MOONS.
031. | ❛ you need to focus. ❜

Luna is kneeling on the floor in front of Elijah and Klaus, who are on their hands and knees and gasping as they try to staunch the blood flow from their slit throats. Behind them is Tristan and Aurora, who are watching silently.

"I need you to focus. Show me what represents you so I can break you out." Freya says trying to help her brothers.

Aurora starts to walk toward Freya to stop her as Klaus manages to growl under his breath

"The kings..."

"The knights..."

Freya stands to her feet and rushes over to the chessboard, and Tristan smirks smugly, indicating that their guesses about their representations are wrong.

Freya has just made it to the chessboard, where she picks up two pieces-- a black king and a white knight-- before desperately turning back to her brothers.

"Which is it? The kings or the knights? We need to decide now."

Aurora is giggling in amusement as she watches Freya try to figure out which chess pieces to destroy.

"How perfect! Even in this crucial hour, your ignorance blinds you."

Aurora kneels in front of the brothers and stares an angry Klaus in the eyes

"Even if you never learn from your sins, at least you will die because of them... and I get to watch."

Suddenly, Klaus gets an idea and weakly calls out to Freya,"Take the queens. The women we betrayed represent us."

Freya spins and grabs one of the queens from the chessboard,"Aurora... Aya."

Freya clutches the black queen tightly and begins to destroy them with her magic.

Suddenly, Elijah and Luna awaken in the pool though the Sisters don't seem to notice immediately.

Before they can continue, Elijah vamp-speeds to his feet in the pool and grabs Cynthia by the front of her cloak, pulling her into the water and both drowning her and feeding on her at the same time.

Marcel and Hayley have just finished recovering from being thrown into the wall, and while Davina and the remaining Sisters are trying their best to complete the spell, it's obvious that they're terrified and unsure of what to do. Once Cynthia is dead, Elijah leaps out of the water and snaps the neck of one of the other Sisters while Hayley does the same to another. Marcel leaps to his feet and pleads with Davina. Luna grabs one of the Sisters and snaps her neck while drinking from her and dropping her body in the pool.

"Davina, stop!" Davina stands to her feet and rushes away, though she still continues chanting the spell.

Davina has just thrust her hand toward Klaus as she continues the sireline unlinking spell

Suddenly, Klaus awakens in the pool in the while Davina continues the spell.

Klaus leaps out of the water at vampire speed, but the force of Davina's spell causes him to remain frozen in the air as she growls at him.

"You've had your time!"

The lights explode into a shower of sparks, and she pushes her arms down, causing Klaus to land with a large splash into the pool.

Davina continues the spell as Klaus screams in pain in the water of the pool.

As she chants, both Marcel and Luna's skin starts to turn red as well as Davina slowly breaks the sireline link. It travels up to their neck as they all scream in agony until finally, Davina waves her arms in two concentric circles, which causes the water in the pool to shoot up in what looks like a half-dozen geysers. The force of completing the spell causes her to pass out and collapse onto the floor, and Klaus falls unconscious in the water once again.

Luna, Elijah and Marcel, both weakened by the ordeal they've each been through, struggle to rise to their feet. Luna jumps into the pool to gently pick up Klaus, whose body looks desiccated. However, it quickly begins to fade as the wound on his throat heals, and he weakly opens his eyes.

"I felt them leave. My sireline is broken."
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Aurora awakens with a gasp in the corner of one of the larger tombs in Lafayette Cemetery, where she finds herself behind a half-constructed brick wall in the doorway. Klaus and Luna are standing outside of the wall, giving her a cold but slightly satisfied expression.

"Welcome back to the real world, love. I thought we might revisit our chat about what hurts and what does not."

Aurora, furious, rushes toward him, but she's stopped by an invisible barrier. She glares at Klaus and tries to push through it again, but she's once again stopped, which only amuses Klaus more.

"Courtesy of my dear sister."

"Ohh... What are you doing?"

"You made me realize today what a monster I've been..." Klaus takes a brick and sets it on the half-built brick wall with one hand while the other one holds a paving tool to flatten the grout.

"And I am sorry that I didn't do this sooner."

Klaus continues to add more bricks to the wall in between them, and Aurora starts to panic.

"You can't just leave me here!"

"Yes, we can." Luna snarls coldly.

"Wouldn't Klaus like to know what you've kept from him?"

"Rest assured, nobody believes you so whatever you say wouldn't hold any truth anyway."

Klaus' face becomes cold as he glares at her and continues adding bricks,"I had the right idea when I bricked up your portrait. Behind walls is where you belong."

Aurora is now near-hysterical when she realizes that he's going to leave her trapped forever and begins to plead with him,

"Then just kill me! Please, Nik! Just kill me!"

"Oh, I think not. Not with the only one who loves you rotting at the bottom of the ocean. I wouldn't grant you the mercy." Klaus leans forward until he and Aurora are nearly nose-to-nose and sneers at her.

"So, while the fish eat him..."

"No..."

"And the worms eat you... Just know that it was I who took everything from you."
Aurora starts to sob in defeat as Klaus turns and walks away, taking Luna's hand.

Klaus and Luna have just walked out of the tomb where he locked up Aurora to find Stefan outside waiting for them. Luna lets them have their talk while she takes out her little wooden piece. She holds it close to her heart as Klaus turns around to walk toward Luna, but he gets woozy for a second and has to lean against the wall of a nearby tomb to avoid collapsing onto the ground. Klaus looks at Luna with a worried expression

"What's wrong with me?"

"I don't know, but I know what could make it better." Luna looks at him before leading him out of the cemetery.

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At the bayou, Luna stops abruptly in the middle of the woods as Klaus looks at her in wonderment.

"Love, what's wrong?" Klaus asked causing Luna to turn around with a big smile.

"Nothing's wrong," Luna twirls around in the leaves,"This is the first place you kissed me, this is where we met. It's where I craved our names into a tree." Luna traces over the letters before standing in front of Klaus once again.

"With all the dangers we have faced, I thought you deserved some happiness." Luna said placing the wooden piece of the wolf and cub in his hand.

"It's a wolf and a cub, what are you-"

"I think you need to focus." Luna said

Klaus focused on her heartbeat and could hear the steady and delicate heartbeat of his beloved. Her heart suddenly turned to a fast a quickened one, assuming that she was very anxious. It was rather quickly that Klaus heard the heartbeats as two different ones rather than one whole.

Klaus turns to Luna's belly from whose abdomen he can hear a rapid heartbeat. Klaus listens in wonderment for a few long moments, meets Luna's eyes.

"Is this another loophole?" He had a firm placed on her belly who was in awe.

Luna nods her head as she is in tears on happiness, cupping his cheeks, as Klaus pulls her into a tight embrace.

Klaus placed a kiss on the side of her head, smiling while Luna whispered in his ear,"It's our little wolf. Our moon."