THIRTEEN :
LE GRAND GUIGNOL
Jazz Club 1919...
A jazz number played at a local club while everyone was enjoying themselves. People dance, sing, laugh, mingle and drink. At the bar Elijah, Lana, and Klaus turned to observe the scene before them.
"Well this is a first. Werewolves, vampires, witches and dirty cops." he said as he glanced at a group of cops toasting their glasses together and drinking to the occasion.
"All happy as clams and drunk as stoats." he said as Klaus smiled as Elijah ordered the three shots.
"You gotta love this city." Lana said as Elijah said, "To a new era! Collaboration in the face of Prohibition."
"To your docks, their booze, and our theatres to hide it under. You're welcome, boys." as they all happily toast their glasses together and drank.
"Now, I shall have to think of a way to thank you personally, in a manner befitting a werewolf queen." Klaus said with a smirk.
Lana storked Klaus's face affectionately before adding, "Catch you on the dance floor."
She then walked past him and headed into the crowd. "Who would have thought it possible? The unification of New Orleans?" as Klaus playful gripped Elijah's shoulder.
"We did it, brother."
Elijah put his arm around his brother's shoulder and whirled him around to overlook the scene before him.
"Oh, certainly, we worked together, Niklaus. But this vision? This was all you." Elijah said to him.
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Klaus lied in bed shirtless in his room. His eyes where closed, and he gasping in pain from Papa Tunde's blade being embedded in his chest. Elijah watched him, clearly conflicted.
"This was all you." Elijah said to him as Cami rushed into the compound in a hurry. The other vampires glanced at her, confused by her presence. When Elijah heared her arrival, he walked out onto the balcony to greet her.
"What's she doing here?" a vampire asked among the crowd as Elijah said calling out to her, "Camille!" as he gestured for her to come up the stairs.
"Please." as Cami said, "Why did you call me? Have you found a way to help my uncle?" as Elijah said, "I can try, but first, I need your help."
"I don't have time for games, Elijah. The hex on him is getting worse by the day." Cami said to him as Elijah said, "My brother has a mystical torture device buried in his chest, and the mother of his child and eldest child is inexplicably missing. So, I can assure you, I have no time to play any games, either."
"What do you need me to do?" Cami said becoming serious.
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"The dagger the witch gave me is inside of him?" Cami said as the two came upon Klaus's bedroom, Elijah said removing his jacket and rolling up his sleeve.
"And every second it remains causes Niklaus untold suffering." as Cami asked, "Who stabbed him?"
"I did, and now I intend to remove it. You might want to take a step back." Elijah said as Cami looked at him in confusion and shock.
"Why am I here?" as Elijah said to her, "Because of all the people that could be here, you're probably the only one he wouldn't immediately slaughter." as he used a scalpel to slice into him along the red scar bisecting his chest, before jamming his fist into the open wound to grab the blade.
"Also, he speaks of you with what is a rare degree, for him, at least, of respect. I can see you challenge him to see himself and others in a new light" as he was finally able to pull the blade from his chest.
"AGH!" Klaus said in agony. "A wonderful skill that I shall be counting on very shortly. You see, Niklaus will be weak as he recovers. So, watch over him and feed him, if you would. But slowly, please, and from your wrist." Elijah said to Cami.
"Don't you guys have bags of blood in storage?" Cami asked as Elijah said, "We do, but your blood is laced with vervain. So, it will burn him. He'll ingest it slower. Perhaps you could use the time constructively? Persuade him not to murder his baby sister." as he turned to Klaus.
"Niklaus, it was not my desire to bring you pain, but I will not see you hurt Rebekah." as he turned back to Cami, "Now, I fear Sabine will be making a final move against us. I intend to find her and to end this."
Klaus said weakly to Elijah, "Elijah. You will pay for this."
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Celeste, who was still possessing Sabine's body, had her hands tied in front of her as she leaned back against a tree. Hayley, and Eve stood in front of her, their rifles aimed at her, while the rest of their clan, still stuck in wolf form, surrounded her.
"So what's this, payback? Look. I'm sorry I tricked you. I wasn't after you." Celeste said as Ava walked up from behind her, her hair was straighten she was wearing light makeup, as a blue silk headband was on her head.
She walked to Celeste before she slapped her. "That was for my kidnapping me yesterday." as Celeste glared at her.
"What, and we were just collateral damage? You almost burned her and Jackson alive in that plantation fire." Eve said as Celeste struggled against the rope to free herself as Hayley fired the gun.
Ava jumped a bit at the action, this was her first interrogation, she wanted to leave a good impression, but she wasn't going to lie, Hayley firing off the gun made her go in a cool sweat a bit.
She had shot a warning shot near Celeste before adding, "Careful, Sabine, or Celeste or whatever you like to call yourself. Sudden moves make me jumpy." as she cocked the gun again before adding, "And homicidal."
"Yeah, what Hayley said." Ava said arms on hips as Celeste said, "What, you're gonna kill me, honey ?"
"No. I know better." as the wolves growled behind her, "See, I know all about you. I know that you like to off yourself and then jump into other people's bodies."
"Well, that's not gonna happen here. I know I can't kill you, but try hexing me, or Ava and my friend Eve here will kneecap you. Go for them, and then, well, I'll really make it hurt."
"Trust me I am always looking for a opportunity to smack somebody, especially you."
"So, what do you want?" Celeste asked as Hayley said, "Back in the 90s, you inhabited a witch named Brynne Deveraux, remember? Marcel had her, you, put a curse on a lot of werewolves so they'd only turn human on a full moon."
"I see. Yes. That was me. Let me guess. You want revenge." Celeste said as Hayley said, " I want you to undo the curse." as Celeste smirk smugly.
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Cami sat by Klaus bedside as he slowly recovered from his injuries. She pulled up her sleeve and handed him her wrist so he could feed from her.
"Wow, things I never thought I'd be doing, feeding a vampire. My 16-year-old self would think I'm really cool right now." Cami said to in regrades to the situation."
Klaus, who was famished, drank from her quickly, and Cami winced in pain.
"Mmm." he said as Cami told him, "Ah! Slow down." as Klaus said, "Okay."
"Doesn't the vervain burn?" Cami asked as Klaus who had released her arm said, "As you may have yet to realize, Cami, the line between what brings us pain and what sustains us is far thinner than one imagines."
"You talking about my blood or your need to hunt down the people you love most?" Cami told him as Klaus said to her, "I'm too weak for one of your talks right now."
"She's your sister. How can you hate her?" Cami asked as Klaus said, "Because she has done what no one else has managed to do to me for 1,000 years... Rip my heart out."
Jazz Club 1919...
Rebekah and Marcel walked into the Jazz Club and approached the bar together as Elijah and Klaus watch from a nearby table.
"Look at these two pretending to be apart while so clearly a pair." Klaus said.
He stood up, but Elijah put his hand on his arm to stop him from making a scene, as he said, "Niklaus, not now. Why must you cause trouble?"
Klaus shrugged out of his grip and grabbed two glasses off of the table. He clinked them together to get everyone's attention before raising his hand to gesture to the band to stop playing for a moment.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to draw attention to two people who have been sneaking around behind my back together. As we move into a new era, we require more progressive attitudes to match. So, to my loving sister and my right-hand man and best friend Marcel, may they find joy in each other." Klaus announced.
Everyone drank. Marcel and Rebekah where equally startled by Klaus speech. "Enough talk...Music!"
The band started again and everyone returned to their party as Klaus approached Rebekah at the bar.
"Over the years, I've thwarted your loves simply to protect you. I knew if we had to run again, your heart would be broken, but we don't have to run anymore. We've found a home." Klaus said as he kissed Rebekah's cheek. "Be happy my sister."
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Klaus sat up in bed and button up his shirt.
"Turns out, they'd already betrayed me, and brought to town the one thing I'd been running from for centuries... my father." Klaus told her.
"Oh." as Klaus said sarcastically, "Yes. oh." as Klaus laid down.
"So, you're consumed by revenge you'll never achieve. Elijah implied Rebekah and Marcel could be anywhere in the world by now."
"Oh, I'm not so sure about that." Klaus said.
Jazz Club 1919...
Marcel and Rebekah where sitting together at a table, holding hands and generally looking content.
"Can you believe we're sitting out here in the open bold as brass?" Rebekah said as Marcel said, "No. Ah, it feels like heaven."
"You know, it's been over six months since Genevieve summoned my father, and nothing. Her spell must have failed." Rebekah said to him.
"Hey, if so, we dodged a bullet." Marcel told her before smiling and kissing her.
"Right. I am off to speak at the Women's Temperance Society meeting to make sure the wives of this city urge their husbands not to drink." Rebekah said.
"Aren't you all in the booze biz now?" Marcel said with a laugh as Rebekah added, "Yes, but the more one tells you you can't have something, the more you crave it at all costs."
She kissed him again. Marcel laughed as she headed for the door. A gentlemen at the bar watched her go. With the man ending up being Mikael.
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Marcel and Rebekah where sitting in Rebekah's car at a crossroads, considering their options for leaving town before Klaus could find them.
"He'll chase us to the ends of the earth, and he'll find us. No one can hide forever, especially not from an angry Mikaelson."
"Then we go through with the plan. There's only one way that we'll truly be able to hide from Klaus forever."
Back at the compound, Klaus and Cami continued to talk to one another. "They'll need a cloaking spell, and for that, they'll need a witch."
At the fork in the road, Marcel and Rebekah where still talking in her car.
"Davina is our one shot. If we go back and get her-" as Rebekah added, "It's a suicide mission."
"It's our only hope. We resurrect her, take her with us, and get out of town. Then, she can hide us from Klaus so he'll never find us." as Rebekah added, "We don't even know the right witch to kill to bring her back."
"Then we'll kill them all." Marcel admitted to her. "Just kill the three witches that brought the mighty Klaus Mikaelson to his knees, no big deal." Rebekah said a bit skeptical.
"Look. Unless you want to spend eternity looking over your shoulder, there's only one thing that we can do." Marcel said.
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At the compound, Klaus smiled as he continued talking to Cami about Marcel and Rebekah.
"There's only one place they can go..."
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At the fork in the road, Rebekah leaned her head back into the seat of the car as her eyes filled with tears. She sighed as Marcel turned the car around so they can head back toward the city.
Klaus continued to smirk at Cami when he realized he could catch Marcel and Rebekah.
"Home..."
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Monique was laying on the ground in one of the tombs, surrounded by candles as she chanted in French Creole.
"Attendez notre appel. Attendez notre appel. Attendez notre appel."
When she heared the sound of approaching footsteps, she stopped chanting and sat up to find that Elijah had entered the tomb.
"When order is restored, your kind won't be allowed in here." she told him as Elijah said back, "Well, fortunately, that day has not yet come. I need to find Sabine. I believe she's taken someone very important to me."
"And you thought I'd help you?" Monique said with a scoff as she stood up to face him. "Sabine is one of us, committed to the rise of the witches."
"The only thing Sabine is committed to is the destruction of my family." Elijah told her.
"And that would be a bad thing why?" she admitted to him.
"Like your mother, my mother was also a witch, a very powerful witch. In fact, because of my family, her power now flows through your veins."
"Now, once Sabine manipulates those around her, she will do what she has always done. She will jump into another body and disappear, leaving your witches powerless."
"No. She has the faith. She will see our power restored."
"There's a way of guaranteeing this. I'll also secure the safety of yourself and your kind. Here." as he handed her a spell. "This is from my mother's grimoire. Celeste used a similar spell to body jump. If what Sabine says is true, when she sacrifices herself, all of her power will flow back into the earth."
"However, if she has lied and tries to take another body, this spell will deliver her to a very different destination. Now, please locate Sabine."
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Rebekah and Marcel meet with Thierry at his warehouse. "Papa Tunde is dead. That leaves Sabine, Bastianna, and Genevieve." Rebekah told Thierry.
"We want to kill them all, and as soon as Davina rises, we take her with us."
Thierry poured himself and Marcel a drink. "Look. We have one shot at this, and I know our chances of success are sweet bugger all, but we've got to do it. So please, one stray dog to another, help us."
"Not many go up against those odds and live to tell the story. Have you?" Thierry told him as he handed Marcel a drink.
"I'm still standing here, aren't I? I've gone up against the worst of them all."
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Jazz Club 1919...
Mikael was drinking at the bar alone when Marcel approached his side to order himself a drink.
"I'll take another" Marcel said to the bartender. "You're a lucky man." Mikael stated to Marcel.
Marcel turned to face him, but didn't recognize him. " Men search the world over for a woman like her."
"Well, she's taken, friend." Marcel said to him.
"Oh, I can see that. It's just that she reminds me so much of my departed wife as a girl. See, I've been traveling for such a long time that it's a blessing to see a familiar soul so far from home."
"I'm sorry for your loss. Here's to old faces in new places." as they toasted their glasses together and drank.
"I've been in New Orleans for a day, and I find it to be quite surprising. Had I known of its charm and fascinating denizens, I would have come ages ago. Don't suppose I have to thank you for extending this invitation." Mikael said.
"Who are you ?" he asked him as Mikael said to him, "Oh, you're a smart man. I think you know."
He reached into his pocket and handed him the photograph of Klaus that Genevive had sent him him. "I'm an intelligent man myself. " as he began to compel him.
"So, have a seat." as Marcel immediately sat down.
"Let me tell you what I learned about you this afternoon, Marcel Gerard. You chafe under the control of my son Niklaus and would do just about anything to get rid if him, even call the one man on this earth who hates him more than you do. But, I couldn't understand what you hoped to gain. Rule of this city?"
"Well, as I said, New Orleans has its charms, but to call me, the one they call the Destroyer, the one who's burnt cities far more charming to the ground in pursuit of his children. But now I see. You did it for love, the love of my daughter." Mikael threatened to him.
"Don't you dare touch her!"
He grips the bar and glares at him threateningly. "Mmm, so I'm going to make you a promise. I won't hurt Rebekah. Truth be told, she was always my favorite. And this city, you can have it. But first, you must tell me where to find my son."
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Back at the compound, Klaus sat up and attempted to get out of bed, but he was too weak. He nearly fell, but Cami caught him.
"Ugh." he said as Cami said, "You're still weak."
"I'm still hungry. There's a fresh blood supply in the kitchen." Klaus said to him. "You won't make it that far. So, be a good little boy and get back into bed."
"If I had a quid for every time a woman has tried that line on me" as Cami smiled saying, "You'd have, like, no money."
"I beg to differ. Some women actually find me quite charming."
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Mikaelson Compound 1919...
Lana and Klaus where hooking up in Klaus' bed when Elijah entered the room. Lana giggled when she saw Elijah in the doorway.
"Sleeping with the enemy, I see." Elijah said as Lana said to Elijah, "I'm the ally now, darling."
"Well indeed." as Klaus said to him, "Oh, and as a gesture of goodwill from our old enemy" as he held up four tickets, "Tickets to tonight's opera, Le Huguenots."
"They have a soprano to die for. I'll introduce you if you promise not to eat her."
"Oh, Lana, a good soprano is never dinner." Elijah admitted to her. "Tell Rebekah to bring Marcel. Feel free to tell her now, big brother. I have some business I need to discuss with our new ally."
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"Why am I not surprised you like opera?" Cami admitted to Klaus.
"I always had a particular soft spot for Le Huguenots. I like the story" Klaus told her as he got out of bed.
"It was a tale of forbidden love, a Romeo and Juliet of sorts. On the day they are to marry, family and long-festering hatred intervene. Thousands are massacred. A father even kills his own child in the final act. I can almost appreciate the irony."
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Back in the Bayou, Celeste sat against a tree stump. Though her hands where still tied together, she had managed to mix together some herbs into a mason jar.
"Here." as Hayley took the jar from her. "It's herbs ground into paste. It'll act as a conduit for the spell. On the next full moon, your people become human. Feed it to them, the curse will be broken."
"Great way to poison us all at once." Hayley said as Ava who had walked up to her and said, "She wouldn't try to poison you guys, if she knew what was good for her."
"Look. I know you have no reason to trust me, but, Hayley, I actually like you. I was you, caring for Elijah when he cared more for his brother, and I ended up dead."
"So did a lot of others. This, call it a chance for me to give you what I was too in love to give myself. It's a chance to free yourself from the Originals."
Ava took a minute to process her statement, she couldn't free herself from the Mikaelsons they were her family after her.
"You too believe her ?" Eve asked Ava and Hayley.
A wolf growled behind her. Suddenly, Elijah appeared and joins them. "Whatever she's promised you both, it's a lie." Elijah told her as Ava said, "Uncle Elijah."
"Elijah, it's okay. Were okay." Hayley told him as Ava said, "No injuries." as Ava said standing next to Hayley, "Don't worry I got Hayley." "She cannot be trusted." Elijah said once again to the two.
"She's the only one that can help my pack." Hayley said to her. " Do you have any idea what she has done to our family?" Elijah said as Ava said, "Trust me I do, but this is the one chance for the wolfs to be human again."
"I know you want revenge, and come the next full moon, when I'm sure her cure works, she's all yours."
"Are you suggesting that we hold her- her- captive for an entire month? It would take an army." Elijah ask the two.
"And I've got one" as the wolves howled in agreement. "So help me or get out of my way." as Ava stood tall next to her, "Yeah, what she said."
Elijah paused only for a moment before he vamp-speeds over to Celeste, grabbed her and the mason jar, and disappeared with her.
He stopped far enough away from the werewolves that he and Celeste are all alone. He then threw her against the tree as he clutched the jar of herb paste in one hand.
"You tricked her." he said furious. "It's no trick. You're holding the cure for Hayley's clan in your hand. If her wolves take that elixir, the curse is no more. They're free." Celeste said to him.
"You condemned her people to decades of agony, and now you just break the curse without so much as a whimper. Why?"
"Because it's the best thing I could do for her, and it's the worst possible thing I could do to you." as Elijah asked, "What are you saying ?"
That, no matter what happens now, you've lost her. You destroy that jar, you kill me, Hayley will hate you for snatching her family from her. Now, if you give her the jar, we both know that she'll leave you in the end to be with them, and I know that as long as she's alive and happy and fulfilled in ways that you can't even imagine, then I get my revenge."
"So, you decide. Give her everything she ever wanted and lose her or deny it, see what happens then."
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At the docks, Thierry sat down to have a meeting with Bastianna and Genevieve.
"Where's the third one, Sabine? I asked to meet with all three of you." as Genevieve told him, "Our meeting you at all is a courtesy for your being a friend to witches in the past, but courtesy has its limits. Now, you said you had information of interest to us."
"Rebekah and Marcel are back. They came for Davina, and they think that they can get her if they kill all three of you" as the two witches smiled at one another, amused.
"Now look. I can lead you straight to them, but there's something I want in return." Thierry told them.
"And what's that?" as he stood up and said, "You're life."
He vamped out , baring his teeth at the witches and lunging towards them. Before he could attack, Bastianna usesdmagic to give him an aneurysm, and he fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Votre âme, l'ame boa. Votre âme, l'ame boa. Votre âme, l'ame boa." she said chanting.
Marcel vamp-speed into the room and slammed Bastianna's head against the table.
Rebekah followed in behind him and threw Genevieve against the wall. Marcel easily ripped Bastianna's head from her body, killing her, but when Rebekah attempted to kill Genevieve she chanted at her and gave her an aneurysm as well.
"Vamisa la visia." Genevieve chanted.
Rebekah grabbed her head and screamed in pain. Marcel attempted to attack, but Genevieve stopped him by using a non-verbal pyrokinesis gesture that light the sleeve of his jacket on fire.
"Follow me, and I'll turn you both into ash." as she left, the fire on Marcel's jacket went out, Rebekah attempted to follow but Marcel stopped her.
"Forget her. We'll get her later." Marcel said as Rebekah said to him, "Marcel, all we have is the element of surprise, and we have lost it. If we don't leave now, there will be no one to save us."
"I already failed Davina once. I'm not leaving her behind." Marcel said.
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At the compound, Cami came into the living room to find Klaus pouring himself a drink from the bar.
"Not sure that helps." as Klaus said, "Not sure it doesn't."
"You want to self-medicate your self-pity, fine. Better scotch than my blood, no matter what Elijah says."
"Don't speak to me of Elijah." Klaus said as Cami added, "He loves you."
"Yes. He does, and he proves it time and again, even when my father enlisted him to kill me."
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Mikaelson Compound 1919...
Elijah was getting ready for the opera. He stood in front of his mirror as he got dressed, but he turned toward the door when he hear footsteps approaching. When he looked to the doorway, he was dumbfounded to see his father Mikael before him.
"Le Huguenots. Saw it in Venice. Marvelous production." as Elijah said, "You."
"It's all right, son. I just want to talk." Mikael said as Elijah stated to him, "You mercilessly hunt us for centuries. You laid waste to half of Europe. Now you simply wish to talk?"
"It was your bastard brother I hunted, not you, never you. You're my blood, one that I'd be proud to call son. So, I came here to give you a chance to help me put down that whelp for good."
Elijah attacked his father in a rage slamming him against the wall. Mikael threw Elijah across the room he slammed into the opposite wall, wood splinters came crashing down around him as he fell to the floor.
"Do you really not know me?" as he rose to his feet.
"Do you think I could or would believe in anything that you say? If you honestly believe that I would betray my own brother for you, you're a fool without equal."
"I'll forgive you your sentimental affections for the thing you call brother, but you need to realize- as I did when I learned his mother had lain with a beast to beget him- that Niklaus is an abomination."
You do not talk to abominations. You do not reason with them or try to change them. You erase them! So, yes, I am asking you to help me kill your brother." Mikael asked him.
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"You keep saying kill, but you're immortal. You can't be killed." Cami said as Klaus said to differ, "Oh, but we can, love. And my father was the only one with the means to do it. A white oak stake, fashioned by my father to take from us the very thing he forced upon us all- our immortality."
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Mikaelson Compound 1919....
Mikael took out the white oak stake, and Elijah attacked his father again. Mikael slammed Elijah up against the wall and pushed the stake toward Elijah, who desperately used all his strength to fight him off.
"Stand with me or fall with him. Choose, son." Mikael said, with that Elijah threw Mikael off of him.
"I will always choose him!" as Mikael said, "Fine."
At vampire speed, Mikael grabbed a regular wooden splinter and stabbed Elijah in the heart with it.
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"Elijah has always carried guilt for that night for not stopping our father. I told him not to blame himself. When your father wants to kill you, he wants to kill you. Nothing you can do about it"
Klaus' cell phone vibrated, and he checked it "Oh, I hate to be a know-it-all. My sister and her lover have been spotted in town. So, story time endeth here, I'm afraid."
He walked over to a statue on the table and knocked it over. The statue broke on the floor, revealing the indestructible white oak stake inside. "What is that ?" Cami asked a bit afraid.
"A white oak stake, my own special version. And, unlike my father's, this one cannot be destroyed" before Cami could interject and tell him to think about his actions, Klaus had vamp speed out of the compound.
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Cami walked out of the compound and into the street to find Klaus feeding on an random man he stumbled upon. When Klaus noticed her presence, he stopped feeding and sent the man away.
"What are you doing?" Cami asked as Klaus said, " Well, if you have to ask, you obviously haven't been paying attention. I'm going to kill my sister, but first, I needed some sustenance with a little less vervain in it. No offense."
"When Davina showed me all you did to me, all you took from me, I wanted to kill you. I even thought about burying that blade in you like the witches asked me to, but I didn't. I stopped. I thought. I weighed the good I see in you versus the horrible things I know you've done, and I realized if I hurt you, I'd be filled with a terrible regret."
"You will, too, if you hurt your sister. Your sister, Klaus. As a person who has lost a sibling, who has felt that pain, you won't survive if you're the one who kills her."
"I'll tell you what I almost didn't survive, love- My sister bringing the most vile creature ever to have walked the earth down upon me."
"Yes, your father. But, by hunting Rebekah and Marcel down to the ends of the earth, by terrorizing them the way you yourself were terrorized, you'll be no different than him. Don't become your father." Cami lectured to him.
"I've been called every shade of monster, but that's new. My father? Mikael was the monster monsters were afraid of. Come. Let me show you." as he grabbed a hold of her, before vamp speed away.
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Elijah and Celeste return to the Bayou where Hayley and Ava waiting for them seated on a log. They were alone with the exception Jackson, who has stayed behind, though still in his wolf-form.
"You came back." Hayley said. I'll always come back. Take it. It will work."
Hayley smiled before taking the jar.
"Eve, Ava and I will round up as many of our people as we can. Come full moon, I can finally free my family." Hayley hugged Elijah.
In return he gently placed a kiss on her forehead. Ava grinned to herself.
"I knew it." she thought to herself.
"Hayley, I wonder if they have any idea how lucky they are to have you." Elijah said.
Hayley smiled and walked back to the encampments with Jackson and Ava, leaving Elijah and Celeste alone again.
"Mmm. That was touching, such a chaste, little kiss. The Elijah I knew was never so meek." as Elijah told her, "Well, the Celeste I knew was never so cruel. What is it that you want? What's your end game?"
"Oh, this game never ends, Elijah. We're both immortal, you know."
"Then what's the point if you can't possibly win?" as Celeste smirked to him, "But, I have. You just lost the girl, the girl you never made a move on because you were so desperate to save your family. And now, your family lies in ruins."
"My family, despite all that you have done, will heal in time." as Celeste said back to him, " If you had the time, maybe. But, do you really think Rebekah ran far and fast from here? I bet she didn't."
"She's long gone." Elijah assured to her.
"Is she? She's with Marcel. Now, Marcel loves Davina. Davina is dead, but she could come back under the right circumstances."
"They wouldn't dare ?" Elijah told himself as Celeste said, "If you hadn't been so worried about Hayley, you might have figured it out sooner. But, you know who did have the time to think about it? Your brother. I wonder what he'll do."
Elijah grabbed Sabine by the neck and vamped out. "Do it." she dared to him.
Elijah bite into her neck and viciously feeds on her.
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Klaus had brought Cami to the old opera house to see the ruins left from Mikael's visit in 1919. When she saw it, she was horrified.
"You know your city's history. That night in 1919, when the opera house burned down on this very spot? That was my father at his worst." Klaus said to Cami.
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Opera House 1919...
It's a full house at the theatre as Rebekah and Klaus sat in a private box. Klaus, looking bored and impatient, read the program while Rebekah looked around anxiously for Marcel.
"Well, this is off to a bad start. Your first big date together in public after I gave you my blessing, and he stood you up." Klaus said to her.
"Something must have delayed him" as Klaus said, "Or, now that your elicit affair is out in the open, he finds the whole relationship a tad lackluster and has run off to Havana with a showgirl."
"Don't be such a toerag. I'm going to check the lobby." Rebekah said as Klaus added, "See if you can't find our brother while you're there. The curtain is about to go up."
Rebekah left, and Klaus set the program down. Someone entered the box and sat down behind him. It was Mikael. He poked his white oak stake against Klaus' back.
"I would advise against trying to flee, boy. I can drive this into your heart before you can even think of getting to your feet, and I don't want you to die yet."
Klaus shocked, whispered "Father-"
"Father?" Haha! Still clinging to that word after all these years, a bastard desperate for a daddy? I wonder if your real father would be as embarrassed as I was of you before I discovered you were not mine. Most likely"
Angry, Klaus was about to turn around but Mikael stopped him. "Oh, oh. Uh-uh. Easy now, boy. Don't worry. Death will come, but we need to have a little chat before you shuffle off your immortal coil."
"Any words we have for each other have been spoken long ago. But, know this-- I am no longer the animal begging for scraps of your affection. I will die knowing my hatred for you was just. I will fall proud of all I have achieved here."
"So, Mikael, if you're going to kill me, then get on with it." Klaus said to him.
Mikael answered, Au contraire, Niklaus. Some things remain unsaid. For instance, you were right to be proud of your achievement here. As I walked the streets, your name was spoken of in reverent tones by the city's finest. So, after I kill you, I will remain here in New Orleans until every last person who remembers you is dead."
"The deeds of the mighty Klaus will be remembered by no one And you, boy, will simply never have existed"
The orchestra began to warm up in front of the stage. "Ah. The grand show." Mikael added.
Mikael relaxed, pulling the stake away from Klaus as the light went down. He leans forward and taps Klaus' shoulder, "Oh, I made some alterations in your honor. You'll love it."
The conductor tapped his baton against the stand and began the show.
"And what a show it was."
The curtain went up to reveal Marcel staked in the hands to a wooden cross. He was barely conscious. Lana was dead and was propped up on a swing, her mouth taped shut, and a stake impaled through her chest. The audience laughed and applaud.
"Mikael compelled the audience to watch it all, applaud as if it were the drollest of comedies, and then to leave celebrating a terrific night at the opera. I tried to save Marcel."
Klaus was on stage. He tried to pull the stakes from Marcel's hands but Mikael stopped him.
"My father had other ideas. Rebekah attempted to intervene."
The crowd applauds as Mikael pushed Rebekah to the ground and stakes her with a normal stake through the stomach
"All these years, I actually believed she was trying to save me."
Klaus tried to attack again but Mikael threw Klaus across the stage. The audience continued to applaud.
"Agh !" Klaus said.
"But then my big brother swooped in."
"There's no helping Marcel." Elijah said to Klaus who tried to help Marcel.
"Just when we thought all was lost."
"We must run." Elijah said to him.
Klaus scooped Rebekah up in his arms, and as they left, Mikael feed off of Marcel. Afterward, Mikael grabbed a lantern from the stage.
"And so I ran, beaten like the dog my father believed me to be And as we fled for our lives, he burnt it all to the ground"
Mikael walked up toward the exit past the audience, all of whom have been compelled to sit still and not leave. Mikael smashed the lantern onto the ground, causing the floor to catch fire, which quickly spread throughout the opera house.
"And with it, we assumed, Marcel."
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"I lived, but all that we had built died, as did the last shred of me that felt human. That is what my father took from me that night. I assure you, Camille, I will not terrorize my sister and her lover for centuries. Nor will I humiliate and torment or dehumanize them. No, none of that. I will simply and quickly end them." Klaus said.
He let go of Cami and vamp-speed away before Cami can catch him.
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Back at the Cemetery, Celeste awakened to find herself sitting against a grave in the cemetery, where Elijah was standing guard over her.
"Now, you didn't have to bite me to get me here. I wanted front-row seats to this show." Celeste smirked groggily, still a bit out of it from being bitten by Elijah.
"And what show would that be?" as Celeste stood up and said, "The one where you see your "Always and Forever" pact come crashing down around you. It's a myth, Elijah. A myth I died for."
"And yet here you stand alive... For now." as Celeste asked, "Is that a threat? Oh, there's always another pretty, young body for me to jump into. From now on, every time you feel a connection to a woman, you'll be forced to wonder if it's me."
As she talked, she back away towards the entrance.
"You'll trust no one and spend the rest of eternity alone." She crosses the threshold, and when Elijah tried to run after her, he's stopped by an invisible barrier
"Hahaha! Hahaha! "Celeste laughed as he fell to the ground
"I'm afraid you're trapped. Boundary spell. The Originals can enter, but they can't leave."
"You wouldn't." he said as Celeste said, "I would, and I did."
On the other side of the cemetery, Marcel and Rebekah had just found Davina's body, wrapped in white cloth, in her family's tomb. He lowered the cloth to look at her face then covered it back up again.
"I got you, D. I got you." as he picks her up in his arms and they hurry toward the exit. Marcel is able to leave freely, but when Rebekah tried to follow she realizes she was trapped
"What is it?" Marcel said as Rebekah told him, "It's a trap. Run. Get Davina out of here." Rebekah added to him.
"I'm not leaving you behind." Marcel said as Rebekah said panicking, "You must."
"I will not leave you behind!" Marcel insistent.
"I swear I will join you. Go. Get Davina someplace safe."
Marcel and Rebekah stare at each other for a long moment before Marcel vamp-speeds away with Davina's body.
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"Don't worry. It's a lunar spell. You'll be free by the next moonrise. My guess is, your sister won't last that long." as she continued to smirk "Ah, while this body has been a hell of a lot of fun, I do think it's time I find someone else to play in, don't you?"
Celeste bent down and picked up a candle in a glass jar on the ground. She smashed it against a tree and picked up a shard of glass. She then stabs it into her/Sabine's neck.
She coughed as she fell dead to the ground.
Suddenly, Monique came out of the shadows, looking disappointed that she was wrong about Celeste.
"You were right." Monique said with a sigh.
Monique pointed toward the tunnels, revealing to Elijah that she had performed the spell he gave her.
In the tunnel, Celeste awakened with a gasp in her original body, which was also covered in a white sheet. She was shocked and confused when she realized she was in her own body.
"Hello, Celeste." Elijah said to her. Elijah entered as she got to her feet and backed away from him.
"How is this possible ?" she asked shocked and confused.
"Monique Deveraux and I had a little wager regarding your ability to keep a promise. It appears I won. You were so consumed with my downfall, that you lost the trust of one of your own." as Celeste said, "Non. Mon cheri, non. Tout est possible. Ce n'est pas fini. Aah!"
"Desole." Elijah said to her, and with that he stabbed her in the stomach with Pappa Tunde's blade and she dropped to the ground dead.
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Marcel laid Davina on the bed and waited anxiously and nervously.
A moment passed when suddenly Davina awakened, she gasps and tried to fight her away out from under the sheet. Marcel rushed to her side.
"Davina" as he sat her up.
"You're okay. You're safe now. You hear me? You're safe. I won't let anyone hurt you, okay?"
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Klaus walked into the cemetery, wielding the indestructible white oak stake and screaming in a rage for Rebekah.
"REBEKAH! REBEKAH! Cherish the breath in your lungs! It'll be your last."
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Rue De Main 1919...
Elijah and Klaus where trying to flee from Mikael with an unconscious Rebekah. However, Mikael was stalking behind them and getting closer and closer to where they have stopped.
"The final act of Le Grand Guignol is upon us! Where are my players? Enough running, children! Step out of the shadows so we can finish this tale of sorrows."
He screamed as he walked down the street with his white oak stake in hand. Just ahead, Klaus carried Rebekah in his arms. She was still unconscious as Elijah hurried beside him down the dark street.
"He's coming." Elijah said.
Elijah stepped up onto the sidewalk and grabs a metal stake from someone's fence while Klaus set Rebekah down on the street.
"All right." Klaus said, He bite into his wrist and feed Rebekah his blood to awaken her. "Come on, sister." he said.
"Marcel" Rebekah said now awaken. "He's gone, sister."
She looked behind them to see the Opera House in flames. In the distance, screams where heard from the audience members who were trapped inside by Mikael's compulsion, who are slowly burning to death.
"No, No." Rebekah said beginning to cry. "Both of you must flee the city. I'll hold him off, Niklaus." Elijah said to them.
Klaus pulls up Rebekah to her feet. "No. We fight him together." as Elijah explained, "We cannot fight him. All we can do is do what we've done. We deceive him. We lead him astray. Now, I can do that as well as anyone. You take her far away from here. I'll follow you."
"No, Elijah. You can't. You can't, Elijah." Rebekah cried as she said, "This is just- this is my fault."
"No. This is my fault, Rebekah. I am so sorry. I'm sorry. Marcel-" Suddenly, the opera house exploded behind them, and all three turned to look while a fire truck's siren blared.
"I thought we'd found a home here." Klaus said to his siblings.
"Niklaus, please. Sister, come". He hugged Rebekah and kissed her cheek softly.
"You must leave. Go." he commanded to them.
Klaus stared at him as a single tear fell from his face. "Go !" he said to them.
Klaus reluctantly obeyed Elijah's orders and disappeared with Rebekah into the night.
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Back inside the compound, Night had fallen, and Elijah walked past the crypts before he stopped in front of one. Rebekah finally found him and approached him, clearly surprised to see him.
"Elijah." Rebekah said to him. "What are you doing here? Rebekah, you should be on the other side of the world by now." as Rebekah told him, "You and I both know that wouldn't have been far enough."
"GET AWAY FROM HER !" Klaus bellowed in a fit of fury. "She's mine." he said.
Klaus' eyes turned yellow as the veins protrude on his face and his fangs come out.
Elijah held Papa Tunde's blade in his hand. The blade shaked as Elijah's vampire face came out and he bared his fangs at Klaus
With Rebekah quickly did the same.
All three where ready to attack, with only one mean't coming out alive...
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𝓣𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓮𝓭...
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