Bellatrix Mikaelson (Season 3)

Chapter 6

LAFAYETTE CEMETERY
[Hayley, still trapped in Bella's magic circle in one of the tombs, has wrapped a blanket around herself and is holding it up with one hand while she furiously beats against the magical boundary with the other and growls angrily.]
Hayley: [screams] AGHHHH!AGHHHHHHHH! [Finally, Bella comes back into the room with her arms full of supplies, looking calmly at Hayley, who is glaring furiously at her.]
Elijah glares at Bella.
Hayley: [enraged] Bella, let me out of here right now, or I swear I will kill you. [Bella rolls her eyes and tosses a shirt and jeans at her before holding up a blood bag.]
Bella: You can try, in which case you'll fail Or, we can have a polite conversation.
Hayley: [angrily] You magically kidnapped me on the one night that I can see my daughter. Do not talk to me about "polite!" Do you have any idea what you have taken from me?
Bella: The very thing you sought to take from Nik-- the chance to raise your daughter. Your punishment fits your crime.
Klaus nodded.
Hayley: Your family was ruining her life!
Bella: (Shouts) My family saved her life while you were off playing hide-and-seek in the forest! You put her in danger when you took her with dogs! Like they could protect her better than originals, better than original hybrid and heretic! If we didn't pretend to join Dahlia, you and your pack would be dead, so would Freya and Hope would be a slave and it would be all because of you! Because you chose those mutts over us, over her!
No one could disagree with that.
Hayley: [stunned] Is that what you were planning on telling her when she got older and asked for me? That I abandoned her? [Hayley, more furious than anyone has ever seen her, hits the magical walls.]
Hayley: My parents left me! Yours turned their backs on you! Look at us now!
Bella: And even after that you tried to take her away from her family! The ones who love her more than anything, because your idiot husband asked you. Hope deserves better than that! She deserves better than what we had, and all I want for her is something better!
Hayley: So do i! That's why i took her! I was protecting her.
"Funny. Isn't it what Esther said about hiding Nik's identity?" Said Bella. Hayley glared at her.
"I am nothing like that bitch!" Said Hayley.
[They glare at each other for a while.]
Bella: You ask what we would tell Hope? If we didn't find a way to break the curse, we would tell Hope the truth. The truth that her mother tried to take her away from us and even after that, We saved you from death by letting Dahlia place you under the curse, which would also stop you from taking her away from us again And we tried to break that curse and help you even after all you have done!
Everyone is stunned by her words.
Hayley: Elijah asked you months ago to break the curse, and you said no.
Bella: Because i didn't want him to know. I have something to tell you before that.
"What is it?" Asked Elijah. Bella shrugged.
[She pauses before tossing the blood bag onto the floor of the circle. Hayley, too hungry to argue any farther, kneels down and starts chugging the blood from the bag as quickly as she can, squeezing it so hard that it gets all over her hands.]
Bella: I found the way to siphon out the curse Dahlia places on you and your pack. You can be free, Hayley. [Hayley stands to her feet and licks the blood from her fingers, clearly interested in what Bella is proposing but still angry at the circumstances that led them here.]
Hayley: Under your terms, I'm guessing.
Bella: We are all doing what's best for our family. I just want you to promise that you will never try to take Hope away from Nik, me and Elijah and you will never try to turn Hope against us. [Hayley looks surprised.]
"Why not mention Kol and Freya?" Asked Layla. Kol and Freya looked hurt.
"Why would she take Hope from them? Expecially if she left Hope with us." Said confused Bella.
Hayley: That's it?
Bella: Yes. Do you give me promise to do that?
Hayley: (hesistates) Yes.
Bella: Say it.
Hayley: Fine. I promise to never take Hope from You, Klaus and Elijah and to never try to turn her against you.
Bella: (compelling) You will never break the promise you just made. [Hayley looks surprised and angry.]
"You compelled her!" Yelled enraged Elijah. Bella ignored him. Klaus agreed with future Bella's actions, so did Bella.
Hayley: (yelled) You comepelled me!
Bella: I don't trust people who already betrayed me once. It's like giving them white oak stake, because they couldn't kill me on their first try.
Klaus nodded at her words.
Bella: I had to make sure you will uphold your part of the deal, so i did.
MIKAELSON COMPOUND
[Klaus is walking down the stairs of the compound as he leaves Bella a voicemail on her phone.]
Klaus: [annoyed] Bella, I'm aware that 21st century technology remains a mystery to you, but when you see my name pop up on your phone, you answer it. Come home. Immediately.
Bella rolls her eyes at Klaus.
[When he makes it down the stairs to the courtyard, he finds an unhappy Cami standing there waiting for him.]
Klaus: Mere hours after you lecture me about boundaries, and here you are in my house in the middle of the night... [He takes a seat on the couch, and Cami, exasperated, sits down across from him in an armchair.]
Cami: I came in through the front door. You appeared through my window like a creeper. Besides, this is a matter of life and death. [She opens her bag and pulls out her laptop before opening it and pulling up the crime scene photos of the serial killer victims.]
Klaus: Oh, how novel!
Cami: Call it a hunch, but I think your friend Lucien is torturing and killing humans in the Quarter. There have been two victims so far, but I've constructed a psychological profile of the killer, and I don't think it's going to end there.
Klaus: [rolls his eyes] Lucien would never be so sloppy. [Cami, not convinced, turns her laptop to show him the photo of the first victim. When Klaus sees it, his amused smile falls as he becomes mildly concerned.]
Klaus: ...Although, I admit, there is a familiar method to this particular madness...
Cami: You want to prove to me that you're turning over a new leaf? Make sure this latest victim is the last one.
[Cami starts to pack up her bag, and Klaus looks at her curiously.]
Klaus: Are you suggesting that I prove my redeemability by killing my oldest friend? Such irony!
Bella chuckles.
Cami: [rolls her eyes] Look, NOLA PD can't take down a thousand-year-old psycho with vampire powers, but you can. You're the smartest, and the strongest, and the scariest. [Klaus is clearly pleased to hear this description of him and smiles brightly.]
"Aww." Said Bella and Layla.
Cami: So, make him stop. [She turns and walks to the door, and Klaus sighs. Klaus's phone calls. It's Bella. Klaus picks up.]
Klaus: Finally! Where are you? I have been calling you all day!
Bella: Sorry. I was busy. What did you want?
Klaus: I need you to perform a locator spell. Hayley's missing.
Bella: You're worried about her.
Klaus: I prefer to know the whereabouts of my enemies. Besides, Hayley has a history of taking what's mine.
Bella: No. You're afraid she's truly lost.
People look at him surprised, including Hayley.
[Bella feels he's getting annoyed so she changes subject.]
Bella: Don't worry! I have her. I found a way to break the curse.
LUCIEN'S PENTHOUSE
[Lucien is in the middle of feeding on the blood of a young woman who looks as though she cannot speak or move. It's the same journalist from earlier who walks trying to interview Detective Kinney, who is sitting in an armchair in her lingerie. Suddenly, the doorbell rings, and Lucien stops feeding on her. He stands to his feet, quickly wiping his bloody mouth with a handkerchief before answering the door to find Elijah standing out in the hallway.]
Lucien: [brightly] Elijah! What a glorious pleasure.
Elijah: I do apologize for the late hour.
Lucien: Oh, it's no matter! I've long been nostalgic for the days when vampires conducted business in the dark. [Elijah takes a step forward to enter the apartment, but is blocked by an invisible force, which causes Lucien to chuckle and point at the threshold.]
Lucien: It's a boundary spell. No vampire from another sireline can enter without an invitation. [He clears his throat awkwardly.]
Lucien: Given the circumstances, you know...
Elijah: [feigns politeness] Lucien, I didn't come here to chin-wag. Your little corporation has been butchering wolves in the Bayou Lafourche!
Lucien: It's population control. There's viable land out there-- viable, that is, once the sudden influx of mangy wildlife has been eliminated.
Hayley glares at him.
Elijah: I take it you are alluding to the Crescent Pack. [Lucien shrugs as though he doesn't know of the pack.]
Elijah: [unamused] Hayley Kenner, one of the Alphas, is missing. [Lucien narrows his eyes in realization and gives Elijah a confused look.]
Lucien: The hybrid Nik knocked up?
Hayley glares harder while Bella chuckles. Everyone looks at Bella.
"Sorry." Said amused Bella.
[Lucien turns to walk back into the apartment as Elijah glares at him, visibly offended by his statement.]
Lucien: I'm surprised by your concern, Elijah. When your family left her to prowl the woods all these months, I just figured the tramp was persona non grata-- fair game. [He smirks as he picks up a glass of scotch from the table and takes a sip. Elijah's lips quirk into a weak smile before he loses his temper, breaks an end table in the hall into pieces, and throws the broken leg of the table at Lucien with vampire speed. This makeshift stake impales Lucien in the neck, causing him to groan in pain as he pulls it out. Before he can react further, Jackson, partially transformed into a wolf, lunges at Lucien with his golden-eyes blazing.]
Jackson: [yells] AHHHHHHHHHHH! [As a human, Jackson needs no invitation, so he easily rushes into the apartment, tackles Lucien, and bites him viciously on the arm.]
Hayley smiles.
Lucien: [in agony] AHHHH! [Jackson, who still has his golden eyes and fangs out, stands above Lucien as the vampire cradles his injured arm.]
Jackson: Now, he asked you what your hunters did with my wife. Answers. Now. [Lucien jumps to his feet at vampire speed to look Jackson in the eyes.]
Lucien: I'll have them inspect the roadkill in the morning. [Jackson looks as though he's about to attack Lucien again, but Elijah stops him.]
Elijah: [worried] Jackson, your time is short. You go to the compound. Fetch the chains from the carriage room. [Jackson sighs but ultimately complies. Lucien glares at him as he leaves, flexing his injured arm and wincing.]
Elijah: [amused] My darling Lucien-- I'm quite happy to stand here and watch you die. Or, you could invite me in. The choice is yours.