Chapter 2: When Predators turn Prey Part 2
Rebekah's POV
She picked up her phone immediately after warning that bastard of a Salvatore to stay the hell away from their girl! It was the first real evidence she had that the girl she long suspected to be the reborn Triane de Wilde, though she had kept tabs on the girl Rogue for quite sometime. It was a feeling she got in her gut after the first reports came out several years ago about the incident at Liberty Island. This report though confirmed everything, it was the first close up of the young girl's face, right after she lifted a semi and hurled it at who was ever attacking her. That close up, that lovely dark hair, those startling emerald eyes, that knowing, cynical smirk paired with sadness that could only be matched by one other being in the world, her build, her power, she had been right all along! But her excitement was coupled with fear. The feds were hunting her with everything they had, and it was obvious that they cared not whether they got her dead or alive. She needed Nik and she needed him NOW and the Salvatore's needed to not interefere with HER FAMILY!
She was relieved her brother had picked up on first ring. "Don't argue, don't say anyting, turn the channel to CNN, right NOW!" she commanded, her voice urgent. Nik could never deny her in that tone. "Bekah what's going on?" he demanded. "Are you watching?" she was almost hysterical but chaos was erupting all around her girl and she had no idea how she could get away! "NIK!" she screamed. "I'm watching what is the..." everything went dead silent. She could hear nothing. The background of the Grill faded, the wind against the building was not heard, nor the eavesdropping of the local Scoobs seen. "Nik? Nik? Nik pick up!" She kept trying to get anything from the other end. After 5 minutes she heard a shudder of broken breathe. "Triane!" the whisper was so soft that had she been a mortal she would have never heard it. "Yes Nik, the magick finally worked. She's here, but can't you see?" she needed to pull him out of his trance so they could get her the hell out of New York without being seen and the human dogs on the trail! A loud explosion that knocked the girl down finally got his attention back.
"Get the jet ready Bekah and meet me at the airfield. Kol is in Brooklyn, he'll probably be able to make it to her first!" there was the Nik she knew and loved. The one that was always in control and knew what to do. If they were smart, acted fast and out of the mortal radar she could get her friend, her dearest sister back, after a thousand years of waiting! And this time, her father would be no threat to her. Not the incredible mutant she had seen on the news. Mikael would never be a threat to her or her family ever again! And with Triane back in his arms, Nik could finally stop the schemes with the hybrids and get the Salvatores off their backs, them and their pet witch. She had noticed her there tonight, she was not blind! She hoped Damon took her threat to heart. He looked far to interested in Rogue as he watched the news. If he tried anything to take her away from them, her family would slaughter every person he has ever given a damn about before allowing Triane herself the honors of using that lovely talent of hers to drain everything that sad excuse for a night walker had to give.
Now that was a happy thought! "Bekah stop daydreaming, hang up the damn phone and dial the bloody pilot, NOW! I want to know as soon as you finish and contact Kol! I'm going to do some spying. The witch will want to know what is going on and will be heading to the Witch's House. It will give us her location and what she has after her!" he commanded, taking on that authorative tone she knew so well. I'm on Nik but be careful. Damon, my instincts tell me we need to keep an eye on him." she warned. He laughed. "Triane de Wilde is one of the most talented people readers to walk this Earth! She could see through Salvatore the minute she set eyes on him from five feet away!" the comment brought back memories when the young mutant had told them everything about Mikael's personality after only getting a glimpse of the back of the older man's head from several feet away and how painfully accurate she had been! After getting over their intial shock both her, Nik, and Kol had been rolling in laughter as she had gazed with an amused smile on her face for an eternity.
She laughed along with him. "True! But there may be a guest. Someone had her back. A talented flame wielder who looked like he had no problem with killing anyone that got anyone near her." From the reports Rogue and Pyro aka St. John Allerdyce were two peas in a pod and inseperable friends even when they fought for different sides once and from what they said of him Bekah came to the conclusion that if they could roll Damon and Kol into one person, that person would be this Pyro. "Anyone who keeps an eye on Triane is a friend and not a foe, sister, especially not one like him. Him and Kol spend five minutes with one another and we will have a new dangerous trio." his amused tone relied her fears. "Don't worry so much. She will have had memories of us, dear sister. She may not understand yet, but she won't fear us and she will follow us out of the danger. She has dreamed of us ever since that coming of age. She is ours once again." he said, so sure of himself.
"Mikael is still on the loose and we have Alaric to deal with now Nik, don't forget that!" she cautioned one last time. "Who will be no match for all of us, and I dare say I wouldn't mind having her friend there and watch him roast that bastard of a father of ours and Mother just for good measure!" she rolled her eyes. "Calling the pilot." she said, hanging up as she heard Nik fire up his vehicle and head at top speed to the airfield. She was surprised to find said pilot up. Sometimes his insomnia did pay off, and as a bonus, he just so happened to this one time be sober! With some well placed threats to his manhood, she had him properly motivated to fly into what was becoming a war zone within a short period of a few hours. Her next call was to Kol. "I see you have been watching the news. Have you seen our girl?! Now that is how you kick some ass! You should take notes Bekah! I always knew she had it in her!" Kol was beyond proud. They both bonded over their penchent for battle tatics and sword play before.
She hid a smile. She had been very impressed. It was dangerous to piss off a Stage 4 mutant with the potential Rogue posessed or her training. Of course what she did not know was not all of that came from her x-gene but she would, in time. "She's still in danger Kol!" she screamed at him. "I'm not an idiot Bekah! I'm about five minutes away from her, I just need to reach the fire wielder and get him to start falling back with her." he said. Color her shocked. "In communication with Pyro?" she asked. She could almost fill him roll his eyes. "It's Triane, love. We connect to who she connects to, and they mise well be blood related. He knew what I was immediately, he intiated, did everything short of call me by name! Uncanny if you ask me but he trusts me but is a little busy battling a fucking drone of all things right now." Fear surged in her heart. "Get them OUT OF THERE!" she screamed. "Working on it! How about you call in that favor that our beloved other siblings here owes and get me some fucking back up?" he yelled back, an explosion was heard as well as a muffled colorful curse. She hung up only to get an immediate call from Elijah. "I'm on the ground, where the hell is Kol!" his voice was so loud she had to hold the phone back from her head.
"By the Pyro, about 5 feet back. Can you do something with that drone?" she asked. "Oh I do love a challenge. On it. Just get that jet here with Nik as soon as possible and we will be there!" he hung up the phone. She reached the airfield with the sight of Nik's blonde head and fierce blue eyes popping out of the door and beckoning her. "Let's get a move on! We got to get her out of there now! You can tell me what our siblings are doing on the way!" He commanded. She blurred in and they took off in record time. In spite of the moment her brother smirked. "Threatened his manhood didn't you Bekah?" he asked amused. "Who me?" she feigned innocence and they both laughed. "Triane it's really her! Triane, Bekah!" he was filled with emotion, it spilled out of him. He feared for her but his emptiness, his soulessness was gone. The changes her reappearance wrought were immediate and profound. He would never be the same monster again.
"Yes, it's really her. And such power at her finger tips! Mikael can not hurt her this time. This time it is him who will be on his knees before her!" she exclaimed. The rage, the whole in her heart when Mikael had ripped out Traine's heart after Nik killed their mother in revenge for making them monsters had never healed. It had made her cold, ruthless. It looked like it had done the same for Rogue. They did not yet know the story of her in this life but if how St. John defended her was any indication, it was not much different than the one before when after finding out about her abilities her parents tried to burn her at the stake before Ayanna had been able to save her. "It's a revenge I will leave to her. Just as long as she keeps us." he sounded so very vulnerable. "What does your heart tell you?" she asked. "That the Wolf and the Rogue are one and the same. They will always find one another, my heart shall always find her, and hers will always find mine." It was the words of the spell they had heard many witches utter over the years.
"My only fear is who, and what is the Raven." he said softly.
Damon's POV
They reached the Witch's House in no time. A sense of urgency he had not felt sense Bonnie had been under the threat of the Original's ripped through him. He couldn't explain it. "Damon, are you alright?" she had asked. "Just focus on the task, Judgy!" he tried not to snap and he was glad she chose to ignore his tone. He had helped her set up everything, given her everything she needed to draw down the Circle, and sent up his own silent prayer to Sheila and Emily to ingnore their loathing for him and think of the girl. She was in danger, she was under Original radar and that never went well for anyone! He needed to know what they planned for her and he needed to know how to keep her out of their reach! Bonnie sat cross legged in the center of the circle and she was changing. Her closed eyes opened into a blinding white. "Come into the Circle and sit, Damon Varus Salvatore!" it was an authorative voice that did not belong to his witch or anyone he had ever known before. "And why should I do that?" he asked. "Because I am the Original Witch, and that powerful young girl you are concerned about is connected to my Family."
He stepped in but did not sit. "I don't trust the woman who wanted to end all of my kind in one fail swoop." he remarked. "Yours is not the only breed of Night Walker in the world, Damon. There are greater threats than my Family, even Mikael and me. Any of them could turn you to their species and you'll be safe. You need only call out the name Maharet. A name you know in your heart of hearts the same as you knew the stories of Akasha were quite real and drew you to keep an extra eye on Bonnie. But that has nothing to do with this. That girl is the reincarnation of a powerful being that remains a mystery. It could be Triane de Wilde was the first mutant to walk the world. But she early on captured the heart of Nikolaus, and she has it still." he didn't like the sound of that at all! Any love the Hybrid had was twisted, horrific, the kind that made him look princely in comparison! "The Power and potential of the mutant Rogue is unprecedidented. A supernatural with the x-gene. She will be hunted the world over.
In her lies the key to nuetrulizing the threat of my Family. Understand, with Triane in his arms, Nikolaus will care about nothing else. But there is a threat to the peace her presense can bring other than the obvious with the current manhunt out on her." she spoke. Call him a cynic but he didn't believe the love of one girl could tame the big bad Hybrid. "You were not there, you have no idea how deep the love of the Wolf and the Rogue runs. The threat is one of the heart. Your heart." Now Damon knew she was talking nonsense! "Lady, I don't know if you noticed, but my heart is something that belongs to the Petrova line. No matter how many times it gets stomped on." he spoke the bleeding and sad truth. "Not anymore. You had an incarnation in your own line too. Arcan Salvatore was his name, and he was madly in love with Triane de Wilde, the same as my son. He too was gifted, could shift into the form of a raven. When Triane rejected him, in a rage he cursed her. It worked, by the way. She can not touch human flesh with out killing."
He flinched. "I can not control what my ancestors have done. What has this to do with me?" he asked. "Maybe not now, but you will fall for the Rogue, my poor Raven. And in this life she carries a secret that may destroy the world as we know it. If we wish to correct the mistake I made when I created the Originals and Mikael killed Triane de Wilde, if we are to recreate the balance, The Wolf and the Raven will have to make peace. They will have to do it to save the Rogue's, Anna Marie D'Ancanto's soul." It felt like a knife pierced his undead heart. "Alcatraz..." he had dreams about what had happened there. He knew the offical story seemed false... "The demon known as the Phoenix has a stronghold in her soul. Pyro, St. John Allerdyce is the only one who knows now except you. She plagues her dreams. She fights for control over her body. If you and Nikolaus do not make peace and with your love, and that of two others whom I will not name, The Phoneix will destroy Creation.
"So you are willing to give up trying to kill us and are willing to help us save her?" he said skeptically. "It will bring the balance back. The number of mutants will grow more safely, balancing out the threat of what I created an age ago. Taking out the Phoenix will give them a new world, a better world, where evolution will redeem what I have done. If you can put aside your hatred for my son in order to save the girl, you too shall be redeemed." and with that, the body of Bonnie slumped over. As it did, dreams, visions invaded his mind and he saw the face of the girl he saw on the news, but he knew her. And when he woke as Bonnie screamed his name he knew that this was about to get extremely complicated. He was most confused over the symbol of the pentogram which was Bonnie's symbol set on fire entered his mind.
Yep it's going to be a Pyro/Bonnie pairing. :D And of course the Phoenix would be involved. And Mikael will do all he can to provoke the girl to get the very ending Esther warned against.
