Grace Mikaelson
-Chapter 3-
Tangled Up In Blue
"I can't believe you disposed of those vampires without me." Rebekah says grumpily to Klaus as I'm playing with my teddy bear and Mr. Bunny. "You know how I love to set things on fire."
"Was I supposed to leave them in the front yard to rot?" Klaus smiles crookedly. "Besides, they were my responsibility. They attacked the helpless little girl who's my daughter."
"Oh, I'm so moved by your new sense of fardly duty towards the miracle hybrid preschooler who's supposed to be your daughter." Rebekah purrs, but she sounds as if she doesn't really believe what she's saying.
Just then, Hayley walks into the room with a BIG black book in her hands. "So, what's the plan?"
"Well, that depends what plan you mean, love?" Klaus smiles crookedly. "My plan for global domination or Rebekah's plan to find love in a cruel, cruel world."
His words makes Rebekah smile in a very fake way before whooshing and throwing a pencil at him. Klaus catches it before it hits his face.
"The plan to rescue Elijah." Hayley sounds a little annoyed. "You know, the good brother? The one who's now in the possession of your mortal enemy after you stabbed him in the back!"
"In the front, if we're being specific." Klaus says before I pull on his arm. He looks down a at me as my big blue eyes look up at him.
"What's a mortal enemy?" I ask.
"Someone you would hate very, very much." He tells me.
My oval-heart shaped face frowns as I tilt my head. "But that doesn't sound very nice..."
"Sometimes you'll find that in life it's better to be a little mean than it is to be nice." Rebekah says before she walks over to me and picks me up as I'm still holding my teddy bear and Mr. Bunny.
Before I can ask why, Hayley looks annoyed as she clears her throat loudly at Klaus and Rebekah. "You two said that you would get him back, so is there a plan or what?"
"Okay." Klaus sighs before he walks over to an empty chair and sits down. "Well, firstly, Marcel's not my mortal enemy, he's my friend. Albeit one who's unaware that I'm trying to sabotage his hold over the supernatural community of the French Quarter, but a friend nonetheless. And secondly, I daggered Elijah in order to gain Marcel's trust. If I had known that he would place my brother in the hands of a particularly nasty teenage witch, I certainly would have weighed my options a bit differently."
Klaus raises a hand towards Rebekah before continuing. "And thirdly, sister please..."
"And thirdly, the plan as you have to mound it, is for Niklaus to simply ask Marcel for Elijah back." Rebekah says before she puts me back down on the floor.
"That's not the whole plan, is it?" Hayley looks between Klaus and Rebekah nervously.
"Oh, please." Rebekah scoffs with a smile before she and Hayley both look at Klaus. "Klaus may be a miserable excuse for a sibling, but there's none more diabolical."
"That's only the plan A, love." Klaus smiles scarily, making me shrink back nervously. "There's always a plan B."
"And what's plan B?" Hayley sounds scared too...
"War." Klaus grins widely. I don't know what that word means, but something about it makes goosebumps pop up my pale skin as something in my tummy feels as if it's rolling around nervously...
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Hayley is brushing my long, wavy brown hair. "What do you want to do today?" She asks as we're both sitting on my bed.
"Can we go to the park to play?" I say as I'm changing Mr. Bunny's clothes.
"We can't leave the house for the next few days, okay?" She tells me softly.
"Why not?" I tilt my head.
"Do you remember what happened last night?" Hayley says. Something that feels as cold as ice feels like it's running up my body.
"Are the scary men still out there?" I gulp nervously as I feel my eyes starting to grow a little wet. I don't like those scary men...
"Yes." Hayley nods. "That's why we have to stay home for the next little while, okay?"
"Okay." I say quietly as I bite down on my pink lips before speaking up again. "Where did Klaus and Rebekah go?"
Before Hayley can say anything, we hear the front door opening. Hayley puts down my hairbrush and picks me up before carrying me out of my bedroom and down the stairs.
I scratch my straight nose as Klaus and Rebekah walks to the living room with Sophie Devereaux. "Why am I here?" Sophie sounds annoyed.
"Sit down." Rebekah pushes Sophie down onto the empty sofa. "We've business to discuss..."
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"... Are you out of your mind?!" Sophie sounds unhappily surprised. "No way!"
"It's very simple." Rebekah says as I'm sitting on Hayley's lap and playing with her cellphone. "We need you to perform a teeny, tiny locator spell to help us find our brother."
"Witches who practice magic in this town get caught, and they get killed." Sophie tells them. Her words makes me feel scared. Why would people get hurt because of magic? I like magic. Mommy used to do magic when she played with me...
"Yes, about that." Klaus says as he and Rebekah both sits down across from Sophie. "It seems you have left out a crucial detail when we made our deal. Marcel's secret weapon, the way he knows when a witch is using magic."
"Go about yay high." Rebekah continues on from Klaus's words as she raises a hand. How high is yay high? "Cute as a button, anger issues..."
"Davina?" Sophie looks a little nervous. "Where have you seen her?"
"I don't know." Rebekah sighs in annoyance. "The little brat erased my memory right after she threw me out of a window with her bloody mind." Why is a mind bloody?
"Let me cut to the chase." Klaus says. "Davina has Elijah. You witches I assume want to get Davina away from Marcel. We don't know where she is, ergo, we need magic."
"Davina would sense it." Sophie shakes her head.
"Unless of course, another witch, say a traitor to the cause, Katie for example." Rebekah says, making me frown silently. Who's Katie? "Was to perform much more powerful magic at the same time, that would create a smoke screen, concealing your very small spell from Davina."
"Katie doesn't deserve to die." Sophie frowns quietly.
"Sophie Devereaux!" Klaus says as he claps his hands on the table loudly, making me squeak and shrink back nervously as I grab onto Hayley's hand tightly. Is Klaus mad?
"You're in no position to be so principled." Klaus continues as he walks over to sit closer to Sophie. "You can't win a war without a few strategic losses, no matter how regrettable they may be. How many times have the vampires been one step ahead? Known something they shouldn't? Your sister, executed in the public square for practicing magic. You knew she'd be caught. Did she even attempts to flee?"
"She was caught hiding in a cargo hold of a freiter before it set sail down the Mississipi." Sophie says sadly.
"And who pray tell of Marcel's valued inner circle manages his business at the docks?" Klaus asks as if he already knows the answer. But if he knows, then why is he asking?
"Katie's boyfriend, Thierry." Sophie murmurs quietly...
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Rebekah takes me to the food place called Rousseau's. She and I are both sitting in very tall, round seats that can spin round and round. There's a VERY long, tall table in front of us and I'm drinking apple juice...
"... And so, I moved back here to be closer to my family." Rebekah tells another blonde woman that's standing on the other side of the table. "Because let's face it, they're important, right Camille?"
"Cami." The blonde woman says. "I've to change the name tag. Drunkards keep hitting on me in French." She looks at Rebekah with a frown before continuing. "You sure you haven't been in here before? Your face looks so familiar..."
"You must have seen me out and about." Rebekah smiles. "Aren't you dating Marcel Gerard? He's a pal of mine, sort of. I heard he had a crush on the blonde bartender at Rousseau's."
My big blue eyes look at Rebekah. "What does it mean to have a crush?"
Rebekah looks at me with a smile "It means that there's a man out there who likes Cami as something more than friends."
I tilt my head. I still don't really understand...
"I don't know if that's such a good thing." Cami smiles and shakes her head. "And I would hardly call it dating. He's wooing me, sort of, I don't know. I mean, he's very charming, which means I should probably run for the hills."
"I'm kind of in a on-again, off-again thing myself." Rebekah says.
"Those are the worst, aren't they?" Cami says as she bents down to grab a glass bottle that has something watery inside. "The ones you can't shake even though you know better. And you always know better."
"I like you, Cami." Rebekah smiles widely. "Most girls have the unfortunate tendency of being whiny little twits."
"But I'm a girl..." I pout as I whine a little.
"Yes." Rebekah nods as she rubs my head. "One who's cute as a button."
I feel my light brown eyebrows squeeze closer together. "I'm not a button." I don't know why, but both Rebekah and Cami laughs at my words. I don't know why it's funny...
"Yes." Cami nods with a smile. "You certainly are very cute." She says before looking at my almost empty cup. "Would you like some more juice?"
"Okay." I nod eagerly before she takes my cup and gets me more apple juice.
"Hey, listen." Rebekah says to Cami nicely. "I'm supposed to go to this posh, charity thing thrown by this philanthropist tonight. He's a bit of a Gatsby, throws a mean party. Any interest?"
Cami doesn't say anything, but she smiles at Rebekah widely...
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Rebekah's calling someone as she and I are standing by the door in Rousseau's. "Little sister." I can hear Klaus's voice from Rebekah's cellphone.
"Well, brother, I believe I made certain that Marcel would be properly distracted tonight." Rebekah says.
"Dare I ask?" Klaus says.
"Let's just say that his attention will not be on us." Rebekah smiles crookedly before looking more serious. "Now, I did my bit. What are you doing to ensure Elijah's safe return?"
"Currently, I'm preparing insurance against the tender-hearted." Klaus says.
"Meaning?" Rebekah frowns.
"We need proper motivation for Katie to cast a powerful spell tonight." Klaus says. "I'm creating that motivation. Marcel has ordered a rousting of the witches, and I in turn, have arranged for things to go tragically wrong. Killing a vampire, for example. That would be unforgivable. If Katie hopes to save her one true love from Marcel's punishment, well, a rescue mission like that would require something positively magical. But then, what's worth dying for, if not love..."
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It's night time as Hayley and I walking around a swimming pool. But I quickly grab onto Hayley's hand when I see a big, yellow-eyed wolf staring at us.
At first, I feel a little scared. But after a moment, I don't know why, but I'm not scared of it anymore...
Just then, a woman's voice sounds from behind us, making me jump and squeak before Hayley and I quickly turn around to see a dark-skinned woman with very curly hair. "Are you two alright?"
"Who are you?" Hayley asks nervously.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." She smiles nicely. "I'm Sabine, one of Sophie's friends. She's asked me to keeps you two company while everyone's out."
Then, Sabine crouches down in front of me. "Hello Grace." She smiles at me.
"Hello." I bite down on my red lips quietly.
"You know, you're very special." She tells me.
"Why?" I tilt my head.
"Because I can see it." She smiles at me.
"You can?" My big blue eyes widen at her words. "How?"
"Yes, I can." She smiles and nods before taking my hands. "Let me show you..."
But the moment, she touches me, I feel something dark and scary, like a cold, empty black cave. A fuzzy picture pops up in my mind.
It's a picture of a pretty, dark-skinned woman with curly hair, but she looks different from Sabine. A name pops up inside my head: Celeste.
I gasp loudly when the feeling stops. The next thing I know, I'm laying on my bed with Hayley sitting beside me. "Are you okay?" She asks worriedly as I don't realize I'm crying until she wipes my face with a Kleenex.
"Something scary is going to happen soon!" I sniffle as I start crying harder before Hayley pulls me into a hug...
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Author's note: alright guys, here's another chapter. Please remember to review! They're much appreciated!