The River In Reverse - A Thousand Year Old Secrets - Season One, Episode Eight.

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Rebekah sat at the grand table confused as she saw an elaborate breakfast filled with fruit and pastries littered across the table. She sat unmoving as she watched a brunette girl stroll in only her underwear, bearing a lot of similarities to another certain dark haired girl. Rebekah watched with narrowed eyes as she offered her bare wrist to Klaus and his hybrid visage appeared and bit into her wrist and gulped down some of her blood, before turning back to her.

"Have you spoken to our good friend Marcel today?" Klaus looked at his sister and she could see a glimpse of pain in his dark eyes.

Rebekah sighed. "No, should I have?" Hoping he hadn't found out about her secret meeting with Marcel about the garden. She was still thinking it over and didn't want him, or Alex for that matter to hate her.

Klaus sat back in his chair as he regarded his sister.

"He's been mysteriously silent- avoiding me, some might say. I thought perhaps he may have whispered reasons into your ear. Along with all of those sweet nothings."

"If I see him, I'll be sure to ask if he's still sore at you." She replied sarcastically.

"Let me give a voice to that look in your eyes." Klaus cleared his throat as he started to mock Rebekah. "My saintly noble brother lies writhing in agony in the Bayou, victim of my bastard brother's bite, when just one or two drops of his blood would ease his pain."

"On the contrary, Nik, I am simply enjoying my brekkie, waiting for Elijah's healthy return. " Rebekah pursed her lips.

"Oh, come on Rebekah, you've been giving me the devil's eye all morning. Out with it!" Klaus inched forwards from across the table.

"Perhaps I'm concerned that if I voice my opinion about what you did to Elijah, I will end up on the wrong side of your toxic hybrid teeth."

"Poppycock! I would never bite you. Elijah made some very offensive accusations about my intentions towards my child. He deserves a day or two of discomfort. Besides, you know my preferred method of punishment for your indiscretions is the dagger." Klaus smirked.

Rebekah narrowed her eyebrows. "And what of Alex?"

At the sound of her name, Klaus' grin was removed from his face and he leaned back in his chair.

"I'd rather not talk about her."

Rebekah raised her eyebrows.

"So, you don't want to talk about how she thought you could never do something to your unborn child, but you didn't listen to her and instead you took your rage out on our brother because she is pregnant and human. Did I miss anything?"

Klaus licked his lips. "She is not human. She's a werewolf for a start. And both Alexandra and Elijah have made it very clear what they think towards me."

Rebekah sighed dramatically. "For God's sake Nik, you really don't know anything do you! Whilst Elijah may have been doubting you, which in his position I might have done also, Alex was the one that changed his mind. After everything you two have been through…"

"It doesn't matter. When the baby is born both my brother, and my lover will disown me and take her away from me, I will not allow that to happen." Klaus growled.

Rebekah raised her eyebrows in shock. "There is something fundamentally wrong with you. You cannot take a child away from her Mother! Alex would never do such a thing to you. You are just a paranoid monster Niklaus!"

Rebekah yelled and left the table in a hurry, hoping Alex could change Klaus' mind.

…..

I sighed as I watched Elijah laying on a bed in the shack, writhing in pain. I reached over to the stand and grabbed some water. I tried to shake him gently to wake him up enough to drink.

"Elijah. Here, drink this." I put the cup to his mouth and wrapped my hand around his back to help him sit up slightly. I watched as he sipped a little of the water, but he gagged and started to cough. I hurriedly put the cup back and sat him up, wincing.

"Please, forgive me." He whispered. He looked so pale, and I began to worry.

"It's okay. I can't stand to see you like this Elijah, please let me ask Klaus." I begged him.

"No." Elijah groaned. "He is not in the right frame of mind, he wants to make me suffer and that's exactly what I'll do."

"Elijah…"

"It's OK. It will be out of my system soon. But until then, you should not be here Alexandra. The fever will make me unstable and I don't want to hurt you."

"I am not leaving you like this Elijah. I have a child that is going to be half of him, his mistakes are mine to fix. But don't worry, I'll annihilate him later."

Elijah let out a low, pained laugh. "Then remind me to tell you to get in line."

…..

I sighed heavily, my hands hovering over Klaus' name on my mobile screen as I winced at Elijah's hurtful murmurs.

Elijah's words ran through my head. "He is not in the right frame of mind, he wants to make me suffer and that's exactly what I'll do."

I ran my hands through my disheveled hair and stood up, heading to check in with Elijah. My brows frowned as I noticed him in more pain than before. I sat down next to him slowly, and I lifted my hand to his forehead but I was sucked into his vision.

A young, dark skinned woman, lay in the tub, smiling up at him.

"Celeste?" Elijah spoke.

I furrowed my eyebrows, as he brought me back to the present.

"Alexandra, I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else."

I smiled down warmly at him. "Celeste? Whoever she was, she was beautiful."

I caught a glimpse of embarrassment in his eyes before they returned back to normal.

"Did I let you enter my thoughts? I'm not well. I should go. This is…" He trailed off and I spoke up for him.

"This is fine, Elijah. You're sick, I'm taking care of you. And I've already told you. This is Klaus' fault."

Elijah winced as he tried to sit up, beads of sweat dripping onto his pale face.

"You're right. This is my brother's fault not yours." I opened my mouth to retort but Elijah interrupted me. "There is somebody watching us."

I widened my eyes, and glanced out the window, jumping up as quickly as I could, watching as an older woman ran away from the shack as I came outside.

"Hey! Wait!" I yelled but the woman didn't return.

….

Another few hours had passed and Elijah was now sat in my lap as I combed through his damp hair, trying to ease his pain slightly. Which in turn sent me back into his head. To a century I know all too well.

It was the same scene as before, the dark haired, young woman, now known as Celeste, was relaxing in the small tub, her skin standing out against the harsh white of the tub.

I watched as Elijah entered the room, and Celeste grinned up at him and threw her sponge at him playfully.

"Assister-moi, please, good sir."

Elijah smiled back at the beauty.

"No, I'm much happier taking in such a wondrous view. It's perfection."

I smiled warmly at their interaction, reminding me of myself and Klaus. However, it then saddened me as I missed him greatly.

"Your brother is again up to no good. He's challenging the gentry to duels as though they have any chance of a fair fight." Celeste frowned.

"I do grow weary of sacrificing my joy to temper my brother's mischief. Surely, you can cast a spell to put him in his place." Elijah replied.

Celeste raised her brows. "It would take a hundred witches to put him in his place. Besides, he only ever listens to you."

"There is only one other person who he would listen to. However, she is not with us anymore."

Elijah said solemnly, and I sighed as I realized he was talking about myself.

"She?" Celeste asked.

"Yes. My brother turned her many centuries ago. We have no idea where she is."

Celeste laid her back against the tub. "If this woman is important to your brother, he knows exactly where she is."

Elijah became silent as he pondered her thoughts and I furrowed my brow, it was definitely something I was going to bring up after this is over. If Klaus really knew where I was all that time.

"Either way, he certainly needs a little discipline. Spanking of some kind is in order. I think I shall need some rehearsal. Come." Elijah smirked and held a hand out for her.

Celeste took his hand but pulled him down and kissed him passionately.

I opened my eyes solemnly and glanced down at Elijah as his fever started to escalate.

"Alexandra. Please. This fever. My mind is flooded with these torturous memories. You have to leave."

"Please, Elijah don't talk like that. It will all be over soon OK?" I tried to hush him but it wasn't working.

"There are consequences for those that care. I will not have you pay that price. " Elijah grumbled, his eyes dropping.

"We all have that Elijah. You don't think I've lost people that I care about too?."

My thoughts began to drift back to everyone I left behind in Mystic Falls. I doubt Damon would even speak to me, but Stefan and Elena would. And I know Caroline would be happy for me as well. Maybe it's worth me visiting? Klaus would never allow it, but then he doesn't really seem to care right now.

I sighed to myself. I could not be bothered with all these problems right now and I know it's only going to get worse while my baby girl grows inside me.

"What about our visitor? What does she want? " Elijah brought me out of my deep thinking.

"I'm guessing she's the one that left the mystery Bible on the doorstep last night. Would be nice if she'd stick around long enough to tell me why." I replied.

"Alexandra, you came here to gather information about yours and Grace's family, not to play nursemaid to a vampire with a temperature. Please, find her. Learn what you can."

I sighed and leaned my head back closing my eyes. Stubborn vampire.

"I'm not leaving you Elijah."

….

I bit my cheek frustratingly as I left Klaus a voicemail. I tried calling him at least three times when Elijah's temperature began to get worse but he wasn't answering his phone.

"Celeste. Forgive me, I'm sorry."

I heard Elijah murmuring in his sleep again, so I dashed over and placed my hand on his head once more.

As I delved back into Elijah's mind, I saw Klaus holding a gun, and I found it strangely erotic and dangerous at the same time. Even though he doesn't need a gun to bring a woman or a man to their knees.

I even heard him speak in French which I've never heard myself. Even though I knew. We could both speak many different languages from being alive all these years. He could even speak some dead ones. But the only ones I've heard is English and Italian, he mainly learnt it when we were human, he tried to speak to me in broken Italian, but I decided to teach him after he told me that his Mother was a horse which I obviously laughed at.

I watched on as Klaus, and another man were back to back, walking away from each other.

"Huit, sept, six, cinq, quatre, trois, deux."

They both turned around and shot. Klaus remained unharmed as the other fell down dead. From a head shot.

I would expect nothing less.

Klaus frowned and spoke in his natural tongue. "Is that it? Is that the best New Orleans has to offer?"

I widened my eyes slightly at the reveal that this was New Orleans. And I knew this must've been after I left the Mikealsons and headed on my own.

I continued to watch the scene as another unnamed man dragged the body to a mass pile of dead ones. Elijah arrived at the field looking furious.

"Brother! Please, this is high folly. Is it not enough you have slaughtered dozens in just these past several weeks? I know you are still suffering Alexandra's departure but word of a city littered with bodies will surely travel the oceans. Do you want to bring our father upon us?"

Klaus snarled at his elder brother and pointed the gun at him, emphasizing his point. Knowing full well it would only be painful.

"Do not mention Alexandra to me, brother." Klaus' furious demeanor dropped and was replaced with a smirk on his face. "Besides, I've sent rumor that the bodies are the result of the witches seeking blood sacrifice for their rituals."

Elijah's wide brown eyes stared at Klaus incredulously.

"You did what? Have you forgotten? Celeste is one of those that you recklessly point your finger at? "

Klaus held a mocking hand to his chin, feigning ignorance.

"Who's Celeste? Wait... " Klaus grinned even more at Elijah's fury. "Oh, yes! The witch you've been knocking around with. Well, fear not. Harlots are like rats in the Quarter. You trip over one every step you take. "

Before I could blink, Elijah grabbed the revolver from a nearby man and shot Klaus in the chest. He glanced down where the bullet hit and growled lowly as he remained unharmed. Klaus smirked at Elijah's display of ferocity.

"You care about her." Klaus sighed dramatically. "Well, that is unfortunate. I hear they're rounding up the towns witches as we speak."

Elijah's eyes widened as he turned back to where he had come from. He turned his darkened eyes at his brother.

"You would not have done this if it Alexandra were still here." Before Klaus could reply, Elijah blurred before him.

Klaus remained silent until he growled under his breath.

"Send me more!"

…..

I gasped as Elijah awoke with a start, screaming at me. My eyes widened in panic. I had never seen him this way.

"Elijah?"

Before I knew it, Elijah grabbed my neck and sped towards the wall. Throwing me up against it roughly. I held the hand wrapped around my neck and pleaded with him to see sense.

"Elijah!" I gasped.

"Niklaus! I'll kill you, you bastard!" Elijah growled menacingly. I watched alarmed as the veins under his eyes began to appear.

"Elijah! Please! It's me! Alexandra!" I choked on my breath as his hold began to get tighter.

Just as my vision began fading I noticed the woman from earlier stab Elijah in the back, and he groaned and passed out.

I gasped, breathing in all the air I could. I glanced warily at her.

"Thank you."

….

"Well. you don't beat around the bush, do you?" I laughed sarcastically at Eve.

"I'm following you because you brought an Original to Werewolf Country, which is pretty much the same reason why everybody else skedaddled. If you want to know what happened to the people in that family tree, I'll sum it up nice and quick: Marcel happened."

I frowned, wanting to know more about what happened with Marcel.

"What did he do?" I asked.

"He killed most of them. Later, the descendants of the ones who dodged death, he strong-armed a witch into putting a curse on them."

She replied solemnly.

"What kind of curse?" I replied worriedly.

Eve sighed.

"Swap nature around, inside out. Made it so their natural state is wolves. They only turn back human on the full moon. We are hunted by the marks we carry. That crescent moon birthmark- that's why I got rid of mine. I didn't wanna get found up.

I bit the tips of my nails anxiously.

"Alex?"

I turned at the sound of my name.

"We've always known about you. You're the alpha of the crescent moon clan. We've always known where you were. When you got turned, and when you came back."

I shook my head and licked my lips frustratingly.

"Look. That was a long time ago. I'm not the alpha anymore. Grace is."

"She doesn't understand the true meaning of being an alpha, a leader. You do." Eve replied sternly.

I glared at her.

"No. I've never been an alpha. Or a leader. I've always been beneath Klaus…"

Before Eve could utter anything else we both jumped as the door to the shack opened and Elijah stood in the doorway.

"Good evening. I think I have something that might belong to you." He spoke to Eve, before passing her the stake that she had previously stabbed him with.

Eve took it cautiously, eyeing me as I got up to see him.

"He's a friend. Elijah this is Eve."

Elijah nodded. "A pleasure. And...thank you..for saving her...even if it meant stabbing me in the back."

Eve nodded silently.

My worried brown eyes sought similar ones.

"Are you OK?" I peered down at him, making sure his wounds had healed.

" The wound is healed, the fever is broken, but for some strange reason I have this sharp and lingering sensation in my back."

I sighed in relief and glanced back to Eve.

"I have to get him home. But I'll be back OK? I need to know more. And I'll be bringing a friend."

"Keep that mark covered up. Both of you." Eve spoke before heading off back into the forest.

We both watched as she headed out of our sights.

"What happened?" Elijah asked.

I smiled slightly.

"I just met a part of mine and Grace's family."

Elijah smiled warmly at me before taking my hand in his as we made our way back home.

…

Both Elijah and myself sat in silence, the car's radio on low.

"Thank you for the ride Elijah." I turned to him slowly and he did the same.

I saw the disappointment in his eyes before he even spoke.

"I'm sorry I tried to you hurt you-"

I cut him off.

"Elijah, you don't have to apologize."

Elijah's eyebrows creased and he turned his body more to mine in shock.

"Yes I do. I could've killed you, and the baby."

I glanced down to my twiddling hands before turning my eyes back to his.

"Can you tell me more about Celeste?"

Elijah shifted back in his seat, away from me.

"That's not important." He replied sharply.

"It is important Elijah. A thousand years of memories and that's what breaks through your fever brain? And the fact that if I hadn't have left, Klaus would not have done what I am pretty sure he did."

Another paused entered the car.

I scoffed lightly.

"You're forgetting the fact that I know your brother. Very well."

Elijah reluctantly leaned his hand over towards mine and I grasped it in my own.

I observed as Elijah rushed into the bathroom I had seen before in his memories, in a frantic state.

Tears fell from his eyes as he noticed an unmoving form, under the body of water. Elijah desperately pulled her out of the tub and I watched sadly as he tried to resuscitate her, knowing it was useless and he sobbed over her dead, naked body.

I was pulled out of his memory harshly and I wiped a tear that fell from my eyes.

"It was a cruel and bloody time to be a witch. Courtesy of my wonderful brother."

I sniffed.

"She died because of Klaus."

"She died because of me. Because I cared too deeply for her. I had allowed my brother to slip through my grasp. I loosened the reins while Celeste consumed my every moment. I had abandoned him in the name of my own happiness. Celeste paid the price"

I shook my head in confusion.

"If I would've known...if you had told me about Celeste, I wouldn't have gone. I know how Klaus is. His temper. His recklessness. And I know he takes it out on you. I never thought you would find happiness after Tatia, but you did…" I sighed tearfully. "Everyone in this family is just...broken."

"To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed. I have a whole eternity to accomplish one single task: my brother's salvation. If I surrender this, then tell me- what value would I be to my family? To myself? ...To your child?"

I looked away from him but he turned me back to look deep into his eyes.

"What happened to Celeste was not your fault. Niklaus' actions, are not... your fault."

I let a low sob overtake me before I placed my hand on top of Elijah's promising him.

"Promise me. We'll fix this family...together. Klaus will be a doting Father, she will see all her uncles. Her crazy aunt Bekah, and you will be the one that look after her if anything happened to Klaus or I."

Elijah nodded.

"I promise."

…..

I wrung my hands nervously, as I waited for the siblings to calm down. I thought it best to let them get whatever need be out of their system.

My ears strained as I heard the argument going on inside the house.

"Elijah's home. There's only one dagger. Which one of us will you be punishing today?"

Rebekah said sarcastically and Klaus growled at her.

"I contemplated a game of eenie-meenie-miney-moe. You betrayed me. My own sister!"

"Niklaus! Don't you dare!" Elijah yelled.

Klaus pointed the dagger at Elijah and snarled.

"Perhaps it should be you, brother! Stealing my child away with every fawning moment of tenderness you show to Alexandra"

Elijah's eyes darkened.

"This has nothing to do with Alexandra."

Klaus roared.

"It has everything to do with her! She's adored you since she arrived. And now my child, my blood, will grow up to call you father!"

I felt myself tense and my eyes darken as I burst into the room, without realizing what I did. My dark eyes trained on Klaus. Both Rebekah and Elijah were shocked to see me.

"How. Dare. You." I growled lowly, and Klaus licked his lips anxiously.

"You know this whole time, that you have been believing that your brother would bring up your child, and that he thought that you had some ulterior motive. I have been the one that stood up for you. For the millionth time in my life. I have said that they're wrong. Do you have any idea, what I've been through the last few days? I've lost one of my best friends, because I'm carrying your child. I've had to beg Elijah to see things from your perspective, prayed for him to believe in you. To trust that you could be better. And to hear the person that I have ever loved unconditionally have so little respect for me."

Klaus opened his mouth to speak but I held a hand in front of him, cutting him off.

"You do not get to say a single word to me right now."

I breathed in deeply.

"I'm going to our home. But you three are staying together to fix this. Because I swear to God if this child is born and you three are still hostile towards each other...I will leave...again. I want this baby to be around her family. For both of us to do this to each other." I said gesturing between Klaus and I. "Our parents were shitty parents. And I am not going to let her have the same experience as we did. So you get your shit together."

I glared at all three of them before heading outside. I inhaled deeply, pressing my palm to my growing belly.

"I hope your Father can see some sense for once." Tears began brimming my eyes as I felt myself and Klaus drifting apart.

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Thank you all for reading, please review and let me know what you think. I hope that I have made both Elijah and Klaus believable as obviously, Alex's situation is different from Hayley's and their relationships are different toward each other. Klaus and Alex's relationship an be toxic. Both of them were as bad as each other once upon a time. Hopefully I will be able to explore that a little more in future chapters.