Kimberly Pierce

Chapter 78

Kimberly's pov___________________

The next day, we were in the woods, letting Kol, Bekah, and Elijah feed to get their strength back.

Kol was chasing a person, until we heard the person he was feeding on scream.

"Good lord, that one has some lungs on him. He should've been an opera singer. Might've ended better for him, actually" Bekah said.

"Is this absolutely necessary?" Freya asked.

"That depends. Do you want us at our full strength, or do you plan on resuing Nik on your own?" Bekah asked her. 

"Well, death rattles are distracting, and I'm trying to break a cloaking spell" Freya said.

"Kol, would you please?!" Elijah yelled and we didn't hear the man screaming anymore. "Thank you. You were saying?"

"I can sense Klaus is still in New Orleans. Most likely somewhere underground. I can't get a read on exactly where, unless I'm in the city itself" Freya said as Kol walked over to us. 

"Yeah. That's gonna be a problem... I have contacts in New Orleans. As you can imagine, the place is crawling with vampires, all of whom hate all of us. Whatever we do, we need to do it fast" Hayley said.

"Well, I wasn't planning on a pub crawl. I don't want to stay any longer than we have to. But we need to go" Freya said.

"Whoa. Wait-Wait, we're not doing this today...?" Kol asked.

"Hasn't Nik suffered enough?" Bekah asked him.

"Yes. And I've died. Twice. I'm not about to give Marcel a shot at a third. Now, I say, we draw that Muppet out of town, and when he's gone..."

"I have been away from my daughter long enough. If you're afraid..." Hayley smirked.

"It's called being sensible. Until Freya can make enough cure with her werewolf hostage, Marcel can basically chew through our bloody throats" 

"Enough. We're all in danger. We'll free Niklaus today even if I have to burn that city to the ground" Elijah said taking the lead to the car and everyone followed him. 

Elijah, Bekah, and I arrived at Marcel's old place, Josh and his lover were there. I heard him say Josh owns the place now. 

We vamped inside and hid up the stairs. Josh pushed his lover out the door as nicely as he could. "Well, thanks for waiting and not just, you know, killing him" 

"We're only monsters by necessity, Joshua" Elijah said.

"Beisides, we just ate" Bekah said.

"Oh, that's too bad. I was gonna offer you some "Welcome back" waffles" Josh said.

"Was that your boyfriend? He seems sweet" I said. 

"And terribly vulnerable, as humans tend to be" Bekah said.

"Ok. Look, just... Tell me what you want and let's get this over with" Josh said.

Elijah explained what we needed to do.

"I can distract Marcel, Elijah. I'm the only one Marcel won't kill on sight" Bekah said.

"Don't talk to me about some ludicrous diversion. You're walking into a lion's den"

"I'll be fine. I just have to convince him that I've come alone, and all I want to do is talk" Bekah said.

"You're going to be in danger if you do that" I said to her. "Wouldn't you agree Josh?"

"Yeah. Uh-huh" We all look at him as he is on his phone. Was he going to snitch on us? "I was just gonna order a pizza, you know, if we're gonna be here for a while"