A/N: I have been watching too much Originals lately and I was kind of fascinated at Celeste hell bound want of destroying Elijah. Then, I re-watched TVD's Gone Girl and boom! This idea just pops into my head. I had the urge to do this because I was getting depressed with all the Haylijah drama. Hayley doesn't treat Elijah right. It bothers me a lot. Haylijah fans don't kill me. I also strongly believe that in Apres Moi Le Deluge, he was pertaining to Katherine and not Tatia. I miss my Kalijah fix. So here it is! My whacky idea of a fanfic.
Disclaimer: I don't own TVD or TO. I have no money, don't sue me.
What a shame we all became such fragile, broken things
The memory remains, just a tiny spark.
I've give it all my oxygen so let the flames begin.
Let the flames begin.
Chapter I
Katherine's head was pounding like crazy. For a ghost, her body felt pretty sore. Her bones felt broken and her hair was in a mess. Katherine sat up but it just worsens her headache. Was she in hell already? She blinks, trying to adjust her eyes. She sneezes as she inhales an amount of dust from where she was. She looks around to find a body beside her, a corpse of a Creole woman covered only by a white sheet.
"It worked." Katherine was startled to see a red headed girl standing in front of her. "You must be the famous Katherine Pierce." Katherine was certain that this woman was a not ghost, a witch perhaps.
"Who are you? How do you know my name?" Katherine said struggling to stand up.
"I'm the one who resurrected you from the dead." The woman said proudly. "Although it was my friend's idea. She sacrificed her life for yours." The red-head's smile turned into a straight face as she looked at the dead body.
"I'm alive? Why would you?" Katherine's head started churning. The questions started popping from every corner. Just moments ago she thought she was getting sucked into oblivion, then now she finds out that a witch who she has never met before had sacrificed her friend's life to resurrect hers? She looks around her and everything starts spinning, from what she can make she's in some kind of mausoleum. She gets to her knees and holds her head. What the hell was happening?
"Because you're going to save my people." The woman said as she knelt down to Katherine's level. "And you are the key to our revenge." These were the last things Katherine heard when the mystery woman faded away into the darkness that consumed her.
A Few Hours Earlier…
Monique Deveraux was lying on the ground of the tunnels surrounded by candles. She was chanting in a foreign language but stops at the sound of approaching footsteps. "When order is restored, your kind won't be allowed in here."
"Well, fortunately, that day has not yet come." Elijah answered nonchalantly. "I need to find Sabine. I believe she's taken someone very important to me." Monique sits up and scoffs at Elijah's request.
"And you thought I'd help you?" she stands up and faces him. "Sabine is one of us, committed to the rise of the witches." Monique pointed out. Elijah was skeptic to Monique's statement. The witches have gotten to this young girl's head. Even worse, Celeste has given her a fake reality to use this child at her advantage.
"The only thing Sabine is committed to is the destruction of my family." Elijah replied trying not to be so stiff. After all, this was a child he was talking to.
"And that would be a bad thing, why?" Monique says with arrogance. She was not even a little bit intimidated that she was talking to an Original. It reminded him of the first time he met Davina, both of them had no fear in their eyes and Elijah discreetly admired it about them. That is why he made it a priority to lead them away from Celeste's destructive path.
"Like your mother, my mother was also a witch, a very powerful witch. In fact, because of my family, her power now flows through your veins. Now, once Sabine manipulates those around her, she will do what she has always done. She will jump into another body and disappear, leaving your witches powerless." Elijah said, pushing his case. Monique still didn't seem to buy it.
"No. She has the faith. She will see our power restored." Monique tried to hide her doubt but Elijah saw through her. She just needed a little push.
"There's a way of guaranteeing this. I'll also secure the safety of yourself and your kind. Here." Elijah hands her a spell. "This is from my mother's grimoire. Celeste used a similar spell to body jump. If what Sabine says is true, when she sacrifices herself, all of her power will flow back into the earth. However, if she has lied and tries to take another body, this spell will deliver her to a very different destination." Monique stared at the piece of paper. "Now please locate Sabine."
The young Harvest girl reluctantly looked at Elijah. In the days she spent after her magical resurrection, she has heard a thing or two about the honourable and noble Elijah Mikaelson. She knew how he helped in completing the Harvest thus resurrecting her and hopefully the other Harvest girls soon. But she also knows about his loyalty to his family and how it serves as a threat to her community, seeing as his brother had threatened to kill her before. After weighing the pros and cons, she does the locator spell. She didn't want to but there's just something in her gut that's telling her she should trust him.
"She's at the swamp." Monique said and Elijah vamp-speeds away, leaving her with the spell and a very difficult decision.
"She has no idea how dangerous it is to be loved by you." "I was you, caring for Elijah when he cared more for his brother, and I ended up dead. So did a lot of others." "It's a chance to free yourself from The Originals"
Celeste's words burned at the back of Elijah's mind. At the bayou, Celeste has given him a choice that wasn't actually a choice, but Elijah knew better. As much as it hurts him, he will not allow himself to be selfish. What kind of hypocrite will he be if he denies Hayley of protecting her family when he himself will do anything to protect his?
He looks over at Sabine's body, still unconscious from his bite earlier. He feels a pang of guilt, like somehow this is his fault. Celeste was right, he was dangerous and a lot of people he cared about are dead. He was a cursed man and for so long he wanted to break that curse but judging from recent events, he realizes that it's hard not to make history repeat itself.
"Elijah, I have great news!" Klaus' smile has just lit up the whole Abattoir compound which according to Elijah means that something vile has happened in favour of his brother.
"Great news to whom exactly, brother?" He asks but his Klaus just refutes his indifference.
"I get to check a name off my enemies to kill list." Klaus says proudly.
"Well that is one name less a very long list. May I ask who?" Elijah said, getting a little curious as to who this mystery enemy might be and what that person has done to Klaus to make him this cheerful about their suffering.
"You may know her. We met her centuries ago. Her death was supposedly the center of a very important ritual and you being… you, the knight in shining armor sucker for a damsel in distress, fell in love with her and let your guard down and made her escape thus creating half of your life devoted on finding her, only to be begging for her freedom five hundred years later because of a vampirism cure that was later pushed down her very own throat. Ring any bells?" Klaus said with a sinister smile. Elijah vamp speeds and pushes Klaus back into a wall with his hand on his throat.
"What has happened to Katerina?" Elijah said, loosening his grip enough for his baby brother to speak.
"Ask for yourself." Klaus said giving him his phone. Elijah took it and put the phone in his ear, letting go of Klaus.
"I see Klaus has hit a nerve." The voice of Damon Salvatore was at the other end of the line. "Hello, Elijah. How is my favourite Original doing? No offense to the big bad hybrid and Original Barbie, of course."
"I have no time for games Mr. Salvatore." Elijah said in a formal and authoritive tone. He was waiting to hear the news about Katherine.
"Well that's no fun. But oh well, might as well say it. Katherine, or as you prefer to call her, Katerina was sucked of the cure by the immortal but not so immortal Silas-I'm sure you've met him in the form of your sister-and now nature is sucking the age out of her. She's rapidly aging and dying. I thought the person who could've prevented all of this, i.e. you who could've whisked her off her feet so she would be out of our hair a long time ago but didn't do it because you like all the rest of us thought Katherine Pierce should be miserable and alone, wanted to know." Damon said with a tone mixed of spite, insult, and arrogance. Elijah could not find a response. Katerina Petrova, a woman he genuinely cared for and loved, getting her entire life drained from her.
Suddenly he remembered the day he left Mystic Falls for New Orleans. Her speech to him on how Klaus could not be redeemed, how she wanted to be with him, how she wanted to travel the world and fly off to the sunset. He remembered her begging him to elope with her and how he turned her down for his family. "Thank you for informing us, Mr. Salvatore" was the only thing he could say as he hangs up.
Elijah's thought were cut off by Celeste's consciousness. She sits against a grave in the cemetery awakening after he bit her. "Now, you didn't have to bite me to get me here. I wanted front-row seats to this show."
"And what show would that be?" Elijah asks. Celeste stands up.
"The one where you see your 'always and forever' pact come crashing down around you." She said with a taunting sort of tone. "It's a myth, Elijah, a myth I died for." She adds with spite.
"And yet here you stand alive...For now."
"Is that a threat? Oh, there's always another pretty, young body for me to jump into. From now on, every time you feel a connection to a woman, you'll be forced to wonder if it's me." Celeste says, backing up towards the gate of the cemetery. "You'll trust no one and spend the rest of eternity alone." She says now out of the cemetery. Elijah tries his vampire speed to attack her but he is pushed back by a boundary spell. Celeste laughs incredulously as he falls to the ground. "I'm afraid you're trapped. Boundary spell. The Originals can enter, but they can't leave."
"You wouldn't." Elijah says in disbelief.
"I would, and I did." Celeste replied challengingly. "Don't worry. It's a lunar spell. You'll be free by the next moonrise. My guess is, your sister won't last that long. Ah, while this body has been a hell of a lot of fun, I do think it's time I find someone else to play in, don't you?" Her face had a smile that of a mad woman. She bends down and picks up a candle on the ground. She smashes it against a tree and picks up a shard of glass then stabs it into her neck. Coughing she falls to the ground... dead.
"You were right." Monique said softly as she walked towards Elijah to face him. She points toward the tunnels, revealing to Elijah that she had performed the spell that he had given her. In the tunnel, Celeste gasps awake in her original body covered by a white sheet. She is shocked and confused as to this sudden turn of events.
"Hello, Celeste." Elijah enters as she gets to her feet and backs away from him.
"How is this possible?" Celeste asked as she was backed up against the wall.
"Monique Deveraux and I had a little wager regarding your ability to keep a promise. It appears I won. You were so consumed with my downfall, that you lost the trust of one of your own." Elijah says a matter-of-factly.
"Non. Mon Cheri, non. Tout est possible. Ce n'est pas fini. Ah! Desole. Ah!" Celeste begs for mercy but Elijah still stabs her in the stomach with the bone knife. She screams in pain then drops to the ground dead. Elijah looked as if he had succeeded in getting one problem off the list, he didn't know he was just adding another one.
"I trust you have a plan for us, Sabine." Bastianna, an elder witch that Celeste has recently resurrected, said as they walked through the cemetery.
"Please, I would prefer Celeste." She says before she starts mapping out her plans. "We wait 'til the two Originals come back to town then we'll attack. We start off with Papa Tunde. I trust you have all your preparations done?"
"I do not understand. Why not put the eldest of the Old Ones as my sacrifice? If we must act, let us act now." Papa Tunde questions.
"If we act now, it will get us all exposed. Besides, we need to stir the Original family. Turn sibling against sibling. Elijah, he's close to neutral to both. Rebekah and Klaus are at ruins, if we keep Elijah hostage, it would get them closer by working together to get their big brother back. We're trying to break the bond, not cement it." All of the three resurrected witches nodded in agreement. "Good, after that the three of us ladies know what to do. Bastianna, you handle Klaus. Do anything that you can to anger him enough to want and face you. Genevieve, you're in charge of Rebekah. You know her better than any of us. Use that knowledge. As for me, I think it's time for me and Elijah to have a reunion."
"Clara… I mean Celeste, your plan is great but you have to consider the fact that we're facing the Originals here. What if they found a way to kill us or you permanently?" Genevieve said with a worried expression on her face.
"Then we go to Plan B." Celeste simply answered.
"And what would that be exactly?" Bastianna asks.
"Have you heard of the Petrova Doppelganger Line?"
Katherine's eyes are opened once again but this time she's not in the mausoleum anymore. She is tied up, leaning on a grave. Next to her was a body of a woman who looked like she was stabbed with a shard of glass in her neck. Geez, how many times does she have to wake up with a dead body beside her? She sees the red headed girl in front of her; she looks as if she's watching something. "Hey what are you—"
"Hush. You're about to see the fight of the century." The witch moves to let Katherine see what was going on. She saw Elijah walk past the crypts and stops in front of one. Suddenly Rebekah comes out beside him.
"Elijah?" Elijah's head snaps back towards her. His face filled with surprise and worry.
"What are you doing here? Rebekah, you should be on the other side of the world by now." Elijah said in fear. But Katherine knew him better to know that it was a fear for her sister.
"You and I both know that wouldn't have been far enough." Katherine had a puzzled look in her face. They both seemed scared, Rebekah and Elijah Mikaelson? There are only two people they can possibly be afraid of and she was in front row to see the death of one of them. Which means…?
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Klaus shouted as he appeared with the indestructible White Oak stake in his hands. "She's mine." His eyes turn yellow showing that his werewolf side is activated and veins protrude on his face. Elijah holds the bone knife in his hand. Rebekah stood beside him; both barred their teeth at Klaus, ready to attack.
This is how we dance when they try to take us down
This is how we'll sing it.
This is how we'll stand when they burn our houses down.
This is what will be oh glory.
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