33. YOU BELONG WITH ME
Sienna pondered if this was what it was like to have a healthy, loving, stable family as she sat at the large table in their dining room, conversations and laughter floating around the spacious area. A smile twitched at her lips as she surveyed the scene, this is certainly not how she imagined to be spending her life.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Elijah inquired interestedly as he sat, calmly, in the seat next to his mate. As his beloved mate and her best friend, Olivia, had been preparing the food, his brothers and himself were relentlessly arguing about the seating plan.
It had gotten to the point where Niklaus was emitting animal-like growls, though that was normal behaviour, Elijah was preparing to take off his suit to brawl his siblings, Kol was snarling at anyone one anything, including the cutlery and Finn was making rude gestures that he'd recently learnt, courtesy of a certain siphoner, at all of his brothers.
In the end, Elijah had promptly claimed his right to sit next to his mate with the argument she'd be most comfortable to sit by him after knowing him the longest, it was a low blow and he recognised that but the desire to be in close proximity to his mate outweighed his ability to care about such things. On her other side was Finn, after proposing his argument of being in his coffin for nine hundred years and being the oldest out of the four of them— though Kai would amusedly argue the gestures were the main reason for his triumph.
"Just a penny?" Sienna gasped sarcastically, diverting her eyes to the suited man next to her, a teasing sheen to her gaze. "Is that all I'm worth to you?"
"You're worth everything to me." Elijah supplied honestly, the words slipping out of her lips before he could backtrack. "Whatever payment necessary for me to hear your thoughts, I will give."
Sienna smiled at him genuinely, a warm feeling in her chest at the honesty in his infatuated gaze and instead of trying to guard herself away, shield herself from any feelings, she embraced them.
"No payment necessary, I'll tell you for free because I'm so nice." She jokingly flipped her hair over her shoulder, "I'm just thinking that I don't think I've been this happy in a long while."
"It's all my doing, isn't it darling?" Kol poked his head out from around Elijah's shoulder with a charming smile, impatient to converse with his met, and when their eyes met his undead heart stuttered in his chest.
"Absolutely." Sienna nodded her head enthusiastically, a smile stretching at her lips uncontrollably. "You've made me the happiest girl in the world, pretty boy."
"Just Kol?" Finn teased and Siennas eyes flickered to him again, he was leant back in his chair but his eyes were pinned onto her and a swirl of butterflies erupted in her stomach at the look in his eyes.
"Hmm what do you think?" Sienna swivelled her position slightly to meet his eyes head on, trying to regain control as she kept eye contact with him, her ring clad fingers tapping the tune of a song on the thigh.
"I think, that whoever has made you this content deserves the highest praise. You're happiness is priority." Finn replied smoothly, eyes never wavering as a small smirk pulled his lips upwards.
"Consider yourself praised." Sienna smiled truly at the man beside her, her body tingling with excitement at being surrounded by her soulmates all of whom were once only fictional characters she'd admired.
"Do I get praise, too, love?" Klaus titled his head to the side, a smirk tugging at his lips and his tone more or less mocking even as his eyes were glossed over with contentment.
"Good boy." She smiled simply, her eyes remarkably bright with a teasing look before Olivia called for her attention.
Klaus froze.
Kol blinked, numerous times.
Elijah loosened his tie slightly.
Finn arched an eyebrow.
"Be careful, he's gonna cream his pants if you say that again, Sydney." Kai snorted as he watched the spectacle, he'd unabashedly been eavesdropping.
Davina, who sat next to him, nudged him in the side to get him to stop but Kai only mimicked Klaus' flustered, frozen expression and she burst into a fit of giggles.
"No need to be ashamed, mate." Enzo spoke up, stuffing his face with food. "Nothing wrong with a good praise kink."
"How do you even know what that is, Edgar? Haven't you been like, a surgical doll, for, over a century or something?" Kai bluntly asked.
"Haven't you been like, imprisoned in space or something for how long?"
"Touché."
Sienna, who was finally done conversing with Olivia through expressions, zoned back into reality and arched a perfectly shaped brow when she caught the expression plastered onto the hybrids face, though she kept quiet.
Olivia, who also finally zoned back into reality, switched her attention to Rebekah who was sitting at her side — the Mikaelson was reaching towards the breadsticks and Olivia reached over instead and got one out for her.
"Here." Olivia smiled mischievously, breaking part of it and gently cupping Rebekah's jaw, pulling her mouth down slightly with her thumb and then proceeding to feed her the part of the breadstick she'd detached.
Rebekah's cheeks were fifty fucking shades of red, the eye contact and her mates actions making her feel dizzy.
"Thank you." Rebekah spoke up after having consumed the part of the breadstick, her expression extremely flustered, though there was a dreamy smile on her pink lips.
"Anytime, sweetheart."
"Tell me-us more about yourself." Kol eagerly urged his mate, he'd be a complete and utter fool to not already be infatuated with her, but he had a deeper desire to get to know absolutely everything about her. Her likes, her dislikes, her hobbies, her favourite book even. Only if just to have her beautiful voice grace his ears.
"What do you want to know?" Sienna curiously looked over at him, a smile on her lips as she caught the wonder filled looks he kept casting her direction.
"Your likes, you dislikes.. your talents." Kol smirked cheekily at her.
"Kol."
"What? Can I not have innocent curiosities towards my mates life, Elijah?"
Sienna breathed out a laugh that had any impending argument immediately stopping as their attention drifted to her, completely enamoured by every little thing about her.
"I like.. tea, silver rings, honesty, chocolate, polite people, boots— I dislike people who are always complaining, strawberry ice cream, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and controlling people."
"What else?" Elijah curiously urged her to continue, when she stopped thinking she'd said enough, too much, and the look on his face like he genuinely cared made her head flutter briefly.
"I think thats enough." Sienna laughed lightheartedly, mildly uncomfortable at the thought of people knowing too much information, people who she didn't know all that well despite finding vastly attractive.
"It's never enough." Klaus implored. "I- We want to know every little thing about you, every fault, if you have any, and every admirable fact. Every piece of information you regard as useless i'll- we'll cherish forever." He earnestly spoke, his eyes oddly soft and compassionate.
"Awwwww!" Kai clapped sarcastically, slapping a insincere yet simultaneously sincere beaming smile on his face, "That was so romantic." He swooned falsely, slumping backwards into his seat with a hand splayed over his forehead.
"Shut up, you little insect." Davina mumbled passive aggressively as she hit him lightly with her breadstick.
"Who're you calling a little insect, brat." Kai snapped back jokingly, snatching her breadstick and hitting her on the head with it.
"Vermin." Davina snarled at him, dodging his second hit with the breadstick, she couldn't hold her snarl much longer as she looked at his dramatically offended face and burst into giggles. "I'm so sorry!" She apologised with a pout, leaning forwards to hug the siphoner.
"Off, now." Kai lightly slapped her back as soon as she embraced him, even though a small grin twitched at his face. He felt like he finally had a family, not that he'd ever admit to that.
"So touchy."
"I will gut you."
"You can, just let me eat my garlic bread first please."
"You've got a little.." Freya gestured to the small amount of sauce that was in the corner of Olivia's mouth, the blonde titled her head and Freya fondly rolled her eyes.
She leaned forward, her slender fingers softly wiping away the sauce from her face with a small hum— Freya uttered a little teasing 'here' as she put the tip of her finger against Olivia's plump lips and the blonde hummed amusedly in reply, partying her lips and sucking off the sauce collected, eye contact remaining.
"Thanks, babe." Olivia breathily grinned at the older woman who was watching with an arched brow, her expression not really betraying any further emotion than pure interest.
Freya leaned towards a tad, grabbing ahold of the fabric of Olivia's top and wrapping it around her finger to remove the slightly wet feeling, her hand brushing against the expose skin of Olivia's stomach, "My pleasure." She whispered huskily next to Olivia's ear.
Then she casually leaned back like nothing happened.
"Damn is everyone just having sex on the shared dining table?" Kai uttered to Davina, eyeing the couples around the table. "I really need to get laid."
Davina gagged, "Didn't need to know that, didn't wanna know that, Cameron."
"Shut up and eat your bread Daisy."
"You spoke to me first, imbecile."
"Eat your bread."
"I am gonna eat my garlic bread but I'm eating it because I want to, of my own accord, not because you asked me to."
"Where are the sleeping arrangements for tonight?" Finn asked interestedly.
"I have quite a few spare rooms, you can all just choose from any of them, it doesn't matter which."
"Well, I, would personally much rather sleep with you, in your bed darling." Kol grinned cheekily at his mate, leaning his head forward on the palm of his hand.
"Okay."
"I promise- wait, what, okay?" Kol backtracked, stumbling over his words as his head fell from his own palm in shock, gazing at his mouth open mouthed.
"Yeah I mean, why not." Sienna smirked at his starstruck expression, she was deciding to try her best to give this whole mate thing a run.
Kol's mouth remained hung open in shock, the glares of his brothers heatedly piercing into him and almost burning him but he could care less as he stared at his mate.
"I'm suddenly feeling very drowsy, shall we head to bed now darling?"
His brothers all let out feral sounding warning growls as he pushed his chair back, fully prepared to stand and go to bed, with his perfect perfect soulmate.
"Not without dessert!" Olivia shouted.
"I already have my dessert."
"Huh?"
"Sienna."