Klaus' Daughter is a Lockwood?

Searching for Wolves & Making Amends

THE BAYOU

It's evening now, and Rebekah and Elijah are still in the werewolf encampments, looking around for the new group of werewolves that Eve told them about. Rebekah looks in distaste at the makeshift homes. "All these wolves really travel in style, don't they?" Elijah opens the door to a trailer. "Empty." Rebekah follows. "Piled on the pavement, perhaps?" Elijah puts his hand out. "So, proceed then." Elijah said. Rebekah was getting bored. "Let's not, and tell Hayley that we did. Then, you get to impress the girl, and I can go home. You know how hovels depress me." Elijah smiles weakly. "I'm not trying to impress the girl." Rebekah is astounded. "I should bloody hope you are, why else are we out here?" Elijah remains silent. "Come on, Elijah! You've fallen for her, admit it! May do wonders for the stick that's lodged up your enduringly-stoic arse if you did." Elijah smiles. "If I admit to you that it's complicated, would that suffice? Or, are you determined to torment me throughout this endeavor?"

They hear a noise and turn to find that the vampire hunting party has returned. One of the vampires is feeding from a male werewolf. Elijah vamp-speeds over to Diego and pulls his head backwards by his hair. "Darling, we need to stop meeting like this. This is how rumors begin!" He releases Diego. "You can go now." No one moves, and Elijah sighs in annoyance. "Perhaps I'm not making myself clear here. This is a threat. In precisely three minutes' time, your little hunting party will become the prey. Now, based on your recent failure to subdue my baby brother Niklaus, despite a better than a 100-to-1 advantage, I recommend you heed my warning." Diego is visibly frustrated and embarrassed, but he reluctantly leaves with his fellow vampires. Rebekah smirks. "Impressive!" Elijah returns her smirk. "Well, I thought the situation demanded something a little dramatic." The hurt werewolf, Cary, is groaning in pain on the ground. He gets up and looks at Elijah and Rebekah suspiciously. "Who are you people?" Cary asks. As Elijah approaches Cary, he notices a distinctive ring that he wears around his neck and looks surprised. "I would say the better question is, Who are you?" Elijah asks Cary.

FRENCH QUARTER

Klaus drinks from a flask as he and Marcel walk down the streets of the Quarter with Nicole behind them. Nicole is ashamed of the atrocities they have committed. "To our united front! This act of yours, the imitation of friendship. Don't get me wrong, you played the part well enough; I should know, having played it myself. There was a time when the affinity between us was quite real." Marcel stopped in his tracks. "Sure. And then you got it in your head to take what I created. When I picked up that coin, I swore loyalty, Klaus, not friendship. I'm holding up my end. The other one has to be earned." Nicole watched the two carefully; afraid of another bloodbath. "Fair enough. Then, you should probably know the whole story. My decision was not entirely my own. If I didn't agree to usurp your power, the witches swore to kill my unborn child. But, at first, the promise of an offspring meant little to me. Then, I recalled my father. How he held me in contempt from the moment I was born, as yours did with you. I will not do to my child what was done to me. To us." He drinks deeply from his flask again. He offers to Nicole but she silently declines. "All this; the spying, the manipulation; that's just something you were forced into. Is that it? And what now? You feel kinda bad... 'Hey buddy, it's nothing personal'. Is that it?" Marcel asked.

Klaus tilted his head. "I admit, I was jealous. I saw the empire you had created on your own, without me. I saw it, and I wanted it." Nicole put her head down ashamed of her father's actions. "You're wrong, you know. I didn't do it on my own. I stood in the shadow of my father my entire human life, and I never would've gotten out from under it, if not for you. You're the one who taught me that a man can't be defined by anyone but himself." He pauses awkwardly before he continues. "So, what now?" Klaus looks at his surroundings. "This community that you've built-- you have their respect. Their love. I could rule them, but I cannot win them, not without you. So, rule with me. Side by side as equals. Friends. Brothers." Klaus offers him his flask, and after a moment, Marcel takes it and drinks from it. Klaus smiles cheerfully. Nicole looks at Marcel and smiles.