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Omega-Maharan: Thank you! I'll keep that in mind for the future!
TheQueenofGoodbyes: Yes the biggest reason Klaus and Maya aren't getting together yet is because she's still so young. She's 15 so I wouldn't call her a pre-teen, but it was supposed to be a sort of sweet brush of the lips, I mean Klaus is 1000 years old, so he can probably make a girl melt without a lot of effort which is Maya reacted so strongly (and she has a crush on him of course). Maya will date before she gets together with Klaus but I hate the fact that the dopplegangers keep dating brothers, so I can tell you that without a doubt she will not be dating any Mikaelsons except Klaus, not to mention the fact that Klaus has only been in one love triangle and that was when he was mortal, there's no way he'd stand for it now.
Felinegreat: There are definitely some things she's forgotten to tell Klaus, and now that she's back in the land of the living, it'll be touch and go as to what she can tell him.
Guest: I think Elijah will be especially surprised because Maya helping Nik so far has just been primarily because she wants to, she's wanted him to get what she believes he deserves and needs.
xotinkerbella: I'd already written most of this chapter before I saw your review, so enjoy the potential pairing that I've thrown in here. The thing about ff . net is that it won't let me tag more than four characters, because there's more than what's in the description. If you want spoilers you can look at the tags in my story on AO3, but then it might ruin the surprises. So I'm not going to give away anything about Kai, but you do make an interesting point about Kol, Caroline and Enzo would definitely team up to try and kill him, or at least dagger him if he tried to be Maya's best friend, but hey maybe he can be Caroline's vampire bestie!
Sarada: The Augustines will definitely meet a bloody end!
woezz: Murdering of the Augustines is coming soon, at least one other Original brother will be involved.
Two days later Augustine had received more video footage of 'Derek' but this time he was with a woman. The female member of Augustine, Francine, straightened when she saw them together on the monitor, "Stop," she said, "That's the girl's mother, all accounts say that she's human so if we follow this footage, it should show us exactly which hospital the witch is in."
Bradley, one of the men nodded and searched for footage containing the woman, "You should call Mark and Daniel, tell them to get their asses back here, we'll have a location for the girl by lunch time!"
Once the doctors had given Maya the 'all clear', Jenna moved her daughter into Damon and Enzo's apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, while the guys much preferred to hang out in rougher areas of the city, both of them had a taste for luxury (or rather, Damon had a taste for luxury and wanted to provide Enzo with nothing but the best) and therefore their living space was somewhere obscenely expensive.
Jenna had decided that she and Maya would finish off the week in New York then fly home with Damon at their side, she wanted the protection offered by a vampire, especially when she wasn't so sure of how much Augustine knew about her daughter, but she wasn't willing to risk Enzo coming to town. Especially if Grayson had put Augustine on alert, she would never forgive herself if something happened to one of her dearest friends, so Enzo had agreed to hang back (not that he'd been happy about it).
"Mum!" Maya called from her place on the balcony, taking in the view of her favourite city.
Jenna joined her daughter, sitting in one of the lush couches that were out there, (she could definitely get used to having rich vampire friends) "What's up honey?"
"I'm bored, and you know Caroline won't forgive me if I don't bring her back something awesome, can we go shopping?"
Jenna hesitated, did she really want her daughter outside now? After she'd just come back from the brink of death all she wanted to do was wrap Maya in cotton and lock her inside for the foreseeable future, "I'm not sure."
"Come on Mum!" Maya pouted, "We have three more days before we have to leave! Plus payment for the last ring I sold online has just come through! We've paid for your college this semester, the bills are all up to date, and half of this payment has already gone into savings. You know you want to be irresponsible, lets splash the cash and buy Jeremy something outrageously expensive for Christmas so that Elena hates me even more!"
Jenna shook her head in exasperation, not even bothering to hide her amusement, she didn't get why there was so much animosity between her daughter and her niece, and she didn't encourage it, but sometimes the fights those two got into were legendary! The prank wars even worse, they reminded her of when she and Miranda were younger, so as much as she tried to discipline Maya, Jenna couldn't help but associate fond memories with the next generation's catfights. "Fine," she said, giving in, "But Damon and Enzo are coming with us!"
Maya shrugged, "Of course they are, who else is going to carry all of our bags?"
"Lijah!" Kol whooshed into his elder brother's favourite place in their home, the library.
Sighing Elijah placed the bookmark in between the pages of his favourite tome, knowing Kol he probably wasn't going to be able to get back to his reading any time soon, "Yes brother?"
"Have you seen this?!" Kol exclaimed waving Elijah's phone in front of him.
Frowning Elijah patted his pockets, confirming that yes indeed, his brother had his phone, how had Kol gotten that without him noticing? "Considering that you are the one with my phone, it would not be a stretch of the imagination to say that I have not seen whatever it is that has you so worked up." Fighting the urge to massage his temples, his brother was headache inducing, which was a feat given Elijah's Original Vampire status, he held out his hand for his phone, wishing to see whatever it was that had Kol vibrating with energy.
"You will never believe the video that the police department just sent you!" Kol couldn't stop himself, he was so excited.
Elijah clicked on the app for his emails, scowling at the thought that Kol had somehow managed to guess his password, he was going to have to change it again, his little brother having no shred of decency when it came to privacy. He opened the message from his contact and played the video attachment. He saw Niklaus walking with a young red-haired woman, her arm looped through his as he smiled almost indulgently at her.
"There's no sound of course," Kol pointed out, it was the only thing getting him down, he so wanted to know what was said between his brother and the red-head, "Forward through it!" Getting tired of waiting he grabbed the phone from Elijah, fast forwarding to the point where the two were sitting on a bench and gave it back to his brother.
Elijah watched as his brother leaned in close to the woman, but then pulled back with a smirk, the woman pulled out a small pouch moments later that Niklaus took from her. When Niklaus looked inside the smirk was gone, and his brother tipped the contents onto his hand, Elijah paused the video. "Is that-?" he didn't dare finish the question, the answer was too unbelievable.
"It's the moonstone 'Lijah!" Kol almost crowed, that bloody rock had been missing for five centuries and now it had turned up in New York, his big brother's personal life was becoming more and more interesting.
"Impossible," Elijah breathed, the footage wasn't the best, it must have been a fake, he'd heard nothing of Katerina for years and if Niklaus had tracked the moonstone, surely he had tracked down the elusive Petrova Doppelgänger. "That cannot be the moonstone."
"Why because your beloved Katerina has it?" Kol asked derisively, he'd never understood the lure of the Petrova line, sure they were beautiful, but all of them were bloody bitches from what he could tell, not a drop of loyalty in them as they had no qualms about tearing brothers apart. "Nik is single minded in his focus, and now that father is dead, I doubt Katerina stands a chance against him."
Elijah ignored the ache that Kol's words caused, his only solace was the fact that if Niklaus had in fact managed to capture Katerina then his brother would not have kept it quiet, he would have lorded it over Elijah's head the moment he caught her. Focusing back on the video his eyes widened in surprise as he saw Niklaus take the girl's head in his hands and enter her mind, his surprise only grew when he watched as his brother pulled out of her mind and then pulled the young woman in close for a kiss. There was nothing aggressive in his brother's movements and when he pulled back, the woman turned from him, causing Niklaus to smile instead of glower in anger. She rushed away from him, but his brother caught up, said a few words causing her to storm off and Niklaus did the strangest thing, he laughed and then trailed off after her. It was such an odd sight, his brother looked like he may genuinely enjoy the young woman's company, who was she? "Who is she?" he demanded from Kol.
"No clue!" Kol replied, but she was a tasty little thing, "What's say we confront Nik about her and find out!"
"Absolutely not!" Elijah shut down, "Niklaus looks like he is enjoying spending time with her, we will not threaten that by questioning him, he may kill the poor girl just to spite us!"
Kol frowned, "You're such a bore Elijah! You never let me do anything fun," he complained. He would have continued but he heard his brother, the one in question leave his art studio and head towards the front door. Kol whooshed from the library, Elijah hot on his heels, both hoping to reach their brother before he left for parts unknown again.
"Nik!" Kol said, appearing at his brother's side, "Just where do you think you're going?"
Klaus looked over at Kol, he'd been in a good mood all day thanks to his Little Siphon, his plans were falling into place one by one, so tonight he'd figured that he'd celebrate some, grab himself a little entertainment and of course some dinner. "I am going out for a drink," Klaus said, answering honestly, maybe he should invite his brothers, it had been a while, "In fact, why don't you and Elijah join me? I can't remember the last time we went out together."
Kol shot Elijah a surprised look, they hadn't been out together like this since well before he was daggered, "I think that's an excellent idea! It's been getting a little too boring around here for my tastes!"
Elijah's face mirrored the surprise on Kol's, Niklaus's moods changed faster than the weather, but this stark contrast to the foul mood that he had been in was a shock, his brother was going to give him whiplash, "I suppose that is a splendid idea brother," Elijah acquiesced, perhaps they could get Niklaus drunk enough to spill some of these new secrets of his.
"Excellent!" Kol chimed in, "Let's go!" he moved to whoosh out of the Penthouse but was halted by Elijah's grip on his shirt.
"Brother perhaps first, you should go an collect your own phone, so that if we separate, we have a way to reach you," he plucked his phone from Kol's hands, how had he gotten a hold of it again?!
"Right!" Kol smirked, "Be right back!" he whooshed upstairs to his room, grabbing the device, he moved to head back down, but this time he was stopped by his sister.
"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Rebekah asked, Kol and Elijah were up to something, their rooms had all been soundproofed (thank the gods for small mercies), but her older brothers had been spending a lot of time with each other in them.
"Nik's asked 'Lijah and I out for drinks," Kol replied a little smugly, it hadn't gone unnoticed to him that Nik had been avoiding Rebekah whenever he could and when he couldn't he was not being pleasant. At her frown Kol's smirk only grew, "What's the matter Sister, upset that Nik's decided that you're no longer his favourite?" Whatever Rebekah had done to draw Nik's animosity he hoped that it was bad enough that it lasted for a while, he always hated the fact that Rebekah was the one that got all of Nik's attention, now for once she could see what it was like to be on the receiving end of his cold indifference.
Rebekah scowled, she didn't know what she'd done to upset her brother, she hadn't brought home any suiters, hadn't insisted on striking out on her own, she hadn't done anything that could possible have angered him, so why was it that he was treating her as though she'd betrayed him? "Get out Kol! With you three gone I can actually have some peace and quiet!" she whooshed back into her room before Kol could say anything else to upset her, and Kol rolling his eyes, went straight back down to meet his brothers.
"Oh come on Mum this is not fair!" Maya complained, she, her mother and her favourite vampires had been out for most of the day shopping, and Jenna had actually bought a fantastic little outfit to go out in, and going out is exactly what Jenna was going to do.
"I don't want to hear another word," Jenna said grabbing her purse and sliding her phone inside, "Enzo and I are going out and being grown-ups! Damon is going to stay here and watch out for you, now be good and make sure you're in bed by 11."
"I don't need a bedtime, I'm 15!" Maya protested, now her mother was just being difficult.
"And I'm not a babysitter!" Damon argued.
"Yes you do," Jenna said and then looked at Damon, "And yes you are, both of you be good, bye!" she gave them a quick wave and then dragged a snickering Enzo out of the apartment.
Maya and Damon looked at each other, neither of them pleased with this development, "This sucks," Maya said.
"Agreed."
They both sighed and headed in opposite directions, Maya towards the living room to switch on the TV, and Damon to the kitchen where all of his liquor was stored.
All four members of Augustine were in the private hospital that Maya had so recently been a resident of, they'd witnessed her mother walk into this hospital with the potential vampire and came to gather intel on the girl.
"It's no use," Francine said to Mark and Bradley, "There are no records of a Maya Sommers staying here, and not a single member of staff remembers seeing either one of these two."
Daniel came up to the other three with a grim look on his face, "I've talked to everyone I could, no one has seen the girl here. But a few of them do remember that an entire floor of the hospital was off limits up until this morning, and they say that they just received a large donation from an anonymous source."
"A vampire could easily compel the hospital staff, none of them are on vervain," Bradley said.
"We should see if we can get into the security office, a fancy place like this has got cameras," Mark said, "vampires can erase memories, not video footage."
Daniel nodded, "Francine, see if you can sweet talk some of those guards round to letting you in, the rest of us will go and check out that floor, see if the people up there left anything behind."
Elijah let out a long suffering sigh, holding the bridge of his nose as he watched his brothers surrounded by women whilst he sat at the bar, suddenly he could remember exactly why it had been so long since the three of them had gone out. Klaus and Kol on their own were bad enough, but together his brothers were troublemakers of the highest order. He was most definitely going to have to clean up more than one mess tonight. Signalling the bar tender for another drink, if he was going to have to deal with the childish antics of his brothers at least he could have a good drink first, he felt a warm presence slowly appear by his side, a woman, most definitely, preparing to reject whatever pick up line he was about to be assaulted with, he turned and found himself pleasantly surprised.
"You look like a man who's contemplating murder," the woman smiled at him.
Elijah found himself smiling back, "My brothers dragged me out tonight," he offered, "We don't often find ourselves in the same city but when we do, we go out. Individually they're bad enough, but together my brothers are a menace to society." He gestured over to the gaggle of women that had surrounded Niklaus and Kol's table, his brothers almost hidden from sight due to the number of women over there.
"Wow!" the woman laughed, seeing how many girls were over there, "Your brothers must be something else!"
"They like to think so," Elijah replied with a smile.
"I get that stressed out look though, my daughter and her best friend are always plotting something nefarious, they know they drive me to drink!"
"And tonight? Is that what has brought you out on the town?"
The woman gave him an impish grin, "No, tonight I just want to have some fun, you know?" she cocked her head to the side, almost daring him to continue on with her.
Elijah gave himself a moment to contemplate his options before making a decision on his course of action, if Niklaus and Kol could have their fun, why couldn't he? At least for one night, the world wouldn't stop spinning if he relaxed for a time, "I'm Elijah, by the way."
"Jenna," the woman replied.
"Can I buy you a drink Jenna?"
"Sure," she shrugged.
It was one in the morning when Damon heard frightened whimpers coming from the guest bedroom, 'Maya' he thought to himself before, throwing on a T-shirt and rushing into her room. She was tossing and turning in bed, clearly in the throws of a nightmare. Moving to her side, Damon shook her awake, not wanting her to be stuck in her head any longer than necessary.
Maya's eyes shot open in fright, she sat up, looking around the room wildly before her eyes landed on the blue-eyed vampire crouched at the side of the bed, "Damon," she whispered, reaching out for him.
Damon sat on top of the covers, and pulled her close for a hug, "You're alright, it was just a nightmare," he said.
Maya gripped his T-shirt tightly and shook her head, "Not a nightmare," she whispered, "a memory."
Damon ran his hand up and down her back, he knew all about memories that would come back to haunt you, he had them all the time, "Do you want to talk about it Red?" he asked. She shook her head, she didn't want to explain, couldn't, not accurately. Hesitating he asked another question, "Do you want to show me?"
Freezing for a moment she thought about it and then nodded, this was a memory that she hadn't shared with anyone, but for some reason she felt compelled to share it with Damon. She closed her eyes and let down her mental defences, knowing that even after gorging on fresh blood, Damon would not be strong enough to get through them on his own, she let him in, let him see.
Damon's slight intake of breath was the only thing that indicated his surprise when he saw a different version of Maya appear, fighting off ancient attackers. He watches as she fought, watched as they stabbed her, and finally he watched as she burned to death. Pulling out of her mind, he fought the urge to see if he was doused in flames, "What the hell was that?!" he asked, barely concealing his horror.
"My first death," she whispered, "Death showed it to me, to remind me of who I am I guess, and now I can't get it out of my head, I wake up and I think that I'm on fire." She felt Damon's arms tighten around her.
"You haven't told your mum about this, or Enzo."
"How could I? Enzo's still really freaked out by my two-week vacation into 'near death land' and mum's so weirded out by the idea of past lives, that I barely got her on board with the fact that I've lived once before, this would just make it worse."
Damon nodded, "Why'd you show me?" Their friendship was nowhere near as strong as the one she shared with Enzo, they were friends but that closeness she displayed when she was by Enzo's side had always seemed out of reach to him. He understood why, of course, he figured a big chunk of it was Enzo himself, there was probably still a part of her that hated him for leaving Enzo to Augustine, there had to be, because there was a huge part of him that hated himself too.
"We're not as close as Enzo and I are, we probably won't ever be, but I want you to know that I trust you Damon."
Damon did what he could to not pull away immediately, he didn't do well around heavy emotions, and Maya's words were stirring up a whole host of them, "Ok, well I should let you get back to sleep," he said.
"Damon," she stopped him from getting up, "Could you stay? Just until I fall asleep?"
Closing his eyes for a moment Damon pushed through his insecurity, if Maya was offering him an olive branch, he needed to accept it, "Sure, I'll stay." He lay down and re-wrapped his arms around Maya, he'd hold her until she fell asleep, it was the least he could do.
Enzo and Jenna were enjoying their time at the upscale establishment that she'd taken them to, Jenna wanted to unwind, and she deserved it. Her daughter was up and about, completely healthy and back to being her fiery energetic self, so Enzo had suggested that they go out. He grinned as she threw back a shot, she'd been eyeing a guy at the bar for a while, "You should go and talk to him love," Enzo said.
Jenna flushed, "No! We're out together, I'm not the kind of girl that ditches her friend for a hot guy!"
"Oh you're so sure that you'll get him and ditch me huh?" Enzo smirked, "I dunno gorgeous, that's a little presumptuous don't you think?"
"Oh please," Jenna scoffed confidently, "Have you seen me? I always get what I want."
"Alright a challenge then, you go over there and pull that bloke, and I'll pay for our drinks for the rest of the night, and if you can't then you have to be my wingman for the rest of the evening."
Jenna laughed, "You're hot and British, like you need a wingman! But fine, challenge accepted!"
She made her way over to the bar, to the hot guy in the impeccable suit, and within minutes of talking to him she realised that tonight she was most definitely going to be one of those girls that ditched her friend for a hot guy. She shot Enzo a quick text, telling him to fly free for the night, because Elijah was incredibly charming and she wanted to have some fun of the adult kind.
Enzo rolled his eyes at the message, he knew what was going to happen the moment he sent Jenna over there, in fact, he was hoping that she could get a little stress relief, Jenna had been running around nonstop for the last few weeks, trying to keep it together for Maya, she deserved a little fun. And with Damon watching over his best friend tonight, it meant that he got to have some fun of his own. Smiling he made his way over to a group of women, hoping at least one of them wouldn't mind being his snack this evening.
Enzo came home a little after 2 in the morning, he grabbed a quick shower, changed into some sleep pants and a T-shirt and went over to Maya's room to check in on her. It was there he found Damon and Maya, both still wide awake, curled up around each other. "What's going on here?" he asked suspiciously.
Damon turned his head a little to see Enzo giving them both an odd look, "Aah, well, I had a nightmare, and Maya was just offering me comfort."
Enzo almost snorted at the absurdity of what Damon was saying but felt himself warm at the thought that Damon would offer his best friend comfort without being prompted, "You had a nightmare?" he asked.
"Yep," Damon confirmed.
"Well then scoot over, Maya will protect you from one side, I'll get the other!" he said almost cheerfully.
Damon raised a brow at Enzo in surprise, that was definitely not the response he was expecting, Maya shuffled over to the other side of the bed and Enzo pushed him over to the middle climbing in beside him. Enzo threw an arm over Damon's waist, his hand just about reaching Maya's back to offer the real nightmare victim some comfort.
Morning came much too fast for Maya, she was the only one out of her companions that could actually feel tired, cursing the fact that she hadn't shut her curtains before falling asleep, she groaned and rolled over in attempt to keep the sun away from her, but ended up smacking someone in the face. Jolting awake, she saw Enzo startle and give her a little glare, "Well that was a fine wake up call," he drawled, not realising that he'd managed to fall asleep curled up against Damon's back.
Maya rolled her eyes and looked around the room, "Where's Damon?" she asked.
"Hmm…" Enzo cocked his head to the side and listened, "I believe he's making breakfast," the two of them heard the sound system turn on and music started blasting out, taking a sniff Enzo grinned, "Waffles if I'm not mistaken!"
He was out of the room faster than Maya could blink and not for the first time she scowled at the thought that her literal BFF was a vampire, they always had so much energy. "You better not eat it all before I get there!" she yelled, heaving herself out of bed and into the bathroom so she could freshen up first.
By the time Maya had gotten out of the shower and into some lounge pants and a shirt that she was sure belonged to one of the guys, breakfast was served, Damon had gone all out, waffles, eggs, bacon, French toast, "Exactly how many people did you think were eating today?" Maya asked walking into the kitchen. She passed Enzo who was sat at the counter and gave him a peck on the cheek as a proper greeting.
"Enzo's a bottomless pit, I love waffles, and I was expecting your mother to be here for breakfast too, and I wanted to provide you with a decent breakfast considering you've been stuck on a liquid diet for the past two weeks," Damon replied, handing her a cup of tea as she walked past him to grab a plate.
She gave him a kiss on the cheek as thanks and settled down on one of the stools next to Enzo, "Oh I get it, you were trying to show off your skills in an attempt to bribe mum into inviting you in, right?" Before Damon could answer Maya cut him off with another question, "What do you mean 'you were expecting mum to be here'? She's not here? Where is she?" She turned to Enzo a quizzical look on her face, he was the one with her last.
"Uh…well you see love your mother met someone last night and I figured she's been wound so tight lately-"
"Aah gross!" Maya covered his mouth, wanting him to stop talking, "I don't need you talking about how tight my mum is wound! I don't want to know!"
"Come on Red," Damon snickered, "It's only natural, your mum's a babe!"
"Ugh!" Maya covered her ears, in a childish attempt to stop them talking, "I'm not listening!"
Damon laughed and playfully tugged at one of Maya's arms, trying to get her to uncover her ears, when they were stopped by the door opening.
Jenna awoke with a satisfied smile on her face, she and Elijah had hit it off last night and decided to take their drinks somewhere a little more private. He'd suggested the hotel, as he didn't want to be interrupted by his siblings and she'd agreed, not wanting to make things awkward for her daughter. The hotel room was nice, for something that had only been purchased for a bout of mind-blowing sex. And mind-blowing it had been, Elijah was a take charge kind of guy, he'd led her to the room, poured her a drink and when she gave him her 'bedroom eyes', he'd kissed her with such ferocity it had her gasping for air. They'd lost their clothes quickly, and her fingers had found purchase in his perfect hair, whilst he did things with his tongue that she was sure should be illegal, turns out that for all of Elijah's old world, gentleman like charm, he was absolutely insistent on giving twice as much as he'd got, and Jenna had no objection to his views on how to treat a woman in bed. It had been fantastic, and exhausting, which was why she was still in bed with him come the morning, instead of sneaking out like she should have done after he'd fallen asleep.
She listened for a minute to Elijah's steady breathing, assuming he was still sleeping, Jenna sat up slowly, reaching for her dress that had been thrown to the floor nearby. Sliding it on she made her way to the bathroom to freshen up before she made the 'walk of shame' home, thinking back to when she was younger, she would have tried to rush out of the hotel room as soon as humanly possible, but she was an adult now, sex, as long as it was consensual between both parties was perfectly healthy and natural. She had nothing to be embarrassed about, but her hair was completely sex-mussed, her clothes rumpled and call her crazy, but she didn't want Elijah to see her when she was less than perfect. She finger combed her hair, rinsed her mouth out with the hotel-provided mouth wash, and splashed her face with water, making sure that her makeup wasn't smudged she opened the bathroom door so that she could leave and gasped at the sight of a very awake Elijah standing before her.
Elijah smiled at the slight increase in Jenna's heartbeat, he didn't mean to shock her, but the surge of blood rushing under her skin appealed to his monster. "Leaving so soon?" he asked, he'd put his trousers on but had forgone the shirt for the moment.
"I should get back to my place, before my friends send out a search party." She replied, trying and failing to keep her eyes on his.
"Such a pity," Elijah lamented, stroking her cheek and trailing his thumb down her throat, over her pulsing carotid artery, "I was hoping that we could have some…breakfast."
"Is that what the kids are calling it these days?" Jenna smirked, "As delightful as breakfast might be, I do have to get back to my daughter."
Elijah mirrored her look and nodded in agreement, "I should probably head home as well and make sure my brothers have not gotten into too much trouble. If you are ready to go, please allow me to accompany you out."
"I would appreciate that, unfortunately for me, that does mean that you're going to have to put your shirt back on," she trailed her hand up his bare chest for a moment before pulling back, "Let me grab my purse."
Elijah dressed at a human pace, when he was ready his hand found the small of Jenna's back and he guided out of their hotel room and into the elevator. He walked her outside and brought her to a sleek black town car, "I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of arranging a car for you, I couldn't have you walking home in those heels, no matter how good you look in them."
"You Mr Smith, are too charming for your own good," Jenna said as the driver opened the door for her.
Elijah smirked, "I've also put my number in your phone, should you ever be in New York again."
"I'll keep that in mind," Jenna replied, tilting her head up, she kissed him long and deep, knowing that she probably wouldn't see him again and wanted to leave her mark on him, like he had on her, he'd definitely ruined her for other men. "I'll see you around Elijah."
"I certainly hope so," he replied, watching as she slid into the car, the driver shut the door and drove off. Sighing he realised that he was going to have to go back to the Penthouse and he very much doubted that he would be able to sneak in.
Lunch time had Damon and Enzo splitting up from Maya and Jenna, the girls were going to Tiffany's first because they had a small collection of high end Lapis Lazuli jewellery and Maya wanted to pick up some pretty pieces as once she spelled them they could be sold for extra, and then they were going to take a walk in Central Park, enjoying the weather before it got to cold in New York. Damon and Enzo were planning on meeting Klaus later on, but first they were going to grab a bite to eat, mostly for Damon because he'd had to stay home last night and didn't get a chance to hunt. They'd meet the girls for dinner, but Jenna had wanted a little supernatural free time, and Enzo was pretty sure that if she spent anymore time around Damon, she'd stake him, there were only so many walk of shame jokes a girl could take.
Damon was waiting at the corner of an alley, while Enzo was luring a couple of lonely humans out of the lunch rush, and that's when he felt eyes on him, "Enzo," whispered, causing his companion to pause in the crowd. Damon was hit with two vervain darts and he groaned in pain, "Don't," he gasped, stopping Enzo from rushing to his aid, he had an idea of who was attacking him but he had no way of knowing how many there were. Damon felt two people come up from the side, under the guise of helping a struggling passer-by, "Augustine," Damon said, warning Enzo, they doused him with more vervain, causing him to pass out and they dragged him away from the crowd.
Enzo froze, knowing that if he did anything out of the ordinary other members of Augustine could grab him, and then he wouldn't be able to help Damon, he tried to spot any other hunters in the crowd but couldn't tell where the others were. He pushed through the humans surrounding him to try and follow them, but Augustine shoved Damon in a car and drove off, and he couldn't follow at vampire speed without exposing himself. Freaking out Enzo ran over to a cab and got in, he was going to need help to get Damon back.
Klaus was in his studio when he heard the pounding on the Penthouse's front door, there were only two people in the city that didn't have keys to the Penthouse, but could get past the wards that he'd had a witch set up for him and they both knew not to come to his residence unless it was an absolute emergency. He whooshed downstairs just as Kol answered the door, "Is there something I can help you with?" his brother asked.
Klaus took one look at the panicked visage on Enzo's face and pushed his brother out of the way, "What happened?"
"Augustine," Enzo said, Klaus motioned for his friend to follow him and they both sped into his study.
"Tell me everything," Klaus demanded.
"Damon and I went out for some lunch, I was picking out the humans when Damon called for me, told me not move and he was hit with at least two vervain darts. He said Augustine and two men came from the crowd, knocked him out and got him in a car and out of there before I could catch up. I don't know how many of them there are Nik! We have to get him back! I have no idea where Augustine could be in the city, or if they're planning on transporting him out of the state!"
Kol was stood outside Nik's study, the vampire that had sped in after his brother had not closed the door all the way so he could hear everything going on. His eyebrows raised in surprise, so far no one but family had been allowed to refer to his brother by that particular nickname, but this baby vampire that Nik had been hanging out with had used it so freely, and he guessed that this 'Damon' was the other vampire he'd seen in the videos.
"I'll get a hold of the video footage around the area he was taken," Klaus said, pulling out his phone, "Call the Little Witch, if they've come to New York, they came for her and managed to find Damon in their search."
Enzo felt a cold bolt of panic rush through him, he thought it was the fear that he was feeling at Damon being taken from him, but he realised that the terror he was feeling ran deeper, his connection with Maya was fluttering, something was wrong. He dialled her number, "Pick up, pick up, pick up!" he muttered, becoming more and more worried as the phone continued to ring.
Just as it was about to roll over to voicemail she picked up, "Enzo?" Maya's voice was out of breath.
"Augustine has Damon!" Enzo rushed out, "Where are you?"
"In Central Park, running from at least three members of Augustine!" Maya replied in a panic, if they had Damon, Enzo must be going out of his mind. She dragged her mother around a corner, and they zigzagged into the surrounding trees, she needed help. Her magic was depleted, and she didn't have enough to keep herself and her mother safe. "Enzo I don't have enough magic to fight them all off! I don't know how many of them there are, I need help!"
"Love I need you to send me your exact location!" Klaus cut in.
"Nik?" Maya asked, dodging some trees, her mother grabbed the phone off of her as she made them duck behind a large boulder in the park.
"I think we're a couple miles North of the Zoo," Jenna panted, "But we got turned around, these arseholes came out of nowhere!"
"Shit there's two more of them!" Maya whisper yelled, "Someone needs to get over here now! They have magic muting herbs and if they get me, I don't know if I'll be able to stop them!"
"We're on the way!" Klaus said, vampire speed would get them there quickly but Enzo wasn't anywhere near as fast as he was.
"Put the phone in your pocket and stay on the line," Enzo ordered, he needed to know the moment Augustine got too close.
"Okay," Jenna conceded, she wasn't planning on hanging up on him anyway.
Kol came into the room, it sounded like there was about to be bloodshed, and he wanted in, "See if you can find somewhere to hide," he said, not bothering to introduce himself, "If I'm recalling correctly, there should be some caves about a mile East of where you are."
"Who is this?!" Maya asked, she felt like she knew the voice, but at the same time didn't.
Klaus glared at Kol, he should have shut the door, he didn't want Kol knowing about Maya, "It's my brother, we'll be there shortly Sweetheart, if you can't hide keep moving, don't let them pin you down." All three of the vampires whooshed out of the Penthouse, Klaus had an idea of where the girls would be and knew that if he got close he would be able to hear them.
Maya and Jenna ran through the woods in Central Park, they'd definitely gotten turned around, because they should have made it to a more populated area by now but they hadn't. These Augustine members were trying to box them in. "Maybe we should split up, you're not who they're after."
"Not a chance in hell," Jenna replied, "I'm not going anywhere, we just need to keep moving until Klaus and Enzo get to us.
"Mum they're surrounding us, we won't be able to keep this up for long."
"It doesn't need to be long," Jenna insisted, "Just long enough!"
Maya had just run past a tree when a hand shot out and grabbed her, she let out a shriek, it was a member of Augustine, she turned into dead weight to get out of his grip and rolled out of the way when he tried to hit her with the magic dampening powder. She had no idea if that stuff would work on her, she kicked the man in the face before clambering to her feet and running towards her mother who had been cornered by a man and a woman. "Motus!" her hand reached out and the two of them flew away from Jenna and into each other, her mother ran towards her and they tried to get away but it was too late, they had been completely surrounded. There were eight people circling them and Maya was freaking out, she only had enough magic in her necklace for probably one or two spells, not enough to save them both.
One of the men in the circle took out a gun causing both of them to blanche, "I think that's enough from the both of you! Hands up now!"
Mother and daughter raised their hands slowly, "Enzo, Nik, now would be an excellent time for you two to sweep in for the rescue." Maya whispered, her phone was in her pocket but she knew that they would be able to hear her.
"I have an idea but it will only take out three of them Mum."
"Do it," Jenna whispered back, hopefully in the confusion they'd be able to get away.
Moving closer to her mother so she could get three of the Augustine hunters in view, including the man with the gun "Phasmatos navaro pulsus sanguinox!" the three men went down screaming, their blood turning to acid in their veins, Maya and Jenna ran in opposite directions trying to get away from the hunters. Maya cried out when she felt a fist slam into the side of her jaw, she staggered to the side and looked up at the woman that had attacked her, it didn't look like the woman had the magic dampening powder, not that it mattered now, she was out of juice. Maya snarled, this bitch was going to get it, she tackled the woman and ended up on top of her on the ground. Maya yanked the woman's hair and punched her in the throat, the woman choked and Maya pushed herself up, she kicked the woman in the ribs as hard as she could, once, twice, then a third and final time. She heard a crack and the woman started coughing up blood, one of her ribs must have pierced her lung.
Pulling away Maya turned to go and find her mother, but came face to face with another man and another gun, she had nothing left to stop him from shooting her, she knew she was screwed. The man cocked the gun and Maya prepared herself to feel the pain of at least one bullet, but before he could shoot her, the man's heart was torn from his chest. He fell to the ground and Klaus stepped close to her, dropping the heart, "Hello love."
So this was super long, don't get used to that! Damon's been captured and Maya's about to come face to face with Kol! Also hoped you enjoyed the tiny bit of Elijah/Jenna that popped in my head, I figured Jenna's been through some shit, she deserves a little action, and Elijah just decided to volunteer!
Thank you for reading, please review as the feedback fuels me!