"I would waste time pretending that I am shocked to see you on their side but honestly Annabella you were never one with loyalty oh sure you would preach it enough, but you were always a backstabbing bitch! I mean look at you, Rebekah is supposed to be your one epic love and you're currently carrying an antichrist baby courtesy of bedding her ex-boyfriend." Rose snapped at her elder sister Bella furiously as she found herself behind bars within the dungeon located underneath the Mikaelson family's compound, her sister standing in front of the cage door heavily pregnant and far from happy to be there. "I may be a lot of things but I would never play nice with our brother's murderers."
"Oh, please do you suddenly not recalling killing our brother Magnus?" Bella was quick to reply, refusing to allow Rose to claim she was loyal to anyone.
"Only you ever classed that troll to be a brother, I never really liked him not. Kayne was more family to me than any of you and as far as I'm concerned from the moment you did not join me to avenge his death is the very moment you became nothing more than somebody else on my hitlist." Rose warned her, making it clear she no longer saw her as a family only as another enemy.
"Just tell me where they are or at least where Rebekah is?" Bella pleaded with the scheming witch, desperate to find Rebekah and make sure she was okay.
"I'll tell you where Freya is," Rose responded with a cruel and taunting laugh. "Ashes to ashes and all that."
"If you do not tell me where they are Primrose then I will have no choice but to force the truth out of you." Bella threatened her younger sister, making sure Rose knew she was willing to go to any length to ensure Rebekah's safety.
"I'd like to see you try!" Rose replied, not backing down from her sister's threats, knowing she could endure any form of torture Bella had planned for her, knowing they could not kill her without getting the answers that only she had.
Rose had taken down Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah, hiding their bodies shortly afterward and after literally burning the eldest Mikaelson sibling Freya to death, she set her sights on Klaus' daughter Hope but much to the scorned woman's dismay she found herself overpowered by Hope, her wife Josie, and Josie's twin sister Lizzie, who together managed to hold Rose long enough to reach into Rose's chest and pull back out the bone blade that was making her even more powerful than she normally was.
And so there she was, imprisoned but not defeated, knowing that those responsible for her brother Kayne's death were suffering greatly over the loss of Freya, and Rose was determined to make sure that they would never find Klaus, Elijah, or Rebekah no matter what they did to her because one day she would escape sooner or later she always escaped and this time she was driven by an extreme sense of vengeance.
Elsewhere, in a realm which was not quite within our world while at the same time not being outside of it, Kayne awakened on a cold harsh ground to find Magnus stood over him before Magnus reached out his hand and helped Kayne to his feet which is when Kayne took a good look around his new location only to find nothing but debris, a place completely devoid of any life other than him and his brother with a darkened sky that had no stars or moon to be seen.
"Where the hell am I? and why the hell are you here too?" Kayne questioned his brother, wondering what trouble Magnus had now got him into.
"The place of our birth otherwise known as the demonic realm," Magnus revealed to him. "I figured I'd help you out before one of those things decided to rip you to shreds."
"One of what things?" Kayne wondered as he continued to look around at his surroundings, attempting to work out how he wound up in the demonic realm.
"Demons, our brothers and sisters I guess, or maybe ancestors I am still sort of catching up on all that." Magnus continued with the shocking revelations. "We're the only ones around here to have actual bodies which makes them super jealous and extra violent considering apparently we were supposed to unleash them back among the living where they could all get hosts."
"Yeah, I sort of remember the story, there is a lot of memories in one mind and things are kind of blurry when you just wake up after being murdered by someone you once loved," Kayne replied, attempting to keep up with Magnus' information.
"I know that better than anyone else but luckily for you, I want to get the hell out of there and I reckon I'll need your help to do just that," Magnus admitted to his brother, making it clear he was not intending to help Kayne out of the kindness of his heart.
"We're not gods or demons or whatever the hell we were before we wound up here, I mean I would even place a bet we're not even witches in this sordid little prison world!" Kayne told his brother, reluctant to trust him considering their complicated history.
"It is a demonic realm, and you know that! So, how about you stop whining over the fact the man you once loved killed you and help me get back to making our family royalty once more while putting those undead creatures back in the dirt where they belong." Magnus stated, making his intentions clear.
"Niklaus may have killed me, but I still trust him more than I trust your hell at this point I would likely trust Annabella more than you," Kayne admitted to his brother, making it clear he was not foolish enough to trust him. "However, I sure do not want to hang around here for much longer, so I'll play along for now and if you get out of line well it is not like we have not killed each other before."
"I will take that as a yes," Magnus said with a sinister sense of enthusiasm.
Hope Mikaelson loved her family more than anything but that did not mean they came without their troubles especially in particular her father Klaus who for reasons which were not entirely his fault was in and out of her life but despite this Hope was very much a daddy's girl even after settling down and marrying her wife Josie, she would stop at nothing to ensure her father remained in her life.
So, when she learned her father was missing, alongside her aunt Rebekah and her uncle Elijah she set out to capture the person responsible with the help of her wife and her sister-in-law hoping she could bargain with the centuries-old witch to get her family back in return for Rose's freedom but as Hope quickly learned making deals with this particular witch was far more difficult than she could ever have imagined.
"Look girl fair dues for living up to all that Tribrid hype surrounding you and getting the better of me but you have to be a colossal idiot if you really think I am going to spill secrets because of a little cage." Rose taunted the Mikaelson Tribrid as she remained in the dungeon underneath the Mikaelson, with Hope now standing where Bella stood earlier. "Right now, your family's whereabouts is the only thing keeping alive and as for freedom we both know I'll get out of here sooner or later, so you got to do better when making a deal with this she-devil."
"Fine," Hope replied with a sigh, clearly frustrated by Rose's resilience. "Just tell me what you want, and we can get this all over with!"
"I want my brother Kayne back, but your brother killed him for no other reason than he feared his power which is so damn predictable of your father. You may think he loves you dearest Hope, but he loved him too and that didn't stop him gutting my brother like a fish the minute he felt he was a threat to his kingdom." Rose revealed to Hope.
"My father would never hurt me…but for what it is worth I am sorry about your brother. I know what it is like to lose the only family you have ever known, and I would not wish that on anyone! So, please give me mine back." Hope responded, attempting to appeal to Rose's softer side, hoping she had one.
"My sister is a backstabbing bitch who played us like fiddles our entire lives and my other brother Magnus loathed myself and Kayne our entire lives…Kayne's the only one who was always there for me, and your father Klaus took him from me. Even if I were to feel anything about your struggles, I cannot allow him to be forgotten." Rose reluctantly told Hope, being as honest with her as she could.
"What if I help you get your brother back?" Hope asked her, shocking Rose by her willingness, and kindness, something often rare within the Mikaelson family.
Klaus awoke within the woods of Mystic Falls late at night knowing instantly that he was in prison world's version of Mystic Falls before he rose to his feet to find both Rebekah and Elijah stood there having clearly waited for him to wake up, both looking far from amused to be where they were, as anyone would be.
"You just had to go and piss off the most psychotic bitch in that family!" Rebekah complained to Klaus. "I mean if you are going to kill anybody it should have been her, it is like you want us to go to war with them what the bloody hell happened to the Klaus who almost married into that family?"
"At least I dealt with my witch Rebekah let us not forget that your witch is currently expecting your ex's child which tells me Marcellus' loyalties will be towards her and not us, so you better hope she's the first one to love and not betray you!" Klaus snapped back at his sister.
"How about we do not try to pass on the blame here when we all know all of us are as bad as each other? We should never have killed Kayne, he was by far the least evil of that bunch, of course, his sisters are going to want revenge we literally cut out the heart of their family." Elijah chimed in, reminding his siblings nobody was innocent here.
"Oh, please they're not even related…or are they? It is so bloody hard to keep up with whatever the hell is going on with them." Rebekah replied before going on to say. "Bella and Kayne were never the problems like always if Kol makes a friend they tend to try to kill us, actually if any of us makes a friend that tends to happen."
"I was the one willing to do what was needed to protect us all as always, do you think it was easy for me to kill someone I once loved? Someone I still care for so deeply? No, but I did it for my family because when it comes down to it always and forever always comes first." Klaus argued with his siblings.
"Well now we are probably going to have to kill them all even Annabella of course not until after she has her child which is a shame because she would have been a great ally to the family and the last thing, I want to do is kill a child's mother," Elijah stated, making it clear that his method was the only way for his family's survival.
"That is not happening!" Rebekah shouted defiantly. "You two are only alive because of those witches and one of them is only dead because of our family. For once we need to do right by them, not every bloody relationship we ever have has to turn into hatred."
"Rebekah's right…for once! Kayne's death was an end to justify the means and I will forever loathe myself for it so if we can we need to do right by Bella and hell maybe even Rose." Klaus surprisingly agreed with his sister.
"Well, we cannot right our family's wrongs if we remain trapped here!" Elijah told them both. "Which means we better start looking for a way out."
Hope decided to take a stroll through Lafayette Cemetery with Josie hand in hand after learning that was the last place her aunt Freya was when the wicked Rose Black killed her and so the youngest member of the Mikaelson decided to pay her respects with her wife deciding to join to provide comfort to the Tribrid when needed as Josie's twin sister Lizzie stayed at the compound plotting with the upgraded original Marcel Gerard and Rose's sister Bella Black.
"Not to tarnish this moment by mentioning your aunt's killer but are you really going to let Rose go free after everything she has done?" Josie questioned the woman she loved as they continued to walk through Lafayette Cemetery, as she wondered what the Tribrid was up to.
"Of course, not but that crazy bitch is not going to help us unless she thinks we are going to help her so I just need to keep that ruse up until I get what I want from her, and then she will soon be as dead as her brother," Hope replied, revealing her devious plan.
"So, your solution to deal with your dad's never-ending drama is to continue it by doing exactly what he would do? You said Marcel was like a big brother to you he's supposed to mean something to you is he not?" Josie continued to question her, hoping her wife would not end up following in Klaus' footsteps.
"Bella hates her sister almost as much as we do and with her expecting she is going to be far too busy bringing up the baby to keep a centuries-old feud alive." Hope tried to reason with Josie, knowing that Josie was right.
"Rose is an evil bitch who deserves to die for killing Freya but if we continued to screw her over it is only a matter of time before Bella becomes an enemy too which will inevitably pit you against Marcel," Josie advised her wisely.
"I know that Josie, but I also do not know what I am supposed to do here," Hope confessed looking to Josie for a miraculous solution.
"Stop thinking like your father and start thinking like you! You've always wanted better for your family than endless vendettas maybe it is finally time to find a way of getting what you always wanted." Josie replied, not quite giving Hope the answer that she wanted but giving her the advice, she needed to find the answer for herself.
It did not take Kayne or Magnus long to escape the demonic realm at all in fact it was rather easy, or so Kayne was led to believe. All they had to do to return to where they the so-called real world was to die in the demonic realm before they were possessed by the bodiless demons and so Kayne obliged in killing Magnus and reluctantly allowed Magnus to kill him, not knowing by returning to the land of the living he would also wind up permanently opening a portal between both worlds allowing the demons to pass through freely unleashing untold hell into the world, something Magnus had purposely forgotten to mention to his brother.
"It was really that easy!" Kayne said in disbelief as he awoke in his body which was still placed in the cave where he was murdered but once he got to his feet the entire cave began shaking ferociously, almost knocking the male witch back off his feet and as the very walls, dirt, and rock around him began falling into itself, he realized the cave was collapsing and he had to get out there quick to survive.
As Kayne climbed out of the collapsing cave, narrowly escaping with his life he fell to the ground and witnessed black smoke being released from the collapsed cave knowing that within that black smoke was the very demons from the realm he had just escaped from, as he realized he had just released hell on earth and played right into his brother Magnus' hands but before he had the chance to worry about a potential demonic apocalypse he knew it was time to reunite with his family fearing the mess they had got into without him as he wondered whether it would be even more chaotic than the demons he and Magnus had just released.