Bellatrix Mikaelson(Tvd)

Chapter 49

Klaus' Family Mansion
[Stefan, Klaus, and Bella are still talking about the Five.]
Stefan: So, tell me more about this tattoo.
Klaus: My sister's suitor was unwilling to tell us anything. Bella, however, was more than willing to investigate. Isn't that right? [Bella looks down, ashamed.]
"Don't guilt her!" Said Layla glaring.
Flashback To Italy
[Bella and Alexander are in bed together. Bella is sitting on top of him and they are kissing passionately. They pull apart. Alexander smiles. Bella runs her hand across the tattoo on his chest.]
Bella glares at screen. Kol, Layla, Elijah and Klaus do, too.
Bella: How do you read these symbols?Alexander: The map took my brothers and I years to translate. [He grabs a sword leaning against the bed.] The sword is the key to reading it. [He puts down the sword] Have you considered my offer? To come with me when I leave to follow the map.
Bella: I have and I can't just leave my brothers. Maybe we could convice them to come with us.
Mikaelson men looked at her surpised.
[Alexander smiles. Bella kisses him. When they pull apart, Bella glances over at something on the cabinet next to the bed.]
Bella: What is that?
Alexander: Oh, that. That [He picks up the silver dagger] is a very special weapon. For a very special kind of vampire. [He dips the dagger into the white oak ash.]
"Arsehole" muttered Bella.
Alexander: When my brotherhood has achieved its destiny, those monsters will cease to exist. Until then, we have the daggers.
Bella: Do you really believe they're all so evil they must be put down?
Alexander: Let us not talk of such evil. Let us do this. [He kisses her.]
Alexander: And this. [He kisses her again.]
Alexander: And this. [He kisses her neck.]
Alexander: And this. [He stabs Bella through the heart with the silver dagger.]
Everyone glared at him.
Klaus' Family Mansion
Klaus: My sister's boyfriend threw a slumber party that night. He and his brothers put us all down in our sleep. Elijah, Kol, Finn, and me. [He looks at Bella.]
Bella: How was I supposed to know?
Klaus: [raises his glass] Cheers, to my sister's uncanny ability to choose men.
[Bella glared at him and threw a bottle at his head, Klaus dodged.]
Klaus: You almost hit me.
Bella: Sorry. Next time i will make sure IT ACTUALLY HITS YOU!!! [Klaus glared at her, she glared back.]
Elijah shakes his head at them.
Stefan: I thought the daggers didn't work on either of you because of your werewolf and witch sides.
Klaus: [smirks] They don't.
Bella: For me they work, just few seconds, but still. Back then i was new to this, it took longer.
Klaus: Go ahead, Bella. Tell him what the hunter told you the tattoo leads to. What is this great weapon that could bring about the end of the vampire species?
Bella: A cure. He said there was a cure.
[Klaus gets up and Stefan follows him.]
Stefan: There is no cure for vampirism.
Bella: He's telling the truth, Stefan.
Stefan: Then why wouldn't you have searched for it, found it? [Bella gets up as well. Klaus is in the parlor, pouring himself a drink.]
Klaus: Because when the hunters drew their final breath that night, the marks disappeared from their body, the map was gone, the brotherhood of the Five extinct. For nine hundred years, there was not a whisper of another hunter, until our friend in there showed up in town.
Bella: Well, now we have the map, what do we do next?
Klaus: The map is useless without the tool to decipher it. We need sword. Where is it Bella?
Bella: Church in San Vittore in Brienno.
Klaus' Family Mansion
[Jeremy is still sketching the tattoo when Klaus enters the room. Klaus looks at his work.]
Klaus: Nice lines. Now, if you could just hurry it up a little bit. [Jeremy gets up and hands the sketchpad to Klaus. Klaus takes it.]
Jeremy: I'm done. [Klaus looks at the sketch and walks closer towards Connor.]
Klaus: What is this?
Jeremy: It's the tattoo. [Klaus turns around and grabs Jeremy by the throat.]
Klaus: I've seen the tattoo, you impertinent punk. There's more to it.
Jeremy: That's all of it. He says every time he kills a vampire it spreads. [Klaus throws Jeremy back into a chair. He turns and looks at Connor.]
Klaus: Nate! [Nate walks in.]
Klaus: Tell the girl to take Jeremy home. [points at Connor] Keep this one alive at all costs. [Klaus exits the room. Jeremy gets up and follows. Connor watches him leave. Back, at living room.]
Stefan: Did you want to take the cure?
Bella: No. Why would i want to be human again? When i was human since i was siphoner i couldn't even use magic, i was just... weak girl. I don't want to be like that again. I love power. I love being the original heretic.
"You were never weak." Said Kol. Bella smiled at him.
Stefan: Then why did you want the cure?
Bella: For Kol and Finn. [Stefan looked curious.]
Mikaelsons looked at her surprised, Kol looked touched.
Bella: Kol loved being witch. When he lost magic... It destroyed him. I just wanted him to be happy again...
"Thank you." Said Kol with teary eyes.
"Yeah, yeah." Said Bella and waved it off.
Bella: And Finn hated every second of being vampire. I wanted to give him back what Esther took from him. Maybe even start brother-sister relationship which i never had with him?
Stefan: What about Klaus and Elijah?
Bella: Nik is like me. He wouldn't take the cure. He likes power vampirism gives him and Elijah... If he wanted he could take it of course, but i doubt it. He would never leave Nik.
Elijah smiled at her.
Bella: Would you take it if you had the chance? Or is it just for Elena?
Stefan: A part of me wishes that she and I could have an eternity together. But Damon's right, there's not a single vampire who hasn't killed a human. Elena will kill and then there will be the pain, the guilt, and then...
Bella: The humanity switch.
Stefan: But Elena, she's driven by love; by compassion. If she turns off her humanity, then I don't think we'll ever get her back. So, I'd do anything to save her.
Bella: I envy that. You and Elena. I envy the love you have. I really did believe Alex when he said he loved me. He promised we'd be married. We even picked out a church.
People look at her sympatheticaly.
[Bella takes another bottle, drinks and she starts to walk out.]
Stefan: I never did answer your question. [Bella stops and turns around.]
Stefan: If it meant that I got to be with her, have children, grow old with her. If it meant that we'd die together, be buried together, then yes. I'd take the cure.
"After being ripper, you would think he would want to be human for himself." Said Layla.
Bella: I buried him. Even after everything. I laid him to rest in the place where we were to be married. Pathetic, i know.
Stefan: I don't think it's pathetic. You loved him.
Bella: Hunter and vampire, i should have known it would never work, but you are right. I was in love and love makes us blind, doesn't it? [Bella takes a drink.]
Bella: Maybe that's why i stopped falling in love. I don't want to be blind again.
Everyone looked at her sadly. Bella glared at them and they looked away.
[Stefan is about to say something, when Bella hands Stefan Jeremy's ring.]
Bella: No one must know about the cure, do you understand? Not Damon. Not Elena. Nobody. If this gets out, it could mean all our deaths. So, if you tell anyone, I'll erase each and every memory from the lot of you...
Stefan: I won't say anything.
Bella: It's just you, Nik and me in this, Stefan.
Klaus' Family Mansion
[Nate walks into Connor's prison room with food and water. He's on the phone with Klaus. Connor is still chained to the torture device.]
Nate: Yeah, I got it. I'll keep him fat and happy. You should send two more for protection. [Glances at Connor.] Make that three. [He hangs up the phone and places the water on a table. Suddenly, Connor comes up from behind Nate and wraps the shackles around his neck. He pulls hard on the shackles and Nate tries to pull himself free. Connor screams as he pulls the chains deeper into Nate's neck. He thrusts the chains forward a few times and Nate's head comes off.]
"What the fuck? Chained man killed him?! Hybrids are supposed to be strong." Said Bella.
[Connor picks the head off the floor and holds it up. He sees the tattoo start to develop more and spread across his arm and shoulder. On his shoulder is a pentagram mark.]
Professor Shane's Office
[The same mark Connor just got on his arm can be seen in picture form, hanging in a frame, on Shane's wall. Shane is sitting at a desk, reading a book. Connor walks into the room. Shane looks up at him.]
Prof. Shane: Shouldn't you be in Mystic Falls killing vampires?
Connor: Why the hell did you send me there?