Davina enjoyed dancing with Kol even had a glass of champagne for the first time in her life. After the scene Klaus threw, everything settled down, there were no more fight. She supposed that the fractions decided that if Elijah and Klaus could behave, so could they. At least of that one evening.
Kol took her home when she started to fall asleep. He brought her back to the church attic and she finally was able to speak to him. He did say that they will talk the next day, after party. And it was the next day, after party.
"We really need to talk, Kol."
"What is so important?"
"Esther." She said softy.
Kol froze and then turned to look at her: "What did you say?"
"Esther. I heard her, she is here."
"Where?" He griped her by the shoulders a bit too tight for her comfort, "Where is she?"
"She is possessing Abigail's body. I heard her talking to some guy, she called him Finn. They were at the cemetery when I went snooping. She wants to do something to me. She is planning something."
"And you are telling me now?!" He growled as he pushed her away from him. Like he was afraid, he would hurt her.
"You were the one who wanted to have fun." She mocked the last word as she hissed at him. How can he make this her fault?!
"You should have told me!"
"I tried, you idiot! Or is your memory so bad in your advanced age?!"
"Advanced age?" He vamped right in front of her stepping into her personal space and making her jump. "Then why is it that your heart beats faster around me? We both know that's not fear."
How dare he?! She pushed him away with her magic knowing that her human strength wouldn't move him, not even an inch. If she wasn't so angry, she would probably spend more time thinking about the fact that her magic was back. Then again it probably never left, she was just too scared to use it. And anger was all she needed to forget whatever was holding her back.
Before he could do anything she started to boil his blood. It was a spell she perfected a long time ago. Kol fell to his knees.
"What are you doing?" He looked up at her.
"Boiling your blood." She didn't remember magic ever giving her such a head-rush. She felt really lightheaded.
"Davina…" He started but she quickly interrupted him.
"Stop! You do not have any right to talk to me like that! To treat me like that! I have been used and abused enough and you will not even have the chance to…"
"Davina, you need to stop! Now!" He struggled to say.
"You don't tell me what to do!" She hissed, but she could barely stand. She didn't know what was wrong. She was shaking, her vision was blurry and she would swear that the temperature skyrocketed.
"You are hurting yourself, you need… to stop." He gasped out. It finally all clicked in her head, but it was too late. Her world was consumed by darkness and she lost sense of everything around her.
Kol could only watch as she fell to the ground with a loud thud. The spell she placed on him broke the second she hit the ground. Another second and he was picking her up and carrying her to the bed.
He checked for any injuries. Her skin was hot, as if she was running a fever and her heart beat was a bit too erratic to his liking, but other than that, there was nothing wrong with her. She just fainted.
All this, because she made him suffer for acting like the idiot he was. The spell she directed at him affected her as well though the link. It wouldn't kill him, but it most definitely could do a lot of harm to her. It was just pure luck, that even though she felt some of it, it wasn't the full force that hit him.
He needed to cool her down. Kol ran out of the attic and out to the grocery store next to the church to get a bag of ice. Finding a bowl in the attic wasn't so hard as there were more than few art supplies laying around.
He ended up using his shirt as a wet cloth to cool Davina down as we did want to spend unnecessary time trying to find a clean peace of fabric. Her skin was still too hot to his liking but she was slowly cooling down.
It took a good long while before she started to wake up.
"Kol?" she asked, he voice still weak.
"Welcome back, darling." Kol was no stranger to women but he couldn't remember when he was this gentle with one.
"I…my head hurts."
"You are still too warm. Here." He pressed the newly wetted shirt to the back of her neck.
"Did you know this would happen?" She asked.
"I thought it might be a possibility but, honestly, no."
"I am sorry I hurt you."
"You hurt yourself more than you hurt me." He sighed tiredly, "Either way, this should not have happened."
"Hmm." He watched her close her eyes for a moment and enjoyed the cold cloth.
"Mother dearest back from the dead is not good at all. Something has to be done."
"She said that she can't take me down without you falling as well. I think she knows I am linked to you. She said she has to wait, that she is not ready to use me somehow."
"You have my word she won't get close enough to you to harm you."
"She said she will kill the baby herself." Kill the baby? That could mean only one thing. Esther came for Klaus' unborn child. Now, he knew nothing of the wolf carrying the child and there was no love lost between him and Klaus but it was still his niece. She was about the only Mikaelson that he didn't have a grunge against. The only one that was still innocent in this family. The child was already dealt a crappy hand as it was.
"Did they said anything else? I need you to focus and remember as much as you possibly can."
She closed her eyes to focus: "I think they mentioned a name. Finn seemed scared of her. I just can't remember."
"Can you recall anything else?" He urged her.
"I think the name started with a B or maybe a D?" she looked like she was getting more frustrated with her memory than Kol was.
"Please, darling. We need to know."
"You think it's Klaus' child, don't you?" She asked suddenly surprised he made that connection. In her head it could have been a random child but Kol knew better.
"I don't know how much you know about our mother, but last time she pretended want to be a family only to conspire to kill us all. According to my brother, when that didn't work she jumped into my sister's body and…"
"That's it!" She interrupted him suddenly. "I don't remember the name, but Esther referred to her as her sister. This person, that Finn was so scared of, she is your aunt."
Somewhere far far away, a woman woke up from her slumber. She stretched and stood up carefully. Her legs were a bit weak but that is to be expected when you don't use them for a hundred years.
That feeling would soon fade and then she can go find that ungrateful niece of hers. She gave her everything! A bed to sleep in, clothes to keep her warm, food to keep her sated. She taught her magic, she gave her power, together they were so strong.
And yet, all that ungrateful child did was cry about her momma!
To think she even forgave her for killing a child that rightfully belonged to her! Well, she will have to teach her. Just because she allowed her the same one year a century didn't mean she couldn't take that away. Keep her asleep for all time. That would solve her problems. That would ensure the stupid girl won't betray her again.
As her power awoke fully, her limbs stopped shaking but she also felt something else. A child. Another Mikaelson. A new generation. Did her niece manage to conceive another child? No, she would have felt that. No, this child was conceived while they were both sleeping. It didn't matter how this child was conceived, but one of Esther's monsters was to give her a new child to her coven.
She would just need to go to…
She searched for the source of the power. Nothing. She could feel it, however she could not locate it. Just like she could not locate her disgraced niece.
She growled in frustration.
She has to seek another way. But first, she needs to acquaint herself with this century.
Somewhere in New Orleans Freya opened her eyes. She could already feel Dahlia searching for her. It was a miracle her cloaking spells still worked.
She expected to wake up and finally meet her family. The way she wanted it. Plan every single detail and then have her perfect meeting. Her five minutes of happiness.
That was not going to happen. She knew that now. With Klaus' child on the way, there would be no hiding from Dahlia anymore. The second that child took it's first breathe, Dahlia will be able to find it. And once she has that child, she has enough power to track her down wherever she goes.
She would not let another child share the same fate as her. Esther's plan to kill the child might have worked but she made that choice for her child and she regretted it to this day.
No. Dahlia needs to be stopped. It's the only course of action. She just hoped her siblings were not as easily scared as her mother had been thousand years ago.
She got up from her coffin and looked around. This was not the place she fell asleep in. They must have moved her. The room she was in was full of dust, there was a strong smell of mould and there was not even one candle. The only light was coming from the dirty window. She came closer and saw the street outside. It was night and yet the street lights were bright enough to see the sign on a shop across the street selling newspapers. The roads looked different too and there were much more cars passing through.
She took her eyes away from the window. She didn't have time to marvel over the new age. She needed to get to her siblings as fast as possible. She reached for the door and stepped inside a brightly lit corridor. She stood in the doorway for a while to let her eyes adjust and then she headed towards the stairs, ignoring all the other people. Some where shuffling around murmuring something others were looking around with a look so haunted one would expect a monster to jump out of nowhere. So they looked her in a magical mad house, lovely. Then again, she supposed that was to be expected.
She came all the way to the front door without anyone trying to stop her but was she was to reach for the doorknob someone snatched her hand and twisted it painfully. She looked up to find a bold, muscled guy with cold empty eyes and scars on his face staring at her.
"Where do you think, you are going?" A woman's voice came from behind. Freya would like to believe that if they caught her on a different day, she would have been nicer, but as it was she needed to get out as fast as she could and they were standing in her way. Like they could actually stand a chance against her, like they could actually subdue her.
She ripped her hand from the man's grip and sent him flying with one flick of a hand then she waved her other hand to the direction of the woman not even bothering to look at her. She outstretched her hands and sent the door flying open. The second she stepped out of the house, the doors closed.
Now, she needed to find Kol. He deserved some explanations from her and he wasn't the only one.
A/N: Hope you liked this one. xSilver-Infinite I didn't want to spoil anything but, yes, there is a mess that Freya is a part of, Esther has her own plans and so does Thalia. :-)
A/N: Also thank you all for the kind words. It means the world to me.
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