The Other Mikaelson- Book 2

Chapter XXXV

Davina walked into the compound.

"Keira? Did you get Klaus's blood? Oh my god, what happened?" she said, rushing to Marcel.

"Klaus..." Marcel said weakly.

"They fought, and he got bit," Cami interrupted, tending to the other vampires. Keira walked around, following her to make sure she wasn't attacked.

"Marcel..." Davina started.

"It's ok!" Marcel assured her. "It's okay! I gave as good as I got. But, we need Klaus' blood to heal."

"I'd go get it, but I'd probably just start hallucinating and attacking random people. You fought my brother. Did he bleed?" Keira asked.

"I got him pretty good, why?"

Keira looked at Davina, who spoke in a determined voice. "Where?"

She came back a few minutes later, holding a cup of blood and Josh's arm. Davina held up the cup.

"It's Klaus's blood," she said. Keira examined the amount and looked at her solemnly.

"That's only enough for one," she said.

"No! This has to be enough!" Davina exclaimed. She looked between her three friends.

"Rule me out, I can heal on my own, it'll just take longer," Keira said.

"I can't choose. Please don't make me choose!" Davina started crying.

"I have more time," Marcel said, gesturing to Josh. "Save your friend."

"Marcel?" Cami asked.

"I can't-" Josh started.

"Judging by the look of that bite, you don't have time to argue."

"Marcel" Davina cried.

"Josh is one of my guys, and enough of my guys have died today. So, come on."

Everyone helped Josh sit up and he drank the blood, his wound healing. Marcel stood up and headed to the door.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" Cami asked.

"To find Klaus, get his blood, and save as many of my guys as I can."

Cami stopped him. "Wait. For that you'll need a weapon," she said, remembering that random big tomb room thingy she found from Kieran's key. "And it just so happens I have an arsenal."

As they left, Keira looked at Davina. "Stay with them. I'm gonna go find my family."

She found them at St. Ann's Church, by the sound of crying, which was very unusual in her family.

"NIK?!?" she yelled from the entrance, stopping abruptly and gasping in pain from the wolf bites. She walked in the main room, seeing Klaus cradling Hayley and Elijah crying. Hayley's neck had been slit, and she walked forwards to them. "No."

"She's gone," Klaus said numbly. Elijah started crying more, which caused his siblings to cry as well. Klaus examined his sister's neck and bit open his wrist. "You've been bitten. Here."

Cured, Keira looked at her brother. "How?"

"I... was bested."

Keira glared. "You... were bested?!?" You were BESTED? My invincible brother?!?!" she yelled furiously. Elijah scoffed, equally angry.

Klaus stood, setting Hayley's body down carefully, pulling Elijah up by the arm, and extending his hand to his sister.

"I can't hear any heartbeats," Keira said.

"They took the baby. But there's still time. We can save her."

The three rushed around the cemetery, looking for where the witches had the baby.

"The tombs are empty. The grounds are deserted. She's NOT HERE!" Elijah yelled frantically.

"This is the only place they can be! We'll keep searching," Klaus replied anxiously.

"We're wasting time, Nik! They're not here!"

"The Harvest was here! The Reaping was here! They're about to perform a ritual which will feed their ancestors for centuries! Ancestors who are buried HERE!"

Keira stopped, noticing an angel statue. "This statue-- we've passed by this three times, all whilst going in the same direction."

"They've fabricated some kind of illusion..." Elijah said. Keira whooshed to the top of one of the tombs. Her eyes widened in horror, as the tombs were stretching out farther than her sight could reach.

"That is one hell of an illusion..." Keira looked at the endless cemetery in front of her and her brothers whooshed up as well.

As they were walking again, marking the tombs they had passed with chalk, Klaus sighed and put a hand on one. "It's ingenious. I can see them, I can feel them, and yet they are not real."

Keira ran her hand through her hair, pulling it back out of her face. "There has to be a way. Even if we could just push through-"

"-What we need to do is focus!" Klaus interrupted.

Elijah lost his temper. "My only focus right now is that child and her safety, do you understand me?" his siblings stared at him and his very unusual outburst. "This-- all of this-- this is the world that you created, Niklaus."

Keira stared at him, mildly afraid as he barely ever lost his temper. "Brother-"

"All of your scheming, the enemies that you have made every single day of your miserable life-- what results did you expect? That your child would be born into a happy life? That the mother would be alive to know her daughter? That we could live and thrive as some- as some sort of family?" Elijah exclaimed.

"That was your fantasy, brother, not mine!" Klaus yelled.

"NO!" Elijah bellowed. "NO, brother! This was our hope. This was our family's hope!" he yelled, starting to hyperventilate. "And now she is gone. Do you understand? I let this person in. I let her in!" Elijah tried to hold back tears, but failed. "I let her in. I don't let people in!"

Elijah sat on the stoop of one of the tombs and put his head in his hands as his sister let a tear drop down her own face.

"Have you forgotten, brother? I let her in too. And, as usual, the one time I let someone in, she is gone," she told him. Klaus looked as if he was about to speak, but his sister glared at him. "He's right, Nik. You created all these enemies and expected her to not inheiret them. Our family needed this child. We needed this child. You knew this. You've taken her from us! We needed her, and you've broken us," she cried as Elijah stood up. 

Klaus stared sadly at his siblings for a moment, before suddenly hugging them both.

"You both can tell your niece how much you love her when we save her," he said quietly as he pulled away. "We're going to save her."