THE BAYOU
Hayley is sitting against a tree as she tells Elijah what she's learned. Elijah paces anxiously while he listens. "Klaus must have known, that's the only explanation! He could care less about the baby. He just wants her to be born so he can use her to make more sired hybrids." She looks at Elijah, and they share a look before Elijah looks away, troubled by Hayley's news. "Although... the way that Dwayne was acting... it was more like he was sired to me." They both continue to think about the implications. "I should take you home." Hayley is appalled. "Are you serious? Home to what?" Elijah puts his hand up. "Look, regardless of my brother's intentions, mine remain the same. I said that I would protect you, even, if need be, from Klaus himself." Hayley tries to compose herself and be brave. "I can take care of myself. I've done it for a long time." Hayley gets up and walks away. After a moment, Elijah follows her.
THE GARDEN
Marcel leads Rebekah into the Garden, and gestures at a vampire guard to leave them alone. Rebekah stares around in confusion and mild horror "What is this place?" Rebekah asks. Marcel gestures around them. "This is the Garden. It's where I punish vampires who break my rules." He pulls some blueprints out of a little hole in the wall. "But, a long time ago, it used to be something else." He spreads out the blueprints and shows them to Rebekah. "Go on, tell me what you see." Rebekah examines the sketches. "Two stories, Greek columns, wrap-around porch. High ceilings, transom windows... It's lovely. So what?" Marcel smiles. "So, I designed it for you. It was going to be ours." Rebekah is stunned. "That, this...was supposed to be our happily-ever-after?" Marcel half smiles. "Yours and mine." He puts the blueprints away. "Except you flew the coop with Klaus. I already built the foundation for the place. I halted constructions after you took off. The plan was to wait for you to return. You never did, so, now it's where I bury the people who betray me." Rebekah is outraged at his accusations. "You could have come after me!" Marcel was getting frustrated. "You were with Klaus! I didn't know where, I didn't know if you still wanted to be with me! All you had to do was come home!" Rebekah shakes her head. "It was more complicated than that. Not long after we left here, he put a dagger in my heart and stuck me in a box for NINETY YEARS. He stole a century for me like it was nothing!" Marcel looses his patience. "That's what he does, Rebekah! Klaus will never be happy. He'll be damned if he lets anyone get something that he can't have!" Marcel is shouting at her. "I know! I've been dancing to this song for a thousand years!" They begin to scream at each other out of frustration. "Starting right now, you have a choice, between the brother who takes away your happiness whenever he feels like it, and the man who wants to give you anything you ever wanted." The two stare at each other for a long moment. "He will kill you in front of my eyes out of spite." Marcel shakes his head. "Not if we get rid of him first."
Rebekah looks at him in shock. "Do you know how many fools have tried to vanquish my brother? If you stand against him, he will kill you and it will be awful and bloody and I will not stand around and watch." She turns to leave, but Marcel stops her. "You forget, I have a secret weapon. Davina, the most powerful witch in the last couple centuries! What if she can find a way to kill him?" Rebekah shakes her head. "You don't know, do you? You can't kill Klaus! Not without dying yourself. We learned it from the deaths of my brothers Kol and Finn. If an Original dies, every vampire ever made from their line dies with them. Even if you kill Klaus, he'll still win! It's been that way for a thousand years, that's his trick. He always wins." Marcel looks around. "There's another way." Rebekah crosses her arms and plants her feet. "What would that be?" Marcel gestures around himself. "We bury him down here forever." Rebekah's eyes go wide. "Are you mad? This little chamber of horrors may work for your riff-raff, but do you really think it will hold my brother?" Marcel grabs her hands. "Isn't it worth the risk? You know I'm right! Klaus will never stop trying to control you!" Rebekah is close to tears. "And I'm supposed to believe that, after a century, suddenly you're willing to risk death at his hands to be with me?" Marcel growls. "I want to defend my home. I wanna be free. And if that means I get to be with you, all the more reason to bury him. Now, you tell me--- what do you want?" Rebekah stares at him, but says nothing.
THE BAYOU
Klaus is waiting at Dwayne's shack when Elijah and Hayley return. Nicole runs over and hugs Hayley. "Thank God you're okay! I'm so sorry about Tyler." Hayley shakes her head. "It's not your fault Nicole." Once they approach the porch, he shoves Dwayne's dead body in front of them. "There you are! I see you've found our wandering stray. Perhaps you could shed some light on the situation. This..." Klaus kicks the body over. "...appears to be a hybrid." Hayley sighs. "His name was Dwayne." Nicole crouches down to examine him. "Well, whoever it was, I didn't sire him. Any idea how that's possible?" Hayley stomps toward him. "As if you didn't know!" Nicole's head shoots up at Hayley's attitude. She quickly gets up and stands in front of Klaus keeping her hand on her gun while Elijah holds Hayley back and walks in front of her to protect her from Klaus. Klaus is unamused "Ahhh, well, aren't you two fast friends? Oh, come on, then. What kind of horrible accusation have you conspired to levy against me?" Elijah sighs in exasperation. "Tyler Lockwood brought Hayley here to test a theory." Klaus nods at him to continue. Nicole's gaze shifts from Elijah to Hayley. "That the blood of her child could be used to sire hybrids. He claims that you knew that. Furthermore, that you intended to use this knowledge to build an army." Nicole lowers her gun. She is shocked. Klaus becomes hurt and angry. "And, of course, you assume it's true. I mean, why else would I show interest in my own flesh and blood? A heartbroken little crybaby points his finger at me, and my own brother falls in line, eager to believe it! How quickly you believe the worst, especially when it comes from her." He glared at Hayley.
Nicole grabs Klaus' hand trying to calm him down. "Oh, spare me your indignation. When have you ever demonstrated any kind of concern towards Hayley or her child, beyond your own selfish pursuits?" Nicole glared at her uncle. She couldn't believe what Elijah was accusing her father of. "And what was it you once said to me?" He impersonates Klaus. "Every king needs an heir!" Nicole looks at her father because she remembers him saying that; but that doesn't change the disdain she's feeling for her uncle and Hayley right now. "He has an heir with or without Hayley's baby!" Klaus smirked at his daughter's allegiance. Elijah looked at Hayley who had a look of shame on her face. "Nicole please; don't make this about you." Nicole scoffed at her Uncle. "Wow." She was so pissed that Elijah was siding with Hayley over his own flesh and blood. "Your feelings for Hayley better be worth losing your family Uncle Elijah." He opened his mouth to retort but saw how hurt Nicole was and shut his mouth.
Klaus turned his attention back to Elijah. "My big brother. So, you doubt my intentions? Well, I can't say I'm surprised, standing next to the noble Elijah, how can I be anything but the lesser brother? A liar, a manipulator, a bastard." Nicole winced at that word. She was technically one as well. The two stare at each other as Klaus approaches him. Elijah seems to be reconsidering his position. "That's all I am to you, isn't it? And Rebekah. And, judging by the way Hayley hangs on your every word, it's clear she feels the same way!" He pauses, looking even more hurt. "No doubt my child will as well." Nicole had tears in her eyes. Her heart broke for her father. She loved him; she knew Elijah and Rebekah did as well but she knew they also had resentments towards him.
Elijah approached Klaus more kindly. "Brother, if..." Klaus interrupts him. "You've said all that needs to be said, brother." He steps back a few steps and holds his arms out in defeat. "I'll play the role I've been given." He turns as though he's going to walk away, but instead, he turns back quickly and vamp-runs over to Elijah before biting him savagely on the neck. "Dad, No!" Nicole yells at Klaus and Hayley screams in horror and runs over to him.
Klaus wipes his mouth with his hand. "You two enjoy each other's company. You'll have much to bond over, once the hallucinations and dementia set in. Consider that bite to be my parting gift to you both." Nicole stared at her father in shock but she understood why he did it. Klaus grabbed Nicole's arm roughly and walked away, leaving Elijah and Hayley to fend for themselves in the Bayou.
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