Episode Two: Alive and Kicking

Caroline stood in the middle of what looked like a graveyard, her blue eyes were flashing slightly as her eyes moved back and forth and she tapped her foot impatiently. "Where are they?"

"Calm down, love," Klaus whispered in her ear. "Be patient, darling. They will be here soon."

"Good," Caroline hissed, her small fangs were peeking through the corner of her mouth in hungry anticipation. According to Klaus this coven of witches known as the Olive coven of witches were well known for their strong-and somewhat illegal amount of magic that they practice. Which made it perfect for Caroline to ask them if they knew of a way to stop Esther from taking Regina and Henrik.

A second later a small group of witches appeared, they couldn't have been more than five or six, but they were giving both Klaus and Caroline the dirtiest looks that they could muster between them. The eldest witch took a step forward and narrowed their eyes at them. "What are you two doing here? Vampires are now allowed here."

"That's good," Caroline said sarcasm oozing in her voice. "But Klaus and I are not vampires. Oh, no we are something much more powerful."

The witch paled as the color seemed to drained from her face. "You're her. The daughter of Adriana Marin. The hybrid vampire-witch."

Caroline vamp flashed towards the witch and gripped her neck as she pinned her against the wall. "That woman is not my mother," her red eyes flashed. "Now why aren't you and your little coven useful for once and tell me how we can prevent a witch name Esther to stop meddling in from the other side."

"You can't," the other witch choked. "She's one of the most powerful witches- "

"Wrong answer." Caroline broke her neck without a second thought. One of the young witches started chanting a spell. "Dorati mire- "

Caroline raised an eyebrow at Klaus and Klaus gave her the green light, a chill of excitement went down Caroline's spine as she sank her fangs into the first neck that she saw.

An hour later Caroline found herself drench with blood as she went up to her room to get cleaned up. The mission itself had been unsuccessful, there were still nowhere near close to finding Esther, but at least they had gotten some fun out of it. Not to mention that Caroline felt happy. It was good to take revenge on someone. Genevieve was dead so Caroline needed someone else to torture. She frowned when she saw Elijah standing there frowning and looking like the holy pope. "What do you want, Elijah?" she asked annoyed. "I really need to take a shower."

"You've had an eventful day."

Caroline gave him a slow, dry smirk as she started getting some new clothes from her closet. "I was having a crappy day so Klaus took me to interrogate some witches. They were useless but I had some fun at least."

"So would you like me to erase any traces of you and Klaus' fun."

"Don't start," Caroline rolled her eyes. "Don't start playing as if you're a saint. Your brother sacrifice my best friend and your girlfriend killed me."

Elijah ignored Katherine's mention. "I would have thought that you would hold yourself to a higher standard than Klaus."

"Well, I don't. He and I are the same and I'm starting to think that his methods of brutality work a lot better than mine."

"You took her on a witch hunt?" Elijah demanded, giving Klaus the dirtiest look that he could possibly muster.

Klaus simpered at him and said rather calmly. "I simply wanted the witches to locate the white oak stake and to find a way to get Esther off our back. When they were unable to do. I let Caroline have her fun."

"She grows more savage by the day," Elijah said sounding exhausted. "Can you not see that she's falling apart and you encouraging her to be more violent is not helping anyone."

"Caroline does not need to your criticism." Klaus snapped. "She knows very well what she's doing. She's a hybrid now. She needs to embrace what she truly is. Caroline will be just fine."

"The mother of your children deserve more than just fine," Elijah said exasperated. "She's the woman that you're supposed to love and you're letting her fall to pieces. You need to make her happy. Make her feel like a person again instead of a monster."

"I thought we could do this tomorrow as well." Caroline told Klaus as he entered her room. They had been sleeping in separate quarters since the twins' departures, but now Klaus suddenly missed her presence that had always been there when they had slept in the same room. "Maybe some other witches will hear and they will start paying more attention to our needs."

"Will you please stop speaking nonsense," Klaus snapped. "We're walking a very thin line, Caroline. What we did today was a onetime thing and it must not happen again."

Caroline narrowed her eyes. "Since when are you so uptight?" she laughed. "Let me guess Elijah got under your skin."

"This has nothing to do with Elijah, but it has everything to do with you." Klaus narrowed his eyes. "We are entering another kind of game, so you must stop acting so childish and be prepared to fight."

Katherine felt someone calling her name, but she was barely moving. "Katherine," she finally heads someone hissed a little louder. Her brown eyes opened and she turned around and saw Nadia tied back a few feet away from her. "Nadia," she croaked. "What happened?"

"What do you think," Nadia gowned as if it should have been obvious. Her hands were being tied by vervain ropes and she was bleeding. "Travelers happened." Katherine squinted her eyes shut as she slowly started remembering what happened. Katherine felt weak and like her skin was burning, she guessed they must have pumped her with vervain.

"But why?"

Nadia groaned. "Trust me, you don't want to know." As it turned out, her mother was like a magnet when it came to people trying to sacrifice her. "Shh, I can hear someone." They heard the voices that were whispering thanks to their vampire hearing.

"Andrei," they heard someone say, a female. "Are you sure about this. There are too many risks!"

"-We are prepared. Nothing will go wrong. Not like last time."

"What is it?" Nadia asked when she saw Katherine's shocked face.

"Andrei Petrova," she said slowly. "The name of my father. My dead father."

Elijah was waiting back at the compound looking anxious, but Klaus didn't seem to notice. He was too busy trying to comprehend his own wild thoughts not to mention that at the very least he was glad that Caroline was pouting back in her own room. "It worse that we thought." Klaus said. "I meet the so call famous witch named Cassie. I studied her the presence that she carried. I saw her hatred when she spoke of vampires. She just wasn't guide by our mother. She is our mother."

Elijah slumped in his seat. "What are we going to do?"

"I am going to kill her," Klaus hissed. "I will boil her bones and throw her to the dogs if that's what it takes, but she will not destroy our family."

"Niklaus- "

"What?" Klaus asked looking slightly panicked. "What could be more important than the return of our mother."

Elijah lowered his voice. "Our father. I saw him today. He was enslave with some spell cast by Davina. He holds the stake. If she chooses to release him- "

Klaus raised an eyebrow. "Then I believe that there is only one question that we must ask ourselves. Which of our parents do we kill first?"

-End of Chapter Two-

Next up in Every Mother's Son-Still filled with anger Caroline refuses Esther's dinner invitation and instead decides to put Esther's body jumping spirit to a stop once and for all. Elijah goes in search of Katherine and meanwhile Esther tempts Caroline with an offer that she cannot refuse.