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Maya sighed as she put her phone down, it was 4 a.m. and she just finished texting with Caroline, her mom was asking all sorts of questions and Caroline had refused to answer any of them, so Liz would definitely be showing up first thing in the morning. Yawning, she turned the lights off and crawled into bed, she would need all the sleep that she could get. Just as she was starting to drift off, her phone rang, "Huh-wha?" reaching out blindly she grabbed her phone and answered, "Hello?" she mumbled.
"He called me daddy!"
"What? Nik?" she asked.
"He called me daddy!" Klaus repeated.
"Nik? Who-what- it's really late Nik!"
"Maya wake up!" Klaus demanded.
"Ugh," she groaned, pushing herself up, "Alright, I'm up, what's going on?"
"Liam called me daddy!"
"Awe, really? That's great!"
"Maya!"
"I mean, it's… not great…I mean…uh…I know what I want to say, but I'm not sure what you want me to say…"
"I don't know what I want you to say either," Klaus replied, he was so confused, and he was freaking out, (not that he would admit to that).
"Well, I don't really lie to you…so I'm just gonna tell you what I think you need to hear…"
"Alright," Klaus sighed.
"I already told you that you're their dad, you take care of them, it's not surprising that Liam would refer to you as his father."
"I'm hardly father material, I mean just look at what happened with Marcel."
"Oh for- you raised Marcel in your image, which at the time, was ruthless, violent, manipulative, king of everything!"
"I'm still all of those things!"
"Yeah, but what Marcel didn't understand, was the loyalty that comes with being a member of your family! Liam and Luna are different, they're wolves, loyalty is built into their DNA. And with what they've been through, they understand what it means to protect family no matter the cost. They're young, but they understand you in a way that Marcel could never hope to. They're your children Nik, it was always going to end up this way. And you know that! I mean, even Kol knows that! Just think about the way he treated Marcel, versus the way he treats the baby wolves…" Maya sighed, "If you want to freak out, freak out, you need to go kill someone, destroy something, go for it, because at the end of the day, that doesn't mean anything. The only thing that means something now, is those kids. Liam calling you daddy, is it going to change the way you treat him?"
Klaus shook his head, "Of course not! I'm not going to let a change in title affect me!"
"Exactly," Maya smiled, "You're not intimidated by a little word…you're the Original Hybrid!"
"Don't mock me!"
"I'm not!" Maya refuted, "You just needed to be reminded…if the kids call you daddy, that's fine, because it means that people will know, if they come for the children, then they'll have to suffer you…and won't that be fun?"
Klaus smirked at the thought of what he would do to his enemies, the idea that he could have a whole host of new people pop up to come for him, just because they would have thought he'd gone soft, only for him to make examples out of them, that made him smile, "You always know just what to say to me."
Maya shrugged, "I like to think that I know what you need…"
"I wonder if you'll be so calm and collected when one of the children calls you mummy."
"Wait what?"
"…"
"Nik? Nik what did you just say to me?"
"…"
"NIK?!" he'd hung up, "Motherfucker just hung up on me!"
/ / /
Klaus let out a little laugh as he hung up, perhaps that was a little mean, but it did make him feel better. His phone buzzed with a message from her, "You deserve everything that you get now!"
Raising an eyebrow, he wondered what that meant, he just didn't have to wonder very long. His phone trilled, it was Damon, "Shit," he muttered, before swiping to answer, and a very sleep mussed, shirtless Damon, appeared on screen.
"Nik!" Damon tapped his phone, "Just a sec, I want to make sure that everyone's on the call." A moment later, Kol's face popped up on the screen too, Enzo was smushed in with Damon, "Alright, now that everyone's here! Do you have little Werewolf children?" Damon asked.
"Bloody hell," Klaus rolled his eyes.
"Because if you have kids that are calling you dad, I better be the favourite uncle!"
Enzo shoved Damon out of the camera view, "Oh don't you dare Nik, I'm clearly the only candidate for favourite uncle!" Enzo protested.
Kol laughed, "Nice try boys, but I'm Nik's actual brother! I'm the only favourite uncle here."
"Oh please!" Damon scoffed, "No one is going to be the fun uncle except me! What are you going to do, teach them how to be British?!"
"Don't even-"
The three of them dissolved into an argument, and Klaus's eyes darted between the Vampires on his screen, "What has she done?" he whispered to himself, Maya had almost immediately got her revenge.
"I can't just leave town!" Stefan protested.
"Stefan! I have to get you locked down, and being in town with Damon is not going to help dry you out!" Lexi exclaimed.
"And you think me leaving Elena alone in town with Damon is going to help? She looks like Katherine! Damon's not just gonna leave her alone!"
"I gotta be honest Stefan, it doesn't even look like he cares, I saw him at the party last night, he didn't even glance at her when she came to the Grill, all of his attention was on his girlfriend and her friends. I mean, has Damon been interacting with Elena?"
Stefan paused at that, he had to think about the last time that Damon had even spoken to Elena, "Not really…but that could just be a part of his plan! He could just be waiting for me to drop my guard! If I leave, it gives him the perfect opportunity to go after her!"
Lexi rolled her eyes, "I'm not denying that that could be Damon's plan, but Elena knows what you are, she knows what Damon is, and you've given her vervain. The bottom line is, do you trust her?"
Stefan sighed, "Of course I trust her, she's nothing like Katherine. It's just…she doesn't know about the darkest parts of me yet, she doesn't know what I did!"
"You're worried that Damon will tell her," Lexi said in understanding.
Stefan nodded, "Yes!"
"And you're not ready to talk about that part of your life yet," Lexi sighed, "I get that, I really do, but if we don't dry you out now, it's only gonna get worse and then you could do the unthinkable and hurt Elena, I know you don't want that."
"How can I just leave her here when Damon's in town?"
"My ears are burning," Damon sang, walking into Stefan's room, "What are we talking about?"
"Just how much of a terrible person you are," Lexi said, "Honestly I don't know what Maya sees in you."
Damon smirked, "You'll have to ask her, but I'm pretty sure that it has something to do with my abs. She's got a real fascination with them."
"Ugh, gross!" Lexi wrinkled her nose, "I'm trying to convince Stefan to get out of town so that I can get him set back on track, not that you're any help."
"Awe," Damon held a hand over his heart, "Lemme guess, Stef's not happy to go, when that means that Elena's gonna be here in town, with me."
"That's about it," Lexi confirmed.
"Hey!" Stefan exclaimed.
"What am I wrong?" Damon asked.
"No," Stefan almost pouted, "I don't trust you with her."
"I wouldn't worry about it, I could not give less of a crap about Elena Gilbert, and if you don't believe me, believe that if I cheated on Maya, especially with Elena, she'd hex my junk off. And the fact of the matter is, I like my junk where it is."
Lexi snorted in amusement, "He does have a point."
"Speaking of," Damon said, "I should get going. We were up kinda late last night, and she asked me to pick her up a coffee," he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively and laughed at the twin looks of disgust on their faces, "Later!"
Caroline watched her mother nervously as the two of them made their way up the driveway of the Sommers house. Her confrontation with her mother hadn't exactly gone well, she didn't want to break Maya's trust, so she'd refused to answer her mom's questions, even the most innocuous ones, Liz had gotten mad at Caroline's lack of responses and sent her daughter to bed. Caroline had messaged Maya until the wee hours of the morning and still the two girls were unsure as to how Liz would react. Because as much as Maya's house, was Caroline's, the same could be said about Caroline's house for Maya. Maya was a permanent fixture in the Forbes home, which meant that she spent a lot of time with Liz.
Liz ignored her daughter's pointed stares, she couldn't believe that she was having to do this, couldn't believe that she was going to have to sit down and have a talk with Jenna and Maya about magic, hell she couldn't believe that Caroline had managed to keep something this big a secret from her. Ringing the bell, because she certainly didn't feel comfortable enough for Caroline to use her key, the two blondes waited for an answer.
"You're packing up?" Sheila asked Bonnie, watching her daughter throw her things in her bag.
"Dad doesn't like it when I stay here," Bonnie replied.
"That's because he's worried that I'm gonna fill your head with Witchy juju."
"Well, he's right," Bonnie turned to face her Grams.
"Before you go, we need to talk."
Bonnie eyed the serious look on her Grams' face, "This is about Maya isn't it?"
"Bonnie, you put yourself in serious danger going over there!" Sheila said, walking over to her granddaughter.
"Grams-"
"No Bonnie! I told you to stay away from her, and you went to her house! You confronted her, when you had no idea what she was capable of doing! And she hurt you!"
"She didn't hurt me!" Bonnie cut her off, "She didn't do anything, I know I shouldn't have gone there, but I did. And yeah, I got hurt, but not because she attacked me! Because she was protecting herself! Because she doesn't feel safe living in town with you! I've known her my whole life, and I don't like her! But she shouldn't feel scared of you just because of how she was born, that's not fair!"
"No!" Sheila held up a hand, stopping Bonnie, "What's not fair, is that she has a grimoire belonging to one of our most powerful ancestors, learning from it! When it doesn't belong to her!"
"What?" Bonnie asked.
"Emily Bennett's grimoire, the one that I needed to recreate the spell on the compass, Maya has it, she's had it for years, using it, when it should have come home to us!"
Bonnie frowned, she barely understood her magic, most of the time she wasn't sure that she wanted to, but she knew that that grimoire was important to her Grams, "How was she supposed to give it to you?" she finally asked, "You told her to stay away from me, and she did, you call her an abomination, why would she feel comfortable coming to you with it? She's only 17, Grams, who does she have to teach her any better?"
"Bonnie-"
"Did you even offer to help her when she was a kid? Or did you just treat her like a monster?"
Maya and Jenna sat opposite Caroline and Liz, in the den, "Tell me everything," Liz demanded, looking between the mother and daughter duo.
"Uh…it might be easier if you just ask questions, because I don't really know where to start." Maya replied.
"Alright," Liz said, "How long have you been like this? How long have you been a- a Witch?" she couldn't get over it, this was her daughter's best friend, and she had magic.
"Since birth, and just to clarify, I'm not a Witch, I'm a Siphon."
Liz closed her eyes for a moment, "What's a Siphon?"
Maya leant forward, "Well, a Siphon- a Siphon is someone with the ability to do magic, but not produce it. Essentially there are two types of magic users in the world, there are your normal, everyday, Witches, like Sheila Bennett. She was born with magic, she has her own…like…rechargeable battery, that she can draw on to cast spells. And then you have people like me, the freaks, the ones that aren't supposed to exist."
"Maya you're not a freak," Caroline said.
"It's okay Care, to the Witch world, that's what I am, a genetic mutation that was never supposed to occur." She smiled at her friend, but saw that Liz still looked confused, "Think of it like this, where Sheila has her own batteries, I need to be plugged in to the main power. I need to be touching something magic in order for me to be able to do it."
"And you've known what you are, your whole life?" Liz asked, "How did you get like this? Is it random? Genetic? Is-is Jenna?"
"No!" Maya shook her head, "Mom's not magic, what I am, it's genetic, which means that my dad has magic. But because Mom didn't have any magic of her own I didn't know what I was until I was five, and I came into contact with something magical and accidentally siphoned it. It was actually the first time I met Caroline," she looked over at her friend, giving her a soft smile, she didn't think that anybody but Enzo knew this part of her story, not really, "Caroline was just…so happy, and bubbly, and full of light, and to this day I have no idea what made her want to be my friend, but she chose me. I came into contact with Bonnie, I touched her hand, and…she had magic inside of her, I didn't know what I was doing, but my siphoning immediately kicked in. It must have shocked her, and she said that I hurt her. It upset me, it made me cry and then there Caroline was, sweeping in like some golden angel, taking care of me. I always said that she was special from the moment I met her…"
"You never told me that," Caroline said, moving over to sit by her friend, "I had no idea that that was what upset you."
"How was I supposed to explain it Care?" she squeezed Caroline's hand, "Anyway, that day, Sheila picked up Bonnie from Kindergarten, and Bonnie told her what happened, and she knew what I was. She told me to stay away from Bonnie, and magic, otherwise I'd suffer the consequences."
"Wait!" Jenna cut in, "Sheila threatened you when you were five?! Why didn't you tell me that was when that happened?!"
"Mom, you were already so pissed that Sheila even talked to me, I didn't want to set you off, I was a kid, there was no way that I could take her on if Sheila decided to hurt you!"
"You're saying that a grown woman threatened your life, when you were five." Liz repeated, "How could she do that?!"
"That's how she was raised Liz, Witches hate Siphons, it's been like that for as long as anyone can remember."
"That's no excuse, you were a child!"
"It's been over a decade, and it's not like I can do anything about it."
Liz shook her head, that was something that she'd have to revisit properly with Jenna at a later time, an adult threatening children wasn't something that she'd stand for as Sheriff, especially when that child was someone that she'd watched grow from a baby. "Fine, we'll come back to that later, how long has Caroline known?"
"What makes you think she knew?"
Liz rolled her eyes, "You two have been attached at the hip ever since you first met! There's no way that she didn't know, plus look at her face," she gestured at her daughter, "There's no shock, no indignation! She knew!"
Maya leaned over to Caroline and whispered, "You forgot to sell the shock."
Caroline's eyes widened, "My bad, Mom…I'm totally shocked." Liz scowled at her daughter, "Not buying it huh? Oh well, I tried."
"Care found out when we were 10."
Liz turned to Caroline, "You've known about magic for six years and you never told me!"
"It wasn't my secret to tell!" Caroline replied, "And it's not like you've been completely truthful! There was a Vampire running around town and you didn't tell me!"
"You know about Vampires?!" she turned to Maya, "Did you tell her?!"
"If I didn't tell her, then she wouldn't keep her vervain jewellery on."
"Vervain jewel- you gave her vervain jewellery?"
"I wanted to keep her safe," Maya shrugged, "I also made you protective jewellery, but you hardly ever wear it." She crossed her arms, pouting.
"Wait what?"
"Caroline and I were worried about you, so that bracelet that I made you for your birthday a few years ago has protections on it."
"It does?" Liz asked, taken aback.
"Yeah," Maya nodded, "It won't deflect bullets or anything, but it basically increases your luck, to the point where you'd rarely be hurt, because it decreases your chances of being in a seriously dangerous situation, and if you are in dangerous situation and get hurt, it won't be a serious injury."
"You did that for me?"
"Of course I did, you're my family Liz."
Monday afternoon had Caroline over at the Salvatore house, Maya was working on some project and had asked Caroline to stop by and pass some information over to Damon. "Hey Blondie," Damon said, opening the front door.
"Damon," Caroline replied, walking into the mansion.
"What's up?"
"Maya wanted me to tell you all about the newest member of the faculty…"
"You could have done that over the phone," Damon pointed out.
Caroline sighed, "Plus Mom is kinda pissed about the whole magic thing and took a page out of Jenna's parenting handbook."
"No Maya?" Damon asked.
"For a month!"
Damon winced, "Ouch! Alright, come on in, I guess you can help me plan out date night, Zo and I will have been together for 6 months in a few weeks and I figure I should make it special."
"Oh!" Caroline's eyes lit up, "I have a ton of ideas!"
Damon smirked and led her into the den, "What did you have to tell me about the school?"
"Oh right! So our new History teacher, Mr Saltzman, it turns out he's a Vampire hunter, that saw you bite his wife and has come here to kill you, because he thinks that you killed his wife. FYI you didn't, you turned her, also, his wife is Elena's biological mom…Elena's adopted, by the way."
"Seriously?" Damon complained, "How is this my life?!"
/ / /
Elena frowned as she walked up the driveway to the Boarding House, Stefan had told her that he was going to be out of communication for a couple of weeks, told her that there was something that he needed to do, and that he wouldn't be able to see her, but he wouldn't tell her why. If she and Stefan were going to be together then he couldn't keep secrets from her, so she was planning on surprising him at his house so that she could find out what was going on. She tried the door and was surprised to find it locked, the Salvatores never locked their door, ringing the doorbell, she waited outside for someone to answer.
/ / /
Caroline laughed as Damon looked through the piles of options that she'd come up with in the span of two hours, he was astonished at how many date ideas she'd managed to put together in such a short time. When the bell rung, she got up to go to the door, "I'll get it! You narrow down the options and I'll be right back!"
Opening the door, Caroline's smile turned to a frown when she saw who was there, "Elena, what are you doing here?"
"Me," Elena said, "My boyfriend lives here, what the hell are you doing here?"
"Damon and I are hanging out, what do you want?"
"Hanging out with your best friend's boyfriend, really classy Caroline," Elena scowled, "I'm here to see Stefan, just get out of my way." She tried to push past Caroline, but the girl blocked the doorway, refusing to move.
Choosing to ignore whatever it was the Elena was implying, Caroline kept a firm grip on the door, preventing Elena from getting inside, "I'm pretty sure, that you're not supposed to be here."
"Move Caroline!"
"I'm not letting you in."
"Wh-" Elena took a long hard look at Caroline, "You know," she said.
"Know what?" the blonde tilted her head quizzically.
"Cut the crap, you know what they are!" Elena hissed, "Of course Maya told you! And Damon just let her."
Damon heard what was going on and got up, rolling his eyes, he whooshed to the door, startling Elena, "First of all, I don't 'let' Maya do anything, she's an independent woman, and can do whatever she wants. Second, Caroline's Maya's best friend, what kind of boyfriend would I be if I made her keep a secret from her best friend? And third, this is my house, and like Caroline said, you're not meant to be here."
"I need to talk to Stefan."
"Baby brother's not here right now," Damon replied, grabbing hold of the door, moving Caroline out of the way so that he could shut it, "And before you ask, no, you can't wait for him inside."
"But-"
"I don't want you here Elena. If you want to talk to Stef, call him, and if he doesn't pick up, then he's busy." He moved her back and then slammed the door in her face, making sure to turn the lock so that she couldn't just barge in.
/ / /
Elena scowled as she spun on her heel and marched down the driveway, of course Caroline knew, she and Maya were always together, she couldn't believe it. Maya could tell Caroline whatever she wanted, but Elena didn't have anyone to talk to about her real boyfriend problems. That was it, she was going to talk to Bonnie, she had to speak to someone that wasn't a Vampire about Vampires.
Klaus had spent all of Sunday with Liam, the two of them locked in his studio, it had been an enjoyable day, his art was usually an outlet for him, the only thing in life he could guarantee complete control over, but that day, it had been used to bring comfort to someone other than him. That wasn't something that his art had done for almost 800 years. It had been an excellent day, right up until the point that Luna had realised that it meant that she wasn't allowed to join, at which point she'd thrown the ugliest tantrum he'd ever seen. It had taken him about an hour to calm her down, along with the promise of spending the next Sunday just with her, whatever she chose. Today was that day, and she had decided on a visit to the zoo first, then mini golf, then dinner at the 'Rainforest Café' he supposed that he should be lucky that she didn't pick some god-awful place like 'Chuck E. Cheese'.
Liam on the other hand, was going to spend the day with some of the other children in the pack, having finally settled down enough he'd started up some tentative friendships. He would hang out with them for most of the day and then some of the enforcers were going to have him run through some of the lower-level training exercises, to ensure that he would always be prepared for trouble, no matter what. No son of his would be caught by surprise by his enemies…Klaus paused, he'd just directly referred to Liam as his son.
Logan Fell left the news station late at night, with all the attacks that had happened in recent months, he wouldn't have allowed himself to work so late, but the Vampire that had been terrorising Mystic Falls had been caught and killed, so he was free to going back to work like normal.
He had just reached his car, when he was snatched away, "Wh-AHHHH!" he screamed, as fangs sank into his neck, and drained him of all of his blood.
The bell rang for the Salvatore Boarding House, and Damon opened the front door, surprised to see the Sheriff on the opposite side, "Sheriff, what a surprise!"
"Sorry to bother you, but we need to talk."
"Okay, come in," he motioned for her to enter, and he led to the back garden, where Maya was lounging on the patio furniture, reading a book, "I hope you understand the secrecy, Stefan doesn't know about this yet, and I'd like to keep it that way." Stefan was out of town with Lexi, but he had to keep up appearances.
"Of course," Liz nodded, as she followed him outside, "Kid's are too young to be brought into this. Maya," she greeted, still not all together comfortable with the idea that the little girl that she'd helped Jenna raise was not only aware of the supernatural, but also a member of the community itself.
"Hey Liz! What's up?"
"What did you need?" Damon asked.
"There's been another attack." Liz sighed, "Two victims, one female, her throat torn out, completely drained of blood, and the other…Logan Fell was found this morning in the parking lot of the news station, by his car."
"I'm sorry I don't understand," Damon said, "I thought that we solved that problem when I staked the male."
"I'm thinking he must have turned someone, or multiple someones, I don't know. The story is another animal attack, but I'm not sure how long we can keep lying to the town. The Council's in an uproar, we thought we were past this."
"So, uh, what do we do?"
"You…and Maya, are the only ones who have ever taken on a Vampire, we were hoping you could tell us."
"Right," Damon looked over at Maya in question, they weren't prepared for this.
"Of course this would be so much easier if we had the compass," Liz muttered.
"Oh," Maya frowned, "Yeah, that's my bad."
"You know about the compass?" Liz asked.
"Yeah," Maya said, sitting up, "I…may be the reason that it doesn't work anymore…"
"Maya!"
"I was seven! It was an accident! Before I knew what happened I siphoned all the magic away! I didn't mean to, I'm sorry!"
"What are we supposed to do now?"
"Well…I mean…I could probably make another one," Maya shrugged.
"You can? Why didn't you say anything before?"
"Hey! I offered to help Sheila when she came to me with the compass, but she refused, so I figured she had it covered."
"You can really make another one?"
Maya nodded, "Yeah, I'm pretty sure, it's better than doing nothing right?" she looked at Damon who nodded slowly, completely unaware of where she was going with this.
"Alright," Liz said, "I have to get back to work, but you keep me apprised, okay?"
"You got it Liz."
"Let me show you out," Damon said, motioning for Liz to go ahead of him, "What are you doing?" Damon whispered to Maya.
"Relax," Maya whispered back, "I'll make sure that it won't work on anybody we know!"
Maya was working on the spell for a new Vampire detecting compass, with a couple of tweaks of course, she couldn't let anyone on the Council touch this particular device unless she knew that the people that she cared about couldn't be identified. She'd called Klaus and he'd sent a message through to his Vampires, telling them to back off of town until further notice, she was nearly done with her spell, when Caroline burst into the room.
"Care!" Maya nearly dropped her new compass when the door flew open, "How many times have I told you, not to burst in like that when I'm working! Also how are you here? Didn't your mom ban you from coming over?"
"She's busy with the latest 'animal attack'," Caroline dismissed, "We have to talk!"
Putting the compass down, Maya turned to face her friend, "Okay, what's up?"
Caroline sat down heavily and stared at Maya unaware of where to start. "…"
"Caroline?"
"…"
"Sunshine, I can't read your mind."
"Okay, okay, okay," she started, "Okay, so, you know the party, that you asked me to throw?"
"Yes."
"Well, while you and the boys were scheming, I…was…talking to Matt…"
"What?!" Maya asked.
"You were busy! And I was lonely…and Matt was being weirdly sweet, and I know what you're gonna say! He's Elena's ex, he's still in love with her, you don't want me to get hurt. But I don't know what I want, all I know is that he's cute, and he might like me, and I might like him!" Caroline rushed out.
"Okay," Maya nodded.
"Okay? That's all you have to say?"
"What do you want me to say?"
"Something more than okay!"
"Alright…if you like Matt, you go for it, you've already listed a number of things that I believe could be issues, but I'm not gonna stop you. I am however, gonna mention just one thing and I hope that you really think about it. You've been flirting with Kol, and Kol's been flirting with you, and maybe…sometime down the road he might want to act on those flirtations…and Kol, much like his big brother, does not seem like the type to share, so just be clear on the fact that Kol might kill Matt if he thinks that he's competition."
"Oh my God you're right," Caroline blanched, "Kol's gonna murder Matt!"
"MAYA!" Jenna yelled from the bottom of the stairs, "LIZ IS ON THE PHONE, SHE SAID CAROLINE'S NOT HOME! SHE BETTER NOT BE HERE!"
Maya's eyes widened, "SHE'S NOT!" she yelled back, before turning to her friend, "Quick, out the secret exit!"
"The secret exit's only half built!"
"Well, you're gonna have to put your tumbling to the test because Mom cannot find you here!"
Luna skipped merrily to the next hole at the mini golf course, while Klaus followed behind her, holding both of the golf clubs over one shoulder, he couldn't believe that he was doing this, in fact, he was really glad to know that none of his siblings knew where he was, because he could imagine that there would have been a serious amount of blackmail pictures in the future.
"Okay it's your turn first!" Luna trilled gleefully. Sighing Klaus dropped the little golf ball on the mark and got ready to make his shot, "Wait!" Luna cried, she grabbed his hand and used all of her strength to pull him down to her level.
"Oof, Princess! What are you doing?!" Klaus hissed.
"Make sure you don't break this one!" she hissed back.
"I've been on this earth for a thousand years, I think I can control my strength!"
Luna rolled her eyes and pointedly looked over at the windmill that was missing one of its rotor blades, "Really?"
"That thing was frustrating as hell, I don't know how anyone could beat that one!"
"…"
He rolled his eyes, "Fine! I promise not to break this one!" Straightening up, he muttered something about rude little children and took his shot, sending the ball through the clown's mouth that was opening and shutting and sailing to the other side. "There see!"
Luna pushed him out of the way and had her go, the ball hit the closed mouth and bounced back, pouting she tried again, and again, but both times she failed and could feel herself getting angrier and angrier, she growled in frustration and her eyes glowed yellow.
"Hey Princess," Klaus said, crouching down in front of her, "It's alright love," he framed her face with his hands, and made her look at him, "Calm down, it's okay love, I'll help you, we'll work together." Luna visibly calmed and nodded, Klaus stood behind her, waiting until she has stopped shaking, "Alright, hit the ball in three, two, one."
This time the ball went through the clown's mouth, to the other side, and went straight in the hole, "YES!" Luna shrieked with joy, turning to Klaus and jumping on him, wrapping her arms around him, "This is the best day of my life Daddy!"
She ran off to collect the ball, while Klaus just stood there frozen for a moment with wide eyes, had she really just…? Did she…? Did she just call him Daddy?
/ / /
Kol pulled out his phone when it buzzed and he saw that it was a message from Nik, "Need you to go to the Penthouse and send me the tiara that is in the Victorian trunk next to that hideous statue that Elijah's so fond of."
"The one he stole from that German Salesman in the 1700s?"
"Yes!"
"Why do you need a tiara?"
"Because I don't think that I should buy a werewolf a pony."
Kol eyed his phone quizzically, what in the-?
/ / /
Maya sighed as her phone rang, it seemed like today she was just destined to be interrupted, it was Kol. "Kol, what's up?" she asked.
"Nik asked me to send him a tiara," Kol said, glancing at the phone screen whilst he rummaged through the trunk that his brother directed him to.
"What? Why?"
"I was hoping that you could tell me, because his answer was perplexing."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, at first, I thought that the tiara was for you, but that's not what he indicated…"
Maya stiffened at that, who was Klaus getting a tiara for then? "What exactly did he say?"
"He said that he didn't think that it was a good idea to buy a pony for a werewolf…"
Maya's jaw dropped, "Oh my God! What does the tiara look like?"
"Well if you give me a moment, I'll show you." Kol put the phone down and shifted more old trinkets out of the way, finally finding a small box, opening it, he found it, "Here we go." He picked up the phone and showed it to her.
"Holy shit!" Sparkling flowers and leaves adorned the headpiece, the rose-cut diamonds were set into silver and the frame was made of gold. "Don't you dare send that to him!" she said.
"But Nik asked for it!"
"I don't care, I'm gonna call him, I know exactly who that's for and it is not happening! I have to make a phone call, I'll talk to you later."
/ / /
Klaus's phone rang, and he picked it up with a smile, "Hello love."
"Niklaus Mikaelson! Why in the hell are you asking Kol to send you a tiara? Not just any tiara, the freaking Belle Époque Diamond Tiara! That's like a fifty thousand dollar piece of jewellery!"
"How did you know the name of that tiara?"
"Oh please, I'm friends with Caroline Forbes! I know princess shit! Now quit stalling and answer the question!"
"I wanted to give it Luna," Klaus shrugged.
"Because she's your little princess right?"
"She called me Daddy today."
"Oh Nik, honestly I'm so happy for you," she smiled, "But you are not giving her a tiara…or a pony!"
"But she called me Daddy! What am I supposed to do?"
"Oh. My. God. Did you get something for Liam because he called you Daddy?"
"…Maybe…"
"Have you given it to him?"
"Not yet," Klaus replied slowly.
"What did you get him?"
"…"
"Nik!"
"A quad bike," he finally said.
"A QUAD BIKE!" she yelled, causing him to actually wince at the volume, "No! Absolutely not Nik! If-Look, if you are going to make jokes about me being a…a Mommy, I can't believe I just said that, then I am making this decision! You are not to give Liam a quad bike, and you are certainly not giving Luna a tiara!"
"But-"
"No buts! I mean it! They're gonna turn out spoiled!"
"No they're not!"
"They're the children of the most powerful being on the planet! Of course they're gonna end up spoiled! And don't even think about going behind my back and getting Kol to send it to you, because I already told him not to!"
"Oh you think that Kol's going to listen to you over me?"
"Damn right I do! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my spells!" she hung up.
A message from Kol popped up on screen, "Maya told me not to send you the tiara, so I'm not going to."
Klaus frowned, "Traitor," he muttered.
Maya handed over the compass that she'd just spelled to Damon, making sure that it wouldn't point at him, "I've already checked with Enzo and a couple other Vamps I know in town, it won't point at any of you guys."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive," she nodded, "I tested it pretty thoroughly, besides, this isn't for the Council, consider this…the Salvatore device, to be kept in the family, at all times."
Damon put a hand over his heart, "For me? You shouldn't have!"
"Well I didn't just make one for you," she pulled a much smaller one out of her pocket, the kind that could be affixed to a necklace, "This is the Sommers device, and it's prettier than yours."
"Well now I'm offended."
Maya smirked and shook her head, tossing it to Enzo, "You take one half of town, Enzo, you take the other, find the Vampire, kill it, and call me."
"Where are you going?" Enzo asked.
"Careers fair, I wasn't planning on going, but now that Caroline's enduring a 'no Maya' punishment, legitimate school events are the only time we can see each other this month. I'll see you boys later."
/ / /
Mayor Lockwood walked up to the Sheriff, "What do we know?"
"Nothing new to report yet," Liz replied, "My highly reliable deputies are all on alert, but if you feel the need to be more proactive, by all means, grab a stake and have at it."
"What extra precautions can we take?"
"Right now, there's nowhere safer than a crowded public place, for once Mayor, we actually know where our kids are." Liz spotted Maya walking over to her with purpose, "And here comes another one of my precautions now." Maya had given Liz permission to tell the inner circle of the Council what she was, and Liz had thought that it was actually a good idea, if the main members of the Council knew that Maya was helping them, then it would keep her better protected from Sheila Bennett, should she get any ideas to make good on her threats.
"Hi Liz," Maya smiled, "Mayor," she nodded.
"Have you got any news?" Liz asked cautiously.
Maya pulled out a third small compass, the Mayor reached out to grab it, but she snatched her hand back, "Uh-uh, this isn't for you." She said, "It's the Forbes Compass," she handed it to Liz, "Only to be used with the permission of the Forbes family."
Liz looked startled, "You made it for me?"
"Well, I made one for me and Damon too, so now there's a Salvatore device, a Sommers device and a Forbes device," Maya shrugged.
"Wait, you can make more than one?" The Mayor asked.
"Well it's a big spell, but if you know what you're doing, then yeah."
"So why don't you make one for all the members of the Council? And the deputies?"
Maya looked at him incredulously, "I'm not a charity! I don't just give this stuff away for free! I made the compass for Liz because she's my best friend's mother, she's my family, and I love her, I want her to be safe. The same for Damon, and me, because obviously I love me. Anyone else can just suck it."
"Maya!"
"Sorry Liz! I'm gonna go find Caroline, because this is an official school event, which means that we can spend time together, as per your rules," she flounced off before Liz could stop her.
/ / /
Elena was looking over a couple of booths, when she spotted Matt, "You still wanna be an astronaut?" she asked.
Matt smiled, "I can't believe you remember that."
"I can remember the tinfoil that you wore on your head," she laughed.
"I was eight," Matt protested.
Elena gave him a soft smile and really took him in, his hair was scruffier than usual, and he had bags developing under his eyes, "How are you doing?"
"I've had it easier."
"You?"
/ / /
Caroline walked into one of the classrooms and saw Matt and Elena together, close, and talking to one another, as though they were the only two people in the room, and her smile dropped, she felt so stupid. Taking a step back, she slunk out of the room, bumping into her best friend, "Care?" Maya asked, the blonde didn't look happy, "What is it?"
Caroline shook her head, "Nothing, can we please just go?"
"What happened?" the Siphon asked worriedly.
"Nothing," Caroline said again, "I just feel so stupid, I should have known that it will always be Elena for him!" she brushed past Maya.
"Caroline!" Maya called, "Caroline!" she chased after her friend.
/ / /
"I heard about you and Caroline," Elena said.
"Uh, man," Matt rubbed the back of his head, giving her a sheepish look, "Not you too. We're friends." Elena shot him a disbelieving look, "It's not a big deal."
"No?"
"No," Matt shook his head, looking at Elena seriously, "You know I still care about you."
"Matt-"
"I know, I know, you're with Stefan, and that's not changing anytime soon, but I just want you to know that Caroline and I aren't a thing."
/ / /
Liz was walking around the inside of the school when she heard her name from behind her and turned around, "Logan," she said in shock reaching for her weapon instinctively. It had been a deputy that found Logan's body in the parking lot, so they had opted to bury him quickly to stop anyone from finding out.
"What are you gonna do, stake me? Bury me in another shallow grave. What would you say to my family this time?"
"I didn't have a choice," Liz said.
"You bitch," Logan moved in closer to her, "I died for you, for this town. You've known me since I was six," he spat angrily, "And you swept me under the rug like dirt."
"You knew what you were getting into."
"I was one of you!"
"And now you're one of them."
Logan sneered at her, "Watch your back Sheriff," he walked into the crowd.
Liz dialled the station before he was even out of her sight, "Get a backup team to the school immediately. Keep it within the circle. It's a V5." She hung up and dialled Damon's number too, "Damon," she said when he picked up, "It's Logan Fell! He's at the school!"
"I'm on my way." Damon replied, hanging up and whooshing towards the school.
/ / /
Jeremy ran to catch up with Tyler, he'd just found out that the older boy liked to draw and wanted to talk to him. "I didn't know you drew," he said.
"It's an elective," Tyler replied.
"Cause it's good stuff, you like graphics? Because that's kind of my thing-"
"Whoa, whoa. What are you doing?" Tyler asked.
"Well it's just something else we have in common." Jeremy shrugged.
"And what's the other thing? Vicki? Let's hang out because we did the same chick? Go be friends with one of the many other guys that she screwed. There's no shortage of 'em."
Jeremy scowled and shoved Tyler up against the locker, punching him in the stomach.
"Hey, hey, hey!" The Mayor rushed over along with the new history teacher, Alaric, "Break it up!"
"Alright work it out tough guy," Alaric said, pulling Jeremy away from the older boy.
"You two," The Mayor said, "Follow me."
"Excuse me, Mayor, where are you taking them?" Alaric asked.
"I'm gonna talk to them," Richard replied, "All fights should end in handshakes, don't you think?" he pushed the boys in front of him, directing them to one of the emergency exits.
/ / /
Caroline was on the edge of the school parking lot when a car pulled up in front of her, it was Logan Fell, her eyes widened, she was sure that Maya had said that he was dead. "You need a ride?" he asked, shooting her a charming grin.
"Uh, no thanks," she replied, taking a step back.
"Come on, I used to babysit you Caroline, I'll take you home."
"No, it's fine," Caroline said, "I just needed some air, I'm going back inside now."
Logan got out of the car and took a step towards her, "Oh, come on," he grabbed her wrist but let go when it burned him, "Aah! Vervain!" his monster came out and Caroline gasped, "Look's like someone's in the know," he said.
Caroline made to run, but he grabbed her, "Let go!" she yelled, "Help! FIRE!" she screamed.
Logan snarled and slammed her against the car, causing her to hit her head, "Finally, some piece and quiet."
/ / /
Maya was looking through each of the classrooms, searching for her best friend, when a stone on her bracelet heated up. She'd made a bracelet, linking to Caroline, Jeremy and her mother, each of them had their own bracelets to match, each stone was connected to a different person, and would heat up if someone was in danger. "Caroline!" she gasped, just then, Jeremy's stone heated up too. "Oh no!" she could sense that Jeremy was closer, pulling out her phone she called Enzo, "Zo, Caroline's in trouble!"
"I'm already on my way!" he replied.
Maya raced outside and found Jeremy and Tyler facing the Mayor, Jeremy looked nervous, he was fiddling with the bracelet that she'd given him.
/ / /
"Okay let's get this out of your system," Richard said, "Go ahead, fight."
"You want us to what?" Jeremy asked.
"I'm not gonna fight him Dad," Tyler said.
"I don't think so, sir," Jeremy made to leave but the Mayor stood in front of him.
"You don't fight in there, like pansies. You take it outside, fight your battles like men, and move on. That's the lesson that my dad taught me, so let's settle it. Fight."
"Come on, Dad."
"No, it's not gonna happen." Tyler said, and he tried to leave.
"I said fight!" Richard said, shoving him back.
"HEY!" Maya yelled, running up to them.
"Whoa!" Alaric said, "What's going on out here?"
"I'm just letting these two kids work it out," Richard said, "We're good here, go back inside."
"I don't wanna go back inside," Alaric replied, "What I want is an answer to my question. What's going on out here?"
Maya grabbed Jeremy's arm, checking over her cousin before glaring at the Mayor.
"Who do you think you're talking to?" Richard asked, walking over to Alaric. "Do I look like a student?"
"No." Alaric replied, "You look like a full-grown alpha-male douche bag."
"You don't talk to me like that," Richard said, taking another step towards the History teacher. "I could have your job like this," he snapped his fingers.
Alaric let out a condescending chuckle, "You do that, then it'll be you and me in this parking lot, working things out. You cool with that?"
"You just marked yourself."
"Okay," Alaric nodded.
The Mayor turned to Tyler, motioning for him to go, and he moved to follow, but was stopped by Maya, "Mayor Lockwood," Maya scowled, looking up at him, "Not a smart move, pissing me off," she hissed, "That's my cousin, and if you remember, I told you that I protect the people that I love, you're lucky I didn't set you on fire."
She moved back to Jeremy giving him another quick look over, "You good?"
"Yeah," Jeremy nodded.
"Go inside, Caroline's in trouble, I've gotta go."
Jeremy's eyes widened in alarm, "Go!"
Maya rushed off and Alaric watched her go, "What did she just say to the Mayor?" he asked, he could have sworn he heard something about setting him on fire.
"Nothing!" Jeremy replied, turning around and heading inside.
/ / /
Liz was in her car, driving away from the school when her phone rang, "Where are you?"
"I didn't know you told your daughter about Vampires Liz, she made a valiant effort trying to get away."
"What do you want?"
"The satisfaction of turning your daughter into a Vampire." Logan grinned, he brought the car to a stop, and turned to Caroline, he was going to make her mother listen to him kill her.
Enzo ripped the door open and yanked Logan out of the car, pulling out a gun filled with wooden bullets he fired four shots into Logan's body, stalking up to him as his body dropped, "Who turned you?" he asked.
"I don't know!" Logan said, struggling to get up.
Enzo shrugged, "Oh well," he aimed his gun but Logan held his hands up.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! I do know!"
"You're lying." Enzo replied.
"No I'm not," Logan gasped, getting to his knees, "You think you're the only ones that want to get into that tomb? There's more than one way to break the spell! We can help you."
Enzo narrowed his eyes, crouched down, reached out and grabbed Logan by the throat with one hand, and used the other to press the gun directly to his chest, right above his heart, "I'll let you in on a little secret," he whispered, "We opened that tomb four years ago." Logan's eyes widened in fear, but it was too late, Enzo had already fired the shot that killed him.
Damon picked up the phone when he heard Liz's voice on the other end, "Logan, what happened? Logan?!"
"Sheriff, it's Damon," he moved over to the other side of the car, biting into his wrist, his blood dripped between Caroline's parted lips, her eyes fluttered open and she gripped his wrist more tightly and took a few mouthfuls of blood.
"Where's Caroline?"
"She's okay, uh, I'm on Elm Street." Enzo picked up the body and shoved it into the trunk of the car, before rushing over to Damon and Caroline's side.
Caroline gasped as she healed, looking around frantically for her attacker, "Easy love," Enzo said, as Damon pulled her out of the car and to her feet, "He's dead, we got him."
Caroline let out a little sob and threw herself at both Vampires, they wrapped their arms around her as she cried, "It's okay Gorgeous, we got you."
Damon stiffened as he heard the wailing of a siren getting closer, "Zo you gotta go, find Red, she's gotta be freaking out." Enzo dropped a kiss on Caroline's crown before he whooshed away. "Hey," Damon spoke softly, stroking her hair as she wept, "You're okay, we've got you, I promise." He held onto her tightly as the police car swerved to a stop and Liz rushed out.
"Caroline!" she cried, running up to her daughter.
"It's okay," Damon said, "She's okay."
Caroline moved from Damon's arms, straight into her mothers, "Mommy!" she cried.
"Oh Honey," Liz wrapped her arms tightly around her daughter, she looked up at Damon, fighting off tears. The Salvatore gestured at the trunk of the car and Liz nodded, and mouthed 'Thank you', to him, squeezing her daughter tighter, "Let's get you home," she said to Caroline.
"I'll take care of this," Damon nodded to the car.
/ / /
Enzo found Maya at the school, calmed her down and whooshed her to Caroline's house, the Sheriff having arrived only a few minutes before. The red-head burst through the front door and headed straight to Caroline's room, where she found the blonde and her mother curled up in bed. She paused in the doorway, but Liz reached out her hand and gestured for her to join them. Maya dived under the covers, on the other side of the teen, wrapping her arms tightly around the blonde, she didn't want to let the girl out her sight ever again.
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