A Streetcar Named Desire
The next day, Freya asked "You daggered Rebekah? And you're just telling me now?"
"She sacrificed herself in order to protect us. And, to protect her, I've told Niklaus, and I'm telling you. No one would have known Rebekah's whereabouts if Aurora had taken my life." Elijah said.
"No, you didn't." Lizzie stated.
"What do you mean?" Freya asked.
"Rebekah talked to me, and when you thought that you daggered Rebekah, it was all fake. I implanted fake memories with a spell so you would did it that you did it. Rebekah is currently safe in Chicago." Lizzie explained.
"The prophecy says you three will be felled by friend, family and foe. You and Klaus have a lot of foes and despises." Freya told them.
"Just one or two." Elijah said.
"Thankfully, not many friends." Freya said.
Klaus entered the room with Stefan.
"Freya, this is Stefan Salvatore, an old friend. Stefan, this is Freya, my brand-new older sister. Also a long story." Klaus introduced looking back at Freya.
"You're an old 'friend' are you?" Freya asked, narrowing her eyes at Stefan.
"Well... That kind of depends on your definition." Stefan said awkwardly.
"Come on. Let's take this into the living room upstairs."Lizzie chuckled.
They enter the room taking a seat on the sofa. Kiara watched Stefan unbutton his shirt to real an X-shaped wound on his shoulder. Klaus and Elijah left. Lizzie and Faye were in the room too with Luke.
"You sound just like them." Stefan laughed.
"Perks of living with Brits I suppose. So how did you get this?"Lizzie says.
"Rayna Cruz's Sword." Stefan said.
"Rayna who?" Luke asked.
"A huntress who hunts vampires, trapping their souls in a blood stone." Stefan explained.
"Lovely." Lizzie commented sarcastically.
They all fall into an uncomfortable silence.
"So, um, just full disclosure... I dated your sister once." Stefan told Freya.
"Oh. While that seems like a great story, let's get back to your wound. A mystical vampire huntress stabbed you with her magic sword. Klaus killed her...But, surprise, surprise..." Freya chuckled and rolled her eyes.
"She regenates." Stefan sighed.
"And won't rest until you're dead."Luke concluded.
"Right. So, no matter how far I run, this wound acts as a beacon, drawing her to me. So, I guess you could say it's been a bit of a rough week." Stefan says, nodding.
" Well, I can't cure the wound, but this paste will mask its signal. Just let that dry, and you'll be on your merry way." Freya told him as she begins to rub an herbal paste over the still-bleeding X-shaped cut with an equally nervous smile.
"You know, not that I was expecting a, uh, parade or anything, but why is everyone so eager for me to go?" Stefan frowned in confusion.
"What's troubling the Mikaelsons? Oh, let's see. There's Elijah's super-secret society of ancient vampires...The Strix. One of their more zealous members, an old flame of Elijah's, is trying to undo my mother's most powerful spell..."Freya mumbled.
Lizzie left the compound while she joined Jo on the outskirts of an old abandoned railway.
"Jo." Lizzie whispered softly.
She appeared beside her pointing over to a specific train cart and says "Over there. That's where the pack track them."
Lizzie nodded following her into the office carriage walking up to a gramaphone player and hundreds of dusty books.
Blinking in confusion Lizzie turn to Jo who magically rips open some curtains only to find nothing.
"Strange." Lizzie murmured inaudibly freezing when she hear a floorboard creaks in the opposite direction of Jo.
Stepping forward she sense someone else in the room, her eyes fixating on an odd formation in the wall of the cart. She bend down to find a hidden door, clicking it open.
Lizzie jump back when she see a body slump onto her legs.
Jo speeds over lifting up their head to reveal Lucien bound, gaged and desiccated.
"Lucien." Lola grumbled with distaste.
Lizzie removed the rag in his mouth.
"Get... Klaus... out of here." Lucien choked out.
Lizzie and Jo brought Lucien back to the compound, where he is frantically gulping down several blood bags to replenish himself in the courtyard while Marcel, Lizzie, Jo, Faye, Sage and Hayley argued.
"I had no idea that Aya was gonna take Klaus and Elijah down! And regardless, why the hell are we trusting this guy all of a sudden, huh? He's the one who ran off with Aurora and Nora the first chance he got." Marcel defended.
Lizzie glared at Lucien.
"You can hardly fault a man for following his heart. Yet, the moment she started raving about firing white oak into Klaus, well... Words were said, hearts broken, veins drained." Lucien replied weakly.
Hayley scoffed at Marcel " You're one to talk about trust... who was it that handed Dwayne's heart to the people that helped murder him?"
"I bought your life with that heart. But hey, you know what? You called me here, so if you have another plan? Please, let's hear it." Marcel says in frustration.
"It's simple. We storm the coven house, stop the Strix from completing the de-siring spell. Period." Lizzie told them.
"Okay. Well, that's easy for you to say. You're not sired by anybody, are you?" Marcel said, giving her a sarcastic smile.
"It's not just about de-siring... We've got to stop an execution." Lucien says, shaking his head.
"What are you talking about?" Marcel asked in confusion.
"A lovesick teenage witch with a runner-up heart is somehow going to break the sire link? I'm sorry, but your darling Davina is in over her head, and Aya knows this. She will let Davina de-sire both brothers, then test the spell's success by firing a white oak bullet into Klaus' heart. I mean, it's win-win for her... if you live, Marcel, we'll, she's won. If not, at least she's eliminated the rival sireline, including me." Lucien says.
Faye blinks "His prophecy witch said she saw Klaus die and his entire sireline burn."
"She watched us fall, she watched us burn, every soul Klaus ever turned. When Aya tests this spell, Klaus will fall either way. And, if Davina fails, as she likely will, the two of us will die as well." Lucien says, nodding.
Stefan walks into the room and said "Actually... make that the three of us."
Lizzie smiled at him nodding at his willingness to help them.
Stefan was now looking at a blueprint of the Davilla Estate while Lucien stands over his shoulder.
"Could use one of these access tunnels to slip into a back room." Stefan says.
"Hmm." Lucien growned.
"What? Worried about getting a little dirt on your thousand-dollar shoes?" Stefan remarked sarcastically.
"Actually, I'll be doing most of the heavy lifting, since the vampires we're facing are, what? Seven times your age? Is this really the best help we can get?" Lucien says.
"Doesn't matter. We're not getting their bodies back. Strix from all over the world are flying in to make sure this spell goes off. They're guarding every entrance and exit." Marcel told them.
" Well, you're their leader. Call a meeting. Schedule a retreat. Order them to stop."Sage told him.
"Nah, nah, nah, nah. I do that, Aya has no problem staging a coup." Marcel said, shaking her head.
"Marvelous. I guess it's on me to come up with our grand plan, then." Lucien sighed.
Luke walks in, Freya in too as Jo said "No need, Lucien. Freya figured out a way to get the boys out of the chambre. She just needs a strong enough power source while me and Luke helps her."
"I'd channel Finn, but he's all for letting our brothers perish. So, I'll channel Lucien. The older the vampire, the better the battery." Freya fake smiled at Lucien.
"We're going to buy her, Jo and Luke some time, keep the Strix occupied." Sage says.
"Wait, so you want me here holding hands with the leftover sister while you take the toddlers and tackle the Strix? You must be jok..."Lucien scoffed.
Freya smirks and flicks her wrist, telekinetically snapping Lucien's neck and watching in amusement as he falls back against the couch. Stefan turns to Freya and gives her a hilariously impressed look and says "Huh, that was impressive."
"Well, I work better with quiet." Freya smiled.
"Wait, so the plan is that the three of us are gonna keep one hundred of the world's most ancient vampires occupied?"Marcel asked.
"Well, there could be another way...All you have to do is get us to the front door."Marcel said.
Later on, Marcel is driving a black car down the road to the Davilla Estate. In the trunk are Stefan and Hayley while Faye, Sage and Lizzie sat in the back. Before they left, Freya provided Faye and Lizzie a spell that would make an illusion that where they sat, no one would be bale to see them excluding Marcel, Sage and Hayley.
Then the estate is in sight, so Lizzie and Faye focuses up. They begins chanting the spell that will cloak them and make up an illusion that Marcel is alone in the car.
Outside of the headquarters, several Strix vampire guards are pacing around outside the front gate. One of them peaks inside of the car, seeing that it is Marcel in the drivers seat. Faye and Lizzie looks up at the vampire, nervously gulping as he checked inside the car until he gives Marcel a nod that he's okay to enter. The vampire puts the car in drive and drives into the driveway, giving a slight nod to Faye and Lizzie that they made it.
Davina, Cynthia, and the other Sisters' were performing the spells "Nemo unus animabus carnem..."
In the hallway, Faye, Lizzie, Hayley and Sage walk inside quietly to find their way into the pool room. With the plan running smoothly, Aya and a group of vampires were distracted by Rayna Cruz, the vampire huntress who was looking for Stefan. They try to fight her off with that, the girls continue toward the pool room.
They hesitantly walk into the pool room, where Davina and the other sisters are still perfoming the spell. Faye, Lizzie and Sage had horrified looks when they saw Klaus and Elijah floating in the pool filled with their blood, but the witches have their eyes closed and don't immediately noticed them. When one of the Strix vampires see them, Sage vamp speeds towards him and snaps his neck without a moment hesitation.
Unfortunately, his grunts of pain and the sound of him falling to the floor catches the other's attention. Marcel, looking panicked, vamp-speeds over and snaps the neck of another Strix guard, and Davina looks at him with a look that says she's feeling extremely betrayed and shouted "Marcel!"
Marcel points at her and gives her an apologetic look and says "I'm sorry, D. We need to get them out of that water now."
Hayley nods in agreement, but Davina looks furious as she thrusts her hand toward them, just as the Sisters all do the same and said "No!"
Faye, Lizzie, Sage, Hayley and Marcel were thrown backward toward the far wall, incapacitating them long enough to return to the spell. Suddenly, Elijah awakens in the pool, though the Sisters don't seem to notice immediately.
Before they can continue, Elijah vamp-speeds to his feet in the pool and grabs Cynthia by the front of her cloak, pulling her into the water and both drowning her and feeding on her at the same time. Lizzie, Faye, Sage, Hayley and Marcel have just finished recovering from being thrown into the wall, and while Davina and the remaining Sisters are trying their best to complete the spell, it's obvious that they're terrified and unsure of what to do. Once Cynthia is dead, Elijah leaps out of the water and snaps the neck of one of the other Sisters while Sage does the same to another. Marcel leaps to his feet and pleads with Davina "Davina, stop!"
Davina stands to her feet and rushes away, though she still continues chanting the spell. Davina has just thrust her hand toward Klaus as she continues the sireline unlinking spell "Nemo unus animabus carnem!"
Klaus leaps out of the water at vampire speed, but the force of Davina's spell causes him to remain frozen in the air as she growled at them.
"You've had your time!"Davina yelled.
The lights explode into a shower of sparks, and she pushes her arms down, causing Klaus to land with a large splash into the pool. Davina continued the spell as Klaus screams in pain in the water of the pool "Nemo unus animabus carnem! Nemo unus animabus carnem!"
As she chants, Faye, Marcel and Stefan's skin starts to turn red as well as Davina slowly breaks the sireline link. It travels up to their neck as they all scream in agony until finally, Davina waves her arms in two concentric circles, which causes the water in the pool to shoot up in what looks like a half-dozen geysers. The force of completing the spell causes her to pass out and collapse onto the floor, and Klaus falls unconscious in the water once again.
Elijah and Marcel, both weakened by the ordeal they've each been through, struggle to rise to their feet. Elijah jumps into the pool to gently pick up Klaus, whose body looks desiccated. However, it quickly begins to fade as the wound on his throat heals, and he weakly opens his eyes.
"I felt them leave. My sireline is broken." Klaus spoke weakly.
In the early morning, Klaus walked out of the tomb where he locked up Aurora and Nora. Just as he steps out, they noticed Stefan leaning up against one of the tombs.
" So... the spell worked. We survived. I saved you, and you saved me. Funny how that works, isn't it?" Stefan said and Klaus hummed.
" I'd be happy to let this be the end. Am I too optimistic in thinking we'll never see each other again?"Stefan questioned.
"Well, that depends... are you going to do the right thing?" Klaus shrugged.
"By whom? I assume you don't mean my brother." Stefan asked.
Lizzie, Faye and Sage walked toward them.
"He means Caroline."Faye told him.
"I love her. I promise I will only do right by her." Stefan sighed.
"Thank you." Klaus says.
"You know, um... there's someone else you should be thanking." Stefan said.
"Marcel had to fight for me for his own survival..." Klaus frowned.
"I'm talking about Faye, Sage, Hayley and Lizzie. Do right by them." Stefan told him.
"And you... take care of yourself, old friend." Klaus says.
Stefan smiles back at him and picks up his knapsack off of the ground before he turns and leaves the cemetery.
Lizzie, Faye and Sage, and Klaus walked toward Freya. Lizzie help Klaus as he stumbled.
"What's wrong with me?" Klaus asked.
"You hemorrhaged an enormous amount of mystical energy. Enough to create a nexus vorti. It's nothing a good night's rest won't cure." Freya sighed.
"Where did the energy go?" Klaus asked.
Davina has just returned to her former attic room, where she closes the door behind her and looks around at the set-up magic circle she must have created earlier in the day that is made of salt, with various runes and magical sigils created within it. She grabs a silver urn of ashes from the nearby table and brings it to the middle of the circle, where she sets it on the floor in front of her while she kneels and digs the glass bottle embellished with gold out of her purse. Davina opens the bottle and begins to pour the blood inside the ashes in the urn.
"The blood of two brothers, the ash of their dead. The blood of two brothers, the ash of their dead."Davina began.
Davina stretches her arms in front of her and closes her eyes as she starts to cast the resurrection spell, channeling the nexus vorti Klaus created to fuel her magic.
Davina chanted "Le sang des deux frères, les cendres de leurs morts. Le sang des deux frères, les cendres de leurs morts.."
A strong gust of wind blows through the attic as she continues chanting the spell, until finally, an ash-covered Kol Mikaelson, in his original body, suddenly appears, naked and kneeling on one knee in front of her. When Davina finally opens her eyes, she can't believe what she's seeing, and Kol himself seems to be shocked that he's finally back in the world of the living. Davina gapes in shock at him, and Kol smiles widely as he laughs "I never doubted you for a second, Davina Claire."
Davina stares at him for a long moment before her face breaks out into a beauteous smile. She got her other best friend back.
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