Part 24 – Changed again?
"So we're human now? Is it permanent? Why haven't those 3 awoken as yet?" Stefan demanded from Patrice as he paced before Damon. Klaus and Hayley.
"I think it has to do with them being hybrids…" Kol answered.
"I'm mortal" Rebekkah chuckled while Marcel scowled, he and Elijah remained in the church and stayed vampires.
"How is Caroline?" Rebekkah asked a returning Patrice.
"Tired, she's also human. She's resting with the twins and Hope. Davina is with them. Before you start going off at me I have no idea what just happened. My gift never once alluded to this… I think it's broken…"
"It happened when Caroline's water broke. The power surge awoke something primal…" Bonnie finally spoke from her spot beside Damon where she kept her hand atop his beating heart.
"Gaia?" Patrice asked and Bonnie nodded the affirmative.
"The balance has been off in the world for a long time now… It makes sense that the blood of the one who threw it all off balance be the one to set it back."
"What about you Bonnie, I felt that shift in the air. Hope wasn't the centre of it… you were"
"She made me the centre of it" Bonnie sighed.
"She's not as strong as I am she was able to somehow tap into my power and manipulate it. She's made me the Priestess of the order until she comes into her full power I guess"
"The order?"
"The order of Gaia"
"Weren't they extinct?" Kol asked.
"In hiding… Bonnie is one of the last remaining in her bloodline. Someone give that kid a timeout" Damon groaned as he sat up.
"My head hurts, what's going on"
"Oh baby" Bonnie sighed holding onto Damon tight.
"What's wrong?"
"You're human, all of you except Elijah and Marcel"
"What wait… I'm human… Stef"
"Human too" Stefan grinned.
"Your magic packs a punch"
"I'm sorry baby"
"There isn't a thing to be sorry for. Yes I am going to grow old now, but I promise I'll be sexy old." Damon grinned and Bonnie smacked him up the head then followed with a quick apology as he winced.
"I am really parched…" Damon said rubbing his throat.
"I was too, here… I was waiting for you to wake up… I wanted us to have our first human meal together" Stefan said holding out a bag of Doritos proudly.
"Put that crap away, we shan't be poisoning these bodies until we have fixed the problem." Klaus groaned as he and Hayley stirred back to life.
"The packs!" Hayley's eyes widened wondering if her sudden human state would have had an effect on her pack.
"They were all knocked out for a short while… when they came too they could change at will, no pain" Kol shrugged as Hayley stood on unsteady feet.
"I don't think you should try changing just yet…" Damon said almost reading his Alpha's mind.
"How did you know?" Hayley asked holding her hand out for the water bottle.
"I felt it, at the back of my mind…. Like an itch" Damon tried to describe then looked towards Klaus.
"Did you feel anything?"
Klaus shook his head.
"Something has happened with us, with our pack" Hayley said worriedly.
"I feel it too, it feels like…"
"Confusion" Jack added arriving with a basket accompanied by Kai carrying a pack of bottled water.
"You feel it too"
"As clear as day – whatever happened has made us empathic to the pack as their Alphas" Jackson theorized.
"I feel it, but it's not clear, like trying to make a picture through static" Damon added opening up a bottle of water.
"How is that possible though, we have no werewolf blood in our line, witch blood yes but no werewolf" Stefan asked.
"The binding" Hayley and Bonnie said together.
"Well I'd rather be a wolf than a witch, no offence babe but I wouldn't want to inherit anything from Silas, sorry Stef" Stefan shook his head almost as if to shake Silas himself out of his mind.
"Mommy!" Hope trilled as she ran through the door followed by a very tired Caroline leaning on Davina for support.
"What are you doing here love, you should be recovering and taking care of our girls"
"I wanted to apologize, you didn't want to be mortal and because of me and the girls"
"Hush love, you and our children mean more to me than my immortal life. We don't know if this is permanent in any case." Klaus said taking Caroline's face in his hands and kissing her lovingly on the forehead before pulling her to lay down on one of the now empty cots.
"Speaking of the girls, who is watching them?"
"Freya"
"No, we don't know where her loyalties are" Klaus almost roared.
"Hope released her"
"Aunty Freya sad Aunty Freya scared. Aunty Freya help us" Hope said from Hayley's arms.
"She's 3 we can't trust the words of a 3 year old blindly"
"What do we do?" Elijah finally asked regarding the situation they had been thrown into.
"Grandma!" Hope trilled at her father.
"She has a point" Rebekkah added.
"We can't trust that woman"
"We don't need to trust her, we just need answers. Dahlia is still coming"
"Dahlia" Hope said pointing to a blooming flower on the wall dark as the night of final beatitude.
I know, I am taking forever to complete this. I am struggling a bit with depicting the way I want the story to end... Who else is pissed off with the ending of the Originals BTW... what a waste... Trust Julie Plec to deny us of our Klaroline after fucking us all over for Bamon... I've got a good mind to curse her with everlasting diarrhea or some shit (lol some shit - my humor is broken...)
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