Part 30 – It's never too late

Rebecca was disgusted with her mother, but like Elijah requested she would keep her cool and not throw her toys out her cot at Marcel and Ester. She supposed she didn't have any right to be angry. Marcel enjoyed being a vampire and all Rebecca wanted was to be human. It's the real reason she stayed away from him. He was her best friend and she didn't want to lose the one person who knew her best. She wanted to free him from her entirely, she was going to leave for Mystic Falls after everything was done; she would start a new life with Matt. Her heart fluttered at the thought of him, he looked so pale and broken when she took news of Alaric's death and Elena's involvement to him, he was on the mend she supposed as she fingered her mobile phone in her jacket pocket, he had just texted her a few moments earlier. She wanted to build a normal partially supernatural free life as Mrs Rebecca Donovan, wife of Sheriff Donovan and mother of his many children.

"So how are we going to do this then?" Klaus asked.

"You aren't going to do a thing." Ester said as she cast a spell faster than anyone could react freezing them all in their places.

"What you don't know is that this blade, lives within me and when used the person who yields it will lose their life. I created this blade to rid the world of both Mikael and Klaus. I realized later that in order to work both parties need to share a blood link."

"You devious serpent!" Klaus spat.

"My son, I wish I listened to your true father and escaped with your siblings and you. Your life would have been so much better. I think of the 'what ifs' time and time again and it always ends the same; I always end up ruining your lives in the end. The problem was never you, it was me. I may have failed as a wife, a mother and a lover but I will not fail as a grandmother."

"You forget, you failed as a sister as well" Dahlia said as she entered the courtyard"

"Sister, I was wondering when you would show up"

"Where are my tolls? Where is Freya and your half breed granddaughter?"

"Not here, I made arrangements so that they are safe"

"I see, I can't feel the siphon twins either. Or that Bennet bitch who tried to take my tongue"

"Yes, my son's associate Marcel; such a wondrous man, works quite fast"

Dahlia looked ill as she gazed upon her sister.

"You lay with that man, the same man who lay with your daughter, the man your son considers his son." Dahlia spat.

"At least I can lay with a man… or a woman should I choose. I didn't torture a little girl like you did your own niece! Today though sister, I see the error of my own ways; what I did was selfish and treacherous, I should have picked you over Mikael and the luxuries my alliance with him brought, I should have picked you and lived a life free of the people who murdered our family. Today I choose you." Ester said falling to her knees and offering the blade to Dahlia with both hands while the children who were with her felt disgust and shame.

"How interesting, unfortunately over the centuries my interest in you waned. Your daughter filled the gap you left, she paid for your cheat in her blood." Dahlia hissed as she circled her sister.

"I knew it would be difficult sister. Can you ever forgive me? Before you end my life will you forgive your little sister for all her wrongs?" Ester asked.

"OH little sister. I forgive you" Dahlia said as she caused the blade Ester gave her to disintegrate and turn to dust.

"Will you leave the children be? Please, let Freya go free"

"I can't do that, blood is paid in blood. I gave you 7 beautiful children and received just one as my toll over a century. I will have the first born of every Mikaelson here." Dahlia shouted as she angrily impaled her own blade into her sister's heart, she dropped the blade and clutched at her own chest.

"Life begets life, and death – death" Bonnie's voice rang through the courtyard as she appeared from the upper rooms, Davina, Freya, Kol and Stefan were standing around the courtyard from the upper levels their eyes glowing white as a circle appeared around the sisters. Ester's life blood flowed towards the ends creating a pentagram. Dahlia grabbed her dead sister's still warm body in her arms and kept shaking her.

"What did you do! What did you do!" She shrieked

"This is your end aunt. Mother finally did right by her children. When you disintegrated that blade you activated a spelled circle, it linked you and mother. She knew she would be too weak both physically and magically against you so she used your ego and strength against you." Freya said as she raised her hands along with the rest of the witches.

"You always were the sly one." Dahlia said wistfully as she buried her face in the crook of Ester's neck while they slowly turned to stone. When the process was complete a wave of white light shot out of the stone sisters knocking the witches back.

"You are free, forgive me my children. Make better choices than I did. Live in the light. I am taking Dahlia with me to the other world to atone for our sins. It was my fault she ended up this way, I got us captured and I made sure that the only person she could love was me, I made sure she would do anything for me; all her magic was used for Mikael's family, I wanted to marry into that rich family so much I destroyed Dahlia to have my way, very much like I destroyed my children. You have good partners and children in Klaus's case. Don't make my mistakes. Never stray from the balance of life, for that is the true reason a witch exists."

The Mikaelson children felt as if a great weight had been lifted from their shoulders as the light faded leaving a cold stone figure as a reminder of what happens when magic is used selfishly.

"So you and my mother planned this entire thing together?" Klaus asked Marcel as he helped Lucy and Hayley unpack the truck they had escaped on.

"Yeah, she wanted to end it for good but she also needed a backup plan to evacuate the children."

"Actually, it was our plan. She discussed it with the women while we were at the spa with Patrice." Hayley shrugged as she squeezed past Marcel and Klaus

"Was her defilement of my adoptive son part of the plan?" Klaus called after Hayley.

"Listen, if I were dying; I would want to bang Marcel" Hayley turned around and shrugged her shoulder nonchalantly.

"Can't disagree with you there" Caroline winked as she passed her husband carrying soiled diapers for the trash while Hayley winked and made tiger noises at Marcel.

"I am not just a body to satiate your lust on" Marcel complained.

"Marcel if the world was going to end tomorrow, you had better appear on my doorstep wearing a big red ribbon" Lucy said dreamily.

"Mine too" Freya added

"I'll get in on that action as well, if Damon can join" Bonnie piped, Damon winked at Marcel and gave him a thumbs up.

"I hate you, I hate all of you" Marcel grouched and went to go brood in Elijah's study.

"Well at least you will have someone to brood with over the ages" Klaus teased his brother as they all burst into one of many days of laughter for the rest of their mortal lives.

A/N: Annnnd we're done :) Thank you for joining me on this Bamon journey. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it for you. I have an q8 years later chapter next, it's just to have a picture of what their future is like.

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