Bellatrix Mikaelson (Season 3)

Chapter 18

FLASHBACK—COURT OF MARSEILLES, 1002 AD
[Bella walks into Aurora's bedroom to find her sprawled across her bed, her wrists and ankles slashed with a knife. She is bleeding out onto her sheets, but is not quite dead yet, and Bella, panicked, rushes over to her and bites her wrist.]
Bella: [groans in pain] AHH! [Bella feeds Aurora her blood, and after a moment, Aurora's wounds heal, and she awakens with a gasp. She sits up and scoots backward away from Bella, who is gasping from shock and fear and looking at her with wide eyes.]
Bella: You stupid girl! Why would you do this to yourself? [Aurora pants for breath and takes a moment before she answers.]
Aurora: It's Tristan. He forbade me from seeing Niklaus. Everything inside of me was screaming. I had to let it out.
Bella: To take your own life? Aurora, this pain, it will pass...
Aurora: [pained] You do not understand. My own mind is a demon that haunts me. It tortures me and hunts me. But you? You are not saddled with such disease. You and your family, you're never ill, and if you are wounded...
"Vampirism doesn't heal psychological problems. If anything it adds them." Said Bella.
[Aurora looks at the now-vanished wounds on her wrists in wonder.]
Aurora: ...You heal, like Lucien after Niklaus fed him blood. [Bella sighs in frustration.]
Bella: We have our own torments, Aurora. None that I would dare wish on another.
Aurora: Your torments of hunger and blood do not frighten me! Niklaus once told me he never felt more alive than when he became what he is.
Bella: And do we seem alive to you? Hiding in your family's manor, pretending to be a class and stature that we are not? We are cursed. [Aurora looks upset by this refusal.]
Aurora: Perhaps, but your curse is nothing compared to mine. [Aurora's eyes fill with tears, and Bella stares at her for a long moment. When it becomes clear that Bell is not going to turn her, Aurora's voice becomes emotionless.]
Aurora: Please go. I want to sleep. [Bella, not realizing what she's planning, just looks at her sympathetically and rubs her leg affectionately.]
Bella: Oh, sweet girl. [Aurora lays back in her bed, and Bella eventually leaves as Aurora asked and closes the door behind her. Once she's gone, Aurora sits back up in bed, looking at the moon overhead through the large window on the other side of the room.]
Aurora: [voiceover] Your sister smelled of wild berries. It was intoxicating. And then I smelled of lavender.
"Why the hell was she smelling me?" Said Bella.
[Aurora walks toward the window, lifting the skirt of her nightgown as she steps up onto the window sill and looks down at the ground below.]
Aurora: [voiceover] I could see the garden from above. [Aurora takes a deep breath, closes her eyes, and allows herself to fall forward in a swan-dive, much like when she jumped off of the ledge at the monastery in I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans.]
DE BEAUCAGE NO.9 PARFUMERIE
[Aurora is in the middle of pricking her index fingertip with a pin while Klaus glares at her unhappily.]
Aurora: You can always catch an insect with the smell of a flower... [Aurora drips her blood into a bottle of perfume, before dabbing some of the bloody perfume on her neck and holding it out to Klaus' face.]
Aurora: But it's the smell of blood that draws a carnivore. [Klaus roughly grabs Aurora by the wrist and leans in close to her.]
Klaus: And what draws a snake?
Bella chuckled.
"Good comeback." Said Layla.
Aurora: Ooh, how you loathe me, so certain I've come to do you harm. Yet, as I recall, we did plenty of harm to each other. And, if I'm not mistaken, we both rather liked it, didn't we?
FLASHBACK—COURT OF MARSEILLES, 1002 AD
[Klaus is sitting solemnly in the chapel, which has been warmed by several metal fire pits throughout the room, when Aurora walks in, wearing a dark dress and looking as though she's in awe. When Klaus hears her coming, he hops to his feet, and the sight of her nearly brings him to tears, though she's visibly happy.]
Klaus: [growls] What have you done?
Aurora: [smiles] Remade myself into your equal! [Klaus' face twists in a mix of anger and sadness.]
Klaus: [loudly] No!
Aurora: Yes! Now we need never be alone. [Aurora vamp-speeds toward Klaus and kisses him passionately, biting his lip so hard she draws blood. When he pulls away, a dribble of blood running down his chin, Aurora's vampire face comes out, and she licks her bloody fangs with relish. Klaus' vampire face comes out as well, and he vamp-speeds them over to the nearby wall, where he pins her as he begins to kiss her even more roughly.]
"Okay. We saw enough!" Said Bella.
[After a moment, Aurora spins them, speeding them against one of the support beams, where Klaus' back slams against the stone as they continue to make out. Klaus then lifts Aurora up so her legs are wrapped around his waist as they continue their tryst, while Aurora continues the story in voiceover.]
Aurora: [voiceover] Do you remember what that first time felt like, to be with someone every bit as powerful, as tormented, and as cursed as you?
PRESENT DAY—DE BEAUCAGE NO. 9 PARFUMERIE
[Aurora is still standing close to Klaus, who is not unaffected by her words.]
Klaus: [quietly] Yes.
Bella gave Klaus's hand a squeeze. Klaus smiled weakily.
Aurora: Look me in the eye and tell me that you haven't thought about what we had every day for the last thousand years. [Klaus, torn between his romantic desires and the fact that he still cannot trust her, remains silent.]
"Ugggh.... Exes." Groaned Bella. Klaus nodded.
Aurora: You want to know why I have come? Because after a thousand years of trying to erase your touch, your smell, the taste of your lips... I'm here for you. For this. [Aurora moves her face closer to Klaus', testing to see how he reacts, and when he doesn't move, she slowly and carefully kisses him on the lips. Klaus and Aurora are making out in the shop. However, when they pull away, Klaus looks angry and frustrated as he vamp-speeds them over to the nearby doorway and slams Aurora face-first into it.]
Klaus: We could've been the greatest love story ever told! Perhaps you've forgotten why we're not.
Elijah looks guilty.
Aurora: Oh, I remember quite well. The night you left without me, you didn't even bother to look back.
FLASHBACK—COURT OF MARSEILLES, 1002 AD
[Finn has just rushed into their family's quarters, looking panicked as Bella, Elijah and Klaus look at him with concern.]
Finn: [furiously] I knew it would come to this! Be it Kol's antics-- [He gestures to Klaus]-- or yours, or those creatures you and Bellatrix have created.
Elijah: [worried] What is it?
Finn: Word has spread. The villagers talk of beasts who feed on blood, and if these country imbeciles know...
Elijah: [panicked] Father will come. We need to flee. [The scene cuts to some time later, where Klaus has come to Aurora's bedroom to tell her what is happening.]
Aurora: [confused] Run away with you? Leave my brother, this house?
Klaus: The world is bigger than this house! Let me show you.
Aurora: [frowns] How? As we hide, fleeing your brute of a father? Always on the run, living like dogs? I think not. [Klaus, stunned and hurt by this reaction, guesses what has changed her mind.]
Bella hugs Klaus.
Klaus: Your brother has turned you from me.
Aurora: No. I turned from you, because I do not love you! I... I thought I did, but it's as if I see you clearly for the first time, and I find you a cruel, wretched thing. Pathetic, really, and unworthy of anyone's love, let alone mine.
Bella looked furious and glared at Aurora so much, if looks could kill she would be long dead. Then Bella turns toward Klaus, her face getting soft.
"You know it's not true, right? You aren't unworthy of love and you definetly aren't pathetic." Said Bella. Klaus doesn't say anything.
[Every word Aurora speaks just hurts Klaus more, until he's gaping at her in shock as tears fill his eyes.]
Klaus: You don't mean that.
Aurora: [angrily] After all, your own mother turned against you. If she who gave you life could come to loathe you and then be snuffed out by your own hand, what hope is there for you?
Klaus: [in tears] You are breaking my heart... And you swore you would never speak of this.
People look at Klaus with pity. Bella hugs him tighter.
Aurora: I owe you nothing. We are not alike, and I could never love you. [Klaus stands heartbroken and stares at Aurora in shock.]
PRESENT DAY
[At the reminder of this devastating event, Klaus scowls at Aurora.]
Klaus: You know, you should count yourself lucky. In a thousand years, no one has talked to me that way and lived.
Aurora: Yes, I was rather cruel, wasn't I? Some might say uncharacteristically so.
Klaus: [annoyed] What are you getting at?
Aurora: I was not the architect of our heartbreak. In the moments before you asked me to flee with you, I saw your brother...
"You didn't..." Said Bella. Elijah looked down.
FLASHBACK—COURT OF MARSEILLES, 1002 AD
[Aurora sees Elijah frantically preparing to leave and approaches him.]
Aurora: [confused] Where are you going?
Elijah: Father is coming. We have to flee.
Aurora: Well, then I will come with you!
Elijah: [shakes his head] No. No, his curse is ours and ours alone to bear.
Aurora: [hurt] But I am like you now.
Elijah: [firmly] You are not our blood.
"If anyone said that about Hayley, he would go bersek. Hypocrite!" Said Layla.
Aurora: What difference does blood make? All this talk of your sacred family bond, when I know things about him that you never will, even that which weighs heaviest on his heart. [Elijah is shocked by this revelation.]
PRESENT DAY
Aurora: I told him I wouldn't betray you, and that true love transcends blood, but he wouldn't listen. He just had one question.
FLASHBACK
[Elijah walks over to Aurora until they are face-to-face, looking angrily at her.]
Elijah: What could you possibly know about my brother that I do not? What, precisely, did my brother say to you? [When a clearly anxious Aurora remains silent, Elijah lunges forward and stares her in the eyes, unknowingly compelling her in the process.]
Elijah: [furiously] SPEAK!
Klaus glares at Elijah.