The Originals

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Trees were everywhere as the teenage girl ran through the forest, trying her best to not trip and tumble on the muddy ground.

She could hear someone behind her as she tried to get home. The footsteps were getting closer and the teenage girl was tackled to the ground as her best friend hovered above her.

'Olly, let me go home!' She exclaimed as he held her hands above her head.

'No! Look, there's something going on there and-' he cut himself off, realizing he already said to much.

'Whats going on?'

'Nothing, forget about it. Just come back to my house and we can hang out.'

'No, get off,' she replied before head butting the blonde boy and running again to her home.

The young girl was familiar. It was me.

Elijah's POV

"Thank you," I heard her whisper before she died.

My eyes were watering, but held back my tears. I couldn't allow myself to look down at her body, afraid of facing my emotions.

Niklaus and I heard a scream from down below, catching our attention and we see the witches holding Hayley's child. She was crying as Niklaus smiled at the sight of his child.

Hayley did not have long before the witches killed her causing both my brother and I to scream. The witches snapped our necks and then left to proceed with their ceremony.

After a few hours, I finally awoke to my brother standing and making his way to the door. Sparing a glance to Jessica, I saw her blank eyes staring at the ceiling.

I moved, following Niklaus to go save his child instead of staying in this retched building. We raced to the cemetery, knowing since it's the witches hollow ground, it's where they would finish their task.

We searched for them for hours, before we realized it's a maze. They planned ahead of course, knowing we would come back and fight.

We walked into another dead end before Klaus angrily kicked the wall, causing some bricks to fall to the ground.

"Where are they?!" He exclaimed throwing his hands in the air.

"Niklaus-"

"Don't you dare try to calm me, brother," he threatened. "You should be just as angry. They killed two people who were close with our family."

"Brother, I am angry. They killed someone who I let in! I never let people in. However, acting upon our anger right now instead of searching for these people will not help your child-"

"I can find her," a familiar voice spoke softly coming into our view.

"How are you alive?" Klaus demanded as we each took a step closer to her.

"She's my baby, I can find her," Hayley said then closed her eyes, trying to track her child down.

"Well?" My impatient brother demanded.

"I've found her," Hayley said before rushing off.

We used our speed to follow her and we saw the witches later as they held the child in their hands, over a bowl with fire surrounding them.

When one saw us, she said a spell sending my brother and I back into a wall and Hayley through a pillar. As we were held back, we heard screams coming from a few witches and saw Marcellous and a woman biting the witches necks.

Once all the witches were dead, Marcel took the baby and left with the mysterious vampire right after him. After helping Hayley to her feet, she smelt the blood and lunged at one of the surviving witches, and drank her until she died.

We all ran to find Marcel, searching the city, quickly finding him crying in the quarter as a majority of his minions lied dead and the woman from before kneeled in front of him trying to help him.

"Marcellous! What a clever idea of you to run to your death bed!" My brother exclaimed as we all hesitantly stood a few feet back.

"Klaus, this isn't a good idea," the woman said turning around and facing us causing us all to gasp.

Normal POV

Waking up, I gasp trying to catch my breath. I groan, feeling the pain in my chest and pull out the stake. Looking around, I see the church is empty and try my best to stand properly.

Reaching the door-well where it's supposed to be- a figure rushes towards me, giving me a blood bag. Finishing it, I see it's Marcel and he has me go with him.

We arrive at the cemetery and begin to sneak up on the witches as they have attention on keeping the three back. Marcel and I ripped out hearts and drank blood until the witches fell to the ground.

The next thing I noticed was that he grabbed Klaus' child and ran with me right behind him. We arrived at the quarter and he fell to his knees seeing the sight of his followers and begins to cry.

I try to calm him down, but hear footsteps behind me.

"Marcellous! What a clever idea of you to run to your death bed!" I heard Klaus exclaim behind me.

"Klaus, this isn't a good idea," I said turning around and see their eyes widen in shock as they gasp seeing me.

"You were-how are-" he begins but can't finish any question.

I kneel beside Marcel once more, slowly taking the baby from his hands and handing her to Hayley. After doing so, I kneel by Marcel again, grasping his hand in mine.

"I could kill you," Klaus begins but stops when I glare at him.

"Marcel, come with me," I said. "Okay? None of this is your fault."

"I created them-" he began.

"But someone else ended them. Please, Marcel. Just come with me," I pleaded.

He slowly stood and I led him to my room, laying him on my bed. "Stay here. You need to rest," I whispered placing a kiss on his head before walking out and closing the door behind me.

"I can't believe you're alive," Elijah spoke once I went back downstairs.

"Neither can I," I smiled slightly, crossing my arms.

"How are you-"

"When I was dead, I got a bunch of memories from when I was a kid. Then a woman showed up, your mother. She said that I'm the key."

"To what?"

"Everything."