WE WERE ON A BENCH, HAYLEY WAS DRIPPING POISON INTO A CUP. She had gone to a shop to buy the plant while I went to buy a cup of tea. I just had to drink this and my problems, well part of it would go away. I would make the witches remove the linking spell with torture obviously otherwise it would be fun.

We would leave the city and I would find the courage and strength to face my father. I would steal the ascendant, free Kai, he would become the leader of the coven after merging with Josette, and then we would both be happy, or a least free from dad. I would kill dad when he would no longer be the leader, he would suffer. I just had to drink this cup.

Hayley smiled at me reassuringly " Lizzie one upset stomach and all this stupid drama is ancient history. It's going to be okay"

I lift the cup toward my face, close my eyes then open them, and lowers the cup again without drinking it. I sigh, I was not afraid to do things that were less scary than that, I could do it. I take the cup once again towards my face but I stop once again when Hayley stands up looking around. I look at her confusingly then I understand when I feel magic around us, the magic it felt like a vampire.

The vampire appears in front of us and tells us menacingly "Dumb move, coming into the Quarter. You're coming with me, wolves."

I laugh at his face as if he could do anything to us while Hayley yells" I have had it up to here with vampires telling me what to do. "

She then takes the cup from my hand and throws the cup's contents into his face, and he roars in pain the tea still hot. " Damn Hayley that was savage"

However, we spin around, only to be faced with two more vampires. I reach to one of them siphoning him to death. The other one tries to attack me but suddenly Rebekah shows up, rips the heart out of the chest of the other vampire. Both vampires fall to the ground lifeless.

Rebekah looks to the dead vampire and reprimands him " Now, that is no way to treat a pregnant lady. I do hate bad manners." then she throws the heart on the ground.

Hayley gasps while I laugh still feeling euphoric after siphoning.

" You are totally crazy-pants blondie, like damn that was amazing"

" You did not bad yourself, Elizabeth, you too Hayley" responds the originals.

" Of course I did blondie, I told you that I'm powerful. After what you did you can totally call me Lizzie, and not a lot of people have had that honor. You are like the third person that can call me Lizzie".

The original rolls her eyes but still smiles "I'm honored, Lizzie"

We were back at the dusty mansion, Klaus was throwing a final body onto a small pile in the front courtyard, he was furious. Usually, I would have a snarky remark to annoy him, however, I was not in the mood. After the rush of tonight's events, I felt weirdly bad, it wasn't because of the dead vampires. No, I still loved killing people especially bloodsuckers but I was also glad in a way that they attacked us. They had stopped me from drinking the poison and I didn't want to it anymore. I wanted to keep the baby, at least I think I do.

"This is why I told you never to leave the house. Werewolves are banned in the Quarter and Witches aren't warmly welcomed either. I had a plan, and your little nighttime stroll put it all in peril! Leave him! " he yells when Rebekah had started walking toward the pile of bodies, at Klaus command she stops "You've done enough, don't you think? Leaving a trail of bodies like a road map to my door?"

I don't even have the energy to correct him for calling me a witch.

Rebekah responds equally angry " If I hadn't overheard this lot bragging about werewolves heads, everyone here would be screwed. And don't give me that crap about having a plan. You've had all the time in the world to execute a plan, and no one's seen you do a damn thing! Elijah made a deal to protect your child so that it could save you from your selfish, rotten self. But you obviously don't give a damn about the child or Elijah, because what have you done to honor it? "

She was right in a way, Elijah was intelligent and looked like a great strategy, and by daggering him he lost a great ally. Maybe this situation with marcel would already be over.

" I have done everything. Let me spell it out for you, shall I? From the day I arrived, Marcel hasn't trusted me. From Day One, he's had his vampires ingest toxic vervain which, as you know, little sister, protects them from my mind control." Klaus begins, then he takes one of the vampires that are still alive " And this one – I'm gonna drain him of vervain, compel him to believe his mates found religion and moved to Utah, so that he can explain to Marcel why he lost three more vampires tonight."

A little smile harbors my face at his last comment, the hybrid had a good sense of humor sometimes, when he wasn't a complete dick.

He drags the vampire into the house and Rebekah, Hayley and I follow him inside."Does anyone have any more questions? No? Good, because I have a question. Elizabeth, what were you doing in the bloody French Quarter in the first place? Answer me! " the hybrid yells at me approaching dangerously but I don't reply.

Rebekah tries to stop him " Leave her be."

" Tell me Elizabeth, you never stop bloody talking, now is not the time to start. Tell me !" He screams at my face making me flinch but I still don't answer.

" You wanna know what she was doing? We were buying poison, so she could put your little baby out of its misery." Hayley yells at the hybrid.

He surprises me by pinning me to the door by the neck. I gasp for air, his hands on my throat preventing me from breathing. Flashes of my father's hands-on me beating me rush to my mind, making me feel vulnerable. Something I hadn't felt for a long time.

Rebekah yells at him "Nik! NIK!" but before she could push him off I grab the arm strangling me and siphon him, a red glow on my hands. He groans in pain letting me go. I stop siphoning him and take the knife I always keep with me and stabs him with rage in the neck while he is distracted. He groans once again and removes the knife from his neck throwing it on the ground.

Rebekah hits him in the chest and yells at him" Keep your hands off her! She is pregnant, for God's sake! " but then she tells him more gently "All of this bluster about not wanting the child, and then the second she tells you she's ready to get rid of it? It's okay to care. It's okay to want something. That's all Elijah was trying to do, all he's ever wanted for you. All we've ever wanted."

He turns his head, guilt on his face but it doesn't stop my anger " Don't ever touch me again, Klaus" I spat angrily and leave the scene.

This was the first time I called him Klaus.

I am in the kitchen doing myself a sandwich while I saw from the window Hayley and Rebekah talking in front of the house. I liked blondie but no way she was stealing my only friend.

" What is it with you two? You say you hate him, but the way you deal with him, it's so clear. Even when you hate him, you still love him. " I hear Hayley say as I rush outside.

" What's going on here? A secret slumber party I wasn't aware of? Blondie I like you but find your own friends, Hayley is mine. Your brother already tried to steal her with his sweet promises before he was daggered" I tell the two girls.

"Are you okay ?" Harley asks me ignoring my comment on the original vampire.

" Why I wouldn't be?" I ask her confused while eating my sandwich.

" I'm sorry about Nick, he shouldn't have done that," Rebekah tells me with an apologetic smile.

I roll my eyes, it was not her fault her brother had anger issues " Whatever it's not your fault your brother is a dog" they both laugh at my comment "So Monica you were going to tell us why you still love you irritating, brother"

" I guess when you spend a thousand years with someone, deciding to quit them is like losing a part of yourself. But sometimes the hate is just... so powerful. Emil wasn't the only boyfriend of mine that Klaus killed. He did it again, and again, and every time I found someone to care about. He just kept doing it until, finally, I stopped falling in love. He said he was protecting me from my mistakes, that no one was ever good enough for his little sister. Until one day, someone was."

" I understand in a way " they both look at me confused so I continue " my older brother is a siphon like me, so we're super close. He would sabotage every friendship I had when I was young. I was mad at him at first but then I understood why. He didn't have many friends, granted he's a jerk... but anyway he had only me. He was afraid to lose me, so I stopped making friends. I knew it was toxic to depend on only each other, but I did it anyway. Because I love him more than anything"

" I guess you are a better sister than me," Rebekah says.

" I think we should learn from each other bex. You should show Nick that you love him and won't ever leave him. And I should try to find some happiness outside my brother, maybe with this baby. " I finish looking at my stomach.

" When I first meet you I thought you were a crazy strumpet, but now I see that you are also very intelligent."

" Duh, everybody underestimates but that's easier to surprise them," I tell her sending her a wink.

" that's my best friend" Hayley exclaims, sending me a wink.

" Well you can continue your chitchat, I'm going to bed. I'll warn one last blondie no stealing my friend." I tell Rebekah.

" And what about us? Are we not friends either since I can call you Lizzie" she asks me curiously and a little disappointed.

" For now you are on trial " with that I left to my room.

It was the morning and I could feel someone's presence in my room, I felt their magic. It was nick, his mixed magic of a werewolf and vampire, I could always sense it when he was near me. I could hear him looking through my stuff and then he stopped and looked at me sleeping, what a creep I thought smirking. I open slowly my eyes.

"Watching me sleeping, Nicky. You know it's creepy and you could go to jail, for prying on underage girls" I tell him jokingly.

"I realized I don't even know how old you are, I know practically nothing about you"

" I know I'm a mystery to everybody. I'm thirty-four if you want to know" he rolls his eyes. I was truly thirty-four but I still looked eighteen. But I was not ready to explain this to him " Okay, I'm eighteen"

" When is your birthday ?" he asks.

" First of April, and no it's not one of my jokes. So why are you really here? I'm sure it's not to play 21 questions with me" I was acting like nothing was wrong but seeing him so soon after what happened yesterday was hard. I had seen my father in him yesterday, and it had startled me.

" What stopped you? You could have been free of all of this... Of me" Klaus said showing me the little bottle with aconite that was in my bag.

" The vampires stopped me when they attacked us, otherwise I would have drunk it" I lie.

" No, you still have some aconite. You could still take it" he says stubbornly.

" Okay you got me, I think I want this baby. My parents didn't love me but maybe he will. Besides from the way you acted you care a lot about this kiddo" I respond this time truthfully.

His eyes immediately travel to my neck at my sentence. Klaus despised himself, he had attacked her like a brute even if he knew that she was abused as a child. She looked terrified of him and he loathed it. He preferred when she would bug him when she would tell jokes or sing loudly in the house. He loved it when she called him Nick or Nicky and hated when she called him Klaus the first time that night.

" I apologize I shouldn't have reacted that way Elizabeth" he confessed remorsefully.

She stays silent, and he knew what it meant. She rarely stayed quiet or silent. He knew he had to make it up to her, maybe he could find his mother grimoire and gift it to her. He knew she loved learning spells and reading grimoires.

For now, her knife and pork rinds would suffice. He still didn't understand how she could eat these things and why she had cried after they had brought them. But he didn't ask not wanting to upset even more. He takes the knife from his pocket the pack of pork rinds and gives it to her.

She smiles at him and he immediately feels content. " You even cleaned it," the siphon says.

" I wouldn't give it back bloody, I'm not a barbarian You seem attached to this knife, who gifted it to you? Perhaps a boyfriend"

She laughs " I don't do boyfriends Nick. My brother gave it to me and told me " Lizzie since we're siphon we can't always depend on magic. So sisie always keep this knife with you, and if you kill someone we'll hide the body together. " I grabbed my phone and told not looking at him " thank you, you can leave now "

Kai was the last person I wanted to talk about, I still felt guilty for not saving him.