Bow Down - the originals [1] ✔️

d i x - s e p t

"Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back

Struck from a great height by someone who should know better than that" 

SONG FOR THIS CHAPTER: DOG DAYS ARE OVER - FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE 

klaus mikaelson

le grand guignol

Klaus lies in bed shirtless in his room. His eyes are closed, and he's gasping in pain from Papa Tunde's blade being embedded in his chest. Elijah watches him, clearly conflicted. Marie brushes the blonde hair from Klaus's face and sighs.

"This was all you." Elijah sighs, turning to a gasping Klaus. 

Cami rushes into the compound in a hurry. The other vampires glance at her, confused by her presence. When Marie hears her arrival, she walks out onto the balcony to greet her. "What's she doing here?"

"Well, idiots, I called her here. Camille, upstairs please cherie" Marie calls out.

"Why did you call me? Have you found a way to help my uncle?" Cami asked, hurriedly.

"What happened to your uncle?" Marie frowns.

"He got hexed by a witch." Cami sighs, running a hand through her blonde hair, sighing loudly, bags were evident in her eyes, indicating a lack of sleep.

"I can try, but first, I need your help." Elijah pleads.

"I don't have time for games, Elijah. The hex on him is getting worse by the day." Cami snaps.

"My brother has a mystical torture device buried in his chest, and the mother of his child is inexplicably missing. So, I can assure you, I have no time to play any games, either." Elijah replies.

"What do you need me to do?"

"The dagger the witch gave me is inside of him?" Cami splutters, recalling the dark object that a witch had asked her to dagger Klaus with. Cami relented and gave the dagger to Klaus, the dagger belonged to Papa Tunde and caused indescribable torment and pain.

Elijah removes his jacket and rolls up his sleeve, "And every second it remains causes Niklaus untold suffering."

"Who stabbed him?" Cami exclaims in fright.

"He did, and now he intends to remove it. You might want to take a step back." Marie warns.

"Why am I here?" Cami asked.

"Because of all the people that could be here, you're probably the only one he wouldn't immediately slaughter. Also, he speaks of you with what is a rare degree-- for him, at least-- of respect. I can see you challenge him to see himself and others in a new light" Marie smiles happily. Elijah uses a scalpel to slice into him along the red scar bisecting his chest, before jamming his fist into the open wound to grab the blade. 

He finally pulls the knife out of Klaus' chest, and he groans in agony. "A wonderful skill that I shall be counting on very shortly. You see, Niklaus will be weak as he recovers. So, watch over him and feed him, if you would. But slowly, please, and from your wrist. " Elijah instructs.