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

Chapter 43: You Tour This Family Apart

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[Adela is in her car with her baby driving to the compound, she called Elijah. Who filled her in on Klaus' betrayal as she called it. ]

ADELA: He cursed the crescents! That bloody bastard. Do remind to kill him. 

ELIJAH: Do remind me to remind you to get in line. I need you to meet me in the Bayou. Freya has Hope and Klaus daggered himself and Dahlia. 

ADELA: I'm on my way. 

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[It is daylight now, and Freya is holding a fussy Hope in her arms as she rocks her soothingly. Hope keeps an eye on Klaus and Dahlia's neutralized bodies as she does so. After a moment, Elijah and Adela arrive]

FREYA: Well, my adage holds-- nothing good ever happens in a clearing in the woods.

ELIJAH: Nothing good ever happens where my brother is concerned.

[Elijah looks at Hope, who has stopped crying, and his face softens slightly at the sight of his niece safe and sound. He nods in Hope's direction]

ELIJAH: With one exception.

[Elijah rubs Hope's back soothingly, and Hope whimpers as she rubs her eyes with her small hands]

ELIJAH: How is she?

FREYA: She's a Mikaelson. She's resilient.

[She watches as Elijah examines Klaus and Dahlia's bodies]

FREYA: When I woke, they were like this. Rebekah tells me Klaus has a plan to kill Dahlia, that he knew our plan would not work?

ELIJAH: Yes. According to him, our ingredients were incorrect. Niklaus infiltrated Dahlia's mind. You didn't break her heart. We needed the blood of the witch she loved the most, and you are not that witch-- that honor goes to our beloved mother.

[Freya sighs in frustration, as she knows that Esther has been dead since she killed her in ]

FREYA: So, we need Esther's blood? Well, that's impossible-- I killed her.

[Though he is mildly surprised, Elijah does not seem at all upset by this confession]

ADELA: One incarnation of the bitch.

[Freya looks at Adela in shock]

ELIJAH: Our mother is buried in New Orleans. Niklaus wants us to revive the original body.
ADELA: Fine but I'm killing her. 

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[Adela, Elijah, Freya, and Hope have made it back to the compound with the still-daggered Klaus and neutralized Dahlia, where they have laid them on the floor of the living room. Marcel and Rebekah are there as well, and Marcel is kneeling to examine Klaus' body. Rebekah is holding Adela's baby. Who she hands back to Adela]

REBEKAH: [sighs] Nik is demented! Are we really to dig up our mother, burn her to ash, swap said ash with Kol's, and then trick Davina into using up her last chance to bring someone back from the dead? Not to mention we lose the opportunity to save Kol... if Davina doesn't turn us inside out!

ADELA: Or, we dig a deep hole and leave both our problems at the bottom of it.

FREYA: [unhappily stares at Dahlia] I say we choose a more permanent option-- find the white oak stake, kill Klaus, Dahlia dies with him.

MARCEL: [scoffs] Well, yeah, and so do I, and every other vampire that Klaus has turned!

[Rebekah hears a strange sound and frowns before turning back toward the bodies. When she looks back at Klaus, she notices that the golden dagger in his chest is beginning to melt]