The Charity Masquerade

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 Rebekah, Nicole and Klaus enter the party, a girl on each arm, taking in the dark, wild atmosphere. Klaus is wearing a black suit with a black dress shirt and tie, Rebekah is dressed in a matching black peplum cocktail dress and a hairpiece with black feathers and beads, Nicole is wearing www.polyvore.com/charity_masquera... Acrobats perform, dancers handle exotic animals, and confetti falls glittering upon the party guests.

Klaus smiles. "Well, this certainly is a fitting backdrop for tonight's events, I must say." Nicole, Rebekah and Klaus spot Cami as she enters the party, wearing white angel's wings and a vintage white beaded dress. Nicole smiles, Rebekah looks pleased, but Klaus' smile falls. Klaus is suspicious. "What's she doing here?" Rebekah smirks. "What better way to distract Marcel than to put his very human new girl in a room chock full of vampires?" Klaus seems very unhappy with this decision on Rebekah's part; Nicole notices her father's attitude change as she and Rebekah cross the courtyard to greet Cami. Klaus sighs and follows behind them.

Nicole ran up and hugged her. "Cami! You look great!" Cami blushed. "Thank you, so do you!" Rebekah smiled. "Hello darling. You look precious." Rebekah kisses her on both cheeks. Marcel notices Cami's arrival from a balcony above and frowns. Nicole sees him watching them and winks at him. He stiffens. Cami is in awe of the atmosphere. "This party is ridiculous, but I think I went a bit splashy with this dress." Cami makes eye contact with Klaus and nods at him in acknowledgment as he joins them before she before turning back to Rebekah. "Is he the infamous on-again/off-again?" Klaus smiled. "He's the brother, actually, Nicole and my sister are right. You do look stunning." Nicole saw her father's awe of Cami. She realized he has feelings for her. Cami blushes redder than before. "You clean up pretty well yourself." Nicole smirked as Cami flirted with her father. Klaus smiles smugly. "Well, don't be fooled, love. I'm the devil in disguise. Nicole let out a high pitched laugh and suddenly lost her breath. "I'm gonna get a drink." Rebekah excused herself also. "I'm going to join her. You two chit-chat. I need booze." Rebekah heads to the bar, leaving Klaus and Cami alone.

Klaus extends a hand to the dance floor. "Shall we?"Cami nods. "Okay." Klaus offers her his arm and Cami takes it. Rebekah approaches the bar and addresses the bartender. "Scotch, please. Nicole?" Nicole sees Marcel approaching. "Martini dry please?" Marcel spots Rebekah and joins her at the bar, and Rebekah sighs at the sight of him. Marcel is unimpressed at Rebekah inviting Cami. "You trying to be cute, inviting her here?" Nicole interrupts. "I invited her Marcel." He glares at Nicole. Nicole glares right back till Rebekah steps in front of her. "I think she's darling. I can tell you fancy her pure heart. Perhaps I'll feed it to you?" Marcel smirks. "Hmm. Jealousy looks good on you, Bekah." Nicole has a look of disgust on her face.

Across the courtyard, Cami and Klaus talk while Cami subtly watches Rebekah with Marcel at the bar. "The guy of hers Rebekah was talking about... I'm sensing that would be Marcel." Klaus smiled. "I wouldn't worry about it. Ancient history." Cami frowned. "I'm beginning to think your sister is a bit of a bitch." Klaus laughs heartily."It's as though she invented the term!" Cami smiles. "Nicole is sweet though. Is she your niece?" Klaus bounced his head back and forth. "In a manner. She's my brother's ward. I'm taking care of her till he returns from business." Cami nods then gazes at Klaus; he seems drawn in for a moment but catches himself as he spots Marcel getting ready to approach them. Klaus bows. "Pardon me for a moment." Klaus leaves. Nicole notices the moment they just shared and hoped it could turn into more for her father's sake. She could see clear as day that he cared for her.

Marcel greets Cami. "Cami, hey." Cami turns to him. "Hey! Killer party." Marcel smiles. "Oh, it's more of a work thing. I would've invited you..." Cami cuts him off. "Oh, no. We've been on one date. No explanation necessary. You do your thing, I'll entertain myself." Marcel smiles. "What, leave you alone, looking the way you do? Hell with that."


 In Lafayette Cemetery; Katie and Sophie talk inside a candlelit mausoleum in preparation for their plan. Katie is sobbing, and though Sophie doesn't seem happy, she does comfort her in her own way. "I know you think he's a monster." Sophie shakes her head. "It doesn't matter what I think. Thierry killed another vampire. He broke Marcel's biggest rule. You'll never see him again... unless we do something." Katie is confused. "We?" Sophie nods. "I want to save our people. You want to save Thierry? There's only one way we can do both." Katie nods in agreement.
A little while later, Katie and Sophie sit out in the cemetery, arranging items for a ritual. "You ready?" Katie begins by sprinkling sand over their tableau. Cut to Davina's attic room in St. Anne's Church, where the whispering voices growing louder. Davina is in her bed and thrashes restlessly as she's disturbed by the sensation of their magic. After a moment, she jerks awake and sits up. Davina whispers. "Marcel. Something's coming." Davina rises from her bed and goes to her easel. She draws on the paper madly for several seconds as she gets flashes of visions of Katie performing spell. After a moment, she stops. "Magic."

Sophie is outside the mausoleum, where she has set up a map, a bottle of black sand, and a pocket watch to cast her locator spell. Rebekah and Nicole enter the cemetery a moment later, and when Sophie hears them coming, she glances up at her, looking anxious. Nicole sits next to her; pretending to study her cast the spell. "You're doing the right thing." Rebekah says. Nicole puts a hand on Sophie's shoulder. "It's the only way to find Elijah." Sophie looks at them. "I'm doing what I have to do." Sophie begins chanting the incantation for the spell.

Klaus watches as more of Marcel's men lead Thierry out of the party and out onto the street, where a small crowd of more vampires watch Katie approach as she chants loudly. Klaus watches the events unfold from a window above. The sequence is intercut with shots of Davina madly scribbling away at her easel as she continues to get flashes of Katie performing her spell. Thierry desperately yells to her. "Katie, no!" Klaus smirks. "Like clockwork." Katie waves her arm and a lamp's light explodes; all the vampires grab at their heads, falling down in pain. Davina's drawing appears to be Katie's face. Marcel alone rises back up to face Katie, but she smashes another light with magic and Marcel goes down again. Sophie continues to chant for her spell. Marcel rises again, but Katie uses magic to break his bones, and he falls again shouting in pain.

In her room, Davina lifts her hands slowly, which seems to cause Marcel to rise yet again. Katie looks astonished. "You're here to save your man. Well, come on, little girl!" He growls as he runs to attack Katie, but she halts him with magic, and he groans as he falls to his knees. In her room, Davina falls to her knees at the same time. In the street, Katie lifts a wooden stake above Marcel's head. "Die, you son of a bitch." Thierry is horrified. "No! Katie! Don't!" Before Katie can kill Marcel, Klaus swoops in and snaps Katie's neck. She dies as Klaus drops her body carelessly to the ground.

In the cemetery, Sophie senses something and stops the spell. "What is it Sophie?" Nicole asks. "Something's wrong. Katie's magic stopped. I can keep going." Nicole grabs her hands. "You can't. She'll sense it." Sophie is determined. "No. I can find Davina. I just need another moment." Rebekah hurries and grabs the map, throwing it and the sand aside so she cannot continue. Sophie looks stunned and upset. "You may be willing to die to get your witch back, but Hayley and the baby will die with you!" Rebekah yelled at Sophie. Nicole nodded in agreement. "Elijah will never forgive us, and rescuing him will be for nothing. It's over. We failed." Nicole slumps against the grave behind her. She feels like they let Elijah down. Her tears fall freely. Back on the street, Thierry crawls over to Katie's body. Thierry is heartbroken. "No. Katie. No, no, no, no." He cradles her body and sobs over her. Marcel catches Klaus' eye and nods in appreciation. Klaus nods and smirks.


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