"So your mother is after you and not Liam and Mary?" Helene asked Kai. "When my mom went to all that effort to protect them, she was protecting the wrong person?"
"Well, Mom said she's still gonna go after Liam and Mary eventually," Kai replied. "But apparently, ruining my happiness is more important than ruining theirs at the moment."
"I'll let Mom know so we can put a guard on you," Helene told him as she ran to the phone.
"No, don't do that, please," Kai told her.
"Why not?" Helene asked. "You need help!"
"If you call Astrid and tell her what happened the word will get out to Victoria and then she'll worry, and the twins will be in danger," Kai explained. "I know how to handle my mother. I don't need any help."
"If you're sure," Helene replied, although she really thought he could use some backup.
"I am sure," Kai told her firmly. "You have to trust me on this." He then reached out and kissed her hand. "But thank you so much for being so willing to help me. Not everyone would be."
"Well, that's because they don't know you the way I do," Helene told him. "You get people around you who are kind and who are patient, you're not so bad, are you?"
"No, I try not to be," Kai told her. "At least not anymore. Victoria showed me that there are good women in the world and that not all of you are as horrible as my mother was."
"It seems that from what I've heard about her, she was really old school when it came to views about girls and boys," Helene told him. "But things are starting to change now, and I think that's really good."
"You and me both," Kai told her. "You and me both. Hopefully my mother's grand entrance will be all we see of her for a bit because she got the reaction out of me that she wanted, but with her, you never know."
"I'll be watching out too," Helene told him. "I'll let you handle actually facing her, but it doesn't hurt to have every pair of eyes that you can on look out."
"Good," Kai nodded and zapped himself up a drink. "Sounds like a good plan to me."
Despite Kai's efforts to keep the news of Edele's return away from Victoria, she found out anyway.
"Is Kai's mother really back?" She asked Regina after a visit to Mary's where they had been talking about it since it was all Liam was dealing with at work. "You can tell me the truth."
"She is," Regina told her. "But don't worry about it. You're safe. No one is coming after you."
"I'm not worried about me, Mom!" Victoria cried. "I'm worried about Kai! Do you realize what a number that woman did on him? If they meet and she messes with his head, all that I've done working with him will go down the toilet. She might even kill him!" She began breathing shallowly and then Victoria urged her to sit down.
"You need to relax," Regina told her. "Worrying isn't helping anyone."
"I can't help it," Victoria replied, refusing to sit down. "I can't just stay here. I have to go and help him."
"Victoria, no!" Regina cried as her daughter disappeared, and she was very sure that she wouldn't come back until the job was done. She then stood in the room, taking deep breaths and trying to calm herself. "Well, shit," she whispered to the empty room and then went to tell Declan what had happened. She'd never really been able to reason with Victoria, but maybe her father would.
"Oh, for heaven's sake, Vicky!" Kai yelled at Victoria when she appeared right in his bedroom at Adrian and Helene's. "What are you doing here? Go home!"
"No!" Victoria shouted back. "I won't! You're in trouble and I want to help!" A window burst at that point and Kai stepped aside just in time to avoid a falling ceiling fan.
"What the hell is going on?" Adrian yelled when he came running into the room. He was about to scold Kai, but then he saw Victoria. "What are you doing here?" He asked tiredly.
"I want to help Kai!" Victoria told him. "I'm not just going to sit at home on my ass while he could be getting hurt!"
Adrian gave her a long look and sighed before finally deciding that since Helene was gone helping her mother with the Edele problem, he would take her and Kai to Amy and Klaus' instead.
"Come on," he told her. "Helene's not here, but if you're so intent on helping out, Victoria, I might as well take you and Kai to a place where he could get good hunting help."
"Thank you," Victoria told him as she took Kai's hand and pulled him through the bedroom door after Adrian. "Where are we going?"
"To my dad's," Adrian replied.
"I'm not going there!" Kai protested. "Your father was part of the whole plot that got me into the mess I'm in now."
"Well, do you want to learn to be a skilled vampire or not?" Adrian asked. "Cause it's really the only way I can think of that you'll get that help."
"Do what he says, Kai," Victoria told him. "You won't just be stuck alone with Klaus. Aunt Amy is gonna be there too, and I'm sure she'll encourage him to be nice to you."
"Well, she better," Kai replied as they got in the car and drove away. "Cause that's the only way I can see this working without both of us trying to kill each other."
"What do we have here?" Amy asked when she opened the door after Adrian's knock.
"Victoria knows about Edele and wants to help Kai," Adrian explained. "Can you do anything to help him get under control faster?"
"I suppose I could," Amy replied. "Come on in."
They went to sit down and Amy made a phone call. Not long after, two people came in the house: a tiny young woman with a head full of curly red hair and a blond young man.
"This is Rosalie and Aaron," Amy explained. "They might be able to help you. Rosalie, Aaron, this is Kai. He was just turned into a vampire courtesy of your uncle Kol."
Kai looked at the pair and laughed. They looked so young; how could they be of help to him?
"Can you really help?" Victoria asked, seeming to share his skepticism.
"Oh, yes," Rosalie assured her.
"I turned real suddenly myself," Aaron added to Kai, his voice reassuring. "Come on. You can stay at our apartment if you want."
Just as they were about to go, Klaus saw them. "Is he leaving?" He glared at Kai. "Good."
"Aaron is helping him work on being a vampire," Amy said. "It's nice that he gets to have someone who has so much skill and experience helping him."
"You're joking, right?" Klaus asked, his jaw dropping. "I have lots more experience than he does."
"Oh, yes, but I wouldn't want to burden such a great and powerful man as yourself with something as time-consuming as helping a new vampire," Amy told him. "That's a job for an underling!"
"I may not like him," Klaus said about Kai. "But if he's gonna be a vampire, he should at least have a competent teacher."
Klaus pulled Kai away then with Victoria following and Rosalie said, "Damn, Mom. That was good."
"Oh, I know," Amy nodded with a smirk and looked at her nails. "Manipulating your father is one of my best skills." She smiled then and said, want a drink?"
"Sure," Rosalie nodded. "I could have a soda by now." She and Aaron then sat with Amy, waiting and listening for any sounds that indicated that Kai was in some sort of distress and Klaus needed to be stopped.
"Okay," Klaus said to Kai as Victoria stood beside him with her hand in his and they looked around the woods. "How many times have you hunted?"
"Not many," Kai shrugged. "I'm a relative newbie."
"Good," Klaus nodded. "It's nice to know where we stand. Now, I think I'll start you off with animals. Did you do that when you were hunting before?"
"No," Kai shook his head. "Adrian's been having me go after people."
Klaus chuckled. "It's nice to see my son has high hopes for you, but if you want to learn control when feeding, starting out with people is not the way to go. Animals are better."
"Why?" Kai asked.
"Cause squirrels and bunnies are smaller," Victoria explained. "You get used to having a specific amount of blood that you take into your system, and then it's less likely that you'll go overboard when you move on to people."
"Good," Klaus smiled at her. "Did your grandfather teach you that? I'm sure he'd be pleased that you remembered."
"Of course I remembered," Victoria smiled. "How could I forget?"
Klaus then instructed Kai to go after a bunny rabbit.
"All right," Kai scoffed. "Nice to see you're starting me off easy." But to his surprise, catching a rabbit was not as easy as it looked. He missed the first two he saw, and when he finally caught the third, he was bruised, bleeding, and covered in dirt. "Here you go," he panted as he held the struggling rabbit out to Victoria. "I finally caught one."
"You eat first," Victoria urged him. "I'm taken care of. I had a blood bag this morning."
"Are you sure?" Kai asked.
"Yes, I'm sure," Victoria told him. "It's very sweet for you to worry about me, but you need to eat too."
Wincing, Kai bit into the bunny rabbit and began sucking its awful-tasting blood when a piece of pizza suddenly popped into Victoria's hand. Startled and enticed by the sight of the more appetizing food, Kai let the rabbit go and didn't go after it again, causing Klaus to groan.
"Focus, damn it!" He scolded Kai as Victoria happily munched on the pizza. "How are you supposed to learn this if you don't focus?"
"Where'd that pizza come from?" Kai asked Victoria.
"It's a witch thing," Victoria explained. "Once you get pregnant enough that you can't move around so well, the food comes to you! It's really nice, actually."
"Ah," Kai nodded. "Okay."
"Now let's try and catch another rabbit," Klaus ordered Kai. "Unless you'd prefer a squirrel."
"Well, they both taste like shit, but if I had to pick one, I'd go for a rabbit again," Kai replied.
"Don't tell me," Klaus said. "Just do it!"
Eventually Kai caught another rabbit and after draining it and choking the blood down, he winced. "I can't wait to get to people," he said. "Really. Can we stop for today?"
"Yes, now that you've caught something, we can stop," Klaus replied. "It couldn't have come at a better time."
They then went back to Klaus and Amy's and Kai took a bath while Amy asked Klaus how it went.
"He's not perfect, but he's better than I thought," Klaus admitted. "And I knew that you were manipulating me by the way. I was just choosing to play along."
"Sure you were," Amy smiled and kissed him. "Whatever you say, honey."