Unaware of what was going on in Klaus' house, Bella was now facing Dahlia who was overly confident and didn't know how powerful Bella really was.

"Why would you even protect that child? I'm just taking what was promised to me so long ago." Dahlia argued, trying to get Bella on her side.

"You should have known better than to ask for a human being as a price. The spirits don't like it much and even if you don't listen to them anymore, they're angry with you." Bella snapped back.

"Let me guess, you're one of those boring immortals who go around saving children all over the world, aren't you?" Dahlia rolled her eyes.

"No, I just have a particular interest in this child and refuse to let you take and use her." Bella replied.

"Why?"

"None of your business. All you need to know is that you're all alone now, Freya won't be coming to help you." Bella replied.

"You seem to know a lot about me, but maybe you don't know that I don't need her present to use her powers. I can channel her from anywhere and kill you just as easily as I'd kill a defenseless dog. Oh, and you seem to be wrong because I can feel her not far from here. She's in this town, faithfully waiting for me." Dahlia smirked.

"You don't realize how powerful I am, do you? You need to take Hope's powers to become a true immortal who doesn't have to sleep a century in order to live a year. I've done that for 6600 years, accumulated knowledge and powers so that today, I am a true immortal and the only way for me to die is by my own hand or the one of my soul mate. I can channel powers you don't even know exist, I've seen things you couldn't ever guess..." Bella started to explain.

"It doesn't matter, I can't be killed now." Dahlia interrupted Bella, shaking her head and trying to hide her fear being false confidence.

"Everyone can be killed, it's the balance nature impose on us all and I just so happen to have gathered the last ingredient this morning." Bella replied, brandishing the sword she had created, knowing that in case she lost the sword, she could have the arrows or knives hidden all over the room fly to Dahlia and kill her from all sides.

Quick and efficient.

"A sword, really? This is disappointing." Dahlia chuckled, sending it flying away.

Bella had been expecting this move and as soon as the sword was out of her hands, she had all of the arrows and knives surrounding Dahlia on all sides and levels of her body. Of course Dahlia tried to use her powers to fight them off but it didn't work, Bella was stronger and she could now feel the extend of the younger woman's humongous powers.

Bella would have liked to play a little with Dahlia, make her think she had a chance before ripping it all away but she didn't want to wait anymore, she just wanted to be done with it. She couldn't wait to be done with Dahlia and to be able to see her love and finally be with him, the quicker this was over, the sooner she'd be able to rest, finally.

"Any last word?" Bella asked her, not seeing Henrik, Ansel, Klaus and Freya coming inside since they were being cloaked by Henrik.

All Klaus could think after seeing Bella for the first time, from her side, was that she was truly magnificent.

"You think this will kill me? After everything I've sacrificed to get where I am? I will find a way to come back!" Dahlia snapped angrily, feeling what spell had been placed on the weapons.

"You haven't sacrificed anything until you've been forced to stay away from the man you loved and as far as I can tell, you don't love much." Bella replied while releasing the weapons one by one.

"I did once!" Dahlia screamed.

"Not enough apparently."

"It's all Esther's fault! She's the one who broke our promise to each other, she's the one who've sided with our enemies, the ones who slaughtered our village." Dahlia yelled, infuriated by the fact that she seemed to be powerless against Bella.

"You can't blame everything you've done on Esther. She has her fault and has paid for them. It's time you paid for yours." Bella shook her head.

"You're actually enjoying this, aren't you?" Dahlia asked her, her pain obvious in her voice.

"Actually, after all the time I've spent plotting for this day, I am but you still have one chance of survival. Answer this question and you might survive." Bella started to say, stopping the weapons that weren't all the way inside the witch.

"What is it?"

"What do you feel for Freya?" Bella asked Dahlia.

"Absolutely nothing." Dahlia smirked, not telling a lie.

"Then you'll enjoy your punishment. Esther is locked in a prison world I created just for her, one where magic is nonexistent and where she's completely alone. Mickeal will join her there in a few centuries, after he's done suffering in the hell I sent him in for his crimes against Niklaus. You... Well, you'll join your sister in this magic less world. The best part is: you can feel pain but you can never die and you'll never be able to escape for magic is needed to escape and there is none in this world. I understand your anger toward Esther, she did marry one of the man who massacred your village but she showed kindness, she forgave her enemies. You made her the monster she became and you'll pay for it back there." Bella smirked while Dahlia's eyes widened in horror.

"No..." The old witch whispered.

"What's going on? Aren't you happy to be able to live forever with your baby sister? I personally can't wait for Mickeal to join the two of you, now that will be something fun to watch." Bella smirked (with a smirk that could rival one of Klaus' best) before she started doing the spell, finally feeling a presence behind her.

While the weapons finished killing Dahlia's body by entering it very slowly and painfully, Bella spoke out:

"I thought I asked you to go to Klaus and stay there Henrik, not to bring him here with you." Bella complained in an annoyed voice.

"Yeah, well, Freya said too much, I got mad at her and revealed even more than she had." Henrik replied in an apologetic tone.

"I'm not turning around until this is over, Klaus." Bella declared.

"I understand." Klaus nodded, making Bella smile.

"As for you Freya, I have Finn's spirit locked in a crystal and I was about to give him to you so we could free him and bring him back in his own body, as a witch, like he wished. Since you can't respect my wishes for even a few hours, you just got him a few more years locked in there. I hope for your sake that he's not suffering." Bella decided.

"What? No! How can you do that? You claim to be good!" Freya protested.

"I never claimed anything of the sort and I will do whatever I want with the spirit of the man who tried to kill his own family, including an innocent baby. If you go up against me, you'll end up in this prison world with Esther and Dahlia to keep you company, so don't tempt me. I don't care about who you think you are, after everything I've been through, I deserve to call the shots where my loved ones are concerned." Bella snapped, turning around to look Freya in the eyes.

Of course, this gave Klaus a good look at the woman who was his soul mate and he managed to catch her eyes. Immediately, he felt the bond take place. It was magical and an incredible feeling. He could feel the permanence behind it all and for once, it didn't scare him one bit. It felt natural and welcome. Like a hole he had no idea was there in the first place had just been filled with love, tenderness and all these feelings he didn't think would ever be for him.

"Crap!" Bella exclaimed.

She wanted to wait until she was done to let him see her and complete their bond but now that it was done, she couldn't deny that the peace she felt was enjoyable. She knew that if he left the room, she'd be miserable once more and she couldn't have that. He was there and she needed him with her, by her side, touching her.

"You're stunning!" Klaus complimented, an amused smile on his lips at her reaction.

"She's dead now." Henrik told Bella to get her back on tracks, knowing that if she waited too long, she wouldn't be able to send Dahlia where she wanted to send her.

"What? Right, Dahlia. Yes." Bella nodded.

"Would it be easier for you if I waited outside?" Klaus asked her softly, slowly walking closer to her.

"I... No. I like the peace, the lack of pain. Please stay." Bella replied, offering him her hand.

Klaus nodded and gently grabbed in his the hand she offered him. Bella smiled and already, she looked less pale. She wasn't alone anymore, she was safe, she was free and about to enter her life, finally. Even if it was hard, she forced herself to look away from Klaus's eyes and concentrated on Dahlia's body.

"I suppose you still don't want my help for this?" Henrik asked her when he saw that she was about to start the spell.

"I'm sorry Henrik but even if I took precautions, we never know what the future holds and if they ever get out, I don't want them to go after you for revenge. I can take them." She replied and he simply nodded and placed his hand on her shoulder, squeezing it tenderly before he stepped away.

Full of confidence, peace of mind and of a joy she hadn't felt in a very long time, Bella started the spell who vanished Dahlia's body and sent her spirit in a prison world.

"Where did her body go? I thought her spirit was the only thing you'd sent away?" Henrik asked her, surprised.

"I don't want anyone to use her body as a vessel or anything, I've sent it in a burning volcano, along with Esther's remains. There's no coming back from that." She smiled.

Nobody would go look in burning lava for ashes of dead witches. Nobody would be able to bring them back.

"So it's over now?" Henrik asked her.

"Yes... It's finally over." Bella smiled, unable to hold back the tears of joy and relief she felt.

"Hey now, everything's okay, Love. I'm here now. Everything will be fine." Klaus told her, looking her in the eyes as he placed an hand on each of her shoulders.

"You're not mad at me for hiding this from you?" She asked him, worried that their eternity of love would start with an argument.

"Well, I can't deny that I would have loved to know but I do understand your reasons. I probably would have done the same for you." Klaus replied.

"Hopefully you'll never have to prove it." She smiled.

"What now?" Freya asked, interrupting Klaus and Bella's intimate moment.

"Now you leave them alone and shut it." Henrik muttered, making Klaus, the only one who heard him, chuckle.

"We should go home, I believe some questions need to be answered." Bella declared.

"This means that you and Henrik are moving in with us, right?" Klaus asked Bella, ignoring Freya who was already walking to the car.

"Unless you want us to stay away, yes, we are." Bella nodded, unable to let go of her love's hand, walking so close to him that their sides were touching, sending sparks all over their bodies.

"What about me? Am I still part of this family?" Freya asked once they were all around the cars.

Henrik and Klaus seemed about to snap at her when Ansel intervened:

"How about I go home with Henrik and Freya in this car while Bella and Klaus take hers?"

"Do you even know how to drive?" Bella smiled, amused, feeling now happier than she had ever been.

"Actually, no." Ansel shook his head.

"Don't worry, I can." Henrik intervened, grabbing the keys.

"Don't forget to cast an illusion spell Henrik, you're technically too young to be driving." Bella reminded him and he nodded.

"What about our stuff?" Henrik asked Bella before going inside the car.

"Well, Klaus and I will go and grab a few things for now and we'll go and pack everything else later." Bella suggested and the youngest Mickealson nodded.

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In her car, Bella let Klaus drive, showing him that she didn't mind him being in charge and, as soon as the car was started, she took his hand in hers again.

"Too hard to stay away?" He asked her when he felt her hand in his.

"Yes, it's already been too long, all I want now, is to sleep. Close my eyes and truly rest for the first time since the day I saw you fall and realized that you were my destiny."

"You haven't had a peaceful night since then?" He asked her, worried.

"No. But don't worry, I'll be fine now." She smiled.

"You don't mind Hope, do you?"

"Of course not. If I did, I wouldn't have done so much to save her life." She smiled.

"You're ready to be her mother then?" he asked her.

"Well, I'm certainly not going to be her evil step-mother." Bella joked.

"I'm thankful for everything you did for me and Hope, you know." He told her.

"I know." She smiled.

Already, Klaus parked the car in front of the house he had gotten her for her stay.

"Do you... Would you like something to drink before we start packing? You know, so we can be just the two of us for a while before we join everyone..." Bella asked, knowing that he might want to go back to Hope.

"I'd love that. Hope is fine with Ansel and Rebekah. I'll text them that we'll be back later than planned." He nodded.

Bella smiled and, after making them some tea, they sat on the couch. Naturally, Klaus placed his arms around Bella and she laid down, cuddling to him.

"Rest for a while my Love, I'm here, I'm not going anywhere. You've earned your rest. Everything else can wait." He whispered in her ear before he placed a soft kiss on her temple.

"I'm happy we're finally together." She told him with a smile before she closed her eyes, snuggled in his arms and her face buried in his neck.

"So am I. I'm sorry you had to go through all of this, I wish I could have helped you more but I'm happy you're finally here." he told her.

"No more lies, I won't hide anything else from you." She told him.

"And I promise you my complete honesty as well." He promised her.

For hours Bella and Klaus stayed in each other's arms, just enjoying the peace and sense of completeness they now felt. Klaus felt especially bad for Bella and what she had gone through for him. There probably would have been another, better, solution but he wasn't angry at her for choosing the one she had. He understood now how she had felt. Just like she was now his priority, he had been hers and, on top of him, she had also taken his family and his father into consideration. She had sacrificed a lot, he knew it now. he understood that everything she had done for the past 6600 years, she had done it for him.

Just imagining being in another room, without her, felt like torture to him so knowing that she had been away from him, feeling their bond incomplete for so long, he could only respect her more, love her more. He understood how tired she was and all he wanted now was to make life easier for her. Already he had texted Elijah to get a few things and to install them in his room, the one he would share with her. Flowers, air conditioning... It was only little things for now but he silently vowed to get her anything she desired, no matter the cost of it.

She had made him her priority for so long, he would make her his now. He'd take care of her while she took care of their family, present and future.

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"What do you think they're doing?" Kol asked everyone after they received Klaus's message saying they wouldn't be back anytime soon.

"I doubt it's what you think Kol. She's still a virgin and I doubt she'd want her first time to be right after she killed 3 people." Henrik shook his head.

"She needs her rest now, she'll sleep a few hours in his arms, it'll strengthen their soul mate bond and sooth her pain completely." Ansel guessed, understanding the bond his son and goddaughter shared more than anyone else for having seen his grandparents share it.

"What's next then?" Rebekah asked.

"Now, I guess everyone of you can do whatever they want." Ansel shrugged his shoulders.

"Actually, Bella helped me work on a project of my own all this time, something for Elijah, Kol and Rebekah." Henrik started to say.

"What is it?" Freya asked, curious and much calmer now that she knew that she had a place with her siblings.

There would still be some rivalry between Bella and her, it was going to be hard for Freya to accept that she wasn't the most powerful one in their family but she would, eventually, accept it.

"A potion and a spell, they're done now and need to be drunk on the full moon, in five days. It will make you vampire - witch hybrids." He explained.

"Really? We'll have our powers back?" Kol asked, excited.

"Yep, and Bella created a spell I can't wait to share with you Kol, it allows us to use a broomstick to fly all night by tying it to the full moon. It's just great." Henrik told his brother who looked very happy.

"How is it even possible?" Rebekah asked, thinking of the balance of nature.

"I'll show you later if you want, but if you decide to do it, you need to understand that you'll need to make a sacrifice." He warned the three of them.

"We've killed before Henrik, we can do it." Kol replied.

"You don't understand, I'm not speaking about a human sacrifice or anything like this but about a personal sacrifice. This spell and potion will, in addition to giving you magic powers, allow you to have children, even you Rebekah. Giving you the ability to use magic and have children... This is a great gift of nature and so you need to give up on something. You can give up your newly found ability to have children, or the ability to use magic and keep the one to have children, knowing that your children will have magic in them and no price to pay for it. Or you can give up something else like finding True Love. You'd be able to fall in love but you'd never be able to find your Soul Mate. The decision is up to you and you can never go back on it so, choose well." Henrik told them.

"This is... Wow... Thank you little brother, I love you!" Rebekah exclaimed before she hugged Henrik and left her brothers to go bond with her older sister.

After that, Henrik went to rest while Ansel watched over his granddaughter and Elijah and Kol discussed what they would give up to have magic or the ability to have children.

They knew that Rebekah would give up her magic to find Love and have children, or maybe she'd give up on True Love and be happy with normal loves and keep her magic.

Kol refused to give up magic once he had it back and was perfectly fine with giving up the joys of parenthood, knowing he'd get children in his life anyway through his siblings. He'd be a great uncle but had never felt the need to become a parent.

Elijah wanted to be a father and he wanted love in his life. He would have loved to have magic as well but if he needed to sacrifice one of these things, he didn't know if he wanted to give up on True Love or on magic. But then again, there would be enough witches in their family. Bella, Hope, Henrik, Freya, Kol and Rebekah... He didn't need to have magic and he knew that Klaus would be happier if one other of them didn't have magic. He didn't need it that much anyway. He could do without it, he had all these years and since the future looked much brighter anyway, he'd be fine without it.

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When Bella woke up, she was lying in her bed, still wrapped in Klaus's arms.

"I moved us here from the couch a few hours ago, it was more comfortable for us both." Klaus informed her softly as soon as she opened her eyes.

"It happened. It's really finally the beginning of our life." Bella replied, happy.

"It is, Love. It is." he nodded.

Bella and Klaus took their time before they left the house with a couple of bags. They ate together and talked about everything Bella had done. She wanted to answer all of his questions privately before she answered them in front of the others and she did so while they started to pack everything. Marcel and his vampires would come to pick everything up later.

When they finally got back to the family home, almost 12 hours had passed and everyone was waiting for them. The first thing Klaus did was officially introduce Bella to Hope and let his Soul Mate hold his daughter while they held the first ever complete family meeting of the rest of their eternal lives.

This wasn't an end, it was a beginning.

Bella and the Mickealson's weren't fools, they knew that there would be someone else that would try to hurt them. They held a lot of power and it seemed to attract envious people but they were a strong, united family and with the powers, knowledge and contacts that she had gathered over the years, Bella knew her family would be safe.

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"You did it Bella. I'm proud of you." Ansel told his goddaughter a few weeks after Dahlia's death.

"Thanks but I feel like I should be the one congratulating you." She smiled.

"Why is that?" He asked her, confused.

"Come on, you've been dreaming of Klaus and me together since we were kids. I used to hear you and dad talking about it when I was a child, fantasizing about how things could have gone had Esther let you raise him. You're finally getting your way." She explained with a soft smile.

"Well, almost." he chuckled.

"What do you mean? What's missing?" She frowned.

"Don't get me wrong, I love Hope but I'd love to have several more grandchildren from you and Klaus." He replied.

"Let's start with one more." Bella smiled, kissed his cheek and left him on the balcony to join Klaus in the garden while they watched Hope play with a flower that Bella was making fly above the baby girl.

She loved this new peaceful life. Her nights in Klaus' arms, making love, her days with Hope and the rest of their family... She was free to be herself and to lead the life she should have led all along. In a few more weeks, she'd get married to Klaus, then they'd go to Rebekah and Marcel's wedding. A few months later, Bella would give birth to Klaus's second child and she was confident that everything would be well in their world.

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Ansel was planning on becoming a hybrid so he could stay with his son and protect him of anyone came after him. He'd do it in a couple of years but made sure to always have a bit of his son's blood in him, just in case. He'd be a hybrid and have the family he always wanted. Who knew, maybe he'd even end up finding love some day.

Henrik was enjoying spending time with his siblings. His plan was to grow a bit older, to become a vampire and use his own potion on himself to be like Rebekah, Elijah and Kol. For the moment, he went to school, practiced magic and was even starting to fall in love with a young witch.

For the moment, everyone was happy and that was the most important. They all managed to find a place in this new life and the Mickealson's were even stronger than before. Even if they ended up leaving New Orleans, they knew that they would always be a strong and united family.

So, this is the end... Last chapter of this story...

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