Vampire Diva Diaries- New Orleans Diva

13 - Rain.

THE BAYOU / LAFAYETTE CEMETERY

[Starlings fly around the woods while Mikael kneels on the ground in the woods and viciously feeds on a battered and bleeding werewolf. He notices one of the birds as it flies away, and suddenly, Lenore/Esther appears behind him]

ESTHER: You're making a mess of my werewolf sentries, Mikael.
MIKAEL: [shocked] And you're up to your old tricks.
[He stands to his feet and approaches her with a wicked smile]

MIKAEL: Esther. I've missed you, wife. Have you missed me?
ESTHER: [sighs impatiently] As much as you've missed me, I imagine.
MIKAEL: That would explain why you brought your lover back from the Other Side without so much as a thought of me. I will slaughter every single wolf I see until I am taken to the dog you saw fit to bring back from the dead!
ESTHER: You can stop looking for Ansel. Klaus killed him. Klaus may not be your blood, but he certainly has picked up a few things from you along the way--
MIKAEL: [enraged] DO NOT MENTION THE BASTARD SON!
ESTHER: [amused] --Resolution through violence. You are nothing if not consistent.
[Mikael glares at her furiously]

ESTHER: Go ahead. Strike me. I imagine you've been waiting a thousand years to do so.
[Mikael lunges for her, but she vanishes, revealing that Esther was only in the Bayou in the form of an astral projection. In reality, she is in the lycée, and she laughs at Mikael's predictability]

ESTHER: [chants] Apparaitre apparebis.
[Mikael growls and turns as Esther reappears behind him]

ESTHER: Now that you've gotten that out your system, we have things to discuss about our children.

MIKAELSON SAFE HOUSE-- ARKANSAS

[Elijah is sitting on the porch with Hope, who is sitting in a baby seat. In the yard, Rebekah is setting up firewood]

REBEKAH: It's alright, Elijah. She won't break. Everything you did was in the name of protecting her. I'm not worried.
[Elijah picks up Hope and holds her]

Elijah: [to Hope] Hi, sweetheart.
[Elijah finally notices that Rebekah is setting up for a fire and looks at her in confusion]

Elijah: Is that what I think it is?
[Rebekah walks back toward Elijah and Hope and smiles happily]

REBEKAH: It's bonfire season! And I am reviving a family tradition! Especially since we're all going to be together.
Elijah: Only because we're fleeing from one of our deranged parents. Another Mikaelson tradition. It's a peculiar thing-- never to be tired, yet forever exhausted by the sameness of things. Why is our family always at war?
[Rebekah smiles and touches Hope's hand]

REBEKAH: I don't know. But, being away with her made me see things differently.
[She lowers her voice as she gently talks to both Hope and Elijah]

REBEKAH: We're not so bad. We're not the monsters that our parents think we are.
[Suddenly, Klaus and Hayley's black SUV speeds down the driveway, and Klaus doesn't even get the chance to park before Hayley rushes out of the car and sprints toward Rebekah, Elijah and her daughter. She stops in her tracks as soon as she sees Hope, as though she can't believe her eyes. Rebekah and Elijah both smile at her as Klaus catches up with them, and Elijah wastes no time handing a smiling Hope to Hayley]

HAYLEY: [to Hope] Hi!
[Hayley hugs Hope tightly and breaths a sigh of relief. Behind her, Klaus is near tears and too overwhelmed to move. Hayley, unable to meet Elijah's eye, turns so Klaus can see his daughter as well. Hope coos happily, and Klaus and Hayley both laugh as they smother her with kisses]

[After the break, the Mikaelsons discuss the newest revelations they've just learned while they continue to build the bonfire]

REBEKAH: Curse on the first-born? What the bloody hell is that supposed to mean?
KLAUS: Well, according to Finn, our sister Freya didn't die of plague. She was taken as payment by our aunt Dahlia, who then cursed all Mikaelson first-borns for eternity.
HAYLEY: [concerned] Is any of this true?
Elijah: It is if we are to believe Finn, who learned it from the bastion of truth-- our mother.
REBEKAH: Well, no wonder Finn hates us. He lost the sister he adored, and instead got a judgy pack of siblings who found him unbearably dull.
HAYLEY: [sarcastically] Great. So, is there any chance of us running into your loony aunt Dahlia any time soon?
Elijah: The fable's over a thousand years old. Dahlia is long dead.
HAYLEY: ...Like Esther?
KLAUS: No one's going to hurt Hope, because no one's going to find her. [He pauses for a beat] There's enough wood, Rebekah. You'll burn down the whole bloody state of Arkansas.
[Rebekah rubs her hands together excitedly as she returns to where her siblings are standing]