Aliza is typing on the laptop in the study with Hayley next to her and Jeremy's head on her lap, when Elijah enters.

" Hey, look, we found–." Hayley starts.

Elijah stops her with a gesture to indicate he has news. " You were right about the Deveraux witch."

Aliza goes to say something, but before they can say anything more, Marcel joins them. " Find anything about Clara, the mystery witch?"

" Not much." Aliza shrugs. " She was a nurse at the Fleur-de-Lis Sanitarium."
Marcel freezes and visibly begins to panic, Aliza notices and clicks on a picture and points to her so Marcel and Elijah can see what she looked like. " Recognize her?"

" Top row, second from the right." Hayley tells them.

" No, I don't. Marcel?" Elijah turns to look at Marcel to hear what he has to say, and notices how alarmed and worried he looks. " Marcel? Do I need to remind you that my siblings and my nieces soulmates are somewhere suffering horribly? If you know something, talk."

" The Sanitarium." Marcel runs a hand over his face. " That's where you'll find them."

" Are you sure? How do you know?" Hayley asks frantically.

" I just know." Marcel doesn't meet any of their eyes.

Aliza lifts Jeremy's head off her lap and sets it down before walking to Marcel and takes him by the chin making their eyes meet. " How do you know, Marcel?"

Marcel's eyes drift to behind her looking at the other two before looking back at his sister figure, he sighs. " If I'm right, you need to know exactly what we're walking into. We did something, Rebekah and I... I think the witches are trying to use it against her. It was, uh... something that you're not gonna like."

" Of course it isn't." Aliza rolls her eyes letting go of Marcel's chin and going to lean against the wall.

::

Marcel has just informed Aliza, Jeremy who had woken up a few moments before, Elijah and Hayley that he and Rebekah had summoned Mikael to New Orleans in 1919.

" For the better part of a century, I have wondered how Father found us, what foolish mistake that we had made to destroy our time in the one place that we could finally call home. Did you know, I even blamed myself for a time, Marcellus?" Elijah spoke harshly.

" Elijah--." Hayley tries.

" Shut up, Hayley." Aliza and Jeremy snap.

Elijah ignores her, sending Aliza and Jeremy a quick smile before continues to speak to Marcel. " Niklaus treated you like a son."

" Rebekah. I loved her. I still love her. All we ever wanted was to be together, but as long as Klaus was around, that was never gonna happen. But hey, I guess you wouldn't know anything about that, huh?"

" Do you not understand what you did?" Aliza steps up glaring Marcel down. " Not only did you get my dad hurt, but my uncles and my FUCKING MATES! When my father, uncles and even my mates learns the truth, there will be no end to their rage and I will let Rebekah suffer that wrath. She's fighting for love while your still fighting for power, you want to get rid of my family not because you love Rebekah, but because you need my family out the way in order to be great." Aliza sticks her hand into his chest gripping on to his heart.

" Li—."

" Uncle Elijah, don't stop me." Aliza turns to glare at him making her eyes glow. Elijah just looks down to the floor. " When Rebekah dies or she has to leave this place, just know it's your fault and her's. You can't blame anyone else besides yourselves." She squeezes his heart one last time before letting go.

" Elijah." Marcel pants. " We need to get to them before he learns the truth."

Jeremy sends Aliza a look, she nods before speeding off. Elijah and Marcel share a look before speeding off after her.

::

Somewhere in the sanitarium, Genevieve talks to Klaus.

" I'm sorry. I know how much this hurts. To see what she did. To see who she really is. But you needed to know. You needed to see it. And now that you have, you can take your revenge. Our revenge. Please. Go ahead. You'll need your strength for what comes next." Genevieve holds out her arm and offers it to him. Klaus feeds from her as she slowly undoes his bindings.

Once he's free, he jumps up suddenly, instantly aiming Papa Tunde's blade at her heart. Genevieve looks momentarily afraid, but Klaus ultimately leaves her unharmed so he can go after his sister instead.

" Rebekah! Rebekah!" Klaus calls for her.

Aliza arrives in front of him. " Dad!" She runs and pulls her father into a hug careful of her bump.

" Oh, sweetheart." Klaus embraces her kissing her on her head softly.

" Where is Damon and Stefan? uncle Kol and Hades?" Aliza questions frantically as they pull away.

" Kol is with Rebekah, I believe and Hadrian is with your mates, I believe they were looking for you."

" Elijah and Marcel are coming. It's Marcel and Rebekah's fault you guys all go—."

" I know, I know, love." Klaus pulls his daughter back to him. Aliza wraps her arms around his neck, missing her father more than she thought.

As they talk, Elijah and Marcel arrive outside the sanitarium.

" We should divide the building. I'll start at one end, you at the other." Elijah informs Marcel who nods and does as told.

::

Inside, Rebekah sees Klaus in the hallway and begins to panic. " Nik. Nik, it isn't true."

" I want to believe you, sister. But your face tells a different story." Klaus speaks with venom in his voice.

Afraid, Rebekah vamp-speeds away from him. He starts to yell after her. " You cannot hide from me, Rebekah! Nor can you run. This ends now."

::

Outside, Celeste leaves the sanitarium and starts walking down the street toward the French Quarter. However, Hayley and Jeremy sneak up behind her. Jeremy hits her hard over the head with a shovel, causing her to be knocked out as she falls to the ground

" Uhh!" Celeste groans.

" Hey, there, witch bitch. You, Aliza's little brother and I are gonna have a little chat." Hayley smirks.

::

Inside, Klaus and Aliza continue to hunt Rebekah. She finally stops in one of the abandoned rooms, where they eventually find her.

" Rebekah! Tired of running? I mean I'm
not and I'm the pregnant one." Aliza smirks.

" I know how much you enjoy the chase. I'd sooner deny you both the pleasure." Rebekah tries to hide how scared she is.

" I enjoy watching you shake in your boots." Aliza leans against the stone wall.

Klaus chuckles. " Well, then I'll take my pleasures in other ways. No more "daggered in a box" for you. Trust me, sister, you'll long for what the dagger offered. This will be far less merciful. How to describe exactly what this blade does?"

" You don't have to do this, Nik." Rebekah shakes her head.

Aliza laughs. " It's not only my father, but Kol, Hades and my mates."

Klaus smirks. " After I plunge this into your heart, you will be immobilized, imprisoned in a state of raw, inescapable anguish. Time loses all meaning. It's not unlike a living hell, which I find rather fitting, given your treachery."

" Then do it. If that's what you really want." Rebekah wipes a tear from falling down his face.

" Are we skipping the part where you beg for mercy? For forgiveness? Because I was really looking forward to that and the fact that my brothers that were out into the same pain I was because of you aren't here yet." Klaus snaps.

" I'll pass. I know better than to think it would do me any good. Plus, do it before the boys come."

Serena crosses her arms over her chest. " That's it, then? You concede? Like a lamb to the slaughter. That's boring."

" What would your father think of you now?" Klaus taunts.

Rebekah lunges toward Klaus, but he throws her off easily. Still weak from the werewolf venom, she grunts in pain as she falls to the floor. Covertly grabbing a wooden plank as a weapon, she gets up and rushes toward Klaus again, hitting him repeatedly with it. Aliza comes and throws her off.

Before he can do further harm to her, Marcel suddenly arrives and starts to attack him.

" Just the man I wanted and was waiting to see." Klaus chuckles. Marcel groans as Klaus hits him.

" Rebekah's punishment won't be complete until she watches you die." Klaus speaks with nothing, but venom in his voice.

" Nik, it was my idea to summon Mikael. If you're gonna hurt anyone, it should be me." Rebekah begs.

" Such loyalty to your beloved. You know the one that was only using you to make sure your family was out of the way, so only he could have power." Aliza tells her honestly making tears fall down Rebekah's face more.

" You know, if you had offered me even a fraction of the same, I wouldn't have to do this." Klaus lifts the blade, about to stab Rebekah in the heart with it, but Elijah intervenes and goes to stab it into Klaus' chest, but Aliza raises her hand and the blade flys to her hand.

" You guys are so stupid. I have to find my uncles and mates. Are you okay alone?" Aliza looks to her father.

" I am, thank you." Klaus kisses her head. Aliza smiles passing her father the blade.

" I'm giving you time to run." Klaus smirks.
Rebekah and Marcel get away, leaving Klaus with Elijah watching as his daughter sped away going to look for he mates and uncles.

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