By nightfall, Klaus and Hope are sitting alone in her room, with Klaus' arm wrapped around her shoulders.
"How can he just be gone? I don't understand" Hope wonders confused.
"He's not. He's somewhere else… we just can't see him" Klaus answers in a struggle.
"Will we ever be able to see him again?"
"I hope so. One day very far away."
"Good. I like him" Hope says sorrowful.
Hope slowly lays her head on his chest as he holds her tighter. At the door, Davina quietly approaches the room, interrupting their conversation.
"Hey. Everything's a mess out there. I can stay with Hope, if you want" Davina calmly asks Klaus.
Without responding, Klaus first looks at his daughter, waiting to hear from her.
"It's okay. You can go, daddy."
After a quick hesitation, Klaus gets up and walks towards Davina, whispering at her.
"Can I trust you?"
"I'll watch over her. I promise" Davina answers honestly.
Elsewhere, Rebekah is lying in bed at a candle-lit room inside the compound with Marcel by her side, holding her hand and gently caressing her hair. After some time, she slowly opens her blue eyes and raises her fingers to her sweaty forehead.
"Marcel-" she pronounces startled.
"Hey, hey- it's okay, you're okay" Marcel softly answers.
"What's happened? Why does it hurt?" Rebekah questions, scared.
"You- you were infected by… my venom. But listen, Freya is working on the cure. She's made it once before, soon you will be fine."
Rebekah sits up grunting, slowly regaining her awareness. She looks deeply at Marcel and after a silent consideration, she spills out.
"Tell her to stop."
"Wait, what?" Marcel questions confused.
"I don't need the cure."
"Rebekah, you do. The poison will kill you if we don't stop it. You're not invincible."
"I don't want to be."
"No!" Marcel yells before calming down and tightly picking up her hand, "Look, I know you're in pain and I know you're not thinking straight right now, but it will all go away as soon as Freya is finished. I can't lose anyone else."
"What do you mean anyone else?" Rebekah asks concerned.
Marcel looks down, searching for the right words of how to say out loud he's lost his friend and so, slowly and tearfully, proceeds to tell her what happened while she was unconscious.
Downstairs, Freya is nervously jumbling books, papers and herbs, desperately trying to hold it together when Klaus abruptly walks inside.
"Do you have the cure?" Klaus inquires.
"Not- yet, I just… I need more time" Freya mumbles.
"Time is pretty sparse at the moment."
"You think I don't know that!" she yells, "I am doing the best I can. I've figured this out once before, I can do it again!" she assertively continues.
"I know" Klaus calmly says.
"I can't fail her too-" Freya cries out.
"You haven't failed anyone, Freya!"
"Vincent is dead. Rebekah is dying. Keelin is- I- I don't know how she is" she says, almost breaking into tears.
"We will find her, I promise you" he tries reassuring her.
"You don't understand, Klaus! Without Keelin, I can't make the anti-venom! She's the last of her bloodline, I need her venom. Without her… our sister will die", she pauses, "You didn't see it… Declan and the humans were shooting down the wolves, regardless of who they were" Freya continues, trembling and uneasy.
Klaus is left speechless and devasted by his sister's revelation, mortified about losing anyone else. The look on his face grows angry but, determined, he storms off the room, only to be stopped by Josh, who intercepts him.
"Out of my way, Joshua. I'm in a hurry" Klaus aggressively says, trying to deviate from him.
"I need your help, Klaus" Josh asks in a serious tone, "I went outside to check on my guys and- countless of them were bit, they're dying".
"Well that seems to be happening a lot around here!" Klaus shouts angry.
"I know you're worried about Rebekah, but please your blood can save them" Josh pleads.
"I'm not a bloody charity! Let them die for all I care" Klaus answers, walking away from him.
"Is this what you want to show Hope? The Klaus who will let douzens of innocents die because he refuses to save them?" Josh shouts at Klaus, who immediately turns around at the mention of his daughter.
"Don't you talk about my daughter!"
"Why don't you ask her what she would want her father to do…" Josh finalizes.
After a couple seconds of consideration, Klaus is annoyed yet convinced by his words and decides to obey his request.
"Tell your little witch friend to find Keelin, now! If my sister dies because of this, I will grant you an even slower and more excruciating death than all your vampire friends" Klaus threatens before they both speed away.
Back in Hope's room, Rebekah is crying and squirming on the bed until she abruptly wakes and raises her head up. As she opens her eyes, she spots Elijah sitting on her right and Kol on her left. For a brief moment she smiles at the sight of her brothers.
"I thought you'd be long gone by now" Rebekah peacefully states.
"We're in no rush to leave this time" Elijah replies.
"Feels like someone is always in a rush to so in this family" she adds.
"That's rather ironic… We spoke with Marcel. I never thought you to be the suicidal type, Beks" Kol says upset.
"Did you mean that?" Elijah asks, "I thought you wanted for us to get to know each other better, you shouldn't break promises, Rebekah."
"How odd is it that the only way for us to die… is if someone murders us. We don't get sick. We don't grow old. We don't get hit by a truck and die. This is the only way it ends."
"What could possibly make you want life to end?" Elijah asks baffled.
"We've lived a thousand years, hasn't that been enough, Elijah?" she answers, tired.
"To be fair you spent several of those locked in a box" Kol snarks.
"I've always admired humanity. While I watched all of you thrive, enjoying immortality and the- wonders it has to offer: compulsion, being fearless… The thing that has always enchanted me is humanity. Growing old with the person you love, creating life instead of taking it, seizing every moment because you know one day it'll end. How could this go by unwanted" Rebekah reflects, talking slowly with long pauses to heavily breathe.
"You don't need to be human to love, Rebekah. But this is wrong" Elijah says pointing at her, condemning her choice.
"This is human. Lying on a bed, waiting for death. There is peace and beauty in it" Rebekah responds anguished.
"You're feverish. Take a nap, you'll be thinking more clearly then" Kol proclaims, angrily exiting the room.
Rebekah looks down, wondering about whether she is making the appropriate choice, noticing her brothers' pain. Wishing to be alone, she lays down completely and closes her eyes, providing Elijah the cue to follow Kol.
On the way out of the room, Elijah catches up to Kol and calls for him.
"What is it?" Kol asks abruptly.
"When we were on the Ancestral Plane, Rebekah said something that puzzled me. We weren't very close, were we?"
"I suppose not." Kol calmly answers.
"May I ask why?" Elijah asks, surprising Kol and almost leaving him speechless.
"I guess over the years our squabbles were a little more damaging than most. To be honest, for a long time, I didn't think you cared much for me. Not that it matters now" Kol says lowly, assuring he doesn't look too troubled by it.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry if I've wronged you."
"Well, it doesn't mean much if you don't know what you're apologizing for, does it. But don't concern yourself too much with it, there are bigger things to worry about right now."
Kol turns around and walks away, leaving Elijah still and contemplative.
Having just returned to the compound after healing the vampires, Klaus arrives to see a tearful Hayley standing in front of Vincent's body, with a white sheet covering everything but his face.
"Hayley…" Klaus says
"What- what happened!?" Hayley lets out in between sobs.
"The Hollow…" Klaus quietly responds, walking towards her and involving his arms around her.
Hayley tightly hugs him back, breaking into tears. Following her voice, Freya slowly approaches.
"You shouldn't have found out this way. I'm sorry" Freya tells sorrowful.
Hearing Freya, Hayley backs away from Klaus and cleans the tears from her sad face.
"Freya…" Hayley struggles to say, "I can't believe I have to say this… I couldn't find Keelin. I tracked most of the werewolves, but there was no sign of her. Though, someone said they saw her…"
"Where?" Freya immediately questions enthusiastic.
"With Declan" Hayley mutters, "They said he took her alive."
"I say it's about time we pay Declan a visit" Klaus says, livid, watching Freya lose it.
