As soon as they where all back in New Orleans it was business as usual. Everyone was in the compound after they learnt of Finns escape. Klaus had tried searching for him yet it was impossible. As everyone stood in the compound including Marcel and Davina. Yet Rebekah was the first to speak.

"I know what to do to stop Esther."

"No," Leah spoke shaking her head.

"I'm going to take her deal, and I'm going to take her down with me," she spoke gulping nervously and Leah looks at her if she's ridiculous.

"Rebekah don't..." Elijah spoke disagreeing with her.

"I don't usually agree with these lot, but you shouldn't take the deal," spoke Kol and she shook her head sadly.

"It will work, she'll be distracted during the spell she'll be vulnerable."

"No she'll just body jump," spoke Hayley hating the idea of losing Rebekah.

"Then stop her from jumping!" Exclaimed Rebekah.

"If I knew how to bloody stop her from jumping don't you think I would have happily killed her ages ago?" Klaus spoke all but shouting.

"We'll ages ago you didn't have a harvest girl and a Mikaelson witch, our brother knows all of her tricks," Rebekah fought.

"Now she's just lost her mind," Elijah spoke talking about his sister.

"Hardly, brother it was your idea you said she needed a win if we get this right she will."

"And if we got this wrong you wouldn't be in your own body!" Elijah exclaimed stressed.

"Would that really be the worst thing, you where even ready to do it!"

Klaus, Leah and Hayley looked at Elijah surprised and concerned at this revelation.

"It was a foolish move! And also one that you sagely dissuaded me from."

"Hopefully we'll get lucky and stop the spell before I've been jumped," she spoke hope clinging onto her every word.

"And if not, you'll get whatever you've always wanted. That's what you're saying isn't it, you're willing to lose," Klaus spoke annoyed at his sister.

"I'm willing to risk losing, yes," she spoke reassuringly.

"Well we'll need to find someone for her to jump into, someone no one knows," Klaus spoke and Leah agreed.

"Rebekah we've been together for centuries and if you where human.." leah spoke her words trailing off.

"When I'm all old and wrinkly you can just dump me into my old body, Nik already has my coffin on standby anyway," she spoke attempting a joke to lighten the mood.

"But to trust Kol," Elijah spoke and Leah glared at him.

"Not offended or anything," kol muttered rolling his eyes.

"Kol will do what's right, right Kol?" Leah asked watching him hopeful and he nodded at her.

As everyone was back ready and evening had set. Klaus Leah and Rebekah where in the dining room.

"Do you know what to do?" Asked klaus looking at his sister in disapproval.

"Yes but if it doesn't go according to plan will you please let Leah handle my body, because she will with care, I might miss the old model," she spoke and Leah sighed with a nod.

"If everything goes south we'll be there to pull you out, we just need to take down Esther before she jumps bodies, again this will not be for nothing," Leah spoke with sadness and anger in her voice.

"All of us on the same team. It really must be Christmas," Rebekah spoke with a grin before drinking her drink.

As they all where now in the compound minus Hayley who was watching both Joy and Hope.

"I must ask for one more thing.." Kol spoke and Klaus looked at him with disapproval.

"And that is?" Asked Marcel narrowing his eyes at Kol.

"The white oak stake..." he spoke and Davina looked at him in shock.

"Kol!" She spoke not pleased with him.

"Look, it's the only way she's gonna trust me! She doesn't want to kill them, she just wants to make sure that the weapon doesn't fall into the wrong hands, I swear, as soon as she's gone, I'll give it right back to Klaus," Kol spoke and Leah only looked at Klaus pleading and he sighed.

"Kol! Whatever grudges you hold against me, we're doing this for the good of our family. Do I have your word that, for once, you will honor that?" Klaus spoke and he nodded at him.

"You have my word, Nik. Swear on the face of us all."

"I'll get it," spoke Klaus giving his brother a weak smile.

For the plan to work Kol had to return to the lycee and to his mother with the white oak stake. Then Rebekah walked in minutes after him. Klaus and Leah stayed listening as did Elijah.

"Hello mother, I heard you have a deal to offer?" Rebekah spoke with a smile you could hear in her voice.

"I offer what you always want, my child," Esther spoke siping her wine which Rebekah had already spiked with her blood.

"How do you even presume to know what I want?"

"Elijah's happiest when there's order and music. Klaus, when he's the center of attention and in control. But, you are my only child capable of unfettered joy and, you're happiest amongst humans. I've seen you yearn for that life. For love," Spoke their mother and Kol began to speak.

"When am I happy then?"

"When you're doing as you're told child."

"Well, then. To the end of an era. I'm in," Rebekah spoke putting down her glass.

"Let us began," spoke their mother with complete happiness.

Leah looked at her husband and brother who nodded as a sign that their plan was going accordingly.

At the cemetary, Esther, Rebekah, and Kol moved outside to the altar. The hourglass Sat on the altar, surrounded by salt and sand in a circle. Esther finishes setting up the spell, and fire suddenly sparks in four metal bowls surrounded her. She then lays the white oak stake on the end of the altar, which makes Rebekah very nervous.

"As each one of you come to your senses I will burn your vampire bodies!"

"Mother, you said you wanted the stake to protect them!" Spoke Kol confused and annoyed.

"Yes, but not in their current bodies. Once they accept my offer, I will be righting two wrongs," said Esther sounding very proud of herself.

"No!" Shouted Rebekah overwhelmed, it wasn't meant to go like this.

"Having brought this evil into the world, then having subjected my own children to it."

"NO! That wasn't part of the deal! Stop the spell now mother !"

"The spell is already done! I prepared it to be locked in the moment I turned over the hourglass."

Kol looks anxiously at Rebekah, who is horrified by the revelation. The sand continues to pour through the hourglass and Leah panicked watching them.

"Mother STOP THE SPELL! You and your traitorous son!" Shouted Klaus Leah and Elijah right behind him.

"Nik, Leah I swear I didn't know anything about it!" Kol exclaimed worried and Leah nodded at him believing him.

"Oh, good. I'm glad you two boys are friends again. I did wonder what you'd been up to in your time away. Now, I know," spoke their mother with disapproval.

"STOP THE BLASTED SPELL!" shouted Niklaus to his mother.

"I'm afraid that is very impossible," spoke their mother an evil laugh escaping her mouth.

"Anything is possible, just take me instead."

"NIK!"

"No!" Shouted both Leah and Rebekah at the same time.

"STOP THE SPELL ESTHER!" Shouted Niklaus once again and Rebekah shook her head.

"Nik I can do this," she spoke looking at leah with a smile and her brother.

"So, you're feeling murderous again. You should know, I've already chosen another body."

"Now!" Shouted Kol to Elijah.

Elijah takes an athame off of the altar and stabs Esther in the neck with it. Esther falls to the floor, dead, just as the rest of the sand leaves the hourglass. Klaus looks as though he can't believe what his brother just done. Just then Rebekah almost seized and began to fall Leah caught her as shouting her name holding her body praying she made it into her new body safely. They all made there way back to the compound with Rebekah's body in Elijah's arms. Klaus was the first to speak when they arrived.

"I couldn't stop the spell," and with that Klaus began to take off, leah on his tail. Marcel, scared, shouted after him

"Please tell me that your mother's dead!" Klaus turned around facing Marcel.

"Rebekah took extra precautions. Esther is exactly where she needs to be," he spoke and with that he went to where his wife was.

Klaus walked into the room watching his wife who lay Rebekah's body into the coffin gently kissing her head.

"I'll get you back Rebekah, I swear to you," she whispered to her sister.

"We'll get her back my love that I swear to YOU," he spoke hugging his wife who nodded at him.