AN: As Elena is still going to be a witch, sometime in part 2 she will change but when should it be? I'm torn between having it done in the episodes 'Map of Moments' and 'I love you, goodbye' (BTW-that chapter will be pretty sad-even planning it out I was teary eyed and had to play the happiest songs I had on my iPad mini!)

This chapter will have flashbacks between Klayley and their baby as well as Sofi, Kolvina and Elejah along with Kol/Selene who will be mentioned and actually seen at the end of this (if you want to know what she looks like, there's a picture on my profile) and Klaus/Tatia so some of them will be italicized

If any of you have a suggestion on when Elena should become a vampire, either PM me or put it in a review.

For the guest who reviewed: there will be a little bit of Kolvina but it'll be a small amount and the second part will have some more of it and I'm quite glad you're enjoying this story :)

FYI-this chapter will be repeated but with Hayley transitioning and being compelled and that chapter will come right after this and then it'll be the interlude chapter

RECAP:

Elena was holding her own against fifteen vampires when three arrows nearly hit her if it wasn't for Eva who slaughtered them.

Elena nodded her thanks and the two went into battle royale mode again, this time, neither girl holding back against their attackers.

They would need a clean up crew by the time they were finished as bodies upon bodies in mangled pieces were thrown carelessly around.

"Gentlemen, shall we?" Elijah asked as the courtyard was filled with many vampires and he stood by the fountain with a devil may care smile.

All at once they attacked him but he annihilated them without getting a single drop of blood onto his suit until the Correra brothers, who had the rings, grabbed him and bit him only for Francesca's head to roll into the yard by Fin who was also holding her heart with a manic grin on his face.

"Bring it."

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Chapter 23: From the cradle to the grave

The nursery was bathed in the sunlight and Klaus teased Hayley as she was writing out a letter while sitting in a rocker.

"Who are we writing out a love letter to? It can't be Elijah as you both hate each other and Fin is happy with Sophie, is it…Jackson or is there another?"

She laughed lightly. "It's a surprise."

The hybrid chuckled. "How's our littlest wolf?" he asked, curious about it.

Hayley smiled at him. "Do you want to?"

He hesitated, unsure of how this would feel. Hayley rolled her eyes as he was now standing in front of her from their playful banter and she grabbed his hand, placing it on her abdomen.

The baby kicked.

"Come on. Do you feel that?" His answering nod and smile was his response. As he left, Hayley begun to write.

'Dear baby girl...'

As Kol drove as fast as he could into the driveway of the plantation house, he was worried and nervous for his brothers and for the two witches who were there with them, fighting for their survival. The second he knew that both Sophie and Cara were inside the house, he was chanting and the spell was cast over the entire property.

He just hoped that it lasted.

Hayley was screaming about killing witches when she was placed on the altar by Sabrina and Papa Tunde.

"The baby's coming-there's no time." She looked at the girls and the man. "Tunde-I need you to calm her down while she's giving birth which will be difficult."

The man nodded and squeezed her hand, trying to take away her pain, little by little while she barked out orders to the girls to get towels-both dry and wet-when Hayley began screaming her lungs out again.

Marcel was doing great, believing that he dodged every attack until Klaus came up behind him and sunk his teeth into his throat before pulling them out and flashing everywhere to drink the blood of anyone who was in his way as his head felt like it was splitting open.

He flashed over to the church where Hayley was there, sweating as she was in painful labor.

His daughter was coming.

Davina was running into the courtyard where she saw dead bodies of the vampires and the wolves while Fin stood there, blood covering most of his clothing and Elijah was being healed by Elena who was having him drink a vial of blood.

She hazard a guess as to it being Klaus' blood. She didn't say anything else as Marcel stumbled in, looking worse and staring at horror of the vampires around him.

Every last one of them was dead.

"The wolves did it and I killed them with Elijah's help." Fin answered before he flinched as Elena let out a low growl. "Elena helped as well." Said witch preened as Elijah was slowly feeling better.

Fin took a look at Marcel and sneered at him. "You have been bitten." Marcel glared at him.

"I need some of Klaus' blood and as Elena used the last of it on Elijah-" he looked at the two who were getting up, albeit slowly, "-there's none left here."

"Where were the two of you fighting?" Davina demanded and he murmured, "cross section of Bourbon Street and Toulouse Street"

She stormed away.

Davina remembered when she had first saw Kol and all but told her that he was going to be her tutor and what happened afterwards.

"What are we going to do?" Davina asked Kol, who had agreed to be her tutor in all things magic.

He just gave her a smirk and made a motion with his hands. He walked from her and stood in the middle of a circle and she watched as he made a pebble into a twenty four karat diamond in the shape of a teardrop.

Her eyes were wide. "How did you manage that?"

His smirk grew wider. "Magic can do things-from the miraculous such as bringing gifts to those who deserve them to the most dangerous as creating creatures like vampires that can only come out during the night and feast on the blood-either innocent or criminal."

"Teach me."

"Gladly."

If he knew what I wanted to do, he would hate me Davina thought and it left a bitter taste in her mouth. Once she got to the place where Klaus and Marcel fought, there wasn't a speck of blood anywhere.

Someone cleaned it up.

Sophie was pacing the length of the nursery that belongs to Cara now and couldn't stop the worry from gnawing at her gut.

"Fin!" she shouted as he stood in front of her only to flash away. She glared and flashed to him only to narrowly miss hitting a tree. He came from behind it and shook his head.

"Good try for a beginner," he told her warmly. Taking her hand in his, he led her over to the garden. "Now-listen to the sounds around you. Tell me what you hear."

Closing her eyes, she listened and spoke. "I hear Elena's heartbeat and it's steady-even actually, Elijah's pacing the room while she sleeps, Kol's trying to cook something-bacon maybe, Klaus is…painting…" she looked up at him with a raised eyebrow. "Why did you want to know?"

"Everything-animate and inanimate-has a sound. Can you hear the trees?" she nodded. "Everything around us is alive."

"Can I at least hold her?" Hayley asked breathlessly as her daughter was born. Sabrina placed the baby in her arms and as the werewolf looked at her, she smiled only for her head to be pulled back and her throat to be slit by Monique as Abigail took the baby from her.

Hayley was bleeding and dead. Eva stormed in and saw the witches leave only for her to make a motion and Papa Tunde collapsed. Sabrina looked at Tunde and then at Eva with horror.

"What did you just do?" Eva gave her a predatory smile.

"He's always been dead-considering I was the one to kill him, I just reanimated his corpse to do my bidding." Her eyes were wicked. "Besides, I'm not really Eva Lafleur." She walked over to Hayley and placed her hand on her chest as Sabrina ran with the two Harvest girls.

Klaus was taken down off the wall and he went over to her. He held Hayley's body when Elijah and Elena came in, bloody looking.

"She's dead." Though Elijah hated her, he knelt down and closed her eyes.

"She's not going to wake up and transition into a hybrid either." Eva looked at the three. "She could have-yes, but she didn't want to do that, did she?"

Klaus nodded. He knew that Hayley never wanted to transition into a hybrid if she had to drink her daughter's blood.

Eva nodded. "We have a child to find."

Together, the four of them left to find the baby.

Elena laughed as Elijah twirled her around while she was still in her bloody dress from the festival. She had wanted to change but when he appeared, he took her hand in his and begun to dance with her once he played some song on the radio.

"You do realize that in the festival, we would never dance, right?" she asked him once he dipped her.

"You do realize that I do not care about that." He spun her in his arms and placed a kiss on her neck. "I do things I want to do and this is what I had wanted to do the second you said yes."

She smiled and turned in his arms, stepping up on the tips of her toes to kiss him lightly.

"I love you."

"I love you more."

It was a memory of a happier time and all Elena wanted was to be back in that time again.

For now, she would save that little baby.

As soon as the four were in the cemetery, they were walking through a maze of illusions and were trying to find a way to escape but they couldn't. Klaus and Elijah had the smart idea of marking the tombstones they passed with a stone that they used like chalk but even then, they were still going around and around.

"My only focus right now is that child and her safety, do you understand me?" Elijah snapped, finally breaking and sounding furious. Elena knew that his nerves were already shot from the battle and the theft of his niece but he was also worried about Cara-about what could happen if anyone were to take her from them. "This- all of this- this is the world that you created, Niklaus."

"Brother-" Klaus barely managed to get out, wondering where this was coming from. He knew that he couldn't really care about Hayley's death.

"All of your scheming, the enemies that you have made every single day of your miserable life- what results did you expect? That your child would be born into a happy life? That we could live and thrive as some- as some sort of family?"

Elena placed her hand on Elijah's arm and whispered, "Sophie and Kol have Cara safe somewhere. Just calm down sexy, please."

He nodded, slowly relaxing. All the tension coming off him was gone.

Klaus knew now why he was venting-worry about both Cara and the baby girl. It wasn't because of the wolf who bore the newborn, but the newborn girl and Cara.

Elijah had to sit down as he was breathing heavily and Elena gave Klaus a look that said, 'watch him or else' which made the Original Hybrid nod.

Elena and Eva ran, trying to find a way to escape.

Klaus sat down beside his brother who was scared-an emotion as well as expression-he was getting scared to see on his face and gripped his arm in comfort, making the second eldest vampire to look at him.

"You can tell your niece how much you care for her when we save her." Klaus told him gently while nodding encouragingly.

The two brothers grinned and decided to show those who would dare cross them why that was such a bad idea as they broke through the illusion by destroying the tombstones that were taunting them. When they had destroyed the last tombstone, they found themselves inside a room full of candles but as much as they wanted to go on further, they had to catch a breath. Each nerve cell in their systems was now shot again and it was irritating.

"We've passed through here twice already. We're running out of time." Elijah sighed before he punched through a wall in anger.

This was getting him angry and his demon now wanted blood.

"Then we move faster." Klaus said as he marked the wall with a third tally mark. He couldn't blame his brother; he was getting angry and was more than bloodthirsty.

"Or smarter." The girls called out to them as each one appeared behind them.

Marcel looked around Kieran's old place and found the secret room with Cami and Josh as they were packing some of this stuff up. "So, this is what Kieran was hiding."

Cami groaned as she begun to sort through them. "More like stockpiling. From what I can gather, it's mostly weapons."

"Dark objects-created by witches." Josh said as he remembered something Davina had told him.

Marcel nodded. "And co-opted by the humans. Kieran's been keeping this a secret for years. You really sure you wanna show me all this?"

Cami nodded.

"You said knowing my uncle's secrets could get me killed? But, what if those same secrets could save the lives of my friends?"

"Look at this! I learned about it from Kol who says it's mentioned in something called the Le Sais, I think it's called The Devil's Star. They say one throw can make a thousand cuts." Apparently, Kol had also taught him some things about magic.

"A thousand cuts sounds about right. I need to make Klaus bleed." Marcel looked evil as he said it.

Elijah and Klaus had to blink as they were running towards them. Elena had that same necklace in her hand that she had given to Rebekah to give to the witch when she was taken and Eva seemed to look more bloodthirsty than Klaus.

Elijah and Klaus grinned at each other and followed the girls as they found the baby wrapped up in a white blanket inside a wooden bassinet with Sabrina, Abigail and Monique ready to sacrifice her.

The dagger ready to plunge into her.

"Catch me Kol!" a pretty redhead with light blue eyes called as she ran through the woods and Kol ran, moving through the trees with his vampire speed and when he caught the girl, he held her close to his chest.

"I love you Selene Mikaelson." He whispered and Selene smiled back.

"You are my first everything Kol Mikaelson." Selene Mikaelson whispered to him before they kissed.

Kol woke up from his memory dream about a time that was simpler and he was happy.

Not nearly as happy as he was to be alive again but truly happy…the way he felt whenever he's around Davina Claire.

Davina had done everything right and had gotten all the ingredients that were needed. Closing her eyes, she began to chant and a sudden bright light covered her eyes, causing her to collapse.

She had done it.

She had revived Mikael the Destroyer-the Original Vampire who hunts Vampires.

Klaus and Elijah couldn't get close to where the three witches were as they were using their ancestral magic, making some of the ancestors appear but Elena looked at Eva who nodded and the two ran in opposite directions while Klaus found a piece of a wrought iron gate and threw it like a javelin right at Abigail who was pinned to the wall behind her. Monique looked horrified but as she was about to place a hex on them, the Devils Star came flying right at her, causing her to bleed out from everywhere as cuts appeared.

Klaus turned to see Marcel was the one to have thrown it but he flashed over to the baby and took her away.

"Go-I'll take care of this." Elijah told him as Sabrina was knocked out and tied up.

Klaus nodded and ran.

Klaus stared at Marcel who was holding the baby. All around them were the bodies of the vampires and wolves as each was missing their heart.

"You deserve this Marcellus for saving my daughter." Klaus told him as he bit into his wrist and had Marcel drink the blood.

Sabrina was tied up, bleeding from the eyes and ears as Elijah watched Elena and Eva torture the woman.

"You're not going to answer us?" Elena asked her coldly. "Fine-more shock therapy."

Eva had a sadistic grin. "With pleasure." Her voice took on a British tone and as she touched Sabrina, the woman screamed.

"Esther! She wants to kill her!" Sabrina screamed. Eva looked and shook her head.

"That bitch would have to get through me before I let any harm come to that baby." Her eyes darken. "If you see her on the Other Side, tell her that Tatia says 'enjoy Hell'."

With that last word, Elena was the one who slit Sabrina's throat.

Elijah, hearing what Eva said about Tatia, looked at her with surprise. It appeared that Eva and Tatia were one in the same at the moment.

Elena stood in the doorway of the nursery inside the Abbatoir where both babies were sleeping in the same crib as the brothers spoke about ending Esther.

"There's a third option. I made a promise, to myself, that I would not allow a child to grow up unloved and with someone who would hate them. That the child would grow up safe, and loved. And yet, here is a baby, on her first day in this world, with a grandmother who is bent on sacrificing her." Elena shook her head. "I can't allow that to happen."

Klaus, Elijah, Fin and Kol look at Elena with sadness.

"I think the only thing to do is... send her away, while we stay behind and clean up the mess that has been made."

"No! This is insane. You heard Sabrina- so long as she lives, that baby will be hunted." Kol all but said glowering at the doppelgänger witch. Klaus stood up to join Elena in the doorway where she stood, looking sad.

"Not if no one knows she lives."

Fin looked at the two in confusion but Elijah realized what was going to happen. "What is it you intend to do, brother?"

"Whatever it takes to save our family." It was Elijah who answered.

Hayley's body was given to the wolves so that they could bury her while Marcel, once he was compelled to believe Hope was dead, gave Oliver a stillborn baby as Natasha Labonair-a pretty girl who looked like Hayley was making a speech.

Elijah and Fin were both out there with Elena and Sophie who were saying goodbye.

Mikael, trapped, in the attic of the church by Davina, was furious.

Klaus closed his eyes as he remembered Tatia once Elijah had told him that Eva and Tatia were-at the moment-the same person.

"You had asked me to dance and yet all you do is stare," Tatia told Klaus with a smirk placed delicately on her face. "If all you want to do is stare, I suggest you draw me and stare at that."

Klaus smiled and kissed her cheek. "I doubt that I can capture your beauty in a drawing."

Klaus shook his head at the memory of him and Tatia while he waited for Rebekah to take Hope and to hide her until it was safe to bring her back.

He was not going to condemn her to his fate and he trusted Rebekah to care for her.

As Elena and Elijah were packing, Fin stood in the doorway of their room with a baby bag.

"Cara's things are all packed and the jet is waiting for you three." He told them while Elijah turned to look at him.

"We are taking her?" Elijah asked and as Fin nodded, the eldest brother begun to explain.

"Klaus, Kol and I discussed it while the two of you were watching over Cara that if Sophie and I were to raise her, there might be an accident and she didn't want to hurt her and could you actually see Kol raising a baby?" None of them could see Kol doing that. "We would have given her to Rebekah but with her protecting Hope, it would be difficult for her to raise another and we all knew how much you had wanted a family."

The man smiled at his elder brother and as he took Elena's hand, the two took Cara and told their family, "after the summer we will come back."

Kol had undid the spell when Davina came in, wearing a bracelet and did the most impulsive thing she had ever done in her life.

She kissed him. He did the only thing he could do in that moment and he kissed her back. He ran his fingers through her locks of hair and smiled warmly at her once they pulled away.

"You are a one of a kind witch Davina Claire." He breathed before kissing her forehead and holding her hand in his hand.

A young woman with red hair and light blue eyes just walked into the Quarter, still marveling over the fact that this century is new and exciting.

Selene Mikaelson, the dead wife of Kol Mikaelson, was back and this time, she wanted revenge against one person.

Mikael.

I hope that you liked this chapter! Now I'm in a bit of a bind of sorts so I'm leaving the decision up to you: should I make part 2 into its own story or keep adding it to this one?

I've planned out parts of the next part to this but I already know that the chapter 'I love you, goodbye' will make you sad but I will warn you in the authors notes when we get to that chapter.