Love Agreement With The King

Elijah's gaze traveled through the table in search of his loved hated eggplants, when he noticed there were no eggplants there he sighed. He felt a desperate need to eat eggplants even if the only time he tasted them he thought they were disgusting. To get as strong as the other vampires he would eat vegetables all day if he had to.

"Kathy, I am craving eggplants, can you cook some?" he asked, closing the palms of his hands together as if he wanted to plead her to.

"Of course." Kathy smiled and stood up, she turned around and began cutting some eggplant.

"But you don't even like those," Roselyn said folding her arms and darting her gaze from Elijah to Sebastian. They were hiding something, he had never liked eggplants or vegetables in general. Why did all of a sudden crave something he barely tasted before?

"I want some too. Please make more." Sebastian intervened as they both pretended they didn't hear Roselyn.

When Kathy finished cooking she placed two full dishes of eggplants in front of the kids.

Elijah swallowed down, the smell of that weird purple brownish vegetable disgusted him and he regretted having asked Kathy to cook them. Now all the guests' gazes were on them, Sebastian started to eat as if he was used to eat vegetables but Elijah was hesitant whether to taste it or not.

"You asked for it, Elijah." Roselyn hissed, slightly annoyed. One of the rules she wanted to teach her sons was that food shall not go to waste, especially not if you ask for it and then you don't even take a bite of it.

Elijah pinched his noise and held his breath and cut a small piece of it.

He leaned the fork closer to his mouth and he forced his mouth open, as soon as the piece touched his tongue he swallowed down not to taste the flavor.

He did the same thing for half of the eggplant, drinking lots of water at each bite to wash his mouth from that savor.

Roselyn stopped his suffering and finished the rest of the eggplant for him. When their lunch was over Elijah and Sebastian went outside, Elijah couldn't wait to see if his efforts to eat that vegetable were worthy.

He charged and narrowed his eyes and then speeded as fast as he could appearing in an eyeblink to the opposite side of the wood.

He then speeded back near Sebastian and shook his head, "I didn't get faster." He said demoralized.

Sebastian unfolded the paper where he read the research about eggplants, he skimmed through it in search of something they had to do to activate that benefit but he didn't find anything.

"Nevermind," Elijah scoffed, as he sat down leaning against a tree's trunk.

"Maybe I am supposed to be weak forever." He whispered shrugging.

Sebastian caressed Elijah's shoulder and leaned his head on his chest, "I am sorry I hoped it would work."

Sebastian sighed, it wasn't his fault if the newspaper was fake news but he felt guilty anyway as if he gave him a hope and made him feel even sadder than before seeing his efforts fail one more time.

"What if we don't find your parents and we don't feel the cure to my weakness? We shall promise each other we will never leave the other." Elijah said, staring at Sebastian smiling as he stretched his hand.

Sebastian shook it, he was more than willing to declare his loyalty and alliance forever.

They smiled at each other and then stood up to walk back inside, as they walked by the door John waited for them with folding arms and a scolding gaze. Elijah knew he was going to get scolded because he recognized John's jaw which tensed so much he thought he could see through it.

"I heard you, that's the reason why you wanted eggplants for lunch? You thought it would help you to get stronger?" John asked.

Elijah nodded, "yes, father." He replied in a murmur, but John's gaze softened, a hint of a smile curved his lips.

"Elijah, how could you even believe some vegetable would help?" John didn't know if the thought amused him more than how much it concerned him. His son was obsessing way too much about increasing his powers.

"I don't know but it was worth the try," Elijah replied, he felt so embarrassed to have believed such a silly thing that he wished the ground would open and swallow him down to spare him from the embarrassment.

"Get back inside, it's getting cold," John said before he closed the door as soon as they walked in.

His gaze then fell on his son again and smiled, pulling his hair, "I was stubborn like you at your age and I still am so I am not the right person to teach you a lesson nor to judge you but please remember what I told you a while ago."

John whispered closer to Elijah's ear who offered a smile and nodded.

They came back to their rooms to play together while Felicity was bathing with Roselyn and the maids.

She loved to bathe, she waved her hands in the water and admired the soap turning into foam. She closed her hand and when she opened it a few soap bubbles appeared.

The maids pretended they didn't understand she created those and they dropped their jaw excited, "blow on soap and more bubbles will appear." One of the maids suggested as Felicity giggled and slouched forward to blow on the soap.

More bubbles appeared and at the sight, Felicity was extremely happy, Roselyn recognized that gaze, the kind of gaze when sparkles of nature soak in your skin and arousing the excitement.

When Roselyn looked at nature she didn't see gorgeous elements that combined to create a heavenly view, she saw them as propel life and she read in her daughter's gaze that Felicity felt the same thing.. They both were linked with nature, Felicity was just like her mother: a fairy of life.