Caroline and Stefan begin walking towards the location Enzo had demanded they meet him at claiming he had access to the cure for Jessie and Damon.
As they walk Caroline glances over at Stefan curiously "So whose gonna tell Elena that Damon tried to turn Buffy into his killing partner over the Summer? Cause dibs on it not being me."

Stefan shakes his head in amusement as they begin walking through the abandoned railway track "One of them will."
"Oh like Buffy told us she'd be home by now?" Caroline points out before huffing, however, she does pause when she spots the way Stefan looked away very quickly. Stopping in her steps the blonde moves to circle around Stefan and throws her best detective look at him "What do you know?"

"What?" He asks her playing it off before quickly shaking his head "You're paranoid, Caroline."
"And you have a look."

Sighing Stefan rubs his jaw in frustration before turning to look at Caroline who was throwing her normal judgy tell me what I want to know look his way. Sighing he looks over at her before shrugging "Buffy and I have been talking...about moving closer to New Orleans. For a while now."
"You knew she wasn't coming back?" The blonde exhales in disbelief as she stares at him in shock, she couldn't even begin to comprehend the idea of Buffy and Stefan moving away. Closing her mouth she shakes her head yanking on her hair slightly before her eyes widen and she spins back around to face him "Okay new question, which one of you is gonna tell Elena that you're leaving? Cause that is not a conversation that's gonna go well."

"She could always rip her head off." An accented voice says from behind them causing the two to spin around only to spot Enzo watching them with a smirk "I mean she killed 6 travelers in the space of 10 seconds. One little Banshee, not a big deal. Then poof no more awkward conversation."

Caroline groans in annoyance before approaching the British vampire, not at all moved by his charms "Okay. We're here. Where is the antidote?" She asks wanting to get it to Jessie...and Damon. But mainly Jessie.
Without a word, the three vampires quickly find themselves surrounded by Travelers, tensing up Stefan turns to the dark-haired woman that was quickly moving towards them "Who are you?"

"I'm Sloan." She explains before gesturing around to the people surrounding them "You met some of the Travelers when they took a bucket of your blood."

"Oh yeah. How could I forget?" He mumbles unamused "So you have the antidote to this Ripper virus, correct?"


"Wait you have a doppelganger out there?" Buffy asks in disbelief as she paces outside of the crypt, she had been speaking to Hayley originally who was now with Elijah and the rest of the wolves protecting Joy when Stefan had called.
"Yep. In exchange for the Ripper cure, they want to do a spell linking me to my doppelganger. Something about doppelganger blood is important. Travelers are really sketchy and vague about the whole thing."

At his words, Buffy's eyes widen as she remembers back to what exactly had happened last time he had allowed a witch to do a linking spell. And to say she was so not in the mood to play the amnesia game again was an understatement "They're not gonna mind wipe you are they? Cause not fun!"

"Just do me a favor if they wipe my brain rip all their heads off."
"Stefan." She says warningly making him chuckle slightly "I'll be fine. Just stay safe. I love you."
Buffy's eyes widen slightly realizing that he hadn't said that to her in so long, there was silence as clearly he realized that he had said it "Wow. Was supposed to do that during a romantic dinner or something, haven't said that in a while. Buffy—"
Buffy smiles at his babbling, it was kind of sweet that it had just slipped out "I love you too." She tells him before sighing as she hears voices in the background demanding for him to come with him.

"I'll see you soon."

With that, the blonde hangs up and leans against the brick wall for a long moment a small smile gracing her lips as she holds her phone to her chest. Inhaling tightly the blonde forces her brain to refocus on the issues at hand. Shoving her phone into her pocket she makes her way back down into the crypt where Esther was still writing in the notebook "Still nothing?" She asks as she walks into the doorway leaning against it.

Klaus clenches his jaw in frustration "Not a bloody thing." Pausing he clicks his fingers trying to hurry his mother along "Come on you didn't tarry when you attempted to kill my child."

At his words Esther's head shoots up glancing in-between the two parents who were both glaring at her in disgust "I took no joy in that." She argues "I knew if your daughter lived, Dahlia would come, not only for her..." Pausing Esther's eyes land on the blonde Slayer "...and the mother of your child." At her words Buffy shifts uncomfortably before sighing as Esther speaks yet again, clearly having no idea of when to shut the hell up "She'd come for you all. However, you may despise me I would not wish that upon you."

Klaus moves in front of the Slayer blocking her from his mother's eyes before looking over at the ex-witch unamused "How touching."
"Does she have to have a tongue to write?" Buffy asks curiously playing with one of the knives she had hidden in her jacket, despite no longer needing weapons in a fight she was still a Slayer. And a Slayer loved her weapons.
Freya laughs at the blonde's words before turning to the mother she hated "I've spent enough time with Buffy today to hear what true maternal instinct sounds like. I'd never heard it before of course since you sold me into slavery at the age of 5."

Esther at this point drops the pen in her hands and stands up straight turning to her eldest child regret filling her eyes as she watched the child she had left behind "When I made that bargain with my sister, I had no idea what it meant to be a mother. I thought if I had a dozen children, I would not miss the one."

"Mother of the year." Buffy snorts as she begins pacing back and forth drawing Esther's attention "Let me ask you, Miss Summers." Esther says drawing the blonde's attention "When your daughter was born—"
Before Esther could even finish her sentence Buffy speeds over to her and grabs her by the throat picking her up "You even mention my daughter again and I will end you." She warns before shoving her to the ground.

Esther coughs loudly before slowly using the table to bring herself back up to her feet this time listening to the Slayer's words and merely turning to her own daughter "When you were born, you had a light about you. You put a smile on the face of the hardest man I had ever known. And when Dahlia took you...I believed that same light might warm her embittered heart. That you would lead a good life."

Stepping back over to Klaus Buffy quickly spots the look on his face at ever the mere mention of Mikael, the man that had made his life a living hell for 1000 years. Unsure of what to say the blonde merely reaches over taking his hand slowly entangling their fingers together without a word.

Feeling him squeeze her hand slightly she blonde squeezes back before watching as Freya finally snaps and storms over to Esther fury filling her every movement "You were my mother! You should have come for me."
"Yes. I should have." Esther admits before sighing "But it would have been a mistake." Ignoring her daughter's hurt expression at her words Esther turns to face Klaus and Buffy watching them both with a begging look "The same mistake you'll be making if you let this girl help you."

Buffy frowns at that and tilts her head in confusion "Come again?"

Esther clenches her jaw before circling around her daughter to walk over to her son and The Slayer "The light I saw in Freya as a child, it's gone. While she was mine for five years, Dahlia was her mentor for a thousand. And like her mentor, she will offer to solve your problem but for a price."
At her mother's words and the way Buffy and Klaus both listened intently Freya storms over glaring right into her mother's eyes "There is no price." Klaus quickly pulls his hand free from Buffy to place it on his sister's shoulder while Buffy turns pulling Esther away.

"No violence until she's finished writing the spell, please." Klaus tells her while Buffy nods in agreement and move Esther back over to the notebook to finish "Get to it. I haven't got all day and there are only so many body parts I can remove before you start desiccating again."


After the spell had been cast to find his doppelganger which they had managed to track down in Atlanta Stefan who was still a little sore from having his brain fried frowns in confusion as Enzo appears.
"Did I miss something?" He asks turning to Caroline who looks at him nervously, giving her a pointed look she sighs "Sloan was gonna fry your brain in order to kill your other you. I wasn't about to let that happen. So I may have volunteered...to help Enzo deal with it."

At her words Stefan glances at Enzo who merely smirks happily, sighing he turns to Caroline a little shocked at what she was hinting at "You mean kill him?" When she merely bites her lip he sighs shaking his head, this doppelganger was just some human kid that didn't deserve to die "Caroline, I can't let you..."

"They only want one alive. Remember?" She reminds him gesturing to the Travelers "It's you or him."
"All right, fine." He huffs after a beat "Well, I'm coming with you."

"No, you aren't." Enzo pipes up from behind the pair, making both vampires turn to look at him in confusion, sighing the Brit explains, "They need to use you to keep track of him."


NEW ORLEANS

"I can't do this." Freya whispers as she stares down at the finalized instructions that Esther had given her in disbelief making Buffy frown in confusion "What's the what?"
Freya sighs before looking up trying to explain the dilemma they were in "This spell requires an enormous amount of power."

"And you're like mega-powerful." Buffy points out as she crosses her arms "Not seeing the problem. Aren't you like the Mary Sue of magic."

Freya shakes her head trying to find a way to explain a bit more clearly "That power needs to be anchored. Or I'll be lost inside of Eva's mind along with Rebekah." Pausing Freya circles around the table to glare over at her mother "Unlike your magic, mine isn't anchored to any one place. Because of you, I have no home."

"Anchor me." Buffy suggests with a shrug making Klaus' eyes shoot to her furiously, spotting his jaw clench she rolls her eyes turning back to Freya "I'm immortal so it's not like you can break me. And if you do, I have a habit of being brought back to life. No biggy."
Esther merely shakes her head at the blonde's suggestion turning to her son "This is what I'm talking about Niklaus. A price. If she channels your beloved..."

Buffy frowns at her wording and raises her hand "Ah not his beloved."
Esther ignores her words as she continues "She will have access to The Slayer's mind. Past and Present."
At her words Buffy's eyes widen slightly, there were things about her past, about her life that she wasn't sure she was too okay with someone riffling through them. A lot of pain, death, and guilt.
Klaus clenches his jaw moving past his mother and sister "All my strategies that I have shared with her..." He says pointing at Buffy "...a life entangled with my own due to magic would all laid bare to give to Dahlia. It's perfect isn't it." He says turning back to glare at Freya "Knowing everything about Buffy, Dahlia would know how to get to her to make her into her power bearing vessel. You think me a fool if you believe I would allow you to lay a hand on her."

Buffy groans in annoyance, while yes she was worried, she was the only one who got to decide who riffled through her brain and thoughts. As well as who laid a hand on her, she was getting really sick of men trying to tell her what to do.
"Klaus, I'm doing this, it's not like she's going into your head where all your little secret plans are laid about. My thoughts are much more organized. I have a filing system...ish."

"She's right, brother." A new voice says causing the group to turn only to spot Elijah walking into the crypt his focus on Klaus "Brother, whatever this is..." He says gesturing towards their monster of a mother and chained up sister "...nothing must prevent us from saving our sister. I will not lose Rebekah."

"Ditto." Buffy pipes up before sighing "You all have 1000 years of baggage. My mind is less...creepy and packed full of crap. Honestly other than creepy Slayer stuff it's pretty smooth sailing." She jokes however she couldn't help but shiver at the memory of the First Slayer haunting her dreams but nothing beat the cheese guy, that guy was creepy.
Way creepy.
Pausing the blonde turns to Freya "If you see a guy with a cheese plate in my head, quickly head to another side of my head."

"I will not let her riffle through your thoughts!" Klaus yells turning to the blonde ignoring her strange comments about the things in her head, honestly, he would rather never know these things. They seemed far too disturbing. During their time together he had only entered her dreams once to try and wake her from a nightmare only to find her dream world more disturbing than anything he had ever pictured.
"You have been trapped in your own mind before!" He reminds the blonde making her wince slightly "What if she traps you in there once again! What if she makes you nothing but a shell to hand over to Dahlia?!"

"This is her decision Niklaus!" His brother yells "And since when do we head the world of this serpent?" He asks practically growling in the direction of his mother.

"Enough!" Freya yells as she lifts up her arms and shocks all four of them by easily breaking through the chains that had been in the past strong enough to stop even Marianna. Before any of them could do anything Freya flicks her wrist snapping Klaus's neck "Nik!" Buffy screams speeding over and quickly catching him before he drops.
Carefully lowering him to the ground she looks up at Freya in astonishment "If you snap my neck, I'm gonna be really annoyed."

Freya sighs before offering her hand to the blonde, Buffy takes it skeptically before standing looking her in the eye trying to get a good read on her, honestly, she still wasn't sure. She felt like she could trust her but not completely; like there was something else they were missing here.
"I will not let Dahlia use you merely as a vessel for her Cruelty Buffy." Freya tells her honestly making the blonde inhale tightly at her words "I promise you. Now let's go."

Buffy sighs and glances at Elijah, when he nods the blonde spares at look down at Klaus' body once more before following Elijah and Freya.


Following Freya, Elijah, Vincent, and Marcel who was carrying an unconscious Eva Buffy groans as she spots a salt circle drawn in the center of the room "Yep it looks creepy." She whispers into her phone before smiling as she hears her daughter babbling into the phone "She's okay?"

"She is a happy little girl who misses her mom. But Aunt Hayley is happily trying." Hayley assures her making the blonde smile before sighing as Freya nods at her gesturing for her to step into the weird-looking witch triangle thingy "Give her a kiss for me. I'll be back soon." With that, the blonde hangs up and moves to Freya's side.
"I am trusting you to Anchor me, Buffy."
Buffy groans "Great, so no pressure." She mumbles sarcastically before running a hand through her hair, why she kept offering to offer herself up for these type of things she would never understand.

"Eva will not give her up without a fight." Freya explains as Marcel carefully places' the witch's body in front of the two power blondes.
Looking up the vampire nods his head in understanding "Then she gets a fight."
"Be careful." The witch warns the vampire "You're entering Eva's mind. If she kills you in there, you will be lost. And if you kill her before you free Rebekah, then Rebekah will be gone forever." Slowly the witch turns to look at Vincent "Once you have Rebekah, then and only then can Eva be dealt with."

Buffy groans as she watches Vincent nod and bend down to lay down next to Eva and Marcel, as Freya continues with her warnings Buffy glances at Elijah "Remind me next time to stop volunteering myself for stuff like this."

"You will be fine." He assures her placing a calming hand on her shoulder "I'll make sure of it."

Buffy groans before reaching over to grasp Freya's hand as she begins chanting making Buffy moan in pain as feels the power erupting from Freya.


WHITMORE

"Tea?" A familiar voice questions making a still weak Elena sit on in bed and look over to the doorway of her and Xander's room only to smile as she spots Bonnie stood with a plate of tea and cookies.
"Please." She says kindly watching as the witch moves to sit on the bed putting the plate in-between them, as the witch takes a seat Elena looks over at the small potion Bonnie's new witch friend had made her to help heal any Banshee damage Katherine had done in her brain while trying to use her powers "Thank um...Liv for me?" She says a little unsure of the new witch's name.

"I will." Bonnie assures her before sighing, she still hadn't been able to get those eyes out of her head since Katherine was dragged off before she could enter The Other Side. The black flaming eyes.
"Um...I have a question for you."

"Shoot." Elena tells her as she takes her tea watching Bonnie in confusion there was a worried look on Bonnie's face, whatever it was had clearly freaked her out.
Bonnie runs a hand through her short hair before looking over at the Banshee secretly hoping that she would have no idea who this woman was. Because when it came to Alina, Bonnie wasn't quite sure, she couldn't put her finger on it but she was almost positive that she was bad news.

"Have you ever heard the name, Alina Petrova?"

At the question Elena's eyes slam wide open as she stares at Bonnie in shock, she hadn't heard that name since she got out of her coma almost a year ago. She hadn't told anyone about Alina, all she had mentioned was another Banshee but never had she spoken her name. "Bonnie...Alina...when I was in my coma she came to me. Helped me get out. Taught me how to channel my power."
Bonnie couldn't help but sigh in worry "Here's the thing when Katherine was trying to cross over to the other side something wouldn't let her. Alina was there. She took Katherine; disappeared in these...flames." Spotting Elena's confused expression Bonnie couldn't help her hands from shaking "Alina was bad news Elena...I've never felt power like that. It was like...pure darkness. When I looked into her eyes...all I saw...was Evil."


NEW ORLEANS

As she holds onto Freya who was digging her hands into Buffy's flesh as she continued to chant Buffy couldn't help but wince as she feels her own power drained. "Come on Freya." She mumbles before gasping as an image flashed before her eyes.

"I won't let you die. I just got you back. I can't."
Angel falls down and Buffy pulls him back up shaking her head madly as she stares at his weak dying face "I won't let you die, not again."

Buffy groans in pain and stumbles back away from the vampire before glaring over at him "Know one thing Klaus, I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to kill you."
Klaus simply shrugs off her words and raises his hand moving a strand of blonde hair behind her ear "Everyone needs a hobby, and trust me once it is time, you will have eternity, I'm sure you'll come to like me after a few hundred years."

"Okay, let's put a clock on it. If Bonnie and Mari can't get this to work and don't find another solution by then, I want you to feed again." He says to Stefan "Only this time, I want you to feed on Elena."
Buffy's eyes widen in horror, she couldn't let this happen, this couldn't happen, turning to the hybrid her eyes fill with hatred "No! Klaus No! You do this and I swear to God I'll kill you."
Klaus merely glares back at the blonde as he approaches her before stroking her cheek lightly "When your ex tries to kill your cousin I think everyone will understand you killing him. Don't worry Luv, I'll be back."
Buffy glares at him as he heads towards Mary "No one leaves." He tells them all before gesturing at Elena "Is she tries to run, fracture her spine.".

"Death is your gift."

"You have to be strong...The hardest thing in this world...is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me."

Buffy gasps loudly as her eyes slam open only to be filled with darkness once more, she could barely see where she was...she couldn't understand anything...her vision was blurry and her mind cloudy.
She attempts to move only to find herself trapped, this place, was too small, too tight, she couldn't breathe, she needed to be able to breathe.
Struggling as panic fills her she hits the small walls entrapping her, it was too much, she needed air, she needed to move.

Klaus smirks before holding out his hand towards her "Enjoy a moment of my time..." When Buffy merely stares at his hand skeptically as he offered her a kind smile one that only she seemed to be able to summon out of him, slowly that smile becomes more of a childish grin "I dare you."

"Stefan, no matter how powerful I become, no matter how much this stupid tether to Klaus grows, when it comes to you, I am always going to be that grieving 17-year-old girl. I was couldn't breathe when I met you and falling for you helped me learn to breathe again. You are my first true love...and I want more than anything for you to be my last. But I can't do this anymore. At least not now. I need to figure out what I am and how that affects who I am now...and my life. And to do that I need to be alone."

"Anytime Luv." Klaus says with a smile, and it was a promise, anything she needed, anytime.
Buffy smiles softly before glancing up at him once more. Shocking him slightly she leans up and kisses him softly on the lips, Klaus kisses her back only pulling back when Joy slaps both of their faces making Klaus laugh while Joy merely bites back down onto her toy making Buffy shake her head in amusement.

"Ah!" Buffy lets out a small whimper as feel blood dripping down her face, she could feel Freya clutching onto the demon essences inside of her. As powerful as she was she had never had someone as powerful as Freya anchor onto her power and it was draining.
Suddenly she feels a hand latch onto her arm looking over her eyes widen as she spots Klaus watching her with a worried look on his face as he takes in her pale face and the blood dripping down her nose.
Clenching his jaw in anger he turns to his sister "We're not done you and I. But for right now. Save my Sister. Elijah!" With that Elijah comes and places a hand on Freya's arm allowing Freya to now channel all three immortal beings causing her to scream as power runs through her.

Suddenly there is a burst of power and as Marcel and Vincent leap up from their slumber with a gasp Freya finally releases the three.

"Did it work?" Klaus asks as they all turn to look at Rebekah who was still unconscious.
Buffy moves to step forward only for her knees to crumble under her and give out, expecting to hit the floor the blonde quickly lands in a pair of arms.
Catching the blonde carefully Klaus lifts her up carefully wiping the blood from her face "Are you okay?" He asks as his hand strokes her cheek worriedly.
Buffy merely lets out a weak nod "Demon side, not a magic fan." She says before letting out a small exhausted laugh, unable to keep her head up she allows it to rest on Klaus' shoulder as he supports her. Looking over the blonde frowns as Rebekah was still unmoving "Shouldn't she be awake by now?"

Suddenly Rebekah as always with perfect timing gasps loudly shooting up to a sitting position as she looks around in a panic before smiling as she spots her siblings and Buffy "Bloody hell."

Klaus sighs in relief before his eyes fill with worry as he spots Buffy struggling, placing his arm underneath her legs he quickly lifts her up into his arms prepared to get her back to the compound. However, before he does he turns to Freya anger filling his features "Touch her again and whatever immortality you have will be nothing compared to what I will do to you."


Buffy who was laid in bed holding a stuffed animal in her hands over Joy who was crawling around on The Slayer's bed trying to get it smiles brightly at her growing daughter. As she and Joy playfully play a game of tug of war for the stuffed wolf Buffy sighs as she spots her phone ringing. Reaching onto the side table she sighs in relief as she spots Elena's name come up "It's your Aunt Elena, JJ." The blonde tells her daughter who babbles as she shoves another stuffed toy into her mouth.
Giggling softly the blonde brings the phone to her ear "Katherine I told you, I'm not interested in having a threesome with you."
"Ew. Why!"

Buffy snorts at Elena's words, slightly enjoying the disgusted tone of her voice "Because it's fun. Welcome back."

"Thanks. It's weird, for me it's like no time has passed but I wake up and it's been three weeks. I just...thank you for figuring it. Although the bump on my head I could have done without."
Buffy shakes her in amusement as she sits up allowing Joy to sit between her legs and play while she continues speaking to her sister "I think you're lucky that's all you ended up with. I was ready to do some full-scale Slayer beat down stuff. Would not have been pretty."

"Oh, I'm sure you really restrained yourself." The banshee snorts before laughing, Buffy couldn't help but smile, while yes it sucked not being able to be there in person she was happy Elena was back. And if anything it was just more proof that Mystic Falls and all of her friends' drama could be handled without her.

"So when are you and Joy coming home?"

At the sudden question, Buffy freezes her hands clutching the pillow under her slightly, there it was, while she had finally made her decision, the person she had been dreading talking about it with was Elena. Because she knew Elena wouldn't understand and probably would go into some whole rant and speech. But clearly, it was now or never.
"Elena...um...that's something we need to talk about. When I come back...if...I come back..."

"What do you mean if Buffy? This is your home."

Taking a shaky breath Buffy couldn't help but glance down at her beautiful daughter, her crazy blonde curls surrounding those blue eyes that belonged to her Hybrid Father "That's the thing...Mystic Falls isn't my home anymore. And it hasn't been for a while. Elena I don't want to come back."


Klaus watches his sister listening to Rebekah's reasoning for choosing to stay within Eva's body, while understandable because that body would die the moment she left it meaning all the witches now linked to it would die, that didn't matter much to the hybrid. However, what she says next does touch a nerve "And there's also the matter of Kol. We vowed to bring him back. And I can't even attempt to help Mari if I'm not a witch. She's traveling all of the world searching for answers. The least I can do is remain useful for her return."

Klaus couldn't help but let out an amused breath, it would be a quite amusing sight to see Marianna screaming at Rebekah for becoming a vampire and therefore becoming useless to her. Although he suspected like usual when those two argued, many things in the household would be used as throwing objects.

Slowly the smile on his face disappears as he remembers that Freya had now been inside both his and Buffy's minds, which meant if she was untrustworthy she knew things that could put them all in a lot of danger.
"Freya's been inside my head. She knows my secrets."
Rebekah couldn't help but smile in amusement at the worried tone on his face "So she knows you go very far for very few. So bloody what? Niklaus, just for one second, can we just be what we need to be? A family united."

Klaus sighs looking at her hesitantly before cupping his sister's cheek "For now. For you."
Pausing as they hear a groan of pain from upstairs a small smile covers Rebekah's face and she pushes his chest softly "Go, you idiot! I'd actually like her as my sister in law at some point in the next century."

"Rebekah." He hisses warningly making her smirk brightly before rolling her eyes "I can wait. But really go check on her. You know you want to."


MYSTIC FALLS

Just on the outskirts of Mystic Falls on the quiet highway where all seemed peaceful a red corvette was driving down the street towards the town, the man inside blasting some Guns and Roses as he nodded his head to the beat. As his car approached the town sign he slams on the breaks as a ball of flames suddenly appeared in the center of the road "Oh my god!" He exclaims as his car comes to a screeching halt just before making contact with the flaming ball that was bigger than his car.

Climbing out of his car to get a better look the man's eyes widen and he quickly covers his eyes as a bright flash of light comes from the flaming ball, before suddenly the road was pitch black once again. Wincing as his blurry vision returned to normal the man looked over to where the ball of fire had been only to find a raven-haired woman laid out in a long black dress.

"Hey, Miss are you okay?!" He yells quickly running up to the woman "I'll call 911." He tells her as he approaches the stunning woman only to grab his ears and scream in agony as her eyes flash open and a loud scream escapes her causing all the windows on his car to shatter as his eardrums pounded heavily against his brain. Blood pouring heavily down his face and neck.

As the screaming finally stops he sighs in relief and looks over to where the screaming girl had been only to find no one there "What the hell?" he breaths as he turns to get into his car, however as he spins around he jumps in terror as now there she was staring at him with hungry eyes and a wide evil smirk.

"Hell?" She asks before letting a laugh escape her lips as her eyes drop to the blood that had spilled from his ears to his neck "That's a funny thing...it's not bad actually. If you make the right deals."
The man who was now shaking in terror gulps brightly as she continues to watch him like a meal "What...who are you?"

"My name is Alina." She says as she tilts her head as red veins begin to pop up under her eyes and her teeth begin to grow "As for what I am...I'm starving." With that, she launches onto the man's neck digging her teeth into his flesh.
As his blood rushes into her system Alina holds onto him tightly ignoring his screams and struggle as his bones broke under her hold. As his heart finally slowed Alina yanks her head back dropping his dead body to the ground.

Smirking down at him she wipes the blood from her mouth before stepping over his body and crossing over the town line into Mystic Falls.


NEW ORLEANS

After the stressful conversation with her sister Buffy was laid on her bed Joy laying next to her fussing in her sleep as she kept a tight hold of the stuffed pig that used to belong to her mother. Honestly, she didn't want to think about the argument with Elena, right now she just wanted to relish in this time with her daughter, she had already missed 6 months of her life. She wanted to soak up every moment she could now that she was back with them.

When she hears a knock at her door the blonde looks up only to spot a smiling Klaus in the doorway clearly enjoying the sight of Buffy and Joy before him.

"Hey." She whispers before placing a finger to her lip as she gestures to their sleeping daughter, Klaus chuckles playfully placing his fingers to his pink lips with a nod before moving to lay down on the opposite side. Joy sleeping peacefully in-between the pair.
The hybrid merely watches his daughter for a moment before his gaze lifts to the blonde who finally meets his eye with a weak smile "Are you okay?"
Offering him an assuring smile she sighs "I'm fine. Just my body is built to fight against magic, so literally being someone's magical anchor. This Slayer body not happy. I feel like a got hit by a truck. But a small truck...like one that would carry apples or something."
Klaus shakes his head in amusement before arching a brow at her curiously "How did it go with your sister?"

Buffy grumbles at the question burying her head under her covers slightly at his words, it hadn't exactly been pleasant, in all honesty, there had been so much colorful language used...surprisingly Elena had more of a Sailor's mouth than she had realized.
At her reaction, the hybrid couldn't stop the amused grin crossing his face "That bad."

"Well, it didn't go good. I'm pretty sure she broke a window in her apartment while yelling. She wants to have a full discussion in person. Thinks she can change my mind about my decision."

At her words that when Klaus quickly realizes what decision could have possibly made Elena so mad, the sister's barely argued, and normally when they did it was regarding him or more specifically Buffy's connection with him.
"You're staying."
At his words, she nods offering him a small smile "I've started looking for a place so Joy doesn't have to shuffle, we're gonna make this work..." Noticing him opening his mouth she points at him making it clear to keep his mouth shut "...for after we deal with Dahlia. I mean I love the compound, and I'm staying for now...in my awesome room...but I do need some Buffy space. Don't worry knowing my luck it will be across the street and you'll just annoy me from your Balcony."

Klaus lets out an amused breath while yes it wasn't ideal given she wasn't planning on living in the Compound with him, it was a start, just her moving to New Orleans and leaving behind everything else she knew...it was a big step. And honestly, he was glad not just because she would be closer and because it would make their lives easier when it came to Joyce...but it also meant she was finally coming to accept who she really was.
And she wasn't going to let anyone hold her back from being who she was meant to be.

"So off me." She mumbles drawing his attention back to her "How did it go with Freya?" She asks curiously knowing that he, Rebekah, and Elijah had gone to the witch's welcome ceremony that officially made Freya a Witch of New Orleans.
The hybrid sighs placing a hand behind his head as he thinks back to his conversation with his sister after the festivities "Freya may have wormed her way into the witches' good graces...as well as Elijah and Rebekah's...but I see her. She wants to take everything from me. I don't trust her. So let me ask you if it came down to it...whose side are going to be on?"

"I like Freya." Buffy admits after a long pause "And I know she's been through a lot, and if she's being sincere and can help us, fine. But she's hiding something I can feel it. So if you're asking if I'll stand by you..." Slowly the blonde raises her green orbs to look into his own blue orbs "...then yes. If she comes for you, then she's coming for me and our child. If she does...I'll kill her myself."

At her words the elder hybrid smirks brightly and lifts her hand placing a kiss on her palm, she was relishing in her power finally, and if Freya was true in her threats, then he had been right to only trust the woman laid next to him "Looks like it's just you and I, My Queen.