Versatile | Elijah and Katherine's Daughter [Book 1]

Chapter 26: Two Options

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Adela woke up in her bed she remembered what had happened the night before, not the night before she realised as she looked at her phone. She stormed down the stairs to find her father and uncle sitting, reading.

ADELA: NIKLAUS! You have two options I can melt your skin from your bones but, that will be a hell of a mess to clean up and I can't practice magic. So I'm going to go with rip your heart out and time how long it takes to grow back.

ELIJAH: Adelina sweetheart know one is killing anyone. 

ADELA: He compelled me.

ELIJAH: We have more pressing matters, come sit read this. [She reclutanctly sat next to him and started reading]

ADELA: Fine but I'm going to start taking vervain again. 

[Klaus hands Adela the Petrova Locket which had fallen off during her slumber]

ADELA: Thanks [She says as she puts it on]

REBEKAH: So, this is what you do the first time we're back together as a family? Vampire book club?

KLAUS: [continues reading] Reading edifies the mind, sister. Isn't that right, Elijah?

ELIJAH: Yes, that's quite right, Niklaus.

REBEKAH: And what's this business?

[She gestures to the dead girl on the table]

ELIJAH: This is a... [He gestures as though he's searching for a word] ...peace offering. 

KLAUS: [sighs] I presumed, after so much time desiccating in a coffin, that my big brother might be a bit peckish.

ELIJAH: [annoyed] And I explained to my little brother that forgiveness cannot be bought. I'd simply prefer to see a change in behavior that indicates contrition and personal growth.

[Klaus rolls his eyes guiltily, and Elijah gestures to the girl on the table]

ELIJAH: Not this nonsense.

[Adela kneeled down dropped some of the blood into a glass, Elijah looked at her]

ADELA: [grins] What we can't let her go to waste.

REBEKAH: [annoyed] Well, I suppose I'll go fetch the rubbish bin, because she's staining a two hundred-year-old carpet.

[Elijah looks up from his book to see the girl bleeding out onto the table, where the blood drips onto the floor]

Elijah: Ah, yes.

KLAUS: [narration] I was angry with my friend: [Klaus looks at Elijah] I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: [In the French Quarter, Marcel walks into the Palace Royale Hotel, looking for Klaus] I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, [Cami brings flowers to her brother's grave, only to find that someone spray-painted "MURDERER" in red paint across his gravestone] Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, [Father Kieran pulls wooden boards off of the windows of St. Anne's Catholic Church, and waves to a group of men standing outside the door to come in] And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, [Klaus looks over at Elijah, and then to Hayley as she walks through the room and into the kitchen, her hand resting on her pregnant belly] 'Til it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine. And into my garden stole [Klaus watches Elijah set down the grimoire and follow Hayley into the kitchen] When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see, My foe outstretched beneath the tree.