Alex's P.O.V
June 26th, 2013
I sat in the living room with Elijah. "The Italians call them Strega. The Yoruba of West Africa calls them Aje, meaning mother. Where my mother was from they called them Hexa, and here we call them Witch. Over the centuries, vampires have fought them and fought beside them, bedded them, and burned them. Weather adversary or allies, they have been a force to be reckoned with." Elijah explained as we both looked at the drawing of Celeste. "Their ancestral magic anchors this city. There's never been one all-powerful witch until Davina," Elijah looked at me.
This didn't make me uneasy at all. The most powerful witch is upstairs and pissed at the father of my children, but I really didn't blame her. Also, Elijah explained to me who Celeste was to him. Apparently she was his ex who died when Klaus managed to arrange a witch hunt. Now it makes more sense why Sophie thought I could help. Not that I would have even if I had known about Celeste earlier than today.
"Who is now tucked in, safe and sound down the hall under my protection," Klaus said as he walked into the room. Speak of the devil and the devil shall come. Klaus looked down at the drawing of Elijah's ex. "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." Elijah said. "Celeste was certainly very powerful in her day, but she's been dead for over 200 years."
"Yeah, and witches have come back from the dead before," I told them. "Or have you two forgotten about how your mother tried to kill you back in Mystic Falls."
"But why now?" Elijah asked and I shrugged.
"Why does any witch do anything?" Klaus asked as he sat down in the chair next to mine. We heard something hit the wall and turned to the sound. "Well, that's going well."
I sighed and sat back in my chair. "If you were trying to win the girl's trust, perhaps poisoning her boyfriend was not the most brilliant idea," I told him and he looked at me.
"Oh. Are there any more inopportune deaths you'd like to wave in my face?" He asked. Elijah and I shared a look and turned back to Klaus.
"Give us a month," Elijah said. "We'll get your list." Klaus laughed at us and we heard another crash.
"Young, old, dead, or alive, witches are a pain in the ass," Klaus commented as he sat up and I nodded in agreement. Ok, I'll give you that one. He then stood up and walked out of the room. I looked at Elijah again before following after Klaus, just to make sure Davina was ok.
Klaus swung the door open and I followed in after him, to see Davina kneeled on the bed coughing. "What's with all the racket?" Klaus asked them and I walked over to Davina, then held her hair back as I watched her throw up dirt.
"You've got to be kidding me," I said. Then the building started to shake as Davina coughed up more dirt. I almost lost my balance but Klaus rushed to my side and caught me. I sat on the bed next to Davina as Klaus and Marcel rushed outside. "Davina, you need to stop this," I told her and she fell limp. I caught her and laid her on the bed. "Hey, what's going on? How did you shake the whole French Quarter?" I asked and she looked exhausted.
"I don't know. I didn't do it on purpose." Davina cried and she looked like she was sick from a cold. "I - I don't know what's wrong with me." Davina was scared and I shushed her while fixing her hair a bit.
"You're going to be ok," I told her. "I'll find out what's going on."
I was sitting in the living room with Klaus, Elijah, and Marcel. Davina went to sleep, and that's exactly what she needed. "This is madness. How can a 16-year-old girl shake the entire French quarter?" Klaus asked us.
"I've seen her rock the church, but I've never seen anything like this," Marcel said.
"How did you control her when she was in the attic?" Klaus asked him.
"I didn't have to. But then again, I never killed her boyfriend." Marcel said and we both looked at Klaus.
"Yes, yes. We've been over this part already. The point is in her present state she's useless as a tool against the witches." Klaus explained to us.
"She's not a tool." Both Marcel and I said at the same time.
"Something's wrong with her," I stated.
"She has too much power that she cannot control. That much we already knew. But why is it manifesting itself in such an aggressive manner?" Elijah said as he walked into the room. He suddenly got an idea and goes to leave the room again. I gave him a look of confusion before stopping him.
"Where are you going?" I asked him and he looked at me.
"This is witch business. Let's ask a witch," Elijah said to us. I got up and followed him.
"You're going to see Sophie," I said to him.
"Yes, I fear that you might be right. She must have found Celeste's body, maybe that's why Davina's power is reacting like this." Elijah said.
"Ask about my pack then, and if she can truly free them," I told him.
"And why would you ask her?" He asked me.
"It's what she offered me in exchanged for the information I never gave her," I told him and Elijah nodded.
"Thank you," He said after a while.
"Why are you thanking me?" I asked him. "I didn't do anything."
"You choose to not tell Sophie about Celeste when you could have easily have gone to the plantation house and found the information in my journals," Elijah explained. "You choose not to betray my trust and for that I thank you."
"Your my children's uncle, which makes you family, and your trust means something to me," I told him.
"Which is something I don't take lightly," He assured me. "Am I right to assume Klaus's actions towards Davina have but him back at square one."
"She's a child who wanted to be free, and he decided to listen to his paranoia instead of the people around him," I explained to him. "It's weird, I feel this sudden need to protect her."
"Like a mother would her child," Elijah commented with a small smile. I was taken aback by the statement, but he wasn't wrong. All my actions towards Davina were very motherly so far. "I'll see you when I get back." I nodded and Elijah sped away.
Elijah came back to the compound with Sophie. Klaus was sitting at the bar, with his feet propped up while I sat on the couch. "So you have stolen the remains of the very person that Davina's been drawing for months. Would you care to explain this startling coincidence?" Elijah asked her, and Sophie looked at the drawings on the table.
"I can't. I didn't even know who Celeste Dubois was until I -" Sophie was cut off by Davina's screams.
Daniel was with her, so I knew she was safe. The house started to shake violently again as well. Sophie looked alarmed, but Klaus took a sip of his drink, and Elijah was merely irritated. I was the only one who actually looked concerned.
"Was that Davina?" She asked us and I nodded.
"A nice little habit she'd developed," Klaus said.
"And the earthquake I felt today?" Sophie asked.
"Also Davina. And, she's also vomiting dirt." I informed her and she looked like she was panicking.
"Oh. We have a huge problem. I thought that we had more time, but we need to complete the Harvest now." Sophie told us.
"Said the desperate witch, conveniently," Klaus replied.
"I'm serious! That earthquake you just felt is a preview of the disaster movie that is about to hit us." Sophie exclaimed.
"Why should we believe you?" Elijah asked her.
"You've met Davina, you know her story. For months now, she's been holding all the power of the three girls sacrificed in the Harvest ritual. A force that was meant to flow through her and back into the earth. One person was never meant to hold that much power. It's tearing her apart, and it will take us down with it." Sophie said to us and all three of us looked at each other.
I walked into Davina's room and smiled at her when she looked at me. "Hey," she said and I sat down next to her. "Did you find out what's wrong with me?" I nodded solemnly.
"We talked to Sophie and you're going to go 4 different cycles. Each one representing the 4 elements that bind the harvest together. Earth, was the first stage. Next comes wind, and since each stage is more intense than the last, let's just say you'll blow the roof off this place. Then after that is water, meaning floods. The last stage is fire, and since it's the last...it will be the worst." I explained to her. "The only way to stop it is to complete the harvest."
"No," Davina said, frightened, and I grabbed her arms.
"The witches say you'll be resurrected," I told her.
"They're liars!" Davina exclaimed. "They'll say anything to get what they want just like Marcel, just like you."
"Davina, I don't want anything from you," I told her. "I care about you, ok, and the last thing I want is for the witches to have more power, but they are saying this is the only way to stop all of this. I don't know enough about witchcraft to say otherwise, but please know that I would never put you in danger if I knew better. I know what's like to have your life stipped away from you by somebody else. How do think I became a vampire?" Davina took deep breaths and looked at me scared.
I pulled down Davina's arm and showed here the sedative I brought with me. "What-What is that?" She asked me and moved away.
"It's just a sedative," I reassured her. "The more upset you become, the faster you'll die. Daniel compelled some from the hospital."
"No, no, no!" Davina moaned. It hurts my heart to do this to her, but I didn't see another way.
"If we can keep you calm, we can keep you alive Davina," I told her.
"Stop!" She said and weakly thrashed against me. The window shudders began the bang on the windows, then I turned when her easel fell over. "No, please! Stop! No!" She cried and I quickly stuck the sedative in her arm. The wind stopped as she went back to sleep.
"I'm so sorry, Davina," I muttered and walked out of the room. Daniel was waiting outside and I turned to him. "Stay with her, please." He nodded as I left.
Klaus and I were congregated downstairs with Elijah pacing around anxiously. "We sedated her too heavily," Elijah said.
"Well, if this is her sedated, I'd hate to see her otherwise. We all agreed that Davina must be sacrificed. Even Alex over there, who has grown too protective over her." I looked down, not happy with that I agreed with it. "There's no need to let her blow the roof off our heads in the meantime," Klaus said to him.
"No way! You're not touching her!" Marcel said, coming out of nowhere, and punched Klaus angrily. Klaus rubbed his face annoyed.
"Okay, I'll let you have that one." He said and I stood in between them.
"Marcel, I, more than anyone, don't want to see any harm come towards Davina, but we can't wait this out. She's going to die." I told him.
"According to Sophie, the witch who screwed over everybody here," Marcel growled.
"The Harvest was working before it was stopped. If a non-believer like Sophie Deveraux can come to have faith that these girls will be resurrected, then I, also, am a believer." Elijah explained.
"I saved Davina from the Harvest, and now you want me to just hand her over?" Marcel asked and looked at me for help. Elijah and Klaus looked at me as well and I sighed for the millionth time today.
"What do you want me to say, Marcel?" I asked him. "That I'm happy about this! Of course, I'm not, but I don't see another way to solve it." Marcel walked passed me and to Klaus.
"If you expect me to be happy, I'm not. If the witches complete the harvest, not only will they regain their power. We lose our weapon against them." Marcel and I both rolled our eyes. "The earthquake I was willing to chalk up to hideous coincidence, but these winds? If Davina is not sacrificed, then every inch of earth that shook, everything blowing about now will soon be drenched in water and consumed by fire." Klaus said to him.
"Oh! Now you care about the city!" Marcel said to him.
"We ought to. We built it." Elijah budded in. I kept my head down, so Marcel would know I wasn't siding with Elijah.
"And we all saw it burnt to the ground twice. I will not let happen again, not when my soulmate and children, live within this city. Do I make myself clear?" Klaus asked Marcel and I looked at him. Marcel looked at Klaus, then left angrily.
"Please! You just want a kingdom to rule. Don't use me and our kids as an excuse to justify this!" I told him.
"Would you stop doing that?!" Klaus yelled at me. "I have always cared about you and those kids! If you die in this release of power I would never forgive myself." I huffed and walked back upstairs, away from the asshole. Though the bond between me and him told me he meant the words he told Marcel and me.
I walked back upstairs to Davina's room and saw two vampire guards standing there. I guess Daniel left to get more sedatives. I saw Marcel pacing in the room and I watched as he came to a conclusion. He went to take out the needle when a vampire went to stop him, but I snapped their necks before he could. Marcel looked at me confused.
"Go, and don't tell anyone I was here," I said to him and he nodded. I watched as Marcel picked up Davina and left.