Chapter 22: New generation
"Thank you love, why don't you join us? We are celebrating." Klaus flirted with a gorgeous brunette in the plane. Mikel has been taking a nap since they boarded. Probably because of the alcohol. He woke up as soon as the flight attendant sat on Klaus's lap.
Mikel looked at the girl in the eyes and smiled at her. She remained stunned by his extreme good looks. Mikel looked at Nicklaus. "This one is a stone cold killer. Or is that your type?" The girl schooled her expression and got off from Klaus's lap. Her earlier shy expression gone replaced by what seems to be outrage.
"What did you say to me? That is not true!" She looked at Klaus trying to get him to defend her.
"Really? At least 7 people died by your hands. Not by accident or by shooting them at a distance, you killed someone using your hands. And by the tainted color in of your spirit, you liked it." Mikel smiled and raised his hands. "Hey look, I am not judging here I just want to know your motives, are you here to kill one of us or you just want a good time?" Mikel asked still smiling.
The girl started sweating but she didn't answer Mikel's question. Klaus comforted her by putting his hand on her shoulder. Seeing this, the girl relaxed her shoulders feeling like at least one person believes her. Feeling reassured, she raise her pitiful expression to look at him, silently begging him to help her with his friend.
Klaus smiled and spoke to her lightly. "Be a deer and answer my friend's questions honestly."
"I am looking for a Mikel Matthews who owns the vast land in the bayou region of New Orleans. My client wants him dead for getting a deed on land before himself." Klaus looked at Mikel in surprise.
"Matthews, really?"
"Shut up." Mikel looked at the girl. "Do you not know how Mikel looks like?" Mikel asked but the girl didn't answer, he looked at Klaus who used his compulsion on the girl and she spoke truthfully.
As It turns out, Mikel's competitor wanted the property that be bought by his own company but was a step late since the deal had been already closed and Mikel had paid. The only way they could get it now is if Mikel's next of kin sold it to them because Mikel will likely not sell it since he had only just bought it a while ago.
She doesn't know what Mikel looks like because no one has his picture. This is because ever since joining Katherine their faces can no longer come out in the cameras. Katherine said it is so they are safe should humans find out about the supernatural world.
Mikel's last picture was taken when he made an ID many years ago. Then he stayed in the mountains with his pack at the time before falling into drugs. That last picture had bangs covering most of his features so it is not obvious how he would look like today. The girl is right to be confused about which Mikel is the target.
They had compelled the girl to change careers and stop being a killer but Nicklaus ended up wanting to turn her since she seems useful. Mikel ignored him and went back to sleep. The reason he had woken up in the first place is because he had felt danger from the girl.
Powerful beings can sense malice and fellow predators. "So, Matthews, why do I feel like you don't like this last name of yours?" Klaus laughed at Mikel's ugly expression.
"That is because it is my father's name. He always hated me. Said I was a woman just because I resemble mother a little too much. Of course the fact that I also like men didn't sit well with him." Mikel said making Klaus who had been taking a sip to choke on water. It is Mikel's turn to laugh at him.
"I thought you are in a one sided relationship with your clan leader?" Klaus said wiping off the juice from his shirt.
"I am, I'm bisexual mate."
"Does your clan leader know?"
"I told her I am gay. She kept pestering us to find love and have families." Mikel rolled his eyes.
"So you lied to her?" Klaus smirked.
"I guess, I figured a small town like Mystic Falls can't have many gays for her to push on me. And I was right." Mikel smiled triumphally.
"Smart." Klaus nodded.
"I never understood the allure of same sex relations." Klaus commented honestly.
"At first I was pissing off my dad the next thing I know, I'm standing in an empty subway station with a rose in my hand.....confused as hell." Mikel smiled a fond smile.
"My dad shipped me to this remote camp where they are supposed to straighten your ways but that place is where I realized I also like girls. Multiple at a time too." Mikel shared making Klaus laugh a genuine laugh.
"Do you want to share what happened in that subway station?" Klaus asked playfully.
"Get lost." Mikel went back to taking a nap.
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"This place is full of life and there's charm here. I don't hate it." Mikel said looking around like a tourist. The streets are filled with happy people laughing, taking pictures and so on.
"You seem like a kid just now? How old are you again?" Klaus poked.
"Younger than you by .....a lot." Mikel said snappily.
"I was just asking, so I can take you to this great ice cream place. All the kids are crazy about it...." Klaus laughed as Mikel tried to smack his back in anger.
"I am an adult. I drink at bars." Mikel grumbled.
"Ice cream bars?" Klaus blinked.
"Alcohol! Bourbon bars." Mikel shouted getting weird looks from people around them.
"Alright, I didn't know you are so easy to provoke." Klaus took Mikel to a place full of people said to be magical.
"Let's start at the mystical Centre where tourists such as yourself go to get their fortunes told by the witches. Of course most of them are fraud but if you look closely, you'll find the gem amongst the junk." Klaus said pointing at one of the people.
The woman whom Nick pointed at saw him and instantly tried to pack up he staff so she can leave. Mikel had given him a name to investigate Jane Anne Deveraux .
Mikel looked around and even bought some things from some of the pretenders. This place is fun. He thought to himself as he indulged himself.
"What do you have there?" Klaus asked Mikel who has bought what seems to be junk.
"I bought these things from that beautiful lady over there. She said it will bring me fortune and love." Mikel said giving Klaus a necklace that is made entirely of feathers.
"Those belong to a rooster." Klaus said refusing the necklace with a disgusted expression.
"What are you doing with all this junk? Is that a bone? You know there is a massive cemetery not far from here?" Klaus step away from Mikel not wanting any of his awful looking things he is carrying.
"I'm a necromancer Klaus, use something else to creep me out. A grave yard is basically my place of power. Sort of." Mikel kept waving at the pretty witch who sold him things before.
"I have to go see an old friend. You coming?" Klaus gave up trying to dampen Mikel's mood.
"Is it an interesting person? Can we go to a bar? I don't imagine any drinks doing better than the golden dew. Luckily, I can still get hammered if I try hard enough. Vampires have to drink a lot to get hammered don't they?" Mikel asked.
Mikel kept looking through his things and just when Klaus is about to get irritated with him knocking people on the way because he is not watching the road. Mikel saw a trash can and threw all the junk inside.
Klaus became speechless when he saw a rolled up phone number in Mikel's hand. It seem she had put her number along with the things. After finding it, Mikel doesn't need them anymore.
"She put it there when she said 'you will find fortune and love'. I have had a dry spell for a while now. I need a pick me up." Mikel said. The excitement of being a tourist from before gone.
"So, going to show yourself to this guy who runs this place? Is that smart?"
Mikel saw a familiar scene from the corner of his eyes. He ran there and took away the small black plastic the girl just bought from a now running away drug dealer.
"Hey! Give that back." The junky looked like someone is holding on to her life line. Mikel smiled at the sight, it is amazing that he was the same as this young lady back then. A shameful rat who dwells in the shadows, his family had given up on him. Not that he had a family after his mother died.
"I will give it back. I need some information. I am looking for Jane Anne Deveraux. Do you know where I could find her?" Mikel asked and the girl told him the address. Mikel thanked her and gave her the drugs.
"What was that?" Klaus asked Mikel.
"I see that you have always been high profile you have no idea of the struggles of an under dog. These kinds of people are great with information. Now we know where to find the witch. I don't know why you would want to announce your arrival to the guy who run things here." Mikel shook his head.
"This place, clouds my judgement. A lot of memories here, many good ones, many I'd rather forget but they haunt me still." Klaus says while Mikel leads the way to find the witch.
When they entered a small restaurant. They come across a woman radiating sadness as she cleaned a table. Seeing as she works here, Klaus follows her to the kitchen. Mikel on the other hand sat at a table far away from Klaus and his 'investigation'.
"We have a werewolf you might want to meet." The girl said with a sparkle in her eyes. She had given up on ever gaining attention from Klaus Mikaelson but then just as she is about to lose hope, he shows up.
"Look sweetheart, I am not one to be ordered about. It's best if you tell me what is it you want from me before I lose my temper and decorate this charming place with your remains." Klaus threatened.
"A month ago I would have peed my pants at the sound of that threat, but it sounds comforting right now. It means you are as advertised. Please follow me." She smiled at Klaus even as her hands shook in fear and she couldn't keep eye contact with him for longer than a second.
Klaus is about to threaten the girl some more when two Vampires walked in and blocked his path. They are in a kitchen right now and there was just the two of them. Klaus doesn't even ask and snapped their necks.
The girl who has been tough until now starts panicking when she saw the vampires on the ground. "If they are here, then Marcel will know something is up. We need to be quick." She said with a scared expression.
"You seem scared." Mikel walked in closing the door behind him. He looked at the men on the ground and turned to Klaus.
"She is scared. The interesting part is that, she is not that scared of you, much." Mikel pointe at Klaus.
"Are you losing your touch mate?" Mocked by Mikel Klaus pulled the girl outside and they made their way to a hotel. The witches had first put her in a cemetery which is a place of power for them. But when Nicklaus took much longer to come, they moved the werewolf girl to the hotel.
Mikel stepped on the chest of one of the vampires on the floor. The vampire died instantly. He did the same to the other Vampire and then woke them up using his power.
"The two of you, here is what you are going to do..." Mikel planted his own men in the day walkers inner circle of the king of New Orleans.
On their way to the hotel, Elijah came out of nowhere. It was as if he suddenly appeared next to Klaus. Klaus didn't acknowledge him and continued walking with the witch.
"We had to take her to a hotel to keep her in a clean environment. This is Hailey. She is carrying your child." The witch, Sofie Deveraux said to the two originals without flinching.
Of course Nicklaus doesn't believe the child is his but Elijah wants to know what the witches want. The witch said she will kill Hailey and the child if Nicklaus doesn't help them destroy Marcel's rule from the inside.
Klaus is known throughout as a powerful man but he is also known for always coming out as the victor in any war he has fought even when he uses minimal violence. This is what they need from him. To be the schemer and dismantle what Marcel has built in his absence.
"It's a trick Elijah." Klaus walked fast as if he will leave all the possibilities behind if he could move fast enough away from the witches and the woman said to be carrying his child.
"Can you take that chance? You are many things but even you can not be this bold as to endanger the life of an unborn child with your blood." Elijah looked at a conflicted Klaus and wonder, to have such a miracle happens for you and your first reaction is to run and hide. What a special breed of man his brother is.
Elijah knew it to be a relinquished pursuit but he can't help himself. "If it is a trick, we will wash this city with blood and I will help you. You will have little to lose. But if it is not, and you have gambled that child's life. I will never forgive you. But most importantly Nicklaus, you will never forgive yourself." Elijah said calmly.
Nick looked at his sentimental foolish brother and mocked. "How is your new bride? Done with the honeymoon already? Is human life treating her well, or she has become too fragile that you had to get away from her before you destroy her fragile body with your insistent neediness?" Nicklaus always new how to say just the right hurtful words. He looked at Elijah expecting to see him angered by his words but saw him smiling instead.
"This could be our chance, to be a family again and start over with this new blood. Nicklaus, take care of Hailey and the baby and let's find out what has become of our home?" Elijah extended his hand to Klaus but Klaus just moved past it leaving Elijah hanging with an outstretched hand.
Elijah saw the gentle approach is not working he pulled out a steel bar nearby and attacked his brother. Klaus of course wins but not without getting beaten to a pulp to an extent.
Klaus agreed to take care of the girl carrying his child and also infiltrate Marcel to dismantle his power from with in. However, Marcel does not trust him and to show good will, Klaus daggered his brother and gave his body to Marcel. This is the reason why Katherine got incapacitated and bled for almost an entire day.
.....
The meeting had been going on for a few minutes now. The elders of both factions do not approve of Katherine's decision to go find her husband in her condition.
"Perhaps you should take some of us with you clan leader, that place is a mad house. It is not safe for our future clan leaders in your oven." Vic said in an unreadable tone.
Katherine can see that these people mean well, but she is constantly anxious without knowing Elijah's status. The incident that sent her the hospital was related to whatever happened to him. The fox had to temporarily cut the connection that shares body pains and pleasure between the two.
"As the nine tails have repeatedly told me in the past couple of days. They say are supposed to take care of me. That is why Annabelle and Mikel left the grill in the capable hands of the council. What remains of them anyways. Tony is staying there to try and convince his new girlfriend to come with him."
The kids are starting college, which means they will take turns guarding me. But even if they are not around, Mikel, Annabelle, May, and Nate who registered for online classes will be there." Katherine tried to assure them
"I have given you power so I am not worried about your safety anymore. Even if the Strix comes to cause trouble, you lot should be able to handle it. I had reinforced the vampires HQ building just as I had done for the resort. Do me a favor and look out for the people Elijah drew, if they do come, kill them without hesitation. Are we clear?" Katherine asked with a stern voice.
"Yes clan leader." They all agreed with murderous intent in each of their eyes. Those people from the Strix had come into their place and made a mess of things. The entire clan is still enraged by their actions and now with their new found power, Katherine's clan members will pay them back.
"One last thing. Your already existing power will keep rising so try to train every one of the talents you have. Each of your senses will be incredibly sharp. You will be able to see farther than before and it will only get better as time goes on. Train this, because it is also a weakness." Katherine warned them with a stern gaze.
"Sudden brightness can be used to blind you and incapacitate you. Train. If I come back and find you have stagnated, there will be hell to pay." She said and her aura boar down on each and everyone of them.
"Lastly, should something happen to me. Find my children and bring them home. They will be your leaders." She said with a softer tone this time, her hand going straight to her stomach.
"Yes clan leaders." Hearing their agreement. She turned around and left.
Katherine is not worried about them betraying her or undermining her now that she left, they are her eternal subjects by blood.
"Clan leader, I'm ready to leave this peaceful place and enter into a violent infested place to stretch." Paige said cracking her knuckles.
"You are way too violent for a girl. How are you going to find a husband?" Jake shook his head in disapproval.
"Said the smooth talker. How is Bonnie? She still being weird in the texts messages? Besides, I don't need to change, if I find someone I like, I'll beat them down until they submit." Paige moved her neck and it made a cracking sound. Jake moved away from her as if frightened by her violent behavior.
"No! Hey, what are you talking about? Do you want to die alone?" Katherine pulled Paige by the ear.
"Awu awu... I am wrong, I won't be violent anymore. Mercy." Katherine let go of her ear in satisfaction.
"We might be beast but we are half human. Men have evolved and we must never forget it. It's okay to blow steam once in a while but don't be a savage." Katherine lectured in a serious tone.
"Yes clan leader." Jake is the first to agree.
"I will teach you guys the nine arts while there is nothing to do until I give birth. Each and every one of you will pick at least one art to learn and if you disappoint me, there will be hell to pay." Katherine said with a storm voice.
"Clan leader, the place we are going to is a war zone. Do we really have time for poetry and dance?" Jake grumbled.
"You can sing too. Or paint. Like I said, there's plenty to choose from. This is happening, no one is getting out of it." The finality in her tone made the complaints they had planned on voicing die down.
"It's good we have the Vampires connection to hire a private jet." May said with a yawning sound. She has been fussing over Katherine's pregnancy the most. When Katherine suggested she stay and lead the wolves, she straight out rejected the idea.
"I know you are not thinking about going without me." Rebekah said standing in front of the plane folding her arms. Katherine is surprised they managed to get here so soon.
"Hello darling. I heard you find yourself in a bit of a pickle. I am happy your child won't be born a bastard." Finn said. Kissing Katherine's hand in greeting. He has loosened up a lot after spending time with his two younger siblings.
"Pregnancy agrees with you sister in law. I am coming to help keep Elijah in line. You can count on me." Kol kissed her other hand.
Katherine laughed in happiness. "Hello, how did you guys get here so fast? I thought you were.... We're was it?"
"Rio.... At the time." Rebekah didn't know whether to hug her or not.
"I had to come. Elijah called me before he disappeared and told me to come and assist Nick in keeping his unborn child safe. Poor Elijah. He doesn't know he almost lost his own child because Nick daggered him." Rebekah said with a bit of sadness.
"Let's go." The plan is ready to take off. Katherine invited everyone inside.
...
"One voicemail is just as effective as 13." Katherine rolled her eyes as if Tony could see her from the other side of the phone.
"Clan leader, you are okay! Thank goodness. I was worried sick. You are well now? How was the trip? I hear pregnant women run a risk when taking flights." Tony's flustered voice came from the other side of the phone call.
Katherine chuckled at this. "I am well Tony. How is Mystic falls? How are you?"
"I need your advice on something rather troubling. I finally broke through to level four of the beast manual and when I was still happy about it and looking for Liz to celebrate, I found her at her place. The problem is that she suddenly has this awful smell that I just can't stand. What is going on?" Tony sounds confused.
"The increase in your strength also sharpened your senses. Level four allows you to almost be three times as fast as a five centuries old vampire. It also allows your eyes to see farther than before and ears to hear miles farther but that also includes your nose. My guess is she is sick. Get her to do a thorough checkup."
"Whatever it is, it's smells awful. I better go. Be safe clan leader." Tony hung up.
The group had just gotten to the house Mikel had built. It is large but not overly complicated. The impressive part is that all the furniture has been put place already.
"I am tired but I will find Elijah first." Katherine took out a twin pendant to the one she had given to Elijah and after tinkering with it for a while. It started pulling Katherine towards Elijah's location. Rebekah an Kol went to find Nicklaus while Finn went to rest. He doesn't like this city.
Katherine took May and Paige for fire power and containment. The others also followed at a distance. The pendant pulled Katherine halfway across the city into an abandoned looking church. It is noon at the moment but Katherine can hear movement from inside the church.
She entered and followed the way pointed to by the pendant. A pastor came face to face with her. "I am sorry, the church is closed. We are not offering service for the time being." Katherine side steps the old man feeling excited to have finally com to a building which means Elijah could be here.
The pastor with quick reflex stood in front of Katherine again. Katherine frowned seeing her way blocked again. "Ma'am."
"Look old man, our leader is looking for her husband. Do you want to stand in the way of a pregnant woman looking for the father of her unborn child? He has been missing for over a week and she is worried." May said pushing the pastor out of the way.
"We do not have anyone here but me." May looked at the pendant that is pulling Katherine and looked at the pastor with red golden eyes.
"Liar!" May said.
"He knows they are people here. He is an accomplice. Isn't that right pastor?" Katherine looked at the man that has been trying to check if someone is coming through the front door.
"You are hoping for someone to come through that door. Is it the one you are helping to keep my husband here?" Katherine asked calmly.
"I don't know what you are talking about. The church is out of service.." the man insisted on his lies.
"Hey! My uncle said the church is out of order. Leave." A blond woman came in shouting.
Katherine turned around and looked behind the woman. The rest of her pack came in and closed the doors. Katherine looked at Paige. "Keep then contained." Katherine left, and this time no one stood in her way.
Katherine got to a dusty old door and tried to enter. There is a barrier, a very strong one. She used her claws and cut out blood from her hand. She drew the same symbols she had drawn when she had first used this traveler spell on a barrier in Mystic falls.
At the time, her soul power had been shaky since she had recently merged with Katherine's own soul and body. To exit the tomb, she had required Bennett blood since it was the blood of the one who had put up the spell.
At the vampires HQ she was at her best so she had just chanted the spell. However at the moment she doesn't want to tire herself especially since the one who put up this barrier is a powerful witch. It is best to dissolve the magic and send it to the ground without using her own spiritual power.
A while later, the barrier slowly dissolved and Katherine walked in. She immediately put up a space barrier inform of her to protect herself from the incoming volatile magic attack. Seeing a girl in front of her and a coffin no doubts holding Elijah on the floor.
The powerful spell got deflected and went straight towards the child. The girl widened her eyes in horror. She has prepared that powerful spell to do a one move kill on the intruder. If she is hit, she will die.
Katherine raised her hand and locked her in a similar space barrier an the spell bounced off and went towards the dresser, turning it to powder. The girl screamed seeing this scene. That could have been her body. Her knees gave out and she fell on her bum. The girl got up from inside the barrier seeing that her experimental subject is being awaken.
"Whoever you are, you better put him back and leave this place. This is no place for you to take what belongs to Marcel. Hey! Are you listening to me? If you don't return him back into that coffin, I'll kill you." The girl showed outrage but got ignored by Katherine.
Katherine is trying to hold back her anger and not use the barrier she had put around the girl to strangle her to death for saying Elijah belongs to Marcel. Where does she come from claiming her husband belongs to some wanna be king of New Orleans?
Katherine took back the space barrier around herself but kept the other one where it is. That little girl is dangerous. Katherine walked towards Elijah and opened the coffin. Seeing his dry body she pulled out the dagger and waited. Elijah woke up feeling very hungry. Katherine didn't care about this and slapped his face to the ground.
The slap seemed very light in the eyes of Davina but the impact from it showed to be very powerful. An original vampire flew head first into the ground. The anger and disappointment in Katherine is transmitted to their psychic bond. Davina gasps seeing this scene and kept silent from that moment on.
It took a while for Elijah to get up from there since his head inserted itself into the ground. Seeing him taking his sweet time to come up, Katherine pulled him up and cut her wrist, she fed him her blood while sending memories through the blood of what had happened to her because of his stupidity.
Elijah gets a clear picture of the events as they unfold making him sad and happy. Sad that his own actions have almost cost him his unborn children's lives and happy that he is going to be a father.
Elijah drank when he felt he has had enough, he got away from her.
He fixed his suit and tried to dust off the dirt from his head. He looked at Katharine's stomach for the longest time. Elijah slowly approaches her and hold her into his arms. Katherine can feel the incredulity in his emotions through their bond. The bond is not as obvious anymore since the fox cut off part of it but if one looks, it is still possible to feel what the other party feels.
She took out a colorless glass tube that has the vial of the elixir she had made for the both of them. She knows it works because her power had been growing ever since she drank it. Elijah looks at the tube with a glowing white liquid inside with interest. "What is it?"
"You promised you would not let him hurt me if you could help it. Drink this elixir Elijah and obtain the power to protect me and our family. I can do this without you, I can leave you behind to play your little brother's politics but Elijah, I don't want to." She looked at him, her eyes showing a torrent of emotions that Elijah has never seen on her face even on their wedding day.
"I want to be with you but it also means being around your brother and usually I am all for it but right now, I need to be safe Elijah you need to protect me and if you fail. It will not be because you were not strong enough." Katherine harden her expression.
"Katharina." He said lower than she is used to hearing him say. He looked at her deeply.
"You married me. You don't get to leave, he is my family but so are you and so is...." He looked at her stomach with joy.
"It is too late for you to bow out now, you are a Mikaelson now. There is no turning back and I will punish him for what he did but he would have never done it had he known." Elijah said but cut himself off when he saw the ridicule on her face.
"I don't want to, but Elijah, nothing is more important then their lives. No amount of apologies can ever make up for it should any accident befell us. So," She looked at him and handed him the elixir. "Drink, and come home to your wife. She misses you dearly." Katherine said with a sad smile.
Elijah feeling her sad state, drank the elixir without knowing what it is. The moment he did, he felt a boost in every part of his body as if he had drank power in a bottle. Katherine had passed out after drinking it so she doesn't know what is feels like to drink it.
Elijah felt his temperature peak and his fangs came out, his eyes turning red completely as if two glowing orbs of blood. He blinked and they returned to normal. He gained a few inches and his muscles tore through this suit. The floor caved in where he stood. His hair grew long and it kept moving like the waves.
Katherine herself had gotten a few inches in height, the muscles in her body grew denser and packed more power than before. Drinking that elixir when pregnant was a bad idea. Luckily her babies are tenacious and managed to pull through.
Katherine had moved away from him at some point as he fumbles almost tripping on the flat ground. The change is just right. When he saw he can't go anywhere Katherine kneeled behind him and helped him cut his hair as if they have all the time in the world.
"You look like you just stepped out of an old painting. Seeing hair grow that that is kind of creepy." Katherine chuckles. Elijah allows her to do as the wishes. He sits down trying to get his breathing in check. His heart beat keeps spiraling out of control and his temperature rises too hot and falls to a freezing point.
The girl is staring at the scene in shock. What just happened? That Vampire just got even more powerful in an instant after drinking some potion? Katherine looked at the girl. Davina got scared out of her wits. Is she to be silenced now that she has seen something she shouldn't have seen?
Katherine made a turn around sign to Davina when she gave Elijah a change of clothes. Katherine has a large warehouse and her items are for werewolf size so they fit Elijah even though they are not overly expensive items. He can make do.
"Why do you have these?" Elijah asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Werewolves shift and destroy their clothes all the time, my warehouse has a bit of everything. Except food, there's blood. But now that I don't need it I can give it to whomever because I made sure it will not go stale." Katherine rambled.
"For the pain I have caused you and our... I am sorry Katharina." He said holding her close. He hasn't doubted whether the child is his, he somehow felt it in her blood. She hasn't let anyone come near her in that manner. The slight Vampire blood he tasted in her blood is that of himself inside the babies.
"Our family is blessed this time, a new generation of Mikaelson family after a thousand years. I am so happy." Elijah let himself cry tears of joy.
"We should probably go now. We have intruded for long enough." Elijah looked at Davina and smiled at her what he assumed to be a harmless smile but the child seemed horrified at the sight of him.
"She saw your new fangs. Not pretty at all." Katherine said laughing at his dejection seeing the girl's reaction to him.
"What's wrong with my new fangs?" Elijah touched his mouth where his fangs had been.
"You can check yourself out at home, come on. Let's leave this dreadful place." Katherine pulled Elijah who wanted to talk to the little girl.
"How did you find me? I was under the impression no one can perform magic in this city." Elijah asked knocking on the barrier around the girl. The sound of someone knocking on glass came from his action.
"Paige?" Elijah asked Katherine.
"Me. Paige is downstairs. This girl is harboring an immense amount of magic that wants to come out. She is dying." Katherine lowered the barrier and Davina took several steps back.
"No harm will come to you by my hand, if you don't attack us." Elijah said raising his hands. An the girl sat on her bed but kept her eyes on the two people.
"She also said to put you back in the coffin because you belong to Marcel. You only been separated from me for a little while but I am now told you already belong to a man. Can I just put her out of her misery for offending me?" Katherine gave a blood thirsty smile but Elijah shook his head making her wipe her smile off her face. She then put on a semi friendly smile and addressed the girl.
"Hello. I'm Katherine, this is Elijah. What is your name little one?" Katherine asked looking for a place to sit down. Seeing as it's very dusty here, she made a solid black two seater throne. Davina saw it and widened her eyes. The large throne is a two seater and Elijah also sat down still feeling out of sorts with his own body.
The black and ghastly outlook of the chair gives people a creepy but powerful feeling. It is entirely black and the edges look as though smoke is coming out of it. Seeing the two people calmly seated in front of her talking to her, Davina decided not be rude, it is obvious these two are very powerful individuals.
"I'm Davina. What are you? And what did you do to him?" Davina talked fast as if she has been holding back these questions.
"I am a beast. A fox Devine beast. You ...are a witch. One who is holding power that is trying to escape. Did you steal it? It doesn't like you very much." Katherine said as her eyes turned into that of her fox beast. She can use her fox eye sight in this form.
"I did not steal anything! I didn't ask for it." She said and the attic shook. It is obvious this girl has anger issues as well, this type is Katherine's favorite to antagonize.
"Alright I was wrong. Adults can make mistakes some times. Just calm down. The entire place is coming down if you can't control that stolen...I mean ill gotten power of yours." Katherine raised her hands in the air in mock surrender.
"What my wife meant to ask is why was I here? And why do you live like a fugitive?" Elijah gave his smile which somehow seemed to diffuse the child.
The girl looked at them but kept quiet. Katherine leaned back on her seat and watched the child. "Where are your parents? The only other scent in this place belongs to a Vampire. Aren't you a little to young to give yourself to love? Eloping to a decaying attic just to hide from your family is not a way to go missy." Katherine made a fake stern voice. As if to reprimand the child.
"What? No! That is not what happened, Marcel saved me from the witches who were going to sacrifice me in a ritual." Davina said fast trying to defend herself. She is not some runaway teenager in love with some vampire.
"Marcel? Husband, isn't that...?" She didn't say anything more before Elijah nodded.
"Whatever he did, it was too late. He should have come before the ritual started. Now you will either explode or turn into a puddle of whatever they used as a conduit for the ritual." Katherine said looking at her dangling feet.
Davina seemed scared. "You are lying to me! As long as I stay away and the magic goes back to earth, the witches will lose their magic forever and I'll go back to my life." Katherine gave her a pitying look.
"Tell me about this magic ritual." Katherine has an entire section on the rune language dedicated to ritualistic runic magic which is why she could recognize the fact that the power lying dormant inside Jeremy Gilbert was ritualistic in nature.
Davina started telling the tale of her tragic past. Her own mother sent her to be sacrificed in a ritual where a girl is killed and her power passes to the next girl. Davina was the last girl to be sacrificed which means she is holding the magic belonging to three other people inside of her.
"According to them, when the last girl is sacrificed, all that magic will go back to the earth and then the girls will come back stronger than ever before. But I don't believe them. They wanted to slaughter us for their own gain. To gain more power." Davina's emotions peaked again.
"Very sad. But I have a question. How do you know the ritual won't work? That you won't come back? Or that you won't be more powerful when you come back?" Katherine asked and Davina looked at her in outrage.
"Okay, let me put it this way. You are dying. The ritual was already started. Rituals are fueled by the will of the one performing the spell and the drive that the person or people want to achieve. Once it is started, it must be finished or it will find a way to finish itself especially if the one wo did the ritual is dead. Their will is even stronger then, because now, they are also full of resentment."
Katherine raised her hands in gesture. "Of course this doesn't apply to every ritual but looking at your magic channels being overwhelmed and cracking little by little. The aura of death is growing inside your body."
"How can you tell that I am dying? Are you sure you are not lying to me? You want something from me, so you are making up these ridiculous stories about rituals being unfinished and finding a way to finish themselves through the will of the dead." Davina asked with mockery in her eyes.
"I am intimately familiar with death little girl, and you are slowly being over taken by it. It wont happen today maybe not tomorrow but soon, you gonna suffer horribly and die a painful death." Katherine said with a pretend helpless expression. It is hard to hide her amusement on her face. Elijah wants to interject but his body is currently going through painful changes that are making it hard to speak.
"Find a way to release that magic or wait for the ritual to do it for you. If I am not wrong, the dead witches are involved in this. They won't stop until they get what they want because for some reason these bitches always feel like they are unstoppable when they die." Katherine rolled her eyes.
Elijah looked at her in amusement. He turned to Davina who seems horrified. He frowned. His wife is really...
Elijah pulled Katherine in his arms and kissed her head. "Darling wife, can we help the child?" He asked her. This Davina is being used by Marcel to keep witches in check. If he can win her over...
"Husband. You stand accused of conspiring to win over the little witch servant of the king of New Orleans. How do you plead?" Katherine said lightly with amusement.
"I am not a servant!" Davina is angered by the insinuation. The magic inside of her felt her anger and bursts out in a wave of invisible power that knocked everything away from her violently.
Katherine put the space barrier in front of her and Elijah. The wave didn't touch them but it destroyed other things in the room close to Davina.
"What's the problem with being a servant to a king? You could do so much worse little girl." Katherine, not phased at all by Davina's little outburst added a comment.
"What my wife is trying to say, is that my earlier interest in helping you preserve you life is because I have ulterior motive. Which I must admit, Is not entirely false. You are the reason the entire city can not perform magic Right?" Elijah asked.
"I don't want the witches to use magic and find me, so every time someone performs magic, I can feel it and tell Marcel to track them down and stop them." Davina said with smugness.
"He doesn't just stop them, he murders them. Publicly, with your help, your own people are being slaughtered on the streets for sports." Katherine said making eye contact with Davina. The young girl surprised Katherine by showing no remorse. In fact, she seems delighted by this piece of news.
"Those witches killed my friends in their quest for power and were going to kill me too. They can all die for all I care." Davina said in a manner that made even Katherine take her serious. Katherine laughed and slapped the side of her throne in delight.
"A warrior. You know this city is at war and you have picked a side. Good for you. Or you are just a silly child who didn't think about the consequences of her actions and now you have to see things through. Your current problem is that your would be king is also trying to fight against an original Vampire with just you as an advantage." Katherine said with a bit of contempt.
"Let me guess, he told you to use my husband's body to try and find a way to kill an original?" Katherine asked and Davina's eyes widened before she could hide her expression, Elijah saw it.
"How can you know that?" Davina asked.
"If I had a city to keep under my rule but my contender can not be killed by regular means I'd try to find a way. Seeing as the king has zero advantage against his enemies excluding you, it seems appropriate to give the task to you." Katherine said unhurried.
"What I am trying to tell you is that you don't stand a chance against Klaus dear child. You and Marcel huddled in this dusty corner trying to fight one of the oldest vampires in the history of time is funny to me." Katherine chuckled.
"It was fine when Marcel was just trying to keep you safe from the witches but then he went and ruled the entire city with an iron fist, making the witches desperate and now, he has to defend his throne against THE master of schemes. If you value your life. There's only one thing to do. Run."
Elijah is trying to remain calm as his blood boils occasionally making him sweat. He is coming in and out of the conversation. But what he has managed to get is Katherine trying to scare the girl out of her wits.
"She is right Klaus is toying with Marcel. If he really wanted to cease control of New Orleans he would have done it by now." Elijah said but he knows that Klaus was given instructions by the witches to play the long game with Marcel.
"You two are just trying to scare me. There is a way to kill him I will find it!" Davina said making Katherine laugh.
"But then you will have my husband to deal with." Katherine gestured to Elijah seated next to her. "He is a whole other level now. And if you do best him, you will have me to deal with." Katherine said in amusement.
"So what? I should just submit to you or that Klaus? To be used and manipulated once again? Never!" Davina said with an edge to her voice.
"Don't misunderstand me young Davina, I am telling you all of this for my own amusement. It will be up to you what you do, but let me make your options clear." Katherine raised a finger.
"One, stay with Marcel in this awfully furnished and poorly structured attic. You will be handed over to Nicklaus when Marcel lose their little game, because winner takes all." Katherine is about to continue when Davina interrupt her.
"Marcel will never do that. He cares about me, he treats me like his family." Davina said with confidence and Katherine smiled.
"I'm sure he does. I heard about him. He is a ruthless monster to his enemies but is fair and just to his own people. You might also be right that he loves you like a daughter."
"However, he made a mistake when he used your power to control the witches because now, Klaus wants to know how he can know when a witch uses magic and when he finds out its you, he will want you for himself. Even if Marcel doesn't want to hand you over he will not have a choice.... Winner..... takes.... all." Katherine smirked.
"You are scaring the child." Elijah said on the side. Elijah cleared him parched throat on the side. Katherine gave him a bottle of cold water. Elijah Took it and drank it. Feeling better, he looked at his wife who seems to be enjoying herself tormenting the young witch.
"Otherwise? Is she to stay here and wait to be rescued by a wondering knight in shining armor?" Katherine looked from Elijah to Davina and spoke to her again.
"Dear child, this is the real world and you are not Rapunzel." Katherine said.
"Where was I? Ow yes. Your other option is to submit to Klaus now and be done with the power struggle between the two, or is it three sides now? But in doing so, you will betray the father who saved you from the witches and cause him to lose the war. However, he would have lost without suffering any significant losses or serious casualties."
"Nicklaus won't be grateful, he will think it is only fitting that you chose the winning side and find plentiful ways to rub it in Marcel's face." Elijah added.
"You could run, the witches may find you and complete the ritual or you successfully escap this place. To live as a child like you were meant to somewhere far, go to school, meet a boy, pick flowers and decorate your hair. Because here, your life is over."
"That Marcel is dancing on land mines pretending they are Daisies and the only way he will wake up is at the moment before he is blown to kingdom come. You being the closest to him are bound to suffer along side him. Because when Klaus gets his hands on you and you try to resist, he won't kill you. He will find your weakness, that one or two people you care about, he will make them suffer while you watch."
"And just to teach you an unforgettable lesson, he will kill them. I advise you to go back to the witches at least they want your life. Nicklaus will want your submission and when you try to resist, he will break you. A thousand years of experience, I don't suppose he will be bested at the hands of a teenage girl with power she can not control." Katherine smiled seeing the girl finally showing some fear.
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