New Orleans
Days after

Rebekah sat down in front of Elijah's tomb. Whenever she felt down, she would come to him, and just shoot everything that was in her heart. 

"Nothing is right. Not that they ever were before, but now it seems like it is the worst ever, and I - can't do it anymore - without you. Kol is on the edge, and Finn has turned into this killing machine- he just sits quiet when he comes from the night of - all we have is blood. Blood and more blood. I miss you- and Nik, too. He has done such shit, but - I wish he was with us now-"

"Hey, babe, I thought I would find you here"- Camille now appeared and looked at her lover all tearful.

The two vanpires now hugged.

"This is never going to end" Rebekah sighed, "Ah, I miss him so much. He was the best of us."

"I wish I could take the pain away" the blonde said and moved out of the hug a little.

"You are such hopeful one" Rebekah curled up a small smile on her sad face.

They both now looked at the new moon rising as the dusk was setting in.

"We got to go." Rebekah now said, "soon they will be roaming the streets"

"Well, one good thing is that Sophie stopped them being able to get out in the day." Camille added.

"Yeah, at least something." Rebekah said and placing a kiss on her brother's name on the tomb, both vampires swished away from the place.

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In Nova Scotia

Elena introduced the witch to Hope. The sixteen-year old could not believe that Rissy was who she was.

Vivie was happy to see that her teacher was the one that was going to be the one who will finally be the one that will stop them from living the lifecon the run, changing schools every so often.

"I cannot believe that I have not sensed what you were, and yet they always could."  Rissy said as she sat down for a cup of coffee and a cake Hope had made.

"Unfortunatelly, the rings, the necklace and the bracelet was done with Aya's magic, which Strix took away from her before they killed her. But, Hope managed to modify it every time we had to."

"Though I have this magic in me - I don't know exactly how to do a lot of things, because I had no magical schooling at all. I am kind of self taught." Hope explained.

"I would be glad to teach you, if you want me to." Rissy said.

"Oh, yes, please." Hope was delighted to hear that the Original witch was willing to finally show how to use her magic potential. She then had more questions, one of them being, "How are you an Original witch?"

"Same as you. I have the traits of one. It is passed on - from generation to generation. There is like - the chosen one. One that can master both the light and dark magic." Rissy explained and continued, "the dragonfly tattoo was done by me when I was sixteen, but I was born with the mark of the dragonfly. It's on my lower back. My great-grandmother had one. But on the neck. Anyway, it signified that we could bear all the magic from the First. That's how we call the Original witch in our family."

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In New Orleans

Marcel's Compound
Warehouse District

Davina walked in the building and the Vincent greeted her with reserve.

"What do you want?" - the witch elder asked the young witch.

"I thought about what you said." Davina said.

"And?"

"I will give you Kol Mikaelson"

"Good."- Vincent smirked a little-"I thought you would see sense."

"You were right. The Mikaelson always looks afterva Mikaelson, and they think only about themselves."

Flashback

A week earlier

"Look the way they have embraced Finn back, and it is known that he had always been against everything the Mikaelsons stood for. And now he is standing shoulder to shoulder with his siblings. They will suck you in their darkness and be sure that you will come out on the losing end. Look what happened to the doppelganger and Antoinette."  Vincent said.

"Antoinette had it coming."- Davina said.

"Maybe." Vincent said-"still, Finn had no problem killing her to because she gave her blood to Marcel to protect her own family."

"But Greta worked against them and she was not her real family." Davina said.

"All I say is to be careful. This is a war in which we, the witches should come up on top. They have ruled. Long enough. Now it's our turn."

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In the Mikaelson Compound

Sophie Deveraux read the old manuscrips Finn had brought from Spain.

"And these are all your mother's Grimoire writings?" Sophie now asked.

"Yes. There is nothing more. Klaus burnt the rest. I managed to save some. Well, this."

The witch was sighed.

"What is it?" the Original vampire asked.

"Part of the spell is missing." Sophie said.

"Found anything?" Kol now asked the witch walking in the study.

"This is not helping us. A big part is missing" Sophie replied.

"You should have clean yourself up" Rebekah now said  to Kol as she entered with Camille.

"What does it matter- I'm not Elijah- don't carry handkerchiefs"- Kol shot at his sister, who by the mention of her dead brother now vamped out, snarling back at the younger one, "Don't you dare use Elijah in your snarky shit mood! NOT ON THIS DAY!"

The blonde now pinned her brother on the wall.

"STOP THIS!" Finn shouted now swooping over to his siblings, separating them.

"What day?" Kol now snarled back.

Shimmering back into her human form, Rebekah's eyes now again watered and with her eyes still fixed on her younger brother said, "The anniversary of his death"

"That's today?" Kol said now feeling like she punched him right in the heart.

"How easy you all forgot. Like he was never around." Rebekah said.

"I am sorry" Kol said walking over to his sister, embracing her -"Everything - just - of course I haven't - damn- I have- sorry"

"Damn this. Damn everything. We should just not negotiate with them." Finn said now.

"What are you saying?" Kol looked at his older brother.

"We just take Freya. Sophie can do it. And I am willing to go there and kidnap her." the Original brother said, "I had enough of this. If need be we kill her."

"You are not serious? Lucien will go balistic! And start killing innocents" Rebekah said looking at Finn completely surprised he would suggest something like that.

"What other alternative do we have? Sophue can get magic out of her, and if you put me down - when I am in the limbo - she could get the whichcraft I inherited from mother and - I am with Finn." Kol now said.

"We said we would not put any innocents in dager. We swore!" - Rebekah said as a voice of reason. "Also- this is dangerous Kol. You might not come back. Sophie is not an Original witch. What if something goes wrong. No. We can't risk it."

"Yes, it's a risk. BUT, we have to try. We have to do something. We can't go on like this." Kol said.

"No, no, no. I don't like. I have a really bad feelung about this." Rebekah said-"Oh, I wish Elijah was here"

"But he is not and we will have to think and do this ourselves." Finn now said, continuing-"you know that with this we can get Klaus back."

"But not Elijah" Sophie now reminded the Mikaelson siblings.

Rebekah sighed as did Kol, who uttered, "No- for him we need Elena. OH, fuck, fuck, fuck!"

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A few days later

Nova Scotia

After extensive weekend of teaching Hope how to master the magic, Rissy and Elena sat down for a quite evening opening a bottle of red wine. They talked about the Mikaelson family and Elena's involvement with them, as well as her most unusual triangle with Klaus and Elijah.

"Yes, I fell for Elijah."- Elena said- "I don't know how and when it happened. It just crept in. It felt like it happened so sudden- I don't know- but then - it was like - we were meant to be together- it's like we had this connection - I can't explain it. I don't know if you- sorry"

Elena stopped there, knowing now that the witch's heart bled for another Mikaelson brother she had been involved with ten years ago. 

Rissy took a good sip of wine and said, "It's all right. We both know what it is like to be cut by the Mikaelson brothers.  They just take your heart and - there is nothing you can do. It's gone forever."

"Yes." Elena now said and her eyes watered, "I still feel like it was yesterday - like - I still feel his kiss - "

"I will get him back to you." Rissy said, remembering what Elena had told her about her and Elijah and the poem he had left her before he had left for New Orleans. 

"What about you and Kol? I mean, you will see him-"

The witch now took another sip of the wine and looking out into the night said, "Nothing. That is - dead and buried."

Vivie now came to Elena asking her if she would help her with packing and as Elena went, Hope came to the living room and gave the woman a print out.

"This is for you"- Hope said-"It's like a thank you - for - everything."

Rissy looked at the picture, feeling tremendously overwhelmed with the feeling that surged right into her heart.

"This is lovely, Hope. Thank you so much- I don't know what to say."

"I just - felt that all this represents you - and you may find it strange that I put the fox there, but yesterday- I saw the way you have fed the fox that came to the garden. It ate from your hand - and the way you have cuddled him - I felt that you had this spiritual connection"

"Yes - ahm- I love foxes."- Rissy said smiling at the girl.

"I am happy you love it. Ok- I am also going to do some more packing. This is like the first time we - actually pack quite extensively-" Hope said and then went. 

Rissy nodded a little and swayed her look at the print out. She swallowed hard, looking at the fox and her heart as well as her mind wondered off to the past.

Flashback

Ten years ago

Kol glided his hand over the witch's lower back, placing a butterfly kiss on the dragonfly mark, making her shiver slightly. He then ran more sweet little kisses up her back to the neck.

"You are so divine"- Kol whispered as he streamed with his fingers over her shoulders. Rissy moaned a little, and shifted to meet the vampire into a fiery kiss, hauling him onto her now.  Her mind and soul sank deeper into the kiss, and she thought she would fall into an unconscious abyss from the force. Her fingers clutched his shoulders for support, and her heart was ready to explode out of her chest with an abnormally fast pounding. Kol covered her fully with his body, coaxing her further into him.  Their tongues and hearts danced with each other, heightening to a level of intensity that she had never experienced before.

Rissy now shook her head. Another thought came rushing in, clouding the sweet one.

Flashback

A month after

Rissy walked in the apartment with a bag of groceries and called out for Kol. But there was no answer. The witch went to the bedroom and saw that  the wardrobe door was open. It was empty. 

"Kol"- the witch now gulped, feeling the her stomach roll into a knot as she now saw a note and a flower on it, "No, please, no." 

She picked up the note which read,

'My darling, sweet Rissy, 

You deserve so much more. More than what I can give you. 

You will be in my heart forever. But I have to let you go.

Kol'