MOONS.
029. | ❛ you're scared it's the sire bond. ❜

Freya is pacing around the study while Elijah, looking tense, is standing and watching her. She turns and gives him an incredulous look. Luna looks outside the balcony while the siblings argue.

"You daggered Rebekah? And you're just telling us now?"

"She sacrificed herself in order to protect us. And, to protect her, I've told Niklaus, and I'm telling you. No one would have known Rebekah's whereabouts if Aurora had taken my life."

"The prophecy says you three will be felled by friend, family, and foe. Rebekah was fallen by family. That leaves friend and foe. You and Klaus have a lot of foes."

"Just one or two."

"Thankfully, not many friends."

Just then, Klaus walks into the room with Stefan in tow,"Freya, this is Stefan Salvatore, an old friend."

Luna turns around and gives a strong embrace to her long friend to which she met a while ago in the small town of Mystic Falls. She smiles at him dearly only to receive a small sadden smile in return.

Elijah hilariously rolls his eyes at the sight of Stefan, and Freya gives Klaus a hard look.

"One of my trickle-down sirelings. Long story." Klaus turns to Stefan,"Stefan, this is Freya, my brand-new older sister. Also a long story."

"You're the famous Stefan Salvatore."

"That's the one"

Stefan nods and smiles weakly in acknowledgement, and Klaus turns back to Freya to address her as he pats Stefan affectionately on the back.

"Stefan needs a favor." Freya looks at Stefan suspiciously.

"You're an old "friend," are you?"

"Well... That kind of depends on your definition." Stefan smiles nervously, but Freya continues to scowl at him.
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Klaus, Luna, and Elijah are talking as they walk down the staircase to the entrance call of the compound.

"Stefan Salvatore is not the problem. But, if you are so determined to find foe amongst friends, then look no further than Marcel. After all, did he not steal Jackson's heart and deliver it to the very people bent on harming us?"

"Marcel is the least of our troubles."

"Believe it or not Klaus, Elijah's right."

They all continue their argument in the courtyard.

"The Strix would still be clamoring over Hayley's heart if it weren't for Marcel."

"And now Aya and her mod are free to break the sireline. You know, we've had many glorious enemies over the years, brother, but if they sever their link to us, then they will all come for our heads."

"Not without the white oak."

"Aurora has the last of it."

"Then she dies first!"

"Trust me, I'll be the one pulling the trigger."

"You once told me you wanted to use her head as a footstool. Why wait?"

Suddenly, Elijah's phone rings, and he answers it when he sees that it's Hayley calling from the Bayou.

"Hayley."

Klaus and Luna wait until his call is finished.

"Yes. I see." Elijah hangs up and turns to them with a smile.

"The Crescent wolves... They found Aurora."
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Luna's upstairs and watching Klaus being flustered by the danger that's being aimed towards them.

"I can tell that's something's wrong." Luna says stepping into the room, Klaus not leaving his place.

"I can assure you that everything's wrong."

"It's not that, it's something else. I know you Klaus." She steps in front of him lifting his chin to look into his eyes. He's still not responding to her when Luna pieces together what Klaus is fearing.

"You're scared that this is a sire bond. And that if the sire link is broken that I won't love you. You think this is lust."

Klaus's head is once again looking at the floor confirming that Luna was right. She raises his head and places a firm kiss on his lips.

"Sire bond or not, I'll love you. And no one can take that away from me."
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Meanwhile, Elijah, Luna, and Klaus have just arrived to the car , and are silently heading toward it.
Aya and two members of the Strix have put Aurora's unconscious body in the back of an SUV, as her astral self is still in the chambre de chasse. When Elijah, Luna, and Klaus approach them, Aya does not look at all surprised by the sight of them as she slinks in their direction.

"Hello, gentlemen and lady,"

"I had planned on taking a different head tonight, but yours will do just fine."

Aya quickly draws Aurora's white oak bullet-filled gun and aims it at him, and Klaus steps in front of Luna and glares at her angrily.

"I am getting so tired of having that vile weapon pointed at me."

Aya makes an amused face and shrugs before she aims it at Elijah instead. Elijah is visibly angry by this, but he maintains his fake smile and equally amused demeanor.

"Creator destroyed by his own creation. I suppose there's a certain poetry to that, wouldn't you say, Niklaus?"

Aya is still aiming the gun at Elijah, who does not seem to buy her bluff.

"Shoot me, and you die."

"True. For now."

Just then, Cynthia appears and begins to cast the chambre de chasse spell as she thrusts her hand forward.

"Lo cosu om a din la chambre. Lo cusu om a din la chambre..."

Klaus, Luna's, and Elijah's muscles seize up, and they groan in pain as the wind starts to howl around them. Finally, they both collapse to the ground as their astral selves are sent to the chambre de chasse with Tristan and Aurora.

Klaus awakens with a gasp on the floor of the hunt room and rolls over to see that Elijah, too, is struggling to get to his feet. Luna is already onto her feet as she looks around the room.

"What is this?"

Just then, a familiar female giggle is heard behind them, and they turn to find Aurora smiling smugly at them.

"Oh, Nik. The funny faces you make when someone surprises you."

Klaus scowls at her just as Tristan comes out to see them as well, much to their surprise.

"So good to see you both again, especially today. Luna, looking as beautiful as ever."

Luna links her arms with Klaus, still trying to recover over what Tristan and Aurora have made her experience.

Aurora coos and links her arm in Tristan's,"Mmm."

"How the hell are we here?"

"Oooh! I know the answer to that one. It's representational magic. Something in this room represents each one of us."

"Apparently, it's what allowed Aya's witches to drag you to this chambre de chasse they created for me."

"Perfect. We find what represents us, we break free."

"You can certainly try, but until then, my Strix are preparing a spell that is like no other in history. We are going to sever the link which binds your lives to ours."

"Are we, now?" Luna scoffs

"Our second rate-Napoleon, desperately trying to leave his mark on the world with those filthy little claws."

"Even if, in the end, he's left with nothing but the scars of his failures."

"Oh, rest assured, it will work. Soon, our fates will no longer be tied to yours."

"And, once that's done, as your bodies remain helpless, and your minds remain here, Aya will use my white oak to fulfill the prophecy."

Tristan walks toward Klaus so that they're nearly nose-to-nose,"So, you see... Today, you die. And, with your sirelines torn from you, and Luna watching in misery as you die alone."

Tristan turns back to Aurora,"Until then, how shall we pass the time?"