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Blackbird3455: Thanks so much! I'll try to keep up the pace so you won't have to wait too long!

WhiteArcobaleno: Thanks! Hopefully the next chapter will be up soon too!

Raven R. Mahmood: Got to make some chapter's shorter than others, I don't want to force something in just to make them longer.

Sciave: I still haven't decided what to do about Grayson, right now he's worth more alive than dead, I'll try and give you all some more snapshots of Damon and Enzo, but they're not due to settle in Mystic Falls until Maya turns 17 and the story does revolve around her and the rest of the MF gang...eventually.

aandm20: I love the fact that everyone is asking about Klaus and Maya and the debt between them! We're going to have to weigh where it is on the level of importance for Klaus vs how important her life is. She is the reason that he got to wake his family after all, that's four other Original lives she's affected without them knowing about it.

UnknownReaderHasJoined: Thank you, I'm still worried about her, I mean she was on the Other Side, at least twice, I haven't decided how it's going to affect her, but on TVD dying and coming back, hasn't traditionally turned out well for anyone.

sammyleann: Klaus very rarely feels guilty for things that don't affect his family, Maya's his 'friend' he's keeping contact with her because he wants her on his side, but he hasn't developed a deep enough connection with her to feel guilty for the bad things that are happening to her.

pinkshirt: I don't think it's weird lol! I don't have an endgame for Jenna yet (I have an idea maybe), but I know she's not being used in the sacrifice, so she's going to have a whole new lease on life.

TheQueenofGoodbyes: Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, but I don't think that Grayson alerting Augustine to the fact that his niece is 'possibly' a witch and using her like that is going to far. Grayson didn't just 'experiment on dangerous strangers' he straight up tortured them. He cut them open, ripped apart their insides, all in the name of 'medical science'. There's plenty of people out there that do terrible things and then go home and have a nice normal family life. I believe that Grayson had to have darkness inside of him, to be able to do the things he did to the Augustine vampires. He can still be a good father to Elena and Jeremy, but he's a terrible person. Also I'm working hard on making Damon and Enzo worthy of each other, what really got me in the show was that when Damon and Bonnie were stuck in the prison world and everyone thought they were dead, Enzo didn't give up. Elena erased Damon from her mind instead of fighting to find him and Stefan ran away to start a new life. Enzo didn't give up on Damon, and that wasn't really addressed in TVD, Enzo has a loyalty that can be unwavering, so I wanted to use that to give them both happiness. NGL I do hate Elena, she's the worst doppleganger by far, I think she sucks, so I doubt they'll be a redemption for her (I mean, she was ok killing Kol just so that she could get the cure, because she couldn't handle being a vampire. Kol was nuts and trying to maim Jeremy, but she was okay with THOUSANDS of others dying just so that she could have what she wanted, instead of learning how deal with being a vampire. Lets face it, dating two vampire brothers, what was she expecting to happen?). But I don't hate Bonnie, and I don't think she's going to be the villain, I just think she's got a lot of issues that she needs to deal with in the first few seasons in order to grow and become the Bonnie Bennett that everyone loves.

Enileve: Klaus and Maya face to face! Sort of, hope you enjoy!

Jenna walked into the hospital room her daughter had been given and looked around in awe, Damon had managed to get them a whole private section in the hospital, she was no expert, but she was pretty sure that the men and women on the doors were definitely vampires, and while that should have scared her, she found herself relieved that her daughter warranted such protection. Even thousands of miles away, she couldn't shake her fear of Augustine, unsure of how far their reach extended, so all the extra guards, made her feel more secure, at least it did today.

Damon walked in with a smile, "Alright, everything's all set up here for you, this entire floor is ours and ours alone."

"Every member of the hospital staff has been compelled," Enzo said, following Damon inside, "not one of them will say a word about you, or Maya to anyone and I've made sure that there'll be no record of our stay here once we're done."

"We're going to have to talk about security though," Damon said, "The vampires here are courtesy of Nik, we told him about Augustine, so he wanted to make sure that this place was fully under his control. There'll be four vampires on this floor at all times, not including us. If you have to leave the hospital, one of us is going with you. No doctor, or nurse or anyone else, will be allowed on this floor, without our express permission, we're not taking any chances here."

Jenna nodded, "I understand," the urge to fight being told what to do wasn't there, she knew that this was for her daughter's safety, "When is Nik getting here?"

"He'll be here tomorrow, after lunch, he's got some business to finish off first, and we figured we'd let you get settled in tonight," Enzo said.

"You're sure he'll be able to help?" she asked.

"If anyone can, he can," Enzo confirmed, "Nik's been around for 1000 years, whatever this is, chances are at least one member of his family has seen it."

Elijah and Kol eyed their brother's closed office door with suspicion, he'd been acting differently for months now, on the phone at odd hours of the day, having secret meetings all over the city, taking trips outside of the state and coming back unusually pleased, the brothers had tried following him on more than one of his nights out but had lost him fairly quickly in the city. He'd also been incredibly cagey about how he'd not only managed to find their father, but also use his only weapon against him and kill Mikael for good.

"I'm telling you, he's up to something 'Lijah," Kol insisted. "When have you ever known Nik to act like this?" he asked.

"It is suspicious," Elijah agreed.

"Suspicious? 'Lijah last month I destroyed one of his prized pieces of art on purpose, just to get a rise out of him, and I didn't get a dagger threat, not one, what ever he's up to, is more than suspicious!"

"What would you like me to do Kol?"

"Find out what he's doing!" Kol hissed, he'd tried getting into Nik's office and his studio while his brother was out, but Nik had managed to find a witch to lay some enchantments to keep them all out.

"Oh and how exactly do you expect me to that? Would you like me to just burst into his office and say 'Niklaus you have been unusually pleasant, no dagger threats, no yelling, no temper tantrums, it's making us all very suspicious, what are you up to?' Exactly how do you think that would go?"

"Don't patronise me Elijah, but you have to do something, I've never seen him this calm, his office, his studio, they've never been locked to us before, but they are now! What if this has something to with father?"

"Don't be ridiculous Kol, father is dead, Niklaus would never risk waking you all, if he wasn't," Elijah said.

"But how is father dead? He won't tell us anything, how did he kill father without help?"

Elijah frowned, Kol had a point, Niklaus had been terrified of Mikael, they all had, but somehow his brother had managed to kill their father without any of them at his side. Who had Niklaus turned to for help? Who did Niklaus trust more than his own family? No one. Who did Niklaus trust outside of his family? No one. Who did Niklaus trust beside himself? No one. So how had he done it? What was he hiding from them?

Klaus came out of his study and Kol whooshed to his side, "Going somewhere Nik?"

Klaus looked towards to his brother with a raised eyebrow, "I have business to attend to."

"You've been awfully busy in these past few months Niklaus," Elijah said, joining his brothers, standing on Klaus's other side.

"I have various business ventures all over the world," Klaus said moving to leave, inwardly cursing the fact that his brothers were following him, "I don't see why you're so interested now."

"Well, you haven't really been paying attention to me have you Nik," Kol started, as the baby brother he was used to receiving attention from both his brothers, Nik especially, "And I'm bored, so let me join you, it's the least you can do after sticking a dagger in my heart." His voice was cajoling, it never failed when he wanted to lay the guilt trip on his older brother.

Klaus scowled, he knew exactly what Kol was doing, he always gave in when his brother used that voice, it was a weakness that he refused to acknowledge, but it was one that Kol knew about, and Kol could always manage to persuade him to do anything with the voice that reminded him of his once mortal brother. "You know I would, but I just don't have time to explain the intricacies of my business at this moment in time, but tell you what, if you're so bored, I'll take you out when I get back. You and I can paint the town red." Before Kol could respond Klaus whooshed out of there, leaving both of his brothers speechless.

Kol turned to Elijah, "You see what I mean, Nik never says no to me when I use that voice! He's plotting and he won't let us in on it!"

"What do you mean he never says no when you use that voice?" Elijah asked affronted, Niklaus never just did anything when he asked and all Kol had to do was use that ridiculous wheedling voice and Niklaus gave him whatever he wanted!

"Oh grow up Elijah, I've used it on you too!" Kol dismissed, seeing the flash of jealousy on his older brother's face.

"You've used it on me?!" Elijah exclaimed incredulously.

"Can we please focus on the matter at hand 'Lijah? Nik's hiding something important from us!"

Elijah's eyes narrowed at his baby brother, "We are not done with this discussion," Elijah said, "I'm sure you have a witch on speed dial brother, get one to temporarily lower the boundary on Niklaus' office and studio and we shall see what our brother is hiding."

"And what are you going to do while I get us a useful witch?"

"I will compel members of the police department to follow our brother using the cameras in the city and have them send us copies of the footage showing us where he goes and who he meets with."

"And then?"

"And then if our brother is in fact planning something nefarious, then we shall confront him together, and if it turns out that he has done nothing wrong, then we can leave it at that, without him knowing that we were checking up on him. Because while these last few months have been admittedly strange, they have been incredibly pleasant."

Jenna was pacing the length of Maya's private hospital room, while Damon was lying on the couch that had been brought up for him, and Enzo was sitting in Maya's bed, next to her, his fingers running through her hair, "Why am I so nervous? I shouldn't be nervous right? I've dealt with vampires before; this is no different! Right?" she looked at both vampires, "Tell me I'm right!"

"It might not be exactly the same," Enzo said, trying to be gentle, "You should probably be nicer to him then you are to Damon, a lot nicer."

"I'm plenty nice to Damon!" she protested.

"You threatened to shoot me when we first met!" Damon exclaimed.

"You were going to attack Maya!" Jenna replied.

"Alright, you see this right here," Enzo motioned to the two of them, "This, you should not do, as much as Nik finds Damon's total lack of survival instinct amusing, I am not willing to bet that he'll find it equally amusing in you. Be nice Jenna."

"I'm always nice," she crossed her arms pouting.

"And I'm hurt that you'd think that I would do anything that would injure the little witch's mother, I'm a man of my word Enzo, I told you they'd be safe here." Klaus said from the doorway, entertained at the panic he saw on the woman's face and annoyance he saw on his friends'.

"Safe not sound," Enzo pointed out, "You can be hurt and safe, that's all I'm saying."

"Aah well, allow me to remedy that then, I promise that as long as neither the witch nor her mother are here as a plot to try and kill me or my family, they will both be safe and sound."

"There, now that we're all cool," Damon stood and was the one to intervene this time, since when was he the sensible one? "How about an introduction?"

"Niklaus Mikaelson," Klaus said to the woman who was eyeing him warily, "call me Klaus."

"Jenna," the woman replied, "Maya's mother."

"No last name Jenna?"

"If Maya hasn't given you her last name, I'm certainly not going to," she said with a little sass.

"Jenna!" Enzo hissed.

But Klaus smiled, "I see where Maya gets her fire from, and her intelligence."

Jenna narrowed her eyes at him, "I'm too smart to let you charm me, Klaus."

"How refreshing," he smirked.

Enzo had slapped his hand over his eyes and stifled a groan at the exchange, both of the Sommers women were going to send him to an early grave at this rate.

"How about we just focus on Maya now, you know, the one that's dying, the one that we're all here for," Damon cut in, again, acting as the peacekeeper, these women were turning him soft.

Klaus shot Damon an amused look before nodding, "As much as it pains me to admit it, Damon's right, let's focus on the witch first." He moved over to the bed and looked down at the unconscious girl before him, she was younger than he expected, far younger in fact, but there was something about her that drew him in, "How long has she been like this?"

"Two weeks," Jenna answered, "The doctors say that her brain activity is declining, that she won't make it much longer."

"Do we know what it was that did this to her?" he asked, noticing Enzo give him a discreet nod and touched his pocket, indicating his possession of whatever the item was, he'd deal with that later.

"Her friend said she touched something magical and it did this," Jenna gestured to her daughter, "What are you going to do?"

"Well by all accounts, Maya is stuck inside her own mind, and unless she can be brought out of it, she will die, I will go in there and pull her out."

"Damon and Enzo already tried that; it didn't work."

"No offence to my friends, but they are less than two centuries old, I am considerably older and stronger, not to mention it is something I specialise in."

"And if you still can't get into her mind?" Jenna wasn't particularly happy about the idea of having her daughter's mind invaded by 1000-year-old vampire, but she had no choice anymore.

"Then I have several people that work for me who will find a way to wake her, I think you'll find that I am rather fond of your daughter Jenna, I will help her."

"Right, okay, okay, just please bring her back to me," Jenna said, her worry evident on her expressive features.

Klaus nodded and sat on the bed, he reached out, and took her head in his hands, closing his eyes he felt the block, shielding her mind, and forced his way through.

The Darkness

Maya felt like she had spent months in the dark, it had gone from a comfort, to maddening and then back to a comfort, she couldn't feel any physical sensations and couldn't get out of the darkness, lately however, she'd begun to get tired, she knew that she was slipping away and found that every moment spent in the dark was slowly sapping her will to fight. Closing her eyes, she sighed, it appeared that Esther might win after all, the Original Witch may not be able to take over her body, but she could certainly stop her from helping Nik break his curse. Allowing a single tear to fall, she wiped it away and leant back, keeping her eyes closed she could feel herself floating, it wouldn't be long now.

Klaus appeared in the endless dark of Maya's mind, looking around he spotted her to his left, seemingly floating in thin air, walking towards her he reached out his hand. Upon contact with her body the darkness shifted, and morphed into a well-lit library, and Maya gasped, her eyes flying open, locking on his. "Nik!"

"Hello love."

The Living Plain

Wes Maxfield was sat in his lab, on Whitmore campus, he's research had been stalled by the loss of Augustine's long term test subject, Dr Gilbert had provided Augustine with stellar information from his experiments on 12144, but then the idiot had lost the subject! Augustine had managed to hold onto one test subject for nearly six decades, they hadn't lost him through fire, and war, and yet three years with Grayson Gilbert, and the subject breaks out and stays out! Gilbert had been shunned for quite some time thanks to that stupid loss, but two weeks ago, the doctor had brought the possibility of a witch, under a spell, to Augustine. The witch was apparently his niece, on his wife's side, and Grayson believed that if he could bring her in for tests, then he would be brought back to the inner circle. Something that Wes had not denied, but he would be damned if he let incompetence bring down the century old society. Hearing a knock at the door, he lifted his head and saw the object of his musings walk in.

"Dr Gilbert, what are you doing here?"

"It's my niece," Grayson replied.

Wes fought the urge to pinch the bridge of his nose, of course the idiot screwed this up too, "What about her?"

"My sister-in-law moved her, but not to Whitmore Hospital."

Wes narrowed his eyes, "What the hell happened?"

"She had a friend, his name's Derek, he paid Maya's medical bills and moved her to a hospital in New York."

"And you couldn't stop it?!"

"He had me thrown off the case! Said that family shouldn't treat family and Jenna bought in to it."

Wes let out a frustrated huff, "Which hospital was she moved to?"

"I- I don't know, the paperwork doesn't say, and Jenna didn't tell me, all I know is the flight they were on, was chartered to Manhattan."

Dr Maxfield scowled, "I guess I really do have to do everything myself, get out! I'll find the girl."

Grayson hurried out of the room, unwilling to anger his colleague anymore, and perhaps a touch relieved that the choice of what to do about Maya had been taken out of his hands, as far as he was concerned, he was no longer responsible for what happened to the girl…his niece, he'd be able to look Jenna in the eye and say with absolute certainty, that he knew nothing about what Augustine was doing with her daughter when they retrieved her. And he should still be in Augustine's good graces for bringing them a witch in the first place, nodding to himself he left the campus, feeling more assured than when he left.

The Library

"Nik how- what are you- I- what is going on?!" Maya finally asked, too confused to get her words out.

"I'm here to wake you up love," he replied, taking a quick glance around the now vast library.

"Wake me up, I've been asleep?"

"You've been in a coma, for two weeks actually, unless you can wake up, you'll die."

"Two weeks! I've been in a coma for two weeks?! That bitch! She made me miss my birthday!" Maya scowled.

Klaus cocked his head as regarded the little witch, "I tell you that you'll die soon, and all you take away from that is that you missed your birthday?"

"Yeah," Maya replied, looking at him like she didn't understand why he didn't get it, "I was supposed to go paintballing, I was going to get to shoot my stupid cousin in her stupid perfect face! There's no way she's going to be persuaded to go paintballing next year!"

"I'm sure your mother can re-arrange your celebrations after you wake, for now we should probably focus on getting you out of here. Now you said that someone did this to you."

"Oh yeah," Maya looked around the library distractedly, "Your mum, she's a real bitch," she complained, heading off in a random direction.

"What?" Klaus frowned and appeared in front of her in less than a second, "What do you mean? You're saying my mother did this to you? Why? How?"

"Well, it's not so much hard to explain, as complicated, long winded, completely unbelievable. Maybe we should just concentrate on getting out of here and I'll tell you later!"

"I believe it will take us some time to leave your mindscape so perhaps you should tell me about everything while we search for the exit."

"Can't you just pull us out of here? I mean isn't that what you came here to do?"

"I came here to wake you up love, you're the one that has to do the heavy lifting."

"Seriously? Why can nothing ever be easy?" Maya complained, she'd been trying to get back to the land of the living since she'd turned up in the dark and hadn't had any luck, how was she supposed to get out?

"Seriously, now stop avoiding the question, and explain what is going on, in detail," Klaus said, getting impatient with her wish to leave him without answers.

"Fine," she sighed, "I guess the first thing we should establish is exactly how much you know about me. What has Enzo told you?"

"Other than the fact that you saved his life, and that you're a witch, nothing." He was quite annoyed at that actually, despite the fact that they were friends, Enzo refused to tell him anything about the little witch. Klaus admired the loyalty Enzo had to her, but it did frustrate him to no end.

"Really? You're saying that the only other things you know about me are what I've told you? God, it must kill you to know so little about what I am." Maya never doubted Enzo for a second, but she did doubt her spell to prevent compulsion, she was only half sure that it would work on Enzo, and even less sure that the spell would remain in tact for such a long time.

"I can admit, the curiosity has become rather…maddening."

"Well, I guess the first thing I should tell you is that I'm a reincarnation, I was a 27-year-old woman when I died in a car accident, and then I was re-born to the woman you no doubt met if you're here."

"A reincarnation? I've heard of old souls before love, but they are not supposed to know who or what they are."

Maya sighed, "Unfortunately I didn't get that lucky, or maybe I am luckier than them, the jury's still out on that. Anyway, when I was three, I got all of my memories back, believe me it is difficult enough re-doing childhood, but having all of my adult memories while re-living my teenage years has not been a picnic."

Klaus followed her as she walked down one of the library aisles, trying to spot an exit, all the while listening to her tale, "I suppose that would explain why you act so much older than you are."

"Ah, I was wondering when you'd get to that, I'm younger than you expected huh?"

"Much younger, how old are you exactly?"

"In this life? You said it's been two weeks, so I'm 15 now."

"15, that would mean that the first time we spoke on the phone, you were 13, you opened the tomb at 13? With everything I know about witches, that's impossible. No one could be that powerful so young."

"What do you know about the Gemini coven?"

"Just that they are a reclusive coven, they hoard their secrets jealously, and they date back thousands of years."

"Well, what they don't advertise is that they have a practiced powerful tradition called The Merge, it takes place when the leader's set of twins reach the age of 22 and it determines who the next leader of the coven is. Through the ritual, the twins' consciousness and strength will be merged together, only the stronger twin survives, they take on the weaker twin's magic and a few of their attributes, but the weaker one always dies. Unfortunately, because of this weird cannibalistic ritual, the coven, on occasion, produces a very special type of witch, a Siphon."

"Never heard of it," Klaus admitted.

"You wouldn't have, the Gemini Coven believe that Siphoners are abominations, that we shouldn't exist, because a Siphon has the ability to do magic but doesn't have any magic of their own, we have to absorb, or siphon it, from magical objects, or supernatural creatures, or in the case of the tomb, I absorbed the magic of the spell, it removed the boundary and the seal, and gave me a boost in power. So, you can see why the coven believes us to be monsters, the Gemini have either killed or imprisoned any Siphon that they become aware of."

"That's why you needed an empty talisman, to put the magic in?"

"Yeah, but also because the amount of magic in that tomb spell was way too much for me to handle, if we absorb more magic than our bodies can physically take, it could kill us, so I used the talisman that you sent me and channelled the magic directly into it. Even if I could handle absorbing that amount of magic, because it doesn't belong to me, it just drains out of me while I sleep, which would be a total waste of that amount of power."

"You're a magical leach!"

"Ugh! That's so rude!" Maya groaned, "Even Damon knows better than to call me a leach!" Klaus raised an eyebrow at her, clearly disbelieving that, Damon had no sense of self preservation. She relented, "Fine! The one time he did, I made him throw up out of his eyeballs, don't make me have to do that to you, I'm not a leach."

"I apologise," Klaus held his hands up as he turned this information around in his head, if Maya could siphon magic, could she siphon his curse? Would she be able to remove the magic like it was never there? "But what does this have to do with my mother?"

Maya hesitated, this was going to require a level of finesse that she was fairly certain that she didn't have, "So, when three-year-old me, got all my memories back, I also got memories of you, and Damon, and Enzo, and Caroline and whole bunch of other people whose lives are going to affect mine, but they weren't so much memories, as a vision of the future."

"You've seen the future?" Klaus didn't believe her for one second.

"I've watched the future, the 27-year-old me, she didn't have any magic, but the thing is, nobody did. Wherever I was, before I was born in this world, the supernatural didn't exist. Werewolves, witches, vampires, demons, anything that was even the slightest bit magical, was just a story. You were just a story, and I don't mean like 'the great Klaus Mikaelson, the myth that no one has ever seen before,' I mean you were nothing but the product of some writer's imagination."

"Perhaps all this time spent locked in your mind has driven you insane, because I'm clearly very real!"

"God, I knew you weren't going to believe me!" Maya complained, Enzo certainly hadn't believed her when she tried to explain, it had taken her showing him something in her head, wait that was it! "Look just take a look inside my head, a real look, let me show you something that shouldn't exist."

She was looking at him with such earnest eyes, if she wanted to let a monster in past her all of her defences, who was he to deny her? Grabbing her head in both hands he fell deeper into her mind, and found himself inside a small apartment, walking through the tiny hallway, he saw what appeared to be an older version of Maya sitting on a couch watching television. She looked like Maya, but at the same time didn't, dark hair as opposed to Maya's vibrant red, brown eyes instead of green, and she was watching something on TV. Klaus moved around the room slowly, taking everything in, he could hear the traffic from outside, neighbours arguing next door, and that was when he heard his voice, coming from the television set. Not his voice now, not the sound of the Original that no longer had anything to fear, but the sound of a mortal, terrified of his father, the sound of a child begging his father for forgiveness.

Snarling in rage, Klaus yanked himself from the memory, and found his hand wrapped around Maya's throat, "HOW DARE YOU! WHAT ARE YOU?!"

Maya gasped as he grabbed at her, she had no magic here! She couldn't get out of his grip, "Nik," she tried to get out, but his grip only tightened in response.

"HOW DID YOU GET IN MY HEAD?! TELL ME WITCH OR I WILL DESTROY YOU AND I WILL START WITH YOUR MOTHER!"

Maya's eyes narrowed, no one hurt her mother, not while she still had breath in her body! Frantically searching for a way to stop Klaus, she wished that she had access to magic, but she couldn't feel it anywhere. Black spots started to appear in her vision, she was going to pass out, but before that happened, Klaus body was flung across the room and Maya sank to the floor coughing as she tried to get air back in her lungs.

"That's quite enough of that," a male voice spoke.

Klaus pushed himself up to look at the man, "Who the hell are you?"

The man gave him a cold smile, that sent shivers down Klaus's spine, "I am Death."

So I gave you a longer chapter, threw in a little bit of Original fun for those of you wondering just what they were up to. This chapter went a little rogue on me, considering Dr Maxfield was just introduced and I didn't actually plan on having him be a part of this story at all, but hey I think he'll make things interesting. Got some face to face time with Klaus and Maya here, I was planning on bringing her out of her coma in this chapter, but then Klaus threw that tantrum and I couldn't let him out of Maya's head until he cooled down! Hopefully he'll get out in the next chapter!

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