Grace Mikaelson

-Chapter 13-

Dance Back From the Grave

I'm sitting on the floor with Hayley as she's helping me put together a rocking horse. Klaus bought me that rocking horse. "You want some help with that?" Marcel says as he walks in.

Hayley quickly drops the things in her hands, picks me up into her arms, and stands up, all in one whoosh. "What are you doing here?" Hayley narrows her eyes. "Shouldn't you be out with Klaus, terrorizing the rest of the city?"

"I wanted a personal day." Marcel heaves a sigh.

"And you come to us?" Hayley raises an eyebrow.

"Not you, just Grace." Marcel shrugs. "I like kids." His words sound nice. I tilt my head up to look at him as he smiles at me a little.

"I heard." Hayley says. Before Marcel can say anything else, Klaus walks into the room.

"Is this what it's come to?" Klaus says to Marcel unhappily. "I bear the full weight of our kingdom while you pout like a child?"

"You wanted to be king..." Marcel says. "Besides, you look like you got it covered."

"If the men see you shirk your duties, they're likely to do the same." Klaus tells him. I tilt my head. I'm not sure, but it sounds as if Klaus wants Marcel to do something...

"I told you, I'm not in the mood for vampire hijinx." Marcel sounds a little angry. I bite down on my red lips as I wrap my arms around Hayley. I don't like it when grown-ups get mad, it's scary...

"Let's get out of here." Hayley whispers in my ear before whooshing out of there with me in her arms...

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Hayley's sitting on my bed with me as we're putting a Cinderella puzzle together. My bedroom door is closed, but I hear someone quietly whoosh closer to my bedroom. Hayley narrows her eyes as she quickly stands up and whooshes over to open the door. Marcel's standing there in front of Hayley.

"You again?" Hayley crosses her arms unhappily.

"Like I said, I like kids." Marcel smiles crookedly before holding up a VERY thick book with a hardcover. "Besides, I've Valerie Claire's photo album." My big blue eyes look up quickly when I hear mommy's name...

"Valerie Claire?" Hayley raises an eyebrow before her eyes widen as if she's remembering something.

"Yep." Marcel smiles. "Valerie was Grace's mother and Davina's cousin."

I put the puzzle pieces in my hands down and hop off my bed. I walk over to Hayley and Marcel as I tilt my head up to look at Marcel. "Is that my mommy's?" I point at the VERY thick book in Marcel's hands.

"Yes, it is." Marcel smiles as he crouches down in front of me. "Would you like me to show you?"

"Yes, please." My oval-shaped face smiles as I nod.

Marcel stands back up and smiles crookedly at Hayley, who's rolling her eyes. "Close the door behind you." She tells him as she takes my hand and walks me back onto my bed. Then, she turns her head to look at Marcel again. Marcel's still standing outside my bedroom, frowning. I tilt my head. Why is he just standing there?

"Klaus and Elijah signed this room as Grace's property." Hayley smiles crookedly. "You've to be invited in."

I pull on Hayley's arm as I look up at her. "Why isn't he coming in?" My red lips pout. "I want to see mommy's book..."

"Grace, honey..." Hayley smiles at me softly as she sits down next to me. "You've to tell him to come in before he can come in. If you don't tell him, then he's stuck outside. Do you remember when you told Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah, and I to come in? You've to do the same with him, okay?"

I remember, but I don't know why I've to tell them to come in before they can come in... I look at Marcel. "Come in, please." I say before he walks into my bedroom, closing the door behind him...

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"I knew your mom, you know?" Marcel tells me as he's sitting beside me while Hayley's standing with her arms crossed.

"Were you mommy's friend?" I ask.

"Well... we were more than friends..." Marcel says, making me tilt my head. I don't really know what that means...

Flashback

"There's my pretty little witch." Marcel smiled when he saw Valerie walking in into his compound.

"And here I thought you hated all witches." Valerie smirked at him.

"Not all." Marcel smirked back flirtatiously. "I could never hate you." Then, he stood up and pulled her close before kissing her gently on the lips. "I waited for you last night. Where were you?"

"I know." Valerie sighed softly. "I'm sorry. It's just that, Grace had a fever last night, and the witches..."

"Are they bothering you?" Marcel frowned.

"They... Listen, Marcel, I need a place to hide Grace..." Valerie said cautiously.

"Why?" Marcel asked.

"The witches..." Valerie said vaguely, but her eyes quickly grew tearful as she sounded VERY worried. "They think Grace is an abomination... If I don't do something..."

Marcel's eyes widened at Valerie's words. "Yeah, I'll arrange a hiding place for you two." He nodded quickly as he pulled Valerie into a tight hug. "Don't worry, I'm not going to let anyone hurt you or your baby, okay?"

"Thank you." Valerie smiled appreciatively before she and Marcel stopped hugging and she wiped away the tears that had fallen out of her eyes...

End Flashback

"So you knew about Grace, then." Hayley nods. "From what Elijah told me, Sophie made it sound like..."

"Sophie didn't know, none of the witches do, but I knew Valerie had a daughter and I knew that she was special in some way." Marcel says. "What I didn't know was that she had anything to do with Klaus, or that she was the original tribrid. Valerie never told me any of that..."

"I can imagine why." Hayley says. "She was doing everything she can to keep Grace safe." I feel my big blue eyes growing wet at Hayley and Marcel's words. I miss mommy even more now...

"Yeah..." Marcel nods quietly before looking at me with a small smile. "Your mom really loved you..."

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Marcel, Hayley, and I are looking at mommy's book together. I see a photo of mommy holding a baby. Mommy looked happy...

"Is this me?" I point to the baby in the picture.

"Yes, it is." Hayley smiles and nods at me.

I tilt my head. "I'm so small..."

"Well, we all start of like that." Marcel tells me.

I look up at him. "Even you?"

"Yes." Marcel smiles. "Even me."

Just then, there's a knock on the door. "Hayley? Grace?" Elijah's voice calls out.

"Coming!" Hayley says loudly as she stands up and walks over to open the door.

"Hey." Elijah says as he walks in. He narrows his eyes when he sees Marcel. "What are you doing here?"

"Sharing stories with Grace about her mother." Marcel stands up and shrugs.

"You knew her mother?" Elijah raises an eyebrow.

"Did you think Klaus was the only one?" Marcel smiles crookedly.

"Go somewhere else." Elijah tells him unhappily. "We have Mikaelson family business..."

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"I'm concerned." Elijah sighs after Marcel leaves and Elijah, Hayley, and I are downstairs. "Rebekah's not answering her calls." He says as he walks over to me and picks me up into his arms. "Have you seen your auntie today?" He asks me.

"Nuh-uh." I shake my head.

"You worried about whoever killed those daywalkers still being out there?" Hayley frowns at Elijah. Who are the daywalkers? I feel goosebumps pop up my pale skin. It sounds as if someone's doing scary things to them...

"Frankly, I'm worried that she had something to do with this." Elijah tells Hayley. "She's very displeased with Niklaus, perhaps even conspiring with others." Elijah turns his head to look at a man wearing a hat.

Then, Elijah looks back to Hayley. "Here, take Grace." He says as he puts me in Hayley's arms. "I need a moment with Thierry."

"Thierry, is it?" Elijah calls out to the man with the hat as he walks over to him.

"That's right." Thierry says.

"Do you know, my sister's rather fond of you." Elijah says. "Strange, she's not typically drawn to unremarkable men. Would you care to explain your sudden magnetism?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Thierry sounds as if he doesn't really believe what he's saying.

Elijah narrows his eyes silently before looking back to Hayley and I. "Hayley, would you mind taking Grace outside to wait? This will only take a moment." I don't know why, but something in my tummy feels as if I've eaten too many ice cubes. It makes me feel a little scared.

"Hayley..." I whimper quietly as I wrap my arms around her...

"Of course." Hayley nods softly to Elijah before looking at me. "Come on, honey..."

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After Elijah's done talking to Thierry, he takes me and Hayley to a VERY different house. "Do not leave my side." Elijah tells Hayley and I quietly as Hayley nods silently. She's still holding me in her arms as she hugs me close to her.

I don't know why, but this house makes me feel scared as I whimper and hug Hayley tightly. "Rebekah!" Elijah calls out worriedly as Rebekah's laying on the floor not moving. There is a weird circle drawing at the spot where she's laying.

Rebekah looks as if she's not feeling well. She looks as if she might be VERY sick... "Auntie..." I murmur softly as I feel my eyes growing wet. I'm going to cry soon...

Elijah gasps loudly when he tries to walk into the weird circle drawing, but he can't. "There's some kind of boundary spell..." Elijah sounds VERY worried. "Someone's channeling her. Typically, it's a lethal process, but because she's an original, she cannot die. Instead, she's an endless source of power."

I don't know what Elijah's saying, but it sounds REALLY bad and it makes me REALLY scared as I start to cry. "I... I don't like it when auntie's like this... I... I want her to be better..." I cry as tears fall out of my eyes.

Hayley rubs my head gently as she looks at Elijah nervously. "So what are we supposed to do?"

"There has to be a way to get her out of here." Elijah sounds as if he really believes what he's saying...

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"You're not listening." Elijah says as he's on the phone with Sophie. "We cannot enter the circle. There's some kind of confinement spell. If I can't remove her, then we can't break the link."

"It's a convoluted spell. It's like a witch's recipe." Sophie says. "You can spoil the balance by adding a more potent ingredient. A mystical binding agent... I don't know... Volcanic ash, rock salt, anything up to and including the eye of Newt."

"What about Grace?" Elijah frowns as he turns his head. "Will I be able to enter if I carry her in with me?"

"That could work." Sophie says before Elijah hangs up the phone and walks over to me and Hayley.

He takes me from Hayley's arms and into his own. "Come, sweetheart." Elijah says to me as he carries me into the circle with him. "We're going to make Rebekah better."

"How?" I tilt my head.

"Perhaps if you touch her." Elijah says to me quietly as he crouches down and puts me back down on the floor.

"Okay." I nod as I move my hands to touch Rebekah's face. I bite down on my red lips nervously. Is this really going to make her better?

Rebekah's skin slowly changes from grayish to her normal color before Rebekah gasps loudly and her eyes open. I smile happily. Does this mean she's not sick anymore?

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"I got to admit, I thought you would lose more guys than that." Marcel smiles at Klaus as he and Klaus are sitting on the sofa. I'm on the floor drawing pictures with my crayons and some paper. Sophie's standing in a corner with her arms crossed.

"Well, good riddance to them, I say." Klaus smiles back. "We've no room for slackers or cowards in our kingdom. Now that you've regained your composure, let's move onto the next item of business, shall we? With a little help from our dear friend Sophie." Klaus says as he looks at Sophie.

"I got no reason to help you." Sophie shakes her head at Klaus before looking at Marcel. "And I sure as hell don't have a reason to help him."

"Now, now, don't be difficult, love." Klaus says to her. "You'll only live as long as you're of use to me, and right now, your best use is to explain why a witch I killed 100 years ago has come back for revenge."

"Come on!" Sophie sounds a little unhappy. "Resurrected witches with vast power? It's the harvest. Four girls were meant to die and be reborn. I don't know how, but someone jacked that power, and they used it to bring back four witches..." Sophie says before sounding sad. "Just not the right ones..."

"So there's still a chance." Marcel sounds as if he wants something good to happen. "If we can get that power back, we can save Davina." I tilt my head silently. Is Davina still not well? But Klaus said that Davina's feeling much better...

I think Marcel is Davina's friend... I tilt my head up at Marcel. "Marcel?" I say, making him look down at me. "Is Davina still sick?"

Marcel looks at me silently for a little while. "Yeah... something like that..." He tells me quietly as he sounds a little sad.

"Let's concentrate on the immediate problem, shall we?" Klaus says to Marcel, making him rolls his eyes.

"Papa Tunde wants revenge." Klaus continues to Sophie, but I stop listening as I start drawing again. I'm drawing a red flower... I don't know why grown-ups are always saying things I don't understand...

"That's beautiful." Marcel says to me with a smile as he walks over to me and crouches down in front of me.

"You like it?" I smile as I tilt my head at him.

"Yeah." he nods nicely.

"Wanna draw with me?" I ask as I share my crayons with him.

"Sure." He smiles...

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Author's note: hey guys, here's another chapter! As usual, please remember to send reviews and I'll update soon! Many thanks in advance!