That night, Rebekah and Niklaus went to Marcel's party, while I stayed at the cemetery with Sophie, awaiting Katie's arrival. Despite the circumstances, I am not all that worried. I know things will work out, and I will have my brother back. Sophie, on the other hand, is pasting back and fourth.
"She's not coming." Sophie says in a frantic voice, and I roll my eyes.
"Yes, she is. Will you relax?" I lean on my legs, as I sit on one of the steps in the cemetery.
"It's almost eight o'clock. We told her to meet us here a half hour ago." Sophie then checks her watch. "Make that a half hour and a minute ago. I knew this was a mistake."
I take a deep breath, trying not to lose my cool. I swear, this is not the same girl who was threatening us a few days ago.
I then see her stop walking, and she turns to face me. "Why are you so calm? If Katie does not come, you can't find your brother."
"Why are you so jumpy? It's not like there will be any consequences if Katie doesn't come for you." I fire back, a little confused as well.
"Katie can tell Thierry, leading to him telling Marcel, leading to my dead."
I tilt my head at her. "Sounds like you wanted a death wish when you linked yourself to Hayley in the first place."
"She was reassurance." Sophie claims and I look at her interested. "I know how much your family cares about protecting one another and considering Hayley is carrying that baby, she was included."
I look at her intrigued for a moment, before giving her a small smile. "Something true finally came out of your mouth." I highlight and Sophie rolls her eyes.
"Look, I just want to know why you are so sure this plan will work. What did you guys do that could possibly make Katie go after Marcel?" Sophie questions and I give her a small smile. I then feel a tingle along my skin, and can sense that someone is coming.
"You know..." I stand up, and start walking towards Sophie. "There is one thing I have learned over the centuries that will continue for centuries to come."
Sophie looks at me questioningly, and I walk up to her. I turn her around to face the gate, where Katie, with tears rolling down her face, stands. I grab onto Sophie's shoulders and whisper into her ear, "People will do anything for love."
I let go of her, and Sophie looks at me with a solemn face, but I smile back at her as Katie walks toward us.
"They took him! They took Thierry!" Katie yells, as tears roll down her face. "You were right Sophie, we need to stop Marcel."
I give another short smile to Sophie, as she tries to be sympathetic towards Katie. I hear Katie tell the story about how Thierry killed another vampire, and Sophie listens to every detail. As she does that, I turn around to go back to these candles I set up earlier and start to light them up, one by one.
"Who is she?" I hear Katie ask behind me.
"That is...Kalle Mikaelson." Sophie says, a little hesitant.
"In the flesh." I say with a smile, my back turned away from them.
"Mikaelson? She's the original family witch?" Katie says, surprised.
"Yes, I am." I turn around, seeing that she has more tears trailing down her face. "And I am the one who's going to help you save your boyfriend."
Katie looks at me confused, then turns her attention back to Sophie. "What is she talking about?"
"Listen," Sophie became serious. "Thierry broke one of Marcel's biggest rules. Unless you do something about it, you'll never see him again."
"What am I supposed to do?" Katie questions. Sophie turns a little to see me, and I motion for her to continue.
"I want to save the witches, you want to save Thierry. There's only one way where we can do both, and Kalle is the key."
Katie looks at me, in a questioning way.
"You know who I am, you know how powerful I am. I can give you the strength to go toe to toe with Marcel." I explain, crossing my arms.
"And...what's in it for you?" Katie asked curiously.
"I get to see Marcel fall off his high horse. I mean, he did steal the city from my family." I lie, keeping a straight face.
Katie looks between the two of us, seeming still unconvinced. "And what about Klaus? Aren't he and Marcel best friends?"
"My brother is a means to an end. He continuously betrays my family, and it's about time he gets a taste of his own medicine." Katie still looks at me, not sure, and I am starting to lose my patience. "Listen, I can easily go on with my life without helping you at all, and you could live the rest of your life without your boyfriend. I'm not the one losing the love of my life." I state in a rude tone.
"What she means is.." Sophie interrupts and I roll my eyes. "This is the only way to save him. So are you in?"
Katie turns her attention away from me and looks at Sophie. It takes a little while, but she eventually nods her head in agreement.
I lay out the map, and pierce my skin enough to bleed. I let the blood drip on the map, and squeeze my arm enough so a good amount is on the paper.
"If Katie is strengthening her magic from you, and you're locating Elijah, what do you need me for?" Sophie questions, kneeling down next to me.
"My power is already weakened here, and Katie using my power to strengthen her own is making it worse. I need your power to strengthen me." I say, as I hold out my hand. Sophie grabs it hesitantly, as I look back at the map.
I wait for the surge of energy coming from Katie. We wait for a few minutes, not feeling anything. While waiting, I try to build up all the strength I can manage. I am not underestimating her, no matter her age or ability. She has the upper hand of an original, in a way I did not know was possible.
She is not someone to mess with.
I then feel a rush of power throughout my body, and a surge of wind flows around us. "It's time."
Sophie nods and starts to give me her strength, while I start the locator spell for Elijah.
"Mur vara en gartus sanguineus, mur vara en gartus sanguineus, mur vara en gartus sanguineus." I can feel the blockade for magic trying to fight back, but it is not as strong as it was before. I have to overcome it.
I start to see images in my head, but they are going too fast. I try to make out the most clear images I can see. There is a bed. Wherever Elijah is, the girl must sleep here. It has to be a room of some sort, so most likely not underground.
There's a window, of high elevation. Rebekah was thrown out a window. She is somewhere located on the second floor or higher. And I see...a casket. I cannot see clearly, but I can tell that's Elijah.
But where? The images, are not clear enough so I try to put in more strength. "Mur vara en gartus sanguineus, mur vara en gartus sanguineus."
I can feel my power becoming even stronger, and the images are clearing up. I can almost sense my presence in this room. Only a little further...
Wait. Something's wrong. Katie, I don't feel her magic anymore.
"No. No no no no." I start to panic, feeling a stare from Sophie.
"Kalle?" I turn around to see Rebekah standing there. "What's wrong?"
"Katie...she's not doing the spell anymore." I state confused, seeing the worry look on Rebekah's face.
"What? Something must have happened." Sophie states. I look down at the map, to see the blood trail slowly going back.
"I have to keep trying."
"No! She'll sense you!" Rebekah screams.
"I don't care! I'm so close to finding him, Bex. I'm not giving up now." I state, turning back to focus on the spell.
"Be fast." Rebekah states, and I continue.
"Mur vara en gartus sanguineus, mur vara en gartus sanguineus." It's harder than before, but I can still feel him. I can feel his presense. I can feel him...
I hear him. "Elijah?"
"Don't come." I don't know if I heard that correctly, because why would he tell me not to come?
That was the last thing I heard, before I completely came out of my trance with Davina realizing I was locating Elijah. I can feel the strength for the locator block spell become two times as strong, and the pain it felt in my magic to send me away.
And before I knew it, I blacked out.
I wake up, feeling my head pounding. It actually feels worse than that. It feels like someone was banging a hammer against my head.
After clearing my thoughts, and rubbing my eyes a little, I realize I have no idea where I am. All I see is white around me, and no one in a good mile radius. I get up from the floor, which I was apparently laying on, and look around.
"Oh shit. Am I dead?" I speak aloud to the empty void, hearing only my echoes.
"I wouldn't say that." I hear a voice say. A voice I know all too well, and one I hoped to never hear again.
"You have got to be kidding me." I say, a little frustrated. I slowly turn around to see the woman I hoped to never lay eyes on again. "Mother."
She looks at me with a small smile, analyzing my appearance. "You look...terrible."
"Well, I'm pretty sure I'm in hell, so." I state sarcastically, crossing my arms. This has to be a figment of my imagination or something. Because how in the hell, no, why am I seeing the woman whose heart I ripped out of her chest?
"That's a very good question." She states, and I look up at her confused.
"Can you..."
"Read your thoughts, yes I can. I am in your head." Mother explains, and I am still not completely sure on what is happening.
"Okay, if you're in my head... why is it empty? And why can't I wish you away?"
"Well, I said I'm in your head, not in your dreams." She says with a smile, and I start to glare at her.
"Fine. Care to explain?"
"Simple, you almost died." She states in a casual tone. "But I saved your life."
"Jeez, I'm flattered." I roll my eyes.
"I'm being serious, Kallandra."
"Mother, I hate to break it to you, but I didn't need saving. I have died plenty of times and came back to life, thanks to this whole immortal thing."
"That's not what I meant." Mother states in a serious tone, starting to walk towards me and I look at her confused. I then realize something.
"Wait, if I'm 'dead', why am I conscious? I'm usually out cold during this...period." I try to state in the most normal way possible.
"Because I made you conscious." Mother explains, and I squint my eyes at her. "That's right. Even dead, I am still more powerful than you."
I have so not missed my mother. "Look, can you please just tell me why you are here?"
"To talk about your immortality." She explains and I look towards her curious. "You were always special Kalle. You did not become a vampire for a reason."
"Because you were actually successful with your goal with me?" I state with a snarky smile, as she walks past me.
"Because you were never supposed to be." She explains, and I drop my smile. "When I realized what your siblings were turning into, I knew something had gone wrong. I knew that my spell, it did not protect my family...but instead made you into monsters. I could not let my entire family turn into blood-sucking beasts, and I knew that you and Kol were the only ones strong enough to fight against it."
I look at her curiously. I have learned not to fully trust what comes out of my mother's mouth, and I am being cautious.
"I found you, but your brother had already turned. I knew you were the last one who had not turned yet, and you were my last hope."
"What are you talking about? Mikael killed me, he killed us all."
"Yes." Mother turns to fully face me. "But you were in transition. You never actually drank human blood. I made sure of it. Or else you would be a vampire, just like your siblings." She explains and I get even more confused.
"Wait, I remember drinking that blood. I tried to drink it, but I couldn't." I take a step towards her, a little conflicted.
"And what happened before that?" She asks me, and I am about to answer, but I am at a loss of words. I remember Mikael killing me, and I remember me waking up, with him telling me to drink the blood. But I couldn't. Then twenty-four hours went by, and I was still alive. With my powers.
"What happened after father killed me?" I look at her skeptically, and she smiles at me.
"I came in. I took your body, and used it for another spell." Mother states, walking circles around me as I stand in one position, more confused than ever. "I pleaded with nature for another chance. To let my last, unturned child, to live her immortal life as a witch."
I squinted my eyes at her, not knowing if I should believe a word out of her mouth.
"You can look at me that way all you want, Kalle, but I'm telling the truth. Why do you think the daggers don't work on you? And why do you think the white oak state cannot kill you? You were never meant to turn into a vampire. The reason why you couldn't drink that human blood was because you were not meant to. Your genes, they were still genes made for a witch, not a newly born vampire."
I was never meant to be a vampire? I was always meant to stay a witch. How is that possible? I thought the reason I stayed a witch was because I was just more powerful than my other siblings. That my power outweighed the vampire effect.
But it was my mother all along. Every single time, when I think my mom is out of surprises, she manages to find a new way to surprise me.
"Alright, so you're the reason I'm an immortal witch. Do you want a medal?" I ask sarcastically, but she starts to laugh. Which scares me a little bit. "Why are you telling me this?"
"Kalle, when you first woke up what did I say I did?" She asks me, and I try to think. Honestly, I was tuning her voice out for the first few moments she was talking.
"Um...oh yeah that you saved my life or something? What did you mean by that?"
"Exactly what I said, you were about to die." Mother states calmly, and I look at her in a questioning way.
"Like, actually die?" I question seriously and she nods. "How is that possible?"
"When I gave you immortality, I had to make sure there was a way for you to die as well. The white oak stake weakened you, but it could only kill original vampires. But for you? For the immortality to work? I had to bind you to someone you cared about more than life itself. That way, when they died, you would have nothing more to live for."
Nothing more than life? The only people I love more than anything are my family. I couldn't choose which one I love more than the other, despite them all getting on my nerves. I would risk my life for any of them. I would kill anyone for any of them, I don't understand what-
...
Oh.
"Kol." I state solemnly, making eye contact with my mother.
"You see, once your brother died, that bond broke. Which means..." No, no it can't. This cannot be happening.
My mother is a liar. She is manipulative and psychotic liar...But, ever since Kol died, I have been feeling so much weaker. Like a part of me was taken away. I thought that feeling was just the pain of me losing my twin, but it's something else.
I haven't necessarily 'died' since Kol died either, and this is the closest I've ever been to death since his death. This time, it felt different compared to others. I have unintentionally killed myself a couple of times while doing a spell, and none of it felt like this. Which possibly means my mother is telling the truth.
Oh my god.
"You are not immortal anymore."