WE WERE AT ST. ANNE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH. Kol was stuck with the other vampires who wanted to eat him, like a freaking snack. And we still didn't know where Rebekah was or more who? Klaus was pacing around in front of the sacristy while Davina sets up a magical circle with runes made out of salt on the floor in front of the first row of pews.
"Haven't you found Finn yet?" he asks annoyed. Davina just ignores him and continues to work on setting up for her spell "I must say, for a witch of your caliber, your spells are not particularly efficient."
"Not the way to go, Nick..." I mumble " Compliments work better" I advise him. Davina already didn't like him and he was not helping his case.
" I don't bloody care, we need to find Finn!" he shouts.
Davina sighs in frustration "Finn is blocking my locator spell. So, I'm trying something new. But, I need to concentrate, and it would help a lot if you would stop standing over me like a stalker."
I snort and Klaus sends me a glare "No need to get testy love. We both have the same goal." wasn't he the one getting testy a few seconds ago?
Davina lights a match to start lighting candles " Really? Because my goal is to get Kol out of your house alive. Which seems to be about number ten on your list."
Klaus smirks "Number nine, at least!"
Davina grows exasperated at his remark "What is wrong with you? He's your brother!"
" I think it's how they show their love, little Glinda. They are weirdos like that..."
"Yes!" Klaus says agreeing with me. "And, I also have a sister, one who I happen to care about more." Davina rolls her eyes while I punch him on the arm "Not cool playing favorite, Nick"
Klaus rolls his eyes "Says the one who killed her siblings. I'm pretty sure it means your playing favorite"
I nod knowing it was the truth and admit " Yeah your kinda right"
"As always"
" Cocky much? I'm the one who is always right, Nicky. Do I need to make a list because I can " I say grinning " the time I told you the Harvest, Celeste, Genevieve being a backstabbing bitch. Oh, I also told you Francesca being shady... there is also the time wanted to do-"
" Alight stop I get it" he interrupted me before I could say something embarrassing about him. Then he turned to Davina " As for my brother until he tells me where she is, Kol can rot, as far as I'm concerned. And, you might wanna get your villains straight, love, because Finn is the architect of this fiasco. So, pick up the pace, find out where he's getting his power from, so we can stop it! "
Davina raises her eyebrows, clearly amused, before making a face and starting her spell. She holds out her hands and I take them in mine, we begin to chant the incantation.
"We du le mon ennemi en temps. We du le mon ennemi en temps." As we chant, we begin to get visions of Finn, who is casting his own spell over a bowl of what looks like blood somewhere in Lafayette Cemetery. He has several objects, including a fox tail, a feather, and a deer antler. When Davina comes to, she looks extremely concerned.
" I saw glimpses of him," informs Davina as Klaus looks at her anxiously.
" He looks super mad like I want to murder my siblings mad,"
" And he's combining sacred objects. Totems. Representational magic." adds Davina.
"Where?" asks Klaus and Davina and I dive back into the visions. We get more flashes of Finn working on his spell in one of the tombs.
" Freaking cemetery" I mutter irritated. I hated that stupid cemetery. Those annoying ancestors were there and they wanted to sacrifice my babies in this cemeteryy.
"Lafayette No. 1. The Lyonne tomb." answers more precisely the young which.
"And what's he using?"
Davina and I dive in again and see both Esther and Mikael laying desiccated in the middle of another salt circle.
I smirk " Oh this good, Nick you're going to love it". Klaus looks surprised by my answer and raises an eyebrow.
Davina announces shocked "He's channeling your parents!"
Klaus smiles widely " You were right, love. And here I thought I was the poster-child for least grateful offspring! "
At the Lyonne tomb, Finn is continuing his spell and is about to place one of the sacred objects into the bowl of blood
"Well, then. Shall you and I go crash their little party?"
Davina follows Klaus as he leads them out of the church while I walk next to him. Suddenly, Finn starts to dip a wolf paw into the blood, and Klaus stops in his tracks, gasping for breath.
" Nick?" I ask worriedly.
Davina on the other hand is annoyed "Now who needs to pick up the pace?"
Finn lights a smudge-stick and starts burning it over the bowl, wafting the smoke, just as Klaus suddenly loses consciousness and falls to the floor. Concerned, I rush over to him to check on him.
"Klaus?" asks Davina.
" What the hell, Nick now is not the time for a nap!"
Klaus is still passed out on the floor, where Davina is kneeling over him, frantically slapping him hard across the face to rouse him, making me laugh loudly despite the situation. Davina sends me a glare not amused by the predicament.
"Wake up!" yells Davina as she slaps him again "Wake up" She sighs in frustration and sits down next to him on the floor "The one time I need you."
I chuckle " I know you enjoyed slapping him" A smile forms on Davina's lips.
" Now that you joined the family-" I start but Davina interrupts me.
" I did not " she denies.
" Aren't you fucking Kol?" I ask " Klaus little bro" I add raising an eyebrow. I did tell her once, at the Fete De Benediction she would fall in love with a vampire and I was always right. Well, he wasn't really a vampire, since he was in the body of a witch but he was still a vampire at soul.
" Were not fucking" she denies with wide eyes, her cheeks red " I...mean we did-we didn't sleep " together"
" Yet" I tease her " This guy looks like he loves sex and having fun..."
" I mean we only kissed... And I like him a lot. But I've never done it and he's experienced, so I'm nervous...hum how was your first time?" Davina asked. Her mother was dead, not that Davina had a good relationship with her and they never talked about this kind of stuff. And it's not like she could ask Marcel.
Elizabeth chuckled " You shouldn't take an example on me. I was fourteen and in desperate need of affection and touch, which I lacked at home. " she grimaced at the memory but forced herself to smile not wanting to appear like it was still affecting her. But it still did affect her after all these years."The guy was a seventeen-year-old jerk and he wasn't gentle, it hurt like a lot. " Her first time was a disastrous experience but that didn't stop her from sleeping with Spencer the biggest jerk, again. When Kai saw the hickeys and bruises, caused by Spencer's roughness during their intercourse, he was furious. I thought he was going to kill him. But instead, he beat him up and later, he siphoned Josette making him paralyzed, with a spell.
"Actually, I preferred my first time with a girl" I confessed.
" If it hurt why did you continue sleeping with men since you preferred it when it was a girl?" asked curiously, Davina.
" Because I like both, besides sometimes you can find pleasure in pain... And I don't mean it in a machoism way... Wait maybe I am? You know what whatever it's just I'm used to pain because of my dickish dad. So sometimes I felt it was like normal?" I admit pretending to be nonchalant "It's fucked up I know".
Davina didn't know how to respond and Elizabeth smiled at her " You don't have to worry about this stuff, Little Glinda. I'm sure Kol-bear is a gentleman"
Klaus's phone starts to ring, so Elizabeth pulls it out of his pocket to answer it. It's Cami, who has Kolina and Kayla in her arms, and who is standing over the still-unconscious Elijah at the safe house.
" Hey, blondie therapist" Elizabeth answered over the phone.
"Cami?" exclaims Davina confused.
"Davina? Elizabeth? Why are you answering Klaus' phone?"
Davina sighs "Because we can't wake him up."
Cami is alarmed " What? Elijah collapsed, too. What's going on?"
Davina suddenly has a dawning realization and groans "Ugh, I'm an idiot! The spell Finn used was to trap his brothers... " She sighs when she realizes the implications of this situation "Meaning Kol's in trouble."
Cami gasps "What do we do?"
Davina is overwhelmed by the situation " I have no idea."
"I have one, don't stress little Glinda. I'll save Nicky and your lover boy"
" What do you mean?" asks Davina.
"It's a magic affliction, so I will have to use magic," I say in a Duh tone. I touch Klaus's forehand and I try to siphon Finn's spell. I repeat his spell and fall unconscious next to Klaus.
I found myself in an illusion with the Mikelsons brothers, in an astral plane that looked like a Hunt room. Klaus furrows his eyebrow and exclaims worriedly " Elizabeth?"
" No this is impossible you shouldn't be able to be here" mumbles Finn in disbelief.
I smirk " Rule number one in magic little Flynn: there is always a loophole," I tell him smugly, he glares at me hatefully. I shrugged his hateful glare and turn to Klaus " I'm mega-powerful I told you Nicky, your brother's magic is like 20% against me"
" Well now darling, you can get us out this hell," says Kol urgently wanting to get away from here as soon as possible considering his life was in danger.
" She doesn't know how," says Finn looking in my direction before I could answer. I sent an apologetic look to the Mikealsons brothers because even if I hated it, Finn was indeed right. But there was a loophole to every spell, I just had to find it quickly.
Finn snickered and said to Klaus " Your trollop can't save you"
"I'm guessing this isn't a compliment?" I mumble irritated not knowing this word.
" No it isn't Elizabeth, I fear my brother lacks manner and I apologize on his behalf. A to-" started Elijah but Kol cut him off.
"God Elijah we don't need off of your noble monologues" he muttered " A trollop is a strumpet, a prostitute, a harlot, a slut. Must I go on Darling?"
" So you just called me a whole!" I yell furiously exaggerating a lot. I wasn't that mad actually but I was known to my dramatics sometimes.
" Any woman who shares my degenerate brother bed is a trollop" snickered back Finn.
" Shaming a woman for her sexual relations is not cool Dude, I think you missed the feminist movement when you were having a nap."
Finn sits on his chair and says smugly trying to ignore my presence " At the very least, this prison is a bit more comfortable than the box you held me in for... almost nine hundred years?"
Klaus gestures to the walls "The heads are a nice touch. Let me guess... " He points to the wolf head hanging behind him ".. I'm the big, bad wolf?"
" My favorite doggie" I mumble to which Klaus sends me an irritated glare, just like he did every time I called him a dog.
Klaus points to the fox head, the stag head, and the boar head in turn "Kol, the Wiley Fox. Elijah is the noble stag, and you, fittingly enough, are the boar! Bit obvious, as far as symbolism goes... "He turns his attention to Finn and asks grinning" Why are we here? Don't tell me... It's about Mother? I didn't force her to drink blood and betray everything she holds dear. That was her choice."
" If your mad at anyone it's on me, I was the one who suggested to Nick to make her a vampire." I offer, to which Elijah sends a worried look while Klaus is more irritated that I would foolishly put myself on Finn's hit list. But I didn't fear his annoying brother. Although they did lie about something, he wasn't dull at all. The guy was so entertaining and it was amusing to irritate him.
"This isn't about Mother, this is about you. " Finn yells at Klaus "I want you to know how it feels to be powerless! So, I'm going to take the thing that matters most to you: the city you've come to love so much."
He really thought Klaus loves this city so much? It was ridiculous, New Orleans was just a city and if Finn really wanted to hurt Klaus he should hurt me. But I guessed he didn't know what to do against me considering I was more powerful and a siphon on top of that.
"Are we quite done here? You will release us now," orders Elijah in his bossy tone I found very, very hot.
"I will! After sundown. Because at sundown, when the marchers of Carillon Eve take to the streets, my barrier spell drops. Marcel and his hungry vampires will be unleashed to kill their way through the Quarter! I imagine that, after their atrocities, the supernatural community of New Orleans will be forced to find another place to call home."
Again about the city, which annoyed me since the only thing I liked about New Orleans was the beignets.
"Look, I don't care about the city. What I care about is that my very human body is laying at the feet of some very hungry vampires." Kol says and he points at Elijah "Your fight is with them, it's not with me!"
Finn stares Kol in the eyes and accuses "All you care about is your own fragile mortality."
"Dude of course he has some self-preservation he already died once" I defend Kol and Finn narrows his eyes at me.
"But, what if you were made vulnerable? What then?" Finn flicks his wrist, and Kol's body tenses up as blood starts to run from his nose. As he wipes at his nose on the astral plane, Kol's nose starts to bleed in his physical body as well.
"Hey, buddy take this," I say and give him a tissue I had in my bag. Since I had the twins I always carried tissues in my bag or on me. Babies were a real mess and I had two of them.
" Thank darling, at least someone cares about me in this room," says Kol bitterly as he wipes out the blood falling from his nose.
In the real word Gia and Josh, who are standing watch next to his body in the study, begin salivating at the smell of his blood. Gia's vampire face comes out as she lunges for him, but Marcel holds both of them back.
"Easy, easy! If you start feeding, you won't be able to stop, and then he'll be dead, and the rest of us still starve," says Marcel. Josh and Gia continue to growl and hiss in their attempt to feed on Kol, and Marcel snaps his fingers in their face "Alright? Look at me! I have been at war, in the trenches, starved, with my men. If we fought through it then, you can now." Josh and Gia are still struggling to stay in control "We are gonna fight this hunger together."
They both back away from Kol as Marcel becomes woozy from his werewolf bite. He closes his eyes briefly to regain his strength, but when he opens them, he sees Joe in his Army uniform standing behind Gia and Josh in the doorway.
I sat on Klaus's lap, considering there wasn't any chair for me in this illusion. Klaus didn't object because he felt like he could protect her from his brother when she was near him.
Finn has just cast another spell to give Kol a nosebleed, and he wipes the blood off his lip in annoyance with another tissue I gave him. "Okay. Point made. Now, nobody loves a joke like old fox boy here, but if you could just get me back to my body... "
"I must confess, I rather enjoy watching you twist in the wind." announces suddenly Elijah "Not unlike the way you left Rebekah, I imagine."
Finn points at Elijah "Yes! What did you do to Rebekah?"
" I'm sure she is fine, Blondie is badass. Besides if she dies in her new body she'll go naturally back to her real one...I think"
" You think or are sure? " asks Klaus "Because my sister's life and on the line because of my fool of a brother"
"For goodness sake " exclaims Kol frustrated "she crossed me, so I crossed her back! Look, if you could just get me back to my body, I will tell anybody anything that they need to know!
Finn rolls his eyes and hits Kol with another pain infliction spell, which hurts him enough to stop talking. Finn laughs "How narrow-minded of me! Rebekah. You don't know where she is, and the only thing standing between you and our sister is this selfish fool. Maybe it's time for you to go enjoy the rest of your mortal life while you still can."
Finn makes a fist with his hand, which sends Kol back into his body. Elijah and Klaus are both startled and confused. Kol wakes up on the couch in the study of the Mikaelson compound, and his gasp of surprise alerts Gia, Josh, and the rest of the vampires to his return to consciousness. They all swarm around him, and Kol looks anxious.
With Kol gone from the Chambre de chasse, Klaus, Elijah and Elizabeth are alone with Finn, who seems pleased.
"So, what shall we talk about while we wait for nightfall?" Finn mockingly gasps "Oh! I know! Let's talk about our parents."
" Why don't we talk about a less taboo topic. Like what is your favorite meal, movie, or whatever shit you into Flynn...I want to know more about you, we are family after all since I'm your brother trollop" I said mockingly trying to ease up the atmosphere.
"My name Finn, you filthy degenerate abomination" he exclaimed making Klaus growl at him.
" That's what I said didn't I?" I asked looking at Klaus, who nodded " I think you're having hearing problems Flynn"
Klaus smirks "You know, I figured you wouldn't be kind to Mother, but imagine my surprise to learn that Mikael met the same fate! Bravo, brother."
I sent a wink to Finn " I'm forgiving you for insulting me because what you did to your parents is awesome, like next-level awesome"
Finn ignores me and says to Klaus "You see, the parent I was interested in talking about was your father. Your real one? I mean, you longed to know him your whole life, yet at the first opportunity, you murdered him! Why I wonder?"
I acted normally but inside I was screaming, the reason he killed his father was to keep our daughters being alive a secret. Finn couldn't find out.
Klaus approaches him "Possibly the same reason you took out Esther. Severing parental ties has a way of freeing one up to recognize one's true potential."
"Quite. But, Esther was no fool. She pinpointed your wants, and knowing your true father was at the top of the list! " Finn makes a noise to mimic the sound of killing someone "No, something else occupies the top of your list of affections. And it's not your favorite city. " He smacks Klaus on the back, which startles him enough to turn and get in Finn's face" Because I'm about to take that from you, using your own vampires, and I barely get a rise out of you! I thought maybe it was Rebekah, but you remain calm, even when the one who knows her fate probably just met his."
"I am fighting the monumental urge to mount your severed head upon one of these walls... " said Elijah making me giggle lightly.
Finn ignores him "And then, I thought it was your favorite brother, but Mother broke him into a thousand pieces, and rather than fix him, you left him to fend for himself God knows where. Then there is this abomination you care for, the mother of your dead children who everybody thought was dead. You may love her but she still isn't your first priority, I can see it. You know, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were hiding something from me. Something big. Something dark. Maybe your real father found out what it was, and you had to kill him."
Klaus grows furious, since Finn was close to finding out about the twins "You want to know why I killed my father? "
"Yeah!"
"Because when blood relations let me down, I don't stop to reason with them, I remove them."
"We have that in common, I killed my siblings and gutted one of my sisters. I also killed my father soon..." I say grinning, lying a little bit on the father's part. I will have to kill when there will be a new leader and it would be on the blonde twins' 22nd birthday. Maybe it was good that Lucas and Olivia were left alive.
" Then you two fit perfectly together, two degenerated abominations who stabs their blood relations in the back!" yells Finn outraged and maybe disgusted?.
" Oh that was so nice of you Flynn, I love compliments." I turned to Klaus " I think your brother just gave us his blessing, and he used so many sweet words I mean-"
Finn cuts me off "So, the secret is there is no secret? Do you long for nothing, care for no one? " Klaus smiles at him fakely "The problem is, brother, I don't believe you. It's clear to me that you're hiding something with your trollop. And, as I control your presence here, we've got all the time in the world to figure out just what that might be."
Finn walks away from him. Elijah's face is blank of emotion, but Klaus looks both furious and terrified of Finn learning the truth just as I was.
Finn, Elijah, and Klaus are each seated in their own chairs while they continue to talk. I was still on Klaus's lap, my head against his shoulder.
Finn is still trying to bait Klaus into exposing his secret. "It's a shame, really, for you to lose New Orleans. You've worked so hard to make this city a home. On the other hand, this city hasn't given you much in the way of good fortune. You have Marcel's betrayal, Father's attack, the siphoner's transformation, the loss of your children... "
Elijah looks worriedly at the pair who doesn't react.
" Do you think we feel the same sensations here?" I asked changing the subject while the three brothers look at me questioningly. " Like for sex" I clarify making Finn outraged. " I mean maybe I could do something like this for us, Nicky, it could be like a role play thing. Maybe we can spice things in the astral plane. We already did in the shower, and a car once and in-"
" Elizabeth, I would appreciate not having this kind of information about my little brother," said Elijah grimacing before I could finish or before Klaus could comment on this.
Then he continues talking "It is a delicate craft." Finn looks over at him, puzzled "Representational magic. One must be ever so precise. If you misrepresent us, the very enchantment that this room was built upon would collapse, would it not?"
Klaus looks at Elijah curiously, while I realize this might be the loophole for this spell.
"I assure you, you have not been misrepresented."
"Dude your so cocky," I tell Finn "like people have more layers, and Elijah I hiding a monster inside of him, he's not so noble. And I'm not talking about the mindblowing sex-with Hayley. Same for Nick, you just don't know your brothers that well"
"Exactly, that depends upon how well the hunter knows his prey" Elijah points to himself before standing and looking at the stag head mounted above him " This façade, this illusion that I have created throughout my life, the noble stag... Is nothing more than a deception. To myself. To everyone. " Elijah turns to Klaus "If I were a truly noble brother, I would not withheld from you a vile deed. One that I, like a coward, allowed Mother to erase from my memory. It was I who killed Tatia," admits Elijah leaving us stunned by his confession.
"Crap" I mumble. I didn't expect Elijah to have killed Tatia, the previous doppelganger. But now that he admitted his demons he would feel better, I hoped.
The room starts to shake and warp as Elijah flickers in and out of focus "I hunted her down, and mercilessly, I feasted upon her flesh. I tore her from us. Mother took the blame. " He kneels in front of Klaus "Brother, I felt certain if you knew, you would in no way forgive me. " Elijah looks disgusted and ashamed of himself, but Klaus simply looks at him sadly.
"The act may be reprehensible, but your admitting to it proves you to be the man I thought you to be! " says Finn as he lifts his arms up and gestures around "My magic stands! "
"Does it?" Klaus smiles weakly " It turns out my brother is even more depraved than I am." Elijah looks up at him with tears in his eyes, but Finn looks alarmed as Klaus stands and looks at the heads on the walls "He is the noble stag no longer. Indeed, another altogether different beast is creeping through the cracks. And you have also failed in your representation of me, because there is one thing you have never thought me capable of. "He turns back to Elijah, who looks surprised when he squeezes his shoulder comfortingly "Forgiveness."
I was glad they were not fighting over a girl like some idiots. Family comes first, just like Kai would have come first if he was still alive. Well after the twins, of course, they were my priority.
The room suddenly begins to shake, and Finn looks scared for the first time since they entered the room " You, Finn, have remained a boar for centuries, but here is where your true fault lies: You never learned that the bonds of family far outweigh anything else! Such bonds trump petty jealousies. They overcome ancient feuds. And, yes, they are capable of allowing one monster to pardon the great sins of another."
Finn looks up to see the wolf's head go up in flames and is startled so much that he jumps to his feet. When Elijah looks over, the stag head is also set ablaze, and the room begins to shake even more.
Finn is left stunned "How is this possible?"
" Told you, loopholes"
"Your magic is as flawed as your perception of your own siblings. I wonder, just how untouchable are you?" smirks Klaus.
The brothers lunge for Finn, but before they can reach him, Finn releases the spell, which returns them to their bodies.
