Aaliyah Lockwood is back, after running away from her problems and taking a vacation to the one and only New Orleans, LA. Except where she's looking for answers is in all the wrong places.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
--
Davina and I walked the cemetery grounds, as we talked, and she smiled wide, "I'll show you a place we practice our magic" she said and took my hand leading me to a little greenhouse.
"Girls this is Aaliyah, Ali this is Monique and Abigail" she told them and Monique glared at her "You can't bring her here here Davina you should know this" I rolled my eyes as Abigail mumbled to her about the treaty, and Monique went silent. Abigail grabbed their Grimoire and Davina took it flipping to the page and they got the ingredients
" I don't know if the ancestors would like us messing around in the spirit world." Abigail called out. " It's just a simple séance." Davina said." Phony witches do séances to impress tourists. They're not real!" Monique said and I laughed
Monique quickly rushes out of the lycée, as Davina sets a violin in the middle of a circle she's drawn in chalk on the table, where she has also scattered salt and herbs in various quadrants around it." What's that for?" I asked. "It's my friend Tim's. Come on! What's the point of being a witch if we can't use our magic for stuff like this?" Abigail smiles and nods in agreement, and she, Davina, and I clutch each other's hands in order to share their magic for the spell. " Elikopte fantomes soliter mouri, vous reveler..." Wind starts to blow around them. Davina cuts her palm with an athame and drips the blood on Tim's violin. All of a sudden, the candles blow out they start to get scared but I keep chanting silently, " Tim?" Davina called out. A song on a violin starts to play around them, and the wind chimes near the window starts to play it as well. A hand wearing a lapis lazuli daylight ring caresses my shoulder from behind. I turn to find the hand belonged to Mikael.
" What a delightful tune." he says and my eyes widened, as I suddenly couldn't breathe. Mikael disappears, and all the windows in the greenhouse shatter violently, and broken glass rains down upon us, as we scream in terror. 'What have you guys done Aaliyah' Celia practically growled at me. 'What is happening Celia?' I asked her, but she didn't have an answer.
--
I sat on my bed flipping through my grimoire as Elijah popped his head in. "Aaliyah, are you coming to walk?" he asked but I shook my head "Funerals are only fun if you can drink, so I'll stay here" I said smiling and he kissed my head and left me.
I looked back down and started aggressively flipping through the pages before finding it. 'You have to close the door Aaliyah before he comes back' Celia reminded me, 'What if I can't and he holds me back?' I ask her, 'Then our connection will be lost. There is no magic in purgatory' she tells me making me sigh loudly.
I grabbed candles and set them up everywhere before sitting on the bed and chanting in Latin. I felt my spirit leave my body like an astral projection, I watched at my physical body hit the bed behind me. "Well well well" I jumped and turned seeing Mikeal. "Why are you haunting us? The other side is gone" I told him. "The other side might be gone but Purgatory is just disintegrating" he said and I rolled my eyes, "That's basically the same thing" I said and he slapped me I fell to the ground with such force.
"Did you forget the place your in? stupid girl you summoned me" He yelled in my face. "I-I-I" I stuttered. "You called out for me and I showed" he said I then bit my lip and shook my head, "I d-didn't...Davina" I breathed "she thought she was calling her friend, but her want for ending that retched beat was more prominate" he said laughing. I looked down at my flat stomach feeling around. "No.. NO!" I yelled and Mikeal laughed. He got closer to me, and in a split decision I grabbed the vase off my bedroom stand and bashed him in the head running out.
I got downstairs when I stopped abruptly "Hayley?" I asked, "Aaliyah?" She asked me. Out of no where I was pinned to the wall by my throat lifted off the ground by the hand on my throat. I choked and struggled for air, I lifted my hand but my magic wouldn't work. I stated seeing dots as he then stabbed me in the shoulder making me scream, and went after Hayley.
" I assume my reputation precedes me." Mikeal sneers as Hayley backed up, "This is a nightmare. I'm dreaming" Mikeal smirked, "On the contrary, my darling-- this is very real." He vamp-speeds over to Hayley and puts her in a headlock, and Hayley gasps in fright. "Welcome to my hell-- stuck in an eternity of watching over that hideous creature my children call brother!" Hayley looked terrified, "You're dead! How can I be here?" She then realized where she was, "Oh my god! NO! Noo! The baby!" Mikeal laughed at her, "The baby? That kid never had a chance! And as if your bloodline isn't filth enough, you poison it by merging it with Klaus'? The deathless vermin, fancying himself a daddy?"
I pushed myself up and tackled him as we fought I yelled out "Run Hayley!" Instead of running Hayley's eyes turn lupine-gold, and she shrieks as she pushes me off him and breaks his arm by twisting it behind his back. Then, she picks up a coat rack and swings it at his head with all the force she can muster " She's not dead! I'm not dead! If I was dead, you wouldn't be trying to kill me." I looked down and saw that I was fading. "Hayley the spell its going wrong!" I said and felt under my eyes to see blood on my hand. "You have to wake up Aaliyah! before you die" Hayley said and fought off Mikeal while I ran up the stairs to my body. I was close to it but Mikeal pulled me back "No!" I screamed as he pulled me away from my body.
I kicked him away as he tried to throw me down the stairs. I kicked him away and he fell instead of me, myself soon faded as I woke up with a gasp in Elijah's arms. I looked down and the color of my dress was stained with blood.
'Welcome back to the land of the living.' Celia tells me, 'The baby is fine. Just focus on healing'
--
My wet hair dripped down my back as I looked out to the party still going on. "Darling." I hear but don't move. "It was Mikeal." I tell him and Klaus comes over placing a hand on the small of my back. "It was Mikeal and he-" Klaus cut me off turning me so I faced him, and he kissed me softly. Pulling back I smiled at him as he says, " --Come with me, hmm?" He lets go of me and heads out the door, but stops when he sees I wasn't following him, "Please. I want to show you something."
I made a face as I reluctantly follow Klaus out the door. He takes me to another room in the compound, which he has already set up to be a nursery, complete with matching cribs, bassinets, and gorgeous mobiles hanging from the ceiling, among other things. My mouth dropped in surprise taking everything in. "Our daughter should be raised by her parents, in her family home. With her sister" I walk up to the crib and reach a hand out, touching the crystals hanging from the mobile and smiles at him affectionately, "You, me, Hayley, Elijah, and miracle-babies, all under one roof? Sounds like a bad reality show." I tell him chuckling. Course i knew before anyone that Hayley was moving back in, since she told me first.
Klaus chuckles nervously and pauses for a moment, " Uh, you said you saw my father?" I nodded before turning to him fully. "Why do you call him that? He's not your real dad." I ask and Klaus just says, "He's done damage only a father could do," before pausing, "What did he say to you?" I smiled warmly as I walk over to him wrapping my arms around his neck, and he placed his hands on my hips. "Nothing true." Klaus and I both leaned in and shared a passion filled kiss, before pulling back. He kissed my head before leaving the room actually smiling. I look at the wall, on which Klaus has hung the painting he made of New Orleans. It includes a cityscape at night with a large full moon glowed around the hundreds of stars, painted in the sky above the buildings.
