I do NOT OWN The Originals OR The Vampire Diaries. I only OWN Maureen "Mara" Gilbert.

Maureen's POV

"The witch wants soldiers. So now, it's either join up or pay the price." Aiden told us, including Marcel, Josh, a vampire that Klaus turned, and Oliver, a werewolf from the pack. I sat on one of the chairs while Elijah stood across from me. His eyes glanced onto me every now and then, still looking shocked that I was here. How much I changed.

"I've known my brother Finn to be merciless. But I'll admit, this exceeds even my expectations." Elijah put in, looking at every one of us.

"They're just kids." Hayley stated, looking towards Marcel and continued, "Marcel. You know the Quarter like the back of your hand. If anyone can get them out of here, it's you."

"And take them where?" Marcel asked in curiosity, wondering where we could keep them safe and away from Finn and his evil goons. I swear, if no one manages to kill Finn, I'll do it myself. I've always disliked him.

"There are still wolves deep in the bayou." Oliver answered, looking up at the she wolf. "The ones that didn't take a ring, they can look after them."

"The ones who never sold out, you mean." Marcel corrected Oliver's words mockingly. I sighed, running a hand through my hair.

"If you wanna look at it like that, that's fine." Oliver said in a somewhat non hostile tone. "We did what we had to do."

"Your wolves have been fighting us for decades. Why trust us now?" Marcel question, looking towards the wolves in curiosity. I just looked towards Aiden, knowing about his brother, who he told me about. His eyes looked saddened by the thought of what could possibly happen to him and many other teenagers.

"One of the recruits is my little brother." Aiden answered, making Josh look up at him in slight shock. "There's no way I'm sending him to war."

Marcel and Elijah looked at each other for a moment, until Elijah broke their stare and took a step towards Aiden and Hayley. "Tell us what you need."

"Alright. The kids are being held in the City of The Dead, until we bring the through the Quarter to St. Ann's Church." Aiden explained thoroughly, pointing towards Oliver and himself. "Now, meanwhile, Vincent is holding a meeting with a few humans in the know. The ones who have been reluctant to fall in line with his new leadership."

"Finn's going to use the kids to kill any those humans." I stated aloud in somewhat shock. Aiden nodded sadly, looking regretful for following Finn and Esther.

"Activate the curse and send a message to anyone who's thinking about going against him. It's two birds, one bloodbath." Aiden continued seriously. I shook my head, this would become a war.

"Okay, so we'll hit him while the kids are on the move." Marcel put in after Aiden's words.

"Aiden, make certain you and Oliver escort the children. We'll handle the rest." Elijah told the wolf. I looked towards Oliver from my seat when he looked at Elijah in disbelief. I stood to my feet, walking closer to Hayley, who looked agitated by all of this.

"Wait, wait, wait. Esther and her psycho son are already giving me the stink eye. If these kids go missing, I'm as good as dead." Oliver stated, looking worried for his safety.

"You wanted to help your people and make amends for the past. This is your chance." Elijah told him softly, staring at Oliver with a stern look in his eyes. Oliver sighed, before nodding along with the plan.

Once we all knew what our jobs were, we began to disperse. I was just about to follow Hayley out when I felt someone grab my arm. I turned to see Elijah, making me freeze. My heart wanted me to talk to him, but my mind knew that we had a mission to pull off.

"I know that you want to talk, Eli, believe me. I want to too..." I started to say, making him pause slightly. "But we have mission to pull off. Once we get done with this and succeed in saving those kids, then we can talk. Okay?"

He nodded and let go of me after a moment. I gave him a small smile before turning away from him. I was beginning to walk out of the door when I heard him say, "Please be careful."

"Aren't I always?" I asked innocently, turning my head. He gazed up at me with a small smile on his face. I gave him a small smirk and stated, "You be careful too."


I watched as Gia pretended to be drunk, walking towards one of the wolves that was leading the group of teens. She slammed the drink against his shoulder, pissing him off. She stared at him for a moment before pushing him back towards Marcel, who snapped his neck. The two vampires ran, as Aiden called out to Oliver in false alarm, "You, take the kids! Split up and find them."

After that, a majority of the werewolves and witches ran after them while Oliver called out to the kids after a moment, "Listen up, listen up, we gotta go. Don't ask questions, just move. Come on. Go, go."

"Ollie. This way." Hayley whisper-called out to him when he stopped for a moment. I stood by her side and motioned for them to come on to where they would exit and get to safety.

"Come on, come on, come on." Oliver rushed out, rushing over towards me with them following behind. We walked them through the bar with Josh by the exit, which was a hidden door in the kitchen. Josh opened the door when he saw us approaching.

"Go ahead. It's a passageway from the prohibition days." Josh told us as the kids went in the tunnel. "It'll take us pretty much anywhere we wanna go."

After all the kids got in, I turned towards Josh with a serious look on my face. "I need you and Hayley to go on without me."

"Why?" He and Hayley chorused in confusion, knowing that this wasn't a part of the plan. It was said that I was supposed to go with them, but I didn't want Elijah to fight on the wolves alone with Oliver on his side. I was stronger now. I could take them. I may not be invincible, but I am useful.

"Because I made a promise and I do not intend to break it." I answered them confidently. They looked confused for a bit before looking conflicted. Especially Hayley.

"Maureen, if you're planning to help Oliver with Elijah, I don't think that's a good idea. Both of the Originals will be on my ass if you got hurt." She explained, giving me an 'are you sure' look.

"I know what I'm signing up for, Hayley. I'm going to be fine." Giving her a reassuring smile. She sighed and ran a hand through her hair. It's surprising to see how worried she is about me. We never really hung out when she was in Mystic Falls, and she did break my best friend's neck, so there's that. Caroline was so pissed when that happened and it took a while to calm her down.

"Okay, just know if you get hurt-" She started to say, until I hugged her immediately, causing her to go quiet. She hugged back after a moment later, giving me one last look before motioning Josh to follow after the kids. After she followed after him, I turned to see Oliver staring at me with wide and kind of untrusting eyes.

"I know that we don't know each other, but I have your back. Hayley cares about you, or someone close to her does. I have your back and I expect you to have mine. So, let's go." I told him, quickly getting the awkwardness out of the way.

"Of course. Let's go then." He agreed with a small smirk on his face, leading the way to where Elijah was. Here we go.


Oliver and I walked side by side as we arrived at the warehouse/parking garage. When we saw Elijah, his back was towards us, so he didn't see that I was there, yet. I knew that he wasn't going to approve of me being here, but he's going to have to deal with it.

"Where are they?" Elijah asked, wondering where they were.

"They should be right behind us." I said, making him turn towards us quickly. His eyes widened in shock when he saw me, but then it changed to anger and worry. How eyes were filled with a fire that I seen in the pass whenever I decided to help out with dangerous missions. Especially the one where Caroline was kidnapped by Jules and her pack in the past. Even though we barely knew each other back then, he still cared about me.

"What are you doing here?" He questioned in slight anger, taking a step close to me. "You being here with Oliver and I wasn't a part of the plan. You were supposed to be with Hayley."

"Well, I made a promise that I wouldn't let anything happen to you or your family and I intend to keep it. Plus, I have been through a lot since the last we have seen each other. I can protect myself just fine. I'll have both yours and Oliver's back, okay?" I argued with him, gaining a somewhat shocked look from him. This was the most that I have spoken to him since we saw each other again. But, I needed him to know that I'll be fine and that I can protect myself. Oliver and I moved to stand beside him as we waited for the wolves to arrive. "Anyways, they should be arriving any minute now."

After a moment, we heard a noise and took that as our cue. The three of us turned to see the werewolves come in from all over the place. "Here we go. About time." Oliver stated with a small smirk on his face.

"Don't bother trying to run." A man among them said, staring at the three of us, but mostly at me. Not letting the man intimidate me, I just stared right back at him. I, then, felt Elijah step close to home, his hand brushing the back of mine. "We've got you three surrounded."

"Well, you don't think that we would be dumb enough to bring them here, would you?" Oliver chuckled, sounding smug at our diversion.

"Yes, I do apologize for any inconvenience." Elijah said, staring the man down. "The little ones you seek are elsewhere. Which I suppose..." He trailed off, moving to stand in front of me and closer to the man. "...leaves you here with me."

"You're the ones that don't understand." The man said, looking towards me slightly before looking towards Elijah. "We're not looking for the kids. The witch wants you and the human over there behind you."

I stared at the man in shock as Elijah looked towards me before looking back at the man. What? I just got here and Esther already knew that I was here. How could she have known? What does she want with me? "You listen to me very carefully. I told a good friend that I'd do my very best..." He trailed off, taking off his coat. "...to spare the lives of her people. You leave right now I will honor that. Stay...and the situation becomes irrefutably awkward."

The werewolves said nothing, only looking at the three of us with snarls and looked ready to kill. I chuckled under my breath and took off my jacket, leaving me in a maroon tank top, which caught the attention of Elijah but I ignored him. I placed my hand on my holster where my gun rested, my very sharp and long knife in the side of my combat boots. Note to self, always be prepared for anything.

"Very well." Elijah sighed, turning around to face me. He walked towards Oliver and I, whispering to us, throwing his jacket to the side, "You two need to leave. Oliver, get Maureen to safety and call Klaus."

"Either I'm in or I'm out, right? And, I think Maureen can make decisions for herself from what I've seen." Oliver argued, giving me a smirk. I gave him a smile on return as Elijah gave him and I a glare.

"I'll be fine, Elijah. Remember what I said before." I reminded him, getting into a defense position in front of the two. "Plus, if it's you and I that they want, let's see if they win against an Original and a human slash hunter and a werewolf."

After I said that, the wolves sprang into us immediately. I pulled out my gun before anyone else could see, and shot at the four werewolves in front of me. The four laughed, thinking that my bullets wouldn't hurt them, but then stopped. A smirk grew on my face in knowing. These bullets weren't normal bullets. These bullets could kill werewolves with a single shot.

As they were dying, I continued to shoot other in my way while Elijah and Oliver tore apart the werewolves that were attacking them. When I went to shoot at another one, I was knocked to the ground. I gasped and looked up to see a woman on top of me. Moving to shoot her, she knocked my gun away and punched me in the face. My head knocked to the side and felt blood start to fill my mouth. I quickly turned to look up at the woman who was about to punch me again, spitting my blood onto her face.

When she was distracted, I flipped us over and quickly grabbed my knife from my boot. Before the girl could do anything, I stabbed her in the heart, making sure to turn it a couple of times, killing her instantly. Hearing someone come up from behind me, I took the knife out of her chest and threw it at the man without looking. I turned my head and saw that it went through the guy's head, killing him instantly as well.

"Damn." I heard Oliver say. I turned to see him kill another wolf and gave him a smirk. "Badass."

"I try." I said easily, standing to my feet and rushed to grab my knife from the guy's skull. Turning to find Elijah, I saw him easily take on werewolves, but a group was coming at him from behind, so I ran at the men. I turned one of the men around and slashed his throats before turning to another one who yelled angrily at me for killing the man. I guess he was his friend.

I made to slice and stab the werewolf, but he dodged my knife and kicked the knife out of my hand and then kicked me in the stomach. I groaned in pain and moved to stand up, but he wrapped his hand around my throat. He lifted me up in the air and tightened his grip around my throat as I tried to get him to let go of me. Through my daze I saw his eyes widen and his grip loosened tremendously. Confused and before I knew it, I was falling to the ground. A groan of pain escaped me along with gasps, trying to get air back into my lungs when I hit the floor.

I rubbed my hand over my throats and looked up to see Elijah staring down at me with the werewolves heart in his hand. He held his other hand out to me, his eyes showing concern. I gave him a small thankful smile and grabbed his hand when I felt better. He lifted me up and just stared at me.

"Are you alright?" He asked, his eyes looking into mine. I nodded and looked over his shoulder to see a she wolf heading out way. My eyes widened and pushed Elijah out of the way, causing the girl to hit me. The two of us fell to the floor, me falling on top of her instead of the other way around. I looked down at her and punched her over and over. Blood began to over her face and she tried to fight back, but didn't get the chance because I ended up snapping her neck. I breathed heavily and stood up, turning my head to see that most of the werewolves were dead, only two were standing.

"You killed my sister." I heard from one of the wolves in anger. He snarled at me, move towards me. I began to make my way towards him, until Elijah stepped in his way and pulled out the wolves heart. My eyes widened, watching the wolf fall in front of Elijah who stared down at him.

"Thank you." I told Elijah, beginning to walk towards him. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Oliver rip off the arm of the last wolf standing. Elijah turned towards me and gave a me a breathless smile, blood cover his form.

"You're welcome. I'm glad you're fine from what I can see." He replied softly, looking me up and down for a moment to check and see if I had any injuries. "So it would seem-" He continued before falling to his knees, groaning in pain.

"Elijah!" I called out in worry, making my way towards him when I felt as if my head was about to explode. I yelled in pain, placing my hands on both sides of my head, falling to my knees. Tears fell down my face when the pain intensified. "Agh!"

"Actually, I'm just getting started." I heard a man's voice say. I lifted my head to see a dark skinned man walk towards us with both of his hands raised towards us. The pain increased and screamed louder. A crash sound appeared, but I could care less. I felt as if my head was about to explode.

Suddenly, the pain went away, causing relief to fill with me. I fell on my front, taking deep breaths. I looked up to see Elijah holding the man by the throat. Shaking off the pain and the tired state that began to fill me, I stood to my feet and walked towards where Elijah was holding the witch.

"Perhaps your next body will last a little longer than this one, brother." Elijah threatened, moving to snap his neck, until I felt this pain enter my back and through my stomach. His body went rigid at the sound of my screams, turning his head quickly to look at me. I looked down to see a head of an arrow and felt a sharp tug come from it.

"Agh!" I yelled out in pain, flying backwards and onto the floor. Another scream escaped me when I felt the pain grow worse and the arrow slash torture device shift painfully.

"Maureen!" I heard Elijah yell, I looked up from my place to see a woman, that Klaus described to me was Esther, standing above me. Then, I heard a yell come from Elijah. I lifted my head up to see a stake enter Elijah's heart.

"Elijah!" I screamed out, and moved to get up, but the pain was beginning to be too much. I looked up at Esther with tears falling down my face. "Why?"

"You will know soon, child. Now sleep." She ordered in a motherly tone. At that, I was out and was met by darkness.


I groaned as I felt myself lying on a hard cement surface. Dots appeared in my eyes when I opened them, but was soon cleared when I blinked a couple times. There were candles and it looked ancient in here, I looked down to see a circle of black sand around me. My eyebrows furrowed in confusion as I reached a hand out towards the circle, but was met by a hard barrier.

"What the hell?" I asked and stood to my feet. My hand hit the barrier, hitting me with a sense of deja vu. This happened when Elena went on a suicide mission to get Klaus' attention. Bonnie placed a barrier on the house so she couldn't leave. Now, I guess this is what Elena felt like.

"Good to see you're awake." I heard a familiar voice say from the entrance of the room. I jumped, looking up to see Esther standing there with a smirk on her face.

"What the hell do you want with me? How did you even know I was here in New Orleans?" I questioned her angrily, giving her a glare that could send her six feet under. But I bet it couldn't even keep her down because she has managed to come back from the dead many times. "Also, where's Elijah?"

"You are exactly like them. Tatia and Katherine. Your family tore Klaus and Elijah apart, so why can't I do the same to you? You have always been in my way. You made the mistake to come here." She spat, taking a step towards me. I held my ground and just shook my head at her. She was wrong. I may have thought about what she thought in the past, but over the last couple of years, I realized that I'm nothing like Tatia or Katherine. May have some characteristics because we are family, but I'm not like them.

"Really? I am not Tatia or Katherine. I know that I may be a doppelgänger of them and have characteristics, but I'm not them. Never have been, never will be." I told her strongly. "I haven't even seen Elijah for like two years and Klaus in one. Elijah and Klaus are big boys that can take care of themselves. Also, must I say, you being an overprotective mother isn't really a good look on you. Especially since you have tried to kill them all for being what you created them to be-"

After my words, I felt a burning and stabbing pain entered my head. I screamed and placed both of my hands on the sides of my head. Falling to my knees, I looked up at the original and gasped out, "What the hell are you doing to me?"

"I'm going to make you see." She stated the obvious, kneeling down to face me as I felt another one of my bones break. I cried out, feeling pain fill within me. "You will see how Tatia played with my sons and pinned them against each other. I will make you see how Katherine used Elijah. You will see how your family and you are similar."

She got up from the ground and began to walk towards the door, but stopped as I cried out in pain again. "Oh, and about Elijah. He's occupied right now. He's here, but he won't be able to hear you scream in pain and anguish. Goodbye. See you soon."

"No, no!" I screamed as the pain multiplied by ten. I could practically feel my brain tearing in half, the pain was so horrible. "Agh!"


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