Bellatrix Mikaelson (The Originals S1)

Chapter 42

FEAST OF BLESSINGS PARTY
[Inside, Monique glares at Davina, who is talking and giggling with some guests. Lydia catches up with her.]
Lydia: Is something wrong?
Monique: These people came to praise witches. What has she done to prove herself worthy?
Lydia: She's a Harvest girl. Like you. [She gestures for Monique to walk with her.]
Monique: Our power is a gift from the ancestors. I've had to make sacrifices to honor that gift. I lost my aunt, my mother. Davina has done nothing but stand against us.
Lydia: She just needs a little lesson. If there's one thing I'm good at, it's putting people in their place. [Lydia kicks off the after-party by greeting the guests, as everyone grabs drinks from the bar]
Lydia: Welcome. As is our time-honored tradition, you are all welcome to deliver your offerings. It is our custom that no one should be turned away, no blessing be denied. [Guests line up to bring their offerings to the Harvest girls. First is Hayley, who smiles at Davina and is about to give her gift to her, but is stopped by an attendant. She tells Hayley to give the gift to Monique, which she does.]
Kol, Marcel and Bella glare at attendants.
[The line to give offerings to the Harvest girls continue. Davina has still not received any gifts, and Monique sends Davina smug smiles every time she gets a new gift. Davina, near tears, runs away and bumps into Josh on her way out.]
"I will kill them." Said Kol glaring.
Davina: Josh! What are you doing here?
Josh: What, are you kidding? No way I'd miss out on your big day. Besides, music, wind, fire? The club kid in me is, like, in heaven. [He notices how sad she is] You don't look like you're having much fun, though. Hey. Come on. Let's get out of here.
"Okay. You have to introduce him to me." Said Layla. Davina smiled and nodded.
[He's about to lead her away when Klaus notices him.]
Klaus: [appears] Joshua. What a fortunate coincidence, finding you here. We have unfinished business.
Davina: [to Klaus] You need to leave here. Right now.
Klaus: Now, to be fair, love, you're not quite as powerful as you once were, are you? You're in no position to give orders. [He vamp-speeds over to Josh and grabs him by the neck] Come along, lad.
Kol glares at Klaus.
Josh: Hey, can we talk about this? [Davina follows them into the main room of the party.]
Davina: Josh!
Klaus: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please. We are gathered here today to pay homage to our beloved witches, but one very special witch has been utterly ignored. That seems a little unfair to me. [Klaus hands Davina a small box as his offering.]
Davina: No. I don't want your gift.
"That's my girl." Said Kol proudly.
Klaus: I understand why you would reject me, given our past. In truth, many of us here today have been wronged in the conflict which my brother's treaty ended. Your friend Josh was involved in a plot to kill me. It would be well within my right to execute him here and now. But, in the spirit of solidarity, and for your favor, Davina, I hereby pardon him. Josh from this day forward, you have nothing to fear from me. Please. [Klaus hands Davina the box before he leaves the two of them, and Josh beams in relief.]
Josh: So, are you gonna open it? [She opens it, and looks stunned when she finds a lapis lazuli ring and a small, folded up piece of parchment] What? What is it?
Davina: It's the spell that makes daylight rings. [Hayley walks through the party as Klaus catches up with her and wraps an arm around her.]
Klaus: I hear you made quite an impression with the wolves. My arrangement with them was supposed to be a secret, and yet you forced it out of them. It's very bold. As was your decision to represent them here today, on your own. I trust you'll do nothing to harm our cause.
Hayley: Are you really gonna go behind Bella and Elijah's back?
Klaus: Come on! What difference does it make to you as long as your people benefit?
Hayley: If I find out that you are playing some game, trying to manipulate us for one of your schemes--
Klaus: [interrupts her]--You know, you've come a long way, little wolf. I knew you were tough, I knew you were cunning, but I never knew you were a queen.
Bella smiles at their friendship.
[A large group of drummers marches into the party. Confused, Hayley, Bella, Elijah and Klaus linger nearby and watch them.]
Lead drummer: Happy Fête des Bénédictions. We have a message for all of you from Marcel Gerard. [The crowd frowns, and everyone starts whispering to each other. All of the drummers take out straight razors and slice their wrists open, bleeding all over the floor. The vampires in the room start to get antsy and vamp-out at the smell of blood.]
Bella: Control yourselves. This is a vulgar trick. [she shouts to the crowd] We do not violate our agreement. [The lights suddenly go out, and the vampires start feeding on the drummers, as well as other humans at the party. The crowd dissolves into chaos.]
Bella and Elijah glare at Marcel.
Lydia: [runs toward the Harvest girls and grabs another witch to help] Get them out of here! [The chaos continues, and when the lights switch back on, there are dozens of dead/injured humans lying on the ground. On the walls, someone has written "THERE WILL BE NO PEACE" on the wall.]
Hayley: Hey! - Elijah?
Elijah: Hayley. It's okay. It's all right. [He picks her up and helps her out of the party.]
OUTSIDE MARCEL'S LOFT
[Thierry and Marcel are recapping the night's events.]
Thierry: Blood on the walls. Pile of bodies. All in all, I'd say message received.
Marcel: Did you get Davina out first?
Thierry: As planned, Josh took care of Davina. I made sure the other Harvest girls got out in the clear.
Marcel: That was just the warning shot. Now we double down.
Elijah: [shouts out] Marcel! [Bella tackles Thierry and throws him against the building.]
Thierry: Aah!
Elijah: [vamp-speeds so he is face-to-face with Marcel] I warned you. [He shoves Marcel against the wall] And yet still, you return to the French Quarter.
Marcel: You gonna kill me, Elijah? Go ahead. But then you won't know what Klaus has got going with that witch in his pocket.
"What witch?" Asked Layla.
"Lydia and Nik were fuck buddies." Said Bella.
Elijah: Oh, whatever shall I do? I suppose I could just ask him.
Marcel: Yeah. Make sure he tells you all about the secret meetings with the werewolves. That is, if he's still speaking to you once he knows that you killed me. [Thierry picks himself up off the ground.]
Elijah: Do you not know me? [Elijah shoves his fist into Marcel's chest and grabs his heart. When Thierry jumps in to protect him, Bella does the same to Thierry, who groans in pain.]
Bella: For your violation. [Bella rips out Thierry's heart.]
Marcel: [kneels next to Thierry's body] No. No, no.
Elijah: [holds Thierry's heart in Marcel's face] You live or you die according to my will. Try to remember that. [Marcel starts to cry, and when Elijah leaves, he rushes over to Thierry's body.]
"When is he gonna learn?" Muttered Bella, shaking her head.
THE MIKAELSON COMPOUND
[Klaus returns home to find Elijah and Bella waiting for him, with their hands still bloody.]
Klaus: Well, I see that you've already avenged the little wolf. But judging by your look, you're still out for blood.
Elijah: If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results, then surely my quest for your salvation ranks me as one of the maddest of men.
Klaus: Come on, then. What horrible deed has the bastard done this time?
Bella glares at Klaus.
Bella: Do you know, in the past, I actually appreciated the methods to your manipulations? However, now, here we are, poised on the brink of a new era which will benefit not only your home but your child, and you go behind our back to conspire with wolves.
Klaus: Conspire is hardly the word I would use for a family council. Lest you forget, they are my family as much as any Mikaelson. A name, in truth, I cannot even call my own. [Bella frozes in shock and hurt.]
Layla gives him migrane. Klaus glares at Bella.
"It wasn't me." Said Bella.
"It was me." Said Layla.
"Godd job." Said Bella.
Elijah: How casually you disavow 1,000 years of allegiance towards you.
Klaus: And now that I've found the remnants of my other family, am I to ignore their plight? I would've thought you'd support my desire to help them, when in doing so, I help Hayley, and the child. [Bella is still looking at Klaus in disbelief than scoffs.]
Bella: Family isn't defined only by last names or by blood; it's defined by commitment and by love. It means showing up when they need it most. It means having each other's backs. It means choosing to love each other even on those days when you struggle to like each other. You always do things like this and despite everything, despite how much you hurt us over centuries we stay by your side always and forever. Would your so called family do that? Open your eyes and realise everything we do for you, everything Elijah does for you. He doesn't have relationships, because you get jaelous and kill them like you did with Celeste, he doen't make a move on Hayley and ignores his fellings out of respect to your intentions. He sacrifices his whole life to you. Elijah doesn't deserve this treatment form you and neither do i. The problem isn't the wolves here, problem is you. If you had just asked me, i would help you. But like always you prefer to stab us in the back, than trust us. [Bella leaves. Elijah gives Klaus one last glare and he leaves too. Klaus looks hurt.]
Klaus looked down. No one said anything.
"That's why angry Bella is worse than angry Klaus. Bella' words hurt much more than anything Klaus will do." Said Marcel.