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Sorry it's been a while, I was having some issues...in my head, and it made it difficult to write. Thanks for all the reviews, please enjoy!
LifePrice1412: I'm not going to tell you, you'll just have to wait and see
xrysatsan: I'm going to keep you guessing, because I can!
Ashes2Dust18: It'll be a while, I just wanted to keep things interesting
Guest16: Marcel/Rebekah weirds me out, she watched him grow up, even though they're vampires, it doesn't change the fact that Marcel is Klaus's kid, and Rebekah should have had more sense than that. I want to establish the Maya-Davina-Caroline connection before we get to TO storylines, there's a lot I don't like in the later seasons of TO, but I really liked Davina in the beginning, and if Maya can stop Klaus from being such a dick to Davina, hopefully things will be better. I refuse to confirm or deny, because that would give away the surprise.
AngelColdHeart: Thank You!
Yukihino-Sama: I can definitely say no.
Felinegreat: I gotta throw in a curveball so stuff isn't predictable.
Blu3b3rryT3a: Klaus is used to daggering anyone that deserves apologies from him and he can't with Maya, so he has to learn fast. I have some plans for Finn that are set in stone now, it'll be fun…or not. The business is going to be fun, and the girls, all three of them deserve it. And Kol is LOVING being the favourite right now.
mrs. morgan 35: Caroline status as a vampire is definitely up in the air, she's a great human in the story, but in the show she loves being a vampire.
Hearteyesmf: Maya's already trying to help out Davina, without messing with things too much, because she's not sure how stuff is going to go down in New Orleans yet. But that's why she told Davina to start practicing her magic in regards to psychic attacks. Caroline was totally at the top of her game, she's going to take Davina and help mould her into a beautiful independent woman. Not telling you who it is, but I do have a plan…a rough one, because things with the mystery man need to be fluid, especially with Klaus.
sammyleann: Not telling!
Sarada: We're getting closer to TVD season 1 so I'm expanding the girls roles, because TVD revolves around Elena, and season 1 was all about the love triangle, stuff is going to be immediately different. I can't wait for Elijah and Lucien to clash!
DASSA-CHAN: Not sure who I'm leaning towards, on the one hand Kol and Davina are a cannon couple, but Davina's a witch and Kol's and Original, she won't want to become a vampire, Kol and Caroline could be fun, especially if Caroline turns.
CloudZzFluffyBedsOfWhite: I can neither confirm nor deny! I mean I could, but I won't, but there are fun plans in place, it will be a while though, because Maya's sexy visions won't happen until she's at least eighteen.
Angelicsailor: Enzo deserves all the love!
xotinkerbella: I haven't thought about Elijah meeting Death, I don't know how that would go, because I don't think Maya would trust him, shit is going to go down when she finds out that he slept with her mum! Personally I think Finn's a bad influence on Freya, so he will have to be dealt with somehow… Can't tell you who it is, because that would be spoilers! And it's still a toss up between Caroline and Davina being with Kol.
Guest: Klaus is very possessive yes, but think about it this way, there is the possibility that both Maya and mystery man love Klaus, and if you think like that, I'm pretty sure Klaus would support more people loving him!
DarkDragonQueen0: Thank you, hope you enjoy.
Omega-Maharan: It'll be a while before actual spice, gotta wait for Maya to be eighteen!
sam: You're just going to have to keep reading to find out.
WiseGirlDivergence46: Klaus/Maya fluff in probably a couple of chapters, and we're going to get a little Damon/Maya bonding time in a couple of chapters too. In the next chapter we have bonding time with…you'll just have to wait to find out!
Lokisilvertounge: Thanks!
lillen20: Thank you!
Serena Salvatore: Thank you!
Jamie Gemini: Everyone loves Enzo, it's just a cold hard fact, I look at it like Klaus is possessive, but what if these two people are possessive of him, this is more because I want Klaus to have all the love. The Originals are going to have a very different dynamic when they hit Mystic Falls, and Caroline deserves more.
Saiyanprincess1511: In my head I picture Death as very dapper, dressed to the nines, think Frank from Season 1 of How to Get Away with Murder. I haven't told you who her deal with is on the other side, but we'll deal with Silas before graduation, Maya's not going to go to NOLA if the crazy 2000 year old is running around her home town, so we'll deal. He'll be a priority as soon as she remembers him, only Kol knows about Silas in her memories, because when she came back from Death, the memory block kept it from her, and Kol hasn't told her yet. Did put the pairings on AO3.
Nozomi Akiyama: Thanks!
"What are you doing?" Damon asked Klaus, walking into the small room he'd made into a studio in his apartment.
Klaus was sat at his desk, sketching a picture of a man that he'd never seen before, "I don't recognise the man I saw in Maya's vision," Klaus said, "So I'm going to send this out to all my contacts."
"Huh," Damon mused, Klaus was acting weird, he moved round the desk to see the sketch, "So what, you're just gonna send out this drawing to all your minions and have them track him down?"
"Exactly," Klaus confirmed.
"Uh-huh, and you're doing this because…?" Damon shot him a knowing smirk, "Because I am absolutely certain that whoever this guy is, he wasn't acting like he was your enemy."
Klaus narrowed his eyes at Damon, did he- did Damon know the context of Maya's most recent vision? "You know." He accused.
Damon snorted in amusement and threw himself into a chair, "Of course I know! Who else was Little Red going to talk to about the weird new sex visions that she's having? Caroline, the girl who loves her more than anything, but has no real-world experience when it comes to the supernatural? Or Enzo, the guy who has basically watched Maya grow up? I mean I love Enzo, but he will murder you if he finds out she's having sex visions about you! She told me all about her visions and the fact that you bit her."
"Damon I-" Klaus stopped for a moment as he registered what Damon said, "You love Enzo?" he asked, attempting to distract Damon from his digging.
"I didn't say that."
"Yes you did."
"No."
"Yes."
"Nik!"
"Damon!"
"We're not talking about me Nik! We're talking about you and your weird possessive need to have everyone to yourself!"
"I do not!" Klaus protested, fully aware that in that moment he was nothing but a liar, he did not share, he hadn't since he was mortal.
"Oh my God you are!" Damon threw his hands in the air, as if he couldn't believe that they were actually having this discussion, Klaus was wickedly possessive, and he found this out last summer, when Kol had discovered Klaus's friends and made it his mission to antagonise his brother by befriending himself, Enzo and Maya. Klaus had acted like a petulant child for months when he found out that Kol and Damon had gone hunting together…come to think of it, Enzo hadn't been too happy about that either. "Don't pretend that you didn't throw the ugliest tantrum when you found out that Kol and Maya were video chatting!"
Klaus scowled and let out a warning growl, Damon wasn't lying though, he had not been happy when he'd realised that Maya and Kol had been talking regularly. He wanted to snap Damon's neck, but if he did, it would just be proving the eldest Salvatore right. "You take that back!"
"Never!" Damon smirked, dodging the glass thrown at his head, "Missed me!" Klaus snarled and frisbeed a canvas at Damon, who slipped out of the way again. "Missed again!" Damon grinned and rushed out of the room, only to be followed by the Original.
Kol just got off the phone with one of his contacts with a sigh, it appeared as though when he slaughtered that coven of Silas worshiping witches four hundred years ago, anyone else with a connection to the oldest known immortal disappeared, the Travellers, true to their name, had scattered all over the globe and not resurfaced since. He'd heard mutterings of a coven that made it their business to ensure that Silas was never awoken, but he didn't know who they were, or how to find them, "Fuck!" he snarled, throwing his phone against the wall, shattering it, if he didn't find out how to get to Silas and force the cure down the immortal's throat, he would go crazy, just the knowledge about his potential death, years from now, was already making him irritable, thank the Gods that Nik had killed their father, otherwise he would be drawing some serious attention to his family right now. He should speak to Maya about this, he knew that she didn't remember anything about the immortal, and speaking to her about Silas may even release the memories she had of him, but that would put her directly in the line of fire of a potential immortal witch who could bring down the Other Side. And he didn't want that, he didn't want to burden her with more than she'd already shouldered, his family's continued existence, his brother's curse, the failsafe, not to mention the whole mess with Freya and Dahlia. Maya had far too much to deal with already, he couldn't put this on her as well, he wouldn't.
A knock at the door to his study startled him, he was sure Elijah and Rebekah were busy researching Lucien and his company, in fact, they should be off in the next few days, going to the first 'research facility' that they'd discovered to rescue the werewolves being tortured there. Nik was with Damon, the Salvatore sending him a text that he was being chased by an angry Original and to 'come help immediately', and he didn't think that either Freya or Finn would come to speak to him, he was clearly Team Nik.
Frowning, Kol opened the door, and saw Freya on the other side, "What do you want?" he asked, keeping an eye out for Sage or Finn.
"Can we talk?" she asked softly, watching as his eyes darted to the space behind her, "Sage took Finn out for a meal, apparently fresh blood is the best thing for after a daggering."
Kol said nothing, just opened the door a fraction wider and stepped a little to the side, he was curious to see what Freya was going to do, especially because he had yet to give her, her magic back after the little stunt she and Finn had pulled. "You have five minutes," he said, thanks to his anger he had to go out and get a new phone, perhaps Nik should invest in a stash of spares… he'd bring it up to his brother later.
"Brother-"
"Don't call me brother," Kol said, "As far as I'm concerned you've yet to do anything that make's you a part of my family."
Freya's jaw tightened in annoyance, she knew that she was going to have a hard time with Kol, but she wanted to get him on side, if not, then she'd resort to her own failsafe, the dagger. Niklaus had left it in Finn and left Finn with her, he had to have known she'd take it out of her dear brother, but now, she had a weapon to use against the one who was keeping her magic from her. "Kol," she started again, "I need to speak with you about the witch."
Kol fought the urge to roll his eyes, this didn't feel at all like a contrived conversation! He crossed his arms and propped himself up on his desk, feigning relaxation, but remaining on his feet just in case. "What about her?"
"I need to speak with her Kol! I must understand what she's done to me!"
"What she's done is give you time!" he growled out, "Precious time! Time that you should be using to your advantage! Instead, you're plotting with Finn! Finn of all people! Big brother's no master strategist! He's a simpering fool who's letting his anger endanger you!"
"He is our brother!" Freya snapped, not liking the way this was going.
"He is a needy little momma's boy who couldn't handle being a vampire without his 'beloved' Sage by his side! Nik may have made the decision to keep the dagger in him, but any one of us could have undaggered Finn at any time! But we didn't! You want to know why?! Because despite living together as mortals, despite remaining together as a family for a century, he never acted like he was one of us! I may have been the outsider, but at least I tried! He didn't! Not once! You knew Finn for five years, I've known him longer, and the fact that you're choosing to trust him with your life, it's the stupidest thing you could do. Sorry," Kol paused, "the second stupidest thing you could do. The absolute stupidest thing you could do is to take that dagger, that you have hidden under your shirt, and shove it in my heart."
Freya started at that, how did he know that she had the dagger on her? "I don't-"
"Oh there's no need to lie!" Kol shrugged, as though it was the obvious thing to do…which given that Freya was a Mikaelson, it was, "I know you have it, but you see, if you were to be stupid enough and lucky enough to actually dagger me, well then you would have just ruined any chance you had at being free. I control your access to your magic, but that access was given to me by Maya, and she was worried about me, living in the same house as you. So she put in a failsafe of her own. That dagger slides into my heart, and you lose access to your magic forever. So please try it!" he spread his arms wide and waited.
Freya's eyes narrowed at her baby brother, as she calculated the likelihood of that statement.
"No?" Kol asked mockingly, before flashing over to her and yanking the dagger from her, "Too bad, I was hoping you'd be more interesting."
"Kol-"
"Yes, yes, you want to speak with Maya, unfortunately for you, she's going to be very busy for the next several months, given that her schooling starts up again. If you wanted to speak with her, perhaps you shouldn't have threatened her best friend."
Maya yawned and scrubbed her hands over her face, "Caroline, you know we're leaving with twice as much stuff than what we came here with." The girls were due back in Mystic Falls in a day and a half and had barely been able to pack, what with their massive increase in stuff.
"It's my first time in New York!" Caroline protested, "What did you think was going to happen?"
"Well I didn't think that we were going to buy out the entire precious stone collection in the jewellers," Maya muttered.
"Hey! You know that was an excellent business decision!"
"I know! I know! It's just I spent so much money I can't afford to buy new suitcases to haul all this stuff back home."
"Oh," Caroline paused for a moment, she was running low on cash too, the Forbes family didn't have as much compared to the Lockwoods, or even the Gilberts, she'd spent about ten years worth of birthday and Christmas money on her trip to New York, so she didn't have much in the way of cash either. "One sec!" she whipped out her phone, firing off several texts.
"Who are you texting?" Maya asked, from her position across Caroline's bed.
"Kol," she replied flippantly.
"WHAT?!" Maya shot up in surprise, "Since when do you have Kol's number? Why do you have Kol's number?"
"Relax, I'm not doing anything with him," Caroline shrugged, "He gave it to me the other night, and I'm texting him so that he can send us some luggage so that we can finish packing." She looked around the room, at the mess everywhere, "Can't you like, cast a spell? Make our current luggage bigger on the inside, like in Mary Poppins?"
"I- You want me to create a pocket dimension inside a suitcase?" Maya asked incredulously, "I wouldn't even know where to start with that, that's never been done before!"
"Neither has your daylight ring protection spell, it hasn't stopped you before," the blonde shrugged, "Get to figuring it out! We could totally market it exclusively to supernaturals! In fact why are we stopping there? We could create coffee with a shot of charisma! Cakes that never let you put on weight! Oh alcohol that never gives you a hangover!" she squealed.
"I've created a monster," Maya groaned, she should have known that Caroline wouldn't have left their business at just magical jewellery, knowing Caroline, the girl was going to have Maya help her take over the world (something that she didn't inherently have a problem with, it just seems like that would be a lot of work).
Klaus stood with Maya in the private terminal of the airport, he'd arranged for the girls to go back home in his jet because they had so much extra baggage with them. "I have to leave soon," Maya said, looking up at the Original.
"I know," he replied, "Can't miss your birthday celebrations for the second time in a row."
"Right," she nodded, "My sweet sixteen, you better not have gotten me anything too crazy."
"What makes you think that I got you anything at all?"
"I heard you love birthdays," she shrugged, shoving her hands in her pockets.
Klaus smiled, "I do, which is why you won't know what I got you, until your big day."
"Spoil sport," she pouted.
"It's only five days love, you can hang on until then."
"But Nik!" she whined a little, "What if the suspense kills me?!"
"If the suspense kills you I suppose I could always give your present to Caroline," he mused.
"Nik!" she gasped scandalised, causing him to laugh.
"Birthday presents are supposed to be surprises, and don't try searching the plane, its not on there, it'll be delivered the day of."
"Fine," Maya crossed her arms, knowing that he wouldn't let on to what it was.
Klaus noticed Caroline boarding the plane, along with Enzo and Damon, "You should get going, it's nearly time for take off."
Maya threw her arms around Nik, the weeks she'd been on the outs with him had been hell, "I'm going to miss you."
"And I you darling."
Pulling back a little, she looked into his eyes, "You're not going back to the Penthouse are you?"
He shook his head, "It wouldn't be smart, Kol and I are staying at the Brownstone."
"Maybe," she started, "You should get in touch with the pack," she whispered, "Tell them that you're leaving New York for a bit, that you need some space from vampire drama. They might be more open to a meet if they know that you're not hanging with your siblings for now. Plus I know Kol's planning on visiting some coven in China for something, so he'll be out of town too. With Rebekah and Elijah gone, you shouldn't be alone with Finn and Freya, they suck."
Klaus's lips quirked, "I'll think about it," he agreed, "Bye love, I'll see you soon."
September 8th, known to the majority of the Mystic Falls population as the first day of high school that year, was important for a very different reason for Maya, Caroline and Jenna, it was Maya's sixteenth birthday. Did it suck that it was on the first day of school? Yes, but Caroline and Jenna had a week long plan of fun, culminating in a birthday bash that would be the talk of the high school… at least until Caroline's sixteenth on October 10th.
Maya was having her customary breakfast with Caroline when her mother came in, "Okay!" Jenna grinned, clapping her hands together she urged her daughter and best friend up, "Present time!"
"We usually do presents after school," Maya said, smiling bemusedly at her mother, they'd never strayed from tradition before.
"I know, I know," Jenna agreed, "But I thought that this was something that you would want before you went to school." Ushering the two of them outside, Maya's eyes lit up as they laid on a dark blue car sat in the driveway.
"Oh my God! Is that- Is that for me?!" she sputtered, lurching forward to the car.
Jenna shrugged, "You got your driver's license, and I made some smart investments with the money that…technically you made, I thought you deserved it."
"Mom, this is – this is amazing! I can't believe you did this!" she wrapped her arms around her mother, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
Caroline shrieked in excitement, the car was perfect, a pretty little convertible, so the two of them could go on the road trips that they'd dreamed of. "Elena's going to be so freaking jealous!" she cheered, causing Jenna to roll her eyes.
"One of these days you're going to have to tell me why you hate Elena so much."
"I don't hate Elena," Maya refuted, "I just think she's rude, and selfish, and hates the fact that I beat her out in Driver's Ed."
"We should go!" Caroline cut in, not wanting to spend the morning talking about Elena Gilbert, "Besides it's Jeremy's last year of Middle School, and what's cooler than arriving in this sweet convertible?"
"Oh yes! Can we Mom? Please?!"
"Fine," Jenna relented, "Go, I'll call Miranda and tell her you're coming."
"YES!" Maya cheered, snatching the keys from her mother's outstretched hand, "Oh!" she hugged Jenna again, "I love you!"
"Happy Birthday baby," Jenna smiled and watched as her daughter and Caroline hopped into the car and drove off. It was times like this that made her so happy that her daughter had chosen to tell her the truth about what she was. Sure it was dangerous, sometimes downright terrifying, but seeing her like this, happy, free, unafraid to be who she was meant to be, it made Jenna so proud.
/ / /
"Elena's going to hate you for this," Caroline smirked.
Rolling her eyes, Maya concentrated on reaching her cousins' house without incident, "Caroline, you know you're the one who cares about the social hierarchy at school, not me."
"Oh please," Caroline snorted in amusement, "Don't act like I don't see the smirk on your face whenever someone jumps out of your way in fear in the hallways."
"I'm smirking because they're scared of me, and I haven't done a thing to encourage them."
"You broke Joey Newman's nose last year!" Caroline shot back.
"He grabbed your ass without permission! He deserved it!"
"He did, and I will be forever grateful to you for doing it, I'm just saying people have good reason to be afraid of you!"
"Fine," Maya conceded, "Douchebags should be afraid of me, very, very afraid, but high school girls, needing to be decimated by a few acerbic words, that's your wheelhouse."
"As long as we're clear," Caroline nodded, "I'm the brains and you're the brawn!"
"Hey!"
Caroline laughed at the indignation on Maya's face and jumped out of the car as they pulled up in front of the Gilbert house. Shaking her head, Maya got out and followed her Sunshine up the stairs. Caroline had already rang the bell by the time she reached the door and it was thrown open by the reason they were there.
"Jeremy!" Maya smiled, as the younger boy wrapped her in his arms.
"Maya! Happy birthday Cuz!" he smiled.
Maya felt a pang in her heart at his easy smile, Jeremy was so much better after a summer spent at 'Arts Camp'. Jenna had suggested sending him there for the long vacation, as it gave him time to heal, and gave Miranda a chance to grieve the loss of her husband without worrying her children, as Elena had gone to 'Cheer Camp' for a month over their break.
"Maya!" Aunt Miranda said, walking up to the open door, the older woman looked better as well, "Happy birthday Sweetheart," she said, giving her niece a hug.
"Thanks Aunty M," she replied, pulling back.
"I see your mother didn't waste anytime with your gift," Miranda nodded at the car, "Are you sure you're going to be able to drive Jeremy to school?"
"I will not go one mile over the speed limit, I promise." Maya reassured.
Miranda crossed her arms over her chest and gave Maya a scrutinising look, "Ok," she nodded, "You can take him, but under one condition."
"What?" Maya asked warily.
"You're taking Elena too."
"What?!"
"Come on!"
"Mom!" all three of the teens complained.
"No complaints!" she pointed at all three of them, "You're going to school, it will save me time if you take Elena to school too, I'll pick her up, but it makes no sense for you to be here and not take her with you."
Maya groaned, she didn't want to spend a car journey with Elena, she was the ultimate downer, "Fine," she grumbled, "But she's sitting in the back."
Miranda looked at her amused, she would get the two girls to get along, even if it killed her, "Alright, I'll go get her, all of you be nice!" she demanded.
The three teens trudged towards the car, their excitement, noticeably diminished, it would be a miracle if Elena and Maya didn't have a screaming match in the car.
Rebekah kicked the door down of a hidden lab in Alaska belonging to Lucien's company, more specifically, the underground lab in the Tongass National Forest, she couldn't understand why wolf packs insisted in living in the forest, sure they went out of control every full moon, but it was one night a month. Why they couldn't live with the rest of civilisation was beyond her. A couple of vampires came out of the woodworks and attacked her, she was quick to kill them, Klaus was one for tearing out hearts, Elijah for knocking off heads, but she preferred a much cleaner method. She'd brought stakes with her, and used them with ruthless efficiency, she may have looked delicate, but she was a thousand-year-old Viking, anyone that underestimated her was a fool.
She stormed through the corridors, the lab was cold and clinical, it had clearly been used, but there weren't any werewolves being experimented on at the moment, if she was a younger vampire she would have been fooled. But her age meant that her senses were much stronger than the centuries old ones that she'd just killed. She could hear the heartbeats of the captives below, snarling she rushed down to the hidden cellars, she was genuinely shocked at the sight, the werewolves here were barely hanging on, each one in worse condition than the last. Rebekah had witnessed torture before, even been the cause of it, but this place felt sinister in a way that she wasn't used to.
Rebekah whooshed back upstairs, flipping open her phone and she called Elijah.
"Rebekah you were supposed to call me when you reached the lab." Elijah said, answering the phone call.
"Relax Elijah, I'm fine, but I can't say the same for the occupants of this particular facility."
"What?"
"These wolves are barely alive, no amount of vampire blood will save them, they've been torn apart. I'm going to put them out of their misery."
"Rebekah we're supposed to save these wolves, not kill them."
"At this point killing them would be a kindness Elijah, they're missing limbs, and organs, and one is missing his entire lower jaw! I don't even know how that one is still alive! We're too late, these wolves are beyond saving." Rebekah was resolute, she didn't care for the plight of the wolves, but Lucien what had done to the members of this pack, it was too much. "I'll go through the computers, see if I can come up with any information on this pack, and burn the place to ash."
"Fine," Elijah sighed, crossing the lab's location off his map of Kingmaker properties, "Remember you're in the forest, don't let the flames get out of control."
"Yes, yes Elijah, don't burn down the bloody forest, I'm not a child, I know who Smokey the Bear is!" she replied, snapping the phone shut and whooshing back downstairs.
Rebekah broke the cage doors, and effortlessly snapped the necks of the wolves that had been captured, before heading into the next set of rooms, where the tell-tale hum of computer equipment was coming from. She'd found another vampire hiding there, and instead of killing him, compelled him to copy all the information on the system he could and give it to her. While the compelled vampire did that, she explored the rest of the facility, it was worryingly undermanned, which meant that it was entirely possible that Lucien had found what he was looking for with the pack and had moved on. She froze in her search when she heard a whimper, cocking her head, Rebekah closed her eyes and focused on the sounds around her, narrowing her senses, she heard the rustle of fabric coming from beneath her, she didn't think there was another level to the facility but there must have been. There was a shuffle of feet on the floor, and another whimper, Rebekah went back to the vampire doing her bidding, "What's below us?" she asked.
The man lifted his head and looked at her scared, "What are you talking about?"
Rolling her eyes, Rebekah appeared in front of him, her pupils dilated and she repeated her question, "What. Is. Below. Us? I can hear movement."
"It's where we keep the werewolves on the full moon, so that we don't get bitten."
"Is there someone down there now?"
"Yes." The vampire whispered, if he thought he had a chance of survival before, he knew that he definitely didn't have one now.
"Take me there," she demanded.
Swallowing, he nodded and whooshed out of the room, Rebekah followed him. The vampire came to a dead end and pressed his hand against part of the wall, the area shifted back to reveal a secret hallway. Frowning Rebekah stepped forward, why would a secret lab need an extra secret area? "Stay here and keep the door open."
Rebekah whooshed inside and gaped at what she saw, a young boy and girl, they couldn't have been more than seven years old, they were huddled together in their own filth, wearing scraps, "My God," she whispered, taking in the room she could see the claw marks on the walls, and looked back at the two children tucked away in the corner, they couldn't have broken their werewolf curse, they were too young, but then why were they here? Stepping forward, they pulled back away from her in fear, "I'm not here to hurt you," she spoke softly.
Of course the children didn't believe her, if they were active werewolves then they could smell the vampire on her. "I know you're scared, but the people that hurt you are all dead, I've made sure of it."
"There's still one upstairs," the little boy spoke, he'd manoeuvred himself in front of the girl, in an effort to protect her.
"Yes," Rebekah said, "I needed to find out what was happening here, he's getting me that information, but I can promise you, he won't leave here alive."
"I don't believe you," the boy said, "you're a vampire, you're just like them."
The pain in his eyes made Rebekah want to cry, she couldn't abide by children being hurt, "I am a vampire, but I'm here for my brother, he was born a wolf, and he wants to stop what's been happening here."
"A vampire? And a werewolf?" the boy was sceptical, everything that he'd been taught, that he'd seen, told him that vampires hated werewolves. "I don't believe you."
"He's not here, but I'll take you to him," Rebekah promised, "I swear to you, I will not hurt you."
The girl tugged on the boy's arm, "Where's mommy?" she whimpered and Rebekah's eyes softened further.
The boy looked at the blonde and Rebekah gently shook her head, "There were no women upstairs, I'm sorry." The boy was trying so hard to be strong for the girl, but at her words, it looked like he was near tears, "Please let me take you from here," she stretched out her hand, she wouldn't move closer to the baby wolves, she didn't want to spook them, "I'm burning this place to the ground, you can't stay here."
The boy looked at the girl, she was shivering, they hadn't been fed in days, not since she'd accidentally bit one of the vampires while she'd been in her wolf form, they were tired, and hungry, if they stayed they would die. The girl just tightened her grip on him, "If you try anything, I'll bite you, and vampires can't heal from a wolf bite," he said, a new strength in his voice.
Rebekah nodded, and straightened, tucking her hand in her pocket. The boy stood on shaky legs, pulling the girl with him, "You're not going to tell me your names are you?" The children just stared at her, not saying anything, "Right, follow me," she said.
When the three of them got to the entrance of the secret hallway the children froze, staring at the vampire waiting for them, "It's alright," Rebekah said, walking up to the vampire, "What more have you got left to do?" she asked.
"The files should all be copied now."
"Go and get them." He whooshed away and came back in an instant, handing her a memory card with everything on. "Have you erased all the servers?"
"Yes," the vampire replied.
"Good, here," she handed him a stake and he looked at her with wide eyes. "Take that stake, and shove it in your heart."
"But that will kill me," he said, slowly bringing the stake to his chest, he couldn't stop himself.
"That's the point, now chop, chop, we don't have all day."
Rebekah and the children watched as the vampire staked himself and dropped dead at her feet. "How did you do that?" he asked, he didn't think that vampires could do that to each other.
"I'm a very special vampire," she said, motioning for the children to follow her, "Lets get out of here." She pulled out her phone and shot off a text to a couple of her own compelled minions, they would burn down the facility and make sure that it didn't set the forest ablaze. Before they got all the way out, the girl collapsed.
"No!" the boy cried and Rebekah knelt down at her side.
"It's all right," she tried to comfort him, "She's not hurt, just exhausted, you both are. I imagine it's been a while since either one of you ate or drank anything?" the boy nodded and Rebekah frowned, the nearest place to eat was three hours away by car, the children would need energy to go on. Biting into her hand, she placed the bloody appendage to the girl's lips, the blood wouldn't sustain her, but it would keep her awake and alive long enough for her to get the children something to eat. When the girl's eyes opened she bit into her hand again and held it in front of the boy, "You'll need the energy, it's quite the walk to the car, and nearest diner is not close."
The boy looked at her hand with suspicion, but came forward slightly and placed his lips against the open wound, he swallowed a mouthful and pulled back with a grimace. "Ugh!"
"Come," Rebekah said, watching as the boy helped the girl to her feet, "We need to get you some food."
Maya and Caroline were enjoying their post school meal at the 'Coffee Bean', Miranda had decided, that in an effort to get back to normal, the family would get together for Maya's birthday, which meant that Damon and Enzo couldn't come over to the house for dinner. The two vampires walked in, garnering a look or two from the small amount of patrons the coffee shop had, and sat down with the girls.
"Hey Sweetheart," Enzo smiled, pulling Maya into a hug, "Happy birthday."
"Thank you Enzo," she smiled.
"Hey Sabrina," Damon smirked, pulling her to him after Enzo, "Happy birthday."
"Damon," Maya rolled her eyes, she watches 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' once with Damon and all of a sudden it's her new nickname, "Thanks…What'd you bring me?" she asked, making grabby hands at the four very conspicuous bags the men were carrying.
Enzo snorted in amusement, handing over the first gift bag, "This one's from Kol."
Maya raised a brow and pulled out a heavily wrapped object, tearing off the wrapping paper she gasped in delight, it was a grimoire, but not one that belonged to anyone. The front and back covers were sturdy, and had been hand painted. Her last name in delicate lettering on the top and on the spine of the book, and a wolf howling at the moon, exactly like the one on her necklace. "It's beautiful," she said with wide eyes. Opening it, the pages were thick and strong, and a note fluttered out. Maya picked the note up from her lap and silently began to read it.
'Maya, you have spent years honing your craft, learning from me, without anything to really call your own.
It's customary for young witches to be gifted a grimoire by their coven when they turn sixteen, you don't have a coven, but you do have me.
I have a thousand years' worth of magic to teach you, and I look forward to you excelling in every aspect.
This grimoire signifies your growth into independence, I'm sure the spells that you come up with will be exquisite, do me proud.
- Kol
p.s. Nik painted the cover!'
Maya smiled and tucked the note into the grimoire and delicately placed it in the bag, "What's next!" She'd inspect the grimoire more thoroughly later.
"This is from me," Damon shoved a tiny gift bag under her nose, wanting her to open it before Enzo's, the vampire in question shot him a scowl.
Maya ginned and opened the bag, she pulled out an envelope and looked at Damon quizzically, why did he need a gift bag for an envelope? She opened it and pulled out two concert tickets, "Oh. My. God. Are these Linkin Park tickets?!" she asked excitedly, shooting Damon an incredulous look, "Are you taking me to see Linkin Park?!"
"Damn right I am!" Damon replied, "We're gonna go backstage, hang with band," he shrugged.
Maya squealed and flung herself at Damon, "I love it! I love it! I love it!" she chanted, arms tight around him, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank You!"
"Told ya she'd love it," Damon shot Enzo a smug look.
"Yeah, yeah, now we have the third best present out of the way," Enzo said, handing over an equally small bag. "Here we go!"
Maya took out another envelope and pulled out three tickets…plane tickets, "Ticket's to L.A?" Maya asked with wide eyes, "We're going to L.A in the summer?!"
Enzo nodded, "You, me and blondie over there," he pointed at Caroline, who choked on her drink when she heard that.
"What?" she demanded.
"Permission has already been obtained from your parents, you two are coming with me for a little sun, sea, sand and celebrity sightings for two weeks over your summer vacation."
Both girls shrieked in delight and Enzo found himself enveloped in hug from both of them, "Oh my God Enzo!" Maya said, "I can't wait!"
"I've always wanted to go to L.A!" Caroline said, already planning out their itinerary.
Enzo shot Damon a smirk, the older vampire scowling in return. Maya pulled back and settled in her seat, "Pretty sure you've got another present there for me."
Damon rolled his eyes, "What, the stuff we brought you not enough?"
"Damon!" she whined, "That's Nik's present!"
"Maybe, maybe not," he shrugged.
"Don't make me zap you!" she threatened and Damon laughed, handing over the final gift.
The bag was large, and contained a box, she took the box out and removed the top, there was something inside covered in tissue paper. Maya moved the delicate paper and pulled out the object inside. Her eyes widened in surprise when she realised that it was a canvas, "Wow," she whispered.
The painting was of her, Caroline, her mother, Damon and Enzo, all together in a family portrait, Klaus' signature in the bottom corner. "Wait," Caroline said in awe, "Did Klaus paint this?"
Maya nodded and Enzo smiled at the look on the girls' faces, "Nik hasn't given a painting to anyone in over two centuries," he said, "But he said you deserved something to commemorate your family."
"It's beautiful," Maya replied.
"I'm just surprised he threw me in with the rest of the family," Damon said, and he was, Enzo was the one that had the initial connection to Maya, not him.
"Shut up Damon," Caroline said, punching him in the shoulder, "You know you're family."
Damon smirked and looked over the artwork, "I have to admit, for a thousand-year-old psycho, he's got talent."
Rebekah paced the hotel room, the two werewolf children had finally relented to having a bath, it had taken her three days to convince them to trust her enough to clean up. Now they were both asleep in bed while she waited for Kol, she had tried calling Nik, but he wouldn't answer the phone to her, and she didn't think that just showing up on his doorstep was a good idea. She was nervous, Elijah was on the other side of the country, looking into another one of Lucien's labs so Rebekah didn't have any back up.
She stopped pacing as she heard the noise outside of her room, and then a knock at her door. "Rebekah," Kol called in a sing song voice, "Are you going to let me in?"
Rebekah whooshed to the door, the knock had woken the children and she steeled herself for a potential confrontation. Opening the door, her eyes widened at the sight of both Kol and Nik, the former with an annoying smirk on his face, the latter, a scowl. Nik was not happy that he had to be there, was not happy to see her, despite the circumstances. She moved to the side, allowing her brothers entry to her room.
The young boy had put himself in front of the girl again, defending her, now that they were clean, it was easy to see that the two were brother and sister, twins most likely, but they hadn't been willing to share that information with her. "I take it these are the two baby wolves you were talking about," Kol said, staring at the two children.
The boy frowned, "Are you the wolf?" he asked.
Kol laughed, "God no, I've never been overly fond of wolves, witches are more my thing." Klaus let out a low growl and Kol smirked, "Relax brother, you know you're the exception!" Kol looked back at the boy, "Nik would be the wolf," he gestured to his brother, "Not me."
Klaus took a step forward and held out a hand, he knew that while his werewolf half was buried deep, he didn't smell like a normal vampire. The Beta of the North East Atlantic Pack had said so when they met two days ago, he'd said that Klaus had smelt familiar, but at the same time not.
The boy cautiously crawled forward on the bed, ensuring that he kept all three of the adults in his line of sight, he scented the air around Klaus and his brow wrinkled in thought, "You don't smell like a vampire," the boy said, "But you don't smell like a wolf."
Klaus nodded, crouching down, so that he was eye level with the boy, "I was born to the Alpha of my pack a thousand years ago," Klaus started, causing the boy's eyebrows to shoot up in surprise at his age, "And when I got older, my mother, who was a witch, turned my siblings and I, into vampires."
"You can't be a vampire and a wolf," the girl said, piping up from her brother's side.
Klaus gave her a small smile, "I can, because before us, there were no vampires, we're the Originals."
The boy furrowed his brow, he'd heard that word before, but where? "What's your name?" he asked.
"You can call me Klaus."
The girl grabbed her brother's shirt and yanked him back away from the Original, "Daddy said Klaus is a monster."
Klaus nodded, "Your Daddy was right Little One, but I give you my word, I am a monster that is going to keep you safe."
"How?" the girl asked, "You're not like us."
"There's a pack," Klaus said, he was unwilling to go into heavy detail while his sister was there, "Currently they are travelling through New England, I'll take you to them."
"Why would they help us?" the boy asked, clearing his throat.
"I know the Alpha," Klaus said, "He wouldn't turn away a wolf in need, especially not children."
Rebekah's eyes widened, she didn't know that her brother was in touch with any packs, he hadn't seemed interested in them since the 1600's.
"Prove it," the boy demanded.
Klaus gave him a smirk and nodded, "Alright, give me a moment, I'll get him on the phone." He straightened up and looked at his siblings, "Wait here." Sending Kol a silent message to keep Rebekah occupied while he spoke with the Alpha.
/ / / /
Stepping outside of the hotel room, Klaus whooshed outside, putting enough distance between himself and Rebekah so that she couldn't overhear him. He dialled the number he had for the Alpha.
"Klaus," a gruff voice said on the other end.
"Conner," Klaus greeted, "I'm going to need to meet you and the pack much sooner than expected."
"I told you, the pack's still weary of you, don't force this."
Klaus scowled, stamping down the urge to yell at the Alpha, "Its not for me, my sister came across two werewolf pups, they can't be more than seven or eight, their parents are dead, so is the rest of their pack, the children have nowhere to go."
"No child turns that early Klaus," Conner rumbled.
"Rebekah found them in a facility run by vampires, they were running experiments on the pack, I imagine the vampires forced the children to turn."
"What are you talking about?" Connor breathed, he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"Haven't you noticed how what's left of the wolf packs have been disappearing?" Klaus asked, "They're being taken and experimented on, my brother and sister are looking for the people doing this, at my behest."
"Why are you looking for missing packs?" Connor asked, Klaus hadn't been very clear on why he felt the sudden need to find out where he came from.
"Very soon, I'll have access to my werewolf side again," Klaus replied, "Along with my freedom, comes the ability to turn other werewolves into Hybrids like me. They'd be stronger and faster than any wolf, immortal like a vampire, with a bite twice as deadly, and they wouldn't be forced to turn every full moon."
Connor's eyes widened, he had no idea that Klaus had the ability to turn werewolves, nowhere in the legends passed down through his pack was that information, "And you want to make a new species." Connor said stiffly, what would this mean for him and the other wolves? Would they all have to bow to Klaus's will?
"I want to create my own pack," Klaus corrected, "I have spent a thousand years alone, I don't intend to keep it that way."
"And do we get a choice?" Connor scoffed.
"I don't wish to take over the pack," Klaus said, that was a lie, the pack was his only connection to his wolf, if he could be the Alpha, he was going to be, "I want to learn about being a wolf, so that I can be a good Alpha to my pack. And of course you get to choose, what use is a bunch of unhappy werewolves with vampire appetites to me?"
Connor would need to discuss this with his Beta and with the pack Elder, but he couldn't let these two children be left without a pack, "Only you are to come with the children, no one else."
"Agreed."
"Do you know where they come from?"
"Information suggests that it was the remnants of the Deep Water Pack that was being held in the facility."
"The Deep Waters?" Connor repeated with a troubled frown, "The Deep Water Pack is werewolf royalty, they're one of the seven blood lines."
"Yes well it appears that these two children are all that's left. And they're asking for proof that you're a werewolf, so I'm going to video call you, so you can show them."
"Very well," Connor said hanging up, only to have the video call come up on his phone. He answered and came face to face with Klaus.
"Children, meet Connor, Conner, the children, they still don't trust us with their names." Klaus pointed the phone at the children and they cautiously crawled forward.
Connor's eyes glowed yellow, causing both the boy's and girl's eyes to glow in response, "I'm Connor, the Alpha, Klaus is going to bring you here, to my pack, we'll take you in, keep you safe, among your own kind."
"Our pack couldn't keep us safe," the boy said.
"My pack is bigger, and stronger, and we know who the enemy is. Go with Klaus, do not give him any trouble." Connor's eyes glowed again, and he hung up the phone.
He was going to have to speak to his Beta and the Elder immediately, he needed to know what they suggested he do with the information that Klaus had just given him.
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