Elijah buttoned his cufflinks as they prepared to leave the hotel. For two days Bonnie refused to leave, he wasn't sure if it was witch intuition or something else. The first day she didn't leave her room. So he spent that day taking care of the home the anchor was in. Yes, Bonnie did a spell to cleanse and hide her and the anchor's energy but he still had to do some cleanup so no one ever knew the reason she was in Florida. So he had a family inherit the house and they'd be moving in after the funeral.
The next day Bonnie came out of her room and asked him to breakfast. He thought she just wanted company because she was unusually quiet, he figured something was bothering her but he couldn't just out and ask her, he didn't have the privilege of being Freya, if she was here she'd known what to do. Hell even Finn could have helped.
After breakfast, she told him that she was getting her hair done. After she said she'd do a glamour spell, he agreed and hoped that would put her in a better mood.
He rapped on her door and she shouted for him to wait. She came out of the room and handed him her bag and started to walk towards the elevator.
"Come on Elijah I wanna see my cousin," she said with a smile on her face.
Elijah nodded noting her better mood. He walked into the elevator and pressed the button
"you do know it's going to take a while to reach Maine," Elijah said, she rolled her eyes at him.
"of course, I'll work on this assignment sleep and we can order food not stop at some fancy restaurant," Bonnie said pointedly.
"I won't have you eating junk food this entire trip," Elijah said walking out of the elevator, she followed behind him.
"you and Klaus are so annoying," she sighed.
"Why do you switch between what you call him?" he asked her, he was curious did she imagine two different men?
"I am used to saying Klaus and plus not a lot of people will know who the hell Nik is when I say that," Bonnie said. "he is not a Nick at all," she said
they entered the car in silence and he listened to her tap away on her keyboard for most of her ride.
"what are you working on?" he knew she was studying something involving history or occults.
"This is not an assignment for a grade but it's good practice," elijah raised his eyebrows and looked over at her. She rolled her eyes.
"so on campus, I was approached by this lecturer who happens to be a witch, he invited me to this class where he taught new witches different things, he thought I was just awakened, he said it happens a lot when witches from different states come to new orleans that never would have known about this side of them, the supernatural energy helps them to tap into magic," bonnie explained Elijah nodded to indicate he was listening
"yeah, so I told him I was interested and he was surprised to see I do know a thing or two so we work on other things right now I researching these dark objects that were created in new areas called the Serratura, its kind of a trapping magic to be used at least once." bonnie continued
"you know kol taught the witches here to do dark magic." Elijah said, "Outside of Finn he enjoyed being a witch too, so when he was wreaking havoc he helped witches get advanced in their magic."
"Really, when he's back I would like to pick his mind, I love Freya but she can be a bit strict with magic sometimes," Bonnie said doing magic with Freya was fun but she went into a way that sometimes felt restricting for bonnie, it was helpful for Amaka since she was now learning magic and she agreed to help her magic.
"She learned magic from Dahlia, so her approach to magic is a bit different," Elijah said, they both can use magic to do what they want, but Freya focuses on the steps to get there while Bonnie focuses on her intuition to get her there.
"So have you heard about the dark object?" Bonnie said, elijah shook his head, he hadn't heard of it but there were many dark objects that Kol created he didn't want to know about and no one knew what they did in his absence.
"Anyways so that lecturer gave me an idea, I want to create a community of witches not all of them will be in my coven," Bonnie said "but I would like to go around the world collecting different dark objects ethically of course," she said using quotation fingers. "after that ill to create a school when I graduate just for witches and helping them with their magic."
"Why after you graduate?" Elijah said, that if she wanted a school all she had to do was ask, there were many wealthy witches who would invest in her school, and he was sure even Klaus would fully fund it. he also likes the idea of collecting different dark objects it would help him to keep track of anything that could put his family in endanger and if he got involved he could travel around the world a bit more.
"I want to make sure I have a solid plan of classes, the dynamics and all that before I start," Bonnie said, she hated doing something so big without any plan.
"I can help you with that," Elijah said, she would have so many witches at the thumb of her fingers, once they realized who she was they jumped at the opportunity, and he'd be willing to help and keep everyone in line.
"Sure," she said dismissively. She went back to her work.
Tyler stepped outside to get the newspaper that had just dropped off, he wasn't even sure why he paid for a service when he had no interest in reading the newspaper but he looked good to his girlfriend so he kept paying, he looked over the road to wave at his neighbour but instead, he swore he saw Hayley for a minute but that couldn't be. he shook his head and turned and spotted a woman with dirty blonde hair. she smiled at him and pointed behind him, he turned and saw Hayley was behind him, she flashed her teeth at him he didn't run. what was the point?
"See I told you that would be fun," Hayley said to the witch who gave off a wave of magic that reminded him of Bonnie. She swings her arms on his shoulders.
"A little bee told me that you could help me." Hayley whispered in his ear, "It's the least you can do after you tried to kill my baby."
Tyler tried to think of who could know where he was but he couldn't the last he heard was Bonnie was out of the prison world and that was it.
Tyler walked into his home and was surprised that the woman Hayley was with walked in.
He looked at Hayley who was at the door.
"Oh yes you haven't had the pleasure of meeting the newest Mikealson," Hayley said smirking when Tyler's frown deepened even more. Great just whatI needed a Mikealson on my doorstep.
"Come on, invite me in," Hayley said.
"Or we can wake up your girlfriend upstairs," Freya added she felt the presence of another wolf upstairs and her instincts were telling her we needed her instead of the man who almost killed her niece.
Tyler back straightened and swallowed, he knew whether Hayley was outside or not he was fucked. So he invited her in less witness. Hayley rushed in grabbed him by his throat and threw him on his chair. He didn't fight back.
"Good, I have some questions and you're going to answer them." Tyler nodded.
"Good tell me about your pack," Hayley asks. He looked at Hayley she should know she couldn't especially to her that's the greatest betrayal a wolf could do.
"Don't worry my dreams aren't as drastic as Klaus's," Hayley said rolling her eyes. "Who is your alpha?"
Tyler told her his Alpha was a woman named Sonia. They met a night in the bar, she recognised him as a wolf that needed a pack but she hadn't been alpha at the time when he went to investigate the pack, it was being treated cruelly so he went back to her and she was shocked to hear it. So she went saw and then fought the then alpha for the spot.
" you're part of the Grady pack?" Hayley asked him. They were rarely any of the original seven packs around they have all branched off to separate packs due to what Mikeal did in the past. So small packs of their own began to form. This one was one of the popular new packs because it was run by a woman. She tried to get in contact with them but failed.
Tyler nodded. Hayley went and got his phone a gave it to him but as she was giving it to him a girl with short silky black hair walked down the steps.
She looked around the room. Freya felt her bracelet pulse when their gaze met. Is she why Bonnie wanted us here?
It made no sense for Bonnie to send us to an old friend, especially one she still cared about. Bonnie knew what Tyler did to Hayley and she would never put him in danger like that unless maybe he was in danger.
Freya turned to Tyler,
"Who is this?" Freya asked.
"Am I his girlfriend who are you guys why are you here?" She looked at Tyler for answers but Tyler felt nothing but fear.
"Is she a wolf too?" Freya asked, she didn't feel the energy of a wolf but she had a magical presence around her that felt familiar but she couldn't put her finger on it.
"Wolf? Tyler what are they talking about." Hayley watched the girl, she was too calm. Her heart didn't speed up at Freya approaching or even their presence. It's like she didn't care. She rushed to grab her throat but was propelled back.
She glared at Tyler but his face was shocked. Freya raises her to bring her forward but nothing happens. Her bracelet got hot and she then recognised where the magic was from it was Bennett's magic. She had a Bennett witch working for her. She channeled the bracelet praying it wouldn't affect Bonnie. She grabbed the girl and held her down with her magic.
"Who really are you?" Freya asked, the girl smirked and gave her a frigid look.
"I'm Yvette St. John," the girl answered that name meant nothing to her, she looked at Hayley who just shrugged.
"Wait, Enzo st. John, is he your family?" Hayley asked
Freya remembered Bonnie telling her and Hayley about vampires being experimented on. They wanted to know if Lucien could turn without magic. She wasn't sure but she told them science has ways of interfering if the right ingredients were mixed.
The particular experiment was so he'd feed on other vampires instead of humans.
"We are not sure but knowing my ancestor he probably was," Yvette answered. Freya turned to Tyler.
"As she met your pack? does she know you're a wolf?" she asked him
"I never told her about that but she has met a few of my pack members, she is a doctor," Tyler answered Freya asked,
"What Bennett witch do you have under you?" Yvette asked, Freya looked at the human. why would she ask that?
"I don't know any Bennett witch," Freya said seriously. yvette smirked and rolled her eyes
"come on now, I'm protected by all magical attacks and you got to do just that," Yvette said,
"Now the Mikealson are powerful witches but even you couldn't break a spell like that maybe your little niece," she started to choke, Freya didn't want hope brought into this. Hayley had to stop her before she killed the girl.
"Who are you?" Tyler asked
"Come on now, I have been living in your house, making you love me, I have even been stealing your wolves and yet you never looked at me," Yvette spat "You made it all so easy but it is entirely your fault you just helped to solidify my place with the new pack's alpha."
"Who do you work for?" Freya asked. Yvette looked at her and glared.
"Don't worry about that, just know you'd make the perfect specimen for our facility." she smiled, Freya coldness running down her spine.
she turned to Hayley and Tyler, "you guys deal with our part," Freya said giving Hayley a knowing look. she was going to fry this girl's brain getting as much as she could and find out what she had on her family and hoped Bonnie wasn't brought up but they definitely had a Bennett. is it too much to hope it was Lucy?
" you're fooling yourself by thinking you can break me bitch," Yvette spat. freya smiled and put her finger on Yvette's temple.
"Who do you work for?" Freya asked, yvette spit in Freya's face, it pissed her off but she made sure not to show it. she has been working on modifying the spell Bonnie did so they could jump in her mind and now she had the chance to finally use it.
she started to chant, Yvette's body fell limp her eyes widened and her mouth left aghast.
freya saw glimpses of memories of her growing up, her sisters, a building filled with so much magic, them capturing wolves and coercing witches. yvette started to cry
"stop please stop ill tell you," she said managing to get a hold of Freya's wrist. freya pulled away but let her remain pinned to the chair.
"Speak," Freya said, she looked at the human she looked sick, the veins on her face were protruding, her nose bled and her lips were pale like they experienced winter.
"Can I get some water?" Yvette asked, Freya looked at the human.
"you die now I'll just find someone to be in your place," Freya said. yvette thought of her soft and gentle sister Virginia, she didn't know much about the family business but she knew enough to get the wrong people involved. She knew she leave here in a body bag at most but if she told Freya what she knew at least they'd be safe.
"I work for The armoury we were first created to keep track of vampires and vampire hunters but then we began to collect other things, then my great-grandfather, hated your kind and he wanted to study you guys so he started to collect you to experiment to see what makes you so special, then it progressed into something far beyond experiments, my father found out about what happened with the slave trade and he figured he could replicate it and he did," Yvette said smiling at the end.
"We get kids from all walks of life that are suspected to be witches and wolves and sometimes we even turn them into vampires." Yvette said "Children were so easy to break to our will and no one cared enough anyways." she said proudly.
Freya's stomach turned at the thought of innocent kids being turned into vampires or even tortured. is one of their witches a Bennett? She didn't have any core memories of Bennett witches so Freya saw nothing on that.
"why are you here?" Freya asked
"I the outside man, I use my knowledge of medicine to identify supernaturals and see how could make them work for us," Yvette said
"see our families aren't that much different, both necessary evils in this world," she continued smiling at Freya, but Freya didn't see the similarities, her family didn't sell other beings for money. That was an evil, she would never touch.
"Well, there is only room for one big bad and I don't think the St. Johns are going to make the cut," Freya said snapping her neck.
Deep inside a cold room in the armoury lay a green-eyed witch on the floor, tears stained her face as she clutched her belly, and she found out she was pregnant. the father was a wolf she once lived with but now he was dead, it was the sad fate of being an instrument of the armoury, she didn't know why she was taken but she remembered it well, she was walking away after babysitting her baby niece with her big brother when suddenly they were taken, her brother immediately killed and she was brought to this exact room, locked away from a month, never seeing anyone just waking up to finding her food for the day.
After a month she was greeted by a girl her age and a man who had a greying beard and nothing else. The man told her exactly why she was here but the girl she stayed, and rubbed her back to comfort, she was so perfect at the time she saw it as an opportunity to be free but now, she knew it was a trap. it was a game she played, pretending to be helpful, playing the perfect friend, then the perfect girlfriend and then the perfect damsel. She fell for it and played witch twelve years after she cast the perfect protection spell on the girl she never saw her again only Alexandra dealt with her it was perfect for them that way, only certain witches could break their spells. A witch like Kai Parker or someone from that person's bloodline. she didn't want to live like this any more, she had a family to find. she felt it a few months ago, the magic of Bennett witch pulsed through the walls, brought her life gave her hope that maybe someone was looking for her.
She'd also given up on that maybe she needed to free herself there and then come back for the others. the only way she would be freed was if a St. John's sister died or she was freed and that looked unlikely, all the sisters were well protected at all times.
Kamali watched to the roof and prayed that just this once her ancestors heard her cries. they had to listen now, she carried the future with her. She heard someone at the door and sat up. not another late-night spell she thought. but no one was there, she sat there for a moment, not moving and then she got up and went to the door, she looked outside and the hallway was completely dark. She stepped outside and nothing pushed her back. She continued to walk until she reached a strange green door in the hallway. she tried to open it but it wouldn't budge, she pulled and pushed nothing happened, she looked around and the hallway was still silent. was this another experiment? She tilted her head, let me guess Bennett's blood? She heard a voice speak, she looked around but heard nothing else. She turned to go back into her room but the hallway vanished. She turned to the green door again. She pulled open it. what did they say Bennett blood? She didn't have anything sharp, she she banged her hands at the door hoping it would bruise it enough. after a full fifteen minutes, the door showed no signs of budging and her dark skin barely showed signs of bruising, she slid to her knees and sobbed
"Please I don't have anything.," she cried out, she took her hand to wipe her tears. She remembered the last time she bled, a mouse had bitten her. She grazed her teeth against her palm. can my teeth do that? She bit to tear her skin but nothing. She bit and until she was able to tear flesh.
"I'm going to die here," she said pulling on her kinky coils. She banged her head against the door. she got dizzy and turned around, she had nowhere to go. She closed her eyes, hoping death had come for her, she held her belly and apologized to her little one for cutting them for cutting their life so short.