The Black Diaries: The Originals Edition
(The Originals: Season 2 AU)
Created, Written and Adapted by Kaizer Michaels.

Episode 2.2:
Love in the First Degree

Jame pushed open the double doors of his family's drawing room with Rebekah and Kol following in behind him along with baby Hope in her carrier.

"We can talk in here." said Jame closing both doors once again after everyone is inside.

Rebekah placed Hope on the wooden coffee table in the middle of the room that was surrounded by a black Italian leather sofa and couple of armchairs of the same material. Rebekah wiped the corner of her eye with the tip of her finger getting a hold of herself before turning around quickly to face Jame, who had his arms folded across his chest looking at Rebekah from a short, but decent distance away from her. Kol moved around the room and sat down on one of the arm chairs near hope smiling softly at playing with her fingers entertaining the baby even though she couldn't see him.

"Looks like your soon-to-be Uncle Jame is a little mad at me: little princess. Hopefully he'll forgive me." Kol said to his infant niece and then over at Jame.

"Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on here?" asked Rebekah taking no prisoners and wanting answers.

"Don't mind her Jay, she can be a little dramatic sometimes, but she means well..." he smiles a little with Jame shaking his head a bit.

Rebekah stepped closer to Jame: "Who are you exactly? And why is my dead brother talking to you? How can you see him? Talk now!" she asked placing her hands on her hips.

Kol shook his head lowering his head a little with a slow wiping down of his face: "Here we go.." Kol said to himself.

This was a little surreal for Jame, he had never expected to meet anyone from Kol's family; which in a way he was happy about because he wouldn't be dragged into their petty quibbles or wars with other witches, vampires etc. But now thanks to Kol bringing his sister here not to mention his niece as well, he now was about to become involved in something that he wanted no part in. He looked over at the cute little baby girl, who seemed to looking at Jame all innocent and such; it was pretty adorable which was a bad thing for Jame, because he has a weakness for miracle babies from what Kol has told him because Jame himself was one also.

But before he made any potentially life-changing decisions, he had a hyper sensitive and very confused Rebekah Mikaelson to deal with right now, as he returned his attention to her from the baby. She wanted answers and giving the situation right now? Jame didn't have much of choice but to explain things to her.

"First off..it's nice to able to put a face to name Rebekah, Kol has told me a lot about you and your family but don't worry he's kept the more important stuff to himself, which is fine with me." answered Jame calmly: "Secondly my name is Jame Blackwell and I just happen to be a witch too though I prefer being called a warlock." explained the 24-year old.

"So you are a witch or warlock or whatever you want to call yourself." she paused, "Now that the introductions over: Why don't you tell me how you can see and talk to my brother? He's dead and on the Other Side." she folded her arms: "Yet somehow he was able to send me a message, which is not possible and that is how I ended up here in this backwater yet nice town! He said you could help us..." Rebekah finished.

Jame was exactly pleased with her attitude towards his town: "No offense Rebekah, but my family built this town. So if you want my help, I suggest you show a little respect or some common courtesy like I have shown you. I'm sure you can manage it right?" Jame said seriously not allowing Rebekah get away with insulting his town like she did no matter how small the insult may have been.

Kol just watched the whole thing smiling to himself, it's what he loved about Jame he wasn't scared of standing up to other people or taking any crap from anyone. Even Kol thought his little sister wasn't being very forthcoming considering the fact they needed Jame's help, but their family had tendency to burn bridges before they even built them; so it came as no surprised to the deceased original vampire.

Rebekah stared into Jame's eyes and rolled her eyes knowing she may have overdone it there, it was a bad habit of hers. But if she wanted to protect her niece, she was going to have to play nice for real for a while, but trust is something Rebekah has frowned upon a lot lately especially what her brother: Niklaus had put her through over the years, it's a very long list too; one she wasn't willing tor revisit any time soon.

"Fine. I apologise, but this whole situation is just completely surreal. How would you feel if your dead brother was contacting you from the Other Side and sending you into stranger's places? Not exactly normal is it?" Rebekah said to Jame: "So if you wouldn't mind explaining yourself, I'd appreciate it..." she asked nicely even though it wasn't normally her initial motivation when getting information out of anyone: she'd either kill them; maim them, torture them or if she was feeling really generous she'd compel them but that wasn't very often, she had a temper so sue her.

Jame smirked a bit to himself: "Kol, your sister's a real party." he said to his spiritual companion, who chuckled a bit.

"You have no idea, Jame." he replied with a grin.

Rebekah's eyes widened: "What?! Is he here right now?" she asked.

"He is." Jame answered.

Rebekah smirked a bit to herself, "In that case..." Rebekah quickly turned around and began speaking: "KOL! YOU ARROGANT, SELF-CENTERED JERK! You better hope to god, your friend here can help me, because if not? If I ever see you again..I am going kick your scrawny ass! Got it? Oh my God!" Rebekah vented getting her frustrations and such off her chest even though she missed her brother like crazy, so being angry with him helped ease her pain somewhat. Hope began to cry at Rebekah's raised voice, who quickly rushed over to her:

"Oh I'm sorry sweetheart. Auntie Bex was just scolding your very dead Uncle Kol.." Rebekah snickered to herself and lifted baby Hope out of her carrier and laid her against her chest rubbing the little girl's back gently and rocked her softly trying to calm her down again.

Kol walks her to Jame with a large grin on his face puts his arm around Jame leaning against him spiritually: "She loves me really..." he suggested to Jame.

"Clearly..." Jame said with a slight shaking of his head feeling Kol's ghostly essence on him.

Rebekah looked over at Jame: "What did he just say to you?" picking up on Jame's comment.

"He said, you love him really..." answered the warlock.

"As if..." Rebekah said turning away refusing to admit to it for the moment, as Hope was finally quietening down again. "Look..I want to know more but first, I have to take care of Hope, I think she's hungry now. Then she goes down for her afternoon sleep, we can talk more about everything okay-" said Rebekah before she interrupted by a loud groan from Jame.

"Owwwww...urgh..." Jame groaned placing the tips of his fingers on his sides of his forehead forcing him down onto one knee slowly groaning in-pain louder.

"Baby..what's wrong?!" Kol asked quickly crouching down placing his hands on Jame's head.

Rebekah looked on a little worried: "What's going on?!" asked the original vampire.

Jame groans some more closing his eyes, as flashes of chanting by a group of female witches kept appearing in his head holding hands combining their power.

"JAME?!" Kol yelled concerned for his living companion.

Jame opened his eyes breathing heavily the pain was excruciating: "Oh no.." Jame knew was happening it seemed like the New Orleans Coven that Jame had recently learned about from Kol were trying to locate baby Hope thinking she might still be alive and wanting to certain by combining their power for a long distance sweep. Jame had the unique gift of Mystic Foresight; which was able to sense powerful magic from long and short distances away giving him the upper hand on knowing what was coming before it got there their magical sweep would reach Blackwell Creek soon.

Baby Hope began crying again probably sensing it too leaving Rebekah confused and Kol concerned about his friend. Once the flashes and pain was over he quickly got to his feet:

"There trying to find her: Hope." Jame said catching his breath.

"Who?!" asked Kol frantically.

"Oh no..I have to leave. I have to go now." Rebekah replied.

"You're not going anywhere." Jame said to Rebekah who looked at him.

"There's no time. The French Quarter Coven's mystic sweep will be reaching my town soon." he said to Rebekah: "I'll perform a cloaking spell to protect her for the time being while you're here." Jame decided.

"You will?" Rebekah said a little tearful.

"I will. Wait here. I won't be long." Jame smiled at her softly.

She quickly walked up to Jame, as she put arm around him and hugged him briefly: "Thank you." Rebekah said to the warlock.

Kol breathed out loud with a sigh of relief and placed his two hands together with his lips in-between them and took a deep breath. "Thank you so much, Jame. God..." said Kol in response to his companion's decision.

"Your welcome." he said to her before knowing he was doing the right thing for now in his heart of hearts despite not knowing the full story yet. He broke off their hug and headed out of the drawing room pulling out his cellphone and placed a call to one of his best friends holding it up to his ear.

"Lexi, it's Jame. Get the circle together: NOW! It's a real emergency and we don't have a lot of time. Bring them to the manor asap, I'll have everything set up. I'll explain later." Jame instructed his friend, who agreed and they hung up their call, so Lexi could get everyone together.

Almost a full hour had passed, since Jame made his phone call leaving Rebekah alone in the drawing room still quite scared for niece and such sniffing from time to time, as she had now fed her and was rocking her to sleep. Kol was sitting next to Rebekah on the sofa with his ghostly hand rubbing her back gently:

"Don't worry little sister, Jame will keep her safe. I know you don't trust people very easily, but we can trust Jame believe me." Kol assured his sister despite her being unable to hear his support right now, Rebekah could feel him in some way reassuring her that it was going to okay, which had calmed her down a bit.

The drawing room doors soon opened, as both Rebekah and Kol looked over at them. Jame was just now returning from performing a cloaking spell to protect Hope, while she was here in Blackwell Creek with Jame. He closed the doors behind him, as Rebekah and Kol quickly stood up together.

"Did you do it? Did it work?" she asked Jame softly, who turned around on his slowly to face her.

"It's done." Jame replied reassuring the new vampire auntie.

A huge wave of relief just moved over both Rebekah and Kol: "Thank God." Rebekah replied sitting down again teary-eyed, as she stroked little Hope's now sleeping face gently with the tip of index finger smiling at her baby niece. "You're safe now, sweetheart." said the relieved aunt.

Kol just sat back on the sofa with his arms out: "That was close." he said, "Too close for my liking." Kol said to himself.

Jame's hands were his jeans pockets, as he approached the baby and Rebekah. "The sweep passed, but it wasn't easy that's for sure. But Kol said their coven had been weakened lately thanks to your brothers and their allies or frenemies, whatever you want to call them. So it made it difficult for them to break through the cloaking spell despite it being put together quite quickly." he explained to Rebekah, "So Hope is safe for now. But next time the cloaking spell will be stronger with much more preparation. Which my circle are putting together right now." he paused, "We're going to reconvene later on tonight and draw in the power of the full moon to increase our power once it reaches its apex, so it can't be broken by another coven's magic, since I tend to add a little something to it during your stay here." further explained Jame with a grin.

"Which means..." Jame said looking over at Kol with a heavy heart for the moment. "I can't bring you back yet babe.." he said to Kol faintly.

Kol looks down disappointed and sighs a little to himself: "It's okay. I understand." Kol said getting up and walking over to Jame and placing his hands on the sides of younger male's face. Kol lightly pressed his forehead against Jame's where both men sniffed a bit trying to keep their emotions in-check for the time being.

Rebekah looks on not sure, what is going on here because she can't see Kol, but she can see the pain on Jame's face, it then dawns on her: "Oh bloody hell..." she said to herself quietly.

Jame placed his hands on top of Kol's hands closing his eyes feeling Kol's lips on the front of his forehead kissing his skin lightly. "I won't let the vortex take me Jame. We will be together, I promise you that. I may not have a lot of time left, but I have faith in you and I know you will bring me back sooner rather then later. We just have to hold on for a little bit longer is all." said Kol to Jame.

"My niece is the most important thing right now, she needs protecting I'm sure those witches will try again soon. You can stop them babe." he told Jame. The Blackwell warlock took in a deep breath and opened his eyes: "I will bring you back. Once the spell is done, I am going to do everything in my power to make sure you come back tonight like we planned." Jame promised intensely, "A month is too long to wait the Other Side is almost completely destroyed then you'll be gone forever. I won't let that happen." Jame said firmly. "So stay safe until then alright? Or help me god, I will drag your demonic ass from hell itself to make sure, you come back either way." he said to Kol.

Kol smiles and laughs a bit, "Oh I believe it. I'll be back. Just look after Rebekah and Hope for now okay? We'll talk later, its best I don't stay in this place for too long. The vortex seems hone in on it, if its close." Kol said to Jame.

"Okay then you better go." instructed the warlock.

"Oh I'm already gone, baby.." Kol said confidently before vanishing from sight with his arms out to the side grinning to himself.

Rebekah put a now sleeping Hope back in her carrier before walking over to Jame and stood infront of him, as he looked up at her. She folded her arms across her chest: "So now your fucking my brother? Who's DEAD?! Not to mention a ghost...a particular annoying one at that." Rebekah said with a snicker starting to like Jame, especially after what he had just done for her and her family and is going to do.

Jame just shook his head with a brief smile placing his hands on his hips, "It's not like that. Plus not to mention physically impossible at the moment." he added.

Rebekah stared at Jame becoming more serious: "Are you really planning on bringing him back?" she asked the warlock.

"I am." he replied.

"Well then, you're going to need my help." Rebekah replied with a smile.