AN: so here's the timeline for this story:
Chapter 1 is the middle of September and chapter 2 is the next day
Chapter 3 is two days later, chapter 4 is that night going into the next day
Chapter 5 is the day right after and chapter 6 the one after that
This chapter will be a few hours afterwards and for the rest of the chapter timelines, I'll post them in the AN
Another thing, Elena is pregnant but considering that in Interlude C, she isn't going to be showing much yet
RECAP:
Klaus could feel his bones shiver with the words Ansel was telling him and they were all true. Each thing he said made him want that life Esther wanted to give him but he knew that he would never take it.
"Without Tatia-Eva," he was still trying to understand what she did. "Without her, what am I then? A monster or a damaged man?"
"You are you," Freya was there and wanted him to understand that though it's been a thousand years, she will always consider him her brother. "You are both-a damaged man and a monster, yes-but you are also a father to that man Marcel."
She was right.
He may not be Marcel's biological father but he was his father and he will always be.
Chapter 7: We're CHASING THE DEVIL'S TAIL
"Davina's never gonna trust me if she thinks I'm just a flying monkey to the wicked witch." Freya said as she looked at her brothers who were conscious.
Fin had pulled her into a hug, careful not to squeeze her too tight and placed a kiss on her nose.
"She knows that you're not a flying monkey to the wicked witch." Sophie said as she held a pint of ice cream and they all looked at her weirdly. "Elena said that she was hungry for the weirdest thing in the world-a milkshake that had every kind of berry available and some hot sauce."
Klaus and Fin were horrified at the thought of someone drinking something like that as the brunette vampire flashed off.
The sounds of a wall being broken and two windows shattering were what followed after her.
"We were innocent once Elijah. This blood lust was forced upon us by our parents. Turning us from prey to predator. We're the demons lurking in shadow; we are the savage villains in fairy tales told to children, but not for my child. Not for Hope, in her story we are the knights in shining armor. Without you by my side I don't think I could survive my own love for my daughter. I need you, I need you brother. The monster in me can only be checked by the monster in you. Only together can we defeat our demons and save our family."
Elijah looked at his brother as he said his monologue and nodded.
"I tell the same story to Cara," he replied as they sat out on the veranda outside of his house. "I tell her those same stories and I know that Elena tells her some as well."
"Speaking of the newest Mikaelson…" he gave his brother a salacious smirk. "Were you ever going to tell us about you marrying her?"
Elijah sipped his blood and nodded. "When the time was right for me to tell." He looked at him and gave him a dark smile. "She had no idea of what was going to happen until Marcel gave it away as well as her."
"Marcel knew?" He looked around, worried that bodies would be piling up.
"He knew and he gave me permission." It was at that point Elena appeared and sat on Elijah's lap with Cara in her arms.
Klaus smiled at his brother who had the one thing that had been denied him by their mother.
A family and a reason to live.
He himself would have had it if it weren't for Esther and her spells. He knew that he should have told them that he had been getting more and more memories of his life with Tatia and each one made him want to start it over again.
Like he promised her years ago, I will wait for you, and he will.
No matter how long it takes.
"You want to take down Klaus, right? I've wanted one thing for years. To drive a dagger into his heart." Kol told Davina as they were in a crypt.
If only they had known that they were being spied on by Freya.
That was a bittersweet memory for both Davina and Freya who were trying, with magic, to find an easier way of reviving Kol.
Selene was in Kol's room when Davina and Freya had left and as she watched him lay motionless, tears fell from her eyes and she kissed his lips lightly.
"It's nearly time for our final goodbye Kol," she whispered. "I know that you can't hear me and I am fine with it but I want you to live your life and not be burdened by a dead love."
Kissing him lightly one last time, she stood up and left the room, a trail of tears following behind her.
"Stop following me." Klaus growled at Ansel who was trailing him the second he entered the Abbatoir.
"I will not, unless you let me in." Ansel answered and Klaus glowered at him.
"My mother brought you back from the dead. My sense of strategy tells me it wasn't to play a father son game of hide and seek. Now kindly piss off. I'm in a hurry to help my real family."
Ansel wanted to say something but he nodded, respecting his wishes.
He had made a mistake a thousand years ago by not being in his son's life but now, he was going to fix it any way he could.
"Have I made you proud, father?" Klaus asked but he didn't stick around to hear the answer.
"You truly have. Now let me make you proud of me."
Esther was looking at the wolves who were beside her in the crypt that she had held Elijah and Kol in. "I want that stake. I don't care what you have to do to get it."
"I know you are locked in battle. However deep in your mind our mother has set the stage, hear my voice. Our mother thinks she will win because she has left you alone, but you are not alone. Let me in. Let me help end whatever torment she has forced upon you." Fin sighed and pressed a kiss to his youngest brother's forehead. "Our mother thinks she will win because she has left you alone. But you are not alone. You have me, Rebekah, Elijah, Niklaus-you have Selene and Davina, Sophie and Eva, Elena and the girls as well as the unborn one. You have a reason to fight."
Sophie appeared while Fin was talking to Kol. "What are you doing?" she asked.
"Our mother thinks she will win." Fin looked at Klaus and let out a groan. He had tried talking to Kol and bringing him back but nothing worked.
He had left Sophie and Davina in the room with Kol, seeing to his needs while he was outside by the fountain and wanting nothing more to do than to rip out Esther's still beating heart.
He was the protector-the elder brother. This shouldn't have happened!
It was his job to make sure that his siblings were safe and whole and healthy! They shouldn't be withering away in a mindless trap in their minds.
"We'll go after everything and everyone that she loves." Selene said darkly as she appeared behind them.
"He hasn't called. He thinks he's protecting me, but I don't want to be protected and he needs to learn that. Truth be told, I don't think I want him to be around his family anymore at all."
Vincent looked at Eva with a raised eyebrow. "Well, that's a nice piece of progress. What's on your mind?"
The two were conducting sessions inside Rousseau's that she now owns. She had just poured Vincent a drink while nursing her own. Taking a swig, she enjoyed feeling the burning sensation going down her throat.
"I was wondering, I ... I know this is like horribly unprofessional, but I was hoping I could get a new advisor."
Vincent had to look away from her. "You aren't finding our lessons productive?"
Eva shook her head in the negative. "No, no, that's not it. They've been great. You're really getting to know me. I just, I want to get to know you too."
"Like friends?" He asked. She nodded.
"Don't we all need some friends?"
"We're going to take down Esther Mikaelson today and considering how she treated your vampires I assumed you would want in on the bloodbath."
Marcel grinned at Aiden and Jackson who had come to him in his home with this idea and nodded.
Now he will get what he had wanted ever since meeting Esther.
Revenge.
Selene looked over at Ansel and pointed out to him the spell in the book.
"I can use this to bind the crazy witch's power but it'll come at a cost…" she was nervous but as Ansel read it, he knew now why she was so nervous.
In order for this spell to work, she would need to sacrifice herself. Looking at her, he smiled sadly and shook his head.
"I'll pay that price Selene, not you." She shook her head.
"It has to be me. No one else can pay for it but the witch who evokes the spell." She looked at her hands and smiled. "I've already made my peace with it. I'm ready to go because this time, I managed to say goodbye to him and to see that he had someone watching over him."
I hope that you liked this chapter! Yes, this chapter does say what will happen in a future chapter that will change the lives and the outcome for the Originals forever-yes, that part is from the summary and the next chapter will deal with Kol's awakening, a Kolvina moment as well as a Kol/Selene one
