Phoenix Rising

1:22: Birth

We're still in the church as Hayley continues to scream so we have her on the altar table as she struggles in the bonds of Abigail and Monique holding her down. "Let go of me, you bitch!" Hayley screams at Genevieve and she lays back down, screaming and we hear the door open and she tries to sit up as we look at Klaus and a warlock walks over to him, only to get his head sliced off by an angry Klaus and Monique, Abigail and I our hands out to levitate Klaus and throw him against the wall, leaving him there as he screams and Hayley turns to look at him and Hayley screams more and Genevieve walks over to pick up the sacrificial knife. "You should know this brings me no joy." She says and looks up at Klaus. "I promise I'll make it quick." She says as a witch puts a towel over Hayley to catch the baby as she screams again. "Let's begin, shall we?" I ask and Hayley screams 'no.'

Hayley continues to scream after pushing twice already. "I will bring hell to your family!" Klaus shouts as we ignore him. "One last push! Push! The baby's almost here!" I exclaim. "I will bathe in rivers of your blood!" Klaus shouts louder and Hayley shakes her head. "No, no!" She exclaims. "I can see the baby." Monique says. "Ok. Now push." I say as Hayley pushes. "Gently, gently!" Genevieve exclaims. "You will die screaming!" Klaus shouts and we all smile as Hayley lays back. "There." Geneive says as we see the baby come out and Hayley gasps loudly as I cut off the umbilical cord and the baby coos and cries as Geneive holds her in the towel, smiling up at Klaus. "You have a beautiful baby daughter." She says and we notice how beautiful the baby is. "We must start the sacrifice as soon as the moon sets with the morning sky." She says and we look up at Hayley. "Please. Please, can I hold her?" Hayley asks and Genevieve walks over to the baby as Abigail and Monique let Hayley go so that she can hold the baby, who gurgles as she's placed in Hayley's arms, who smiles up at Klaus and then looks at me as I'm still holding the dagger. "Why?" She asks. "As I told you before, you're not one of us."

24 hours before

I sit down next to Genevieve on the couch as Hayley is using the bathroom. "What are you planning?" I ask. "What ever do you mean?" She asks and I roll my eyes at her. "You tortured Klaus and Rebekah and now you're suddenly wanting to help? If it's witch business, I want in. Hayley doesn't understand because she's not one of us." I say and she smiles evilly at me. "The ancestors want the baby to be the sacrifice for power instead of me for the Harvest Girl. If she is sacrificed, I get to stay." She says, pouring us tea and I smile back. "Then let's do it. I've never liked my bitch of a sister, anyway." I say.

Present

"You are nothing to me. You never were." I say, pulling her hair back and cut her throat as she gurgles. "No!" Klaus shouts as Hayley falls back, dead and Genevieve picks up the baby, leaving as Klaus is still screaming and I wave my hand, breaking his neck.

I arrive to the illusioned Cemetery to see Klaus and Elijah arguing about Hayley. "I don't let people in! You knew this. You've taken her from me! I needed her, and you've broken me." Elijah says, sitting down on the stone bench and Klaus walks over to sit next to him. "You can tell your niece how much you cared for her mother when we save her." Klaus says as they look at each other and over at me, dashing towards me and I put up a boundary spell. "Seriously guys?" I ask and they stand up as I lower it. "You sided with your own kind to kill your own sister for power you don't even understand! Why shouldn't I rip your heart out right now?!" Klaus shouts at me. "Because you don't know the truth. About the plan Hayley and I made." I say. "What plan?" Elijah asks.

13 hours ago

I walk back into from the kitchen as Geneive is making some more tea for all of us and sit down on the sofa next to Hayley as she smiles at me. "What's up?" She says and I put a finger to my lips. "Listen very closely. Genevieve is planning on sacrificing the baby to appease the witches." I say and she looks shocked at me. "What?" She asks and I cover her mouth before taking my hand off. "I tricked her into telling me. But she won't believe me unless I prove I'm on her side. Do you trust me?" I ask and she gives a small nod. "I do trust you. What's your plan?" She asks. "Once the baby is delivered, I have to be the one to kill you. But you'll come back as a hybrid because you'll still have your daughter's blood in your system. Blood that can sire you." I say. "Promise me that you'll protect her." She says and I give a small nod. "I promise." I say, holding up my pinkie. "Pinkie swear." We both say at the same time as we lock pinkies together.

Present

"You genius. You incredible, bloody genius." Klaus says as the three of us group hug. "Why didn't you tell me?" He asks. "Or me for that matter? We can keep a secret, especially for the safety of Hayley?" Elijah asks as we release. "Because it had to look real. And for it to look real, it had to be real." I say, ending the illusion and we see Hayley walking over to us and we run over to hug her gently. "I can feel her. She's here. I can feel my baby." Hayley says as we release. "Let's go get our daughter back." Klaus says.

We start walking, all of us pissed off about the witches and find them near a stone arch, in front of an angel statue as they're chanting and Genevieve holds the dagger above the baby's head. "No!" Hayley exclaims and we see Elijah throw a potted plant at Genevieve, causing her to fly backwards against the stone wall, dropping the knife and the chanting stops and we start running but Abigail and Monique hold hands and we see the afterimage of the ancestors putting their hands out as well, sending us all flying backwards and Abigail chants. "You fools! To come against us in our place of power in our strongest hour? You don't face three, you face us all!" Monique exclaims and Hayley and I start running to the sides as Klaus manages to stand up, looking at us and we run into Genevieve as she picks up the dagger and Hayley kicks it out of her hand and I stick out my hand, causing Genevieve to have a migraine and Hayley punched her in the face and blasts us onto the ground as we try to run for the baby and does the migraine spell on Hayley as I do it at Genevieve again, us all going back she forth we each other and see Abigail get impaled by a throwing iron fence piece and we see Monique and run to pick up the dagger and back over to the baby, hovering it above her and Klaus and Elijah try to dash but Monique summons a wall of fire. "No!" Hayley screams after escaping Genevieve and I fling her against a wall, helping Hayley up and we see Monique impaled with a throwing star and cuts start to appear all over her body, as if by magic and she drops the dagger, coughing up blood and turn to see it was Marcel who threw the dagger and hear Monique fall as we turn back to see Marcel dashed to the baby, picks her up and then turns to face us before dabbing off with the baby and we see Klaus and Elijah dash off as well.

We're in the mausoleum as Elijah finishes up chasing Genevieve. "Why?" Hayley asks as it's just the four of us since Kol went missing. "The Ancestors left me no choice." Genevieve says. "You were willing to sacrifice an innocent baby for more power." Hayley says, appalled. "Oh, not just power. It was the Ancestors' decree. It was her decree." Genevieve says and Elijah grabs her face roughly, making her look at him. "It was whose decree?" He asks. "I'm surprised you have to ask." Genevieve says, laughing. "After all, you were the one who convinced your siblings to consecrate her on New Orleans soil." She says and I give a small gasp. "Esther." Hayley says. "I told you guys it was a bad idea. But nobody bothers to listen to me." I say and Elijah lets Genevieve's face go and he looks at us. "So, not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood. " Elijah says, walking behind us. "This isn't the end. As long as that child lives, the witches of New Orleans will never stop coming for it." Genevieve says, shaking her head and starts crying. "Esther will never stop coming for it. It has been decreed. Your baby will be consecrated among her ancestors. She will not live." She says and starts crying blood. "They're coming for me. I can feel it. I've failed them." She says and looks at Hayley. "Please. Understand, I just wanted to live." She says and looks at Elijah. "Tell Klaus.. I'm sorry." She says and starts to cough up blood before Hayley steps forward and stabs her in the abdomen, killing her and twists. "I'm not." She says and walks off.

I walk into the living room of the Compound where Elijah, Hayley and Klaus are talking as I searched for any sign of where Kol could have gone to. "No sign of Kol anywhere. Like he just disappeared." I say and see Hayley holding the baby. "No! This is insane. You heard Genevieve, so long as she lives, that baby will be hunted." Elijah says and Klaus stands up and walks over to Hayley. "Not if no one knows she lives." Klaus says. "What is it that you intend to do, brother?" Elijah asks as I walk over to hold the baby gently. "She so perfect." I say and kiss her forehead gently. "Whatever it takes to save our family." Klaus says.