolve the longer they sat in the comfort of each other's presence. Standing up Nesryn walked into her bathroom and came out with clothes in her hands. Giving him a shy smile, she placed the clothes beside him on the bed.
"Thank you for letting me borrow them, I washed 'em so they don't smell like a gross human." Nesryn said in a teasing tone as she tapped the toe of his shoe with her sock-covered foot. Shaking his head at his friend's childish side, Elijah took the clothes from her.
"Nesryn, you don't smell gross and even if you did I wouldn't tell you." Elijah said giving the young girl a smile.
Rolling her eyes at her friend's teasing words, Nesryn fell face-first into her bed. She wouldn't say it out loud but she liked how her friendship with Elijah made her feel. The bed dipped down some as Elijah leaned back, the side of his biceped brushed Nesryn's pinky. Neither of them said anything about the sparks that shot through their bodies.
They just laid there on Nesryn's bed in silence, before the younger of the two rolled over onto her side. Nesryn looked at the side of Elijah's face for a few seconds before tapping his cheek. A smile tugged at the corner of Elijah's lips as he turned his head to look at her. She gave him a sweet smile before sitting up and pulling her knees to her chest.
"You know if you were a girl I go to school with I'd say you could just stay over and we could have a slumber party, but instead you're a really old man who just looks young. If I didn't know any better I'd say that you're trying to groom me." Nesryn said giving her friend a teasing smile. Rolling his eyes at her, Elijah sat up too.
"I wouldn't groom you, I would just compel you to like how other vampires do. It would be much easier that way and I could make it to where you wouldn't make fun of me." He said with a smirk as she rolled her eyes at him before holding her hand out at him, to show off the ring he had given her.
"But you can't, you gave me this remember old man." Nesryn said poking his chest with a giggle. Rolling his eyes at her, his smile quickly fell as he shot up from her bed, pulling her up with him.
"Your mother is home pretend that I was asking you about the founding families." Elijah said quickly as he placed his clothes back down on her bed.
Nodding her head at him Nesryn walked out of her room with him close behind her. The pair pretended to talk about the founding families as they walked down the stairs. Nesryn didn't say anything about how Elijah became stiffer as they walked into the living room.
Carol had a few books in her hands as she talked on her phone completely unaware of the young girl and the Original. When Carol saw her daughter with Elijah her brows frowned some but replaced it with a smile, as she laid the books down on the table beside her.
"Elijah, you didn't tell me you would be coming by." Carol said as she walked up to them.
"I'm very sorry Carol I had forgotten to ask you something, but Nesryn here helped me." Elijah said giving Carol a tight smile.
"Oh well ok, as long as your question got answered." The pair gave a tight-lipped smile at the older woman.
"Yes, it did. Nesryn was a great help. As much as I would love to stay and chat, I'm afraid I have to be on my way. Thank you for all of your help, Miss Lockwood." Elijah said before leaving the women alone.
"He really is such a gentleman." Carol said as she turned back to the books she had just sat down. Nesryn just shook her head with a smile on her face before turning back around to go to her room.