Lovely • The Originals [4]

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|01.| THINKING ABOUT YOU

PEACE THROUGHOUT THE FIVE YEARS without the Mikaelsons, and it continues to remain so in the city of New Orleans. As the vampires, witches, and humans live in peace in the Crescent city, Cora and her family live in peace as well, although the tribrid has pushed herself to find the cures and solutions that will bring back the Mikaelsons, her children's family.

Cora walks upstairs to the second floor where the entrance to the attic is located. Through a small opening into the attic, she hoists herself up and walks towards the coffins where the Mikaelson siblings lay. She opens one of them, Elijah laying inside in a deep slumber ever since Marcel commenced a war against the family. Cora let's out a small sigh, wanting to talk to him once again and just to see him up and moving around.

In one of the rooms of the safe house, an older Hope colors a picture she drew with the help of her little brother Koen. Sitting on the floor is Melody, drawing her own pictures with arrows and names pointing to each stick figure. Cora walks into the room and leans against the doorframe, watching her children draw in peace. The sound of a car approaching outside causes the children to stop drawing and Cora to look back with her guard up.

"Is that her?" Hope asks in excitement which causes Koen to get excited as well.

"Let me check. Stay inside."
Cora walks out of the room while the kids remain where they are at. She steps outside to see an old looking truck pull into the driveway and Cora meets the old Kenner who gets out of her truck, smiling at the tribrid.

"Well, now, aren't you a sight?" Mary smiles.

"You're sure no one followed you?" Cora asks, getting straight to the point.

"I've been avoiding trouble since well before you were born. Now, where's those kiddos?" Mary asks, ready to step forward until Cora steps in front of her.

"Did you find it? Mary, please." Cora holds her hand out and sighs. "After all this time, I am this close to getting them back. I found a cure for Freya's poison, I got a witch to siphon Rebekah's hex."

"So you're really gonna do it? Cure 'em and then wake 'em up?" Mary gives her a look. "Did you ever stop to think, the twins and Koen might be better off without 'em?"

"I made a promise," Cora looks down at the ground.

"To who? To Klaus?"

"To my daughters and my son." Cora gives her a look. "I promised them a home where they would feel safe and protected by the people that love them."

"Mary, they're Mikaelsons, too. They've inherited all of their enemies, and Melody inherited a strong power that I hardly understand myself." Cora sighs and looks at the wolf. "She needs someone to teach her to control it. With Marian gone trying to find answers, it's hard to help her and to help them."