Chapter Forty: Power Play

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Henrik's Pov

Caleb was released from the hospital a few days after the accident and I was so relieved.

My fiance and the father of our son is alright and safe and has no permanent injuries 

Caleb called his boss and told him everything that happened and his boss was understanding and let him take a few days off so he could rest. Once he was better he could get back to work.

Since I didn't want him going anywhere he was resting in bed all day.

He's lucky that he gets to rest in bed all day and just watch movies or play games on his phone.

Unfortunately, I couldn't and I couldn't even join him in bed so we could cuddle.

Because I was now standing in Alison's living room along with the other girls.

Apparently the board game appeared on her dining room table so she believes it's going to be her turn.

Not only that, but detective Fury visited Alison at work this morning and told her that he received a finger that belonged to Archer.

Talk about creepy.

And because of the finger news, we're all freaking out.

"This isn't happening" Hanna shook her head.

"Yes, it is" Alison told her.

"No, A.D. doesn't get to poison Caleb bankrupt Lucas's company, ruin my reputation and then expose us for murder all in one go. No" Hanna angrily said.

I furrowed my eyebrows when she mentioned Lucas's company getting bankrupted.

Why the hell would A.D do that to Lucas when he has done nothing?

"Hanna" Spencer sighed.

"What? Where are the rules for this stupid game anyways? Everytime we fail a turn, the cops get a piece of Archer? What's next, his knee caps or his ear lobes?" Hanna angrily asked.

"Or the video of you two digging up the grave. We already know that A.D. has that" Aria said, looking at Spencer and Hanna.

"Is this punishment for Charlotte? We didn't find her killer and now A.D's gonna help the cops find us?" I asked.

It's not our fault that A.D gave us a day to figure out who killed Charlotte.

The cops can't figure out that mystery, they never did, and that bitch expected us to figure it out.

If anything that's their fault for trusting we could do it. Not ours.

All of a sudden we hear chiming from the board game making us all turn towards it. 

We all looked at each other before getting up and walking towards it and when we were close we looked down at it.

Each character was placed back at the starting line except for Alison's.

"My turn. Mystery location. Great" Alison sighed.

Spencer tapped the phone that was on the center of the board game and it turned on.

A message appeared on the screen.

"Solve the puzzle, get away with murder" Spencer read off what it said.

The screen changes and another message shows up.

"Or fail and go directly to jail" Emily finished.

I sighed and rubbed my temple with my fingers while the others looked worried.

"Alright, so we continue playing the game or the cops find out what we did. Didn't we already know that?"  Hanna asked.

"Yeah, but now it's a race. We have to solve this puzzle before the cops can solve Dunhill's murder" Aria said.

Great, just what we needed.

"Fury already suspects that Archer was killed the night he disappeared. He's gonna find out the truth" Alison told us.

The fact that that's true makes me even more worried. 

"No one can screw up their turn. Not anymore. If the cops get one more clue about what we did..." Spencer trailed off.

"It's game over" I finished.

The girls sighed but nodded in understanding.

I furrowed my eyebrows together, remembering something, and looked at Hanna.

"Hey, Han. You said Lucas's company got bankrupt, right?" I asked.

"Yeah" Hanna nodded.

"What's the name of the company?" I asked.

Hanna raised an eyebrow at me, "why?" she asked in confusion.

"Because I think I can help get the company their money back. But, first, I need to make some calls" I told her.

I'm not going to let Lucas suffer for something that he didn't do and isn't even apart of.

Back At Home

I watched with a smile as Caleb and Elias were sitting at the kitchen table together with my fiance helping our son with his homework.

Caleb didn't want to stay in bed all day and since Elias needed help he was more than happy to be the help he needed.

Plus, Caleb is better at math than me.

"Henrik, are you still there?" I heard Elijah asked.

I tore my eyes away from my boys and turned around and went back to what I was doing and that was making dinner.

"Yes. I'm here, sorry I was distracted for a second" I told him.

"No harm no foul, little brother" Elijah reassured me.

"Good, so do you think you can do what I asked?" I asked.

"Of course. You gave me the name of the company and now all I have to do is talk and with my compulsion the company will have its money back" Elijah explained.

I sighed in relief at that, "thank you. Really, thank you".

"Of course, besides you're doing the right thing in helping out a friend" Elijah said.

"I just don't want Lucas suffering because of us. He doesn't deserve that" I told him.

"Don't worry. I'll do everything I can to help him" Elijah said.

"Thank you, Elijah. You're the best" I smiled.

"Of course. I am your favorite sibling after all" Elijah smugly said.

I rolled my eyes at that, "you know damn well I don't have favorites so cut it out".

"Aw, little brother, you wound me" Elijah said in fake sadness.

I rolled my eyes.

"How are things back at home? Is my gallery still running smoothly? Are you and Maya good with running everything and clearing whatever paperwork I have?" I asked.

"Don't fret, little brother. All is well back at home and your gallery is running smoothly. Maya and I are doing our part of the job" Elijah reassured me.

"That's good. I just want to make sure that my job back at the gallery is going well" I sighed.

"And it is, don't worry" Elijah said.

"I know. I trust you and Maya" I smiled.

"That's good to know" Elijah said and I could feel him smiling.

I smiled at that and nodded.

It's nice to know that I can count on the Mikaelson siblings to have my back. The same way I can count on Maya.

I obviously still need time to see them as my siblings rather than seeing them as just the Mikaelson siblings.

But I'm glad to know that I have them as my friends no matter what.

The Next Day

Since I didn't really have anything to do today, unless something comes up with the game, I decided to just stay home.

Elias was at Madeline's house hanging with Stefan but he should be back in a few hours.

Right now I was with Caleb and the two of us were cuddling on the couch watching a scary movie.

And it's fair to say that my fiance had a few things to say about the movie. Mainly the characters.

"I swear to god I don't understand how nobody knew it was them. It was pretty obvious" Caleb scoffed.

I chuckled and shrugged my shoulders.

We were watching the scream 1996 movie.

It's our favorite movie. All of the scream movies are our favorites but we love watching the first one since that's where it all started.

Right now we were at the part where Sidney and her friends were eating lunch by the fountain.

"I don't know, I guess some people either overlooked it or thought it wasn't possible" I told him.

Caleb was annoyed that Sidney, Tatum and Randy don't know that the killers are Billy and Stu.

Well, Randy seems to think that it was Stu but we don't know if he really is joking or being serious.

"Tatum better not die. I love her, she's sassy and just really cool" Caleb said.

"Me too. I really like her" I nodded.

"Oh and Randy too. He's really funny and a goofball" Caleb said.

"Yeah he is but you have to admit that when it comes to scary movies and all, he's really smart" I told him.

Caleb chuckled and nodded in agreement.

He then checked his phone, most likely to look at the time, before looking at me.

"When do we have to go and pick up Elias?" he asked.

"Not for a few more hours. But Madeleine said if we're busy then she can bring him home, she doesn't mind" I told him.

Caleb hummed and nodded as he set his phone down.

"Well, let's take advantage of our son not being here and..." my fiance trailed off.

I yelped in surprise when Caleb pulled me closer to him, basically pulling me onto his lap.

I was now sat on his lap as he sat up on the couch, wrapping his arms around my waist as he smirked up at me.

"Have some fun" Caleb finished.

I chuckled and gently cupped his face with my hands.

"What about the movie?" I asked.

"We can watch it tomorrow. We deserve some alone time, and that's been hard to get with everything we have going on" Caleb said.

"Hm, true" I nodded.

"So, what's it going to be?" Caleb asked with a raised eyebrow.

I stared at him, biting my lip as I had an inner debate in my head.

Once I came up with my decision my eyes met my fiance's.

"I say you better get it started or we won't be doing anything" I smirked.

Within a second his lips were on mine, hungrily kissing me and I wasted no time kissing him back just as hungrily.

The kiss turned more heated as we tugged at each others clothes, wanting to desperately get them off.

Caleb quickly stood up from the couch, carrying and holding me tightly, and began to speed walk into our room.

I held onto him and removed my lips from his and went down to his neck and began kissing and biting, earning moans from him.

We entered our room and he immediately threw me onto our bed before getting on top of me and smashing his lips back onto mine.

And, well, you can already guess what happened.

Late At Night

Emily called the girls and I and told us to come over to Alison's house right away.

Caleb told me to go and that he would pick Elias up. We shared a quick kiss before I got dressed and left.

When we got there, not including Aria because she was somewhere, we were met with the sight of an upset Alison with an equally upset Emily.

Alison got her puzzle piece but she also found out some shocking, and quite disturbing, news.

Apparently, A.D had Emily's egg implanted into her and that's how she got pregnant.

The baby isn't Archer's.

Emily and Alison were sitting on the couch while Spencer had taken the puzzle piece and placed it where it needed to be placed.

When that was done her, Hanna and I walked into the living room.

Spencer sat down while Hanna went to comfort Alison while I went to comfort Emily.

"Do you need anything? Tea?" Hanna softly asked.

"No" Alison shook her head.

"Em, do you need anything?" I softly asked, putting my hand on her shoulder.

Emily said nothing and just shook her head.

I can tell that this news is taking a toll on them both and that's understandable, I'm just upset that I can't do anything to help.

None of us can.

All of a sudden we heard footsteps and we all turned around and saw Aria walking inside.

Finally, where the hell has she been?

"Hey, guys, sorry I'm late. What's going on?" Aria asked.

I glared at her and crossed my arms over my chest, "where were you? We were calling".

"Yeah, I'm sorry. Maverick and I were discussing wedding plans and all" Aria told me.

I gritted my teeth and did my best to keep my annoyance in check.

At least it didn't have anything to do with Ezra because I would've thrown a fit.

Aria looked at all of us before her eyes settled on Alison and Emily and she furrowed her eyebrows together.

"Did something happen?" Aria asked.

"Yeah. Something happened. For starters, you left Ali. You just abandoned her when she needed you" Emily angrily told her.

Aria frowned and she let out a sigh and looked at Alison.

"Ali, I'm sorry. Are you ok?" Aria softly asked.

"No, no. She's not ok. I'm not ok. No one's ok" Emily angrily snapped.

Alison sighed while I placed a hand on Emily's shoulder and rubbed it in order to calm her down.

"Em, she doesn't know" Spencer softly told her. 

"I don't know what?" Aria asked, confused.

"That A.D. stopped playing games and started playing God!" Emily yelled at her.

Aria looked even more confused at that while Spencer sighed before explaining further.

"A.D. stole Emily's eggs from the donation bank fertilized them and then used them to impregnate Ali" Spencer told her.

Aria's eyes widened at that.

She looked at all of us and when she saw us nodding our heads, confirming that it was true, horror washed through her eyes.

"What?" Aria gasped out.

"God, it still sounds crazy" Hanna muttered.

"Guys...um, I don't know what to say" Aria said, clearly speechless. 

"No one can imagine how violated and confused you both must feel right now but Aria or Henrik's turn is up next and who knows what A.D.'s gonna do to them" Spencer explained. 

I sighed and crossed my arms over my chest, feeling fear build up in me.

"We need each other. We cannot let this game rip us apart no matter what" Spencer sternly said.

She's right.

We need to stick by each other no matter what. We can't let this game get to us.

All of a sudden we hear a chiming from the board making all of us look at each other before walking towards it together.

We all stared down at the board and watched as the phone turned on and starts flipping through old highschool photos of all of us.

I held my breath as the pictures just kept on flipping as the board game was trying to decide.

It was either Aria or me.

Whoever it would land on, we have to be ready.

The photos kept on flipping more and more and the speed was beginning to worry me even more.

Finally, it stopped and...

I inhaled deeply and felt my heart stop.

It landed on me. It's my turn.

"Oh dear god" I breathed out, trying my best not to faint right then and there.

"Hen..." Aria muttered, looking at me in worry.

I sighed and rubbed my forehead, trying my best to keep it together.

"What does it want you to do?" Spencer asked in worry.

"I have no idea and I really don't think I want to find out" I muttered.

Hanna and Emily hugged me tightly, doing their best to comfort me and I appreciated it.

We heard a chime and it came from the phone.

I looked at the girls and they looked at me before we all looked down at the phone and we see a message appear.

I'm feeling generous so I'll give you three days. But don't take it for granted or else your asses get found and locked up behind bars.

"Since when is that bitch ever generous?" Hanna asked with a roll of her eyes.

I shrugged, unsure of how to answer that.

We watched as the screen flipped and another message was shown.

Tell Emily the truth about her first girlfriend. And take her so she knows it's not a lie. If you don't, I won't send another body part. I send the video of your friends digging up where he's buried.

That alone made my heart drop all the way down to my stomach as my face turned pale.

No...

Don't tell me...

I looked at the girls and saw them glancing at each other in confusion before turning towards me.

Emily looked at me with a raised eyebrow, "Maya? How does it know about Maya?".

"And what truth is it talking about?" Hanna asked.

I said nothing. I just kept silent.

I swallowed thickly before turning to Emily, trying my best to ignore the stares that I was getting from the others.

This can't be happening. This can't be happening.

I have to reveal to Emily that her first girlfriend is alive. I have to bring her to New Orleans as proof so she doesn't think I'm lying.

And if I don't, the video gets sent to the cops and our asses get put behind bars.

Oh god...

What do I do...?


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