The Brothers That Care Forgot
The next day, Lizzie, Klaus and Elijah were having breakfast in the dining room with Kol and Vincent/Finn, who were still bound with the enchanted manacles that prevent them from doing magic. Compelled servants in suits place platters of breakfast pastries on the table.
Lizzie was wearing a green top with a jean and some boots.
"Today, a new future awaits. Forget your animosity toward Elijah and myself. Instead, join us against she who truly deserves your ire, our mother. Do this, and we will welcome you with open arms!" Klaus began.
"Do this, and we will welcome you with open arms!" Klaus then added.
"Well..." Kol started.
He reaches for a plate of pastries with his shackled hands, but Klaus pulls it out of his way. Kol sighed and rolled his eyes again.
Kol retorted sarcastically "If all you wanted was my allegiance against Mother Dearest, you should have said so! Save me a night shackled to the wall."
Elijah speaks up "Yes, this was Niklaus. My recommendation was to remove your limbs, one by one, until you comply."
"We've...we've no desire to torture you." Klaus laughed and stands up.
The Original stands behind Kol and Finn and squeezes their shoulders with his hands.
"Provided you vow to stand beside us as brothers." He then added.
Finn rolled his eyes, while shrugging Klaus grip and looked at both Klaus and Kol sceptically before he said "Brothers... Does that word even apply to us? After all these centuries of betrayal? And, has loyalty to you ever rewarded? If so, tell me, Niklaus, where is our sister, Rebekah? She was blindly loyal to you for a thousand years, and now? Nowhere to be found. Where did our sister go? And, how did she escape your vile machinations?"
"You think of me vile? What, then, do you make of the one who cursed us?" Klaus laughed.
"She was trying to make you mortal again!" Finn frowned.
Elijah grabs a knife off the table, clearly suspicious and annoyed by Finn's words.
"And all of you refused you. It only proves how far you've fallen. But, I expect Rebekah will have a different response to her proposal. See, unlike the two of you, she always did cling to her humanity." Finn continued, laughing darkly.
Elijah completely loses his temper, grabs Finn by the collar, and slams him onto the table before vamping-out and feeding on him, but Lizzie push him off
Afterwards, Elijah, Klaus and Lizzie went to talk to another room as Klaus scolded Elijah, saying "I enjoy a good bloodletting as much as anyone, but our brother has power, as well as knowledge of Esther's plans."
Elijah wipes the blood off his face while he listens.
"We need Finn alive." Lizzie said.
"Imagine what they would do to Rebekah. To Hope and Theo." Elijah stated.
"Rebekah has been cloaked by powerful magic. Focus on the task at hand." Lizzie said.
"We need to persuade our brother." Klaus told Elijah.
"I'm through with persuasion." Elijah said as he was about to leave, but Klaus grabs him by the shoulder and stops him before looking at him with concern and asked "Has the earth shifted on its axis? You needing restraint from us?"
Suddenly, Lizzie's phone rang and she answered it, seeing it was Rebekah as Rebekah said"It's me. I have the babies...and we're on the run. We're safe, for now. I've lost her bloody starlings, but I have no idea where to go."
"Tell her to head west. I'll call Hayley." Klaus says.
"Do not tell Hayley! Esther's too smart for that. The only advantage that we have is that she thinks the babies died. Text me the plans."Rebekah lectured.
Lizzie hang up.
"I'll go." Lizzie said.
"Let me come with you." Elijah told her.
"You can't go alone. Esther is targeting you as well." Klaus stated.
"She won't. You, and the girls and I will go."Luke says, walking into the room.
They nodded in agreement.
Lizzie and Luke left the compound.
Luke and Lizzie had been driving for hours, heading to a small cafe, that Rebekah texted them to go to.
Lizzie grabbed her phone as it began to vibrate. She saw Hayley's name flash up on her screen.
"Hi." Hayley muttered.
"You alright, Hails?"Lizzie asked.
"I need to ask you something." Hayley voice still low.
"Course, anything." Lizzie replied, as Luke made a sharp turn, down a shallow lane.
"Lizzie, have you heard of a unification ceremony?"Hayley asked.
"Yes, it is when two alphas get married in order to unite their pack, why?"Lizzie said.
"Could a hybrid and a werewolf marry each other , in order for the united pack to turn at will?"Hayley asked.
It didn't take long for her what Hayley was hinting at.
"You're have like a huge knowledge when it comes to supernatural stuff and Jackson told me that his grandmother uses to do the ceremony. So do you think the ceremony could work with Jackson? " Hayley continued.
"Yes, it would work. He's been his own alpha for over a thousand years. Look, we have to go. Talk to you later." Lizzie said, hanging up.
"She want to marry Jackson?!"Luke exclaimed as they get out of the car, getting into the cafe.
"Apparently. " Lizzie shrugged.
They walked toward a table.
Later, it had been an hour since they were waiting for Rebekah as they began to get twitchy. Until, the door to the empty restaurant opened, and there was Rebekah, smiling at her. Under them, was the basinets, containing the babies.
Lizzie grabbed her babies.
"It's quite lovely. It feels so human." Rebekah said while staring at all the babies.
"I know I have them back to you when the time is right, but they made me realise how much I wanted a child of my own, that I know I can't have." Rebekah said.
"You can always adopt." Luke told her.
"You are always welcome Rebekah, you've done so, much, for them, no one else deserved it, more than you. We need to talk about that, actually." Lizzie told her, smiling.
"What's wrong?" Rebekah asked, concerned.
"Esther has made an offer to make us all mortal again, by placing us in new bodies, gaining us some kind of purity, from vampirism, and I think, she knew what an appeal it would have for you."Luke explained.
Lizzie and Luke could tell she was trying to convince herself to not accept the offer.
"We know deep down, you want to say yes and in the end... I'm not going to stop you. I was wondering though... do you want some company? At the safe house."Lizzie admitted.
Rebekah smiled "Of course. Could always use a hand with the little ones. "
"We'll stop Esther. And you will have, a whole world to explore."Luke says.
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