"Who's that?" i ask Marcel casually until I realise how stressed he looks.

"Marcel?" I ask again, he dips his head as the sound of people approaching gets louder.

"I had to, Evie." He pauses to look at me apologetically as I grow more and more confused. "I can't protect you like I can."Piecing the puzzle together, I open my mouth to scream before a hand covers it, another one holding me close t stop me from running. "Shhhh." He murmurs, trying to calm me as I freak out.

"Marcel made the correct decision." He places a kiss to my hair as I push his hand away, already being pulled out of Marcel's loft, I call to him. "You cowardly bastard!"

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"Let go!" I screech as he continues to drag me along with him. With a sigh,he finally stops, however he still holds me close to him.

"You know I can't do that." Klaus whispers, closing the space between us even more.

"Why not?" I snap, totally keeping my calm.

"I have to protect you." He says, nuzzling his face into my neck as I try to push him away,

"How is your witch doing?" I ask, viciously as he sighs and groans, somehow managing to do both of them at the same time... Centuries of practice again. He drags me along again, ignoring my question.

"What happened?" I hear Davina's voice ask as Klaus rounds the corner.

"Joshua went and got himself a werewolf bite! Well, a hybrid bite, technically, but it will kill him just the same."I whimper as Klaus shrugs at Davina, although, against his wishes, he did tense up as the sound escaped my lips.

"Why are you doing this?" Davina asks, the same whimper coming from her own mouth.

" Well, I blame you! After all my overtures of friendship,Evie ran to you from me, you've once again sided with Marcel, forcing me to do horrible things to someone you care about. "Davina glares at him, and Klaus kneels down to look her in the eye"I'm not without mercy, Davina. I can cure him. But, you have to cooperate, and tell me where to find Marcel."

Klaus pauses, pulling me closer to him again as I drifted further away. "Marcel chose his path. Seems unfair that Josh should have to suffer for it." Klaus turns to walk away, myself still in his arms before Davina calls out to him.

" He's at a warehouse at the docks! Thierry's place."

"You see? That wasn't so hard, was it?" Klaus turns away, not giving Josh his blood, picking me up so he doesn't have to deal with my struggling.

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I sit on the couch, grumbling about how I don't want to be here, as the ginger witch who's name I won't even try to spell glares at me.

"I trust you're ready?" Klaus asks, walking into the room, taking no notice of my muttering, like Sirius and Kreacher.

" The last ingredient is personal. As the spell is designed to control transformation, I need the blood of a werewolf who doesn't turn on a full moon. My first thought was your dog,"I scoff", because of the pregnancy--"

"Out of the question. I'd just as soon limit my wife and the mother of my unborn side to the side-effects of your witchery. I am half-wolf, I control my form-- use my blood." Klaus says angrily, inwardly, I smile at the witches slightly hurt face.

Expectantly, Klaus holds his hand out as she grabs her dagger, before grabbing her firmly by her arm.

"If you fail to hold up your end of the deal, the consequences for you will be apocalyptic." He growls, viciously.

"You say the most romantic things." She says, causing Klaus to also scoff, "The only romance in this room." He pauses, making sure that I am also listening. "Is between myself, my wife and my child." Closing my eyes, I try to force back a smile...

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Sitting in the compound, I play, bored with my fingers as the witch mutters Latin spell words, Klaus watches me from the other side of the room.

"My people say Marcel is on the move, and he's bringing friends." A woman says, one that smells like a wolf, but in a hidden way.

"Elijah,"Klaus says, finally turning away from me," Please ensure that Evie is safe, Hayley can also stay with you."

"No. Someone needs to watch her." Hayley says, pointing at the witch, expressing my thoughts at the same time.

"You should help Klaus. My brothers and their security detail won't be much against a vampire army. I'll stay with Hayley." The woman says, backing up Hayley's point.

"Go Elijah," Hayley says firmly, she smiles,"And don't hold back." Awwww, my birds are finally flying out of the nest, falling in love.

Elijah nods, hugging Hayley as Klaus approaches me. With no words, he pulls me into his arms, placing a kiss to my forehead, walking away with Elijah.

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" The stones are finished. I've done my part. Now, it's up to you." The witch says, impressed with herself as I stand up to take a look.

"I'll get them to the Bayou." Hayley says, following behind me.

The weird woman rushes over, taking the stones from the witches hands, smirking at Hayley,"Actually, she was talking to me."The woman continues as the witch gives the both of us a guilty look, " Call it a side deal. The point is, I'm taking the stones." She turns to leave, a slight bounce to her step, causing me to want to rip it off, and normally, I'm not a violent person... I think? I mean, yeah, I've slapped Klaus a few times... But he always deserved it.

"Are you out of your mind? You think the humans can go up against Klaus?" Hayley asks, incredulously.

" No, I don't. But, I'm not human. "She pulls out a knife, and uses it to slit the throat of her bodyguard. When the bodyguard dies, she doubles over in pain. She looks back up at Hayley with gold eyes and fangs, revealing that she had just triggered her werewolf curse" I'm like you, Hayley, and Evie. And now, I'm gonna take back my town!" I really can't wait for Klaus to kill this bitch...

Hayley is about to say something, but I miss it, my eyes closing. Here comes the cliche... Everything went black.

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I open my eyes, finding myself layed down on a table in the Church, held down by multiple witches as they drag a struggling Hayley into the room.

"No! It's too soon!" Hayley yells as I suddenly scream in agonising pain.

" Apparently not." The ginger witch says, with the smallest of smirks.

"The plan was to induce her when the sacrifice was ready!"The young witch that had been bullying Davina says, confused and angrily.

" I had to subdue her, and the trauma caused a placental abruption. So, the baby is coming, and we'll just have to adapt" The ginger witch says as I scream.

"Get your hands off of me before I remove them from your bodies!" They ignore me, pushing Hayley onto the floor ad knocking her out.

"To be reborn, you must sacrifice." The young witch says, turning to give me her attention as I scream again.

" What does that mean, you psychotic little BITCH?"I yell, forcing her hand away with incredible strength.

"The ancestors demand an offering in exchange for power. You and your child will be a fine offering" One of the witches tell me as my heart beats erratically in my chest.

"No! NO! You will not take my baby, I will kill ALL OF YOU" I scream,"And if I don't, Klaus certainly will."

"No, you won't! And neither will Klaus, or Elijah! When your baby is born, you will offer her up to those who came before us." I cry, continuing to struggle but to no avail, there are too many witches holding me down.

" I'm sorry, Evie, but this is the way it had to be." She says gently as I release an ear piercing screech, matching that of Lydia Martin's.

" You should know this brings me no joy. I promise I'll make it quick." The witch says as the doors fling open, but I do not turn to look, already experiencing too much pain.

" Let's begin, shall we?"She asks as someone covers me in a sheet.

I continue to scream as I hear the only voice I have wanted to hear since arriving at the Church. "I will bring hell to your family!" He shouts, fighting against witch spells.

"One last push! Push! The baby's almost here!" A witch says to me as my screaming gets louder.

"I will bathe in rivers of your blood!"He continues, furiously, the angriest I have ever heard him since the day that I met him.

" Push! Gently! Gently! " The witch says, trying her hardest to ignore Klaus as my blood drips towards Hayley, blood from my arms from the tightness I am being held.

"You will die screaming! " he yells again as I lean my head back in exhaustion.

" You have a beautiful baby daughter." The ginger witch says, rapping her in a blanket as both Klaus and I shut up, staring in shock.

" We must start the sacrifice as soon as the moon sets with the morning sky--" She continues as I interrupt her, desperately.

" Please, can I hold her?" I ask as the witch sighs. She places her on my chest as I stare at her, amazed, kissing her forehead with a smile.

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"Nooooo!" I scream in horror, watching as Evie's head lolls backwards, due to such a deadly cut on the throat. A young witch twists her wrist, forcing me to fall to my knees, weakened, as they flee the church with my child. I look up at my wife in pure horror.

Ignoring the body of Hayley, I crawl over to her, taking her into my arms as I cry into her blood stained neck.

"No,no,no" Elijah says, stopping at the entrance of the Church after noticing my hunched over body.

"She-she's g-gone." I mutter, my voice breaking as I feel as if my whole world has shattered around me.

Elijah falls to his knees next to me, his eyes brimming with tears as he stares at the bodies of the two dead girls in front of us. Both of us losing our lovers to the same fight. I catch a scent on his neck, holding my wrist out to him, I murmur," You've been bitten. Here."

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"How?"Elijah asks as I lay Evie's body back onto the table, promising myself that she will receive a proper funeral as tears continue to fall down my cheeks.

"I was bested." I mutter numbly in reply.

Quietly, Elijah looks up at me," You were bested. Huh. "He walks towards me and stares at me furiously" You were BESTED? "I look at him in shock at his loss of temper, and Elijah shouts in exasperation" My invincible brother!"

Pulling myself together, I kiss Evie's cold lips, once and then again and turn back to look at Elijah

"They took the baby. But there's still time. We can save her."

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"The tombs are empty. The grounds are deserted. She's NOT HERE!" Elijah yells frantically as my eyes move around the place quickly.

"This is the only place they can be! We'll keep searching." i say, forcing myself to stay calm, knowing that Evie, and myself, want me to save my child.

"They are NOT HERE, Niklaus! We're wasting time!" Elijah says, swapping normal roles with me to become the headless chicken.

"The Harvest was here! The Reaping was here! They're about to perform a ritual which will feed their ancestors for centuries! Ancestors who are buried HERE!" I yell back, snapping and releasing a single particle of anger.

" This statue-- we've passed by this three times, all whilst going in the same direction." I say, glaring at the statue.

"They've fabricated some kind of illusion."Elijah says in realisation as my eyes widen.I vamp speed to the top of the tomb, looking down in horror,the cemetery appears to be endless.

"That's one word for it."

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"It's ingenious. I can see them, I can feel them, and yet they are not real." I sigh, looking around myself in annoyance," What we need to do is focus."

"My only focus right now is that child and her safety, do you understand me?"Elijah asks, furiously."And now she is gone." He says, beginning to hyperventilate,"I let this person in. I let her in!"

"I don't let people in! You knew this."He says, tears falling down his face as the same happens to my own.

"You can tell your niece how much you cared for her mother when we save her."I say encouragingly.

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EVIE POV

My eyes snap open with only two thoughts running through my head,1.kill a bitch.2.save my daughter. I don't even bother to contemplate how I am still alive as I storm into the cemetery.

" Then we move faster. " Klaus says to Elijah as I come up behind them, Klaus marks a red line on a tomb.

"Or smarter." I add on the end. They both turn around, their eyes widening upon noticing me, Klaus wastes no time in pulling me into his arms, peppering my face in kisses as tears roll down his cheeks, Elijah hugs me to, a huge smile taking over his face.

"I woke up in the church. I felt this hunger... I knew what I needed. I can feel her. She's here. I can feel my baby." I say, dazedly.

"You died with the baby's blood still in your system. "He turns to Elijah" She's in transition"

"Which means she has to drink the blood of the child if she is to survive." Elijah says, shocked as he looks at me.

"To be reborn a hybrid."Klaus says, overwhelmed as I know that the same thing is happening to Hayley.

" I don't care about me. I'm gonna go find our daughter."I say, walking off and leaving the pair to rush after me.

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"Nooo!" I scream as the witch brings a knife above my baby's head.

Elijah picks up an urn and lobs it at the witches, which slams against the ginger witches hand and knocks the dagger onto the ground. The three of us run toward them, so two witches hold each other's hands and channel the ancestors' power to throw us backwards forcefully while the ginger witch goes to find the dagger again.

"You fools! To come against us in our place of power in our strongest hour? You don't face three, you face us all!" Monique says as the other witch continues to chant.

Regaining our strength, we all run in opposite directions in the hope that we can confuse them.

I punch the ginger witch in the stomach, forcing the dagger out of her hand and to the floor again as she glares at me.

Angrily, I knock the witch down, running towards my baby before I have to stop, my head erupting in pain.Weakly, I fall to my knees.

"Nooo!" I scream as Monique uses her magic to block Elijah and Klaus, trying to complete the sacrifice herself.

I try to stand up,but fail since witch bitch number 1 is still voodooing up my head.

I sigh in relief as the pain stops, Marcel saves my baby and leaves. I sigh in relief, knowing that she is finally safe as Klaus's arms rap around me, lifting me up and allowing me to lean against him. He kisses my temple lovingly and probably thankful that I am alive.

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" I was too late. There should have been more time."Marcel says, holding my child carefully in his arms.

"You took my daughter so I would heal you and your friends." Klaus says, laughing with a shrug, he holds his arm out to him.

"We will take down whoever brought this upon us, I swear it"Klaus says, looking at Marcel seriously.

"May I?" Klaus asks as Marcel hands him our daughter. I smile as Klaus raps his spare arm around my waste, pulling me towards the two of them as I rest my head on his shoulder. Forgiving him for all the drama of the last few weeks.

"Shhhh. Oh! Hey! Hey there."He coos, smiling.

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