JARDIN GRIS VOODOO SHOP
[Lydia wanders into the Jardin Gris, closing the door behind her. She senses someone's presence, and is startled when Klaus appears behind her.]
Lydia: [smiles weakly] You disappeared from the party.
Elijah: [enters the room, examining an athame] Do you care to explain why you would choose to torment us with visions of our father?
Lydia: [genuinely surprised] Your father? I didn't. I wouldn't!
Bella: [enters room] Of course, how foolish of us. It must have been that other witch that's been parading through our house in scraps of lace.
Klaus: I know how talented you are with your tongue, Lydia. Might I recommend you use it to provide answers? I would so hate to tear it from your mouth.
"So dramatic." Said Layla.
"You are one to talk." Said Klaus.
Lydia: [laughs nervously] As much as I enjoy these repeated accusations of wrongdoings, I don't know what you're talking about. But, if you've both been seeing your dead father, I can try to get you answers.
Klaus: [strokes Lydia's neck menacingly] Fine. Go.
Elijah: Niklaus, don't you dare let her--
Klaus: Go! [Lydia quickly runs out the door.]
Klaus: [walks toward Elijah] You don't trust her, and you're right not to. Only a fool would. But, she certainly wants us to, doesn't she?
"Why would she?" Asked Layla.
"You will see." Said Bella.
Bella: Let me guess, there's something of benefit for you in all of this, isn't there?
Klaus: I need a witch to make those rings for the wolves. Perhaps we'll get both answers and cooperation?
Bella: I could make them.
Klaus: The more the merrier.
FRANCESCA CORREA'S MANSION
[Hayley sits on Francesca's front porch, waiting until Francesca and her bodyguard return home. When Francesca notices her, she groans, and tries to be polite.]
Francesca: Ah. Hayley, right? I'm guessing you're not here because you want to make a new friend?
Hayley: I don't count terrorists as friends. [Hayley stands up to face her.]
Francesca: [chuckles, and turns to her bodyguard] Wow. I've been accused of everything from grand larceny to blackmail, but "terrorist," that's new!
"I'm sure she has done all of them." Said Hayley.
Hayley: A human pulled up to our home in the Bayou on a motorcycle and blew himself up.
Francesca: I heard. [She grabs her keys and walks to the front door] Awful. Goodnight! [Hayley, annoyed, headbutts her bodyguard before slamming his head into a birdbath and knocking him out. Francesca stares in shock for a moment before smiling fakely at her.]
"Cool!" Said Layla.
Hayley: Word on the street is, he owed a hundred grand to the Palace Royale casino! And then, after he died, the debt was erased. Just like magic.
Francesca: Jeff was a fixture at my roulette table. Sometimes he was up, sometimes he was down. I absolved his family of the debt he owed out of the goodness of my heart.
"Which heart?" Said Bella.
[Hayley glares at her skeptically, and Francesca shrugs]
Francesca: Feel free to sniff around. My hands are clean! [beat] And, I'd advise you to mind your manners. It's lucky you're still alive. You're the one the wolves all whisper about like royalty. If I was interested in hurting the wolves, you'd be my target.
[She smiles] And, when I go after someone? I don't miss.
Everyone glare at her.
[Francesca walks into her house, leaving Hayley on the porch. Hayley sighs and leaves, setting off down the street toward the compound. Monique appears behind a tree several feet behind her, and pops out to cast a spell.]
"Now we know who caused it." Said Kol.
Monique: [whispers] Purger l'interieur, entiendre la lumiere-- [She stabs the poppet representing Hayley with a pin]--dans cette f–. [Hayley senses something weird, but can't identify what it is, so she simply wraps her coat around her tightly and continues walking home, not noticing Monique behind her.]
THE FRENCH QUARTER-- FUNERAL PROCESSION
[Outside, the funeral procession is walking down the street to the sounds of the jazz music being played, behind the priests acting as pallbearers for Father Kieran. Near the end of the parade is Klaus, Bella, Elijah, and Hayley, the latter of whom is flushed, and keeps having coughing fits.]
Elijah: You alright? You look--
Hayley: --A hundred months pregnant and pissed off at the world?
Elijah: [smiles] I was going to say you look lovely.
"Good save." Said Bella.
[Hayley notices Francesca a couple yards in front of them, who is pretending to wipe tears from her face with a tissue.]
Hayley: Do you think I was the target of those bombings?
Klaus: Of course you were the target! Were I to wage a war on the wolves, you'd be my first kill! [Hayley glares at him] I would string you up, for all your worshipers to see.
Bella: Same.
"You two are too much alike." Said Bella.
Elijah: I believe that was my brother's way of telling you he'd like you to return home with us. [to Klaus] Perhaps try a different approach, Niklaus, with fewer references to murder?
Klaus: As much as I would hate to throw you over my shoulder, and drag you kicking and screaming to the compound, we both know I will-- [He
smiles]-- for the sake of my child.
Hayley: One bad dream, and suddenly, you want to be a responsible daddy! [Klaus wraps his arm around Hayley and pulls her close, leaving Elijah standing awkwardly beside them. Bella looking at Elijah amused.]
"Bella is enjoing the show." Chuckled Kol.
Klaus: [whispers] Let me put this into perspective: my father lived to torment me. It is not my intention to become him. This cycle of misery ends with my child.
Hayley: Mmm. [She yanks his arm away from her with a fake smile] You forgot one thing in your little attempt to plead your case-- she's not your child. She's ours. [Hayley starts to walk away, but Bella stops her.]
Bella: You are the one who forgets it's both you and Nik's. Not only yours. Nik respected your decisions and let you stay in swamp, even throught you should be resting in bad and eating strawberries or watermelon like normal pregnant. Nik is trying his best to protect you and this child and being resposible parent unlike you. Who is irresponibly going toward danger with your baby in stomach.
Elijah: That's enough Bellatrix! [Bella ignores him.]
Bella: If you get hurt so will baby and it'll be all your fault! Realise your actions affect child, too, before you'll regret it. [Hayley looks hurt and rans away crying.]
"You made her cry." Said Davina.
"Firstly, She cried because of pregnancy hormones and secondly, Someone had to say it. My patience has limits too." Said Bella.
Elijah: Very heartfelt, Bellatrix. [Elijah chases after Hayley, but Hayley doesn't let him follow her. Than Hayley sees Cami walking near the front of the procession, and runs to catch up with her.]
Hayley: Cami!
Cami: Hayley, hi.
Hayley: Hi, I know you don't know me, I just wanted to say that-- [She coughs and clears her throat]-- I'm sorry about your uncle. He was really... good to people like me during the storm, and I really appreciated that.
Cami: Thank you. [She realizes why Hayley is here] You want something, do you?
Hayley: [smiles awkwardly] I'm sorry about the timing... I was just wondering, if before he died, he said anything weird about Francesca Correa? I think that she may have been involved in an attack in the Bayou. If you hear anything--
Cami: Look, Hayley? I'm trying-- mostly failing-- to stay out of all this stuff, but... she's a real bitch. So, yeah, if I hear anything, I'll let you know.
Hayley: Thanks. And again, sorry about your uncle.
Cami: You, too. [As Hayley walks away, she starts to cough, and looks woozy. She leans against a lightpost as she begins to cough up blood. Horrified, she continues to cough, and Elijah, who has just noticed Hayley's condition, shouts for Klaus to come help her. As Klaus and Bella rush to help her, she collapses on the sidewalk.]
People look at her worried.
THE MIKAELSON COMPOUND
[Klaus and Elijah carry Hayley into the compound and lay her on a table. Bella is following them worried.]
Bella: There's a spell I can do. Klaus, get chamomile from the pantry. [She looks at Hayley, who is barely conscious] She's trembling. Your jacket, Elijah.
Elijah: [removes his jacket and lays it over Hayley] She's not breathing, I can hear the baby's heartbeat, but not hers.
Everyone is on edge even through it already happened. [Bella checks Hayley's pulse, and the scene suddenly changes to the blue-hue that indicates someone is on the Other Side. Hayley awakens on the table, but the room is completely empty, except for one other person-- Mikael. He walks toward her, and Hayley automatically backs away from him.]
Hayley: Who are you?
Mikael: [smirks] I suppose I'm family.
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Bellatrix Mikaelson (The Originals S1)
Fanfiction[Book 2] Bella is grieving Kol's death, but hearing news about becoming aunt cheers her up and decides to got to New Orleans. Lets see what trouble her brothers got her into now.
