'𝟐 𝐍𝐨 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫

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A PRISONER started running knowing exactly what was chasing him, "I admit, I do like a good chase. However, I am quite famished so" Kol said then started feeding on the person.

Bunch of corpses lay on the ground. Elijah sits on the ground too and has a corpse of a prison guard on his lap.

"Good lord, that one has some lungs on him. He should've been an opera singer. Might've ended better for him, actually." Rebekah said as she wiped the corner of her mouth.

"Is this absolutely necessary?" Freya asked her siblings.

"That depends. Do you want us at our full strength, or do you plan on rescuing Nik on your own?" Rebekah asked the witch.

"Well, death rattles are distracting, and I'm trying to break a cloaking spell." Freya said over the loud screams.

"Kol, would you please?!" Elijah said to his younger brother.

The screaming stopped.

"Thank you. You were saying?" Elijah asked his sister.

" I can sense. Klaus is still in New Orleans. Most likely somewhere underground. I can't get a read on exactly where, unless I'm in the city itself." Freya explained.

Kol comes back from his feeding as he joins them.

"Yeah. That's gonna be a problem. I have contacts in New Orleans. As you can imagine, the place is crawling with vampires, all of whom hate all of us. Whatever we do, we need to do it fast." Hayley added.

"Well, I wasn't planning on a pub crawl. I don't want to stay any longer than we have to. But we need to go." Freya said after the hybrid.

"Whoa. Wait... Wait, we're not doing this today?" Kol asked.

"Hasn't Nik suffered enough?" Rebekah said to the vampire.

"Yes, but I don't feel like dying at the moment after having two near death experiences. I'm not about to give Marcel another shot. Now, I say, we draw that Muppet out of town. And when he's gone..." Kol started but Hayley cut him off.

"I have been away from my daughter long enough. If you're afraid-" Hayley said.

"It's called being sensible. Until Freya can make enough cure with her werewolf hostage, Marcel can basically chew through our bloody throats." Kol argued.

"What happened to not wanting to live anymore?" Hayley shot back.

"Watch your next words carefully." Kol threatened the hybrid.

"Enough. We're all in danger." Elijah said as he stood up.

"We free Niklaus today. Even if I have to burn that city to the ground."

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Hayley, Freya and Kol enter the old dusty bell tower of St. Louis Cathedral.

"All clear, Freya." Hayley said.

"This is where you absolutely had to do a locator spell?" Kol asked his sister.

"Ah, well, when I first moved to New Orleans, I primed this space. Marked it with my magic, made it mine." Freya explained.

"This dusty bell tower may be your own, but this is Marcel's city, and we're nothing but targets." Kol said.

"All the more reason to let her get to work. The sooner we find Klaus, the sooner we get out of here." Hayley replied to the vampire.

"It won't take long." Freya said as she cuts her finger to use her blood for the locator spell.

..,..

Josh closed of Rousseau's. "Oh, thank you. Great. Please don't steal glasses. Everyone's out. Place is yours."

"See? Wasn't that easier than us having to try to kill everyone?" Kol grinned.

"Yeah. So, what now?" Josh asked.

"Would you be so kind as to move that freezer unit, so that we might be able to access the tunnels?" Elijah said to the vampire.

"Time's ticking, Josh. Go on." Hayley said.

"Are you absolutely certain we're looking in the right place?" Kol asked.

"We know this tunnel runs the length of the city. Marcel must've carved out a section to serve as his personal dungeon." Freya answered.

"Ingenious and sadistic. Well done, Marcel." Elijah sighed.

"Save the compliments for when he comes to kill us. Your flattery might give him pause." Kol said to the older Mikaelson.

"Okay, you're all set here. So, uh, good luck, break a leg, and I'll just be on my way." Josh said nervously.

"What, so you can rat us out to Marcel? Not bloody likely." Kol told him.

"Oh, just snap his neck. We'll be done by the time he wakes." Freya said.

"And if he wakes before that?" Elijah asked.

"Then kill him." Kol stated.

"You know, you were nicer with your girlfriend around." Josh blurted without thinking, immediately regretting it.

"Well she's not here now is she." Kol snapped stepping closer towards the vampire making him coward back.

Elijah stepped in front of Kol stopping him. "We're not killing him." Hayley said looking at Kol.

"You're probably right. For some reason, he's of value to Marcel. Kol, would you?" Elijah said to his brother.

Kol grinned, "Happy to stay and have a drink and eviscerate anyone who tries to follow you."

"Good, then let's go. We're wasting time." Freya said.

"Splendid."

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Kol took out a picture of Wanda he kept with himself.

"Well here's to nobody dying today." Josh said.

Josh raises a glass and gives it to Kol. He pours on for himself and drinks, along with Kol.

"Or was I premature? Tell me, what happens when Klaus gets out? What are you guys gonna do? Massacre this whole city?" Josh asked the Original.

"We just want to get our brother and leave. I, for one, hope I never see this filthy city again." Kol answered.

"I was with someone. This guy, Aiden. He died. Killed by your aunt, actually. And afterwards, I hated everything. And I mean everything. Even the sun. You know? It just kept coming up every morning, like it was any other day and the world hadn't completely changed. It's taken forever for me to feel normal again." Josh told Kol.

"How fortunate for you that you do." Kol replied, uninterested.

"You will, too. It does get better, Kol. Eventually." Josh said.

"Why are you telling me this?" Kol asked the vampire.

"Well, Wanda was a nice person and I'm pretty sure everyone noticed how she brought the better side of you out. I can imagine how it felt loosing her."

"I'd rather not think on it."

Josh's phone buzzes. Marcel sent him a text.

"Well, since we're such good friends now, perhaps you could explain what 'Teutoburg' means." Kol said.

"Of course you are, especially when you're receiving coded messages from the man that's holding my brother captive. Now listen very carefully. If something has happened to my sister, or if something is about to happen to another member of my family, this city and everyone in it will burn, you, your boyfriend, your friends, this bar, your home! Shall I continue? Now, tell me what 'Teutoburg' means." Kol threatened the young vampire.

"It's a battle where the bad guys caught the good guys off guard. Marcel is warning me that you're all here so that I can spread word to the rest of our guys." Josh answered.

"So you can keep us busy and Marcel can kill us."

Kol snapped Josh's neck. "You're lucky Wanda liked you."

..,..

Kol arrived at the Lafayette cemetery. "Yes, we could. But if Marcel wants her safe, then I'm gonna keep her safe." Sofya said to a vampire.

Kol rips out the vampire's heart from his back.

"Well, he won't be taking anyone, as he is rather indisposed. But to be fair, you won't be keeping anyone either."

Sofya runs away. Kol walks over to his sister and removes the arrows from Rebekah's back.

"Welcome back, sister."

As Rebekah wakes, more vampires show up and the Original engages in a fight. Kol begins to lose control.

"Kol! I think you got him." Rebekah told her brother.

"Can we leave this awful city now?" Kol asked as he finished off the last vampire.

"Where's Elijah?"

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Kol and Rebekah waited for their family to return by the drainage pipes. "Elijah, this is me not worrying that you were supposed to be here 20 minutes ago. Please call me back." Rebekah said into her phone.

"It's been too long. We should go." Kol stated.

"We're not leaving our family." Rebekah replied.

"Marcel could be shredding our family to pieces as we speak." Kol said.

"Well, perhaps they simply don't have cell phone service in a drainage pipe. They'll be here, Kol. And while we have a moment, I wanted to say thank you."

"For what?"

"For coming to get me. So I could be sitting here, annoyed at you."

Klaus, Elijah, Freya and Hayley exit the drainage pipe and the family embraces Klaus as they reunite.

"Nik!" Rebekah shouted.

"Hey, you can hug him later. We need to leave." Freya said.

"Marcel's right behind us. Go. Go!" Hayley said quickly.

As they attempt to flee, Marcel blocks their path to their car.

"Actually, I'm right here."

"You shouldn't have come back none of you." Marcel told them.

"That's what family does. We fight for each other." Hayley stated.

"Yeah, so I've heard. Though it didn't really work out for me, did it?"

"Oh, for God's sake, you were never a Mikaelson, get over it. Don't you have a city to run? Vampires to boot out of town?" Kol said to the vampire.

Marcel steps forward though Rebekah blocks his path to Kol.

"If you want to kill one of us, you'll have to kill us all." she said.

"Hey, don't push me, Rebekah."

"Then get on with it. Let's end this once and for all." the blonde told her old lover.

"That's enough. That's enough, Marcel, you've won. New Orleans was our city once. Now it's yours. For good." Klaus admitted.

"Is the great Klaus Mikaelson accepting defeat? Or is this all just another distraction?" Marcel asked.

"Neither. In fact, despite your appalling behavior, I'm offering you a chance at peace. Attempt to kill us all, and you will be making a mistake. Any who survived would no doubt return to seek revenge, bringing our enemies back to your city in our wake. And even if you did manage to eliminate us all, one day my daughter would come for you. And her daughter after that. On and on for all your days An endless cycle of violence you will bring upon yourself. Or... Or we leave and we never come back." the hybrid explained.

"After all that time buried in a hole, you still got some nerve. Yeah, well, you stand there with a straight face and try to sell this like it's your choice. But here's the truth. I could kill all of you right now. And tonight I would sleep like a baby. Hell, that's what you would do. You've destroyed more people, taken more lives, ended more families than anyone who's ever lived. All because you can. But here's the other truth. Despite being raised by you people I am nothing like any of you. In fact, I'm proud as hell I'm not a Mikaelson."

I beat you all without turning into you. And now you can live the rest of your lives knowing that the only reason that you exist is because I am showing you mercy. Now go. And don't ever come back."

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