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WiseGirlDivergence46: Thanks! Damon wouldn't bet her that, if Enzo found out he'd kick his arse!
TheQueenofGoodbyes: Yeah, it seemed like after Finn was awakened he was always the outsider to the rest of his family, and I get it, none of them suffered like he did, but then he sided with his mother, even after he died and Sage died (he must have really loved her if he was willing to give his blood to Klaus to break the linking spell) Esther must not have told him that his death meant the death of everyone in his sireline, but when he came back he still tried to kill his niece (who had never done anything to anyone) and killed Kol. He started out as an outsider, but it was his choice to continue down that path. I can't see why he wouldn't do the same thing over again, the only difference is, his mother hasn't come back to life…yet.
Enileve: Thank you! I thought it was a really cute idea, and Klaus needed some lightness after that huge truth bomb that Maya dropped on him.
Athena-Spencer: Thank you! How do you think she and Rebekah will get on? Do you think that they'll get on, or will they hate each other?
aandm20: I think they've got some great chemistry together, and Maya's going to be sixteen in about a month and a half, after that it's just a hop, skip and a jump to Klaus showing up in Mystic Falls for the sacrifice!
guest: The real romance is for when she's a couple years older, and Klaus still has some serious demons to work out before he'd be in a good place for a serious romantic entanglement. I don't think Freya's going to have much of a choice but to accept Maya, because Maya's the one that's working on breaking Freya free from her aunt Dahlia, and Klaus and Kol both trust Maya. Bekah/Mason is something I am playing with, I'd have to see how Mason fits into the storyline.
Serena Salvatore: Thank you so much, all the characters have such different personalities, their relationships needed to develop differently in order to feel real, I figured that out when I was writing Finn and he did not want to go in the direction I was pushing him in, I'm just trying to get the characters to be as close to themselves as I can, I think if they act too OOC then it could potentially take the reader out of the story.
Blu3b3rryT3a: Total nerds! Mostly cus I am, so you'll probably find a sprinkling of nerd in some chapters. Taking Damon's money is always going to be funny, he is the one at the Boarding House that is always bitching when something expensive gets ruined…or drank! Enzo and Caroline are going to take a bit to really warm up to each other, Caroline's more secure in herself than TVDU's human Caroline, but she's also more possessive, because now she only has one best friend instead of two. When Kol and Maya realise the power of her puppy eyes and his voice they will be menaces to Nik and probably Elijah! Gotta give you cute bonding time between Maya and Klaus now, so that they've got a strong foundation for a relationship. Finn's a dick, I think everybody agrees on that!
xotinkerbella: Finn might have only turned Sage, but she seemed like she really took to vampirism, so she probably turned a lot of people, who would have done the same, so even though he was in a box for most of his life, his sireline was probably long. Kol and Maya together are probably going to drive Klaus to drink…more than he already does! I feel like their friendship is really growing organically. Enzo and Caroline will figure it out, I want that Enzo-Caroline friendship we had glimpses of in TVD. Rebekah and Klaus's confrontation will be coming up soon, especially now that he knows that Marcel's alive, he won't be able to hold it in for long. Finn's the only sibling Freya actually knows, daggering him would be a setback for Klaus while he's trying to gain Freya's trust.
TikiKiki: We will be going to New Orleans and Freya and Dahlia exist in this universe so he will be able to have a kid. Maya told Klaus about the Sireline thing a few chapters ago, when they got Damon back from Augustine, whether Klaus tells his siblings or not is another matter, when you think about it, it's a pretty big burden to carry, knowing that if you die, essentially the genocide of an entire line occurs. Plus Klaus prefers to always keep a few cards close to the chest, and the less people that know about the sirelines, the less people there will be who try to break them. Can't tell you about Katherine, or the Lockwoods, because I like to keep you guessing!
Omega-Maharan: Aah the blackmail photos, kept on Maya's computer, which I'm sure that Caroline has complete access too! Klaus should be very afraid!
Guest: Yes there's no toxic love triangle this time around! But when Damon finally makes the connection between Elena and Katherine, that will be exciting! Especially because Maya has been subconsciously keeping Damon away from Mystic Falls for years now. There's a lot of Hope's storyline that I'm working around, one of the biggest things is that if Haley isn't Hope's mother, then Hope wouldn't be related to the Hollow, which would make defeating her a fraction easier – there will be no pesky Originals sacrificing themselves to kill the Hollow – I don't understand why the Hollow wasn't put into Aurora, she was nearly as old as Klaus, nearly as strong, and an evil psychotic bitch, she could have been the perfect vessel to house the Hollow and kill it so that Klaus didn't have to sacrifice himself. I don't want to 'save' Klaus in this, because people can only change if they want to, and we all fell in love with Klaus when he was in Mystic Falls, before the baby and the 'therapy' he got from Cami. For 1000 years Klaus has been hunted, he's never been able to really live without his paranoia getting the better of him, because his paranoia was one of the biggest things that kept him alive. We never got to see what Klaus would be like if he wasn't hunted, and if people weren't always trying to kill him, I get all the constant enemies made for great TV, but I want to know what Klaus is like when he really has nothing to worry about. They'll be going to New Orleans and Dahlia is a thing, so parts of the storyline are going to happen, but I haven't decided how much.
nix .mixx .94: Thank you! As we get further on more will change, but some things will stay the same, just for the drama.
Felinegreat: Thank you, I want Klaus and Maya's relationship to grow before they get together, but he's still super possessive about the things and people that he believes belongs to him.
MamaHooterz: Thank you!
It had been six days since Maya's little trip around New York with Klaus, he'd kept himself fairly closed off since then, and Maya had chosen not to push, she was treating him like a wary animal really, not wanting to spook him if she pushed too hard. She'd let him deal with his feelings on his own, and just show him that she was there for him when he needed.
She and Kol were about to complete the first phase of the unlinking spell, he'd brought her a desiccated vampire and placed him on the floor of the basement, Freya had been gently laid down next to the vampire, the two would need to be touching so that it would be easier to connect them. After receiving descriptions from Maya on what the link felt like, Kol had determined that Freya would need to connect to the vampire first and that connection needed to settle for a few days so that it would be easier to trick the real link into believing that the vampire was Freya. Maya drew the pentagram around both prone figures, Kol couldn't help with this as she needed to infuse her essence into the binding, he would just be serving as her battery, using the magic that made him an Original would help, as it was his mother's magic, which was close to Freya's and would hopefully mask their intentions.
"Freya has an affinity for the Earth," Kol said, "How are you accounting for the difference in magic?" When he was mortal, and had his own magic, Kol had an affinity for Air, the opposite element to Earth, his mother was connected to Water, so the magic that Maya would be drawing on would either be connected to Water or Air.
"Nik flew in soil from the region we believe that Freya was born in so that I can boost the connection between her and my magic." Maya answered. "It's one of the key ingredients in the spell that I wrote."
Kol nodded, it was a good idea, and Freya's magic would instinctively latch onto it, making it easier for Maya to manipulate it. She'd come up with the solution on her own, Kol felt something akin to pride for his student, she absorbed his magical knowledge like a sponge, and twisted it to suit her needs. "Good, are you ready? Once you start the spell, you can't stop, not until it's finished."
Maya nodded, "I don't know how long this is going to take, so we should probably get Nik." At Kol's questioning look she elaborated, "It takes 5 minutes for Enzo to really start feeling the affects of my Siphoning, for Damon it's 7 minutes. Enzo's been a vampire for about a century, Damon's been one for just over 140 years. Which means roughly it's one minute for every 20 years of vampirism. You're a thousand, which means, theoretically, that you should be able to withstand about 50 minutes of my Siphoning. This is a big spell, so my magic is going to get used up as fast as I'm Siphoning it, and I'm really not sure how long this will take, Nik should be here in case you need to switch out with him."
"Alright, I'll fetch my brother, you make yourself comfortable, this is a dangerous spell, even though the magic isn't your own, it will take a lot out of you." Kol said, he needed to do more research on Siphoners, he didn't have enough information on them in order to know if Maya worked differently or reacted differently to the way in which spells worked.
Moments later, Klaus was downstairs with Kol, Maya was sat on the ground, just outside of the pentagram, Kol took a seat on her left and Klaus on her right, the younger Mikaelson gave her his hand and Maya began the spell.
Rebekah and Elijah were scouring every inch of Kol's study in an attempt to figure out where their brothers had disappeared to. Klaus's study, bedroom and studio were all locked up tight, but Kol's hadn't been spelled. At first Elijah thought that it was an oversight, one which he would use to locate his family, but as each moment passed without any further information, he was starting to believe that Kol left his study unlocked because he hadn't left anything behind that would help them.
Rebekah sighed in frustration as she tipped out a draw and again found nothing, "This is bloody useless Elijah! There's nothing here!"
Elijah pressed his fingers to the bridge of his nose, Rebekah was right, there wasn't anything worth their attention in this room, "We've already checked Kol's room," Elijah said, "he hasn't left a single breadcrumb for us to follow."
"Which means that Kol really doesn't want us interfering," Rebekah replied, "He and Nik are working together and Kol's loving the fact that we're not a part of their schemes!" She wouldn't lie and say that she wasn't hurt, she'd been getting the cold shoulder from Nik for months, but to discover that Kol was the one that was getting Nik's trust now and not her, it was painful and maddening, he'd been daggered the last time for attempting to construct a dagger to put Nik down, and yet Nik was trusting him with something as important as his curse. "We need to look at this from another angle. What about Nik's witch?"
"Kol and I couldn't find anything about her the last time she was in the city," Elijah replied.
"Kol clearly found something about her, but just didn't tell you," she scoffed.
"How is that helping?"
"It isn't, but I felt the need to point it out, besides you didn't have me before."
"And what are you going to do that I already haven't?"
"That's easy, the girl may be Nik's witch, but she's still a girl, a teenager, and I know what teenage girls like, after all I am one."
"The first stage of the spell is complete," Maya said, she was curled up in the giant bed in the master suite of the Brownstone, the spell taking more out of her than she realised it would.
Klaus was sat across from her in a comfortable armchair, "How many stages are there?"
"Possibly four," she replied, fighting off a yawn, "Stages two and three are moving the link to the vampire, and at the same time shifting Freya's side of the link to Kol so that both ends are connected to something. I don't know if once I relocate the link Freya will wake up, or if it's a completely separate spell."
"Just connecting that vampire and Freya took a lot out of you sweetheart, are you sure you're going to be able to do this on your own?"
Maya nodded, "I'll be okay, the rest of the ingredients need time to prepare, I'll Siphon the magic before-hand, and I'll be chock full vampire blood while I do the spell."
Klaus narrowed his eyes, this was not part of the plan that he'd been informed of, "Whose blood?"
"Oh Kol offered, I figure Original blood is stronger than any other," she shrugged.
"I see," Klaus suppressed a growl, he couldn't stand the idea of Maya drinking Kol's blood, she belonged to him, he didn't want her to drink from anyone else, and that was a thought that he'd unpack later. "What do you plan on doing now?"
"Probably just watch a couple movies, eat some take out, you know you can join me if you want?"
"I'm surprised that you haven't been back to the apartment, I was under the impression that your best friend was in town." Klaus replied, moving to join her at the head of the bed, sitting next to her.
Maya let out a little laugh, "Damon might be an irritant, but occasionally he has his uses, he texted me, apparently Enzo and Caroline are having some sort of 'best friend wars' where I guess the winner gets the me? If I go over there, they're just going to want me to choose between them, and that's not something I ever want to be dragged into."
"Ah the troubles of youth," Klaus smirked, "Loved so much that people are fighting over you, how is that view from the top?"
"You tell me, I have been led to believe that you're a pretty sought after commodity yourself."
Klaus threw his arm over her shoulder and pulled her close to his side, "What can I say love, it's good to be king."
Caroline focused on Enzo and crossed her arms over her chest, she was sat across from him at the table, a piece of paper with a lot of writing on it between them, "These are the terms that are on the table." She said.
"This is preposterous, and unfair, I'm not agreeing to it," Enzo replied, crossing his arms and shooting a glare back at her.
"This is the only thing that makes sense," Caroline said, "I won't agree to anything else."
"You don't get every weekend with her Caroline! You spend all day with her in school, you have sleepovers in her room, hell you're there for every family night! I get time with Maya too!"
"She spends every summer with you and Damon!" Caroline exclaimed.
"One month, she spends one month every summer with me and that's only because you spend a month at cheer camp every summer. And do I have to remind you that you've forced her join the bloody cheer team so that next year, she'll be doing the same! I won't get any time with her next summer!"
"Now you're just being ridiculous, and unreasonable, I do not monopolise her time! We're best friends! We've known each other since Kindergarten, it's only natural that we spend a lot of time together."
"And I've known her since she was seven! I should be able to spend as much time with her as I want, she's basically my sister!"
"I've known her longer!"
"People please, let's remember that the winner of this fight gets Maya as the reward!" Damon cut in.
"Shut up Damon!" Caroline and Enzo both said.
A week later, Kol lay next to Freya and the unnamed vampire on the floor in the centre of a Chaos symbol, Maya and Kol had a serious debate about what to use for this particular spell. Kol had wanted to go with something a little more traditional, but Maya had argued that seeing as how they were mixing Voodoo with Old Norse magic, and the caster of the spell was using magic that was possibly air and water based, or possibly even death's magic which was messy itself, on someone who was steeped in earth magic, chaos was the only thing that made sense. Maya used the ingredients that she'd mixed to paint binding symbols on Kol and Freya's skin, she drew linking lines on Freya and the vampire, this was going to be a very complicated spell that was going to require a lot of concentration.
"Are you sure you can handle this sweetheart?" Klaus asked from the side lines, he was there just in case she needed him, she'd spent days siphoning from him and Kol, charging her talisman until it was fit to burst with magic.
"If I can't I'll stop," Maya replied.
She stepped away from them and moved to stand beside Klaus, "Before we get started you should take some of my blood darling, you know just in case." Kol moved to sit up, but Klaus's bleeding wrist was in front of her in an instant.
"Nonsense, you should have some of mine," Klaus said, pushing his wrist towards her mouth, he ignored Kol's smirk as he did. Maya took a few mouthfuls, but Klaus bit into his wrist again and pushed it towards her, "I want to make sure that you have enough in you," he said at her wary glance.
"Right!" Maya pushed Klaus's arm away from her, licking her lips to get at the stray drops of blood, "Let's see if we can wake your sister!" Maya slipped off her shoes, stepping into the chaos symbol, she allowed herself to connect to it, lifting her hands she frowned in concentration, it was time to see if she could put her money where her mouth was and wake Freya.
/ / / /
The spell took hours and used up so much of Maya's energy that the moment she'd finished she collapsed, unconscious, Klaus caught her and whooshed her to her bedroom whilst Kol sat up and kept an eye on his sister. She hadn't awoken yet, and he couldn't tell whether or not she would, he could feel the connection to Freya's magic, and knew without a doubt that would be able to cut her off from it should she choose to work against him or his brother, but that was all he could feel so far. Once she was awake he should be able to feel the itch of her consciousness, at the back of his mind, but nothing yet.
Klaus gently deposited Maya on her bed, brushing her hair out of her face he could tell that she was exhausted, as a Siphon she had no magical energies to drain, but the use of such heavy magic took its toll on her body, that much was clear. Biting into his wrist, he shoved it into her mouth, waiting until he could feel her drinking from him, her eyes fluttered open and she moaned in pain.
Klaus let out a breath in relief, "Are you alright love?" he pushed her hair out of her eyes.
"My head hurts," she whimpered, nuzzling her face into his hand.
"You should have some more blood," he replied, pulling away and biting into his wrist again. She latched onto the bleeding appendage and drank until his wound healed.
"Still hurts," she whispered and he frowned, she gripped his hand in hers, "It's ok, it's a magic hangover, Kol said I'd probably have one once I'd finished the spell. I think I just need to sleep. Is Freya awake?"
"Not yet, get some sleep, I promise I'll wake you if she does."
"The moment she wakes Nik, we need her, but trusting her…"
"I won't trust a thing she says unless you approve it," he replied, causing her to give him a tired smile, "Now, close your eyes, and get some sleep, I'll be here when you wake."
Rebekah and Elijah were at the fifth place on her list, looking for some sign of Klaus's witch. "Rebekah, this is sixth place we've been to, perhaps wandering the city aimlessly wasn't the best idea." Elijah sighed.
"It's the fifth, and it's not like you had any better ideas Elijah, we're going to all the places that a teenage girl would want to go in Manhattan, now hurry up, we still have seven more places on list we need to hit before lunch."
"Rebekah this is ridi-" Elijah cut himself off when he saw who had just walked in.
"What?" Rebekah asked, following her brother's line of sight, "Who are you looking at?"
"Those two," Elijah replied, eyeing two very familiar vampires, "Niklaus has been hanging around those two recently, but I don't know who the human girl is with them."
"Well," Rebekah smirked, "It's a good thing that I'm here, none of them know who I am, and all I need is an opening."
The next morning Maya woke up early, she could feel her body buzzing with energy, she'd rushed through breakfast with Kol, before he and Klaus headed out to…do whatever it was they'd gone to do. And it was lunchtime when Caroline had strong armed Damon and Enzo into bringing her to the Brownstone, "SUNSHINE!" Maya shrieked in joy; she didn't realise how much she missed Caroline until she saw her.
"MAYA!" Caroline shrieked back, wrapping the slightly older girl in her arms, "I missed you so much!"
"Oh I missed you too!" Maya replied burying her face in Caroline's hair, "So," she pushed away from Caroline, "How have you liked New York so far?"
"I love this place," Caroline replied, "And we're totally doing this next year! Without the magical crap."
"Definitely!"
"Come on, you need to give me a tour of this place, the outside is beautiful, but of course we're going to have to re-decorate, this place has got serious serial killer vibes."
Maya smirked, "It's one of the Augustine safe houses, Nik, Damon and Enzo have been systematically destroying every part of it, and they started here."
"Klaus bought you torture house?" Caroline asked, "I feel like I should be surprised but I'm not."
"It's not a torture house," Maya replied, "It's just a little dark," she shrugged, "But the bedrooms are pretty sweet."
Caroline squealed in excitement, "Show me everything!"
Damon and Enzo gave each other a mildly worried look and watched the two girls rush upstairs, "Should we be worried?" Enzo asked, they'd never actually seen Caroline and Maya together before.
"Definitely," Damon nodded.
/ / / / /
An hour later music was blasting through the house, Maya and Caroline were dancing in the middle of the living room, Damon had deigned to join them and Enzo was drinking, while laughing at them as Damon spun the girls around. The girls were really enjoying themselves, Maya seemed to have more energy than normal and she was friskier than usual.
"Well, well," Kol said walking inside, "What do we have here?"
Klaus stepped into the living room just after him, his eyes tracking Maya's every movement, "She seems extra chipper today," he said.
Kol let out a little laugh, "That she is, exactly how much blood did you feed her?"
Klaus quirked an eyebrow, he'd forgotten, it'd been so long since he'd allowed anyone to drink from him, he'd forgotten the effect that his blood had on others, especially large quantities of it, "Bloody hell," Klaus muttered causing Kol to look over at him and smirk.
"You forgot didn't you brother?"
"Forgot what?" Enzo asked.
"Nik here forgot just what ancient blood will do to someone so young, he overcooked her."
"She needed it," Klaus insisted.
"Maybe, doesn't change the fact that she's as high as bloody kite right now."
"What are you talking about?" Enzo asked, "Our blood doesn't have that effect on people."
Klaus shrugged, "Actually it does, you're just not old enough Enzo, once you reach about four centuries our blood can have… side effects."
"Side effects like that?" Enzo nodded his head at Maya, watching as she and Caroline danced with Damon in the middle.
"She's on a blood high," Klaus sighed, "Thankfully she'll just be a little tired when it wears off, there's nothing we can do about it, so I just suggest we let her have her fun."
"Kol!" Maya called, "Come and dance with us!" she giggled.
Kol smirked, "My pleasure darling!" his hand slipped into hers and she pulled him towards them, "And who is this beautiful creature?" he asked, eyeing Caroline with a devilish grin.
Caroline raised an eyebrow at him, giving him a unimpressed once over, "Someone that's not interested," she replied.
If possible, Kol's smirk widened, a glint in his eyes as he responded, "I do love pretty little things with sharp tongues."
Maya rolled her eyes, "Kol, this is Caroline, and she's off limits to the likes of you."
"The likes of me?" he asked mock offended.
"We're just not into playboys," Caroline cut in, tugging Maya towards her, tossing her hair over her shoulder as she twirled to meet Damon's outstretched hand. The Salvatore smirking at the turn of events.
Maya laughed as she pressed up against Caroline's back, sandwiching the blonde between her and the raven haired vampire, "Sorry Kol! No fun for you!"
"I'll take that as a challenge," he grinned, Maya's pretty friend smelled delicious.
Before she could respond, Maya stumbled as she was hit with a wave of magic, looking up at Kol, he'd felt it too, "Freya," she breathed.
This was much shorter than anticipated, but hopefully the next chapter is a little meatier...
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