Buffy groans as she lays on the stone-cold floor of the cellar, she had been here two weeks now, the brothers had drained her of most of her blood, so it merely felt like dust was scraping together in her veins. But it wasn't even painful. The only hard thing was that she heard everything upstairs.
She could hear her daughter.
They weren't letting her see Joy and it was beginning to piss her the hell off.
"She's calmest desiccating Original Demon/Hybrid/Slayer thing I've ever seen." Damon huffs in annoyance as he turns to his brother who was walking into the room with Joy who was currently pocking him in the face.
Damon sighs and pours himself a drink before groaning and turning back to his brother "I remember when you starved me down there for three days. I would have wept at your feet for an orange peel."
As the baby gurgles in his arms Stefan sighs and bouncing her up and down as he speaks he knew she wanted to see her mom, every time he walked near the door to the cellar she started screaming bloody murder "She's not gonna beg for anything. Begging means desperations, emotion. She's still no-humanity zone."
Damon frowns before walking over to his brother and covering Joy's ears before he speaks "How dried up does she have to be before we can torture some feelings back into her?"
"She has to be a lot weaker then she is now apparently." Stefan says with a huff before setting Joy down in her playpen in the center of the room. Their house had literally become a nursery now, Joy's stuff was everywhere.
Damon groans before jumping to sit down on the couch watching Joy for a moment as she tried to sit up on her own, while she could hold her own head up now, sitting up still wasn't something she hadn't achieved "So what are we supposed to do in the meantime? Watch for this one to start exhibiting superpowers?"
Suddenly Joy cries, well actually it was more like screams, Damon and Stefan glance at each other though as suddenly all the lights in the room begin to flicker "You have got to be kidding me." Damon huffs as he picks up Joy, and as suspected the second he picks her up she stops screaming and all the lights return to normal "Yep. She's gonna kill us one day."
Stefan chuckles however both the brother's amusement quickly fades as another voice pipes up "Baby Summers is almost as cranky as her mom."
Stefan frowns and turns and there she was smirking as always "Katherine?"
Katherine smirks brightly "The one and only. Sort of." Pausing she takes a step towards the boys and Damon steps back with Joy, as long as they could keep crazy vampires away from her they were probably doing well with her.
Katherine merely rolls her eyes like she would risk doing anything to Klaus's kid, she had no interest in him going back to hunting her for another 500 years "So when's the welcome-home party?"
Damon adjusts Joy in his arms before watching as Katherine walks over to the bar "Klaus is out of town two weeks and you went and got bold."
Katherine merely smirks and downs the drink in her hand "Turns out Buffy giving birth to that..." She says gesturing to the blonde baby girl in Damon's arms "Was the ticket to getting Klaus out of our lives for good."
Buffy now in a pair of sweats and a sports bra continues to do pull-ups on the pipe across the ceiling trying to entertain herself during her solitaire. She wasn't going to lie she was bored, and it wasn't even like she could do anything other than exercise but the boys hadn't even left her a mirror or any hair products.
Which was just freaking cruel.
As she begins to feel herself weaken she allows her body to drop back to the ground and she huffs, she was never exhausted but Stefan had pretty much drained all the blood out of her body, that plus with no food or water and she was weak. Weak and bored.
This totally sucked.
But at least all this time alone gave her time to plan...to plan exactly how she was going to make the Salvatore brothers pay...and how she was going to get the hell out of this town.
New Orleans
Klaus stands on the edge of Bourbon street after having finally discovered the threat that was faced against his daughter. And from the looks of it...it would be a long time before his daughter would be safe in New Orleans if ever.
Sighing he grabs his phone knowing that she wouldn't be able to pick up, but just hoped that by the time she heard his message she would be herself again.
As he suspected the phone goes straight to voicemail "Buffy." He breaths "I'm back again. New Orleans. I told you before how this was one of my favorite places in the world. Surrounded by food...music, art, culture, and all I can think about is how much I want to show it to you and our daughter. Maybe one day it will be mine again. And then you'll let me." And with that, the hybrid smiles before hanging up and heading down the street he was more determined than ever to take back his kingdom.
To make a home for his family.
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Marianna sighs as she watches Elijah and Rebekah argue again, Elijah wanted them both to join him and Niklaus in New Orleans, to destroy the threat towards their niece so that they could all be a family again. In the one place that had finally felt like home to them. The only place in 1000 years where they had all been happy.
As Rebekah storms out Elijah sighs before turning to Marianna who merely shrugs "You didn't really think she'd go did you?" She asks before rolling her eyes and walking over to her brother "She is still obsessed with the cure."
"Which is a fool's errand."
"Agreed."
Elijah sighs at his youngest sister before watching her closely it had been over 500 years since they had all been together as a family. 500 years since she had left them "Will you join us?"
Mary frowns as she watches her brother "500 years is a long-time brother. I don't know if we can ever be a family again."
Elijah clenches his jaw before watching the witch "Always and forever. It's what we promised. And no matter what you are always welcome back. Consider my offer Marianna." And with that Elijah leaves, leaving Mary alone once again contemplating her life.
She had spent 500 years at odds with her family, practically enemies, she couldn't possibly just go back and act as if they were one big happy family again. Could she?
"It's a bogus offer." A voice says from behind the witch causing her to turn her eyes widening at the sight of Katarina in front of her.
Katherine sighs as she turns to Mary, trying to make her understand "Be smart, Mary. Klaus is stark raving mad. You left for a reason those years ago. It wasn't just for me." As Mary looks away clenching her jaw Katherine steps forward trying to make her see the right path, she couldn't go back to being a Mikelson again, it wasn't possible "Leave them to set off on this new adventure and lets you and I go back on ours." She begs as she walks over to the woman she loved.
Mary sighs and turns to face Katherine listening carefully to the vampire's words "I have lost so much of my life to Klaus." Katherine reminds her "And so have you." Pausing Katherine takes Mary's hand in her own looking straight into the witch's eyes "It's our turn. Mary, we have been together. But never fully, too scared with Klaus hunting us. But now...we can do this. May please..."
Mary takes a shaky breath as she looks away from Katherine, she had spent 500 years with Katherine, as a friend, a sister, a lover, all she knew was Katherine. But it had always been games and running. And even now, she still didn't know if she could trust a word out of the vampires' mouth "Katerina..." Pausing she cups Katherine's cheek in her hand before leaning her forehead against the vampires, she had to choose right this time.
And so at that moment she gave up the life she had had for over 500 years. It was time to go home "Goodbye."
Buffy groans as she hears the cellar door open, turning around from the wall where she was weakly yanking on her chains she huffs as she spots Damon walk into the room and whistle at the sight of her "You look terrible."
"Someone forgot to leave a mirror." She jokes before turning to face him "You got a cheeseburger for me?"
Damon shakes his head as he looks down at the miserable blonde "You still don't care?"
Buffy rolls her eyes, she was getting so sick of the same question over and over again "Congratulations that was correct you win this new car which I will promptly shove up your ass."
Damon chuckles softly before crouching down in front of the pink-haired Slayer "You see Buffy, that's the wrong answer. I care and that's the whole point. We need you to."
Pausing Buffy looks up her eyes widening as Stefan walks in with Joy in his arms, Buffy's eyes widen and she stands trying to speed over to her daughter only for the chains to yank her back "Give me back my daughter."
"Actually you need to say goodbye." Stefan tells her making Buffy's eyes fill with anger "You can't keep my daughter from me!"
"Actually we can." Damon says with a chuckle before turning to Joy "Say goodbye to mommy." Buffy's eyes fill with horror as the baby girl waves her hand before Stefan begins exiting the room "Joy!" She screams pulling at her chains "No!" She screams before turning to Damon "I'm gonna kill you."
Damon merely smiles at the blonde "Would you do that to the guy that bought you some water?"
Buffy arches a brow before catching the bottle of water he tosses at her, as much as she wanted to throw it at his face she was so thirsty, her voice was hoarse, and she wouldn't be able to escape without her strength.
Ripping open the lid she begins downing the water, and for a second it was like heaven that was until the burning started "Ah!" She screams spitting the water out before launching the bottle across the room.
"What...the hell..." She gasps out coughing loudly as smoke escaped her mouth this wasn't possible.
Damon merely smirks "You see I talked your old Watcher today. He's been researching into your demon side. And he learned a little bit of angel dust from the black market mixed with salt. It's like the Vervain for demons."
Buffy coughs once more before glaring over at him as he continued to smile down at her, okay she hadn't been expecting that, she was going to have to figure out something quick.
"How does that make you feel?" Damon asks her curiously "Hurt because I'd betray you? Angry, because I caused you pain? Or scared because you know it's going to get a lot worse."
Buffy's eyes fill with anger and she leaps at him intent on ripping his head from his body only to spot Stefan re-entering the room, Joy now no longer in his arms. It was just the three of them now.
Buffy looks in-between the two Salvatores and laughs loudly "You two are gonna torture me? This should be fun." Smirking brightly she looks at both boys "Do what you can boys...bring it on. I have a feeling you're not gonna last as long as me."