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While Ansel was explaining to his son and his siblings why Dahlia was after Hope, Bella was using her magic to locate the one white oak stake left and when she found out that it was in the Mickealson's possession, she knew that she had to send Henrik to get it. This way, not only would she be safe from any distractions but with any luck, he'd want to go back to his siblings and he would be safe from danger.
"Henrik, how would you feel to a little drop by your brother's house?" Bella asked him, distracting him from the program he was watching on TV.
"Why aren't you going?" He asked her, standing up, always willing to help her.
"Because we're too close to the big fight I've been preparing for, I don't want to get distracted, and you know how I get when I see Klaus." She smiled.
"Should I cloak myself? Be invisible?" He asked her.
"It's up to you Henrik. All I want is for you to ask them for the last White Oak stake and to bring it here. I could call Ansel but I don't know if he'll answer the cell phone I gave him, he didn't look very comfortable with technology."
"Don't worry, I'm on it." Henrik nodded before he grabbed his jacket and left their temporary home.
While Henrik was gone, Bella worked on locating Mickeal, Esther and Finn and, once she had, she placed a permanent lock on them so that she could always find them without having to redo the spell every time she wanted to find him.
Once she had the stake, she'd need to find a way to get the last ingredient she needed: Freya's blood. Indeed, she had gotten some earth from Dahlia's homeland a while back and was storing it in a safe place, waiting for the right moment to use it.
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When he arrived in Klaus's house, Henrik realized that Ansel had just completed Dahlia's story so he decided to stay hidden a while longer, to see what his siblings would have to say and if they still had faith in Bella. He wanted to make sure that they wouldn't try to make a plan of their own and risk ruining Bella's carefully prepared plan.
"I still don't understand why your goddaughter made it her business to help us and save our family even before we knew of the threat. The last time I saw her, right after Mickeal killed you, she definitely didn't look friendly. She even threw me away with her magic." Rebekah shook her head, confused.
"That day she had just lost her entire family, her friends, her village. I think we all understand her anger that day. We can all show some compassion and understanding." Elijah tried to reason with his sister.
"I know, you're right, but I'm still curious." She replied.
"It's her story to tell, I'm sorry. All you need to know is that she will get it done, you have nothing to worry about. And all of your questions will be answered in time." Ansel replied.
"And we trust her?" Marcel asked Klaus, speaking for the first time since he had arrived.
He had a feeling that Klaus' father didn't like him much and he wondered why that was. He felt intimidated by the man and tried to stay out of the spotlight. He didn't want Klaus or his father to get angry at him.
"Yes, we do." He nodded, his newly born daughter still in his arms.
"Is Henrik still with her then? Is he really alive and well? I mean, we've never really seen any proof that he was with her, we only guessed it but it could have been anyone playing pranks on Kol and Rebekah." Elijah asked Ansel.
"Yes, he is, and playing pranks on my siblings is much more fun than watching from afar and protecting them from potential threats. Though I do that, too." Henrik replied, still invisible, before Ansel could say anything.
He had spoken from his spot, right behind Kol and the surprise made the youngest Mickealson male Original vampire jump a foot in the air, making everyone else chuckle.
"Henrik? Is that you?" Elijah asked and, deciding that they deserved to see him, the youngest sibling made himself visible.
For the next few minutes, Henrik was passed from one sibling to another in a tearful hug before he found himself in front of his newborn niece and Klaus asked him:
"Is she here as well?"
"Sorry, no. She had something to ask from you and she sent me. She didn't want to be distracted before the big fight she's been preparing for for so long." Henrik replied.
"You don't seem to really believe that, son." Ansel noticed.
"She wants me to spend time with my siblings in hopes that I'll want to come back here once I'm done running her errand and that I'll be away from her when she decides to fight Dahlia. I'm powerful enough to help her but she's afraid that Dahlia will be ready for us and that she'll hurt me. She thinks that if I see you all today, I won't be able to stay away and I'll leave her alone and stay safe." Henrik explained.
"Just how powerful are you now?" Kol asked his baby brother, a hint of jealousy in his voice.
"I'm just as strong as Dahlia and Freya are but Bella is much stronger than them, she just lacks self confidence." Henrik replied.
"She always did." Ansel smiled fondly.
"What does she need?" Klaus asked his brother while handing his daughter to his father.
"She's located Mickeal and she needs the White Oak stake to kill him and use his ashes to kill Dahlia." He told her.
"Are we really supposed to hand her the last weapon that could kill us all after all the trouble we went through to get it and keep it?" Rebekah asked while Klaus ran away in vampire speed and came back soon.
"You do remember that without her, the tree would still be out there and someone might have used it to kill all of you, right?" Henrik reminded his sister who nodded.
"Here it is. I trust her." Klaus said, giving the deadly weapon to his youngest brother.
"You don't have to worry, the weapon and its magic will be permanently destroyed when she's done with it. After that, the only way to kill any of you would be using her kind of magic and I doubt anyone went to the trouble to gather that much power besides her. At least the spirits don't think so." Henrik replied.
"Is there anything else we can do to help?" Marcel asked.
He had heard of Klaus's mysterious friend during his childhood and he know how important she was to his sire.
"No, I don't think so, at least not yet. She'll lift Hope's cloaking spell for a couple of minutes tomorrow so it can bring Dahlia in town. Hopefully, Freya will be there first." Henrik replied.
"Why do you want her to come first?" Kol asked.
"Because we need some of her blood to do it. Not much, don't worry. She'll survive. Well, if she's not on Dahlia's side she'll survive." Henrik answered.
"Will you come back to see us?" Elijah asked his baby brother.
"Not unless I have to. I want to be there for Be... for her. She's been through so much, been alone for so long, sacrificed so much for our family... I'll be by her side until she forces me away." Henrik explained.
Klaus smiled. His brother had almost slipped and told him the name of his angel. Her name started with Be.
"Thank you, I would if I could but we both know that she'd refuse." Ansel told him.
"She did all of it so you could finally spend time with your son and have the life you deserved with him, I don't think she'd take it well if you just came back to stay with her." Henrik chuckled.
"I know, but I saw her grow up, I can't help but worry for her. She did stay on her own for over 5600 years before she found you..." Ansel replied.
"Wait, what? How can she have been alone for so long?" Kol asked.
"She went back in time after her first letter to Klaus. She had just found out about Dahlia... Her initial plan was to go back to the night Mickeal killed Ansel. She would have saved Ansel, killed Mickeal, saved her village and prevented our mother from cursing Niklaus but she found out about Dahlia and her entire plan changed. She had to be careful not to change anything for the first 5600 years so she mainly kept to herself, isolated herself... It wasn't easy, I can't even imagine what she went through..." Henrik explained and for the first time, Klaus realized just how far his angel had gone to protect him, to give him the family he wanted and he was touched by it.
"If you need anything, here's my cell-phone. Call and I'll come right away." Marcel offered, giving Henrik a piece of paper with his cell phone number written on it.
"I'll give it to her but if I were you, I wouldn't wait by the phone She's a bit mad at you for what you put Klaus through. Calling Mickeal to town when you knew he wanted to kill him, faking your death and taking everything he had built for himself in this town... She doesn't trust you and probably won't until you prove to her that you're sorry and willing to die for Klaus and Hope if necessary." Henrik informed his hybrid brother's protege before he said goodbye to everyone and left.
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When Henrik was back, Bella knew where Mickeal, Finn and Esther were every minute.
"So, do you know what you'll do about Mother and Finn?" Henrik asked her.
"We'll put Finn's spirit in a crystal and if Freya isn't on Dahlia's side, we'll give him to her, making it clear that this is his last chance and that the next time he goes after his siblings will be the last. As for your mother, I think that sending her to a supernatural prison world will be for the best. The body she's using will be freed and her spirit won't be able to come back here, ever." Bella replied.
"Good plan. Will you tell her about me being alive?" He asked her.
"Do you want him to know about you?" She asked him.
"Yes, I want her to know that you saved me and that everything could have been avoided if she had only kept her word to Ansel." Henrik nodded.
"Then we'll tell her. Now come on, we need to clean young Davina's mind. She needs to let go of her anger towards Klaus before we go after Mickeal." Bella told Henrik before they both left their home and headed for the cemetery.
"I think Klaus knows, or at least suspects, why you're doing all of this." Henrik confessed to Bella later.
"Well, he is smart and I don't see any other reason that would push someone to do everything I did for another person they've never spoken with." Bella smiled.
"You're not angry than?" Henrik breathed out in relief.
"No, I'm not. I knew he'd catch on eventually." She smiled before she went back to working on her prison world for Esther and Henrik went back to finish working on the potion to allow Rebekah, Elijah and Finn to use their witch powers while still being vampires.
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Over the next few days, everything went according to plans for Bella and Henrik. She had placed Finn in a crystal until she decided what to do with him and she and Henrik had sent Esther in a prison world where she'd be all alone and without any way to check on her children. Of course, Henrik got to talk to her before Bella sent her away and Esther left desolated over everything she lost.
Bella also managed to drag Dahlia back to town and even detected Freya who had a day's advance on her aunt. Bella sent Henrik to warn his siblings about what she had done already and what she was going to do next while she went and met up with the eldest Mickealson sibling, whom she had summoned by using her magic.
"Who are you and why did you summon me here? Do you have any idea of who I am and what I can do?" Freya asked when she arrived in the empty impasse Bella had summoned her to.
Immediately, Bella didn't like her future sister in law. Freya held herself tall and spoke with arrogance. She seemed to be full of herself and Bella couldn't wait to show her who was truly the most powerful one of all. If Freya needed a reality check, Bella was willing to give it to her.
"My name is Bella and all you need to know right now is that I'm more powerful than you. I'm going to ask you one question and you're going to answer truthfully. If you lie, I'll know it and you'll be dead. Trust me on this, I have the power to end your life. If your answer is the right one, you'll be free and have your siblings back. Do you understand me?" Bella asked the blond witch in front of her, making sure that the blond could feel the extend of her powers.
"Crystal." Freya nodded.
"Are you working with Dahlia?"
"No, and when I have to, it's definitely not willingly." Freya replied and Bella smiled, sensing the truth.
"I can feel that this is the truth. I have a strong plan to kill her and enough power to make it permanent and painful. All I need is some of your blood and for you to stay out of my way when I face her." Bella said.
"I'll willingly give you my blood but who are you and why do you want to kill Dahlia? She's strong and dangerous." Freya warned her.
"Don't worry, I'm much stronger than she is. I have 5600 years on her. Now, I'm going to give you a warning: If I have the power to kill her, I also have the power to kill you and if you ever try anything to harm Niklaus or any of the people he cares about, you'll find yourself dead permanently. Is this clear?" Bella asked the witch who frowned but nodded.
"Are they all here?" Freya asked.
"Yes, but you need to know that I've killed Esther, am about to kill Mickeal and I won't be swayed or convinced otherwise. He's a monster that needs to be stopped and if you cross me, you'll join your mother in the prison world I locked her into." Bella warned her.
"Mickeal is no monster! He's my papa, please." Freya insisted.
"Really? Watch this then!" Bella snapped, forcing visions of Mickeal's horrible past in the witch's head.
She showed her Mickeal beating and torturing a young Niklaus, then she showed him murdering her village and the people she loved before she showed Freya the worst of Mickeal over the past thousand years, not sparing anything from her.
"No... It's not true, it's not him... Please..." Freya started to plea.
"He's not the man you used to know. He needs and deserves to die. Can you accept that or are you going to be a problem? And remember, I will detect your lies and punish you for them." Bella replied.
"I... I'll make my peace with it but can I please tell him goodbye before you kill him?"
"Fine, I guess dying while knowing the truth about you will be a good punishment for him after everything he's done to Klaus and my people." Bella agreed before inviting Freya to follow her to her home before she took her along to take care of Mickeal.
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Henrik came back home right before Bella returned with Freya.
"I take it she's not evil then." Henrik declared as soon as Bella introduced him to his eldest sister.
"No, she's not. I'm going to let the two of you talk while I prepare some dinner. Tomorrow morning, we take care of Mickeal. Then I create the weapons I need and while the two of you go and see your siblings, I'll take care of Dahlia who will follow my trail and join me in an abandoned club nearby." Bella explained.
"What trail?" Freya asked curiously.
"She'll go there thinking baby Hope is hidden there. She'll find me and die." Bella replied before going to the kitchen.
While she prepared their dinner, Henrik and Freya talked, mainly about what Freya had gone through and what she had missed.
"I have to say, I've cursed the life that Dahlia has forced on me but to realize that Bella chose it and why she did is eye opening. Maybe I can have a happy life after all, I might have lost my Love and my child, but I could find another love. Once Dahlia is gone, I'll be free to have the life I've always wanted..." Freya told her brother.
"Bella is kind and the most selfless person I've ever met but don't anger her because she can also be ruthless when she's protecting her loved ones. Just a warning, you might be my sister but if you turn on her, I'll side with her and I'm pretty sure that Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah and Kol will also side with her." Henrik warned his sister.
"You love her." She realized.
"She saved my life when it didn't bring her anything. For the past thousand years she's been my best friend, my sister, my mother, my teacher, my confident... My everything. I will never turn my back on her." Henrik assured Freya faithfully.
"You do realize that when this is all over, when Dahlia is dealt with, she'll leave you to go with Klaus, don't you?"
"She'll go with Klaus but she won't leave me. We're family now. We'll take our distances, I'll live my life, spend time with my other siblings but she'll always be there for me, I know it." Henrik replied.
"I wish I could have as much faith in Dahlia as you have in Bella. I wish I could have anyone to place my faith in."
"Place it in Bella. She'll kill Dahlia and you'll be free." Henrik insisted.
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"You look worried." Ansel told his son as he joined him on the balcony.
"Where's Hope?" Klaus asked in return.
"Sleeping in her room. You're thinking about her, aren't you?" Ansel asked him and they both knew that "her" wasn't Hope but Bella, Klaus' mysterious woman.
"Henrik said she had dealt with Finn and Esther but she still has Mickeal, Freya and Dahlia to deal with. What if they all unite against her?"
"Don't worry son, she's well capable of taking care of herself. Fighting against these 3 at the same time would be hard and challenging for her but I doubt Mickeal would work with the woman who took his beloved child away from him." Ansel reassured him.
"Do you think it'll be long?" Klaus asked.
"Until what?"
"Until she comes and answers all of my questions." Klaus replied.
"Don't worry, I have a feeling that in less than 2 days, she'll be here, visible and answering questions. Maybe even tomorrow if we're lucky." Ansel replied, a discreet twinkle in his eyes.
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