No One's POV

Finn stood restlessly in the center of the pentagram he had helped make, his mother almost ready to complete the spell, as he waiting for his siblings to come, hoping that they had found a way to stop his mother, as Alexis had promised they would, he could not lose his mate after just finding her, a day was not enough with her.

But finally, after it seemingly an agonizing wait, Finn heard the footfalls of his siblings nearing.

"They're coming, mother!" Finn calls out, knowing that he must play his part, like he had gone over with his siblings, like Alexis had told him.

"No, it's too soon, the moon is not high enough. Go! Quickly!" Esther tells her witches, still ignoring him, and anger burned in Finn's stomach.

"My sons, come forward." Esther beckons to Elijah, Niklaus, and Kol as they approach from the forest.

"Stay beside me, mother." Finn says hollowly, as if he would if he were still loyal.

"It's okay. They can't enter." Esther assures, walking into the pentagram.

"That's lovely. We're stuck out here, while the favorite son plays sacrificial lamb. How pathetic you are, Finn." Kol snarks, walking closer to the pentagram, only to be pushed back by the flames.

"Be quiet, Kol. Your brother knows virtue you cannot even imagine." Esther snaps.

"Whatever you think of us, killing your own children will be an atrocity." Elijah comments.

"My only regret is that I did not let you die a thousand years ago." Esther only replies.

"Enough. All this talk is boring me. End this now, Mother, or I'll send you back to Hell." Niklaus growls, beginning to pace in front of the flames.

"For a thousand years, I've been forced to watch you. Felt the pain of every victim, suffered while you shed blood. Even you, Elijah, with your claim to nobility, you're no better. All of you. You're a curse on this Earth. Stretched out over generations. If you've come to plead for your life, I'm sorry, you've wasted your time." Esther shakes her head.

The time was almost right, and Finn began pacing, Esther was facing away from him, the flames flickering slightly, but not high enough, the Salvatores had not turned the oldest Bennett yet.

"No! Sisters! Do not abandon me!" Esther screams.

Finn lunged, Esther slamming into the ground as Finn tackled his mother from behind, onto one of the torches, managing to singe her clothes as the torch dies out with the ending of the ancestral Bennett line.

"Finn! What are you-" Esther gasps, eyes wide with disbelief.

"You hurt my mate!" Finn growls, his fang bared, eyes black, and veins fully showing in fierce viciousness. "You tried to keep her from me!"

In another moment Esther's neck is snapped, Finn pulling her heart out before he stands, his brothers practically gapping at him, Kol holding a lighter loosely in his hand, the flame flicking out.

"I was going to offer a lighter, but I don't really think we need it…" Kol offers lamely.

"Kol." Elijah only sighs, looking slightly pained with exasperation.

"Well… Finn." Niklaus says, still slightly leery of his eldest brother. "Welcome back to the family."

Finn only nods, barely glancing at his mother's body, before turning back to the direction of the Mikaelson mansion, his brothers following.

"Where the bloody hell is everyone?" Rebekah asks, her heels clicking lightly against the Mikaelson's mansions tiles.

"Oh, hey Rebekah. Your brothers haven't returned from stopping your mother." Alexis replies, peeking over the couch, hoping that the Original sister doesn't try and kill her while she's alone, because clearly she hadn't taken a liking to her, if earlier was any indicator.

"We are here, sister. And, it's over, Rebekah." Elijah says, breezing into the mansion, the rest of the brothers flashing into the mansion along with him, Finn gravitating towards Alexis immediately.

"Where's mother?" Rebekah asks.

"We have no mother. Only Esther, and Esther was right." Elijah says, also coming towards Alexis.

"What do you mean?" Rebekah asks, looking confused.

"My talk of virtue. When it suits my needs, I kill, maim, and torment. Even today, I terrorized an innocent." Elijah admits.

"Elena is hardly innocent."

"And I used your hatred of her to get what I wanted. Wielded you like I would a sword. My sister." Elijah says, looking guilty.

"You did it to protect us, Elijah, and rightly so! We deserve to live! We are better than they are." Rebekah argues.

"Are we? Mother made us vampires. She didn't make us monsters, we did that to ourselves." Elijah asks.

"No. Oh no, we are not going to do this right now. I completely agree with Rebekah. Well, to an extent. You're not better than humans. But you are not monsters. Okay, I get it. You guys have problems. Like a thousand years' worth of it. Your problems are bigger than the Mississippi River, I swear. But you're not going to flee, to run, to scatter. It's fucking ridiculous that a bunch of whiny, selfish, teenagers and adolescent vampires get the best of you. So no. That's not going to happen." Alexis cuts off Elijah's train of thought from where she is sitting on the couch.

Immediately all eyes swivel to her, intense and burning, listening to her impassioned rant.

"You guys are family. You're the Mikaelsons. You're the Originals… House Mikaelson... United you stand, divided you fall. Always and Forever."