Chapter 21

While everything occurred around me, I stayed at the compound trying to spend these last few hours as normal as possible. Fixing Alexander's nursery, I wanted to have the best nursery he could have. Any moment now I could go into labor, everything happening with Hope was only breaking Klaus.

After the attempt to kill The Hollow, it seems she had a plan from the start. Taking over Hope's body in the process, since last night Hope was gone. The Hollow had disappeared last night, taking any possibility of recovering Hope.

Someone knocked on the wall, I glanced at Hayley."Hey, how are you?"

I smiled at her, trying to keep myself as cheery as possible."I'm fine, where's Klaus?"

"He's with Freya trying to find a way to cure Hope of the hollows grip."

I nodded in response, moving the crib to the other side."How are you doing Hayley? After the incident with Elijah and now this."

She sighed, leaning against the wall."I don't know, I don't want to lose my little girl. She means the world to me and knowing this thing wants to take her, I'm scared."

I walked up to her embracing her."Hope is strong, I promise you she will make it."

"I hope she does."She murmured, she pulled away looking down at my bump."What happened between you and Klaus? he's been so off lately."

I shrugged, taking an audible breath."I told him how I felt, well at least the easiest part."I looked at her sincerely."Lately, I've been seeing things and I'm in it. I see these visions of me happy with this man, I see myself falling. And I feel like I know him, it's wrong but my feelings for Klaus are evolving into something different."

Hayley shot me a skeptical look."It sounds wrong Beth, maybe it's what's going on that's putting this wall between you."

"I wish, but I know it isn't. For five years we spent seeking a way to save him, and my feelings for him stayed the same but now this love is slowly falling from its good grace. I love him but I'm no longer in love, and I know I've said millions of times I love him more than life itself. I did and I love him but love shouldn't be this, every corner I turn because of what he is something separates us."

Her brows furrowed."Oh?"

"I know. But all I care about right now is making sure my baby is safe."

His hand slid over to my swollen stomach being over to kiss where the child grew."He will someday be a strong ruler, the army will stride by his side with pride of their prince."

She laughed."He? And what if it's a girl? A little princess and not a prince?"

He stood up straight brushing her bright red locks to the side."She will be a ruler and the first of her kind. She will stride an army, marry the man she loves and have the heart of a true Romanian."

Marcel walked into the room with an envelope in his hands."Elizabeth?"

I groaned discouraged with the stupid changing table I could not build."What is it?"

He walked up to me, placing the envelope in my hands."Baltor told me to tell you goodbye, he left last night. He told me to tell you to hold on, and that someday in the future he hopes your child will be a man worthy of your legacy."

I looked down at the letter, opening it but before thanking Marcel for the trouble.

"Marcel?"

He stopped his tracks by the doorframe."Yeah?"

I smiled at him, thankfully."I know deep inside of you, you still love Rebekah. If you decide to be with her or the other girl, don't let whoever you choose to go. Follow your heart, and don't end up regretting who you choose."

A small chuckle came out of his lips as he looked at me."I will hold on to that. I could say the same but we both know otherwise if someday I die maybe if I don't end up in hell I'll see you."

I laughed."I don't think to kill the devil saves you spot in heaven."

He grinned before leaving me here alone with Baltor's letter, I sighed staring at it. I wasn't ready to read it yet, it only made reality much more real.

The floor squeaked, I placed the letter down alert by seeing Hope. She had a smirk on her lips, coming closer to me. I defensively placed my hands on my swollen stomach, frightened by what the hollow could do to me. She stopped a few inches from me, extending her hand to touch my stomach.

"He will be here soon," She told me."Are you scared? I mean of dying so soon, of never seeing him grow."

My hands trembled."What do you want?"

"I want him, he will be the perfect progeny to my plans."She said, her hand was glowing against my belly."If you want your baby to be safe, I want you to help me."

I was in no physical condition to fight the hollow and she was inside of Hope's body, I would have to agree."If you promise he and Hope won't harmed then you have a deal."

"Perfect." She turned around walking toward the door."Come with me, we are going somewhere."

I did as she told me, I took her to where she wanted to go. To Vincent's church, the whole church looked untouched. It's been days since Vincent has disappeared, it's like he disappeared into thin air. She walked to the altar, turning around to look at me.

"Stay there, we are just missing one more friend."Her eyes gleamed in delight, she was waiting for something big I could feel it.

I didn't dare to ask who because my question was soon answered by Marcel's presence. He seemed surprised to see me and Hope here, but I knew he knew about the Hollow currently taking over her body.

The hollow grinned staring deeply at us with a look of victory."Now I have two of the most powerful creatures, the King of New Orleans and the Queen her father never wanted."

I saw Marcel furrow his brows in confusion.

The Hollow continued taunting me."Loved by her adoptive parents, loved by her birth mother but despised by her birth father. Your mother would say I just need a son and he would love you, oh how he hated you for your power. A king wanted a son, then you were born only to cause his death."I didn't allow her words to affect me because even if her words were the truth, no one would know."The perfect king only showing his kingdom what he wanted to show, I've seen the truth of you. The princess no one wanted, the daughter her father despised."

I held my head high."Your words are lies."

She turned her head to Marcel."The boy servant Klaus Mikaelson saved, the boy his father gave away. Do you remember how the whip would rip through your skin, the burning sensation? The slave no one wanted. Even till now you'll always be less than Klaus Mikaelson."

Marcel chuckled, taking steps forward."Get to the point which, I'm only here for Hope Mikaelson not for you. Your words mean nothing to me, the past is the past."

"I think the past isn't the past, they're bright in Elizabeth's mind."She narrowed her eyes at me."Let me show you."

I shook my head."I do not wish to know."

It was a truth I've discovered years ago before I met Baltor, one he confirmed for me. Oddly enough he had been there at my birth, he had seen the rage of the king when he realized I was not the boy expected. For that, I was expected to marry a king, the king of Eraklyon. I was the daughter of a tyrant, the daughter of King Oritel of Sparx most loved king yet hated by his own daughter. My birth mother just a foolish woman in love, one who allowed him to shame her.

Part of me wishes he would see what I am now, I proved him wrong. Boys are no better than girls to rule, my son would grow to know that one is not born a king without fighting. Oritel might be my father by genes but he will never be my father in my heart, Michael Peters is.

Disclaimer: I do not own To or WC

So we are now officially one chapter away from the finale. I will be updating the finale Friday and the Prologue by Saturday. Dark Prince will be up by no later than sometime next week. In the prologue for those who haven't read all four stories, I'll have a summary from the start to end. I'm hoping you all love The Dark Prince. As stated before Baltor will be the essence of the plot. Selene will be back, and I promise a big evil from ancient times will appear in Part 2.