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Gimme Shelter, Part 1

"It would have been pretty cool to have a big brother," Jade, Look After You, Chapter 31

While Kelly hadn't been too enthused about Jade moving to New Orleans she shared Klaus's sentiment that their daughter was an adult and if she wanted to transfer schools she was going to do just that. Jade was off to New Orleans and while Kelly stayed in Mystic Falls with the two Donovan kids Klaus did head to New Orleans with her; that gave Kelly some peace of mind. In addition to moving to New Orleans, Jade had shed her old last name and started going by the name she always wanted which was Mikaelson. Things were changing, there was no denying that as there were a few other familial shifts going on.

Elijah also left for New Orleans with his brother, both having always been fond of the city. While Freya wasn't going to New Orleans she was going to be closer as she moved from Chicago to Austin to be with her girlfriend Keelin who was starting medical school. Rebekah wasn't based out of New York anymore, though she wasn't in New Orleans either as she was often traveling; Kol wasn't ever seen but he did keep in touch with his niece now.

That night, like most nights, Marcel found his way to Rousseeau's. He immediately looked over to the bar where the blonde behind it had that look on her face, the look women often have when they're getting hit on and they don't want to be. Walking over, he rested his hand on the guy's shoulder, shaking his head and nodding for the guy to leave. Knowing it wasn't his fight, the guy got up and left easily.

"How's my favorite bar tender?" he asked as he took over the guy's seat.

"Five hundred and four," Jade told Marcel as she sat a drink in front of him.

"I'm sorry?" Marcel laughed at her.

"Did you know that there are five hundred and four bars in this city?" she smirked at him. "And yet you always manage to find yourself at this one."

"Well, the staff is so welcoming," he told her sarcastically and she made a playful face. "You didn't seem to mind me getting rid of your admirer," he pointed out.

"I could've knocked that guy off his bar stool without actually touching him," Jade reminded him, keeping her voice low. While she did go by Mikaelson and many of the locals were in the know about the supernatural, they didn't go broadcasting who they all were. "And you know that." She smiled sweetly. "So, please stop hovering."

"You're my baby sister Jade," Marcel reminded her, finishing his drink and she poured him another one. "It's part of my job description."

"What are you two going on about?" Klaus asked as he came up to them at the bar; her brother wasn't the only one that hovered over her the last few months since she had been to the city.

"Five hundred and four," Jade told him before walking away.

"What's five hundred and four?" Klaus asked Marcel and Marcel just laughed, nodding for Klaus to follow him to their usual table.

"You seem to have a bit of a fan club," the girl Jade was training that night, Cami, was saying to her as Jade joined her on the other side of the bar, helping out with a group over there. Cami was a student as well, though she was ahead of Jade in school.

"What?" Jade asked in confusion; Cami nodded over at the table in the corner. "Ah, yeah, I guess," she shrugged it off.

"That one guy seems to like you," Cami teased, referring to Marcel. "He's cute."

"Ew, God, no!" Jade busted out laughing and Cami looked at her in confusion. "No, I'm sorry," Jade shook her head, unable to stop smiling. "It's just that, ah, Marcel's my brother."

"Oh!" Cami laughed, embarrassed she had made that mistake. "I'm sorry," she said as they were both laughing.

"No, it's fine," Jade told her, both of them taking a second to talk as everyone at the bar was content at the moment. "My parents didn't think they could have kids, so they adopted Marcel," she lied with ease. "Then, a few years later," she shrugged, motioning to herself. "Surprise."

"Crazy how things work out," Cami commented and Jade nodded. "Do you have any other brothers or sisters?"

"Younger half sister and brother, from my mom," Jade clarified. "My parents split up, but they're still friends."

"That's awesome," Cami told her. "So rare." Jade nodded.

"What about you?" Jade asked.

"I have a twin brother, Sean," she said with a smile. "He's been here in the city with our uncle, I transferred to be closer to them."

"Cool," Jade nodded, already knowing who Cami's uncle was; he knew about her and her family but Cami didn't. Jade already really liked her and figured they would end up being friends.

"So, who's the other guy?" Cami asked casually, clearing off some glasses.

"Ah, my cousin," Jade told her, trying to remember the lie that was floating around town. Yeah, that was it; Marcel was her brother and her dad and uncle were passing off as her cousins. "Klaus."

"Oh," Cami nodded, continuing to keep busy; Jade new that look, that trying to play it too casual.

"What, do you think he's cute or something?" Jade asked, leaning back against the bar. Across the bar Marcel and Klaus were eavesdropping.

"Man, I gotta get a kid," Marcel was joking. "She's a solid wing man."

"She's been on this kick about me dating," Klaus commented and Marcel knew about what lead Jade to want to move to New Orleans in the first place.

"Whatever keeps her mind off Mason I guess," Marcel shrugged. Back at the bar the girls were still talking.

"I could talk to him for you," Jade was going on to Cami.

"No," Cami laughed, feeling a little embarrassed. "No, we're not fourteen. I'll just..." She shrugged. "I'm sure I'll see him around."

"Fine," Jade said with a playful eye roll; she looked over as someone else was walking into the bar. "Hey Sophie," she nodded at her.

"Hey Jade," she smiled. Sophie was one of the only witches in the French Quarter that was nice to her. Most of the coven hadn't been too thrilled about her moving to New Orleans considering who her family was; they already weren't too happy about how much power Marcel and the vampires already had before the Mikaelsons got there. Sophie, on the other hand, wasn't too crazy about the strict rules in the coven; she had even started to have a thing with Marcel.

"This is Cami, she's the new bartender," Jade introduced her. "Sophie's our chef."

"Hey," Cami greeted her.

"Hi," Sophie said back nicely. "Please tell me she's replacing Josh," Sophie half complained to Jade.

"Megan," Jade informed her on who Cami was replacing. Josh was a newly turned vampire that Marcel turned to replace a night walker that he lost. "He's still new," she reminded her, meaning new in more ways than one.

"He's a mess," Sophie told her and Jade laughed a little.

"Well, he takes all the closing shifts so," Jade shrugged.

"Wait, really?" Cami asked. She wouldn't have to stay till close?

"Yeah, weekends we have two people but most nights Josh just takes it," Jade shrugged at her. This reason, of course, was because Josh didn't have a daylight ring yet. "And, hey, it's kinda dead so if you wanna take off," she told Cami.

"You sure?" Cami asked.

"Yeah," Jade nodded. She didn't really mind and she had something she wanted to talk to Sophie about alone anyway.

"Thanks, I could use the study time," Cami said as she grabbed her bag. Jade noticed her dad and Marcel had already torn out which was alright with her as well. "I'll see you tomorrow?"

"I'll be here," Jade smiled as she left.

"She seems nice," Sophie commented as she put her bag down behind the bar, grabbing her apron so she could head back to the kitchen.

"Yeah, Father K's niece," Jade informed her and Sophie nodded. "Hey Soph, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure," Sophie shrugged, not sure what this could be about.

"I know the witches usually hang out in the cauldron," Jade started off. "The vampires come in here. But I never see the werewolves."

"Uh huh," Sophie half laughed at her, figuring she had to know the truth; Jade's confused look told her that she didn't though. "...you're serious?" Sophie asked, raising her eye brows.

"Well, I mean," Jade was shrugging. "I grew up with my dad and his siblings, vampires and witches," she was listing. "The witches here aren't exactly on board with me. My dad never really talks about being a wolf so..." She shrugged. "There's three parts of me Soph, and I've only ever been around two."

"I get it," Sophie said sympathetically; Jade didn't like where this was going with her tone.

"...what?" Jade asked skeptically.

"I really think you should talk to Marcel about this," Sophie told her. No way did she want to get in the middle of this.

"Sophie," Jade stopped her. Sophie let out a heavy sigh, knowing she was going to regret this.

"Look," Sophie started off. "You think things are on edge now? You should have seen this place in the nineties. It was faction against faction, this place was a supernatural war zone. And, the center of a lot of the trouble, seemed to be around the wolves."

"So, are you telling me they're bad news and to stay away?" Jade half laughed at her; Sophie remained serious.

"Things got really bad," Sophie told her. "So, Marcel and my cousin Brynne...did something."

"What kind of something?" Jade asked.

"There haven't been any wolves in the quarter for almost fifteen years," Sophie admitted. "Marcel had Brynne do this spell, she reversed their curse on them. They're only human on the full moon."

"...what?" Jade managed to ask. She was in complete shock; how could her brother not tell her about this, especially knowing she had wanted to try to connect with all the factions in New Orleans since she was part everything.

"I really thought you would have known," Sophie told her. "I mean, part of it was your magic-"

"What?!" Jade snapped now, cutting her off.

"Brynne wasn't strong enough to do the curse herself," Sophie said, knowing she stuck her foot in her mouth. "She channeled you."

Flashback, 1997

"You're heading back to New Orleans?" Jade asked, pouting a little. It was after her incident that got her suspended, after she had projected herself to the bayou, which was what brought her dad to bring Marcel to meet her. As great as it had been meeting his sister, Marcel had to get back to dealing with the issues in the city.

"Yeah," Marcel nodded, matching her expression. "But, I'll be back in a few weeks, ok?"

"Ok," she nodded enthusiastically.

"Can I ask you a favor Jade?" Marcel asked her. He had gotten a call from Brynne that she wasn't strong enough to do the spell and would need something to help boost her magic. He had talked to Klaus and then Kelly about it, both of them being ok with it as long as Jade didn't have any direct involvement.

"Sure," Jade nodded, eager to help her new found brother.

"It's just my one friend at home," he explained to the ten year old. "She's a witch too, and she's got this big spell but she doesn't know if she's strong enough to do it." He paused. "I was hoping we could borrow something of yours, maybe so she could channel you. If that's ok," he told her.

"Yeah, sure!" Jade said, taking off her necklace her Aunt Rebekah gave her. "Here," she said as she handed it to him.

"Thank you so much," Marcel told her, kissing her cheek. "I promise I'll bring this right back."

"MARCEL!" Jade screamed as she entered their home that night, leaving the bar in Josh's hands.

"Jade, you ok?" Marcel asked with concern as he entered the main room, though no sooner had he entered the room did he go flying across it. "Jade, what the-" He started to ask but then he went flying again, this time into a nearby wall, knocking off the paintings off of it.

"Did you think I wasn't going to find out?!" she was shouting at him.

"I'd like to find out, where do you get off coming in here and-"

"You have a lot of freaking nerve asking me where I-"

"Children, please," Elijah said as he and Klaus showed up, looking down from upstairs where they had been talking. He had meant it as a joke to lighten the mood, though both brothers picked up on the immediate tension.

"What's going on?" Klaus asked them seriously, both he and Elijah coming downstairs now.

"Why don't you ask your daughter," Marcel scoffed, dusting himself off. "She just came in here and-"

"Did you two know about the wolves?" Jade cut him off, looking to her dad and uncle. Their silence was her answer. "Oh my God," she groaned, turning away from them as she rubbed her forehead.

"It's a lot more complicated than you understand," Klaus was trying to calm her down.

"So complicated that you all failed to mention to me that my magic was used to cast the spell?" Jade snapped.

"Jade," Klaus sighed.

"How," she started off at all of them. "How could you all use me like that. I was a child," she went on. She motioned to Marcel. "Is that why you came to meet me in the first place?"

"Of course not Jade," Marcel said, truly offended. "That wasn't it at all."

"What happened that was so important that you would lie to me all this time, I-"

"You wanna know what happened?" Marcel snapped at her now. "An entire family got murdered, that's what happened."

"What?" Jade asked.

"You were there in the bayou Jade," Marcel reminded her. "You saw all the bodies. What do you think was going on?"

"So you cursed an entire group of people?" Jade asked him. "With my magic?" Marcel shook his head, looking at Klaus to keep going; he couldn't keep going on and on with Jade just angry at him.

"Jade, they were all fighting," Klaus explained to her. "Not just with the vampires but with each other. That's why I had to go to New Orleans, to try to help Marcel negotiate peace."

"...and?" Jade asked impatiently.

"And while they were in Mystic Falls seeing you I had to call them with the news that there were more deaths," Elijah cut in. "A family, parents and a little girl about your age at the time."

"But, all those people-"

"We had no idea who did it," Marcel said now. "They had no leads on it either. Maybe it was stupid but it was the only way I saw to keep any more of them from dying."

"But all of them, that's not fair," Jade insisted.

"They killed a child Jade," her uncle said seriously.

"The kids that I saw in the bayou that day didn't do it," she argued. "And now they've been stuck this way all this time, and you used me to do it?"

"You're mad now," Klaus started off.

"Mad?" Jade scoffed. "I'm furious. You all don't get to do that, you don't get to..." She trailed off, shaking her head. "No, you know what, no," she said, grabbing her bag. "I'm switching them back."

"You're going to switch them back," Marcel questioned now. "What, tonight?"

"It's a full moon," Jade shrugged, turning her back on them and heading for the door.

"If you go out there," Marcel started to warn her. "Klaus, tell her the fuse she's gonna be lighting off."

"Jade, he's right," Klaus said. He and Elijah had just been upstairs discussing the growing tensions between the vampires and witches. Jade freeing the wolves would undoubtedly set off a spark.

"Who's gonna stop me, you three?" Jade asked heading out the door, keeping her back to them as she threw her hand up. They tried to follow her but found themselves trapped by a boundary spell.

"Jade!" Marcel called.

"Don't wait up!" she called back, heading around the corner to get her car.

"Jade!" her father shouted now; all they heard now was her car taking off.

Ugh, Marcel, Jade was cursing her brother in her mind as she arrived at the bayou, parking her car along the side of the road. Using my magic to, ah, I can't believe him, her mind was racing. She didn't know if she had ever been so upset with her brother before. Hearing the sounds of what sounded like a party, she started in that direction. As her mind started to wander though she realized that she didn't really have a plan for what she was going to do next. What, was she just going to show up, introduce herself, and they would just believe she was going to fix it? She didn't have much more time to contemplate it though as she felt herself being knocked to the side.

"I told you I heard someone out here," she heard someone say, realizing it was the someone that was holding onto her arm.

"C'mon man, let her go," one was insisting.

"What, we can't go into the quarter but they can...Ah, ah, ah," he winced as his hand felt like it was breaking, releasing Jade's arm.

"Take your hand off me, thank you," Jade said sarcastically and he backed up; she realized that there were three guys there about her age. And that was when the memory struck her. "Oh my God, you're the boys," she said and they looked at her funny. "The boys I saw in the bayou that day, it's you. Right?" she asked, looking between the three of them again. One blonde, two with dark hair, just like she remembered. The blonde was the one who's hand she nearly broke with just her mind.

"You're the Mikaelson girl," one of the ones with darker hair commented, remembering her dad spotting her and them running off before she vanished. It didn't take many long to figure out who she was, no matter how much Marcel and Klaus tried to keep it a secret.

"Jade," she told him her name, figuring that out of the three of them he was the one in charge; they all continued to look at her. "So...I don't get names?" she asked lightly, though sarcasm tinged her voice.

"I'm Jackson," he finally told her. "This is Aiden and Oliver." He paused. "What are you doing out here?"

"Honestly?" she asked. "I'm here to help."

"Haven't you already helped enough?" Oliver asked sarcastically.

"I had no idea what I was helping with," Jade told him seriously and he rolled his eyes at her. "Um, ok I was ten. Did you know what the adults in your life were doing when you were ten?" They didn't say anything. "That's what I thought."

"I don't know how you plan on helping," Jackson told her. "Only the witch that cast it can break it, and she's been dead for years."

"Well, she used my magic to do it," Jade reasoned. "What could it possibly hurt?"

"And why should we trust a Mikaelson?" Oliver asked back.

"Because I'm not just my family," she argued. "I'm not who raised me."

"Can you guys give us a minute?" Jackson said now; something she just said struck a chord with him, not that she would know exactly what.

"Jackson," Aiden was saying now; he nodded for them to go.

"Why are you here Jade?" Jackson asked her seriously.

"I told you," she said honestly. "I found out what happened tonight and all I could think about what how pissed off it made me, about how bad I felt. You have to believe me, I had no idea they let that witch channel me, I-"

"I believe you," Jackson assured her, weighing his options. It wasn't like they had too many people coming out to the bayou offering to help them; she was a Mikaelson though and they had all heard about her father, not to mention what her brother had obviously done to them. "Anything you're trying, any spells whatever, they get done to me first, ok? I don't need any weird magic side effects hurting my pack."

"Your pack?" she questioned. "You're their alpha?"

"I am," he nodded. "And I'm trusting you to fix it."

"I couldn't possibly make it worse," Jade said lightly, feeling the pressure for the first time. It really was all up to her to try to fix this, to save these people; she offered her hand for a shake.

"That's the spirit," Jackson said back with the same light tone, shaking her hand.

Jade went home that night having run out of time, promising she would be back in a month after some research. Pulling up to the house she waved her hand, removing the boundary spell that contained the three she had left there. Heading inside she found the place to be mostly quiet, slipping upstairs to her room without much notice; that was, until there was a knock at the door.

"Jade?"

"Come in dad," Jade called and he invited himself in.

"You forgot your phone tonight," he told her, returning it.

"Thanks," she said as she set it on her nightstand, both of them tiptoeing around the tension in the room. She knew he was unhappy with what she had done that night, that he didn't want her involved.

"You know," he said, sitting on the edge of her bed. "Your uncle Kol called tonight while you were gone."

"Oh, ok," she nodded. "He said he was gonna check in, see how New Orleans was." He nodded. "Did you talk to him?"

"I did," Klaus nodded. "I told him what you were up to tonight too."

"I wouldn't be surprised if even he knew about the wolves," Jade quipped sarcastically. "Seeing as everyone knew what my magic was being used for but me."

"I understand that you're upset Jade," Klaus assured her. "And I understand why. But you have to realize we didn't feel like we had much other choice."

"Dad," Jade shook her head at him. "You understand why I have to do this right?" He was quiet a moment.

"I do," Klaus told her now, getting up from her bed now. "Just be careful, all right sweetheart?" he said before kissing her head.

"Yeah, ok," Jade said back, surprised by her dad's sudden shift to her side. "Good night dad."

"Good night," he said, heading out of the room and closing the door gently behind him.

Earlier that night

Realizing they were trapped in the house that evening, the three of them split up among the house. Klaus was going to leave the room but then heard Jade's phone ringing on the coffee table, lighting up with Kol's name. Still angry with her for her stunt that night he picked up the phone planning to yell at Kol; surely he was part of this somehow.

"Hello?" Klaus answered the phone.

"Is Jade there?" Kol asked in confusion.

"No, do you want to know where your niece is?" Klaus snapped at him.

"Sort of why I called Nik," Kol said sarcastically. "I was just calling to check on her."

"Well, you'll be happy to know she's taken after you in the pot stirring department," Klaus informed him.

"How so?" Kol asked, amused by how annoyed his brother seemed.

"She's taken off, gone out to the swamp to reverse the curse on the Crescent Pack," Klaus started off.

"I heard something about that curse," Kol informed him. "Why are you so angry she's reversing it though?"

"Other than the fact that she's locked Elijah, Marcel, and I in the house?" Klaus asked, to which his brother laughed; Kol could practically see his brother's face.

"I'm sorry," he chuckled. "She's just something, that's all." Klaus didn't say anything. "Do you want my advice Nik?"

"Father advice, really?" Klaus asked sarcastically.

"Look, I haven't known Jade for very long," he admitted. "But, I do know that she struggles with feeling different, like she's an outsider. And, speaking as the family outsider-"

"Kol," he tried to stop him.

"Whatever it is she's doing, don't alienate her or make her feel like she's wrong," Kol said. "You're her family, back her up. Or you'll lose her." And with that, he hung up the phone. Klaus sighed, putting Jade's phone back. He would never want to admit that Kol was right, but he surely made sense given what Klaus had seen play out among his own family.

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