MOONS.
014. | ❛ maybe you still have
hope. ❜

Downstairs in the ball room, Freya is pacing back and forth with a lit sage smudge-stick, allowing the smoke to waft around the room. Luna moved Aurora's body and propped it up against the nearby wall. After a moment, Aurora's eyelids begin to twitch, and she takes a deep breath as she starts to come to. When she finally opens her eyes, she hums as she starts to remember what happened.

"Mmmm..."

"Took you long enough." Luna says

Aurora takes notice of the smudge-stick in Freya's hand and smiles.

"Oh, are we to play a fun game?"

"Actually, yes." Freya smiles at her.

Freya holds up the burning sage in her hand.

"And now that my spell has made it so that no one can hear what happens"

As if on cue, Hayley walks into the room and stares pointedly at Aurora.

"We're gonna have a lot of fun"

Aurora gapes in surprise at Hayley's entrance.

"Hayley! The mother of Niklaus' child. Ooh, I was really hoping I'd get to meet you."

Hayley glares at her,"Feeling's not mutual."

Aurora isn't the least bit bothered by this rejection," Oh, okay. So, then what, pray tell, are we doing here?"

Hayley, Freya, and Luna stand side by side, stare at Aurora with serious expressions.

"You're gonna tell us where to find Rebekah, or we're going to kill you."

"Oh!"

Aurora chuckles in amusement as the three girls smile smugly at her.

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Luna is fighting Aurora and has just punched her in the face so hard that the impact causes her to spin away from her.

"Ugh!" Aurora doubles over as she recovers from the blows.

"I'm gonna ask you again-- where is Rebekah?" Luna shouts. Aurora, whose nose is bleeding, wipes the blood off her lips before giving Luna an impressed look.

"You're quite strong... for an infant." Freya, annoyed, thrusts her hand in front of her and casts a powerful pain infliction spell on Aurora, which causes her to scream in pain and clutch her head.

"AHHH!" Freya clenches her hand into a fist, which only increases the agony Aurora is experiencing.

"RAGHHH!" Aurora musters up all the energy she has and fights through the pain long enough to vamp-speed toward Freya and shove her into the nearby wall, which distracts her enough to stop the spell. Aurora then lunges for Hayley and backhands her across the face, angering Luna so much that she starts to fight with her again. Aurora blocks her punches and twists Luna's arm back before kicking her in the stomach. While Luna is recovering, Aurora shoves Hayley backward into the wall opposite of Freya, and she laughs triumphantly.

"Ha ha!" When Aurora lunges for Luna again, Freya jumps forward and casts yet another pain infliction spell, this one even more powerful than the previous one. Aurora clutches her head and groans in pain, nearly falling to her knees from the force of it n

"AGH!" After a moment, Freya releases her from the spell, and Aurora pants loudly as she recovers.

"Uh! Huh!" Suddenly, Aurora starts to giggle loudly b

"Woo! Hahaha! That actually hurt. Haha!" Freya and Luna look amused and baffled by how exhilarated Aurora seems to be as a result of their attacks.

"Oh, I have't felt pain since the 1700s! Kind of tickles!"bSuddenly, Aurora's smile falls slightly, and she looks at Hayley, Freya, and Luna coldly

"And for that, I'm gonna make you suffer." Just as Aurora lunges for them, Luna grabs Aurora by the hair and yanks her head back v

"Ahh!"

"How about a werewolf bite, you psychotic little bitch?"

"By all means! If only I can laugh in your face when Nik heals me. How does it feel that Nik and I were together our bodies so close together...." Luna angrily knees Aurora in the stomach before shoving her at vampire speed across the room, where she's thrown against the far wall.

"UH! AH!" Freya smiles at Aurora condescendingly.

"Maybe Klaus would heal you, but I doubt he would heal your brother." Freya turns to Hayley.

"Maybe you should bite him instead?" Luna looks back at Aurora.

"Hmm!"

"No one should dare harm my brother... Seeing as you're all going to need him if you want your precious Rebekah back."
Freya, Hayley, and Luna glare at Aurora furiously at this revelation.

"You see, while I did ensure that Rebekah was dropped in the ocean, I don't know precisely where. I had some old friends do it for me... and then I killed them."

"I procured the exact location of Rebekah's watery grave in two sealed envelopes. Mine contains the latitude..."

"And Tristan got the longitude."

"X marks the spot!"

Aurora stops in front of the three girls and smiles smugly at them.

"So, tell me, girls-- who has the advantage now?" Freya rolls her eyes, and Hayley and Luna look as though they're going to murder Aurora on the spot.

We all head back to the courtyard, where everyone has gathered back at the dinner table following all of the information the Mikaelsons have just learned.

"Longitude and latitude. Lovely
Lucien sits down next to a very unhappy Freya at the table as Tristan looks over at Aurora with a satisfied smile.

"Well, despite our differences, I believe great strides were made today." Tristan holds up his glass toward Aurora, who lifts her own and taps it against his in cheers for their victory in the first battle. However, Elijah looks at Klaus, who looks very displeased and is pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance, stands as he replies to Tristan's remarks.

"Tristan, I can't murder you at this very moment, but I could just as easily tear those eyeballs from your skull and feed them to your sister."
Surprisingly, Klaus quickly joins the conversation in order to mediate, though he's still visibly angry at the de Martels. Freya looks at him with displeasure.

"Elijah! These are our guests."

"Nik, it's so sweet of you to defend us." Klaus pauses for a moment before he stands to his feet.

"You know, I doubted my brother's wisdom in bringing us all together today, but he was right." Aurora, amused, stares at him with an affectionate smile, and Tristan, believing that Klaus will be taking his side, looks pleased.

"We must confront the harsh realities we all face and make difficult choices to ensure our collective survival." Klaus lifts his glass in toast, and Tristan and Aurora both echo the gesture happily. However, Freya, Lucien, Luna, and Elijah all look irritated and annoyed by where Klaus seems to be going with his speech, and only raise their glasses out of politeness and the fact that they're too tired to argue with him. Klaus takes a drink before sitting down his glass and walking over toward Elijah, who refused to toast to Klaus' speech.

"And I have every confidence that my choice... will be the right one."
Klaus, who is now standing next to Elijah, smiles at Tristan for a moment. Tristan is so distracted by the fact that he believes Klaus to be on his side that he is unable to react when Klaus vamp-speeds toward him and grabs him by the chin before snapping his neck. Aurora, appalled by Klaus' actions, stands to her feet with a gasp and glares at him, clearly feeling furious and betrayed. However Klaus just scowls at her in response.

"Were you anyone else, the servants would already be mopping your blood from the floor. If you do not bring my sister home, Tristan will die slowly, and in tremendous pain." Aurora glares at him mutinously b

"You betray me after all your promises of love?"

"I meant to keep those promises! It was you who shattered them when you took Rebekah!" Klaus lunges for her, stopping just inches away from her face and sneering at her murderously.

"Now I have your brother-- a sibling for a sibling. I want Rebekah back." Aurora sneers back at him and leans closer to his face to whisper in his ear.

"You will regret this."

Aurora, angry beyond belief, turns and storms away, shoving the dinner table to the side as she does so.

"UGH!" The table is now a mess and covered in spilled food, wine, and flowers from the flower pots that were knocked over by Aurora's tantrum. Freya looks at Klaus with incredulous anger.

"After everything today, you just let her go?"

"Aurora should be easy enough to control. We have Tristan now." Klaus turns to Lucien, who looks understandably terrified by this turn of events.

"Lucien, you will take me to Camille, and you will surrender the medallion, or you will meet an end so cruel, the devil will weep."

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Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know.

At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing... is reason enough to celebrate.

You can build a house out of anything, make it as strong as you want, but a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with and people can be broken, sure, but anybody knows what's broken can be mended, what's hurt can be healed, that no matter how dark it gets, the sun's gonna rise again.

Luna made her way to her room in the Mikaelson compound to get more clothes since she only had the same clothes from the day before. She heard someone entering her room, she didn't need to turn around to know who it was.

"I just came back to get a few things, I'll be out of here in a couple of seconds."

"I wish you wouldn't leave but considering the circumstances I understand."

"Klaus, I don't think you understand. I don't think I completely understand. Everything you did with Aurora was basically a part of your plan? Driving me away, sleeping with her, and confessing your love to her? Don't you think that hurts me? Don't you understand I was out in the bayou thinking about us? Seeing you with Aurora just makes my blood boil. Yesterday was the first time I said, 'I love you.' I looked like an idiot waiting for you, thinking that you would actually show up."

"Driving you away from me wasn't my intention. You have no idea how I wanted to run to you when I heard your voice. "

"Why didn't you?"

"Because Aurora told me that she took Rebekah."

"I feel as if whatever happens, I'll always be second to it."

"Don't think like that love, it's not like that."

"Really? Cuz it sure feels like it." Luna said stuffing the duffle bag with more clothes.

Klaus held her hands to stop her from packing. She refused to look into his eyes. He put her hand over his heart.

"Do you feel that? You can probably hear it as well. My heart is beating like mad for you. Your proximity makes me wild. And I know that you feel the same."

"You should of thought of that when you slept with Aurora." She said rather coldly removing her hands from his chest. She threw the strap over her shoulder and was ready to head out before Klaus vamp speed over to her.

"Answer me this, if you truly believe that we are over then why do you still have the necklace?" Luna looked down at the crescent shaped moon around her neck. Klaus was just inches away from Luna's face. Luna desperately wanted to have her lips on Klaus once again.

"Maybe you still have hope." He whispers in her ear before whooshing out of her room.