Part 25 – A tale of 2 moms

"Easy mother, at least remember your manners" Klaus admonished his mother as she greedily drank from a blood bag disgusting the former vampires and hybrids at the table.

"I take it my sister is coming for the girl?" Ester asked after draining her fourth bag and throwing it behind her inelegantly.

"For the girls', mother" A much healthier looking girl spoke in a quiet almost unsure voice, her eyes quickly darting around the table and catching Rebekah's gaze then darting back down to her lap.

"Mother? I seem to remember having birthed 6 children, one was lost in her young years, one was killed by wolves and the others are here"

"Congratulations mother, it seems your first born isn't so dead after all" Klaus gloated as he watched a range of emotions cloud his mother's face before settling on a mix of guilt and pain.

"Freya" She whispered unsure of her own voice and the meek girl nodded.

"My girl, my beautiful girl. I'm so so sorry" Esther cried and held her hands out to Freya who turned to look at Klaus almost as if seeking comfort, shocking the new human.

"Your apology is empty, if you cared you would never have let her go to begin with" Klaus didn't miss the smirk of victory Rebekkah had thrown his way as he answered for Freya.

"Dinner is ready" Patrice announced coming to the table with a tray followed by an annoyed Marcel and Elijah and a much more vital looking Caroline.

"You're looking well my love" Klaus said pecking Caroline on the lips as she came to sit beside him.

"Elijah kindly gave me some of his blood to speed up my healing. I feel real good" Caroline said raising a brow flirtatiously at Klaus.

"I think we should concentrate on the children we have before we grow our family… We need to see a doctor"

"Ah crap, I've got to go back on the pill" Caroline sighed then looked Ester in the eye.

"You tried to kill my girls. I should stake you. Where are the Salvatore's in any case?"

"Gone to check up on the wolves… I need to head over there after this as well"

"You feeling that pack stuff?"

"The opposite but I need to speak to Hayley and Damon about it"

"You're human! How!" Ester shouted almost knocking the table over as Marcel forced her back into her seat"

"The twins absorbed the magic that made most of us except Elijah and Marcel"

"If you fall your entire line will die" Ester almost threatened.

"How wonderful, you're part of his line so you can die too" Caroline said with a raised brow.

"Where is your brother?"

"He went crazy with the change… he had to be put down" Marcel answered.

"Who is this vampire to talk in between with our family?"

"He happens to be my son, adoptive, but son none the less." Klaus answered and Marcel felt pride swell up in a small part of his heart.

"You will pay for the death of your brother."

"Why would Klaus pay mother?" Kol answered in an angry tone.

"You brought this on all of us due to your own greed for a child. Had you not made the deal with your sister you would not have needed to create vampires to begin with just to keep us from furthering the family tree. This is all your fault. Even the problems between father and Klaus, they all came from you being unable to keep your legs closed for someone who was not your husband!" Kol spoke harshly.

"Peace brother" Elijah said sternly with a firm hand on the enraged former vampire's shoulder as their mother looked on hurt.

"Yet again you have managed to sway the entire family to your side"

"There is only Klaus side… what do you have except more sacrifices and pain?" Freya answered glaring her mother in the eyes much like her other children did except in Freya's eyes she only saw disappointment which cut her far deeper that the anger she saw in the eyes of her other children.

"You don't understand"

"Do you know she rented me out to a brothel to work as a whore when I wouldn't comply with her sick demented ideas?" Freya said standing up suddenly, her own power coursing around her.

"You didn't care did you, as long as your little fairy tale world was safe. The cost never mattered to you did it."

"I'm sorry, I tried-"

"No you didn't, you hid your deeds from everyone by lying that I had died!"

"Klaus I wish to return to my room please."

"Rebekkah go with her." Klaus requested.

"My breasts hurt" Caroline suddenly announced breaking the tension with a look of agony on her face.

"Have you nursed yet?" Ester asked with a roll of her eye.

"I don't really know how to." Caroline said looking at her lap.

"Well it's a good thing I decided on early retirement" Liz Forbes said as she entered the dining room suitcase in tow followed by Kai who pulled in 2 more of her bags.

"Mom! Wow! What are you doing here?" Caroline gushed as she held her mother in a bone crushing hug before pulling back with a look of pain.

"Let's go get those girls fed. Kai get the rest of the bags to wherever Caroline's room is. I heard you were human again, I got all the goodies a human mom would need."

"How did you know?"

"My exceptional daughter has an exceptional husband" Liz answered and Klaus smiled almost shyly.

"That and between Damon and Stefan it's like I live here with the amount of gossip I get from them."

"So you call Damon and Stefan but not me"

"Who said I call them" Liz bantered back as she went upstairs with Caroline.

"I suppose that's how a mother should be" Kol said with a sigh then glared at his own mother.

"I made mistakes okay! I'm not perfect."

"Your mistakes resulted in more than a thousand years of bloodshed."

"Back to the matter at hand… How do we deal with your sister mother?"

"I'm no longer a witch what do you want from me?"

"We only need to know about her magic… we have strong witches" Patrice said as he took the seat closest to Ester.

"The Bennet girl, and Kol's new obsession; that Claire girl"

"Her name is Davina!"

"Calm down brother"

"The order of Gaia, I am sure you have heard of them before" Patrice said with flourish as Ester looked on with contempt.

"The order of Gaia is dead!"

"A new priestess has risen in the form of Bonnie Bennet, until little Hope is ready to take on that mantle of course."

"She uses blood magic – human blood."

"Sacrifices?"

"Infants – the more innocent the blood the more power" Klaus tried to quell the growl that built up in his throat with his mother's words.

"That is all" Patrice said as he rose from the table.

"Really? Two questions"

"You under estimate my girls. Come Kol we will need you and Freya."

"Freya is very… fragile right now." Kol said hesitantly.

"All the more reason for her to come with us. The girl needs to start building herself up somehow." Patrice snipped as he practically dragged Kol with him.

"You keep interesting company" Ester said.

"I made many mistakes but I found people, to ground me and keep me from going off"

"Caroline?" Elijah asked and Klaus smiled most charmingly at him.

"Among other people" Klaus said gesturing to Elijah and the house behind him in which the people he cared for most were currently going about their business.

"I hope that includes us, it better include us. I gave you a magic miracle baby." Hayley said with mock seriousness as she walked in with Damon and Bonnie.

A/N: Hi guys, sorry for the late late LATE update. I have just been so busy with life and doing all the things you need to survive like work and things... Hope you guys are still with me. 5 more chapters and we are done with this tale, but it will not be the last. I have several drafts of other stories I was working on before life became so busy.

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