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Sorry it took so long, I had B'day celebrations for my mum to organise so I've been busy!
FYI I'm mixing a little True Blood mythology in (just a smidge) because I want to!
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Blu3b3rryT3a: Damon's finally cluing up on his feelings for Enzo, I'm so excited! Can't wait for them to get together, even if it's just to stop Elena from getting her claws into him! Maya saw a lot, but there was one specific thing that really hurt Klaus, hope she can forgive his stupidity!
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He Who Wanders: You'll have to keep reading to find out! But so far only one person out of everyone on here and AO3 has guessed correctly.
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JessicaOnePiece: Thank you! As much as I love the Klaus and Maya moments, Klaus isn't exactly stable, so sometimes he's gonna mess things up.
TikiKiki: I'm not a huge fan of anything past season 2 on TO because stuff goes so downhill from there and the Originals just become weaker and weaker for no reason, so a lot will be changed. But what she saw is from S3 and beyond…
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CloudZzFluffyBedsOfWhite: Thank you! I'm just taking advantage of the serious lack of information that we have on the Gemini coven and Siphons. We're gonna see Kai, most definitely, but I'm not sure about the rest. Enzo was in love with Lilly, and she's Damon's mother so it's would be seriously weird, but maybe fun to write! I explained in one of the NOLA chapters that Kol had taught Maya about the different forms of magic, how a hex feels different to a curse and they feel different from spells. The vampire spell feels like a curse to Maya, and the spell on Klaus is also a curse, she can't feel the difference between the two, especially because they were cast within the same month, so both curses are the same age, she can't do it, unfortunately.
WiseGirlDivergence46: Klaus is definitely going to regret that!
Athena-Spencer: Ask and you shall receive!
guest: He already knows that, it was in one of the earlier chapters, the one where Maya and Klaus go out for a day together. Maya designed her own spell to prevent vampires from being compelled, she cast it on Enzo first because Klaus couldn't compel him when they first met, it's not mentioned, but she cast it on Damon later one, when they became friends. Kol was seriously intelligent and he wasn't really given a chance, so I want to give it to him now, and I want to give him a fighting chance.
mrs. morgan 35: I really don't like the fact that Alaric and Caroline were parents together, it was just so weird to me, so that's definitely not happening…ever.
aandm20: I don't think Klaus would appreciate that!
xotinkerbella: She did see canon, in my opinion there is one thing that is on par with Rebekah's betrayal and you'll find out in this chapter! And Kol deserves to get some revenge, he never really does in TVDU.
Eragon135790: Jenna's her real mother, and Maya is still a child, Maya put herself in a dangerous situation without thinking about the consequences and as a result she was punished by her mother. She loves and respects her mum, and as such, she's going to respect the punishments that she's given for endangering herself, even if she doesn't like them.
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simmingdae: Thank you so much! I thought Jenna deserved better, so I'm giving it to her. We'll some more Jeremy interactions soon, and then some Elena interactions after that! I'm just working on how to write these two characters that hate each other so much!
fayenight: Thank you, I didn't want to just make her this perfect girl, that's boring. I'm taking some liberties with the characters because in this the MFG doesn't have the plot armour that they do in the show so the more powerful characters, aka the Originals, are going to have more depth to them.
The next morning Maya woke up with the taste of blood in her mouth, she was in a bed, in the guest room that Klaus used as his own. Yawning she sat up slowly and ran a hand through her hair, her head was little funny, what had happened last nigh- "Oh shit!" she cursed, remembering the feel of Klaus's fangs in her throat, her hand shot to the right side of her neck, there was no open wound, but she could feel a scar. "What the fuck?!" she hissed, scrambling out of the bed and rushing over to the mirror, her eyes zeroed in on the very fresh scar on her throat. "What. The. Fuck?!" she gasped. The blood in her mouth clearly belonged to Klaus because the bite had healed up, but it had scarred, that shouldn't have happened.
Maya heard movement in the hallway and tugged her hair over her neck to cover up the mark, "Maya!" Caroline burst in, "Where were you?!"
"Sunshine!" Maya said whirling to meet her friend, "What?"
"You weren't in bed! Where did you go!"
"Oh, uh I got too hot sleeping in the middle, but I didn't want to wake you guys, so I slept in here."
"In here?" Caroline asked, eyes darting over to the rumpled bed.
"Yes."
"Isn't this Klaus's room?"
"Oh my God he didn't stay here Caroline!"
"I know for a fact that he was here last night!"
"He was downstairs!"
"Fine," Caroline crossed her arms, "I can't believe you left me in bed with Enzo!"
Maya rolled her eyes at that, "Quit your complaining, you two might fight, but you think he's ridiculously hot, don't deny it."
"Maya!" Caroline actually stomped her foot.
"Don't you 'Maya' me! I know you Care, you secretly loved it!"
"Shut up!" Caroline complained, "We're going out for breakfast, are you coming?"
"Umm, I have to check in with Nik and Kol first, I'll catch up."
"Maya you promised that we'd hang out! We have three weeks before we have to go home!"
Maya sighed, it was true, she had promised Caroline at least a month of fun, she just didn't expect that all this Mikaelson drama was going to take up so much of her time, "You're right, I'm sorry, now that Freya's awake the guys are the ones that are responsible for her. You know what, just give me the day to tie up loose ends and then it's just you and me for the next three weeks…with our vampire bodyguards."
"You promise?" Caroline asked.
"I swear."
"One day, and then you're mine!"
"One day," Maya reiterated.
Caroline nodded, spun on her heel, and walked out, "DAMON! ENZO! LET'S GO!" she yelled.
Maya sat down on the bed and let out a breath, "Shit!" she muttered when she heard them the leave. Grabbing her phone she dialled Kol's number. "You need to get your ass over here right now!"
"Well hello to you too darling," Kol replied, amused.
"Kol, this isn't a joke, this is really fucking serious! I need you here, and don't say a word to Nik."
"What happened?" he asked.
"I can't talk over the phone, you need to come over! Now!"
"I'll be with you shortly."
Kol was at the Brownstone in minutes, he rushed in and found Maya pacing the living room floor.
"What has you so worked up darling?"
"What the fuck is this?!" she demanded, moving her hair out of the way, showing off her newest scar.
Kol raised an eyebrow at the mark, "Who bit you love? Damon or Enzo? And are they ready to face Nik's wrath?"
"Klaus was the one who bit me! Why would you assume that it was Damon or Enzo?"
"No reason love, Nik bit you, you say?"
"No, no, no, you assumed for a reason! Why did you think it was Damon or Enzo? And why did I scar? Klaus fed me his blood I should have fully healed!"
Kol smirked, he'd only seen those scars a handful of times in his long life, "Perhaps you should speak with Nik."
Maya scowled, she didn't call him over just so he could avoid her questions, and she didn't want to talk to Klaus yet, narrowing her eyes, Kol groaned in pain as she gave him aneurism after aneurism, "I called you for a reason Kol! Do you really think that I want to speak to Klaus right now? I'm fucking furious!"
Kol growled, his eyes darkening for just a moment before he shook it off, he could tell she was freaking out, and if Nik hadn't stayed to explain things to her something must have been wrong, "Do you want me to bite you?!"
"Oh please like I'd let you," Maya dismissed.
"You let Nik," he pointed out.
"He caught me by surprise, you won't!"
Kol sneered at her, "Want a bet darling?"
"Damn it Kol I didn't call you here to fight with you! I need information, and you definitely have information."
Kol scowled, but realised that she did need to know what had happened to her, "Tell me what happened." It also didn't escape his notice that she was calling his brother by his more well known name, attempting to distance herself from Nik no doubt.
Maya sighed and collapsed onto the couch, "Klaus and I were talking last night, and he asked about what I saw, and I didn't want to tell him."
"Why not?"
"Because it was gonna hurt him, I don't like hurting anybody that I care about, but…"
"But there's something about him that makes you feel worse if you hurt him," Kol finished for her.
"Yes," Maya nodded, "I don't understand what's happening Kol."
Kol paused for a moment, it was difficult to explain, something that he himself barely understood, "Sometimes vampires form connections with others that go beyond…the physical, it usually happens when the human regularly consumes one vampire's blood."
"Which is why you thought that Damon or Enzo bit me?"
Kol nodded, "Damon did mention that he and Enzo liked to keep you stocked with vampire blood for your safety, I just didn't account for the fact that, that connection could form due to the quantity and age of the blood you consume."
"Klaus fed me his blood, a lot of it."
"And then within 24 hours he fed on you, and sealed the connection by feeding you his blood."
"I still don't understand, what is this connection that you're talking about?"
"How did you feel after Nik fed you his blood?"
"Really good, full of energy, like I was on a sugar high, but it felt way better than that, and then I crashed," Maya replied.
"But what did you feel after the crash? When you were talking with Nik, how did you feel?"
"I don't know," she rubbed her hands over her face, "I always like spending time with him, I was content just to be with him, but he was angry before I got there."
"How did you know that Nik was angry? Did he look angry?"
"We-" Maya thought back to last night, he hadn't looked angry, "No, he didn't, I could just…feel it, like what he was giving off, it didn't feel right."
Kol nodded, "That was the start of your connection with him, blood exchanges are very intimate for vampires, you drank directly from his vein, and he drank from you."
"So what I can feel what he feels now?" she asked horrified, "Can he feel me? Can he make me feel things?"
"No he can't influence how you feel, not like that, you might feel more relaxed around him, but it will be the same for him. And you can't feel what each other feels, but if your emotions are strong enough, the other would pick up a…vibe."
"Okay," Maya said, taking in what he was saying, she was panicking a little, she wasn't prepared for anything like this, "Is it permanent?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?! You're like a thousand! How can you not know?!"
"I barely know any vampires that have bonded with humans like this, I don't know if it's permanent, or if it will fade with time, but it will be something that you have to deal with from now on."
"That doesn't explain the scar, Klaus fed me his blood afterwards, I should have healed."
Kol gave her a little smirk, he knew that she was going to be angry at Nik for this, "It's rare that a vampire bonds with someone, because should something happen to that bonded it will hurt the vampire, the scar is…"
"What?" Maya narrowed her eyes at Kol, he was clearly enjoying what he was about to say, "The scar is what?"
"A mark of ownership, it's a signal to others you belong to someone."
"WHAT?!" Maya yelled, "I'M GONNA KILL YOUR BROTHER!"
Klaus had come to his senses when Maya had passed out from blood loss, her heart had slowed down dramatically, and he'd ripped himself away from her, staring at her with wide eyes. It was very rare that he did something that he hadn't meant to, but he most definitely hadn't meant to tear into Maya's throat, he felt a connection with her that he hadn't felt in centuries, and he hadn't wanted to hurt her. She would hate him for this, quickly he tore into his wrist and shoved it in her mouth, forcing her to drink from him. When she'd healed, he'd whooshed her into the guest room, carefully depositing her in the bed, he made sure that her heartbeat was strong before he vanished from the house.
He'd remained out all night, furious at himself, at his brother, at the woman he'd once loved and furious at Maya for putting herself in such a dangerous position with him. She knew that he'd be angry at what she showed him, and yet she'd thrown herself headfirst into danger by preventing him from going anywhere. When he arrived back at the Penthouse his mood hadn't improved, in fact it had probably worsened, seeing Rebekah and Elijah together infuriated him, it made him so angry he didn't even acknowledge the looks that Finn and Freya were throwing at him. He headed up to his studio and ransacked it, he destroyed his supplies, his furniture, and his artwork, all in the name of getting his anger out.
The door to his studio was locked, and spelled, so no one could hear him, or get in, at least he was free to lose himself there, or he thought that he was, but the door opened, and in walked the main object of his thoughts. He turned and was met with a fist in the face, he could feel his nose break at the impact, "That's for biting me!" Maya snarled out. Klaus growled and straightened up, only to be met with another fist, crushing his nose again, "That was for leaving me alone after you bit me, you dick!"
"Maya!" Klaus snarled.
"Motus!" Klaus flew back and hit the broken table in the room hard, "And that was for giving me a goddamn scar! What the fuck Klaus?!" She was fuming.
Klaus growled, shot across the room and slammed her into the wall, "ENOUGH!" he yelled, tearing her necklace off of her and keeping her hands from touching him.
"How dare you?!" she struggled against his grip, without her necklace, and the inability to touch him, she couldn't siphon, which meant that she was cut off from magic, "Get off me!"
"Not until you calm down!" he replied.
"Me calm down! That's rich coming from you! What part of you was calm last night?!"
"You shouldn't have got in my way!"
Maya struggled against him even more, "I swear to God, Klaus if you don't let me go, you are not going to like what happens!"
"So it's Klaus now? I thought we were friends!"
"You fucking bit me Klaus! And you left a scar!"
Klaus froze at that, he hadn't heard her the first time, but he had the second, his eyes zeroed in on the spot on her neck and his vampire burst through at the sight of his mark imprinted on her skin. He lowered his mouth towards the mark and Maya's eyes widened.
"Don't you dare bite me again!" she was going to threaten him again but instead she gasped as his lips brushed the scar and she was overtaken with a vision. One that wasn't anything like her other visions and it appeared that she'd dragged Klaus in to view it too. It was… steamy to say the least, an older version of herself wrapped around Klaus, nails digging into his bare back as she pulled him closer to her, his mouth traversing her naked chest. Maya's older self threw her head back in ecstasy, as her legs wrapped tighter around his waist and vision Klaus's hips flexed as he sank deeper into her, his fangs sliding into her throat.
The real Klaus abruptly tore away from Maya, both of them panting with exertion, Maya slid down the wall, eyes wide as she tried to process what she'd just seen, "What the fuck was that?!" she'd never had a vision like that before. Her cheeks turned red as she locked eyes with Klaus and realised that he'd seen everything she had.
Klaus smirked at her, "Well, well, what was that love? A delectable vision of the future? Or a wicked little fantasy of your own?" he whooshed to her, and had her up against the wall again, grabbing her legs he hitched them around his waist, his dimples showing as she gasped at the contact, "Either way, I'm game," he nosed her neck, the left side this time, avoiding the bite.
"Absolutely not Klaus!" Maya pushed him back a little, he was still holding her up, but she'd moved him away so that she could look him in the eye, "It's not happening Klaus!"
"Nik," he cut in, he didn't like the way his well-known nickname sounded coming from her.
Maya glared at him, did he really think that being charming was going make her less mad at him? Actually it made her more angry! "Klaus, I'm fifteen."
"Sixteen in three and a half weeks," he shrugged, "I don't mind, besides you're technically far older than me."
"Well I do," now that Maya had her hands on him, she could siphon again and shoved him away from her, "And even if I was older, I'm not sleeping with you Klaus."
Klaus let out a little laugh, "That's not what your delightful vision showed me."
Maya scowled, that cocky little- "Every vision I've had, I've set out to stop, and I'm well on my way to doing so, so don't hold your breath, Klaus." Maya moved to walk away from him, coming to him had been a mistake, punching him had only made her feel good momentarily. In reality she was hurt, not physically, but emotionally, he'd hurt her feelings, and she didn't know how she was going to forgive him. When she'd woken up she hadn't really been able to register the pain in her heart, especially when she found the scar on her neck. She'd been too wrapped up in the shock of what Klaus had done, she hadn't felt the hurt, not until after she'd gotten a couple of shots in. He tried to stop her from leaving, "Klaus don't." Maya said, pulling away from him, "I have to go, I can't be here."
"Maya I-" he couldn't finish his sentence, he wasn't one for apologies and he knew that she needed one.
Maya paused just before she opened the door, "Klaus," she sighed, "I am furious with you, you did something that I'm not sure can be fixed, and you did it to me. You hurt me Klaus! For almost three years I've been there! Helping you, keeping you safe, making sure that you get everything that you've ever wanted! And you just-!" she paused, "I can't even look at you without wanting to hurt you back Klaus, and I know exactly how to make it hurt bad." She turned away from him, unwilling to see his reaction, "I have to go, before I do or say something that we'll both regret."
"Maya stop-"
"Klaus I need you to stay away from me, at least for now." She walked out of the studio, closing the door behind her.
"Are you alright darling?" Kol asked, he'd been waiting outside the room for her, he couldn't hear inside thanks to the spell, but he knew that whatever discussion they were having was going to be intense.
"You're going to have to watch him for a while, if there are any problems, you deal with it, for the next three weeks at least I'm off the clock," she said, maybe what she needed was just some time to feel like a teenager again, "No vampires, no werewolves, no witches, no magic whatsoever, okay?"
Kol nodded, he could work with that, it would give him the time he needed to deal with his own issues. "Very well, but call me before you go home."
"I should go before Finn realises that I'm here." Maya headed downstairs, only to be met with three out off five Originals and a pissed off 900 year old vampire, "Great," she muttered.
"YOU!" Sage snarled and she and Finn lurched forward to attack her.
Maya frowned and waved her hands before they could reach her, "Ossox!" both of their necks snapped and they fell to the floor.
Elijah and Rebekah looked at her in shock, "What did you just-" Rebekah cut herself off, she'd never seen a witch so young wield so much power.
Maya rolled her eyes, she was not in the mood, "Not my circus! Not my monkeys!" she said annoyed, "Prohibere!" The remaining vampires froze where they stood, "Kol! Come and take care of this!" she called, "I'm leaving!"
Rushing out, she paused when she hit the street, reaching to her neck, Maya frowned, Klaus still had her necklace, and she'd just used the last of her magic on the Originals. She wasn't going back for it, who knows what Klaus would do.
Klaus was sitting alone in the wreckage of his studio, he was leaning against the back wall, his arms resting on his knees, a bottle of bourbon in one hand, his head tipped back as he surveyed the damage with unseeing eyes. Kol walked in, it had only been about a week since Klaus had given him access to the studio when it was locked, none of their other siblings had access to Klaus's inner sanctum in the Penthouse. "She's gone," Kol said, eyeing Klaus carefully, it had been centuries since he'd seen his brother… distraught.
"I hurt her," Klaus replied.
Kol nodded, shifting some of the broken wood on the floor with his foot, and then sliding down the wall next to Klaus. He took the bottle from his brother and took a drink, "You tend to do that," he replied, he wasn't going to pull any punches, it wouldn't do either of them any good.
"She doesn't care about the bite," Klaus refuted, letting out a disbelieving laugh, "I don't even think she cares about the mark, I hurt her feelings," He turned his head to look at Kol, "How am I supposed to fix that?"
Kol locked eyes with him and shrugged, "Alas brother, that is the one thing that I truly can't help you with, I don't do feelings."
"Neither do I," Klaus scoffed, how was he supposed to fix this?
"Elijah's quite adept at emotions," Kol pointed out, "So is Rebekah."
"Not in a million bloody years!"
Kol let out a little laugh, "I didn't think that would be an option anyway."
"So what do I do?" Klaus asked.
"Like I said brother, I'm not an expert, but perhaps you could start," he reached out and picked up Maya's wolf talisman, and dangled it in front of Klaus, "by returning this."
"That witch is bloody powerful!" Rebekah fumed, it had taken a full thirty minutes before she and Elijah had been released from the freezing spell.
Elijah downed a glass of blood from the kitchen, he'd spent the whole half hour trying to break free of the spell, all it had done was give him the mother of all headaches, "She took us all down, with just a wave of her hands, and she is at Niklaus's beck and call. Rebekah…"
Rebekah looked at Elijah worried, "Nik's never had this kind of power in his corner before…"
"And thanks to his witch, he has Freya," Finn cut in, walking inside with his sister, "Do you really believe that Niklaus is going to just let us live our lives? Father is dead, he has the daggers, unmatched power in his corner and the only one that would stand a chance of going up against him, is under his control."
Elijah narrowed his eyes, he didn't like where this was going, "And what exactly is it you're proposing Finn?"
"We need to find a way to stop Niklaus before he becomes too powerful. If he breaks his curse, no one will be powerful enough to take him on. What'll stop him from locking us all away again?"
"Niklaus has spent a millennium looking for a way to break the curse," Elijah said, "Do you really think that he would allow anyone to interfere? Especially when he is so close to breaking it?" He wasn't going to agree with Finn, but he also didn't want to alienate his elder brother, Finn was the only one who truly had Freya's ear, and Finn believed that she was strong enough to take on their psychotic brother.
"You can't seriously be thinking about this!" Rebekah hissed, her eyes darting around the room, terrified that Klaus was going to hear them and dagger them all. "Nik will kill us! You know what he's done to Katerina! And he cared nothing for her! If we betray Nik there will be no end to our suffering!" She wasn't willing to risk her life against her brother, not when they were finally free of Mikael.
Finn frowned, he knew that it was going to be difficult to convince his siblings to side with him, but if he could just pressure them enough, make them fear Niklaus enough that they wouldn't help their brother, perhaps it would be just enough to prevent him from breaking the Hybrid curse. Their mother had cursed Niklaus for a reason, and he wouldn't let the last thing that their mother did to protect the world be destroyed. "What do you think sister?" he turned to Freya, "Do you really believe that Niklaus should be able to break his curse? It was the last thing mother did, and she did it to keep us all safe."
Unbeknownst to Finn, he'd said the wrong thing, Freya hated Esther, it would have been better if he'd never mentioned their mother, "Niklaus's witch has control over me," she replied, not answering his question.
"Then we find and kill the witch, I'm owed recompense for her actions anyway."
Rebekah scowled, she wasn't pleased at the witch, but she also wasn't stupid enough to believe that they could just kill her, she also wasn't stupid enough to think that their brother wouldn't retaliate against them, he seemed… protective of his witch, he wouldn't even say her name near them. "Do you really think that we'll be able to kill the witch without any retaliation?" she rolled her eyes, Finn was being an idiot, "Not to mention, we have no idea what it would do to Freya, whose to say that if the witch dies, Freya doesn't go right back to sleep?"
Freya frowned, her magic had been limited, at one point it had stopped working all together, before coming back hours later, that was the witch's doing no doubt, but whatever had been done to her, she wasn't strong enough to break the spell, "The only other person that would know what has been done to me is Kol, and I don't believe that he'll help, despite the fact that the last time I saw him, Niklaus was shoving a dagger in his heart." It was baffling to her, how her siblings were acting around Klaus, despite the fact that he still possessed daggers that could render them all but dead.
Rebekah scoffed, not wanting to be reminded of the fact that Kol was now in Nik's good graces, "Kol's having his turn as Nik's favourite, he's not going to let that go easily."
Freya raised a brow at her younger sister, perhaps she could use the clear jealousy Rebekah was feeling against Kol, and separate him from Niklaus, "Is Kol not normally the favourite?" she asked innocently.
Rebekah narrowed her eyes at her older sister, she supposed she couldn't fault Freya's lack of knowledge, she didn't know their family, "Kol's a troublemaker, he draws too much attention to us, he's never the favourite."
"But father's dead," Freya said slowly, that had been painful for her to find out, her father, the one who had played with her in the fields, watched over her when she'd fallen sick, he'd named his sword for her, so that she'd always be with him in battle. Her father, according to her siblings, had become a monster, violent, abusive, and he'd hunted them for a millennia, before he'd finally been killed.
"You're point?" Rebekah rolled her eyes, unwilling to discuss Kol's mysterious rise in Niklaus's eyes.
"My point is that there's no one chasing you, Niklaus doesn't need to keep Kol in check anymore, because there's no weapon left that can kill him, and no one with the power to wield it, even if there was one. None of you need to hide anymore, so what does it matter if Kol draws attention from anyone? He can do what he likes, and Niklaus can join him, without fear."
Rebekah and Elijah both froze at that, deep down they'd believed that whatever alliance Klaus and Kol had was short lived, as it always had been, but Freya was right, unless Kol betrayed him, Klaus had no reason to put him down again. And Kol was clearly enjoying being Klaus's right hand far too much to even consider betrayal. "Kol isn't going to help you," Elijah spoke carefully, he wasn't agreeing with Finn, but he also wasn't dismissing his elder brother's idea.
"He will if he thinks I'm helping him," Freya replied, in truth, her desire to break Klaus's curse had grown somewhat, especially when she knew that it was the last bit of magic that Esther had done, breaking the curse would be a way she could hurt her mother, even if Esther was dead.
"Sister you can't-"
Freya cut Finn off, "I can and I will, Kol doesn't know me, he will believe that I am helping him with the Hybrid curse and then he will help me, it will also let me find out what they are planning."
"It's dangerous," Finn insisted.
"I'm immortal," Freya replied, "I can't die, not so long as I'm connected to Dahlia."
The unfortunate thing about the soundproofing spell on Klaus's studio, was that when the doors were closed, while no one could hear inside, no one could hear what was going on outside the studio. So for the most part, neither he nor Kol had heard what was being discussed, they had managed to catch the tail end of their sibling's conversation and Klaus roared in anger. Whooshing downstairs, being followed closely by Kol.
"SO THAT'S WHAT THIS HAS COME TO! PLOTTING AGAINST ME! IN MY OWN HOME! A HOME I BUILT FOR ALL OF YOU!" He yelled, his eyes going dark with rage, Kol snarling at their siblings at his side, "THE HOME I INVITED YOU INTO!" he turned to Freya. He threw Finn though two walls, Kol tossing Elijah to one side before he could interfere. "I WOKE YOU! GAVE YOU A FAMILY! GAVE YOU A HOME! I HAVE OFFERED YOU RESOURCES AND POWER SO THAT YOU COULD BE FREE OF DAHLIA YET YOU SIT IN MY HOME AND CONSPIRE AGAINST ME!"
"Nik stop!" Rebekah pled, she didn't want this to happen, she just wanted things to go back to how they were, when her favourite brother trusted her. "We don't want to hurt you!"
"You should keep your mouth shut Bekah!" Kol whirled on her, ready to confront her for what she did, even if Nik wasn't, "You're the most treacherous of us all!"
"Shut up Kol!" Rebekah snarled, attacking him, "You know nothing about me!"
Kol threw her off him, "I KNOW YOU CALLED MIKAEL TO NEW ORLEANS!" he yelled, and she gasped in shock, no one knew that, Nik couldn't know that, he'd find a way to truly kill her.
"I have no idea what you're talking about!"
"I know what you did Rebekah," Klaus growled out, his temper boiling over, secrets that no one wanted told were about to be spilled, "You and Marcel called Mikael, the Destroyer to New Orleans!"
"What?" Elijah paled, she couldn't have, how could she have done such a thing to them?
"Go on tell him!" Klaus snarled, "Tell him how you and my son, my son, tricked a witch into sending him our location, you brought him to our home to KILL ME!"
"NO!" Rebekah refuted, "I didn't! I swear!"
Klaus growled and pulled a dagger from his inner pocket, "You did this!"
Elijah whooshed in front of his sister "Walk away from this Niklaus!" he couldn't believe that Rebekah had done this, there would be no end to Klaus's rage.
Klaus pointed the dagger at Rebekah who was clinging to Elijah like a wounded puppy, "This is for you Rebekah!"
"I'm asking you, brother-to-brother, end this nonsense now," Elijah pled.
"You would side with a traitor?!" Klaus's anger flared, he shouldn't be surprised, not after what he'd just found out.
Kol snapped his phone shut and looked over at Klaus, "It's done," he said simply, Maya wasn't the only witch he knew in town, and he'd had one of the ones who owed him a favour put up a temporary barrier, he wasn't letting Rebekah escape this.
Elijah ignored Kol, "I am not choosing sides, but I will not allow you to hurt our sister!"
"Thanks to Kol none can leave this house, how long do you think you can defend her?" he whooshed towards them, but Rebekah ran away, first to the door to attempt to leave, and then to a window when she couldn't get out.
"As long as it takes, and I will do so with whatever means necessary!"
"You can't stop me Elijah, you have no power here!"
Elijah shot a look at Freya who cast a pain spell on Klaus to try to stop him, Klaus groaned in pain, but Kol whooshed to Freya's side, "That's enough of that sister!" he looked into her eyes, he wasn't compelling her, he couldn't, but Maya's linking spell afforded him some very special perks, "No magic for you until I say so!"
Freya's magic stopped flowing and Klaus straightened up with a cruel smirk. "Is that all you've got brother?" he whooshed out of the room to chase after Rebekah, the Penthouse was large, but not large enough for her to hide from him.
Elijah whooshed after him, and threw him aside when he made to attack, Klaus fought back, the two of them equally matched, he needed to give Freya enough time to figure out how to get the barrier down. "Niklaus, I know you, and I grew up fighting you. I can't be beaten, nor can I be persuaded. You cannot get past me."
"I could get past you. Although, it might have to be over your dead body. After everything you've done, perhaps I should direct my rage toward you!" he pointed the dagger at Elijah, he'd taken his brother down before, he could do it again.
"You should see yourself! The murderous expression, the self-righteous posturing. You look like father!"
Klaus raged, how dare he! How dare Elijah compare him to father! "I'm not him. Rebekah's betrayal justifies my anger. His was that of a madman. You were never the recipient of his cruelty. None of you were! Not Kol, not Finn. None of you! I think you've forgotten what he was truly like!"
"No. I have not forgotten," Elijah replied gravely, as much as he wished he could, he could never forget the pain Mikael caused. Klaus glared at Elijah before speeding away to find Rebekah, "Niklaus, I understand your anger, but I implore you, be better than him. Do what he could not; demonstrate the grace of mercy, rather than this petty cruelty."
"You ask him to show mercy to one who has wronged him?" Kol asked incredulously, walking into the room, "You really don't know Nik at all, do you, brother?"
Rebekah appeared in the room, she couldn't take it anymore, she wouldn't be able to run from Nik, not when he had nothing hunting him, "Enough. Whatever I have done wrong, my guilt is nothing compared to yours. You want revenge? Fine. But, before you have it, I will look you in the eye and tell you why it was your cruelty and your spite that led us to this."
Klaus sneered at her, he already knew her reasoning behind her treachery, but he'd let her talk, let her think that she actually had a chance to escape his wrath, "Go on, then. Speak your piece, and when you are finished, I will grant you the punishment you deserve, even if I have to go through Elijah to do so."
Kol scoffed watching as Finn walked in, along with Freya, he leant against the wall, at his brother's side, "Let it begin! The trial of Rebekah Mikaelson!" he called out, he'd always been fond of dramatics, and he would milk his sister's fall from grace for all it was worth.
"What a relief. Kol's on his side," Rebekah muttered bitterly.
"Just speak your truth. I'll make certain they behave themselves," Elijah straightened his suit, ruffled from his brief fight with Klaus.
"You stand accused of betraying your own blood. How do you plead?" Klaus asked sardonically.
"I plead you to shut up and listen!"
"You summoned our father. You brought him to our home. What possible defence could you have?"
"I knew he was the only thing that you feared, and I wanted you to run!"
"Because you hated me," Klaus finished for her.
"Because you were hateful. You denied me the freedom to love."
"Oh, so that's your defence! You called Mikael, The Destroyer, the hunter of vampires, because I detained you from pursuing some dull suitors." Klaus replied and Kol rolled his eyes, of course that was her reasoning.
"You were cruel and controlling and manipulative."
"I was trying to protect you! From imbeciles, and leeches. Not to mention your own poor judgment."
"And what about the one that you loved enough to call friend? Why did you forbid me to love Marcel?"
"Do not mention his name!" Klaus tried to hold back his anger, he didn't call Marcel his friend, he called him his son, and Rebekah had still gone after him.
"What has happened to you? I remember the sweet boy who made me laugh and gave me gifts, who loved art and music. I wanted to be just like you. How could you have fallen so far?"
"You say you despise Rebekah for her betrayal, and yet no one has stood by your side for so long, not even I myself." Elijah cut in, it was true, she was the one who was by his side for eternity, "Perhaps it's you that's forgotten. I remember the day that father caught you whittling little chess pieces with his hunting knife. He beat you so mercilessly and for so long, I actually feared for your life."
"So, you would paint her as a loyal sister, but she betrayed me out of lust for Marcel. Perhaps that was why you did it, for love. Perhaps I might temper my rage if Rebekah will admit she was a victim of her own idiocy, that her great love, Marcel, used her to oust this family and to take my city." He hadn't told Rebekah about Marcel's continued existence, but he was about to, it would hurt her, and he needed that.
"Marcel did not manipulate me!" she replied quickly.
Klaus scoffed, "You defend him, and yet you can't help but wonder, what if I'm right?"
"We loved each other. It was your refusal to respect that, that led to your ruin."
"Then why didn't he chase after you when you fled New Orleans? Oh, yes! That's right. He stayed there stealing what I built!"
"What?!" Rebekah gasped.
"Oh, did we forget to tell you sister?" Kol cut in, "Turns out that Marcel didn't die in that fire, he lived, and he didn't come for you Rebekah, he remained in New Orleans, and took everything that we built!"
"No!" Rebekah refused to believe that, "No he would never do that to me!"
"Just ask Finn, I'm certain he had a run in with that cretin when he went to New Orleans!" Kol all but crowed, as far as he was concerned Rebekah deserved this.
Rebekah shook her head in denial and looked over at her eldest brother, "Finn?"
Finn actually looked a little repentant, Rebekah was his baby sister, "Rebekah," he sighed, unable to say what she needed to hear.
"No!" Rebekah refused to believe it, Marcel would not have done that to her, he loved her, they were just saying this to hurt her. "You want me to renounce Marcel, to beg for your forgiveness? I won't. Marcel was not at fault. I called Mikael!"
"Rebekah, you must-"
Rebekah cut Elijah off, "I was the one who brought him to New Orleans because of your wickedness! I wanted love and happiness, and you denied me the freedom to have either. Yes, I hated and was afraid of our father, but he was a lesser evil than you. My bastard brother who loomed over me, threatening me as you are now. I wanted rid of you, and given the choice, I'd do it again!"
Klaus growled, lunging at her, only to be pushed away by Elijah, snatching the dagger from Klaus's hands, "You won't listen to her. So, now, you must deal with me!"
"What do you think you can do? The dagger won't do anything to me, you know that, and Freya's got no power to stop me, I hold all the cards, not you brother."
"Unlike you, I have no wish to harm my siblings, I only hold this to keep it from you."
"You know I have others," Klaus dismissed, "And there's no way out for Rebekah, there never will be."
"She's our sister."
"Why must you defend her? Rebekah betrayed you, as well, when she brought Mikael here!"
"Because she is our sister, and because I like to remember her the way that she was before we became what we became. She was an innocent girl, quick to laugh, full of life."
"My memories only serve to make the betrayal more painful," Elijah didn't know it, but Klaus wasn't just referring to Rebekah, he was also referring to his older brother, Elijah didn't know that Klaus knew what he'd done.
"Can you not then accept some small part of the blame? After all, Niklaus, it was your cruelty that led her to do what she did."
"Do you not see, Elijah? She didn't mean to chase him off!" Kol said, tired of Elijah's constant defence of their sister, "She wanted him dead!"
"You're wrong."
"She has always hated me. You know that's true," Klaus agreed with Kol, Rebekah had tried to kill him.
"You have no idea, do you? You have no idea what she was prepared to do for you. When our sister sees something that she perceives to be an injustice, she can be stubborn, impetuous, and, at times, downright dangerous, and never was this more apparent than the night she tried to kill our father!" Elijah closed his eyes, sharing the memory he had with both Klaus and Kol, they saw Rebekah grab a knife, and creep over to where Mikael was sleeping, fully ready to kill him.
Klaus tore himself from the memory, "What is this, some melodramatic fiction designed to garner my sympathy?"
"It is the truth." Elijah tried, "I was there. And she would have done it, all to protect you, had I not stopped her. I often wished that I could revisit that moment, complete the task myself."
"Why are you telling me this now?"
"Niklaus, sometimes our sister acts without thinking. She's short of temper, she's quick to fall in love, but she loves you. But your malicious treatment has broken her heart. So, yes, she responded by summoning our father. Yes, that was a mistake. I'm not entirely sure that I can blame her."
Klaus shrugged, "I can," he whooshed towards Rebekah, who ran out of the room, Klaus followed.
Elijah beat him to Rebekah, standing in front of her defensively, Kol, Finn and Freya catching up in less than a second, "Niklaus, so help me-"
"Are you really going to stand against me? And not with that pathetic blade. It doesn't work on me, even if it did, you'd just have to pull it out someday, and then I'd hate you as I do her, now. If you want to protect Rebekah, you'll need to find a way to kill me, and you'll need it fast!"
"I don't have to listen to this nonsense!"
"Come now Elijah!" Kol said, taking up his own defensive stance, "Don't pretend like you haven't thought about it! I know all about the witches that you reached out to, to try and kill Nik!" Kol growled, "You dress yourself up in your fancy suits and with your handkerchiefs. You, with your mask of civility and eloquence, you're every bit the abomination that we are, you could even be worse, so go on, do whatever it is that you planned to do before Nik woke us! Try and kill him! See what happens!"
Elijah threw the dagger to the ground, he knew keeping it was useless, Klaus had one for each of them, "I'm not so cowardly that I have to kill you, Niklaus, but if I have to make you suffer to protect Rebekah, that is what I will do."
Klaus smirked, "You see? I knew you couldn't do it. You still cling to the hope that I can be redeemed, and if the bastard can be saved, then maybe there's hope for you." Klaus whooshed to him and broke Elijah's spine in three places, ripping out a large section, causing him to cry out in agony. That would take Elijah time to heal, time enough for Klaus to unleash his wrath.
Rebekah whooshed in and broke both of Kol's legs, she couldn't afford to have him against her, "I won't let you continue to hurt our brother!"
"Well you'll have to kill me to stop me," Klaus said, sending her sailing across the room, Freya narrowly avoided getting flattened by her sister. He walked over to Kol, resetting his legs so he would heal far faster. "So why not finish what you started a century ago?"
"I did not want you dead! I wanted you to run."
"LIAR! You wanted revenge!"
"You drove me to betray you, and now you want to twist it and make it worse so you can justify your anger instead of accepting your own fault? All I did was love your friend! You could've been happy for us, but instead, in your paranoia, you feared losing us both. And, because of that, you did. There is no one else to blame, Nik. Only you."
"Where is Marcel now, hmm? I thought he loved you, and yet he never came after you! And now here you are, taking his share of the punishment, I'm gonna shove this in your chest," he held up the dagger, "Only this time, Kol will be the one to decide whether you will ever awake!"
Rebekah fought not to show her shock at his words, he'd never given anyone control over their bodies, "I won't let you."
"You against me and Kol. It's hardly a fair fight, is it? Even if you had my son on your side, you wouldn't stand a chance, but you have no one Rebekah, I suspect Marcel moved on to a younger and prettier girl the moment we left town." Kol let out a sinister laugh at that, Klaus really did know how to hit people where it hurt.
"You take joy in other people's pain, and then you wonder why I hate you."
"Yes, and that hatred led you to do what you did. Admit the truth. Admit you wanted me dead!"
"I wanted you to run, that is all! Despite your delusions!"
Klaus looked over at Elijah who was groaning in pain, he was healing much slower than he should, he quirked an eyebrow at Kol who gave a nonchalant shrug, so maybe he'd also asked his witch to slow down certain Mikaelson's healing processes, temporarily of course. "Elijah lies suffering, and I will help him, get him out of the house so that he can heal. All you have to do is admit it."
"You're insane!"
"YES! Yes! I am a vicious, heartless monster, and so you summoned Mikael to kill me. Admit it!"
"It's not true!"
"You know what you did. Admit it!"
"I didn't!"
"You wanted me dead! Admit it!"
Rebekah's face crumpled with grief as she eyed the only brother that had tried to help her, "Maybe I did." She whispered, eyes widening when she realised what she'd just said, "Nik wait-"
Klaus felt his heart break, she'd actually admitted it, she'd wanted him dead, he glanced at Kol who looked just as shocked as he did. Angrily Klaus shoved a wooden stake into Rebekah's chest, he hadn't used the dagger, if he daggered her, someone would wake her eventually, and he no longer wanted the responsibility of dealing with her. Klaus handed the dagger to Kol and sank to the floor, what was he supposed to do now? He'd pushed her to admit it, but he'd never actually believed that she'd wanted him dead, but she'd said it, hadn't she?
"You didn't use the dagger," Kol said quietly.
"What would be the point?" Klaus asked, "The daggers were so that I could keep you close," he looked over at his prone sister, she'd wake soon enough, probably about the same time that Elijah regenerated and healed his broken spine, "Why would I keep a traitor close? I'm done with her," he said flatly, standing and walking out of the room, brushing past a quiet Finn and Freya, there was still much that had to be revealed, but he needed a drink. Kol shot both of his older siblings with a glare and followed his brother.
/ / / /
Kol was sat with Klaus in the downstairs living room, both of them had drinks in their hands, "You still have more to deal with," Kol said.
"I know," Klaus sighed, leaning back in his chair.
"What are you going to do?"
"Well I suppose that our siblings should air all their dirty laundry tonight, get it all out there, so there are no more surprises," he replied bitterly.
"I'm sure you have some dirty laundry of your own," Kol pointed out.
Klaus nodded as he thought back to the only truly large secret he'd kept from his family…well not all his family, it appeared that Elijah knew his darkest secret and hadn't told the rest of them. "I'll tell you," Klaus said, surprising both himself and Kol, but he couldn't keep it to himself, Maya had said the truth would come out, it was better for him to get out in front of it, "But not here."
Kol nodded, he didn't think that Klaus would tell him anything, he was willing to wait until they were clear of the house and they could talk in private, "What are you going to do with Rebekah?"
"Once I'm done with Elijah and Freya, she's going to leave."
"You're just letting her go?!" Kol asked incredulously, Rebekah couldn't be allowed to just get away with what she'd done.
"I told you, I'm done with her, she really tried to kill me Kol, she's not my family anymore, I don't want her anywhere near me."
"You're not going to punish her!"
"I'll tell you what brother, I'm not the only one she betrayed in New Orleans, keep her away from me, away from my witch and out of New Orleans, her punishment's yours to mete out."
Kol's eyes widened, Nik was the 'punisher', no one else dispensed justice quite like him, no one else was allowed, and yet, Nik was giving him free reign! He supposed it helped that he already had part of her punishment planned out, his search and destruction of the cure would take on a whole new meaning, before it was just to keep Rebekah immortal, but now, he'd make sure that she knew that he'd been the one to destroy that particular dream of hers. "No killing?" he asked cheekily.
Klaus shook his head in exasperation, "Well we wouldn't want to piss off you know who."
/ / / / /
Rebekah gasped awake, she pulled the stake out of her heart, moaning as her skin knit back together. She'd been left alone upstairs, Elijah's prone form next to her, he groaned as he used the wall to pull himself up into a sitting position, "He didn't dagger me," she said in disbelief, she was sure that she wasn't going to awake for five hundred years minimum.
Elijah frowned as he sat up, he'd heard his brother's conversation while his body was healing, "That's not a good thing Rebekah."
"What?!" she asked sharply, getting up and walking over to him, pulling her brother to his feet.
"He daggered us because he didn't want to be alone," he shook his head, "Niklaus no longer believes you're worth it."
"You're wrong Elijah, he loves me, he's just angry."
"I wish that was all it was, he told Kol that he had to deal with me as well."
"What did you do?"
"I don't know, but much like you, I imagine he has discovered something in my past that has hurt him."
"Then what do we do Elijah? Nik's never been like this before."
"For the first time in a millennia Rebekah, I'm not sure there's anything we can do, but face whatever it is that we've done to our brother."
/ / / / /
Elijah and Rebekah slowly walked into the living room, "You didn't dagger me," Rebekah said, looking at Klaus.
He took a sip of his drink, allowing the glass to dangle from his fingertips, "You're no longer my problem Rebekah, any punishment that you will receive will be at Kol's discretion, I'm washing my hands of you, little sister."
"Nik-"
"And you no longer have my permission to call me that," he cut her off, if Maya wasn't going to call him Nik, he certainly wasn't going to let Rebekah continue to use that name, "You and I, are done."
He stood and made to walk away, but was stopped by Elijah, "Niklaus!"
"Don't even get me started on you Elijah! As far as I'm concerned you're just as bad as our sister!"
"Niklaus-"
"You stood there and defended her!" he pointed at Rebekah, "When she tried to kill me! She brought the one thing that I fear to our door and you still defend her!" he shook his head, "I don't know why I'm surprised, you've never been on my side! Not really! You've always been ashamed of me!"
"I did everything I could to protect you!"
"Protect me?! You stood and you watched as Mikael beat me till I passed out cold!"
"I NEVER WATCHED YOU SUFFER! I was beside you tortured and beaten without mercy!"
"YOU HELPED HIM TIE ME DOWN!" Klaus yelled back.
"Wait what?" Kol asked standing, what was Nik talking about?
"You helped Mikael tie me down, you helped him and mother! When I begged you for help, you helped them, without you they never would have been able to keep me there! They never would have been able to curse me! But you helped!" It was a secret that Klaus had never let slip before, he loved Elijah, and he'd never wanted anyone to know what his older brother had done, because Elijah had vowed to stay with him 'Always and Forever' and he didn't want anyone to know that he'd been hurt by the closest person in the world to him. But he was so angry, he'd just snapped, it had spilled out by accident, no one was ever supposed to know his greatest pain. No one. "You forced me to live with this maddening pain for a millennia! You did this to me!"
"You did what?!" Kol exclaimed, he'd thought that they were all in the caves the night Nik had been cursed, but he realised that he hadn't seen Elijah that night.
"Elijah!" Rebekah exclaimed, for the moment her pain was forgotten, this was a betrayal that she'd never foreseen.
"And then you took Aurora from me! You compelled her to break my heart," a tear rolled down his cheek as he remembered that terrible night, his heart had been shattered, and he'd vowed never to let love in again. "You compelled her to ruin me! And then to leave and never return! I hate you for what you did to me," he finished quietly.
Rebekah was looking at Elijah with wide eyes, she knew how much Aurora had meant to Klaus, her brother had fallen deeply in love with her, his first love as a vampire, and when Aurora had left he'd changed, he'd rejected any form of love after that, and not just his own love, he wouldn't let any of them be happy. Had Elijah really done that?
"Niklaus how did you?"
"What, find out? Well brother, it appears that after a thousand years, I finally found someone who is on my side, and no one else's."
"You must believe me brother, I never meant to hurt you."
"You did it specifically to hurt me, and I don't think that I can forgive you Elijah." Klaus moved away from his older brother, his best friend in the world, his heart had been torn to shreds, if he stayed much longer he would do something that he would come to regret.
"Niklaus," Elijah reached out to his brother and Klaus pulled back before they could come into contact.
"No! I don't want to hear it Elijah, you broke my heart, both of you did," he glanced at Rebekah, "I can't be here." Klaus looked over at Kol, giving him a quick nod before whooshing out of the Penthouse.
/ / / /
Finn and Freya sat in her room, she'd managed to get up a privacy spell before Kol had taken her magic, so her siblings couldn't hear what was going on in her room, but anyone inside could hear what was going on outside of it. "My magic's gone!" Freya exclaimed.
"How is that possible?" Finn asked.
"I don't know," Freya said, "He's a vampire, he doesn't have magic, so he can't cast a spell to stop me."
"He must have an enchanted object," Finn mused, "The witch probably gave it to him because she can't stay here."
"So we find the object," Freya said.
"Or we kill the witch," Finn finished.
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