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Caroline's mind flashed back to her car ride with Klaus that morning. She had read the 6th of September on the screen of the car's computer.
Had it really only been one day?
One day in New Orleans?
So much had already happened, and it wasn't close to being finished.
Elijah continued to read the letter; it was something about it being a dinner dance, they needed to dress for the occasion and that it was going to be only slightly less than huge.
"His whole army will be there." Katherine began.
"Caroline is going to get the witches, we won't be outnumbered." Klaus announced.
"How are we going to hide all these witches?" Katherine asked, turning to Klaus. "Last time I checked we weren't allowed any plus ones."
"There will be enough people there for them to blend in." Caroline retorted.
"Or we don't use them up until the last minute." Elijah interrupted. "If we bring them in immediately then Lockwood will know we're armed."
"So we enter there without any backup while the witches hide in the bushes?" Caroline scowled. "What if they don't step in the moment in which we need them to?"
"It's a risk I'm willing to take. If Tyler figures out that we've brought witches before we have the upper hand, then it's already lost." Elijah spoke calmly. "We enter unarmed; they won't see it coming."
"They don't trust us either way. Just because we supposedly don't have any weapons, doesn't mean they will be any less harsh." Caroline spoke.
"At least they won't know what we have." Elijah replied.
At that moment, Rebekah and Kol came barging through the front door, the same excited smirk plastered on their face.
"What'd we miss?" Kol smirked, his eyes narrowing.
After explaining the events of the day and future of the night, Elijah pulled Katherine aside, and they stood in his bedroom.
It was inexplicably neat. Everything was incredibly ordered and clean, the majority of the room was black; the bed sheets, the floor and the rest of the room was themed with either dark grey, black or silver décor.
"Please sit." Elijah motioned Katherine to a black velvet chair against a wall of the room and he sat down beside her as she did.
Katherine knew something was… tense. He didn't have his usual glint in his eyes when he looked at her. What could have gone wrong? She was just saved by Klaus, what was he worried about?
"I don't know how to say this." Elijah began, and Katherine sat up straighter, slightly leaning forward into him. "You know I will do anything in my power to be with you. Anything."
"Yes…" Katherine croaked.
"Part of keeping you as mine, is doing things that perhaps you wouldn't want me to do." Elijah looked down.
"What are you talking about?" Katherine narrowed her eyes.
"I don't want you to fight tonight." Elijah looked up and stared into her eyes as he said it.
Katherine's breath hitched.
Something told her that this wasn't about her safety.
"Why?" Katherine lowered her voice menacingly.
"I don't want you getting bitten again." Elijah flashed his eyes to the left as he said it.
"You're lying." Katherine furrowed her brows. "Why can't I fight?"
"How can I trust you?" Elijah growled.
Katherine tensed and looked down, clenching her jaw.
"After all you've done with these werewolves. How can I trust you?" Elijah spoke again, as if he was in shock.
"Elijah, I love you." Katherine whispered. "I couldn't betray you"
"You already did once." Elijah spoke quietly back, he was upset. "I know you don't mean to you, Katherine. I know it's hard for you to trust people. But I can't have you switching sides tonight, if we start to fail."
"I would never do that." Katherine had tears forming in her eyes. Not because she was hurt at what Elijah had said, but because she knew it all to be true.
"How can I know?" Elijah was genuinely asking.
"Because you know I'm here to stay with you! I can't imagine a life without you. Isn't that enough? Isn't that enough proof to show you that I am forever on your side?" Katherine said in exasperation.
"I don't know." Elijah mumbled.
"Then you'll have to let me show you." Katherine persisted. "Let me join you tonight."
"Tonight is too much of a risk already." Elijah stated.
"You can't make me stay here." Katherine affirmed, shaking her head. "Elijah, you can't."
Elijah stayed silent.
"I'll come anyway." Katherine stood up to leave. "Even if you tell me not to, I'll come anyway."
Elijah didn't try to stop her, but he only sighed and watched Katherine angrily stalk out of the room.
"I'm not sure about this." Rebekah looked tense.
"Look, we've already been through pretty much every alternative." Caroline replied. "I don't see how there could be any other way of beating these people!"
Rebekah had agreed to accompany Caroline and Klaus to go meet with the witches. In fact, Caroline had more asked her to. They hadn't seen each other in a while, and surprisingly, Caroline had missed having her around.
Rebekah didn't like their plan, like everybody, she didn't trust the witches and she believed they would not follow through, even if they did agree to helping the originals.
"We're going to do this, no matter how sure you are about it, Rebekah." Klaus said as he walked in.
Rebekah scowled and made a face at him.
"Are we going?" Caroline asked Klaus.
"Yes" He replied.
"You must be Caroline." A woman with long black hair said as she approached the trio, looking at Caroline.
"Yes, I am. This is-" Caroline replied.
"I know who they are." The woman interrupted, narrowing her eyes at the originals.
"Marcel said that you could help us." Caroline continued.
"Marcel will force us to do whatever he pleases." The woman spat at Caroline.
"All the better then." Rebekah smiled at the woman threateningly.
"We want you to help us-" Caroline started.
"I know what you want us to do." The woman interrupted again.
"Will it work?" Klaus finally chimed in, becoming impatient at the length of the conversation already.
"It could. Why do you need us anyway? I thought the originals were more than competent of looking after themselves." The woman snarled.
"Many hands make light work." Rebekah said to her.
"Not if our hands are chained." The woman replied, scowling.
Caroline cocked her head unconsciously to the side, unbeknownst to her, mimicking Klaus.
"But if Marcel agrees to help us, he can't stop you from doing magic." Caroline said.
"Yes, he can." Klaus sighed, rubbing his temples with his hand.
"It's worth the try." Rebekah said, suddenly changing her views on this plan.
"We are the enemies of people like you." The witch said. "We do not value anything you do. Why shouldn't we kill you when we have the chance?"
Caroline tensed.
"Because you value decency." Klaus said. "And these werewolves have killed decency. To try and weaken us, they have killed the mother of one of us and made her a vampire."
The witch straightened up.
"True, we have been enemies all of our existence, but for just one night, perhaps you can acknowledge that we are in need of your help. And perhaps that will be enough." Klaus continued.
The witch stayed silent for a while, obviously thinking about her decision.
"I can get all of us to help you." She finally said.
"We only want to use your power when we absolutely need to." Caroline said, relaxing.
"You must hide around the venue, waiting for our signal. At that point we need you to stun the werewolves and hybrids so we can attack." Klaus told her the plan.
"We will do that." The witched nodded. "My name is Fahra."
Fahra reached out her hand to them and shook each of their hands.
"Alliances for the night." Rebekah said, as she shook Fahra's hand.
"Alliances for the night." Fahra repeated back to her.
Sunset.
It was 6 pm, the dinner dance started at 7 pm.
Caroline, Katherine and Rebekah all were in the upstairs lounge of the mansion, getting ready for the night.
"You're wearing that dress right?" Rebekah turned to Caroline.
"What dress?" Caroline asked as she was pinning up her hair into a messy bun with a side braid. She couldn't stop thinking about Klaus's training. Everything he had trained her for will be needed in only a few hours.
Except this time she would actually be killed. She didn't get any second chances.
What if she failed? What if she put other people in danger by her own mistakes?
"You're joking." Rebekah sighed, snapping Caroline out of her thoughts. "The dress, Caroline!"
Suddenly Caroline remembered, the black lace dress Rebekah had bought for her the other week.
That was so long ago, Caroline thought to herself.
"Yes, I'll wear the dress." Caroline smiled half-heartedly.
"Good." Rebekah smiled, going back to creating a dark smoky eye on her eyelids.
Katherine had already dress herself into a dark red, tight fitting dress, with a thick black belt and she was now angrily pacing up and down the length of the hall, her high heels tapping loudly against the marble.
"Whatever is the matter?" Rebekah sighed, turning to see Katherine.
"Your brother is the matter." Katherine huffed.
"What'd he do?" Caroline asked.
"He told me that I wasn't allowed to fight tonight." Katherine laughed angrily.
"Ah." Rebekah turned away from her, and back to a mirror that hung on the wall.
"I told him I was coming anyway." Katherine said quietly as Caroline got up to find her dress.
"Of course you did." Rebekah smiled. "That's what I like about you."
Katherine stopped pacing and turned towards Rebekah.
"What'd you say?" She furrowed her brows.
"Don't flatter yourself, Katherine. Just because I like you doesn't mean I want to be your friend." Rebekah said.
Katherine subtly smirked and turned away from Rebekah once more.
At least one of his siblings likes me. Katherine smiled.
"I like you." Kol announced loudly, appearing in the room with them. He had read Katherine's thoughts.
"Ew, get out of here!" Rebekah yelled at her brother.
"Get out of my head." Katherine tried to feign anger.
"What? I thought it'd be nice to know." Kol laughed, his eyes turning to slits. "Despite you constantly double crossing us all and trying to kill us on a daily basis, your attitude is quite the one to admire."
"Too bad Klaus doesn't agree." Katherine pursed her lips.
"He probably does, you know. I think he's just a little protective over Elijah." Rebekah smiled warmly at Katherine.
Suddenly Caroline walked in, dressed in her black dress, with Kol letting out a loud wolf whistle.
"And at once, I understand Klaus's infatuation." Kol smirked.
"Ew Kol, stop." Rebekah sighed, getting up to wave her arms in front of him, herding him out of the room once more.
Caroline was slightly taken aback, what was so special about that dress?!
As Caroline sat down to begin her makeup, Rebekah went to get dressed.
After a few moments, she emerged once more.
Rebekah wore a deep blue ball gown, which ruffled around the bottom and wrapped around her chest, it had a dark black, jeweled detail on the top of her chest and a black mesh underskirt.
Caroline looked around the room at the three of them. One in a tight fitting red dress, another in a blue ballgown and herself in a black lace evening gown.
"How in the name of god, are we going to fight in these dresses?" Caroline burst out laughing.
"Well, if worst comes to worst we can just rip them." Rebekah said as if she had done it before.
Katherine gasped in horror. "I'm not ripping this dress."
"Well good luck fighting in that, you can't even walk properly." Caroline chuckled, which was met with a grimace from Katherine.
"Are you all nearly ready?" Katherine changed the subject.
"Nearly." Caroline said as she was touching up the lasts of her makeup; deep red lips, with a gold eye shadow.
Elijah, Klaus and Kol all stood awkwardly at the bottom of the staircase, waiting for the girls.
"Reunited once more." Elijah mumbled, shrugging his hands into his pocket and looking around the house.
All three of them were wearing black dinner suits, only Klaus had chosen to wear a white waistcoat and white bow tie; as usual.
His hair was slicked back he was leaning against the banister of the staircase, tapping his foot on the ground.
Eventually the three girls appeared at the top of the stairs and started to walk down the.
Klaus took a double take and was instantly taken aback.
She looked beyond beautiful.
He watched the lace dress hug her arms and chest, with the black skirt waving around her, like a cloud of smoke.
She looked so different to her usual bubbly and colorful self; she looked as though she ripped men's hearts out on a daily basis and never even batted an eye.
She looked more fierce, more powerful, than he had seen any other woman look.
Once Caroline reached him, he took one of her hands in his own and pulled her in close to him, his arm holding her waist.
"Remind me never to get on your bad side." Klaus whispered in her ear.
"Honestly, you two can never keep your hands off each other, can you?" Kol smirked as he opened the front door.
"Let's defeat these wolves once and for all." Elijah said as he led Katherine out the door, followed by Rebekah, Kol and lastly Caroline and Klaus.