SANITORIUM
Celeste has just approached Rebekah in the hallway where she has been hallucinating. "Just give it up, Rebekah. It's inevitable at this point." Celeste says full of false pity. "Sabine." Rebekah is surprised. "I prefer Celeste, actually. All these names I've had over the years, and I still prefer the first. Perhaps it was the way it sounded on Elijah's lips, like a declaration of love. Oh, he was a good liar. All of you are." She says with a smirk. "Say what you want about me, but Elijah is a good man." Rebekah says with pride. "Still defending him, even until the bitter end. Good. I'm counting on that familial love. It'll be the ruin of you all. Now that Klaus knows what you've done, he'll never stop until he's had his revenge. He'll kill Marcel. Do something horrible to you. Elijah will never forgive him. Your betrayal will ultimately pit brother against brother. And the fabled Mikaelson bond will crumble." She says with hate and determination. "I'll kill you, you bitch!" Rebekah yells and lunges at her. Celeste laughs. "You already did. Though at the time, I wore a different face."
FLASHBACK-- FLEUR-DE-LIS SANITARIUM, 1919
An anxious Rebekah approaches Genevieve in the influenza ward, where Genevieve and Clara are tending to a patient. "Genevieve, we need to talk. Privately." Rebekah says sternly. Genevieve looks over at Clara, who nods at her to go. "I'll be fine here. You go ahead. You should wash up anyway. Hey." She hands her a handkerchief into which a patient had just coughed up blood. "Incinerate that as soon as you can."
PRESENT DAY
Rebekah is in shock. "You were the other one. Clara. You should have minded your own business." She says with a glare. "I suspected my friend was being exploited. It was my business." Celeste replied with snark.
FLASHBACK
In the morgue, Rebekah has just informed Genevieve that she's gotten cold feet about summoning her father. "Call it off? Are you mad?" Genevieve asks in shock. "I was wrong. It was stupid and impulsive, and it will ruin us, Genevieve. Not just Klaus but Elijah, too. I risked tearing our family apart for my own selfish happiness. I'm begging you, please, don't bring Mikael here. If Klaus finds out what we have done... what you have done." Genevieve realizes what has happened "Klaus will kill me. He'll kill my entire family." Genevieve says full of fear. "Which is exactly why I need you to undo it." Rebekah says with persistence. "It doesn't work that way. There is no undoing it. Mikael is coming. The only hope now Is tell Klaus the truth. Confess what we've done." Genevieve tries to persuade her. "That is not an option. He will dagger me and leave me in a box for centuries. You will not say a word." Rebekah says threateningly. "You used me! This whole time, our friendship... All you wanted was a favor, and now you want to take it back? Well, you can't. And I will not suffer because I was foolish enough to trust you." Genevieve says hurt and betrayed. "It was a mistake. I know that now. But that one mistake will destroy us." Rebekah says and starts to lunge for Genevieve, but Genevieve casts a pain infliction spell on her, and she begins to double over in agony. "You brought this on yourself. I will not be destroyed along with you." Genevieve turns to leave, but Rebekah recovers enough to grab the bloody rag from Genevieve and shove it in her face, smothering her nose and mouth with it and forcing her to inhale the virus infected cloth. "I'm so sorry, Genevieve. But if you tell Niklaus you summoned Mikael, you're dead either way." Suddenly, Clara enters the morgue to check on them and finds Rebekah pushing the rag over her face. "Genevieve, is everything all right?" She asks.
PRESENT DAY
Celeste sighs in disgust. "So, you infected me, too. Compelled the orderlies to keep us in quarantine until we died. Fortunately, I just took another body. Genevieve wasn't so lucky. Well, now that she's back, you're the one whose luck's run out." Elsewhere in the sanitarium, Genevieve talks to Klaus. "I'm sorry. I know how much this hurts. To see what she did. To see who she really is. But you needed to know. You needed to see it. And now that you have, you can take your revenge. Our revenge. Please. Go ahead. You'll need your strength for what comes next." Genevieve holds out her arm and offers it to him. Klaus feeds from her as she slowly undoes his bindings. Once he's free, he jumps up suddenly, instantly aiming Papa Tunde's blade at her heart. Genevieve looks momentarily afraid, but Klaus ultimately leaves her unharmed so he can go after his sister instead. "Rebekah! Rebekah!"
Elijah, Nicole and Marcel arrive outside the sanitarium. "We should divide the building. I'll start at one end, you at the other, Nicole you come with me." Elijah says. Marcel and Nicole nod in agreement.
Inside, Rebekah sees Klaus in the hallway and begins to panic. "Nik. Nik, it isn't true." She says pleadingly. "I want to believe you, sister. But your face tells a different story." Afraid, Rebekah vamp-speeds away from him. He starts to yell after her. "You cannot hide from me, Rebekah! Nor can you run. This ends now." He says with murder in his eyes.
Outside, Celeste leaves the sanitarium and starts walking down the street toward the French Quarter. However, Hayley sneaks up behind her and hits her hard over the head with a shovel, causing her to be knocked out as she falls to the ground. "Hey, there, witch bitch. You and I are gonna have a little chat." Hayley says with a smirk.
Inside, Rebekah is still running but is slowing down and begins to limp. Klaus continues to hunt her. She runs down the stairs and finally stops in one of the abandoned rooms, where he eventually finds her. She hears his footsteps coming down each step. "Rebekah! Tired of running?" He asks coming down the last step and turning to her. "I know how much you enjoy the chase. I'd sooner deny you the pleasure." She says breathless. "Well, then I'll take my pleasures in other ways. No more 'daggered in a box' for you. Trust me, sister, you'll long for what the dagger offered. This will be far less merciful. How to describe exactly what this blade does?" He says eyes wide with anger. He's looks completely insane. "You don't have to do this, Nik." Rebekah says trying to convince him but he ignores her. "After I plunge this into your heart, you will be immobilized, imprisoned in a state of raw, inescapable anguish. Time loses all meaning. It's not unlike a living hell, which I find rather fitting, given your treachery." He says with the devil in his eyes. "Then do it. If that's what you really want." She says giving up. "Are we skipping the part where you beg for mercy? For forgiveness? Because I was really looking forward to that." He replies his words dripping with sarcasm. "I'll pass. I know better than to think it would do me any good." She says with as much hate as she could muster. "That's it, then? You concede? Like a lamb to the slaughter. What would your father think of you now?" He asks hitting a nerve.
Rebekah lunges toward Klaus, but he throws her off easily. Still weak from the werewolf venom, she grunts in pain as she falls to the floor. Covertly grabbing a wooden plank as a weapon, she gets up and rushes toward Klaus again, hitting him repeatedly with it. Klaus is stronger, though, and throws her off again. Before he can do further harm to her, Marcel suddenly arrives and starts to attack him. "Just the man I wanted to see." Klaus says moving towards Marcel as he groans as Klaus hits him. "Rebekah's punishment won't be complete until she watches you die." Klaus says with promise. "Nik, it was my idea to summon Mikael. If you're gonna hurt anyone, it should be me." She says laying on the floor with whatever strength she has. "Such loyalty to your beloved. You know, if you had offered me even a fraction of the same, I wouldn't have to do this." Klaus says emotionless. He lifts the blade, about to stab Rebekah in the heart with it, but Nicole and Elijah enter. "No!" Nicole yells distracting Klaus. In that moment Elijah intervenes and stabs the blade into Klaus' chest. Klaus looks at Elijah with tears in his eyes. Nicole runs over and sits with him. She holds his hand to let him know she's there. "It's okay Dad." She says with tears in her eyes. "Go. Both of you. Run as far and as fast as you can. Run!" Elijah yells. Rebekah and Marcel get away, leaving Elijah with a disabled Klaus in his arms and Nicole holding his hand. "You couldn't have just snapped his neck?" Nicole asks angrily. Elijah is ashamed of himself.
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Always & Forever A Mikaelson {Sequel to Klaus' Daughter Is A Lockwood}
FanfictionNicole's story in New Orleans with her family of Originals, a pregnant werewolf and her mate continue.