The Originals: The Original Vampire Human Hybrid

Note: Nikki has always had magic, but she never used it much, only for little things. Her mom was a witch so she got it from both sides of the family.

Chapter Three: Theory? Or Solution?

At his grave, I had everything set up now. I knew how big of a risk I was taking, but if this worked...nothing else mattered to me, I didn't care what happened to me...as long as this worked.

I had my mothers book open propped by his grave, it was open to the spell I needed. It was a blood spell, my mother created after her father was killed by a vampire, she had wanted to bring him back. It was suppose to allow you to resurrect someone of blood relation and the key was your own blood. The spell was even more effective if it was used by someone of my mother's bloodline. Plus when I had hugged my Aunt I had quietly muttered a spell to link us so I would be able to tap into her magic as well. And even if this did kill me, she was immortal so it wouldn't kill her. Not permanently anyway.

I took out a knife and began to chant in French "On this day, in this hour, I call upon the ancient power, blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh, I call to thee..." I sliced my hand deeply, blood gushed out and I pressed my hand to his tomb "Blood to blood, I summon thee, blood to blood return to me." I demanded tapping into my Aunts magic now. I could feel the power coursing through me, my own mixed with hers, it was intoxicating. So much power, and half of that had come from inside me. Or so I thought...The tomb exploded and barely missed hitting me and I knew it was working, and then the coffin was hurled out before me by magic, it was working! Suddenly the lid burst open as well and the power of it all hurled me back a few feet, I landed on my back and with a jolt it came...I knew then that I had over done it. The pain this time was massive and I knew this was a heart attack, I also knew that at this point even a mini heart attack would kill me, this was a massive one. I grabbed my arm crying out at the pain, it was blinding. I could feel the pounding and then everything went black...

End of NPOV...

Freya had been explaining what happened with Nikki, trying to ask her brother about Nicole's mother when suddenly she felt it. She gasped, someone was tapping into her magic.

"What's wrong?" Hayley asked curious.

"Someone just tapped into my power..." Freya said surprised. "Ah!" she cried out as she got weaker, "No! Nikki stop!" Freya frowned feeling Nicole temporarily taking her power.

"Nikki? Wait, how and why would she even do that?" Cami asked confused.

"Nikki has magic, her mother was a witch, as to why..I have no idea. Can you feel what she's doing?" Klaus asked his older sister.

It was a moment before Freya answered "I may not know what she's doing, but I can feel her...she already had a lot of untapped power inside her, mixing that with my power could be volatile...I..I can hear her...she's using a spell from her mothers book, its French...I never was good at that language." she groaned unable to tell what Nicole was saying.

"Repeat what she is saying," Klaus crouched down before her.

Freya began to repeat what Nicole was saying, mispronouncing a lot of it, but Klaus was able to translate it. "Sounds like a resurrection spell." Elijah said

"She's trying to bring him back." Klaus stood now. "We have to stop her, a spell like that could end her!"

"You mean Sean don't you...she's trying to resurrect Sean?" Cami said then she went to look at her dad...but he wasn't there.

"Dad? Dad!" she called realizing he was gone.

Klaus didn't hear him either. But before he could think about moving, it happened. Freya grabbed her heart and cried out in pain.

"Ahhh...no!...noooooooo!..." Freya was trying very hard to breathe at this point, she started to chant, trying to stop the heart attack that was taking her niece. Her nose began to bleed but she continued to chant until she felt the link die and the majority of her power return to her. "NO!" she got up then tears filling her eyes. "She's gone..."

Jason made it in time to see something amazing, and something tragic. His son, living, was holding Nicole in his arms, he had no idea who she was, but he knew that she was dead and his gentle hearted boy was hurt by this sight.

Sean looked up then, and seemed surprised to see his dad "Dad...when did you get here?" he asked

Jason however couldn't respond, he went over pulling Nicole from Sean's arms. "I..I found her like that." Sean said sadly.

Jason couldn't hold it in, he shattered. Sean was shocked to see his father crying over what Sean thought was a stranger.

Jason took her hand in his as he began to rock back and forth he paused in his crying long enough to mutter to her "Please come back...please...please come back!"

Cami made it to the site first and the first thing she saw, was Sean. She ran to him and hugged him. "Oh my God!" Cami didn't think she would even get to hug him again. Sean hugged her back. Then Cami spotted her dad. She let go of her brother and tears filled her eyes.

Klaus and Hayley were next to show up, having heard Cami. Klaus froze the second Jason came into view. The sight of his daughter dead did him in. He dropped to his knee's, his brother was there at his side a moment later catching him and Klaus accepted the comfort offered by his brother as he broke down. Hayley's hand had gone over her mouth as her heart broke again, This day, that had start out looking up, had turned deadly in only a few hours.

A spirit appeared then, which surprised everyone. A stunningly beautiful woman with long curly blonde hair a shade far lighter then that of Klaus and Nicole..she was wearing the same dress she'd been wearing when Klaus ripped out her heart. She knelt across from Jason.

Klaus had been shocked into silence but once he was over that he growled "Don't you dare touch her!" Rachelle Délauncre ignored him.

"Who are you?" Jason asked

"I am her mother." Rachelle said.

"Can you do something?" Cami asked wondering why Nicole's mother would show up and wondering why Klaus showed such hate towards her.

"There is something..." Rachelle said.

Klaus moved too fast though, one moment Nicole had been in Jason's arms, the next she was in Klaus's and he was growling at the spirit of his dead lover "You will not touch her!"

"Klaus! She said she could help." Cami yelled at him. "What is wrong with you!"

"You once asked me why its so hard for me to trust people, the answer stands before you. Rachelle is where it all began, she was the one that showed me I couldn't trust anyone. Not even someone I loved." Klaus glared "I would rather die a thousand deaths then risk letting her near my child!"

"OUR child!" Rachelle got up now getting just as angry.

"You are NOT her mother! You lost that title when you tried to kill her!" Klaus raised his voice revealing a shocking secret.

"What do you mean she tried to kill her?" Hayley asked, as a mother that seemed like an impossible thought, no mother would try to kill their child.

Rachelle sighed "I tried to tell you that night but you wouldn't listen! I was compelled! You can't honestly think I was poisoning her of my own free will! "

"I don't care why you did it! You tried to kill her! I refuse to trust your intentions! Even if you were compelled, you nearly killed her! If I hadn't shown up when I did she would be dead now. You'd have killed our four year old!"

"What do you want from me Niklaus? You want me to apologize? It wouldn't mean a thing! I'm haunted by what I did every second of my time in the after life, but I saw her dying and...I had to help her! Let me at least try!" Rachelle pleaded.

Klaus had turned off his emotions the second he saw her, it was the only way to deal with all this, he couldn't mourn his daughter and deal with his dead lover at the same time. He had loved many woman, only some had returned that love...but Rachelle was the only woman he'd even been in love with. That kind of love that you fight for, the kind where you can't bear to be away from them, he'd barely managed to be away for four years and when he had come back to her, he'd found that not only had she bore a child, that child was his...and his true love was unknowingly murdering their innocent daughter. Klaus had turned his emotions off then too, he'd had to...otherwise he never would have been able to rip out her heart.

Cami was about to protest again but Elijah stopped her "Don't make him angry, he turned off his humanity."

"Klaus just stop! I know you don't trust her, but what if she really can help? Are you so spiteful that you would risk your daughters life?" Hayley glared at him. "You have a chance to help her! It won't hurt just to try!"

Klaus looked at his daughter, the humanity switch flickered, he was fighting with himself to keep it off but there was so much bubbling up in him that he wasn't sure he could keep it off.

"What exactly are you wanting to do?" Jason asked

Rachelle's eyes never left Klaus's. "Can you not hear it?"

Klaus took a moment to listen...and he actually did hear it. He looked at Nikki. The sound was faint, it was Nikki's heart. "Your not dead..." he whispered.

"Not yet...she needs a transfusion. Vampire blood...not human. You must hurry." Rachelle said then added "I wish I could help more, if I was alive I could create a spell to restore her heart, but all I can do is help you save her life. Just remember, vampire blood." Rachelle vanished then.

N POV

I woke slightly groggy, feeling weak and dazed at first...then there was another feeling, I felt energized. I opened my eyes to find that once again I had an IV and there was another bed in the room, one where my Uncle lay sitting up, reading a book, then he noticed me. "Ah, your awake. Its working."

"What's working?" I asked seeing all the wires that seemed to be connecting us.

"A new theory, sort of. A blood transfusion, with vampire blood instead of human blood, to give the vampire blood inside you a boost." he explained.

I blinked at him, really? That's what this was? A vampire blood transfusion? Weird.

"There's my girl." My father said now appearing at the door. I looked over at him, he looked like he hadn't gotten much sleep.

"How are you feeling?" he asked

"Like I'm about to burst out of my skin...how long was I out?" I asked not even sure what had happened.

"Three days, your spell worked, in case your wondering." He said which caused me to remember the resurrection spell I cast.

"It did? So..Sean's alive?" I asked

"Alive...and unhexed...though I'm uncertain how you managed that." My father smiled then although there seemed to be a gleam in his eyes...like he knew exactly how I managed it.

"Probably the mix of my magic and Aunt Freya's...she's not mad at me is she?" I asked

"No, but she asks that you not try that again." He commented.

Not that I intended to try it again. "I don't know what happened, there was this huge surge of power, I had no idea mixing out magic would do that." that was met with silence...okay the last time they did this they knew something I didn't.

I looked at both of them, then decided that was a chat for another time, I sighed and just lay there not sure what to say next. Or if I should say anything. I was just pleased that it had worked.

Despite the fact that I felt energized only moments ago, I was beginning to feel like a child that was full and happy and sleepy. I started to drift off again. I couldn't help it...I guess I was still getting my strength back. Rest would help. And my Uncle's blood flowing into me seemed to be effecting me, I just couldn't tell how yet.

TBC...