Bellatrix Mikaelson (The Originals S1)

Chapter 23

Mikaelson House
[In the courtyard, Elijah, Klaus are crowded around a table, where Bella waves her hands over a map. As she casts the locator spell, a puddle of Klaus' blood traces across the map from their current location to where Hayley is being held in the Bayou.]
Bella: She's in the back country. Way up past Houma, deep in the Bayou. 
Elijah: I don't suppose you could be more precise?
Klaus: What's the matter, Elijah? You're worried a bit of splashing about in the bog might ruin your expensive shoes? 
Elijah: As a matter of fact, after my recent confinement, I could use a decent stroll through the countryside.
"Is it weird i like their bickering?" Said Layla.
Bella: There are stories of exiled werewolves, encampments. If Hayley went out that far, chances are she went to find them.
Klaus: Clearly, she hopes to make the acquaintance of more like herself. I suppose our company wasn't good enough for her.
THE BAYOU
[Klaus, Bella and Elijah continue their search for Hayley near the werewolf encampments.]
Elijah: We should head south towards the water.
Klaus: You seem quite determined to find the little wolf.
Elijah: If I'm moving too fast for you, Niklaus, you're welcome to wait in the car. Do be certain to leave the windows down.
Klaus: Ah, so I've touched a nerve? You've begun to admire this girl. Perhaps that's why you've been barking orders since your return, hoping to impress Hayley by assuming the role of family patriarch.
Elijah: If you're going to insist on treating her like a walking incubator, then that's your mistake.
Bella: Can you two shut up? I'm tired of this already.
"They are so annoying." Said Bella. Kol nodded.
[Klaus sniffs at the air and looks around.]
Elijah: Have you found her scent? [Klaus comes upon Tyler's SUV and starts searching through its contents.]
Klaus: [groans] No, but I found someone else's. This vehicle reeks of someone I thought I was rid of... Tyler Lockwood.
Bella: Shit!
Elijah: And why would your little hybrid-sidekick from Mystic Falls have any interest in Hayley?
Klaus: He wants revenge because I went after his girl. [Bella snorted.]
Everyone gave Klaus a look.
Elijah: Why do I suspect this is the least of your offenses?
"Because it is." Said Layla.
Klaus: Back when I had the means to sire hybrids, he was my first, Although, I didn't give him much choice in the matter. [Klaus pulls a blanket out of the abandoned car and sniffs at it.]
Klaus: He was loyal in the beginning, but he grew insubordinate, turned my other hybrids against me. I couldn't have that, so I massacred the lot of them. Tyler ran like a coward before I could finish him off.
Elijah: [sighs in frustration] Anything else that you would like to share?
Bella: He killed his mum!
Klaus: Hey! She killed his friends.
"You are thousand years old children." Said Layla.
"You were raised by this child. What does that make you?" Said Bella.
Elijah: [incredulous] Wonderful.
Klaus: He needed to be taught a lesson!
Elijah: And what lesson will you be taught, Niklaus, if he retaliates by harming Hayley?
Bella: It would be more helpful if we look for her instead of bickering.
"Stop ignoring me!" Said annoyed Bella.
Klaus: So you do care about her. Well, go on, then. Have at it, brother. Save her. Claim what spoils you can. I've sampled what she has to offer and let me tell you, she is exquisite--
Kol snickered. Hayley glared.
Elijah: [cuts him off] --Niklaus, so help me...
Bella: Enough. I'll kill Tyler Lockwood myself. [Bella vamp-runs away to find Tyler, Klaus follows.]
THE BAYOU
[Hayley is alone in the shack, zip-tied to a fire stove, when Tyler walks in and joins her.]
Hayley: Tyler, there's been a wolf watching me lately. Protecting me, like it instinctively knows that I'm part of it's pack. [She pauses a beat] You're a hybrid, you can turn into a wolf whenever you want... Was it you?
"Are you seriously asking man, who kidnapped you, if he was protecting you?" Said Bella.
"Shut up!" Said Hayley emberassed.
Tyler: [confused] No, but you're right-- only hybrids can control when they change. And I'm the only one left, besides Klaus. Which is why we're here.
Hayley: Whatever you think you're doing, you know that whole Original family has made some sort of pact, or something, to keep me and the baby safe. So, if you hurt me, they'll kill you.
Tyler: What makes you think I'm afraid to die? [Dwayne walks into the shack and joins them.]
Tyler: [to Dwayne] You ready for this?Dwayne: [nods] Let's do it. [Tyler digs in a bag and draws out a large syringe, and Hayley's eyes widen in fear.]
Hayley: [scared] What are you doing?
[Dwayne walks over and holds Hayley down. Tyler crouches down in front of her.]
Everyone glares at him.
Hayley: Tyler, please. NO! Tyler!
Tyler: Klaus destroyed everything good in my life! So, I'm gonna take away the thing he wants most!
Hayley: NO, PLEASE! TYLER, PLEASE! 
[Tyler jams the syringe into Hayley's stomach and draws out a measure of her blood. Hayley screams in pain.]
Everyone look furious.
[One he removes the syringe from her body, he jams it into Dwayne's neck, injects the blood into him, and snaps his neck as Hayley watches in horror.]
THE BAYOU
[Tyler lifts Dwayne's dead body up off the floor and drags him over to the other side of the room while Hayley glares at him.]
Tyler: Don't get all judgy! Dwayne knew what he was getting into. He volunteered!
Hayley: [skeptical] For you to kill him?
Tyler: Dwayne is a werewolf who died with your blood in his system. The same blood you share with your hybrid baby.
Hayley: [realizes what he's doing] You're trying to turn him into a hybrid?
That's impossible!
Tyler: I've been running with wolf packs all over the country. One of them was tight with a witch. She had nightmare visions about your baby and how Klaus could use its blood to make an army of hybrid slaves.
Klaus looks murderous.
Hayley: [furious] I am sick of these witches and their premonitions about my baby. It's just a baby!
Tyler: [shrugs] Maybe. Maybe not. That's where Dwayne comes in. You see, he was happy to be the test case. If you haven't noticed, these people don't have much to live for. They'd all welcome the chance to become the superior species. Trouble is, all hybrids are sired to Klaus. They follow his every move. [He grabs knife from his bag and sets it on the table] No way I let that happen.
Hayley: How can you be so sure Klaus knows what the baby's blood will do?
Tyler: What do you think? Klaus Mikaelson, killer of men, women and puppies, all of a sudden wants to be a daddy? Or, he's got an ulterior motive. Hybrids can walk in the sun. Their bite is lethal to vampires. They'll take over New Orleans by the end of the week. And you know what's going to stop Klaus then? Nothing.
"I should have killed him." Said Klaus glaring.
"I did. Remember when i went out that day?" Said Bella. Klaus nodded.
"I found him running out of New Orleans and killed him." Said Bella.
[Dwayne awakens with a gasp and starts freaking out.]
Tyler: [glances at Hayley before addressing Dwayne] You're gonna have to feed on her. [Tyler picks up the knife and walks toward her before cutting her neck.]
Hayley: [screams] What? No! Ahhhhh!
Everyone continue to glare.
Tyler: Do it. [Dwayne walks over to Hayley and feeds on her, despite her cries. After a moment, Dwayne stops feeding and falls to the floor in pain. Tyler pushes him outside and leaves the shack to tend to him. Hayley notices the knife on the ground and strains to reach for it. When she realizes she can't reach it, she instead grabs a broken chair leg from the floor. Outside, Dwayne continues convulsing.]
Tyler: [shouting] Look at me! Look at me! [Dwayne starts to calm down, and eventually lies still.]
Tyler: [relieved] You're okay. [Dwayne's hybrid face emerges, and he smiles.]
Dwayne: I'm better than okay.
"Not for long." Said Bella cheerfuly.
"Don't sound so happy about it." Said Davina.
THE BAYOU
[Tyler returns to the shack after Dwayne's transformation. He gives Hayley a grim look, and she looks shocked. When Tyler continues to walk toward her, she stabs him in the gut with the broken chair leg. Tyler screams in pain and pulls the stake out.]
Tyler: That was stupid! [He starts to walk toward Hayley again when Dwayne rushes in.]
Dwayne: Get away from her!
Tyler: What do you care?
Dwayne: I said get away!
Tyler: [annoyed] You got what you wanted, now get lost!
Hayley: [desperate] Dwayne, he's gonna kill me! And he's gonna kill you, too! He said that hybrids are too dangerous to live! You need to stop him!
Tyler: SHUT UP! [Dwayne comes behind Tyler and tosses him across the room. He lands on the floor, and when he gets up, Dwayne runs to tackle him. Hayley sees that Tyler dropped the knife within reach, and uses it to cut herself free. Tyler eventually overpowers Dwayne and rips his heart out. When he turns back toward Hayley, he sees that she's escaped and becomes furious.]
"Good plan." Said Marcel.
[Hayley runs as fast as she can through the woods, Tyler's knife still in her hand, and stops to hide behind a tree. As she catches her breath, she hears someone approaching. She braces herself, readies her knife, and turns to attack, but it's just Elijah. He holds her hand steady to protect himself ]
Elijah: [smiles] Forgive me! I thought you were in danger. It appears I was mistaken. [Hayley sighs in relief and dives into Elijah's arms. The two hug for a long moment before Hayley eventually pulls away.]
"Damn! You really were in love on first sight." Muttered Bella. Hayley and Elijah glare at her.
Hayley: You will not believe the crap day I'm having.
Elijah: I'll take you home. [He turns to leave, but Hayley stops him.]
Hayley: Elijah, there's something you need to know about the baby.[Meanwhile, Klaus and Bella wanders around and checks random tents as they searches for Tyler.]
Klaus: Is this your idea of revenge, Tyler? A grueling game of hide-and-seek? [Tyler runs up behind Klaus and stabs him through the chest with a stake. Klaus yells in pain and backhands Tyler away, before he pulls the stake out of his chest and readies himself to fight back. Bella gives Tyler migrane.]
Klaus: [glares at Tyler] Let's end this, shall we? [Bella lets Tyler go. Klaus and Tyler lunge forward to fight, their hybrid eyes and fangs emerge. Tyler tackles Klaus, and they both roll down a small hill and land in front of Dwayne's shack. Tyler punches Klaus in the face, so Klaus grabs him in a choke-hold.]
Klaus: How dare you! [Bella is about to intervene.]
Klaus: Don't! It's my fight! [Bella sights, sits down and watches fight.]
Tyler: I'm just getting started. [Tyler stakes him in the side, and Klaus groans in pain.]
Klaus: You've grown bloodthirsty. Perhaps it's best your mother didn't live to see you like this. [Klaus laughs devilishly at him. Tyler gets more enraged and begins to pummel Klaus in the face. Klaus grabs his fist, flips him over so Klaus is on top of him, and stakes Tyler in the chest with the stake that was stuck in his side. Tyler moans in pain, and they both get back on their feet.]
Klaus: It's sad, really. I thought I made you better. Turns out you're quite the disappointment. [Tyler pulls the stake out of his chest and throws it aside.]
Tyler: I guess I'm another one of your failures. Like how you failed at making hybrids. How you failed your family! [He approaches Klaus and smiles] Now it looks like you're going to fail your own kid!
Everyone glared at Tyler.
[Klaus grabs Tyler by the throat and pushes him against a tree. Bella glares at Tyler so hard if looks could kill he would be six feet under.]
Klaus: And thus ends your tedious little life. At least it was brief! [He jams his hand into Tyler's chest and grabs his heart as Tyler shouts in agony.]
Tyler: [gasps for breath] Do it! You're never gonna break me! Only thing you can do is kill me, so go on! Go on, get it over with!
Klaus: [pauses and chuckles] Ahhh, you want me to end your suffering, don't you? Hmm? I did break you! I took everything from you, and now you're begging me to sweep away the shards of your shattered little life. [He stares at him for a moment, and just when Tyler thinks Klaus is about to kill him, he pulls his empty hand out of his chest and chokes Tyler momentarily.]
Klaus: Death offers more peace than you deserve. It's better to let you live. And each morning, you will wake knowing your wretched existence continues only by my will. [He starts to compel him] Now go, and live the rest of your days knowing that you are nothing to me. [Klaus lets him go, and leaves him alone in agony.]
Bella: Stop letting our enemies run! Than i am the one has to chase them!
"Why do you always do that?" Groaned Bella.
"It's more fun that way." Said Klaus.
"Annoying brothers." Sighted Bella.