Bellatrix Mikaelson (The Originals S1)

Chapter 47

THE MIKAELSON COMPOUND / THE OTHER SIDE
[Bella presses damp bundle of chamomile against Hayley's forehead and chants a spell in French/Creole.]
Bella: Coeur blessé, battre avec mwen. Coeur blessé, battre avec mwen. [Klaus, frustrated and scared, bites into his wrist and dribbles in into Hayley's mouth in hopes that it will heal her.]
Klaus: Come on! [Klaus looks at Elijah in fear.]
Elijah: She's still not breathing. It's not working! [He angrily throws a table against the brick wall, shattering it into pieces.]
[On the Other Side, Hayley is scared, and backs away from Mikael as he approaches her.]
Mikael: I assume my reputation precedes me. 
Hayley: This is a nightmare. I'm dreaming.
Mikael: On the contrary, my darling-- this is very real. [He vamp-speeds over to Hayley and puts her in a headlock, and Hayley gasps in fright.]
Everyone glares at him.
Mikael: Welcome to my hell-- stuck in an eternity of watching over that hideous creature my children call brother! 
Hayley: [terrified] You're dead! How can I be here? [She realizes where she is] Oh my god! NO! [She thrashes around in his grip] Noo! The baby!
Mikael: The baby? [Hayley screams again] That kid never had a chance! And as if your bloodline isn't filth enough, you poison it by merging it with Klaus'? [He laughs manically] The deathless vermin, fancying himself a daddy? 
"I hate him! I hate him! I hate him!" Said Bella glaring at Mikael. Everyone glared.
[Hayley's eyes turn lupine-gold, and she shrieks as she pushes herself out of his grip and breaks his arm by twisting it behind his back. Then, she picks up a coat rack and swings it at his head with all the force she can muster.]
"Go, Hayley! Show that dick!" Cheered Bella.
Hayley: She's not dead! I'm not dead! If I was dead, you wouldn't be trying to kill me! [In the present, Elijah is pacing at Hayley's bedside as Bella continues to work her spell.]
Bella: Coeur blessé, battre avec mwen.
Elijah: [moves to pick up Hayley] I'm taking her to a real doctor.
"How dear you?! I haven't learned for thirteen years and worked as surgeon for five years to be called 'not real doctor'." Said Bella.
Bella: If you move her from here, my spell will break. There won't be enough time to get her to a hospital.
Klaus: [frantic] Will the baby survive if delivered now? [He lunges for Hayley's body] I'll rip it out of her myself! [Elijah blocks Klaus from touching Hayley.]
Bella: Hayley will bleed to death! 
Klaus: I won't lose that baby.
Elijah: I won't lose either of them.
Bella: [mutters] ... battre avec mwen. Coeur blessé, battre avec mwen. [Bella realises something and is stunned.]
Bella: I know what to do. Get my bag, the gris-gris pouch! Now! [Hayley continues to lay still on the table, as Bella dabs a wet cloth on her head.]
[On the Other Side, Hayley and Mikael are still facing off.]
Hayley: You're dead, Mikael. Your son already beat you! 
Mikael: [bellows] He is not my son! He's a scourge, a walking symbol of weakness!
"Is he describing himself?!" Said Layla. Klaus smiled at her.
[In the present, Bella spreads salt around Hayley on the table. On the Other Side, Hayley kicks at the banister to the staircase to break off a piece of wood to use as a stake, and makes her way up the stairs as Mikael continues to stalk her menacingly.]
Mikael: There is no saving that atrocity festering in your womb. Klaus will destroy it, one way or another. Better he dies now, and you along with it!
Klaus looks down. Bella grabs his hand in support. [Mikael jumps up onto the second floor balcony, startling Hayley.]
[In the present, Bella crushes herbs with her fingers and spreads them over Hayley's body. Hayley jumps down onto the first floor, so Mikael jumps down to follow her. She spins around rapidly and rushes behind him, stabbing him in the heart with the stake from behind.]
Mikael: Ahhhhhh!
Hayley: My daughter has an advantage Klaus never had-- she will never, ever know you.
"This is so damn hot. Hayley, i could fuck you better than my brothers." Said Bella with smirk and wiggled her eyebrows. Hayley laughed. Elijah glared at Bella. Everyone laughed.
[Hayley awakes with a loud gasp on the table, Klaus' blood still covering her mouth and neck. Elijah helps her sit up, and Klaus rubs her shoulder affectionately.]
Klaus: You're alright, love. You're alright.
Hayley: I saw him. He tried to kill me. I saw Mikael.
THE MIKAELSON COMPOUND-- HAYLEY'S BEDROOM
[Hayley is sitting on her bed, thinking, when Klaus approaches her room. She notices him, but he still stops and knocks before he fully entering.]
Klaus: You've proved quite resilient, little wolf. Fighters, both of you.
Hayley: I guess we've had to be. Especially lately. [She looks at Klaus, but he is speechless.]
Hayley: I've decided that I'm going to move back in.
Klaus: [softens] Well, I'm relieved to hear it.
Hayley: But no mouth-breathing bodyguards, no telling me what to do. 
Klaus: [smiles] All I ask is that the child is kept safe. 
People smile at Klaus.
Hayley: And what about me? What happens after she's born? If you try to take her away from me, I--
Klaus: [interrupts her] --Come with me, hmm? [He heads out the door, but stops when he sees she isn't following him] Please. I want to show you something.
[Hayley reluctantly gets up and follows Klaus out the door. He takes her to another room in the compound, which he has already set up to be a nursery, complete with a crib, a bassinet, and a gorgeous mobile hanging from the ceiling, among other things. Hayley stares in surprise as she takes everything in.]
Klaus: Believe it or not, Hayley, I would actually like you to be here. Our daughter should be raised by her parents, in her family home. 
Everyone smiled.
Hayley: [touches the crystals hanging from the mobile and smiles at him affectionately] You, me, Bella, Elijah, and miracle-baby, all under one roof? Sounds like a bad reality show.
Some chuckled.
Klaus: [chuckles nervously and pauses for a moment] Uh, you said you saw my father? 
Hayley: Why do you call him that? He's not your real dad.
Klaus: He's done damage only a father could do. [beat] What did he say to you?
Eveeyone who looks at Klaus get glared by Bella.
Hayley: [smiles warmly] Nothing true.[Klaus considers this for a moment, and then genuinely smiles before leaving the room.]
Eveeyone smiles at their friendship.
[Hayley looks at the wall, on which Klaus has hung the painting he made of New Orleans. It includes a cityscape at night with a large full moon painted in the sky above the buildings.]
THE FRENCH QUARTER
[The marching band continues to play in the streets as the party rages on. Children and adults alike dance in the street with umbrellas as Klaus and Bella stand on the sidewalk and watch from outside the compound.]
Klaus: Hayley has agreed to return home to us... with her own free will. [Klaus notices Marcel standing nearby.]
Klaus: When Mikael is truly gone, do you think then I'll find peace?
Bella: I don't think so. He did too much damage to us, for us to do so, but it will get better. I think. Although, it's not only our father who haunts you, Nik.
[Klaus rolls his eyes at her] You might want to make peace with the living. [Klaus and Bella watch Marcel from across the street, which causes them to flashback to the 1830's.]
FLASHBACK-- NEW ORLEANS, 1835
[Marcel is having an argument with his father, the Governor, outside of his plantation, while many of his slaves continue to be beaten like he was.]
Marcel: I demand to know why their freedom has not been granted! All necessary authorities have ruled in their favor!
Governor: You think I don't remember you, boy? Have they turned you into one of them, yet? [Marcel remains silent, and the Governor laughs] I thought not. 
"Dickhead." Said Layla.
[The Governor gestures to one of his slave masters, who whips a slave right in front of Marcel. Before the man can do it again, Marcel rushes over and tackles the man before violently punching him in the face. When Marcel gets up to return to the Governor, Marcel is shot by him with a pistol in the chest.]
Everyone glares at screen.
PRESENT DAY-- THE FRENCH QUARTER
[Marcel notices Klaus and Bella staring at him, and stares right back.]
FLASHBACK-- NEW ORLEANS, 1835
[Bella has found Marcel on a neighbor's front porch, dying from his wounds.]
Bella: [bites into her wrist and offers it to Marcel] Here, let me heal you.
Marcel: No. Klaus always said we choose our family. So, what am I to you? He made promise to me. It's finally time to make a choice. Turn me now, or let me die.
Bella: [panicked] You do not know what you ask of me! Being vampire isn't that easy. Expecially not the choice you make quickly.
Marcel: [near tears] I know what you are. Who you are. I have for a long time. This is what I want! Please! He already promised me to turn me. Please!
Bella: Listen! I can't okay? He's your father! You have to at least discuss it with him and than decide. Please just drink this for now and then talk to him! [Bella bit her wrist again and offering it to Marcel. Marcel drinks several gulps of her blood to heal.]
"Marcel is your sire?" Asked Layla.
"Yes. Later that day after screaming match with Nik, he finally conviced Nik." Said Bella.
"You conviced him." Said Marcel.
"I played my part." Said Bella.
PRESENT DAY-- THE FRENCH QUARTER
[Bella pattes Klaus's back and leaves him. Klaus continues watching as Marcel turns and walks away. Marcel walks down a dark alley, only to find Klaus waiting for him at the end.]
Klaus: Your furlough ends when the clock strikes.
Marcel: I'm aware. Don't worry! I intend to be far away from here by then. But, just because I'm across the river, doesn't mean I'm not in the game.
[He points at the sky] Full moon's coming. I know you're up to something with the wolves, and I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out what. And any way I do the math, it ends with me and my guys dead. [Klaus stares at Marcel blankly.] 
"Pleeease. Nik would never kill you." Said Bella.
Marcel: Or, maybe we're supposed to fall in line, pledge our allegiance to you all over again so if we get bitten, you might deign to cure us. Is that what you're after? 'Cause it's not gonna happen.
Klaus: [smirks] Well, you can make me beileve you died again.
Marcel: Klaus--
Klaus: [shouts] I spent decades trying to make up for what your father did! [He composes himself] How did I fail? 
"You didn't fail. You adopted him, because he was like you. Too much like you. He loves power as much as you do and you would never let him be in charge so when he got the chance he pretended to die to get hold of power and after pretending to be dead so long he couldn't just come to you and be like: Hey remember when i died? Yeah, i didn't." Said Bella.
Marcel: Maybe the scars just ran too deep. [The two stare at each other for a long moment until Klaus decides to leave.]
Klaus: Goodnight, Marcellus. 
Marcel: [waits until Klaus is almost gone] You didn't fail me. You raised me. You taught me everything that I know. You taught me that I can't afford to be weak. Not when my enemies are stronger. So, whatever it is you've got coming with the wolves, just know that I'm gonna fight for my guys. I'm gonna fight for my city. [He raises his voice to a shout] And, I will fight until I am dead!
Klaus: [stares him in the eyes] I would expect nothing less. [Klaus storms away, leaving Marcel alone in the alley.]
THE MIKAELSON COMPOUND-- HAYLEY'S BEDROOM
[Hayley is watching the party winding down from her balcony when Elijah enters the room behind her.]
Hayley: [smiles] If I died and someone threw a party, I would be so pissed.
"See? Female version of Nik." Said Bella.
Elijah: [walks closer to her] You almost did. In a thousand years, I can't recall a time I felt so... frightened. [Hayley says nothing, and Elijah instinctively goes to run away. Hayley turns around to stop him.]
Hayley: Elijah... [After a moment of hesitation, she kisses him passionately. They break away, both of them keeping their eyes closed. When Hayley finally opens her eyes, Elijah has vanished. She smiles.]
"Finally!" Screamed Layla, Bella and Kol.