Chapter 8: Who Are You?

3x12

(End of 3x11-3x12) Klaus's Mansion

Daniel shoves the coffins in a big room. Klaus is standing beside him. "You've got your family back. Finally. You're gonna open them?" Daniel asks.

"Not quite yet. I still have some unfinished business to take care of." Klaus answers.

"What business?" Suddenly, Daniel is squirming and falls to the floor, dead. Elijah is standing behind him with his heart in his hand. Klaus looks shocked.

"So, Niklaus..." "Elijah!"

"What did I miss?" Elijah asks.

Ophira heard a bang down stairs she walked into the room and spotted Klaus and Elijah. 

"Ummm... Hi who are you?" Ophira asks. Ophira had heard and seen pictures of Elijah but she had never met him. 

"I'm Elijah."

"Oh ok I'm Ophira Hightower," she answered as she looked down at the floor were there was a dead body laying on the floor. "You killed Daniel, thats too bad I liked Daniel."

"Ophira why don't you go up stairs, I need to my brother." Klaus said. She went back up to bed. 

Later... that night

Ophira's Outifit

Ophira opens the door. Stefan and Damon are standing outside. "Klaus, Elijah, the vampire who tried to kill me and his brother are here."

They walk into the dining room. "Damon. Stefan. Elijah tells me, you seek an audience. Very bold. Let's discuss the terms of our agreement like civilized men, shall we?" They are standing in the dining room. The table is set and there's food on it. Two female servants are standing in the room.

"It's better to indulge him." Elijah said, Ophira sits next to Klaus. 

"I didn't come here to eat, Klaus. Fact, I didn't want to come here at all. But I was told I had to cause you would hear us out."

"Well, we can sit and eat or," he started to whisper so Ophira didn't hear too much.

 "I can reach down your throats and pull out your insides. The choice is yours."

They sit at the table and everyone except Stefan eats and drinks. One of the servants pours Damon some wine. "Thank you, love."

"You lost your appetite."

"Eat. I thought we agreed that we would leave the grumpy Stefan at home."

"That's the spirit. Isn't it nice? Five of us dining together? Such a treat. Is this what you had in mind when you pulled the dagger from my brother?"

"Well, I know how he felt about you, so I figured the more, the merrier." He playfully winks at Elijah.

"Well, Elijah and I have had our share of quarrels over the century. But we always make it through."

"Kind of like you and Rebekah, right? Where is she, by the way? Last I checked she was still daggered because you were afraid to face her."

"If you're referring to the fact that Rebekah knows I killed our mother, I've already come clean to Elijah."

"Hey, Stef, remember when you killed dad? Might want to dial down the judgment until dessert."

"We're here to make a deal, Damon. Doesn't mean we need to kiss his a-" he looks over at Ophira a decides to say, "butt for seven courses."

"I'm just saying we have a long evening ahead of us. Pace yourself."

"Stefan. Where is the lovely Elena tonight?"

"I don't know. Ask Damon."

Klaus and Ophira laughs.

"I'm sorry, you've missed so much." 

 "trouble in paradise." Ophira continues. 

"One more word about Elena and this dinner's over." Klaus smiles and puts a finger to his lips playfully looking at Ophira as a promise to keep quiet about Elena.

"You know what, probably best just to keep Elena in the do-not-discuss pile."

"You're probably right."

"Yeah."

"It's just the allure of the Petrova doppelgänger, still so strong. What do you say, brother? Should we tell them about Tatia?"

"Now why should we discuss matters long since resolved?"

"Well, given their shared affection for both Elena and Katerina, I think our guests might be curious to learn about the originator of the Petrova line."

"Well, we're not going anywhere Elijah. Please, do tell." Damon takes a sip of wine.

"When our family first settled here, there was a girl named Tatia. She was an exquisite beauty. Every boy of age desired to be her suitor, even though she'd had a child by another man. And none loved her more than Niklaus."

"I'd say there was one who loved her at least as much."

"Wait a minute. So you both loved the same girl?"

"Our mother was a very powerful witch. She sought to end our feud over Tatia and so she took her. Klaus and I would later learn that it was Tatia's blood that we consumed in the wine on the night where our mother performed the spell which turned us into vampires. Tatia wouldn't make a decision between the two of us, so for a time Niklaus and I...grew estranged. Harsh words were traded, we even came to blows, didn't we, brother?"

"But in the end we realized the sacred bond of family."

"Family above all." Ophira mutters. Elijah and Klaus raise their glasses.

"Family above all." They clink their glasses together.

Damon receives a text from Bonnie reading, 'Getting closer. Need more time.'

"So, why don't we move this evening along and discuss the terms of this proposal?"

"That's very simple. Klaus gets his coffin back, in exchange, he and the Original extended family leave Mystic Falls forever. Me, Stefan, and Elena live happily ever after. No grudges."

"The deal sounds fair, brother."

"I don't think you understand. Elena's doppelgänger blood insures that I will always have more hybrids to fight those that oppose me. I will never leave her behind." Klaus gets up and starts to pace.

"Let's say I do leave her here, under your protection, what then? How long before one of you turns her into a vampire? Or worse, how long before she dies caught between your feuding? You see, each one of you truly believes that you're the one that can protect her, and that is simply a delusion. Gentlemen, the worst thing for Elena Gilbert is...the two of you." Damon gives a weak smile, then looks at Stefan.

"I'm gonna get some air." Damon gets up. 

"Let me deal with this." Elijah gets up and follows Damon, leaving Klaus and Stefan alone.

"Sweetheart why don't you go up stairs," Klaus says to Ophira.

"But this was just getting interesting." She responds.

"Ophira,"

"Fine," she says annoyed walking up stairs. "All this talk has made me thirsty.

He pushes Stefan. Stefan pushes back. Suddenly, Elijah and Damon re-enter the room next to the other female servant who is carrying a tray.

"Elijah...why haven't you left?"

"Where are you manners, brother? We forgot dessert." Elijah takes the cover off the tray the blonde woman is carrying. Two silver daggers lie on it.

"What have you done?""

What have you done? You see, I've learned not to trust your vulgar promises, Klaus. We're doing this on my terms now." Kol enters the room."Kol."

"Long time, brother." Klaus starts to back away. Finn suddenly appears, and he grabs a dagger and stabs Klaus through the hand."Finn, don't!" He rushes away, but runs into Rebekah."Rebekah!" She stabs him with a dagger.

"This is for our mother."

She pulls the dagger out and Klaus falls back into Kol's arms. Kol restrains him. Elijah looks at Damon and Stefan.

"You're free to go. This is family business."

"I like what you've done with the new place, Nik." She throws a vase into a painting.

"I wanted it to be for all of us. A place we could all call home. A place we could all be a family. None of us would ever have to be alone again."

"Well you're right, none of us will be."

"You're staying behind."

"We are taking Ophira and we're leaving you, Nik. Right after I kill that doppelgänger wench, then you will be alone. Always and forever."

"If you run, I will hunt all of you down."

"Then you'll become everything you hate. Our father."

"I'm the hybrid! I can't be killed! I have nothing to fear from any of you."

"You will when we have that coffin."

They all hear a door open. They turn around. Esther walks in. Klaus gasps in shock. "Mother?" Esther walks towards Klaus. Klaus avoids looking at her.

"Look at me! Do you know why I'm here?" Klaus has tears in his eyes.

"You're here to kill me."

"Niklaus, you are my son and I am here to forgive you. I want us to be a family again."

"What is with all the racket," Ophira says walking into the room. When she sees them all she opens her eyes in surprise. 

"Ophira!" Rebekah exclaims. She sees Rebekah and runs to her they embrace.

"Nik who is the child?" Kol asks Klaus. 

"Gisela's descendant, the last Hightower witch." Klaus answered. 

Kol bends down to Ophira extends his hand and says, "I'm Kol.""I'm Ophira." She looks around, "If your Kol you must be Finn," then she turned to see Esther. "So your not so dead... Auntie Esther."