Phoenix Rising

2:22: Rebirth

Marcel lays down Eva's body next to Rebekah's coffin as I broke off Klaus' compulsion while he was unconscious from Kol snapping his neck and he looks at Rebekah's coffin and opens it to see she's still asleep as it's now daytime. "Come on, darling. You can wake up now." Kol says and Marcel shakes his head. "No. It can't end this way. This is not how you die!" Marcel shouts and looks at Kol. "If she dies, I'm gonna kill you!" Marcel shouts and throws a vase out of anger, turning away from us and Kol and I see her waking up as she rubs the back of her neck, groaning. "Well, I've always been a sucker for a good display of strength.." She says and Marcel runs over to lift her out of the coffin as she wraps her arm around his neck and sets her on the floor, brushing her hair with his free hand. "That was one hell of a gamble." He says. "Didn't have much choice." Rebekah says and we look at Eva's body. "With Klaus as the dealer, expect a crappy hand." She says. "Yeah, it's not just a bad hand! He rigged the game! He compelled me to hurt you because he knows what you mean to me." He says, cupping her cheeks with both hands and she smiles, touching his cheek and we hear a cellphone buzz and look at Eva's body and Rebekah walks over to it and shows us that it's Klaus dialing. "Well, this should be good. And why snap my bloody neck, Kol?" She asks and we all look at him. "You two were turning into a soap opera. It got boring, Bex." Kol says, grinning and kisses my cheek. "Sorry, Rebekah. He's right." I say, smiling softly at her.

We're in the living room with a daggered Klaus after Elijah explains the plan. "Nik is demented! Are we really to dig up our mother, burn her to ash, swap said ash with Kol's, and then trick Davina into using up her last chance to bring someone back from the dead? Not to mention we lose the opportunity to save Tim.. if Davina doesn't turn us inside out!" Rebekah exclaims, looking around at all of us and Elijah walks over to us. "Or we dig a deep hole and leave both our problems at the bottom of it." He says. "I say we choose a more permanent option. Find the White Oak Stake, kill Klaus, Dahlia dies with him." Freya says, looking at an unconscious Dahlia and looks at us. "Well, yeah, and so do I, and every other vampire that Klaus has turned!" Marcel says and I hear a melting sound and look around to see the dagger slowly starting to melt. "The Dagger. It's melting." I say and Elijah crouches down in front of it and he looks up at us. "We have no choice but to finish the task that Niklaus has set.

Kol and I return to the Compound after getting some of his spellbooks from his Playhouse to see Freya in a frantic mood, holding the White Oak Stake in front of Klaus, in tears as Marcel is watching her. "This is the family I longed for. But because of her.." Freya says and looks over at Dahlia's unconscious body and back to Klaus. "I'll forever be alone." She says and is about to stake Klaus but he grabs her wrist, waking up, gasping, having overheard what she said. "Sister.." He says as she cries more and they lower the stake together and we hear Dahlia wake up, gasping.

We're all standing up as we're facing Dahlia. "I'm almost impressed by the lengths you'd go to for your little girl. Though, not enough to let bygones be." She says, shaking her head and holds out her hand and the White Oak Stake flies into it and she smiles. "We are still linked, dear aunt. You may not want to punish me with that particular weapon." Klaus says, smirking and steps forward to face her. "Hm. I made sure that the link between us melted along with that dagger. Meaning.." She says and points the Stake at him. "I'm quite free to kill you!" She exclaims and closes her free hand in a fist, pulling him towards her as he screams and Marcel dashes him into a wall. "No!" Freya shouts as Dahlia grabs her wrist and they vanish with the wind. Klaus and Marcel turn around to look at Kol and I. "Hope!" I exclaim and I feel I'm dashed off by Kol to Hope's Nursery as we see her get pricked by one of Dahlia's thorns, making her cry as it takes a drop of her blood and I gently pick her up, rocking her. "Why didn't she take Hope?" Kol asks, confused. "All she needed was a drop of her blood. Unfortunately, I have no idea where the vile harpy has fled to with our sister." Klaus says. "All right, go. Get Hope someplace safe. I'll track down your witch. And, when this is over, you and I are gonna settle up." Marcel says, pointing at Klaus. "Provided we survive what's to come tonight, I look forward to it." Klaus says and Marcel dashes off.