Welcome back! So there was questions about when this takes place and the answer is that this is about a month before Godric is taken(season 2), and in the Vampire Diaries world it would be the third season.

The bar was in the basement of the building, a bright red Gloria's sing hung above the entrance. Lyra new a Gloria once, back in the 1920's before Mikael had found them. The two of them got along quite well, both had a knack for sarcasm and always had that I-don't-give-a-shit attitude. She never did get to find out what happened to her, Klaus had shoved a dagger in her heart not long after for complaining about Rebekah being gone. He really needed to deal with his problems more realistically, 'killing' your siblings every time they disagreed with you was not how family worked. Well it seems to be how our family works. We are a family of sociopaths.

Walking into the bar, Lyra's attention is drawn to the live band and the eerie similar set up of the Gloria's she was familiar with. The bar was not packed, the night was running out and most people had probably grabbed their friends and gone home. She sat at the bar, still watching the band, which was dying out with the lack of an audience.

"Can I get you something, Doll?" I know that voice. Lyra spins around to meet the face of the bartender.

"Gloria?" She couldn't believe her eyes. It was the same Gloria she knew from the 20's, but aged 30 years.

"Well, lookie here, Miss Lyra Mikaelson. I thought I felt a surge of energy earlier, must've been you that dropped through the veil." She leans forward with a smile on her face.

"You know what happened to me? I woke up in the alley next door and all I can remember is Mikael reaching out for me." She says urgently, Lyra was desperate for answers.

"I can't tell you why you're here but I can tell you that you traveled through the veil and popped out the other side into a different reality." Lyra almost laughed with disbelief, she was having one hell of a night.

"The veil? Alternate reality?"

"That's right, believe it honey. It took me a while to grasp the idea but once I did, I managed to come up with the proper spells to bring me here when I died. Spending a life in a different world sure beats spending eternity in The Other Side."

"So, you died and came here? Is that what happened to me?"

"I was killed by that bitch Katherine. Snuck up on me and stabbed me, wasn't gentle about it either." Gloria pours herself a glass of scotch, taking a long drink before continuing. "As for you, my guess is that Mikael did something to you, and likely with the help of your mother otherwise you'd be chilling in The Other Side right now."

"But my parents want me and my siblings dead. Why would I be thrown here and not just killed?" She couldn't understand why, there was a way to kill them, her mother made sure of that. "Unless, they didn't have a way to kill me so they shoved me here instead. Klaus killed Mikael and took the stake away from him, they wouldn't have been able to do anything without that." The revelation hit Lyra like a ton of bricks, this means that Esther and Mikael are going after everyone else too and they have no idea.

"Your guess is as good as mine. But my advice would just be happy that you aren't dead."

"What about my siblings? They'll be after them next and I have no way to warn them."

"Honey, your family is the original vampires, if your siblings can't take care of themselves then they don't deserve that title. Stop fretting and embrace this new world, you might start to like it."

Back in Mystic Falls...

Klaus was sitting in his study, drinking and plotting his next move. The Salvatore brother's were starting to become a real pain in his back, the family was back together, mother included, and to top it off Lyra had disappeared without a trace. His mother was up to something and he needed to know what, she comes back and suddenly wants to be a family again? He didn't believe it, he knew she had a hand in Lyra's absence. The siblings were all on high alert, all except Finn who was plotting with the old witch.

He couldn't wait for her to slip up, when she did they were going after her and they were going to find out what happened to their sister.