All My Children's Sins Have Caught Up to Them Part II
"Sorry about ruining your suit last night; you can send me the bill." I voice flippantly. I push open the doors to the balcony.
"You are a feisty little thing, aren't you?" He smiles. He quite liked that.
"And you look good falling four stories to the ground, don't you?" I say slyly.
"He got lucky," His eyes narrow into slits. "Don't expect it to happen again," He'd get the older Salvatore boy back for that. Looking around, I spot my inhaler next to a plant pot and quickly grab it. Klaus might've was decent enough to bring my purse, but I had a rough couple of nights without this particular one. "What is that?" I hear Kol ask curiously as he follows behind me.
"This is something I lost when you decided to go into overprotective big brother mode and crush Matt's hand." I glare at him. He shrugs his shoulders.
"My sister has never had good taste in men," Alexander had done more than leave a bitter taste in his mouth; he'd left a dagger and Kol was none to pleased. "Why should your commoner be any different?"
"You Mikaelson boys sure do like making an entrance." Elena had told me the first time she met Niklaus, he had taken over Uncle Ric's body and Elijah had shown up at her front door with Jenna after he was supposedly 'murdered' by Damon and Stefan after she was kidnapped by Rose and Trevor. Kol smirks.
"What can I say? We have a flair for the dramatics." He smiles mischievously.
"Touch Matt again, and you'll find out if Damon is the only one with luck on his side."
"You are a child," He wasn't going to sit idly by and let a child threaten him so causally, his Mother's rules be damned. "Do not goad me."
"You didn't watch my hips like I was a child." Yeah, I'd caught him staring. He looks at me with an obviously pissed off look, before leaving me alone in the foyer. I decide I need some air and head back outside.
"I'm bored," Kol announces as he plops down in a chair. "Our sister is a dating a commoner, but at least she's having fun. I need entertainment."
"What are you waiting for? Go on, have at it." Klaus beckons Kol. He wasn't in a going out mood after how his awkward one-sided conversation with Lexx had gone the other night.
"It's not fun to go alone. Join me, Nik!" Kol paints a crestfallen look on his face. "It's the least you can do after sticking a dagger in my heart."
Klaus gives Kol a stare of annoyance before agreeing. "Okay, why not? I didn't have nearly enough to drink last night, what with you trying to murder Lexx's friend."
"Yes, please go, this house has enough men rolling around it in." Rebekah voices as she comes back into the room.
"Just like you, Bekah." Rebekah quickly zooms across the room and picks up a wood-knock from the shelf to throw at him.
"Good riddance, both of you!" Elijah enters the room, still holding the burnt sage.
"Rebekah."
"Not you too, Elijah." Rebekah says exasperatedly.
"I'm worried about Mother. Have you not noticed her strange behavior?"
"She's been dead for a thousand years. What's strange for her?"
"Burnt sage," Elijah shows Rebekah the sage and she takes it from him. "She was doing a privacy spell."
"You know she fancies such things. Why don't you ask Finn; he's been doting on her." She suggests.
"I don't trust, Finn. He hates what we are, he always has." Niklaus had gotten drunk with his power, Kol reveled in it, Rebekah had her moments of self-doubt, he used force when the situation called for it, but Finn had always despised the way they went against nature.
"That's not true. And as for Mother, she returned for one reason, to make our family whole. She loves us. What trouble are you looking to find?" She had thought her Mother dead and now that she was back, she wanted to make up for time lost.
"None, you're probably right," Maybe he was being overly cautious. "Alexandra is here to see you, she's waiting outside." Elijah leaves Rebekah to go confirm his suspicions. She walks to the front door and is met with Lexx leaning against a pillar.
"Did my brother do something again?" She asks once she sees me.
"No. I stopped by to thank you; Matt told me you compelled one of the doctors to give him a cast and a prescription for pain medicine once he leaves."
She shrugs, trying to downplay the act. "It was the least I could do after my brother nearly ended his football career."
"He's not happy about staying though. He said you didn't have to get a second opinion from a different doctor." I laugh. He had looked like a sad puppy when Carol said it was better if he stayed another night. It was the only thing Carol and I agreed on since I'd come back; she was his guardian after all and if he wanted her signature, he would have to wait for her okay.
"I just wanted to make sure he was alright, I felt responsible." She smiles bashfully. Maybe I could be friends with you…
"Well, thank you. I really appreciated it. If you wouldn't have compelled that doctor, I would've dragged him back to the hospital kicking and screaming and paid the bill myself."
"No problem." She replies smiling. She couldn't remember the last time someone had thanked her. I make my way to my car and open the door before turning to face Rebekah.
"Maybe we can be friends." Her eyes widens at my suggestion.
"And what about Elena?" She wasn't sure the doppelgänger would be so keen on the idea. I roll my eyes.
"She might think differently of you after I tell her what you did for Matt. I'll see you around." I turn over the engine and leave Rebekah smiling.
"He wasn't concerned, Bon. He might as well have been gloating, like he was proud of himself for knowing Elijah could be dead in a matter of days," Elena rubs her head. "Is it working?" Elena asks Caroline from outside her bedroom door. She swings the door open.
"It's not working. I can hear every word you're saying about Stefan, the unfeeling gloat."
"It's a tricky spell." Bonnie explains.
"When Esther did it, she kept the sage burning. There was a lot more smoke, remember?" Elena reminds her. Bonnie sighs.
"Alright," Bonnie relights the sage. "Try it again, Caroline."
Caroline scoffs and closes the door again. "Why do I have to be on door duty?" She turns when she hears footsteps coming up the stairs.
"What are you doing?" I ask coming up the stairs.
"Lexx," Care says to her confused face. "Where have you been?" She tried calling and texting, but her phone had went straight to voicemail.
"I got a text from Bonnie telling me to come here; what does she want?" I ask boredly.
"She's trying to recreate a spell Esther did last night." I lean against the rail staircase.
"Guess you haven't told 'em."
"Something came up."
"Mmh," I laugh. "Not surprised I don't know about it."
"Speaking of Esther, you should know that she came to see me and Abby this morning." I hear Bonnie say through the door. Caroline and I exchange looks before she swings Elena's door open.
"Bon, what did she want?" Care asks curiously.
"Why didn't you say something? Bon, I've been venting about Stefan this whole time when something this important was going on with you."
"I didn't want you guys to worry." She shrugs. Elena hated when she tried to minimize her problems.
"Bon, I should smack you right now." I say and can see Care nodding her head from my peripheral.
"Okay, well, what did she want?" Elena questions.
"She wanted to introduce herself to Abby. She's channeling our entire ancestral bloodline for power; I think she thought she was being polite." Bonnie rolls her eyes.
"Well, is there a way to stop her from channeling you?" Care asks anxiously.
"Even if there was, why would I want that?" Maybe Damon had been right.
"I just keep thinking. Before the sun and the moon ritual, Elijah found a way to keep me alive. And now I'm in the exact same position and I'm just gonna let him die? It just doesn't feel right." It didn't seem fair to Elijah.
"Okay, Elena, you are not doing this, Esther is." Care counters.
"As usual, I'm left out of the loop," I snap. "What are you talking about?" Bonnie stares at me warily before answering.
"Esther linked Klaus and the others to each other with Elena's blood."
"Okay," I say stunned. "Definitely missed out by not going to your meeting with Esther."
"There's no time to change your mind, Elena. He'll be dead in a week." Well, damn. Esther sure worked fast.
"But, Elijah helped keep you alive Elena, Rebekah made sure Matt got his hand taken care of." I couldn't just let him die and I just told Rebekah we could be friends.
"Rebekah did that?" The news of her kind act left Elena feeling worse now that she knew she'd be dead in a week's time. "Wait, Bon, how can he be dead in a week?" Elena asks.
"It's a full moon. Esther needs to harness the energy of a celestial event. She asked me and Abby to join her."
"Bonnie..." Caroline voices. She didn't want her best friend in the cross hairs if something happened.
"Elijah has been a really big help since Niklaus came back, he even made sure the dinner party went off without Damon or Stefan getting killed." I voice to Bonnie.
"Klaus has done nothing but terrorize us and cause mayhem since he's been here."
"And there's no way this only effects Klaus?"
"I'm starting to think that Elijah being dead might a small price to pay if Klaus is gone." Bonnie says getting up from the bed and leaving us.
Damon enters the living room with two glasses of blood. "Join me for a little victory drink?" Damon asks Stefan.
"We should wait until Klaus is dead." Seven days had felt like an eternity, but here they were. Stefan wasn't celebrating until Klaus was dead.
"Why are you so extra broody? Don't you remember how we stood up to Elena, to Bonnie? I like you on my team. It must have driven her nuts." He takes a sip from his glass.
"You still think she's gonna screw this up, don't you?" Then again, Damon always felt that way when it concerned Elena and a plan.
"I think somebody needs to talk to her. She's not gonna listen to anything I say."
"Is it because you didn't answer any of her calls last week?" He heard the conversation between him and Bonnie.
"I was tired." He shrugs his shoulders causally.
"I can see why; you did dance with Bonnie for a while that night." Stefan states matter of factly. When he looked back to make sure Damon wasn't following them, he caught Damon smiling at Bonnie while he spinned her on the floor and pulled her back to him.
"Whatever. Now you can come in and sweep Elena off her feet."
"It might take sometime for me to forgive myself, but I know I can do it with, Elena." Stefan says steely.
"Great, you guys are on the fast track to being disgustingly back in love," Damon leaves a glass of blood for Stefan. "Just make sure she doesn't screw up Esther's plan."
Stefan looks at it for a minute, then turns away without touching it.
Elena is pacing her floor, thinking of calling Elijah. Could she damn the whole Mikaelson family to have Klaus out of their lives? She needed to find out by tonight since she'd used the other six days wrestling with her conscience.
"Maybe Bonnie is right." But she knows she's wrong; her conscience is eating at her. She finally grabs her keys and is about to head to Klaus house, when a knock comes from the door. Walking down stairs she answers it; Elijah is outside.
"Elena."
"Elijah." She answers slightly shocked.
"I don't mean to intrude," He says when he sees she has her car keys in her hand. "I was hoping you might accompany me. I want to show you something."
"Okay. Just let me get a jacket."
Elijah drives to the woods and waits for Elena to get out of a car and walk around.
"Forgot how much I missed this land."
"I can't even imagine what it must have been like a thousand years ago." Elena says looking around in wonder.
"You know, your school was built over an Indian village where I saw my first werewolf. The town square was where the natives would gather to worship. Matter of fact, near that, there was a field where wild horses use to graze."
"That's incredible." But she's out of it.
"Come."
"Do you know this place too?"
"I do. Below us is a cavern I use to play in as a boy. It connects to a system of tunnels that stretch across the entire area. Perhaps its nature's way-" Elena stops him abruptly.
"We were told that whatever was going to be in that coffin was going to kill Klaus. When we found out that it was your Mother…we didn't know what to think." She voices.
"I admire you Elena. You remind me of qualities I valued long before my Mother turned us. It's not in your nature to be deceitful, and yet when I asked about your meeting with my Mother the other night, you lied to my face."
"When she asked to see me, I…I thought that maybe she could help, that she would find a way to kill Klaus, but it's not just Klaus that she wants to kill." She says sadly.
"She wants to kill us all, doesn't she? She wants to undo the evil she created." He knew it wasn't just being paranoid.
"I'm so sorry, Elijah. I was on my way to come see you when you came. I just…I just wish there was something I could do to help."
"You can actually," Elijah breaks a hole into the ground. "Hold on." Grabbing Elena, he jumps down with her.
"I haven't seen Elena since this morning." Alaric says to Damon on the phone.
"She's not answering her phone." He sighs.
"Well, I'm surprised you have time to call me, since you weren't answering Elena's calls."
"Ugh…she told you?" He rolls eyes.
"She told me." He laughs.
"Did she also tell you that she's having an attack of conscience about this whole Original murder thing? She even brought the witch last week so they could tag team me and Stefan."
"Hey, listen, I'm not gonna judge either of them for having a conscience."
"Well, you don't have to judge Elena. Just tie her up and lock her in her room till this is over." Her track records with staying on the sidelines until she was called, was shit.
"Well, I wouldn't if I could and I can't because I'm busy." And he was cutting into his time.
"Busy doing what?" He didn't go out unless it was work or supernatural related.
"Don't worry about it." If he told him, he would ruin it.
"Are you with the sexy, psycho doctor?" He guesses.
"Goodbye, Damon," Alaric hangs up. "Sorry about that." He apologizes to Meredith.
"Does he still think I'm a serial killer?"
"He's a little judgmental." They laugh.
"Speaking of, your x-rays were inconclusive. Your knife wound was already semi-healed. It's impossible to tell anything about whoever stabbed you; short, tall, left-handed, right-handed; no clue."
"Well, what about my head?" He asks. "Why can't I remember anything about the attack?" He questions.
"Your CT scans were clear. Maybe you were compelled to forget." She voices.
"Wait, you think the killer's a…a vampire?" He whispers so no one at the bar hears.
"There are no other suspects. It's the obvious conclusion." She speaks, just as Kol and Klaus walk up to the bar.
"Oh, come on now. Let's not go blaming the new family in town, just because you lot have got yourselves a killer at large. Don't mind us. My brother and I are just here to let off some steam, right Kol?"
"Right." He agrees, staring at Meredith.
"Do you have Matt's number?" Damon asks Stefan suddenly.
"Yeah," Damon frowns his face up. "What?"
"You have your girlfriend's, ex-boyfriend's number?" That was weird.
"Damon you just asked for it."
"Just hand it over," Damon dials the numbers as Stefan rattles them off. "Matt, it's Damon, I need you to do something for me."
"As long has it doesn't get me killed," Matt was cautious when it came to plans where Damon was involved. "What do you need?"
"Kid, where are you?" Damon asks once I answer my phone.
"I'm on my way to the Grill, Matt called and asked if I could cover his shift and I since bailed lasted time, I owed him." I reply coldly. So she was still mad.
"Good, then you can tell Alaric I said 'hello' since I'm pretty sure he's on a date with psycho doctor." That gets my attention.
"Why would I care, Damon?" I ask weakly.
"I know you trust her has much as I do." He states. I'd just come to that conclusion this morning, so how did he know?
"Okay, but that's because she knocked you out and made you a blood donor without your consent," I joke, but I'm met with silence and decide to stop playing dumb. "I don't trust her, but maybe that's because I haven't tried giving her a chance because I'm only finding out now that Jenna is dead. I can't expect him to mourn her forever because I don't can't accept she's gone." I voice sadly.
Damon sighs. When did she find out? He remembered everyone agreeing it'd be better if she didn't know. He bet it was Jeremy. "Lexx, him moving on doesn't mean he's gonna forget about, Jenna," He pauses."But that doesn't mean you can't look out for him. Do it for, Jenna." And with that, he delivers the final blow.
"Are you sure this isn't Stefan?" Sympathetic was more Stefan's style, but Damon's style had been evolving since he met Bonnie.
"Say 'hi' to Ric for me!" He hangs up the phone.
"Who's the creepy, lurky guy?" Abby asks Bonnie when she sees Finn.
"Esther's son, Finn, he's a vampire so…" Bonnie points to her ear, Abby nods understandingly.
"Wonder what your Grams thinks about the part we're playing in all of this balance of nature stuff." It was strange knowing her Mom was dead; she was always so full of warmth, vivacious, compassionate, slightly eccentric, but that 'comes with the territory as you get older' her Mom liked to say. She had a presence that demanded attention, but wasn't overbearing; even without magic she still would've been captivating.
"She's probably on the other side, screaming about getting involved with vampire business." Bonnie responds.
"Bennett witches. Thank you for coming. I can think of no better allies than the woman who sent Mikael into his long sleep and the girl who fought Niklaus so bravely." Esther boasts.
"Why exactly did you invite us here?" Abby asks. From what Bonnie had told her, she was strong, so what did she need from them?
"You are the descendants of the witch, Ayana. She was a great mentor of mine and I think it's only fitting that I draw from her bloodline."
"So you're channeling our ancestors?" Bonnie inquires.
"I draw from the entirety of the Bennett bloodline, living and dead. The connection affords me great power, although it is somewhat difficult to maintain, which is why I require you; Mother and daughter. The bloodline made manifest," Esther grabs Bonnie and Abby's hand. "Tonight, my sisters, we shall bring peace to the spirits of nature that we serve and for that I thank you." Bonnie wasn't sure if she believed the whole servant of nature spiel Esther was trying to sell her, but if ended with a dead Klaus at the end of the tunnel, she could deal with Esther's sisterhood crap .