Phoenix Rising

1:19: Revolution

Hayley and I are with Eve as Hayley in in an upright position, taking heavy breaths as we sit down next to her, working on her pregnancy breath exercises. "That's it. Inhale and release." Eve says, calmly and Hayley obeys. "guess this means no epidural, huh? You sure I can't do this thing in, say, a hospital? The place with the doctors and the drugs?" Hayley asks, smiling and batting her eyes. "Honey, the werewolves have been having babies out here since before you kids were born. Stop worrying." Eve says, smiling at us and Hayley groans and sits up. "Ok, then what, Eve? don't even know what it's like to have a mother, let alone be one." She says. "Trust me, when the time comes, you'll know exactly what to do." Eve says, shaking her head. "She's right. You are my sister, after all." I say as we all laugh and Hayley playfully pushes my shoulder. "I hope so. As fun as it is to image Klaus changing dirty diapers, I'm pretty sure that I'll be doing this alone." She says and Eve rolls her eyes at her. "I somehow doubt that." She says and we turn to see Elijah at the cabin door. "Pardon the interruption. I wonder if I might have a quick word with the conspirators of a supposed uprising." He says and we all look at each other and back to him.

We're in the barn along with Oliver and Jackson. "You're making a grave mistake." Elijah says removing his tie and Oliver laughs. "So, you're just worried about us. Is that it?" Oliver asks. "Look, Elijah. We know all about your brother's reputation, but if there is even a chance that these rings can help us take control of our curse.." Jackson says and Oliver interrupts him. "Our gift." He says as we all look at him. "Then, honestly, we don't care what he's really after. Won't have to." Jackson says and we look back to Elijah. "I see. There are those in the Quarter who will consider this a great provocation." He says. "Apparently, most of them see us breathing the same way." Oliver says and Jackson chuckles and Elijah looks at Hayley and I as we have our arms crossed. "You both signed a pledge, and you looked me in the eye as you did so." He says. "We don't want a fight, Elijah." I say. "We just want a better life." Hayley says and Elijah walks over to us. "Allegiance with my brother will guarantee you anything but that." He says and we hear a motorcycle outside. "What the fuck?" Jackson asks, looking at all of us and walks outside and we follow him to see a man on a motorcycle. "Which one of you is in charge?" He asks. "Who's asking?" Jackson asks, walking over to him and the man smiles. "Bomb!" I shout as Elijah dashes over to the man and I put my hands out, holding the blast in a giant ball of fire in the air before throwing it in the water, but the blast is so powerful that it knocks us all backwards, causing another explosion from the propane tanks.

We all slowly start to get up as I'm laying over Hayley, protectively and we all can barely hear her. "Hayley, Adam, you kids okay?" Oliver asks as we look at him and she gets up and starts running, and I chase after her as we see a little boy crying with his Dad laying on the ground, groaning. "It's okay. Here, come here." Hayley says, lifting the boy up and we look around at the disaster. "Oh, God." I say, sighing. "It could of been a lot worse." She says as we look around again and see Jackson with his ear bleeding. "Jackson?" She asks and hands the boy to him. "Here. Get him out of here." She says and Jackson walks off with him. "Hayley. Adam." Elijah says, touching our arms gently. "Elijah." Hayley and I say at the same time as we look at him and his hair and clothes are all smokey and we crouch down in front of the man and I gently lift his shirt up, seeing his wound is bubbling. "Wolfsbane." Elijah says. "It must have been in the gas tank and he got hit before Adam contained it. You're the fastest. Take him, anyone else who can't walk on their own." Hayley says as Elijah slowly helps the man up, being careful, looking at us with concern. "It's ok, Elijah. We're fine. They need your help." Hayley says and we run off to see Eve and Oliver crouching down with a woman who has a a giant piece of wood in her leg. "Oliver, no!" I shout as he pulls the wood out and crouch down next to her. "Oh, God. Press here." Hayley says, moving Eve's hands to pressurize the wound. "Give me your shirt. Now!" I shout at Oliver as he takes his flannel off. "It's okay." Hayley says to her and I pass it to Hayley who ties it with her hands and then around the woman's ankle, tying tightly as she groans. "How'd you kids learn how to do that?" Eve asks, looking at us. "You get a hell of an education when you leave home at thirteen. That should slow the bleeding, at least until the healing kicks in." Hayley says, finishing the knot as the woman groans again and Eve and Oliver help her up and Eve puts her arm over her shoulders, helping her to the barn as we stand up and see Oliver throw a chair, screaming. "Oh! Argh! Vampires. They don't even have the guts to do their own dirty work themselves. I mean, why bother when you can just compel some poor son of a bitch to do it for you?" He asks, looking at us. "I say we hit them back! Hard." He says, pointing at us and is about to walk off but Hayley rests a hand on his chest, stopping him. "Stay here, Oliver." She says and pushes him back and she puts her hand down. "I need you to look after everyone until we get back." She says. "We?" I ask and they both look at me. "Yes. We." She says. "Where the hell are you two going?" Oliver asks as we start to walk off and look back at him. "If this was vampires, I'm pretty sure that I can guess who gave the order." Hayley says and turns around, grabbing a fallen branch and turns around to snap it with her foot, turning it into a makeshift stake. "We're gonna go find Marcel." She says and we turn around, walking off.