FLASHBACK – 10TH CENTURY MYSTIC FALLS

A storm rages outside the Mikaelson's cottage as a very young Rebekah lays in her bed, sniffling and crying from fear. Young Klaus walks over to comfort her.

"Hush now. It's just a storm. Don't be afraid. I won't let it hurt you." Klaus speaks softly to the small girl.

Klaus leaves to grab a small chess piece before returning to his little sister. Rebekah looks up at him with hopeful eyes. "Nik, don't go."

"I carved it for Father. It's a brave knight. Now you can be brave, too." Klaus smiles at his little sister.

Rebekah smiles back. "Will you stay with me 'til the storm ends?"

"I will always stay with you, Rebekah. No matter what." Klaus vows.

END OF FLASHBACK

Aliza, Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah, who are still trapped in the cemetery due to Celeste's spell...well not Aliza, are in the middle of a standoff. Klaus has the indestructible white oak stake, while Elijah holds Papa Tunde's blade. Aliza stands slightly behind her father.

"Rebekah." Klaus calls to his sister.

"Walk away." Elijah instructs pointing to Klaus with the blade, going to take a step forward.

"Don't move!" Klaus demands making Elijah stop in his tracks.

Elijah looks to Rebekah and Aliza. "Leave us now."

"I can't." Rebekah shakes her head. "I'm stuck here. Elijah, he has the white oak stake."

Aliza smiles sarcastically as her father points the stake in Rebekah's direction. "He brought it for you, Aunite.."

"Get out of his sight." Elijah looks at his younger sister. "Your presence here only serves to anger him...them. Leave them to me now."

Rebekah vamp-speeds away, and Elijah turns to Klaus and Aliza, but more at Klaus. "I'm asking you, brother to brother-- we end this nonsense now."

"You would side with that traitor!" Klaus points to where his sister sped away.

"I am not choosing sides, but I will not allow you to hurt our sister." Elijah says sternly.

"Seems like you chose a side." Aliza shrugs as paces not wanting to stand in one place.

Klaus smirks at his daughter before looking at his older brother. "We cannot leave this cemetery, Elijah."

"Yeah, how long do you think you can defend her?" Aliza raises an eyebrow at him when suddenly Klaus grabs her and vamp-speeds away.

Aliza squeals. "Next time tell me! I'm pregnant for godsakes."

Her father mumbles a sorry until Elijah easily catches up with them and blocks them. "As long as it takes, by whatever means necessary."

"That was so poetic." Aliza states. "You should have been a writer, Elijah."

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Marcel enters Davina's attic room with a bag. Davina is very pale, and looks extremely sad as she sits quietly on her bed.

"Hey, D, how you feelin'? Got you some stuff-- organic soap, and scented candles, some incense... Just trying to help you get back to feeling, you know, yourself." He waits a beat. "Word on the street is the witches are celebrating. Three out of the four girls sacrificed in the Harvest have come back. First, it was your friend, Monique, and then another girl, now you. What I hear, the others are saying that the ancestors were with them while they were, uh, dead. You know, talking to them, teaching them. They say they're stronger than ever. Was it like that for you?"

Davina shakes her head, near tears. "There was nothing. It was cold, empty, and dark. And it went on forever."

Marcel frowns and sits next to her on the bed. "I'm sorry, D."

"I don't want to talk about it. Please, Marcel, don't make me. I just want Kol and Jeremy." Davina says as tears fall down her face.

"Where is she?!" Two voices say as they rush into St.Anne's Church.

"Jeremy! Kol!" Davina stands as they run to her.

Together the two boys pull the girl into their embrace letting out shaky breaths as they hug the girl close to them.

"You're really here." Jeremy whispers pressing a kiss on the girls cold forehead.

"Don't let me go." Davina mumbles as she cried into their chest.

"Never." Kol whispers wiping a tear from his face as he places a kiss on both Davina and Jeremy's heads.

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Elijah and Klaus are still pacing around outside one of the tombs in the cemetery while Elijah tries to hold Klaus off from killing Rebekah. Aliza watches with a bored look.

"You've been at this for hours. To what end? Niklaus, I know you, and I grew up fighting you." Elijah meets his brothers eyes. "I can't be beaten, nor can I be persuaded. You cannot get past me."

"If we're being honest, he could get past you." Aliza says as she takes a seat on a huge rock. "Although, of course, it might have to be over your dead body and honestly that doesn't seem so bad."

"Especially after you stabbed me with that blade, forcing me to endure hours of unspeakable pain. Perhaps I should direct my rage toward you." Klaus adds pointing the stake threateningly at Elijah.

"You should see yourself-- the murderous expression, the self-righteous posturing. You look like Father." Elijah glares at Klaus.

Aliza suddenly speeds to Elijah sticking her hand in his chest. Elijah gasps looking to have niece with wide eyes. "Don't ever, EVER, compare your low excuse of a father to mine. Next time you're heart will be in my hand, while you lay lifeless on the floor."

Aliza pulls her hand out of his chest and takes the white hanker chief using it to clean off her hand. She walks back next to her father and winces when she feels two hard kicks on the side of her stomach. "I'm sorry, but Elijah got me angry." Aliza rubs her stomach.

"I'm not him. Rebekah's betrayal justifies my anger. His was that of a madman." Klaus glares at Elijah who was fixing himself up the best way he could. "You were never the recipient of his cruelty. None of you were-- not Kol, not Finn, None of you! I think you've forgotten what he was truly like."

"No. I have not forgotten." Elijah fixes his button up shirt giving his brother a sincere look.

FLASHBACK-- 10TH CENTURY MYSTIC FALLS

Young Elijah and Klaus are in the forest, where Elijah is helping Klaus learn how to shoot a bow and arrow. Klaus takes his aim at a deer.

"Be still. Deep breath." Elijah instructs. "Hold...NOW!"

Klaus shoots the arrow, but misses the deer. He sighs looking down at his feet.

"Your aim is improving." Elijah smiles and pats Klaus affectionately on the shoulder. "Next time!..."

Suddenly, Mikael finds them in the woods and approaches them. "You encourage him, Elijah, but he grows more pathetic every day."

Klaus looks up at Mikeal with both hurt and embarrassment in his eyes. "I'm not pathetic."

"Do not talk back to me. You're not man enough to hold this weapon." Mikeal scolds. "If you can't hunt, you're nothing but a burden."

"I'm sorry." Klaus whispers looking to his feet again.

Mikeal grabs Klaus by the front of the shirt. "It's a shame we can't feed on sad-eyed apologies. It's your one and only skill." Mikael backhands Klaus across the face.

"Father, stop." Elijah goes to step in, but Mikeal points at him.

"Stay back, or you'll be next. The boy needs to be made strong." Mikael kicks Klaus in the back while he's sprawled on the ground, and the boy groans in pain.

END OF FLASHBACK

Klaus stares at Elijah and his daughter after sharing the memory. Then, he gives his daughter a look. She nods preparing herself and all of a sudden, Klaus vamp-speeds away.

Elijah catches up with him quickly. "Niklaus, I understand your anger, but I implore you, be better than him. Do what he could not-- demonstrate the grace of mercy, rather than this petty cruelty."

"You ask me to show mercy to one who has wronged me. You really don't know me at all, do you, brother?" Klaus keeps a hold on his daughter keeping her stable.

"Enough." Rebekah rejoins them.

"And look who's back." Aliza mumbles loud enough for them all to hear as she leans her head on her fathers shoulder.

Rebekah rolls her eyes before looking at her two brothers. "Whatever I have done wrong, my guilt is nothing compared to yours. You want revenge? Fine. But, before you have it, I will look you in the eye and tell you why it was your cruelty and your spite that led us to this."

"Go on, then. Speak your piece, and when you are finished, I will grant you the punishment you deserve, even if I have to go through Elijah to do so." Klaus grits his teeth.

Aliza lifts her head from her dads shoulder. She goes to speak when her phone dings. She pulls out her phone and sees a text from her little brother. He couldn't mind link her because it was another thing that can cause her to go to early pregnancy.

Meet me and Kol at St.Anne's. It's an emergency.

On my way.

Aliza looks up and sees the other three Mikealsons staring at her. "I have to go. Jeremy needs me." Aliza looks to her father. "Are you going to be—."

"Yes, now go." Klaus nods placing a quick kiss to his daughters head.

"If you see uncle Hades, tell him I've been looking for him and that I'm worried." Aliza says getting a nod from her father, with that Aliza kisses his cheek sticking her middle finger at her aunt and uncle before rushing out the cemetery.

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I know there wasn't much Aliza, but next chapter there will be! I promise, the next couple of chapters are going to be hectic and i'm trying to figure out how the hell to write them...

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