CHAPTER 16: MOTHER DEAREST.
"Klaus, she's found us." Rebekah said to her phone as she carried her nephew in her arms. She had been on the run from their mother ever since Klaus had given her Henrik to hid and protect until they were certain that there were no more threats to the little infant's life.
"Come back home, Rebekah. It's time for both of you be come home." Klaus said.
Nodding to herself, as she hurriedly walked inside her house, "I'll see you soon, brother."
She and Henrik were returning to New Orleans.
She gasped, something was wrong. She could see darkness surrounding Caroline and the child, the child especially was being pursued by darkness. She could not let this happen.
"Marcel" she said as the other person on the line answered.
"What's up?" Marcel said.
"They're in danger, the child especially." she said.
"Who?" he asked.
"Caroline and the child. Darkness is following them. You need to warn them." she said.
There was a long pause before he replied. "Alright. Thanks, Corinne."
Caroline had just placed Ellie in her crib for another nap when one of her daughter's stuffed bear fell out of the crib. As she bent down to pick it up, she saw it.
A withered black Dahlia.
As Caroline stood with it in her hands, she wondered where this came from until she looked around her, as if all of a sudden, there was another Black Dahlia placed in every corner of the room; one on her daughter's dressing table, another near her stuffed animals, on the bed she placed there, but the one sight that terrified her the most:
A Black Dahlia was growing right beside her daughter's closed palm, its vines trying to grasp her little wrist.
"Niklaus, Rebekah, Elijah." said the woman.
"Mother. What an unpleasant surprise." Elijah said, the three siblings immediately standing close to one another, preparing to fight.
"I am not here to fight." Esther said, "I've come to warn you."
"Warn us? from what? I fail to see why you are being so motherly now." Rebekah said.
"I've made many mistakes in my life, Rebekah. But I never wanted you all to turn to the monsters you've become." Esther said. "I will forever live with the knowledge that I turned you into this. But you are my children and I do love all of you despite how I've acted."
"Stop with the act, mother. What do you want?" Klaus said. As much as he wanted to head those words from her, it was a thousand years too late.
"Dahlia is here. She is coming for your child, and for mine." Esther said, "I will try to do my best to stop her, or at least slow her down but she is much too powerful than I."
"Hello, mother." said a voice, causing Esther to turn around and Klaus, Rebekah and Elijah to look at the new comer.
"Remember me?" Freya said as he made her way to her siblings and stood in front of Esther. "The daughter you gave away?"
"Freya." Esther whispered.
"I see you still remember me." Freya said.
"This is impossible. The deal you made is that she gets the first born female child of every generation. Henrik is a boy." Elijah said, trying to understand what their mother and Freya had told them.
The magic of the witches in their family was especially strong in the first born females, so strong that they often die due to not being able to control their powers. The women either wield their powers and become the most powerful witch of her generation or they go crazy and die, that is, if they had not died in childhood from it.
Dahlia had used Freya to gain more power, she'd taught Freya how to control her powers and then she'd controlled Freya's powers in order to be stronger. That was what Dahlia planned to do to Klaus' child, had Henrik been a girl.
As the family began to argue and think of other theories, they barely noticed the sound of expensive stiletto boots until the owner spoke, "Perhaps I can help solve that little puzzle."
As everyone turned to the intruder, they all had different expressions.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Rebekah said all of a sudden, annoyed that the Gilbert girl was here.
"Well, I was going to give you a useful piece of information, I'd have given it sooner except your wolf mama didn't seem to let you know where I was." Elena said as she approached Elijah and looked him in the eyes, willing him to realize who she really was.
"Katerina?" Elijah whispered, to which she smiled. "I thought you were dead?" he asked.
"I was, but I found a way out of it." Katherine said as she turned to Klaus. "I'll tell you what I know Klaus, but I want my freedom. I'm tired of running and if you want to protect your child, you're gonna want to hear what I have to say." she said, hoping against hope that Klaus is merciful and doesn't pull out her undead heart.
"Give me one good reason as to why I should agree to this." Klaus said. He didn't want to agree to Katerina. She'd managed to avoid him for centuries after she had killed herself and prevented him from unlocking his werewolf curse.
"Because if you want to know and protect your child, your gonna need me." Katherine said.
Suddenly, Klaus has her up on a wall, his hand around her neck. "I am tired of your riddles. Tell me what you know and I might spare your life."
"I-it's about C-Caroline." Katherine said, choking. This gets him to let go of her and she drops to the ground, Elijah is by her side immediately and helps her up.
"What are you talking about?" Rebekah asked, "What has that blonde barbie got to do with all of this?"
As Elijah held Katherine in his arms so that she can use him as support, Katherine looked at Rebekah and than Klaus. "You got her pregnant too."
Rebekah laughed, "Seriously. We've got more serious problems than your lies. Caroline is a vampire. Vampires can't get pregnant."
"She's an elemental. Thanks to Hayley getting pregnant, her Elemental gene-whatever, activated and in order to balance nature, she got pregnant by you, thanks to your hot hybrid sex-her words, not mine." Katherine said as Elijah finally got her to sit down.
"She had a girl three months ago." Katherine added. "If you don't believe me, ask him." she said as another figure entered.
Klaus then sped up and punched Marcel. "Where. is. She?"
AN: New Chapter! Because I'm supposed to be reading for my Obligations and Contracts class. I'm doing this instead! Please pray that I don't get called tomorrow for a recitation I have no idea what to answer!
This is a short one but a lot is going on. Right? :)
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