curses, curses and more curses
After a while Bella felt the others beginning to head in their direction. Damon was the first to arrive and he just followed their heart beats to the cave shaking his head at the newly reunited twins talking magic as the looked over a grimiore. Shortly after his arrival; Elijah and Klaus pulled in with the witch Bella had felt the night before. Telling them to come in Bella could feel Elijah leading the other two to the cave and she made sure to be facing the door as the witch and Klaus took in the sight of her books and grimoire. Smiling at the feeling and wonder in their auras at least from the witch though Klaus seemed to have recognition which made her believe her brother had a similar room. The smile on Bella's face was really for the Grimoire that was in Klaus hand and the few others she recognized in Elijah's hands. Walking over to the round table in the middle of the room Bella waved her hand and the research that was on it organized its self as it floated over to the desk by the window and the reference books went back to their places on the shelf. With another hand wave the Petrova grimoire and the books Bella had that were similar to Elijah floated over to the table.
Her twin came to stand beside her at the table on Bella's right and Tyler and Damon moved to stand on her left. This prompted the other three to join them; with the witch choosing to stood by Bella's twin. Elijah and Klaus stood across the table from Bella and upon examining the books stacked closest to him Elijah chuckled telling his brother he should have realized she had a few of the books in his possession. Klaus response to his brother was to place the grimoire in the middle of the table as the witch placed down what Bella could tell was translation in front of herself.
"Greta here has what she has managed to translate about the spells with our help but we brought mothers grimoire along with since it is the source of the spells on my siblings and I." The statement about translating got both Damon and Tyler to groan and look down before Tyler pleaded for Bella to not start that particular rant. Bella narrowed her eyes at him before pulling the grimoire across the table and opening it skimming the pages until she found the spell for the originals creation then turned the next to see it was the curse Klaus was trying to break after finding them both Bella spoke.
"I'm keeping them," this got a reply from Damon stating. "They might have an issue with you keep their mother grimoire and the books ." Looking up from her reading she replied, "No Damon, I'm keeping them they brought me books in their original language and not translated copies." As Bella looked back down and continued reading she heard Damon's put upon sigh and the amusement the brothers were feeling from her statement about wanting to keep them. Tyler noticed that the witch was trying to get Bella's attention with her translations she was also showing Bella's brother before Tyler stopped her and informed the others who didn't know that Bella wouldn't be needing any translation since she could already read the grimoire.
As Bella finished the page about the original spell she noticed the witch referenced hearing the spirits talking about an immortality spell and the warning she was given from Ayana. Bella also noticed the word soul was written in the margin before being crossed out along with a symbol that denoted the page for reference. Flipping to the page the symbol claimed Bella noted that it talked about her families magic which was soul magic looking back towards the spell page noting that nothing else in the spell mentioned the use of her families magic. Looking up after examining the page Bella began studying Elijah's aura before looking at Klaus noticing the difference. Flipping the page over before reading the first few lines about why the curse was needed. Bella's brow furrowed as she began flipping the pages back and forth noticing the inconsistency in the witches reasoning and as Bella looked closer she figured out what about it was missing.
Tilting her head up again Bella once again stared at their auras Bella focused on the block when the words immortality made what she was seeing click into place. The witches feared true immortality even back when the fae were free it's why they stopped telling the witches that they weren't witches too. The originals mother had placed a block on their souls that would allow them to be killed and since she was using her family soul magic she combined it with the blood magic to make it stronger then told everyone else that it was just blood magic and power. The siblings would never have learned about the block and if they were never thought their own family magics they would not have know what the block felt like or really was and if the first Kill Klaus made hadn't counteracted her block on him by allowing him to access his wolf no one would be any the wiser. So the witch had to place one on his wolf side separately to allow the block to be in place for him to be able to be killed. So if Klaus's block could be lifted with this curse then the real problem would be finding out how to unblock his siblings from theirs.
Bella began running different plans through her head and it seemed the twin bond caught on as her twin had tuned in on the plans and as he turned to face Bella and began saying no after each one realized it wasn't the ritual this time that was the problem what about the … looking down and the first sacrifice in both the spell and the curse was the same. Before meeting her twins eyes Bella began thinking about the only human in the curse living afterwards to be useful later watching his eyes glaze over as a vision played out in his sight "The end result is what we want but I don't know how we get there."
Noticing the others had stopped what they were doing to pay attention to the twins Bella flicked her wrist and the pages in the Petrova grimoire turned to the story of the doppelgangers it held before sliding it across the table to the two originals.
"We are about to play a long game here so that everyone can get what they want mostly because I have no doubt that your siblings being awakened like I need them will Involve a few conditions." She waited to continue letting the brothers argue with their eyes before Klaus rolled his eyes and looking towards Bella with a reply.
"My siblings awakening relies on Mikael's death which my brother here will no doubt be in charge of the search for him so he can be killed."
"Your curse needs to be the first step in this game, so in two days time you will be breaking your curse as planned with only one minor adjustment. The doppelganger needs to remain human," As she spoke the last words Bella flicked her wrist again and the book floated towards the table and opened to the spell that would bring the doppelganger back human.
"It will be child's play in weaving a believable tale between Damon and Elijah to convince the gang that saving her can be done and with a little help from my brother and I in leading the Bennett witch to the right spell thanks to the spirits. Convincing them that it was all their idea and that you are leaving town once the ritual is over." as she spoke Klaus tilted his head as he listened his aura showing her the longing at the curse being broken then after a minute he spoke.
"Possible and I was going to leave town to change some werewolves after I broke the curse. How would the doppelganger living after I break my curse affect that." He looked at Greta for his answer to the last question.
Watching the witches aura flair as she begin to chant under her breath they all watched her brows furrow as well before she opened her eye and answered Klaus. "They keep insisting that the girl has to die they wont hear any other possibilities."
"Well then I believe the girl survival has been confirmed so while Niklaus here is out hunting for werewolves to change. I can be hunting for our father that just leaves the rest of you." Elijah answered before Tyler began to speak next after he looked towards the twins.
"If he uses the female wolf in the ritual that leaves the last member of her pack as a way to test if Elena's blood is needed besides he has a death sentence anyway form Bella for attacking Damon and Caroline the other day. " Looking Klaus in the eye he spoke the next part, "Once you figure it out not only am I willing to be turned but I can put you in contact with a few others that would be willing to and so on and so on." Bella could feel the astonishment thrumming through him as her eyes meet his.
"My twin will no doubt be traveling with you and since I would like to get to know him better and teach him what he can really do so I will be going with you. Until your siblings are awakened I can't tell you how to go about freeing them and Elijah here other than doppelganger blood is going to be needed since I will have to see how the curse effected their auras like it did Elijah."
The next few hours were spent refining the trips over dinner before the originals, the witch and Damon left. Maddox claimed one of the rooms as his before settling down with Tyler to play video games at Tyler request.
Using Elijah and Damon as a way to know when the witch would be searching for the spell Bella made sure to be present after a few hours of searching and pulled the grimoire the witch needed from a stack behind her on to the floor having it land face down and open to the right page. Bella watched as baby Gilbert picked it up before shouting to get the Bennett witches attention. Once that was done Bella spent the day with her twin watching the others prepare for the ritual and an hour before the ritual Bella watched Elena make a blood donation before helping erased the memory from her mind just in case the compulsion didn't stick after her death.
Later that night Bella was in the forest with Tyler nearby, just as the moon peaked and her cousin turned she could feel the magic in the air. About an hour afterwards Bella noticed the approach of Klaus and Elijah through their auras and her cousin only moved from her lap with his grey fur standing on end and teeth bared. When a wolf with Klaus's aura came into view. The wolf had completely black fur and when he returned Tyler's growl did a fight break out. Klaus won after a few minute and with Tyler pinned and showing his belly did Klaus turn his attention to the unseelie.
When Bella's blue eye meet his blue green ones her vision became filled with their magic and souls surging forward and forming a tether before his continued towards her and as she felt it mending the broken parts before filling the hole just for him. Bella got to watch as her magic moved to do the same to his helping the rest of his soul heal from the damage done by the curse then filling the spot that was meant for it before cycling back to her his magic and soul doing the same. His head sat on Bella's lap as he healed from the scuffle with Tyler who joined him in lying down on her other side to finish healing from the scuffle. Once Tyler changed back to human and slept for a few hours, he went with Elijah to go retrieve the male werewolf to test the change without doppelganger blood on and Bella coaxed Klaus into his human form.
Bella stood as he shifted forms and once he was human looking again she watched as he realized what happened feeling the wonder travel through the bond as she saw it appear in his aura. Sending him her amusement as he quickly stood before pinning Bella against a tree behind her. Bella's legs wrapped around his naked waist and her arms came to rest on his shoulders. He searched her eyes for answers as she began to run fingers though his hair to get out the leaves and grass Bella then tilted her head and started talking.
"It's a soul thing, all souls have other souls they bond with some the bonds come in the form of friendship, others in kinship or family. The one we are experiencing now though its a one time deal and every race supernatural or not has a word for it. To some it's imprinting, to others mate works, more call it soul mate, Fae we like to call it as we see it as a soul. Just one tied, tethered, bound and any other adjective that can describe it. one soul with to bodies permanently until the end of time no longer to be separated. We know this because some have tried and even with magic have not succeeded in breaking the soul back apart." Any thing else Bella was going to say was cut off by him kissing her.
pA growl rumbled through his whole body as he pushed her further into the tree and his lips trailed down to her neck. "Mine" was spoken over and over again across the skin of her neck before she breathlessly whispered, "mine" back which pulled his eyes back to hers. With one more long drawn out kiss Bella pushed him back and planted her feet on the ground./p
"Hold that thought, we still have our plotting to finish remember, world domination to plan." This brought a boyish grin to his face as he got dressed in the clothes Elijah left him which caused Bella to grin in turn. "Come now love, as the villain world domination is the only plan that makes since." He pulled her close before running them off to the older mansion.
The next three hours was spent seeing what happened to a turned werewolf if no doppelganger blood was used. In the end the werewolf turned experiments heart was across the room but they now knew what blood was needed and as Elijah cleaned up the mess before leaving for his own hunt. Tyler would be the first successful hybrid only two hours after the failure with only a few drops of the doppelgangers blood. Damon and Nik both took Tyler on his first hunt and Bella settled down in a room full of sketches to wait not noticing a few were of her simply because of the grimoire in her hand.
Instead of reading it though Bella spent the time letting her mind wander to the bond between herself and Nik. She felt amusement in the name change but she knew it's what he wanted to be called just like now that the bond is settling down that if Bella want to know something about him like his greatest fear, which being abandoned by his family or that since meeting the other day quite a few of his sketches and even a painting he had yet to finish was about her though Bella wasn't going to look knowing he would show it to her when he was ready. So to put it simply Bella just knew it and she had no doubt that from his emotions he was finding that he knew an awful lot about her for the physical part of the relationship that was no hardship either. Bella was no virgin or a stranger to the fun that was sex and honestly if you could see the man, well to say Bella was more than willing to learn about every part of that man.
She was pulled from her train of thought as she felt felt the wonderment and disbelief under the contentment coming from the doorway. Looking up she met Nik's eyes as he leaned with his shoulder against the door frame. Sending curiosity down the bond Bella tilted her head back as he came to stand in front of her when she blinked. He held his hand out to her and Bella immediately grabbed it before letting him pull her from the room and down the hallway into what could only be his bedroom. That night was one Bella was never going to forget and a perfect way to start off the second part of their world domination plan.