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"Isabella!" Elijah called out as he stripped from his shirt.

"Elijah. Your back, did you find any-" she paused her words and movement as she stared in shock at what was in front of her. A very shirtless Elijah with tattooed names covering his torso. But she quickly regained herself by blinking then darting her eyes to his. "Thing?" She flushed slightly knowing he caught her staring at him. "What is happening?"

Elijah smiled in amusement at her before saying, "I need you to make a list of these names." She walked closer not taking her eyes off his. "Please."

"Okay." She breathed out as she examined his stomach, his arms and his back. "Sabine? Elijah, what is this?" Isabel asked in confusion.

Elijah looked at the puzzled blonde. "I believe they represent the names of the women that Celeste inhabited the past two centuries." He explained.

Isabel silently nodded in response as she softly traced the names on Elijah's back with her fingers. Elijah closed his eyes as he inaudibly groaned with the werewolf's touch.

Suddenly, the door opened and Marcel quickly entered the room as Isabel moved away from Elijah. Marcel walked over to the two and handed to paper and pen to the pregnant wolf. "It's called a devinette. It's old school. Kind of a riddle. Witches use them to teach their kids. Solve it and it disappears."

"Why? What's the point?" She asked looking between the two men.

"Celeste forced me to make a choice you, your sister and my siblings and now she means to mock that choice, taunting me with a childish game." He answered.

Isabel's eyes widen. "And you chose me."

"And I regret absolutely nothing."

"Oh Elijah..." she muttered guiltily.

"I won't regret choosing you over them Isabella and neither should you. They can not be killed. You however can." His tone left no room for protest and Isabel pursed her lips knowing he was right. Fire would kill her and the baby but Klaus and Rebekah can only be killed by white oak which is no longer around. "Now the longer the game, the more they suffer. To find Niklaus and Rebekah, we need to solve this riddle. The solution lies somewhere in these names," he said as he looked over the tattooed names on his body.

Elijah moved his arm and Marcel noticed a particular name. "The name next to Sabine... Annie La Fleur, she's the witch that was shunned from her coven just over a year ago. Never knew why, but I can find out," Marcel said before leaving.

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Isabel was talking to Andrew about all she knows with what happened to Elijah when her phone started to ring. As soon as she picked up, Elijah explained to her and Andrew what happened to Annie La Fleur.

"She killed herself?" Isabel asked shocked.

"Yes, drowned herself in the Mississippi, to be precise. Celeste was clearly tired of the body and ready to take Sabine's."

"And how would you know that?" Isabel asked as she and Andrew shared confused looks.

"Because she leapt to her death from the very location Celeste and I had our first kiss."

"Sorry Elijah but your ex-witch is a little obsessed and kinda a psycho. I mean it's poetic... but only in a creepy vendetta sort of way," the female wolf said as she and Andrew walked down the stairs towards the courtyard.

"All these names, these lives, stolen that Celeste might take her revenge. I suppose we have no choice but to see where they take us. Isabella, I have to go. I'll call you back."

"Elijah, wait." She stopped him quickly.

"What is it?"

"Ask Marcel if he knows anything about a name on that list- Brynne Deveraux. Sophie said that it was her family's bloodline that put the curse on the crescent wolves, but Celeste said that she was the only one that could break it. If Brynne Deveraux was actually Celeste when she cast the spell, then maybe Celeste can still break it."

"I'll see what he knows."

Isabel sighed. "Elijah, I'm really sorry that you're going through this. If I had known that Celeste made you choose who to help-"

"I said it earlier I'll say it again. I regret absolutely nothing. You were going to die in that fire Isabella along with my brother's child. There was no choice."

He hung up before she could say anything else and Isabel looked at her phone screen before sighing.

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Isabel was in the study looking at her phone as Rose played with a stuffed wolf -Nik had given to her recently- on the floor.

Isabel looked up from her phone as Elijah entered. "Hey, look, I found-"

Elijah quickly stopped her with a gesture to indicate he had news. "You were right about the Deveraux witch."

Before either of them can say anything more, Marcel entered the room and asked, "find anything about Clara, the mystery witch?"

"Not much. She was a nurse at the Fleur-de-Lis Sanitarium." Isabel replied looking over the photo she had found on her phone.

Marcel froze and visibly began to panic. "Recognize her?" Isabel asked as she pinched her fingers together on the photo and spread them zoom in a bit more and point to her so Marcel and Elijah can see what she looked like. "Right here."

"No, I don't. Marcel?" Elijah asked. The Original turned to look at Marcel to hear what he had to say, and Isabel noticed how alarmed he looked. "Marcel? Do I need to remind you that Niklaus and Rebekah are somewhere suffering horribly? If you know something, talk."

"The Sanitarium. That's where you'll find them," Marcel told them.

"Are you sure? How do you know?" Isabel asked, sternly.

"I just know," he said clearly not wanting to reveal the whole answer.

Isabel's eyes glowed brightly as she stood up abruptly, her phone landing in her seat. "Marcel. How do you know?" She enunciated clearly in anger.

Marcel sighed as he bowed his head in shame. "If I'm right, you need to know exactly what we're walking into. We did something, Rebekah and I... I think the witches are trying to use it against her. It was, uh... something that you're not gonna like."

Marcel told Isabel and Elijah that he and Rebekah had summoned Mikael to New Orleans in 1919 and Isabel was actually shocked Rebekah would do that.

All because of their love for each other. I guess being in love can make you do odd things.

Isabel began to wonder if she'd had done anything like that to be with Tyler. But no matter how guilty she felt the only answer she could find was no. She wouldn't have brought that type of hell down on anyone to stay with him. She'd rather leave him then hurt someone like Rebekah tried.

"For the better part of a century, I have wondered how father found us, what foolish mistake that we had made to destroy our time in the one place that we could finally call home. Did you know, I even blamed myself for a time, Marcellus?" Elijah asked visibly angered.

Isabel stomach turned a little and she felt her daughters movements. Despite the situation she smiled slightly and reached down to rub the area of her belly where she felt it.

Elijah vamp sped to Marcel and slammed him into the wall holding by the throat. "Elijah." Isabel exclaimed as Rose dropped her wolf and started crying. Isabel quickly bent down and picked her up to calm her down. She placed her daughter facing her shoulder and blocked Rose's view of what was happening behind her. She rubbed her back with one hand while lightly bobbing her up and down to soothe her.

Elijah looked back at his parabatai and reluctantly let Marcel go. He didn't want to upset the baby more then he had and he realized he needed to control his anger in front of her. "Niklaus treated you like a son." He spoke through gritted teeth.

"Rebekah. I loved her. I still love her. All we ever wanted was to be together, but as long as Klaus was around, that was never gonna happen. But hey, I guess you wouldn't know anything about that, huh?" Marcel asked Elijah as he glanced at Isabel for a short moment.

"When Klaus learns the truth, there will be no end to his rage," Elijah said. "I will not let my sister suffer that wrath."

Marcel pushed past him then looked back at him. "Then we need to get to them before he learns the truth."

Elijah and Marcel vamp-sped out of the room, leaving Isabel and Rose.

"Hey shh. It's okay Rose. They're not being mean anymore." She cooed to Rose still rubbing her back. "Andrew!"

"Yes?" He asked showing up at the doorway immediately.

Isabel brought Rose down to her hip once Rose was all settled. The baby held tightly onto her moms shirt and kept her head glued to her chest. "Celeste is at the Sanitarium and-"

"I got you." He was about to go but she stopped him.

"We need someone to watch Rose and I think I know who might be willing to," she said thinking about Josh who still liked to peek around secretly and visit her. She would have called Tyler to see his child but it seemed he no longer had his phone or a wish to see his own daughter.

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Celeste left the sanitarium looking smug as she started walking down the street toward the French Quarter. The Labonair girl and the Rogers boy exchange looks before nodding and sneaking up on the witch.

Isabel raised her shovel and hit Celeste hard over the head with a shovel, which caused the witch to be knocked out as she fell to the ground.

"Hey, there, little witch bitch. Not so cool now are you?" Isabel mocked the unconscious body.

Andrew bent down and picked her body up before tossing her over his shoulder effortlessly. "I can take it from here. Go on and help them."

Isabel smiled at Andrew before running inside the Sanitarium. Upon entering she heard Klaus' angry calls for Rebekah. She stopped and looked around worriedly before continuing to look for the two as she fastened her pace. She stopped once again when she felt Elijah's presence. She turned to see him looking at her in shock,

"Isabella? What-"

Isabel shook her head. "We have got to find them!"

Elijah nodded and helped Isabel get to where Klaus and Rebekah were.

Isabel gasped in horror when she saw Marcel and Rebekah lying on the ground badly hurt and Klaus standing over Rebekah with the Papa Tunde blade to her heart.

"Stop this!"

Nik froze as he heard the yell from his parabatai. Seeing his brother distracted, Elijah vamp-sped toward him and took the blade from him. Isabel rushed in front of Klaus as she put her hands up to his chest. "Please stop this Nik." She pleaded softly.

Nik's face softened as he stared into her worried blue eyes. Isabel smiled slightly as she felt the tension in his body release.

"Agh!"

Isabel's eyes widen and she stumbled over a bit as Klaus fell on the ground with Papa Tunde's blade plunged in his chest.

"Nik!" She yelled as her eyes glowed blue in worry.

Klaus looked behind him and saw Elijah was the one who stabbed him. He stared at him with tears in his eyes as Elijah looked away from his brother and to Rebekah and Marcel. "Go. Both of you. Run as far and as fast as you can. Run!"

Rebekah and Marcel glanced at Isabel before leaving the Sanitarium. Isabel glanced at the unconscious Klaus before looking at Elijah. "I understand why you did it," she said as she glanced back down at Klaus. "I just wish we didn't have to."

Daniel Gillies cursing is everything. 😂😂
Also Nate being an adorable bean is to much for my heart to handle.
AND in season 5 when Kol is shirtless and he face palms... it makes me feel things. And I don't like it. 😂

And please enjoy my picture editing skills. 😂 nah but really Indiana and Nate be looking cute 🥺

Now for the memes... 🙂

^^BAHAHAHA THATS MY FAVORITE MEME

^That shit hurted muh feelings