I Do Not Own Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies
Bonnie watched Davina walk in with Kol, they seemed to be discussing something about the paper before her and she looked at Caroline who was nervously flittering about.
The Mikaelsons who had gathered had been utterly indifferent about their arrival.
Bonnie had actually offered to come here when Davina had called her this morning about meeting up to break Jeremy's curse after a history lesson from Klaus on the Brotherhood of the Five. Davina had agreed to the meeting, and Bonnie had called Caroline and Elena about this change in plans. Caroline had immediately opted to come, while Elena had decided this was something Jeremy would need to make an informed decision which had lead to Damon being called and inviting Matt and Jeremy to the Mikaelson home and now it was everyone here. Matt looked as nervous about this as Bonnie felt, Jeremy looked like he was working really hard on not attacking every vampire in the room, while the Originals all lounged casually and watching them.
"I don't think we should do that though, what if we substituted the Runic for Greek?" Davina offered.
"Doesn't translate well," Kol answered.
"You said the first five were Italian," she pointed out. "We could use Latin."
"I would agree, but the runes on the mark are Runic," he stated.
"I'm not good at Runic," she muttered.
"Nice of you two lovebirds to finally show up," Klaus remarked.
"Silence," Davina waved her hand.
Klaus was rendered mute which had Damon and Stefan gaping at her. Bonnie was amazed, Klaus always seemed to strike fear into everyone, and Davina hadn't even looked or acted intimidated.
"Do you think we could translate it to French?" she offered.
"No," Kol admitted.
"Hell," she grumbled. "I'm terrible at Norse languages."
Klaus was silently shouting at Davina which had Bonnie biting her lip to keep from laughing. The other two Original siblings looked amused as well.
"So, it'll have to be Runic," Davina conceded.
"It will, not to worry love, I'll help you out with pronunciation. Did you put a silencing spell on my brother?" Kol looked bewildered as he just noticed Klaus fuming, yelling in silence.
"Hm?" Davina hummed and looked up at the fuming Klaus. "Oh. I guess I did."
"I must say I am enjoying this change," Elijah drawled out as he stood doing his coat up. "I'm Elijah, and you must be…" he drawled.
"Davina Claire, New Orleans witch," she offered with a smile.
"Can we keep her!?" Rebekah demanded gleefully as she skipped past Klaus.
"She's not a puppy, Bex," Kol retorted. "And for our history lesson, it'd help if you unmuted my brother, love," he said to her.
"Fine," she waved her hand.
"You Impertinent!" Klaus started.
"Didn't anyone teach you if you can't say anything nice or useful, say nothing at all," Davina asked sweetly.
Caroline giggled which had Klaus glaring at all of them as he regained his composure.
"I like her," Matt decided then. "She's feisty."
"I like her too," Bonnie admitted. "She's a brilliant teacher."
"I don't trust her," Elena muttered as she sat beside Bonnie. "She's too…" Elena waved her hand.
"She's a knowledgeable, powerful witch, and she's obviously competent, she's a good teacher and she hasn't been a bad friend," Bonnie pointed out.
"Yes, but her and Kol are trying to keep the cure from us," Elena muttered.
"The cure isn't a cure you want to take," Kol stated firmly. Which had all heads snapping over to him as he continued leafing through the papers in his hand.
"How do you know?" Jeremy sneered.
"Walk the earth for a millennium and you'll pick up a thing or two, mate," he remarked dryly.
"Play nice," Davina ordered as she circled Kol.
"I am, they're all still alive," he countered with such seriousness and earnestly that Bonnie wondered how much they annoyed Kol Mikaelson that he considered leaving them alive as playing nice.
"Baby steps. It's all about baby steps," she promised Davina.
Davina shrugged daintily in response.
"Anyways, the Brotherhood of the Five, shall we begin?" Kol cut off as he went to sprawl over a couch. Davina grabbed the papers from Kol and walked over to Bonnie.
"Yes, shall we? The sooner we do, the sooner the riffraff leaves my home," Klaus declared smugly.
"I think it would be hard for you to leave your own house, but very well, Klaus," Davina remarked. Which had the Original glaring murderously at her as the siblings seemed to struggle containing their amusement.
"Do you have a death wish?" Bonnie whispered as Klaus snarled something at Rebekah and Elijah.
"Not currently, give it a few hours when we try to break the curse for me to decide, I'm not fully caffeinated yet."
"Hayley cut you off," Kol called out.
"What Hayley doesn't know won't kill her!" Davina countered.
"Shall we begin?" Stefan asked clearing his throat.
Klaus was fuming as he grabbed a sniffer and poured himself a drink. "Back in the twelfth century we were on the advancing forces in Italy, it was a hell of a party," he chuckled to himself. "Elijah and I were generals in the military, and our darling sister played the part of princess, the fair maiden all men would desire, while Kol was off learning whatever it is Kol learned and Finn had his darling Sage, whom we all hated."
"She was a tramp," Rebekah snapped with utter disdain. "Even by my low standards, she was a tramp. Even father disliked her upon running into her, I remember that!"
"Too true! Finn has the worst taste of all of you," Kol declared smugly.
"You're one to talk!" Rebekah snorted sardonically.
"I leave them happy and satisfied, but we know bloody well what we're doing so I don't leave a trail of vengeful exes," he countered. "And none of mine tried to actively kill me or sleep with one of my siblings."
"Did she really?" Elijah asked with a baffled expression.
"Finn wanted a way to undo what was done and sent her after me, apparently he didn't get the notice I don't like redheads, because he and Sage sent me a few," he muttered. "And he didn't know I don't like waking up to unknown naked women in my bloody bed! Though I still think that was her doing because Finn wasn't that creative or imaginative."
"HA! See! She was a tramp!" Rebekah shouted in victory. "None of my suitors were ever that slutty."
"Thank the Vanir, it would've been awkward if you sent men to seduce us," Kol quipped.
"I didn't know she had sent you women," Elijah remarked.
"It was a midnight snack," he shrugged. "Not my normal sort, but a snack all the same."
"We're getting off topic!" Davina called out, which had Bonnie snickering. It was interesting seeing the Original family act like a normal group of bickering siblings.
"It's so weird to see them be so normal," Bonnie whispered to Davina.
"They're a family, they argue and bicker," she mused.
"Too right, little witch," Klaus agreed.
"Back to invading Italy," Kol remarked. "Hell of a time that was," he smiled menacingly.
"It was, brother," Klaus agreed. "We encountered a group there known as the Brotherhood of the Five who had started exposing vampires. This was before I turned Prince Vlad Tepes, who would expose all of us by a few centuries, but it was at a time when our exposure was to be feared and witches practiced in secret with sects of Christianity starting to hunt them down.
"We could not risk exposing ourselves to the Brotherhood, we were already prized generals in the war, but out little sister was of great interest to one of the Hunters, the leader of the Hunters to be exact. He was so enamored by our darling Rebekah that he was willing to spill all his secrets to her," he commented.
"Not all," she amended. "He spoke of the map leading to a cure," she explained.
"Silas! It leads to Silas! Not a bloody cure!" Kol hissed furiously.
"Peace brother," Elijah cut off.
"They claimed a sword was the key to reading the map that is growing on your arm," Rebekah stated.
"This sword," Klaus said as he pulled it from a box.
Bonnie gasped as she felt the amount of power radiating off it. Jeremy moved towards it like he was bewitched.
"Don't," Davina snapped as she got up and walked slowly towards Klaus. "Don't move, someone restrain the Hunter."
Bonnie whispered an immobilization spell and was giddy when it worked.
"What is it?" Kol asked.
"I don't know," Davina muttered as she took the sword from Klaus' hand.
"I feel it," Bonnie stated.
"What?" Elena asked.
"Black Magic," Davina answered carefully as she inspected the sword. Kol now was up and walking towards her and Davina. Davina put the sword on the table and started inspecting the item, and Bonnie peered at the hilt as Davina worked. It was a weird design, but then again, Bonnie didn't know much about ancient swords.
"This is Black Magic?" Bonnie asked.
"It's not Dark, this is…this is a powerful weapon," she muttered.
Davina had felt a connection between the Hunter and the sword the moment Klaus had pulled it from the box he had had it in. The sword was screaming for blood, for power, for completion, it was extraordinarily strong and powerful.
Davina noted that the hilt was loosely wrapped in a leather grip which didn't seem to belong and slowly she undid it.
"Bloody hell," Kol muttered as he reached over.
"What are these?"
"Runes," he answered. "Nordic, from our village," he said looking up at Klaus and Elijah. "This was designed by Ayana."
"What's that mean?" Bonnie asked.
"Your ancestor made the curse on your friend, means you can undo it," he stated.
"How sure are you that this is Ayana's work?" Elijah asked as he came over to look at the sword.
"See this," Kol pointed at a few runes as he rolled the cryptex in the hilt. "Ayana wasn't fluent in runic, she would make strange translations in her magic, I found a few in mother's grimoire and I remember once asking her about it. Things like flower's bloom, here, that's Ayana's translations for some of her more complex magic. Ayana was a descendent of Qetsiyah," he stated.
"How do you know that?" Bonnie asked in disbelief.
"She was the one who told me about Silas, initially, and how her family's responsibility was to destroy him and his evil," Kol explained. "Which means, if you are a descendant of Qetsiyah's, then you're related to Ayana, and whichever witch made this curse, so you can undo it," he said towards Bonnie.
"Do we want to destroy the curse though," Elijah asked.
"I don't see why we wouldn't. It's going to obliterate that kid, and probably claim a few more lives, these are Hunters who are motivated to kill us, better we destroy this curse than have to deal with Klaus being on another Hunter's Curse suicide watch for a different century," Kol sighed.
"You… you think you can remove the mark?" Elena asked nervously.
"Seeing this sword, yes," Davina answered. "We'll need this though to slay Silas," she muttered as she shoved it at Kol who fumbled to catch it.
"Bloody hell, love, don't go throwing this around," Kol yelped as he caught the sword.
"This does mean we'll have to change the design of the counter curse; we'll use Bonnie to funnel the magic, it's her ancestor, she should be able to connect to it. I can channel her while she channels her ancestors and do the counter curse," she explained.
"That's going to be a lot of power, love," he pointed out.
"Well, if they're connecting with Bonnie, they won't connect with me, but I can channel it," Davina stated.
"How do we do it without changing the sword though?" Kol asked.
"What about preserving it? Like your dark objects."
"That'll take multiple witches," he stated blandly.
"We have Bonnie and me, we'll make it work," Davina decided.
"We will?" Bonnie sputtered.
"We will," Davina nodded. "You're getting dropped in the deep end," Davina stated.
"It's sort of pass fail, which I always thought was easier," Kol remarked.
"You go get the supplies, I'll get set up," Davina ordered.
"We're doing this now?" Elena gaped.
"Yup, right now!" Davina declared.
"Why?" Elijah asked.
"Because if that kid, gets that sword, we're all in trouble and I don't need more trouble," Davina stated to Elijah. "I'm going to need more coffee," she muttered.
Caroline watched Davina and Bonnie walk off to the kitchen while Kol sprinted off with the sword and to go get things needed.
"Well things started moving quickly," Rebekah muttered.
"I have rarely seen him so serious or urgent about moving," Elijah muttered.
"She thinks she can fix Jeremy?" Matt asked.
"I think so, so there's hope," Caroline smile. "Jeremy can be himself again!"
"I… I don't know," Jeremy admitted.
"This is a good thing, Jer, you'll be able to hug your sister again!" Caroline cheered gleefully.
"I don't know about this, Little Gilbert might be better off as he is," Damon muttered warily.
"I doubt that," Kol stated appearing with a bag full of supplies as he grabbed the papers Davina had been looking through.
"Why is that?" Damon asked.
"Being a Hunter isn't like being a vampire, witch or werewolf, it will consume him and destroy his humanity. Unlike with Vampirism where we can shut our humanity down, a Hunter will lose humanity forever," he explained. "All he'll be is a soulless killing machine with a curse like this on him. Davina!"
"What?"
"Where's the…," he started. "Thank you," he plucked the paper from her hand.
"We should do this outside," she said.
"Why?" Klaus asked warily.
"I think it'll involve a little lightning," she answered. "I'll take those," she said as she grabbed the bag from Kol and walked off. Kol zipped towards her and took the coffee from the young witch's hands. "Hey!"
"No," he snapped.
"Come on!"
"No, Hayley said no, and Marcel will kill me if you blow up the town," he answered.
"I'm not going to blow up the town."
"You just mentioned lightning!" Klaus bellowed.
"Just a little bit," she shrugged.
"Go set it up, the sooner we do this, the sooner we go find Silas and continue on our merry way," Kol directed.
"Now who's being bossy," she grumbled.
"I'll help," Caroline chimed as she followed Davina with the bag.
"Thanks, Bonnie and I are doing this outside, on the lawn," she explained.
"What do you need me to do?" Caroline asked.
"I'm going to set up the spell, put and light the candles at the points," she explained as she started tracing out a design. Bonnie appeared and started helping which was when Kol appeared too.
"When you do this, it's going to create a massive power surge, are you prepared for that power?" Kol asked Davina as she started placing the runes from the notes in the circle.
"Bonnie's going to be taking most of the power surge, not me, so it's up to her," Davina stated.
"I can take it," Bonnie said firmly. "I want to help Jeremy."
"This is going to hurt," Kol warned.
"What do you need me to do, brother?"
"We're going to use you as a conduit," Kol explained.
"Can't you use me?" Caroline asked.
"No, you're not old enough to have the power we need," Kol answered.
"And I wouldn't recommend it," Klaus stated as he appeared.
"I could do it!" Caroline hissed.
"Probably not, a curse this old would likely kill you if you were used as the conduit, Elijah and I are a thousand years old, and between the two of us that is more than enough power for the witches to channel after they've made contact with the Bennett ancestors."
"After Bonnie makes contact, I will not be channeling ancestors, I'm just directing where the power goes and the spell being undone," Davina clarified.
"Can I help with anything?" Elena blurted out.
"Just be ready to be there for your brother," Davina huffed as she yanked up her hair. "This is going to hurt. A lot."
"What's the spell?" Bonnie asked.
"We're going to go with the Runic version apparently because translations don't work," she glared at Kol.
"I'm saying they don't work well!" he snapped. "Besides this is the sort of style Ayana used, and we don't want to miss use it. Else we'll all be on the Other Side."
"You can't die." Davina called as she walked away.
"I don't want to test that with this spell," he shouted after her.
"Oh," Caroline muttered.
"Come, sweetheart, we'll wait for the magic to be over before you join in the joyous reunion of friends," Klaus said offering her his arm. Caroline took it as she saw Kol working with Bonnie and Davina on the spell and Elijah finishing a few marks in the grass.
"We're not letting them do this to Jeremy without us there," Stefan appeared.
"By all means, negotiate that with the little witch and my brother, they're apparently in charge of this matter," Klaus dismissed as they walked into the house.
"You seem to be taking not being in charge rather well," Caroline commented.
"I'd rather not go to war with my little brother," he admitted. "I do love him and would rather not have him truly hating us for an eternity."
"That's very mature of you," she chimed happily.
"It will also be great pleasure exploiting his weakness after this mess is over," he smiled predatory like.
"I thought you just said you didn't want to go to war with him!" Caroline snapped.
"Yes, but it is always fun to have the upper hand on Kol, it so rarely happens," he admitted with glee.
"Unbelievable," she muttered as she stared dumbfounded at him.
"I won't hurt his little witch, but it will be fun being able to exploit Kol finally!" he admitted.
"Do you ever just think of just letting someone enjoy their happiness without worrying about impending doom!?" she hissed as she yanked herself away from him.