"Oh, come on, Kol," Margot said, pounding on the bathroom door. "I need to get in there and wash my hair! Surely you've used your whole batch of hair products by now."
"Maybe," Kol called back from the other side of the closed door. "What's the password?"
Margot paused, suddenly realizing what he was doing: it was a game they used to play to get each other into the bathroom naked, but they hadn't done it in a while so what he'd said had thrown her off. "I don't need a password," she said, grabbing the door handle. "You better be ready, cause I'm coming in there whether you like it or not!" She then threw the door open and her eyes widened as Kol stood naked in front of the mirror, brushing his hair. Then, he turned to smile at her. "Good morning, darling. If you don't know the password, you have to tell me how handsome I am. Would you do that?"
"Maybe," Margot smiled. "Would you tell me I'm pretty?"
"Of course," Kol nodded. "I don't see any reason why not."
"And I know that you like fussing about Kai and stuff, but I…can I ask that we stay in today and you don't go anywhere else?"
"That depends," Kol replied. "Will you be dressing today?"
"Will you stop asking me stupid questions and just kiss me, you handsome idiot?" Margot countered.
"Of course I will," Kol smiled. "Remember, I like pretty things with sharp tongues."
Margot chuckled and backed him up against the wall, baring her fangs. "What about sharp teeth?" She asked, just scraping his neck.
"Yes," Kol nodded. "Sharp teeth too. Why not? As for Kai, I think I'll let Nik handle him. I deserve a day off."
"That's exactly what I was thinking too," Margot agreed, ruffling Kol's neatly combed hair.
Then Kol kissed her, took the phone off the hook, and the two of them headed back to bed. Or they stared to, before Margot asked him to help her in the shower.
"Come on, Dad," Adrian said to Klaus when Klaus heard that Adrian and Kai were friends and ordered him over so he could read him the riot act. "Kai's not so bad. I don't see what's wrong about being friends with him. Is there some unwritten rule that because you hate him, I have to feel the same way?"
"Yes," Klaus replied, his voice curt and cold. "It's called familial loyalty and you're showing a distinct lack of it."
"And I think you're being a complete asshole for no good reason!" Adrian shot back.
Klaus then transformed into a wolf and he and Adrian began tussling. Soon, a broken lamp brought Amy running, however. "What in the world is going on here?" She asked after whacking Klaus with a newspaper so that he moved away from a bleeding and heavily panting Adrian and hung his head in shame for a few seconds and then looked up at Amy to see if it worked and she was feeling sorry for him.
"Dad's upset because I'm friends with Kai," Adrian explained while Amy pointedly ignored Klaus. "He apparently feels that I have some familial duty to hate Kai as much as he does and I think that's silly."
"Yes, that is silly," Amy agreed. Klaus then bumped his head against her thigh, a gesture with a very familiar meaning for her. "No, I am not going to pet you," she told him and stepped away. "Not when you're behaving this badly. Now go turn back into a person and if you want to discuss this further, we will."
Klaus then stalked off and then came back a few minutes later. "No, thanks," he huffed. "I don't want to think about it anymore."
"I'm not gonna stop being friends with him," Adrian said firmly. "And you're just gonna have to get used to that."
"Get out," Klaus snapped.
"Oh, fine!" Adrian shouted back. "I was just about to leave anyway."
"That was well-handled," Amy said sarcastically as Adrian slammed the door behind him. "Is it really so bad that Adrian's friends with Kai? What's the problem?"
"Well, it's just not fair, is it?" Klaus huffed. "Here Kai is some horrible criminal in the magical world and what does Astrid do? Gives him a girlfriend, lets him go free, and then everyone is friends with him and thinks he's wonderful. What did she do with me? Saddle me with a keeper and basically brand me as public enemy number one! If that's not showing favoritism, I don't know what is. It's probably because he has powers and I don't."
"I didn't know you were so against my being around," Amy replied in surprise. "You want me to go?"
"No, of course not," Klaus shook his head. "I'm sorry. But you can't deny that I've become very domesticated ever since you and I got together. I have lots of bad stuff stored up in me and not a lot of ways to get it out. Being mad about Kai is the one of the ways."
"But is it worth alienating Adrian?" Amy asked. "You only have one other son besides him and you don't see Robbie very often."
Klaus sighed. "I suppose not. If I'm mad about Kai, I shouldn't take it out on Adrian." He gave Amy a look. "But don't you tell me that I'm not allowed to be mad about Kai at all."
"Oh, no, I won't," Amy shook her head. "Trust me, I wouldn't want to be labeled as the one who stopped you from having any way at all to vent your anger. Did Alistair push you as hard as I do to reform?"
"No," Klaus said. "Our being together started out as a punishment for him, remember? He had to do whatever I said with his magic and most of that was bad stuff. He got so used to what I did over the years that it kind of just…was how it was."
"All right," Amy nodded. "I suppose if Alistair, who's one of the most moral guys I know, can handle you like that, I can try."
"Of course you can!" Klaus agreed. "Especially when you'll be doing the same sort of dark stuff that I am. You hunt people now, remember?"
Amy gasped. "I didn't even think of that as one of the things I should be warning you away from. My god, what's happening to me?"
"You're adjusting," Klaus replied, coming to kiss her. "And that's a very, very good thing." He paused. "Selina came over the other day and you two seemed to have fun together. Did you enjoy hunting with her? Maybe we should invite her over more often."
"Yes, I did enjoy myself," Amy agreed. "So maybe we should. Although she'll probably insist Elijah come with them."
"No," Klaus corrected. "It'll be he that does the insisting. I know my brother well, and that's what he'll do. Even though Selina and I haven't been a couple for years, the thought of us in the same room without a chaperon still makes him nervous."
"Should I be?" Amy asked playfully.
"No, the only person you should worry about when it comes to me is yourself," Klaus chuckled. "I have very little control around you."
"Good," Amy smiled. "You're not so bad yourself."
"I really like what you did with the house," Regina said to Victoria as they walked around while Kai trailed after them. Then, she stopped in front of the play room and Kai's hand squeezed Victoria's hard enough that her fingers cracked.
"What's in this room?" Regina asked.
"Oh, that's the play room," Victoria replied.
"You got the twins a play room?" Regina asked. "How sweet!"
"No, it's not for the twins, actually," Victoria corrected. "It's for us. It's for Kai and me."
"Is it really?" Regina smiled. "Isn't that fun? Can I have a look in it? Or would you prefer I didn't?"
"Why shouldn't you?" Kai asked. "It's not like it's nothing you've never seen before. And you still did stuff like that when Victoria was little, right?"
"Oh, of course," Regina nodded. "If you ever wanna indulge yourselves, just tell Declan and me and we'll watch the twins, no problem." She then opened the door and looked around with amazement. "Wow," she enthused, her jaw dropping a little. "This is much better than anything your father and I ever had, Victoria."
"Well, maybe you should upgrade," Victoria suggested. "Talk to Dad about it."
"Oh, I sure will," Regina told her, asking Victoria to zap her up a camera so she could take photos to show Declan exactly what she was talking about. After that, Regina visited the twins again.
"I just can't stay away from these two," she said as she held them both on her lap. "They're just so adorable! How have they handled all the new people visiting? Good?"
"It seems like it," Victoria nodded. "It seems also that Finn has a fondness for Grandma Gwen, though, and I just don't know what to do about that. Should I be nervous or not?"
"Why should you be nervous?" Regina questioned. "I started helping Grandpa Mikael with his hunting work when I was young and my parents never worried. You were visiting Kai in jail as a kid and it doesn't seem to have affected you in a negative way. I really think Finn will be all right if he and your grandma Gwen do establish a bond. But if you do get worried, you can always talk to King and I'm sure he'll be more than happy to run interference."
"We don't need him," Kai scoffed. "I can handle her myself. And I don't know if I do want my son near her. She doesn't seem much different from my mother and so I have this terrible feeling that once she finds out it's gonna take Finny a bit longer to get his powers, she's going to start mistreating him, and he doesn't deserve that."
"I know Grandma Gwen may seem a bit intense," Victoria said, putting a hand in Kai's. "But she's really not as bad as she seems. More bark than bite, really. Especially if she likes you, and I truly believe she's taken a liking to Finny, so it's not the same as the situation you had with your mother where she decided to hate you because you weren't a girl. Trust me on this, please."
"All right," Kai nodded. "I'll try. I really will."
"Good," Victoria said. "It won't be so bad. I promise."
"Well, I think it's time for me to take my pictures and go talk to your father," Regina said after a few seconds of silence. "Unless you two need me for anything more?"
"No, go talk to Daddy," Victoria encouraged her mother. "And tell us what he says. I'm eager to know."
"All right," Regina smiled and hugged her daughter. "I will."
