𝟒' 𝐈 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠

..,..

HAYLEY, ELIJAH, and Hope walk in a field of flowers in the Bayou. "I do miss it out here." the hybrid said.

"Yeah, looks like you're not alone. You know, we could be happy out here." Elijah told her.

"I think you might stand out in that suit." Hayley teased.

"Well, I was thinking jeans, shorts and flip flops." Elijah replied.

Hayley laughed, "I want to build a life with you, Elijah. With Hope. I want us to be happy."

"So we do that. Together. In jean shorts." Elijah smiled at the love of his life.

They approach Mary's cabin, and Hope knocks on the door.

"Grandma Mary!"

"Well, hello, sweetheart. Oh, my girl. Oh." Mary said.

"I picked you some flowers." Hope smiled.

"Honey darling, why don't you run on inside. I need to talk to your mama." Hope does what she's told and she addresses Hayley. "Didn't know you were bringing him."

"Mary, come on." Hayley sighed.

"Vampires aren't welcome. You're the exception. Rules of the house." Mary stated.

"I'll leave you two." Elijah said.

"Seriously?" Hayley asked Mary.

"You know how I feel. Our kind winds up dead when they're around. Yesterday, we lost Lara. I wake up to hear there's been some kind of occult massacre in the woods. Let me guess Mikaelsons are involved." Mary spoke.

"That's why I'm here. I want to talk about what really caused that massacre last night."

..,..

"All we know is this cult wanted to sacrifice children. Somehow Lara got caught up in it, and when she tried to get out, she couldn't, and she killed herself." Hayley told Mary.

"That doesn't make sense. Someone is recruiting Crescents into a cult?" Mary asked.

"That's what I need you to look out for, Mary Anything strange. These people obsess over specific imagery. It's a serpent eating its own tail." the hybrid said.

"What'd you say?" Mary questioned.

"A serpent. Like a dragon. When Hope was affected, she drew some. Here." Hayley shows Mary some of Hope's drawings.

"There's something you need to see."

..,..

"This journal belonged to Mary's husband. He filled it in the months before he died. Most of it's revolutionist garbage. Plots for an uprising But there's stuff about my parents in there." Hayley said examining the notebook.

"What does he say about them?" Elijah asked.

"Ramblings about how they were traitors for dealing with vampires." Hayley answered.

"You can see his writing deteriorate as his thoughts do." Elijah pointed out.

"In the end, he can't even form a coherent sentence. Elijah, I think the Hollow made Mary's husband kill my parents."

..,..

"Growing up, I never belonged anywhere. Not in school. Not in foster care. I always thought if I could find my parents, I'd finally belong somewhere." Hayley explained.

"You do belong somewhere." Elijah told her.

"I did terrible things to find my family, Elijah. And when I did, they were already dead. And now I find out that the same people who killed them are the ones who hurt Hope." Hayley spoke.

"Listen to me. I will not let anything happen to you. Do you understand?" Elijah said to the hybrid.

Elijah's phone vibrates, "What is it?" the vampire asks his older sister.

"You need to come back to the city, or Marcel's going to kill Klaus."

..,..

Hayley watches Mary's face, "Don't do that."

"Do what?" Mary asked.

"Blame yourself. You think that if you'd stopped your husband, I would have had a better life." Hayley explained.

"No one deserves what you've been through." Mary said.

"It's because of what I've been through that I have her. She is a Mikaelson and I am a Marshall, but we're both still Labonairs. Mary, Jackson said that tragedy always followed my family around... Executions, people dying in floods, fires, or just vanishing. What if the Hollow is behind those deaths, too? And if it went after the Labonairs before what if it wants to finish what it started."

..,..

A bunch of people are walking around with decorations into the Abattoir. Hayley walks in with a confused look on her face.

"We were heading out, and now we're throwing a party? I see." Hayley said.

"One that will be attended by New Orleans' most influential creatures." Klaus smirked.

"You do realize that everyone hates you?" Hayley asked making sure he knew.

"But they love Marcel. And as the invite states, he is the co-host. Tonight we celebrate our truce." Klaus replied.

"So you're throwing a fake party, in honor of a fake truce, and your guest of honor is in a dungeon?" Hayley asked.

"Marcel's attendance would only complicate matters, besides I'll have my hands full weeding out those in league with The Hollow." Klaus explained.

"Have fun with that. Hope's with Mary, I'm just looking for Freya." Hayley told the hybrid.

"What do you need of her?"

"Just a favor."

..,..

Keelin throws a dart at the dartboard and it lands in the middle. People around her cheer.

"I like her for what it's worth." Hayley said.

Freya laughs, "Uh, all the same, I should have told you she was still here. I'm sorry I didn't."

"Well, you can make up for it by doing me a favor." Hayley replied.

Hayley gets closer to Freya and lowers her voice. " I learned about the man who killed my parents. He was connected to The Hollow. I was just a baby when they were killed, I don't remember it, but I, I do know where they were killed. I was hoping maybe with your spells, and your witchcraft..."

"You want me to do a reading. Hayley, violent death has a very specific energy. I could conjure up whatever there is to see, but you might not like it." Freya told the hybrid.

"I don't think I have a choice."

..,..

Hayley and Freya pull up at the house and get out of the car. They walk inside and shine their flashlights around. The inside of the house is unkempt and looks abandoned.

"Are you positive this will work?" Hayley asked the witch.

"I can feel the energy that was trapped in here when your parents died. So, yeah, it'll work. But are you sure you want to?" Freya asked her.

Hayley is looking around and picking things up. She slowly stands up.

"I've always wondered what my parents might've been like, what they might've thought of me. Missing these people I never even knew. But if this can help us fight the thing that came after my daughter, then let's get it over and done with."

"You ready?" Freya asked the hybrid.

Hayley nodded and Freya started chanting softly, "Ostende det siste. Ostende det siste. Ostende det siste. Ostende det siste. Ostende det siste. Ostende det siste. Ostende det siste." 

"We can't let them find it." Hayley's father said.

"We need all four of them." Xavier said.

"You're not finding it!" Hayley's father shouted.

"No!" Hayley's mother yelled.

..,..

The two women walk into the storage units, "This is the one. What the hell?" Hayley asked.

"It's been sealed with a spell." Freya stated.

"I think I need to do this part alone."

Hayley stores through stuff and finds a jaw bone in a teddy bear.

..,..

Hayley arrived back at the Abattoir where Elijah and Klaus were.

"Did you retrieve all of the weapons?" Elijah asked.

"Well, I don't know. Let's confirm with Dominic, shall we? Oh, wait, we can't. His corpse is currently burning in a dumpster. I try to avoid bloodshed, you become the town executioner." Klaus replied.

"Let me handle this." Elijah told his brother.

"Why exactly should I do that?"

"Hope."

"You see, it's precisely because of her that I have to assert my involvement. So, brother... Tell me what you know." Klaus said.

"This thing wants to be reborn. This morning, Vincent said that whenever it resurfaces, it does so in four distinct locations. I can't tell why." Elijah revealed.

"It's looking for something. Four things, by the sound of it. And I'm pretty sure that I have one of them. My parents were killed protecting this from one of the Hollow's followers." Hayley added.

"We've seen this time and time again. When a witch wishes to be reborn, its remains are required to complete the spell. You've just found a piece of our enemy." Klaus told Hayley.

"Lucky me. Who has the other three?" Hayley questioned.

"Dominic. Dominic said that he had found something here." Elijah answered.

"What? There's just, like, a bag of bones laying around that I didn't know about?" Hayley asked.

"No. But there is one." Klaus said.

"Dominic's death was a distraction." the hybrid stated.

"They used our own deception against us." Elijah scoffed.

"This thing has followers everywhere. They've infiltrated the entire city. If they get to the other bones before we do..." Hayley started as Klaus finished,

"Then they may well try to raise this monstrosity. And it will come for us all."

..,..

Elsewhere Kol downed a glass of whiskey at a bar while Rebekah danced.

The Original felt a familiar tug at his heart but ignored the feeling.

Not realizing what it meant.

..,..

A/n:    ;)