A more elaborate message came to the leader of the Mikaelson family the next morning. Three dead bodies, two blonde women and a man with different causes of death. But the deaths weren't important, despite Caroline's insistence. Aurora didn't care about humans anymore than he'd done with his humanity first off. The importance in this message was what each victim carried. The message however, wouldn't appear to Klaus's eyes. Not yet.
"We need to neutralize Aurora, if we don't do this we will never be safe." Freya said strongly.
"So we're going the same route as we did with Marcel?" Caroline asked, glancing at Klaus's son apologetically.
"Suppose there's not much choice in the matter. When we learn where Aurora is we can put the plans in motion." Klaus replied
"But how long will it take to decipher the ravings of a lunatic?" Elijah asked calmly. Klaus looked at his brother, and Caroline saw a flicker of shame in his eye.
"If anyone can find out, it's Nik." Rebekah piped up, crossing her arms. "I just wish I hadn't turned the bloody idiot."
"Wait, you turned Aurora?" Caroline asked "I assumed Klaus did."
"Aurora tried to persuade me to do so, but I felt being the way I was was a horrible fate back then. I didn't want her to feel worse about herself than she already did." Klaus replied. Rebekah stayed silent and the Mikaelsons went back to planning.
A few hours later, after research, it was discovered Aurora had moved her shop to a business location, compelling and threatening all who'd worked there so she was the only one left. Marcel's men saw traps when they looked in the windows, and mistakenly drew the redhead's attention. She wiggled her fingers in a greeting and now Aurora knew. They were coming.
"Maybe you shouldn't come, love." Klaus said, meeting Caroline's eye. "You were able to get away through pretense the last time, now she'll see right through it." Caroline crossed her arms with a smirk.
"You don't know that, I could still have a few ideas." She replied. Klaus smirked in return, an eyebrow rose.
"As you wish." He said. Caroline smiled at him, biting her lip, and spun to leave the room, her hair bouncing out behind her. Elijah entered the room not long after. After a while he looked at his little brother.
"Aurora cannot be neutralized, Niklaus." Elijah said. "She has too much of a hold over you. I trust you with my life, and yours; as foolish as that trust is at times. But Miss De Martel cannot continue to exist on this plane if we are to live in peace." He held Klaus's nervous gaze. "If you and Caroline are to be happy together without her interfering." Klaus looked away for a moment.
"Consider it done."
Elijah planned on confronting the redhead vampire head on despite his brother's insistence at the opposite. He knew Aurora wanted to hurt him and wanted that advantage in order to help take the ancient madwoman down. Rebekah was going to stay at the back unless she was needed as backup, because the woman had planned it in such a clever way that the building had no reception. Klaus and Caroline came in the back of the place, creeping along and not daring to make a sound. Caroline looked at him and he stared back at her.
"You're really scared of her aren't you?" Caroline had asked earlier on their way.
"There had been a time when I envisioned spending my life with her," Klaus admitted. He looked away "Back before I had adjusted to the perception of time. I wanted her to be happy, as she had made me happy. However, when Mikael appeared as he'd always done back then, that little fairytale I'd dreamed of was crushed." He glanced at Caroline "Aurora still has that dream and has never let it go. She knows who I truly was, before I became the 'big bad wolf'."
"She's a weakness for you." Caroline realized. Klaus nodded severely and gulped.
"Yes. Some have the luxury of never seeing their past show up again in a manner that cripples you the way it had the first time. I want to be able to eradicate her from my world, except I never have the strength in order to do so."
"And there's some part of you, which still wants the life you'd envisioned with her." Caroline added. Klaus looked at her and saw a flicker of fear in her young beautiful eyes.
"I want a happy and loving life with my family and the woman that I love." Klaus replied, turning to her and placing his hands on her shoulders. His eyes leveled with hers. "Aurora had once been the woman I felt was my soul's mate. And even with her no longer in my heart, she still can manipulate it as if I were a defenseless puppet. But I gave up the idea of being with her long ago." He smiled at her. "There's someone else I want to spend eternity with. And I gave her a promise several years ago that I intend to keep." Caroline smiled in return "She, is the reason I want to be a better man, and she is the only one I am in love with. In the truest way possible."
Caroline smiled at his sweet words as they continued creeping up on Aurora.
They heard humming and closed in on the sound; the redhead was playing with something indistinguishable in a luxury bathroom. Klaus and Caroline's faces were seen in the mirror behind the madwoman, but Aurora did not see them. Klaus stared her down as well as Caroline, then the blonde vampire turned to look at the woman in the mirror. She was so beautiful, young and strong. That flaming red hair, reaching the small of her back. She wore a green dress and black heels. In another situation Caroline would be jealous of the woman's ability to look so good.
But this woman had to die.
"Please, do come in." The voice sounded dryly, nearing making her gasp in surprise. Aurora turned smoothly, a bored look on her face. She had just finished painting her fingernails, the gleam of the red struck the light in a deadly way. Caroline had stared too long at the redhead's new change, as Aurora held them out to her for a closer look. "The nail polish is new, and useful against double agent vampires." She stared that blonde hard in the eye. "The venom of a werewolf. Course it does nothing to the color, but it is effective even after it dries." Aurora explained.
"My lady, why would you want to harm me? I've done just as you asked" Caroline asked, hardly hearing the words leave her mouth. Both Aurora and Klaus looked at her in surprise. "You wanted me to break your lover's heart. I tried, but had to choose another tactic. He is near now, so you can do with him what you will." Caroline explained. A smile grew on both Klaus and Aurora's face, though Aurora didn't see it. Klaus had to hide it after a minute, wanting strongly to tell Caroline how clever and beautiful and intelligent she was right then and there, hang all else.
"Yes, and I saw through the woman's plan." Elijah sounded from a door frame behind Aurora. The redhead rolled her eyes in irritation and spun around. "Luckily my brother's taste in women has never been anything short of dangerous, for both himself and our family."
"I'm surprise you haven't compelled her to leave him yet then." Aurora replied.
"Enough!" Klaus commanded. Elijah's face twisted in anger, speeding to Aurora and grasping the vampire firmly by the throat. He lifted her off her feet slowly, and snapped his eyes to Klaus.
"It needs to be done now." Elijah growled. Klaus nodded and revealed a stake from inside his jacket, gripping it tightly and lunging at the redhead. Aurora stared him down hard, Klaus couldn't help but stare back and his hand shook.
"Dammit!" Klaus roared. Caroline put a hand on his shoulder and reached out for the stake.
"Before you throw it through some window." She murmured. He handed it to her, and Caroline slowly walked to Aurora.
"Very good, my loyal servant." Aurora seethed, her eyes glittering. Caroline stared back at her and rolled her eyes.
"Okay, listen. I don't really care if Elijah drops you and you end up making me vulnerable again. I love Klaus. I'm in love with him, and even though you've apparently loved him since before you turned, Klaus has moved on."
"You expect me to believe Nik cares equally for you." Aurora laughed.
"Oh I don't know. Did 'Nik' want you so bad he let you go so you could be happy?" Caroline asked. Aurora's malevolent gaze wavered. The blonde vampire used the opportunity to strike at her, burying the stake in her side. And far away from her heart.
Aurora laughed again, unbothered by the pain.
"Either you've terrible aim, or you cannot harm me either. Have you grown fond of me?" She taunted Caroline, who glared back at her. Elijah broke the redhead's neck in one swift movement. He breathed hard and turned to Klaus and Caroline.
"You swore." Elijah seethed "Both of you swore to me!" He raged at Caroline. The hybrid looked away in guilt, the vampire stared back at the older Mikaelson.
"Maybe we can do something else" Caroline suggested. "Vervain her, keep her locked away?"
"She's more powerful than even a Mikaelson now, Miss Forbes. You've seen the power Marcel has, now that is mirrored in Miss Martel. We cannot allow her to live"
"There isn't any brutish way to kill her!" Caroline protested "You ripped Marcel's heart out, and he came back. And now he's unkillable, only Hope was able to stop him."
"Speak of the littlest wolf" Klaus murmured. Caroline looked around and saw nothing, she locked eyes with Klaus and he showed her where the cloaked Mikaelson witch was hovering over Aurora. In seconds, Hope shimmered into existence, having placed a copy of the mountain ash circle around her, and began chanting, both her young hands spread wide, moving with each word. The redhead shuddered with the magic lifting her power from her, while still unconscious. A sparkle of bluish hues floated towards Hope's hands, she shaped it into a ball without touching the colors, and clapped hard. The colors remained, yet it was a smaller size. The little girl lifted the jar that had held the mountain ash and captured the sparkling blues. As it flickered in the jar, the redhead gasped to life.
Aurora snarled, and touched her face when she realized the same monster veins weren't covering her face as it did before. Klaus smirked and helped the redhead to her feet.
"Now, love. Let's get you a seat so we can discuss your punishment, in trying to destroy all I hold dear." Aurora stared back at him, anger and betrayal raging in her eyes, and yanked her hand from Klaus's hold.
"I suppose you had some kind of trick that kept you and your family safe, but know this. Someone else, will find a way to bring your entire bloodline down." Aurora looked at Hope, hiding behind Caroline. "Even your little daughter."
Klaus snarled and grabbed Aurora's shoulders, driving her into a wall.
"I may not be able to kill you, but I can make you wish you were dead" he threatened
"Klaus," Caroline protested. He looked back and saw Hope poking out in curiosity from behind the blonde. He blinked and turned back to the redhead.
"Well, not here" Klaus added with a smile.
"Wait" a voice sounded. Everyone in the room turned to see Marcel charge in. He looked at Klaus. "What I was able to do for Caroline, I'll do for her."
There was a heavy silence while everyone considered the words.
"She can never, come back to the Quarter. It doesn't matter if she knows who she is or not" Marcel decreed. Klaus stepped aside to allow Marcel room, keeping one hand on her shoulder. Aurora struggled until Marcel told her not to.
"Your name is not Aurora de Martel. You have no brother. You are a human being, mortal, and you need to be taken care of by professional therapists."
There were holes that had to be filled in in Aurora's new story, but Caroline provided a name for her when no one else was able to come up with one: Delilah Jones. Klaus was able to arrange for a psychiatric facility to take her on, and six months later, Delilah Jones was a quiet little redhead with half of her hair cut off, drinking tea and only muttering a few phrases a day. Nothing worrying, of course. Aurora was now out of the Mikaelsons' lives, which was enough for Elijah.
Now, the family that Klaus and Caroline and brought together could live in peace.