2011
Klaus was not one to just walk into a town without observing from a distance first. What he has seen surprises him. His older brother Elijah, his old friend Stefan, and Stefan's older brother were keeping their distance from the newest Doppelganger while still keeping an eye on her. Klaus had heard rumors that Katerina was in town but he had not seen her. He also noticed two young women would join his brother and Stefan at the Salvatore Boarding House. One was human and one was a witch.
Klaus' witch Maddox had procured them a place near the center of town. Maddox reported that the Doppelganger recently lost her adoptive parents, her younger "brother" and aunt moved out of town, leaving the girl with her biological father. He also reported the girl's friends had drifted away from her. Which had Klaus smirking and thinking, "The girl is alone."
Elijah and Damon are not stupid; they know Klaus is in town. Damon recognized Maddox instantly and told Elijah, so now they are just waiting for Klaus to show himself. Damon had a plan to help convince Klaus that they are on Klaus' side. When Klaus finally decided to get a drink at the Grill, Damon and Elijah were going to join him.
The moment Klaus sat on a bar stool, Elijah and Damon were on either side of him. "Hello, Niklaus," Elijah spoke first. Trying to convey they were not there to hurt or ambush him. Klaus lifted his Bourbon and responded before taking a drink, "Brother. Thought you didn't want to see me for another couple of decades." "Yes, well, things have changed. It has been revealed that you lied to me about disposing of our siblings," Elijah casually drops that tidbit. Damon snickered, "There are some things we would like to talk about, but not here."
"So? You know a version of the future?" Klaus held his tumbler of Bourbon in his hand, raised halfway to his mouth. Damon nodded, "Yes. I can't tell you but I can show you. Before I do, like I told Elijah, things are different this time. For one, My brother and I want nothing to do with Elena." Both Klaus and Elijah heard the disdain in his voice when it came to Elena. "Second, we have no desire to go against the Originals. Stefan and I are going to leave town after Caroline graduates from high school, since she and Stefan are glued at the hip."
Damon had just finished showing Klaus his memories, "You lived it already." "I did. And it was a mess. We were constantly at each other's throats. Something we don't want this time," Damon had sat down on the sofa across from Klaus. While the soon-to-be Hybrid was scanning through the memories and stopped at one in particular. An inhuman growl rubbled in Klaus' chest, "Mikael." Elijah sat on the edge of his seat, "Yes, it seems father is imprisoned in a Mausoleum in North Carolina."
"Why don't Maddox, you, and I take a trip and eliminate dear ole papa Original while Elijah and Stefan hold the fort? There's a certain Bell in the Forbes family possession that we should get our hands on and away from the humans," Damon suggested. Elijah agreed, "With father gone, the rest of our siblings can be undaggered." Damon stood up to call Bonnie. He was going to have her share the spell her mother used to desiccate Mikael with Maddox just in case.
With that said, the three men split off. Elijah met up with Stefan and Caroline to organize the movement of the Hellfire Bell to a safe location until it can be dismantled and melted down. Damon, Maddox, and Klaus headed for Charlotte, North Carolina. The drive was filled with questions for Damon to answer. Klaus wants to know everything they may encounter.
The question of the Cure came up, "What about the cure?" Klaus asked. Damon sighed, "I think it would be best to hunt down and kill Professor Shane, destroy his research, then leave it be. Or, kill Professor Shane then trap the Five of the island where Silas rests and starve them to death so nobody gets cursed. Give Silas enough blood to loosen his grip then shove the Cure down his throat and pull his heart." "I think it would be best to give the cure to Silas and kill him. I heard stories from other covens about him and they all fear him rising," Maddox voiced from the backseat.
They agreed on a plan for Silas as they pulled up to the cemetery containing the Mausoleum where Mikael was trapped. Maddox had prepared what was needed for the desiccation spell before the arrived and only needed to set it up inside the Mausoleum. Klaus stood in front of the gated entrance hesitating. He did not want to admit he was scared, even if Mikael was restrained. Klaus was terrified. He and his siblings have been running from The Destroyer for over a thousand years and now have the opportunity to stop running. To stop fearing the man they called father, and he couldn't even move to open the Mausoleum.
Damon can see Klaus is struggling. He remembers the night Niklaus confronted Mikael, Damon remembers how afraid Klaus was of the man, the monster. He steps next to Klaus, "You're stronger than he is. Even with your wolf binded, you're stronger. Do not let him get into your head." Damon moved a bit away but then remembered something, "Oh, save his ashes. You'll need them in the future."
Klaus took a deep breath, grasped the rusty padlock and chain, yanking it off the gate. The rusty gate swung open loudly. Klaus slowly walked inside, Damon and Maddox behind him. Maddox stepped off to the side and set up the spell. Klaus' eyes have not left the cement sarcophagus in the center of the dark, dusty room. Mustering up the courage to move, Klaus pushed the lid off and onto the floor with a loud thud.
There, inside the sarcophagus, was a chained and desiccated Mikael. His body was unable to move but his eyes followed the bastard abomination that is Niklaus. They both could hear Damon, "He has a White Oak stake strapped to his left calf." Klaus wanted to get this over with. He moved to tear Mikael's pant leg and ripped the stake from its straps. Mikael could do nothing but watch.
Klaus placed the tip of the stake to Mikael's chest above his heart, "Goodbye father, and good riddance." Pushing the White Oak stake into Mikael's heart, Klaus stepped back as flames engulfed The Destroyer. None of them will ever speak of the tears Klaus shed as Mikael's body burned to ashes. When there was nothing left but ash, Maddox came forward with gloves and a urn, scooping up the ashes and sealing the urn.
Klaus wanted to question why they needed his ashes but Damon beat him to it, "Bonnie had become friends with your eldest sibling, Freya." Klaus snapped, "Freya's dead. She died of the plague when she was a child." "No, she and every first born Mikaelson was bargained away to your crazy Aunt Dahlia. Bonnie told me that Freya and Kol's wife Davina were helping her with something. She never went into detail. But I do know Freya is alive and currently in a sleep spell in New Orleans," Damon informed Klaus.
The drive back to Mystic Falls was silent. Klaus was deep in thought about the things he had learned. He was thinking about waking his siblings when it dawned on him. Freya is alive. Maybe that will be what Finn needs to hear. They were very close in age. Maddox's snoring was the other thing heard in the car besides the quiet rumbling of the engine.
Elijah obtained the Bell from the Sheriff with great difficulty. She did not want to let the artifact be in the hands of someone who was not a Forbes. Her daughter, Caroline, was able to convince Liz that it was better to get rid of the Bell since it could destroy the entire town if rung. Liz relinquished the Bell to Elijah and then immediately went back to work, leaving Caroline disappointed in her mother. Elijah will have Kol deal with destroying the Bell. Kol is very creative when it comes to magical artifacts; maybe the Bell could be repurposed.
The night of the full moon came and went. Klaus broke his curse without interruption. The sacrifices had been obtained easily. An older werewolf was used. His family heavily compensated for his sacrifice. A man who preyed on young boys was turned into a vampire and sacrificed. Lastly, Elena supplied the final sacrifice. Her life was linked to John's, just like last time. She woke up a day later and buried her father. Isobel was nowhere to be seen.
While Klaus was running in wolf form for almost three days, the Mikaelson siblings' coffins were delivered to the Boarding house since the mansion Klaus was building isn't finished. Damon had made sure blood bags were ready and waiting. On the third day, Klaus and Elijah came into the Boarding house and pulled their daggers. Finn was the first to wake and was refusing the blood before Stefan said something, "Humans donate willingly in exchange for currency. Nobody was hurt or killed." Finn reluctantly drank several blood bags before he felt full.
In that time, Kol and Rebekah were being fed their blood bags by Klaus and Elijah. Damon and Caroline were in another room organizing a barber and several racks of clothes for the newly awakened Originals. Rebekah was the first to whoosh away into the other room. She startled Caroline and was going to drain the girl but Damon stepped in front of her, "Blondie is not on the menu." He grasped her shoulders and turned her away from Caroline and faced the racks with modern womens' clothing, "Your new clothes. Pants, tops, jumpers, skirts, and a few dresses. Nothing revealing and all designer courtesy of myself and Klaus."
Rebekah's attention was diverted from Caroline to skimming the racks. Kol was already sitting in the barber's chair getting his hair cut into a more updated style. Finn had sat on the sofa and was staring at nothing. Elijah sat down next to him and quietly spoke, "I want to apologize for keeping you daggered for so long." Finn's eyes grew dark, he was going to snap at his brother when Klaus sat on his other side. Finn moved to stand but Klaus stopped him, "We have recently learned Freya is alive...Well, she's in a sleep spell in New Orleans. We will bring her here to safety after Sage arrives. I never killed her, Finn. She has been waiting 900 years for you. And Mikael is dead."
The room became deathly silent after that revelation. Caroline had left just in case things got violent. The barber was a vampire that Elijah frequently used and trusted. The barber's actions stilled, waiting for a reaction before he could resume. Kol scoffed, "Leave it to you Nikky to casually state something so life altering." Klaus sighed, "I have his ashes as proof and for future use. I've been told they will be needed as an ingredient." Kol perked up, "What's the spell?"
Damon caught all of their attention when he chimed in, "A weapon actually. The ashes of a Viking enemy, the soil of her homeland, and the blood of the person she loved the most. That's what Bonnie told me when she was asked to create a prison world for Dahlia's urn. Freya and Klaus wanted to make sure Dahlia could never be brought back and endanger Hope's life." Kol was confused, "Who's Hope?" Klaus was told about, "My daughter."
AN: Cliffhanger, sort of. Klaus is a Hybrid, the siblings are awake, and Mikael is dead. The events in this story will slow down a bit.