I sat at a café waiting for Davina Claire with a cup of tea in front of me and playing with the ring on my finger. I was nervous about finally meeting her. We spent the last few months talking online before exchanging numbers and agreeing to meet in person.

"Danielle?" I looked up to see Davina looking at me questioningly.

"You must be Davina." I said smiling at her while standing. We shook hands before sitting down at the small table.

"Sorry. I don't have a lot of time to really talk today." She told me. "I have to get something for someone."

"A boyfriend?" I asked her smiling and she smiled down into her lap.

"No." she answered. "No boyfriends. Just someone who's going to help me with something."

"You went looking for someone like me in particular. A witch." I told her. "Why?"

"I'm trying to break a very old spell to save someone." She told me. "I have the witch's grimoire, but she's dead so I can't contact her."

"She's not one of the ancestors?" I asked and she shook her head. "Then that makes it even more difficult."

"Her only family alive can't know I'm trying to break the spell." She said.

"Do I get to see this spell?" I asked her and she thought for a moment.

"Until I know I can fully trust you, no." she answered and I nodded.

"Believe me, I understand more than anyone why that is." I told her. "What are the ingredients for the spell?"

"I'm still trying to figure that one out." She told me and I smiled.

"Well, this will be fun, won't it?" I asked her.

"So you'll help me?" she asked me and I nodded.

"Of course I will." I told her as her coffee arrived in a to-go cup. "Come. Let's go to where you need to go and get that thing for your friend." We finished our drinks before leaving for a store.

We arrived at a record store and went inside. Davina went straight to the counter and the man behind it.

"Here you go, Davina." He told her. Now, sometime you're gonna have to give me the low-down on why you're so hooked on ancient Icelandic folk music!"

"It's for someone else." She laughed.

"I sure hope so! Who's your friend?" he asked her.

"Joe this is Danielle. Danielle this my friend Joe." She introduced.

"Hi, nice to meet you." I said shaking his hand.

"Likewise." He said before I started to follow her out. Davina ran into a young man as he was walking out the door. He stopped and smiled at her before glancing at me. His smile fell and he looked like he wanted to say something before walking outside. Before we could follow him another man entered the shop.

"Hey there, cutie." He greeted Davina.

"Don't call me that." She told him, obviously unimpressed with him. He ignored her comment and plucked the record from her hands.

"So, I heard that you ditched your coven. That's too bad. That other Harvest girl, Cassie? She has been super helpful to all us wolves." He told her and I took a breath.

"She's making you moonlight rings, Oliver. I wouldn't call that helpful, I'd call that an alliance." She told him.

"Well, you can call it whatever you want. As long as we don't have to turn on the full moon anymore, it works for me." He told her before leaning in closer. "Look, I'd take off with your little friend if I were you. Things are about to get a little ugly in here." He then turned to the rest of the store. "Hey y'all, store's closed. Get out, now!" the patrons did as he said while Joe looked at him confused.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Joe asked him.

"It's Joe Dalton, right? You see, I've been studying up on this store. It's been a staple of the Quarter for ninety years... it was run by you, your daddy, and then his daddy before him?" Oliver asked and Joe clenched his jaw anxiously.

"That's right." Joe answered.

"Yeah, you see, the thing is, Joe, there just ain't many photos of anyone in your family..." Oliver pulled out a photo, showing it to Joe. "...But you." I saw Joe glance at Davina and looked to see her shocked face.

"Oliver, NO." she told him. Joe used his vamp speed to try and leave, but he was blocked by to other wolves. "Stop! Stop it! STOP IT!" the wolves and Joe fought before the wolves dropped fangs to bite him. Davina quickly hit them all with a spell that made them grab their heads in pain and fall to their knees, giving Joe the chance to escape their grasp bite free. "Joe, get out of here!" Joe ran as Oliver glared up at Davina. We quickly left the store after getting Davina's record back.

"Looks like the city is in quite the mess with wolves running it with the backing of witches." I told her.

"Come on." She told me. "I put you in danger by bringing you with me."

"Danger is something I'm used to." I told her.

"I want to show you something." She said after a moment of hesitation.

"Lead the way." I followed her to a church and she walked straight to some stairs and up to an attic. When we went in a stake with silver surrounding it like veins embedded itself in the wall next to Davina's head and she rolled her eyes.

"I don't know why you keep showing off." She sighed. "You know you can't hurt me."

"Oh, but the desire I have to do so." He told her before turning his glare on me. "Who's the girl?"

"Danielle." I told him. "Is the spell you wanna break on him?" I asked Davina staring at him.

"No." she told me holding her wrist on front of his face. I gaped at her in shock.

"I am Mikael, the vampire who hunts vampires." He told her. "Your young-thing blood does little to sustain me."

"Feed." She ordered. The veins popped out under his eyes before he bit down on her wrist and fed. "Stop." Mikael pulled away, clearly annoyed with her before wiping the blood from his mouth with his hand. He grabbed her arm and touched the bracelet on it.

"Oh, I wish I could rip this from you, break that which binds me to you and complete the task for which you resurrected me- kill the bastard who calls himself my son." Mikael told her.

"You can't take off the bracelet, and you can't kill Klaus. Not until I figure out how to save my friends from dying, too." She told him before turning to me. "That's the spell I'm trying to break."

"You want to break the link between an Original and his entire sire line?" I asked her amazed at her goal.

"Not his entire sire line." She corrected. "Just two vampires." She knelt next to a large trunk on the floor and opened it before pulling out a grimoire. "This is Klaus' mother's grimoire.

"The grimoire of the Original Witch." I said staring at it. "Where are you on trying to break the spell?"

"I've studied her mother's spell book for weeks. I'm getting close. Once I unlink my friends from Klaus' sire line, I will unleash Mikael to be the monster that he's so eager to be."

"Music to my ears, my little witch." Mikael smirked at her. Davina and I spent the rest of the day going over the old grimoire and making notes in her journal.

The next day, I went to the record shop for Davina to get another record for Mikael when I noticed it was closed.

"Aw, this sucks." Someone said behind me and I turned to see the young man from yesterday. "No trades today. I mean, it's worse for your friend, of course- guy had the market cornered on the ancient Icelandic folk scene."

"Those weren't for her." I corrected him and he chuckled before holding his hand out.

"I'm Kaleb." He introduced.

"Danielle." I said shaking his hand.

"Wow. Beautiful name! Terrible taste in music. You obviously need me." He said and I laughed lightly.

"Music wasn't for me either." I told him before walking away from him.

Later I was in the attic with Davina and Mikael studying the Esther's grimoire while taking notes in the notebooks we had.

"How frustrating." Mikael said pacing behind us. "Novices trying to interpret the work of a master." He said sighing dramatically.

"It's a simple de-linking spell!" she told him defensively.

"Simple?" he asked her. "You're trying to erase the link between Klaus and every single vampire he's sired."

"No. All I care about is Marcel and Josh." She corrected him. "You kill Klaus? They die, too. I can fix that. I have Esther's grimoire, it's just a matter of time."

"Perhaps I can help you solve the riddle." He offered and I gave him a look.

"Or you tell her a spell the releases you from her control and this room.

"You know, for somebody who doesn't know Klaus and is trying to kill him, you certainly share his paranoia. The sooner you perform the spell, the sooner I'll be free to kill the bastard." He told us. My phone went off and I looked down at it to see a message from Kaleb.

Coffee? Now-ish?

I smiled at the message before putting my phone away.

"What's that smile about?" Davina asked my smile grew.

"Remember the guy from the record store?" I asked her and she nodded. "He just asked me to join him for coffee."

"Then go." She told me. "I have to meet up with Marcel anyway." She got up and put her things away.

"Davina, I'm not interested in seeing anyone. I'm still getting over my last relationship." I told her.

"I'm not saying date the guy," she told me. "Just meet him. Make a friend other than me." I sighed before getting up and adding my journal with her stuff. She told me where she was meeting Marcel before we left the room together and went downstairs and to our separate destinations. I waited at the cafe for a while before I left with my tea to go to where Davina was.

"I hate to ask for a favor, but... I need a locator spell." I heard the black guy say to Davina. He must have been the vampire Marcel. "Something's missing... a white oak stake that's powerful enough to kill an Original." I froze before joining Davina and Marcel.

"White Oak can kill an Original?" I asked causing them both to look at me.

"Marcel this is my friend Danielle. Dani this is Marcel." She introduced and I nodded to him. he looked me over, familiarity flickering through his eyes.

"You want her to find a white oak stake." I reminded him. "Why?"

"Did one of them put you up to this?" she asked him.

"D, if that stake is used on Klaus, every vampire he's sired dies, too." He reminded her.

"I know." She told him. "But, what if I do find it? I mean, I-I'm not just gonna give it to Klaus! He and Elijah are both brutal, sadistic monsters!" Davina reminded him. Suddenly, Elijah appeared out of nowhere and began to pace around us.

"I do wish I could disagree with you. Tragically, however, you're quite right." He told her. Davina glared at Marcel who shook his head in annoyance. "Although, you and I both have excellent reason to find that weapon. I want to protect my family, and you want to protect your friends. We'd do well to forget our grievances and join forces."

"No." she told him coldly.

"Davina, just—" Marcel said worriedly.

"She said no." I told him.

"Stay out of this!" Marcel ordered.

"Don't yell at her for telling you what I told you!" she shouted at her friend and Elijah. "No, I'm-I'm done listening." She turned to Elijah. "For a long time, you and your family have had all the power. You manipulate and kill anyone who gets in your way. That time's over. From now on, you can know what it is to be afraid." Davina stormed away leaving an angry Marcel and a troubled Elijah in front of me.

"I need you to—" Elijah started and I laughed.

"You really think I'm going to help you find something that will kill you and your entire family?" I asked him giving him a skeptical look.

"It will help Davina protect her friends." Elijah tried. "People she sees as family."

"I tried that once. Protecting people important to me." I told him. "My sister was trapped by a witch working for a vampire because my sister tried helping my lover, another vampire."

"What does that have to do with this situation." Marcel asked me.

"The vampire my sister was working with was your brother." I told Elijah.

"Niklaus?" Elijah asked me and I smirked.

"Come on, you do have more than one brother. Well, you did." I reminded him. "Before Finn and Kol died. Remember that." I walked away from them and back to the church and helping Davina.

"Stare all you want, but as long as I have this bracelet, I own you." Davina told Mikael as I walked in.

"You foolish little girl. You imprison me here, you refuse my help, but all the while that hybrid monstrosity roams this city, free to pray on everyone you care about. Those few that remain." Mikael told her.

"Well that's a new way to be greeted back in the room." I said looking at Davina's notes. "They tried getting me to find the stake."

"Are you going to help them?" she asked me.

"No." I answered. "You are my friend and I want to see Klaus killed just as much as you do."

"Why?" she asked me.

"I have my own issues with the Original Hybrid." I told her. "He hurt my family. Let's just leave it like that." She gave me a small look when my phone went off. I looked down to see a missed call and a text from Kaleb.

Can I make it up to you over dinner?

I shook my head before putting my phone away.

"New guy again?" she asked me and I nodded.

"He stood me up and now I'm ignoring him." I told her.

"Why would he ask you out then stand you up?" she asked and I shrugged my shoulders in reply. "You could always talk to him."

"Over dinner like he wants?" I asked.

"It's not a date so why not?" she asked me.

"You're encouraging me to see a guy who just stood me up to find out why he stood me up?" I asked her and she nodded. I sighed and looked at her. "Why are you encouraging me?"

"I had a guy I liked once and Klaus killed him." she told me. "I just want my friends to be happy."

"I'm sorry about your friend." I told her. "I'll go out with him and you'll get all the juicy details." She laughed at me as I started out the door.

"Hey!" I turned back to her and she tossed me her bracelet. "Just in case."

"You going to be okay?" I asked her and she nodded.

"With or without the bracelet he can't hurt me, but they've seen you with me so you might be in danger now." She told me and I nodded.

I met Kaleb at a restaurant/bar and we spent the time getting to know each other.

"Tell me about your family." I told him.

"My family? Oh, no. They're all crazy as loons. How about your family?" he asked me and I shifted before licking my lips.

"Not much to say. I have two parents and a sister. All dead." I told him.

"I'm sorry." He said and I shook my head.

"It was a long time ago." I said twisting my ring around my finger again. He looked down at my finger and stared at my ring.

"Quite a ring." He said, his voice soft. "Where'd you get it?"

"A very unique man." I told him smiling at the memories.

"Am I stepping on any toes?" he asked me and I shook my head.

"He died years ago." I said smiling up at him. "All I have left are memories and this ring."

"Was he 'the one'?" he asked me and I laughed a little.

"He was the love of my life, yes." I answered. "But that doesn't mean I can't have more than one."

"Tell me more. About your family." He told me and I thought about it for a moment.

"My father was very strict with both my sister and me. Very old school. My sister went mad in a nut house. My mother had a very narrow path she wanted my sister and I to be on." I told her. "We didn't quite fit."

"Bet she was a control freak, right?" he asked me and I nodded. "Yeah, same as mine. She's the reason I stopped practicing magic for so long."

"You're a witch?" I asked him.

"Don't look so surprised, love. I didn't just ask you out because you're gorgeous. No, we're, uh... we're kindred souls." He told me and I gave him a look.

"Kindred souls?" I asked him. "Really?"

"I know your friends story, Danielle, I mean, she's practically famous." Kaleb told me and I sighed leaning back in my chair.

"So you asked me out to talk about Davina?" I asked him.

"Of course not. I was just telling you how I know you were a witch." He told me and I smiled. "I'm a lot like you. Don't really believe in rules and authority." We stared at each other for a moment until my phone started ringing. I looked down at it in confusion.

"Sorry about this. I'll make it quick." I said getting up to take the call.

"Mr. Mikaelson, what can I do for you this evening?" I asked Elijah.

"Tell me where the stake is." He ordered.

"I don't have it." I told him.

"Danielle every enemy my family will be coming for you and Davina with that stake in your position." Elijah warned me.

"Let them come." I told him. "I'll drop them all."

"Tell us where you are." Marcel ordered.

"What makes you think I'll tell you?" I asked him.

"We can talk about this." Marcel tried.

"I'm at Rousseau's. Don't bother coming. I'm leaving." I told him before hanging up and going back inside. Once I got back in I pushed past people to find Kaleb. Of course I was extremely confused as everyone was filing out of the restaurant. "Kaleb? What's happening?"

"Some fellow just announced they were closing for a private party." He told me annoyed.

"We should leave." I told him. "Now." A man with a group of werewolves approached us.

"And what's your rush, sweetheart? Why don't you stay and party with us?" He asked me.

"I don't party with mutts." I told him. "Move now." When the wolf didn't move, I dropped him with a pain inflicting spell that took him to his knees. Suddenly, his wolves started surrounding us.

"Can you do that with the rest of them, or...?" Kaleb asked me panicking.

"Just a few at a time." I answered as the wolf started getting to his feet. When he stood he shoved me across the room and into a wall making me cry out in pain. I looked up in time to see Kaleb try to shove him back, but he was thrown against the wall behind the bar, shattering several bottles upon impact. The wolves started to surround me. "You wanna play?" I asked them. "Let's play. Jwen mwen vennez ça maintenant." A wolf grabbed me and shoved me against the bar and tried to bite my neck. Before he could bite me, he was thrown across the bar by Mikael.

"You filthy dogs." As Mikael lunged for the wolves and began to fight them, I went across the bar to Kaleb's side as he watched Mikael fearfully. A wolf grabbed me and drug me across the bar towards him as I screamed. Mikael killed him before looking down at my wrist, smirking. I followed his gaze to see the missing bracelet and I turned wide eyes on Mikael. "Well, now. What an interesting turn of events." He picked me up off the floor by the front of my shirt and vamped out. "I'm going to enjoy this, girl. Then I'll go after your little friend." He was about to feed on me when Elijah arrived and shoved Mikael off me. When he saw Mikael's face, he looked completely shocked.

"Father?" Elijah asked.

"Hello, son. I'd hoped to see your brother first, but we have some unfinished business as well." Mikael told him. Elijah attacked him and I started looking for the bracelet I'd dropped. I looked up to see Mikael pull the white oak stake out of the waistband of his pants and go for Elijah's heart as Elijah tried to push him off. Marcel came to my side and tried helping me up.

"We're getting out of here." He told me.

"No! Marcel, I need my bracelet." He gave me a look and I threw one right back. "It can control him." Marcel found the bracelet and rushed to grab it and tossed it to me as Mikael impaled the tip of the stake in Elijah's chest. I quickly put the bracelet on as Mikael moved on from Elijah to me.

"Enough!" I shouted and he stopped. "Go back where you were. Now!" Mikael sighed before vamp speeding back to the church. "At least one man listens in this time period." Kaleb gaped at me in shock as Elijah and Marcel stared in horror. "Gentlemen." I nodded my head before leaving the bar.

The year was 1913 and I was walking down an empty street happily. I was going to meet a man in secret who my father would never approve of. I heard something behind me and turned to see what it was. Nothing. My lover was supposed to be meeting me after his family's Christmas party, but if something went wrong… I shook my head before continuing on my way.

"Hello love." I froze and turned to see Klaus behind me. He was the undeclared King of the New Orleans.

"Klaus." I said nodding my head. "To what do I owe the pleasure?"

"I hear you were meeting someone, little witch." Klaus said.

"What does it matter to you?" I asked him and he smirked.

"When the person you're meeting happens to be my brother," I gulped and started feeling nervous. "Then it matters to me very much."

"What do you want?" I asked him.

"What makes you think you're good enough for my brother?" he asked me walking closer to me.

"You don't get to decide that." I told him. "That decision is up to your brother."

"That decision is up to me." He said.

"Why?" I asked him. "Because you're the eldest brother? You're not. My life, and your brother's life, isn't up to you." He smirked at me and I took deep breath. He used his vampire speed to get behind me and he grabbed me around my waist holding my arms down.

"I'm afraid you won't be seeing my brother tonight." Klaus told me. "But he will be seeing you."

"He'll never forgive you for this." I warned him. "You kill me he'll turn against you."

"Goodbye, Danielle Claire." I screamed he bit into my neck.