Bellatrix Mikaelson (The Originals S1)

Chapter 4

The Cemetery
[The witches are still in the mausoleum. The church clock starts tolling.]
Agnes: His time is up. What're you gonna do now, Sophie?
Sophie: I'm gonna do what I said was gonna do. 
Sabine: What, kill the girl? Kill yourself? 
Agnes: Klaus does not care about the child. [Elijah appears.]
"He does. He's just stubborn." Said Bella.
Elijah: I do. [He comes into the mausoleum, carrrying the body of Jane-Anne.]
Elijah: And I bring proof of my intent to help you: the body of your fallen friend, which I procured from Marcel himself.
Sophie: Jane-Anne. 
Elijah: May she be granted peace. Klaus will agree to your terms. I just need a little more time. 
Agnes: You had your time. It's passed.
Sabine: Shut up, Agnes. 
Elijah: For now, accept the deal. The girl and the child remain unharmed, or Klaus will kill you all. [He walks away, but then turns around again.]
Elijah: And I will help him. 
Bella smiles.
New Orleans
[Klaus holds a bottle in his hand, drinking from it. He hears Elijah arrive, and speaks to him without turning.]
Klaus: Have I not made clear my desire to be left alone? 
Elijah: Oh, you demand to be left alone at least once a decade. Your words have ceased to have impact. 
"True." Said Bella.
[Klaus throws the bottle against the floor, where it bursts.]
Klaus: (shouting) Why must you keep harping on about the baby? That child will never be born. In fact, Hayley is probably dead already. [Elijah vampire-speeds up to Klaus, holding his hand around his brother's throat.]
Elijah: (threatening) You will not walk away from this!
Klaus: (angry) Let. Me. Go. 
Elijah: (angry too, shouting) I WILL NOT! [Elijah throws Klaus against the floor, then heaves him up again, not letting off of him.]
Klaus: Don't make me say it again.
"Kick his ass, Elijah!" Cheered Kol and Bella. Klaus glared at them.
Elijah: I will not let go. I will never let go. [Klaus grabs Elijah and hurls him against an iron rod fence. Elijah stands up fast and takes one of the iron rods. Then he walks towards Klaus, holding the rod in his hand.]
Elijah: Even if I have to spend eternity saving you from your own stubborn, petulant, vile self... [Elijah vampire-speeds up and hits Klaus with the iron rod.]
Elijah: If I have to beat you as father used to beat you,
Bella boiled Elijah's blood.
"You are going too far!" Said Bella. Klaus smiled at her.
Elijah: to remind you of your own humanity – (Elijah hits Klaus again) – to care about anything... [He tries to hit Klaus again, but this time Klaus is faster. Klaus grabs the iron rod and now he is the one hitting his brother. Klaus hurls Elijah a few meters back, where he falls on the ground and stays down. Klaus breathes heavily. He lets the iron rod fall to the ground and walks a few steps towards Elijah, who is still lying on the ground.]
Klaus: You're beyond pathetic, Elijah.
Elijah: Well who is more pathetic? The one who sees hope to make his family whole, or the coward who only see the world through his own fear?
Klaus: I haven't cared about anything for centuries. Why on earth do you?
Elijah: Because I failed you. Because the first time our father laid a hand on you, I should have struck him dead. I made a promise to you: always, forever, family above all. 
"You were a child, too, Elijah. Child! You couldn't do anything." Said Bella.
"You did." Said Elijah with knowing look.
"What does that look mean?" Said Layla.
"Elijah means the time when Bella tried to kill Mikael in his sleep." Said Emma.
"What?" Said Kol and Klaus surprised.
"I stopped her. I will forever regret that." Said Elijah.
"You tried to kill Mikael?" Asked Klaus to Bella.
FLASHBACK-- 10TH CENTURY MYSTIC FALLS
[Mikael is brutally beating Klaus, who is almost fully grown now, and who is curled in the fetal position on the floor, with a whip. Elijah rushes into the room to urge him to stop.]
"Turn it off." Shouted Klaus. Emma didn't answer. Everyone looked at him with pity. Bella's vampire face was out.
"I will rip out everyone's eyes who won't look away!" Yelled Bella. Everyone looked away. Bella and Elijah placed their hands at Klaus's shoulder. Bella used privacy spell.
"It's over, Nik. It's over. You are stronger than him. And you aren't alone. It's just memories. Just memories." Said Bella and kissed his head. Klaus didn't say anything.
Elijah: Father! Father, please!
Mikael: Stay back! [Bella runs into the room with Mikael's sword in her hands, aiming it at her father.]
Bella: Stop it! Stop it! I will not let you hurt him anymore!
Mikael: You stand against me? For him?! [Mikael angrily grabs the sword from Bella's hands and leaves.] 
Everyone glares at screen.
[In flashback, Bella grabs a knife, and wanders over to where Mikael was sleeping, fully ready to kill him. She steels herself to kill Mikael as he slept, but before she could, Elijah discovered what she was about to do, and grabs the knife from her hand before yanking her back to her bed.]
"Shouldn't have stopped her." Said Marcel.
"I know." Said Elijah looking down.
New Orleans
[Klaus starts laughing. Then he reaches his hand to his brother. Elijah takes Klaus' hand and stands up.]
Klaus: You are a sentimental fool.
Elijah: Perhaps. But I've lasted this long in spite of it, haven't I? [Elijah walks away. Klaus is still standing there, thinking.]
New Orleans
[Klaus is sitting on a bench. Elijah takes a seat beside his brother. Elijah's voice speaks in voiceover while the camera cuts to Bella is drinking and sees call from "Problem 1👔😈" and picks it up.]
Elijah glared at Bella, Bella ignored it.
"SUITable." Chuckled Kol. Bella high-fived him and they laughed.
Bella: You mean to tell me, after all these years, Marcellus is alive and well? [Bella looks angry.]
Elijah: Quite. Our brother seems to have wandered into a war zone. And I haven't been able to find him. Marcel, who Klaus sired and brought up beneath his own wing, now rules a menagerie of savage vampires running wild, killing in public for any human to come upon. Witches are held in subjugation.
Bella: That bastard! How dares he?! Does Nik know about Marcel? How is he taking it?
Marcel ignored the glares.
Elijah: Not good and Bella Niklaus is having a child. [Bella frozes in shock, mouth agape.]
Bella: He is having what now?
Elijah: He was born as werewolf and magic turned him into vampire. It's nature loophole.
Bella: I'm... I'm going to be aunt?
Elijah: Yes.
Bella: [laughs] I'm gonna be aunt. [Elijah smiles.]
Bella: I'm coming to New Orleans.
"Finally, you're going back to yourself, Trixie." Said Kol. Bella hugged him.
[Cut to the witches with Sophie Deveraux, who performs final rites around Jane-Anne's body, now clad in white.]
Elijah: (voiceover) The bond of family blesses us with an immeasurable power. But we also must accept what comes with it. It gives us a responsibility to love without condition, without apology. We can never waver from the power of that bond, even if it's tested. The bond nourishes us, gives us strength. Without that power, we are nothing. 
Klaus: This town was my home once, and in my absence, Marcel has gotten everything that I ever wanted. Power, loyalty, family. I made him in my image, and he has bettered me. I want what he has. I want it back. I wanna be king.
"Thiese speeches are perfect example of difference between Klaus and Elijah." Said Layla.
[Cut to Marcel in a room with his vampires, while Thierry lay dying of the werewolf bite.]
Elijah: (voiceover) So is that all this child means to you? A grab for power? [Cut back to Klaus and Elijah.]
Klaus: What does it mean to you? 
Elijah: I think this child could offer you the one thing that you've never believed you had.
Klaus: And what's that?
Elijah: The unconditional love of family. [They are looking at each other.]
Klaus: Tell Sophie Deveraux we have a deal. 
Mikaelsons' House
[Hayley and Elijah are in a huge, white house. Hayley pulls a sheet off of a crib, coughing because of the dust.]
Elijah: Are you alright?
Hayley: Just dust. This place is ancient. 
Elijah: Yes, it should serve our purposes. It's a sanctuary from our business in the Quarter. Right now, you are the most important person in this family. You need a good home. So I'm curious... in all this time, has anyone asked you how you feel?
Hayley: About having a miracle baby with a psychotic one-night-stand? 
Elijah: About being a mother. 
Hayley: I – I was abandoned when I was born and my adoptive parents kicked me out the second that I turned into a wolf. So... I don't really know how I feel about being a mother because I... I never really had a good one.
"Welcome to the Mummy issiues club. We have meetings on Thursdays." Said Bella. Everyone laughed.
Elijah: I will always protect you. You have my word on that. [Klaus appears.]
Klaus: And noble Elijah always keeps his word. 
Elijah: Is it done? 
Klaus: As a matter of fact, yes. Your underhanded deal worked quite well. Marcel was only too happy to accept my blood even as he accepted my heartfelt apologies. His man, Thierry, yet lives and I remain a welcome guest in the French Quarter. My only concern now is this coven of impudent witches. 
Elijah: I believe them to be honorable. They did release Hayley to me.
"Oh, please... They tried to kill pregnant woman." Said Bella.
Elijah: Although, they haven't been entirely forthcoming. Marcel obviously has something that they need. They don't want him dead. There must be a reason why. 
The Attic
[A dark and dusty attic. A bed, some canvases. A girl is sitting behind a window. It's a witch. She turns on and off the flame of a candle just with hand movements. Marcel enteres the room.]
"You look so different there." Said Hayley.
"I was." Said Davina
Marcel: I assume it's all quiet out there?
Davina: The witches know better than to use magic. They know I can sense it when they do. What about the old ones? They're dangerous, and I don't want them to hurt you.
"Don't call us old ones. It sounds lame." Said Bella.
Marcel: The Originals? Davina, as powerful as you are, they don't stand a chance. 
Kol, Klaus, Bella and Layla laughed.
"Only reason you are alive is, because Niklaus cares about you. You are too arrogant for your own good." Said Kol.
Mikaelsons' House
[Elijah and Klaus are talking in their house.]
Elijah: In addition to the secret weapon he uses to control the witches, Marcel has assembled a small army of vampires. Working together, we can destroy them from the inside.
Klaus: And what of Bellatrix?
Elijah: She said she would come. She sounded excited about becoming an Aunt.
Klaus: I hope she stays far away.
"Ouch." Said Bella.
Klaus: Because in my desire to reclaim this town, to steal from Marcel that which he holds most dear, I have realized one massive vulnerability. One weakness that Marcel could exploit. 
Elijah: And what is that?
Klaus: You. [Klaus daggers Elijah with the silver dagger. Elijah groans.]
"Arsehole." Said Kol.
Klaus: Forgive me, my brother. There is no power in love. Mercy makes you weak. Family makes you weak. If I am going to win this war, I have to do it alone. 
"Ughhh... You are so insufferable." Said Bella to Klaus.