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Completely aware that the idea is far-fetched and with minimal chance of success, Liv can't help to hope that it will work. For the majority of their life, she and Luke have known that both of them won't make it past 22, that one of them has to die. The plan might not be perfect, but it trumps being dead.
Wanting to believe that this can work, she will have to convince Luke that it is worth trying because there is no way they can do this if one of them is against it. She knows that it might be hard, her brother has always been more accepting of their fate than her, or he has at least not shown the same hatred for it. To also convince him in trusting a vampire might be the hardest part.
She finds him in his dorm room, she locks the door behind her and makes sure no one will be able to listen in. "We need to talk." She then tells him. "What would you say if there were a way for both of us to survive the merge."
"That you're insane." He answers and crosses his arms over his chest. "Where would you even get the idea from?"
"Kol Mikaelson." She tells him and can see that it isn't making things better. "His intentions are totally self-serving since he needs the spirits to punish Caroline by keeping her asleep." Weirdly enough it made her feel safer, maybe because Kol and Caroline could lose something too.
But it doesn't have the same effect on Luke. "Because we can trust the original vampire?" he points out. "If anything goes wrong, our entire coven could die."
"We don't owe them anything." She throws back.
Having only been born because of the failure with the first set of twins and she at least feels like she has only been a tool for their coven's sick ways, she plans on thinking of her and Luke's wellbeing first.
The risk that anything would go wrong to the point where it can't be repaired appears small though. "If anything goes wrong Luke, our father continues to be the leader and it shouldn't happen that both of us die." From what Kol told her, if that happens then nature will truly go against the balance it has set.
"You don't know that."
She sighs. "Just hear me out, okay?" she asks of him. "According to Kol, if Caroline binds her magic to the merge, nature will be forced to make a choice. Either it will allow her magic to be part of something that will lead to death, something it's not supposed to be able to do, or it let us both live and punishes her for forcing an ancient ritual to change."
"What is to say that the merge would even work with her magic running through it?"
"She's like the embodiment of nature, it should be the same magic all witches pull from just more concentrated. But sure, it might not work at all, and we will have to do the merge as normal, or nature lets her kill in a way and opens the door for the possibility that if she just finds the right loophole, she might be able to do so with someone that isn't supposed to die.
"And then there is the possibility that she succeeds, that nature will perform the merge not realising the problem until the end when one of us is supposed to die forcing it to allow both of us to live, just like a human." And she would take that over death any day.
Giving Luke a moment to take in everything she has said, she can see how he might agree to the plan. "Our coven can't know about this." He says after a while, and she smiles.
She has been able to feel how the spirits are blocking her since she figured out that they are keeping Esther from her. Right now, she can't determine which is worst, the invisible walls she can feel around her or the previous feeling where there where nothing from the spirits.
Everything has her tensing up, which isn't helped by Freya arriving in the mansion and her not knowing what she should think of the witch. That she is telling the truth in being a Mikaelson she believes that she wants them no harm is still to be determined. It is slightly calming though that Freya appears as nervous as the rest of them.
They are gathering in the dining room, the only one missing is Rebekah, she is still hunting down some allies if one can call them that. But it was made clear that she was to be told what they had spoken of once the conversation was over.
Having sat down around the table they asked Freya to start telling them about Dahlia. "The first thing you should know is that Dahlia is the most powerful witch I've ever seen, and she craves more power still." It sends shivers through her. "Right now, she is like me limited to one year of life in a century. But she wants to be free of that restriction. To gain true immortality."
"Something that should be impossible." Kol points out. "Nature isn't very fond of immortals, always leaving some weakness to kill them."
Freya nods. "Normally yes, but even nature has its exceptions, your son would be one of them." She looks between Caroline and Klaus.
She wishes they could have kept Kaiden out of danger longer. "So Kaiden is everything she has ever wanted," Caroline asks. "With him, she doesn't need all the firstborns that she was promised."
"Most likely," Freya answers. "When Esther turned all of you into vampires, it meant that the promise they've made had no meaning, there would be no more children from Esther's bloodline unless I gave them to her, something I refused.
"So, Dahlia started looking for ways to undo Esther's spell which led her to find information about Cyrena and the prophecy that gave your son life."
"Let me guess, she has waited ever since for Cyrena to fulfil the prophecy and for my child to be born." Klaus spits out annoyed.
She always believed that the only one that knew about the prophecy was Cyrena. Even if myths and legends existed around the witch there seemed no about a child that would be a tribrid, she should probably not be surprised that someone like Dahlia finds them.
It at least explains how Freya knew what she was, and her weakness. "She understood that it might take time, but the wait would be worth it if only she could manoeuvre around the legendary witch and the creation of nature embodied."
"Something the Travelers made easier when they took Cyrena out with them." Kol says with a sigh.
If Cyrena would have been stronger they will never know, but she would have felt safer with a powerful witch that she could trust, and that might have an understanding of what is about to happen. Instead, they are left with the information that Freya has and they will have to fight against the spirits.
"Dahlia would have come even with Cyrena here. She is drawn to the child to take his power for herself. And she will kill anyone who defies her." Freya explains to them.
"And yet you would defy her?" Elijah asks slightly sceptical and still, he appears to be the one most willing to let her in.
A sigh leaves Freya. "I don't have a choice. She will never let me be free. My one chance is to align with you and kill her."
The sound of Kol's phone beeping interrupts their conversation. A smile becomes clear when he reads the message. "It looks like the Gemini twins are in," he says happily. "They're on their way so we can go through the plan if you're still up for defying the spirits?"
She nods. It's only fitting that she gets the information that she can from Esther. "I don't think we have much choice." She says but turns to Klaus. "Unless you're going to oppose us?"
He sighs. "If you believe that this is for the best, I trust you." He says and grabs her hand, pressing lightly on it.
"May I ask what you are planning?" Freya wonders.
They exchange glances before Caroline decides to answer honestly. "I'm hoping to speak with Esther. The spirits haven't been very helpful so far." If they are trying to keep her from a simple conversation, then they only have themselves to blame if she does something they disagree with.
"You believe that is wise?" Freya asks. "After everything our mother has done."
"Well, we are aware of her ability to lie and deceive," Klaus says. "You on the other hand are still an uncertainty that we know next to nothing about. How are we to know that this isn't just a ploy by Dahlia to get close to Kaiden."
Anger can be seen coming over Freya. "Because she took everything from me, she bound me to this eternity in her own wish to not be weak any longer, to be able to achieve as much power as possible. Since the only thing she wanted was more firstborns, and I refused to give it to her and refused to bring a child into the life I had lived she also in a way took my ability to have children. I have lived with her horrors for a thousand years and have only truly been allowed to live for one year every century. There is nothing I want more than to be free."
"That does not rule out the idea that you would help her get to Kaiden in return for your own freedom." Klaus points out with disgust in his voice. "And if your life has been so horrible, why not just bring an end to it?"
She takes a firm grip on Klaus's hand in an attempt to calm him because she does not believe that provoking one another will give them anything. Even if she shares his worry, completely aware that it is a possibility that Freya is trying to deceive them to reach their son, they need the information. She also tries to remind herself that out of the two women, Freya felt kinder.
When she can feel Klaus calming down and can see Freya take a deep breath, she loses the grip on the hybrid's hand. "Long ago, I did consider it," Freya answers after a while. "But Dahlia would never give me even that freedom, I am like her, immortal and impervious to harm." A bitter laugh leaves the witch who is drying her tears.
Frey then looks at them with a sad smile. "As I said, I would never put a child through my life, not my own or another. Still, I gave in to those feelings once, his name was Mathias. We knew each other for one perfect year in the early 1400s. I loved him more than my own life, and Dahlia allowed me to love him."
"She was hoping that you would give her a firstborn?" Elijah asks and Freya nods.
"It led to the darkest moment of my life. Mathias only wanted our son to be born free. For that, Dahlia cursed him to death. I knew that I'd never be free of her, that my child would be born a slave. To spare us both the horrors of the life I'd known, I took a bottle of Dahlia's strongest poison.
"I wanted to die, for only death could give me the release I longed for. But Dahlia knew that my death was never an option. That was the day that I learned I could never die. My child on the other hand…" Freya takes a deep breath. "I know what it's like to have Dahlia take everything from you, I could not live with myself if I only traded my place with another."
"Why don't we start small?" Caroline suggests and smiles at Freya. "We work together to stop Dahlia and until she is gone you are not to be left alone with Kaiden?" she hopes that the rest of the Mikaelson siblings will agree.
Both Elijah and Kol nod in agreement. "He is your son, you two should have the last say." Kol says to show that he will follow their lead.
While Klaus appears to appreciate his younger brother's words he doesn't seem sold on her idea. "I don't want her anywhere close." He says after a while. "Until we can be certain that she isn't a threat, she isn't to be left without guard." Well, it is a start.