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I wasn't feeling well. The next morning after we discovered Celeste's face in Davina's sketches, I had a headache and I was sitting down on the couch, listening to Elijah.

"The Italians call them Strega. The Yoruba of West Africa call them aje, meaning mother. Where my mother was from, they called her a hexa, and here, we call them witch. Over the centuries, vamires have fought them and fought beside them. Bedded them and burned them. Whether adversary or ally, they have been a force to be reckoned with. Their ancestral magic anchors this city. There's never been an all-powerful witch until Davina."

"What about Julie?" Hayley asked.

"I'm not a witch" I sigh and take my head in my hands. The headache was getting more painful by the minute.

"Davina is now tucked in safe and sound down the hall under my protection." Klaus says, entering the room. "What's wrong, love?" he asks when he sees me.

Elijah takes a few step to put a hand on my shoulder, curious too. "I have a headache" I say, annoyed.

Klaus sighs and looks down to Davina's drawings "Your Celeste was quite beautiful and a portent of evil according to our volatile artist in residence"

"Yes, perhaps Davina's mistaken what she calls evil for power. Celeste was certainly very powerful in her day, but she's been dead for over 200 years. I don't understand why all these sketches now?" he says, sitting down next to me.

"Why does any witch do anything?" Klaus asks.

We hear Davina scream "Go away!" and a big noise which probably was Marcel banging against the wall. I moan in pain.

"What's wrong with you?" Hayley asks and Elijah puts a hand on my back.

"I don't know. The air is… heavy, it's hard to breathe… My head hurt…" I say, rubbing the palms of my hands against my forehead.

"Maybe you should go lay down" Elijah says.

I sigh and nod. We hear another noise of something breaking.

"Well, it's going well" Klaus says, sarcastic.

"If you're trying to win the girl's trust, perhaps poisoning her one true love was not the most splendid idea." Elijah says.

"Is there any more opportune death you'd like to wave in my face?"

"Give me a month. I'll get you a list" I chuckle as Klaus laughs and we hear other noises from Davina's bedroom.

"Young, old, dead or alive, witches are a pain in the ass." Klaus says before stepping out of the room.

I was about to do the same but I felt pain coming from my lungs.

"Ah" I let out as I fall to the ground, coughing.

"What's wrong?" Elijah asks me, worried.

"I don't know" I say and there's an earthquake.

"Is she doing this?" Hayley asks.

"It's not me" I shout, still in pain. "Nature, it's… something's not right"

As soon as the earthquake stops, Klaus enters the room. "What, don't tell me something's wrong with her too?" he says and I frown as I try to get up, clenching to Elijah.

"What do you mean, "with her, too"? Elijah asks.

"Davina's losing it" Klaus says. "She has too much power and she can't control it"

"Why is it affecting me?" I ask.

"You think it's affecting you?" Hayley asks.

"I need to lay down" I say and Elijah takes me to our bedroom.

"Get some rest. I will fix this" he says and kisses me on the forehead.

He leaves me and I stay in pain on the bed. About an hour alter, Elijah comes back with Sophie.

"We need to complete the Harvest, now" he says "Now she's disturbing nature but the next step is wind, water then fire"

"Wind is disturbed already" I say "I can feel it" I moan in pain. "You can't kill Davina, what is she doesn't come back?" I worry.

He puts his hand on my forehead and stroke my hair. "We don't have a choice. The ancestors will bring the girls back."

"What if they don't?"

He doesn't answer, we hear the wind outside getting stronger.

"I told you, I will fix this" he says before kissing me. But he looked distracted.

"What's wrong?" I ask, putting a hand on his cheek.

He sighs "It's nothing" he shakes his head. But I keep looking at him, silently telling him he can tell me. "Hayley gave Celeste's remains to Sophie Deveraux… breaking my promise she would rest in peace without being consecrated…"

I sigh. "I'm sorry…" He takes my hand and kisses it. "Get some rest" he says before kissing my forehead once again.

Hayley comes in a few minutes after. "How are you feeling?" she asks.

"Terrible" I say.

"Elijah's gonna fix it"

"You shouldn't have done what you did with Celeste. You should've told him" I tell her.

"I know…I'm sorry"

"Don't apologize to me. Apologize to him."

She sighs. "Does it bother you?"

I frown. "What?"

"He's clearly still attached to Celeste… I mean he loved her…"

"He lived a thousand years, I'm not surprised he had girlfriends before me…" I say.

"It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt" she says.

I sigh. "No… it doesn't"

She leaves me alone and I think about Celeste for a while before I fall asleep, exhausted because of the pain.

The thunder wakes me and I just feel even worse than before. I get up and walk with difficulty out of the room to look for Elijah or anyone else. I hear voices from the living room.

"This is not a democracy" I hear Klaus say.

"You're quite right" Elijah's there too. "This is family" he says as it starts raining. "Water. The next sign's begun. Rebekah?"

"Kill a demon today, face the devil tomorrow. Count me in."

"Well, this is no family reunion without our mother. I'll fetch her" Klaus says, walking away as I enter the room.

"Your mother?" I repeat and support myself on the wall so I don't fall.

"What are you doing up?" Elijah asks, coming to me, vampire speed, taking me in his arms.

"Davina's gone" I say.

"Yes, Marcel took her" Rebekah says. "What's wrong with you?"

"I…" but the pain is too strong and the headache makes me pass out.

The elements were disturbed and it was affecting me. I couldn't control them anymore so it was taking over me.

I wake up and it wasn't raining anymore. It was dark and I was alone. I was feeling much better. The elements were calm. I could control them just like nothing happened. I step out of the room and join Klaus and Rebekah who were talking in the living room. "This all thing was doomed from the start, you know" Klaus says as I sit down next to Rebekah, smiling at her to tell her I was okay.

"We saved the city and I'm not complaining about the witches losing their power but this did not go down the way I thought I would."

"How did it go down?" I ask.

Klaus sighs. "The Harvest is done…The girls did not come back" he says.

"Davina's dead?" I ask, sad.

"I knew Elijah's plan was mad but I really thought it would work…" Rebekah says.

"So did I…" Klaus sighs, disappointed. "I was sure Davina would survive… there was so much life in her…"

Rebekah frowns. "What about the power? Four were supposed to rise and none did. Where did all that power go?"

"Where could it go?" I ask but none of them had the answer.

"You're feeling better?" I hear Elijah's voice behind me and get up.

"Yes" he's suddenly in front of me.

"I'm sorry Davina didn't survive" he says and I nod.

"Me too" I hug him and he kisses the top of my head. "I'm exhausted" I say "I just wanted to know how everything went…Good night guys" I wave at them and go back to Elijah's bedroom.

"Are you sure you're okay?" I look up as I see Elijah closing the door of the room. I was changing to go to bed.

"Yes, I'm just tired…"

He's now in front of me and I step back a little, startled. He takes my face in his hands and kisses me.

"I heard you talking with Hayley earlier"

I frown. "What about?"

"Celeste"

Oh, right…

"Oh… you know it's rude to eavesdrop…" I say and sit down on the bed.

"I'm sorry if I hurt you…"

"You didn't" I cut him off "Seriously, you're a thousand years old, you have exes, it's not a problem" I shrug.

He sighs, not convinced with my answer. "Klaus…Made it impossible for me to let myself care for another person…" he says, sitting down next to me. "And yet…It happened with you…"

I look up at him.

"My brother likes you…I keep hoping you will not have the same fate all the people who cared for my family met with but…Niklaus is unpredictable…He hurts even those he cares for…And, one day, I'll do something to wrong him and he'll hurt you to get back at me…"

I take his hand in mine "Hey, don't do this…Nothing's going to happen to me, you said it yourself, Klaus likes me…He won't hurt me…Besides, I can defend myself" I tell him with a smile and he chuckles before he kisses me.

"You're always so optimistic" he says and I chuckle. I kiss him before we go to bed.

A few days after Davina's death, Klaus came back from his trip to Mystic Falls. He had freed a vampire named Thierry from the garden where Marcel was keeping him as punishment for killing a vampire. Klaus ordered the vampires to go kill some witches to keep them in line.

I was beside Elijah who was surprised by his brother's good mood. We left for a walk with Rebekah in the French quarter.

"Today, I saw Niklaus demonstrate mercy towards an enemy. Tell me that's not progress."

"Please, Elijah, who do you think convinced Klaus to let Thierry out?" Rebekah says.

"Why would you do such a thing?" Elijah asks, surprised.

"Because, despite Klaus' reprieve, Thierry despises him. I like that about Thierry, I also like that he used to date a witch so he knows about French quarter covens. Maybe he can lead me to whoever stole off with the harvest magic."

I sigh.

"Rebekah, we are all devastated by the outcome of this ritual."

"That's just it. There was no outcome. We both know that power like that doesn't just vanish. I say someone stole it" she says.

"I agree, something's off" I say.

"Well, I'd like to know who and then I'd like to make an ally out of them."

I frown and Elijah stops walking. "To what end, exactly?"

Rebekah turns around to face us. "I'm tired of being threatened and controlled by our tyrant brother. If you want to stop a bully, you need the power to stand up to them."

Elijah sighs, disappointed and I squeeze his hand. "I expect such behavior from Niklaus. It's so very disappointing when it comes from you, Rebekah…Do not see that, in his way, he's making an effort here? He's invited us back in to our family home. He yearns for our family to be reunited."

"Yes, he's in a brilliant mood now, but for how long?"

Elijah sighs again, letting go of my hand.

"It's his trick, Elijah. He lulls you into a false sense of camaraderie and kinship and then he turns on you like a snake. I fall for it every time and wind up with a dagger in my chest for my trouble! No more!"

I decide not to be a part of this conversation.

"I believe that he is approaching some semblance of peace here. Leadership may, in fact, be a good thing for him. Now, sister, please, I ask you, if you cannot support him, then at least do nothing to provoke him."

Rebekah isn't happy.

"He's right, you know?" I tell her but she walks away. I sigh. "Your family never takes a break, does it?"

We go back home and Klaus is there with two bodies of dead vampires. They weren't staked, they had a weird symbol on their forehead.

"Someone will die for this." Klaus says as Elijah takes a closer look to the symbol.

"Remarkably, I don't disagree" Elijah says and I frown. "I had hoped never to see that symbol again."

"You've seen this before?" I ask.

"I recall it is the signature of a fool who once stood against us." Klaus says. "Clearly, some upstart witch is salvaging old tricks. I'll do for him as I did the other."

Klaus orders Diego to find the one who did this but all the vampires are too scared to do anything about this. "Not a single one of you will stand with me? So afraid are you of this new threat? You should know better. I'll handle this myself" he says before walking away.

"Whoever did this…is Klaus gonna be okay?" I ask Elijah but he doesn't answer, too far away in his thoughts.

We spend the day with Hayley and when dark comes and Rebekah hasn't shown up all day, we start to worry.

"Rebekah is not answering her calls" Elijah says.

"You worry about whoever killed those daywalkers still being out there?" Hayley asks.

"Frankly, I'm worried that she has something to do with this."

"I doubt that" I shake my head.

"Well, she's been conspiring with others…" he says and see Thierry sitting down, drinking not far from us. "Thierry!" he calls his name. "My sister is rather fond of you. Strange, she's not typically drawn to unremarkable men." I hit him with my elbow as soon as he says that and give him a disapproving look. He smiles at me but keeps going "Would you care to explain your sudden magnetism?"

"I don't know what you're…" but he doesn't have time to finish as Elijah takes him by his shirt and corner him against a wall, his hand on his throat.

"You can either tell me what you know or I can distribute tiny pieces of you throughout the quarter."

I sigh and roll my eyes.

"She asks me to keep an eye out on witch stuff" he says. "I found something, and when I showed her, we were jumped by some guy. He desiccated her with his touch."

"Like a coward, you left her." Elijah says, angry.

"What was I supposed to do? Fight some warlock that took out an Original?"

"Where was this?" I ask

"The docks, warehouse 57. I was just doing as she asked, you cannot tell Klaus about this!"

Elijah turns to look at me with a falsely amused look and throw Thierry at the other side of the room. "I shall take that into consideration" he says before walking away.

"I'm coming with you"

"Me too!" Hayley says.

"No, stay here. The compound is safe." Elijah says.

"Rebekah is in trouble, I'm going" I say.

He sighs, "Do not leave my sight. Understand?" he tells me and I nod. "You're staying here, Hayley"

"But…"

"No, you'll be safe here" he says.

"Why does she get to go?"

"Because I can use magic and I'm not pregnant" I tell her and I follow Elijah.

When we arrive at the docks we find Rebekah lying in the middle of a circle and candles.

"Rebekah" we both rush to her but we can't enter the circle.

"What's happening?" I ask.

"Some kind of a boundary spell. Someone is channeling her. Because she's an Original she cannot die. Instead, she's an endless source of power."

I frown "Step back"

"What are you going to do?"

"This is dark magic" I say "I use fire to turn off the candles and light will cancel the magic that's keeping us from entering the circle"

The flames of the candles disappear as I speak but the magic is too strong and I have to use both light and darkness to cancel it. Luckily, I always wear my bracelet. "You should be able to enter now" I say and he gets Rebekah out. When she comes back she tells us everything.

"Who's Papa Tunde?" I ask.

"A powerful warlock that Klaus killed a century ago" Elijah answers.

"How is he back?" I ask.

"I told you the power had been stolen! Whoever stole it, brought him back instead of the harvest girls."

"Which mean three other dead witches came back as well" Elijah says.

We go back home and we learn that Papa Tunde had tried to kill Marcel and Klaus while we were rescuing Rebekah.

The next day, I wake up in an empty bed once again. I step out of the room and go to the courtyard where I see a dead black man into a circle on the ground and I scream.

"What's wrong?" Elijah is by my side as soon as he hears me.

"Oh my God" I breathe out as he looks at what made me scream. "Who's that?"

"That's Papa Tunde" he says, confused.

"What?"

All the vampires that were around came running, alerted by my scream. Diego calls Klaus and Elijah was taking a closer look to Papa Tunde when he arrived.

"Can I get you anything, brother? A magnifying glass, a pipe perhaps?"

"If you have a theory that you'd like to share with us Niklaus, by all means…"

"Back in the day when the witches wanted to send a threat they'd just kill a chicken and leave it on your doorstep." Marcel says.

"It's rather a large and ominous chicken, wouldn't you say?" Elijah says as he gets up and I chuckle.

"Papa Tunde defeated Rebekah with ease, almost got the two of us as well, if he was supposed to be their prize fighter, why leave him for dead in our front yard?" Klaus muses.

"Well, don't you all look cheery." Rebekah says, entering the room. "Listen to this, a girl literally exploded from a grave today as Sabine was giving her tour of the city of the dead. It was Monique Deveraux"

"What?" Klaus says.

"The tourists thought it was part of the show but the witches are celebrating like it's some kind of bloody miracle."

"Well, maybe it is" Marcel says. "They think that all hope is lost, but now suddenly a harvest girl is resurrected? This is how we're gonna get Davina back. Kill the witch who took her place"

"I have a theory about who one of them could be…" I hear Hayley's voice coming from the stairs. "Celeste. I mean, it's got to be. Davina was trying to tell us she was drawing pictures of Celeste. She was warning us that a great evil was coming."

"Great, your ex is trying to kill us" I sigh and he looks down on me and I shrug.

Elijah makes Rebekah take us to the plantation house so we would be safer. Hayley and I didn't want to go but we didn't really have a choice. Besides, it was the full moon and Hayley wanted to throw a party for the werewolves tonight.

"I hate parties" I sigh as I helped her organizing it.

"I'm not throwing it for you" she says and I chuckle.

"So you wouldn't mind if I skipped it?"

"You have to learn how to have fun" she says.

"I know how to have fun!" I say, faking she offended me.

When night came, the music was loud and all the werewolves that were now human were dancing and laughing. I was in the living room when Hayley came in.

"Hey, you're having fun?" I ask her.

"Yeah…I'm just…"

"What?" I frown.

"Waiting for someone…"

"I seriously doubt you invited us here to wait on us" a man who had just entered the room said.

"You're Hayley, I'm Jackson. It's nice to see you again"

I wave awkwardly "Just, don't pay attention to me" I say.

"You're the wolf who's been watching me."

"Well I got to keep my eye on you, precious cargo and all."

"Right, got to protect the miracle baby…"

"That's not what I meant, I don't care about the baby."

I raise an eyebrow.

"Sorry, that came out wrong" he laughs, "of course I care. You're a Labonair"

That's right, Hayley's real name was Andrea Labonair.

"But personally, my interest is in you"

I wondered if I should go and leave them alone.

"You don't even know me"

"Our parents knew each other. They were of the same people but not the same bloodline. Now you know how pack hierarchy works, right? Everybody has their part to play, and we had our part too…"

"What part was that?"

"You were supposed to be my wife"

"Okay, I'm leaving now" I say before stepping out.

/

Elijah was following Sabine in the French quarter. She had told him that the witches wanted Klaus out of the city.

"Am I putting you to sleep?" she asks him.

"As surprising as you might find this, it's not every day that someone asks you to betray your own brother…Celeste"

"How did you know?" she smiled.

"As Davina was drawing your likeness I dared to imagine that your presence was near. And when Sophie discovered that there was no magic in your remains, I wondered…Could you have possibly cheated death by using your power to place your essence into the body of another? And if so, then who? And then I recalled the lovely Sabine. Your visions of my brother's child precipitated the death of the last elder within your coven, you arranged Agnes' death, you knew Niklaus would kill her if she tried to harm his unborn child… ensuring that the harvest ritual could not be completed unless you were control it. You're playing a very long game indeed…to what end?"

She gets closer to him for only answer and kiss him, he kisses her back.

"Oh, Elijah… my lost love… After all this time… don't you understand?"

Elijah wasn't feeling well.

"I died because of Klaus and you stood by him all because of your vow "always and forever""

"What have you done to me?"

"It's a simple enchantment. You needn't worry. I'm not here to kill you, Elijah. I'm here to teach you the errors of your ways, "always and forever" was the greatest mistake of your life!" she says as he falls on the ground.

"You poisoned me with a kiss…"he chuckles "Uh, at least you haven't lost your sense of irony."

"We may have time for more. But first I'm going to cure you of your greatest flaw, this absurd devotion to your lunatic family."

"Celeste, your anger is with me. Now, if you have come here to seek revenge…"

"Oh, I'll have my revenge, starting with Klaus. He is gonna know pain and torment like he's never felt before unless you choose to save him, of course. But then that leaves Rebekah, your tragic sister. She's about to find herself in quite the predicament. You could save her. But then that leaves Julie in jeopardy."

"No. No, no…"

"Ah, this poor girl. She has no idea how dangerous it is to be loved by you… Oh, well. With your body weakened by my spell, you won't be able to save them all. You'll recover with just enough time to choose one. Who would it be? I can't wait to find out" she laughs "And don't forget Hayley…sure, we're aiming for the pregnant wolf but killing your girlfriend is just as fun…" she says before leaving him on the ground.

/

I go back to the living room where Hayley and Jackson still were.

"You're the one whose gonna break our curse"

"What are you talking about?" Hayley asks, confused.

"What's going on?" I ask, standing next to her.

"Your witch friend, she told Eve she was coming here tonight to set us free."

"Wait, what witch friend?"

I frown. "Did you ask Sophie to come here tonight?" I ask.

"No, I didn't ask anything to any witch" she says taking her phone "I'm calling Elijah"

"We should leave" I say but when we try, the doors close themselves.

"What is he saying?" I ask her.

"We have to find Rebekah. Elijah it's a spell we're trapped inside. Julie can't you do something?"

There was fire everywhere now.

"This is witchcraft, the fire is magic" I say as I try to contain the flames.

"It's working" she says.

"Can you open the doors?" I ask.

"No, but…" she doesn't finish, a window breaks and Elijah is now in the room with us.

"Take them outside, I can keep the fire as it is"

"I'm not leaving you here" he says.

"I'll be fine, it's fire, I'll deal with it, take them outside and come back for me after okay?"

He hesitates but does as I say. He comes back a couple of minutes later.

"Let's go" he says, taking me into his arms and we're outside with Hayley and Jackson a few seconds after.

"Celeste said she was going after Klaus and Rebekah, I need to find my sister" he says and he leaves us to watch the house burn. I manage to stop the fire from outside.

"Are you okay?" I ask them both.

"Yes… How can you manipulate fire, you're not a witch" he asks me and I shrug.

Jackson turns back into a wolf leaving both Hayley and I alone.

"Did you see the lipstick on his lips?" I ask without moving my eyes from the house, but she doesn't answer.

We go back to Klaus' place but Klaus isn't there.

"We looked everywhere for him. Tore apart the cauldron, the city of the dead…Wherever they got him, he ain't in the quarter." I hear Diego say to Marcel.

"Marcel! Where is my brother?" he asks angry, entering the courtyard rapidly.

"I got guys out looking for him right now." Marcel says but that isn't enough for him and he throws two vampires around.

"Elijah!" Hayley shout his name and he looks up at her.

"Klaus threw one of his classis temper tantrums, snapped my neck, tried to take on a coven of witches by himself. I don't know where he is or how to find him." Marcel says.

"They also have Rebekah. Every one of you will help me to find them. I'm gonna kill them all!" he shouts before going to Hayley. "Where is she? Is she okay?" he asks.

She nods and he was about to go to his room but she stops him. She removes the lipstick off his lips and he looks at her with her guilty look. "She saw that" she tells him and he rushes, vampire speed, to his room.

"Julie?" I hear him call my name, he finds me sitting on the bed. "Are you okay?" he asks me and I sigh for only answer.

"So…Celeste…" I finally say after a few minutes of silence.

"Sabine is Celeste, yes…" he nods.

I wasn't looking at him, I was staring at nothing.

"Julie…"

"Please, don't" I say, tearing up, getting up. I sigh "I hate, that you make me feel like this!" I say a little loud, trying to stay calm. "I didn't think I was the jealous type, you know? But…I mean…oh" I take my head in my hands and I step away when he tries to get closer to me. "Don't!" I tell him "I'm not angry." I say "I mean… I get it…She's…Celeste, it's clear, nothing's ever been more clear that you love her, you were in love with her and she died so…so you got the chance to see her again and…and…I'm just…I'm just…" I start crying and I don't want to but I can't stop.

"It wasn't like that" he says "I don't love her anymore"

"You don't have to explain" I say between two sobs "I'm not angry" I repeat.

"I don't love her anymore" he repeats "Tonight she made me choose between my siblings and you, I could only save one of you and I chose you, because I love you" he says and I look up at him with big bright eyes. "I love you" he repeats taking my head in his hands, wiping the tears off my cheeks with his thumbs before he kisses me.

I couldn't believe what he'd just said. I was repeating it over and over in my head "I love you" again and again. I kiss him back, move my hands to the back of his neck. He kisses my cheek, my jawline before I take his head in my hands and put my eyes in his. "I love you too".