watch it close, let it brew

[regentem]

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[engender]

( (15, 15 for Derek and Scott, 17 for Sierra) )

Killing their allies isn't a slingshot.

[regentem]

[It's not hard for any of them to see the embarrassing way that Monroe's men are fleeing the cemetery right now. Cars are heading out of the gates, and another camera angle shows Elijah and Freya Mikaelson standing at the head of the mausoleum with the French Quarter witches as they watch them go.

Monroe clearly does not like this.

She grits her teeth. "The bayou?"

"We just got a report back. Allison Argent was there. She won't be a problem anymore. They burned the rest."]

[engender]

( Derek snarls, fighting against the chains futilely again.

"Allison?" Josh asks, not knowing she was even here.

(16) for Sierra knowing exactly who Allison is. That's a big score for Monroe. )

[regentem]

[Monroe sets her shoulders, as a couple of hunters enter the room. She turns and points to Hawthorne, attached to the back of Derek's pillar. "It's time for him."

She then looks over to the other, and tips her head to the side. "Take Claire too."

Davina stares back at her, jaw set and determined.]

That really a fight you want to pick?

[Monroe glares back at her. "I'm sure of it."

And with that, the two hunters drag Terry and Davina out of the room, and Monroe leaves not far behind them.]

[ostensively]

( "Davina!" Josh wrestles against the chains again but he's no match for the spell (4).

"Where are you taking them?" Derek asks. "He's human."

Sierra stays silent, like she should've from the beginning. )

[werewolfqueen]

[Monroe doesn't answer. The hunters haul up Davina and Hawthorne and leave the room, ignoring the protests of the others in the room.

And when the door closes, Hayley goes slack in the chains, before looking over at Derek with a sympathetic look.]

I'm sorry about Allison.

[ostensively]

( "There will only be something to be sorry about once we know there is. Monroe will say whatever she wants. She always has." Derek sticks to his guns. Allison isn't dead until it's proven. )

I don't know about you all, but I think we are wearing out our pitiful welcome. Anyone got a plan?

( "We're stuck. Like, trap in a Saw sequel stuck," Josh says.

"We need to get to their witch," Derek says. )

While it's likely it's a witch, it's also likely there is something else in this room. Something overlapping the chains. Did you feel it?

( "It feels like mountain ash," Derek remembers. "There's something else." )

Right. So. Either an object, tethering us all here because of a spell, or mountain ash we could see. ...Or, a witch on the wrong side of the picket line.

[werewolfqueen]

Or all of the above. We don't know how deep Monroe's pockets go or her resources. And we know that trying to recruit witches was how London happened.

[Hayley's been catching up. She waves one hand awkwardly.]

How do you suggest we break our way out of this?

[ostensively]

( She receives a wave in return. Fancy meeting like this Hayley. )

We need to find what's keeping a hybrid, a werewolf and a vampire? ( She guesses in Josh's direction. ) From breaking this chains. And fast. Why would they take Davina and Hawthorne?

[werewolfqueen]

Because the witches pissed her off, so she's going to make an example of their leader.

[It's what Hayley would do.]

And I think they already planned to make examples of all of us - she just moved up her time table with Davina.

[ostensively]

The witches fought back.

( She's pretty familiar with NOLA witches.

"We have to get out of here," Josh says, meeting Hayley's eyes. )

[werewolfqueen]

We will.

[And then she grins that dangerous Mikaelson grin.]

And then we'll make them severely regret ever coming here.