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guest: Elena has been compelled, what she has been compelled to do, you will have to wait and see.
Guest: Klaus is definitely going to raise some hell when he gets to Mystic Falls, especially when he finds out exactly who Elena is.
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Ashes2Dust18: I think that the cubs are helping Klaus to heal some of his own internal wounds. When he had Hope there was all the craziness with Ester and Dahlia and then he had his sibllings around him, helping, but they also had their opinions on how to raise her. Klaus has got these kids all to himself, and is learning on his own. I think Miranda's just trying to do what any mother would do to protect her kid, she's just going about it in the wrong way.
TikiKiki: Elena's been compelled.
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Stachelbeere: Thank you! I'm trying to walk a very fine line between Klaus's rage and his love.
WiseGirlDivergence46: There will be great anger!
dragonegyptianblue: There is going to be some bad times for the Gilberts ahead!
Heroina: Yep, Enzo saved her, I didn't want Damon to be distracted by Stefan. Nobody wants to face Nik's wrath, the only one that can calm him down is Maya. Yes Jeremy deserves something for his quick thinking, otherwise Maya may not have survived at all! Someone's going to have to highlight that to Maya.
Omega-Maharan: Mother Nature's had the run of the land of the living since the beginning of time, now she may get some competition she doesn't want it!
XxXLIFEafterDEATHXxX: Oh yeah, everyone is afraid of Nik and they should be, the only one that isn't is unconscious so no one wanted to tell him! Elena will get what's coming to her.
Athena-Spencer: Right now Miranda's only thinking about her daughter and nothing else, she hasn't realised the damage she's going to do to her relationship with Jenna if she continues down that path. I've got an idea for how Maya's going to exist with Stefan in town, she doesn't hate him, but Damon's her 'boy' she'll react the way that he would want her to react. Klaus is going to be mad at someone.
lillen20: Thank you!
Nicolle Cullen Masen: Klaus, Luna and Liam are so cute! I'm pretty sure that they're officially going to become his kids, and I wonder how Marcel will react when he finds out that Klaus has 'adopted' others.
muneey20: Stefan saved Elena as it is in canon. I always felt bad that Klaus basically never got a chance to raise Hope, and I wanted to see what it would be like for him to actually be able to.
Careena1: Miranda is going to be unpleasantly surprised by what happens next.
xotinkerbella: Damon knows, it won't be long before Klaus finds out and then he'll have another reason to be angry. They are going to be shocked when they find out who saved Elena, because I don't think that Enzo will have known what Stefan looked like and so has no idea who was in the water before him. But it's not that he didn't bother to save Elena, he was pulling her out of the water when Enzo went in, which is kind of what happened in canon, Stefan saved Elena and then went back in for Grayson and Miranda but was too late. Stefan's not terrible so I don't think that he meant to leave her to die, it was just a choice he had to make because he's on the animal blood diet and significantly weaker than Enzo and Damon at this point.
Hearteyesmf: Probably one or two chapters before we hit the first day of school, because we still have the Summer to get through, it really depends on how long the chapters will be.
.Winchester.17: Elena's in for a rude awakening.
KaterinaStark: I had to! What else was I supposed to do?
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NonBinaryAceKitten: I like throwing a line in once in a while, when it really fits the characters dynamics. She's definitely going to be used in the curse, there's no getting around it for her. Maya's still a Siphon but you'll just have to see what side effects there are by what Death did.
sammyleann: They're definitely annoying, but Klaus isn't in Florida, he's in Arizona, so there's no chance of him running into Katherine.
Lavendor Queen: Thank you! I really like the idea of Klaus coming to town and being super soft with the kids but then like the devil to everyone else.
aandm20: Thank You! There's so cute together.
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Caroline had been outside for half an hour after her conversation with Kol, she needed the air and wasn't sure whether or not Kol was being serious about the speed at which Klaus could travel. She got her answer seconds later, screaming in shock when he appeared in front of her. "Caroline," Klaus said.
"Kol said you could be here in 15, you're late," she breathed, taking in his dark demeaner.
"Where is she?"
"Still in surgery."
"Injuries?"
"Broken ribs, concussion, punctured lung and a liver laceration. It's bad. Really bad."
Klaus let out a low growl, "Where's the girl?"
Caroline's eyes widened, Klaus didn't look like he was playing around, "Klaus, Elena's her cousin."
"I won't ask again."
"Room 304," she sighed, she'd barely gotten the words out when he vanished from her sight.
"Damon look at me," Enzo said, the older vampire had been pacing the floor of the Sommers' living room since Enzo had dragged him out of the hospital.
"She looks like her Enzo! Exactly like her!" Damon exclaimed, "Now it all makes sense! Why Maya's always been on edge whenever I'm in town! Why she's always insisted on meeting away from Mystic Falls, even though this is my home too. She knew! She knew that Elena looked exactly like Katherine and she didn't want me to know!"
"Damn it Damon!" Enzo snapped, grabbing the other man by the shoulders with a scowl, "She didn't know!"
"Yes she did!"
"No! She didn't! Because if she knew, do you really think that she'd have invited you back to Mystic Falls?!" He shoved Damon back, "And how about you think about that for a second, she invited us, she was tired of always having us so far away so she asked us to come home, so that she could have her family around her! She didn't know!"
"How can you be so sure?!" Damon snapped back, his head was spinning with the possibilities.
"BECAUSE I'VE LOVED YOU FOR YEARS YOU IDIOT!" Enzo thundered, "I've loved you for years, and the only thing that stopped me from telling you was your obsession with Katherine. And Maya knew that! If she had known for one second that Elena looked like Katherine she never would have called us home, because she knows what I'm most afraid of Damon. And that's losing you, to her."
"Enzo," Damon faltered for a moment, had that really been holding his lover back this whole time? "You won't, I promise, I'm over Katherine."
Enzo scrubbed his hands over his face and sighed, "Are you really? I mean look at you, just one hint of something connected to Katherine and you're up in arms about it. Accusing someone who has shown you nothing but love and acceptance of maliciously hiding this secret from you." The hurt was written all over Enzo's face, "I don't want to argue about this with you, I'm going to the hospital, Jenna needs support and she's my family, call me when you get your head out of your arse."
"Enzo wait-" but it was too late, the younger vampire had sped out of the house, Damon sighed, how had things managed to get so screwed up?
A well dressed man walked into the office of his superior, holding a folder, "Mr Castle, sir," he said, waiting to be acknowledged.
Lucien was stood in front of a large window, looking out at the expanse of a city, drink in hand, frown on his face, he hated to be disturbed. He turned to face his underling, "What?"
"We've just received reports back from the Gamma, Delta and Theta sites, all three have been destroyed."
The vampire growled, "How many is that now?"
"Nine in total sir," the underling swallowed nervously.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't I put you in charge of security after the first facility was found and destroyed?" his voice was deadly calm.
"Yes sir."
"And weren't you the one who specifically asked for the assignment, insisting that you could do a better job than your predecessors?"
"Yes, but-" he was cut off with a hand around his throat.
"I didn't get to where I am today by accepting excuses! Failure is not an option for me!" he hissed, "And I don't give second chances!" He tore out the heart of his subordinate, dropping him and it on the floor. Moving over to his desk, he pressed a button on his office phone, "Rita darling, send someone to clean up a mess in my office."
"Yes Mr Castle," Rita said through the machine.
Sneering at the sight of the body on the floor, Lucien eyed the folder that the man had been holding, picking it up he flicked through the information, pausing at one particular page, "Well, well, what do we have here?"
Klaus shot out of the hospital, eyes black with rage, he'd gotten to Elena Gilbert's room, fully intent on ending the little twit's life and what does he find? The doppelgänger! The fucking doppelgänger! Of all the people in the world that Maya was connected to, it had to be the bloody doppelgänger! And why hadn't she told him about her? She knew that he was searching for her, knew that there would be no hiding her from him, especially when they were both so involved with one another, how did she think that this was going to play out? Did she think that she would be able to get around it?
He was fuming, both at Maya and at the doppelgänger, his need to destroy was overwhelming, and there was no one capable of assuaging his anger…well there was one, but she was under heavy anaesthesia being operated on. Growling he sped out of Mystic Falls, he needed to kill and he needed to do it immediately.
Damon had bolted from the Sommers' house shortly after Enzo had left, he was upset and frustrated with both himself and Maya, he'd fucked up, but he wasn't ready to admit it. He needed alcohol and blood, in copious amounts, so he'd run to the capital city, in order to get both.
Damon had found himself in a biker bar, in the seedier part of Richmond, giving a sardonic smirk, he compelled himself a bottle, at least he wouldn't have to feign guilt when the people in the bar died. He'd compelled them all to go about their business unless he interacted with them, and to stay within the bar at all times, there would be no running, no hiding, no one would survive that night, not if he had anything to say about it.
The eldest Salvatore had his face buried in the neck of one of his victims when Klaus found him, drawn in by the screams and the scent of blood, his eyes lit up as he witnessed his best friend already covered with the grisly remains of his first two kills. "Damon!" He called, walking inside, "Did you know?"
Damon's head snapped up, locking eyes with the Original, giving him a sarcastic, bloody grin, "Did I know what? Did I know that Mystic Falls housed an exact copy of the woman I loved for 140 years? Did I know that the cousin Maya has been bitching about for years is the one that you've been searching for, for 500 years?" Damon threw his head back, letting out a hollow laugh, before the smile disappeared completely, "What do you think?"
Klaus looked more deadly than ever, stepping further inside the filthy establishment, "Well then, let's have a chat shall we?"
"Jenna," Miranda said, "Jenna!" she called, when her sister ignored her. Jenna made to leave the waiting room, when Miranda grabbed her arm and turned her around, "Will you please just talk to me?!"
Jenna whirled on her older sister, "What?! What could you possibly have to say to me? Hmm? After what you implied with Liz! Why would you think that I have anything to say to you?!"
Miranda held her hands up in surrender, "I just wanna talk, I didn't mean to say that this was Maya's fault, please just talk to me."
Jenna pursed her lips, "Fine. You have five minutes to convince me that you weren't just trying to throw my daughter under the bus."
"Ok," Miranda said, motioning for her sister to sit, very aware of the eyes that were on the two of them, nothing ever happened in Mystic Falls and now there were two potential scandals that were unfolding before everyone's eyes. "I never meant to imply that Maya was the sole cause of the crash, I know that Elena had a lot to do with it, but Maya should share the blame, she was distracted."
"You've got to be kidding me!" Jenna said, eyes wide, as she stared at her sister in disbelief, "My daughter is in surgery right now, fighting for her life, and you want to say that this is partly her fault!" Jenna's voice raised as her anger did.
"Jen- there's no need to yell."
"Oh I'm gonna yell! YOUR DAUGHTER WAS DRUNK, ELENA COULDN'T KEEP HER GOD DAMN HANDS TO HERSELF AND IS THE REASON MY DAUGHTER NEARLY DIED. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!"
"Jenna!"
"Mom!"
Caroline pulled Jenna away from Miranda, while Jeremy did the same with his mother, separating the two, it wouldn't do either of them, or their kids, any good if they continued to make a scene.
/ / /
It was early in the afternoon when Miranda was sat in the hospital room with her daughter, Elena had been weaned off of the stronger painkillers, so that Liz could speak to the young girl and get her perspective on the events leading up to the crash. Miranda looked over at her daughter nervously, as Liz walked in with one of her deputies, Elena had been oddly quiet. She supposed that her daughter could have been shaken up by the accident, but her gut told her it was something else. Frowning she looked to the now closed door, her conversation with Jenna had not gone the way she'd wanted it to, and now the Sheriff was here to talk to her daughter. She hoped that the conversation she'd had with Elena had stuck in the young girl's head.
"Miranda, Elena," Liz said as the deputy closed the door, "I think we need to have a talk."
"I don't think this is the best time Liz, Elena's not had much sleep and she's on pain relief."
"The doctor assures me that she's on a very low dose," the Sheriff replied, "And after your argument with Jenna last night, I think it's best that we talk now before anything else is said."
"Mom?" Elena asked, "What argument?"
"It's nothing Sweetheart," Miranda shook her head, not wanting to get into it with Elena now, "Just- do you feel up to answering some questions? Or do you think it's better to wait till you get home?" she emphasised, hoping that Elena would pick up the cue.
For a second it looked like Elena understood, but then she spoke, "I'm fine to talk to the Sheriff," Elena's brow furrowed in confusion for a moment.
"Good," Liz nodded, "I want to make it clear, no one is in trouble here, I just need to get a better picture of what happened last night."
"Okay," Elena nodded.
"So why don't you tell me how you ended up in Maya's car?"
"Maya said that she'd come to get me, and I wasn't going to go with her, it's not like we like each other, but then I saw Matt and I- I didn't want to deal with him, so I went to the car."
"Matt?" Liz asked, "Isn't he your boyfriend?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't you want to speak with him?"
"He just…wanted to talk about the future, and I wasn't in the mood, it wasn't anything serious, it's not like we were having an argument or anything."
"Alright, you said that you and Maya don't get along, and that's no secret, I think everybody in town knows that, but you got into her car anyway."
"I did," Elena said a little hesitantly.
"Why did you take Wickery Bridge instead of the more direct route home?"
"There was a tree down in the road," Elena was relaxing into the questions now, "We didn't have a choice."
Liz was about to start the more serious questions, "How many drinks did you have last night Elena."
"Elena-" Miranda started to say, but was cut off by a sharp look from the Sheriff.
"I don't know, five or six maybe," Elena's eyes widened, she shouldn't have said that, she didn't mean to, why did she?
The Sheriff frowned, "Did you see anyone or anything in the road that caused you to swerve off the bridge?"
"No," Elena said, a tremor in her voice.
"What happened immediately prior to the accident, in that car, between you and Maya?"
"I-" Elena didn't want to say it, but she felt compelled to, "I shoved her, a couple of times and my hand hit the wheel, and then the car went over."
Liz sighed, she was hoping that that wasn't the case, "And after the accident, do you know how you got out of the car? Onto the bank?"
Elena shook her head, she had no idea how she'd managed to get back on land, as the water rose in the car, she'd thought that she was going to die, she'd had no idea how it had happened. "I'm sorry, I don't know."
"Alright, I'm going to have to speak with Maya to confirm your story."
"Am I going to be in trouble?" Elena asked worriedly, she looked over at her mother, who was looking equally worried.
"Honestly Elena, Miranda, if were you I'd get a lawyer. You're not under arrest now, but you could be, very soon."
Damon sat back in a booth, as he surveyed the carnage he and Klaus had wrought, there was blood and viscera everywhere, glancing upwards he frowned, how did brains get on the ceiling? Shaking his head he motioned for Klaus to join him once he dropped the last body, finally everyone in the bar was dead. "Do you think we went overboard?" he asked, he was much calmer now that he'd released his bloodlust.
"Maybe," Klaus shrugged, he was still pissed, but his rage had decreased from 'Wrath of God' to 'Hulk' level anger.
"I'm going talk to Enzo," Damon ran his hand through his hair, "I fucked up."
"I left the hospital before seeing Maya," Klaus said, "But I still have the urge to kill her, so I should probably stay here, murder a few more of the locals to take the edge off."
Damon nodded, "Probably for the best, but for what it's worth, what Enzo said, it makes sense. Maya's done a lot for you, at the expense of herself, her health, her sanity, she never had to help you Nik, just keep you alive. And if she doesn't remember that Elena is who you've been looking for, tell her, see her reaction for yourself. Decide if you believe her or if she's been lying to you."
Maya had been put into a private room, curtesy of a little 'persuasion', she'd woken almost immediately when she was brought to recovery, but the anaesthesia was keeping her groggy, she'd fallen asleep shortly after she'd come back. The nurses had brought in a cot for her mother to rest on, and right now Jenna was curled up in Enzo's arms, just waiting for Maya to wake up again. Enzo held Jenna tight to him, running his fingers through her hair, offering her comfort and support. "Jeremy's the one who called me, you know." He said.
"Hmm?"
"Jeremy, he called me, he said that Maya's car went over the bridge, it was all I needed to hear, and I was there, I've never been so scared in my life."
"Me too," Jenna whispered, "If I had lost her- I don't know what I would have done."
"You're not going to lose her."
"You don't know that! Not for certain, this life, this world that she's a part of, it's dangerous, and I can't protect her, I'm not equipped to." She sighed and then looked up at Enzo as something occurred to her, "But you are."
"What do you mean?" Enzo asked.
"When we moved her to the hospital in New York, you gave her your blood."
"I didn't know you knew about that."
"Caroline told me."
"I should have told you," Enzo said, "I only did it because-"
"Because if she died with your blood in her system, it would mean that she would come back," Jenna cut in, "I can't lose her."
"What are you saying Jenna?"
"Now that you and Damon are here, I want you to give her your blood. Every day."
"Jenna that would mean that-"
"I know what it means!" she cut him off, "It means that I won't lose her! So you give her your blood, every day, without fail."
"She'd be a vampire, there's a lot that comes with that."
"I don't care," Jenna replied, "Look at me when I say this, you're a vampire and I love you, if she were a vampire, I'd love her too. Because it would mean that she would be alive, I mean look at this!" she gestured to her daughter's prone form, "This was a car accident, a damn accident! Not supernatural! And she nearly died! She did die! I can't go through this again! This is the second time in as many years that she's been in this position, my daughter. I can't do this again! It'll kill me."
"Hey, hey, hey, calm down, alright, I don't want to lose her either, but this is a discussion that she needs to be a part of, if it's what she wants then I swear, I'll mix my blood in with her morning tea."
"Ugh," Maya moaned out, blinking awake, "Don't do that, it'll ruin my tea."
"Sweetheart!"
"You're awake!"
It was evening by the time that Klaus had finally calmed down enough to go and see Maya, speak to her, find out the truth. He'd changed out of his bloody clothing and was stood just outside her room, waiting for the nurse to finish with her check up. Jenna and Enzo had gone to the cafeteria for dinner, which gave him the opportunity to see his Little Siphon alone. The nurse came out and Klaus stopped her, "When Miss Sommers and her friend come back, tell her that the doctor's going through routine tests with Maya, don't let anyone disturb us," he compelled.
Maya wasn't paying attention when he walked in, readjusting herself in her bed, so that she didn't see him. Klaus was all set to light into her, about the accident, about her cousin, but the moment he saw her, he couldn't stop himself. He strode up to her, cupping her face in one hand, "Nik wh-" She was cut off by his lips on hers, he kissed her, long and slow and deep, like he couldn't get enough, and Maya moaned in response, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him in closer. "Nik," she whispered, as she pulled back a little.
"Shut up," he said, pulling her back to him and kissing her again. When Kol had told him about the accident, he'd been furious, vengeful, full of rage, and he was still all of those things, but he'd also been terrified. The closest he could describe it, was feeling the white oak stake against his back, that night in New Orleans, when his father burnt down the city. And the relief that he'd felt when he saw her, alive, awake, it had flooded him, and he couldn't help himself, he needed to be close to her. Eventually, when he'd had his fill, Klaus pulled back, leaning his forehead against hers, "The doctors said that you died."
"It didn't take," she replied.
"Your heart stopped; you weren't breathing."
"I drowned, I died, I wasn't coming back," she couldn't tell her mother this, or Caroline, or Enzo, and Damon was nowhere to be found, Klaus was the only one she could talk to. "I thought- no I knew that I wasn't coming back, people come back from death all the time, but part of my deal with him is that I don't get to do that, not once I've passed the threshold."
Klaus clenched a fist, holding back his fury, "But you're here."
"He did something, this is the first time that I've been born a Siphon, a Child of Death twice over, he used that, twisted it, changed something, inside of me. Something's different, I can feel it."
Before his rage boiled over he spoke, "We need to talk."
"About what?" she asked, her hands were on his chest, fingers clenched tightly in his shirt, while Klaus had one hand, warming her thigh.
"About the doppelgänger."
"What about her?" Maya asked confused, she wasn't expecting Klaus to want to discuss the doppel-bitch when she was sure that he'd be more interested in her, even if that did sound a little selfish.
"You're cousin is the doppelgänger," he replied disbelievingly.
"What?" Maya gave a little laugh, "No she's not." When Klaus didn't say anything she continued, "She's not! If she was I'd know it, there's no way that Elena Gilbert's the doppelgänger!"
Klaus frowned, and put his free hand on her head, showing her an image of Katherine, back when he first met her, when she was human, "You see?"
"Oh my God," Maya whispered, as new memories or visions flooded into her mind, "My cousin's the doppelgänger! Elena's the doppelgänger." Her eyes widened and she looked at Klaus, what that meant clicking in place, "Oh my God Nik! Elena's the doppelgänger! I swear, I had no idea!"
Klaus could see a flash of fear in her eyes and his gut clenched, she'd never been afraid of him before, never, not even when he'd bitten her when he was in a blind rage after learning the truth his brother had hidden from him. She was afraid of him now though and he didn't want that. He traded in fear, hell he couldn't deny the thrill he felt when he saw the tell-tale look in someone's eyes when they realised that there was no way out for them. But on her, that look made him feel like the monster that many accused him of being. "She's your cousin."
"That doesn't matter to me! I have spent years trying to help you break your curse! I nearly died finding the moonstone! You saw me with your mother and your father. I don't care that Elena's the doppelgänger, I will serve her up on a silver platter if I have to! I'd do it for you!"
"Why?" Klaus frowned, "Why would you betray your family like that? For me?"
"Why are you here?" Maya asked, her form trembling as her painkillers started to wear off.
"What?!"
"Why are you here Nik? I have Enzo, he was here, he took care of me, he saved me! I'm alive, and you're Klaus Mikaelson! You didn't need to come all this way to see me, to check on me. So why did you?"
Klaus didn't need to think about his answer, he knew why he was there, "Because you're mine."
Maya nodded, "That's why I'll give you Elena, because I am yours, I think I have been since before we ever met." She swallowed, moving her hands up to his face, thumbs running along his cheekbones, "I know trust doesn't come easily to you, but if I'd remembered, I would have told you, I need you to believe me."
There was nothing but pleading and sincerity in her eyes, and Klaus dipped forward, kissing her again, "I believe you," he finally said.
"You do?" she asked with a shaky breath and he nodded, when the fear in her eyes faded away, his gut unclenched, "Thank you for coming for me." She winced as pain lanced through her abdomen, she'd been sitting up for too long.
"Come on Love," Klaus helped move her, "Lie down." He sat down next to her, allowing her to rest against him.
"I wish I could have some blood," she sighed, "But mom says I can't until I'm out of the hospital and the investigation's over."
"What are they investigating?"
"99% of the time the driver's at fault for the accident, but Elena interfered with my ability to drive. Aunt Miranda says that because Elena was drunk, she wasn't in her right mind, but mom says that because she was drunk, she broke the law. So now they're in an argument and the Sheriff is stuck in the middle of it."
"You're telling me that your cousin caused the accident and now they're trying to get her out of her punishment?"
"I guess," Maya replied, resting her head on his chest, "I'm not really in the mood to deal with it."
"I will," Klaus growled.
"Nik you can't kill her, you need her for the ritual."
"I need her alive yes, but that doesn't mean that she needs all her limbs."
"You can't do that Nik," Maya let out a little laugh.
"And why not?"
"This crash, it signifies the start of everything."
"Everything?"
"Katherine's going to find out about Elena soon, she's going to come to town. Try and use Elena to bargain for her freedom."
Klaus tensed, "You're certain about this?"
"I saw someone that looks like Elena stab Uncle John and cut off his fingers off, I'm pretty sure that wasn't my stupid cousin."
"You want me to just leave the doppelgänger alone here?"
"Compel some minions to keep an eye on her, but keep them out of sight. Caroline put a fake moonstone in Mayor Lockwood's safe so when Katherine comes back for it, she won't know."
"And how long do you expect me to wait before I can break my curse?"
"You'll break your curse before I turn eighteen," she said with absolutely certainty.
"How do you know?"
She shot him an unimpressed look, "Really? You're really going to ask me that?"
Klaus held his hands up in surrender, "My apologies Love but what's your plan for Katerina?"
"She's going to come here for the moonstone, you need it for your ritual and she doesn't know that's it's a fake. So I'll spell it, the moment she touches it, it'll knock her out, and then I'll lock her away." A smile crept onto her face, "Maybe in the tomb that she was meant to be stuck in for a 145 years."
Klaus let out a dark chuckle, "So simple, and yet so devious," he tilted her chin up so her eyes locked with his, "You know, there's a dark side to you that I find so attractive."
"That's probably not a good thing," she replied blushing.
"Probably not, but that's not going to stop me," he leant forwards and kissed her again.
/ / /
Caroline walked in and found Maya curled up asleep against Klaus, "Klaus!" Caroline hissed. "You're not meant to be here!"
"Caroline," he said quietly, "I told the nurses that I didn't want to be disturbed."
The blonde rolled her eyes, "Maya and I have been sneaking in and out of places since we were five, if you think that a compelled nurse is going to stop me, then you're not as smart as you think you are."
Klaus narrowed his eyes at her, "You're lucky Maya likes you so much."
"No, you're lucky that Maya likes you so much," she retorted sassily, dropping into a chair and kicking her feet up on the bed. "What are you going to do about Elena?" at his raised brow she continued, "Come on Klaus, there's no way you're letting this go, I'm not, and I'm not really in a position to do anything about it."
Klaus frowned, he didn't like that he was being so easily read by the two girls, "I have some ideas."
/ / /
Klaus had slipped out when Jenna and Enzo came back to the room, and headed straight for Elena's, there was no one in there with her, which made now the perfect time to see her. "Hello Elena."
Elena's eyes widened, "Who are you?" she asked, moving to sit up.
"Oh no need to get up," he slid the door closed and walked over to her, "I'm Klaus, you don't know me, but I know you, I'm a friend of your cousin's, Maya, the girl you nearly killed."
"Look I don't know what you've been told but I didn't- I didn- I-" no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get the words out.
"I wouldn't bother, you see you've been compelled to tell the truth when it comes to the accident, no matter what, so whatever lies you keep trying to get out, won't."
"What are you talking about? Compelled?"
Klaus let his vampire show, "Don't move, don't scream, don't make a sound," he compelled, "You see Elena, I'm a vampire, a vampire that has a very special interest in keeping Maya Sommers safe and alive, at all costs. Now I can't punish you for what you've done the way I want to, but that doesn't mean that you won't be punished."
"From now on you are going to be plagued with terrible nightmares about the accident. They're going to keep you up at night, sometimes you'll even wake screaming. There will be one way to stop them though, apologise to Maya, face-to-face, for causing the accident, of course you're not going to remember how to the stop the nightmares, you're going to have figure that out all on your own."
Klaus gave a cruel smile at the fear in her eyes, "You're not going to remember me, not what I look like, not what I sound like, not my name, but anytime that you hear the name Klaus, you are going to be filled with terror, because you are going to know deep in your gut, that I'm going to kill you, and enjoy doing it. And just for good measure you won't tell anyone about the fear you feel when you hear my name, it'll be a terror that you have to live with, on your own. Now the moment I leave, every bit of this compulsion will take effect, and you can go back to normal. Do you understand?" She couldn't say anything and Klaus rolled his eyes, "You can speak now."
"Yes I understand."
"Good, I'll be seeing you Elena." He stood and vanished from the room, Elena's eyes glazed over for a moment before she looked around a little confused, what was she doing? Shaking her head she leaned back in bed and closed her eyes, she should try to get some sleep.
/ / /
Maya was squashed in her hospital bed with Caroline on one side, Jenna on the other, and Enzo and Klaus on the couch, "Did the doctors say when I could leave?" Maya asked.
"A couple more days, the doctors want to keep an eye on you."
"Ugh," Maya groaned, "I got to stay here in pain when a shot of blood will heal me right away?"
"It'll take more than one shot of blood to fix you up Sweetheart," Enzo said.
"I don't care how much blood it takes 'Zo, I'd just really like to be able to get up, move, not worry about my concussion or my severely damaged insides."
Enzo winced, "Yeah sorry about that Love."
"Don't apologise," Maya said, "The pain is better than being dead," she gave him a little smile, and he nodded in response, "Besides, it's not even the worst part."
"What is?" Caroline asked curiously.
"The worst part, is my car was totalled," Maya complained, frowning at the thought of her perfect little convertible sitting at the bottom of the water.
"That's the worst part?!" Caroline exclaimed, "You could have died!"
"I wasn't hurt that badly," Maya dismissed, "The doctor said that all my bleeding was internal, that's where all the blood is supposed to be!"
"Maya!" Caroline moved to smack her and she held up her hands in defence.
"Concussion Caroline! Concussion!" she reminded her.
Caroline huffed, "You're not funny."
"I'm hilarious!"
"I disagree," Jenna said, looking just as displeased as the young blonde.
"What? You all look so serious! I'm here, alive, talking, I'm fine."
Maya managed to convince her mom to go home and get a shower, she'd be back later, Enzo and Klaus were out fresh feeding, and Caroline had been taken home by her mother, for the first time in days she was alone. Letting out a breath Maya sighed, she hadn't seen Damon yet, she was getting worried, and sad. She covered her face with her hands as she leant back in bed, and the door slid open.
"Hey," she heard a voice say and she looked up at the sound.
"Damon," Maya said, trying to be strong, but it wasn't working, all she wanted to do was burst into tears, so that's what she did.
Damon's eyes widened as he saw her start to cry, and he whooshed towards her, "Don't cry Red," he wrapped his arms around her, "Please don't."
"I didn't think that you were coming," she almost sobbed, "I thought you hated me!"
"I don't hate you," Damon said, holding her tighter, "I'm sorry Honey, I didn't mean to make you feel like this. I had to work somethings out."
"About Elena," Maya sniffled, curling into his chest.
"Yeah," he admitted.
"I didn't remember Damon, I swear."
"I know you didn't, it just took some time to work it's way to the surface, I should have been here sooner. I should have been here when you woke up."
Maya shook her head, "It's okay, I know how much Katherine meant to you, I understand, you needed time, I'm not mad at you. I'm just happy you're here."
"Hey, hey look at me," he pulled back so that he could see her face, "I'm probably never going to say this again, but I love you. You've given me more than I could ever possibly imagine getting in my life, because I'm not a good person, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't deserve anything that you've given me. But you don't care do you?" she shook her head, "So I love you, I'm not angry at you, not anymore."
"I love you too."
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