Bellatrix Mikaelson (Season 3)

Chapter 35

LAFAYETTE CEMETERY
[Vincent is alone at the altar in front of the Lycée, which has been covered with dozens of lit white candles. The altar is also stained with dripping blood from the several birds and other animals that have been sacrificed on top of it for the ritual to ascend as Regent. He sighs in frustration before looking up at the sky.]
Vincent: All right. Y'all wanted me. You got me. You got me, and I ain't in the mood for pomp and circumstance. Our city is collapsing, and I'm gonna need all the guidance I can get. [Footsteps are suddenly heard as Tristan slowly approaches him with a confident smirk. He is accompanied by two fellow Strix members, one male and one female, who silently stand behind him.]
Tristan: Congratulations, Mr. Griffith. The Regent witch of New Orleans... How grand.
"He's new regent?" Asked Davina.
"Seems like it. I like him." Said Bella.
"Why?" Asked Layla.
"Well... He hasn't tried to kill Hope or us yet, has he?" Said Bella.
"Pretty low bar." Said Layla.
"Many would disagree." Said Bella.
[Vincent sighs in annoyance before mockingly bowing to him.]
Vincent: Let me guess... Lord Tristan de Martel. [Tristan ignores his hostility as though he hadn't even spoken.]
Tristan: You know, I've always despised churches, but cemeteries I love. Churches celebrate fairy tales, guardian angels, patron saints. But cemeteries hold concrete proof that not one of those things can save you from the inevitable.
"Kind of has a point." Said Bella while sipping wine.
[Vincent rolls his eyes at Tristan's pompous attitude.]
Vincent: Yeah. So your Strix vampires, they've been watching me, tailing me, listening to me... [Vincent stands and walks toward Tristan until they are face to face, his voice getting more aggressive and angry as he talks.]
Vincent: So, they know I'm not an easy target. And I'm sick and tired of good people falling victim to the trash that the Originals bring to town. Now, normal people can't enforce justice on vampires, but I will. I can, and I will. So... You guys keep watching me, but know for sure I'm watching you, too.
"I like him, too." Said Davina. Freya smiles at Vincent.
[Tristan looks at him in amusement, visibly unbothered by Vincent's threats.]
Tristan: That's very brave. A vigilante witch that fears no vampire? Or so it seems, but I know someone you do fear. [Tristan holds up his hand, which has Freya's talisman wrapped around his fingers. At the sight of it, Vincent flinches and instinctively backs away, seemingly recognizing it and what it holds.]
Tristan: So if you don't do as I ask, I'm certain Finn Mikaelson will. [Tristan turns and walks away with his bodyguards in tow, leaving a very alarmed and terrified Vincent to process what has just happened.]
"Finn only listens to mother." Said Kol.
FRENCH QUARTER / MIKAELSON COMPOUND
[In the French Quarter, Bella, dressed in a very fancy black coat, walks down the street until she meets up with a very worried Elijah. Bella looks at him with concern.]
Bella: I got your message.
Elijah: I couldn't go. When i was leaving, in mind prophecy kept repeating. One will fall by family. Maybe the only way to stop this prophecy is to embrace it! Control it! If we can control it, then maybe we can change it. [Elijah reaches into the pocket of her jacket and pulls out a white oak ash dagger, which he hands to a horrified Bella]
Elijah: Hide my body. Don't tell a soul.
"I thought you siphoned every dagger." Said Davina.
"I did. Except the one Klaus gave to Elijah after they fought." Said Bella.
[Elijah continues in voiceover as the scene cuts to the Mikaelson compound, where Cami and Klaus are passionately making out on his bed.]
Elijah: [voiceover] Especially not Niklaus. Let him be happy just for once. This is our burden to bear, yours and mine.
"I prefere if you would tell me, in which case, i would tell you this is stupid plan." Said Klaus.
[Klaus breaks away from the kiss, and he and Cami stare into each others eyes as Klaus gently runs his fingers down her arm. He continues to stare at her as she runs her own hand down his chest.]
[Back on the French Quarter streets, Elijah is continuing her desperate plea to Bella, who is frantically shaking her head in disagreement.]
Elijah: And when the year that the prophecy foretold is over, wake me up.
[Bella shakes her head in refusal, her eyes red with tears once again. Bella holds up a hand to try to stop him from coming any closer to her with the dagger.]
Bella: NO! No! It's not fair! Only this year, you were kidnapped and tortured by our mother, had to deal with darkest parts of yourself-red door, be put in mortal, witch body, which was being hunted, been in auselium, had to watch Hayley and Jackson acting all cozy, get kidnapped AGAIN! Thrown into the fucking ocean and cursed! You don't deserve this. You already sacrificed yourself to this family! AGAIN AND AGAIN! You don't deserve all this suffering! You shouldn't have to always sacrifice everything! You should be happy.
Everyone look at sibling duo sadly. Freya hugs Elijah's arm and places her head on his arm.
Elijah: We all have made sacrifices for this family. And i after all that won't watch this family's downfall. Not when we are so close to happiness. When I am buried, the family part of the prophecy will be over. You will be able to trust them again... Freya, Hayley, Niklaus. You can stop anyone, friend or foe, that comes at you. So do it, Bellatrix! Do it! [Bella desperately tries to calm him down.]
Elijah: Bellatrix, do it! [Bella, overwhelmed and horrified, finally does as she's told and stabs him with the dagger. As Elijah's body starts to desiccate in her arms, Bella begins to hyperventilate, visibly devastated to have had to do it as her eyes fill with tears.]
"I'm sorry for putting you in that position." Said Elijah.
"You are still an arse." Said Bella. Elijah smiled at her.
ST. JAMES INFIRMARY / MIKAELSON COMPOUND
[At the the Mikaelson compound, where Klaus, nearly sick with fear, shakily lifts himself up to find that Cami's throat had somehow been slit in while he was sleeping, and her chest and arms are coated in her blood. Klaus gasps in horror and shock and tries to lift Cami up, but her lifeless body lays slack in his arms.]
Klaus: Oh! Ohh! No, no, no. No! No! No! NO! [Klaus clutches her body to his tightly as he begins to silently panic, shaking from just how devastated he is to find her dead after everything that has happened.]
Everyone looks shocked and sad. Bella hugs crying Klaus.
MIKAELSON COMPOUND-- FLASHBACK & PRESENT DAY
[The cold open cuts back and forth between a flashback of a therapy session between Klaus and Cami in the compound's study, and the present day, where Klaus is breaking down over Cami's blood-covered dead body, picking up right where the previous episode left off.]
Bella is still hugging Klaus.
FLASHBACK
Cami: You are far more affected by this world than you care to admit. You want to control it rather than to allow it to control you. The inevitable, unavoidable parts of life make you uneasy.
PRESENT DAY
[In Klaus' bedroom, Klaus is anxiously pacing back and forth as he wrings his hands together and murmurs under his breath. Cami's body is sprawled across the bed, and the comforter is soaked in her blood.]
Klaus: No... No... [Klaus furiously smashes an end table and screams at the top of his lungs.]
Klaus: NOOOOOOO! AHHHH!
Bella tries to comfort Klaus, when she herself is crying as well.
FLASHBACK
[Klaus sits up, holding a tumbler of alcohol, and looks at Cami in amusement.]
Klaus: Some might say death is inevitable, and yet here I am, a thousand years old, sipping an exquisitely aged whiskey while a beguiling muse sits across from me.[Klaus gestures toward Cami, who smiles at him.]
Klaus: I am the perfect picture of health and vitality, a master of my fate, a conqueror of death itself!
PRESENT DAY
[Klaus, even more distraught, begins trashing his room by flipping tables and overturning couches as he roars in grief.]
Klaus: AHHHH! AHHHHHH!
There is no dry eye in the theatre.
FLASHBACK
[Cami gives Klaus a stern look]
Cami: See? That's exactly my point. You make some glib throwaway line about death as though it means nothing to you, but it does. If not your own, then at least the death of others.
Klaus: [mockingly] So, beneath the devilish banter and charming wit, Klaus Mikaelson bears the burden of a deep-seated psychological trauma about death?
"Well.. Yes. Henrik." Said Layla.
"Not now." Said Hayley to her.
"Or ever." Said Bella and sent glare toward Layla.
PRESENT DAY
[Klaus continues to smash up his room by beating broken pieces of furniture against the walls. Eventually, he becomes so emotionally exhausted that he gasps for breath as he falls back against the wall and slides down onto the floor.]
Bella tightens her grip on Klaus.
FLASHBACK
Klaus: I'll tell you what I know about death, Camille-- Death dances silently in everyone's shadow, and she doesn't give a damn. So... Why give a damn about her? [Klaus sips his whiskey, and Cami gives him a skeptical look.]
Cami: You do give a damn. Why else surround yourself with immortals if not to avoid the agony of loss?
Bella looks thoughtful at that.
[Klaus huffs a laugh as he sips his drink again, and Cami rolls her eyes with a sigh.]
Cami: You disagree. Fine. I hope it's a long time before I'm proven right. [Klaus smiles devilishly at Cami.]
People look at her sadly. Klaus is still in Bella's arms.
PRESENT DAY
[With the room now all smashed aside from the bed and the bedside table, Klaus has returned to where Cami's body was laying and is once again cradling her in his arms as he stares at her with tear-filled eyes. Just as Klaus looks as though he's about to finally begin to deal with her loss, Cami gasps awake and grabs her throat as she looks wildly around the room. Klaus, shocked, gapes at her with wide eyes. When Cami pulls her hand away, she finds it's coated in blood and looks absolutely horrified as she meets Klaus' eyes.]
Cami: [weakly] Klaus...? [Klaus, whose face is still wet from crying, looks at Cami with sadness and relief as he realizes the implications of what has just happened.]