The Other Mikaelson- Book 3 (On hold)

Chapter XII

At the compound, Elijah lay on his bed. He was breathing erratically, sweating, and shaking, and his shirt was bloodstained and ripped when Keira's footsteps were heard walking quickly up the stairs.

Keira looked at her brother. "Oh, brother, what a mess you've gotten yourself into," she said with an uncharacteristically serious expression. Klaus and Hayley were standing in the room as well, Hayley pacing and Klaus sitting on the side of Elijah's bed.

"He's locked in battle, however deep in his mind our mother has set the stage," Klaus said. Keira nodded.

"Brother," she said calmly. "Our mother thinks she will win because she has left you alone, but you are not alone. Open your mind."

Keira put her thumbs on Elijah's temples, attempting to enter his mind. It was definitely harder than it should have been, and would have been easier if she had tried when in her Original body. There were some side affects from being a witch involved with vampires. For one, witches woke up slower than vampires when in transition, hence why Kol and Keira woke up in transition almost four hours after the rest of their siblings. Along with this, while it is possible for them to have telepathic abilities, witches struggled more entering the minds of vampires.

Elijah started shaking even more, as if he was being electrocuted. Keira's little mortal nose began to bleed as glimpses of all he was going through flooded into her mind.

"W-What is she doing?" Hayley asked, confused. Klaus watched his sister, mildly worried.

"She's inside his head," Klaus replied. Keira groaned in pain, overwhelmed by Elijah's anguish, and Klaus vamp-sped to the other side of the bed, pulling her off. "Sister, stop."

Keira gasped, leaving Elijah's mind. "Well that's... intensely complicated," she said, turning to Klaus. "Mother's locked me out."

Hayley walked over to Elijah as Keira wiped the blood off above her lip, and noticed a flower-petal-shaped wound on his neck.

"Is this rash a side effect of the witchy acid trip he's on?" she asked. Keira sat next to him again.

"I haven't seen this since I was a child..." she said. Klaus got up and stood beside her.

"I remember these. Mikael would return home from battle more blindly temperamental than usual, and our mother would use the petals of a rare merlock orchid as a binding agent to put him to sleep. She would mend his mind with a spell, and then wake him with the roots of the same plant and another spell," he explained.

"I know the spell," Keira said, looking up at Klaus. "If we can find that flower, I can wake him."

Klaus turned to Hayley hopefully. "If she has access to it now, then maybe it also grows in the Bayou. You stay here with your wolves and mind the fort."

Hayley rolled her eyes. "I'd rather rip your mother's head off."

Keira stared at her with a serious expression. "Stay clear of her. I mean it, Hayley. She already got to you once. What would happen if Elijah were to wake and find you a victim of her madness?"

"I won't go after her. I promise," Hayley said. "I've learned a few things from your mother. I won't go after her. I'll go after everything that she loves."

Klaus looked at her. "Be careful," he said, before leaving abruptly.

"Well go on," Keira said a few seconds later, as Hayley was simply standing there. "I'll watch my brother, you go do whatever the bloody hell you want to my mother."

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A few hours later, Keira was still sitting by Elijah when Klaus walked back into the room, holding a cloth. He handed it to his sister, but looked at her, worried.

"Are you sure you can do this?" he asked.

"Probably," she replied. "I mean, only a witch can do it, and you're not really a witch. Besides, if anyone can bring him back, it's me."

Klaus sighed, and Keira began chanting, smearing the contents of the cloth on Elijah's neck.

"We were innocent once, Elijah," Keira said once, entering his mind, where a teenage version of Elijah was running through the 10th Century Mystic Falls forest, when he fell to his knees, exhausted. "This bloodlust was forced upon us by our parents, turning us from prey to predator." Modern day Keira, in her Original body, appeared in front of Elijah, which was a bit weird as Elijah was about fifteen then, meaning Keira would have only been six. She gripped his shoulders reassuringly. "We're the demons lurking in shadow. We are the savage villains in fairy tales taught to children. The monster in me can only be challenged by the monster in you. I need you. I need you, brother," she said, handing young Elijah a wooden stake, and disappearing. Adult Elijah stood nearby, and lunged for him. Young Elijah, using all his strength, stabbed his adult version with the stake just as he was inches away from himself. Back in the compound, Elijah woke up with a gasp. Keira smiled as her brother looked around, confused. Klaus smiled at him as well.

The next night, Elijah having slept a lot, Keira sat on one of his chairs, Klaus leaning over her and Elijah on the balcony.

"How do you feel?" she asked.

"The worst has past," Elijah replied. "Though, I suspect the nightmares are far from over."

"Well, gather your strength. After the message I sent Mother tonight, I expect hell-fire to rain upon us imminently," Klaus said.

Keira looked up at him. "What do you mean?"

"I... I met my biological father," Klaus said. Keira stared at him in shock. "Mother resurrected him... but he knew too much. He knew about Hope. So I sliced open his chest, and left his corpse in mother's compound."

"Wow," Keira said. "Are you ok?"

"Well, not exactly."

Elijah approached his siblings. "We need to make a move before she strikes."

Marcel and Hayley suddenly appeared in the doorway. "Well, actually, moves were made while you were sleeping," Marcel said. Hayley smiled.

"It's good to see you vertical," she told Elijah. "Marcel and I each left a gift for you in the ballroom," Klaus looked at them curiously. "You're welcome?"

Klaus looked at Elijah, who gestured towards the door. As the three left, Marcel said 'you're welcome' under his breathe on the way out.

In the entrance, Kol and Finn were both chained to the walls by enchanted manacles. Keira remembered these manacles, having helped Mary-Alice Claire and Astrid Malchance create them in the 1900's. The basic idea of those chains was to disrupt the magic of witches- while wearing them, witches could not perform magic. They were regular humans. And the two, witch possessing Mikaelson brothers, were both chained up with them.

Keira looked at her favorite brother. "How did this happen?"

"Kidnapping," Kol replied, annoyed. "That's a rather unpleasant way to begin a family reunion!"

Klaus grinned. "Well, wait until you see how we end it!"