FRENCH QUARTER

The next day, a music festival is going on. Everyone is enjoying themselves with food and drinks.

The two best friends, Ana and Christy, are taking a stroll together on the sidewalk with their takeout coffees cups.

Ana has a takeout coffee cup of espresso and Christy has her usual takeout coffee cup of caramel latte.

[Christy Outfit]

"What a music festival." Christy said, gently leaning sideways on a streetlight pole.

"Yeah." Ana said, gently leaning sideways on a streetlight pole. "Does Mount Orasani have festivals and parades?"

"Sometimes, yeah, in the city street." Christy replied with a small smile, taking a swig of her caramel latte.

"Did Klaus tell you that Aurora is still somewhere in the French Quarter?" Ana asked.

"He did. He said he'll handle it." Christy told her. "But I have a bad feeling about it."

"Like, there's ancient history between Klaus and Aurora and she is on extended borrowed hours and can flame out at any minute?" Ana said.

"Something like that. Or maybe, Aurora can trick Klaus into doing something." Christy said.

"Klaus knows not to fall for Aurora, knowing he has you to lose." Ana said.

"I'm not worried, Ana. I just have a bad feeling about something." Christy said.

"Don't worry, BooBabe. It's gonna be a good day for you." Ana said.

Ana and Christy exchange small smiles at each other and they continue with their stroll.

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JACKSON SQUARE MARKET

Christy slowly walks among the witches at their vendors, looking around for Colette.

"Hi, Christy." Ivy greeted her with a small smile.

"Hey, Ivy. Is Colette around?" Christy asked.

"I haven't." Ivy replied. "She's usually here with us, helping other witches."

"I'm sure that she's around here somewhere, Ivy." Christy said.

"I'll let you know when I see her." Ivy said.

"Okay." Christy said and walks away.

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Later that day, and about in the French Quarter, Christy is wandering around on the sidewalk, admiring the music festival with a small smile.

She then, spots Aurora across the street. Christy and Aurora exchange slight tense looks at each other.

A car drives by; and Aurora is gone.

And Christy walks away.

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In an alleyway behind ROUSSEAU'S . . .

Christy slowly walks away but stops walking, upon being followed. She gently takes out her golden beaded Orasanian bracelets and turns around wrapping it around Aurora's throat.

"Why are you following me, Aurora?" Christy asked.

"Perhaps, you will take your bracelet from around my neck, we can chat." Aurora said.

Christy retracts her warrior beaded bracelet from around Aurora's throat, but still holds it in her hand.

"Now, talk." Christy said.

Aurora soothes her throat with her hand. "You already know that I'm on borrowed hours due to Marcalos's hold on me."

"And why should I care?" Christy asked. "You're nothing but a pawn for Marcalos to use. I'm not even surprised that you've lasted this long because you could've flamed out already, which means Marcalos still has his hold on you."

"I understand your dislike for me, Christy. I know Nik doesn't want you to ever loathe him, considering how the strong bond is between the two of you." Aurora said.

"What are you talking about, Aurora?" Christy asked. "Klaus told me that he encountered you."

"I know Nik is looking for me." Aurora said to Christy.

"I'm not doing this." Christy said and walks away.

"You're looking for the witch, Colette, are you not?" Aurora asked.

Christy stopped walking and turns around to look at Aurora again. "Let me guess, you have something to do with it?"

"I don't. But Nik does." Aurora said.

"Aurora? If this is some scheme to turn me against my husband, I'm not interested." Christy said.

"Ask Nik about Colette." Aurora said and slowly walks up to Christy. "You will have your answer."

Aurora and Christy exchange looks at each other and Aurora vamp-sped away.

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MIKAELSON COMPOUND

That afternoon, Christy slowly walks inside the courtyard and sits down on the fountain. She takes out her phone and gently fiddles with it.

Her phone buzzes in her hand and she looks at it.

Klaus

Christy answers her phone. "Hey, Klaus."

"Hello, Love. Are you preoccupied?" Klaus asked.

"Nope, why?" Christy told him.

"I have to locate Aurora." Klaus said.

"I just saw her. She and I had a little conversation." Christy said.

"What did she talk with you about?" Klaus asked.

"Aurora mentioned Colette. A French Quarter witch. She said that you had something to do with her because I'm looking for her." Christy told her husband.

"I didn't know that you were looking for Colette." Klaus said.

"Yeah, I am. She wasn't at the Jackson Square Market with the other witches at their vendors." Christy told him.

"And let me guess, Aurora has you pondering that I have something to do with Colette." Klaus said.

"Not to accuse you, Hon, but do you have anything to do with Colette?" Christy asked her husband.

"No, I don't." Klaus told her.

"I know you, Klaus. I know how you are, and I know you're bad at not telling the truth." Christy said to him. "Are you lying to me?" She asked.

"Christy? I swear to you on our marriage, I had nothing to do with Colette. I'm on my way home so, we can settle this." Klaus said.

"Okay." Christy said, and hangs up her phone.

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After Klaus had came home to the compound, he and Christy are sitting at the table.

"What, exactly, did you and Aurora talk about?" Klaus asked, sitting at the head of the table.

"I saw her in the French Quarter. And when I saw her again, she told me that she knows that you're looking for her. And she mentioned Colette." Christy told him, sitting at the table.

"I assure you I have nothing to do with Colette. The witches despises me anyway, so, would I bother the witches?" Klaus said.

And Christy gives him a really expression on her face. "Because you're you and the supernatural doesn't like you."

"But they adore you." Klaus said. "But if you don't believe me, you can probe my mind."

"I believe you." Christy said to him.

Klaus and Christy exchange looks at each other. Her phone buzzes on the table. She picks up her phone and looks at it.

Vincent

Christy answers her phone. "Vince?"

"Christy? Ivy and I found Colette." Vincent told her.

"Where is she? Is she okay?" Christy asked him.

"I'm in the cauldron. Colette is here with the other witches." Vincent told her.

"Okay, I'm on my way." Christy said, and hangs up her phone. She glances at Klaus. "Vincent and Ivy found Colette. She's at the cauldron."

"Okay." Klaus said.

Christy gets up to her feet and walks away, but stops walking and turns back around to look at Klaus.

"Are you sure that you had nothing to do with Colette being missing?" Christy asked.

"I'm certain." Klaus said.

"Okay, but if you're lying to me, it'll be the last straw." Christy said and walks away.

And Klaus becomes a bit worried.

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THE CAULDRON

Later that evening, Christy arrived. She's with Vincent and Ivy.

Colette and Christy exchange looks at each other. Christy walks up to her and they share a hug.

"Ivy told me that you were looking for me, Christy." Colette said.

"Yeah, you weren't at the vendors." Christy said. She and Colette sits down at a bench table. "Colette? What happened?"

"I don't know. One minute I was here in the cauldron and the next, I was in the greenhouse at the Lycee." Colette said.

"You're saying that you were kidnapped?" Ivy said.

"Yeah." Colette said.

"By who?" Christy asked.

"He said he wanted me to do a locator spell, if I didn't do what he said, he was gonna kill me." Colette told Christy.

"Colette? Can I probe your mind?" Christy asked her.

Colette nodded her head, meaning "yes". "Okay."

Christy makes her eyes glow blue and she gently puts her fingertips on Colette's forehead.

As Christy's probes Colette's mind, she sees Klaus with her in the greenhouse of the Lyceé.

"I want you to find Aurora." Klaus told her.

"I'm not gonna do magic for you." Colette told him.

"Colette? If you don't do what I say, I will kill you and leave your dead body for the witches to bury you." Klaus said.

"Christy won't forgive you for this." Colette said to him.

"She doesn't have to know and I handle my wife loathing me. Now, find Aurora."  Klaus told her.

"What if Aurora is cloaked?" Colette asked.

"Then, work through it." Klaus said and walked away. "I won't be far."

Afterwards, Christy gently pulls her fingertips away from Colette's forehead and changes her eyes to green again.

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MIKAELSON COMPOUND

Later that night, Christy slowly walks inside the courtyard. She and Klaus exchange looks at each other.

"So, I checked on Colette at the cauldron. She told me what happened to her that caused her to go missing. I probed her mind and saw you. She told me that you kidnapped her and brought her to the Lyceé to do a locator spell to find Aurora." Christy told him.

"Christy?" Klaus said.

And Christy punches him in his face with her fist.

Klaus looks at her with a bruised cheekbone.

"That's for kidnapping Colette." Christy told him.

"Christy, please?" Klaus said.

And Christy punches Klaus in his face again. "And that's for lying to me to my face."

"Chris?" Klaus said.

And Christy walks away from him, walking up the stairs.

"Christy, please? I can explain." Klaus said.

In which, Christy stopped walking and looks at Klaus with her eyes glow red in anger.

"What can you possibly say that would get you out of hot troubles, Klaus? I told you what would happen if you were to lie to me. This was your last straw." Christy said.

"I needed to find Aurora so, I can deal with her myself." Klaus said.

"I don't really care anymore." Christy said and slowly walks up to him with their faces and inch from each other's. "You don't care about anyone. You hurt, kill and threaten anyone to get what you want. You use and abuse, and mistreat people like their pawns. Consequences be damned. And whenever your ego is hitted, you get pissed off and throw a tantrum. You don't care about anyone or anything, you're so selfish and manipulative, and you're self-centered. But deep down within you, Niklaus, you're just a scared little boy, convinced, that you will be abandoned without a second thought."

Klaus looks at Christy, glumly.

"So, you want to be in the Original Hybrid, you want to be in control of things? Fine. You've won. But I won't be here. All you truly and really care about is being feared." Christy told him.

"I never wanted you to hate me." Klaus said to her.

"I could never hate you, Niklaus. You're just always your typical Klaus Mikaelson self. You meddle in other people's business and you think everything is humorous. You think you're so invincible because you're immortal. Not everything is about you. When are you gonna grow up and be a real man? Because right now, you're acting like the man I married, you're acting like a monster." Christy told him with a serious expression on her face with her eyes glow red in anger.

Klaus looks at Christy and she walks away from him, walking back up the stairs. He gently sits down on step, dejected.

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