stay together, down

After waking up from the hunting room, dusk has passed, Finn's boundary spell has disappeared, and Marcel's vampire has left safely.The ancient and never-ending Bourbon Street is lit up with street lights, the streets are crowded with people, and the bright street lights shine on every smiling face in the procession/parade.

This time, Lin An is no longer looking at the flowers from the other side. Holding the clusters of small white flowers sent by Cole, Lin An walks slowly along this ancient street with a history of nearly 300 years along with the flow of people.The noisy human voice, mixed with the sound of bells, rang in my ears non-stop, with a messy and long-lasting warmth.

Lin An didn't speak, neither did Cole.There were too many people, Lin An was hit on the shoulder and stepped on shoes by people passing by from time to time.Cole took her hand without intentionally protecting it. For such a small accident, when the two looked up and looked at each other, they both saw a smile and kind apology in each other's eyes. An apology does not need to be said, it is already a harvest Full of warmth.

Lin An has never felt this before, she has never even walked among such a crowd, it seems that she has realized the kindness of the whole world for the first time.Throughout the whole night, the smile on Lin An's face never dissipated.

Klaus accurately searched for that smile through layers of figures, and all the pictures faded automatically, leaving only this exceptionally bright color.There seemed to be nothing between him and the bright color, and it penetrated into his cold eyelids a moment ago without hindrance, enough to wash away all the filth in his heart.

Beautiful and amazing.Klaus forgets about the entangled Finn, Marcel's sudden disappearance, the curse of the eldest son of the Michelson family... During the time of prayer and jubilation throughout the city, in this smile he captures, all intrigues and wars seem to be possible. stopped.Klaus felt a kind of relaxed fatigue, and he suddenly remembered that he had been walking in loneliness and darkness for 1000 years.He forgot, and others also forgot.At this moment, I just want to stop in this beauty.

Then Klaus saw her interlocking hand with another man's, hanging at her side.For example, at the most inadvertent moment, the white oak tree stump stabbed into the heart, and slowly permeated from the inside to the outside.

Cole stopped when he saw Klaus.Following his movements, Lin An stopped suspiciously and followed Cole's gaze. In the bustling street, people were coming and going, but that figure had long since disappeared.

Klaus realized that from Mystic Falls to New Orleans, he had never been like Cole, just walking with him in such a simple way.He remembered the promise he had never kept. When he left Mystic Falls and first arrived in New Orleans, he had promised that he would take her to visit the vast and wonderful world outside.Now, that promise hangs in the old days, the most unbreakable mockery of Tonight.

Even so, Klaus still felt the uncontrollable shameful desire, the desire to possess, and even destroy, surging deep in his body.

Lin An shook his arms, "What's wrong?"

Cole smiled and led her into another street, "It's nothing." It's just that someone regretted it.

Regret, the most hopeless.No matter how strong you are.

***

Later, Lin An recalled the events of that day again and again, leading everything to the beginning of destruction.Like all disasters, it kicked off in a flat and quiet manner, and people cannot predict the ending from its silent appearance.Such as death.Or the parting of life and death that is more sad than death.

That day, Lin An fell asleep abnormally until noon. Perhaps Cole cast a sleeping spell on her, but she didn't know it at the time.She stepped into the daylight on the loose carpet and called softly, "Cole."

With just one sound, Cole appeared in the spacious courtyard, along with Klaus, and a tall, thin, dark-skinned girl with bouncing curly hair—it was Rebecca who finally escaped from the cage.

Did she feel it the moment she saw him?Do you have inexplicable restlessness in your heart?It can be recalled that he was abnormally pale at the time.Maybe there was doubt at a certain moment, but he easily resolved it.

She walked down the stairs quickly, and Cole caught her hand immediately below. Lin An felt the coldness passing from his fingers, and asked, "Are you uncomfortable? Your hands are cold, are you sick?"

Cole teased and said, "Yeah, Nicklaus forced me to cast a spell. Please protect me and avenge me!"

Klaus didn't even refute.

Lin An also laughed without any doubt, and said, "Then let's not help him, shall we?"

Cole said, "Okay." With such a happy smile.

Because of him, that late autumn, every late autumn, has since become a dark season full of sorrow and taboo.Cold through winter.

Hayley and Jackson's wedding took place at Klaus' palatial mansion.

At the beginning of the morning, the personnel who arranged the wedding scene were busy shuttling in the hall between the first floor and the second floor.Champagne-colored thick yarn hangs from both sides of the second floor, like a golden waterfall, magnificent and gorgeous.The eight-tiered wedding cake was slowly rolled out and placed in a safe and comfortable position.

Everyone arrived as expected.

Claus, Cole, Rebecca, Lynn.Elijah and Hope rushed back from Arkansas-the wedding was completed, Klaus could get the werewolf army he had planned for a long time, and his daughter no longer needed to hide.And of course, the bride and groom.

Cole came over and called her name: "Lin An."

Lin An turned her head and saw Cole's face smiling at her, showing fine white and neat teeth slightly, tired and quiet.He said, "Fantasy about your wedding, little girl?"

Lin An thought for a while, then shook his head.Looking back in detail, she really never fantasized about a wedding, perhaps because she was too young, after all, she had no long-term plans.Or maybe it has never been stable, and marriage should be the most firm and safe promise.Lin An's side has never had this kind of security, and there is no room for illusions.

Lin An felt another gaze burning urgently on her body.

Klaus looked at her, and he saw her shake her head.She didn't think about it, but he did.When he lost her, when he was preparing for a wedding that didn't belong to him and her.He couldn't stop thinking about what his girl would like.If it was them, maybe they didn't need these, and she didn't need to be in such a big house, she might prefer a lawn wedding.Or the sea.Simple, all are there.

In his thousand years, marriage was never considered, something that was insulated from the Michelson family.But once this imagination sprouts, it grows rapidly like a green plant breaking through the ground in spring, and it cannot be restrained.

He would ask her: Marry me, Lin An.Then she smiled and said yes.

He wants to ask her.Almost can't wait to blurt out!

Cole said: "I really want to see what Ann looks like in a wedding dress."

Lin An looked at him, vaguely seeing the reluctance and sadness deep in his pupils.She stretched out her hand suspiciously, wanting to ask.

Cole stopped her hand and held it in his palm.Suddenly said: "Marry me, Lin An."

……

The whole world fell silent.

It seems to be windy.The golden gauze hanging around gently flicked.

Rebecca stopped Klaus, who was about to run away.

Lin An looked into Cole's eyes with compassion.Maybe she pondered for a long time, maybe she didn't, she couldn't remember.But she remembered, she said, "Okay."

Klaus heard her say, "Okay."

Like a signal, Cole hugged her suddenly, and Lin An felt the pain that was tightly strangling her body, but she didn't say anything.After a long time, Cole leaned over and kissed her lovingly on the forehead.Immediately afterwards, she knocked on the top of her head unexpectedly, and said mockingly: "Little idiot! From now on, any man who doesn't have a diamond ring, no flowers, and doesn't kneel down on one knee will not be able to agree to your marriage proposal, you know?" ?!"

He disguised it all as a prank.

Lin Anyong couldn't forgive herself, she didn't see through his disguise and skipped over his hidden wounds.He may have waited for her to find out with hope, but she didn't, until the moment of no return.Lin An sadly found that between her and Cole, she was no different from Klaus.

The wedding is at eight o'clock in the evening.

Lin An couldn't find Cole before the wedding, and the vague uneasiness in his heart gradually amplified.

She wasted no time and went straight to Klaus.

He was standing on the railing on the second floor, Lin An walked up to him and watched the grand wedding with him on the railing.This was the first time Lin An heard the wedding music, it was as gentle as the midsummer night breeze, blowing comfortably on the face and heart, wrapped in a light floral fragrance.The man standing by her side, at this moment, he is the real king, watching the kingdom he built is about to be established.He has always possessed the resourcefulness and strength of a king, and at the same time possessed the autocracy and tyranny of a king.

But what does all this have to do with her.Nor has it anything to do with Cole.They shouldn't be stuck here, she should move to the plantation with Cole.No, they should have stayed away from all this long ago.

"I'm looking for Cole, did you see him?" Lin An asked.

Klaus turned his head to look at her, but Lin An didn't turn his head, but heard his voice. "Rebecca is with him and he'll be fine."

Lin An heard his subtext, "'willbefine'?" That means it's not good now.

Klaus bowed his head in silence for a moment, knowing that he might be thinking about the words to dissuade him.Lin An said: "I hope you can take me to find him, or I can use the locating spell to find him. But I don't want to now, you know that using the witch's magic will hurt me."

"I can't get hurt and Cole will be worried," she said.

Klaus looked at her, deep eyes with a watery blue quality of sadness flowing slowly.I'd be worried too, he said, but made no sound.

The crisp ringtone of the mobile phone broke the silence, it was Rebecca calling...

That night, Lin An recalled, seeing the sky full of stars was the end of everything.On the way there, she didn't see any light, the night filled the whole world, and felt the bone-piercing cold, like deep winter.She is approaching the established ending step by step.

However, Lin An never imagined that Cole didn't even give her a chance to say goodbye! !

Rebecca said: "He knows that you will cast a spell to save him, so I must wait for him... before I can tell you."

Such warm and cruel protection.

Lin An looked at him, he was lying peacefully on his back in the dark stone room of the cemetery, but this was not even his body!His soul left again, leaving only an empty and strange shell that once lived.

She can't say goodbye.

All the turbulent and inflated emotions were accumulated in his chest, trying to find a gap to vent, like surging sea water hitting the embankment, Lin An felt the bones and blood in his whole body burning wildly and painfully.

"Who is it?" Lin An asked softly.

Rebecca hesitated, then said, "Finn. He cast a spell to trap Cole in this body."

In the late autumn night, there is a silent darkness outside the door.Suddenly, a cool wind came in wrapped in darkness, and the dim yellow torch flickered on and off, as if the fragile light in the stone room would be drowned out at any time.

Klaus soon noticed that an invisible dark wind was always blowing around Lin An, her thick, dark hair was blowing with the wind, and her pale face was filled with the chill of the autumn night.

Both Klaus and Elijah looked at Lin An in shock, and could feel her flowing and surging power.Klaus put his hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her: "Control yourself, Lin An. Leave it to me, I will definitely kill Finn..."

"Ah!!!" Klaus suddenly cried out in pain unexpectedly.His right hand hugged his left arm which was forcibly broken by external force, and he looked at the girl in front of him in disbelief.

Lin An said: "Don't you understand, Klaus? Damn you, it's us! Why did Finn kill Cole? What can he get from Cole?!"

Her voice became fierce and resentful, and with a wave of her hand, Klaus rose into the air, and his tall body slammed into the stone wall fiercely.Lin An strangled him by the throat, making his body hang high above the stone wall. "Don't you know? Finn wants your daughter! How innocent Cole is!"

Immediately the magic came out, and a wound burst open on Lin An's wrist, first on his left hand, then on his right hand.Different from the small blood line last time, this time, the scar completely cracked, bright red blood rushed out, and the strong smell of blood quickly spread in the stone room.

"Stop, Lin An! You're going to die!" Rebecca shouted, moving forward quickly to stop it.

Lin An couldn't feel the pain, she stretched out her other hand, and stroked lightly in the air, Rebecca suddenly hit an invisible wall.It is a boundary curse.

Seeing Rebecca's anxious expression, Lin An suddenly asked: "Is he in pain? He is most afraid of pain."

Rebecca could not answer.Looking at Lin An with pain and compassion.

"Cole always wanted to be like you were with Klaus and Elijah ... he needed his family," Lynn said.

Rebecca said, "I know, we've accepted him. Have you forgotten? We lived happily together for four months, you, me, Cole..." And Hope.Rebecca stopped in time without saying a word.Lin An didn't care either.

"Always and forever... The promise of the Michelson family, why does he always have to sacrifice again and again? He is so afraid of being alone... We should all accompany him. I will send you there first and tell him not to worry, wait for Finn When I get the results he deserves, I will go to him right away."

Rebecca coughed uncontrollably, and warm blood flowed out of her mouth and nose along with her coughing.She couldn't believe that Lin An actually wanted to kill her, kill them all! "Listen to me, Lin An! Cole... died as a wizard, we sacrificed his body, and he will join... the ancestors of wizards in the French area... we... can... revive him again... ..."

Lin An just shook his head.Klaus saw that the wounds on her neck had begun to slowly crack open, and the pain she suffered after coming here and coming to their world was being repeated before his eyes.

Elijah looked at Klaus and Rebecca, who were controlled by others, and the girl who restrained them stood in the middle of the stone room. The wounds on her wrist and neck had been completely split open, and the bright red blood had almost completely soaked the white clothes on her body. She stood completely in a pool of blood.

She has no tears, and needs these red liquids to vent out the desperate grief swirling in her body.

But this is not the end, they all know that almost the entire left arm of Lin An is completely torn...

Elijah thought of Hong, and he knew very well that these pains would be replicated on Hong without any deviation.

"Stop... her, Elijah! Stop her!" Klaus couldn't break free from Lin An's shackles, and shouted at Elijah with difficulty.

Elijah understood what Klaus meant—to stop her from hurting herself, not from the spell she cast on them.She can't really hurt them, let alone kill them.Lin An can't kill people, they all know that she is different from them.

Using the strength and speed of the ancestor of the vampire, Elijah ran towards Lin An, but was suddenly bounced away when he got close to her body.

When Elijah fell to the ground, he saw a bright red figure stumbling into the stone room.Elijah saw it clearly, it was bloody red all over.

Before she could stand still, Hong waved her hand and cast a spell, pointing at Lin An.Just now, Elijah's invisible barrier bounced off, as if it didn't exist under Hong's spell, and hit Lin An's chest accurately.

Lin An swayed, Klaus fell back to the ground to catch his breath, and the spell on Rebecca was interrupted.

"You forgot I said never use magic!" said Red.

Lin An wiped off the blood from the corner of his lips, with a cold expression: "You forgot, I never agreed. I don't need to care about what you said."

When the words fell, the red body flew backwards like a broken doll, and was caught by Elijah who arrived in an instant.

Finally, the old scar on his left arm began to tear apart, inch by inch, as if with the sound of bones breaking, Klaus heard a rattling in his ears, as if something was gnawing at his flesh and blood.

Lin An walked to Cole step by step, this was the last thing he left behind.Klaus also came over, he stretched out his hand to press her wound in vain, hot blood gushed out from his fingers.He could never save her.

Lin An caressed Klaus' cheek with a bloody hand, and the red blood painted his facial features.Lin An said: "I regret Klaus. I regret knowing you. I regret falling in love with you. I regret not leaving you sooner. I regret not letting your child die..."

The entire stone chamber began to shake violently, and broken stones kept falling.The stone chamber is collapsing.

Elijah shouted, "Klaus!"

Turn on deaf ears.

Hong fainted, and Elijah could only take her and Rebecca out of the stone room first.

Lin An protects Cole, this is not him, but it is the closest way to him.Klaus protected Lin An.

The stone room crashed to the ground.

As soon as Lin An looked up, he saw the sky full of stars, shining brightly.It was her last light before falling into darkness.