A/N: O.O OMG I'M SORREH! PLEASE DON'T KILL MEH! D: I've been so busy this week and last week because I'm going to a university about 1 hour away from my hometown tomorrow and have a shit lot of things to take care of before I do.
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xoxo Ascha
Chapter 29:
For the first time in 1000 years Elijah felt and looked like a mess.
He had bags under his eyes, his body felt sore and his voice was so hoarse from the screaming that he couldn't utter one audible word.
"It's okay, Daddy," Callie said, stroking his head soothingly as if he was the child and she the parent. "We'll all be fine soon."
She closed her eyes and placed a soft kiss on his forehead before she stood up from the floor of the Mikaelson Mansion.
She'd taken him back so he would be safe among his siblings, but she was torn between staying and going after Kóri because she knew he would go after Damon.
For the last couple of hours Callie had tried contacting him but without any luck, making her fear that the worst had happened to him.
"I have to go, Daddy. Damon might be in danger."
He nodded and raised his aching hand to caress her cheek, wishing that she didn't have to go but knowing that it was the right.
She reluctantly left him in the living room and walked into the study, finding Rebekah with her two older brothers.
"What are you planning to do?" Klaus asked.
"I'm gonna find Kóri and… kill that bastard. I'm tired of him, of what he wants and I refuse to let him win… especially if he does have Damon."
"Have you tried calling him again?" Rebekah asked.
Callie nodded, remembering the attempt she'd made while she sat with Elijah a few minutes ago. If something had happened to Damon then she could only assume that he was either dead or possessed by Kóri.
She wasn't sure about what sounded most horrific to her…
Taking a deep breath she gathered the strength to leave the mansion and went back to the Salvatore Boarding House to search for Damon.
She couldn't find him but she did find something else.
Since she was wearing her ancestors' ring she could sense that Kóri had been there and he'd left her a message on one of the walls.
In Damon's blood.
It looked fresh so she figured that they weren't that far away and followed the trail of Kóri's essence that still lingered around the house.
The trail led her out into the woods and the deeper she went in the colder it got, making her literally shiver despite the fact that she never got cold.
This was obviously Kóri's attempt to scare her, but she was too focused on saving Damon to be afraid right now.
"Damon!" she called, breaking the eerie silence. "Damon!"
There was no reply at first, but after a while she suddenly saw a dark figure step out from the shadows, eyes as blue as the sky gleaming brightly.
She recognized the figure as Damon immediately, but he didn't look like himself.
It was as if…
"Callie! There you are," he said, rushing up to her. "I've been looking for you everywhere. Are you okay?"
He went to hug her, but Callie instinctively took a step back, fearing that Kóri had already possessed him.
"I'm not working for him!"
"Then how are you here? I saw your blood on the wall… Kóri told me to come finding him or he would kill you." Callie said.
Damon groaned and stepped forward, cupping her face. His hands felt cold but familiar and she felt herself relax for a moment.
"I'm fine, Callie. I got away. Kóri may be a scary douche bag but he has to do a lot more to get under my skin."
Callie wanted to believe it so badly but she knew when to trust her instincts and her instincts were telling her that something was wrong with Damon.
"Okay," she said, pretending to believe him. "I love you so much, Damon. The thought of losing you…"
Damon silenced her with a kiss and even though she did kiss him back then she couldn't feel any love in the kiss.
There was only darkness.
"We have to stop him, Damon."
He nodded and in the split moment his gaze flickered to someone behind her she quickly snapped his neck and turned around, finding herself standing face to face with Kóri.
He was holding an old ceremonial dagger with blood covering the tip.
"And here I thought I could trick you into letting your guards down…" Kóri said with a dark smirk on his lips.
"I may be naïve but I'm not stupid, Kóri," Callie growled. "And I know how to beat you so don't think for a second that you can win this fight!"
"Hmm? Well I do admire your courage. You've inherited that from Ásta, obviously. But in the end she died anyway because she put her father's selfish needs ahead of her beliefs."
Callie didn't care about what her ancestor had done for her father, because all she cared about was to keep her family, her friends, her fiancé and herself alive.
Taking off her necklace she placed it in a mixture of herbs she'd brought with her and started chanting ancient words that might help her or ruin her life.
Kóri tried preventing her from finishing the job but a large wolf tackled him to the ground and attempted to bite his head off.
Klaus glanced at Callie briefly to signal her to finish the spell, but the fear of losing her mother forever for nothing paralyzed her.
Unfortunately she had to make a decision now, because Kóri managed to paralyze Klaus temporarily and made his way towards her with murder in his eyes.
He went to drive a piece of wood through her heart and a flashback of Finn doing the same appeared in her mind, making it unable for her to flee.
However, Elijah quickly jumped in front of her and let himself be staked in the back – something she never imagined he would be able to do after what he'd been through.
But to see him sacrifice himself brought her out of her trance-like state and she quickly darted away from Kóri, holding her herb filled hand up in the air.
"Incendia!"
The herbs burst into flames and burnt the necklace, melting everything away – including Callie's skin.
But she didn't care if she had to endure this pain to get rid of Kóri, because it was a small sacrifice in the grand scheme.
Kóri burst into flames as well and cried out in agony as his soul and the darkness inside him were banished.
She struggled to keep using her powers while being in so much pain, but eventually managed to send back all the darkness to where it came from before she sunk to her knees of exhaustion.
Her hand was badly burnt and the stench of burnt flesh made her want to vomit, however, she tried enjoying the victory she had achieved today.
Klaus, who had transformed back into his human form after being knocked out, slowly woke up and stared in horror at her hand.
It wasn't healing up at all because she was still wearing the ring, but she couldn't take the ring off because her hand ached so much.
But he helped her by pulling the stake out of Elijah's heart and once Elijah was awake as well he could mend his daughter's hand.
"Bite down into my wrist." he said, knowing that there was only one thing they could do about it and he knew that that method would be painful.
Callie listened to his words but she was in shock from the whole experience and so fatigued that she couldn't make herself move at all.
"Freya," Elijah said softly, catching her attention. "Please listen to me."
She nodded silently, feeling tears brimming in her eyes as she bit down into his wrist without her fangs while he prepared himself to pull the ring off.
The moment he started pulling it off she felt the pain return, but it was brief like when a child had its baby teeth pulled out.
Her hand slowly started healing up and slowly, but surely she regained awareness of where she was and realized that she had won the fight.
She went to Damon's lifeless body immediately even though her body ached and caressed his cheeks, hoping that he would wake up soon.
His eyes fluttered open the second she pressed her lips against his and wrapped his arm around her, pulling her onto his body.
"Ow, careful! I feel like I've been driven down by a steamroller…" she grumbled.
"Sorry, I–"
He quickly pushed her off him and growled as a stake went into his stomach, pulling it out of himself so he could stab the still living warlock in the heart.
When he turned his gaze back to Callie to see if she was okay he saw that she had fallen unconscious, so he picked her up into his arms and carried her home.
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