After waiting an hour or so, Elijah finally decided to go see if Selina was any better. He went to her spare room and stood to listen, making sure she wasn't crying anymore before he knocked. "Darling?" He asked her. "How are you? May I come in?"

"Sure," she sniffled. "Why not? Come in. I have something I want to talk to you about, anyway."

"All right," Elijah said. He opened the door, went inside and found her laid out on the bed, her hair and face wet. He sat down next to her, pulled her up, and cradled her close to him, brushing her hair out of her eyes. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"

She sniffled and he helped her sit up on her own before she looked him right in the eye without blinking. "I'm about to tell you something and you won't like it, but I feel like I need to say it anyway. As you can tell, the news about Sam hit me hard, and well, I just don't think I'm up to having any more kids because of what happened to him. I just can't do it. I'm sorry."

"What?" Elijah asked. "You can't possibly mean that. When people are grieving, when people are overwrought, they say all sorts of things that they don't mean. This is one of those times, right? You're saying this now, but your mind will change once you feel better."

Selina shook her head. "No, I'm sorry Elijah. It won't. Now, I'd like to be alone. Would you just go away? Please?"

Not knowing what to say, Elijah stood up and slowly backed away from the bed. "All right," he said. "I think I'm going to need to go out for awhile. Will you be all right here with the children by yourself?"

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "I'll be fine. You go. Do what you need to do."

Elijah nodded. "All right," he said. "If you're certain." He watched her for a long moment, then left and shut the bedroom door behind him.

"Why the long face?" Klaus asked. "Not that it's much different from the usual, but...did Selina cut you off again?"

"In a way, yes," Elijah nodded. "Let me in, would you?"

"Since you asked so nicely," Klaus answered, "come right in."

Elijah stepped inside, took off his coat, and then went to sit down on the sofa.

"So," Klaus asked, "What did you do now? You can tell me. I'm all ears."

"I didn't do anything," Elijah said through his teeth. "Selina's just going through a bad time. She found out a few hours ago that Sam is now a vampire and she's taking it badly. I, for one, do not understand what all the fuss is. Now he's no different than all her other children. Well, except for Joshua, but he's another matter entirely."

"Well, how bad is it?" Klaus asked. "Has she tried to kill herself?"

"No," Elijah shook his head. "She told me that she doesn't feel up to having any more children because of this. It shattered her that badly. And she says she won't feel up to changing her mind even after she's had time to think things over. I don't know, Niklaus. I just don't know what to do."

"My advice," Klaus told him, putting a hand on his shoulder, "my advice with any problem is to start drinking, heavily. Come to Enid's with me. I was going to go anyway."

"You don't mean that dive place where all the werewolves go?" Elijah asked. "I don't know if I want to go there."

"Well, all right," Klaus shrugged. "If you want to stay here, that's your choice." He left and then stood outside the house door, counting to five. By the time he reached three, he heard the door open. "Never mind, Niklaus," Elijah said. "I'll come with you. Let's go."

They drank for a while and after Klaus dropped Elijah off at home, Elijah stumbled into the house and did the best he could to keep his balance until he reached Selina's spare bedroom. He oped the door with a bang. "Hello, darling!" He said, his voice slurring a bit. "I'm home!"

Selina looked up, tears still in her eyes. "Go away," she said. "I know you have some sort of problem with the idea that I don't want to have kids anymore, but maybe, if you just leave me alone, I might get over it. Got me?"

Elijah glared at her for a moment, then stumbled forward, almost falling into her lap. "Now, now," he said. "I won't have any more of that. You're far too old to be throwing a temper tantrum like a child. And for the record, I will decide when we've had enough children, not you."

"Gee, you think it would be my decision too, seeing as how it's me that has to go through all the pain and misery for nine months," Selina said.

"You had your chance to make a decision about this," he said. "But the second you chose to stop having children, I had no other choice but to make the right decision for both of us, and since you are my wife, you will not argue with me." He walked up to her and pulled her to him. "Understood?

"Now just a minute!" Selina said. "If you ask me, the one throwing the temper tantrum is you and have you been drinking? How the hell did that happen? Nicky take you out to Enid's again?"

She was cut off as he kissed her and lowered her back onto the bed. "Stop talking!" He commanded. "Talking will not get us anywhere."

"You didn't answer my question," Selina said, looking into his eyes. "How the hell did that happen? Nicky take you out to Enid's again?"

Elijah nodded. "As a matter of fact, he did. We had a wonderful time. Now you and I are gonna have a great time."

Selina sighed. "Fine," she said. "I know you won't go away until I humor you, but after we're done, you're going to go to our room, sleep this off, and when you wake up feeling all hungover, let me know, all right? Cause clearly, you cannot function without me taking care of you. Nobody can. That much is obvious."

"Now that we've covered all that," Elijah told her. "Let's get to it, then." He slipped off her clothes and took off his, and then they made love until they were both tired and fell asleep.

Selina was woken up rather abruptly the next morning by Elijah's groaning. "My head hurts," he complained. "Do something to fix it, would you, dear?"

Selina rolled her eyes and grabbed her bathrobe. She could hear Laura's crying, even through the closed bedroom door. "Get in line and wait your turn," she said. "I have to tend to Laura. You know that."

"I'm aware of that," Elijah said huffily. "But I'm beginning to wonder if you're not just using her as an excuse to forget about me."

Selina gave him a look. "You are a grown man, she is an infant," she reminded him. "Deal with it."

She left the room and went to see Laura. "It's all right," she said. "I'm here. You can stop crying now."

Laura looked up at her expectantly. Selina picked her up and started to feed her, but was interrupted when the door opened, "Mama, I'm hungry," Gregory announced.

"Gregory, what have mommy and daddy told you about knocking on doors before you come in a room?"

"Hungry!" Gregory repeated, opening his mouth and pointing inside it.

"Just wait a minute!" Selina said to him. "Go bother your dad, would you?"

Gregory eyed her reproachfully for a few seconds and then strode out of the room.

"My god," Selina muttered to herself. "He gets more like Elijah every day and not always in the good ways." She finished feeding Laura, gave her a bath, got her dressed and then took her out to the living room to put her in her swing. As they were playing, she heard a noise. She turned and saw Elijah and Gregory looking at her, identical expressions of disappointment.

"Hungry, Mama," Gregory said.

"You forgot about me," Elijah added.

Selina scoffed. "Why do I have to do everything around here? Why can't you take care of Gregory?" She asked Elijah. "Getting him blood is not that difficult."

"My head hurts," Elijah reminded her. "Will you do something about that?"

Selina rolled her eyes. "Fine," she said. "You sit with Laura and I will get you fixed up."

"And me," Gregory said.

"Don't worry, I won't forget about you," Selina told him. But he followed her into the kitchen anyway and watched her make up the hangover cure for Elijah.

"What that?" He asked.

"It's medicine for your daddy," Selina explained. "I don't want you touching it. Go out to the living room and sit with him, okay?"

Gregory toddled off to the living room and Selina finished making up Elijah's hangover cure, then she got out a blood bag and poured some of it into a glass. She then put Elijah's cure in one hand and Gregory's blood in the other and made her way to them.

"All right," she said to the men of her life who were sitting on the sofa. "Here you are. A hangover cure for you," she offered it to Elijah and he took it from her. "And blood for you." She sat down on the sofa and took Gregory in her lap, helping him get a good grip on the cup. When he was done, he grinned at her. "All gone," he said. "Thank you, Mama."

"Well, you're welcome," Selina told him. Then she let him off her lap and he ran off in the direction of his room. Once he was gone, she looked at Elijah. "How are you feeling?" She asked. "Any better?"

Elijah nodded. "I'm getting better, thank you. Remind me to never allow Niklaus to take me drinking again. It's not good for me."

"Well, all right," Selina said. "But I really shouldn't have to remind you. It should be obvious."

"True," Elijah agreed. "So, what do you plan to do with yourself today?"

"I think it's about time I went and saw Sam," Selina told him. "I've put it off long enough."

"So you're going by yourself?" Elijah asked. "That's very brave of you."

"No," Selina shook her head. "I couldn't go by myself. I'm gonna stop by Damon's and the two of us are gonna go together."

She saw Elijah's face darken for a moment before returning back to normal. He went and pushed Laura back and forth on her swing, not meeting Selina's eyes. "What?" Selina asked. "What's the matter?"

"Nothing," Elijah said. "Nothing is the matter." He took Laura out of her swing and began cuddling with her.

"If nothing is the matter, how come you won't meet my eyes?" Selina asked. "Is this about Damon? Are you upset that I'm going somewhere with him?"

"Yes," Elijah nodded. "As a matter of fact, I am! He is your ex-husband, Selina! And given your habit of clinging to someone else instead of the person you're in a relationship with when things go wrong, you can't blame me for saying something."

"What would make you so worried about that now?" Selina asked. "Don't you trust me?"

"I want to," Elijah said. "Really, I do. But think about us, Selina. You and I did that to Niklaus. Twice. Do you see where I'm going with this?"

Selina sighed. "I get it. Once a cheater, always a cheater. But those are your thoughts, not my actions. No matter what you think, I love you and Laura and Gregory, and I would never do anything to hurt you."

"I would believe that if you were open to letting me come along and chaperone," Elijah said to her. "Would you be willing?"

"No!" Selina asked. "For god's sake, Elijah! This is something I need to do with a person who understands what I'm going through and why I'm going through it. Damon is that person, not you. I'm sorry if you feel insecure, but I'm going to do this without you whether you like it or not, and I will do it with a clean conscience. Now if you all will excuse me, I need to go get cleaned up and dressed for the day."

Damon heard a knock on the door and went to answer it, starting when he saw who was on the other side. "Selina!" He said. "What's up?"

"I think you know," Selina said. "Can I come in? "

"Sure," Damon nodded. "Come in." He gestured for her to come in and she came in and took off her coat. "Don't worry," she said. "Even though I've been having a bad time since Sam turned, I didn't come here to ask you for anything that would involve the removal of clothing, not that that will stop Elijah from thinking that's what happened when I was over here." She rolled her eyes.

"So why did you come?" Damon asked.

"I think I'm finally ready to go see Sam," Selina said. "And since you're the only one who truly understands why what happened to him is a problem for me, I thought it would be best to go with you. Is that all right?"

"Yeah," Damon nodded. "Sure. Can I get you a coffee or something before we go?"

"Sure," Selina said. "That would be nice."

He came back with her drink a few minutes later and they sat down on opposite sofas, facing each other. "You really are freaked out about seeing Sam, aren't you?" Damon asked as he watched her hands shake while clutching her cup.

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "I know it's stupid. I know that Sam's still in there and that it shouldn't matter what species he is, but ever since I got involved with Klaus and Elijah, I feel like a part of me has disappeared, you know? The human part. The part that you know about. And I can't be with you anymore, and Joshua's dead, so that left human Sam as the one connection I had to you and to my humanity that wouldn't get me in trouble. And of course Elijah doesn't get that. He's the sweetest guy in the world, and he's been really good for me, but when it comes to why I'm upset about Sam 'being like all my other kids' he just doesn't get it."

"Well, how about you and I go see Sam and we'll talk to him and see how you feel after that?" Damon asked. "But before we do, let me just say that you are one of the most human vampires I've ever met. You're still afraid of heights, bugs and storms and if someone broke into your house in the middle of the night, what would your first impulse be? To use your powers on them? To bite them?"

"No!" Selina said. "To beat the crap out of them with a bat!"

"Exactly!" Damon grinned. "So I don't think you have anything to worry about when it comes to losing your humanity. It's still very much in there."

"Really?" Selina asked hopefully.

"Yeah," Damon nodded. "And remember, with Lucy on her 'I wanna be human' kick, you're gonna have another human kid very soon, if only temporarily."

"That's true," Selina nodded. "That's really true." She paused. "I feel like we should hug now, but I don't think that would be appropriate."

"Why not?" Damon asked. "Would it make Elijah worry?" He pulled her to him and they hugged. "Well look at us," he said. "We're hugging. We should probably call a minister and get married right this minute." He grinned.

Selina tried not to giggle, but failed. "Stop that now," she said. "Be nice."

Damon let her go. "I'm always nice. Now, are you ready to go see Sam?"

Selina took a deep breath and stood up, gulping down her coffee and putting the cup back on the table. "I'm ready."

Elijah put Laura and Gregory in their rooms and tried to do what he could to distract himself from thinking of all the things that Selina and Damon had probably done to each other by now. He grabbed the TV remote and began flipping through the channels, stopping at a movie where the characters were having a particularly steamy sexual encounter. Clinging to each other and kissing furiously, they launched themselves through the bedroom door and slammed it behind them, and then proceeded to rip off each other's clothes and make furious love on the bed. Elijah didn't normally watch programs like this, but now, what was on the screen held him in its grip as he imagined Damon and Selina doing the same thing...

"Oh, Roland, you're so handsome, and I love you so much, but my husband must never find out about us!"

"Oh, Damon, I love you so much! To hell with Elijah. Let's go run off and get married right now!"

Roland picked up his female companion and carried her over to the bed, kissing down her neck.

He knew that Damon was now picking up a naked Selina and carrying her over to his bed, his eyes roaming over her, flawless, porcelain body, his lips caressing her skin, as she cried out, "Oh, Damon, you beast! You are a wonder! Do it again, do it again!" It was more than he could stand. Finally, he put a pillow against his face and let out a yell so he wouldn't wake up the children and chucked the remote at the television.

"My god," Klaus said. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Niklaus," Elijah said, slowly lowering the pillow from his face and throwing it on the floor. "When did you get here?"

"Just in time to watch you try and suffocate yourself with that pillow," Klaus said. "I used my key." He looked at the TV screen, where the sexy movie still played on. "And smart move, too. If I were watching this, I'd want to suffocate myself as well. Are you telling me that you didn't hear me come in?"

"No," Elijah said. He was beginning to feel a little foolish. "You'll have to excuse me. My mind was occupied elsewhere."

"And where would that be?" Klaus asked. "A little place called Selina Town?"

"I was thinking about her," Elijah agreed. His lip twisted into a grimace. "And how she's presently out with Damon without a chaperone. Who knows what they could be up to!"

"Why would Selina want to be out with Damon Salvatore?" Klaus asked.

"Well, their son Sam, you know, Lucy's human twin brother, he became a vampire recently and Selina's been having a difficult time dealing with it," Elijah said. "She wanted Damon to be with her when she saw vampire Sam for the first time. For some reason, she is of the opinion that I am of no help whatsoever of getting her through this crisis! She feels that Damon is the only one who can give her aid. Can you believe that?!"

"Well, when you heard that Sam had been turned, what did you say?" Klaus asked.

Elijah shrugged. "Nothing horrible. I simply commented that I don't see what all the fuss is, since now Sam is no different from any of her other children, and apparently that offended her."

"Well, of course it did!" Klaus said. "She thinks of Sam as her last connection to her human life. Now, while I personally do not find it healthy to cling to that once you've been turned and feel she was a lot more fun when she didn't care a whit about humans, I can see how, knowing her life history as I do, Sam's transformation would be painful for her. And why pointing out that Sam being no different than her other kids would be a problem. So, what are you worried about now? Do you honestly believe she's cheating on you with Damon?"

"Of course she is!" Elijah said to him. "What else would the two of them be doing, Niklaus?"

Sam heard the knock on his bedroom door and put down the book he was reading on his desk. The week of recovery had passed and he was now strong enough to move around his room."Come in!" He said.

Helene opened the door and came into the room. "Your father is here," she said. "And he brought your mother with him. Are you ready to see her?"

Sam nodded and stood up. "I've been ready ever since this happened!" He shot out of the room and ran to the entryway, where Damon was helping Selina with her coat. "Mom," Sam said. "Hi."

Selina turned around and gasped. They stared at each other for a few minutes and then ran into each other's arms, each trying not to cry. "Are you all right?" Selina asked as she finally let him go. "How did this happen? You didn't find a vampire and ask them to transform you, did you?"

Sam shook his head. "I didn't, I swear. Even though I would have liked that, I know how important me being human was to you."

Selina nodded. "It was, but what's happened has happened and there's really nothing we can do to change you back." A light suddenly came in her eyes. "Unless we went and found a werewolf, and..."

"No." Damon cut her off. "No, Selina. We're not gonna have him get bitten by a werewolf just so he'll be human again. He respected your wish to be human as long as he was even though he preferred something else, and now you need to respect his wanting to be a vampire. Especially since he's adapted so well."

Selina nodded, tears starting to fall from her eyes. "He's right, Sammy. I'm sorry. If you want to be a vampire, and you're managing it well, I should support you." She hugged him. "Sorry it took me so long to come and see you, but finding out what you were, well, it was a shock for me."

"I bet it was," Sam told her. "It was a shock for me too, at first. I woke up one morning and my leg was on fire because I had been sleeping on a window seat connected to a window that was open to let the sun in, and of course I didn't have a ring, so..."

"Do you have one now?" Selina asked. "Please tell me you have one now."

"Yeah," Sam showed her his hand with his ring that was nearly identical to the ones Stefan and Damon wore. "Helene made it up for me. Joshua and I, we found it with some of Grandpa's old stuff."

"Well, that's good," Selina told him. "It's nice to see you adapting so well. What about the band? How's the band doing?"

Sam held out a CD. "We cut a single," he said. "It's selling moderately well in Europe, but we're not really famous yet."

Selina took it. "Wonderful!" she said. "I'll have to give it a listen." She looked at both Damon and Sam. "And what about Lucy? How is she?"

"She got back to France all right," Damon said. "I put her on a plane yesterday to send her back and she called me once she got back to her apartment."

"I probably don't have to tell you this," Selina said to him. "But I'm so glad she only has a month or two left over there. I mean, I know the trouble I got into in Paris and I worry. I can't help myself."

Damon nodded. "Believe me, you are not the only one who worries about her."

"Okay!" Sam said, his hands up. "Conversation has shifted to Dad talking about Lucy and that means I'm out of here!" He hugged Selina again. "Thanks for coming, Mom. I've missed you."

"Well, you're welcome," Selina said. "I've missed you too. If you ever need help with anything, don't hesitate to give me a call. You know my number." He nodded and went back to his room and Selina turned back to Damon.

"I should probably go home," she said. "Elijah's probably had himself a stroke from worrying about all the salacious stuff he thinks you and I are up to. It would be kind of me to alleviate those fears by going home, but thanks for taking me. It was a big help. It made this a lot easier."

"You're welcome," Damon nodded. "Do you want to drive, or should I?"

"Well, well, well," Elijah said when Selina opened the door. "Look who it is. The harlot. Did you have a good time while you were out?"

"What are you talking about?" Selina asked. "I went with Damon to visit Sam, and that's all. Nothing happened between us." She turned and noticed Klaus on the sofa. "What are you doing here? Did you tell him to start worrying about me and Damon?"

"No," Klaus said. "He did it all on his own. I showed up here and he was watching a sexy movie with a pillow against his face."

Selina frowned at Elijah. "I can't believe you would think I'd do something like that to you! What reason would I possibly have?"

"Oh, I don't know," Elijah said. "Maybe the fact that you don't think I'm capable of helping you through your Sam crisis because I wasn't there."

"Well, I'm over that now," Selina said, backing away. "Seeing him wasn't as hard as I thought and it really helped."

"Seeing Sam helped?" Elijah asked. "Or seeing Damon helped? Tell me, how long did he wait before he asked you to come to his bed?"

"We didn't go anywhere near his bedroom!" Selina said. "We just stayed in the living room and had coffee."

"What colorful euphemism," Elijah said, backing her up against the wall where she hit her head. "I wonder what it means?"

Selina winced when her head hit the wall and the pain suddenly cleared her mind. "You know what?" She said to him. "Screw you. I'm telling you the absolute truth about what happened between me and Damon, but for some reason, you don't want to believe me. I don't have to put up with this anymore." She strode over to Klaus, threw him against the wall and kissed him deeply as Elijah watched. When she pulled away, she said, "How was that, Nicky?"

Klaus grinned. "Brings back a lot of memories, doesn't it, love?"

"You want to bring back more memories?" Selina whispered in his ear. "I have a spare bedroom. Meet me in there in five minutes. Bonus points if you aren't wearing anything when I open the door." She grinned.

Elijah let out a growl. "One more word from you and I'm leaving. And I'm taking Gregory with me. You'll keep Laura for obvious reasons."

"You mean that?" Selina asked him. "Goodbye, then!" She grabbed Klaus' hand and led him out of the living room, leaving Elijah alone. A short while later, he heard the sound of their furious and enthusiastic lovemaking. He got Gregory and a suitcase full of his things, wiped away all Gregory's memories of his mother, and then the two of them left Selina behind, possibly for good.