Helpful Hand (1)

Chapter 32 (2/3)

Celeste woke up from her slumber to find herself tied up to a tree in the middle of the bayou. Her mouth was taped shut, but Hayley walked forward and viciously ripped it off. She was surrounded by wolves. Hayley, Eve, and Derek had loaded rifles pointed in her direction.

"So what's this, payback? Look, I'm sorry I tricked you. I wasn't after you," She weakly apologizes as she moves against her restraint.

"What, and we were just collateral damage? You almost burned her and Jackson alive in that plantation fire," Eve exclaims in anger and flares her nostrils.

Celeste was struggling against her restraint, so Derek fired a warning shot. "Careful, sudden moves tend to make me homicidal. Hayley isn't any better with her pregnancy heightening her emotions," Derek threatens as he clocks his gun.

Celeste wasn't too impressed by his threat and teasingly asked, "What, you both going to kill me, honey?"

"No, we know better. See I know all about you. I know that you like to off yourself and then jump into other people's bodies. Well, that's not going to happen here. I know I can't kill you but try hexing us, Eve here will kneecap you. Go for her, and then, well, I'll really make it hurt."

Celeste stays quiet for a moment as she takes in Hayley's words and knows that she's stuck for the moment. She sighs before saying, "So what do you want?"

"Back in the nineties, you inhabited a witch named Brynne Deveraux, remember?" Hayley pauses for a moment and she saw recognition flash through Celeste's eyes. She knew she was getting somewhere and that she was going down the right direction. She continued, "Marcel had her, you, put a curse on a lot of werewolves so they'd only turn human on a full moon. "

"I see. Yes, that was me," Celeste confirms and nods her head in agreement. She turns her head for a moment to read Hayley and hypothesizes, "Let me guess. You want revenge."

Hayley shakes her head in disagreement when saying, "I want you to undo the curse."

Celest is taken aback by her words for a moment before collecting her thoughts and realizes the girl's wish wasn't far-fetched. The spell wasn't hard to break and she knew that if she wanted to make it out alive she'd have to grant what Hayley desired. If anything there could be an opportunity to use this moment for future reference.

Celeste told Hayley all the ingredients she needed and within a few short hours, the antidote was complete. She mixed it for a while until handing it over to Hayley and instructed, "It's herbs grounded into a paste. It'll act as a conduit for the spell. On the next full moon, your people become human. Feed it to them and the curse will be broken."

Hayley looks at the paste suspiciously and mutters, "Great way to poison us all at once."

"Look, I know you have no reason to trust me, but, Hayley, I actually like you. I was you, caring for Elijah when he cared more for his brother, and I ended up dead. So did a lot of others. This, call it a chance for me to give you what I was too in love to give myself. It's a chance to free yourself from the Originals."

"You believe her?" Eve questions Hayley.

Before Hayley could respond a few wolves in the pack start growling and Hayley looks forward, seeing that they were growling at Elijah. He stood a few feet away, behind Celest and asserts, "Whatever she has promised you is a lie."

"Elijah it's okay. We are okay," Hayley stated and she steps closer to Derek. Elijah walks forward and points to Celeste when he says, "She cannot be trusted."

"She is the only one that can help my pack," Hayley argues in defense.

"Do you have any idea of what she had done to our family?" Elijah spits out in pure hostility. Derek could sense the rise in Elijah's mood, so he puts his hand at the top of Hayley's shoulder as a precaution. Derek hasn't known Elijah long enough to trust his emotions. He promised Stiles he'd keep Hayley safe at all cost.