Before anyone could answer about the painting Elena cried out in pain. Kol saw her grab her hand and noticed how red it looked. He took her hand in his to see how badly she was burned. Now he knew why the witch had taken the painting, she could hurt Elena from wherever until the painting was useless to her and not get caught.
"I'm going to go mix up some lavender essential oil, sea buckthorn berries, and purple root to ease the pain" Freya said as she hurried out of the room.
"What's going on?" Rebekah asked as Freya dashed off past her, making her curious so she followed her sister.
"The witch was in the house, she knocked Elena out then stole the painting of her. She is using the painting to hurt Elena, so I've got to mix this up for the burn on Elena's hand" Freya said gathering the stuff and heading into the hallway.
"What is going on up here?" Elijah asked looking around.
"The witch was here and she is using the painting of Elena to hurt her" Rebekah said watching Freya mix the ingredients.
"What? Is Elena alright?" Elijah asked Freya.
"She has a burned hand, Kol is with her in his room" she said, and Elijah walked off down the hall towards Kol's bedroom.
"Elena are you alright?" Elijah asked with concern.
"Yeah, I'll be fine" Elena said trying to reassure Kol.
"Well I'm bloody not!" Kol exclaimed.
"Kol, getting upset isn't helping her" Elijah said calmly.
"I'm sorry love" Kol said holding Elena close.
"Can someone please explain what is going on?" Nik asked looking at anyone who would answer as he walked up.
"Out of the way brother" Freya said pushing NIk with her elbow.
"What happened?" he asked knowing something wasn't right.
"The witch was here, knocked Elena out and stole the painting of her and used it not very long ago to burn her hand" Kol told him.
"Are you alright love?" NIk asked her.
"No NIk she isn't, what if that witch does something worse than just burning her hand" Kol said worried looking at his older brother.
"You stay with Elena and Freya can you come up with something to protect Elena before that witch gets anymore idea's, and Rebekah and Elijah come with me...seems we are going on a witch hunt" Nik said not happy that she was getting in his house undetected.
"Yeah I can try" Freya said nodding.
Everyone had left the room but Freya and Kol, his sister was applying the salve to Elena's hand. Then it hit him where the witch may be getting in at, but he needed to check it out.
"Freya can you stay with Elena for a few minutes? I may know where that witch is getting in" Kol said.
"Where are you going?" Elena asked him.
"Just down to the cellar love, I'll be back before you know it" he said bending over to kiss her forehead.
"Be careful" she whispered.
"Always" he whispered back with a smile.
He was making his way down the stairs when he could hear movement coming from behind the fake cellar wall. As he moved closer he could see the witch, her back was to him and in front of her was the painting.
"Oh no! I'm so sorry I burnt your hand" the witch cried softly to the painting as she took in the burn mark.
Kol came up behind her, and she sensed to late that she wasn't alone.
"I spy a witch with a painting that isn't hers" Kol said sarcastically, make the witch whirl around.
"I..I..didn't mean for the pretty girl to get burned...I swear I didn't" she cried looking at the menacing vampire staring at her.
"I see you found our troublesome witch" Nik said calmly.
"She is but a girl, how old are you?" Rebekah asked.
"Fifteen" she said barely above a whisper.
"What is your name and why are you here?" Elijah asked her.
"Jayme and I was hiding" she said.
"Hiding from what and it still doesn't answer why you are here" Rebekah said.
"I heard stories about a really old witch that lived her, so I admired her from afar. I wanted to be like her so when no one was here I would sneak in and practice spells...only I'm not very good at them" Jayme said looking at the floor.
"Most people tend to come to the front door to introduce themselves, not sneak into homes" Nik said to her.
"I was afraid of the vampires" she blurted out, swallowing hard realizing she was with four of them that weren't happy with her at the moment.
"We better get that painting upstairs so Freya can figure out what you did to it, and resolve the spells you managed to ruin. How many have you done?" Elijah asked as they all headed upstairs. All of them ignoring what she said about being afraid.
"I don't know...a lot" she said softly looking down at the floor as they walked.
"That's reassuring" Kol said still upset with the witch as they neared his room.
"Did you catch her?" Freya asked as they all entered Kol's bedroom.
"Yes we did sister" Rebekah said, as Jayme walked in behind her in Nik's grasp.
"You can't be more than 15 or 16 years old" Freya said looking at her.
"Fifteen and I'm sorry I ruined some spells...like the one that blew up and made you purple" she said.
"How many spells have you tried?" Freya asked a little bit worried, as some spells had consequences.
"Quite a few" Jayme said looking Freya in the eyes.
"I guess we better go figure out what you did to the painting first, some of those spells aren't safe if done wrong. What is your name?" Freya asked as they headed to her craft room.
"Jayme" she said.
"From the look on Freya's face, I have great concern what spells that girl did" Elijah said thoughtfully.
