Sire Lines

Chapter 36

"Help!" Camille cried, running into the courtyard. She nearly tripped over a chair because she was too busy looking behind her as she ran, but Klaus caught her.

"Camille." He looked at the blood that pooled at the side of her abdomen.

"I'll heal," she assured him breathlessly. "We-we have to go." She held onto his arm and started pulling him in the other direction but he stayed firm. "Come on!"

"What are you running from?" he asked as Elijah strolled in, confused. "Is it The Hollow?"

"Something like that," Camille said.

"Spit it out," Elijah urged.

"It's Amelia," she breathed. "She's not herself. She's deranged, I-I don't know, sick? It's nothing like a werewolf bite though. This is worse. She's following me but then she collapses saying she's cold. She keeps talking about Hope."

"Then why bring her back here?" Hayley's voice echoed. "She's become more of a threat now if what you say is true."

"It's not her fault," Vincent defended her and the hybrid jumped down. "She was marked by The Hollow and is going through a lapse of the witch controlling her and not. Eva went through this but unfortunately, she gave in to the power and became fully devoted to The Hollow."

"So you say there's a chance in saving her?" Klaus asked and he nodded. "Then she will follow Camille here."

"Where our daughter is!" Hayley shouted. "Klaus, listen to me!"

Klaus turned when he heard labored breathing and the shadow of his wife casted on the wall before she appeared. She was limping, her leg dragging behind her as her arms drooled before her. Her eyes were rounded and red and they stared at her.

"I just needed some blood," she whispered, her tears running down her cheeks. "I don't know why I did that."

"You could have asked," Camille replied. She sighed and rolled up her sleeve to show her open skin and cautiously approached the Original of her line with Klaus and Elijah behind her. Amelia sank her teeth into her arm and drank, breathing after she was filled.

"Vincent, is there a way you can heal this?"

"I don't know," he said.

"Can I try?" Hope asked and they all looked up to see her coming down the stairs. "I think I can help."

"No," Hayley dejected.

"No," Amelia murmured. She stumbled back and caught herself on a table. As the girl continued to approach, the mark on her arm sizzled and she screamed. It brought her adrenaline way too high and she moaned before collapsing and Klaus caught her before she fell.

"Amelia!" he exclaimed, shaking her.

"Look," Vincent said, "it's gotten worse."

"Let me help," Hope urged. Hayley let go of her hold and let her approach the unconscious vampire and place her hands on her. Closing her eyes, she didn't want to show her possessed blue ones, and whispered a few incantations.

When Amelia began to wake up, she held a finger at the young girl: "It's inside of you."

"What are you talking about?" Hayley questioned as Camille fed her more blood for strength. "You sound delusional."

"Sometimes delusional people reveal the truth."

"It makes sense," Vincent agreed. "She's a werewolf, a descendant of The Hollow's line and she's a witch."

"She can't be here if we saved those children," Elijah said.

"You still made a sacrifice," he replied. "That's why I didn't want to kill those Hollow sympathizers. They were glad to die for a good cause."

Amelia stood and moved away from them, further from Hayley, and started heading upstairs. There, on the edge of the balcony, she saw the thin slither of silver that was supposed to be on Hope's wrist. Her gaze lifted to see the muddy boots lying in the corner and with a touch, the mud was still wet.

"We all make mistakes," she called. "Even powerful witches." She then realized that Hope had a premonition of her getting sick, along with Klaus, and she believed he would be next. "Look."

"It's her's alright," Vincent stated.

"You're supposed to keep it on, no matter what," Hayley told Hope. "Why did you take it off?"

Hope grinned and her a blue hue flashed in her green-brown eyes. "Because I wanted to."

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Kol was eager to put chains on his niece that prevented her from casting any spells. However, that didn't work when the young girl melted the metal in his hands. Freya proceeded to put her in a circle of chalk and raise a barrier spell that surprisingly stayed.

"Do you believe me now?" Amelia questioned, directing her words at Hayley.

"An innocent child," Elijah said. "Why does this witch prey on children?"

"Because they're easy," Vincent replied. "Amelia fell sick because she rejected it."

"How do we get it out of her?" Hayley asked. "I just want my daughter back."

"I can put her to sleep," Freya suggested. "Although she'd only be asleep for a hundred years and awake for one."

"Although we're immortal, that sounds like an eternity of misery," Klaus stated. "I say you put that Hollow in me. I can take her."

"No, Niklaus," Elijah dejected. "Let it be all of us."

"Four Originals will do the trick," Vincent said. "It will divide her power and she will be weak in all of you." He paused for a moment, calculating the chances. "If you ever come close together, or... near Hope, she can come back."

"Then we'll be at different parts of the world," Rebekah said.

"But I can't be with my daughter," Klaus said. "It's the sacrifice I'm willing to make."

Amelia watched as the siblings made their always and forever agreement without her and Finn who was on his own, away from his family's troubles. The possessed Hope kept trying to convince her mother to not let the regent do anything but it was for the best.

The blue sphere came out of her and illuminated the entire courtyard. Freya joined in on the difficult spell Vincent was casting and they separated the orb into four different parts to drag to each Original who was lying on the ground.

Each of them yelped from the new energy in them and once the spell was over, heavy winds and thunder began. The fountain turned a blood red and when Kol disappeared, it stopped but it started pouring. After him, Rebekah left and Elijah had to go to the ends of the earth.

"Goodbye little one," Klaus said to his daughter and he was the last to leave.

Freya took down the barrier spell and Hayley rushed to hold her weak daughter. Hope smiled that she was fine but she was too tired to do anything and fell asleep in her mother's arms.

"As long as their away, we'll be fine," Vincent assured them.

"For now," Amelia said."