Natali and Kol left the compound and they took Renée with them. When they were at Fangtasia Natali pushed her sister down onto a chair.
- "And of course you lied to me about the Serratura." Natali says as she paced from one side of the table to another.
- "I didn't lie to you. From who do you think I've heard about that weapon? They want to use it, but if you give it to me I can use it before they can." Renée tells her.
- Natali let out a laugh, "Like I would give it to you."
- "Of course you wouldn't. What do I need to do for you to believe me?" Renée asks.
- "To tell us everything you know." Natali says.
- "You want me to tell you about our plans?" Renée questioned.
- "Yes." Natali simply replied.
- Renée shrugs, "I'm sorry but I can't."
- Natali glared at her, "I don't think you have a choice."
- "I'm not afraid of you." Renée said.
- Natali stood in front of her and placed her hands onto the armrests of the chair, looking directly at her sister she said, "You should be."
- "You would do anything for this family? Even go against your own?" Renée asked her.
- "You and I weren't a family for a long long time." Natali replies.
- "But we could be." Renée says.
- "Kol, compel her." Natali tells him and moves to the side.
- Renée laughs, "Over the course of thousand years I became immune to his compulsion."
- "Thanks for the heads up, we'll torture you then." Natali says and takes a knife then drove it into Renée left tight and she begins to blood onto the floor.
- Renée groans, "You will regret this."
- "I don't think I will." Natali tells her and smiles as she twists the knife and pulls it down cutting the artery inside the leg, Renée gave out an ear-piercing scream, "Tell us your plans."
- Renée clenches her jaw before saying, "If you both promise not to kill me."
- Kol just laughs and Natali says, "We'll kill you if you don't tell us anything, it's up to you."
- "Fine." Renée reluctantly says, "I'll tell you everything I know. Which is not a lot."
Natali raises her eyebrow before she swiftly pulled the knife out of Renée's leg.
- After a moment Renée began speaking, "I don't know everything, but I know that Tristan wants to recruit Davina Claire."
- "Why does he needs her?" Natali asked.
- "I don't know, I only heard him telling Aya to find her. First I thought that he needs her to activate the Serratura, but he still wants her even if he'll never get that medallion." Renée tells them.
- "They want Davina because she hates Mikaelson's, especially Klaus and she will do everything to get rid of him.." Natali looks at Kol, "And you, Rebekah and Elijah."
- "Now that I told you that information can I go now?" Renée asked.
- "No, you're staying here." Natali tells her.
- "You want me to be your prisoner? The Strix will come for me." Renée says.
- "Let them. I'm itching to kill someone." Kol said.
Then Natali pulls Kol to the side and tells him, "I have an idea, I need to go and talk with Freya." she looks at Renée and says, "Keep an eye on her."
- "Okay, I will." Kol replies.
After Natali left Kol and Renée were the only ones in Fangtasia. Renée was bored that she couldn't go anywhere until the Strix came for her or until Natali lets her go.
- "Can I at least get a drink?" Renée says.
- "No." Kol answers coldly.
- "Fine, I will help myself out." Renée tells him and starts walking towards the bar, but she was stopped when Kol appeared in front of her.
- Renée rolls her eyes, "What do you want?"
- Kol stepped closer to her, too close for comfort, "I want you to stay away from Natali."
- Renée smiles and walks away from him while saying, "Are you afraid that I'm gonna tell her your secret?"
- Suddenly Kol flashes towards her and Renée gasped as she was pinned to the ground by her throat by Kol, "You can't talk if you're dead." he said to her face.
- "Kill me. Let's see what Natali would do when she finds out." Renée tells him.
- "She would do nothing. She doesn't care about you." Kol says to her.
- "Of course she does. I'm her sister." Renée said, "She loves me."
- "No, she doesn't. All you ever did was lie to her." Kol told her.
- "But Kol, you're doing the same." Renée reminded him, "What do you think she will do when she learns your dark secret? She will turn on you, she will want to.. kill you."
- Kol was getting angrier by seconds, he squeezed her throat even more, "She would never do that and you know that that's why you still didn't tell her anything.. But you, on the other hand, she will kill you." quickly he let go of her throat and stood up, "And I'm going to let you live just so I can watch how she rips your head off."
- "She will never forgive you when she finds out, and never for a vampire is a very long time." Renée stated and Kol only glared at her without saying anything knowing deep inside of him that what Renée is saying might be true.
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At the Mikaelson compound, Elijah is in the downstairs living room, heading up the spiral staircase, as Marcel rushes in and follows him to try to talk to him.
- "Elijah! I'm not finished." Marcel says loudly.
Elijah stops walking up the staircase and turns to face Marcel, clearly annoyed by his attitude.
- "Why don't you run along to your little friends and remind them that any attack on me is a really bad idea." Elijah tells him.
- "That's not gonna work. They're as stubborn as you are." Marcel says.
- "So stay away from them, Marcel, before I interpret your behavior as an act of betrayal." Elijah told him.
- This visibly offends Marcel, who glares at Elijah for a moment before he replies, "That's the thing, Elijah.." he reaches into his inner jacket pocket and pulls out the enchanted stake he was given by Aya, "See, I betrayed you before I even got here."
Elijah turns around at the sound of footsteps to see a dozen suit-clad male members of The Strix flooding into the room from every entrance. Elijah turns back to Marcel and gives him a cold look.
Upstairs in the study, Freya is walking around an even-weaker Tristan and the magic binding circle as she casts a spell, "Somo ve de ver se, nat-" Freya stops chanting when she sees another male member of The Strix walking into the room. She immediately makes a fist with her hand and jerks her arm downward, casting a silent pain infliction spell on him that is so strong he is immediately brought to his knees. However, just as the man falls unconscious, Aya vamp-speeds into the room and stabs Freya in the stomach with the knife Freya planned to use on Tristan earlier before she can even react. Freya gasps in pain and Aya jerks the knife out of her stomach, and Freya collapses onto the floor as Aya sneers at her from above, "Your sister put up more of a fight."
Freya continues to gasp for breath on the floor as she bleeds out, and Tristan turns and gives Aya an annoyed look as she drops the blade onto the floor.
- "Took you long enough." Tristan says.
- Aya smirks at him in amusement before asking, "Where is Renée?"
- "She's not here, Natali took her, but we'll leave her there for now." Tristan replies.
- "Are you sure? She will tell them our plans."Aya tells him.
- "She doesn't know everything." Tristan says.
Downstairs in the living room, Marcel and Elijah are in the middle of a heated fist-fight. Elijah shoves him backward so hard that he hits one of the weight-bearing stone columns and chips off a large piece of rock from it. Marcel falls to the floor, allowing Elijah to turn and start fighting one of the other Strix members. Elijah is in the middle of fighting two of the Strix's members. He rips the heart out of one of them and drops it unceremoniously onto the floor before spinning and karate-chopping the neck of the other so hard that he's decapitated, causing a splatter of blood to spray against the portrait of him hanging on the wall.
Natali was entering the compound when she picks up sounds of fighting. Meanwhile, the fight was going on in the living room, where Elijah is fighting several other Strix members. Elijah has just punched one in the face before twisting his arm so hard that it snaps, but is too distracted to see another Strix member grab Elijah in a headlock from behind. Fortunately, Natali instantly vamp-speeds toward the man and snaps his neck, allowing Elijah to do the same to the other vampire. The two look at each other for a moment, just when Marcel comes up behind Elijah and stabs him through the heart from behind with what looks like the stake he was given.
- "Elijah!" Natali says shocked before Marcel drops Elijah to the ground, and his skin starts to turn gray and desiccated as Natali glares at Marcel. She wasn't surprised that Marcel betrayed them. Just then, two other members of The Strix start to surround her, cornering her while Marcel watches from behind them.
Marcel watches with a frown as one of the vampires grabs Natali in a choke-hold and pins her against one of the stone columns. Natali reaches out with her right hand and snaps his neck. When the other vampire attacks her, she kicks him in the gut, only for yet another vampire to speed toward her. Each vampire takes one of Natali's arms and pins them to the column so she can't fight back. The older-looking vampire starts to choke Natali, but before they can snap her neck she starts to give them an aneurysm.
- "I don't need my hands to fight against you." Natali tells them and because of the pain they were experiencing they all along with Marcel fall onto their knees, holding their heads with their hands. She uses her magic to magically pull the hearts of the two vampires that were fighting with her. Then she steps over their dead bodies and walks towards Marcel, she grabs him by his neck and quickly snaps it before Marcel could react.
Then she went upstairs to find Freya, when Natali walked into the room she saw that Tristian escaped and her eyes fell onto Freya who was laying on the floor. Natali quickly walks toward her, taking note of her bleeding stab wound and what sounds like a punctured lung. She gently lifts up Freya's head and bites her wrist before feeding her, her blood. Freya whimpers as she drinks her blood to heal from her wounds.
Downstairs in the now-trashed living room, Freya, who is now healed, Elijah, and Natali have gathered together to discuss the events of this evening. Freya is holding the enchanted stake that Marcel left behind in her hands as she examines it.
- "This stake was imbued with dark magic." Freya informs them, and looks up at Elijah with concern, "It's strong enough to take down even you."
- Elijah, who has been pacing around the destruction, looks down at the dead Strix members, "So apparently The Strix has no shortage of weapons."
- "Marcel could've used this on you and he didn't. Why?" Natali says and everyone wanted to know the answer to that question. No one knew if Marcel is working with the Stix or not.
- "Can we trust him?" Freya questioned.
- Elijah shakes his head in disagreement as he returns to pacing around the room, "Do I need to remind you that because of Marcel, Tristan is free, Rebekah is lost.."
- "I know what we're gonna do with Tristan." Natali says and the two of them turn to listen to her, "We'll lure him into a trap and lock him with this." she then shows them the Serratura, "Just like my sister wants. She gave us the perfect idea."
Elijah is suddenly distracted by the sight of the blood splatter over his portrait on the far wall. This triggers a flashback to the visions he received from Alexis.
- He looks concerned as he stares at his portrait and says, "This prophecy threatens to devour us still."
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