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Thank you so much for all of the reviews, the response has been overwhelming, honestly I'm so happy that so many of you are enjoying this!
WiseGirlDivergence46: Friendship wars! Could be interesting, could be dangerous, especially if Caroline ends up a vampire. I figure there'll be a lot of drunk dance parties in Maya's future, especially when she's hanging around Damon.
mrs. morgan 35: There's so much about Legacies that I don't like, mostly Alaric, as far as the twins are concerned, it all depends on how the Gemini's show up in this story.
He Who Wanders: Nik's going to stay away from NOLA for now, at Maya's behest, he's got to focus on breaking his curse anyway. But he'll be plotting, which means that this time round when he does go to NOLA he'll be more prepared.
TheQueenofGoodbyes: Yeah it's about to it the fan alright, in more ways than one. The drama's not going to be resolved so quickly, dirty secrets finally aired, but the Mikaelsons are dramatic and it seems like only big things bring them together. I'm guessing they got their buts kicked just because it made for good TV, after all the closest we've really seen of an Original's power was that episode where Klaus went full Hybrid on Marcel's men, the MFG isn't going to get too much plot armour in this so the Originals should actually show how powerful they really are.
TikiKiki: Sometimes they've got to be short since they create just the right feelings! I always loved Caroline and Enzo's friendship, so hopefully you'll get more of that.
Guest: The magical babies are going to on the backburner for a while so we'll see where I go with it, but I don't really want to make Maya a teen mom, I feel like it would disappoint Jenna.
Guest16: Kol/Caroline they might be good together, or they could just be excellent friends, still can't decide between Kol/Caroline and Kol/Davina.
xrysatsan: Freya's up and we'll see what she does and how well she works with the family.
Dant3: Sorry! I couldn't help myself! I'm working as fast as I can but to be honest if Klaus was glowering at me from the corner of my room, I would not be able to get any work done!
Hearteyesmf: I think that even though Maya doesn't remember everything, she feels like Kol and Klaus need to bond, she knows that Kol feels like an outsider and she doesn't want that for him. Plus I think Bekah needs some bonding time with Elijah, the two of them always put Klaus first, so it'll given them a little brother-sister boost.
Athena-Spencer: I think you're right about Rebekah, she doesn't handle her jealousy well, but hopefully the idea of a new sister will distract her for a little while.
sam: Thank you!
Felinegreat: I think Rebekah would give Elijah an aneurism, I get the feeling that those two don't spend a lot of time together without Klaus around, so I'm having fun writing them! I'm living for the Klaus and Maya moments I'm getting down, especially because the summer's almost over which means it's back to school for her and Klaus is sticking around New York. Caroline and Enzo both need to take a chill pill otherwise you never know, someone might swoop in and steal Maya as a best friend…hah I'm just joking, I could never separate those three, when the girls get older, they're going to wreak some havoc!
Blu3b3rryT3a: Thanks, I don't want all the magic to just be waving hands and spells, I want there to be actual theory behind it, so I'm doing research into all avenues of witchcraft. I love possessive Klaus, it's just one of my things and it works so naturally for him and Maya! OMG I could totally have Maya referring to them as Holmes and Watson Lite when she finds out that their trying to be detectives and find her! Enzo and Care have to keep each other on their toes!
xotinkerbella: Because they're not meeting like the did in TVD, I wanted Enzo and Caroline to have some sort of other tension between the two before they become friends, and best friend wars just seemed like such a fun way for them to eventually grow to like one another. Bekah's just aiming to get one of them alone, she'll probably go for Caroline because she'd assume the girls a 'soft target'. I'm not sure whether I want to go with Kol/Care or Kol/Davina, because Kol's a huge flirt and Caroline's hot, so I totally see him going for her, but then Kol and Davina were together in cannon, so I'm not sure which pairing to go with.
Kol and Maya whooshed to the basement, just in time to see Freya gasp awake, "Oh my God it worked," Maya said, she almost couldn't believe it, Freya had actually woken up. "Can you feel the connection?" Maya asked.
"Yes," Kol replied, "I can feel her presence," he whispered, not wanting to startle his sister. The two of them walked slowly towards Freya, she was breathing heavily, frantically looking around, she wasn't where she'd hidden herself. "Freya," Kol said calmly, causing the woman to look up at him, her eyes widening when they met his, she recognised him.
"Kol?" she asked, surprised.
"Hello sister."
Freya's eyes darted around the room, "How- where am I?"
"New York," Kol replied, "We found you in New Orleans," he said, eyes narrowing, "Imagine our surprise, when we realised that a sister that we believed long dead, was actually alive and kicking."
"We?" Freya asked.
"Yes we. Hello Freya," Klaus said, appearing at his brother's side, and blocking her view of Maya.
Freya's heart sped up at the sight of him, both the first and last time she'd seen Klaus was when he'd daggered Kol in 1914, and yet Kol was stood there calm and cool, next to his brother as though nothing ever happened. "How do you know who I am?" she was completely thrown off, no one knew who she was, she'd kept it that way for a reason.
"A little birdie told us," Kol shrugged, "I remember you, you came with me to a Christmas party in 1914."
"Christmas 1914," Klaus said, "Wasn't that when I…"
"Daggered me," Kol finished, shooting his brother an annoyed look.
Klaus shrugged in response, he wasn't going to apologise for it, "Why didn't you tell any of us who you were?" he asked Freya.
The blonde stood on shaky legs, "I saw you stab our brother in the heart!" she hissed.
Kol shrugged, "To be fair to Nik, I was trying to make a dagger that would do the same thing to him."
"Exactly, he deserved it," Klaus brushed off and Maya smacked him on the arm.
"You're not helping," she said, revealing herself to Freya.
"Who are you?" Freya asked, this wasn't someone she recognised.
"I'm the one that woke you," she replied, keeping her focus on the older woman, "Don't worry about your curse, we have a temporary handle on it."
Freya was startled, how did she know about the curse? "What do you know of my curse?"
"Sleep for a hundred years, wake for one, essentially immortal, you're connected to another witch, the one that cursed you, you're running from her, but I don't know who she is, or why."
"How do you know all that?"
"Does it matter? I'm the only reason you're awake early, and not being hunted right now."
Freya's hand hovered over her heart, it was like she could sense the change in the link, and that was when she spotted the desiccated vampire, "What happened to my curse? It's- I- It feels different."
Maya glanced over at Kol, waiting for his approval, at his nod she gave the rehearsed answer, "It's a temporary solution, the witch's half of the link is connected to that vampire, your half is connected to Kol. As long as you don't do anything to disrupt the connection that I've built, you have a few years before it starts to break down."
Freya watched the girl with suspicious eyes, she sensed that she wasn't a normal witch, in fact she felt like a boy that Freya had known once, six hundred years ago, before she'd escaped Dahlia. "You masked my link; I've been looking for a way for centuries." She finally said.
"The Mikaelson siblings are very protective of their own, even if they'd never met before, your brothers are very powerful Freya, and while you're a powerful witch, you've spent most of your time asleep, they've had a lot longer to cultivate there knowledge of magic."
Freya eyed her brothers again, this time noticing their clothes, "What's the date?"
"It's the 30th of July, 2008," Klaus said, "We have a lot to talk about sister."
"First maybe we should let Freya shower, change, get some food in her, she's been asleep for 94 years," Maya said, putting her hand on Klaus's arm.
Klaus nodded, "Fine, hurry up."
/ / / /
After about two hours, Freya was sat at the dining table with Klaus and Maya across from her, Kol was sat next to her, "You didn't wake me just because I'm your sister," Freya deduced. After witnessing how violent and bloodthirsty her siblings were in 1914, she wouldn't trust that all they wanted was a family reunion.
"Well at least you're not stupid," Klaus said, Maya had been oddly tense since Freya woke up, and he'd picked up on it immediately, making him tense and even more distrustful of his older sister than he already was. Maya was fidgeting with her hands under the table, and Klaus laid one of his over hers, "How much do you know about me?" he asked.
"What do you mean?"
"He means, what do you know of his origin?" Kol clarified, "You must have heard stories about us, about Nik."
"I spent most of my time running," Freya said, shaking her head, "I know nothing of my family besides their names."
Klaus looked over at Maya for confirmation, "Its probable," she whispered, "she seemed pretty shocked when she saw what you did to Kol."
"I suppose the most important thing that you should know, is that I'm only your half-brother."
Freya gave him a questioning look, she hadn't been lying when she said that she didn't know much about her family, Dahlia had only wanted Freya to rely on her, and had only told her that her siblings had become abominations. "What are you talking about?"
"Mother had an affair with a werewolf, and when we were turned into vampires, I made my first kill and triggered my werewolf curse."
"That's impossible," Freya insisted, "You can't be werewolf and a vampire, you can't be both."
"Well Nik's special," Maya said, "He is both, he's a hybrid, the Original Hybrid."
"And mother being so desperate for forgiveness, cast a curse on my poor brother," Kol said, that day he and the rest of his family had been hiding in the caves, away from the wolves on the full moon, none of his siblings really knew what had happened the night that Klaus was cursed, they'd just seen the aftermath, and Nik had come back broken. "She locked away his werewolf side, it's been a thousand years and finally we have almost all of the ingredients to break the curse."
"You need someone with Esther's magic to do the spell," Freya said.
"The curse can be broken by any witch powerful enough, I need you to ensure that nothing unexpected occurred," Klaus replied. He'd had a long discussion with Kol that morning, while they needed Freya's magic, they weren't going to give her all the information on his curse, not when Maya was so hesitant to trust her.
"And if I decide that I don't wish to help you?" Freya asked, she really knew nothing about Klaus, just what she'd seen of him, and what she'd seen hadn't been good, she didn't know whether she was going to want to help him with his curse, although doing something that was so clearly against what Esther wanted did sound appealing.
"Well that's simple," Maya said, "My helping you break your curse, is contingent upon you helping Nik, if you don't help Nik, I'll put you back to sleep, and we won't have a use for Finn anymore, so he can join you."
Klaus smirked, he did so enjoy her dark side, and it wasn't something that he'd influenced, she came by it naturally, "Don't worry sister, I'll give you a little time to decide what you want to do, our siblings are all awake and in the city, you should get to know them." He was planning on using his siblings against her, Finn wouldn't help him, but Rebekah had been desperate to get back in his good graces, and Elijah would do as he asked if he wanted him to trust him again.
Klaus, Kol and Freya had left to go to the Mikaelson Penthouse, Maya didn't want to go, which was perfect because Klaus was unwilling to let her go, Rebekah and Elijah didn't know who she was yet and he wanted it kept that way for as long as possible. So Maya was at the Brownstone with Caroline, Enzo and Damon, her high had finally worn off and she had crashed pretty heavily.
"Sunshine I'm so tired," she moaned, dropping onto the couch in the living room.
"I don't care," she said, pulling out a giant binder, "we have too much work to do!"
"What the hell is that?"
"You were with Freya, Klaus and Kol for hours! What did you think I was doing while I was waiting?!"
"Barbie's very organised," Damon said, stealing Enzo's drink from him.
"I'll give it to you Blondie, you sure know how to get what you want," Enzo admitted, trying to take his drink back.
"I have fabric samples, colour swatches and the boys picked up about fifty furniture catalogues for us!" she said, dropping the catalogues on the coffee table.
"Why are you doing this to me?" Maya moaned.
"Your mom didn't let me help decorate the house back home, but this is your place, and it's in desperate need of a makeover!"
"This must be what hell feels like," Maya muttered, earning a slap on the back of her head for it. "Damn it Caroline!" Maya exclaimed, while Damon snickered at the two girls.
"What do you think you're laughing at Mr Salvatore," Caroline said, narrowing her eyes at the vampire, "You're helping too!"
/ / / /
Maya had managed to sneak off, when Caroline was directing Enzo to remove some of the more hideous pieces of furniture from the downstairs study. In Maya's attempt to hide from 'Hurricane Caroline' she'd found a storage room on the third floor, it was filled with boxes of paperwork, probably stuff from Augustine that Klaus either had yet to go through, or more likely, he didn't feel as though the information was important and shoved it out of sight.
"MAYA!" Caroline yelled from downstairs, causing her to jump and knock over one of the boxes.
"Crap," she muttered, bending down to pick up the documents that had spread out on the floor when something caught her eye, picking up one of the documents she turned it around and scanned through it. She gasped as she read four seemingly innocuous words, the memories flooding her mind, this time causing her very real pain, "Aah!" Maya gripped her head in her hands and collapsed. The images running through her head were terrifying but she'd seen them before, they shouldn't have scared her as much as they did but they were worse this time. "God, please!" she whimpered, it was like a knife in her skull, curling up in a ball she squeezed her eyes shut, hoping the pain would stop soon.
"God Maya!" Enzo exclaimed, he'd heard her hit the floor and sped upstairs when she cried out. Picking her up, he whooshed them to her room and deposited her on the bed, "Maya! Maya?!" he tried, Damon and Caroline rushing into the room.
"What happened?" Caroline asked.
"I don't know!" Enzo replied, turning back to the prone form of his best friend, "Maya!" she started to convulse, "No!"
"She's bleeding!" Caroline said, hurrying to Maya's side.
When Maya stopped her breathing shallowed, and heartbeat slowed, "Enzo what's happening?"
Enzo looked over at Damon, "Call Nik and Kol, NOW!"
Klaus and Kol walked into the Penthouse with Freya in between them, they ushered her into the recently refurbished living room, (they had compulsion to thank for the quick fixes in their home). "Elijah! Rebekah! Finn!" Klaus called, his siblings appearing in the room in an instant.
"Brothers! Sister! Meet Freya, our long-lost oldest sibling," Kol said cheerily.
Rebekah and Elijah froze at the sight of her, but Finn was in front of her in less than a second, "Freya?" he asked, and she smiled at him in return.
"Hello Finn," she threw her arms around her brother, the only one that she really knew and Finn hugged her back.
Kol looked over at Klaus and rolled his eyes, throwing himself onto the loveseat, his legs over one of the arms, his back leaning against the other. Klaus smirked and knocked Kol's legs off the arm and sat down on it, leaving the couch and other armchair free for the rest of his siblings, almost as though he and Kol were presenting a united front against the rest of them. "Yes, yes we're all very excited to meet a new member of the family," Klaus said.
"But we should talk about more important things," Kol cut in, "Like why you never came to find us before, who you're running from, who cursed you, and you know why?"
"Kol!" Elijah said sharply as he led his oldest sister to the couch, "Freya has just gotten here, perhaps we should allow her time to get to know us first."
"No he's right Elijah," Klaus said, "My witch could have died waking Freya early, giving her time that she wouldn't normally have in order to break her curse, I want to know everything."
Kol was surprised at his brother's defence of him, surprised and quietly pleased, Klaus usually only spoke out against Elijah when Elijah was against him, not when Elijah was working against any of his other siblings. "So tell us Freya, tell us all about that nasty little curse."
"I'd like to know as well, Elijah," Rebekah said more softly, "I remember meeting you once, which means that you knew who we were, why didn't you say anything to me?"
Freya shot Finn a look, her brother didn't look happy at Kol or Klaus, she'd need to find out why later, but it didn't look like her younger brothers were going to let it go, "What did our mother tell you about me?" she asked, she'd been told by Dahlia that her family didn't want her.
"She told us that you died of the plague," Elijah said, "It's why we moved to the New World, father didn't want to take the chance that we would become sick and die, so he moved us. Clearly that wasn't the case."
"Did you know that mother had a sister?" at her siblings shocked looks she continued, "Mother was a very powerful witch, clearly, I mean she created vampires after all, but in order to marry father she gave up witchcraft. Her older sister however, Dahlia, refused to give it up, she hated mother for marrying our father and abandoning her. And about a year into the marriage, mother discovered that she was barren, so she went to Dahlia to beg for help. You see mother may have been strong, but Dahlia was far more powerful, and she agreed to help, for a price."
"Mother gave you up," Rebekah concluded.
Freya nodded, "Not me specifically, she gave up the first borns, if she didn't Dahlia would have taken all of mothers children."
"Wait," Kol said, "You said first borns as in more than one."
"Mother gave up every first born, of every generation, if any of you had had children, Dahlia would have taken them, your children, your children's children, every first born of mother's bloodline."
"How could she?!" Rebekah gasped, out of all her family, she was the one that longed for children, even when she was human, but if she'd had one then they would have been taken from her!
"I suppose that explains why mother wasn't in a rush to get any of us married," Elijah muttered bitterly, it was odd when he thought about it, Finn was nearly thirty when he was turned and yet he wasn't married, when most in their village were married off during their teenage years.
"When Dahlia found out that mother had turned you into vampires, creatures that not only could not die, but could not have children, she became angry and obsessed with finding a way to be immortal. She cast a spell to link us, so that we couldn't be killed, and then she cast the sleeping curse, we sleep for a hundred years to allow our magic to gather in us, then we wake for a year."
"That doesn't explain why you never came to us," Rebekah said.
"Rebekah!" Finn said, scolding his baby sister.
Freya gave them a sad look as she remembered her mortal life, "The first time I tried to leave, it with one of the boys from the village near us, we spent months sneaking around and I fell in love with him. I fell pregnant, and then Dahlia killed my love, she told me that she had known about us the whole time, she let me run around with that boy because she wanted me to become pregnant. She wanted my baby for her own, to use for his power. I decided that I could not live like that any longer, and poisoned myself, it was better to die, than be trapped with Dahlia for the rest of my life." Finn gripped his sister's hand in his, he didn't want to think about her being in so much pain that she didn't want to live any longer. "But it was all for nothing, when I took that poison it didn't kill me, because Dahlia had already cast her spell and linked us, I woke a few hours later, but my son was not part of the spell." She had tears in her eyes.
"He died," Rebekah whispered brokenly.
"I spent the next eight centuries trying to escape from Dahlia, I was finally able to in 1914, that's when we met," she looked over at Kol and then Rebekah.
"So what you're saying is, our psychotic aunt will be coming for you when she wakes up," Klaus said, it felt like he'd just brought a whole host of problems on himself that he didn't need.
Finn looked over at his brother at that, "I thought that the whole point of your witch was that she was able to wake Freya without consequence!"
Klaus sneered at Finn, "You wouldn't know what the point of my witch is, she woke Freya early, and was able to trick the link between Freya and Dahlia into thinking that nothing has changed. Dahlia will wake eventually, but it gives Freya the opportunity to have a few more years to figure out how to kill our aunt. Which is more than I can say you would have done for her!"
Finn growled in anger, veins appearing under his darkening eyes, "Finn don't!" Elijah commanded, "It won't end well for you."
Freya watched the exchange between her brothers, she'd seen Klaus dagger Kol, she'd seen Rebekah and Elijah at the Christmas party, but she hadn't seen Finn, and judging from the lingering tension between her siblings, she got the idea that there was a serious divide between Finn and the rest of the family.
Klaus and Kol allowed their vampiric features to come through, re-affirming that they were on the same side, but before they could do anything a phone rang. Klaus pulled his out of his pocket and looked at the ID, he frowned and gestured at Kol to follow him with a slight tilt of head. The two of them whooshed out of the room and into Klaus's studio, shutting the door behind them so that their siblings couldn't hear anything.
"What just happened?" Freya asked.
Klaus answered the phone call from Damon, putting it on speaker even though it wasn't necessary, "Damon! I'm rather busy at the moment."
"You need to get back here now!" Damon demanded.
"What's happened?"
"Maya was in a storage closet with that paperwork from Augustine, they must have triggered something, because she collapsed, and then she seized, and blood came out of her nose and her ears, and now she's barely breathing, it's just like before, you need to get here!"
"I'll be there shortly." Klaus looked at Kol, "I have to go."
"What happened before Nik?"
"I told you that she was attacked by mother when she found the moonstone, what I didn't tell you was that it nearly killed her, she was unconscious for two weeks before she was brought to New York. I had to go into her mind and pull her out, or else she would have died, I was the only one strong enough to get past her defences."
"I'll go," Kol said.
"Kol-"
"Listen to me! You can't leave, you've already made it known to our siblings that Maya means something to you, and you told Freya that Maya could have died, if you leave then they will assume it has something to do with your witch. Besides the moment you're gone Finn will speak of how much of a monster you are and Elijah and Rebekah may join in, we need Freya on our side, and you and I both know that it would be better if it was willingly."
"You're the one that controls the flow of Freya's magic!"
"Maya put in a failsafe of her own, should Freya stray too far from me, she won't be able to access her magic, we might as well test it out now."
"I was the only one who could get into Maya's mind last time."
"And if I can't get in, I will come back immediately and you can go, but it will look less suspicious if you remain and I go." Kol said.
Klaus let out a low growl, he didn't like the thought of anyone in Maya's head that wasn't him, but Kol made a point, "Fine! You call me the moment she wakes up!"
Kol whooshed out of the Penthouse and Klaus made his way back downstairs.
The Other Side
Maya groaned as she woke on the floor of the other side, "Fuck not again!" she complained, moving to stand on shaky legs, she was pretty sure that she shouldn't be there, she couldn't remember an attack.
"Hello Maya," a voice said from behind her, causing her to whirl around in shock.
"You!" she exclaimed, recognising the person before her.
"Have you made any progress?"
"I'm working on it," Maya replied tersely.
"When you left here we had an agreement."
"And I fully intend to stick to it," Maya replied, "But how do I know you're sticking to your end? It's not like I can just drop by for a visit every now and then."
The person walked forward, and placed their hand on the side of her face, "Consider this an advance."
Maya gasped as she felt knowledge cement itself in her mind.
"But until you complete the first task, you won't remember this!"
The Darkness
Maya's eyes shot open and she realised that she was surrounded by darkness, "This is getting real old," she muttered looking around, even though she knew where she was, she didn't know how to get out of there. Huffing she sat down and awaited the change that would hopefully come soon, she didn't want to be stuck there for weeks again.
Kol appeared in seemingly endless darkness, looking around he spotted Maya and rushed to her, the moment he put his hand on her shoulder their surroundings changed.
Death's Reading Room
Maya looked behind her and was shocked to see the younger Mikaelson instead of Nik, "Kol?" she asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Nik had to stay with the family, to ensure that none of them found you, I volunteered," he said, looking around the room, "Where is here exactly darling?"
"He didn't tell you what happened the last time?"
"Just that he had to pull you out of your mind."
Maya rolled her eyes, "Of course he didn't, you know I'm a reincarnation right?"
"Yes."
"Well I'm not just a reincarnation, I'm the reincarnation, the first of my kind, just over six thousand years old… you know what, this will be faster if you just took a look for yourself," she said, not wanting to go through the whole song and dance again. She took Kol's hand, placing it on her temple and focused on what happened when she was last in this room, with Nik.
After a few minutes Kol pulled back in shock, "Bloody hell!" while he'd felt Nature, could still vaguely remember the connection he had to it, he had no idea that Death was a separate entity. It made sense though, why he couldn't be both a witch and a vampire, you couldn't be a Servant of Nature and Servant of Death at the same time, which begged the question, what exactly was Maya? A Siphon had the ability to take magic and use it, but none of their own, and she was a reincarnation, the first reincarnation, if anyone was a Servant of Death, then it was her, so how could she do magic?
"You're up to speed then?" she asked, making sure that Kol had seen all that he needed to.
"If we're here too long we'll die!" Kol said, "Wait if I'm here it's because-"
"We need to have a chat," Death's voice cut him off. Both Kol and Maya whirled to meet the sharply dressed being behind them, "Two visits in less than 12 months, you're getting into far more trouble than you should." He scolded Maya, walking up to her.
"I didn't do anything this time! It was your stupid memory block that did this!"
Death frowned, "What do you mean?"
"When the memories come back, the more there are, the more it hurts, this newest set of memories was particularly excruciating."
"That should not be happening," he said, taking her head in both hands and closing his eyes, he examined every inch of her mind, her defences non-existent against him, for she was his. After a few moments he found it, the blocks in her mind weren't coming down smoothly, they were being attacked, it appeared as though his sister wasn't done trying to stop him. It didn't matter though, he'd be able to fix it while his girl was with him. "It looks like my sister is trying to stop you from gaining your memories back, that's what's hurting you."
"Great," Maya replied glumly, "I supposed eventually her attacks will kill me before I can finish."
"They would have, if you hadn't ended up back here, I will re-instate the barrier in your mind, shore it up behind a heavy layer of my own magic, it should hold long enough for you to gain all your memories back."
"And if it doesn't?" Kol was the one asking this time, he didn't struggle against the oppressive weight he could feel just by being in Death's presence, but that did not make it any less uncomfortable.
"If it doesn't then either she'll end up back here so that I can strengthen it up again, or she'll die."
Kol frowned at the callous way Death spoke of Maya's passing, but then again, when she died, she always ended up back in this domain, so he supposed Death really had no true reason to worry. "I'm here because you need to talk to Maya," he said.
Death shrugged, as he finished up his work in Maya's mind, "I just saw it as an opportunity, I've never been able to speak to her whilst she was alive before, this is rather novel." He pulled his hands away from Maya and she swayed a little before opening her eyes.
"Woah," she said, "That was…intense." Before the wall to her memories felt like just that, a wall, but now, it actually felt like an entity, something in her mind that wasn't her, but instinctively she knew that it wasn't there to hurt her. "Why did you bring me here again?"
"I thought we could use a chat," he turned and walked towards the table and chairs that had just appeared, "Come along now!" he called.
Maya scurried after him, Kol hot on his heels, he'd never imagined he'd be able to speak to a being as powerful as Death, he didn't want to waste it.
"Do you have questions?" Death asked.
Maya scoffed, there was so much she wished to know, so much that she wanted to talk about, just to get someone else's opinion, "There's plenty I wish to know."
"Pick a place to start," he said, "You know you don't have much time here," he nodded over at Kol and Maya looked at the Original, he was faring worse than Klaus, possibly because whilst very strong, as a Hybrid, Klaus was stronger.
"Hayley," Maya said.
"Unnecessary," Death dismissed.
"But what about Malivore?"
"If things go the way I've planned them, Malivore won't be a problem," he smirked.
"Fine, The Hollow?" Maya was being intentionally vague, in Death's domain she understood that there were things that the Originals should not know yet.
"You're on the right track so far, keep going and things should work out…hopefully."
"The Other Side, and Cade's domain?"
"Take them or leave them," he shrugged, "I don't really care either way. You will never end up in either permanently, I've already seen to that."
Maya paused at that, she wanted to know what he meant, but didn't have the time, "What do I do with the sign? Nature requires balance so if I get rid of it…"
"Keep it safe until you can travel," Death said, touching her hand, "in a few years there will be a place that you can take it, one that only you can access," he passed the location on through his touch, knowing that it would settle behind the wall that he'd erected until the time was right.
"God I don't even know what to ask next," she groaned, there was so much that she needed help with.
"I have a question," Kol said, sweat beading on his forehead, Death looked over at him, "What is Maya? She's your first, your Servant, yet she can do magic, which belongs to Nature, she shouldn't be able to."
Death smirked, "When vampires were created, they needed life blood to sustain them, make them strong, to allow them to use their abilities. A Siphon similarly uses life magic to activate their own abilities."
"You're saying Siphons are yours?"
Death let out a little chuckle that sent shivers down Kol's spine, "When the Gemini Coven was cursed with that pathetic ritual, taking life after life in order to sustain themselves, I saw an opportunity, I planted a seed of my own magic within them, and watched it grow. There are three things that walk the Earth that belong to me, my first and most prized possessions, the Old Souls, my second, the Siphons – they were a surprise, I had no idea what my magic would create when left alone, and my third, the vampires. You and your siblings are the key to me finally setting foot on the Earth, and seeing my beloved sister for the first time in eons." Standing, he waved a gloved hand and the doorway and hourglass appeared. "Maya my beautiful, deadly delight," he sighed tilting her face up with two fingers beneath her chin, "You know the rules."
"I do," she glanced down at the timer and then back at him, "It's time to go."
Turning to walk away, Death paused for a moment, "Oh and Kol, Maya is not my Servant, as you put it, I am not my sister."
"Then what is she?" Kol asked.
"She's my daughter."
So how did you like my little surprise? What do you think Maya saw that caused her such a problem that she nearly died? Do you think that Maya told Kol about anything before they had to leave? What do you think that Klaus will say now that he's not the only one who has met Death and lived?
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