I don't know if you've all hear about Cory Monteith' death ... It's very sad... Even if Finn was never my favorite Glee Boy, it's a big loss!
Klaus, Rachel and Kol were having a good time but after a while, Kol left his brother and his date alone and went to play some pool with the good doctor Meredith Fell who looked quite lonely in her corner.
"Where did Kol go?" Rachel asked Klaus after a while.
They had been so taken into their own conversation that they hadn't realised that Kol wasn't in the Grill anymore. Meredith wasn't anywhere to be seen either.
"I don't know...Maybe he got lucky with the doc...or maybe he went home." Klaus suggested.
"Maybe we should go too... I don't know how long it's going to take me to locate your mother and we've used up a lot of the day already..." Rachel replied.
"You're right. I often forget about other things when I'm with you." Klaus joked before he offered her his arm and escorted her, slowly, back to his house.
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When they arrived, they learned that Finn and Sage had found a few hair of Esther's in her bedroom. They gave them to Rachel and she settled in front of a map of Mystic Fall's, turned them into ashes and dropped them on the map as she mumbled spells she had learned with Sheila.
They also realised that Kol wasn't with them. Nobody knew where he was and they were getting worried and concerned. They feared that their mother might have gotten to Kol already.
"Should it take so long?" Finn asked.
"Your mother is protected by some barriers... I have to break them first in order to find her." Rachel explained.
"Let her do her thing, don't distract her. It will just exhaust her faster and then she'll risk her life!" Klaus growled defensively as Sage smirked knowingly.
Who knew that the little girl she used to read bedtime stories to in a princess themed bedroom would end up being the one to soften the big bad hybrid?
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While Rachel was looking for Esther's location, the original mother had enchanted her youngest son Kol to do as she said and to sacrifice himself when she told him to.
She had Bonnie Bennett and her mother by her side and she was confident that everything would end up as she had planned. Bonnie told her all about Rachel of course but that didn't worry Esther, the hybrid Salvatore couldn't be stronger than she was. It was impossible in her opinion. She didn't believe the spirits would allow it.
"I hope you're right Esther, because I don't want to have to deal with Rachel when all of this is over." Bonnie said.
"Don't worry, nature is fair and the spirits wouldn't have made her stronger than us. It's impossible for her to defeat us. We're on the good side, she's not." Esther reassured the youngest Bennett who seemed to be easy to manipulate.
"Grandma' always says that Rachel is super strong..."
"That's because your grandmother is afraid of Rachel and she lets her fears tell her how to think, I know better." Esther replied, happy to see that the weak minded Bennett was trusting and believing her.
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"I've got her!" Rachel exclaimed as the moon started to rise.
"Great, where is she?" Elijah asked.
"At the old witch house. Let's go." Rachel said, getting up and texted the location to her father while Elijah texted his sister about the news. He would come and get her when everything was done.
"I don't like the idea of you coming with us Rachel..." Klaus said as they all went in Elijah's big car.
"You don't have to like it. I'm coming. End of story." Rachel replied.
"What if you get hurt?" Klaus asked, ignoring Sage telling him he was fighting a lost battle.
"What if Kol gets killed? What if she has another plan to kill all of you? What if she settles on killing just you? You need me here so stop arguing." Rachel replied while Finn chuckled.
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They arrived near the witch house at the same time Damon and Stefan did.
"Where's Elena?" Stefan asked, not bothering with greetings.
"She'll be given back to you once our mother is dealt with. If we don't die." Elijah replied before they all started to run at vampire speed in the house's direction.
"Please be careful Rachel, I don't want to lose you over this." Damon told his daughter.
"I'll be fine daddy." Rachel reassured him.
"You've never done this much magic in one day, you don't know where your limits are..." Damon replied.
"Then we'll find out tonight. I'm not about to stand by as my friends get hurt and killed Daddy. It's just not me." Rachel replied, making her father nod.
"I didn't know you would get involved Rachel... I... I hope you won't get hurt..." Stefan said, looking a little more like the uncle she had grown the love the previous year.
"What did you expect? Maybe you can just stand by as your stupid girlfriend tried to kill an entire family, including your ex and someone who betrayed his brother for her and to save her life, but I can't just stand by and do nothing while she's trying to kill one of my best friends, my aunt, her love and my...Klaus!" Rachel replied, not wanting to put a label on them just yet.
Stefan looked down and Klaus who had heard the entire thing, smiled softly. If the situation wasn't so tragic he would have teased her about the 'my...Klaus' part but given the situation, he just stored it in for later.
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When they arrived in front of the house, Esther, the Bennett's and Kol stood in a circle drawn in the grown with a pentagram inside it. They were surrounded by 5 torches and Kol looked like he didn't have a mind of his own anymore, he looked like a zombie.
"How could you do this to us, mother?" Elijah asked, looking hurt by her action.
"You're all monsters, I never should have made you vampires and now I have to fix my mistakes. You've killed so much... You're a disease that spreads through the world like a plague and I felt the pain of every single one of your victims!" Esther replied, looking at her children with hatred in her eyed.
"As you should!" Rachel exclaimed before she stepped up, ignoring Damon, Klaus and Sage begging her to step back.
"Here she is, the other monster. Thank God I'm not responsible for your creation!" Esther replied, ignoring Rachel exclamation.
"You deserve every bit of pain you got for trying to kill your own children, for putting that curse on Klaus simply because he was a walking reminder of your infidelity. You never should have tried to kill your own flesh and blood!" Rachel spat.
"Yes, you would know something about mothers trying to kill her children wouldn't you. Don't you miss your mother? I'm sure she'd thank me for taking care of you too tonight." Esther replied as Klaus, Damon, Stefan and Sage growled loudly.
"You seem so sure that you're going to win, it's quite funny actually." Rachel exclaimed.
"I have the power of a hundred dead witches, plus the entire Bennett line of power. You can't be deluded enough to think you're going to be able to stop me!" Esther said.
"I managed to defeat those hundred dead witches before without breaking a sweat, and you don't have the entire Bennett bloodline. Sheila decided to stay neutral and since she's the eldest one alive, most of the other one will follow her. It broke the bloodline and you're only drawing powers from half of it. I was strong enough to un-link all of your children. I think I can handle you." Rachel replied confidently before she turned toward Bonnie and her mother who were hugging each other and said:
"You have to stop doing everything Elena asks you to do Bonnie or you're going to end up being her personal slave instead of a friend. Your grandmother already warned you that you needed to learn to stand up for yourself. You should leave now before I end up hurting you while taking care of this one."
Bonnie didn't reply but she paled and took her mother's hand, dragging her with her as she walked out of the circle and into the house to be safe but still able to help Esther in case something happened.
Then Rachel started mumbling ancient words and Esther did the same.
Kol hadn't moved and he stood still, his eyes on nothing in particular, unable to go anywhere..
As the two witches faced each other, the wind rose and the torches light out.
Esther had managed to gather a lot of power but Rachel was evenly matched, without having to call on the moon for it. After 5 minutes of the wind blowing around the two of them, Rachel managed to free Kol who stepped out of the circle and joined his family while they all stood worriedly, wondering what was going on.
Indeed, Rachel and Esther looked like they were in the middle of a tornado and they had a hard time seeing what was going on. They could however hear them while using their vampire hearing.
The wind was blowing harder and harder around Rachel and Esther and it was starting to rain on the two of them. Outside of the circle, the rain didn't touch them but they could see thunder and lightning appearing from time to time.
"You won't be able to last much longer girl!" Esther said confidently.
"I'll be fine. You know, a wicked witch, a tornado and a house, it reminds me of an old musical I love. Too bad you're not melting with the water!" Rachel replied with an amused chuckle as she started saying other words.
Of course, Damon chuckled when he heard his daughter. Only she would think of "The wizard of Oz" at a time like this.
Suddenly, they felt the earth shaking and the big house behind them trembled, the windows that had resisted time were now breaking. They had a hard time standing still but managed while Rachel and Esther seemed unaffected by the earthquake.
"You'll have to do better than a earthquake to get to me little monster!" Esther snapped angrily, her voice showing how hard she had to work as the rain kept on pouring on her head.
"What's going on?" Kol asked, not getting an answer since nobody knew what was happening.
Esther was using all of the power she had gathered on Rachel and was getting a nose bleed but was still standing.
Rachel had divided her energy and powers. Half of it was to keep Esther busy and the other half was on the house. She concentrated and even if she felt that her limit was close, she didn't stop. She kept on mumbling those words and soon, she heard the people she loved behind her gasp.
The house had risen like she wanted and was now in the air.
"I hope you've chosen what your last word will be!" Esther told Rachel with an overconfident smirk, seeing Rachel getting weaker while she herself was out of breath.
"Actually I did." Rachel replied, smirking confidently like her father taught her and planning her next move.
"Go ahead then, you're going to die anyway, you know it." Esther replied, overconfident.
"Ding dong, the witch is dead." Rachel sing sang like in the song before she used all of the power she had to push Esther magically out of her precious circle that had been erased by the tornado and under the house before she dropped it right back on her, burying her alive.
Everyone was shocked as the tornado had died down right in time for them to see what was going on. From inside the house, Bonnie and her mother where looking out the broken window, shocked and pale as snow, wondering if they would be next on Rachel's list for having helped Esther in the first place.
For a second it was like everything had stopped.
Nobody moved, nobody talked, they barely even breathed.
Rachel, too, stood, facing the house and un-moving, which worried her father.
"She did it!" Kol exclaimed while everyone else cheered.
"Rachel?" Damon asked as he walked closer to her along with Sage and Klaus.
"I... I might have overdone it a bit..." Rachel said as she turned around.
She looked like she hadn't slept and fed in days. She was as pale as the dead, had bags under her eyes and was bleeding a bit from the nose. Suddenly, her eyes rolled in the back of her head and she fell on the ground, unconscious.
"Rachel!" They all yelled as they ran closer to her.
"I'm fine...Just...Tired." Rachel replied in a weak voice after a few second as she opened her eyes and gain consciousness again.
"Here, drink from me. It'll help until we can get real human blood into you." Klaus suggested as he offered his wrist to the girl he cared so much for.
"Is Mother really dead under there?" Kol asked.
"I don't know...I think so..." Elijah replied.
Rachel was done drinking and looking a little stronger already so she replied:
"No, she isn't. The spirits that helped her come back did so for only a few days so for the next week or so she'll be just crushed under this house, feeling the pain of being buried alive and of having every single bone crushed to dust. She'll die only when she was supposed to. But she won't be able to break free so we're good." Rachel said slowly as Klaus' blood made her stronger.
"I think a party is in order, to celebrate Rachel's astonishing victory!" Kol exclaimed.
"That will have to wait for tomorrow, Rachel needs to sleep."Klaus replied in a 'do not discuss' tone.
"I'll go get Rebekah. Stefan if you want Elena I suggest you come with me because I won't be showing her the way back to her place." Elijah said as the younger Salvatore brother nodded and followed, thinking hard about his niece and what almost happened to her.
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As they all went home, one by one, they forgot all about Bonnie and her mother that were still hidden in the house.
"Grandma' was right, Rachel is stronger than we thought she was." Bonnie said.
"Did you see how fast she healed? It's amazing. She didn't even channel any other energy but her own..." Abby replied.
"What now?" Bonnie asked her mother.
"Now? I'm going to go and have a talk with your father, then I'll go and see your grandmother. I think it's time for me to move back in town and spend more time with my daughter don't you?" Abby told her daughter with a soft smile as they left the house.
So, what do you think about this?
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The way Rachel got rid of Esther was a last minute inspiration... She'll be singing the song with one of the originals next chapter. Who do you think will sing with her?
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