(😁😁😁 I love this episode I sometimes react certain scenes.)

"Right where she said it would be. Open it. This Ms. Phoenix Fire paid big money to have this dredged out of the Gulf. What's ever in it, got to be worth a fortune. I say we renegotiate." I hear the man I bribed to find Rebekah say.

I put my umbrella away as it was cats and dogs outside and step into the dock where I see the workers open up the crate. "I'm afraid that was my final offer." I said as Elijah walks up beside me.

I'm not suppose to be here since Nik put me on house arrest ever since Aurora kidnapped me. But I obviously snuck out and came with Elijah to retrieve Rebekah. And let me tell you, it was really difficult trying to get out of Nik's arms tonight.

Elijah sped in front of the man that attempted to steal this "treasure" and killed him. The workers around us tried to escape but I killed them before they could take a step outside.

Once everybody was dead I walked up to the crate to see Rebekah's desiccated body. I look at the stake and my soul fell out of my body. This stake makes you want to kill everybody that you set your eyes on. I took hold of the stake and pulled it out of Rebekah and she immediately gasp to life as the veins disappeared from her face.

Rebekah sat up from the crate then looked up at me and Elijah as we give her a happy smile. "Hello, sister." Elijah greeted.

"Tell me I didn't miss Christmas." Is the first thing Rebekah said and it made me laugh.

"You're just in time actually." I said as I help her out the crate. I started to take the hex that was on Rebekah and put it inside me without Elijah or Rebekah knowing it. From the bottom corner of my eye I can see black veins go up my left arm.

~~~

It was the next day as we slept at a hotel that night. We stopped at a gas station because one, we needed to get gas, and two, Rebekah had to use the restroom. Elijah was looking at the stake while Rebekah was using the ladies room when I hear her come out. "Ugh. I think I prefer the bottom of the murky sea to that restroom." She said as she walks up behind us.

"Still hungry, are we?" Elijah asked as he turns around to face his sister. I start to scratch at my arm.

"I'm not hungry, I'm angry. Staked by your ex, drowned by Nik's. You two need a lesson in women." Rebekah said.

"Tell me about it. Nik's ex just recently kidnapped me." I said as I try to rub my arm.

"Could the lesson not be yours to learn, Rebekah? Didn't you damn one of them to eternity, viciously antagonize the other?" Elijah asked.

"Do those lunatics actually believe the prophecy?" Rebekah asked and she got her answer when we didn't say anything. "You don't, do you?" She asked us.

"We be foolish to ignore the manifestation of these elements." Elijah said.

"But we can't be killed. The white oak is gone for good this time." I said.

"The prophecy does state one of us will fall, by family." Elijah said.

"Well, I would never harm you. You and Nix killed half the Navy rescuing me. And Nix has no reason to betray this family when she came apart of it. Freya hates traitors." Rebekah said.

I groan out in pain as I had rubbed my arm to hard. "Let's not forget her allegiance to Finn. I do want to trust her." Elijah said.

"But that leaves Nik." I said.

"Do you think he learned his lesson about backstabbing his family?" Rebekah asked.

"Well, I think he learns that lesson all the time. He's just a terrible student.

I start to daydream and unconsciously let my hybrid face come out in the open. "Do you ever just want to rip out his heart, and test how long it would take for it to grow back?" I asked out of no where.

What the hell is happening? I put my hybrid face away and groan out in pain as I lift up my arm to actually have a look at what's been bothering me.

There was a bruise on my arm shape like a skull. I didn't want to worry Elijah but now he knows and so does Rebekah. "What is it?" Elijah asked me.

I let out a deep sigh. "It's a hex. From the stake." I gestured to the stake in Elijah hands and he brought it up to my arm to see the marking was identical to the bruise on my arm. "It's suppose to make me like a ripper. I start thinking of killing everything in my path as long as this is on my wrist." I explained.

"Why didn't you say anything before?" Rebekah asked me.

"Because I didn't want to worry anyone. As soon as we had got home I was going to transfer the hex into some object. I also didn't want you to hurt your family either." I added looking at Rebekah for this last comment.

"Me?" Rebekah looked at me confused.

"You were hexed by the stake, Rebekah. If I didn't take the hex from you, you'll most definitely try to kill your family and I don't want that to happen." I said.

"Let's hurry home then, shall we." Elijah said and we all got in the car.

~~~

I sat in Hayley's old room at the Compound and she had just walked inside after putting Hope down with the rest of the kids. "Don't fret. I haven't gone full hellion yet. No more than usual." I said as she gave me a worried look. I got up from the bed.

Yeah, apparently Freya got stab with some slow poison as the rest of the family tries to get the ingredients to heal her and the item for me so I can put this hex in it.

"Oh, that's good. I wouldn't wanna have to kick your ass before I got to hug you." Hayley said as she came to hug me and o hug her back.

"You'll die trying, I can tell you that much." I said as I let go of her so she can hug Rebekah who just walked in.

"We need to talk about your sartorial choices. This is positively darling." Rebekah said as she picks up my sweater I had accidentally left in here one night.

"That is not mine." Hayley said.

"That is mine, actually. I left it in here after me and Nik had a really fun date night." I said and both girls shudder in disgust as they don't want to hear about my sex life.

"Jackson and I have our own place now." Hayley said with a bright smile. "Although we still can't mange you stay out of Mikaelson drama."

"You don't seem to mind the family drama when you need something from us. Like, a decent dress, or a babysitter." I said not liking how she used this family for little things and thinks it's okay to not help at all.

"Excuse me?" Hayley said uncomfortable with my tone of voice.

"Hayley is part of the family, Nix. What has gotten into you?" Rebekah asked me but I ignored her as I stare Hayley down.

"But when your looking for someone to blame for your unhappiness, we seem to be the enemy." I said.

"Phoenix, you're wrong. This isn't you." Hayley said thinking it's the hex that making me talk like this but it's not. She always blame others for her misfortune when it's her actions that causes it.

"I am wrong. I believed we were friends. Nearly sisters. But the last memeory we had as friends you were planning to take Hope and my children away from me and this family forever. So where do you stand, Hayley? Are you a friend? Are you family? Or perhaps..." I vamp speed Hayley into a wall hard making it crack behind her. I held her against it by her neck as she chokes, "You've been a foe all along." I stated. "Be honest, you want Klaus dead, don't you?" I asked her

Rebekah sped to me and shoved me off of Hayley. Hayley took a deep breath as she was finally allowed air again. "Phoenix, I have been busting my ass trying to fight this prophecy. At the expense of my own family." Hayley said.

I scoff with a smile on my face. "You mean that fake husband you've been parading around in front of Elijah? Do you know the agony it causes him? Perhaps you like it. Knowing you still have the power to break his heart." I taunted.

Hayley out of anger slaps me. I take a step back as I laugh at her weak excuse of a slap. "You're wrong. It kills me to hurt him." Hayley said.

"Oh, it hasn't yet, love. But it might today. You tore those brothers apart. If they turn on each, as the prophecy suggests, it's because of you." I said as I let my hybrid face out in the end.

I went to attack Hayley but Rebekah got in my way. She put up a good fight but I snapped her neck and dropped her body on the floor. I speed over to Hayley and used all my strength to push her out the door making the window in the door break.

I pushed us to the railings and the both of us tipped over and fell to the first floor. I got up shaking in anger and stood up in front of Hayley again. She snarls at me but I kicked her in her abdomen making her groan as she bends over. Then I back hand her hard and she fell to the ground rolling away.

She is still down and I speed to her so I can rip her heart out but Elijah got in my way as he grabs hold of me. "Listen to me. Listen to me! Phoenix! Look at me. Phoenix!" Elijah yells at me and I finally stop trying to get out of his hold. "Control yourself." He scolded.

I close my eyes as I fake that the hex is gone now. "I think it's gone for now. I got my control back." I said then I put my head down a little to hide my eyes.

"Good." He whispered and I felt him loosen up on me.

I quickly break free and uppercut Elijah making his neck snap in a weird way.

I look back at Hayley as she walks to me. I ran at her with a battle cry and quickly shove my hand inside her chest and I grip her heart.

Hayley screams in pain as she stares into my black sclera eyes. "Phoenix!" I hear Klaus yell as he walks into the Compound. He speeds over to me and grabs my wrist. "Not her." He told me and he pulls my hand out of Hayley's chest.

I see Rebekah come down after recovering from her neck being snapped. I yell as I try to get her but Klaus just pulls me back. "Not her either." He said.

He pushed me away from her then used his strength to toss me on top of the table. I start to hyperventilate. "Dear, sweet Rebekah. You're so afraid she will leave you behind." I get off the table with a grunt and I hold onto Klaus' arms as he does the same for me. "You treat her as if she is some breakable object. She's not precious. Nik, she will turn her back on you the second someone show her a hint of affection. She doesn't really love you." I shove Klaus away as he and Elijah stare me down.

I scream as I try to attack them but they both just grab me and slam me back on the table again. I keep screaming as I try to push them off me but they held me tightly against the table with Rebekah holding my shoulders down.

"Hold her." I hear Freya say. She came up to the table where I was held down at carrying a silver knife and one of my grimoires. I scream in pain as the hot knife was placed on my arm where the bruise is at. I feel the hex leave my body and the veins going down to my left hand and into the knife. I stop struggling and passed out for a while as my control comes back.

I feel so tired right now. It was like I was watching a movie through my eyes and couldn't do a single thing about it. I sat up from the table as everyone watch me warily. "I need a big glass of wine for that nightmare I had to endure." I said making Nik chuckle at me.

~~~

"When I put you on house arrest I expect you to stay here instead of going out for danger." Nik scolded me once we came back to our room.

"But I'm perfectly fine now. Aurora didn't even hurt me as much. Your overreacting." I said as I watch him pace back and forth.

"It doesn't justifies you sneaking out at night to get my sister then coming home to you being hexed." Nik said. "What if this curse was permanent and kept you in your ripper ways. Or another curse that could kill you. Do you have any idea how I would have feel if I had lost you completely?" Nik asked as he grabs my face and pulls me close to him.

He is so scared to lose me. "I'm sorry." I whispered as I rest my forehead against his chest.

Nik wrapped his arms around my shoulders and I wrapped mine around his waist. "Don't do it again." He ordered me and I nodded my head in his chest. "Come on. We got a holiday with the kids to celebrate." He kept one arm around me as we walk into the kids room.

We carried them down to the first floor and sat them all by the big Christmas tree that was dead center of the Compound. "Said you wanted a happy family Christmas, and the family's all here." I hear Jackson as he and Hayley come down the stairs with her carrying Hope.

"Merry Christmas, little one." Elijah said to Hope once Hayley walked over to him.

"Thank you for helping Freya." Nik said as he hands Jackson a glass of wine. "Unfortunately, we're all out of mason-jar moonshine." He jokes.

I turn my body as much as I can in Nik's hold to look at Hayley. "Sorry about what I said to you today." I apologize.

"It's okay. I know it wasn't you." Hayley said and she went back to playing with Hope.

"Well, Nik, you are positively merry tonight. Something had finally came out of your relationship." Rebekah said as she walks in the room.

Nik looks behind her and see a big metal bowl with fire inside of it. Oh, yeah. It's the family tradition this year. Time flies so fast. "Oh, no." He said his smile falling straight off his face.

Rebekah looks over her shoulder to see the fire she had started. "Yes, I know it's not exactly a bonfire, but I improvised. Come on, it's tradition."

"Tradition?" Jackson asked.

"We write wishes and then burn them for luck. Strangely, I don't recall wishing for an influx of enemies, and yet year after year—"

"How odd." Elijah finished Nik's sentence.

"Someone is forever on Santa's naughty list." I joked and he just smiles down at me as I drink my wine.

"Can you take care of the kids for me tonight?" Nik said to Hayley and she agreed.

"What are you doing that you can't spend time with your family?" I asked him.

He interlocks his hand with mine and drags me up to our room. "I want to help you relax after the day you just had." Nik said.

He rips my dress down my back and let it fall to the floor. He picks me up and put us in the bed and my body felt extremely relaxed that whole night.

( I wish Cami stayed dead this episode, not gonna lie. I had fun writing this.)