12

"Is it done, am I blond again?" Elizabeth started messing with her hair before Rebekah even had a chance to respond. She tugged the ends of her hair and relaxed slightly when she saw the blond ends.

"Don't touch it," Rebekah scolded as she pulled Elizabeth's hands away. "Let it dry, but yes you're blond again."

"Thank God." She murmured as she dropped the box in the trashcan. "Let's just hope it stays that way." She looked at Rebekah. "This means we're running out of time? Any ideas?"

Rebekah gulped as she shook her head. "No, Elijah, Stefan, and Klaus are working on it."

This didn't seem to satisfy Elizabeth, she grabbed her coat and her purse and looked at her sister. "Come on."

Rebekah looked at her confused. "Wait, where are we going?"

"Where do you think?" She conveniently left her purse inside one of the drawers. "It's New Orleans, it's filled with witches there has to be a least a witch that can help me. Our brothers and Stefan will be gone for hours, so I only have a limited time left. Please, Rebekah."

Rebekah hesitated and looked between wanting to help her sister or tie her to the bed. "Klaus wants you to stay inside and I promised that I would watch Hayley. If I leave, I'm sure something bad will happened like it always does."

Elizabeth shook her head. "Fine, stay here. It won't take long. I can handle it by myself."

Rebekah placed the phone in her hand. "Take this, I'm sure Nik will want to know if you're alive before he personally kills you himself."

Elizabeth nodded as she raced down the stairs, in search of a witch.


Following her stroke of incredibly bad luck there didn't seem to be a witch in the entire French quarter. She had looked at the usual hiding spots, that she remember back in the 19th century, but none were to be found and she was growing more and more anxious.

She looked at the map in her phone, she should know the city like the back on her hand, but she kept confusing the streets for some strange reason. She had walked past the same street twice until she remembered that she had already been past there. She had been gone for an hour and a half and she still wasn't close to a damn witch.

Deciding to take a little break, she sat in one of the park benches and pulled out her phone, deciding to call Rebekah to at least tell her that she was all right.

She pulled out her phone and the screen demanded a pin number. She started pressing the number 3, then 4- her mind went completely blank. What were the other numbers? She had typed that pin number hundreds of times, was this a human thing momentarily forgetting stuff?

Annoyed, she stuffed the phone back in her purse. Elizabeth rested her head against the bench and closed her eyes for a few minutes. When she opened them she felt herself panic.

What was this place?

Why were the people wearing such strange clothes and riding upon metal carriages.

Her brown eyes looked around in panicked. Where was she? Where were the huts, the horses, the villagers? She gave an estranged cry. "Mother? Father? Kol, Finn, Nik, Elijah, Rebekah, Henrik? Where are you?"


Rebekah nervously walked down the stairs trying to cover for her sister when she heard the front door close. Her brothers and Stefan had arrived earlier than anticipated. "Did you find something?"

"The damn witch Davina was nowhere to be seen," Klaus snapped as he took of his jacket and threw it, into a nearby chair. "I told Elijah, that we shouldn't trust her but apparently he's determined to make all the wrong decisions."

"It's late, Niklaus." Elijah said impatiently. "The girl was sleeping, what were supposed to do? Disturb her sleep? We can always try tomorrow."

Klaus gave him a dirty look.

Stefan cleared his throat. "Where's Elizabeth?"

Rebekah gave a small, fake smile. "Oh, you know around. Looking around the house. Keeping herself busy."

Elijah frowned and he and Stefan exchanged looks, Klaus was the only one that knew that Rebekah was lying. He pinned her against the wall and murmured. "Well, the hell is she Rebekah? I ordered her not to leave the house."

Rebekah refused to answer and Klaus gave her a little push. "Answer me!"

"She went to look for witches!" Hayley blurted out as she came down the stairs. "She just said, she was going to go look around for a couple of hours, but she hasn't come back."

Klaus cursed as he let Rebekah go. He turned back to Elijah and Stefan. "Let's go, Stefan you look inside the locations, Elijah and I will look everywhere else."


"Now, Niklaus be patient." Elijah said calmly when they stopped using their vampire speed to walk normally again and Elijah saw that Klaus had a murdereress look on his face. "Elizabeth, is probably around here and probably just lost track of time. We'll find her. Don't worry."

"Don't worry?" Klaus snapped. "Our human, paranoid baby sister has been running around New Orleans for hours and you don't want me to worry? Especially since Elizabeth is not exactly the brightest."

There was an amused smile on Elijah's face, before he saw her. "Oh, there she is. She seems upset."

Elizabeth was looking back and forth like some lost puppy.

Klaus and Elijah flashed in front of her. "What the hell are you doing here, looking around like a moron?"

"I don't know my way home." She said slowly, before she turned back to Klaus and hugged him, catching Klaus by surprise. "Kol, I'm so glad to see you."

"Why are you calling me Kol?" Klaus asked completely puzzled, the anger leaving him.

Elizabeth gave him a quizzical look. "Because you're Kol, and you're Finn," she said pointing at Elijah as she began walking away. "Hurry, it's almost dark and I don't want to get another scolding."

"The beginning stages of Alzheimer's," Elijah murmured. "She's starting to forget things about her life."

-End of Chapter Twelve-