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"HEY, I GOT call. What's going on-" Cullen stops when she finally looks up, seeing a weakened and bloody Freya. "What happened?"
"The Strix happened." Jackson speaks up, moving Cullen's attention from Freya to him and Hayley. "She got jumped. Three vampires, all dressed like yuppies. She needs your blood."
Nodding, Cullen sits down next to Freya, biting into her wrist. "They took it." Freya whispers shakily as she takes her fill of Cullen's blood. "The Serratura. I was meeting with a witch from the bloodline who built the lock. I was hoping she could help me destroy it, but it's not possible. She said the only way to get rid of it is to use it. We have to get it back and lock something else away. Anything but my family."
"Great." Cullen announces. "Why don't we pay Tristan a visit and ask him really, really nicely?"
"I'm afraid we have a far more urgent problem." Elijah states, walking into the courtyard. Cullen stands from her seat when a familiar blonde follows close behind him.
Rebekah smiles. "Well, to be fair, I am the prettiest urgent problem you have ever seen."
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"Give me the bad news, Doc." Rebekah mutters as Cullen and Freya look over the infection festering on her arm.
Freya and Cullen glance towards one another, knowing that nothing about the situation was good. Cullen sighs, being the one to give Rebekah the bad news. "Aya's stake was cursed. It infected you. As this mark grows, you will go mad. Left unchecked, you will become a relentless, unstoppable Ripper."
Rebekah rolls her eyes. "Aya always was thorough."
"The Strix always employ a safeguard. In the event that we were successful at retrieving your body, you were cursed. You see, if one is on a rampage, one is not difficult to hunt." Elijah states, looking towards the resident witches. "Can you two fix this?"
Cullen shrugs, handing the stake to Freya. The older witch examines it before nodding weakly. "The spell is carved here. I can... I can reverse it. I just... need some time... and a hell of a lot of magic." Freya stands up with the intentions to prepare the spell, but she instantly realizes she's too weak as her knees buckle under her.
"She was fine." Jackson speaks up as Elijah catches his sister. "Cullen healed her."
Elijah looks over his sister, stopping when he notices a puncture wound on her neck. "This scratch is not healed. This is poison. This is an assassination attempt."
"She's waking up." Hayley exclaims as Freya begins to stir.
"Are you okay?" Elijah questions as he helps Freya sit up.
"I feel weak." Freya breathes out.
"Those vampires must have stabbed her with something." Jackson supplies.
