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I'm very busy this weekend, so you won't get an update on Saturday or Sunday :( sorry, hope this short update tides you over!
Yukihino-Sama: Don't scream, even if he asks, she won't do it!
polkadotharrys: I haven't come up with what I want to do with Aurora just yet, it will all depend on where we are in the story, and where Maya is in life and how strong she is.
RomanticBlondie: Do you think that Bekah and Maya would get along, I think there's a real possibility, but I don't want Caroline to get jealous if that does happen, I feel like Caroline might see it as being replaced by an older, stronger, blonde.
Saiyanprincess1511: Maybe she did, maybe she didn't, we don't know what her purpose was for showing up. Possessive Klaus always wins for me!
lillen20: The ring is modelled off of the 'Fawn Leaf Ring' on REGALROSE. I bought one for myself and it actually inspired me to get Nik to give the ring to Maya.
KEZZ 1: Thanks! Hope you enjoy!
Twihardkarebear38: Klaus isn't ready to say the words, so his actions have to speak for him, so the ring had to be it!
dontlivetoimpressothers: Thank you for reading!
Pinklips90: I dunno, I like keeping the siblings in the dark! It's kind of fun!
Anna Paula: Thank you! I hope you continue to enjoy!
Careena1: It is, Klaus can't say the words, so the ring has to speak for him, plus he called her his 'Alpha Female' showing that he fully expects her to be by his side as he rules.
Serena Salvatore: I thought it was very on point for Klaus, who's getting in touch with his wolf side even before he breaks his curse. I think Stefan is more affected by all the Katherine news, than anyone else, especially because it seems like Damon isn't fazed by it.
MizzRKOANIMALCENA: It's not that much of a cliff hanger! I really appreciate the review, I love to know when people enjoy my writing. I'm trying to make the relationships, and character growth as organic as I can, so thanks for letting me know that Bonnie's is believable, I was really worried that it would be considered too abrupt. Thank you!
WiseGirlDivergence46: Glad you liked it!
MarinaBee7462: Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it!
NaRuKo-InuTaiSHo-XD: Please enjoy!
TikiKiki: Neither can I, I'm getting more excited the closer I get! Thank you!
LifePrice1412: Oh okay, I had no idea, I just picked Maine because it was close to New York, but not too close.
Nicolle Cullen Masen: Stefan's not gonna get better yet, it's still Season 1, and I found him so annoying at the beginning.
Scarlet Nerd: If you're only halfway through, you probably won't see this at the time of posting, but thank you for your support. I hope that you continue to like this story as it goes on, I really appreciate that you like it, and that you're enjoying the relationship developments between the characters.
Dark Angels and Light Angels: I might address it, I'm not sure, mostly because I'm not sure that I would be able to do it justice, and I don't want to make light of it, or portray it incorrectly, if I do, it will be after Katherine makes her return, it could actually be a reason why Stefan is low key freaking out about the fact that she's somewhere out there. I don't think the show really addressed it, and I'm surprised that more people don't find parallels between Stefan – Katherine and what Damon did to Caroline.
MiaSlytherin: Hope you enjoy this next chapter!
Felinegreat: Of course it was soundproofed! You think Klaus would have said any of that, if he knew that his siblings could overhear him?!
Guest: Thank you! I'm building so much anticipation for Klaus and Maya, I only hope that I can do it justice. Hope you enjoy this next chapter!
silverblade243: Thank you! You have so many questions that I can't answer because they would be spoilers! But here's what I can give you: Miranda will confront Jenna about Maya's magic, very soon in fact. I can't tell you much about the Gemini Coven, just that they may show up earlier than expected...maybe! I don't know if Jeremy will still become a Hunter yet, I haven't made that decision, the whole cure thing could go several different ways, and I'm not sure how I want to work it in yet. But theoretically, yes, Maya should be able to siphon the tattoo because it's made of magic, and hidden with magic.
Maya had fallen into a deep sleep, smile on her lips, feeling as safe as she could possibly be, wrapped in Klaus's arms. Unfortunately, her sleep wasn't as calm or as restful as she wanted it to be. That night she was drawn into something she'd never experienced before, it started 6000 years ago, her life, not the whole thing, just the high lights, her family, her friends, her joy, her husband, and then of course her death. But her dream didn't stop there, the next thing she knew, it was maybe a thousand years later when she had her first rebirth, as a human this time, at the end of the stone age. Her life was short, painful, bloody, almost like it was a punishment for coming back from the dead. Her first human life was agony, and the next life after that wasn't much better, she was human again, treated like dirt, like she was worthless, and her death was just as horrific as her last two, and it just continued, life after life, death after death, they poured into her dream, unrelenting, unstoppable, uncaring of what they were doing to her.
Klaus woke to Maya tossing and turning, he called to her, he shook her, he tried as hard as he could to wake her, and in the end, he resorted to diving into her mindscape to find her. "Love," he said, as he came across her, watching as another version of her, lived and died.
"Nik," she gasped, seeing him, "What are you doing here?"
"You're having a nightmare Love, I'm trying to wake you."
The Siphon shook her head, "I'm not dreaming…I'm remembering."
"Remembering what?"
"Everything," she turned back to the vision behind her, "Every life, full of pain, and suffering, every death, an agony, a punishment! I can feel it all!"
"That's impossible, no Old Soul remembers." Klaus said, that was something that had been made very clear to him, centuries ago.
"Why is she doing this to me?" she asked.
"Who's doing this?"
"Mother Nature," she looked up at Klaus, wincing as she felt the sharp stab of an invisible knife in her gut, mirroring her 10th past life, "She came to me when I was healing Rebekah, this must be why-Aah!" she cried out and nearly collapsed, he gripped her tight to stop her from falling.
"Maya!"
"She couldn't get to me the way she did before," she panted, "I can-uh- I can feel everything happening to them!"
"Let's get out of here!" he said, and tried to pull them both out of her mind, but he couldn't "Bloody hell! I can't!"
"She's gonna make me live through it all! I can't stop it Nik!" her fingers tightened on his arm, as she took the pain of yet another death. They were all relatively the same, sometimes she came back as a Witch, most of the time she came back as a human, and then there was one time that she came back as a Werewolf. It was a thousand years ago, and she gasped as she recognised one of the men in her village, "Oh God!"
"What is it?" Klaus asked, eyes flitting between both her, and the vision.
"I know him! This isn't gonna be good."
"What? Who is it?"
"It's your father!" she whispered, staring at Ansel, who was holding council with his Werewolves.
"What?" Klaus's eyes locked onto the man she was staring at.
"That's Ansel, he's your biological father, which means…"
"Mikael's going to kill you," Klaus said, coming to the grim realisation that she was about to suffer a terrible end, at the hands of his own tormentor.
"Here he comes," she said, seeing The Destroyer, newly turned, furious, with a sword in hand, and he tore through the pack, "Don't watch," she said, "You shouldn't see this!" She realised that she was going to stay alive long enough to witness Ansel's violent death. She looked up at him, "Nik!" she pulled his attention to her, "Nik don't watch!" He tried not to, but he couldn't help it, his eyes were drawn to the scene before them, Mikael tore apart his father, and when he was dead, Mikael made his way to Maya's past self, and drove a sword through her heart. Maya clutched her chest and cried out.
Klaus immediately focused his attention on her, and was reminded of his own death, of the feeling of the sword his father drove through his heart, and pulled her closer to him, "I'm here Love," he whispered, "I've got you," his father had murdered her, just like he'd done to the rest of his family. In that moment, Klaus wished that he could feel the pain for her, she shouldn't have to suffer like this because of him.
Maya rested her head against his chest, wrapping her arms around him and holding on as tight as she could, "It's okay," she panted, "It's okay, there can't be that many left." But she was wrong, it wasn't just one or two more lives, it was seven more times. 80 years after Mikael killed her, it was Finn, the family were on the run together, when Finn met Sage, the problem was, Maya's past self was at odds with her, and because of it, Finn drained her dry.
60 years after that, in Greece, Maya's past self was a Witch again, a part of the Gemini coven, and she fell in love with the daughter of the leader, Cassandra, a daughter that was a Siphon. They were happy, for two years, when Aurora, Tristan and Lucien came through her coven's territory, Aurora in one of her moments of clarity, had taken a liking to Maya, wanted to keep her as a pet, and Lucien, wishing to indulge the woman that he loved, murdered Cassandra, but she died with Vampire blood in her system, and came back more powerful than ever. Cassandra couldn't control the blood lust, she became a Ripper, and on a night, when she was overwhelmed by the thirst, she killed Maya. The red-head couldn't help but shed a tear at that, she could feel everything, including the love she'd felt for Cassandra, and the betrayal she'd felt as her life was drained away.
150 years later, Maya came back as a human, a servant in a rich household, when Kol arrived, he was vile, vicious, violent without a care in the world, he murdered his way through the entire town, ending with the servants of the master. He broke her arms, and then compelled her to run, and she did, she ran as far and fast as she could, but he caught up with her, and sank his fangs into her neck, draining her of her life in an instant, and leaving her body to the elements. Maya whimpered in fear, she knew that Kol was bad, she knew that he was a monster of the highest order, but that he'd done this to her, he was her teacher, her friend, and he'd unleashed his savagery upon her in the worst way imaginable.
90 years after that, it was Rebekah that ended her life. Maya was engaged to a man whom Rebekah believed that she loved, and the blonde Original was not happy. Rebekah used Maya's servants to lure her out of her home, she had written a note in the guise of her fiancé, asking to meet her at the nearby lake. The youngest of the Mikaelsons had been particularly cruel, she'd compelled Maya to walk into the lake, to hold herself under, even when she ran out of air, and the next morning Maya was found dead, floating in the water.
22 years later Maya was born a Witch again, but at the age of twenty was turned into a Vampire, this was the first, and only, time she'd been a Vampire, it had also been her longest life, she'd lived 70 years. Until she fell in with the Mikaelsons in England, was entrusted with being one of Katerina Petrova's guards, the night Katherine escaped, Trevor had broken her neck, taken the doppelgänger and fled. Maya had woken in chains, hanging from the ceiling. Elijah had tortured her for information, believing that she had aided in the escape, and when he was finally satisfied with her answers, he'd removed her head from her shoulders.
A century after that, Maya met Freya for the first time, the Mikaelson Witch had just recently escaped Dahlia's clutches, she didn't trust anyone, mortal, Witch, Vampire, Werewolf, it didn't matter, Freya had to make sure that anyone that had seen her, did not live to tell the tale. Freya had been as kind as she could be though, opting for a swift snap of her neck, nothing too painful but still, it was a shock to Maya's system.
With each death that they witnessed, Klaus's grasp on her tightened, every member of his family had murdered her at one point, Klaus didn't like the way this was heading, "No," he whispered, he recognised the surroundings, he remembered this night, "No, no, no!" 271 years later, it was 1863, one year before the Salvatores had been turned, and the closest to Katerina he'd been in over a century at the time. "Maya don't look," he said, trying to direct her gaze to him, but he couldn't, neither one of them could move. Katherine was travelling with Maya's past self, this version of her a young unskilled Witch who'd put Katherine on the path to locating the latest Bennett Witch. Katherine had heard rumours of Klaus being nearby, and fled, setting up Maya to take the fall for her, and take the fall she did. "Close your eyes," Klaus said, as he watched a version of him stalk towards Maya.
"I can't," Maya whispered, feeling utterly broken, she knew what was about to happen, knew that she was about to witness the one thing that she didn't know if she'd be able to get past. She tried to prepare herself, but nothing could have prepared her for what was to come.
"You're the Witch that has been aiding Katerina," the past version of Klaus spoke, watching in amusement as the Witch quaked in fear before him.
"I-I don-don't know who you-you're talking about," Maya stuttered, trying to get away from the Original, but she couldn't, she'd been backed into a corner, with no means of escape. She wasn't powerful, and even if she was, she'd had barely any tutoring.
Klaus tutted as he came even closer to her, "You can't lie to me Witch, I can hear your heartbeat. Where's Katerina?"
Maya shook her head, "I-I don't know."
Klaus rolled his eyes, "I find that hard to believe, every rumour I've heard points to you Witch, she came to you for help."
"I don't know where she is!" Maya cried, her terror taking over, "I swear, I couldn't help her!"
Klaus snarled, shooting forward, picking her up by her throat, choking her, his monster on full display, "WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!" he yelled.
"Nothing!"
"LIES!" Klaus buried his fangs in her throat, without an ounce of gentleness, and she screamed, he pulled back with a grin, face bloody, "I've been alive 800 years," he whispered to her, causing her to whimper in fear, "The ways that I could hurt you are endless, such a shame your body won't be able to handle it." He watched her with a cruel glint in his eye, "I suppose I could always turn you, make your torment last for years."
"No! Please! No!"
"Then TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!"
"Katherine Pierce!" Maya cried out, "Her name's Katherine Pierce now! She's been searching for a Bennett Witch! That's all I know! I swear!"
Klaus smiled, "That is enlightening," he cocked his head, regarding the broken, bleeding Witch before him, she'd just provided him with invaluable information, he knew exactly what area in which he could start looking for a Bennett Witch. He supposed in return for her cooperation, he could give the Witch a swift death. In an instant his hand was buried in her chest, and he tore her heart out.
"NO!" Klaus yelled, finally able drag them both from the terrible visions that they'd been subject to. Maya woke with a cry, she tumbled out of the bed and scrambled backwards, until she was curled up against the wall. "Maya!" Klaus said, moving to her.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!"
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