Waves • The Originals [2]

THIRTY-SEVEN

|37.| MOTHER KNOWS BEST

THE WEREWOLF GUARD outside of the girls's room has been killed. A small silhouette of a woman steps into the nursery to stare at Hope, who is laying in her crib. Eva, the witch's body Rebekah has took for herself, stands at the foot of the crib.

Cora hears the commotion and enters the nursery from her bedroom to find Eva standing over Hope's crib. When she sees the dead werewolf on the floor, she realizes that something is wrong, and her hybrid face comes out as she lunges for Eva.

"Get away from her!"

She grabs the witch by the arm to pull her away and slams her head on the nearby dresser. Eva falls to the floor as Cora goes to check on both girls, but before she can grab them, Eva telekinetically throws Cora back into her bedroom, where she slams into the back wall. Klaus storms into the room when he hears the crashing sound from his bedroom.

"Rebekah! What are you doing?" Klaus looks to his sister, but it wasn't exactly her.

The hybrid lunges for her, but she casts a pain infliction spell on him. Cora runs back in to take her out, but Eva casts another spell on her as well, and she falls to her knees and chokes as Eva glares at them. Klaus forces himself to lean forward so he can claw a set of deep gashes into her thigh with his fingernails, which causes Eva to scream in pain.

Realizing she's overpowered, Eva lets go of the spell and jumps out the window, leaving Klaus and Cora too busy recovering from her assault to follow her. They both stare down at Hope, who is sitting calmly in her crib, completely at ease, before giving each other worried looks.

Sitting inside of the study room where Klaus had rounded up his most trusted is Cora, Hayley, Elijah, Marcel, and Mary. Klaus looks through a box where he keeps his witch-detaining manacles and looks to Marcel.

"I should really stop packing these away. There's always one family member or another in need of a good shackling." Klaus hands the manacles to Marcel. "Find Rebekah—or Eva, or whoever the bloody hell that was—use these to stop her from doing magic. And don't hurt her. The non-psychopathic bits are still my sister."

"Alright, I won't be the only one looking for her." Marcel looks at the hybrids. "She killed witch-kids. The twenty-four hour hold that Elijah got the covens to agree to? Ended at midnight. Every witch in the city is gonna be gunning for her."

Klaus sighs and turns to Cora. "Go with Elijah. Get her to charm his elderly witch into calling off the hunt."

"And leave the girls? Don't you think I should stay here and protect our daughters? Why don't you send Hayley?" Cora leans against the table with her arms crossed.

"Jason has been working night and day to secure this compound, surrounding it with his werewolf army. Besides, Hayley will help her beloved brother," Klaus says in frustration and Cora lets out a huff. "Not to mention the fact that I'm here, and I know the best way to protect our child is to get Rebekah out of that serial killer's body and back into the original model."