"Primrose," Kayne said with panted breath as he walked into a hotel room within New Orleans where he had arranged to meet Magnus and Rose.
"Kayne," Rose replied as she rushed over to hug her newly revived brother, holding him in her tight embrace as she hoped to never suffer losing him again. "I'm so glad our brother did something right for once!"
"Okay now you two have caught up can we get to where the hell the Mikaelson family is so we can end their miserable existences before we end the rest of their family?" Magnus asked them both making it clear he did not have time to waste on family reunions.
"I told you Hope's off-limits," Rose told her oldest brother Magnus as she broke off her hug with her younger brother Kayne. "I made a deal with her, and she's done nothing to piss me off as of yet so until then she lives."
"As does our sister Bella." Kayne chimed in. "If we are really doing this, killing the Mikaelson's, then Bella, her baby, and Marcel are off-limits too."
"Fine." Magnus agreed reluctantly.
"Not a chance in hell!" Rose shouted at Kayne. "She was all ready to play happy families with the very same family who slaughtered her brother, she needs to pay for everything she has done to us all."
"Bella did what she had to do for her child her loyalties are within her future kid, and she has every right to protect our niece or nephew with everything she has got. Our sister wants nothing to do with this war on either side of it if we are truly her siblings then we should respect that and allow her to live whatever life she chooses." Kayne argued with his sister, making it clear he did not blame Bella's decisions, and neither should they.
"Kayne is right," Magnus stated, surprising both Rose and Kayne by agreeing with Kayne. "Annabella has betrayed more than anyone ever has but she is still our sister and that child she is carrying is our family too. We should protect the unborn baby and allow Bella a pass from this war it is what is right."
"Since when did you become all team family? It was not too long ago you were ready to kill us all." Rose snapped at Magnus, suspicious of his sudden turnaround.
"It's the child, isn't it?" Kayne asked his brother, realizing the truth behind Magnus' sudden interest in reuniting their family. "It was pretty obvious you wanted the demons released just as much as you wanted us both free from that realm, but I could not work out why you suddenly wanted to be part of the Black family again. Bella's child, the firstborn from any of us meaning that child's power is yet unknown but with an upgraded original being its father that power is bound to beyond anything we could imagine…you do not care about this war nor do you care about your family you just want us all to kill each other so it's easier for you to get your hands on what you really want…Bella's child."
"You're wrong Kayne, yes I want that child to be a part of our family, and yes I am highly intrigued by the power it may wield but I do not want you or any of my siblings to die in order to get my hands on that child," Magnus said, denying Kayne's accusations. "The Mikaelsons must fall so we can truly rise but when I say we I mean us all."
"Well, I'm in whether we wind up kidnapping that baby or not I'm still in." Rose declared making it clear to her brothers she was ready for all forms of revenge towards everyone who had ever wronged her.
"I'm out! In fact, I was never truly in but now I am truly out." Kayne confessed before raising his hand in the air, moving it in a circle swiftly, and using his magic to force his siblings into a deep sleep, their unconscious bodies quickly falling to the hotel room floor, as Kayne realized what he had to do next.
Kayne Black did believe that his family should come first but Bella was his family too and she was pregnant with the only member of their family who at that time was completely and utterly innocent which made him question his loyalty to Magnus and Rose, knowing Magnus was clearly interested in this miracle child made him worry for Bella's unborn child and knowing of Rose's hunger for vengeance towards their sister did not fare well for Bella and her baby either.
So, he decided to turn to the other family that his eldest sister Annabella Black was torn between despite the guilt he felt for betraying Rose, he just could not trust her and especially not Magnus when it came to doing right by his potential niece or nephew and as the Mikaelsons considered Marcel as one of their own he knew they would accept his child too.
"Long time no see lover boy." Kayne greeted Klaus after astral projecting himself into the prison world that Rose had created, deep within the woods of Mystic Falls. "Home sweet hell I see…if it were up to me to create, I'd have gone less bloody obvious and a lot more brutal."
"I was wondering if there were others here or perhaps, you're a figment of my imagination," Klaus replied to him with a smile on his face, happy to see his former lover once again. "Maybe you're my conscience making me feel guilty for choosing to betray you instead of trusting you."
"Well, I am most definitely not your conscience considering I am not sold on you having one neither am I actually here, my astral self is," Kayne revealed to the original hybrid. "I was all for joining my siblings in exacting revenge on you and everybody else in your family, but they are proving to be as trustworthy as you right about now so I'm going to break you out of this shabby little world my sister has roughly drawn out for yourself, Elijah, and Rebekah."
"You're alive…again." Klaus realized as he found himself overcome with relief.
"No thanks to you…thanks to Magnus actually and yet I'm betraying him and I'm betraying the one sister who would never betray me and not because of you definitely not because of you but because of the child Bella is carrying…a child who you could call your grandchild," Kayne confessed making it clear his decision to help Klaus was not an easy decision to make but that he felt it was the right one.
"So, we are a team again?" Klaus said, amused by the notion. "Just like old times."
"I'm prison breaking you and your siblings, but I have terms and conditions about this war against my family, and trust me with the state the world's in right now you are going to want Bella and myself willing to help when the demons rise," Kayne stated, struggling to see Klaus' victorious smile, wanting to wipe it off his face but knowing he could not, at least not at that moment.
"Whatever you demand I will submit to my love," Klaus replied in a flirtatious manner as if he thought Kayne had forgiven him for his misdeeds.
"I do not want nor need your word because I do not and will not ever again trust it. Take me to Elijah he is after all the noble one, take me to him, and once I get his promise, I will release you all, but I'd hurry if I were you because Magnus and Rose will not be sleeping long and once, they awake they'll know exactly what I am up to." Kayne responded coldly hoping his words of mistrust hurt Klaus for even a moment, hoping he had caused the hybrid a fraction of the pain that he had caused him.
Bella Black could not help but feel guilty for not siding with her siblings even if Kayne seemed to understand her motives behind not joining their war against the Mikaelsons she knew Rose never would. She knew she had failed her younger sister many times in the past whether it was being too strict with her, not being strict enough, or the time she was willing to let her die so Kayne could live, especially the letting her die part. Bella once trusted her brother Magnus with her life, the two were side by side for many years but his jealousy over their younger siblings Primrose and Kayne forced her hand into taking him out too, so trusting whatever he had planned was another risk she could not take, fearing he would double-cross them all at any given chance.
No, the risk of siding with her siblings against the Mikaelsons were far too high not just because of their legacy as the original family of vampires but also that they were more of a family than her or her siblings would ever hope to be, and that loyalty would be what conquered all in the end.
There was no chance her siblings nor her would make it out alive so why did she feel so bad for abandoning siblings who had each abandoned her many times before? Because deep down although their shared memories of being siblings may have been a result of the woman, they once thought to be their mother's spells, despite all that being found out to be nothing more than magical lies, Bella could not imagine having loved any of them any less like the family had she knew the truth all that time, even Magnus.
"I do not think I can do this, I want to do this, everything inside of me is telling me to do this, but they are my family, Marcel." Bella declared to Marcel Gerard as she sat in the passenger seat of his car with her hands stroking her ever-growing baby bump, while Marcel sat in the driving seat clearly looking frustrated by Bella's admission, driving along a quiet road in the middle of the night.
"Klaus was and some ways still are like a father to me I love his kid like she is my sister, but I refuse to be in another one of their wars when it is over stupid hurt feelings," Marcel replied to the centuries-old witch who was carrying his unborn child.
"That is exactly why I cannot watch them all just slaughter each other I told myself I was running for my child that the means justify the ends, but it is exactly that kind of thinking that has caused nothing but centuries of betrayals, heartbreak, and death," Bella explained herself to the upgraded original. "We need to stop them, force some kind of intervention, and make sure they cannot leave until we reach a satisfying conclusion whereas little people die as possible."
"Damn it! Annabella Black, I guess we are turning this car around." Marcel said with panted breath as he admitted defeat in this argument, knowing that he did not want Rebekah nor Klaus to die over some century's long vendetta with a family who they had wronged just as much as that family had wronged them.
Klaus Mikaelson knew that Kayne Black no longer trusted him for rightful reasons and he probably loathed him too, again for rightful reasons, but somehow despite all the reasons Klaus had given him to declare war on the Mikaelson family, Kayne had put the future of his sister's unborn child above all vengeance and even other family ties proving that the man Klaus once loved, the man with a loyal and loving heart, was still there despite all the trauma that he had gone through.
Kayne, or rather his astral projection self, reluctantly agreed to allow Klaus to give him a quick tour around the little prison world that Kayne's vengeful sister Rose created, agreeing only because of the promise of finding both Elijah and Rebekah along the way so he could get all three Mikaelsons before leaving the prison world with them.
"I hope you know killing you was my biggest regret it was never an easy decision for me to make but I would do anything for my family especially my daughter and I genuinely believed I was doing the right thing for my family." Klaus apologized to the male witch, apologies being something the original hybrid rarely delivered.
"I understand that way of thinking Niklaus I even forgive that way of thinking but what I'll never forgive is you not trusting me enough…despite everything I never stopped loving you when you gave me a million reasons too, but I suppose I should thank you for killing me because when you did you killed whatever love I had left for you," Kayne replied, somewhat accepting Klaus' apology. "Which is good because now I can think freely, logically, without allowing the past to affect my decisions."
"Then I am glad I could get you to such a level-headed state of mind." Klaus lied, knowing he had no right to hurt Kayne moving on from him if he really had.
"I suppose this either means you have cheated death again or we're as dead as you are," Rebekah said after using her vampire speed to rush over and find herself stood in front of Kayne and Klaus. "If you are here to torture us all please remember Niklaus did the deed as Elijah watched whereas I had no bloody clue what was going on…granted I'd probably have done the same, but the point still stands that I never."
"The same as ever Rebekah," Kayne responded with a laugh, amused by the original female vampire. "Believe it or not I'm breaking you and your brothers free from this place."
"I do not believe it!" Rebekah stated with a great sense of suspicion over Kayne's alleged willingness to help them.
"I believe it!" Elijah announced after he too used his vampire speed to appear as if from out of nowhere to now stand in front of Kayne and Klaus, standing next to Rebekah. "Your eldest sister is about to have a child and although you know we are dangerous you also know we would never hurt a child…something you cannot say about your siblings Magnus or Rose."
"Exactly use, are truly the best of the worst in this scenario," Kayne said with a saddened sigh, taking absolutely no pleasure whatsoever in betraying his sister Rose or even his brother Magnus.
Suddenly, much to the shock of both Kayne and Klaus, both Rebekah and Elijah suddenly vanished out of thin air, within a blink of the eye.
"Well, that did not take you as long as I thought it would," Klaus stated before noticing that Kayne was equally as shocked as himself meaning someone else had released Elijah and Rebekah from this prison world.
"That was not me!" Kayne replied, before he and Klaus were next to vanish into thin air, neither knowing where they were about to go, or what hell awaited them…