Klaus waited patiently for Sophie at Rousseau's. When she came through the kitchen door he grabbed her and she found herself at the Mikaelson estate. Rebekah and Klaus both glaring at her,
"Sophie, care to explain why your coven tried to have my girlfriend and in turn my child slaughtered last night?" Klaus immediately accused, Sophie looked at him confused,
"I had absolutely no clue that was going to happen, because if Buffy dies, I die." She lied with ease, she new what Agnes was up to, she was very well aware that her life was on the line.
"Your coven had her attacked by, Rugaru, which led you getting brought here, and led to the mother of my child almost getting killed." Sophie's eyes widened at the mention of the Rugaru,
"Klaus I had no Idea that this was going to happen no less involve the Rugaru. The only reason that this happened was because Sabine had a vision, they are very open to interpretation. I am assuming this one was wrong."
"Why do you say that? Klaus asked curiously,
"Well, apparently your child is going to bring death to all witches."
"I grow fonder of this child by the minute. But that doesn't excuse anything. Your coven made a stupid choice, which lead us here, and to her." He gestured at Buffy who was now standing in the doorway,
"Wow sweetie you have a way with words," she said sardonically,
"Sorry love," Klaus said. Buffy turned her attention to Sophie,
"I think I killed a couple of your witch friends, I mean not that I care. They kinda deserved it." Buffy said angrily,
"I have to get out there, if you killed witches their bodies need to be consecrated, if they aren't by sundown, they won't find peace."
"Not really my problem." Buffy said, Klaus's phone rang and he answered it.
"Hey Klaus I have something you might be interested in." Marcel said on the other line.
"Is that so?"
"I got reports that there was a rampage in the woods last night, wanna check it out?" Klaus looked at Buffy a hint of fear crossing his face,
"I have a better idea why don't we just go get some drinks, catch up." Klaus said,
"Yeah we could do that, I'm still sending one of my guys out, see you soon brother." Klaus hung up the phone and looked at Rebekah,
"You are in charge, make sure Buffy is safe and stays out of trouble." He walked over to Buffy and kissed her lightly on the lips and placed a hand on her abdomen. "Stay safe my love," Klaus said before he left. Rebekah watched the scene with complete intrigue, she had never seen this side of Klaus before, she wasn't complaining, it made him much more bearable. She looked at Buffy and walked out of the room. Buffy glared at Sophie and then left the room to go find Willow. She walked into the foyer to find her and Elijah heading out the door,
"Hey where are you guys going?" Buffy asked,
"Elijah enlisted me for help Davina duty. So we are going to have a chat with her before I can help her with control issues." Buffy nodded and gave Willow a hug,
"Be careful okay, after last night I can't bear anything happening to you." Willow nodded, she turned to Elijah and embraced him, "I never gave you a proper welcome home." She said, Elijah smiled, and then walked out of the house with Willow. Buffy was left alone with Rebekah, she decided it wouldn't hurt to get out of the house, so she opened the front door and closed it quietly. She was walking around downtown New Orleans, enjoying the sights and smells of the city. Eventually something had drawn her to Lafayette Cemetery, she found the crypt she had been held in her first night in New Orleans. In the crypt, was Sophie who was stuffing a small glass bottle into a bag.
"Wow are you really that dumb?" Buffy asked, "I mean seriously you are going out there, by yourself, when I clearly heard Marcel say he was sending one of his guys out there."
"Look, I don't need you breathing down my neck right now, okay? I was already harassed by Klaus this morning."
"You expect me to let you leave to the bayou alone? Nope, not happening, you see I like being alive, and I want my baby to be alive as well, if you got attacked by a panther or something alone you'd die, I'd die, it would be a hole dyeing fest. So... I am going with you." Sophie gave her a look of disgust, but before she could open her mouth Rebekah was behind Buffy.
"God you really keep getting your self into trouble don't you. I've been trailing you all day, but as my duty as the baby sitter today I have to go with the both of you." Rebekah sighed and pulled out her phone,
"Brother I need you to stall Marcel, it seems as though mumsie is hell bent on accompanying the witch bitch that is Sophie Devereaux to the bayou, which means I have to go, stall him." She hung up the phone and the girls set out to the bayou.
Elijah led Willow into St. Anne's church. Willow looked around, it had been a long time since she had been in any place of that involved organized religion. He led her up a flight of stairs and into a room, sitting on a bed was a teenage girl, with long brown hair. She turned to face them, when she saw Willow she instantly became wry and tried to send her flying with her magic but Willow simply held up a hand and it stopped.
"Next time we go see a witch, at least warn me she is that powerful. That actually took some effort on my end to hold off that spell." Willow said turning to Elijah, then back to Davina. "Hi, I'm Willow, I'm here with Elijah to talk, don't worry I won't hurt you."
"How do I know you aren't working for the coven?"
"Pfft, as if I ever would. They held me captive for almost three days in some creepy ass cemetery, they are no friends of mine." She could tell Davina still didn't trust her, "if you need to, touch my hand, you will know if I am lying to you." Davina cautiously touched Willow's hand, but recoiled from the immense power, but got the sense she could be trusted,
"As Willow said before Davina we are just here to talk." Davina shook her head and sat down on the edge of her bed,
"Before I was this powerful I was a normal teenage girl, who had friends, went to school, all of that. That quickly went to hell, the elders at the time, Bastiana and Agnes, got whispers from the ancestors that it was time for the Harvest."
"What is the Harvest?" Elijah and Willow asked, almost simultaneously.
"They told us it was this great honor, that it would restore our covens power back to full strength. It's this ritual, we have to do it every three hundred years, and it keeps our ancestral magic flowing. But it comes with a cost." Davina had a flash back to the day she was picked as a Harvest girl, "they lined eight of us up, and poked the palm of our hands with a knife, then four of us were chosen. And I was one of them. My mother was so proud of me. At the time I had no idea what they truly planned. But Sophie did, she tried to stop it, but the elders wouldn't listen. We spent months preparing for the Harvest ritual, I was unaware of what happened after the Harvest. After the Harvest was the Reaping, where the four of us would return our power back in full. When they lined us up that night, they gave us each an element, Water, which represents purity, earth, the thing that binds the mortal plain, fire, for cleansing, and wind, that would carry us away to the ancestors." Davina began to sob, "they told us that the sacrifice was just going to be a small amount of blood from each of us, but it wasn't true! they lied to us, they cut my best friends throat in front of me, and I was next. I screamed and pleaded, but my own mother turned her back on me, and that's when Marcel arrived, he spared me from dying." She finished,
"What's the Reaping?" Willow asked,
"It was a state of half death, where we would be in some sort of mystical coma until the ancestors released us and we were born again. But it was all a lie! They lined us up for slaughter just they could have more power." Davina said with such rage that the room shook, Willow was about to bind the young girls powers but Elijah held up a hand,
"Davina, clear your mind, focus," he said calmly, she took a few deep breaths and composed herself.
"I- I'm sorry. I want everything to end, with the Harvest. If it doesn't go through then we lose our magic and I can be normal again. I can go back to school, and have a life."
"You don't like your magic do you?" Willow asked knowingly,
"No, I- I sometimes hurt people. Even when I don't want to." She said quietly, Elijah then spoke,
"Davina I'd like to offer you a deal, align yourself with our family, and we will make sure the witches won't complete the Harvest, and as return for your help me and Willow will help you get your powers under control. I will bring a couple pages from my mother's grimoire that will help with control and Willow can mentor you. All I ask is your help." Davina nodded at him, and then turned to Willow.
Buffy walked in front of Sophie and Rebekah, she wasn't really paying attention until she walked into a spiders web.
"Ah damn it," she exclaimed, Rebekah and Sophie looked at her curiously, "I walked into a spider web. Spiders give me the wiggens." Buffy said; they came upon the house and the bodies were still there. The ones Sophie recognized she placed the liquid from the small bottle on her head and said a silent prayer. This went on for about ten minutes before Buffy spoke up,
"I'm really thinking I should've just let you come by yourself, I'm sweating to death, it's muggy, and on top of it I forgot to eat breakfast. Seriously you have no idea what I'd do right now for a mayo and Cheetos sandwich with whipped cream covered tacos." Rebekah trained a quizzical eye on her, "what? You try being pregnant with a mystical baby and then tell me what your cravings are like." She then proceeded to antagonize Sophie, they didn't even notice the man that was spying on them until a branch snapped. Rebekah and Buffy's heads shot up and the man looked at them,
"An original? A pregnant Slayer?" He then sped off, Rebekah pulled her cellphone out,
"Nik, I'm a terrible baby sitter in addition to an original. One of Marcel's men just saw me, he knew Buffy was a Slayer, he heard the baby's heart beat. I'm on my way to distract Marcel, be on the look out." With that she sped off, Buffy turned and looked at Sophie again,
"How long is this going to take?"
"Since we aren't back at the cemetery the consecration is going to take more time."
"Great I get to spend the day with a vapid bitch without a person to keep from me slapping you. This gonna be fun," she said sarcastically.
"Speak of the devil." Klaus said as he saw Rebekah walking into the bar. He looked at Marcel, "if you'll excuse me I have to use the loo."
"That's really all you seem to do with my brother, get drunk of your sorry asses."
"Come on Rebekah just admit it, your jealous that I'm spending time with Klaus when I should be spending time you." He said provocatively flirtatious eyes, she leaned over the bar, displaying her cleavage right in front of him,
"Marcel, might I suggest you not pull on a woman's heart strings you let think you were dead." Her phone started riming and she cursed but answered it. When she turned back around Marcel was gone, and Klaus was just walking back into the bar,
"Where is Marcel?"
"I don't know Nik, he was just there, you told me to distract hi... Wait a minute do you think that he was using us as a distraction?" They both turned on their heels and walked out of the bar.
It was well past sundown in the bayou, and Buffy was doing everything in her power not to throttle Sophie But one question popped into her mind as Sophie loaded up her car,
"Do you think what Sabine said about my baby... Do you think it's true?" Sophie didn't respond.
Later that evening Klaus, Elijah, Buffy, Willow, Rebekah, and Giles were all convened in the study.
"8 months ago, Sophie, and Jane Anne Devereaux lost everything. 4 weeks ago they led Buffy here with pretenses to fight Marcel. But it was never a war against Witches and Vampire's, it was over Davina. Sophie has done everything in her power to get that girl back, that included manipulating all of us. This no longer a matter of war but a matter of family, and that is why we should consider her our greatest threat."
Buffy found herself unable to sleep, she needed him to hold her, and comfort her. She got up out of bed and walked across the hall and knocked on Klaus's door. When he didn't open it she turned the nob and walked in. He was lying naked on his bead, his hair still wet from a shower. His mind was somewhere else as his senses didn't register her presence until she was siting beside him.
"Klaus you're all naked." She said, Klaus smirked at her,
"One tends to be after getting out of the shower." He looked at her for a moment, "why aren't you in bed love?"
"Because you weren't in my bed holding me." She curled up next to him on the bed, Klaus leaned over and kissed her softly on the lips, his hand stroking her arm lightly. She looked up at him and then kissed him more passionately. She undressed herself and Klaus laid a gentle trail of kisses down her neck to her breast, where he pulled a nipple between his teeth and lightly sucked on it. Buffy gave a small moan of pleasure, for some reason this felt more intimate than any other time they have been together. She didn't want foreplay, she just wanted the man she loved, and he knew that. He entered her gently, and she gasped slightly, he set a slow steady rhythm, all the while kissing her passionately. For the first time ever, he felt something spark inside him as he let go. He had never truly made love until this moment. He pulled out of her slowly, propped up over her on his hands he leaned down and kissed her on the lips and then he kissed her small baby bump,
"I love you both so much," he whispered.
"I love you too," Buffy said before she pulled him into a soft kiss that had a fiery passion that could melt an iceberg.
AN: Here's an other one it is shorter than the last update, but it's just to tide you over, also I had to have the fluff in this chapter. I also hold myself responsible for all grammatical errors and punctuation mistakes that in my chapters, I am still looking for a beta reader. But hey life isn't perfect.
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