The beginning of the end
To stand here now with everything moving in the direction she has laid out, it's liberating to finally have accomplice once destiny. Sure, there is still more to do, if they will allow her, she will gladly help guide the child in what is to come.
Until then, there is a more pressing matter that needs to be dealt with. She studies the cure in her hand, Niklaus might have hidden it well enough from his siblings, but she has always been good at finding what she seeks.
She smiles when she feels another presence in the room. "You have questions." She turns to look at the youngest of the Mikaelson's brothers.
Kol stops when she turns. "And here I thought I was quiet." He comments. "Should I expect answers?" She shrugs, that depends on what he asks. "How long have you planed all of this?" he then asks.
That is a question she can answer. "I got visions about this event during my first lifetime." She puts the cure back and sits down on the couch, waiting for his next question.
"And what's the truth of your very long life?" he asks and takes place in on of the armchairs. "Is it dark magic as most witches believe?"
She shakes her head, at least not in the way most witches think. "You see, I have a bloodline." Her gaze moves to look out the window. "Early on, I did a spell that would make it so every once in a while, a child in my bloodline would be stillborn, an empty shell without a soul. That child would be given to me, and with magic, I would help the body grow until I could use it." She looks back at Kol. "But I never take a living person's life."
"How noble of you," he comments. "And how long have you been doing this?"
That is something she isn't planning on telling. Her age is something she gladly keeps to herself. "Let's just say that Marjorie Ceton wasn't my first life." The fact that Kol rolls his eyes tells her that he already guessed that.
"So what now, where does everything go from here?" he chooses to ask instead.
She points behind him to the bookshelf where the cure is laying. "I will explain how you use that to take down Silas." He is a threat they need to get out of the way. "But we do need Caroline here, if you wouldn't mind, I would be grateful if you would tell your brother to call her back."
He looks at her with a grin. "And you aren't asking him yourself, because?"
Well, he is probably guessing the truth, that she likes telling things to Klaus as much as he likes hearing them from her, not that she is right out going to admit that, but still. "I prefer it this way."
Kol seems to think about it for a while. "Fine, I will be the messenger if you do something from me." The least she can do is hear him out, so she nods for him to continue. "I have studied most of the magic in this world, I would like to study yours."
She can't exactly understand why, but she doesn't see a problem with it. "That can be arranged, not that I think you will find it that different from any other magic, but I won't stop you." Who knows, maybe it will be interesting discussing spells with him.
Klaus had called to let her know that Cyrena wanted to talk. Hopefully, she will be able to explain how they're going to take down Silas. Once he is gone, maybe she can have a few peaceful months with no supernatural drama before her son is born.
When she has made her way back to the Mikaelson mansion, they all gather in the living room. Seeing Bonnie, she starts to think about when to tell her about Elena, she would like to keep Bonnie free from worry and the drama the memory loss has created but it might be better to tell her sooner rather than later. Especially if Bonnie finds out and learns that Caroline kept it from her.
Once they are all seated Cyrena starts to explain what is to happen and almost with the very first sentence she manages to turn Klaus against the plan. "You want her to do what?" he asks upset.
Trying to calm him, Caroline takes his hand in hers. "Caroline will take the cure, which will give her it's power." Cyrena calmly explains again. "It won't hurt her or the child, Niklaus." Not that her words seem to reassure him.
"Wait, so what you are saying is that when Caroline takes the cure, one dose will become infinite?" Rebekah asks, hoping that she might not lose her chance to once again become human.
Cyrena nods. "Any immortal being that she chooses can become human."
Most of them are on-board, Caroline taking the cure to later cure Silas so that any one of them can kill him sounds like the best plan they are ever going to get. Considering that Silas at some point is probably going to want to take Caroline out they are bound to meet again.
Though while most of them like the plan, Klaus isn't very keen on the idea. "And how can you be certain that no harm will come to her?" he moves towards Cyrena intending to appear threatening.
Not that she seems to be scared by him, instead she sighs over his behaviour. "Do you really think I would risk all that I have worked for." She closes the little gap that is between them. "I understand your worry, I do, but let's be clear, you aren't needed until she falls unconscious, so if you will be getting in the way, I could have you removes for the time being."
Before Klaus can lash out at Cyrena and be the one to remove her instead Caroline hurries to their side and separates them. "There will be no removing anyone." She says determined and then turns to Klaus. "I will be fine, trust me."
He takes his time to stop glaring daggers at Cyrena but when he finally looks at Caroline his eyes are kind. "Always." He tells her and leans his forehead against hers. "I just don't want to see you hurt." He lays a hand on her stomach. "Neither one of you."
She is going to do her best to stay safe, but since she is the only one that Silas can't use his mind powers on, she will be put in the line of fire, at least with this plan she will have a real way of fighting back.
Before she turns to Cyrena she gives Klaus a kiss. "We will be fine." She whispers against his lips. "Okay, let's do this." She then says and holds out her hand to get the cure from Cyrena.
It's an ugly little they have all been fighting for, and she never thought she would be the one to take it. Had she still been a vampire, and this would have cured her, she would have given it away to someone ells, she prefers who she is now, to the person she was before.
Well, at least their search hasn't been for nothing now. She takes a deep breath before she takes it expecting to feel something, but nothing, she doesn't feel different. When she turns to Klaus, she can his eyes turning gold and in them is her on reflecting in silver.
The first that everyone wants to know is if it worked. The fact that Caroline doesn't feel that different makes it hard to say and they all agree that testing it on someone before she goes up against Silas would be for the best, the question is on who.
After a while of debating their options, Rebekah clears her throat. "Try it on me." She wants the cure, a willing test subject.
To her annoyance, none of her brothers seems to like the idea. "What if something goes wrong, Rebekah." Elijah says.
"What could possibly go wrong." Either it cures her, or it doesn't, what other scenarios could there be. "Please just give me this." She pleads to the room.
"We aren't testing this based on one of your passing whims." Klaus strictly tells her.
She plans to fight them but before she can Caroline grabs her arm. "Come with me." She says and starts to lead her out of the room. "Don't worry I'm only going to talk to her." Caroline adds before they disappear upstairs.
When it becomes obvious that Caroline hadn't thought about where to go more than up, Rebekah decides to go to her room and Caroline follows. Once inside they close the door and Rebekah turns on some music to drown out the sound of their voices, she doesn't need her brothers listening in.
Then she sits down on her bed. "What do you want to talk about?" she hopes that Caroline can be convinced to cure her, because if she can get Caroline on her side, Klaus is going to be a lot easier to at least get to be okay with it.
Before Caroline answers, she sits down next to Rebekah and takes a deep breath. "I'm not testing this on you, and not just because I don't want to face your brothers if something goes wrong, not that I think something will go wrong, but I want you to be certain that this is what you want, that you know what you're getting yourself into."
"Caroline, I lost so much when I became a vampire, I just want that back." She looks at Caroline's belly. "I thought you might understand that."
"It's not that I don't" Caroline starts saying before taking a deep breath. "You were turned a thousand years ago, which means that you have no idea what it's like to be a human, let alone a teenager in this century, so I have an idea, a deal of sort."
Well, this could be interesting and at least it means that her chance at becoming human isn't completely lost. "A deal, have you spent time with Elijah?" because she could have expected this from him. "But I'm in."
"You haven't even heard what the deal is." How hard can it possibly be to prove that she wants this, but she will listen to Caroline's deal. "I still want to go to college with my friends, but since I'm going to be a mother at that time it's going to be harder than originally planned and leaving Klaus alone with our son for long periods of time, I don't think he's going to be overly happy about it."
"So, what are you suggesting?" so far, she can't really see how this will prove that she wants to be human.
Caroline gives her a smile. "Help him, be there when I can't and get a feeling for what it's like to take care of a child, and no supernatural powers unless absolutely necessary. If you still feel after that, that you want a human life for yourself, then we can discuss it again."
Like she thought this is going to be ease. She gives Caroline a big hug. "Thank you." She needs someone that will help her in this. "But who are we testing the cure on then?"
"I have an idea," Caroline says with a smile. "And I don't think any of you will object."
I'm just going to let you all know that the next chapter won't be up until the 8 of January.
Until then I will be going through previous chapters correcting some spelling and grammar mistakes.
So Merry Christmas everyone.