"So what is so important that you had to come all this way, love?"

Caroline took a deep breath. She really should have come up with a plan in the car, but she had been a little preoccupied what with discovering she potentially had a kid. From the future. With KLAUS, of all people! So now she was forced to just gape stupidly ahead while everyone looked to her for answers.

"Ok so here it is..." she paused, "So...here's the thing...well...it's sort of like...ummmm..."

Before she could finish, Lizzie chuckled, "Why don't we let me take it from here? Hi, I'm Lizzie. You really already know that where I'm from but I'm sort of from the future so I figured I'd make this a little less weird. Long story but I'm sure you'd like to hear it. You're not really one to trust on word alone, even from your own kid. Though you don't know me yet so I guess that's kind of a double whammy."

For the first time in the gang's short history of knowing Klaus, he appeared completely dumbstruck and remained silent. Like her mother, awkward silence did not deter the little girl from continuing however.

"I am your youngest daughter. From some point in the future. I came here because I really need to see a certain witch. But if you don't know her yet or she's like super busy any witch will be fine. Unless you've met that really horrid mean one at this point. She isn't going to work out so well."

"My...daughter?"

"Youngest. Yes. You have two. Or at least right now you do. Though I suppose it's probably going to stay at two since Mom is a vampire again and..."

"Hayley...isn't your mother?" he interrupted, looking a bit like he'd downed wolfs bane, "I have...two daughters?"

Caroline held in her own chuckle. Ok, so she had probably sounded about like that when Lizzie told her, too. But it was somehow much funnier to watch the confused look on Klaus's face.

Lizzie rolled her eyes, "Yes. Keep up, will you? Maybe I should go to Uncle 'Lijah and explain while you sort this out. He gets along a lot better with the witches anyway. Is he here?"

Mention of his brother finally shook Klaus from his stupor and he turned to glare at Caroline, completely ignoring Damon and Elena's presence, "What lies have you and your little gang concocted now? Bringing a child into this won't stop me from ending your pathetic little existences."

Caroline scoffed, "Seriously? Do you really think I'd be down here in the freaking bayou with you and some kid if it weren't true? Or at least if I didn't think it could be? That' s why Lizzie needs a witch. We need some tests or something to prove it one way or the other, and if it's true we have to get Lizzie back...wherever or whenever it is she came from!"

"Why should I believe you?"

"You always believe her," Lizzie said, sighing, "You don't trust anyone in the world but her."

That caught Klaus off guard again as he looked down at the child with narrowed eyes. She didn't back away from his glare, tilting her head arrogantly as Caroline had seen him do so many times when faced with a challenge, her own blue eyes just as dark and fierce as his. She still wasn't sure if Lizzie could be her daughter but she would almost be willing to bet her life that the child belonged to Klaus. No one else, with perhaps the exception of herself, would ever be so bold. Plus, how else would the child be a super hybrid? Nothing else made sense.

"Well, I think all of this is nonsense but there is only one way to be sure. Come, sweetheart. Let's get you to a witch."

Lizzie grinned, "Yay! I can't wait to see Davina!"

He paused in his tracks, "How do you know about Davina?"

"I've known her forever. She lives right up there," she said, pointing toward a room above their heads, "So I guess you have met her, huh?"

"Why don't you go up to whichever room it is that you must think is yours? I need to speak with your friends alone."

She laughed, "They aren't my friends. Well, I guess D and 'Lena are. Caroline is my m..."

Caroline put her hand quickly over the girl's mouth and smiled, "New friend. We can talk about that part later, Liz. Go ahead and let us talk for a minute, ok?"

Klaus looked at her suspiciously but shook his head. There was no way this was true. He had to explain to Caroline and the rest of the Mystic Falls crew that had followed her here why it was not a possibility. The girl had just confirmed it herself.

"So...what do we do?" Elena asked, speaking for the first time since they'd arrived, "Where's Davina?"

Klaus smirked, "I know it's a lie, Elena. Now why don't you all just come clean so I can kill you and continue on with my day?"

Damon frowned, "Look, dick, we didn't come all this way to try and kill you. We can't kill you if we wanted to. Which we do..."

Caroline glared at him, "Look, Klaus, this is serious. All of the signs point to Lizzie telling the truth. I think a witch may have sent her here or something, I don't know, but if you spend any time with her at all you'll see..."

"Enough!" he bellowed, "I am through with the lies. It's not possible."

"I didn't think a lot of things were possible before five years ago but the fact is..."

"The fact is the girl is lying. If she were from the future, she'd have no way of knowing Davina."

"Why not?"

"Because Davina Claire is dead."

"Any luck?"

Klaus wanted to reassure her. He wanted to reassure himself, for that matter. But the De Blanc witches were dead. There was no one to threaten, no one to interrogate, no one to kill. No one to distract him for even a second with a little blood on his hands away from the frustration and near agony of his daughter's disappearance. The house had been just as abandoned as it had been the night he and Marcel had killed them all.

"There was nothing there that I could see, love," he said, sighing at the desperation in her red-rimmed blue eyes, "Perhaps when Bonnie returns she can provide a little magical insight. But until then, I..."

"We have to do SOMETHING, Nik. She could be anywhere!"

"I know, love. Every supernatural and human being under my control in this city and every other is under strict orders that no one rests until Lizzie is found. They are on every street in New Orleans and beyond. Elijah and Marcel are still searching the De Blanc house, making sure we didn't miss anything. Rebekah and Hayley are scouring the swamps with every werewolf in our clans. Davina and the other witches are going through my mother's grimoires to see if anything fits with what Andrea told us. We will find her."

"I've never felt so helpless. I can't...function. I need something to do. But every time I try and do anything I just fall apart. She needs me and there's nothing I can do for her. I'm failing her every second she's not here with me!"

He pulled her close to his chest and kissed the top of her head, her sobs breaking his heart even as his own pain echoed through her, "You, my love, are nothing near a failure as a mother or as anything else. Lizzie is a Mikaelson, and one of the strongest beings in the world. She will be fine and we will have her back with us. I won't stop until we do, I promise."

"Caroline!"

The doors of the compound burst open and Bonnie rushed in, Caroline breaking away from Klaus to embrace her best friend.

"I felt something, something big! Someone is pushing power over from the Other Side. A LOT of power. And that's not the worst of it."

"What could be worse than that?"

"It's familiar power. I've felt it before," she paused and turned to Klaus, "It's your mother."

"Curse that Bennett!"

Esther rarely lost her temper but to be betrayed by one that had once felt nature's imbalance, a fellow practitioner of magic. Sure, Bonnie was no longer a witch due to her own mistakes but she should have learned from them! Vampires were nothing but a bane on the existence of the world; a bane she herself had created and knew she must stop. The spirits had not forgiven her and her time on the Other Side had been filled with nothing but misery. She needed to complete her unfinished business and move on to whatever lay beyond. But she couldn't do that as long as her evil children and demon spawn grandchildren walked the Earth. And just when she thought she had the perfect plan to be rid of them for good, the little former witch had to blow her plan to her wretched son.

"Esther, how will this affect the plan? Niklaus knows we are somehow involved. We lured the baby hybrid to our home with a false story in her head. Your eldest son and the protégée of Niklaus are there as we speak. It is almost impossible to sense the magic but if they send the Bennett witch there, she will feel the power that lingers. Witch or not, her senses will be the only ones strong enough to pick up on it. It is possible to cut it off, no matter how strong the force may be. And if they figure out that cutting off our magic supply will bring the baby hybrid home, they will not stop until they do. All of this will have been for nothing."

"Then we will simply have to make sure the Bennett traitor does not live to make it to your little residence."