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Gold Dust Woman

Jade woke that morning to a gentle knocking on the door. Waking up foggy she looked around and realized she was in Vicki and Marcel's room. Damon was still in Virginia with Hope at Jade's insistence; she wanted him to wait around and make sure everything worked to get Mason's wolf side back. She told him she was fine, but she didn't want to admit that she had spent the last few nights having trouble sleeping.

"Hey," Jade yawned, stretching and sitting up slightly. "Sorry I stole your spot again," she said with a half smile.

"When I pictured two girls in my bed, I was usually here for it," Marcel said with a chuckle, hopping onto Vicki's empty side of the bed to join her, Jade staying under the covers.

"Did she send you to check on me?" Jade asked and Marcel shook his head. "Damon?"

"Your dad called," Marcel told her and she nodded. "Said you hadn't answered his calls?"

"I've been sleeping weird," Jade reminded him, then motioned to the bed. "You've noticed." Marcel nodded.

"Do you think...it's all the extra magic?" Marcel asked hesitantly and she shook her head, holding up her wrist.

"I'm wearing Hope's bracelet," she said, reminding him of the bracelet Hope wore when they were hiding her from Dahlia; she shrugged, though her face was sad. "Guess they really did a number on me, huh?"

"...you wanna talk about it?" Marcel asked; she shook her head, though she did hesitate.

"How could my uncle just not know me?" she asked softly. "How could he..." She shook her head. "Forget it."

"He's missing out," Marcel told her and she playfully rolled her eyes. "Wish I would have known you sooner," he shrugged.

"Yeah," she nodded, resting her head on his shoulder. "It would have been pretty cool having a big brother." Marcel nodded, kissing her head.

"Call your dad," he encouraged her before sliding off the bed.

"Mmmm," she nodded as he left, pulling out her phone. She smiled when she saw a message from Damon that he was coming back, that their plan for Mason worked. Getting up now, she planned to change before calling her dad back. No sooner had she gotten out of bed though did she hit the floor, passing out.

Jade woke up in the compound still, though something felt entirely different. It was dark, a storm raging outside. Looking around the main room, she seemed to be alone.

"Hello?" she called out to no one in particular.

"Jade?" she heard her father's voice and he came into the room to find her. "Are you all right?"

"I think so," she nodded at him. "What's going on? How are you here?"

"I don't know that I really am here," Klaus explained to her and she looked at him in confusion. "It's called a chambre de chasse, it's meant to keep you somewhere mentally. Trapped until you can figure out the puzzle or whatever the witch that created it intended." She nodded.

"You think one of the witches Greta knew?" Jade asked.

"I find that unlikely," Elijah told her, revealing himself to be there as well. Klaus immediately noticed the change in his daughter; she was afraid.

"Whoever did this," they heard another voice saying from the stairs; Freya. "They know the house well, and." She stopped as she looked at Klaus. "They probably knew you were going to come back to New Orleans to check on Jade."

"Vincent?" Jade asked and Freya shrugged, agreeing with her. "Do you have any idea how we get out of here?" Freya nodded at the door and Jade followed her gaze; there were locks with each of their initials on them.

"Better start looking for our keys," Freya sighed; Jade seemed very uneasy about being in the same space as Elijah.

"You're with me," Klaus said, nodding for Jade to follow him.

"I was going to call you back," Jade told him as they got to the next room. "You didn't need to come back to New Orleans." In the days that she had been back in the city Freya revealed to her what was going to happen if the family continued to be around each other. The omens were going to get worse and worse until it claimed the lives of all the supernatural first borns; Freya, Jade, Damon, Hope. The list was seemingly endless. They were only one sign away from it happening.

"How have you been sleeping Jade?" her father asked and she didn't answer at first.

"I'll tell you when we get out of here," she told him. And away from him, she thought to herself. With the literal dropping in of two others though, she screamed and jumped back. Her father rested a comforting hand on her back, nodding at who it was; Mason and Damon.

"Dammit," Damon cursed when he saw where they were.

"Jade?" Mason said when he saw her there.

"She must have locked us in here too," Damon explained to him and Mason groaned.

"Who?" Klaus was asking quickly.

"She's never acted out like this before, she's lost-" Mason started off.

"Who?!" Jade snapped at him, though from his explanation she had a pretty good idea.

"It's Hope," Damon told Jade. "She has the three of you at the church, she's going to try to pull the hollow out and take it back."

"She can't," Jade shook her head at her husband. "No, no she can't do that. That was the whole point of this," she motioned around. "The whole point of us taking it, it's going to kill her."

"I know," Damon told her gently, his eyes sad. "She...doesn't care."

"We tried stopping her," Mason continued. "That's what got us locked in here too." Jade nodded, looking around.

"She's stronger than we ever realized," she said, though her eyes fell on her dad; he seemed to be thinking about something, extra concern on his face. "What?" she asked in exasperation, as if they could take anymore bad news.

"This room," he motioned around. "Do you remember it?"

"Yeah?" Jade asked like it was obvious, shrugging it off; they were in the music room. "I also remember destroying it on a bender," she reminded him.

"When Hope was gone," Klaus continued.

"I really don't get-"

"Hope never would have seen this room," Damon cut Jade off, looking at his father in law. "Right? That's what you're getting at?" Klaus nodded at him. "Then...who made it?"

"The person that knew I was circling the city," Klaus said.

"And the person that would have been able to knock me out at the house," Jade said.

"Freya," Damon realized and they nodded; Mason let out a disgusted sigh.

"It's not bad enough she tried to help Hope with that binding spell, but now this?" Mason asked. Damon immediately shook his head at Mason.

"She what?" Jade demanded. She knew that Hope had been trying to go through with the spell to get her mother back; she had no idea Freya was willing to help her.

"You never told her," Mason realized as Jade had stormed out of the room.

"Good call," Damon quipped sarcastically, going after her. He could hear Marcel and Vicki now as well, also stuck there for trying to stop Hope he assumed.

"The storm is about to wash the city away," Marcel was explaining to Jade as the others followed her.

"If Freya is lucky, the storm will take her with it," Jade said angrily, looking around. "Where is she?" Feeling someone behind her and still jumpy, Jade whipped around and threw a punch; she was happy when she saw that she landed it on her aunt's face, Freya stumbling back.

"Hey, quit it," Damon said, grabbing Jade and pulling her back, Klaus helping Freya up.

"You don't want to fight me Jade," Freya told her.

"Is that a threat?" Jade laughed at her. "Don't think that I need my magic back to kick your ass."

"What is going on out here?" Elijah asked curiously, coming from looking for his key.

"Oh no," Vicki shook her head. Things were already spiraling out of control. "You, away from my sister," she said, turning him and shoving him into the next room, Marcel following.

"Did you think I wouldn't find out?" Jade was snapping at Freya. "Tell me, if they told Hope they would give me back if she gave up her powers, would have gone through with it then?"

"You don't understand Jade," Freya was telling her, wiping the blood from her lip.

"What don't I understand?" Jade scoffed at her.

"I'm the one that's watched her," Freya argued. "I'm the one that saw her struggle."

"Join the club," Damon stopped her now, though the men had been pretty silent during this argument.

"Vicki and Marcel were there too," Mason agreed with Damon. "And they didn't try sealing a part of Hope away."

"It's what Hope wanted, just like this," Freya said.

"She's fifteen!" Jade screamed at her. "Fifteen!" She went over to her aunt and shoved her. "This could kill her, do you realize that?"

"It should be her choice to go through with it," Freya argued back and Jade laughed at her.

"Do you actually hear how crazy you sound right now?" Jade asked. "My daughter has no concept of death, no concept of finality." She motioned around. "Everyone she knows is immortal."

"I sound no crazier than you when you came back to this city in the first place," Freya snapped at her. Klaus pulled her out of the way as Damon caught Jade from lunging after her. "It's all right for you to risk her safety, but when someone else does it?"

"She is my daughter," Jade motioned to herself. "Mine and his." She nodded at Freya. "Last I checked you were too scared to have any kids of your own."

"Don't you dare," Freya threatened her.

"Too scared to have your own kids, but not too scared to screw up mine," Jade continued. Freya went for Jade now, striking her; Jade grabbed her hair before shoving her away. "Truth hurt Aunt Freya?" Jade asked sarcastically, the three guys keeping them apart.

"She's done everything right her whole life, gone along with every plan we've set for her," Freya informed Jade. "This is the only time she's acted out and it's because she misses her parents!" she motioned to Jade and Mason.

"She's still a kid Freya," Mason argued with her.

"In this family?" Freya asked him.

"No, you know," Jade stopped her. "You know better than anyone about what she's doing, the magic and power she is testing." She pointed at her aunt. "You know better than anyone about being that young and pushing yourself with magic all while your bat shit crazy aunt just watches."

"Jade," Klaus finally cut in.

"And what about me?" Jade ignored him. "I was responsible for Vicki and Matt starting when I was ten. Ten," she emphasized for Freya. "By the time I was Hope's age I was working, I was taking care of everything. I carried the burden of my family." She didn't realize she had started crying. "Do you think I wanted that for her, to carry the weight of the family's problems? Do you think I wanted her to end up like me?!" she was shouting. She felt her sister touching her hand now.

"There's nothing wrong with being you Jade," Vicki said softly, not realizing how screwed up her sister still felt from their childhood. Jade shook her head, wiping away the tears.

"I have to go," Freya told them. "I have to help her finish the spell. Once it's over, everyone will be released." Freya went to move by but Jade caught her arm.

"Just move the other two pieces to me," Jade told her seriously.

"Jade, that's enough," Klaus told her. No, he didn't want the magic to end up in his granddaughter, but he didn't want it in Jade either; he just wanted Freya to stop it.

"I can do this dad," Jade stopped him. "I already have half and I'm fine." She motioned to her bracelet. "It's under control and I'm stronger than Hope."

"No, Jade," Damon was telling her; Mason and Vicki were looking at her seriously as well. "There's still time to just stop it, right?" he said, looking at Freya.

"It's already in motion," she said, though she wasn't convinced on switching to giving the magic to Jade. "I just have to go back and finish it."

"Freya," Jade stopped her again. "If I wake up from here, and that magic is in my daughter?" She shook her head. "You're going to want to start running." And, with that, Freya disappeared.

"Come on," Damon told Jade, nodding for her to follow him. "If we can get the keys, we can still try to get out of here and stop it." Jade nodded, going to follow him, though she stopped when she heard her father and uncle struggling. She turned to see the hollow's blue light leaving them. And much like when it left Mason, it made a line for it's other pieces, knocking her backwards and then finally, awake.

"Mom?!" Hope was asking in concern, going over to her. The others started to wake up slowly, first her grandfather, then Vicki and Marcel, then her dad and step dad. "Mom, what was that?" She shook her head. "I had it, I was going to do it." She studied her mom carefully as they stood up together. "Why did you do that?"

"Because I'm your mom," Jade told her, kissing her head. "And, because this family needs to be together."

"All of us?" Vicki questioned and as if on cue Elijah woke up. They all noticed something different though as he looked around, almost panicking.

"He remembers," Hope said quietly. "It was part of the spell, taking the magic away and bringing his memories back."

"Elijah," Klaus nodded for him to come with him, knowing that just having his memories back wasn't enough to bring Jade peace of mind about being around him.

"Where did your aunt go?" Mason asked Hope now who still seemed confused. Her mom was going to take the hollow? But she just got her magic back in the first place.

"She took off once the spell was done, I don't know," Hope said, looking around; she landed on her mom again. "Mom, are you ok?" Jade was distracted by the whispers.

"Jade," Damon said, getting her attention, indicating Hope had been talking to her.

"Hm? I'm fine," Jade nodded, giving a soft smile. "I'm fine baby." She held her hand out. "Let's go home."

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