Chapter Thirteen

"Sophie, you have three seconds to explain yourself or I will rip your throat out and you heart at the same time."

Sophie sighed as she looked across the room at the three Originals, Caroline, and Katherine. "Davina is channeling too much power, she can't control it and instead it's controlling her and making her very sick. Her power is drawn from the elements of the earth which means that everything that is happening right now is because of her magic, the constant raining and air, the fact that she's vomiting dirt. Pretty soon, we are going to have our own version of hell."

Rebekah crossed her arms over her chest. "So how do we stop it?"

"The Harvest." Katherine murmured.

Sophie nodded, "Exactly, this happened because we didn't complete the Harvest. The only way to stop this is to kill Davina and complete it."

"So wait," Caroline frowned. "All of you are ok on sacrificing an innocent girl? That's murder!"

"I don't think you're in any position to judge, sweetheart." Klaus said sarcastically.

Caroline flushed scarlet and glared at him. Klaus pretended not to see.

"But you will need powerful ancestral magic to draw that sort of power," Elijah said slowly. "The only option we have are to use the remains of a powerful witch. Do you have the remains of a powerful witch, Sophie?"

Sophie bit the inside of her cheek. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to tell Elijah that before she had died she and Agnes had digged up the bones of his old girlfriend, Celeste. "Leave that up to me, all you have to worry about is Davina."

"D, Davina come here," Marcel whispered and Davina sleepily looked back at him. She had been sleeping for most of the afternoon with the help of some medication, it was the only way from completely destroying the city.

"Marcel." She mumbled, fear entering her mind. "Are they going to kill me? Are they going to complete the Harvest? They are aren't they?"

"No, no Davina." Marcel whispered as he picked her up. "I'm not going to let that happened to you. I'm going to keep you safe."

"He's gone." Klaus burst into the quarter hours later his hate focused entirely at that moment on Rebekah. "I don't suppose you know where he is sister, you have been flirting with him ever since we arrived in this Godforsaken town."

Rebekah's jaw tightened. "I have no idea where he is, Nik. I didn't exactly hide him."

Klaus crossed his arms across his chest. "Didn't you?"

Rebekah glared back. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"It means it wouldn't be the first time you've chosen a man over your family." Klaus snapped. "You two were having your honeymoon while we were back in Mystic Falls, so I suggest you fix it and find Marcel before we burn to death."

The rain was pouring hard and the three Originals plus Caroline and Katherine and Sophie were waiting for Marcel to bring Davina at the cemetery. Sophie was standing in front of a gravestone where she had placed Celeste's bones along with a bunch of herbs and plants.

Katherine squeezed Elijah's hand. "She's here."

Marcel put Davina down and with a brave face she approached Sophie. Sophie helped her up. "Do you believe in the Harvest?"

Caroline looked like she wanted to step in, but Klaus grabbed her wrist. They exchanged glances, but before Caroline could say anything she pulled back. She hated to admit it, but it had to be done.

Davina whispered. "I believe." Sophie ran the knife though Davina's throat and Davina fell to the floor.

Sophie looked up at the sky. "After the Harvest comes the reaping. We call on our elders to the chosen ones." She said again. "Resurrect the chosen ones. I beg of you, please."

But nothing happened. They were in a cemetery surrounded by graves and bones.

"Are you all right?" Elijah asked Katherine as they exited the cemetery. The rain had stopped and their clothes were wet. Elijah was glad that they had finally exited the cemetery. He had felt bad that they had to sacrifice an innocent girl only for the sacrifice not to be worth it, but he knew that it had been a sacrifice that they had, had to make. "I know that was far from pleasant."

"I know," Katherine gave a shaky laugh, her high heels boots making a click click sound on the ground. "But I've seen a lot of deaths, even cause by my own hands in the past few weeks remember?"

Elijah and Katherine didn't talk for a few minutes, until Katherine spoke again. "I wish Davina hadn't died." She told him. "She was just sixteen years old, and even though she faced it with bravery, it wasn't her choice."

Elijah looked uncomfortable. The subjected of Nadia was at the tip of his tongue. "Sometimes there are exemptions."

Katherine shook her head. "Nobody should take away someone's free choice of will."

"Hey." Caroline knocked on the door of Klaus' studio. "Are you busy?"

Klaus put his paintbrush down. "No, come on in."

Caroline stepped inside his art studio and looked curiously around it. She had never been in this room before. It was covered in some many beautiful, strange paintings. "How are you feeling with the whole Davina aftermath?"

Klaus shrugged. "These things happened, Caroline you better get used to it."

Caroline scoffed as she crossed her arms over her chest. "I should get used to watching innocent children be murdered?"

"Oh, please don't get all sentimental on me, Davina was hardly a child."

"You're really good for a shoulder to cry on, you know."

A smile appeared on Klaus' lips as he sat down in a nearby stool. "You can use my shoulder to sob on every time you need to love."

Without wanting to, Caroline smiled as she approached him. "Thanks, but I think I'll take my business elsewhere." She grabbed the paintbrush that Klaus had left on the desk. "You know I never did thank you."

"For what?"

"For everything you did." She flushed. "You know when I didn't have my humanity on. I know I probably wasn't the easiest person to deal with, so thank you Klaus I mean it."

Klaus pushed a blond curl from her face. "I will be there for you whenever you need me Caroline," he murmured. "And it was no trouble helping you, I would gladly do it again."

Caroline smiled. She and Klaus were standing so close together that she could hear each other's heartbeats. Klaus leaned forward slowly. "Klaus." Caroline tried to protest.

"It's all right, Caroline." Klaus murmured as he kissed her gently.

Caroline surprised herself by wrapping her arms around his neck and continuing the kiss. His lips felt so warm, so soft, and so gentle. Something that Caroline hadn't been expecting.

Klaus used his speed to press her against the wall, knocking down a few prize paintings but he didn't care. He started kissing her neck while Caroline began unbuttoning his shirt and letting out a small moan as the night drifted away.

The bones that Sophie had left on top of a gray stone started shaking and moving and started forming the shape of a body. There was a gush of wind and the bones no longer looked like bones, but the body of a dark skin, curly hair woman.

The woman opened her eyes and let out a gasp as she sat up. She was completely naked and she used a sheet to cover herself. She was alive. She was no longer trapped as a ghost on the Other Side.

Her bones were no longer bones, they contained flesh. She could breath. Hear. Feel.

She opened her mouth and said clumsily. "My name is Celeste."

-End of Chapter Thirteen-

Katherine will finally get her memories back in the next chapter!