So here is Chapter Two, short and intense :D Let me know if you think its worth continuing. :)
Chapter Two
Later that night, Hayley found Yalene, sitting on the balcony of her guest room, tumbler in hand.
The bottle next to her was half empty.
Careful not to startle the witch, she approached trying to make her footfall audible to the human ear.
"No need to announce your presence, Hayley. I already know you're there." Yalene's voice sounded empty but relatively sober.
"What's up?" She asked, not bothering to ask whether she was okay. It was obvious she wasn't.
"Niklaus was right. It made me want to wash it all from my brain with that stuff. Turns out even now it isn't enough."
"Even now? You sure hold your liquor well for a girl." Hayley said.
"Back when Nik and I first worked together, he'd get me really drunk whenever I couldn't handle it. Problem is - and you will have to realize that sooner or later - you can drink up all the world's liquor, you can throw up and sleep for days - but you'll always remember. Turns out I might not be able to cross my tolerance and forget before I accidently kill myself whilst trying."
"So for how long have you known the Mikaelson's then?" She asked, trying to acquire more information.
"Feels like all my life. I think we met some time after my 18th birthday." Yalene answered honestly.
"Seriously? But that cannot be more than 2,3 years ago." The female hybrid frowned.
Yalene looked at her for the first time, their gazes meeting.
"Actually my last real birthday was 116 years ago. So it's been almost all my life."
Hayley almost dropped her tumbler. "But - but you're human!" She exclaimed disbelievingly. I smelled it. You did magic!"
" You're right. I did. I am human now. Doesn't mean I have always been."
She didn't have an answer to that. All she could do was stare at the witch, wondering whether she should've been all that trustful in the beginning.
"That should be enough for now. I'll see you in the morning okay?"
Without waiting for a reply, she left the room.
The next morning was spent trying to convince their two now mortal brothers to join their cause against their mother. Not very successfully.
Yalene decided to get a head start on the tasks at hand. After all there were three of them and she didn't want to spend a second longer in this godforsaken city then necessary.
Elijah had left her the white oak stake before going to meet with Rebekah and from what he had told her, his brother was busy switching to more violent means of conviction.
She had spent the morning over her books, sighing contently when she realized the first task was going to be done sooner rather than later.
Filled with new spirit, she grabbed the stake - not wanting to let it out of her sight - and jumped down to find Niklaus, briefly wondering why they hadn't considered this rather simple solution ages ago.
When she approached the parlour they were sitting in, voices grew stronger.
"I'd happily welcome both you and Finn back into the family but I settle for either one of you. If you continue to defy me wasting my time I'll equally happily reduce your lives to an unending sequence of torture." Nik threatened.
"Charming." A male voice with a thick British accent answered.
Yalene didn't recognize it but her guess was that it belonged to cute blond guy that probably held Kol's spirit.
Channeling her inner strength, she raised her fist to knock.
The conversation ended abruptly.
"Yes?" Nik said, his tone neutral, not betraying that he knew exactly who was standing in front of the door.
She drew in one more breath, then she opened the door.
"Yalene, how nice to see you on this fine morning." Nik smiled broadly.
She did her best to ignore the second person sitting opposite her hybrid friend.
She waved the white oak stake.
"You're not that mad are you? " he asked jokingly, eying the weapon.
"That mad? " Yalene inquired.
"Yeah you know to kill me with that thing because you're angry with me for not telling you."
She eyed the stake herself before looking at Klaus.
"I am not mad. I came down to tell you that I can destroy it. Preferably in a wide field unless you feel like burning down the quarter."
"I'll find you a place. Feel free to continue my up till now rather fruitless efforts to reason with my dearest brother."
With that Klaus rose and left the room.
"So you're working for them now? Didn't think you'd ever side with Niklaus of all people over me:" Kol couldn't hide the disappointment in his voice.
When he had spotted her standing in the doorway yesterday, he had allowed himself to hope, hope that she'd be there to help him. Turned out she was here to destroy him.
"Contrary to popular belief, I don't work for Nik, we're partners. We help each other. Thats what friends do."
"So your friends? Wow you've come a long way - and I cannot say it was for the better."
Yalene stopped in front of him, allowing herself to take in his appearance. The body was definitely a keeper but she couldn't think of Kol and picture the person in front of her.
But he was. The way he talked, the smirk.
Esther had found some wicked, monstrously secret way to bring back the one person on earth she loved most. But the that person wasn't the one. He couldn't be.
Not if he sided with the evil witch.
"Same can be said for you. You traitorous little…"
"Calm down dearest…"
"I will. Once I put you back where you belong."
'Kol' eyed her sceptically. "And where do I belong? On the Other Side? Because that place was trashed loooong ago."
"No, better. Your real body. That one's just too pretty for a ugly soul like yours." Yalene said lightly.
Her stance had eased up as it appeared, not even Klaus, who was hiding in the doorway caught a glimpse of the tremble inside she was hiding.
"You think it's that easy? You think you can just do that to me?"
The idea of being back into his old body was appealing, the strength, the fearlessness. But his magic would be gone. And the time he spent with Davina showed him that immortality wasn't worth it if spent without a real life to live. Magic had given that back to him. MAybe even with Davina.
He had entertained that thought in more than one night he spent awake but it had lost it's true appeal when SHE had walked through that door.
After an entire century, there she'd been. Human. Just like him.
The painful thought of a happily ever after had flickered up in a moment of weakness and burned his every nerve.
"I'll make it easy. And yes, I am going to do it to you, just for having the knowledge that even now I can take the one most precious thing you've ever had, making it slip through your fingers." Yalene said bitterly.
"So do it. I don't care. The 'most precious thing' I have had is already gone, to side with my enemies."
She denied herself any reaction.
"I am not the one who chose wrong. You were. So don't you dare to judge me for finding a way to carry on with my life after everything was torn to pieces."
"Oh please. As if you ever wasted a single thought on me after the bastard locked me away. After all who needs the younger crazy psychopath if they can have the big bad powerful hybrid"
"If that's what you're thinking then go right on. You were always better at convincing yourself of what ever felt more unfair to the poor boy you were than at seeing the truth."
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