Bellatrix Mikaelson (Season 3)

Chapter 30

MIKAELSON COMPOUND
[Bella is in the downstairs living room, heading up the spiral staircase, as Marcel rushes in and follows her to try to talk to her.]
Marcel: [loudly] Bella! I'm not finished.
[Bella stops walking up the staircase and turns to face Marcel, clearly annoyed by his attitude.]
Bella: Why don't you run along to your little friends and remind them that any attack on me is a really bad idea.
Marcel: That's not gonna work. They're as stubborn as you are.
Bella: So stay away from them, Marcel. You being there is doing nothing usefull anyway. [This visibly offends Marcel. Marcel reaches into his inner jacket pocket and pulls out the enchanted stake he was given by Aya. Bella turns around at the sound of footsteps to see a dozen suit-clad male members of The Strix flooding into the room from every entrance. Bella turns back to Marcel and gives him a cold look.]
"Drama." Said Kol.
[Upstairs in the study, Freya is walking around an even-weaker Tristan and the magic binding circle as she casts a spell.]
Freya: [chants] Somo ve de ver se, nat--
[Freya stops chanting when she sees another male member of The Strix walking into the room. She immediately makes a fist with her hand and jerks her arm downward, casting a silent pain infliction spell on him that is so strong he is immediately brought to his knees. However, just as the man falls unconscious, Aya vamp-speeds into the room and stabs Freya in the stomach with the knife Freya planned to use on Tristan earlier before she can even react.]
Everyone glares at Aya.
Freya: [gasps] AH! [Aya jerks the knife out of her stomach, and Freya collapses onto the floor as Aya sneers at her from above.]
Aya: Your brother put up more of a fight. [Freya continues to gasp for breath on the floor as she bleeds out, and Tristan turns and gives Aya an annoyed look as she drops the blade onto the floor.]
Tristan: Took you long enough. [Aya smirks at him in amusement.]
People kept glaring.
[Downstairs in the living room, Marcel and Bella are in the middle of a heated fist-fight. Bella shoves him backward so hard that he hits one of the weight-bearing stone columns and chips off a large piece of rock from it. Marcel falls to the floor, allowing Bella to turn and start fighting one of the other Strix members.]
"Ooowhoo! Show them who is the boss, mum!" Cheered Layla.
[At the Hayley's room, Hope is seated in her stroller next to the table, where Mary is doting on her as Hayley packs up their things, presumably to head to the Bayou.]
Hayley: Okay, I think I have everything. [Just as Hayley is putting the rest of the clothes into her overnight bag, Hayley's hybrid-hearing picks up the sounds of fighting from downstairs.]
[At the Mikaelson compound, Bella is still in the middle of fighting two of The Strix's members. She rips the heart out of one of them and drops it unceremoniously onto the floor before spinning and karate-chopping the neck of the other so hard that he's decapitated, causing a splatter of blood to spray against the portrait of Elijah hanging on the wall.]
Elijah notices it and sights.
[At the Hayley's room, both Hayley and Mary have realized an attack is happening at the compound, and they both look out of the door, in hopes of seeing something.]
Hayley: [worriedly] There's something i'm going downstairs. Stay with Hope! [Hayley moves to leave, and Mary immediately tries to stop her.]
Mary: Hayley, no! Whatever trouble that is, it ain't yours. [Hayley gives her a look before vamp-speeding toward the door so quickly that Mary flinches in surprise. Meanwhile, the fight is still going on in the living room, where Bella is fighting several other Strix members. Bella has just punched one in the face before twisting his arm so hard that it snaps, but is too distracted to see another Strix member grab Bella in a headlock from behind. Bella throws him off by magic.]
"Cool!" Said Davina.
[Hayley instantly vamp-speeds toward the man and snaps his neck. The two look at each other and nod, and they're about to relax when Marcel comes up behind Bella and stabs her through the heart from behind with what looks like the stake he was given.]
Bella: AGH!
Hayley: [shocked] Bella! [Marcel drops Bella to the ground, and her skin starts to turn gray and desiccated as Hayley glares at him in confusion and betrayal.]
Kol and Elijah glare at Marcel.
[After the break, Marcel watches with a frown as one of the vampires grabs Hayley in a choke-hold and pins her against one of the stone columns. Hayley struggles against his hold for a moment before reaching out with her right hand and snapping his neck. When the other vampire attacks her, she kicks him in the gut, only for yet another vampire to speed toward her.]
"Kick their asses!" Shouted Layla.
[Each vampire takes one of Hayley's arms and pins them to the column so she can't fight back. The older-looking vampire starts to choke Hayley, but before they can kill her, they both collapse onto the floor, revealing that Marcel has ripped out their hearts through their backs. As Hayley coughs and tries to catch her breath, Marcel gives her a significant look and holds up the hearts before dropping them onto the ground.]
"Thank you about that." Said Hayley.
"You are welcome." Said Marcel.
[Hayley is clearly confused as to what game Marcel is playing, but before she can recover and decide what to do with him, Marcel vamp-speeds away. Hayley continues to cough and massage her throat as she looks down at Bella's incapacitated body on the floor. Meanwhile, upstairs, Aya has just broken the magic circle and has gently helped Tristan up, wrapping his arm around her shoulders so she can support him. Tristan stops and looks down at Freya as she gasps for breath and bleeds out on the ground.]
Tristan: Oh, Freya. Things might have been different. Alas, you chose poorly.
"What is with your first sires and they crushing on you?" Said Davina.
"They prefer people who are closest to their age?" Suggested Layla.
[Just then, Marcel vamp-speeds into the room with a worried expression and looks at Aya.]
Marcel: Hey, you need to get him out of here. [Aya, annoyed, gives him the side-eye.]
Aya: Are you giving me an order? [Marcel gestures toward Tristan and scoffs in frustration.]
Marcel: Look, he's too weak to fight, and Bella's cavalry just got here. Go! Now!
"I'm the cavalry." Said Bella.
[Aya looks over at Tristan, who nods in agreement with Marcel's assessment. She nods in understanding before taking Tristan's hand and vamp- speeding him away. Once they're gone, Marcel looks down at Freya and walks toward her, taking note of her bleeding stab wound and what sounds like a punctured lung. He pulls out the stake Aya gave him from his pocket, revealing that he didn't actually use it on Bella, before walking toward Freya, who looks as though she thinks he's going to finish her off. Instead, he lays the stake on the nearby table and kneels next to her, rolling up his jacket sleeves.]
Marcel: Your sister's gonna wake up mad at me. [He gently lifts up Freya's head and bites his wrist before feeding her his blood.]
Marcel: When she does, be sure to remind her who her friends are. [Freya, shocked by this turn of events, whimpers as she drinks his blood to heal from her wounds.]