Grace Mikaelson
-Chapter 6-
Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
Klaus and Elijah are sitting across from each other. They're each reading a big book. I'm sitting on Klaus's lap as he's feeding me a blood bag. There's a bleeding woman who's laying on the table, not moving.
Rebekah walks into the room and looks between Klaus and Elijah. "So this is what you do the first time we're back together as a family?" Rebekah sounds a little unhappy. "Vampire book club?"
"Reading edifies the mind, sister." Klaus says. "Isn't that right, Elijah?"
"Yes, it's quite right, Niklaus." Elijah says.
"And what's this business?" Rebekah tilts her head and points at the woman that's laying on the table.
"This is a... Peace offering." Elijah says.
"I presumed of the so much time desiccating in a coffin, that my big brother might be a bit peckish." Klaus says.
"So I explained to my little brother that forgiveness cannot be bought." Elijah says. "I'd simply like to see a change in behavior that indicates contrition and personal growth. Not this nonsense." He waves a hand at the woman.
"Well, I couldn't very well let it go to waste, could I?" Klaus says with a smile.
"Well, I suppose I will fetch the rubbish bin." Rebekah sounds annoyed. "Because she's staining a two hundred years old carpet." She says before walking away.
"Oh, yes..." Elijah murmurs as he looks at the woman's blood as it drips down the table.
I point to the open book Klaus is holding as my big blue eyes look at him. "What does it say?"
"I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end." Klaus reads out loud to me. "I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, night and morning with my tears, and I suned it with smiles, and with soft, deceitful whiles, and it grew both day and night, till it bore an apple bright, and my foe beheld it shine, and he knew the tip was mine. And into my garden stole, whether night had veiled the pole. In the morning glad I see, my foe outstretched beneath the tree."
I tilt my head silently. I don't know what that means. Before I can ask, Elijah stands up, walks over, and picks me up into his arms.
"Come Grace, let's head into the kitchen." He says as he carries me out of the room and into the kitchen. "It's time we feed you some human food."
"Good morning, Hayley." Elijah smiles at Hayley as she's looking inside the fridge.
"Hey." Hayley smiles back at him before Rebekah walks into the room from the backyard.
"Listen." Hayley continues to Rebekah and Elijah in annoyance. "I know that the majority of this household doesn't drink milk, but would it kill any of you to make sure that it's on the grocery list? And honestly, I know Grace is a combination of three supernatural species, but wouldn't it be good for her to drink a little milk?"
"Speaking of, add bleach." Rebekah says as she walks across the kitchen to the room Klaus is in.
"You know, I do hope that my siblings were hospitable towards you and Grace in my absence." Elijah says to Hayley as he puts me down on an empty chair before going over to grab a bowl and a bag of cereal.
"In your absence, as you like to call it, which is a way too polite way of saying that you had a dagger in your heart." Hayley says. "Grace and I were attacked by French Quarter vampires, we had to live in a house with a secret dungeon full of coffins, and Grace was nearly murdered by witches who were convinced that she was Lucifer."
I don't really understand everything Hayley's saying, but her words makes goosebumps pop up my pale skin. Elijah pours some milk into the bowl of cereal before walking over to me and putting it down on the table in front of me.
Then, he sits down beside me with a spoon. He scoops some cereal and milk from the bowl into the spoon and moves it towards me. "Open up, Grace." He smiles at me.
"Did you have something in your heart?" My oval-heart shaped face frowns at him.
Elijah sighs and puts the spoon back down into the bowl. "Yes."
I feel my light brown eyebrows squeeze closer together. "Did it hurt?"
"I'm alright." Elijah smiles a little before picking up the bowl and spoon again. "Now open up." He says as he scoops milk and cereal again.
My red lips open wide before he starts feeding me. "So, back to the murderous witches." Elijah says to Hayley while feeding me. "I've some concerns."
"They're evil." Hayley says. "And the fact that Grace's life is still magically linked to Sophie Devereaux is not a very comforting one." What does it mean to be magically linked to someone?
"Yes." Elijah nods. "I think it's time we took care of that little problem."
"I'm all for it." Rebekah says eagerly as she walks back into the kitchen, dragging the woman's body with her across the kitchen and through the backyard door. "As soon as they're unlinked, we get to leave this crap town. Who do we have to kill?"
"Probably no one." Elijah says, making Hayley raise an eyebrow. "Alright, potentially everyone." Elijah sighs.
"But that sounds scary." I whimper as I raise my arms towards Elijah before he picks me up into his arms with a smile...
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"Nonsense." Elijah carries me into the room just in time to hear Klaus say as Rebekah's sitting on the floor, scrubbing the carpet. "Elijah's back. In his presence, all problems turn to pixie dust and float away."
"Strange." Elijah says as he puts me back down on the floor. "I don't recall any pixie dust from the darkness of the coffin I was recently forced to endure."
Elijah flips open a big, thick book. "What are you doing with mother's spell book?" Rebekah asks Elijah.
"Well, in exchange for my freedom, I promised the witch Davina, that I would share a few pages from mother's grimoire." Elijah says as he rips out a page. "To help her to learn to control her magic. I thought we would begin with a little unlinking spell."
Rebekah and Klaus look at each other very surprised. "Wait, you want to use her to unlink Grace from Sophie Devereaux?" Rebekah's eyes widen at Elijah.
"Sophie brought us to this town under false pretenses." Elijah sounds a little angry. "She doesn't just want us to take down Marcel and his minions, she wants to take Davina back. So she linked her own cause to our's with magic threats and half-truths. Well no more. As of now, our deal with Sophie Devereaux is no longer void."
Elijah points to Klaus before continuing. "Niklaus, I need you to come with me." He says as Rebekah stands up. "I need five minutes alone with Davina, you need to make certain that I'm not interrupted."
Then, Elijah looks at Rebekah. "You stay here and watch Grace and Hayley."
"Since when did I get elected super nanny?" Rebekah sounds a little annoyed, making me pout.
"More importantly, who put him in charge?" Klaus stands up and follows Elijah out of the room. He sounds a little annoyed too.
I walk over to Rebekah and pull on her arm. "You don't like me?" I whine as I look up at her.
"Nonsense, pumpkin." Rebekah smiles as she takes off her rubber gloves. "Come on, let's find something fun to do..."
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I gasp loudly as I feel as if something's poking my neck. My hand touches the spot, it's bleeding a little. "Is something wrong?" Hayley frowns at me.
"I think something's poking my neck..." I whimper with a pout.
Hayley walks over to me and crouches down. "Let me see." She says as I tilt my head and she pushes my curly light brown hair back.
"Everything alright?" Rebekah says as she walks into the room.
"Yeah, Sophie Devereaux probably got poked by something..." Hayley murmurs.
"Nuh-uh." I shake my head. "I got poked by something..."
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"An apple a day, keeps doctors away." Rebekah says cheerfully as she walks over to me as I'm sitting on Hayley's lap and gives me an apple.
"Thank you." I smile at her before taking a bite of the apple.
But then, something in my tummy feels as if it's growing hotter and it feels as if it's moving to other places in my body too. My pale skin is starting to feel uncomfortably hot and my head feels a little dizzy...
"What's wrong?" Rebekah frowns at me worriedly before putting a hand on my forehead. "Oh, you're burning up..."
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Elijah and Sophie walks into the room as I'm laying on my bed. "What the hell is she doing here?" Rebekah looks at Sophie angrily.
"I'm trying to help." Sophie says.
"Help?" Rebekah yells. "You're the reason Grace is in this bloody mess. Why are we unlinked with this witch already, Elijah?"
"Rebekah, let her do what she can." Elijah says.
"I may know a way to slow the affects of the poison down." Sophie tells us. "But I'm going to need some special herbs. I'll text you a list."
I feel something in my chest feels as if it's about to fall out. My throat makes a gurgling noise as my mouth opens wide and I throw up.
Elijah quickly rushes over to my side. "Better make it quick." Rebekah looks at Sophie coldly before quickly whooshing out of the room...
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"She's burning up!" Elijah says worriedly as he's holding me in his arms as we're beside a swimming pool. I'm crying a little as my tummy hurts and my body feels hot and I'm dizzy.
"Get her in the water!" Sophie says loudly as Elijah jumps down in the swimming pool with me still in his arms. I wrap my arms around him tightly with a loud gasp.
"I don't see how a midnight swim is supposed to help." Rebekah sounds annoyed as she looks at Sophie.
"Temperature is sky high." Sophie says. "The water will help. The herbs should cool us down." Then, she steps down into the swimming pool too with a small cup in her hands.
"Drink this!" Sophie tells me as she hands me the cup, but Elijah takes it from her hands and feeds it to me. "Keep on holding her, it will get her heart rate down!"
"This is never going to work." Rebekah says nervously.
"Davina will break that link! She just needs time!" Elijah says loudly just as I throw up again tearfully before I cry a little harder.
"My tummy hurts..." I cry.
"Shh..." Elijah says as he hugs me and rubs my back gently. "Everything will be alright."
I feel as if there's a ball stuck in my throat. I gasp loudly, but my chest feels as if a balloon is inside. "Shh... It won't be long now." Elijah murmurs to me softly. "Long, big breaths..."
I try to do what he says, but it hurts and it's making me cry even more...
"Grace, focus on my voice." Elijah says quietly. "You'll be okay..."
But I'm starting to feel really tired and it's getting harder to keep my eyes open... Just then, my tummy hurts even more, making me scream and cry loudly. "It hurts!"
There's another moment of silence, before the hurt slowly goes away. "I just felt it lift." Sophie smiles a little. Felt what lift?
Sophie silently pokes a small needle into her hand. Elijah opens up my hand and looks at it before smiling. "It has lifted."
"What's lifted?" I sniffle and hiccup.
"Your illness." Elijah smiles at me widely and is about to carry me out of the swimming pool before Sophie stops him.
"As soon as your brother finds out that the link is broken, he'll kill Agnes." Sophie sounds a little scared. "I know you don't own me anything, but please don't let him kill her."
Elijah looks at her angrily before he whooshes me out of the swimming pool with him. "Elijah!" Sophie calls out loudly. "She's our only access to the power we need to survive! Promise me that you'll stop him!"
Elijah doesn't say anything to her as he puts me down on the ground. Then, he calls someone on his cell phone. "It's me." Elijah speaks into the phone. "Where are you... No, don't hurt her, I'll be there shortly." He says before hanging up.
Then, he looks at Sophie. "I'll make you one last promise. I won't let my brother kill Agnes." He says before leaving.
Rebekah walks over to me and picks me up before looking at Sophie coldly. "You can show yourself out..."
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I'm laying in bed, waiting for Hayley. But just then, I hear some footsteps followed by a loud scream from Hayley, and then the sound of her falling to the floor.
After that, a man I don't know quickly whooshes into my room with Hayley swinging over his shoulder. He looks at me scarily. "You're coming with me..."
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Author's note: here you go, guys, here's another chapter!