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Elijah is standing on the balcony when Genevieve approaches him from behind. "Genevieve."
Genevieve is startled, but shakes it off joining him. "I asked around. It's not just your father. The purgatory where supernatural souls are trapped is disintegrating. "
"What do you mean, 'disintegrating?'" Elijah turns to her.
"She's right... more or less." Aliza says as she, Klaus and Emery join the two. Damon right by Aliza's side. "It's actually imploding. I made a call to a Bennett witch in Mystic Falls, who I haven't talked to in a while, said the same thing."
"The dead are being torn away into nothingness. And, they're not interested in going quietly." Klaus finishes.
Elijah nods slowly. "So, you're saying that our father, faced with permanent extinction, has decided to spend his remaining tormenting us? How delightful!"
"Well, on the plus side, we'll soon be rid of his abhorrent soul forever." Aliza shrugs.
"And what a good riddance that will be!" Her father exclaims.
Genevieve sighs. "So, am I in the clear, Elijah? Aliza? Or is there a new conspiracy you three would like to threaten me over?"
"Nothing springs to mind at this precise moment..." Elijah trails off.
"A lot of things spring to mind at the moment." Aliza smiles. Emery and Damon laugh.
"Thanks." Genevieve gives her a fake smile. She goes to walk away until she stops in front of Klaus before she leaves. "I have to get back to the girls. Perhaps tomorrow, after the funeral, you and I could spend some time together. Alone? "
Emery steps in front of Klaus and glares at Genevieve before she turns back to Klaus and pulls him down connecting their lips together harshly and passionately.
Genevieve let's out a groan before she quickly walks out embarrassed. Aliza laughs. "That stupid little witch."
"I feel like I just watched a porno." Damon shivers as Klaus and Emery separate.
"Just had to shower her that you were mine." Emery smiles wiping her lipstick off her mates lips.
"I think she got the message." Elijah says with a small smirk passing his very much shocked brother his handkerchief to clean his lips.
"Shut up." Klaus says sternly before cleaning the lipstick, Emery helping him.
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After telling Damon constantly that she was fine in her own, Aliza joins Hayley as they sit on Francesca's front porch, waiting until Francesca and her bodyguard return home.
When Francesca notices them, she groans, and tries to be polite. "Ah. Hayley and Aliza, right? I'm guessing you're both not here because you want to make a new friend?"
"I don't count terrorists as friends." Hayley stands up to face her. Aliza right next to her.
Francesca chuckles, and turns to her bodyguard. "Wow. I've been accused of everything from grand larceny to blackmail, but "terrorist," that's new!"
"A human pulled up to our home in the Bayou on a motorcycle and blew himself up." Aliza speaks up.
"I heard." Francesca grabs her keys and walks to the front door. "Awful. Goodnight!"
Hayley and Aliza share an annoyed, Hayley headbutts her bodyguard before Aliza slamming his head into a birdbath and knocking him out. Francesca stares in shock for a moment before smiling fakely at them.
"Word on the street is, he owed a hundred grand to the Palace Royale casino! And then, after he died, the debt was erased. Just like magic." Hayley says casually.
"Jeff was a fixture at my roulette table." Francesca states. "Sometimes he was up, sometimes he was down. I absolved his family of the debt he owed out of the goodness of my heart."
Hayley and Aliza glare at her skeptically, and Francesca shrugs. "Feel free to sniff around. My hands are clean! And, I'd advise you to mind your manners. It's lucky you both are still alive. You're the ones the wolves all whisper about like royalty. If I was interested in hurting the wolves, you'd be my target." She looks to Hayley. "And, when I go after someone? I don't miss."
Francesca walks into her house, leaving the two pregnant women on the porch. Aliza sighs and leaves, Hayley following her. The two setting off down the street toward the compound.
Monique appears behind a tree several feet behind her, and pops out to cast a spell. "Purger l'interieur, entiendre la lumiere--." She stabs the poppet representing Hayley and Aliza with a pin. "-- dans cette f–."
"You feel that?" Aliza asks the girl next to her, her body suddenly feeling hot.
Hayley nods as they both sense something weird, but can't identify what it is, so they get up looking around, not noticing Monique as they walk home.
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Hundreds of community members gather in the streets of the French Quarter after the funeral, as Father Kieran's casket is placed in a horse carriage to begin the parade in his honor.
Outside, the funeral procession is walking down the street to the sounds of the jazz music being played, behind the priests acting as pallbearers for Father Kieran. Near the end of the parade is Aliza, Stefan, Klaus, Emery, Elijah, and Hayley, the two women who are flushed, and keeps having coughing fits.
"You alright? You look--."
"A hundred months pregnant and pissed off at the world?" Aliza cuts her mate off as she coughs again.
Stefan smiles and wraps an arm around Aliza's waist, his hand going in the side of her bump. "I was going to say gorgeous, but that works too.
Aliza let's out a laugh and as she does so, she notices Francesca a couple yards in front of them, who is pretending to wipe tears from her face with a tissue. Hayley notices also.
"Do you think we were the target of those bombings?" Hayley and Aliza say in unison.
"Of course you both were the target!" Klaus exclaims. "Were I to wage a war on the wolves, you'd be my first kill! I would string you up, for all your worshipers to see."
"That's so lovely of you to say to your daughter." Aliza gives her father a fake smile.
"I believe that was my your father's way of telling you he'd like you both to the compound with us." Elijah turns to Klaus. "Perhaps try a different approach, Niklaus, with fewer references to murder?"
"As much as I would hate to throw you guys over my shoulder—."
"You wouldn't be able to." Aliza cuts in earning a laugh from Stefan, Emery and Hayley. A slight chuckle from Elijah.
Klaus rolls his eyes. "And drag you both kicking and screaming to the compound, we both know I will--for the sake of my children and grandchildren."
"One bad dream, and suddenly, you want to be a responsible daddy!" Hayley scoffs.
"Hayley, sometimes..." Aliza starts. "I just want to stab—."
"Nope, we're not doing saying that." Stefan covers Aliza mouth. her words now muffled. "Not at a funeral."
Klaus leans down to the girls ear as she keeps a hold on Emery's hand. "Let me put this into perspective: my father lived to torment me. It is not my intention to become him. This cycle of misery ends with our child."
"Wow." Hayley says surprised. "You actually said our child."
"Yeah, I taught him some manners." Emery says proudly.
"You did not." Klaus says sternly.
"Apparently she did, because we all know you wouldn't have said that before you met Emery." Stefan states.
"I'm sorry, I got so use to saying my." Klaus rolls his eyes. "I do have a child and she happens to be my daughter. Mine and mine only."
"And boy am I proud." Aliza smiles.
"Was that supposed to be sarcastic?" Elijah asks the girl.
"No." Aliza shakes her head. "I'm a daddy's girl through and through. That's not changing."
"It better not." Klaus gives her a look.
"It will if you keep staring at me like that." Aliza says making Klaus look away quickly and the others to laugh once again.
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As Aliza walks out of the bathroom, she starts to cough, and looks woozy. She leans against a lightpost as she begins to cough up blood. Horrified, she continues to cough, and Genevieve, who has just noticed Hayley's condition, shouts for Klaus and Stefan to come help her. As Stefan, Emery Klaus and Elijah rush to help her, she collapses on the sidewalk, Stefan catching her before she could hit the ground.
"It's Hayley now too!" Genevieve shouts as Hayley now falls the ground.
"What the hell is going on with these two?" Klaus mumbles as picks up his daughter bridal style from Stefan's arms, Elijah already grabbing Hayley.
"I don't know, but we need to get them out of here and to a hospital." Stefan says panicking. He couldn't help, but think about the babies and what would happen to them, if Mikeal was back in her head or maybe her mother. There just so many things that could be happening right now.
Suddenly, Aliza's body starts to shake rapidly in Klaus's arms. Klaus holds her close to him trying in every way possible to get her to calm down. She suddenly gasps awake, her eyes shining their red-orange color, but just like that she knocked out again in her father's arms.
"We need to get them out of here." Emery says. "Now!"
Just like that, Elijah and Klaus were off with both females in their arms. Stefan, Emery and Genevieve following, Stefan calling his brother to let him know what the hell just happened.
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