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    Meanwhile, inside the Davilla Estate, once seeing that Aya and the rest of the Strix were distracted by Rayna Cruz, who had just arrived, Ophelia and Hayley hesitantly walked into the pool room, where Davina, Cynthia, and the other Sisters' were still performing the spell.

The two females were horrified when they saw Klaus and Elijah floating in the pool filled with their own blood, but the witches all had their eyes closed and didn't immediately notice them.

  When one of the Strix vampires saw her,  Ophelia sped toward him and ripped their heart out without hesitation.

Unfortunately, his grunts of pain and the sound of him falling to the floor caught the other's attention. Marcel, looking panicked, vamp-sped over and snapped the neck of another Strix guard while Ophelia used her magic on the other.  

  Davina looked at him with a look that said she was feeling extremely betrayed, "Marcel!"

  Marcel turned to look at her and gave her an apologetic look, "I'm sorry, D." He paused, turning to point to Hayley and Ophelia, "We need to get them out of that water now."

  Hayley nodded in agreement, but Davina looked furious as she thrust her hand toward them, just as the Sisters all did the same, "No!" She screamed out.

Seconds later, Ophelia, Marcel, and Hayley were thrown backward toward the far wall, incapacitating the three of them long enough to return to the spell.

    As Elijah woke up and attacked Cynthia, one of the witches, Marcel, Ophelia, and Hayley were finished recovering from being thrown into the wall, and while Davina and the remaining Sisters were trying their best to complete the spell, it was obvious that they were terrified and unsure of what to do.

Once Cynthia was dead, Elijah leaped out of the water and snapped the neck of one of the other Sisters while Hayley did the same to another.

  Ophelia leaped to her feet and pleaded with Davina, "Davina, please stop! I beg of you!" She begged her adoptive daughter as the young witch stood to her feet and rushed away, though she still continued chanting the spell.

Davina thrust her hand toward Klaus as she continued the sire line unlinking spell, "Nemo unus animabus carnem!"

  Ophelia's eyes widened as Klaus awoke in the pool while Davina continued the spell, "Nemo unus animabus carnem!"

Noticing how Klaus looked like he was about to attack Davina, Ophelia rushed forward, "Klaus, no!" She jumped forward and into the air to stop the man, who also leaped out of the water at vampire speed at the same time.

The force of Davina's spell caused Klaus to remain frozen in the air while Davina also used her magic to force Ophelia to be frozen as well, "I'm sorry, Ophelia, but I can't let you save him," Davina told Ophelia before turning to Klaus with a look filled with hatred, "You've had your time!"

  The lights exploded into a shower of sparks, and Davina pushed her arms down, causing Klaus to land with a large splash into the pool while Ophelia remained in the air, unable to stop Davina.

Davina continued the spell as Klaus screamed in pain in the water of the pool, "Nemo unus animabus carnem! Nemo unus animabus carnem!"

Ophelia turned her head, her eyes widening in alarm as she watched as Marcel's skin turned red whilst he screamed out in pain, "The sire link's breaking," She quietly gasped in shcok.

  Finally, Davina waved her arms in two concentric circles, which caused the water in the pool to shoot up in what looked like a half-dozen geysers. The force of completing the spell caused the young witch to pass out and collapse onto the floor while Klaus fell unconscious in the water once again.

As Davina fell to the floor unconscious, Ophelia was able to fall back to the ground, only this time into the poor.

Elijah and Marcel, who were both weakened by the ordeal they had each been through, struggled to rise to their feet while Ophelia did it at ease.

Ophelia glanced between Davina and Klaus, unable to chose who to run to. Tears filling her eyes at the thought of Davina's betrayal, Ophelia turned her back on Davina and rushed to Klaus, gently picking him up at ease because of the water weight.

A horrified look grew on her face at the sight of his desiccated body. Ophelia bit into her wrist as Elijah joined her into the water. She placed her wrist against his lips, allowing the blood to drip onto his parted lips. Even if it was tribrid blood, it would still work in reviving him.

As she fed him her blood, the desiccation began to fade and the wound on his throat soon healed, leading to Klaus weakly opening his eyes, "I felt them leave," He revealed to Ophelia and his brother weakly, "My sireline is broken."

Ophelia turned to Elijah with a deeply worried look, the Orignal vampire sharing the same exact emotion since they both knew what would come next.

  Even while knowing what would happen soon enough, Ophelia found herself sighing in relief since Klaus was still, in fact, alive. She helped him to his feet before hugging him tightly, Klaus immediately hugging him back.

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Feeling the need to bring Davina back home despite everything she had done, Ophelia entered the pool room, only to hear Aya and Elijah's conversation and also the fact regarding Elijah's inability to kill the woman, despite everything she had done.

  Before either of them could react further, Aya gasped as a hand plunged into her hand from behind. Elijah gasped in shock when he saw Ophelia's emotionless face hovering over Aya's shoulder from behind her, and Aya looked just as surprised as the heart was ripped from her chest.

As she desiccated, Aya gasped before dropping to the floor, dead, "Well, that's enough of her, isn't it?" She commented, causing Elijah's eyes to widen even more.

Once seeing that Elijah wasn't mad at her for killing Aya, Ophelia smiled slightly before turning away from him and walking over to Davina.

She picked the girl up off the floor before heading to the door, holding the young witch in her arms.

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  The following morning, Davina woke up on the couch of Ophelia's trashed apartment. She looked furious as she immediately sat up and looked around, "Where's my stuff?" She asked, her eyes widening in concern.

"Your bag's over there," Ophelia informed her, pointing toward her bag, "I figured after what you did, I'd better get you out before the Mikaelsons came back to hurt you as soon as possible."

Davina gave Ophelia an angry look, "You mean like you hurt me?" She asked, causing Ophelia to give her a guilty look.

Ophelia sighed as Davina grabbed her bag before walking toward the door, "I trusted you, Ophelia!" She shouted at her adoptive mother, "You always said that you respected my decisions and that you would always be there for me, but now that I think about it, if my decision was to work against a Mikaelson, you would chose them over me in heartbeat."

  Davina turned to leave, but Marcel chased after her to stop her, "Wait, D! Listen." Ophelia pleaded, but Davina ignored her, causing Ophelia to vamp speed in front of her and block her way out, "Listen to me, alright? I am always on your side, all right? No matter what, I will always have your back. But sometimes the things that you want...they aren't worth the price you have to pay to get them. Do you really think making an enemy of the Mikaelsons was a great idea? They will try to kill you for what you did and not even someone like me will be able to stop them."

Davina, who was not at all convinced by Ophelia's argument, simply glared at him, "Yeah?" She questioned Ophelia mockingly, "Keep telling yourself that. Enjoy your freedom."

Ophelia sighed in defeat as Davina fled the house, causing the woman growl angrily as she flipped the table near her out of rage.

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      At the Lafayette Cemetery, Klaus walked out of the tomb where he locked up Aurora to find Stefan outside waiting for him, "So... the spell worked," Stefan said as he stood up from sitting down on a cement bench in front of a tomb, "We survived. I saved you, and you saved me. Funny how that works, isn't it?"

Klaus smirked, humming in response, "Mmm."

"I'd be happy to let this be the end. Am I too optimistic in thinking we'll never see each other again?" Stefan asked Klaus curiously.

Klaus shrugged his shoulders, "Well, that depends." He paused, "Are you going to do the right thing?"

Stefan gave Klaus a knowing look, "By whom?" He questioned curiously, "I assume you don't mean my brother."

Klaus gave him a pointed look, which Stefan understood perfectly, "By her."

Stefan sighed, "I love her," He confessed, "And I promise I will only do right by her."

Klaus looked at him appreciatively, "Thank you."

"You know, um..." Stefan trailed off, "There's someone else you should be thanking."

Klaus frowned in confusion, "Marcel had to fight for me for his own survival and Hayley did it for the sake of Hope—"

Before Klaus could finish, Stefan cut him off, "I'm talking about Ophelia," He paused, causing Klaus' mouth to gape open in shock as he walked closer to him, "For some reason, she cares about you a lot. She cares so much about you that she risked her own life and ruined her relationship with whoever that teen witch girl was that she's so protective over. It's clear that she's in love with you. And you're in love with her, too," He explained, immediately noticed the look on Klaus' face, "Take your own advice. Do right by her. Or you'll lose her forever."

Klaus seemed stunned and taken aback by the statement about Ophelia, and he exhales a shaky breath, causing Stefan to frown in concern, "You okay?"

"Never better." Klaus smiled weakly as he and Stefan shook hands goodbye, "And you...take care of yourself, old friend."

Stefan smiled back at him and picked up his bag off of the ground before he turned and left the cemetery.

  Klaus turned around to walk toward Freya, who had just appeared, alongside Ophelia, who heard the entire conversation between Klaus and Stefan, but decided to act like she didn't.

  Suddenly, Klaus got woozy for a second and was forced to lean against the wall of a nearby tomb to avoid collapsing onto the ground.

Klaus turned to look at Ophelia and Freya with a worried expression, "What's wrong with me?" He asked the duo.

Freya smiled affectionately, "You hemorrhaged an enormous amount of mystical energy. Enough to create a nexus vorti. It's nothing a good night's rest won't cure." She explained to him in a calm tone.

"Where did the energy go?" Klaus asked concerned.

Before anyone could react, Ophelia let out a large gasp, causing Klaus and Freya to turn to her as her eyes turned completely white, clearly getting a vision.

She watched as Davina returned to her former attic room, where she closed the door behind her and looked around at the set-up magic circle she had created earlier in the day that was made of salt, with various runes and magical sigils created within it.

  She grabbed a silver urn of ashes from the nearby table and brought it to the middle of the circle, where she placed it on the floor in front of her while she knelt and dug the glass bottle embellished with gold out of her purse.

  Davina opened the bottle and began to pour the blood inside the ashes in the urn, "The blood of two brothers, the ash of their dead. The blood of two brothers, the ash of their dead." She spoke up loudly as stretched out her arms in front of her and closed her eyes as she started to cast the resurrection spell, channeling the nexus vorti Klaus created to fuel her magic.

"Le sang des deux frères, les cendres de leurs morts. Le sang des deux frères, les cendres de leurs morts." She chanted loudly.

   A strong gust of wind blew through the attic as she continued chanting the spell, until finally, an ash-covered Kol Mikaelson, in his original body, suddenly appeared, naked and kneeling on one knee in front of her.

  When Davina finally opened her eyes, she couldn't believe what she was seeing, and Kol himself was shocked that he was finally back in the world of the living.

   Davina gaped in shock at him, and Kol smiled widely as he laughed in relief, "I never doubted you for a second, Davina Claire."

  Davina stared at him for a long moment before her face broke out into a large smile.

Ophelia, who was still standing in the cemetery, loudly gasped as she came back to reality, her eyes going back to normal.

She stumbled and nearly fell before Freya and Klaus caught her, "What happened?" Freya asked in concern, "What did you see?"

"Someone's coming," Ophelia lied, not wanting to tell the truth, "But I don't know who."

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