Author's Note -

Just clearing up a reviewer's confusion! The last chapter was based off of the Homecoming episode. Mikael died, was staked but not by Klaus. The twist to the canon episode was that Caroline/Raine showed up to the dance and switched the stakes. Then compelled a hybrid to use it on Mikael.


Chapter Twenty-Nine

(Portland, Maine)

"You said you could help me locate her?" The mysterious blonde eyed the witch suspiciously. If this turned out to be another dead end, she'd rip the witch's esophagus out of her throat.

Over the centuries, people have been trying to get on her good side to get on Klaus' good side. They knew who she was. They knew who Klaus was. Her reputation was almost as bad as his. Some of the things she was rumored to have done were true. Others, not so much, but she wasn't going to deny them. If it meant that people feared her and help her, she was okay with it.

The witch swallowed whatever shaky nerve she had and answered, "Yes. I will just need something that belonged to her." The blonde groaned. She couldn't even count the numbers of times she had heard that from a witch. "I don't have anything. I haven't seen her for nine hundred years. How am I suppose to have anything that belonged to her?!"

Flinching at the girl's risen voice, the witch backed up against the wall a little. If she wanted to live to see another day, she needed to think of something and fast. "You have wasted enough of my time," the girl stalked forward. "Wait!" The young witch held up her hands. "There's another witch, Gloria. She owns a bar in Chicago. She's been around for a few centuries. She could help you!"

Gloria? Why does that name sound so familiar?

Taking a deep breath, the girl walked up to the witch who looked like she was about to pee herself. Doing the unexpected, the blonde smiled. "You know how this works right?" The witch nodded. She relaxed, knowing that she wasn't going to die today. Not saying another word, the girl left.

After watching her visitor's car pull out of her driveway, she began her spell. She had to get rid of the girl's scent. Then she was to keep her mouth shut and not mention anything about the blonde girl to a single soul if she valued her life. Everyone in the supernatural world knew about the girl and who she was to Klaus. Only he did not know she was still alive, the girl made sure of that.

(Mystic Falls, Virginia)

Elena and Bonnie came bursting through the Salvatores' front door. "What happened? Why isn't Klaus dead?" They demanded. Damon was in the process of pouring himself a drink. He had been trying to figure out what all went down yesterday as well. He motioned for the girls to take a seat before he explained everything.

"If the Originals are the only vampires who can compel other vampires, then –"

"Whoever compelled me and one of Klaus' hybrids is also an Original," Damon finished for Bonnie. Elena shook her head. She knew that couldn't be right because Rebekah had told her their family's story and how many siblings she had. Alaric even found the names of everyone in Klaus' family. "No, there should be only six Originals," she said.

"Rebekah was smart enough to not tell you everything," Klaus walked into the room. He really never bothered to knock, did he? He took a seat in one of the armchairs by the fireplace, smirking at the three fear struck members of the Mystic Falls gang. They were scared that he came to kill them for conspiring to end his life.

"What do you want?" Damon was straight to the point.

"I want your help," the hybrid replied. Damon scoffed, "What made you think that we were going to help you with anything?" Klaus smiled, showing his pearly white teeth. "Because I have little Gilbert compelled to go stand in front of a speeding car if you didn't." He reached into his pocket and pulled out Jeremy's ring.

"We'll do whatever you want. Just leave my brother alone," Elena begged. Bonnie agreed with her. "Elena! Are you serious?" Damon wasn't going to give into Klaus that easily. The brunette gave him a stern look. "It's Jeremy."

"Now that we have that out of the way, I want your help to locate my family."

Damon scoffed again. "Don't you cart them around in caskets?" Stefan had informed him of that little information last night after Klaus uncompelled him. His baby brother was about to steal Klaus' family too but it looked like he hadn't made a move yet.

"There are two that I have not daggered. I thought they were dead you see, but apparently I was wrong. One, maybe both of them, was at the dance last night to compel their way in and switched the stakes."

"Are they your siblings? How did they die?" Elena was curious. The origins and stories about the Originals had always peak her interest. "I don't think that's any of your concerns love," Klaus narrowed his eyes at her. He did not want to talk about what had happened. It only brought back horrible memories. It was the worst century of his existence.

He could still remember the encouragements Caroline and Raine gave him to take his daylight ring off, to kill himself. Though they were only hallucinations from the hunter's curse, he couldn't help but believe every word they said. It was one thing having Mikael tell him he was worthless and weak but to have the woman he loved and his daughter tell him that, it was unbearable.

"If you want our help, then you'll answer our questions," Bonnie spoke stubbornly. If he didn't need her help, he would've ripped her head off of her shoulders for speaking to him in such a tone. "No they are not my siblings. Caroline, she's my," he took a pause. What was the term they used nowadays? "She's my girlfriend. The other is my daughter."

Damon's glass of Bourbon never made it to his lips. It had stopped half way after hearing Klaus say 'my girlfriend' and 'my daughter'. The girls had their mouths wide open. They tried imagining Klaus with a girlfriend but they just couldn't picture it. It was even more impossible to picture a daughter that resembled him.

"That's impossible. Elijah said you didn't love. You told him that love was a weakness," Elena recalled Elijah's story.

He still believed that love was a weakness. Because he loved Caroline and Raine, he was letting these girls question him. He didn't have control at the moment. He needed help and that made him weak. "I was human once, sweetheart."

"Okay, how did they die then?" Bonnie steered him back to answering their questions. He had purposefully ignored that question, hoping that they didn't catch it. "Mikael," was all he said. Getting up from his seat, he walked over to Bonnie. "Now that your questions have all been answered, we should get started."

"Do you have anything that belonged to them?" She opened her history book and turned to a page with a map. Elena went and got some candles for the locator spell. Damon took this opportunity to leave the room and text his brother. He didn't care if they had failed last night because he'd just found out some useful information about Klaus and was going to use it to his advantage.

Klaus pulled out Caroline's leather bracelet and handed it to the witch. "Caroline's," he said. "And your daughter?" He didn't have anything that belonged to her. "Use my blood," he suggested. It'd work better anyways since he was her biological father. Klaus let a few drops of his blood fall onto the map while Bonnie held onto the bracelet and began chanting.

His blood split into two separate drops. One moved across the map and stopped in Illinois. "Caroline, she's in Chicago," Bonnie handed him the bracelet back. The other stopped in Italy. They're both alive, he held back his smile. He was not going to show them how he really felt. Now that he knew where they were, he had to decide where or who he was going to look for first.

"What's happening?" Elena pointed to the drop of blood on Italy. It started to move again and then soaked up the whole page. "I don't know. It doesn't make sense. How can one person be everywhere at once?" Bonnie was confused as well. Klaus ran a hand down his face. This was supposed to be a quick stop. Get the witch to help him locate his loved ones then go get them.

Then something clicked in his head. Removing his hand from his face, he sat up straighter. He remembered Buttercup, Raine's stuffed animal. He realized now why he had never seen a toy like that. It was from this century. Caroline was a time traveler. Maybe Raine time traveled. Maybe that's how she got that toy.

Then another realization hit him. If Raine could time travel, it'd explain how she had disappeared without a trace. She had always been able to perform powerful spells. He wanted to stake himself for not seeing this earlier.

He wondered when or where she had time traveled to. She was only two. She would've been alone where ever she went without any survival skills. The girl didn't know how to take care of herself yet, she was a toddler still! Someone could've found her. Hurt her. He shook the thoughts out of his head. No, he had already wasted the last nine hundred years mourning. It was time to look for her.

"I'll send Jeremy home, uncompelled." Without another word, he flashed out of the boarding house.

He cursed himself for not realizing something else earlier. Mikael had given Damon the white oak stake to use on him. Mikael only had one. He would've never wasted it on Caroline. What did he do to her then? What about those ashes? He knew who was at the dance last night now. It was Caroline. He'd have to ask her what happened once he sees her again.

(Chicago, Illinois)

Caroline found the bar the witch in Maine told her about. It wasn't hard considering the witch named Gloria, owned a bar named Gloria's. She was standing in front of the old bar but the front door and windows were boarded up.

Stopping a young couple that was passing by, she asked them what had happened. "Oh, you must be new in town. The owner, Gloria, was murdered a few months ago. They're still investigating, found some weird herbs and what not in the back of the bar," the young man answered. She thanked them for their time and let them continue on their way.

Once again she was lead to a dead end. Every time a witch used her blood to locate Raine, it'd move to Italy then spread all over the world, soaking into the map. None of the witches knew what that meant. Caroline however figured it out. Her daughter sent a stuffed animal through time and space. She could've easily sent herself. She just didn't know what the blood soaked map meant.

So Caroline had spent the last nine hundred years searching. She had looked in every country, every continent and corner of the world at least twice. She'd spent years, even decades in a place, just in case Raine would pop up there.

Getting in her car, she steered towards Mystic Falls. If her daughter was going to go anywhere, that's where she'd go. Her uncles and aunts were there. She was born there. The girl would make her way back to Virginia eventually if she had ended up in an earlier time. Caroline had to check one more time before searching elsewhere.

(Mystic Falls, Virginia)

After Klaus left, the blood on the map started to move again. The drop that stopped in Illinois started to move down the map before it disappeared. The other drop that had soaked up the map, gathered into a blob again and moved to Virginia, stopping at Mystic Falls. Then it too disappeared.

"One of them is here," Bonnie whispered. "Does that mean they're vampires as well? If they're still alive," Elena asked. She had been doing that a lot lately, asking a lot of questions.

"Great more vampires to deal with, one being a mini Klaus," Damon smirked at the new nickname he had given Klaus' daughter. He'd think of a new one once he sees what she looks like. The girls turned their heads towards him. They hadn't even noticed his absence.

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The man with pale blue eyes had his hand on the handle of the door, about to walk into the Grill when someone tugged at the bottom of his jeans. Looking down, his jaw flew open. "Do you know where my mommy and daddy are?" The girl was just how Caroline had described her to be.

She was no older than two years old. Her hair was a curly blonde and hung just below her shoulders. She had the biggest blue eyes he had ever seen. Caroline had said that she would most likely be carrying around a stuffed unicorn and she was. "You're Raine?"

A bright dimpled smile appeared on the toddler's face. She nodded. "Do you know where my mommy and daddy are?" Raine asked again. "Yes, I'm an old friend of your mother's. How would like something to eat while we wait for her to come?"

"Okay," she smiled again, taking his hand as he led them into the crowded restaurant. He ordered some fries and cookies for the young girl. He even got her a glass of apple juice. He watched her with one eye while using the other text Caroline. She had told him about her cancer, being pregnant, turned and then sent through time. She didn't tell him everything of course. He didn't need to know.

He knew that she was Original like the Mikaelsons. He knew that her daughter was a hybrid and had probably time traveled. So the 11th century dress Raine was wearing hadn't surprised him. He was too busy texting Caroline; he hadn't notice Klaus walking into the Grill.

Klaus made his way over to the pool table where his hybrids were in the middle of a game. He quickly ordered them to leave Mystic Falls. They were from all over the United States, so sending them home with orders to keep an eye out for his daughter would be better than having them huddled up in one place.

They did as told. He watch as the last hybrid left the building before heading over to the bar. He needed to get in a good drink before driving to Chicago. A familiar scent nearly knocked him off his feet. He hadn't smelt it in centuries. Following the scent to a nearby table, he saw the back of a girl's head.

He approached her slowly, not knowing if his mind, his nose was playing tricks on him or not. Raine was in the middle of chewing down a chunky chocolate chip cookie when she smelt him. Grinning she hopped out of her seat and ran to him. Klaus could feel his heart tighten and tense as the girl turned around and ran towards him.

He recognized that dress. Rebekah had bought it for her. Raine jumped into his arms and wrapped her little arms around his neck. "Daddy! Where did you go? You were gone for two days," she frowned. Klaus let the smile he had been holding back to finally form onto his face as he hugged his daughter tightly.

It was crazy how he had spent nine hundred years away from her when it had only been two days since she'd seen him. "I was looking for your mother. When I came back you were gone."

"I couldn't sleep daddy. Aunt Sage didn't tell me a story like you did. I went poof! Then I found you," she giggled. She hadn't even realized what she had done. She had been thinking about her parents, missing them and then accidentally sent herself through time to where one of them were.

"Niklaus, I'm glad to see that you are finally reunited with your daughter. Caroline is on her way here as we speak," the mysterious mad said. He had gotten up as well and silently watched their father-daughter reunion.

Klaus looked up and could feel the old jealousy he had felt towards the man come back. "Kale."


Ending Summary -

Kind of confusing chapter, but here's a quick explanation. Caroline was the one at the dance. She never got staked in the heart but Mikael did use it to stake her in the stomach, so she knew what it looked like to have a replica made.

The blood soaking up the map meant that Raine was time traveling, not yet reached her destination or time. When the blood moved to Mystic Falls, it meant that she had just appeared.

I hope I've covered everything ...

Leave your guesses on what you think happened to Caroline if Mikael didn't kill her. Or what Damon/Stefan are planning on doing with the new information about Klaus! Were you surprised who the mystery man turned out to be? Any feedback really d; Thanks & hoped you enjoyed!