2 days later

Mystic Falls

"This child you are carrying is a witch- not a tribrid" Aya said to Elena as she now examined her to make sure everything is all right.

"What do you mean? Are you sure? How can you -?" Elena now looked at Bonnie and then at Aya.

"I can feel the baby's power. It is very strong. If I take some blood of yours I will prove it"

"Yes, please do it" - Elena now bit in her wrist and poured the blood in a bowl.

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Meanwhile in New Orleans

The Bayou

"Are you with me?"  Vincent now asked Hayley and Jackson.

Both the King and the Queen of Crescents nodded.

"Good. Now you should send Hope to Mystic Falls asap. Elijah's witch will look after her." Marcel now said.

"How are you going to make sure that Klaus will comply with everything?" Jackson asked.

"At this very moment he needs us. Me- because I have the power to stand against Lucian and his witch wife. Elijah has also made a deal with him regarding Elena." - Vincent said.

A day hours earlier

Vincent and Marcel walked in the cells of the Mikaelson Compound where Klaus kept his brother and Antoinette imprisoned.

"Have you thought about it?" - Marcel now said.

"Yes. You have a deal."- Elijah said.

"Good." Marcel nodded."You will make sure that Antoinette doesn't die."

"You have my word."

"I want to talk to Elena."

"All, right, but make it quick."- Marcel said now giving the Original, the phone.

Elijah now dualled the doppelganger's number.

In Mtstic Falls, Elena picked up the phone sitting up.

"Elijah-"

"Elena- my darling. I-"  Elijah stopped feeling his throat get dry, nearly chocking from the pain, from the sadness that enveloped him.

"Are you all right? Hayley called me and said- passed on your message- I can't believe that all this is happening! You don't have to do the deal. I will be all right. I'm going away with Aya and Bonnie."

Elijah made a silent sigh. He could not tell her now that  the deal had been done and that it entailed much more than just saving her life.

"Elijah-" - Elena now said and added-"I love you. Hold onto that. Aya will save you."

"I love you, too. Always and Forever. You are my everything, Elena."

Marcel now urged him to give him back the phone as he now heard commotion upstairs.

Elijah clicked the phone off.

"All right. I am ready." - Elijah now said handing the phone over to the vampire.

As Vincent prepared the circle for the spell, he now gave Elijah the spelled blood of Antoinette and the Blood Moon Wolves to drink.

As the Original drank the blood, he looked at Antoinette -"Thank you."

He then turned to the Vampire and the Witch.

Vincent now murmured the words of the spell. Elijah could feel the tingling in his bloodstream as the magic worked its will. Not long and his whole body shuddered with cold sweat.

As the chanting stopped, he now, feeling the strange power stream in him. Nothing seemed to be different, but he felt stronger, and felt a terrible hunger.

Klaus now appeared and looked his brother.

"Is it done?"  the hybrid asked.

"Yes" the witch replied."He is now like you. You can take on the Beasts. "

"Well, brother. It is goid to know that you are willing to stand by your brother,"  Klaus said,"but just to be sure that you don't go back on your word, she stays here."

"You promised!"- Elijah now raged at his brother.

"Now - I forgave you for sleeping with my fiance- and not killing your precious ex-wife, but I said nothing of releasing her from her prison."

"I never slept with Elena!" Elijah said sternly."We just -"

"Kissed- ah, well- you should have slept with her. She is quite delicious!"

Elijah now lost it and pinned Klaus onto the wall.

"Damn, you two!"  Vincent now intetfered separating them.

Klaus used this opportunity and now jumped over to Antoinette biting her in the neck.

"You bastard!" Elijah shouted. And having realized what he had just said quickly sortvof apologized asking him to heal the female vampire.

"We are actually showing our true colours now, brother, aren't we? It's not easy to be a hybrid. You will learn. Lock her up. And give her only a drop of my blood so she just barely stays alive"  Klaus said.

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In Mystic Falls

"Like I said- this child is a witch - solely. Like she said."Aya said.

"Who?"  Elena asked.

"Genevieve said that the father is Vincent Griffith."Aya replied.

"Oh, God! But why would she lie? And why - Dsvina kill her then?"

"I think that this was Lenore's doing" - Aya said-"They have always struggled for power."

Elena gulped, shaking her head.

"They all manipulated us." Elena said.

"She will be back to claim the child." - Aya said-"you are still in danger. And not just from Lucien and his wife."

"But Lenore, too"

"As well as Nandi. She is not beaten. All right. Are you ready?" - the witch said.

"Yes. Let me just pack up a few more things." - Elena said and went up to her room.

There, she stood for a moment and took now the paper from the drawer with the poem Elijah wrote to her.

She kissed it,saying always and forever, and put it in her pocket.

She then took her jacket and put a few things in the bag.

Before she exited, she glancedcat the bed, imprinting the memory of her and Elijah laying there together entwined, never to forget.

She heard Bonnie and her daughter enter the house and she now went to meet them. A few minutes later she set off with the two witches to meet Hayley and Hope up north.