Selina woke up in the middle of the night cause she heard a noise in the living room, a loud thump. She sat up in the darkness and threw the covers aside, slowly easing herself down to the floor, grabbing the bat that she kept by the bed and tiptoeing out of her room. Whoever was in the living room would be in for a serious ass-kicking if she had anything to say about it. She saw the dark shape struggling to get up from in front of the door where he'd managed to force the lock and get in. She stood in front of him and brought the bat down on his head.

"Ow!" he cried. "Damn, love, what did you have to do that for?"

Selina turned on the light and looked down at Klaus' crumpled form on the floor. "What are you doing here?" She asked. "How did you find me? Are you stalking me now or something?"

He looked up at her and glared. She held the bat tighter. "If you want me to tell you anything," he said, "You could apologize for hitting me."

Selina shook her head. "That would mean that I'm sorry I did it, and I'm not. Now, why are you here?"

Klaus stood up slowly and hobbled over to the sofa. "Enid told me you were here," he said. "And would you believe I came because I want to see Lucy? I know you and I are past it, but I think you'd at least let me see my own daughter."

Selina narrowed her eyes. "How does Enid know I'm here?"

"It has to do with why she pulled the dagger out," he said. "She told me she wants Mother dead. She asked for my help."

"Why does she want your mother dead?" Selina asked. "What does it have to do with me?"

He grinned slyly. "Not everything has to do with you. Except, apparently, Vanessa still has some followers out and about and they're still out to get you. Do you think I want the mother of my children dead?"

Selina narrowed her eyes. "Stop acting like you care about me," she said. "It doesn't suit you at all."

Just then, Lucy started to cry. Selina sighed. "We're both up. She might as well be, too."

"You stay here," Klaus told her. "I'll go see to Lucy."

"I don't know about that," Selina said.

"You should learn to trust people," Klaus told her.

"I trust people," Selina called after him as he made his way to Lucy's room. "It's you I have doubts about!"

She ran to Lucy's room, but Klaus managed to get there before her. "Leave," she said when she saw that he had a hold of Lucy. "Put her down and leave."

He put Lucy down and grinned. "How long has it been since somebody gave you a tumble?" He asked. "It seems like you're due for another one. Otherwise you wouldn't be so grumpy."

Selina shook her head. "I'm grumpy because you woke me up at three in the morning, you loser!"

Klaus grinned wider, cuddling Lucy close to him. "I used to wake you up at three all the time and you didn't seem to mind then."

She growled and rolled her eyes. "I mind now. So are you going to go, or am I going to have to force you out?"

His lip quirked. "Oh, please," he said. "Force me out. This'll be fun."

Selina realized what he was getting at. "What I meant to say," she said, "is that you are going to leave until I talk to Enid about what you're saying. If you're telling the truth, then we can make the proper arrangements, but until Enid corraborates your story, you aren't going to stay here. I'm serious. Unless you want to be knocked unconscious by the bat again."

His expression, which had been playful before, had become cold. "You can't hurt me," he said. "Not when I'm aware of it. You're just a baby compared to me. No stronger than Lucy is compared to you."

"Get. Out." Selina said distinctly.

"Will you be calling reinforcements?" Klaus asked her. "Like Elijah, your knight in shining armor? How many hours a day do you spend in his bed?"

"None," Selina said. "He's not you. He's better than you."

He lashed out at her, but before his hand could make contact with her face, she whipped out a container of wolfsbane mace and sprayed it in his eyes, wincing at the small amount that got on her hand. While Klaus held his hands to his face, she was able to push him out the apartment door. "Good evening!" She called after him, making sure to lock the door, standing against it when she heard two loud bangs on the door.

"Selina!" Klaus called. "Let me in!"

"Not a chance in hell!" She called back. "If you really want to convince me that you're supposed to be the good guy, this is not the way to do it! Go stay with Aleksandr. You're friends with him, aren't you?"

There was silence from the other side of the door. She turned with her back against the door and sighed. Then, she put on her coat and grabbed Lucy and Lucy's things. Then she opened the apartment door and looked around the hallway cautiously. Klaus was nowhere in sight. Good, he'd listened. She made her way out of the apartment building and sighed, getting into her car. When the door was closed, she took out her phone and called Elijah.

"Could I come over?" She asked him. "I know it's late, but I don't think I can be alone right now."

"Are you sure about that?" he asked. "What happened?"

"Nicky showed up at the apartment," she said. "He told me that Vanessa's sister Enid sent him to 'protect me' from something. I told him that I wanted him to stay away until I've had time to confirm his story. He got angry and...he tried to hurt me."

"Well, are you all right?" Elijah asked. "Physically, I mean? He didn't lay a hand on you?"

"He didn't have a chance," Selina said. "I maced him with wolfsbane and then kicked him out. I think he left for Aleksandr's. Could I come over? It'll only take me a few minutes to get to your house."

"Why do you need to come stay with me?" Elijah asked. "It seems like you handled the situation well enough on your own. I'm proud of you."

"But what if he tries it again and I can't handle it?" She asked. "I would feel better if you were there. Safer."

"Why is it that you think you can't handle things by yourself?" He asked her. "Why do you always think you need a man to take care of them for you?"

"Well, that's what the repressive patriarchal society I was raised in forced me to think," she said. "I didn't have any other options."

"Well, aren't I a member of the repressive patriarchal society?" He asked her. "If you hate it so much, why are you so eager to obey its rules? Is that how you're telling Roxanne to behave?"

"No, of course not!" Selina said. "Actually, she and her boyfriend Vince are fighting now and I told her to let him go and take this opportunity to explore her own interests for awhile."

Elijah paused for a moment and then said, "Well it makes you an awful hypocrite to tell your daughter not to chase men when you can't even refrain from doing it yourself," he said. "Go back to your apartment, go to bed and call me again in the morning. Good night, Selina."

Selina paused, her jaw dropping a little. "But-"

"Goodnight," he said firmly, and shut off his phone.

Selina frowned and took her phone away from her ear. That hadn't gone the way she'd planned. But he'd said he was proud of her. That counted for something, didn't it? She turned around to face Lucy, who looked at her quizzically from the backseat. "Let's go back inside," she said. "It looks like we aren't going anywhere tonight."

They went inside and Selina made up the pull out sofa and she and Lucy slept there, uninterrupted, for the rest of the night.

"What are you doing back here?" Enid asked as Klaus hobbled into the bar, his eyes bloodshot and tears flowing down his cheeks. "You were supposed to be going to Selina's, not out drinking!"

Klaus sat down on a barstool. "I did go to Selina's," he said. "But she sprayed me with wolfsbane and kicked me out!"

"Well did you tell her that I sent you?" Enid asked.

"Yeah," Klaus nodded. "I emphasized that, but she said she wouldn't let me stay until she talked to you and you told her that I was telling the truth. I don't know why she doesn't trust me."

"You said something to upset her, didn't you?" Enid put her hands on her hips and gave him a look. "For crying out loud, can't you control yourself for two seconds, Niklaus? Honestly, I'm beginning to see why your brother daggered you in the first place." She poured a scotch and pushed it toward him. "Drink this,"she said, pushing her dark hair out of her eyes. "It'll make you feel better."

Klaus picked it up and gulped it down. "What is it that you've got against my mother, anyway? Why do you want her dead?"

"That's my business," Enid said. "We have more pressing things to worry about. Like those crazy followers of Vanessa's."

"Why are we even worried about them?" Klaus asked.

"They're going to kill Selina," Enid told him. "Or at least try. You know that!"

"Why would they want to do that?" He asked. "She's not even worth killing anyway."

"Because they need you," Enid said, looking at Klaus as if he were stupid. "Have you forgotten why my sister pursued you all the years she did?"

"Vanessa is dead," Klaus said. "My mother killed her. So why does anything she did or wanted matter now?"

"You probably heard this at some point, but I'll tell you it again," she said quietly. "Years and years ago, my father told my sisters and me that whoever made the best use of their magic would be the next leader of our tribe after he passed on. My oldest sister Hazel decided to stay within the tribe and be the best witch she could be, but Vanessa and I, we decided to branch out a bit. After a bad romantic encounter, I decided that I needed to be avenged. People always say that dogs are better companions then men. They got that from me. I turned the man who abandoned me into a wolf, like the ones that roamed the moors and terrorized the villagers. And I did it to every man who broke my heart after that. And I had many affairs d'coeur. That's why the werewolf population used to be so big. And why female werewolves are so much deadlier than the males. They carry within them my jealousy and my pain. I'm not sorry. It's just how things are. Now, it took Vanessa a little while longer to find her niche, but as long as we'd been alive, we'd competed. She saw what I had created and decided she had to make something stronger, more powerful. And, using you and your family, she created vampires. Our species have been at war ever since. And Vanessa knew that she wouldn't be around forever. She gathered followers and earned their unwavering loyalty and a promise that they would take up her fight for vampire domination in the event of her death. Your mother's brutal murder of my sister forced Vanessa's most enthusiastic follower, a woman named Myna Lutze, pick up the torch and follow every bit of Vanessa's plan, including having you as a consort when the vampires take over the world and she becomes their leader."

"So this Myna Lutze is going to try and kill Selina to get to me," Klaus said.

"Yep," Enid nodded. "If she has her way, that is. But it isn't going to happen. The vampires aren't going to take over the world. That would be extremely inconvenient. That is why I'm going to call Selina and tell her that it's okay for her to let you stay in her apartment as long as you promise not to act like an ass."

"I never act like an ass," Klaus said.

Enid scoffed. "If I had a dime for every time your father told me that, I'd be rich."

Klaus' eyes widened. "What? What do you mean? When you say 'your father', you mean...?"

"Your real father, Niklaus," Enid said. "The man I loved more than anything. Your mother stole him from me."

"Are you sure she stole him from you?" Klaus asked. "Maybe he just got tired of you."

Just then, his eyes widened as Alistair strode into the bar, his eyes narrowed. "Watch what you say about my daughter," he said, putting his arm around Enid.

"What...?" Klaus asked.

"This is my father," Enid told Klaus. "Well, the spirit is, anyway. Not the body. He had to borrow a body."

Alistair nodded. "And it's not like he didn't have it coming. Murdering his own kind. It's just despicable!"

"Where's Alistair, then?" Klaus asked.

Enid's father leaned forward. "He will return once I have finished what I came here to do," he said. "And that will take awhile."

"What did you come here to do?" Klaus asked.

"Right wrongs," Enid's father said. "And punish those who go against their kind and other innocents for personal gain. I shouldn't have been surprised that Alistair Fale's daughter would commit evil acts as well. The apple never falls far from the tree."

"What are you going to do to Helene?" Klaus asked.

"Not 'What am I going to do'," Enid's father said. " 'What am I doing'?"

"Do you think your dad had any luck at your mom's?" Helene asked Adrian as they sat in front of the television in the living room. Helene hadn't slept in days, but at least the apartment seemed to be rid of whatever was troubling her.

Adrian shrugged. "I don't know," he said. "Knowing my father, I doubt it. Mom probably threw him out and he'll come back here and badmouth her any minute." He paused and looked at Helene. "The day of the Incident," he said cautiously, "What did you see that freaked you out so bad? Cause I was there in the room with you and I didn't see a thing."

Helene looked away. "I don't know if I want to tell you about that," she said.

"Why not?" Adrian asked. "You know you can tell me anything."

Helene shook her head. "Not about this. I just can't."

"Did you see a ghost?" Adrian guessed. "Who was it? If it's somebody evil who wants to hurt you, I'll..."

"Tessa," Helene said quietly. "She was there right in front me, angry and hurting me badly."

"Well can you blame her?" Adrian asked. "You did kill her and steal her body just so you could be alive again."

Helene frowned. "This is exactly why I didn't want to tell you," She said. "What happened to 'If it's somebody evil who wants to hurt you, I'll...'?"

"If it was anyone other than Tessa..." Adrian said.

"Fine!" Helene said. "Stick up for the girl who's going to kill me and take her body back. I don't care!" She marched toward the door, but it opened before she reached it and a pretty blonde young woman strode inside, smiling at Helene. "If you're worried about me needing to steal your body to come back, you shouldn't be. I already have one of my own."

Adrian's eyes were wide. "Tessa? Oh, my God, Tessa!" He stood up and sped across the room, throwing himself into her arms.

She began to cry. "I'm so glad you remember me!"

They stood there hugging for a few minutes, and then Tessa turned. "Bye," she said to Helene. "You can go now."

Helene waited for Adrian to say different, but he didn't say anything. Sadly, she left the apartment, wondering what she was going to do now.

"I hate your brother!" Selina said as she stormed into Stefan and Anna's apartment.

"Which one?" Anna absent-mindedly. "I have several and many of them are on your bad side."

"Which is why you can just pick a brother." Selina said. "I mean, Aleksandr's been quiet lately, but Nicky's been driving me insane and Elijah, he had the nerve to call me a hypocrite!"

She sat down hard on the sofa.

"Why would Elijah call you a hypocrite?" Anna asked, sitting next to her.

Selina turned. "Apparently it's cause I encourage Roxie to not chase boys and explore her own interests, but I can't seem to do it myself. It's not my fault, though. I don't know how to explore my own interests! I don't even know if I have any."

"Sure you do," Anna said. "You can't honestly tell me you spent all your years as a vampire doing absolutely nothing."

Selina thought a moment. "Well, after Aleksandr left me, I spent a lot of the time with my son, helping him and his wife raise their children."

"Uh-huh," Anna said, "But did you do anything outside of being a mother? Did you march for the vote or ride horses or paint or anything like that?"

Selina shook her head. "I didn't really until I met Nicky," she said.

Anna was looking at her pityingly. "Well, we have a lot to make up for, don't we?" She asked. "Where's Lucy right now?"

"I left her with a baby-sitter," Selina said.

Anna nodded with satisfaction. "Good! There's this guy I know who races cars for fun. He asked me out and wondered if I could bring a friend with me. I think you should come."

"A blind date?" Selina asked, wincing. "I don't know..."

"You should go," Stefan said. "I demand you go. Then you can come back here and tell me all about it. It'll be nice to hear about another couple besides Damon and Mandy."

"Mandy?" Selina asked, turning slowly. "Who's Mandy?"

"A woman he met at his single parents support group," Stefan rolled his eyes. "Apparently, she's the most wonderful woman in the world, pretty, intellgent, funny, and so accepting of Sam."

Selina nodded. "Well that was quick. Good for him."

"Go back to your apartment and get your coat," Anna told her quickly. "We have to meet Jeff and Andy in half an hour."

"All right, all right," Selina said as Anna pushed her impatiently out the door. "I'm going. Keep your pants on, will you?"

She got back in her car and headed home, and when she reached the apartment, she heard voices coming from inside. She opened the door and found Klaus sitting on her sofa with Lucy in his lap. Across from them, holding drinks in their hands and laughing at some witticism were two people Selina had never seen before.

"Hi," Selina said to them. "What's going on?"

Klaus looked up at her and smiled. "Hello, darling. The phone call that you were waiting for came through today, but since you were out, there's a message on your voicemail."

He looked at the other two who were eyeing her with interest. "Selina never remembers her phone," he said to them. "I'm always having to take her messages, but I don't mind being her secretary."

Selina picked up her cell phone and sure enough, there was a message from Enid, telling her exactly what she wanted to hear.

"Fine," she said to Klaus when the message ended. "You can stay, but you're sleeping on the sofa. Where's the babysitter? Please don't tell me you killed her."

"Do you think discussion like that could wait until after you meet our new neighbors?" Klaus asked.

Selina looked at them. "I'm sorry," she said. "I'm Selina. I'd love to stay, but I have a meeting I have to be getting to."

"Then we'll make this quick," the woman said, standing up. She had dark hair, dark eyes and a willowy figure. The young man beside her haid blue eyes and brown hair. Both were very good looking. "I'm Myna Lutze," she said. "And this is my brother Hanz. We moved in across the hall and we're very happy to be here."