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Tatia turned to her sister's descendants. "I must thank you," she offered in an accent very much like the Mikaelsons'. "I have had the unique experience of existing and not existing for many lifetimes now. It is only now with all of the pieces of my soul in tact that the awareness of my soul awakens. It is almost as if I have been slumbering for the last one thousand years."
"Well, having your soul torn into eight different pieces could not have been pleasant," Sonya credited her. "No wonder the spirits granted you slumber until they could finally find one another and put themselves back together again."
"Yes," Ilya agreed with her mother, "but now we have eight bodies to deal with disposing of."
"No," Tatia commanded. "We must keep their bodies safe and to do so they must stay here."
"It's not as if they'll have need of them," Ilya rebutted. "Their souls have merged back to one; they won't be able to return."
"But I would rather not give our enemies the materials necessary to ending our crusade," Tatia reasoned. "Hair, blood, flesh; all could be used to banish me or undo the spells bound by Petrova blood and magic."
"She's right," Lydia argued. "In the wrong hands, and the wrong motives, the doppelgängers could still be used to ruin our plans. We should move them into one of the rooms and place protective spells and barrier spells around them so no one can get to them. Then we can deal with Silas."
"Ah, Silas," Tatia smiled sinisterly. "He will reap the reward of his efforts. We must make quick work."
Caroline and Damon made it back to the house to see Amelia's body hovering over the floor as Lydia placed the last body in the guest room. "What are you doing," he snarled.
"Protecting their bodies," the witch answered. "From Silas and Klaus, since your brother unleashed public enemy number 2 and we all know how Klaus likes to body snatch unwilling vessels."
"Wait, you say that is if there's the possibility of waking them up," Caroline asked eagerly. "Will Elena come back after this is over?"
Lydia looked for her mother and grandmother, before speaking in secret to the vampires. "There's a way for me to bring all of them back; at least, the one's who were still living before the ritual, after Tatia has completed her mission. I've managed to convince them to save the bodies for now instead of disposing of them."
"You're lying," Damon accused and Caroline held him back before he could do something stupid.
"I'm not," she growled. "I've been looking for a way for years. I couldn't bare to see another one of my cousins die, not after Sofiyah," Lydia cried. "We just need to let Tatia deal with Silas. If he sees that it's not necessary to drop the veil to be with her, she can get close enough to kill him once and for all; sending him back to the other side."