"It does what?" Kol asked, his voice icy.

"How?" Klaus asked instead. "How did anyone get close enough to do that?"

"They wouldn't need to," Sophie said. "All they'd need is to bind Davina to someone else and inject them and it would affect her. All they'd need is Davina's blood, and they could use her mother's blood in place of that."

"Clearly we've gone soft, brother," Kol said. "Let's go."

"Kol, don't," Sophie said urgently.

"Someone is trying to kill my child," Kol said. "You really want me to sit and watch?!"

Sophie took a step towards him. "You know better than I do that killing the person responsible won't break the binding spell, and if you kill the wrong witch, you'll kill Davina."

"Then what can I do?!" Kol asked desperately.

"Get her to the plantation house," Sophie said. "It's got a pool and that will help."
"What will help?" Freya asked, stepping through the front door. "Is Davina …?"

"Needle of Sorrows," Sophie said bluntly. "Can you go with them?"

Freya's eyes widened. "Yes, of course. Kol, get Davina to the car; I need to grab some things and I'll be out in a second.

"Got it." Kol returned to Davina's side and lifted her into his arms.

"The baby's in danger," Davina whispered. "I can feel it."

"It's alright, darling," Kol said soothingly. "We're going out to the plantation house to help get you better. Freya's coming with us."

Freya met them at the car. "I'm driving," she said firmly. "It's no good if you kill us on the way."

Kol bit back his argument and nodded, getting into the back seat with Davina. "Okay, just get us there quickly."

Maddi met Sophie at the gate of the cemetery. "Got your text; what … Why are they here?"

"We're her back-up," Klaus said with a dark smile.

"And you?" Maddi asked Elijah.

"Well, that depends on what happens next," Elijah said. "I may be here to restrain my brother, or to help him."

"Let them in," Sophie said flatly. "Whatever they do will be totally justified."

"Don't make me regret this," Maddi sighed. "Sophie …"

"Someone has used a binding spell and the Needle of Sorrows," Sophie said flatly. "I need to find out who so I can break the spell before we lose the baby, let alone Davina."

Maddi's eyes widened and she made a little choking noise. "Oh God … Come in - anything you need, I'm at your disposal."

"Thank you Madeleine," Klaus said in a clipped tone, striding after Sophie. "I realise the agreement is that you deal with your own, but I hope you'll appreciate that this is not a usual situation."

"Absolutely not," Maddi agreed. "Helping Esther was one thing; this …"

They emerge into the central courtyard and the coven immediately reacted automatically, jumping to their feet.

"Sit!" Maddi barked. "Someone's been linked to Davina and stuck with the Needle of Sorrows."

"Holy Mother of God," someone whispered.

"Obviously, the Mikaelsons are taking this as a personal slight," Maddi said. "And I do not blame them in the slightest. So does anyone want to tell me something now, before I step aside?"

Before anyone could protest, there was movement and Monique took a shaky step forwards. "I don't know anything about the Needle of Sorrows," she said hastily, before Sophie could say anything. "But I do remember feeling a sharp pain this morning, and I've had a slight fever all day. Could someone have bound me to Davina without me knowing?"

"It's possible," Sophie said cautiously when Klaus and Elijah looked to her. "Although whether someone would have managed to inject you without you noticing, I don't know."

Klaus took a step towards Monique, and Sophie grabbed his arm. "Please …"

"Relax," Klaus said. "I'm not going to hurt her." When he addressed Monique, his voice was gentle. "Monique, would you please allow me to see your memory of this morning to see if I can see something you didn't?"

Monique nodded. "Anything to help. What do I need to do?"

Klaus held out his hand. "Take my hand and close your eyes."

Monique did as she was told and Sophie watched nervously as Klaus entered her niece's mind.

She could tell the moment he saw something in the way his body stiffened.

When they both opened their eyes, Monique flinched at the barely concealed rage in his eyes, but he gave her a smile (albeit a cold one) and squeezed her hand. "Thank you, Monique; that was very helpful. Sophie, start breaking that spell."

He turned to the gathered witches, his attention falling on one in particular. "Your own grandchild, Joanna?"

A few of the other witches grabbed Joanna before she could run.

"That is not my grandchild," Joanna shouted. "It is another abomination! And you have stolen my daughter!"

"She is not just your daughter," Elijah said coldly, seizing his brother's arm. "She is our sister. And if you haven't lost your daughter already; you certainly will after this."

"Kol, I'm burning up," Davina said shakily.

"Get her into the pool," Freya said urgently, bent over a small bowl with some herbs. "We need to try and slow her heartbeat. Hold her in the water."

Kol nodded, jumping into the water fully clothed, before helping Davina in as well. "It's alright, darling; it's going to be alright. Sophie will get you unlinked."

"Here." Freya waded in as well with the bowl of herbs. "Drink this."

Davina took the bowl, drinking down the mixture. "Will it help?"

"It will help slow your heartbeat," Freya said.

"Come here, darling," Kol murmured, supporting Davina in the water. "Just focus on my voice. Breathe slowly."

Davina cried out in pain and Kol hushed her. "It's alright, sweetheart. It's okay. It's going to be okay."

"Kol, it hurts," Davina sobbed. "I'm scared - I don't want to lose our baby."

"Davina, I'm not letting that happen," Freya said softly. "I nearly had a child once."

"You did?" Kol asked, momentarily distracted.

"I ran away and got married," Freya said. "Dahlia murdered him to punish me. That was when I realised I would never escape her and I killed myself. I woke up, but my son …"

"Oh, Freya," Davina murmured, still trying to slow her breathing.

"I never forgave myself for that," Freya whispered, "but I will do everything in my power to keep this baby safe, Davina. Just keep breathing."

Held between her fiancé and her future sister-in-law, Davina certainly felt safe, but it wasn't making the cramps any better.

Then, all of a sudden, she sucked in a breath. "It's stopped."

Kol slowly let her feet touch the bottom of the pool, pressing a kiss to her forehead. "You feel like you've cooled down."

Freya pressed a hand to Davina's stomach and murmured a spell. "The baby's fine. I'll call Elijah." She swam back to the edge of the pool and heaved herself out onto the deck, drying her hands before grabbing her phone. "Elijah? Yeah, she felt it. Oh, thank God … Who? Hang on."

"Sophie broke the spell?" Davina guessed, swimming towards her.

"You were linked with Monique," Freya said. "She didn't know."

Davina breathed a sigh of relief. "Who …?"

Freya hesitated a second. "It was your mother."

Davina froze, feeling Kol behind her, the same solid rock he had been since they met. "What?"

"Elijah's trying to prevent Nik from killing her as we speak," Freya said.

Davina closed her eyes. "She's dead to me as it is. Don't bother."

For once, my anxiety is working in my favour. I have finished writing this story, and finished planning the sequel, Transgressions, which will (probably) be the end of the series. However, I am considering an extra story with 'scenes we'd like to see' - things that got missed out of the main story because they didn't fit within the narrative - or, for that matter, things that didn't happen at all that you'd like to see happen - kind of AU of AU - so if there's anything YOU'D like to see happen within this series, let me know in the comments and we'll see what happens.