Author's Notes: Hello everyone and welcome back to another update, so this is kinda Elijah based, and I know that this is Finn and Luna based but Elijah and Hermione are getting their time in the spotlight. So, if you like Elijah or not then enjoy! Also, I am so sorry the last update wasn't my best work. I should've found a better episode but that's the material i had worked off of, so again sorry. But I hope y'all enjoy this update!
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Chapter 29 Familiar Taste of Poison (Red Door)
A girl with long, wavy brown hair who is wearing a long, white dress frantically runs for safety toward a red door at the end of a hall. Elijah, shirtless and covered in blood from head to toe, slowly stalks her as she whimpers in fear and desperately tries to open the door.
When the girl turns around, it is revealed that the girl is Hermione, who looks back at Elijah in sheer terror and continues pounding on the door to no avail. Elijah finally grabs her by the arm and turns her toward him, but it's no longer Hermione, it's Tatia, the original doppelgänger. He grabs her by the hair and turns her neck toward him before vamping-out and feeding on her as she cries in protest.
•
Elijah awakens from his dream to find that he is still chained by his wrists in a crypt and is confused as to what has just happened to him. He musters up all of his strength and yanks on his chains as hard as he can to free himself, but they won't break. Dahlia with Sister Araine close behind her calmly walks in, drinking a cup of tea.
"Have you forgotten where you are? Save your strength. My chains don't break so easily." Dahlia said.
She points above his head, where a large poppet hangs from the rafters, magically fortified so that they cannot be broken.
Sister Araine asked, "Having sweet dreams?"
Elijah lunges for them, but the restraints won't allow him to get any closer. "Get out of my head." He demanded.
Dahlia smirked. She said, "I'm not in your head, dear. You were screaming."
Elijah glares at her, but they remain unbothered by his aggression.
Sister Araine nodded. "Go ahead, get your bearings. We have much to discuss."
They leave, and Elijah once again tries to break through the chains. He hated that forced vision of Tatia, he hasn't thought about her since he and his family left Mystic Falls. He had no feelings towards any of the doppelgängers, and that included Tatia. He had his Hermione not the carbon copies of the girl who he once loved.
Dahlia stand in front of Elijah with a neutral look. "Who were you dreaming about ripping apart when you woke earlier? Was it your new little plaything, Hermione? Or, was it someone else?" She asked.
Elijah aggressively lunges for her, but still can't get any closer. He hisses at her with a growl in his throat. "You know nothing." He sneered.
She waved him off. "Oh, stop fighting, Elijah! I brought you here to listen, and you're not going anywhere until I've said my piece."
Elijah furiously grunted at her. "So, speak." He demanded.
"I want you to rejoin our family, but as a witch. I want you to leave behind the grotesque savage vampirism has made of you. Take the body of a mortal, and we can all be happy again. Start over." She implored.
Elijah said, "You do know you're entirely demented, don't you?"
Dahlia chuckled. "Am I? I'm not the one who pulls the wings off of every beautiful butterfly that he finds."
Elijah continues to try to break through his chains, he wanted out of this ragged place. He wanted to get back to his family, back to his beloved.
"Like the woman who flits across the edge of your nightmare." She said.
Elijah angrily stares her down. "Let me go. Now!" He screams. Elijah's vampire face comes out, but Dahlia is unfazed.
"Hmm. How quickly you slip back into your more savage self." Dahlia pointed out.
Elijah is stunned into silence by this response, and he looks almost ashamed as his vampire face slips away.
Dahlia said, "The moral son I watch my sister raised is now, but a mask worn to hide ancient demons."
Elijah muttered, "You know nothing."
"See, that's where you're wrong. I know more about the secrets you carry than you do. Shall I list them? I can begin with the first little butterfly you destroyed." Elijah's face goes pale. "The sweet young widow from your village who caught your eye when you were still human."
Elijah shifts uncomfortably, which makes Esther smirk in satisfaction.
"Ah, you remember her. Of course. How could you forget the first girl to ever steal your heart? She of mystical blood, the doppelgänger, Tatia."
Elijah numbly, muttered. "I did nothing but love that woman until the day she took her life."
Dahlia smiled. "I know that's what you believe... which is precisely why you are here." She picks up a candle from the table and holds it in front of Elijah's face. "I need to show you the monster you really are. When I do, you will beg for salvation, and happily I shall provide it."
Dahlia casts a spell on the candle, and Elijah is transported into a flashback.
A celebration is underway in the Mikaelsons' village, where meat is being cooked over bonfires and villagers are dancing around together, wearing festive masks. Nearby, Elijah and Dahlia, in her original body, watch as Tatia, wearing a forest green dress and matching mask, dance around the fire.
Tatia lifts up her mask so she can smile at Elijah before Klaus grabs her by the arm and spins her around toward him.
Klaus kisses Tatia passionately, while Elijah watches sadly from the sidelines. Klaus and Tatia begin to dance, but Tatia stops when she sees that Elijah is no longer watching her. Meanwhile, Elijah walks over to a nearby pig pen, where he affectionately pets and feeds one of the pigs. After a moment, Tatia joins him.
Tatia amused. "Do not tell me you came to save Loki the pig from his fate?" She asked.
Elijah rises to his feet and turns to face her, his expression somber. "No. I'm afraid Loki the pig's fate is to be food."
Tatia looks at him sympathetically, and Elijah smiles sadly.
Elijah said, "Just as you are fated to love another."
Tatia paused. "And you?" She asked. "Fated to watch from the shadows? The noble martyr?"
Elijah just stares at her in disappointment.
"Fate does not dictate my heart, Elijah." She paces in front of him. "I was fated to throw myself on a pyre after my husband died in battle, but I did not. I chose to live. And, I chose to give my heart once more. To someone strong, protective, fierce, and yet noble, and gentle." She caresses his face with her hand, and Elijah takes it in his own. "I choose you, Elijah." She whispered.
Elijah smiles and leans forward to kiss her, but she just giggles and pulls away shyly.
Tatia smiled. "And you choose to have our first kiss where your mother slaughters the pigs?" Elijah grinned. "Not very romantic—"
Elijah gently grabs her head and pulls her close to him for a kiss, and they make out passionately for a few moments before he pulled away. "Perhaps we should set Loki the pig free? It seems one's fate can change, after all."
They continue to kiss.
Dahlia blows out her candle, bringing Elijah out of his flashback. He stumbles as he tries to regain his bearings.
"But, that was just the beginning. A brief moment of happiness. That is how it always begins. A butterfly lands upon your finger, unaware that it will lead to her tragic end." Dahlia said.
Elijah said, "Her tragic end came when Ester drained her body of blood." Dahlia closes her eyes and sighs in frustration. "All for a spell to smother the wolf within Niklaus, if my memory serves."
"Actually, Elijah, your memory doesn't serve you at all. You just don't realize it yet." She caresses Elijah's face. "But, by the time we are done here, you will."
Elijah jerks his face away from her hand and glares at her angrily.
†
Caroline is checking on Davina, who is still unconscious falling and hitting her head, while Klaus watches from the doorway.
Caroline worried about Davina's health. "We should get her to a hospital." She implored.
Klaus standing in the doorway and looked to the unconscious young lady. He looked back to his brother that had the Papa Tuna blade in his chest. Kol was twitching at times, which lead to Klaus smirking.
"I say leave her here, let them suffer together," Klaus suggested. "In fact." The hybrid takes Kol's wrist and was about to bite him but felt a hand stop him.
Caroline speeds to her boyfriend and leads Klaus outside. "Klaus, come on." She gripped his arm and pushed him outside. Klaus continues to stare at Kol as Caroline pulls him onto the porch.
"You need to calm down!" She implored. "We are out here to help you brother and take him and Davina home, not start a war with your family, again. They are family, we are their family, leave them be. Take that blade out of his chest and talk to your brother while I take Davina to the ER."
Klaus looks into the cabin, where Kol is laying next to Davina. Klaus sighed. "Fine."
Caroline relieved. "Thank you." She whispered.
Klaus reluctantly hands her with the keys to the SUV. "Go get the car. Let's take her to hospital." He said.
Caroline smiles at him before she leaves. Klaus walks back into the cabin, looking as though he's come to a realization, and looked at a twitching Kol.
What they didn't know was that they didn't hear the pop of magic or the stranger vanishing to go back and give an update to the Ministry and what they discovered.
†
Kol let out a small grunt and twitched. Klaus takes the opportunity to looks around at Davina's notes on the spell she's creating. He finds a root pinned to a page and takes it down to look at it.
Klaus muttered, "You used Kandahar root as a binder. Now, where'd you find that?"
He grips the root and pockets it to take back to either the Parker twins or Luna for more advice, he knew little to nothing about witches' spells or their ingredients. He decided to take pity on his brother and pulled the blade out.
Kol gasped and looked around the now empty cabin, he found his half-brother and narrowed his eyes. he punched his brother and speared his through the torso. He started to curse his brother in Nordic, punching left and right.
Until Klaus had enough and pushed him away. "Enough!" He shouted. "Stop this or I'll bite you and lock you in your room with Davina, then we would see who lives brother."
Kol growled at his brother and used his magic on Klaus to blast him across the room. "Go to hell, Nik!" He exclaimed.
Klaus chuckled and brushed away the dust away. "Oh brother, you have that little witch wrapped around your finger."
Kol marched to his brother and tossed him into the woods which had Klaus landing on his back and groaning while Kol gripped the back of his neck and started into his eyes.
"You will not talk about Davina like that anymore, you will take what you deserve." He demanded, he snapped Klaus' neck and speed back to the Abattoir where he had hoped to see his love safe and sound.
•
Davina is still unconscious, she laid in the front set, if a car passed them it looked like she was sleeping on a road trip.
Caroline glanced over to the witch, she sighed sadly. She felt bad for the young lady, she wanted to keep her safe and she was going to do that. The blond vampire didn't want to see neither Kol or Davina suffer by anyone's hand, she was going to keep her family safe no matter what.
Davina awakens and looks around in confusion before wincing and touching the injured part of her head. She looked to Caroline and asked weakly, "What happened?"
"Oh, thank God, you're ok." She said. "Had me scared there for a moment, I'm taking you to the ER to get you checked over."
Davina sits up, she groans again as she rubs the back of her skull. "My head..."
She suddenly remembers what happened before she was knocked out and starts to panic and turns to Caroline frantically. "...Klaus?"
Caroline sighed sadly. "Yeah, my boyfriend is being an idiot at the moment. He's sleeping on the couch tonight." She said.
Davina asked, "Where'd he go?" She looked in the backset, afraid that he might be back there ready to snap her neck.
"Left him back at the cabin, he put a magical blade in Kol's chest and wanted to have a chat with him I guess."
Davina considers this information for a moment as she looked out to the country side. "Is Kol gonna be ok?" She asked.
Caroline shrugged. "Honestly, I dunno." She said. "I guess it depends on what he or Klaus do to each other. Those Mikaelsons have tempers for days. Always saw it first hand, not a pretty sight."
Davina nodded. "I could imagine." She looked to the blond and said, "Maybe we should turn back and see how much damage they have done to each other."
Caroline shook her head. "No. I promised myself that I would protect you or anyone else and that's what I plan to do. I'm taking to the hospital to see how much damage your head has done."
Davina sighed and shook her head. "Well, can you at least take me back to the Abattoir. Maybe they are back home."
The blond vampire looked to the witch and glanced back to the road. "Listen, I know you care for Kol-"
"And you care for Klaus." Davina said. "Please, don't go to the ER, take me home. Take us home." She implored.
Caroline pulled over to the side of the road and rubbed her tired eyes. "Davina please,"
"Caroline please," She mimicked.
She shook her head and sighed. "If I do this, you promise to make sure Kol keeps his distance away from Klaus." Davina nodded, eagerly. "Fine. I'll take you home." She agreed. She pulled into the country road and drove back to their home, where hopefully the Mikaelsons were still intact.
†
Hermione arrives at the apartment to visit Marcel, who she finds pouring himself a drink at his bar.
"So, those werewolf kids you helped get out of the Quarter made it to the safe house up north." She said. She smiles at him gratefully, and he seems pleased by this news.
Marcel smirked. "Great! My good deed for the decade." He hands her a drink, but she politely declines it by holding up her hand.
Hermione shook her head. "No, I'm good. Maybe the vampires, some witches and free wolves can work together after all."
Marcel smiled. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend!" He said. He casually sips his drink.
Hermione smiled. "Thank you for helping." She said.
Marcel shaked his head. "Don't thank me. Thank your boyfriend."
Hermione frowned and ringed her hands together. "I would have, but I can't find him. I went to last night thinking he'd be there by morning, but…" She shrugged.
Marcel was surprised by this. "Really? I thought you always have tabs on him? Being a witch and all."
Hermione awkwardly squirmed. "I mean, I do but something blocked me. He wouldn't just disappear, though."
"Uh, last I knew, he was gonna keep the wolves distracted. Your boy Oliver was gonna help." He said.
Hermione was worried about the blonde werewolf. "I couldn't track down Oliver, either. Luna tried, but nothing." Marcel frowns in concern. "If they're both missing..." Hermione realizes that Elijah must be in trouble and turns to leave.
Marcel exasperated. "Where you goin'?"
Hermione turned to Klaus' surrogate son, pulled out her wand and said, "To find them."
Marcel shook his head. "Not on your own, you're not." He said. Marcel sets down his drink and rushes after Hermione as she apparate out of the apartment.
†
Elijah is dozing off upright when Dahlia returns to the crypt where he's being held.
"You're hungry, aren't you? It's been hours since you fed. What an awful thing, to feed upon the blood of others. For this, I blame my sister. And your father. They tried to make you children strong. But, instead, they cursed you all." She said.
Elijah flashes back to right after the Mikaelsons were turned into vampires, the morning after Klaus triggered his werewolf gene. Klaus sits in the forest, naked, covered in blood, and surrounded by the dismembered corpses of several men that he killed while he was transformed into a wolf. Elijah finds him a moment later and looks at him with sympathy as Klaus struggles to hold back his tears.
"Brother?" He asked.
Elijah hands Klaus fresh clothes, which Klaus takes from him, but he otherwise doesn't move to get dressed. Instead, he just becomes even more overwhelmed by everything that has just happened to him.
Klaus stuttered, "What am I...? How many...?"
Elijah muttered, "…Six."
Klaus covers his face with his hands in horror and disgust at himself.
Elijah said, "You slaughtered six villagers, brother. You tore them apart as though they were nothing at all." Elijah helps Klaus to his feet.
Klauswhispered, "Brother, what have I become?"
Elijah said, "You seem like the wolves in the village, cursed to turn when the moon is full." Elijah pulls Klaus into a comforting hug and pauses a moment before continuingquietly, "Listen to me. Father is beside himself with rage. It seems this... affliction... can only be passed by a certain kind of conception—"
Klaussniffled, "-And do our siblings share this affliction? Do you share this affliction?"
Elijah once again hesitates for a moment before ultimately shaking his head. "No. I don't."
Klaus was devastated. "He is not my father, is he?" He asked.
Elijah looks heartbrokenly at him before placing his hand on the back of Klaus' head to force him to look him in the eye. "You listen to me. This changes nothing. For any of us. We are here for you, as we shall be always." Klaus looks as though he's about to cry.
Suddenly, they hear the sound of someone approaching them. It's Tatia, who sees Klaus covered in blood and surrounded by bodies and quickly becomes terrified so much that she immediately runs away. Elijah, flustered, chases after her to explain.
Elijah exclaimed, "Tatia! Tatia? Tatia!"
Elijah glares at Dahlia. "I fail to see your point, here. Ester compelled Tatia to forget what she saw, and she did." He sneered at her. "You'd only been a vampire for a few days. You hadn't yet learned compulsion." She said.
Elijah shakes his head in disbelief. "No. I remember that. Clearly."
"Do you?" Dahlia asked. "You thought there were still lines you wouldn't cross."
Elijah stares at her, visibly distraught by the thought of what she's suggesting.
She continued, "People you wouldn't hurt. Things you wouldn't do. But, you're wrong. That is what I'm here to show you."
Elijah continues to chase after Tatia through the woods after she found Klaus and Elijah surrounded by bodies and fled the scene. She eventually trips on an exposed tree root and falls on the ground, allowing Elijah to finally catch up to her.
Elijah shouted, "Tatia! Tatia! Tatia! Wait! Wait."
Tatia scrambles to her feet and starts to back away from him fearfully, and Elijah puts up his hands in a non-threatening gesture.
Tatia demanded, "Stay away from me."
Elijah looked to the girl and said, "I won't hurt you!"
Tatia was horrified at the second oldest Mikaelson. "What have you become?" She asked.
Elijah said, "I'm what I've always been! I'm the one who loves you."
Tatia shakes her head, visibly scared by him and his new supernatural identity. Tatia continues to stare at Elijah in fear and horror, and Elijah continues to try to ease her fears while still feeling hurt by her reaction.
Tatia was stunned. "Your mother asked for my blood. She said nothing of the dark magic that would turn you into a monster!"
Elijah looked visibly hurt. "Look at me, I'm not a monst—"
He cuts himself off, unable to finish the words because he has suddenly sensed the blood that is pouring from a wound on Tatia's palm that she sustained when she fell earlier. Elijah tries as hard as he can to resist it, but his vampire face comes out involuntarily, briefly scaring Tatia. He breathes deeply to try to control himself, and it eventually fades away.
"Tatia..." He tightened his jaw.
Tatia becomes frightened once more and slaps Elijah across the face in hopes of protecting herself. Elijah is so taken aback by this display of violence that he doubles over and massages his jaw, feeling hurt that she doesn't trust him.
Elijah cleared his throat and shook his head. "I said I will not hurt you. I don't want to—"
Despite Elijah's best efforts, the scent of her blood causes his vampire face to come out again, and Tatia backs away in terror at the sight of his blood-red eyes, darkened eye-veins, and vampire fangs.
Tatia looked to the oldest Mikaelson, still hesitated to get close to him. "Elijah...?"
Elijah musters up all of his willpower to try to hold himself back from feeding on her. He was overwhelmed, he looked to the girl and exclaimed. "Run!"
Tatia backs away and turns to run as fast as she can, but Elijah's efforts are for naught, and he's ultimately unable to stop himself from chasing after her.
Elijah grabs hold of Tatia and pulls her head back by the hair in order to expose her neck as Tatia yelps and struggles against his grip. Elijah bites Tatia's neck and viciously feeds on her as she screams in pain.
Dahlia watched as Elijah moved his chains and tried to go after his aunt. "You knew how special she was! I always thought you would protect her. That she would be your wife, that one day I might call her daughter! Instead—"
Elijah interrupts her, "I didn't hurt her!"
Dahlia shook her head. "You've taught yourself to hide from who and what you are for a thousand years!"
Elijah angrily yanks on his chains in an effort to lunge at Dahlia. "I did not hurt Tatia! I could not." He muttered.
"But you did!" She exclaimed. Dahlia takes Elijah's face in her hands and forces him to look at her. "No more hiding. It is time, now, for you to remember it all. You didn't want to hurt her. You loved her. But, you couldn't fight what you had become. What Ester had turned you into! A predator. And she became your prey!"
Elijah yanks himself out of Dahlia's grasp and glares at her. "This was my mother. She murdered her for her blood. And then, she used it to cripple Klaus for centuries."
Dahlia just stares at him, blank-faced, as Elijah steps backward and continues to pull on his chains.
Elijah said, "I won't listen to another word."
Dahlia smirked and said, "Because, my dear nephew, you know deep down it wasn't your mother, it was you. You killed the poor girl in cold blood. Moral Original is what they call you, but you have no morals. You're just like your siblings, a monster."
Elijah tried to go after her, but she beat him to it and put him back to a deep sleep.
†
Out in the woods where he sadly had to walk home, Klaus has just made it to where Davina and Kol had stopped earlier. He sees a group of "Hillbilly Halloween" bonfire. When he gets there, he finds all of the party-goers standing completely still and silent in their masks, presumably compelled by Kol to speak for him.
"Did you honestly think to hold me with a blade forged from pain?" One party goer asked.
The other stood up and said, "Unlike the weak, unlike you, I gain strength from pain!"
"Soon, you will know the taste of the blade as it pierces your heart."
Klaus clearly amused, rolled his eyes. "It's very clever, Kol! Compelling the locals to say to my face what you dare not? Enjoy the theatrics! They only delay the inevitable."
Party-goer attacks Klaus, but he easily disarms and kills him. The other compelled guests quickly follow, and Klaus quickly kills them, as well.
†
At the Abattoir in the couple's room, Davina was poring over the notes she has pinned to the wall, while Kol looks through other notes nearby.
Kol sat on the bed as he watched his little witch pour over the notes she had on her wall. "Um, perhaps we should hold off on this..."
Davina turns back to him and gives him a hard look. "No, I have everything I need! Combining a red wood core and unicorn hair this then this could knock out those Sisters." She looks through her things again. "I just have to combine them the right way..."
Kol said, "And do them in reverse. That's pretty advanced for a wee girl like you."
Davina snatches the page he's holding out of his hand and once again gives him a look. "You know, I can give you a list of people who have underestimated me." Kol smirks in amusement. "Not one of them has done it a second time."
Kol lustfully eyed his little witch. "Well, perhaps I should help you. I'm pretty good at stuff like this."
Davina chuckled. "I don't think so. It's not just saying the spells backwards, it's changing the verb tense into—"
Kol interrupts her, "Nemo unus animabus carnem et sanguinem de ista duo." Davina looks impressed. "Like I said, I'm good at what I do. It's never paid to underestimate me, either."
Davina nodded. "Okay. Let's do this." Davina leads Kol into the next room. He watches her and smiled.
•
It's daylight now, and Klaus is feeding on the bodies of the recently dead partiers to replenish his strength. There is one partier left alive, who stumbles as he tries to attack Klaus, but Klaus simply takes his weapon and hits him upside the head with it. Suddenly, his phone rings, and Klaus reluctantly answers it. It's Hermione and Marcel, who are in the parking garage where Elijah and Oliver were attacked by the werewolves. Klaus pants and tries to catch his breath as he greets them.
Klaus said, "Uh, I'm a tad busy. What is it, Hermione, Marcel?"
Hermione whispered quietly, "Something has happened to Elijah. He was supposed to be our decoy last night, and now he's vanished. There's blood everywhere- werewolf and vampire. There's a trail. I need you to help us track it."
Klaus smirked. "Well, as much as I might like to help you find my brother, I have more pressing matters as the moment."
The partier tries to crawl toward Klaus, so Klaus kicks him in the face, knocking him backward.
Hermione incredulously. "What's more important than your own brother?" She asked.
Klaus asked, "My life? Davina and Kol have been missing for the last few days and I wanted to get to the bottom of it, I want to destroy this city pf those who seek to des troy my family, including you two, so I suggest you don't get in my way."
At the parking garage, Marcel, who has been listening into the conversation, stands up and looks furious at this news.
The partier tries once again to attack Klaus, so Klaus grabs him in a choke-hold. Marcel, worried, walks toward Hermione, who is clearly concerned as well.
Klaus said, "And, if you do find my brother, please, tell him I could do with a hand?" Klaus finally snaps the partier's neck and hangs up.
†
Davina and Kol are surrounded by lit candles as they sit cross-legged across from each other on the floor. They quietly chant Davina's spell.
They chant, "Sanguinatum venetus barkael meh—"
Davina interrupts him, "Stop! Stop. This isn't working."
Davina starts messing with the ingredients of the spell, and Kol starts to panic when he realizes that Davina is getting close to figuring out his identity.
Kol said, "Well, maybe you're just...doing it wrong?"
Davina sighed and looked over her notes. "No, we have to do this right!" Davina sighed in frustration. "Look, just stop chanting." She grabs his wrists in her hands. "I'll chant and channel your power."
When Davina touches Kol's arms, she gets a vision of when he was attacked by Klaus with the Papa Tuna blade and he attacked Klaus for trying to hurt them, she also saw Klaus and Finn planning to take the Sisters and Dahlia on their own but that didn't work until they were saved. When she returns to the present, she quickly let's go of him and stares at him in horror. Kol gave her a blank expression.
Furious, Davina uses telekinesis to throw Kol against the wall. She throws him against another wall, so Kol fights back, pulling her toward him with magic before throwing her against another wall.
Kol said, "That hurt."
Davina casts a pain-infliction spell on Kol, who grabs his temples in agony.
"Okay, okay, okay, okay!" He shouted, basically begging her to stop.
Davina said, "Your brothers tried to do something stupid and got caught for it."
"And I stopped them, we happen to like being alive." He said. "Listen, you don't disobey our family, or you'll pay for it. We have a plan and we are going to do as is, but you know how Klaus is."
"What, so you just kicked the crap outta him?" She asked.
Kol said, "Well, you're the one who decided to have the Sister after you, love!"
"I had it under control!" She exclaimed.
Kol said, "Yeah, right up until the point you didn't, which is when they and my dear crazy aunt threatened us! You wanna know my secrets?" He held up his hand and showed his lapis lazuli ring. "Yes, I'm a Mikaelson, but I've got just as much reason to loathe the lot of them as you do." Kol pulled her close to his person and said, "I know you think you can take them on your own, but you can't. Us Mikaelsons have a plan and we need to follow through."
Davina pulled away from him with suspicious eyes. "We will see about that." She said and marched towards her grimoire and take it to the kitchen where Luna and the Parker twins were.
†
Elijah is still chained up in a crypt while Dahlia, with Sister Araine by her side continues to talk with him.
Elijah said, "You're distorting my memories! It was my mother who killed Tatia!"
"Oh, she used her blood to bind the spell that suppressed Niklaus' werewolf aspect. But, by the time you brought her to your mother, she was already dead." Sister Araine said.
Elijah looks at them in horror and disbelief. "You can't rewrite history!" He exclaimed.
Dahlia shook her head. "No, I cannot. And I did not. Not until I had your consent."
Esther was out by the pig pen, where she is cleaning a knife with a cloth, when Elijah approached her, carrying Tatia's dead body in his arms. Esther backs away from him, visibly terrified by the sight of them. Esther takes Tatia's body from a devastated Elijah's arms.
Esther drags Tatia's body away into the shed. Elijah, overwhelmed to the point of numbness, falls to his knees in horror. Esther closes the wooden door to their slaughterhouse behind her, the wood stained with red blood. Esther returns outside to Elijah, who is still kneeling outside the slaughterhouse. She leans down and whispers into his ear.
Ester told him to clean himself up. That if he were clean, no one would know what he is or what he'd done. She hands him a washcloth, which he uses to wipe the blood from his face.
"And then, she said to you, 'You will not suffer from this memory, or be tormented from the guilt of your misdeed. What goes behind that door shall stay there and be forgotten.'" Dahlia said.
"And you did exactly that... and more. You created a place in your mind to put your victims. You began to believe that as long as your suit was immaculate and your hands clean, you could look in the mirror and tell yourself it's all okay. No one need know what's behind that red door." Sister Araine said.
Elijah flashes back to his nightmare from earlier, when Hermione/Tatia was pounding on the red door while he stalked them, shirtless and covered in blood, before finally feeding on them.
She continues, "But, a thousand years is a long time, Elijah. And a place meant to hold one unforgivable sin is now full to bursting with your most monstrous deeds."
Elijah overwhelmed by this had snapped. "STOP!" He screamed.
Sister Araine asked, "How long before it's your beloved Hermione's corpse behind that door?"
Elijah whispers desperately, "Stop."
Dahlia said, "You must be afraid that- that loving you will destroy her! As it destroyed Celeste. Tatia. Take my offer. Both of you. In new bodies, you will be alive again! You could give her a child, to replace the one she lost."
Elijah was determined, he looked up at them and growled, "You will not break me."
Sister Araine placed her hands on his cheek and said, "Oh, you are already broken, but not beyond repair. We are here to fix you."
†
Klaus finally made it home. He walked into the Abattoir to find Kol pacing back and forth, he's little bother looked worried and angry at the same time. Klaus snapped a shovel in half and leaped a dozen feet into the air and lunges at him with his makeshift stake. He tackles Kol, but they both quickly rise to their feet in defensive positions.
Kol has pinned Klaus against the wall and is struggling to stake Klaus in the chest. Klaus is about to be staked by Kol, he fights back by kneeing Kol in the gut and the face before the two begin to fight again. Klaus then tackles him, and the two bust through a concrete and brick wall into the next room.
Davina is about to walk into the main room when Liv and Luke stopped her. "Wait! We need to do this together." She said.
Davina shakes her head. "I'm strong enough on my own." She implored.
Liv shook her head. "No, you're not." She took her hands and looked unto Davina's eyes. "Listen, these are our friends we're trying to save, here. The only way that we can do this is if we work together."
She grabs one of Davina's hands in her own and holds out the other for her to take.
"Let's do this, let's channel our powers, together." Luke said.
In the next room, Luna, Caroline and Finn rushed into the room, just as Klaus kicks Kol to the floor. He then straddles Kol, and though he tries to stake Klaus while he's down, Klaus easily turns the stake on him, and musters up all his energy to break his grip to kill him.
Klaus smirked. "Not as weak as you remember, am I?"
Klaus breaks the stake out of his grip and goes to stake him, but Kol throws Tunde's blade at Caroline, forcing Klaus to vamp-speed toward her and catch it before it stabs her in the face. This gives Kol the opportunity he needs to steal the stake back.
In the other room, Davina has grabbed the twins' hands and begins channeling their powers for the spell.
They chanted, "Mwen la bois. Donne m' la bois, la bois."
Suddenly, to Caroline's horror, Kol stabs Klaus in the chest with the Papa Tuna blade. Outside, Davina and the twins chant the spell, as the wind whips around them.
"Mwen la bois. Donne m' la bois, la bois." They chant.
Kol smirks as Klaus shrieks in pain and falls to the floor, and Caroline shrieks in horror when she sees Klaus' face begin to twitch and he was groaning.
"NO!" She screamed. Finn gripped onto Caroline and tried to keep her back, so she won't go after his crazy little brother.
Kol stares at Klaus' body, but becomes concerned when nothing happens.
Kol growled and kicked his brother's head. "Why aren't you burning? If you were dead, it would burn. BURN!" He screamed.
Kol senses Davina and the twins outside the room, and rushes to find them. Davina's struggling to continue the spell.
Davina chanted, "Mwen la bois. Donne m' la bois, la bois—" Davina is so overwhelmed by the force of the spell that she's forced to stop chanting. She franticly shook her head. "I can't hold it!" She exclaimed.
Luke squeezed her hand and shook his head. "Just trust us!" He shouted.
Suddenly, Kol appears out of nowhere and approaches them. "Is this your doing, little witch? Then you will undo it! Return the power to the blade!" He demanded.
Davina shook her head. "No." She said firmly. "I'm not returning the power, this isn't you Kol!"
He shook his head with a frightening smirk. "You don't know me at all, lovely."
Finn let go of Caroline has crawled over to Klaus' body and stares at the stake in his chest. She grabs it and tries her hardest to pull the blade out, though it barely budges.
Outside, Davina and the twins continue the spell. When Kol comes near them, Davina let's go of one of their hands and thrusts it toward Kol, keeping him back with a pain infliction spell while continuing the spell to drain the power of the white oak stake. Meanwhile, Caroline continues to try to remove the blade from Klaus' chest.
The twins, wanting to defend Davina, let's go of her and lunges for Kol, but he easily throws one of the twins across the room and against a cobblestone wall. Unable to stop him magically without the twins' help, Kol grabs onto Davina and starts to feed on her while she screams.
Finally, Finn comes behind Caroline and removes the blade from Klaus' chest, and color starts to return to his skin. Kol, having just fed on Davina, rushes back into the room and finds Finn and Caroline bent over Klaus' body.
Kol growled. "What do you think you're doing?"
Caroline sits up and turns, gripping the blade tightly in her hand and pointing it at him. "Stay the hell away from us! Or, I swear to God, I'll kill you myself."
Kol mildly impressed, he smirked and started to slow clap. "You have a warrior's heart. Perhaps I'll keep it as a souvenir."
Kol is about to grab Caroline when Marcel appears out of nowhere and pulls him away from her. He then starts hitting Kol over and over so quickly that he's too disoriented to fight back right away. Kol eventually knocks Marcel flat on his back and grabs Klaus' makeshift stake to point it at Marcel's heart.
"Now, ENOUGH! This night has been a long parade of fools." Kol said.
Klaus awakens with a gasp, and Caroline bravely stands on her feet. Suddenly, Hermione arrives and throws a chain around Kol's neck and yanks on it so hard it knocks him off of his feet.
"Yeah, I wouldn't bet on it." She said, magically tightened the chain around his neck.
Klaus, determined, jumps to his feet. Hermione and Marcel rush over to him, and they're eventually joined by Davina and the Parker twins. They all stand in tableau and smirk at him, knowing that they finally have the upper-hand.
Klaus said, "It's over, Kol. You're outnumbered."
Kol laughed. "Come find me when you don't have fools, women and children fighting your battles."
He throws the scrap of wood at them and vamp-speeds away to heal. Klaus, looking relieved, just sighs.
"Kol!" Davina shouted, but he was too fast for her. She sighed sadly and shook her head. She couldn't believe that Kol had basically snapped in one day, it was insane.
After a moment, Marcel approaches them, ignoring the Parker twins in favor of addressing Davina instead.
"You are lucky to be alive, young lady." He said. "You wanna tell me what the hell you were thinking?"
Davina didn't even look at Marcel. "Can we not do this right now?" She asked as she marched away.
Marcel sighed, annoyed that she was giving him lip. "Am I gonna embarrass you in front of your friends?"
"Really, dude?" Luke asked. "Embarrass away, but just so you know Davina just lost her man. We were just helping her." He walked away with disbelief on his face. Liv patted Marcel's shoulder and followed her brother.
Marcel shook his head. "Can you believe that asshole?" He followed Davina as she walked into their room. "Helping you do what? Wage war on Klaus, and help me get killed in the process?"
Davina angrily slammed her hand on the table and huffed. "I just saved Klaus' life trying to protect you!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah, from your psycho-vampire-boyfriend that you started to cuddle up with-"
Davina interrupts him. "Alright, enough!"
Marcel gives Davina a look that says, "Seriously?" but Davina just glares at him.
Marcel looked to Davina. "I'll handle Klaus." He said. She glared at him and shook her head. "Trust me, my father's not the forgiving kind. Even if you did help out back there, his hatred and betrayal outweigh his sense of gratitude."
Davina stood tall. "I'm not afraid of him." She pulls the Papa Tuna blade out of the inside of her jacket and shows it to him, causing Marcel's eyes to widen in shock and horror.
Marcel looked incredulously at her. "You out to get yourself killed?"
"This is just incase he tries anything." She said. "Just trying to keep myself safe from your crazy family members."
Marcel shook his head and marched out of the room to find his father.
Downstairs, Caroline notices the stab wound in Klaus' chest that hasn't yet healed. Klaus winces, and takes her hand.
Klaus looked gratefully at his lover. "You pulled the blade out in the nick of time."
Caroline smiled and cupped his cheek. "It's the least I could do for telling you not to kill that bastard the first chance you had."
Klaus quietly whispered, "Well, he hurt you. For that alone, I will hurt him." He caressed her hips and smiled. "You know, in a thousand years, I think it's the first time I've seen him run."
Caroline smiled. "He'll come back though, for Davina. To continue to hurt you."
Before Klaus can say anything more, Hermione and Marcel enter the dinning room and join them, having heard their conversation with Marcel's vampire-hearing.
"And, he knew he was outmatched." Hermione said.
Marcel nodded. "We checked the perimeter, and he's definitely gone."
Klaus sighed. "I appreciate your assistance."
Marcel smiled at him. "Well, hey! Just looking out for family. Just call me selfish."
Hermione nodded. "Speaking of, Klaus? We have another problem..."
†
Elijah is still weakly hanging by his wrists in the crypt, kneeling on the floor, getting ever weaker as Dahlia continues to taunt him.
Elijah muttered, "No more. Enough."
"I'm afraid we've just begun. You will hang here, remembering. Every atrocity you've hid behind that door will emerge to haunt you. And, as you grow weaker, you will be ripped of your strength, your will, your hope. And, as you rot here, alone, you will reconsider my offer. A new life. A way to be freed of your demons. A chance at peace." Dahlia said.
Suddenly, Hermione apparates into the crypt, casting a petrified spell, immobilizing Dahlia. Hermione looks up at Elijah, wand in hand, and she adorably flips her hair out of her face.
Hermione said, "Huh! That's about enough of that, don't you think?"
She steps over a now deathly pale Dahlia and walks toward Elijah, who slumps over weakly in relief as she attempts to break his chains. However, Dahlia's spell prevents the chains from being broken.
"How do I get these off?" She asked.
Elijah looks up above them, which causes Hermione to do the same, and she sees the poppet hanging from the ceiling that is reinforcing the chains.
Elijah said, "The doll, up there. Break it. She's using it to bind me."
Hermione reaches up and rips down the doll before tearing it in half. She then breaks the chains binding Elijah's wrists and kneels before him to check on him.
Hermione looked into Elijah's dull eyes and said, "You need to feed."
Elijah, becoming worried about his lack of control over his bloodlust, turns away from her. He shook his head. "I can't—"
Hermione rubbed his cheeks and said, "You're weak." She takes out a small knife, splits her wrist and offers it to him, but Elijah becomes even more anxious as he stares at her pleadingly.
Elijah shook his head, weakly. "I can't! I crave you. My hunger, it could overwhelm me."
He gasps, trying to control himself, and looks at Hermione's bloody wrist with longing. Hermione remains calm and simply caresses his face. "Look at me." Elijah forces himself to meet her gaze. "I'm not afraid." She whispered.
They stare at each other for a moment before Hermione leans forward and begins to kiss him. They start making out, both still kneeling on the floor. After a moment, Elijah begins to have trouble resisting her blood. Hermione notices his discomfort and leans back, moving her hair to the side so she can expose her neck to him. His vampire face comes out involuntarily when he sees her pulsing carotid artery, and immediately bites on her to feed.
He has just stopped feeding on Hermione and looks at her for a moment. Hermione pants in pleasure, but Elijah is still hungry, and his eye veins darken as he begins to feed on her again. Hermione holds onto him tightly, letting him continue.
•
Sister Araine is kneeling in front of a sleeping Elijah, waving a hand in front of his face and revealing that it was just a dream Elijah was having. His eyes are still open, as though he is catatonic.
"What'd you do to him?" Freya asked, sitting in the corner of the crypt looking sadly at her brother.
"We let him dream." Dahlia said.
Freya continues to stare at Elijah, both horrified on his behalf and mad to see him weak and vulnerable.
Sister Araine smirked at Elijah, kissed him on the cheek and stands up to join her at the table.
"We cannot lead him out of darkness by simply exposing him to the horrors of his past. I have to let him bask in his version of a better world to come." Sister Araine said. Elijah's lip begins to twitch as we return to his dream. "And by the time he wakes, he will know the only way to find peace is our way."
They watch Elijah dream, while Freya looks over at him, concerned.
Author's Notes: Phew! This was a bitch to write, let me tell ya. I didn't know what to do with Mikael since he and Ester are in Hell, so this took a good while to write; but I got it done and I feel satisfied with how it turned out. What do you think Dahlia and the Sisters have planned? Let me know in the comments. I hope y'all enjoyed it and I will see y'all a next time. Bye, bye!
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