She wanted to honor his wishes. Mourn his death, wait until her own demise and then reunite with him. She was strong when she visited him in New Orleans, and this was the one time he didn't know something new happening with her since he was busy killing himself for his daughter. Elijah had gone with, and he'd be reunited with Hayley. That's at least a win for the hybrid mother. But Caroline thought she was stronger than this. She rented an apartment for a week, relishing the memories she'd made with Klaus and regretting that she didn't look back. Not getting one last kiss, or telling him flat out that she was in love with him. What was the point however, if he was just going to die? She didn't need ptsd flashbacks of her wedding night.

She thought she was stronger than this. Caroline knew she was going to outlive everyone she cared about, as no one else she loved would become a vampire. She'd watch her girls have grandkids and great-grandkids and great great grandkids, she'd watch over her friends' children and their children and their children's children. But everyone had someone. Elena had Damon, three kids and a thriving medical practice. Bonnie got Enzo back and they'd had a son recently. Alaric didn't feel the need to date or put himself out there romantically anymore since every one of his girlfriends had died. And Matt was another story. But forget about that...

Klaus Mikaelson was a thousand years old when he first met her, when he left this world with grey veins covering his face and body he was a thousand and twenty. She still saw Hope reminiscing about her father and looking through his things, two weeks after. She still got calls from Rebekah, wanting to talk about Klaus and all the wonderful thing he'd done over the centuries. Kol actually wanted to talk sometimes as well to brag about his wife and to brag about Klaus. A week later she had to ask them to stop calling and took a leave of absence from the school to not see Hope and all the reminders of Klaus.

That didn't help. She could've become a shut-in and still thought of everything she and Klaus had done together. So she went to New Orleans, Skyped with her daughters everyday, and Alaric agreed to give her space to mourn. It'd been a month. She'd lost two loves of her lives. A hundred years from now, she'd have no one that she knew when she was still human. Absolutely no one.

So she asked for sanctuary at the Mikaelson mansion. Everyone excluding Hope followed her back and was kind of following her every action; late nights remembering everything over and over about Klaus, the good and the bad. She went through his paintings and found a self-portrait of himself, very small. Went through his letters, went through all of his things just as Hope had done.

It wasn't enough.

Two months after living with the Mikaelsons, she went to the art walk everyday, to remember. She studied the painters while they worked, and realized she understood them now because of Klaus. Time slowing and speeding up, sadness and grief and pain and anguish filled every stroke of every brush.

Three months into living with Klaus's family. She was still in New Orleans and Klaus was still dead. Alaric was still giving her space, she still skyped the girls everyday. Then one night Kol told her the story of how he was resurrected. He'd said it almost off-hand, like it wasn't relevant to anything. But if Klaus still was needed by his family, Hope still needed her father and Caroline still had things to tell him, how was that story not relevant?

So she talked it over with Davina, conferred with Bonnie and asked for Freya's help. They all agreed Klaus would be able to come back, but only if the Hollow didn't come along with him. They all agreed Klaus needed to come back.

"You have to communicate with him on the other side to know if it's safe to just pull him out." Bonnie said.

"Can any one of us do that?" Caroline asked.

"Since it's the Original family, it's tricky. Normally there's a lot of options when you're talking to the dead and it's black magic or the magic that I have. With Klaus as old and feared as he was, the options just dwindle. But the one you might have a chance with is sending someone who's seen him on another plane before; otherwise he won't be able to see or hear you."

"I can do it." Davina volunteered. "I'd been dead before, and communicated with him on the other side. Course I was trying to kill him then, and he might have something to say about the tables turning."

Kol tried to stop her, as he thought he would never see her again when she first died, and the process to communicate with his big brother required her to be dead again. But Davina, according to Rebekah, had grown since she met the Mikaelsons. She was smarter, much more powerful, and knew exactly how important Klaus was.

Bonnie helped put Davina into a medically-induced coma, which they turned into Davina dead, in a circle of white powder Caroline had no idea what the name was. Candles, incantations, and Rebekah and Marcel came to watch.

"Can-can I enter the circle, get into Davina's mind?" Caroline asked Bonnie.

"I don't think that'd be wise." Bonnie replied.

"And if you try it anyway you'll be reunited with my brother sooner than you realize." Kol threatened, his arms crossed.

Caroline could then only hope Bonnie was right, that Davina could make contact with Klaus, talk to him and get all the details they needed to bring him back. On top of that, she hoped Davina would tell him that Caroline was at the head of this, and wouldn't give up.


Davina had seen this place before when she was dead. It looked like the real world except everything was foggy and in unnatural lighting. Wind and ominous voices, just like last time. But she didn't have to stay.

"Klaus?" She called out, walking down the empty sidewalk of New Orleans, discarded flyers and litter flying about and getting caught on her clothes. Then she saw the Mikaelson manor. She got into it and using her magic, unlocked the chains of the gate.

It took a minute for Klaus to come to her, trudging down the stairs and walking sullenly to the impatient witch.

"What do you want." He muttered.

"You look like hell." Davina replied. "Look, we have a plan, we want to get you out." Klaus's eyes lifted to hers, but with no light of hope, no fiendish smirk, nothing. "What happened to you?"

"Well, you realize I've killed my parents several times, and they're on this side. Let's just say they've gotten a fraction of the revenge they planned for me." Klaus explained, a small tone of humor in his voice that died as soon as he stopped talking.

"Inadu, the Hollow." Davina stated. His eyes lifted to hers again. "Do you know if she's still with you?"

"Every minute of every day, dear sister in-law. True, the Hollow cannot use me to do more than wreak havoc on a load of the deceased, but when she isn't doing that, she does other things to ensure she's still active inside me."

"And do you see her? In the mirror, in your eyes, just in front of you with no reflections around?" Davina asked. Klaus looked away, considering.

"Some of the time. Mostly she just whispers to me." He replied. Davina looked around.

"Where's Elijah?" She asked. Klaus lightened a bit, smiling but still avoiding her gaze.

"Hope told him of Hayley before the Hollow was transferred into me. She's at peace, with her family. And Elijah spends most of his time dancing with her." He shrugged "He is coming back to see me in a day or two however." She nodded

"I'm going to have to talk this over with everyone else, but we are going to bring you back." Davina stated with determination. Klaus looked at her in surprise.

"Who's everyone?" He asked. Davina smiled

"Caroline, for one. She banded us all together because none of us could say goodbye."

"It's only been, what..." Klaus drifted off, thinking

"It's been six months for us." Davina said. He glanced back at her. "How long has it been for you?"

"As it seems with all other-worldly things, time is slower here. It's felt like decades already for me." Klaus replied. Davina nodded again.

"Caroline's leading all the witches you and she knew, we've gotten this far."

"Wait, does that mean Hope as well?" Klaus asked, panic suddenly overcoming his features.

"Well, yeah. Except she's not actually with us right now, she's still in Mystic Falls."

"Tell her to stay out of this. I do not want her anywhere near the Hollow, no matter what. If she continues to help I will make it impossible for you all...you shouldn't even be here." He looked away. "I deserve to stay here, as penance for my many sins."

"As much as I would've liked to agree with you a few years ago, you're wrong." Davina said. Klaus stared at her.

"Hope and Caroline are falling apart without you. Your family, is falling apart. Hope still needs her father." She replied.

"She has others in my place. I've only been her father for a handful of years in her life, she'll become stronger without me."

"Do you really want to take the chance that you're wrong about that?" She asked.

"I'm taking no chances, Davina Clare. I will not risk endangering my daughter from the selfish need to get out of this hell. I prefer to stay here." Klaus replied, walking away.

"Klaus." Davina called to him as he rounded a corner. She ran after him "Klaus!"

But he was gone.

She looked down at the pendant Bonnie gave her to bring herself back and stroked it, saying the incantation required, then gulped in a lungful of air.

Cement. Candles. Actual living people, flocked to hover over her, including Caroline.

"Where is he, is he okay, is he hurt?" Caroline asked hurriedly.

"He's in the other-side manor, and he's far from okay." Davina replied, sitting up in the circle. Bonnie broke the bond of the circle carefully and Kol dove in to embrace his wife.

"How do you mean, far from alright?" Rebekah asked, Kol pulling Davina to her feet.

"Think about it, Rebekah. Everyone he's ever killed is on the other side."

"Including our parents." Rebekah realized. Marcel held her in comfort.

"Well, what did he say to us bringing him back?" Caroline asked.

"Against it. Didn't want Hope involved in any way. If he finds out she still is, he said he's going to make it harder for us to pull him out."

"Obviously, bloody nobleman." Rebekah muttered, sniffling into her husband's shoulder.

"I told him you were helping, Caroline." Davina said, turning to the blonde. Caroline stared back at her, then looked away, running her fingers through her hair to think.

"Okay, we can try to pull this off without Hope. If not, Klaus doesn't need to know she's involved. Is the Hollow still attached to him?" She asked

"Very attached. It looked like she was draining his energy from him." Davina replied.

"What way was he able to see her?" Bonnie asked.

"Reflections, sometimes not reflections. There's Mikael who was his tormentor, then Inadu. She might even be worse than Mikael."

"Let's not be foolish now." Rebekah muttered, wiping her blonde hair from her face.

"Okay, so the Hollow is in Klaus's four parts. His magic side, werewolf side, vampire side and human side." Bonnie said. Caroline looked at her best friend.

"What does that mean?" She asked

"We have to corral the Hollow into one part of Klaus, then cut that part from him. He comes back, he'll be missing a part of himself like it's a lost limb. Who knows if we'd be able to get it back, either. Without the Hollow using it as a gateway back into our world."

"We'll do whatever it takes." Caroline decided, crossing her arms and looking at the circle Davina still stood in. "We are bringing Klaus Mikaelson back." She looked at everyone in the room. "I'm willing to take this to the end. Till death. Although someone's gonna have to resurrect me." She smiled at her own nervous joke. "I'd understand if you guys aren't as committed to this as I am."

"I definitely, want my big brother back." Rebekah said without hesitation. She stared ahead at Caroline, and Marcel switched his stance.

"I want my mentor and father back. New Orleans wouldn't be the same without him." Marcel said, smiling nervously as well.

"Klaus Mikaelson is Hope's father, and she needs someone who's like her to guide her through all those difficult stages of her life. Not to mention all the good he's capable of doing outside of that." Davina said. Kol tightened his grip on his wife.

"I'd like my big brother back as well. My wife stays alive, Hope gets her father back, and our family is a secure again." Kol said.

"I'd have to actually be there to help, of course. But when the baby comes and Keelin is safe, I want my little brother to see our baby. Hope still misses her father terribly, even if she doesn't show it. Not having one parent in her life with tear a hole in her, I'm sure of it." Freya said over the phone propped up so everyone could see her.

"Yes, Hope definitely needs her dad back." Keelin agreed out of the camera's sight, but still loud enough for most in the room to hear. Everyone looked to Bonnie.

"I'm here for Caroline and Hope. If this ends up hurting Enzo, I'm out. But for right now, I'll go as far as you will." Bonnie said. Caroline nodded and smiled with understanding.

"Looks like we're off on a secret little mission." Kol announced.