As the sun started to rise in the sky and light started to pour into the room through the blinds Natali started to wake up from her slumber. She reluctantly opened her eyes but as soon as she noticed that Kol wasn't next to her she fully woke up. She then got out of the bed and went to the bathroom hoping that Kol was there, but he wasn't. She turned on the shower, discarded her clothes, and stepped into the ray of warm water.
When she finished in the bathroom she went back to the bedroom and looked for the clothes she is going to wear. A few moments later someone opened the bedroom door and she saw it was Kol.
- "Kol where have you've been?" Natali asked.
- "I was out for a few hours." Kol told her.
- "For a few hours? What have you been doing?" Natali questioned.
- "Taking care of some things before we leave." Kol replied, "I killed that boy Davina was dating. He was asking around and getting too close."
- "How do you know that?" Natali asked him.
- "Eric saw him lurking close to the Fangtasia." Kol says, "And before I killed him he told me that he saw Davina leave and didn't saw her since then."
- "Oh yeah, I woke up in their bed, but I thought he was asleep." Natali says.
- "Well, he wasn't." Kol told her, "We should leave before Marcel or Josh start looking for her."
- "We can leave in a few hours." Natali told him.
- "I will go to our apartment and get your stuff, and then we'll leave." Kol told her and before he left he kissed her forehead softly.
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- "Easy with that wine. You're in a human body now, remember?" Natali heard Rebekah saying before she sat next to her.
- "And drinking in the early morning, someone could say I'm an alcoholic." Natali remarks.
- "Well.. it's not far from the truth." Rebekah tells her.
- "Haha." Natali laughs, "How's your mark?"
- Rebekah shows her wrist, "It's okay for now."
- "We don't know how long a spell can last. It could be hours or it could be days." Natali tells her.
- "Guess we'll find out." Rebekah says.
- "Kol and I are going to leave New Orleans." Natali told her.
- Rebekah wasn't surprised, she knew Kol wouldn't want to be around Finn, and Natali is stuck in the house if they don't want anyone to find out that she is in Davina's body, "When?" she asked.
- "Soon. In an hour or two." Natali replied.
- "I'm afraid that's not quite possible." They've heard Elijah's voice from behind.
- "What do you mean by that?" Rebekah asked him with concern.
Elijah walks over to them and shows them a phone. There was a video of Vincent, it was a message.
- "I know we are not on the best of terms, but I need you to listen to me, okay? Um, we're in serious trouble. The Ancestors got me on the hook doing some pretty twisted magic, and I want no part of it, but they're forcing me to help Lucien Castle. And, if you don't help me, Freya Mikaelson is gonna die." hearing her name, they both frown in concern as they continue to listen to the video, "Before they forced me to take her, they had me put up a cloaking spell, so we can't be tracked. Now, Lucien's taking us out of town someplace, I don't know where.. but there's a loophole."
- Elijah pauses the video and says, "Finn is the loophole."
- "How is he the loophole?" Rebekah asks him.
- Elijah looks at Natali because he knew that she knows the answer, "Last year when Esther brought him back, he got housed in one of the most powerful witch bodies in the city - Vincent's. And, even after all this time, there's still an echo of a body-soul connection between them." Natali says.
- "Now Vincent doesn't know that you're not in your body, but he needs a powerful witch that's off the Ancestors' radar." Elijah tells her, "He left us his blood so you can find him."
- "When did Lucian took Freya?" Kol asked he heard everything Elijah told them.
- "Last night." Elijah tells her.
- "Bloody hell." Kol exclaimed knowing that this is ruining their plan to leave.
- "We'll find them. I will need Finn's blood and I will be able to track Vincent down." Natali told them.
They called Finn to come into the room where they were and explained to him a situation.
- Finn looks upset as he paces around the room, "I should have sensed something was wrong when Freya didn't call. Now Lucien has a head start." He looks over at Natali before saying, "Go, witch. Tend to your spells. I won't rest until she's found."
Kol scoffs in disbelief as he looks around the room at Finn and the others, visibly having difficulty keeping his temper in check.
- "Behold, the selfless martyr! First, he wants to rip Natali's head off for trapping him in his body. Now he can't wait to be spelled." Kol says.
Finn walks over to Kol, staring him in the eyes in a challenging manner, just as Elijah sighs and stands to his feet, ignoring Kol's outburst.
- "Finn.. you and I shall go together. Kol, you stay here with Natali and Rebekah." Elijah says.
- Kol was shocked, "You're going with him? So, the two people responsible for not destroying the white oak when they had the chance, thus putting us in this bloody mess, are now off to try and fix it. That's just marvelous. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?"
Kol storms over toward Finn and Elijah, but before he could do anything Natali takes him by the hand.
- "Kol, look at me." Natali said causing him to turn back to look at her, "I need your help with this." then she leads Kol out of the room.
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Natali was in the middle of performing her own spell with Finn and Vincent's blood to try to track Vincent down. It involved placing their mixed blood in a metal funnel attached to a string, which she held above a map of the United States, allowing the blood to drip on the map. Kol is pacing around the room while he waits for answers.
- "They should keep heading northeast.." Natali says.
- Kol looked confused "What? Northeast? They've been driving northeast for an hour, love. We need to get a tad more specific before they hit the Atlantic Ocean."
- "The soul-blood connection is not as strong as a locator spell. The most I can narrow it down to is.." she paused in shock upon looking down at a map.
- "Is what?" Kol asked taking a step towards her.
- "Virginia. Northern Virginia." Natali replies.
- Kol's eyes widen in shock, "You're bloody joking! We were turned into vampires there. That's too much of a coincidence. Can you please be a little more precise?"
- "No." Natal said frantically, "I need to boost the signal somehow. Bring me a blood rider. That's like an echo chamber, with Finn's blood we can amplify the connection he has with Vincent."
Kol nods in an agreement and leaves to find the dark object.
It didn't take him long to come back. As soon as he did Natali poured Finn's blood into a bowl. Kol crouches down so he's at eye-level with Natali, who is sitting at a small end table and has just picked up a mallet to make the bowl sing.
- "All right, let go of everything. Feel the vibration." Kol told her calmly.
She does as he told and uses the mallet to create a tone with the bowl.
- "Now, harmonize with the cadence of the drone." Kol says.
Natali starts to hum as she searches for the right tone and Kol moves behind her, pressing his chest against her back, firmly pressing on the arm she's using to hold the mallet with one hand while helping her make the bowl sing with the other so she can focus more of her energy on the spell.
- "And once they're both in harmony, it should continue by itself." Kol whispers in her ear.
Natali opens her eyes and turns her head slowly so that their faces were millimeters away from each other.
- "And it's up to you to concentrate, to amplify it." Kol says and she looks away from him then successfully amplifying the connection.
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Freya and Elijah have just returned to the compound and are struggling to carry the writhing Finn into the living room as he shouts incoherently.
- "Don't leave me in here! Don't leave me alone!" Finn yells.
- "Put him down." Elijah says to Freya and she does as she's told and sets Finn down on the couch.
- "Hey, hey, hey. You're not alone, Finn. I'm here." Freya tries to calm him.
Elijah tries to help steady him, and Finn grabs him tightly by the hand and stares him in the eyes.
- "Don't leave.." Finn says weakly.
- "Why is he talking like this?" Freya asked worriedly.
- "It's hallucinations of our betrayal. It's his nightmare." Elijah says.
Just then, Kol, Natali, and Rebekah walk into the room. Kol looked unbothered by the sight of Finn's discomfort as he heads straight for the opposite couch, where he flops onto his back.
- "Well, he looks awful." Kol remarks, "Werewolf bite. That's got to hurt, mate. So, Lucien's a bloody hybrid?"
- "We don't know what he is. His venom seems to work twice as fast." Elijah tells him.
- "That's good. Maybe it'll work through his system twice as fast." Freya says.
- Kol gets up and shrugs nonchalantly as he turns to leave the room, "Or it's twice as lethal. Now, if Niklaus doesn't get here in time, he might die. With a bit of luck.."
- Freya gets up and punches Kol in the face, causing him to vamp-out at her, "What is wrong with you?" she says.
- "Behave yourselves! Both of you." Elijah tells them.
- Just then, Klaus walks in from the opposite door and breaks up their argument, "Sibling squabbling. How familiar. Although, the teams seem to have changed.. Someone care to tell me why?"
- "Our brother needs us." Elijah says firmly.
Finn moans and wheezes from the couch, and the sight of him wipes the smirk off of Klaus' face. Klaus looks between Finn and Elijah for a moment before sighing in exasperation and walking over to Finn. He rolls up his sleeve, bites his wrist, and feeds Finn his blood while the others watch in varying states of surprise.
- When Finn stopped feeding on Klaus' blood he sighs in relief, "Thank you, brother."
- "How are you feeling?" Rebekah asked him.
- "I feel.. strangely euphoric." Finn replies.
- Klaus smirks, "I've been known to have that effect."
- Kol, who has been watching from afar, claps slowly and dramatically, "What a precious family moment. Pardon me while I go and gouge out my eyes with a hot poker."
His siblings are clearly not amused by his attitude, but Finn just looks at him with a serious expression.
- "I thank even you, Kol." Finn says then glances at Natali, "Your little witch actually came through." he sighs deeply for a moment before continuing, "Today.. I saw a glimpse of your coveted "Always and Forever." He looks up at Klaus, who smiles at him, "And.. I.." He's cut off by an intense coughing fit that causes him to throw himself over the edge of the couch as he coughs up a large amount of blood. Klaus rushes over to him, followed quickly by Elijah, Freya, and Rebekah.
Finn grunts in pain as Freya and Elijah once again hold him down as he thrashes on the couch. All of the Mikaelson siblings look panicked as they watch helplessly.
- "What's wrong with him?" Elijah asks.
- Freya was horrified, "His body, it's dying.."
- "No! No, it's not possible! I cured him!" Klaus says.
- "If your blood can't heal him, the only other cure was me.. but I guess now we know one more reason why Renee killed me." Natali tells them.
- Finn wheezes and claws against their grip, "Freya.." he grunts.
- Freya is wide-eyed as she desperately tries to hide her fear, "Hey! It's going to be alright, brother. We'll fix this, you'll see. Okay?" She turns to her brothers, "Get my pendant."
- "It won't work! I fused his soul to his body." Natali tells her.
- Freya was frustrated, "We've got to try! There's no Other Side! No Ancestral well if he dies."
- Klaus' tone is desperate as he turns to Natali, "No. Natali will undo what she's done! Finn, you will drink from the source until Freya can move you." Klaus goes to bite his wrist, but Finn stops him.
- "I'm sorry, but there's no undoing for that spell." Natali says.
Freya grabs Finn's right hand and squeezes it, just as Elijah takes Finn's left. Klaus, standing behind Finn's head, reaches out and puts his hand on his chest, while Rebekah crouches next to him and Finn smiles weakly when he realizes he's not alone. Kol, looking guilty, reaches out and gently puts his hand on Finn's leg as Freya breaks down in sobs. Elijah grips Finn's hand tighter and does his best to keep himself from crying just as Finn looks up at him one last time before his skin desiccates and turns gray, the life slowly leaving his eyes. Freya and Rebekah break down and tears start to fall down Elijah and Klaus' cheeks. Even Kol can't help but shed a tear at the loss of his brother and the sadness his siblings are feeling as they slowly let go.
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