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"This would be considered breaking your own rules." Vincent said shaking his head.
"How is it breaking my rules when I'm technically not biting anyone." Elizabeth said with a with a shrug. "A quick poke and everything goes as planned."
"You will be signing their death sentence if it fails." Vincent pointed out.
"But I need to at least try and see if this will work Vincent." Elizabeth said almost pleading.
"What happens when the others find out what you have done?" He asked. "What if they find out that you decided to play experiment with a vampire that has done nothing wrong? It will create chaos among everyone."
"Then I will take someone that is willing to do it." Elizabeth said not going to change her mind.
"What vampire would be willing to die for your test trial?" He asked knowing that no one would want to go through the pain and suffering that would come from her venom if this doesn't work.
"I am sure there is someone out there that would do it. " She said with a shrug. She would just have to find them. "Not everyone looks forward to immortality, Vincent."
"How far are you willing to go to get them back Elizabeth?" There was concern in Vincent. "You are going to turn on your own kind to simply see if you can save them?"
"I am no longer their kind any more Vincent." She shook her head. It was the truth though. The moment Elizabeth had asked Jess to stop her heart for those few minutes, she was no longer just a vampire. She was something completely else.
"And it can be easily taken away if you decide to abuse it." Vincent said crossing his arms.
Elizabeth laughed out and smiled at him. "You can't take it away anymore." She took a step closer to him. "The moment Davina destroyed the ancestral well, you lost all chances to take this away from me."
To Elizabeth that thought had been both a blessing and a curse. It was a blessing that she was the most feared one and it would make things easier to go her way. But it also meant that with the ancestral well destroyed, she would never be free from what she had become. There would never be a chance to be able to die from this. Being a vampire, it was easy for one to take their life. But with her being unkillable, it made things so much more different.
"There are other ways to take you down, Liz." Vincent said. But the words weren't convincing at all. It was then Elizabeth realized that this was going to ruin Vincent's plan of having an Original free city.
"You're expecting me to just sit back and do nothing. Not even try to get them back." She was getting angry. She had decided that she would go to Vincent with her plan when he had returned Veronica from them practicing. But the way things were going, it was the opposite on what she was hoping for. "You actually want me to leave them as they are. You know damn well I cant just do that."
"And if this works, what is your plan? Bring them back to let this city fall apart after you just did everything you could to bring everyone together?"
"I never wanted to be the one to put this city back together!" She yelled as she shook her head. "That night you had pretty much asked me to put your city back together. To bring us all together. " Elizabeth chuckled and shook her head. "I had been planning to take Klaus's body and leave that night. I wanted nothing to do with this place."
"But you are still here, why haven't you left if you wanted nothing to do with it?" He asked curious.
"Because I am determined to get them back and if staying here proves that I can, then that is exactly what I will do." She said crossing her arms.
"You really have been talking to Jess a little too much." Vincent said shaking his head. "Does she know anything about this?"
Elizabeth shrugged. "She probably does and she probably doesn't. She can't see everything."
"What can she see if she can't see the little things?" He asked crossing his arms.
Elizabeth smirked. "The return of the Originals in the Quarter."
"Where will you be in this, Liz? Having your happily ever after out of New Orleans while Klaus runs it back into the ground again?" He asked shaking his head.
Elizabeth's thoughts went back to the vision Jess had. She had been walking up to Whitmore. The door would open and she would walk in without ever coming back out of it willingly. Instead of answering his question, Elizabeth simply shook her head for a moment. She did not need him to know where she would actually be when that time came. But when he brought up Klaus she shook her head and smiled."Would you rather me wake him up now and watch what he does?"
"I don't think you have it in you to actually do that." Vincent said with a smirk.
He knew Elizabeth wouldn't. She needed him safe and away from anyone that could potentially cause him any harm. There were still enemies that wanted Klaus dead she wouldn't risk it. She needed him locked away as he was. This that was going on between them, the threats and the things they could easily do to one another was the way they kept each other in line. There was no way they would actually cross each other. There was too much at stake for both of them.
"Would it make you feel better if I talked with the others and got their opinion on it?" She asked knowing she probably wouldn't even ask the others.
"Whatever makes you happy Elizabeth." He said before leaving the room.
A sigh passed Elizabeth's lips as she looked around the room. This was never going to be easy. Everyone knew it wasn't. She had venom that cant be cured with blood. But with magic? There had to be a loophole there somewhere. And if she had found it in using Veronica for just a moment, she could avoid whatever was waiting behind that wooden door for a bit longer. If this worked, it also meant that Elijah could come home. They all could.
Veronica knocked on the door causing Elizabeth to break free from her thoughts to look at her. Elizabeth gave a slight smile as Veronica walked over to her.
"You know I will help you in any way that I can." Veronica said with a smile. "If it gets them back and for you to be happy, I'll do whatever it takes."
"Its not you I am worried about." Elizabeth said with a nod. "I know you've always been willing to help. But this time, I need a vampire willing to die."
"What if I can get you that Vampire?" Veronica said with a grin that caused Elizabeth's eyes to widen.
"What did you do?"
"This is Chris." Veronica said introducing the man to Elizabeth.
Elizabeth's eyebrow raised as she looked at the man before her. She could clearly see that he was either compelled or very willing to be there and Elizabeth couldn't see it being the latter.
"Is he compelled?" Elizabeth asked still looking at Chris.
"Nope." Veronica said with a grin. "He's a human that lost everything recently. He has no friends or family. I actually found him trying to jump off a bridge about twenty minutes ago."
"We can't do this if he is a local, Veronica." Elizabeth said shaking her head. She wanted a willing Vampire. He wasn't one. He was human and this would definitely break everything if anyone had found out about this.
"Tourist." Josh added in from his spot on the stairs. Elizabeth looked over at him with a raised eyebrow and a questioning look. "I may have helped her." He said holding his hands up in surrender. "I told her about your plan when you went to talk with Vincent. She was out of the compound and back before you two could even finish your conversation."
Elizabeth looked over at Chris. "Is this what you really want?" She asked. She almost felt sorry for him. She couldn't understand why he would agree to this.
She watched as he shrugged. "I have nothing else to live for."
"You do realize this will be painful." Elizabeth said watching for any of his reactions. "This isn't going to be an easy death."
"I know." He said and Elizabeth's eyes widen slightly.
"Do you know what we are?" She asked curious to know if he knew what he was getting himself into.
She watched as he shook his head. "I really don't care." He looked towards Veronica. "She just said that my life would mean something if I helped her friend. She told me there was a chance that I would die in the process but I'm fine with it."
Elizabeth nodded. "Josh." She said looking over at him. "We can't be the ones to do it. You need to."
Josh nodded as he walked over to the bar and grabbed a glass cup before cutting into his wrist, allowing his blood to flow into it. When there was enough, he walked over to Veronica and handed her the glass. Veronica took it and smiled at Chris handing him the glass.
"It will taste off at first." She said with a nod. "But its going to do exactly what we need you to do."
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Elizabeth asked one last time.
"I'm sure." He said before drinking from the glass.
Once the glass was empty, Veronica took the glass from him. "Now take a deep breath. You'll take a quick nap and then we will go from there okay?"
The moment Chris nodded, Elizabeth took a step up behind him, snapping his neck quickly. She caught his body and placed him on the couch that was close by.
Elizabeth looked at both Josh and Veronica. "I absolutely hate doing this."
"We know you do." Josh said placing his hand on Elizabeth's shoulder.
"Anything to get our family back." Veronica said with a smile. Elizabeth sighed and smiled at her. This may just work.
With as much time that passed, the sun was already rising. The orange glow made its way into the study where Elizabeth was currently standing looking out the window. Her face gave no emotion as she watched the sun rise. The last day had been enough for her to never want to put another person through what Chris had just gone through. Looking away from the window, Elizabeth looked around the room. The silence that filled the compound at the moment could easily be a blessing. But it was anything but.
Walking over to her desk, Elizabeth leaned on it for a moment. She honestly felt lost at this moment. After a few minutes of standing there staring at nothing in particular, her hand slid across the table causing every paper and every object on it to go flying across the room. Glass objects shattered as it hit the walls and paper now covered the floor. None of it worked. She had had hoped that this would have worked and everything would have been fine. But there had been no change.
"Its not working Liz." Veronica said worried. She tried it again even though this was the fifth time she had. She watched as her own hands glowed as she tried pulling the magic out from the bite.
Elizabeth's head shook slightly before walking over to Chris. "I'm so sorry for doing this." She said before plunging her hand in his chest and pulling his heart out of his chest. She looked over at Veronica. "Try siphoning me and see what happens."
"What?" Veronica asked.
"Just try." Elizabeth said. She was curious. If her her bite couldn't even be siphoned out of a vampire's body, would Veronica be able to take the serum out of her.
Veronica nodded and placed her hand on Elizabeth's. She took a deep breath and tried pulling the magic she could feel out of Elizabeth. But there was nothing. Nothing to show that she was siphoning anything. "Nothing is happening, Liz."
"Damn it." Elizabeth said pulling her hand away from Veronica and walking away from her.
Elizabeth shook her head trying to get the images out of her head. This had all failed and it meant things were going to get difficult before it even got close to getting better. While this had scared her, the thought of nothing else working scared her even more. She wasn't anywhere close to being ready for Plan Z. But after this, she was now one step closer to it.
Walking out of the room, she made her way down the hall towards Klaus's room. She needed some kind of reassurance that what she was doing wasn't for nothing. Opening the door she could see that he was still in the same place he had been every time she had checked in on him. Walking into the room, Elizabeth grabbed a chair and placed it right next to Klaus's bed. She sighed for a moment before reaching out to grab his hand.
Elizabeth found herself in a room surrounded by paintings. Some of them were fresh and some of them looked like they were years old. A sigh of relief passed Elizabeth's lips as she looked around. Jess had done exactly what she asked. As she walked through the studio she saw many things painted on canvases. She saw many of his family and several of Hope. Turning the corner, she found Klaus standing out on the balcony painting the sunrise. She walked over to the door and just watched him for a moment. At least he wasn't in any kind of pain from the blade that was currently hidden in his chest.
"And here I thought you would only be thinking of ways to kill me for what happened." She said making herself known.
Klaus turned and looked at her actually surprised to see her. "Every other day love." He said smiling at her before placing his paintbrush down and walking over to Elizabeth giving her a hug.
It had been unexpected from him, but Elizabeth needed it. She hugged him back before pulling away and smiling at him. "I am glad Jess took away the effects of the blade."
"Ah, yes that witch of yours does have talent." Klaus said with a nod. "How are they?"
Elizabeth smiled. "Would you like to see?" She asked holding out her hand. At first Klaus's eyebrow raised but after a moment he took Elizabeth's hand. She showed him the most recent visit with Hayley and hope to show how much his daughter had grown the last year and a half. She showed him how with both her and Hope, they could visit his siblings and she allowed the memories that she had spending her time with them play.
Elizabeth watched as a smile grew on Klaus's lips. He let go of her hand and chuckled. "You and my daughter seem to be getting along great."
Elizabeth laughed. "I think she is just using me to see them."
"You may be right." Klaus said crossing his arms. "She's already inherited my manipulative ways."
Elizabeth shook her head slightly. "She's a smart kid that already knows what she is doing with magic in someways."
"Has she actually used it besides getting you into see my siblings?" Klaus asked curiously.
"That I know of, no." She said shrugging. "I'm supposed to go out there for a visit tomorrow."
"What is it?" Klaus asked once he picked up on the sadness in her voice.
"This is a lot harder than I thought it would be." She admitted.
"I may not be physically there in the outside world, but I know you are at least trying." He said shrugging slightly.
"How would you know?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Just because I have a blade in my chest doesn't mean I can't hear what is going on from time to time." He said with a smirk.
"What have you heard?" She asked curiously.
"Plenty to know that Aurora is dead and you turned a witch." He said with a nod. "I must say that was a bold move feeding her your blood that night."
Elizabeth looked confused for a moment. She didn't understand how he would know about the details of it all. "Right." She said a moment later when she realized why he knew. "She was in your room when she was attacked."
"I do have a question about that though, if the witches were attacked why wasn't I in danger laying there?" He watched as a smirk grew on Elizabeth's lips.
"No one on the outside of the spell can see you." She said with a nod. "A special touch from Jess. It is to make it so that anyone that may search the compound will look into that room and see that it is empty. But once you cross the border, you are there plain as day. My idea, Jess just did the spell."
"Look how far you've come from that little orphan girl." He said with a smirk.
She rolled her eyes and shook her head. "And I still have quite a ways to go, Nik."
He patted her shoulder. "What ever is going out there at this moment that has got you feeling like you are failing, its just bringing you one step closer to achieving what you need to do to get us all back together."
Elizabeth only nodded. She knew he was right. She just wasn't going to say she was completely terrified of the possibility of it leading her to where she doesn't want to be.
"I should get going." She said with a sigh. "I have someone to see about a few cures." She gave him a smile.
"That's more like it." He said with a smile. "Now don't be a stranger. It would be nice to have another visit instead of you just stealing my venom and my blood."
She laughed. "All for the purpose of getting your family back."
"Our family, Liz." He said with a smile that caused Elizabeth to smile in return. It was the first time she had even heard him consider her a part of the family. He nodded his head to the side. "Go. You have things to do."
"Thanks, Nik." She said with a nod.
"Tell me you found something." Elizabeth asked as she sat on the desk in front of Lily.
"Besides getting that cure for you asked you, actually yes." Lily said never taking her eyes off the microscope in front of her.
"So you found the antidote for the poison?" Elizabeth asked excitedly.
"Yes." Lily said finally looking up at Elizabeth. "Like I said it had taken me some time to get that pesky thing, but then I got it."
"Is it something that had been seen before?" Elizabeth knew her last visit with Lily had given her very little about the cure for Freya. No one had seen anything like it and to say there was some kind of antidote was hard to do.
"No, someone had made it from several strands of poison." Lily said shaking her head. "Who ever had made that had intent to kill with no mercy." She said looking up at Elizabeth.
Elizabeth sighed. "And they would have succeeded." Elizabeth thought of Freya for a moment. If it hadn't been for her they all would have been dead.
"I know I asked this before, but how did you come across this?" Lily asked moving away from the desk and walking over to a fridge on the other side of the room.
"I don't think you would actually believe me." Elizabeth said looking over at her.
"There is a lot of things I don't believe, but they have been right there in front of me." Lily said as she walked back over to Elizabeth and handed her a small vial.
"What do you mean?" Elizabeth asked with a raised eyebrow as she placed the vial into her pocket.
Lily laughed and shook her head slightly. "Well for starters that poison you had is capable of killing someone in a mere five hours. Yet somehow you still manage to get me new samples whenever I need them. Either you have a place filled with several infected people or you managed to keep the host alive for over a year."
"Do you want the truth or the lie?" Elizabeth asked with a smirk on her face.
Lily thought about it for a moment and shook her head. "I'd rather not know." She said with a small smile before turning and walking towards another fridge in the room. "But the new samples you gave me, I may need the truth on that one."
"Have you found anything?" Elizabeth was kind of hopeful but she knew there was no way that Lily had found something with in the last few weeks that she had brought her blood and venom over, as well as Klaus'.
"Yes and no." Lily said as pulled a few things out and went back to her station. "The first one only holds one of the components of the second one."
Elizabeth knew that already. She knew that her venom was made up of all the wolf packs. "Yeah the second one is another creation of a twisted mind."
"Well whoever you are spending time with isn't a smart thing to do." Lily said shaking her head. "But neither of them have an effect on some of the human blood I've tested on and that makes me wonder what these were used for."
"That is where things get complicated." Elizabeth said. "It was never meant for human blood." Elizabeth pulled out her phone and sent a quick text before looking at Lily. "Give it about five minutes and I'll show you what its intended for."
Lily's eyebrow raised. "Is some twisted person coming to my lab?"
Elizabeth laughed. "No, a friend of mine." She said with a smile. "It would be easier to show you than to tell you everything. I'd donate my blood to show you, but it would do nothing."
"How so?" Lily's eyebrow raised.
"The second blood sample I gave you is mine." Elizabeth admitted.
"But..." Lily looked at the vial in her hand. "Why would you give me yours?"
Before Elizabeth could answer, the door opened to the lab and Josh stepped in. "What is the emergency?" He asked as he walked over to where Elizabeth and Lily were.
Elizabeth looked around and grabbed an unopened syringe and tossed it to Josh. "We need your blood."
"Why?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Lily needs an infected sample." Elizabeth began to explain. "I figured a small donation would be so much better than getting bitten first."
Elizabeth had never seen Josh move so fast to get the packaging open. It took less than a few seconds and he handed the syringe to Lily.
"How did you move so fast?!" She asked with some excitement.
Josh looked over at Elizabeth. "Does she know?"
Elizabeth shrugged before looking at Lily. "The truth or the lie?" She asked. She watched as Lily looked back and forth between Josh and her.
"Um..." Lily paused for a moment. "I think I want the truth this time."
"Tell her Josh." Elizabeth said with a smirk.
"Why me?" He asked kind of scared. He had no clue who Lily was or if telling her what they were would change anything.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes. "Fine." She looked over at Lily. "We're vampires. Well, more like he is the vampire and I am the more complicated version."
"Complicated?" Josh laughed. "What's complicated about it. Its more like she is stronger than any supernatural creature."
Lily sat there blinking for a moment. "You're kidding right? That's the lie part?" She said with a fake smile as she looked at Josh. But they both could hear her heart beat picked up as if she was scared.
Elizabeth sighed as she looked at Josh for a moment before leaning in front of Lily getting her attention. "Lily," Once she was looking straight at Elizabeth, she began to compel her. "You will forget the whole vampire thing. Anytime from here on out if I ask you if you want the truth or the lie, you will pick lie every time." She sighed and took a step back. "So truth or the lie?"
"The lie." Lily said looking back and forth between Josh and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth smirked. "We just have weird DNA."
"If you say so." Lily said as began putting Josh's blood in a vial. "So if this blood is different, how will this infection react with his blood?"
"Mix them and see for yourself." Elizabeth said with an encouraging smile.
Lily raised her eyebrow for a moment before she did what Elizabeth said. Taking a sample of the infected blood, Lily placed it under the microscope and gasped at the sight she seen.
"Have you seen this before?" Lily asked as she looked up at Elizabeth. She nodded.
"It takes roughly twelve hours to kill the host." Elizabeth said thinking back to the time span Finn had before he died from the venom.
"Maybe I should tell someone what this is capable of." Lily said alarmed.
Elizabeth shook her head. "Not with the deal I have with you."
"Right." Lily sighed.
"You think you can manipulate the first blood sample into curing that one?" Elizabeth asked hopeful.
Lily Laughed. "This is like a huge project. I have to see what I can do."
Elizabeth nodded. "I'll throw in a bonus if you can do it within lets say... six months?"
Lily's eyebrow raised. "What kind of bonus?"
Elizabeth thought about it for a moment. "Three paid vacations to where you want to go, whenever you want to go. No expiration date."
"Sounds like a challenge." Lily said with a smile.
"I thought so." Elizabeth said holding her hand out. Lily took it and they shook on the challenge. "Let me know if you need anything."
"Will do." She said before going back to work. Elizabeth looked at Josh before nodding her head towards the door and walked out of the room together.
"What the hell was that?" Josh asked.
Elizabeth shrugged. "Like I was going to actually let her know what we are. Eventually she wont have any memory of us ever being there."
"You would really do that to her?" He asked.
She nodded. "She wont remember anything, but she'll get a few vacations out of it." She smiled and walked over to her car. "Look, I'm leaving to Hayley's. Want to go for a visit?"
"Cant, someone's gotta make sure everything is in order while your gone." He said with a smile.
"Make sure Vincent keeps an eye on her, please." She said as she got into the car. "And call me with the body count if there is one."
Josh laughed. "She'll be fine, Liz."
"I know." She said before closing the door and starting the car.
Two down, one more to go. She thought as she began to head to Hayley's. While Elizabeth hoped that Lily would be able to make some progress , there was always that possibility that things would go wrong. And what she needed was some time with her family. She needed something to take the worry off her mind for a bit. There was still so much to do and in that time frame that she has Plan Z felt closer, but at the same time it felt like it was still some time away. She could do this. She could bring them all back together.
