Power of Artemis

Elijah's Back

Sophie, Hayley and I walk to the car when Rebekah left to help Nik.

"Those people, all this, because of a vision about my baby you don't think is true?" I ask her and she looks at me.

"Look, I love Sabine, but she's the witch equivalent of a drama queen. I've learned to take little stock in whatever she says or sees. Just kinda wish she'd kept her mouth shut." She tells me and I nod.
"The Harvest ritual-- you said you didn't believe in it. Were you right?" Hayley asks her. It was real though.

"No. I saw it with my own eyes. It was working. It was real." Sophie tells her.

"So, how can you be so sure Sabine's vision isn't?" I ask her and Sophie doesn't have an answer to the question. I look down with a nod. We get home and I sit in the chair with juice in hand while Bekah is pouring some drinks.

"I don't care if we have to get you a leash, that was your last trip to the Bayou. What is it with you and those wolves, anyway?" Rebekah asks Hayley.

"I feel like we're connected to them somehow. I don't know. Maybe it's just some pipe dream that I have of finding any real family out there. But sometimes, when I feel like it's me against the world, it keeps me going." Hayley tells her for me. Rebekah gives Hayley a sympathetic look and hands us a drink. I side-eye her, and Rebekah suddenly remembers that I am pregnant and can't drink, so she drinks my glass of bourbon in one gulp before pouring her own.

"Oh, right. Well, if you ask me, family is a pain in the behind." Rebekah jokes and I smile as Hayley rolls her eyes.

"And as for being in it alone, how dare you? I don't ruin a perfectly fabulous pair of boots traipsing through the Bayou for just anyone." Rebekah continues and I laugh as Hayley finally smiles, and Rebekah downs her second drink. Nik walks in interrupting their conversation.

"Nik, finally! What--" Rebekah starts to say as I walk into Nik's arms. Elijah walks through the door after his brother with a huge smile. Rebekah runs to Elijah and hugs him tight. Elijah sees Hayley over Rebekah's shoulder, and they smile at each other and Hayley leaves.

"Elijah! You're safe! Now that you're home, is your first plan to kill Niklaus?" Rebekah asks and I flare at her ready to fight even if I am pregnant. Nik rubs my arm trying to comfort me.

"Excuse me just a moment." Elijah says with a smile. He leaves us.

"Where's he going?" Rebekah asks us and I shrug. Later, the Mikaelson siblings, Hayley and I sit in the study, where Elijah stands behind the desk and explains everything that he has learned from Davina that day.

"Everything that brought us here to New Orleans was a lie. This story that Sophie Deveraux fabricated, this struggle for control of the French Quarter, this war between vampires and witches, wasn't over territory at all, this was over Davina." Elijah tells us stopping for a second before continuing.

"Eight months ago, Sophie Deveraux and her sister Jane-Anne lost everything. Now, four months after that, a young pregnant girl wanders into their restaurant. Suddenly, all hope is renewed. Jane-Anne actually sacrificed her life so that her sister can use you to find Davina. If Sophie Deveraux is successful in capturing Davina, she can return Jane-Anne's daughter back to life. We thought we'd come here to wage a war for power. This is about family. In order to return her niece to life, Sophie Deveraux will fight to the death. That makes her more dangerous than anyone." Elijah tells us and Nik holds me as I put my head in his chest. He picks me up bringing me to our room. He helps me change and lays me down. He takes his shirt and pants off leaving him in his boxers. He slips under te covers wrapping his arms around my waist. He kisses my neck and I smile. I turn around putting my head on his chest. He brings me closer kissing my head.

" I love you." He tells me and I smile.

"I love you too." I smile closing my eyes and falling into a deep sleep.

*Dream*

I hear the screams of the demons as I run away. Why did Elena give me to them I am only 8 years old. I am lucky to be alive. I run into the woods next to the cabin they took me to. I end up in the middle of the forest.

"Why does no one care? Why did she give me to them?" I scream to the sky hoping for an answer I knew I would never get. I fall to the ground crying when I see a shadow pass me. I look up to the sky to see a boy. He slowly floats down to me.

"I care." He tells me with a smile. I smile at him through my tears. I stand up slowly with his help.

"They call me Peter Pan." He tells me and I bow my head slightly looking him directly in the eyes.

"They call me Artemis Gilbert." I tell him and he smiles at me.

"Do you want to come to neverland with me?" He asks enthusiastically. I nod with a bright smile wiping my eyes.

"How do we get there?" I ask him and he smiles as a fairy comes out from around him.

"Hello." I say to her an she smiles.

"All you have to do is believe in magic." He tells me and starts to float. That's easy I think.

"Wait pixie dust. Tink." He looks at the little fairy and she nods sprinkling some on me and I soon begin to float. He smiles and we fly off to a wonderful place. It became my home for about a year when I was forced to leave by demons who followed me.
*Dream Over*
I sit up slightly breathing heavily. Why am I getting that memory now after so long? I pull my knees closer to me. I put my elbows on them holding my head in my hands. I shake my head and look at Nik ho was still fast asleep. I grab my glasses off the bed stand putting them on. I take Nik's arm that was still somehow on my waist off me and slowly take the covers off getting out of bed quietly carefully not waking up Nik.

I walk out of the room and down the hall to my sound proof room with all my instruments. I grab my notebook and piano sheet. I start to write and soon it was done.