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Chapter thirty

Scarlett who is in the middle of labour, screams at Genevieve and Monique as they stand around her "AHHHH! Let go of me, you bitch!"

Klaus limps into the church and finds the witches with Scarlett, who is shocked and relieved to see him. Klaus lunges toward one of the witch guards and rips his head off. Abigail and Genevieve link hands and telekinetically pin Klaus to the wall. Klaus fights against the spell pinning him to the wall, but he cannot get free. Monique and Abigail anchor the spell and go back to helping Scarlett

Klause along with Scarlett screamed echoing throughout the church. 

Klaus and Scarlett watch fearfully as Genevieve grabs the ceremonial athame that was used for the Harvest. Scarlett continues to scream in agony and terror as Genevieve turns to address both Scarlett and Klaus. "You should know this brings me no joy. I promise I'll make it quick."

One of the witches covers Hayley's lower half with a sheet. "Let's begin, shall we?"

Scarlett is still in labour, and the witches, led by Genevieve, assist Hayley in her birth. Scarlett screams in agony. Klaus shouts "I will bring hell to your family!"

Genevieve commanded Scarlett "One last push! Push! The baby's almost here!"Klaus shouts again "I will bathe in rivers of your blood!" as Scarlett begs for it to stop "No! No!""I can see the baby!" Monique announced as Genevive spoke "Push! Gently! Gently!"Klaus's shouts filled the room yet not affecting the witches "You will die screaming!"

Scarlett, exhausted, falls backwards just as the baby is born. "There!" Genevive said as cut the umbilical cord and wrapped the body in a blanket. Both Klaus and Hayley stop screaming once they see their baby. "You have a beautiful baby daughter" Genevive announced as Scarlett and Klaus stared in shock. Genevie started the ramble about the sacrifice again "We must start the sacrifice as soon as the moon sets with the morning sky--" Scarlett cut her off "--Please. Please, can I hold her?"

Genevieve brings the baby over so Scarlett can hold her. Scarlett is amazed by the sight of her daughter. She looks up at Klaus and manages a small smile before kissing her daughter on the forehead. Suddenly, Monique grabs Scarkett by the hair, pulls her head back, and slits her throat with the knife. Scarlett gasps as her body falls backwards. "NOOOOOO!" Klaus screamed yet Scarlett couldn't hear him crying for her.

The witches grab the baby before leaving the church. As the witches leave, Monique twists her wrist, which causes Klaus to fall to the floor, weakened. He looks up at Scarlett's dead body above him in horror.

Sometime later, Elijah bursts into the church and looks around desperately. He stops dead in his tracks, panting and out of breath as a result of the werewolf bites, and struggles to focus his vision. Eventually, he sees that Klaus is sitting at the sacristy with Scarlett's head resting in his lap. Klaus is near tears. Elijah approaches them with a horrified look on his face. He falls to his knees next to Hayley and realizes that she's dead. Klaus numbly said, "She's gone." Elijah starts to cry, which causes Klaus to start to cry as well. "You've been bitten. Here" Klaus bites into his wrist and offers it to Elijah. Elijah is stunned by this display of kindness.

"What happened?" The doors of the church opened as Hayley who was in shock spoke up. Elijah lays Scarlett's body back onto the table at the sacristy while Klaus sits nearby. Distraught Elijah asked "How?" Hayley walked up to the body as tears rolled down her cheeks.

Klaus numbly replied "I was bested" Elijah's face goes from an expression of horror to one of fury. Quietly he spoke "You were bested. Huh" He walks toward Klaus and stares at him furiously "You were BESTED?" Klaus looks at him in shock at his loss of temper, and Elijah shouts in exasperation "My invincible brother!" Klaus pulls himself weakly to his feet and looks Elijah in the eyes. "They took the baby. But there's still time. We can save her."

Scarlett's body is still lying on the table at the sacristy where Elijah left her. Her neck looks as though it has healed. Suddenly, she awakens with a gasp and grabs her throat. As she sits up, she's overwhelmed with flashbacks of being in labour, the baby being born, Klaus being pinned to the wall, and Monique slitting her throat. "You are awake!" Hayley was surprised. "She is alive. My baby I can save her" The baby is still alive, but has been taken by the witches, "You ok H?" Hayley nods but Scarlett feels something is off. But Hayley spoke up "Yeah actually Genevive's spell did something to both of us i guess it is affecting me now," Scarlett gave Hayley some of the blood still having her baby's blood running through her. 

Scarlett calmed herself down as she left to find her daughter.

Klaus and Elijah are breaking their way through the illusion by destroying the tombs. When they reach a room full of candles, they stop and catch their breath. Elijah sighed "We've passed through here twice already. We're running out of time" He punches through a wall in anger and frustration "Then we move faster" Klaus declared as he marks the wall with a third tally using a large rock just as a familiar female voice calls out from behind them. "Or smarter." Elijah and Klaus freeze when they hear her voice, and turn to see the source of the sound. Scarlett stands in the doorway, dazed and exhausted-looking

"Scarlett"

Elijah and Klaus are shocked to see her. Klaus rushes over to touch her face to ensure she isn't an illusion. "How are you here?" Klaus as Scarlett dazed and numb spoke up "I woke up in the church. I felt this hunger... I knew what I needed. I can feel her. She's here. I can feel my baby" Elijah looks confused, but Klaus realizes what has happened. "You died as you were supposed to like Thomas said. You're in transition" Klaus paused for a moment he was horrified "This means you have to drink the blood of the child if you are to survive."

"I don't care about me. I'm gonna go find our daughter" Scarlett leaves, and Elijah and Klaus rush after her.

Scarlett, Elijah, and Klaus are still searching through the cemetery for the baby. Genevieve is about to sacrifice the baby.

Genevive, Abigail and Monique chanted in unison "Nouvelle vie, nouvelle âme, mélange avec nous"  Just when Scarlett, Elijah and Klaus turn a corner see Genevieve holding a knife above the baby's head. "NOOO!" screamed Scarlett.

Elijah picks up an urn and lobs it at the witches, which slams against Genevieve's hand and knocks the athame onto the ground. The three-run toward them, so Monique and Abigail hold each other's hands and channel the ancestors' power to throw them backwards while Genevieve goes to find the athame. As Abigail chanted "La mère, le père, le frère, la sœur... La mère, le père, le frère, la sœur..." Monique screamed threatening the vampires "You fools! To come against us in our place of power in our strongest hour? You don't face three, you face us all!" As they continue to use magic against them, Elijah and Klaus can see that hundreds and hundreds of dead witches have come together to protect them as they complete their sacrifice.

Scarlett, Klaus, and Elijah are still fighting against the witches' magic. Klaus and Hayley each run in opposite directions, while Elijah continues to rush straight towards them, in hopes of overpowering them. Scarlett finds Genevieve picking up the athame and starts to fist-fight her to keep her from using it against the baby. She once again knocks the knife out of her hand and into the ground.

Klaus gets cornered by the spirits of Papa Tunde's twin sons, who telekinetically throw Klaus into a tomb, shattering it.

Scarlett knocks Genevieve down and runs toward the baby, but Genevieve casts a pain infliction spell on Scarlett, which makes her fall onto her knees. Meanwhile, Monique and Abigail are still using their powers combined powers to channel the full strength of their ancestors.

Elijah fights to get close enough to them to get the baby. Klaus pulls himself out of the tomb and angrily rushes toward the action

Monique and Abigail were still chanting the spell to repel the vampires to get near them "La mère, le père, le frère, la sœur... La mère, le père, le frère, la sœur..."

Klaus sees a wrought iron fence and breaks off one of the spikes. He throws it forcefully toward Abigail, which impales her through the stomach and kills her, breaking the connection that she and Monique had to the ancestors. Monique quickly runs to grab the athame to finish the sacrifice herself. Klaus and Elijah vamp-speed toward her, but she uses her magic to block them using a wall of fire

"Noooo!" Screams of Scarlett filled the air as Genevieve continued the pain infliction spell to prevent her interference. Just as Monique is about to sacrifice the baby, she's hit with the Devil's Star, which embeds itself in her stomach. Her body becomes covered in cuts, and she coughs up blood before falling to the ground. Klaus and Elijah turn around to see that Marcel is the one who saved the baby. Before they can say anything, Marcel vamp-speeds to the baby and then vamp-speeds away with it. Klaus follows after him.

Elijah and Scarlett are shackling Genevieve in one of the tombs to get information from her Scarlett furiously asks, "Why?" Genevieve's voice trembled "The Ancestors left me no choice-"

Appalled by her words Scarlett spoke, "You were willing to sacrifice an innocent baby for more power?"

"No, not just power! It was the Ancestors' decree. It was her decree."

Elijah grabs Genevieve roughly by the face and forces her to look at him in the eyes. "It was whose decree?" she smiles weakly "I'm surprised you have to ask" She laughs darkly "After all, you were the one who convinced your siblings to consecrate her on New Orleans soil."

Elijah lets go of her, visibly disgusted, when he realizes who she's talking about. Scarlett, too, seems to have figured it out as well

"Esther" stunned Scarlett spoke up. "So, not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood" Elijah was disgusted by his mother's acts.
Genevive anxiously said "This isn't the end. As long as that child lives, the witches of New Orleans will never stop coming for it" She starts to cry "Esther will never stop coming for it. It has been decreed-- your baby will be consecrated among her ancestors. She will not live." Scarlett and Elijah just glared at her. Genevieve begins to bleed from her eyes."They're coming for me, I can feel it. I failed them. Understand-- I just wanted to live. I'm sorry" Genevieve starts to choke up blood. Scarlett watched her for a moment before sighing and stabbing her in the stomach with the athame and cutting her abdomen open. Scarlett furiously said, "I'm not."

Scarlett walks out of the tomb, as Elijah follows behind her. Genevieve dies, still restrained by her wrists against the wall.

Klaus and Elijah sit in Scarlett's room, while Scarlett sits with the baby in the rocking chair in the nursery, located right off of her bedroom. "We should have felt our mother's hand in this. We should have known she would not be bound by anything as obvious as death. And now she has control of the witches. They will never stop" Klaus was tensed it was in the environment. "No."

"Nor would I expect the Guerrera wolves to back down. Hayley and my child are wolf royalty, and as such, they are a threat to Francesca's claim to the leadership."

Unbeknownst to the brothers, Scarlett is listening to them talk from the nursery.

"She will never be safe" Klaus pauses for a beat "What was it you said to me earlier? That I have made enemies every day of my miserable life? Well, the worst of them are within these borders, brother."Elijah sighs in frustration, clearly feeling guilty. Klaus sadly said "I have brought into the world a weapon they can use against me.""Then we will arm ourselves! Brother, we have fought every adversary in this town, and we have won. And we'll fight them again, no matter who they are! We will make this home a fortress" Elijah tried to raise hope as he could see Klaus was about to give up. Klaus lowers his voice "I will not have her live her life as a prisoner." 
"Then we leave here, together. All of us" Elijah suggested. "Wherever we go, however far we run, those who seek power and revenge will hunt us! They will hunt her. She has inherited all of our enemies with none of our defences" Elijah felt the defeat "So, whether we stay, or we leave-- we condemn her."

Scarlett suddenly appears in the doorway with the baby in her arms. "There's a third option. I grew up with wars around me" Klaus and Elijah look surprised as they turn to face Scarlett, who looks wrecked.

"My father and brother thought they could protect me. But, in the end, they were slaughtered, and I spent my life alone." She looks down at her daughter and smiles at her while trying to hold back tears. "I made a promise, to my baby, and myself, that she would not grow up like I did. That she would grow up safe and loved. And yet, here she is, on her first day in this world, with a grandmother who is bent on sacrificing her--" She starts to stutter as she cries "-- And a-a mother who has to drink the blood of her baby to survive transitioning into a witch. And I'm the one who loves her the most."

Klaus and Elijah just look at her, saddened and devastated by their current situation.

"I think the only thing to do is... send her away... while we stay behind and clean up the mess that we've made," Scarlett said as Elijah gave reason"No! This is insane. You heard Genevieve-- so long as she lives, that baby will be hunted."

Klaus suddenly stands and joins Scarlett and the baby in the doorway "Not if no one knows she lives."

Elijah was confused "What is it you intend to do, brother?"
"Whatever it takes to save our family."

In the nursery, Scarlett packs up the baby's bag with the letter she wrote to her. Hayley helps her lift the baby out of her cradle and into her arms. Scarlett looks away as Hayley gently sticks the baby's finger with a pin to release a large drop of blood. Reluctantly, Scarlett kisses the blood off of her finger to complete her transition. Her eyes turned golden, golden veins ran through her and sparkle started to cover them. 

A crowd of people gather for a candlelight vigil for the deceased community members. Hayley, Elijah and Scarlett arrive to set a bouquet by Baby Mikaelson's spot on the memorial wall.

Francesca watches as Scarlett approaches the memorial. She breaks down in tears and kisses her fingertips before touching them to the plaque that announces the baby's 'death'. Hayley, who has been standing behind her, holds out a hand to Scarlett, who finally stands up and takes it.

On a country road, Klaus sits on the hood of his SUV, holding his swaddled daughter, as he waits for the person who is taking in the baby for them. A car pulls up to Klaus, and Rebekah gets out. When she sees her brother and her newborn niece, she smiles. Klaus smiles back before greeting her.

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