Chasing An Outcome

Chapter 10: Final Battle! Lucien vs Marcel

She could feel someone nudging her and a voice followed soon after.

"...Davina, hey wake up."

"Nathan?" She grumbled as she adjusted her eyes to the darkened atmosphere. It took only moments to find her bearings. "These trips are really beginning to bug me."

He chuckled softly. "Yeah, me too; it'll be over soon."

"So this is what this place looks like..."

The all too familiar voice caused Davina to whip her head towards it. "Marcel? Wow it worked!"

"Like a charm," He said smoothly. "You three really pulled through. It wouldn't have been made possible otherwise."

"I won't lie, I'm almost drained. That took a hell of my energy to do. Although I am flattered." Nathan replied.

"Mines as well," Vincent added. "We need to remain silent so as to avoid any altercations. For as long as we can at least."

"Nathan knows this place well; he kept me safe while I was here. I think it'd be best if we let him take the lead." Davina suggested, earning a smile from Nathan at the fact that she trusted him to take charge.

Seeing no protests Nathan motioned for them to follow him. "Leave it to me; I'll get the job done. Keep your eyes peeled everyone. Marcel you'll serve as our best patrol with your hearing. We lay low and become completely incognito."

"Come to think of it we really didn't think this through the first time around," Davina exclaimed. "It was only me and Nathan here trying to end this. Until Kol and Freya showed up. Not that it helped much though."

"He's probably coming again you know," Nathan said, making sure not to speak so loudly. "Gotta admit your boyfriend sure is persistent."

Davina blushed. "Don't call him my boyfriend. It feels weird calling him that. But uh... yeah we're sort of together. To be fair I suspected you knew about us already. Sorry for not telling you earlier though."

He laughed. "It's fine. I knew you were together the second I saw him. I told you a dad just knows these kinds of things." His attention shifted towards the only vampire with them. "Parental nature aside is there any other reason you don't like him Marcel?"

He narrowed his eyes. "It was him who killed Davina."

Nathan immediately stopped in his tracks. "He what?"

"Don't go saying it like that," Davina hissed, glaring at her makeshift guardian. "You know full well it wasn't his fault. The ancestors cursed him and made him do it. He wasn't himself."

"The madness has been with him for as long as I've known him Davina. I'm certain it didn't take much for the ancestors to bring that side of him back out. As a matter of fact you hardly know him. There are so many things you were lucky to not see. Now I'm no saint but damn it he was something else. If it were up to me I'd never allow him anywhere near you. That entire family has been poison to us."

"Perhaps," She muttered. Of course she knew how Kol was before meeting her. He killed for fun, did as he pleased without any regard for the consequences.

Even so...

"...But I didn't have you. And you're worth being good for. I promise you can trust me."

"But I trust him." She stated defiantly. "And I'd never blame him for what happened or look at him any differently. Same way I don't do any of that to you. Thing is, had I died, it wouldn't just be you who'd be in pain Marcel. Kol would be suffering so much right now. He'd be blaming himself, resenting himself even. I know he would hate his family for all eternity; that wouldn't be fair to Hayley, Klaus, or to Rebekah."