1| Bittersweet [THE ORIGINALS]

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DRIVING DOWN THE road Cassie Gilbert glanced at her son who was just fast asleep in his car seat, a small smile had crept up to her thin lips before she turned back to the front and kept her eyes on the road.

She had just previously gotten a voicemail from an old acquaintance Elijah Mikaelson who was pleading her for help, she would have usually said no but when she heard it was involving the elusive Niklaus Mikaelson, she couldn't say no.

After Cassie had given birth to her only child, Aiden Gilbert, Klaus had released the vampires boyfriend Tyler Lockwood to her to make her happy, sure things hadn't really worked out between the two in the end but Klaus had did it to make the Gilbert girl happy.

Klaus had shown her, his human side and after seeing that Cassie's whole view on him had just changed. Sure, he did terrible and awful things to everyone, including her and her friends but underneath it all he was just a sad boy who was abandoned or casted off just like she was, and somewhere inside her... she knew he that could be saved.

"Goodbye mystic falls." Cassie smiled softly as she passed the welcome to mystic falls sign. "New Orleans here I come."

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Arriving in New Orleans Cassie Gilbert pulled off to the side of the road and climbing out of the car, grabbing her son Aiden Gilbert out of the car with him as Elijah Mikaelson had just approached the two mother and son.

"Elijah." The raven haired girl, smiled at the oldest living mikaelson sibling.

"Cassie, glad you could make it." Elijah replied, and she slowly nodded at him as she held her only child in her arms.

"Well, I guess you could say, I owed you one." Cassie told him before pushing her short black hair out of her face, "so, you need help with something?"

"Ah, yes." Elijah nodded his head, "follow me"

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Elijah and Cassie stood together watching as
a dark skinned women, a witch, Sabine led a large group of tourists all about the French quarter of New Orleans.

"Welcome to New Orleans and the crown jewel of the crescent city, the French quarter." Sabine told the tourists and Cassie rolled her eyes while Elijah watched her closely, "jazz and jambalaya, romance and poetry,"

"Not to mention things that go bump in the night," Sabine continued and Cassie raise an eyebrow at the women. "Monsters that feed off human blood, vengeful spirits of the dead, and my personal favorite, the witches."

"Here we have voodoo shop Jardin Gris, go on, browse for a hex." She said and Just like the tourists had fled into the small shop and the women slowly smiled, turning her body to look away as she walked past the two vampires who were watching the women.