He stared into her eyes, softly rubbing her cheek. She stared at the love of her life, relieved that he was out of his psychotic episode..
A gasp left her lips as she felt the knife pierce her stomach. She stared at him in disbelief, unable to speak...
"It's so beautiful out here.." I smiled, speaking to Klaus as we walked through the woods.
It was best that Ella be far away from the Hollow so Sebastian offered to let us stay with him.
"Looks like you're not the only one that thinks so." He smiled, pointing to Ella as she skipped ahead, picking out flowers.
He grasped my hand, interlocking our fingers. I turned to him, smiling, hoping my blushing wasn't noticable.
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"I want us to be happy, Klaus."
"So let's do that. Together."
As we approached Bash's cabin, Ella knocked on the door, giggling. Shortly after, the door swung open to reveal a happy Sebastian.
"Hi, Uncle Bash."
"Well, hello, beautiful. I've missed you."
"I missed you too. Here, I picked you some flowers."
He put his hand to his chest, grabbing the flowers from her and smiling. His smile dropped once he saw Klaus.
"Hey, Elle, why don't you run inside. I need to talk to your mama."
Once Ella was inside, Sebastian stood defensively towards Klaus then looked at me.
"Didn't know you were bringing him."
"Bash, come on."
"Mikaelsons aren't welcome. You're the exception. Rules of the house."
"That's fine.. I'll leave you two." Klaus said, kissing my cheek before leaving.
"Seriously?" I hit Bash's arm.
"You know how I feel. Our kind winds up dead when they're around. Yesterday, we lost a wolf, her name was Lara. I wake up to hear there's been some kind of occult massacre in the woods. Let me guess Mikaelsons are involved."
"That's why I'm here. I want to talk about what really caused that massacre last night."
He nodded, letting me in.
Once inside, I noticed Ella coloring at the table. The bathroom door opened and out walked Dawn in a huge t-shirt.
"Holy... Mia, hi."
"Hello.." I smirked, waving.
Sebastian chuckled, shaking his head as she quickly went into the room.
"Okay, so all we know is this cult wanted to sacrifice children. Somehow Lara got caught up in it, and when she tried to get out, she couldn't, and she killed herself." I told him as we sat down.
"That doesn't make sense. Someone is recruiting wolves into a cult?"
"That's what I need you to look out for, Bash... Since you love spending so much time with our parents and their wolves, look for anything strange. These people obsess over specific imagery. It's a serpent eating its own tail."
"What'd you say?" He asked, sitting up.
"A serpent. Like a dragon. When Ella was affected, she drew some. Here."
A distraught look covered his face as he looked it over then deeply sighed.
After his information dump in my lap, I stepped outside to chat with Elijah.
"Executions, people dying in floods, fires, or just vanishing. What if the Hollow is behind those deaths, too?" I asked.
"Darling, the only thing we are sure of is this is an imminent threat that must be handled immediately." Elijah replied.
"Growing up, I never belonged anywhere. Not in school. Not in foster care. I always thought if I could find my parents, I'd finally belong somewhere but then I didn't want anything to do with them.."
"You do belong somewhere."
"Where? We're not safe, anywhere, Elijah! Not even your family can correctly protect us.."
"Listen to me. I will not let anything happen to you. Do you understand?" He sternly spoke, taking his vibrating phone out of his pocket.
"What is it?"
"You need to come back to the city, or Marcel's going to kill Klaus." Freya said.
"What!?" I exclaimed.
"Stay here." He said, ending the call before speeding off.
"Elijah-"
I went back inside, sitting on the floor with Ella. She perked up, showing me the picture drew.
"This is you, me, and dad."
"It's beautiful."
"The way you and Klaus talk about each other... Why did you split?" Dawn asked, sitting across on the couch.
"That's a rough story, beautiful."
"It can't be that bad."
"We began having problems when Mikael had heard that his children were in New Orleans. To avoid his wrath, they fled. Marcel didn't want to go and I refused to leave him behind. Klaus begged me to come with them. If I were at the hands at Mikael, I would only suffer.. When he came, Marcel and I hid while he slaughtered countless vampires."
"So when did you guys get back together?"
"We never broke up, only separated for, in my opinion, too long. Once news got around that Mikael was gone, they showed their faces again. Boy, it was like I was in love all over again.
"His savage behavior, fierceness, wit.. it was such a turn on that we made Ella. After that night, we started arguing like cats and dogs. Then, I found out I was pregnant. My baby became my number one priority and to protect her, I left. Now, we're here."
"See, he's not exactly the best." Sebastian added.
