Morgana kept reminding herself not to panic. Or cry. Or scream. Or hit something. Or go after Lucien.
He had bitten Cami. Unless they could find a cure, she would die.
Grendel meowed quietly, bringing Morgana back to the present. They were in the study. Cami and Klaus were on the couch. Hayley was sitting on the edge of the table in front of them. Morgana and Freya were standing behind her.
"Hold still," Klaus said. "This is going to burn."
He pressed a cloth against the bite. Cami hissed. "Ow, ow, what is that?"
"It's a healing salve," Freya explained. "Motherwort, white willow bark. The recipe's over a thousand years old."
"So the good stuff, huh?" Cami replied.
"It will ease the pain, dull the symptoms, but it won't stop the infection."
"So I'm screwed?"
"We're gonna do everything we can, Cami," Hayley assured her.
Elijah and Vincent entered the room.
"To that end, a little assistance," Elijah said.
"Cami, I'm so sorry," Vincent said.
"You should be," Klaus growled. "This is your fault. It was you who turned Lucien into a beast."
He stood and started approaching Vincent, but Elijah put his hand on his shoulder to stop him.
"Klaus, stop," Cami scolded. "It's not his fault."
"Cami's right," Hayley agreed. "We all need to work together to fix this."
"I think I know how to fix it," Klaus said. "Lucien has always been obsessed with me. He made himself like me. My bite is cured by my blood."
"You think his blood will work the same?" Morgana asked.
"It makes sense," Elijah said. "Lucien would want that power."
"Allowing him to lord himself over his victims," Klaus agreed.
"Okay, so we got a working theory, now we gotta test it," Vincent said.
"Lucien's blood is all over my apartment," Cami replied. "I sliced him all to hell before I ran."
"Okay, I got this one. Lucien's got no reason to be on the lookout for me."
Vincent left the room.
"I'm coming with," Morgana called after him. "Better not to be out alone."
She looked at Cami. "We're gonna fix this."
Cami gave a small smile. Morgana forced herself to return it, and left.
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Morgana set down her lit Water candle. She and Vincent were at Cami's apartment. Cami hadn't been kidding when she said Lucien's blood was all over the place.
Footsteps made her jump to her feet, fireballs in hand. She groaned and relaxed when she saw Marcel.
"Could've announced your presence," she scolded. She kneeled back down.
"Elijah called," he replied. "Said you'd be here. How is she?"
"How do you think she is?" Vincent snapped. "She got pulled into a vampire vendetta and now if we can't make this work, she's gonna die. So she's scared, she's angry, and right about now she's probably wishing she never stepped foot in the Quarter."
