I Do Not Own Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies
Marcel watched Davina dart off to be intercepted by Kol, they seemed unusually at ease with the other, which irked him greatly. Especially as they disappeared from sight looking like partners in crime. He had loved that girl the moment he had seen her fighting, Davina Claire was a fighter and he loved her for it, immediately, without reserve or question or even thought. There had been a moment when he had wondered if Klaus had felt that way about him, but he had shoved that thought back in the box it had come out of. Whatever love Klaus felt for him would probably end once he knew who had called Mikael to New Orleans, that is if Bekah hadn't told him already.
He looked up when Klaus appeared, the ancient Viking's gaze was critical as he took a seat.
"I thought you were dead," Klaus stated in a tone Marcel couldn't identify.
"Nah," Marcel snorted as he smiled. "Pulled myself from the rubble and couldn't find you guys," he admitted that truth tiredly.
"Who's the girl?" Klaus demanded.
"That is none of your business," he replied smugly; which had Klaus' eyes narrowing dangerously.
"She was in my house," he started out low and treacherously.
"And that is the last place on the planet I want her!" he spat out furiously. "You just break everything entrusted to you; I will not have her residing with the likes of you!"
"So, the girl's important," Klaus mused with a crooked smile.
"Stay away from her," Marcel warned.
"Or what?" Klaus challenged.
"I don't think I have to worry about that one," he replied with a smirk. "For whatever reason she's got Kol's attention which means if anything happens to her…" he trailed off. Marcel didn't like Kol, but there were reasons that Kol was the worst of the worst and none of his siblings were, and it wasn't for his sick imagination. Everyone feared Kol, and they feared Kol far more than Klaus in Marcel's experience.
"Now, I may not like Kol, but even I know that when someone or something that has his attention is threatened you can't stop him. You had to dagger him and imprison that pretty witch he had in his ranks just to control him last time, and even then, I know you only did it because you had the element of surprise. I'll be by for her things," he stated as he got up and left Klaus to ponder that.
He was going to need to find a house, something he could put in Davina's name, then he was going to have to beat Kol off her. That boy was trouble, he didn't care about what Davina had just divulged, he didn't trust her with Kol! Especially not after what he had seen the witches doing to those girls. Davina Claire had just traded a pit of vipers for a pack of wolves with the Mikaelsons. He didn't like this one bit, and tonight he'd get answers from her!
"Excuse me, I'm looking for the local realtor," he said as he came to a real estate office.
"That'd be me!" she smiled.
"Great, I want to buy my daughter a house," he said as he smiled charmingly.
"Certainly," she chuckled. "What kind of property are you looking for?"
"I just… I feel so alive and connect! I have never felt this close to my magic before and now, it's all there again!" Bonnie explained excitedly as she sat with Matt, Elena, and Caroline at school.
"That's great Bonnie!" Matt grinned as he hugged her.
"Yeah! And Davina's going to teach me how to tap further into my powers, and to do Ancestral Magic," Bonnie explained giddily. "It feels so right," she sighed. Bonnie felt like she was connected with her grandmother again, and so many more, she could tough the earth around her and feel the life pulsing through it. She could feel life again, she could feel it. "I feel so much more connected."
"So Davina helped?" Elena asked skeptically.
"You didn't see it, Elena, she just, she could do this connection, and there's so much I think she could teach me, she's got so much power," Bonnie admitted.
"And she's really awesome," Caroline chuckled. "She was happy to walk us through what we were doing, even though I'm not a witch she was happy to include me!"
"Yeah," Bonnie mused. "She wasn't even bugged by the idea of a vampire helping us find my ancestors."
"That's cool," Matt admitted. "Hey wonder how she'd work with a human?"
"Probably really well, she just is so nice and inviting," Caroline admitted. "Grumpy but she's so earnest."
"I'm actually excited to do magic again," Bonnie admitted.
"What about Shane?" Elena asked.
"What about him?" Caroline snapped.
"He was helping Bonnie before. And he was really helping you tap into that power," she continued.
"I nearly killed April with that power. It doesn't… it's not natural," Bonnie stated. The bell rang, Elena rolled her eyes before hopping off to stalk to class.
"Hey, I'm happy for you Bonnie," Matt admitted as he walked to his next class.
"Thanks," she smiled as he left.
"I just can't believe she works with Kol, of all the Mikaelsons," Caroline huffed as she looped an arm with Bonnie's before they started walking.
"That's a shock. But he didn't move against us with her around," she pointed out. "Jeremy and Elena said he's volatile."
"He seemed pretty in control to me," Caroline snorted. "So after school are we hunting Davina down?"
"Yeah, I wonder what else she'll have to teach. It feels so natural and like when I worked with Gram's spirit."
"That's good," Caroline giggled as she bounced a little. "I'm happy this is working out so far."
Bonnie smiled, for the first time since saving Elena and Stefan, her magic felt right, her connection to all the life in nature was there and she felt grounded. Davina's power levels were unsettling, but the way it had reconnected her to her own powers, it made Bonnie wonder just what Davina could do.
"Your name is Andrea Labonair, you come from New Orleans and are the only known heir to the Crescent Moon Wolf Clan residing in the bayou of Louisiana," Davina stated as she stood there shivering in the bitter winter.
"Wait… how do you know this?" Hayley demanded setting aside the crowbar in her hands.
"Because I know you," Davina answered.
"You're a kid," Hayley snorted.
"That's a bit more complicated, but despite appearances I'm the farthest thing from a child that there is," she smirked.
"Prove it," Hayley demanded.
"You have a birthmark on your right shoulder, it's a crescent moon, it's a Labonair bloodline birthmark," she explained. "I know you've been looking for your family for a long time, and I'm happy to help you reconnect with them, I'll even break their curse, right after I solve my newest problem and sort out my original problems, but I'll do it regardless of if you help me or not."
"Help? With what?" Hayley demanded.
"There's a Professor Shane in town and I need to know what he's up to, I know you're working with him because he's promising you your family," she explained tiredly. "I need to know what is going on, and what's happening, and I need your help to draw him out."
"I'm already working with someone else," she snorted.
"Whoever they are, I promise you they will betray you, I won't," Davina said honestly.
"Oh yeah?" Hayley sneered. "And why should I trust you over them?"
"Because you're the closest thing to a big sister I ever had and I'm betting on you being wary of whoever you were working with and liking me more on principle of I'm adorable," she explained.
"What?" Hayley sputtered.
"When I am from you are my family," Davina admitted. "And as much as you don't know me or like me right now, I'm not going to stab you in the back. You help me out, and first thing I'll do when I go back to New Orleans is break your family's curse so you can meet your pack," she explained. "I'd do it right now, but I'm on a time crunch," she admitted.
"You… you're not lying," Hayley sputtered.
"She's annoying that way," Kol stated.
"Oh, shut up," she jabbed her elbow in his ribs again. He grunted before glaring balefully at her, his lip curled a bit to remind her that he wasn't her husband, and she shouldn't take habitual liberties with him, especially when he was happy to kill. Still, she didn't step away or show him fear, instead she smiled back at his glare.
"You… you actually know my family?" Hayley sputtered.
"Yup, and I would go help you right now, no questions asked or tit-for-tat exchanges, but I really need your help," she sighed.
"With what?"
"This Professor Shane, who is he, what is he doing, what is he trying to do for you, and who are you working with and what can I expect from that?" she asked briskly.
"Oh wow, you're… wow, to the point," Hayley chuckled. "Come in, you're freezing out there."
"Where I go, he goes," Davina explained as she pointed to Kol.
"Seriously, a vampire, and just when I was starting to like you," Hayley sighed.
"You like me anyway, I'm adorable," she pointed out and smiled charmingly which had Hayley snorting before she stepped aside.
"You both might as well come in, I was done with this trailer anyways," she decided.
Kol gave Davina a wary look before Davina skipped into the trailer. It was small, but clean and neat, not a lot to give it personality or to speak to the fact it was Hayley's, but it was still warmer than outside.
"Have a seat," Hayley offered.
"Thanks," she said and sat, Kol sat beside her, eyeing Hayley still. "So…"
"His name is Professor Atticus Shane, he's an expert in the occult, he teaches at Whitmore College. He's looking for something called Silas," she admitted. "He wanted me to get close to Klaus's hybrids to break their sire bond, he wanted them for a sacrifice so his witch would have a lot of power to draw off of," Hayley sighed sadly. "Wasn't hard," she admitted. "I met this out-of-control kid in the Appalachians, and he was… he was rabid," she explained. "I had helped him break the sire bond because the pack wouldn't accept him because he already submitted to an alpha and couldn't be welcomed, he wanted to be a part of the pack and I felt sorry for him.
"I spent all summer helping him turn, and turn again, and we kept doing it," she explained. "Eventually he stopped feeling this gratitude towards his alpha, or rather sire, and so I took him to the pack. I didn't know hybrids weren't a thing," she admitted. "But the pack rejected him, and he was pissed so he came here. However, Shane had seen me teaching this kid how to turn, and then he told me about hybrids and their power. He wanted me to save the hybrids," she snorted. "Should've known something was up when he brought up that he knew me and my family. I only got on board with the massacre and stuff that he wanted when he started trickling me information about my family," she admitted shamefully.
"I'm sorry," Davina reached out and touched the woman's shoulder. "Really, I am," she nodded.
"Thanks, you just told me more about my family than he has," Hayley admitted shamefully. "A vampire named Katherine Peirce reached out to me and made the same offer to give me information if I could tell her what was going on with the Salvatore brothers, and their little crew," she sneered.
"Okay," Davina nodded. "I will help you immediately after I take care of Shane and Esther, Mikael, and a few other things, but I'm going to help you, first thing when I get back to New Orleans," she promised.
"Really?" Hayley questioned. "You're a kid."
"Really."
"And why would you want to just help me? What do you want in exchange?"
"Believe it or not, I really don't want anything from you, you are the closest thing to a big sister I ever had, and I'd go help you right now but I promised to help Kol first," she explained. "I'm going to fix this," she nodded. "But… can you take me to this professor?"
"Why?"
"I have a few questions for him," Davina admitted.
"I could take you to him." Kol offered with a devilish smile.
"And knowing you I bet you killed him or tried to," Davina rolled her eyes. "Besides you need to go find Damon before he kills that Hunter and bring him to me. You do that and all will be forgiven. Come on Hayley," Davina nodded.
"Oh, we're doing this now!?" she sputtered.
"Yup, right now," Davina nodded. "I don't have a lot of time, which means I really have no time so, come on. You get Damon," she hissed turning her attention onto Kol.
"Are you sure you don't want me just to let him kill the Hunter?" Kol asked innocently.
"Yes, I'm sure, we're not killing kids Kol, we kill enemies," she stated. "I'll come find you after I take care of Shane."
"What are you going to do to Shane?" Hayley asked as they walked out of the trailer.
"I'm going to tear the answers from his mind with or without his cooperation," she admitted.
"That's harsh," Hayley muttered.
"He's manipulated children and if I'm right he's massacred more than hybrids. He also taught a child Expression which isn't just forbidden in witch circles, it's an art which obliterates souls, both here on the Other Side, it's a magic with no checks or balances, only power, and it's uncontrollable when practiced. And he taught it to a child, I will tear him apart if I have to and feel no shame about doing that," she stated. Davina hated it when adults used kids to do their dirty work, especially since her time as a Harvest Girl the first time.
"Where's your vampire come into this?" Hayley asked.
"He's my partner in crime right now," Davina admitted.
"I'm driving, you're shotgun," Hayley stated as she got behind the wheel of an ancient Jeep. "You've mentioned twice that you think of me as an older sister, but I've never met you."
"I'm complicated, but when I'm from you are an older sister to me, right now I know you don't know me, but I know you, very well, and I want to help you, but I have a few things to take care of right now," she shrugged. "And not a lot of time to get it accomplished."
"Why help me, you don't owe me anything," Hayley admitted.
"Because, as I said, you're my family, even if I'm not yours yet," she shrugged. "And I do anything for my family. Also, if I get you to come along, I have a better chance of keeping this professor alive for answers than if I take Kol."
"Kol… Kol Mikaelson!?" Hayley gaped. "That Kol!?"
"The one and only," Davina sighed. "I'm going to need more coffee," she admitted.
"You're working with the Mikaelsons!?"
"Nope, just Kol, right now," she admitted.
"Are you insane!?"
"Oh without a doubt," Davina nodded solemnly.
Hayley gaped at her before laughing and Davina smiled.
Klaus was waiting for Marcel when the younger vampire stormed into the house.
"Which room was hers?" Marcel demanded.
"You do know you are free to stay here," he said levelly as he turned to look upon the young man, he still viewed Marcel to be his son. Marcel jutted his jaw out firmly and folded his arms defensively.
"I don't want my kid here, and she's staying with me!" he snapped.
"Don't tell me you actually believed her drivel about you being her father!" Klaus snapped.
"Why not! You weren't there, you didn't see what she was surviving!" he shouted back. "She says I'm her dad and I'll be a better dad than what I had!"
"She's a stranger!"
"To you!" Marcel bellowed. "She's not your worry though, I'll get her stuff and we'll be out of your hair!"
"What are you going to do when she betrays you? Or when she's not who she says!?" Klaus demanded. He didn't believe this girl's claims for being from the future, and he didn't care if Kol was enamored with her or not, Kol was enamored with himself and power, nothing else.
"Who's to say she's lying!?" Marcell countered. "You… you are so consumed by yourself you could never get out of your own way or welcome someone else in! I love that girl like she's my own, and I have since I saved her, she claimed I'm her dad so that makes her my kid, that simple!"
"That simple?" Klaus sneered.
"Yeah, and I remember when it was that simple for you," Marcel snapped. "I'm getting her things and I'll be out of your hair," he huffed as he left the room.
Klaus was startled at the words Marcel had thrown so effortlessly. He heard Marcel upstairs hunting down the little interloper's things before disappearing.
"I'm fine Elena," Damon insisted in the phone. "Kol didn't hurt me," he promised.
Kol rolled his eyes hearing that, the idiot hadn't even noticed him standing there with a baseball bat yet.
"But he's Kol and you were with him for a while, are you sure you're alright!?" Elena persisted.
"Positive, and if I see that Original again, I'll tear his head off," Damon assured her.
"Is that so, darling?" he drawled out with boredom at its peak now. He was also insulted that they thought he'd be so easy to kill. Damon turned just in time for a bat to meet his head and sending him spinning to crash into the ground.
"DAMON!" Elena shouted over the open line on the phone, Kol stomped on it before sighing.
"I wouldn't be doing this, but the witch insists," he muttered as he grabbed the dead vampire and dragged him out of the house. Popping open his trunk he grabbed a few dark objects to bind Damon up before throwing the drunkard into the trunk of his car and slamming it shut.
"The things I'm doing for Davina Claire," Kol grumbled as he got into the driver's seat, straightening his coat. He had to leave quickly before the idiots came sniffing around for the drunk; and he had a place in mind for privacy. Starting his car, he drove to take Damon somewhere isolated so Davina could work this idiot's weak mind over.
He hoped whatever she did hurt like hell on the bastard.