Reincarnated Love

Chapter 3: The Death

As Brenna yelped, Esther's eyes went wide and she ran to her as Kol caught her. "What happened?"

"I don't know, all of a sudden I felt this pain in my chest, AHH!" Brenna cried.

"Mother, the spell. It needed a blood sacrifice to activate it. That's why you could feel it dormant this morning," Kol realised. Esther immediately grabbed Brenna's hand as Brenna grimaced.

"It's been activated, I can feel it. Helga made us think she did the spell incorrectly, she knew today was Samhain. Helga knew there'd be a sacrifice." Esther felt Brenna's forehead, "you're burning up."

"The fever," Brenna breathed. "She said a fever would kill me. Am I going to die?"

"No," Kol answered bluntly whilst Esther stayed silent.

"I'm scared. I'm scared Kol, I don't want to die. We aren't even married yet."

Others at the festival hadn't noticed the commotion between the three.

"Kol, take her to our house before people start to notice," Kol nodded scooping her up in his arms as Esther raced to Mikael.

Klaus saw Esther whispering to Mikael and turned around to see Kol walking off with a limp Brenna in his arms and ran toward Esther.

"Mother! Brenna?" he exclaimed.

"She's been taken down by Helga's magic..." Esther began, and before she could finish Klaus had run off after Kol and Brenna.

"KOL! Kol!" Klaus yelled as he caught up.

"She just collapsed Nik," Kol breathed as he raced to the cottage. Klaus walked beside them and was stuck staring at Brenna and decided to reach out and sweep some hair off of her face causing Kol to yank her away and Nik to roll his eyes.

Kol reached his home and laid Brenna down and held her hand as Klaus stood over by her feet. "She's burning up," Kol said as he felt her forehead.

"I'm dying aren't I?" Brenna panted.

"No," Klaus and Kol replied at the same time. "No I won't let that happen," Kol added. "I'll let mother work out what is going on and then I'm not going to stop until I find a spell to fix this," he comforted.

"Move Kol," Esther ordered as she and Mikael entered. Kol obeyed and Esther again grabbed Brenna's hand to get a feel of the magic within her. "It's not a type of magic that I am familiar with, I can not determine the spell. Kol, fetch my grimoire." Kol ran to fetch the book.

"Here, mother."

Esther flicked through the grimoire and found the spell she was looking for and began chanting, as she finished, Brenna sat up gasping.

"What did you do mother?" Kol enquired as he helped Brenna lie back down.

"The magic was strong, it would have killed her by tonight. I just slowed down its effect, it's not gone but I've delayed it a while." Esther informed.

"So I'm still going to die? AH!" Brenna winced as she tried to sit up again.

"I will work non stop to find out what magic this is so I can reverse it."

"I'll help," Kol interjected.

Brenna turned to look at Nik and smiled as he crouched down beside her putting a comforting hand on her shoulder and Kol glared as Nik rolled his eyes again.

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"So do you think you'll be able to marry Kol now?" Tatia asked, supporting Brenna as they walked.