Grace Mikaelson
-Chapter 5-
Sinners and Saints
"We had a deal!" Klaus yells at Sophie Devereaux as he whooshes and pushes her down onto our couch. "You protect Grace and I dismantle Marcel's army. And whilst I've been busy fulfilling my part of the bargain, you allowed Grace to be attacked by a gaggle of lunatic witches."
"I had nothing to do with it, I swear." Sophie shakes her head. "Grace and I are linked remember? Whatever happens to her, happens to me."
"Then who were they?" Rebekah asks as I'm drawing on a sheet of paper with crayons on the floor.
"They are a faction of extremists." Sophie says. "Sabine stupidly told them about some vision she had about Grace."
I feel goosebumps pop up my pale skin at the name Sabine. When I touched her the last time, that scary lady popped up my mind...
"What kind of vision?" Klaus frowns.
"She has them all the time." Sophie says. "They are totally open to interpretation. I'm guessing she's wrong on this one."
"Well, how may I ask, was this particular vision interpreted?" Klaus says seriously.
"Pretty much that Grace would bring death to all witches." Sophie rolls her eyes.
Klaus smiles widely as he stands up and walks over to me before crouching down and picking me up into his arms. "Oh, well, I grow fonder of this child by the second." He rubs my head, making my oval-heart shaped face smile a little. Does that mean he likes me?
"Sophie, look, as Grace's only aunt, it's part of my job to protect the Mikaelson miracle child." Rebekah says to Sophie as she sits down across from her. "Besides, Elijah's already trying to win your witch, Davina's loyalty. So why don't you tell me just how extreme this faction is?"
"Elijah's talking to Davina?" Sophie raises a dark eyebrow. I tilt my head silently. Who's Davina?
"Yeah, as we speak, I imagine." Rebekah says.
"I'm guessing that she will have plenty to say about that crowd." Sophie sighs.
"Do tell." Klaus smiles as he sits down beside Rebekah with me on his lap.
"I wasn't always an advocate for the witches." Sophie says. "My sister was devoted like our parents, and our upbringing was very strict, which drove me nuts. The minute I turned twenty-one, I left the quarter to travel, and play. But I wanted to be a chef, so I came back to Rousseau's..."
Flashback
Sophie was partying wildly as Jane-Anne entered Rousseau's. "Ooh..." Sophie smiled widely when she saw her sister. She quickly ran to her. "Jane-Anne! Hey! That wasn't me. Hi!" She giggled as she and Jane-Anne hugged.
"Welcome home, Soph." Jane-Anne grinned. "Can we go some place to talk?"
"Just tell me." Sophie smiled and shook her head.
"The elders called a vote." Jane-Anne told her. "We're moving forward with the harvest..."
End Flashback
"What the bloody hell is a harvest?" Rebekah frowns.
"It's a ritual our coven does every three centuries so that the bond to our ancestral magic is restored." Sophie says. "We appease our ancestors, they keep our ancestral power flowing."
"And why haven't I heard of this?" Klaus asks.
"Because the harvest always seemed like a myth." Sophie answers. "A story, passed down through generations, like Noah's ark or the Buddha walking on water. The kind some people take literaly, and some people don't..."
Flashback
"To be reborn, we must sacrifice." Bastiana said to the kneeled teenage girls as she poked Monique's palm with a knife.
"To be reborn, we must sacrifice." Monique repeated.
"To be reborn, we must have faith." Bastiana continued onto the next girl.
"To be reborn, we must have faith." The girl repeated.
"Do you have faith in the harvest?" Bastiana continued.
"Not for a second." Sophie interrupted as she ran up to them.
Monique turned her head to look at her aunt. "Sophie..."
Bastiana quickly shushed her. "What are you doing?" Sophie shook her head at Bastiana.
"Saving the community you renounced." Bastiana said calmly.
"You're all ridiculous." Sophie said angrily before looking at Monique. "Monique, seriously?!"
"My mom told me I had to." Monique said quietly.
"Yes, well, your mom and I are going to have words." Sophie said before storming off angrily...
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"They had the girls of our community preparing for months." Sophie says. "Four would be chosen for the harvest. They said that it was an honor. That they were special. I thought it was a myth."
"Was it?" Rebekah asks.
Before Sophie can answer, Klaus's cellphone rings. He puts me down on the couch before standing up and picking up his phone. "Marcel. A bit early in the day for you, isn't it?"
I still haven't seen Marcel yet... "I know I make this look easy, but I still have an empire to run." Marcel says.
"Rather you than me." Klaus says. "That responsibility seems like such a bore."
"Well, this might spice things up." Marcel says. "I just heard about a bunch of dead witches out in the Bayou. The kind of damage a werewolf might do? Only there was no full moon. I've an informant out there I need to meet, and I would love for you to go with me."
I crawl over to Rebekah quietly. My big blue eyes look up at her. "Do werewolves only come out when the moon is a full circle?" I whisper quietly.
Rebekah smiles and pulls me onto her lap. "Something like that." She whispers in my ear. I bite down on my red lips silently. But what about the wolf I saw when I was with Hayley? Was the moon a full circle that night?
"Dead witches in the Bayou." Klaus says, making Sophie look up quickly. "Sounds like less of a problem and more of a cause for celebration."
"Well, something killed them and may still be out there and with your blood the only cure for a werewolf bite, I would love for you to accompany me." Marcel says.
"Well, why not?" Klaus says. "I haven't been to the Bayou in ages. I'm on my way."
"Peace out brother." Marcel says before he and Klaus both hang up.
"You can't go out there now." Sophie says to Klaus quickly. "I need to gather the witches's remains and consecrate them. If I don't get to them before sundown, we lose the link to their magic."
I feel my light brown eyebrows squeezing closer together as I look at Rebekah. "What does consecrate mean?"
"You'll learn when you grow up." Rebekah smiles and taps my straight nose. "And I don't want you growing up too quickly."
I bite down on my red lips as I giggle quietly. "Okay."
"Those witches attacked Grace." Klaus tells Sophie unhappily. "I prefer for Marcel's informant not to find anything that would lead them back to us, to Grace, or to Hayley."
"You're all class." Hayley sighs and shakes her head as she walks into the room. She sounds as if she doesn't believe what she's saying.
"Stay perked." Klaus points at Sophie. "And save the rest of your story till I return..."
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Sophie swings her backpack over her shoulders just as Hayley and I walk up to her. "Hey." Sophie looks at us. "What the hell?"
"You're going out there anyway, aren't you?" Hayley says to her with a crooked smile. "I want to go with you."
"No thanks." Sophie says. "Not if you're planning to take Grace."
"What if whatever is responsible for those dead witches is still out there?" Hayley raises an eyebrow at her. "We've already established that it likes me and Grace and hates witches, so you'll be safer with us."
"Sorry if I'm not buying your sudden concern for my safety." Sophie says and is just about to walk away before Hayley picks me up and blocks her way.
"Listen, the whole reason I came to this stupid town in this first place was to learn more about my family." Hayley tells her seriously. "Your sister's the one who told me that Marcel ran the werewolves out of the quarter into the Bayou, and last night, pretty sure that some guardian angel wolf saved my life. So I'm coming with you."
I smile when I see Rebekah standing behind Hayley. "Auntie Rebekah!" I say happily. My words makes Hayley turn around quickly.
"Could you two be more idiotic?" Rebekah looks at Sophie and Hayley before walking over to me with a big smile.
"Hello darling." She says as she takes me from Hayley's arms. Then, she looks at Hayley seriously. "Two can play the follow game, you know? You heard Klaus. He and Marcel are heading right where you're going."
"So distract them." Hayley says. "Because unless you want to lock a werewolf with authority issues in a tomb, I'm coming with you." She looks between Rebekah and Sophie. "And wouldn't Elijah be mad if he heard that a family member died of affixiation?"
I still don't really understand... "Where are we going?" I tilt my head. Hayley and Sophie smiles silently.
Rebekah laughs a little. "Oh, pumpkin..."
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Rebekah's on the phone with Klaus as she's holding my hand while we, along with Sophie and Hayley are walking on a muddy place that's very wet.
"What's the matter, Rebekah?" Klaus says. I can hear loud music coming from where he is. "You cross I'm out with your ex?"
"What is that dreadful hill billies rackus in the background?" Rebekah frowns.
"According to the dreadful signage, it's Big Auggie's Bayou Bar." Klaus says.
"Well, order up a few rounds of moonshine and stay clear of the dead witches for a few." Rebekah sighs. "The witch's on a burial mission, your werewolf descendant is on a spirit quest, and I'm trying to keep my niece safe. So stall, please?" She says before hanging up.
Then, She looks at Sophie. "So this harvest thingy... Tell me more."
"Klaus said to wait." Sophie says.
"Yes, he also said to stay out of the Bayou, and yet, here we are, amongst the cruelly buzzy creatures." Rebekah rolls her eyes.
"Is this place called the Bayou?" I ask, looking up at Rebekah.
"Yes, it is." Rebekah smiles and nods.
"We are here." Hayley says before Rebekah quickly picks me up in a whoosh.
"Don't look." Rebekah tells me as she covers my eyes with her hand.
There's a moment of silence before I hear Hayley speak up. "Whoa..." Then, I hear some footsteps.
"Is that a wolf track?" Sophie asks before I hear the sound of a foot stepping on a branch.
"Who's there?" Rebekah calls out loudly.
"What the hell?" I hear the voice of a man I don't know. He sounds REALLY scared... "An original..." Then I hear him whooshing away...
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Rebekah has taken me a little further away from Hayley and Sophie and she's now on the phone with Klaus again.
"Let me understand this." Klaus says. "Against all logic, you and Grace followed Hayley and Sophie into the Bayou where you ran into a man you think may be Marcel's informant, and then, you lost him."
"Yes." Rebekah says impatiently. "And now that we've established that I'm a failure as a sister, an aunt, a friend, and an original, you should probably know that he's on his way to Marcel right now to rat me out. Skinny guy in a hurry, looks like he saw a ghost?"
"I'll handle it." Klaus says. "But I'll need a distraction."
"I'm on my way." Rebekah says before hanging up. Then, she turns her head towards Hayley. "Wolf girl!" She calls out loudly. "Come over here and look after my niece! I've got to go meet Klaus and deal with our skinny male problem..."
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Sophie, Hayley, and I are walking back to the car. "Those people..." Hayley sighs. "All this because of a vision about Grace that you don't think is true..."
"Look..." Sophie grunts as she puts her bag into the back of the car. "I love Sabine, but she's the witch equivalent of a drama queen. I've learned to take little stock in whatever she says or sees. Just kind of wish that she had kept her mouth shut."
"The harvest ritual, you said that you didn't believe in it." Hayley says as she picks me up. "Were you right?"
"No." Sophie shakes her head sadly. "I saw it with my own eyes. It was working, it was real."
"So how can you be so sure Sabine's vision isn't?" Hayley asks nervously. But Sophie just shuts the car's back door silently...
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"Oh good, you are home." Rebekah says just as Hayley and I walk through the front door. Rebekah looks at Hayley seriously. "I don't care if we have to get you a leash. That is the last time you get to take my niece anywhere by yourself. Especially if you're planning to go anywhere near the Bayou. What is it with you and those wolves anyway?"
But Hayley just rolls her eyes silently before Rebekah crouches down in front of me and smiles. "You want to fill your tummy?"
"Okay." I smile and nod before Rebekah picks me up and runs her hand through my long, wavy brown hair.
"Come on then, let's go get you something tasty." Rebekah grins before heading towards the kitchen with Hayley following us.
Rebekah walks straight to the fridge with me in her arms. She opens the fridge door and picks out a blood bag and rips it open for me. "Here you go, love." She says. "I think you will like this one."
"Thank you." I smile happily before drinking from the blood bag in her hand.
Just then, a voice sounds from behind us. "Is it too late for me to be a surprise?" Elijah's voice asks, making Rebekah turn around quickly.
"Elijah... You're safe." Rebekah smiles happily as Elijah walks up to us and pulls both me and Rebekah into a hug.
"I'm glad to see that you and Grace are getting along, Rebekah." Elijah smiles back as he pulls back from the hug. Then, he looks at Hayley before looking back to Rebekah. "Excuse me for a few minutes..."
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"Everything that brought us here to New Orleans was a lie." Elijah is telling Klaus, Rebekah, and Hayley while I'm sitting on Klaus's lap. "The story that Sophie Devereaux fabricated, this struggle for control of the French Quarter, this war between vampires and witches, it wasn't over territory at all. This was over Davina."
Elijah takes a breath before continuing. "Eight months ago, Sophie Devereaux and her sister Jane-Anne, lost everything. Four months after that, an orphan child is taken into the French Quarter, and suddenly all hope was renewed. Jane-Anne actually sacrificed her life so that her sister could use Niklaus to find Davina. If Sophie Devereaux is successful in capturing Davina, she can return Jane-Anne's daughter back to life. We thought we had come here to wage a war for power, but this is about family. In order to return her niece to life, Sophie Devereaux will fight to the death. That makes her more dangerous than anyone..."
I bite down on my red lips silently. I don't really understand everything Elijah's saying...
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I'm laying down in my bed as Klaus walks over to me and sits down beside me. "Would you like me to read you a story?" Klaus smiles at me a little.
I scratch my head with a frown. "Who's Davina?"
"Alright." Klaus smiles and nods. "I'll tell you about her."
I hug my teddy bear before he continues. "Davina is a girl, like you. She's young, but very talented. And she's been used by someone who's refused her freedom..."
I try to listen to everything he says, but after a while, his voice sounds further away and then, I can't keep my eyes open anymore and I fall asleep...
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Author's note: hey guys, here's another chapter, please review!