Kol, Natali, Freya and Elijah were in the study room and Kol was pacing around because he was upset that Freya brought Finn back to life and he was arguing with Freya and Elijah.
- "Pardon me, love, but Finn tried to kill the rest of us more than once! He's an enemy of our family." Kol told her.
- "He is our family. Finn's return is an opportunity to mend old wounds and fix what's broken." Freya tells him.
- Elijah turns away from Kol for a moment and walks toward Freya to address her, "You seem certain.."
Kol is visibly appalled that once again, his concerns are being ignored by his siblings.
- "Are you honestly siding with her?" Kol asks him.
- Elijah raises his hand to silence Kol and continues to talk to Freya, "Time and time again, Finn has demonstrated nothing but contempt toward his family. So, you tell me - how can you be so certain that he would return to us in peace?"
Suddenly, Finn appears and joins them in the library, raising his hands in a non-threatening gesture.
- "Our sister knows me well." Finn says, "Though, perhaps you're right to doubt my intentions. By all means, let's discuss our family quarrels. I believe we're long overdue."
Both Kol and Elijah stare at Finn in shock. A few moments later Elijah got a call so he left the room. He finished talking just in time to hear the sound of Kol yelling from the next room. He immediately rushes into the next room, where Freya has just stepped in between Kol and Finn, the former of whom is struggling against her so he can attack the latter.
- "Take a swing at me, huh? All these side-steps and parries.. Even the way you fight is boring." Kol says and reaches around Freya and shoves Finn in the chest while Freya glares at him in frustration. When he stops, Kol shoves Freya aside, where she lands on the nearby couch, so that he can push Finn backward against the wall. Before he can do anything, however, Elijah vamp-speeds into the room and pulls Kol away from him, eventually shoving him against the bookshelf in a choke-hold from which he desperately tries to break free.
- Elijah was clearly annoyed by their bickering, "Behave yourselves! Particularly considering we'll be confined here together for the foreseeable future."
- "What does that mean?" Kol asks.
- I believe the term is "staycation." You see, Niklaus isn't the only one who's inspired revenge fantasies. Right now, we are all at risk." Elijah tells them.
Kol turns around and glares at Finn, and Freya, not pleased by Elijah's news either, sighs and closes her eyes, visibly frustrated.
- And Elijah continued to speak, "So, while Marcel works to retrieve the white oak, I recommend we dispense with the posturing and get down to some good, old-fashioned family bonding."
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Rebekah has just woken up, the last thing she remembered was Renee staking her with a cursed stake. She looked at her arm and once again she had a skull on her wrist, it was just a matter of time when it will draw her mad. She then looked around her and all there was a road and woods. Renee obviously left her in the middle of nowhere.
There was a car approaching her and she walked towards the road and stood in the middle. A driver immediately stopped the car when he saw her.
- Rebekah walked toward him and asked, "Where am I?"
- "Louisiana." He replied.
- "Close to which city?" Rebekah asked again.
- "Lafayette." He said.
- "So I'm like 2 hours away from New Orleans. Amazing." Rebekah remarks, then look into his eyes, "I'm going to need your car."
But before she took his car she also feeds on him to gain her strength back. When she started driving towards New Orleans she took her phone and called Kol.
- "Rebekah, we're in the middle of something." Kol answered.
- "I hope that something is finding Renee and killing her." Rebekah tells him.
- "What? Why do you say that?" Kol asks, a little confused since they still didn't tell Rebekah what happened.
- "Is it true that she really killed Natali? Please tell me it's not." Rebekah says.
- "Unfortunately it's true, but don't worry Natali jumped into Davina's body." Kol tells her, "How do you know that?"
- "Well, Renee came to Saint Tropez. She came with an army of vampires and some witches were working with her." Rebekah said, "She staked me with a cursed stake and now I'm somehow in Louisiana and making my way to New Orleans. I don't know what happened to Anna and others but I fear they might be dead."
- Kol couldn't believe what he was hearing, "They are all dead?"
- "I don't know Kol." Rebekah tells him, "You better tell Natali and I'll come soon."
- "I will." Kol replies before he hung up.
Natali found Kol in their old bedroom at the compound, he was pacing around angrily.
- "Hey." Natali altered him of her presence, "Maybe you should stop being upset about Finn and we can spend our time here.. in this bed." she says and smiles as she leans forward to kiss him and he kisses her back for a moment before she moves down and starts kissing his neck.
- "I have to tell you something." Kol says.
- "You can tell me later." Natali says and pushes him to lay on the bed, then straddles him.
- Kol moves her and sits back up, "I'm serious. You won't like this."
- Natali looks at him, "What? You're not attracted to Davina's body?"
- "No, it's not that." Kol says and Natali gives him a look, "I mean, yeah, it's weird when you're in her body, but that's not what I wanted to say."
- "Then what?" Natali asked.
- "Rebekah called me." Kol says and continues, "She said that Renee came to Saint Tropez and she staked Rebekah with a cursed stake and there's a possibility that she killed Anna and everyone else."
- "There is a possibility or she really killed her?" Natali asked.
- "Rebekah doesn't know what happened after she was staked." Kol told her.
- Natali took a deep breath, "I should've known that she would go to Saint Tropez to kill other siphoners." She says and starts looking around the room.
- "What are you looking for?" Kol asked.
- "Your phone." Natali replied.
- "It's on the nightstand." Kol tells her and she quickly takes it. She then calls Anna's phone number, but no one answered. She called three more times and the last time someone answered, Natali immediately recognized that voice was from Renee and didn't say anything.
- "Kol, have you heard the news?" Renee says in a mocking way because she saw the name of the caller.
- Kol took the phone from Natali's hand, "I'll gut you alive."
- "I think you will have more pressing matters on your hand." Renee says.
- "What does that mean?" Kol asked.
- "You will see." Renee answered and hung up.
- "Kol, she killed her." Natali barely managed to say, "She really killed her." tears have started to go down her face without her even noticing.
As soon as Kol came to the realization that she was crying one arm wrapped around her waist to pull her closer and his other hand moved to the back of her neck. Natali wasn't the type who would show how vulnerable she is, but this time she couldn't hold it inside of her.
Soon after Kol told her everything Rebekah came to the compound. When she saw Freya, Elijah and Finn, she went upstairs to Kol's and Natali's room. She knocked at the door and told them that it's her, then walked in. She saw Natali who was in Davina's body sitting on the bed, it seemed to her like she was crying.
- "Hey Bekah." Natali says through tears and runs towards her to hug her, after a hug she took Rebekah hand and looked at the inside of her wrist and saw that there was a squeal, "I want to kill Renee for doing this to you, for killing my friends. I want my body back and I want my life back. She ruined everything."
- "She will pay for everything she's done." Rebekah says.
- "The only thing I can do right now is try to reverse the spell." Natali says.
- "What do you need?" Kol asks.
- "I'll need a pure silver knife and some white muskroot. I have it in our apartment." Natali tells him, "Also I will need Freya's help."
When Kol returned the three of them were already waiting for him, prepared to start the spell. He holds out a burlap bag of the herb they need and holding the muskroot in one hand and the silver knife in the other Natali and Freya start to chant, "Niax a tam, niax en at tem alach ti. Niax en at tem alach ti." As they chant, the blade of the silver knife starts to glow orange with their magic.
- "This is gonna sting a little." Natali tells Rebekah before she takes her hand and slices the patch of the skin with the cursed weal on it off of Rebekah's wrist with the knife and continues to chant the spell, though Rebekah screams so loudly her incantation is unintelligible. Finally, once it's done, Rebekah goes limp as her body starts to heal from the injury. Natali sighs in relief, after a moment, Rebekah smiles a cheeky smile, indicating that all is well for now.
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Kol and Natali were in the bedroom where he is ranting about what he's just learned about Elijah and Finn's proposal.
- "Elijah is just going to go for it! Let Finn steal a body and start a new life!" Kol says.
- Natali looks at him with concern, "You need to calm down."
- "How can I calm down? Did you even heard what I just said?" Kol asks her.
- "I did. But you raging about Finn when you're stuck in here and can't do anything about it isn't going to help." Natali tells him.
- Kol sighs and stands to his feet to pace around the room, "I just want Finn to suffer. He tried to kill all of us, how can they not remember that?"
- "He will!" Natali walks toward him and takes his hands in her own, squeezing them reassuringly, "I promise."
She lets go of his hands so she can cup his face and kiss him, and they begin to make out passionately. They both get more and more into it until Kol finally pulls away and spins her around so he can kiss her neck. She sighs and closes her eyes in pleasure, but the blood vessels around his veins start to darken, and when he pulls away, his fangs have come out. He becomes so overwhelmed with desire and bloodlust that he's about to sink his fangs into Natali's neck, only managing to stop at the last moment when he opens his eyes and realizes that she is not in a human body and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to stop. When he realizes what he's about to do, he lets go of her as though he's been burned and vamp-speeds out of the room before he can harm her. However, Natali looks confused and hurt when she opens her eyes and finds she's completely alone in the bedroom.
Natali was walking down the hallway next to the courtyard looking for Kol just when Finn comes out of a room from the other side of the hall and addresses her.
- "If you're looking for Kol, just follow the screams of the innocent. You'll find him close by." Finn's voice called out.
- Natali turned to Finn with a smirk on her face, "At least we embraced our true nature, unlike you who would rather be dead than a vampire. " she then thrusts out her hands, using her magic to bring him to his knees as she casts the spell, though Finn's screams of agony prevent the incantation from being understood. A brand appears on Finn's chest as he moans in pain.
- "I hear you're looking to steal the body of some unsuspecting witch.." She continues to silently cast the spell while Finn screams until finally she finishes and leaves Finn panting and recovering on the floor. He sees the large brand on his chest and looks horrified.
- "What have you done to me?" Finn asks.
- "Get comfy, Finn. I just locked you in that body you hate so much. You're stuck as a vampire for the rest of your pathetic life." Natali spat at him.
Finn becomes so enraged that he vamp-speeds toward her and pins her against the wall in a choke-hold, just as Kol appears and throws him off of her. Kol channels his rage, punching Finn in the head and stomach before grabbing him by the neck and slamming his head into the wall, but Finn elbows Kol in the face to break out of his grip for a brief moment before Kol starts to strangle him with both hands. Finn manages to grab Kol's left wrist and snaps it before headbutting him in the face and tackling him, but when Kol elbows him hard in the back, Finn is disoriented enough for him to knee him in the gut and throw him through the glass doors into the courtyard, where he lands on the floor. Finn tries to crawl backward away from Kol as he approaches him. Natali was walking behind Kol when Rebekah grabbed her hand to stop her, "Lucian is here, he can't see you." she tells her, "And are you crazy, going after Finn in a body that can easily get killed."
Natali just rolls her eyes at what Rebekah said and starts walking the other way back towards the bedroom.
While in a courtyard Kol grabbed a lit candle off the table as he walked toward his eldest brother.
- Finally, Freya rushes into the room to intervene, "Kol, stop."
Kol glares at her as Lucien appears behind Freya, but when he continues to walk toward Finn with the candle.
- Elijah vamp-speeds in and shoves him backward, "Enough!"
- Kol was furious, "This isn't your fight!"
- "I told you to stay your hand!" Elijah says sternly.
- Kol scowls at him furiously, "Fine." he angrily throws the candle across the room
- "Now if you are done I have to tell something." Elijah says, "Marcel has paid us a visit." he reaches into his pocket and pulls out the bullet, "The last remaining white oak in the world.. right here."
Lucien frowns and watches Elijah intently, as does Finn, who seems to be realizing how important this bullet is to him.
- "Sister, if you would be so kind?" Elijah says to Freya.
Freya nods and flicks her wrist toward the fire pit nearby, which bursts into flames. However, when Elijah throws the bullet into the fire, Finn yells to try to stop him.
- "No!" Finn vamp-speeds toward the fire and plunges his hand into it, groaning in pain as he's burned until it finally pulls out the bullet, which had not yet been fully consumed by the flames.
- "Brother!" Elijah exclaimed.
- Finn falls to his knees and looks at his siblings and Lucien with horror in his eyes, "The little witch has condemned me to this! To remain a beast." He looks up at Elijah with a pleading expression, "Elijah.. I can't bear an eternity with no hope of escape. Can you?"
Elijah looks conflicted about this question. Everyone was staring at Finn who was standing in front of the fire and holding the bullet in his hand while Elijah attempts to plead with him.
- "Finn, give it to me." Elijah says, Finn doesn't move and gives Elijah a devastating look, and Elijah's voice becomes more stern, "Give it to me."
When this doesn't work, Lucien sighs before vamp-speeding toward Finn, stealing the bullet from him, and then vamp-speeding across the room again. Lucien looks at the bullet for a moment, shocked that he actually has it in his hands, and everyone looks at him suspiciously for a moment before he sighs again and tosses the bullet to Elijah at vampire speed, who catches it and looks surprised by this turn of events. After a moment of inaction, Lucien looks impatient.
- "Come on, then. After all this time.. go on and destroy it." Lucian tells them.
- "Of course we will destroy it. Right, Elijah?" Kol says.
- Elijah looks conflicted, and Finn tries to plead with him, "Elijah, forever is a burden that nobody should have to bear."
- Kol continues to argue the opposite, "You cannot keep that white oak in this house, Elijah. It is already a beacon drawing our enemies to us."
Elijah continues to stay frozen in place, and Lucien decides on a compromise.
- "Perhaps the best solution is obvious? Entrust it to the one who loves each of you most." Lucian says.
Finn, realizing what Lucien is intending, looks at Freya with a desperate expression, and Elijah also seems amenable to this idea. Freya, realizing this is key to keeping her family as whole as possible, nods in agreement.
- "I can cloak myself. If it has to exist, at least I can take it far away. Hide it under a thousand spells, somewhere where no one else will ever find it." Freya says and looks up at Finn, though she's visibly unhappy with the thought of Finn's death, "Until the day comes when.. you're ready for release."
Elijah still looks unsure, but he eventually hands Freya the bullet with a serious expression.
- "NO!" Kol yells and flashes towards Freya in an attempt to take the bullet from her, but Elijah stops him.
- "Control yourself." Elijah said to him, "We've made the decision."
- "That's the problem. You never make the right decision." Kol says angrily and walks out of the room.
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Back in Kol's and Natali's room the two of them were sitting on the bed while Kol was once again complaining about the decisions his siblings made.
- "I can't believe they didn't destroy it. It will come back to haunt us, it always does." Kol says and looks at her, "The only thing we can do is leave."
- "Leave?" Natali asks.
- "Yeah, tomorrow we can go wherever you want." Kol tells her.
- "I need to ask you something." Natali says.
- "What?" Kol asks.
- "Earlier today when we started kissing why did you leave?" Natali asked.
- Kol looks at a floor for a moment before saying, "I'm afraid that I will hurt you."
- "You are not going to hurt me." Natali assured him.
- "You know that I can't control myself and you're in a body that can easily be killed." Kol says, he places his hand on her cheek and they look into each other's eyes, "I can't lose you."
- Natali sighs, she knew that everything he was saying was true, "Then we need to figure out a way to get my body back."
- "You will need a hell of a lot of black magic for that." Kol tells her.
- "I know. We'll find it somewhere." Natali says.
- "Get some rest and we'll think about that tomorrow." Kol told her and kissed her forehead.
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