MOONS.
035. | ❛ does that mean i have to bond? ❜

"Take a swing at me, huh? All these side-steps and parries... Even the way you fight is boring."

"It's an odd critique, considering all your flair and flourish couldn't keep you from being bested the last time we faced each other."

While he talks, Kol reaches around Luna and shoves Finn in the chest while Freya glares at him in frustration. When he stops, Kol shoves Luna aside, where she lands on the nearby couch, so that he can push Finn backward against the wall. Freya rushes to Luna, to see if she's okay from the push, yet this makes Luna mad and her fangs to show. Before she can do anything, however, Lucien vamp-speeds into the room and pulls Kol away from him, eventually shoving him against the bookshelf in a choke-hold from which he desperately tries to break free. Still keeping him pinned, Lucien turns back to Freya and Luna, who has just stood back on her feet.

"Perhaps we should let them fight? After all, they can't actually kill each other."

Just then, Elijah finally arrives to mediate, clearly annoyed by their bickering.

"Behave yourselves! Particularly considering we'll be confined here together for the foreseeable future."

Kol takes advantage of Lucien's distraction and breaks out of his grip, shoving him in the chest before marching toward Elijah.

"What does that mean?"

"I believe the term is "staycation." You see, Niklaus isn't the only one who's inspired revenge fantasies. Right now, we are all at risk."

Kol turns around and glares at Finn, Luna, and Freya, not pleased by Elijah's news either, sighs and closes her eyes, visibly frustrated.

"So, while Marcel works to retrieve the white oak, I recommend we dispense with the posturing and get down to some good, old-fashioned family bonding."

"I'm not a Mikaelson does that mean I also have to bond?"

"If I remember correctly you're carrying a future Mikaelson and I suggest that you know your fellow family"

Elijah leaves, leaving the remainder of the room to look at each other.

"Seems like Klaus got busy while I was gone.." Finn got closer to Luna who was instantly protected by Kol.

"Seems like it, at least he can accept his burden and stem a life from it." Kol spats

Luna pushes Kol to the side extending her hand out to Finn, surprising even him.

"Luna, it's nice to meet you Finn."

"Luna, such a fine name. The pleasure is all mine."
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Luna dials on her phone, trying to get through to Klaus but doesn't pick up.

"It's me, guess you figured that out by now but I'm just calling to inform you of the status of everything going on. Your brother Finn, is back. The race is still on for the white oak bullet. I guess you want to hear about the progress of the baby, well it's fine. I have a feeling it's a boy, don't ask me how I know but... I miss you, I love you and I hope your safe."

"I can see why Klaus is taken with you," Finn appears from the door looking at Luna

"Many people are taken with my sparkling personality, guess I've always been like that as a child."

"May I," Finn taps his ear referring to hearing the child's heartbeat. Luna nods her head as Finn gets closer, the heartbeat was strong much like Luna's yet still soft and delicate.

"Well, I hope that this child is all you wish for," Finn says walking away leaving Luna puzzled at his response.
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Meanwhile, Kol, still visibly overwhelmed and shaken by his anger toward Finn and his horror at nearly feeding on Davina, is drinking a glass of bourbon and staring out from the balcony. Luna in the room tries talking him down when Elijah appears in the doorway behind him.

"Whatever it is you're planning...? Don't."

This visibly angers Kol, who doesn't immediately look at him,"He cursed me to die, Elijah. Slowly. In front of her."

Kol finally turns to face his brother and glares at him angrily,"If nothing else, I owe him for that."

"Perhaps. And perhaps the best revenge is to simply expel him from our lives altogether?"

"No! He doesn't get to live happily ever after!"

Elijah raises his hand in an attempt to settle Kol down,

"I haven't made my final decision-- I only ask that you stay your hand."

Kol completely loses his temper and shouts at Elijah,"That isn't your decision to make!"

Kol furiously squeezes his tumbler until it shatters into pieces, and Elijah seems surprised by this reaction

"Kol, control yourself!"

Kol, unable to do so, picks up a chair and throws it across the room, directly at Luna who vamps away and Elijah finally realizes what is happening.

"..Unless you can't."

Kol finally returns to his human form, and it's obvious that he's embarrassed by his behavior as he quietly replies.

"Luna, I'm sorry. It's worse than I remember. The rage... the hunger."

His eyes fill with tears as he finally makes eye contact with Elijah and Luna, who looks at him with concern.

"I'd like to blame my anger on Finn, but it's been growing worse since I came back. I never did learn how to keep it in check. I never really cared to..."

Elijah suddenly understands what is bothering him,"But now you do."

Kol sighs and sits down on one of the chairs, his eyes looking glassy with tears,"I couldn't live with myself if I hurt Davina. But, hurting the ones we love, whether we mean to or not... That's just what we do, isn't it?"

Elijah looks at him sympathetically and walks toward him to go onto the balcony, squeezing his shoulder affectionately though he has no words of comfort to offer.

"It is who we are."

Elijah leaves, and a single tear falls down Kol's cheek. Luna comes behind him and offers him a hug from behind as he smiles at the affection of their ever growing family.

Luna and Kol still upstairs hear ruckus occurring from downstairs.

Finn is so enraged that he pinned Davina against the wall in a choke-hold, just as Kol appears and throws him off of her. Kol channels his rage, punching Finn in the head and stomach before grabbing him by the neck and slamming his head into the wall, but Finn elbows Kol in the face to break out of his grip for a brief moment before Kol starts to strangle him with both hands. Finn manages to grab Kol's left wrist and snaps it before headbutting him in the face and tackling him, but when Kol elbows him hard in the back, Finn is disoriented enough for him to knee him in the gut and throw him through the glass doors into the courtyard, where he lands on the floor. Finn tries to crawl backward away from Kol, and Davina as they approach him, and Kol grabs a lit candle off the table as he walks toward his eldest brother. Finally, Luna returns with Freya rushing into the room to intervene.

"Kol, stop."

Kol glares at her as Lucien appears behind Freya and Luna, but when he continues to walk toward Finn with the candle, Elijah vamp-speeds in and shoves him backward.

"Enough!"

"This isn't your fight!"

"I told you to stay your hand!"

Kol scowls at him furiously,"Fine."

Kol angrily throws the candle across the room, and Davina seems shocked by this uncharacteristic display of rage.

"I'd rather take my chances out there with white oak then stay here with you lot."

Kol turns to leave, and Davina follows after him. Freya rushes over to check on Finn before looking back at Elijah.

"Elijah?"

"He'll be fine. Marcel has paid us a visit."

Elijah reaches into his pocket and pulls out the bullet,"The last remaining white oak in the world... right here."

Lucien frowns and watches Elijah intently, as does Finn, who seems to be realizing how important this bullet is to him.

"Sister, if you would be so kind?"

Freya nods and flicks her wrist toward the fire pit nearby, which bursts into flames. However, when Elijah throws the bullet into the fire, Finn yells to try to stop him, to no avail.

"No!"

Finn vamp-speeds toward the fire and plunges his hand into it, groaning in pain as he's burned until it finally pulls out the bullet, which had not yet been fully consumed by the flames.

"Brother!"

Finn falls to his knees and looks at his siblings and Lucien with horror in his eyes,"The little witch has condemned me to this! To remain a beast."

He looks up at Elijah with a pleading expression,"Elijah... I can't bear an eternity with no hope of escape. Can you?"

Elijah looks conflicted about this question.

In the courtyard, everyone is staring at Finn, who is standing in front of the fire and holding the bullet in his hand while Elijah attempts to plead with him.

"Finn, give it to me."

Finn doesn't move and gives Elijah a devastated look, and Elijah's voice becomes more stern,"Give it to me."

When this doesn't work, Lucien sighs before vamp-speeding toward Finn, stealing the bullet from him, and then vamp-speeding across the room again. Lucien looks at the bullet for a moment, shocked that he actually has it in his hands, and everyone looks at him suspiciously for a moment before he sighs again and tosses the bullet to Elijah at vampire speed, who catches it and looks surprised by this turn of events. After a moment of inaction, Lucien looks impatient.

"Come on, then. After all this time... go on and destroy it."

"He's right, Elijah. Klaus can come home." Luna says from a far.

Elijah looks conflicted, and Finn tries to plead with him

"Elijah, forever is a burden that nobody should have to bear."

Lucien continues to argue the opposite,"You cannot keep that white oak in this house, Elijah. It is already a beacon drawing your enemies to you."

Elijah continues to stay frozen in place, and Lucien finally decides on a compromise,"Perhaps the best solution is obvious? Entrust it to the one who loves each of you most."

Finn, realizing what Lucien is intending, looks at Freya with a desperate expression, and Elijah also seems amenable to this idea. Freya, realizing this is key to keeping her family as whole as possible, nods in agreement.

"I can cloak myself. If it has to exist, at least I can take it far away. Hide it under a thousand spells, somewhere where no one else will ever find it."

"Let me," Luna steps forward

"When enemies find out about this situation in my stomach, they are going to want to come after me."

"Luna..."

"At least let me help..."

Elijah still looks unsure, but he eventually hands Freya the bullet with a serious expression.
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Freya and Luna has just left the compound and is heading toward her car. Vincent, who has been lurking in the alley, slowly follows behind her. Luna stops and looks behind her to see nothing. When Freya sees a shadow behind her as she opens the driver side door, she quickly turns around and prepares to attack, only to breathe a sigh of relief when she realizes it's only Vincent, not knowing his allegiance has shifted.

"Vincent." She seems unsettled by the guilty look on his face and frowns.

"Something wrong?" Luna asked with some uneasiness in her voice.

"Very much."

Vincent raises his right hand and makes a fist, using his magic to knock them unconscious without a word. He looks extremely unhappy as Sofya's men come and pick up their bodies before throwing it into a black van and driving away.

Waking up, Freya and Luna have been bound to a chair with a black hood over her head, and Lucien circles around them, tracing his finger over Luna's shoulders before he finally removes the hood. They have also been gagged, and she glares furiously at Lucien as he leans in from behind her and whispers in her ear with a smug smirk.

"Hello, loves"

He sighs deeply and takes the white oak bullet out of her pocket before he continues.

"A Mikaelson witch, a Mikaelson baby, a white oak bullet... Throw in a dash of wolf venom and a case of champagne, and I'd say we have a recipe for some real fun!"

Freya and Luna look horrified by the prospect of what he could want with them.