A/N: I'm sorry I've been gone so long, there was a death in my family, and I lost someone that I love so much. It's been really hard for me and my family, and I honestly have no idea what I'm supposed to do without them in my life. So I haven't been in a writing mood. I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, but please be patient with me.

Makaila Horinek: Thank you, people have already asked, but Maya's father is not Kai Parker, her biological father so far is irrelevant, the only thing he contributed to her was his DNA. She is related to the Gemini Coven through her father, but he was nothing special.

Redorlem: Hope you enjoy this.

guest: I always found Season 1 Stefan annoying, hopefully as we move into the other seasons, he'll grow on you.

xotinkerbella: Yes, this was a painful chapter, and it completely rocketed Klaus and Maya's progress back, but as you pointed out, it did give Rebekah and Klaus the opportunity to start repairing their relationship. Mother Nature can't die, she's a supreme being, sorry.

twibe: It's all part of Nature's plan to try and stop Maya, sorry.

Starhunter18: Thank you!

voicesofmelodies: Sorry I've been gone so long, if you read my A/N at the top, you'll know why, but I'm trying to get back to things. So hope you enjoy.

lillen20: Mother Nature's doing all she can to prevent what she believes to be a disaster in letting the Vampire Race continue to survive, and one of those things she's doing, is trying to break Maya.

KEZZ 1: Thank you!

WiseGirlDivergence46: Sorry!

Kingola: The whole point of Freya being needed for the ritual has already been explained, Klaus being tied to Elena's blood isn't something that he's going to want, and the only one who can undo it, is a Witch of Esther's bloodline. I'm sorry you're not enjoying the pace of the story, but I have a plan of how things are going to go, and I'm not deviating from it.

Nicolle Cullen Masen: Thank you! Caroline's going to be just as protective of Maya as the rest of them are, but the fact that she has a connection with Kol does mean that she may have a different perspective on things, and may try to help Klaus out a little.

MarinaBee7462: It's sad, but it will give Maya time to grow, and Klaus to possibly repair his relationship with Rebekah and Elijah, because he's just been avoiding them completely.

AngelColdHeart: Thanks!

sammyleann: Non taken, Grams does need to be dealt with, but I've got a plan for her…it's definitely going to be surprising for you.

Felinegreat: Sorry!

Anna Paula Cozac: Don't worry, they will get together, don't forget, Maya knows exactly who Klaus is, and how violent and dangerous he is, she was just never expecting to experience it for herself.

NaRuKo-InuTaiSHo-XD: Thank you!

ObsidianSunlight: Thank you, the script adding is mostly just for the first season, of course I'll be using lines from the show from the iconic characters, but as more moves away from canon, the less the script will be there. I will be skipping whole parts of the story, I mostly want to get the Miss Mystic Pageant done for Caroline, Katherine and Mason's arrival, and the Masquerade, at which point we'll be moving into Klaus's arrival to Mystic Falls, because once Katherine is locked up, he can show up, without having to worry about her running off.

poyochan: That's probably one of my favourite unintentional funny lines.

sam: You're welcome.

Guest: I can't wait for Jenna to find out the Elijah's an Original, actually I can't wait for Maya to find out that Elijah is her mother's New York booty call!

Lourdes08: Thank you!

The next day, Jenna was in the kitchen making lunch for the girls, she wasn't a stellar cook like Maya was, but she could make the basics, and her daughter wasn't really up for much at the moment. She was at the stove, when there was a knock at the front door. Damon and Enzo were out feeding, so she went to answer it, opening the door, she immediately moved to slam it shut when she saw who it was.

"Jenna wait!" Klaus exclaimed, his foot preventing the door from shutting all the way, "I just want to see her!"

"Well she doesn't want to see you!" she replied with a scowl, one hand on her hip, the other on the door, ready to shut it.

Klaus frowned, "You can't stop me from seeing her," he made to move forward, but was stopped by an invisible barrier, he looked at Jenna incredulously.

Jenna glared at him, "Damon signed the apartment over to me, and I'm not inviting you in." She slammed the door in his face, ignoring the snarl that he let out, and went back to making the girl's lunch. If she had her way, Klaus Mikaelson wouldn't be allowed anywhere near her daughter, ever again.

Rebekah walked back into Klaus's apartment, only to find her brother destroying everything in sight, "What's happened?" she asked Kol.

"Maya's mother arrived, and changed ownership of their place upstairs," Kol replied wryly, "He can't get in anymore."

Rebekah turned to her elder brother, "Honestly Nik, do you really think that this is helping anything?"

Klaus snarled, and ignored his sister, intent on decimating everything. "He's not really in the mood to talk," Kol supplied, less than helpfully. Rolling her eyes, Rebekah turned on her heel and made to leave, "Where are you going?" Kol asked.

"I'm going to see what all the fuss is about," she replied, and whooshed upstairs.

Realising what she meant, Kol sped after her.

/ / /

Caroline was closest to the door when she heard a knock, she opened it, her expression turning neutral when she was faced with the Original sister. "Can I help you?" she asked.

Rebekah raised an eyebrow at the girl's impudence, "Where's the Witch?" she asked.

"You mean Maya?" Caroline replied with a scowl, immediately recognising Rebekah's 'mean girl tactics' dismissing Maya's importance by not referring to her by name.

"Yes."

"She can't come to the door right now, and unfortunately, I'm not taking messages," she slammed the door in the Original's face, and made to move away, but there was another knock, letting out a displeased sound, she opened the door again, this time, Kol stood there with a smirk.

"Hello Darling."

Caroline scowled and slammed the door shut again.

"Caroline!" Kol called and she sighed, opening the door for a third time.

"What?!"

"We just want to talk Darling."

"You're not speaking to Maya," she looked between the two Originals, "Neither one of you are."

"Love we don't want to upset anyone, but we need to talk to her."

Caroline scoffed, "After what you did, I don't think so."

"Ah, she told you," Kol's smirk disappeared.

"No, Damon told me, Maya's too freaking traumatised to talk about it! She won't even leave her room!"

Rebekah rolled her eyes, "Come now, don't you think she's being a tad dramatic? It's not like Nik even knew her then!"

"Well when you're tortured and then murdered by the people that you love, maybe you'll think differently," Caroline shot back.

"Nik never tortured her!"

"No, but he did," Caroline nodded at Kol, and he grimaced in response, "You're her teacher Kol, her confidant, one of her best friends, she loves you! And you tortured her. I know that you didn't know each other, but she's just lived it again, she felt it again, she doesn't want to see you, she doesn't want to see anyone right now."

"Caroline-"

"I know Kol, but she's not ready, and I'm not going to let you push her."

Kol frowned, he knew that this would be hard for her, he knew that she wouldn't react well, but he hoped that her experience as an Old Soul would have desensitised her to it, unfortunately it hadn't, "You'll let me know when I can speak to her?" he asked.

Caroline's gaze softened, "Of course I will," she replied, she heard movement from behind her, and knew that it was either Damon or Enzo who would be making their way over, "You have to go," she said, she didn't want to a fight to break out, and Enzo was still fuming.

Kol nodded, "I'll see you soon Darling." He whooshed out of sight, taking Rebekah with him.

"I think…I think I need a break," Maya finally said from her place curled up on the bed.

Enzo perked up at the sound of her voice, "A break from what?"

"Magic," she replied.

"Sweetheart-"

"Every time I do a big spell, it's used to hurt me. Every time, Enzo. I found the moonstone, and Esther tried to kill me, I made moonlight rings, and Mother Nature tried to drown me, and now I save Rebekah and she reminds me of every bad thing that has ever happened to me!" She let out a disbelieving laugh, "I'm just lucky that you never killed me in a past life, otherwise I'd probably go completely insane!"

"Alright Love," Enzo held his hands up placatingly, "Maybe you're right, you do need a break."

"Yeah! The only problem is I have no idea how to do that! Lexi told all her friends about the jewellery website, so my orders have gone through the roof! Bree wants another 15 cases of the hangover-less booze. There's the Hybrid curse that needs to be broken and oh yeah, I still need to make sure that the Vampire race doesn't go extinct!"

"Relax Love, I'm sure that Davina will be more than happy to pick up the slack of the website," he held up a hand to stop her from interrupting, "And Caroline can design the pieces. Damon will let Bree know that you're on a break and she'll be fine with it, Kol and Freya can focus on the curse, you've given them more than enough information to work with. And as for making sure that Vampires don't die out, you've taken care of all the White Oak."

"But-"

"The Originals can take care of themselves, they have done so for a thousand years, they can do it for a little while longer."

"You think so?" Maya asked, trying to predict what would happen if she left all the Originals to their own devices for a while, "What would I even do? I've never had a break before."

Enzo shrugged, "How about you try just being a normal teenager for once."

Maya made a face, "That doesn't sound like fun."

Elena paced her room, she was home alone for the first time in a while, things had been awkward for her since she found out that she was adopted, she didn't know how to confront her mother about it, did Miranda know her birth parents? If she did, what happened to them? Why was her name down on the birth certificate if she was adopted? And how would Elena even explain how she knew? She couldn't say that Stefan had looked into her life, because she looked exactly like a Vampire. And yet, she couldn't keep avoiding her mother, she knew that Miranda was getting suspicious, but she had no idea what to say. What would she tell Jeremy? She and her baby brother hadn't been on the best of terms lately, but they were still family. Would he feel the same way after he found out? Shaking her head, she needed to speak to Stefan, or Bonnie, she needed to talk to someone that knew what was going on.

Sheila was deep in the woods in Mystic Falls, she sat in a circle of white candles, with a single black candle in the middle, just in front of her. "Phasmatos incendia," she said, lighting all the candles at the same time. Slicing her hand, she allowed some of her own blood to drip over the lit wick of the black candle, she closed her eyes and began to chant. "Audi haec verba, exaudi clamorem meum, spirituum, in altera parte, erunt veni ad me, ego te voco, transire nunc, magna divide." A chill went through her, opening her eyes, she came face to face with her ancestor, Emily.

"Hello Sheila," Emily smiled at her descendant.

"Emily," Sheila breathed, after Bonnie had mysteriously ended up at the Sommers' house, she needed to do something, and her gut told her that Emily Bennett was the one to go to. Sheila wasn't sure that she would be able to summon her ancestor, she didn't have the strength that she once did, but Emily must have been close, because she had come when called.

"Why have you called me here?"

"What's happening to Bonnie? She's going into trances, and sleepwalking, and every time she ends up outside the Sommers' house."

"Bonnie is being drawn to that house because something in there contains my magic, it's reaching out to her, and until she gets it, she will keep being drawn to that house."

"What's there?" Sheila asked startled, she was aware that Emily's grimoire was there, but grimoires didn't have magic attached to them.

"My amulet, it's a great source of power, destined for your granddaughter. Find a way for her to get it, and her trances will stop."

Sheila frowned at that, first the Siphon had a grimoire that belonged to the Bennett family, and now she had Emily's talisman. That proved it, Maya was nothing but a thief, who craved power. She would find Bonnie, and the two of them would come up with a plan to retrieve their belongings, and find a way to prevent Maya from growing any stronger. The Siphon had to be stopped.

It had been days since Mother Nature had revealed the past to Maya, she'd gone back to Mystic Falls without speaking with any of the Originals, and Klaus had retreated to his studio in the Penthouse, while his bedroom door had been replaced, the silencing spell had not. Everyday that he couldn't speak with his Little Siphon, he got angrier, he knew that he had to get back to the pack, but he couldn't return to his children in this state, it wouldn't be fair to them, but he also couldn't just abandon them until he felt better. What was he to do? As Klaus felt his temper raise ever higher, his phone rang, it was Caroline, frowning at the screen he debated answering, why was she calling him? Ultimately, Klaus decided to pick up, after all, it could be about Maya.

"Don't say anything," the voice on the other end said, it was Maya! "Nik," she whispered, voice trembling slightly, as she struggled to get the words out. "I can't see you, I can't hear you. I can't even think of you right now, because when I do, all I see is how happy you were, killing me. All I can hear, is the gleeful way you threaten to torture me…for years." She sniffed, and it took everything in him not to say anything, "I don't want that…but right now…nothing can change it." Maya paused, she knew that he wouldn't react well to what she said next, but it had to be said, "Damon left the ring in your apartment, before we left." His sharp intake of breath was awful for her, she didn't want to hurt him, but she couldn't keep it, not when she felt like this, "I can't look at it, because when I do, I think about you. And if I want us to get back to before, I can't think about you. Not now. I'm broken Nik, and you can't fix me, I wish you could, but you'd just make it worse."

Klaus clenched his fist, the armrest of his chair exploding into shards of wood, he couldn't let this happen, he couldn't let her pull away from him. She'd made him care about her, made him care about her family, her friends, she didn't get to do that, and just walk away!

"I know you don't want to hear it, but it's true." Maya paused again, once again building up the courage to say something that she knew that he wasn't ready to hear, but she had to say it, for herself, "I love you Nik… I'm in love with you, which is why this hurts so much. Don't call me, don't leave me messages, don't send me letters, don't send your brother to me. Leave me alone…please."

Thank you all for being so patient, and if you have time, please leave a review, I appreciate your comments more than you could possibly know.