CLARITY
The word was spred around, the new Queen with her power taking control over the city of New Orleans was every conversation starter around. Nicolette felt proud of that, her maid Anne walked toward her with her phone in hand. "It's Sophie, ma'am" looking at Anne Nicolette grabbed the phone and nodded gratefully. She looked into her reflection in the mirror.
"Greetings" she greeted Sophie on the phone, with her vampire hearing she could hear her closing the door and talking as low as she could.
"Nicolette..." she started, a tad of fear in her voice tone. "I know where the woman is, the werewolf. But the only one who could lead you to her is Elijah" part of her felt a little bit of jealousy knowing Elijah was the one taking care of this woman. "He has grown fond of her and the idea of his brother having an heir, thinking this could bring humanity and sense into Klaus"
"Thank you, I will seek her today. Sophie, I will do my best to bring your sister back, save Davina and this baby... I promise" without any other word she ended the call. Looking at her maid through the mirror. "Prepare my things, I am going to meet this werewolf."
"Yes, Ma'am" like that Anne opened the door and she found herself another figure standing in the way. Marce held his hand in the air, like he was about to knock her door. Nicolette's maid walked past him and left the door open.
"May I come in" he said, his features not pleased but Nicolette didn't care of what would pleased him.
"Speak, I am going out" she said finishing the last touches of her makeup. He walked inside and closed the door behind himself. He was pacing which only made her a tad irritated.
"Davina said you talked to her, you arranged a meeting with the witches to not harm her" he started as she stopped to stared at her. "Why didn't you tell me this?"
"Marcel, I don't want you to be interfering in my plans. Remember your place in my kingdom. For now you are just a facade, when I feel like I can trust you and if I ever feel trusting you again, then I will speak about my plans with you, otherwise don't feel ofended because I excluded you from my reign" she grabbed the brush and started setting her makeup.
"But, this is Davina we are talking about. Did you get to talk to the witches, did they accept your terms?" he asked, he was nervous; Marcel protected Davina, loved her as a daughter. He would never let anything happen to her, he would surely kill for her.
"I know, which is why my secrecy about this matter is for her own protection. I told her I would do anything to give her back the life this coven took from her. Now, I am in the matter of getting into terms with the witches. Terms you wouldn't understand because you are not a witch, you are a vampire and someone that killed one of them. If they see you around, sniffling something they won't trust me and I need them to trust that I am in control, because after all... I AM IN CONTROL. "she stood up and walked away from him, rushing to the main entrance she grabbed her things which Anne had in her hands waiting for her.
Stepping outside she walked toward her car and got inside. Making a call, she asked for directions to meet with him... her eyes felt drier that ever. She remembered the river she cried for this man as she drove to the ubication they had sent her through text messages. Nicolette had cried enough, she had lost every person she ever cared of and she wouldn't lose Davina nor Marcel this time. She would protect both of them with her life if it came to that. What she hated most is that this baby, this poor little thing only complicated things.
She parked the car and walked to the little cafe outside of New Orleans she was sent to. She had been here before, she knew this place and remembred it well. Back then it was just a tavern they used to visit to refresh themselves with some drinks. Today was just a cafe. Sitting inside she waited to meet him. To see his brown orbs...
"My Queen" he startled her making her look up as he held his hand waiting for hers. Typical Elijah, always behaving like a gentleman. She handed her hand and felt his lips burning against her skin when he kissed it. He unbuttoned his suit and sat down in front of her. "To what I owe the pleasure?" he smiled, she sighed silently and rolled her eyes at his treatment with her. But it was a game she was willing to play.
"Always a gentleman" she finally spoke smiling at him. "Perhaps you could help me with something, you see I am looking for a werewolf" his eyes opened wider which only confirmed the information she had been given about this woman. "A woman I believe is under your protection"
"Indeed" he answered shortly. "Cut the chase, what do you want with her" his protective self made her mad, jealous even you could say. It just reminded her the way he protected her back then, the way he was so willing to die for her but now, he surely had changed to a new beauty. A beauty that held his brother's baby.
"Relax Elijah" she laughed. "Geez" she licked her lips. "I am not the enemy here, believe me" she clarified. "I am interest in protecting her as well as you are" she rested her back against the seat. "Wow" she started. "Look at you, all protective again over a woman... a human for sure" she remembered her time. "It made me remember when I was yours to protect, clearly everyone under your protection always ends up getting hurt" she cleared her throat.
"I suggest you tell me what do you want with Hayley before..." she stopped him there. It made her angry the way he was speaking about her but it made her realize she couldn't feel soft about this, about him. She had to be strong, determine to do whatever it took to make her kingdom safe.
"And I suggest you let me speak to her before my witches do something to her, they are claiming this baby for the ancestral ritual and I am the only one that can stop it. I do not know this woman and certainly I could simply say yes to my people's request since I don't know her. But here I am caring for you, your brother and a baby I don't even know. So cut the damn protective charade and let me speak to her... otherwise by midnight, she'll be in the hands of my witches and believe me, under my protection no Mikaelson will ever harm 'em" she didn't even know how she talked to him this way but she felt a rage that his eyes had never seen in her. He was in shock, he looked into her eyes like he was looking in the eyes of a stranger.
Breathing in and out to calm herself, she spoke again. "Look Elijah, surely you notice that I am no longer the woman you left, the only you surely claimed would be lost if you lost her." she swallowed hard. "I have changed, changed in ways you will never stop to be surprised" she looked into his serious mask. "For my people and my Kingdom, I would do anything. More than you did for me. But here, you either play with my rules or you leave. But since your new doll can't live otherwise she dies along with the baby, I suggest you let me help her be safe from the ones that are also threatening what you are so desperate to save"
"How do I know that when you meet her you won't do as your witches demand"
"I control my witches, whoever tries to harm her will die painfully. They hear me, the witches of the other side are with me. I only need you to deliver her to me, you can be with her at all times to be her personal body guard. Don't worry, I need to meet her today. I will do so in my house, at three in the afternoon. Don't be late." She stood up and stopped in the middle of the hallway to look back at him. "It's nice to see that at least one part of you was real" like that she left as fast as she could but as calmly as she could look. She wanted to scream, she wanted to cry and she wanted to kiss him, ask him if he had been lost without. But those feelings had to be burried inside of her. She didn't know they would surface with this new girl around, watching him being protective with this woman. It only made her see with clarity things, it made her have vision that all she lived with him was a lie. It was ment to end becuase he is no man for eternity, his love is only for the human and the flesh. And when she turned, she was no longer those things.
SORRY GUYS FOR NOT UPDATING I JUST HAD SOME NEWS:
I AM PREGNANT AND I AM FOUR MONTHS NOW. ANYWAYS, I HAVE BEEN TOTALLY NOT MYSELF. MORNING SICKESS WAS HARD THE FIRST THREE MONTHS AND NOW THAT I AM FEELING BETTER HERE I AM.