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Dawn seemed to come too quickly, but the Mikaelsons were up bright and early to discuss all things pertaining to Remi Moore. 

"So, does anybody have a lead on the witch bitches who did this?" Marcel asked as he leaned forward in the chair, his restless arms steadied on his thighs.

"No, not yet. We're hoping Remi will know. One of us will ask her once she wakes up," Freya replied. 

Marcel nodded and gazed down at the floor. "Alright. Just... go easy on her."

"I agree. Perhaps we should wait until the subject isn't so raw. What we know as of right now is that whoever they might be obviously knew where Remi and Amelia lived. Amelia was tortured relentlessly, so there was definitely a history of bad blood. Anything else?" Elijah paced.

"Yesterday morning, Remi came to us and explained what happened to her mum. She said that a coven had a vendetta against her since she wouldn't distribute the ancestral magic, did she not?" Rebekah asked.

"There are only two other covens in New Orleans with enough power to take down a high priestess: the French Quarter coven, and the Grand Coven," Freya replied. "The Grand Coven is adamant about practicing pure, elemental magic, so I highly doubt they would ever hold a grudge so extreme to the point where they kill someone. Marcel, you have experience with the French Quarter coven. What do you think?" Freya asked.

"I think those witches would do anything to get what they wanted, which includes eliminating competition from the game," Marcel growled, but was interrupted by a forceful rumble beneath their feet. Bookshelves toppled forward and chandeliers swung violently from side to side as everyone stood up and tried to balance themselves. 

Once the building ceased to shake, Rebekah sighed, already knowing what the source of the earthquake was. "Remi," she muttered, and flashed upstairs.

"Hey," Rebekah said. "What are you doing? You just shook the whole bloody city of New Orleans."

"I-I didn't mean to, not on purpose. I don't know what's happening to me. I've never done anything like that before," Remi replied as her hazel eyes gleamed with nerves.

"Stay here. I'll be back," the original said, walking out of the room and back downstairs. As she walked back into the courtyard, everyone stood at the bottom of the stairs waiting to see what had transpired upstairs.

"What the hell happened?" Marcel asked anxiously.

"I don't think Remi can handle this magic any longer, especially since it hasn't been more than 24 hours since she became a bloody orphan," Rebekah replied.

"Rebekah's right. We need to find a way to keep her calm until we can actually help her," Freya agreed.

"I second that, but how are we supposed to control the the emotions of a teenage girl?" Elijah asked.

"With the amount of magic that she's keeping bottled up right now, I don't think there's a way to naturally keep it at bay, but... we could sedate her," Freya replied hesitantly. She knew that it was a controversial move, but the girl would die and take whole city down with her if they didn't figure something out soon.

"Sedate her? Are you kidding me? No. Hell no, there has to be another way," Marcel butted in stubbornly. Now that Remi had no one else to look out for her, the vampire was determined to protect from her everything shitty in the world.

"Marcel, it would only be until we found a way to help her. It's the only way to keep Remi safe," Rebekah urged, nodding in Freya's direction.

Marcel paused for a moment as he contemplated what they had all said. "I've known this girl since she was born. She's never done a thing to hurt anybody, but bad things just manage to find a way into her life. If this is what you really think is best, then lets do it," Marcel sighed as he, too, nodded in Freya's direction.

"You all stay here. I'll be back with the sedative shortly," Elijah stated before flashing out of the abattoir within milliseconds.

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He arrived at a nearby hospital and took the elevator to the surgical floor. A doctor stood by the nurses station, whom Elijah tapped on the shoulder. "Bring me one of your strongest sedatives," he muttered as he looked deeply into the doctor's dilating eyes.

When the man returned, he was holding a syringe in one hand, and a vial of clear liquid in the other. Elijah grabbed both and placed them in his pocket. "Thank you, doctor."

The original walked back into the abattoir a short while later with the syringe and vial in hand, but Marcel was nowhere to be seen. She took the syringe and stuck the needle into the small glass jar titled 'lorazepam', pulling back the plunger so the liquid filled up the barrel. 

"Should we wait for Marcellus to return?" Elijah asked as he glanced at the abattoir's entrance.

"No," Freya shook her head. "He said that he didn't want to be here when it happened," she said, sounding slightly guilty for what she had suggested in the first place.

"And you're sure we're doing the right thing here, Freya?" Rebekah piped up.

Freya nodded. "Unfortunately, It's the only quick and effective way I know at the moment. if I had more time, I could probably look for a spell that might work, but that could days and we don't have that kind of time," she expressed, to which the blonde vampire seemed to understand.

"Rebekah, you should be the one to let her know," Elijah said after a moment of thick silence.

"What? Why me?" she asked as her eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"You were there with her for hours when both of us weren't. She trusts you," Elijah encouraged.

Rebekah felt terrible for the girl. She, as well as the rest of her siblings, related deeply with the girl and the act of being forced into something that she didn't sign up. Remi sure as hell didn't ask to be the barer of such a inhuman amount of power, but she was never given a choice in the matter. The woman bit her cheek for a moment before silently agreeing, and taking the syringe from Freya's grasp.

The original sighed through her lips as she walked up the stairs and knocked on the door which hid a sleeping Remi on the other side. When the girl didn't say anything, Rebekah opened up the door and walked over to the side of the bed, gently tapping Remi's shoulder to wake her up.

Her eyes slowly fluttered open. "Rebekah?" she muttered softly.

Rebekah smiled back slightly. "Yes, its me - I told you I'd be back. We found a way to help you for the time being," she said.

Remi drowsily smiled. "Really? How?" she asked as her eyes began to fill with distant hope.

Rebekah took the sedative out of her pocket, and the younger girl looked up into Rebekah's deep blue eyes as her heart began to race. "What is that?" she asked, although she already knew what it was without having to ask. After making the whole Quarter shake, Remi knew that she was ticking time bomb. It would've surprised her if they had found any other way to suppress her magic.

"We were discussing it downstairs, and we all agreed that this is the only way to safely control your magic until we find a solution, Remi. So Elijah compelled up some sedative. You'll basically just be sleeping for the time being, but it won't be long. I promise," Rebekah assured her, her tone showing that she actually cared for the girl's wellbeing.

Remi sunk back into the bed and stared up at the ceiling for a second before turning her gaze back towards the original. "It's okay, I trust you..." she replied.

The girl flipped her arm over so that her forearm was exposed, and turned her head away as to hide a single tear that escaped from her eye. The silence was deafening.

Rebekah took the needle and inserted it into a vein in Remi's arm as gently as possible, the young girl wincing at the burning sensation that overtook her arm. Rebekahl stood up straight and watched as Remi's eyes blinked slower and slower until they didn't blink at all, a sudden quiet peace filling the room.

After she was certain that Remi was asleep, Rebekah exited the girl's room and walked downstairs to where her siblings were waiting. "It worked," she stated.

Freya sighed in relief. "Okay, good. Now we can start looking for ways to help her contain this magic without killing her," she said, feigning excitement.

Just then, the three originals were greeted by none other than Niklaus, the hybrid whose recklessness led to the violent upheaval of a rather sweet girl's life.

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alright there it is! I said this was supposed to be out at noon today but I had a little writers block so it got delayed :/ sorry 'bout that. The next chapter will mostly be about discussing how to help Remi control the power she has now and about where Klaus was. 

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