Grace Mikaelson

-Chapter 11-

Apres Moi, Le Deluge

"... There's never been one all powerful witch, until Davina." Klaus carries me out of my new bedroom to hear Elijah say to Hayley.

"Who is now tucked in safe and sound down the hall under my protection." Klaus says to them as he carries me into the room where Elijah and Hayley are.

Then, Klaus looks down at Davina's picture of Celeste. I feel goosebumps pop up my pale skin. I don't like looking at it as I quickly turn away. Something in my tummy feels as if I've just eaten bad tasting medicine...

"Your Celeste was quite beautiful." Klaus smiles at Elijah. "And a potent of evil, according to our volatile artist in residence."

Something in my chest feels as if there are lots of little rocks... I don't understand what Klaus is saying, because he uses a lot of hard words, but why is he saying "your Celeste" to Elijah? Does that mean the scary lady is Elijah's? I don't want that to be true, it makes me feel nervous...

"Yes, perhaps Davina's mistaken for what she calls evil for power." Elijah murmurs quietly. "Celeste was certainly very powerful in her day, but she's been dead for over 200 years, I don't understand why all these sketches now."

I hug Klaus tightly. I don't like the word "dead". It was what the grown-ups said about my mommy, before they told me that I can't see my mommy anymore... I feel my big blue eyes grow wet. I want mommy to hold me again... I miss my mommy...

"Why does any witch do anything?" Klaus shrugs before sitting down with me on his lap. "What's wrong, sweetheart?" Klaus murmurs to me softly.

"Why... Why can't I see my mommy anymore?" My straight nose sniffles as I whimper tearfully.

"Well, love, your mother is not in this world anymore..." Klaus tells me gently.

"But... I want her... to hold me again..." I start crying before Hayley rushes over to me and picks me up from Klaus's lap.

"Shh... it's okay..." Hayley hugs me and rubs my back nicely. "Come on, let's go find something fun to play with." She says before carrying me out of the room...

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Hayley is taking out a Peter Pan puzzle for me to play with when the ground starts shaking. I grab onto Hayley tightly. "What's happening?" I whimper as I'm scared.

"Shh..." Hayley hugs me close to her before looking around. She looks nervous too...

"What the hell is going on?!" Rebekah calls out loudly as she walks over to stand beside me and Hayley.

"Davina." I hear Klaus say unhappily from upstairs before he quickly whooshes downstairs to me and takes me from Hayley's arms into his own. Klaus hugs me close to him as he narrows his eyes silently...

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"This is madness." Klaus says to Elijah and Marcel as I'm standing next to Klaus as he's holding my hand. "How can a sixteen years old girl shake the entire French Quarter?"

"I've seen her rock the church, but I've never seen anything like this." Marcel shakes his head worriedly.

My oval-shaped face frowns silently as I don't really understand. I don't know why, but I feel something cold and scary... But I don't know what it is and I can't see it...

I tilt my head up to look at Klaus as I pull on his arm. I feel my big blue eyes starting to grow wet. "Hold me, please." I whimper as my red lips pout and I raise my arms up for him to pick me up. "I'm scared..."

"Come here, love." Klaus says to me softly as he picks me up into his arms and hugs me close to him. Then, Klaus looks at Marcel. "How did you control her when she was in the attic?"

"I didn't have to." Marcel crosses his arms unhappily at Klaus. "But then, I never killed her boyfriend."

Kill... I don't like that word. It makes goosebumps pop up my pale skin and it makes me scared. "Is... Is something bad going to happen?" My straight nose sniffles as I start crying a little.

"Of course not, sweetheart." Klaus tells me as he rubs my head. "Everything will turn out wonderfully."

"The point is, in this state, she's useless as a tool against the witches." Klaus sighs to Marcel impatiently.

"She's not a tool." Marcel sounds worried. "Something's wrong with her."

I think they're talking about Davina. "Is Davina sick?" I bite down on my red lips sadly.

"Yes, love." Klaus says to me.

"Well, she has too much power she cannot control, that much we already know." Elijah speaks up. "Why is it manifesting itself in such an aggressive manner?" Elijah starts walking out of the room.

"Where are you going?" Klaus asks him.

"This is witch business." Elijah says. "Let's ask a witch..."

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"So you've stolen the remains of the very person Davina's been drawing." Elijah says to Sophie as she, Elijah, Klaus, Rebekah, and I are in a room together. Rebekah's sitting on the sofa with me on her lap.

"Care to explain the startling coincidences?" Elijah asks Sophie.

"I can't." Sophie shakes her head. "I didn't even know who Celeste was, until..." Sophie stops talking when she hears a scream coming from upstairs. Then, everything starts shaking again. Sophie gasps, sounding unhappily surprised.

I whimper tearfully as I grab onto Rebekah tightly. "What's happening? Why is everything shaking? It's scary..."

"Shh... It will be alright, pumpkin." Rebekah tells me softly as she hugs me close to her.

"Was that Davina?" Sophie asks worriedly when everything stops shaking again.

"Charming little habit she's developed." Klaus sighs, sounding as if he doesn't really believe what he's saying.

"And the earthquake I felt today?" Sophie asks again.

"Also Davina." Rebekah answers. "And she's taken to vomiting dirt."

"Oh..." Sophie sounds VERY scared and worried. "We've a huge problem... I thought we had more time, but we need to complete the harvest, now."

"Said the desperate witch, conveniently." Klaus smiles crookedly.

"I'm serious." Sophie says unhappily. "That earthquake you just felt? A preview of the disaster movie that is about to hit us."

"Why should we believe you?" Elijah asks.

"You've met Davina. You know her story." Sophie sounds as if she REALLY believes what she's saying. "For months now, she's been holding all the power after three girls were sacrificed in the harvest ritual. A force that was meant to flow through her and back into th earth. One person was never meant to hold that much power. It's tearing her apart, and it will take us down with it."

I don't understand everything she's saying, but it sounds VERY, VERY bad... "I... I don't want bad things to happen!" I cry as tears fall out of my eyes. "I don't like it... When bad things happen..."

"Shh... We won't allow such things to occur." Rebekah says to me as she stands up, picking me up with her. "We'll stop such things from happening." She says as she rubs my head and kisses my wet cheeks.

"Look after her while Niklaus and I resolve this dilemma, Bekah." Elijah says softly.

"You don't need to tell me that." Rebekah says as she starts carrying me out of the room with her...

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Dream

"Sweetie?" I can hear mommy's voice. "Sweetie, come here..."

Something in my chest feels as if it's about to jump out... Everything I see is fuzzy... "Mommy?" I call out as I can taste something salty at the back of my throat. I'm going to cry soon. "Mommy, where are you?"

"Over here, sweetie." I feel mommy's hand take my hand and pulls me gently. I blink and I can see mommy.

"The... The grown-ups said that... I can't see you again..." I sniffle and cry a little.

"They're wrong, sweetie." Mommy smiles at me before crouching down in front of me and putting a pretty, butterfly-shaped necklace around my neck. "Take this, honey, and mommy's going to come back to you very, very soon..."

End dream

I don't know that I'm asleep until I wake up to the sound of a loud yelp and gasp. "What the..." I hear Rebekah's voice say.

I rub my eyes before opening them. I'm sitting on Rebekah's lap. I turn my head to see Sophie on the floor with her head on a wall. She looks as if a BIG gust of wind has made her fall down.

I tilt my head as Sophie's looking at my neck with widened eyes. "That necklace..." Sophie sounds VERY worried.

I look down. I'm wearing the same butterfly-shaped necklace my mommy gave to me... I look back up at Rebekah and Sophie. "Mommy gave it to keep!" I smile happily.

I don't know why, but both Rebekah and Sophie look nervous and worried. "When did she do that, Grace?" Rebekah frowns at me.

I bite down on my red lips. Was it when I was asleep? "I'm not sure... But I think it was when I was asleep." I say as I scratch the back of my head. Then, I remember what mommy told me.

"Mommy said that she's going to come back to me very, very soon!" I say happily.

But when I look at Rebekah and Sophie, my oval-shaped face turns into a frown. I don't know why, but Rebekah and Sophie doesn't look as if they're happy...

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Rebekah and Klaus are sitting on a sofa together with me on Klaus's lap as Elijah's standing in front of us. Rebekah has just told Klaus and Elijah about the necklace mommy gave me.

"May I take a look at your pretty little necklace, sweetheart?" Klaus asks me softly.

But before I can say anything, Elijah starts talking. "Sophie's original plan has failed." He tells Klaus and Rebekah. "Therefore, I've offered her out mother."

For a little while, Klaus and Rebekah just stares at Elijah as if they can't believe what he's saying. "It's taken a thousand years, but you've finally gone mad." Rebekah finally starts talking again as she shakes her head at Elijah. "Our mother?! And were you even listening to what I have been saying?!"

"One dilemma at a time, Rebekah. Yes, our mother." Elijah says as he's standing in front of us. "Whom Niklaus has affectionately placed into a coffin in the basement, not daggered, but quite dead."

Dead... I don't know why grown-ups use that word, I don't like. I don't know if I know what it means, but I think it's something grown-up say about people who doesn't wake up...

"Well, she did try to kill us all." Klaus shrugs. Something in my tummy feels as if I've just eaten medicine. I don't like the word kill... I know it has to do with hurting other people...

I feel goosebumps pop up my pale skin as I crawl over to Rebekah. "Auntie, hold me..." I pout with a little whimper.

"Come here." Rebekah smiles at me a little as she pulls me onto her lap and into her arms.

"Well, I say we put her to use and put her to rest once and for all." Elijah says. "Now, if we buried our mother on land owned by one of her descendants, she becomes a New Orleans witch, and we as her family, share in that ancestral magic."

"We're vampires, Elijah." Rebekah rolls her eyes. "We can't practice magic, or own property for that matter."

"Yes, with regard to practicing magic..." Elijah says. "We will use Sophie Devereaux. After we bury our mother, as long as we participate in the Harvest, Sophie can channel our mother's power. And as for owning property, not all of our mother's descendants are dead..."

"Grace." Klaus interrupts Elijah with a nod.

I tilt my head. "What?"

"The Parish Tax Assessor's office is just steps outside of the Quarter." Elijah says as he give a piece of paper to Klaus. "Grace now holds the title to the plantation."

I look down at my hands as my light brown eyebrows squeeze closer together in a frown. "I'm not holding anything..." I shake my hand.

"Yes, you are." Rebekah smiles at me. "You just can't see it yet..."

I tilt my head silently. I don't know what that means...

"If we bury our mother there, and we consecrate those grounds, we can finish the harvest ritual." Elijah tells Klaus and Rebekah. I don't really understand what Elijah's saying, he's using a lot of hard words...

Klaus looks a little happy as he's smiling. "You're a bit of a mad genius, Elijah. Count me in."

"Well, while you two are tactlessly handing our mother's power to our enemies, I'll be enjoying the rest of the evening with my adorable little niece." Rebekah says as she stands up, picking me up with her.

I don't really know what the first part of her sentence means, but I know what the second part of her sentence means. It makes me want to smile as I wrap my arms around her in a hug. "And I hope you two can demolish the demon today before we have to face the devil tomorrow."

Something in my tummy feels as if I've just eaten too many ice cubes. I know the word devil... Mommy told me that it's something REALLY REALLY BAD and it makes people do VERY VERY BAD and SCARY things. I feel my eyes growing wet again as I whine and whimper in Rebekah's arms.

"Shh... Everything will be alright, love." Rebekah whispers in my ear as she hugs me close to her while she carries me out of the room...

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I fell asleep again... "This whole thing was doomed from the start, you know?" I wake up to Klaus's voice. "Yes, we saved the city, and I'm not complaining about the witches losing their power. But this did not go down the way I thought it would."

I rub and open my eyes to see that my head is laying on Klaus's lap and that he's talking to Rebekah, who's sitting in front of him. Klaus looks down at me with a smile. "Awake, love?"

"Uh-huh." I nod. I sit up as my stomach growls. "I'm hungry."

"Drink this." Klaus says as he grabs a blood bag from beside him and feeds it to me. Then, Klaus looks back to Rebekah. "You surprised me though." He says to her. "You were quite resourceful today. How did you find them down at the docks?"

"You're not the only one with clever little spies in the quarter, Nik." Rebekah smiles crookedly.

"Sometimes, I think I don't give you your due, little sister." Klaus smiles back.

"I knew Elijah's plan was mad, but I really thought it would work." Rebekah sounds a little sad. I tilt my head silently. Did something bad happen?

"So did I." Klaus sighs. He sounds a little sad too.

"I was sure Davina would survive." Klaus says quietly. "There was so much life in her." I don't know what survive means, but I remember the grown-ups had said something about her being sick...

I stop drinking from the blood bag and look up at Klaus. "Is Davina feeling better?" I ask him.

For a little while, Klaus stares at me as if he's not sure about something. Then he looks at Rebekah silently before looking back at me. "Yes, love. She's much better." He tells me softly as he moves my long, wavy brown hair behind my ears.

"Okay." I smile.

Then, for a little while, Klaus and Rebekah are both silent as I'm drinking from the blood bag again. "What about the power?" Rebekah frowns at Klaus. "Four were supposed to rise, and none did. Where did all that power go?"

Klaus looks a little worried, but he shakes his head at Rebekah. "We will worry about that later." He says before looking down at me. "Why don't you tell us about your mother, sweetheart?" Klaus smiles at me. "I understand that her name was Valerie..."

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Author's note: hey guys, sorry I haven't updated in so long. I had a bit of a writer's block, but I'm back now and I promise I'll update the next chapter soon, so please remember to review! Many thanks in advance!