Selina and Klaus looked at one another. "How did you get turned back?" She asked Adrian. "What happened to Helene?"

"She's getting her powers taken away," Adrian said and poured himself a bowl of cereal. After he took a few bites, he held out his arms to Klaus. "Can I hold Lissy now?" He asked. Klaus hesitated. Laura poked Adrian. "Who are you?" She asked. "Are you gonna take Lissy away too?"

"No," Klaus said before Adrian could speak. "He's not, Laura." He held Lissy closer to himself.

"Cause she's staying right here."

"All I want to do is hold her," Adrian said. "Mom, would you mind...?"

"Nicky, let Adrian hold Lissy. He has the right to," Selina said.

"But..." Klaus said. "I don't want him to!"

"Give her to me then," Selina told him.

Klaus' eyes narrowed. "Are you gonna give her to Adrian?"

"Yes," Selina nodded. "Nicky, you're acting more like a baby than Lissy is. Now just give her to Adrian. Please."

Reluctantly, Klaus handed Lissy over and Adrian took her, grinning when she stayed a baby and didn't turn into anything else.

"Now you come," Selina said to Klaus, pulling him up. "We have to talk."

She led Klaus into the next room and said, "What was that?"

"I don't want him holding Lissy," Klaus said. "He could do it wrong."

"Nicky, he's her father," Selina reminded him. "You have to at least let him see her."

"He did see her," Klaus said. "But handing her over to him was not part of the deal. What are you gonna tell me next? That he should get to take her home with him?"

Selina shook her head. "I don't know," she said. "I have to go to our room and take a breather from the two of you. I'll be back in a bit."

When Selina got back to the kitchen, she found Adrian and Klaus throwing cupcakes and pies at each other.

"Hey!" She yelled. "Just a minute! What's going on here?" She stepped a little further into the kitchen and got hit square in the face with a chocolate cream pie.

She growled and wiped filling off her face before managing to get in between Klaus and Adrian. "Hey, hey, hey!" She said. "What the hell is going on here?"

"He started it!" Adrian replied.

"I didn't ask who started it," Selina told him. "I asked what made it happen. What could possibly inspire the two of you to take the baked goods I worked so hard to make and use them to have a food fight worthy of 'The Great Race' in my kitchen?!"

Klaus grinned at the fact that she still had pie filling on her face and in her hair, then cleared his throat. "Well, you know, love," he said, "these things happen. I couldn't very well beat up on him, could I? This was the next best thing."

Selina narrowed her eyes. "You're not helping yourself," she said. "Now, what we're gonna do is we're all gonna go to separate rooms to calm down and then we're gonna clean this up. You got me?" She turned around and slipped on a cupcake wrapper, but Klaus caught her before she fell to the floor.

"Thank you, Klaus," she said stiffly before striding off.

Klaus looked at Adrian and said, "I'll get this sorted out." He went to the bedroom where Selina was preparing for a shower.

"What do you want?" She asked when she saw him.

"Are you gonna take a shower?" He asked.

"Well, yeah!" She nodded. "I'm a mess!"

Klaus nodded. "I am too. Perhaps we could go in together and..."

"No," Selina cut him off. "This is all your fault, so you'll wait your turn. Thanks to you and Adrian's emotional pissing contest, I lost two to three days worth of inventory! I'm gonna have to call Edith and tell her that we're gonna close down for a couple of days while we re-bake all that the two of you destroyed. I hope you're happy! Do you enjoy making me upset?"

"No," Klaus replied, his face softening. "Never. How about after we both get cleaned up, we go clean up the kitchen? I'll help you, and get Adrian to as well."

Selina had been facing away from him, but now she turned. "Really?" She asked. "You will?"

"Yes," Klaus nodded. "I will."

"Well then, I suppose that after we clean up the kitchen, you and I could come back here and have some time alone," she said. "I don't think it would hurt anything."

"That's not what I thought you'd say," Klaus told her.

"Really?" Selina asked. "What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking you were gonna tell me that I was in trouble and in punishment for what Adrian and I did."

Selina sighed. "I can't say I'm happy about it, but what does staying angry really accomplish, anyway? You told me you'd help me clean the kitchen up and that's good. It's a step in the right direction. That's why I'm rewarding you afterward."

Klaus grinned. "Oh, of course you're just doing this for me. It's not like there's anything in it for you at all, is there?"

Selina nodded. "Well, there might be. And I might just like it. A lot." She grinned. "Now, I have to shower and so do you."

"Which is why I think it would be a lot more efficient to have both of us in there at the same time," Klaus told her. "Don't you think?"

"Oh, come on, Nicky," Selina told him, grinning a little. "I know the only reason you want to go in the shower with me and it has nothing to do with efficiency."

"You can't deny that it would take less time," Klaus said.

"Yes I can," Selina nodded. "Cause it would take more time. You'd get distracted. We both would."

Klaus sighed. "Fine. If this has to be a business shower, you go first and I'll wait out here."

Selina nodded. "All right." So as not to tempt him, she went into the bathroom, undressed and turned the shower water on.

Klaus got on the bed, lay back and shut his eyes, letting images of Selina drift in front of his vision. It wasn't as good as seeing her in real life, but it was close enough. Soon, he heard her voice. "Nicky? Nicky, I'm done. You can go in the bathroom now if you want."

He opened his eyes and saw Selina in a bathrobe and wet hair grinning back at him. "Are you okay?" She asked.

"Oh, yes," he nodded, sitting up. "I'm fine." He got off the bed and immediately began stripping his clothes off.

"Hey!" Selina said. "I was nice! I changed in the bathroom!"

He turned. "Sorry I'm not so charitable, love," he said. "But it will give you something to think about while we clean the kitchen."

Selina rolled her eyes while Klaus strode naked into the bathroom. When the door was closed, she shook her head. It was amazing how even when he was covered in cupcake frosting and pie filling, she still found him incredibly alluring.

"Okay, boys," Selina said later when she, Adrian and Klaus were standing in the kitchen. "We have to get this place cleaned up. You two do the dishes and I'll wipe off the counters and the floors."

Adrian looked at the pile of dirty dishes. "But do you see how many there are? It's gonna take forever!"

Selina nodded. "Well, you should have thought of that before you decided to have your little pie fight, shouldn't you? Don't worry. With the two of you working together, I'm sure it won't take much time at all."

Adrian grumbled and turned the faucet on. While he and Klaus washed the dishes, Selina made quick work of the counters and then got down on her knees to do the floors. Klaus noticed this out of the corner of his eye, turning so he could get a better view of her butt wiggling as she scrubbed. "Dad," Adrian said, waving his hand in front of Klaus' face. "Dad, what are you doing?"

Klaus moved Adrian's hand away. "You're making it very difficult for me to watch, Adrian!"

"Watch what?" Adrian asked, and then saw immediately what his father had been looking at. His face twisted. "Oh, god! Do you have to do that now? I'm standing right here! Don't you think I went through enough of you two doing that in my childhood?" He quickly turned back to the sink.

Selina stood up. "What's going on?"

"I was merely admiring you from behind and I don't think Adrian should have a problem with that just because Helene is gone, should he?" Klaus asked her.

Selina put her hands up. "I'm not getting involved," she said. "if you two are having a problem, work it out yourselves. Peacefully and with words like civilized people. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom." She left the kitchen and Klaus followed her.

"You were looking at my ass, weren't you?" She asked.

"Well, what other meaning could there be for the phrase 'I was admiring you from behind'?" Klaus asked. "You're not going to berate me for that, are you?"

"No!" Selina shook her head. "But don't you think that with Adrian here, you should be a bit more discreet? I mean, no one likes to think that their parents have sex. No one. And we've been hanging our sex life over his head his whole life."

"So, what's the problem then?" Klaus asked. "He should be used to it by now. I don't see anything wrong with how we do things, or the frequency with which we do them. This is our house and he should just deal with it."

"Actually, it's my and Elijah's house," Selina pointed out. "Not to split hairs or anything. Just being accurate."

"I meant it's the house that we're living in and he's not," Klaus told her. "He just showed up. He didn't even call first!"

Selina sighed. "Do you really feel you need to hammer this all out now?"

"Yes!" Klaus nodded.

"Fine," Selina said. "But it will just be one more delay until you see me naked."

Klaus sighed. "I suppose we don't have to do this now." He turned to go back into the kitchen while Selina went to the bathroom and when she came back, they worked vigorously until the kitchen was clean. Then, they went into the living room to talk, even though Klaus insisted he didn't really need to.

"I think we do," Selina said. "Don't try to deny it, Nicky." Klaus sat down in Elijah's chair and Selina didn't know whether to scream or giggle.

"What?" Klaus asked when he saw her face contort slightly. "What's the matter?"

"Nothing," Selina shook her head. "That's Elijah's chair that no one is allowed to sit in but him, but I guess since he's not here, anyone can sit there if they want."

"No," Klaus said, standing up and dusting the seat off. "I'll move and come sit next to you."

"Has Roxie seen the two of you?" Adrian asked. "Does she know about this?"

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "We've told her. She was happy." She paused. "Now, onto important things: what is the deal with you two and what can we do to make it better?"

"He won't let me near Felicity!" Adrian accused. "And I'm her father!"

"You asked him to take care of her," Selina reminded him. "And it's been a month. Did you think you could just leave her with him and he wouldn't get attached to her?"

"Yeah, I suspected that he'd get attached to her," Adrian said. "But not enough that he'd be unwilling to give her back."

"When you brought her to me, you asked me to raise her," Klaus said. "You didn't mention anything about that only being for a certain amount of time. You made it seem like I'd have her for her entire life."

"And I that that's what would happen!" Adrian nodded. "I didn't expect Helene to go crazy and get hauled off so her powers could be taken away. And since she's gone, since the reason I gave you Felicity in the first place has been fixed, circumstances have changed."

"Adrian," Selina told him. "Do you really think that if we gave Felicity back to you, you'd be confident enough to care for her well even though you live by yourself?"

"I don't know," Adrian admitted. "But I could figure it out."

Selina sighed. "I'm sure you could, but I really think it would be best for Felicity to stay here with your Father and I, at least until she's older. Then we can reevaluate. But that doesn't mean you can't come visit her. We'll let you."

Adrian sighed. "All right," he said. "Fine. I'll go home and live alone. I suppose I deserve it, don't I?"

"It's a hard fact about life," Selina said. "Sometimes, you have to be alone. But it will only be miserable if you choose to make it that way. Try and find fun things to do. It'll distract you and make the time go faster. I'm sure it won't be long you'll have to be by yourself. I had to wait almost fifty years between the time your uncle Aleksandr left me and I met your dad. Those were dark days." She shivered and shook her head.

"Great," Adrian said, running his fingers through his hair. "That really makes me feel better."

"It should," Selina told him. "Because I know you'll handle your solitude better than I did." She paused. "What did you two do with Lissy?"

"She's in her room," Klaus said.

Selina nodded and stood up. "I'll go get her," she told Adrian. "So you can say goodbye for now." She paused. "Unless you wanna stay here and tell us about your time as a bunny."

"No," Adrian shook his head. "I don't want to think of that again, thank you. Yep, I'll say goodbye to Lissy and then be on my way."

Selina nodded. "All right." She went to get Felicity and as she was picking Felicity up out of her crib, she felt a tug on the bottom of her sweater. She turned and saw Laura staring back at her. "Who's that man that's here?" She asked.

Selina got a good grip on Felicity and said, "You mean the one that looks like Uncle Klaus?"

Laura nodded.

"That's Adrian," she said. "He's Felicity's daddy."

"But I thought Uncle Klaus was Felicity's daddy," Laura said. "That's what he always says!"

Selina shut her eyes. "It's very complicated," she said. "I'll explain it to you when you're older. For now, just believe me that Adrian is one daddy to Felicity and Uncle Klaus is another, just like it is with you and Uncle Klaus."

"Oh," Laura nodded. "Okay." Selina left Felicity's room and Laura followed. When Selina put Felicity in Adrian's lap, Laura climbed onto the sofa and watched them intently.

"Yes?" Adrian asked her. "Can I help you?"

"You do look a lot like Uncle Klaus," Laura said. "I was just looking."

"Nice outfit you're wearing," he said.

Laura looked down at her purple dress, jeans and pink tennis shoes and grinned. "Thank you," she said. She paused. "Did you know the mean lady who took Lissy before?" Laura asked Adrian.

He looked up. "What mean lady?" He asked, looking alarmed.

"She's talking about when Helene came to get Felicity," Selina explained.

"Oh," Adrian nodded. "Yeah," he told Laura. "I know her."

"She's a bad person!" Laura proclaimed. "Put your teeth in her and make her die!"

"Laura!" Selina said. "We don't say things like that about people. Where did you hear it?"

"From Uncle Klaus," Laura said. "I came out of my room once and he was talking to himself."

Selina gave Klaus a look. "I wasn't actually gonna act on it!" He defended himself. "Well, no more than I already did. I didn't want to kill her. I just wanted to scare her a little."

"What did you do?" Adrian asked. "What happened to her?"

"Nothing much," Klaus said. "Helene just had a little accident after she hurt Lissy so she would know what it feels like to be weak and helpless and have no one around to help you."

"She's better now," Selina assured Adrian. "And your father won't do anything like that again."

"Don't say that," Klaus said. "Let's just wait and see what future crimes she commits before making a promise like that."

"Well, I highly doubt she'll be able to do much without her powers," Adrian told him. "You're just lucky she's not dead!"

"And what if she was?" Klaus asked, standing up and smirking at his son. "What then? Would you try and kill me?"

Adrian nodded. "Oh, yes. You can be sure of that."

"Hey!" Selina said. "That's enough. Adrian, you go home. Nicky, Let's go put Lissy in her bed and then go to our room, okay?"

Klaus glared at Adrian, then struggled as Selina grabbed his arm and tried to pull him away. Klaus pulled his arm out of Selina's grip and then held both arms out to Adrian. "Give me Lissy back," he said.

Adrian looked down at Felicity, hugged her, sat down on the sofa, kissed her head, hugged her again, and whispered, "I'll come back, I promise," before reluctantly giving her back to his father.

"Well, that was fun," Klaus said when Adrian was gone.

"Could you have been anymore subtle about the fact that you wanted him gone?" Selina asked. "That's not the way to act toward your child! Especially when you're on the winning end of the argument. You just rubbed it in his face!"

"He's not a child!" Klaus pointed out. "He can take care of himself. We don't have to coddle him anymore."

"Maybe," Selina agreed. "But that doesn't mean you don't have to be civil." She paused. "I'll be in our room. Come in when you're ready."

She left and Klaus looked down at Felicity, who seemed surprisingly happy for someone who had just been fought over. She stared calmly back at him and then cuddled against him before falling asleep.

Klaus stared down at her and then brought her in her room and rocked her for a bit before he heard a knock on her bedroom door.

"Yes?" He called.

Selina pushed the door open a bit and stepped in. She was wearing black panties this time. "Did you forget about me?" She asked. "You must really like Lissy if you did."

Klaus stood up and put Lissy in her crib, then followed Selina out the door and into their bedroom. As she unbuttoned his shirt, he said, "Sorry to have kept you waiting."

Selina shook her head. "It's not a problem. You were busy." He immediately took her in his arms, picked her up, and captured her mouth with his. He carried her over to the bed and gently tossed her onto it before taking off his shirt, throwing it on the floor, and unzipping his pants, then climbing beside her.

"Oh, come on," Selina said. "You have to take it all off. I mean seriously!"

"You're right," Klaus said as he kissed her neck. "I am a bit overdressed, aren't I?" They got him out of his pants and his boxers and then Selina got out of her underwear so they were both naked in bed. Klaus picked up a corner of the sheet and rubbed it against Selina's shoulder. "Do you like the feeling of silk against your skin?" He asked her.

"Yes," she nodded. He brought the sheet down her arm and then she twisted her body around to kiss him again. They were sitting on the bed wrapped around each other, kissing furiously as he pushed into her. "Oh, Nicky!" She breathed. "That's so good!" He then eased her down on the bed, nipping at her neck, and then licking up the tiny amount of blood that appeared.

"You taste so good," he said as he licked the blood off his lips. "Can I have more?"

Selina paused. "Don't go there, Nicky," she said.

"Go where?" He asked, kissing her stomach. "Here?" He kissed her inner thigh. "Or here?" She squirmed happily. "No," she said when she was able to focus again. "We won't play the biting game while we have so many little kids around. You know how unstable it makes me."

"I didn't say you had to bite me," Klaus said, taking her hand. kissing her fingers, and stroking her wrist. "All I said was that I want a bit more from you. Is that so wrong?"

Selina sighed. "Fine," she said. "You can have more. But not too much."

He kissed her neck again, and as he bit down, he also pushed into her, and Selina's whole world exploded.

By the time they were done, both were sweaty and panting heavily. "I don't know how long it will be until I'm able to move again," Selina said.

Klaus kissed her lips. "You were fabulous," he said.

Selina pulled out of the kiss with a grin. "Well, thanks," she said. "So were you. But I think you've killed me."

Klaus grinned. "No, I haven't. You'll be better in an hour or two."

"Why did you bring me to work with you, Grandma Astrid?" Lenora asked. "Is it because I lost Tobias? Grandpa said I wouldn't be punished for that."

"I didn't bring you here to punish you," Astrid said. "I just thought it would be a nice treat for you to see where I work."

They arrived at Astrid's office and found a man with short dark hair, severe blue eyes and wearing dark clothes under his black cape waiting just outside the door.

"Good morning Astrid," he said.

"Mr. Black," Astrid greeted him. "What are you doing here? I wasn't aware that we had an appointment."

He shrugged. "We didn't. But I've noticed a few things out in the world that need to be attended to and, as the rules say, I need the permission of a councilmember before I can carrry them out."

Astrid sighed, pushing her blonde hair out of her eyes. "All right," she said. "Let's go inside." But just as Astrid opened the door, the man noticed Lenora.

"And what's your name, little lassie?" He asked.

"Lenora," she answered, her voice shaky. "Who are you?"

"My name is James Black," he said. "Though no one ever calls me anything but my last name. It's my job to scare people and make sure they behave."

"Well, you're doing an awfully good job," Lenora said. He was certainly making her feel uneasy.

"Enough, Black," Astrid said. "Come inside and say what you need to say."

They all went into Astrid's office and sat down.

"May I state my business?" Mr. Black asked."Or at least one piece of my business."

"Fine," Astrid said. "What is it?"

Mr. Black took a scroll out of his bag, and read from it. "Around the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, a young woman used her powers to break up the relationship between her brother and a woman he disliked by bringing an old boyfriend of the woman's back from the dead as a distraction. I'm sure the motives of that witch were purely self-serving."

"This must have happened awhile back," Astrid said, looking through some files. "I have no record of that ever happening."

"It could be because the witch in question was technically not the sort you usually bother yourselves with," Mr. Black said. "Apparently, she was a vampire that had some magical training."

Astrid shrugged. "If she's not actually a witch, there's not much we can do."

"But she raised a man from the dead!" Mr. Black said. "And she did it to interfere with a relationship that was making her unhappy. That's breaking two rules right there! And since she's a vampire, she'd have a good long time to learn her lesson in my humble home."

"Wait a minute!" Lenora said. "My Grandma used to live in Mystic Falls! Who's the bad witch?"

"Her name's Anna Mikaelson, I believe," Mr. Black said. "So, can I bring her in? Business has been a bit slow lately. Apparently my reputation precedes me."

"Wait!" Lenora said, her eyes widening. "Grandma Astrid, he's talking about Aunt Anna!" She turned and narrowed her eyes. "You can't take my Aunt Anna to your bad place!"

"Exactly," Astrid nodded. "I'm sorry if your business has been slow, but that's no reason to interfere with other species."

Mr. Black grinned. "Oh, yes?" He said. "Try and stop me." And then, before Lenora or Astrid could do anything, he disappeared.