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First of all can I just say that the response was completely overwhelming! Thank you so much for all of the reviews!
ereynolds91: Don't worry, I'm pretty sure Grayson is going to get what he deserves and no one but Enzo is going to be the one to give it to him.
UnknownReaderHasJoined: I'm getting mixed reviews for Elijah/Jenna but more people seem to want it than not, either way I just thought that it was it was fun little foray into Jenna getting a little action.
Guest: Thanks! Maya might have fun with someone, but you're right Mystic Falls doesn't really have any viable candidates for her, but she and Klaus are endgame.
xrysatsan: Elijah just doesn't get enough action in TVDU, he's a whole damn meal and he deserves some love...and some fun!
Sciave: Thank you! I feel like a lot of people forgive Elena for removing her memories way too easily, and let's not forget she made Alaric promise not to give her the memories back when Damon came back (Also that was a total dick move on Alaric's part, he knew that Elena was supposed to love Damon, he shouldn't have made that promise to her). Maya's reaction to finding out about Elijah and Jenna, I feel like the first person she'd call would be Klaus in a total panic, I don't even think that she'd give him a chance to speak, she'd just be like 'YOUR BROTHER SLEPT WITH MY MOTHER! AND THEY'VE BEEN SEXTING!' or something ridiculous like that.
xotinkerbella: Well that's for Jenna to know and you to dot dot dot! But yes nothing good happens to Alaric's girlfriends, so I'm going to have to figure out how to rectify that, or at least make sure that Jenna gets to be the one to survive.
Guest: I have never been a fan of Halijah, I thought it was super weird that Elijah fell for her, I'm not really sure how Elijah/Jenna would work long term, I'd have to give it some serious thought. I'm also not really sure how I feel about Rebekah/Marcel, especially because she watched him grow up. How do we feel about Rebekah/Stefan?
TheQueenofGoodbyes: I don't know how you're going to feel about me with how I treat Damon in this chapter! But I think anything's better than Haley/Elijah, I always thought that that was a weird pairing, and it's not even a viable pairing now because if there is a magical pregnancy, Haley sure as hell ain't a part of it. Maya would cut a bitch if Haley even makes the tiniest move towards Klaus, not to mention could you imagine what Caroline would do to Haley if she tries to move in on her best friend's man?
pinkshirt: I feel like all his siblings would be baffled by Klaus making friends on his own, because even when he was friends with Stefan, that was because Stefan and Rebekah were together first. We've never seen have an actual honest to god friendship, with no ulterior motives, no strings attached, and that's what Klaus has with Damon and Enzo, because what is he really getting from them?
RenTenTen: Well at least she called him an arsehole!
Guest: leaving the revelation for a while, I think it'll be more embarrassing for Elijah if he's found out later on down the line.
heleana1: Story's under a different username - Vnav11, it doesn't get updated faster than this, but it will give you spoilers of some relationships due to the tags!
Omega-Maharan: They've never really shown transfiguration in the TVDU so I don't know whether it's actually within the realm of possibility for Maya.
WiseGirlDivergence46: Only flirtation until she gets older, she's only 15 now.
Maya stared at Klaus for a moment, finding it unbelievable that he was actually there, that he'd gotten to her before she'd gotten shot, "You took your time," is what she said, instead of thanking him.
"Your mother said that you were North of the Zoo, you're actually due West of it," he commented, unbothered about the other Augustine members, Enzo had taken out one, Kol had gotten one, and the both of them had restrained the final two members, Klaus needing them to find Damon.
"My apologies, the next time I'm running for my life, I'll ask my pursuers to hang on a sec while I get my bearings."
"Much appreciated love," Klaus smirked, it was good to know that she wasn't too traumatised by this latest brush with trouble.
She moved in closer to him as, the man who she assumed was Klaus's brother, kept their two hostages secured, and Enzo checked on her mother, "Thank you for coming for me," her eyes travelled over her mother, whose was currently squeezing the life out of Enzo, "I just killed three people in front of her."
"Three people that would have taken you to be tortured and then killed, she knows that, and I'm certain that she won't hold that against you."
"MAYA!" Jenna yelled, rushing towards her daughter.
"Mum!" she wrapped her arms around Jenna, Maya had never feared for anyone like she'd feared for her mother's life, she was going make Augustine pay.
Jenna pulled back and looked over at Klaus, "Thank you," she said, Klaus nodded back, Jenna turned to Enzo, her eyes hardening as she saw the two men Kol had tied up, "We need to get them somewhere private; we need to find Damon."
Maya was surprised by her mother, Jenna had to have known was going to happen to these men when Enzo got them somewhere quiet, "Take them back to the apartment," Maya said, "If they don't have Damon's location then I can do a locator spell from there."
Enzo nodded, "Our place isn't far," he replied.
"Kol," Klaus said, "Bring them and follow me." He grabbed up Maya, while Enzo took Jenna, and Kol hauled the two hostages to their feet and whooshed after his brother.
Damon was dowsed with a bucket of vervain water and he screamed as woke, he felt weak, he could barely move, they must have given him more vervain while he was unconscious. He was on a concrete floor, his skin burning with every move, there was a solid wall behind him, and bars surrounding him on three sides. "Wakey, wakey vampire," he heard a voice say.
Groaning he tried to sit up, only to have more vervain water tossed on him, and he screamed again, hitting the floor, he tamped down the fear he felt at being caught, at being at their mercy. It was muffled but her could hear the sounds of the city, cars driving past, the subway, the distinct accent of the New Yorkers shuffling about. Damon rolled his head in the direction of his captors, "What the hell do you want?" he coughed out.
A woman walked up next to the man before him, even if he had the energy, they were too far away from the bars for him to attack, "I think you know exactly what we want," she said, "You were doing such a good job of hiding her too. Right up until you and her mother went out for lunch."
"I'm not telling you anything," Damon said through gritted teeth, he wouldn't give Maya up, not when he knew exactly what was in store for her. He turned away from them, finally noticing the heavy duty chains they'd placed on him, no wonder his wrists and ankles were burning, they'd laced the inside of the cuffs with vervain too.
"You say that now," the man said, "but we have ways to make you talk." He picked up a bottle containing some sort of chemical, "Now personally, I prefer getting my hands dirty, but we don't really have time for that so we're going to start with something easy to use, and very painful. I have to admit, I do like hearing you disgusting creatures scream when we use this though." He took out a syringe and filled it up, opening the cell Damon couldn't move, "We'll see how long you last with this running through your veins." The man jabbed the needle into Damon's stomach and depressed the plunger, Damon screamed, his blood felt like it was on fire, and it was spreading to the rest of his body, this pain, so much worse than simple vervain. What were they doing to him?
"It's no use trying to compel them, they would have vervain in their system," Enzo said, enraged that the man he loved had been stolen from him.
"Then we'll just have to bleed it out of them," Kol replied cheerfully, pulling a knife from the kitchen block, "You don't mind if I use this do you? It's been a while since I've enjoyed a good spot of torture."
Maya saw her mother turn a little green at the thought of actually torturing two humans, and turned to the vampires in the room, "Torturing them is just going to waste time, time that I'm sure Damon doesn't have."
"Well then what do you suggest Little Witch?" Klaus asked, stringing the two men up in the living room.
"My first grimoire had a spell to read minds, I could do it, we just need to make sure their defences are suitably lowered."
"Didn't you say that your magic was depleted?" Kol asked, "Whatever that means."
Maya narrowed her eyes at the Original, she guessed that Klaus hadn't told him anything about her, "Now that I have Enzo, it's pretty easy to get back." She held out her hand and Enzo took it without hesitation. Klaus and Kol watched with interest as they saw her palm glow red and Enzo wince a little as she siphoned his magic, she hadn't quite perfected the art of painlessly siphoning someone yet, as there were no other magical creatures for her to use. After about a minute she let go, Enzo could last a full five minutes of her siphoning from him continuously, but she didn't want to deplete him of his energy while they still needed to get Damon back. "All done," she locked eyes with Kol, "Now it's your turn."
He raised an eyebrow in question, "My turn for what exactly?"
"Their defences need to be lowered if I'm going to get in, that means they need to be in pain." The smile that lit up Kol's face was a little disturbing, no one should be that happy about causing damage, at least no one that was in the vicinity of her mother.
Kol had taken the carving knife and was currently hacking away at their captives, causing them to cry out in agony, thank god the floor below them was empty. Jenna had to look away, it was one thing to bring these people here for the express purpose of getting answers from them, but another to actually witness the torture. "I know that this is necessary, but does he have to look so happy while he's doing this?" Jenna hissed at her daughter.
Maya shrugged, "In certain circles, Kol is referred to as the Happy Homicidal Maniac, his temperament is likely just as bad as Nik's."
Kol pulled back with a flourish and turned to the women, "Right you are darling!" he walked closer to them, ignoring the warning growl that slipped from Klaus, "Although I would like to know which circles you're referring to, I quite like that moniker, I'd like to know who to thank!"
His eyes glinted dangerously at Maya, "Maybe wait until after I'm done saving our friend."
"He's not my friend," Kol insisted.
"No but he is mine Kol," Klaus interrupted, pulling his brother back, "And I'd like to find him before he's dead." Klaus looked over at Maya, "Get on with it sweetheart."
Maya walked over to the two humans, glad that they'd been tied so close together, it meant that she could sandwich both of their heads between her hands, and she could hit them with the spell at the same time. "When I begin the spell, start asking questions, even if they don't speak out loud they'll answer in their heads and I'll see it." Klaus and Enzo nodded, signalling for her to start, "Phasmatos mentem legere, phasmatos mentem legere," as she chanted, Enzo asked about Damon, where he was, what was happening to him, and she received flashes in her mind. Cursing she pulled back, "There's six Augustine facilities in New York City, none of them close to where they grabbed him, they don't know which one he was taken to. Augustine here must work in cells, just in case of capture."
Enzo kicked the couch through the living room wall, "Damn it! How are we supposed to get him back?!"
"Enzo!" Maya said, placing a hand on his arm, "I need you to calm down, all I need is a map, Damon's hair and some blood." Enzo was out of the room and back in less than a second, carrying with him a paper map of the city and Damon's hairbrush. "Ok, mum pass me a bowl from the kitchen please," Jenna grabbed a bowl whilst Maya laid out the map on the floor. Maya took some of the hair from the brush and placed it in the bowl, the locator spell for a person was very different to that of an object, and it was easier with a blood relation, she walked up to Klaus and held the bowl out in front of him, "Blood please."
"I'm not related to Damon love."
"Actually you are in a way, every Original has a sireline, which means that every vampire in existence has Original blood flowing through their veins, albeit in miniscule amounts. Damon is a part of your sireline, and luckily there's only three vampires that separate you two, so it shouldn't be too difficult to bind Damon's essence to the blood in the bowl so I can find him, so blood please."
"There's something else you're not telling me," Klaus said suspiciously, he didn't know who's blood had turned Katerina, which meant that for some reason it was necessary for Damon Salvatore to know where he came from. Why was that?
"There's a lot I'm not telling you, it's why you find me so interesting." She replied, holding the bowl a little higher waiting for his donation.
Klaus bit into his hand and let some of his blood drip into the bowl, while Kol watched with intrigue, Nik seemed to have more than just a passing interest in the witch, otherwise he never would have allowed her to speak to him like that. Maya took the bowl back and stood over the map, she could bind the blood to Damon's essence, but she would need more magic in order to do the locator spell. "Phasmatos ligare sanguinem," she whispered, watching as the blood moved to coat the hairs, the blood shimmered for just a moment before settling, the binding was done.
Maya dripped the blood over their own location on the map, she knew for a fact that Damon wasn't anywhere near them, "I'm going to need some more juice to do the locator spell," she said looking at Enzo, but before the younger vampire could respond, Kol was in front of her.
"Then use me darling," he held out a hand, he wanted to know how her powers worked, he'd never seen a witch use an ability like hers before.
Not wanting to argue as she knew they were pressed for time, Maya took Kol's hand in hers, as she started to siphon from him, she also did the locator spell, "Phasmatos tribum nas ex veras, sequita saguines, ementas asten mihan ega petous," Kol could understand why Enzo had winced in pain, whatever she was doing felt like something sharp was being dragged across his very essence, and the longer she held on, the more insistent that drag became. The blood on the map began to move and Maya pulled her hand from Kol's the moment it stopped. "Found him!" she said, ignoring the look that Kol gave her, if he wanted to know about her then she'd have to trust him, and it was highly unlikely that that was going to happen any time soon.
Klaus looked at the map and sent a text from his phone, "I'll have a few men keep an eye on the place," he said.
"How much do you want to bet that we'll need invites to get in?" Enzo asked.
"I'm not taking that bet," Jenna said, "An invitation is one of the only ways people can be safe against vampires, there's no way you'll be able to get in."
"Do you think that one of them will be able to get us inside?" Maya asked gesturing to the two humans that had been tied up.
"Doubtful, it would be much smarter to give ownership to someone out of state," Klaus replied, "An invitation can be given over the phone, there would be no need for the human to be close."
"I take it burning the place down is not an option," Kol threw out.
"Of course it's not an option!" Maya said, "Fire kills vampires, Damon's a vampire, ergo, fire kills him!"
"Well if we can't get in, how do we get Damon out?" Enzo asked.
"You can't get in," Maya said, "I can."
"No absolutely not!" Jenna cut in, "It's not an option."
"Mum-"
"No! I literally just got you back, you are not running headfirst into danger again!"
"If we don't go and get Damon right now, Augustine could decide that he's not worth the effort to transport, either they torture him, or they kill him, and neither option is good with me."
"How would you even get him out?!"
Maya looked at Klaus and Kol and then back at her mum, "There's enough power in this room for me to recharge my necklace, then I've got an immobility spell, the acid spell, hell I could even put them to sleep, all I need is enough magic."
"I don't like this," Jenna said.
"Neither do I," Enzo cut in, "I don't want to put you at risk to get Damon back, Augustine came here for you."
"Which is why they're going to let me in through their front door." Maya insisted, "Unless any of you have a better idea."
"I still say we should just set the place alight," Kol shrugged, ignoring the glares he received from everyone else in the room.
Klaus pulled her away from the rest of them, of course Kol and Enzo could still hear him, but he was certain that this wasn't a discussion to be had in front of her mother, "Are you sure you can do this Little Witch? We don't know how many people are in there and you may have to kill again."
"Damon's mine Nik, I told you that before, they don't get to hurt what's mine and not suffer the consequences."
Damon had finally stopped screaming, but only because one of the humans in the house had tired of the noise so they'd cut out his voice box, drenched in vervain and tortured, Damon couldn't heal, the cut at his throat still open and raw, on occasion someone would bring a new chemical in, causing Damon a new kind of pain. Once they'd realised that they couldn't get him to talk, the torture became much worse, they'd cut him open, cracked his chest and for one heart stopping moment he thought that they would tear his heart out, instead they'd removed his left lung, cut it open, filled it with vervain, sewed it back up and shoved back inside his chest. They'd taken the other out and filled it with whatever the chemical was that they'd used before and given the right lung the same treatment. Every breath he took was sheer agony. Damon didn't think that he could hate himself anymore than he already did, but this, this was a new kind of torture, giving him a snippet of what Enzo had gone through for 50 years, because of him, because he couldn't save him, because he never went back. There was no doubt that Enzo had endured worse and he didn't know how his friend had ever managed to forgive him. Damon held back a flinch when he heard movement outside the cell, he wouldn't give these arseholes the satisfaction of seeing his fear, but he wished they'd taken his hearing, when he heard the woman talk about how pretty his eyes were, and wonder if when she took them, they'd grow back.
Maya stood on the corner of the street, the brownstone that Damon had been trapped in, in the centre, "Can you hear anything?" she asked Klaus, he was with her, insistent that he be by her side right up until the door, and that the first thing she must do is determine if there was anyone inside capable of providing him with an invite.
Klaus didn't have to strain himself to hear it, he was very used to all the sounds a vampire could make whilst being tortured, he could smell the vervain and practically taste the blood that had been spilled from Damon Salvatore…his friend, probably his best friend, Klaus didn't bother to hide his monster, he would make them pay. "He's in there," is all he said in response. Detailing exactly what Damon was going through wouldn't help Maya, she couldn't afford to break her concentration with this. "You know what you have to do?"
"Get in, freeze them, find out if one can provide an invite, find Damon, send them all out to you, Enzo and Kol."
"But most importantly?"
"Don't get captured."
"Go, I will be waiting."
Maya tried not to rush to the steps of the brownstone, if anyone was watching she didn't want to draw attention to herself, wearing a black beanie covered her mane of red hair, and sunglasses large enough to obscure most of her face, she made it to the front door without incident. Taking a breath, Maya reached out and rung the doorbell, she and the vampires had debated over this. She had enough power to blast in the door, but if it alerted others deeper in the house to her presence then would they rush to the entrance or would they kill Damon? In the end it was decided that she would ring the bell, it was innocuous, no one would suspect the person that they were going after to show up at their door. The moment someone opened the door, she froze them in their tracks, "Phasmatos Prohibere!" She pulled him out of the home, "Tell me, can you invite a vampire inside?" she muttered her mind reading spell and forced herself not to show her frustration, "No, what a shame, for you." Shoving him away from her, Kol sped to the door, grabbing the human and disappearing just as quick.
Maya headed towards where she could hear voices, and someone came out of the room in the back, before they could say anything, Maya held out her hand and their throat closed up, they couldn't make a sound. The telekinesis wasn't new, it was the first thing that she learned and the easiest thing for her to access, but it was also the hardest to control, if she couldn't keep her concentration then something she didn't intend would usually happen. Maya expanded her power, this one couldn't invite the vampires in either but he knew who could, she threw him out of the house and he was taken by Enzo this time. "Okay you can do this Maya," steeling herself she walked into the room that held most of the house's occupants. "I hear you're all looking for me," they turned to face her in surprise but it was too late, "Ad somnum!" the four Augustine hunters fell asleep, she lifted up the unconscious Augustine woman, and pushed her towards the entrance, "Nik," Maya whispered, knowing that he'd hear her. He appeared at the front door, "This one can invite you in, I'll wake her up, but you'll have to secure the invite."
"Give her to me love," Klaus's eyes were hard, he could hear at least two people with Damon, and he was being tortured as they spoke.
Maya shoved the woman outside and woke her up, she didn't wait for Klaus to get an invitation out of her, she had to find Damon, and find him fast, from the danger in Nik's eyes, she got the feeling that Damon was being tortured. "Where are you Damon?" she asked quietly. Closing her eyes she stretched out her senses, it was something that she'd been learning before Esther had taken her out of commission, being able to sense other supernaturals, it didn't work great, but she was able to sense those who were closest to her. Eyes widening she felt him below her, but she couldn't find the door to the basement anywhere.
Damon cried out as he felt a wooden blade cut open the skin of his back, his vocal cords had finally healed but it didn't matter much because as soon as his throat had started to close, the woman in the room had held his head down and torn his eyes from his skull, they still hadn't healed. "It's so interesting that wood is your kind's weakness," his torturer said, "Did you know that our studies show that it takes four times as long for a vampire to heal from a wound inflicted by wood, than anything else?" It was like he was a student being given a lecture and he wished that they'd pierced his ear drums instead. He felt his spine break and lost the feeling in his legs, "Shall we see how long it takes for your spine to heal? You must be an old vampire, even drenched in vervain, you're healing much faster than any vampire that I've had the pleasure to work on."
"Actually he's quite young," Damon heard Nik's voice and he was flooded with relief, "Not even two centuries old, if you wanted an old vampire, maybe you should have come after me."
"Nik," Damon sighed, as he felt the man on top of him fly off of him, he heard the cell door be torn from it's hinges and rattle as it fell to the floor.
"DAMON!" There was Enzo, he felt Enzo's hands on him and he groaned as Enzo tried to move him.
"They broke my spine," he croaked out.
"Ohmygod DAMON!" Maya cried, rushing in after Enzo, Damon was a bloody mess, he turned his face from her direction.
"Enzo don't let her see," he whispered, but it was too late, Maya had come into his cell and seen the full extent of the damage done to him.
"Oh god," she whimpered, "What did they do to you?" he flinched as she stroked his face, instinctively expecting pain.
"Maya wait upstairs with Kol," Nik said, "You're the only human here not on vervain, when we release him, he will try to kill you." He cut her off before she could argue, "NOW!"
She flinched back at his anger, knowing that it wasn't truly directed at her, she fled the room, in truth she didn't want to see Damon the way he was now, she'd seen blood, and death before, but seeing him tortured, hurt her so much.
Kol didn't fight his smirk when he heard Nik send his witch back upstairs, he knew that Nik didn't want his witch anywhere near him, but had sent her upstairs in order to what? Spare her pain? In order to spare his friend? He didn't know, but he'd get the opportunity to find out, especially with Nik's attention elsewhere. "I have to say darling, you've made me very curious."
Maya looked over at the other Original, she was almost grateful for him in that moment, Kol was dangerous, and she would need all of her wits to deal with him, "Before today I've never even met you, how could you be curious?"
"Well that's just it, I'd never heard of you before, but then today Nik rushed so desperately to your rescue. My brother's never been partial to witches, and yet he seems to be quite…fond of you."
Maya started at that, his words were dipped in innuendo, "You followed him?" she asked and Kol smiled, "No if you'd have followed him, then something tells me that you would have confronted us, but you were watching us…the cameras? You got access to the city's cameras to follow your brother? Why?"
Kol couldn't help but grin, Nik's little witch was smart, smarter than he gave her credit for and maybe that was why Nik was so interested in her. "My brother was acting unusual, I wanted to know what he was up to."
"Acting unusual? Nik's been perfectly pleasant," Maya said confused.
"Exactly! You haven't known him long, but my brother is never 'pleasant'."
Maya shrugged, it sounded a little like Kol was jealous, "Maybe you just haven't given him reason to be pleasant."
Kol fought the urge to scowl, "And you have?"
"I make promises and I deliver on them, what's not to like about me?"
"Promises, like delivering my brother the moonstone?"
Maya smiled, Kol was fishing and if Nik hadn't told his siblings about the moonstone, then she certainly wouldn't, "I don't know what you're talking about, what moonstone?"
"Don't lie to me witch, you gave the moonstone to Nik when you were with him outside the hospital, Nik's been searching for it for five centuries, how did you find it?"
Maya's eyes hardened, it had taken her time, but Nik had given her trust, and she wasn't going to break it just because Kol scared her, there was no way that Kol could be certain that she gave Nik the moonstone. She wasn't near any cameras when it happened, so the footage couldn't have been clear, "I don't even know what a moonstone is."
Kol snarled, his hand was around her throat in an instant, he would not let this little witch lie to him, "Tell me the truth!"
Maya brought her hand up to Kol's wrist with the full intention of siphoning from him and throwing him off her, but the moment her hand came into contact with his skin, a vision overtook her. Kol, staggering in a familiar kitchen, burning and screaming and then falling to the ground dead. It would appear that Kol had seen it too, because he pulled back like he'd just been scalded. "What was that? WHAT DID I JUST SEE?!" he went for her again, but Klaus snapped his neck before he came into contact with her.
"Nik!"
"What happened?" Nik demanded "What did you see?"
Maya looked up at him in shock, "When I came into contact with Kol, Nik I, I saw his death."
Klaus froze, his brother was not going to die, he wouldn't allow it, "Impossible, the last of the White Oak has been destroyed."
"Maybe the future's changed now, but it was clearly something that happened before, Nik that's not the worst part."
"What could possibly be worse than you telling me that my baby brother could die?" he snarled.
"I'm pretty sure he saw it too."
Dun dun dun! Kol's just seen something that he shouldn't have what's Klaus to do now? He wants to keep Maya from siblings, so how is that going to work? Also the next chapter will be the last one for New York, because I'm missing the Caya (Maya Caroline) interaction, and she still needs to gush to someone about the handsome Original. Please don't hate me for hurting Damon, it had to be done!
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