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Thank you for all the reviews! Sorry about the late update, I have family over, which makes writing more difficult.

Blu3b3rryT3a: Davina needs protection, if only Maya could remember the Harvest! Enzo just deserves all the love in the world, and of course without Klaus his enforcers are gonna just pay to fix the place, what did he expect? For them to get their hands dirty?!

Guest: Lets face it, the Originals have no sense of boundaries, they've been all up in each others business for years, there's no way any of them would be happy to wait to be told what they want to know. Each one of them would be sneaky. Miranda is not the best in this, I figure, she's after any reason to not like the people around Jenna, because in her mind, they've manipulated Jenna and kept her away from her sister.

Guest: I'm with you there, Miranda cannot be left to remember!

WiseGirlDivergence46: I see you have some very strong feelings there, but I can assure you that Liz won't hurt Enzo.

Luna Lightblade: Liz isn't stupid, I think if she really wanted Enzo dead, she would have brought a lot of back-up not to mention, she wouldn't want to lose the element of surprise.

simply. meh: Thanks!

Kathiena: I'm looking forward to them making up too! I have a fun idea on how it would go, (thanks to a few shows I may have been watching)

edwardsgirl21: To be fair to Liz, I don't think Caroline ever told her that she was being abused by Damon, but you would have thought that the Sheriff would notice that something was off. I think because of the Council, Liz had a lot of extra things on her plate, but the least she could have done was give Caroline vervain. She even says that she'd give Caroline vervain when Damon brings her that first box, but then she didn't, because Caroline remained under Damon's control. There were flaws to her character, but I believe that she was trying to overcome a lot of ingrained prejudice, plus it's not like she's wrong, all the Vampires in town killed people. (Some more than others).

KEZZ 1: Thanks!

Tristana702: Don't worry, Maya will make up with Kol and Nik, she just has to work through her trauma, she knows that she can't blame them for what they did to her, because she knows who they are, and what they're capable of, but feelings aren't rational. She'll figure it out though.

FirePheonixStar: Thank You!

Nicolle Cullen Masen: You'll see how Rebekah feels in this chapter and how Klaus addresses it. She's definitely not going to be happy about the pack, because it will most certainly make her feel like Klaus is just trying to replace their family.

Serena Salvatore: Thank you! Luna's got to be mischievous, because her brother is more serious, like Elijah I guess, and Luna is more like Rebekah. She's got to keep Klaus on his toes. As for Liz, I think her perceptions are changing, just not very fast.

NaRuKo-InuTaiSHo-XD: Thank you!

xotinkerbella: She's a Gilbert, they don't know how to stay out of anything. None of the Originals know what boundaries are, I mean, Kol and Elijah were spying on Klaus just because he was a little 'too happy' Rebekah was always going to find out what was going on, even if she had to be sneaky about it.

HaleyKTbear: I have to stop the chapters when they tell me too, more often than not, that's on a cliff hanger (sorry!).

dreamsnhugs: Thank you, I love all my reviews, but long ones have a special place in my heart! I start off with a little research, then fall into a research spiral and find a whole bunch of stuff that I want to put in here, (seriously, I have notebooks and playlists full of quotes, both funny and serious that I want to put in). I'm glad you like Maya, I'm trying to make her work in TVDU and trying to fix the whole 'depowering the Originals' issues I had with the whole universe. I know that some people don't like Damon slash pairings, I'm not usually one that goes for it, because the show pretty much revolves around him and women. But he's 170 years old, and you have to think that at some point he got bored and switched it up, just for fun. Plus, there's this one scene in TVD where there was tension between Damon and Enzo, and this idea just spiralled from that. I'm not gonna tell you, but I will say that some people have guessed correctly, just from the vague description of the guy. I'm trying to balance funny, action, serious and romance, so I'm glad that you're enjoying it. Hope you enjoy this next chapter!

APridefulSin: Maybe, maybe not, it really depends on what Liz does next.

Enzo scrambled to his feet, holding his hands up in a non-threatening manner as the Sheriff refused to falter, "Now Liz-"

"I SAID DON'T MOVE!" she yelled.

Damon's monster came to the surface, he was about to attack her, but Enzo gave a subtle shake of his head, "Why don't we all calm down," Enzo said, not taking his eyes from the woman, he needed to be ready to move should the Sheriff decide to shoot him. "Why don't you explain what's going on?"

"I know you're a Vampire!" Liz exclaimed, tightening her grip on her service weapon, she did not think this through properly, if Enzo really was a Vampire, then she was there without back up, what were the chances that she would be able fire off a bullet before he killed her? If he wanted to kill her, that is, but Maya seemed adamant that the Vampire she released was a good one.

"Come on now Liz, what would give you an idea like that?" the British Vampire asked. Liz pulled the journal out of her pocket and threw it at him, Enzo caught it against his chest, "What's this?"

"Read it."

"Liz-"

"Don't get involved Damon! I'm not here for you!"

Damon scowled, he wasn't going to take one more second of that weapon being pointed at the man he loved, "Actually," he sped forward, taking the gun from her and throwing it away from them both, "You are."

Liz's eyes widened, "You're one too? Jesus!" She collapsed into a chair and dropped her head in her hands, "Oh my God!" she mumbled. Damon raised an eyebrow, that wasn't the reaction he was expecting, fear, anger maybe, but not this. "Is everybody a fucking Vampire?!"

"Liz!" Damon said scandalised, he'd never heard her swear before.

Enzo looked down at the journal, curious to know what had convinced the Sheriff that he was a Vampire, opening it, his eyes widened as he flipped through the pages, finally stopping on the picture of him. He had no idea that there were any photos of him from that time, he'd always thought that Augustine were too smart for that, but clearly not. "Shit."

Damon looked up at that, and Enzo tossed him the journal, "Holy shit! What the hell is this?!" he looked at Liz, "Where did you get this?!"

Liz looked up at him, anger finally overcoming her shock, "You've been lying to me!" she stood, "You've all just been lying to me!" Damon was her friend, he saved her life, he saved her daughter! But then again, he was never in any real danger, was he? She made to leave but Damon grabbed her arm, pulling her back towards the couch, "You're not going anywhere! Not until you tell us where you got this!"

There was a flash of fear in Liz's eyes, and Enzo stepped in, "Damon," he grabbed the older Vampire's wrist, and he released Liz's arm, "She's our friend."

Damon let his monster settle as he stared at the blonde, "I know," he finally said, "Doesn't mean that I'm not pissed! And even if she's our friend, there's a reason we never told her what we are."

"That is true," Enzo agreed, "How did you get this?"

"How long have you been a Vampire?" Liz replied.

"Okay," Enzo sighed, glancing at Damon, "A question for a question, an answer for an answer, okay?" Liz didn't reply, "Come on Sheriff, if we wanted you dead, you would be."

Liz had to concede to that, they were stronger and faster than her, that much was obvious with the way that Damon had taken her gun from her. She really didn't stand a chance if they wanted to kill her, "Fine." She pulled away from them and dropped onto the couch, "How long have you been Vampires?" she asked again. If Maya wasn't going to tell her about the Vampire that she'd freed, then she'd get the information from the source, especially since they seemed to just want to talk…for now.

Enzo sat on the loveseat on the side of the couch, Damon moved over lean against the fireplace, "Where did you get the journal?"

"How long have you been Vampires?"

Enzo sighed, "I was turned in 1903."

"And you?" she glared up Damon.

"1864," he replied.

"…Wait," Liz did the math, more than that, she remembered the names for the first meeting of the Founders Council. "1864? But that means…"

"That Stefan and I aren't named for the original Salvatore brothers, we are the original Salvatore brothers." Damon finished her thought, "Yeah that's true, it also means that if you intended to kill us, then you just made. A. Very. Stupid. Mistake."

"Damon," Enzo warned.

"Relax, I'm not gonna kill her," the Salvatore shrugged, "I'm just gonna lock her up, wait for the vervain to pass out of her system and then compel her to forget all about us. At least that way she won't try to kill us." He cocked his head and took a step closer to her.

"I'm not trying to kill you!" Liz protested, tensing up as Damon moved towards her.

"Really? Because you showed up with a gun full of wooden bullets!" the older Vampire exclaimed.

"I needed to be sure that you wouldn't kill me the second I stepped in here!"

Enzo straightened at that, "You had to have known that if we were the monsters that you thought we were, you would have only had seconds to pull that trigger. So why didn't you?"

Liz looked at him, "Because, as much as I don't trust Vampires, Maya told me all about the one that she saved, and then saved her. She told me about the Vampire that fought in two world wars, just because he thought it was the right thing to do. And then I find out that the man that is supposed to be my friend, the man that's eaten with me, gone on vacation with my daughter, been invited into my home, is actually a Vampire! Both of you are!"

"Well now that we've answered your question, where did you get the journal?"

"I was given it." Liz replied, crossing her arms.

"By who?"

She refused to say more, Damon wandered over to the journal and picked it up, leafing through, he stopped on the name, "Nathaniel Gilbert, hmm…I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that this came from the Gilberts. And the only Gilbert you're friends with is Miranda." He heard her heart beat speed up, "I was right, it was Miranda," Damon said, looking over at Enzo, "I'm gonna get her." He whooshed out of the house before anyone could say anything.

"You have to stop him!" Liz exclaimed, she didn't know Damon the way that she thought she did, what if he killed her friend?

"Miranda can't know our secret," Enzo said, "Her hatred of our kind means that she won't stop until we're dead. But don't worry, Damon and I actually like Jeremy, and killing his mum is the last resort. Damon'll grab her, lock her up, and then compel her to forget what she knows."

"And that's what you're going to do to me."

"Well," Enzo paused, "That really depends on you. You came here with a gun full of wooden bullets, which doesn't make me trust you, but then again, you didn't bring any back up, and I know you're not stupid."

"I wanted to know who you are, I asked Maya to arrange a meeting," Liz replied.

"She said no."

"She said no," the Sheriff confirmed, "You've killed people before."

Enzo nodded, "I'm a Vampire love, I'm a predator, I drink blood to survive, and people aren't all good, some of them are just as monstrous as the Vampires that you're afraid of."

Liz paused at that, she was talking to someone that had spent almost six decades being tortured at the hands of humans, at the hands of a man that she called friend, a man that she grew up with, a man that she knew, and never would have thought him to have a sadistic bone in his body. "Did Grayson really torture you?"

Enzo frowned, he hated thinking about his time at Augustine, hated talking about it, but he had a feeling that he still needed to humanise himself to the Sheriff, he didn't want to have to compel her, he would, but she was Caroline's mother, Maya's godmother, and his friend, he would prefer to be able to be himself around her. "For just over a decade," he confirmed, "Spent all that time underneath the medical clinic in Mystic Falls."

Before he could say anymore, Damon whooshed back in, with Miranda in tow, he headed straight for the basement and locked her the newly repaired cell.

"Rebekah, you were almost silent at dinner," Freya said, "What's wrong?"

The blonde Original sighed, taking a seat on her bed, "Luna told me something, and I'm not sure how to react." She shook her head, "Well that's not true, I wanted to go and yell at Nik, possibly throw him out of a window, but I don't think our new niece and nephew would appreciate it."

"What did she tell you?"

"This pack, Nik didn't stumble across them by accident, he specifically searched for them. They're not just his pack by design, their his pack by blood!"

Freya looked confused, "What do you mean?"

"We thought father had slaughtered Nik's pack when he found out that Nik wasn't his. But some of them must have survived, Nik's bloodline survived, Nik's father, his biological father was the Alpha of this pack a thousand years ago! Cary, the Beta, is a direct descendant from his father's bloodline!"

"This pack is actually Niklaus's family," Freya replied in understanding.

"He never said anything!" the youngest Original exclaimed, "He didn't tell me! But Kol knew! There's no way that Nik kept this from him! How could he do this?!" she was working herself up into a frenzy, she hadn't made it a secret that she hated Kol's new found favouritism. She'd always been the favourite, and now, after a millennium it was like she'd been thrown out on her arse. She couldn't hide her jealousy, but she had been able to hide her hurt, not anymore though.

"Rebekah," Freya came over to her sister, and sat with her, "What can I do?" her baby sister was hurting, and she didn't know how to help, but she'd try.

Rebekah shook her head, looking distraught, "I don't know! Everything in me is telling me to hurt Klaus back! Everything, but if I do that, I'll be no better than Nik! I promised myself that I wouldn't fall into this old pattern again! I can't! But all I want to do is hurt him, the way he's hurt me!"

Freya sighed, "Rebekah, the last time you tried to hurt him, you called our father to your home, and he burnt it to the ground. Nothing comes from mindlessly lashing out except destruction. I mean look around, the sense of family here! Nothing good will come from trying to hurt Niklaus now. He's trying to find peace, and I think that he has. These wolves, his children, he's created a life for himself."

"And I have never been allowed to do the same!" Rebekah cried, "I have never been allowed to find my own peace! To create my own family! Why does he get to, and I don't?!"

Freya watched her sister, finally understanding, they'd come to the heart of Rebekah's issues with their brother, she stood by Niklaus for centuries, and had never been afforded the luxury of having her own life. "I understand," she said, pushing the hair away from Rebekah's face, wiping at the tears that had managed to slip through her sister's normally icy exterior. "But screaming, and throwing things, and violence…all it does is amplify your pain. You can't go on like this."

"Then what am I supposed to do?"

"You need to speak with our brother. And I don't mean like you have been, both tiptoeing around your anger, and sorrow. I mean that you two need to sit down, and have a frank discussion about your past, your present, your expectations for the future. Because I want my family to be whole again." Rebekah looked at her in question, "When I woke, I felt fear… and anger, and confusion, but…underneath it all, I have never felt joy, the way that I felt it, upon seeing all of our siblings together. But that joy was quickly shattered, when we all split apart. You two, need to make your peace with one another. Because I want my family back!"

Rebekah pulled back, brushed away the remnants of her tears and stood, "Well what do you suggest I do? Because there is no way that Nik is just going to sit there while I talk!"

"I have an idea!" Freya pulled out her phone.

"Sister!" Kol said, "To what do I owe the pleasure? Shouldn't you be spending your time with our nephew and niece?"

"I need your help."

"With what?"

"Klaus and Rebekah need to talk, but there's no way that they're going to just sit in a room and have a friendly chat…"

Rebekah shot her a puzzled look and Freya waved her away.

"You want to lock our sister and brother in a room together?" Kol caught on, thinking that it could be fun to trap Rebekah in with Nik.

"Yes," Freya replied.

"But you can't do that without me."

"I need you here." Freya couldn't access her magic without Kol in close proximity to her.

Kol thought about it, was pissing off Nik worth the fun it would be? Of course it was! "I'll be there tomorrow morning."

/ / /

Klaus leant back against his headboard, closing his eyes, he let the stress of the day roll off of him. He'd only been gone from the pack for about a week, and yet the amount of work that he had to do to maintain the compound's upkeep was ridiculous. Until his wolf was released, he was balanced in a very precarious position, if he offloaded too much of the work to his Beta and Enforcers, then he'd look like an incompetent Alpha, worse, the pack may start to believe that he was unworthy of being Alpha. He could rule them anyway, but Maya had made it clear that the only way his Hybrids would be successful, was if they were loyal to him, not out of fear, but respect. But at the same time, if he took on too much of the work, it would look like he didn't trust his pack, thereby damaging the trust they had in him. He may have been an Original, but Pack maintenance was exhausting.

Opening one eye for a moment when he heard a rustle, his door opened, and the children crept in "You know I can hear you," he said, the kids froze for a second, before rushing the rest of the way to the bed. Liam crawled under the covers on one side, and Luna came up on the other side, and started pushing at Klaus.

"Daddy," she huffed, "Move over!"

Rolling his eyes, Klaus shifted over to the middle, and Luna crawled in after him, both children latching on to him, Luna was quick to fall asleep but Liam, Liam remained awake, he wanted to talk to his father in private, without the pack, or his new aunts or Luna listening in.

"You know if you don't go to sleep soon, you're going to be very cranky in the morning," Klaus commented, one of his hands carding through Luna's blonde locks.

Liam pressed himself into Klaus's side, "I wanted to ask you something," he started.

Klaus sighed, he had a feeling that something was on Liam's mind, it had been for a while, he was just waiting for the young boy to gather the courage to talk about it. "What is it?"

"Why are you cursed?" he blurted out. Klaus had explained to the pack, in very vague detail, that he'd been cursed when he was first turned. His wolf had been locked away and he'd been searching for the ingredients to break the curse for a thousand years. And now, he'd found almost everything he needed, he would break the curse and release the members of his pack from their own terrible curse, it was something that he could see himself wanting. He loved being a wolf, but the pain that came with it was too much for him to bear. But the question of why Klaus was cursed had been running through his thoughts for a while, and he needed answers.

Klaus tensed at the question, the only people who knew his story besides his family, were Maya, Enzo, Damon…and Stefan. No one else knew his origin, but he should have known that eventually his children would want answers about it. "Why do you ask?"

"Curses are bad, they're meant to hurt…I know that you're not the good guy…Mom and Dad told stories, the Vampires that were holding us, told stories too. People are scared of you… so I understand that Witches and Vampires want to hurt you. But you said you were cursed when you were turned, I know you weren't always bad, because you saved Luna, you saved us both, you took care of us…you're our Dad now. Why did someone want to hurt you then?" Liam could understand why someone would try to curse Klaus now, he was powerful, and terrifying, he'd seen it for himself, when a Vampire had tried to attack him while he and his father were out together. Klaus hadn't even blinked before ripping out the Vampire's heart. But he'd also seen a side to his father that he was sure not many others had, a side that he believed showed him what Klaus was like before he became a Vampire.

Klaus looked away from his son, telling Liam about his life, that wasn't something that he'd ever wanted to do, he'd suffered, been weak, he didn't want anyone to see him that way. But it occurred to him that learning about his past, may help Liam traverse the trauma from his own. "My mother had seven children," he started, "Freya was the oldest, then Finn, Elijah, myself, Kol, Rebekah, and finally my baby brother Henrik. Up until last year, I had never known Freya, no one but Finn had."

"What do you mean?" Liam asked confused, how could he not have known Aunt Freya?

"When she was five, my father sailed with a raiding party from our village… and when he came back, Freya was gone. My mother, Esther, had told Mikael, my father, that she had died of the plague. Mikael became distraught, and refused to stay in our country. He didn't want to lose anymore children. He heard about a land where the people were healthy, and strong, and never got sick."

"He heard about Werewolves," Liam interrupted, and Klaus nodded.

"Yes, he didn't know about their curse, and so decided to move his family over to, what is now called America. My father was a brute. Freya says that he was a wonderful father, but truthfully I cannot remember a moment of my childhood that wasn't filled with fear and pain thanks to him. The village they moved to, the village I was born in, was next to the village that this pack was from." He inhaled shakily, he was about to relieve his darkest most terrible memory, Henrik was his little brother, a brother that looked up to him, that wanted to be just like him, his death was something that Klaus would never be able to get over, never be able to forget. "We used to hide ourselves in a network of caves every full moon, so that we would never be caught by the wolves. But I always felt a pull towards them. I never knew why, but there was something about them, that almost fell…familiar. One night I snuck out, to watch the men change into wolves, and my youngest brother, followed me. I don't know what happened, the wolves changed and they saw me, but they didn't make a move, not until they saw my brother and then they pounced."

Liam looked up at his father with wide eyes, and threw his arms around his middle, squeezing Klaus as he realised what had happened.

"Henrik died, I carried his broken body home and begged my mother to fix it, you see, she was a powerful Witch, but it was too late, she couldn't save him, she couldn't bring him back. My father couldn't take it, he couldn't take losing another child and in response, my mother cast the immortality spell on her children and her husband, turning us into the first Vampires. It was only after I made my first kill, that my father discovered the truth…" Klaus sighed, "I was not his son. Upon making my first kill I triggered the Werewolf curse and shifted for the first and only time in my life."

"You didn't know you were a wolf?" Liam asked.

"No," Klaus shook his head, "Times were very different back then, and as Vikings, any outbursts of temper weren't unusual. When Mikael found out that I wasn't his son, that I was a beast as he called it. He was furious, and in an effort to appease my father, my mother bound my wolf, cursing me to live half a life for the rest of my days."

"Your mom cursed you?" Liam asked horrified, he couldn't imagine his mother ever doing something like that to him, "But it wasn't your fault!"

"It didn't matter, all she wanted to do was make my father happy, so she cursed me. And now, I am so close to breaking my curse I can practically taste it."

"I don't understand," Liam admitted, "How could your mom do that to you?"

Klaus shrugged, it was question that had plagued him since that night, a thousand years ago he wasn't a monster, just a confused young man, and his mother had betrayed him, in an effort to cover up her own betrayal. "Some people just aren't meant to be parents," he finally said. It was the only excuse he could give, because honestly, no matter how hard he tried, he would never understand it himself.

"Damon!" Liz called as she rushed after the Vampire, Enzo said that they wouldn't hurt Miranda, but she knew that neither of the Vampires liked the Gilbert woman and even though she couldn't do anything should they choose to kill Miranda, she had to at least try. "Damon wait!" By the time she'd reached the basement, Miranda was already locked up in the cell, eyes wide in fright at the fact that she'd just been snatched from the safety of her home and trapped by a Vampire.

"Damon!" Liz said, "What are you doing?"

"Liz it's fine," Enzo cut in, "He's not going to kill her, just make her forget."

"You can't do this!" Miranda exclaimed from the other side of the cell door, "I'm on vervain!"

Damon rolled his eyes, "That's why you're in the cell," he replied, "The vervain will be out of your system in three days, and then I'll compel you to forget all about us."

"You think that I can just disappear from my home and no one will notice?!" Miranda asked incredulously, "Elena and Jeremy will notice! I can't just go missing for three days!"

Enzo let out a little chuckle at that "Oh, poor Miranda, did you forget? Elena's dating Damon's brother. You think she doesn't know about Vampires? You think Jeremy doesn't? When he was the one to invite us into your home?"

Miranda paled at that, she hadn't thought that Elena would know about Vampires, much less date one, but if Damon was a Vampire, then surely that meant that Stefan? No, no, no! This couldn't be happening! She was supposed to protect her children, and she'd welcomed Stefan into her home, let him take Elena out, she hadn't even thought to give her children any vervain. Oh God! What had Stefan done to her daughter?!

"Liz?" Miranda turned her fearful eyes to her best friend.

"Enzo you can't just do this," the Sheriff protested, "She-"

"She told you that I was a Vampire with the hopes that you would kill me, Liz. And you came here, not knowing whether everything that Maya told you was true. I could have killed you, Damon could have killed you. She got you riled up, and sent you headfirst into a potentially volatile situation without any thought. She's dangerous."

Liz paused at Enzo's calm words, she hadn't thought about it like that, but he was right, she'd come barrelling in with no real regard for her safety, and all because Miranda had gotten her riled up, Miranda had used Liz's friendship with Jenna against her and she'd fallen for it.

"Liz…" Miranda whispered, "Don't listen to them! They're monsters!"

Liz closed her eyes as Miranda parroted what all council members had been taught. "I-"

"Liz," Enzo said, "Perhaps we should go back upstairs and finish our discussion, Miranda will be safe here." He guided her out of the room and Damon followed with a smirk.

"Liz?" Miranda asked confused, she couldn't really be leaving her down here, could she? "Liz? Liz! LIZ!"

Elijah just got off the phone with Kol, apparently Freya had asked him to fly out to their mystery location, sighing he sat back in in his study. It seemed like his family was healing, slowly, but surely, the fracture within the Mikaelson siblings was repairing. He should have been happy about that, but…he was being left out…his baby brother believed that Elijah would do nothing, should something happen to him. His baby sister was finding her way back to Niklaus's side, his older sister was forming new connections with the rest of the family, connections that hadn't been tainted by the stink of betrayal that followed the Mikaelsons everywhere. And Klaus…well Niklaus had not only given up his daggers, but he'd adopted two children, children that Kol actually liked, and he knew nothing about it. He couldn't remember the last time that he had been left out of the loop by Klaus. He needed to take his mind off of the family drama.

His phone rang, and Elijah smirked when he saw the name pop up on the screen, the perfect distraction had just fallen into his lap. "Jenna, what a pleasant surprise," he answered the video call, "I wasn't expecting your call for another few weeks."

"Yeah well," Jenna shrugged, "Maybe I missed you…or maybe I just missed having an intelligent conversation where I'm not being judged by people who aren't parents for the decisions I make with my daughter."

"It sounds like you are not having the best time at home…remind me of where it is again."

Jenna let out a little laugh, "Nice try Elijah, you know the rules, no last names, no real background, we're acquaintances…with occasional benefits."

"My apologies, perhaps I just wished to know where you are so that I could purchase you a plane ticket out of there, and bring you to me."

"I can pay for my own plane ticket, thank you very much! I am a strong, independent woman!"

"Of that I have no doubt." Elijah agreed with a smile.

"What about you?" she asked, Elijah didn't look himself, something about his eyes told of a sadness that hadn't been there the last time she saw him.

"Problems with my brothers, it's nothing for you to worry yourself over."

"Come on Elijah, you're talking to a psych major here, I can see that's it's clearly bothering you, maybe you just need an impartial ear."

She was right of course, he did want to talk to someone about his problems, but he would have to be careful what to say, "My brother's and I used to be very close, and now I have found that my youngest brother, does not believe that I would be there should he be in trouble, and my other brother, has adopted children, and didn't think it would be prudent to tell me. I found out by accident, when he offered to introduce my sisters to the newest members of the family."

"Why do you think that your brother didn't tell you about the kids he adopted?"

"I hurt him," Elijah finally said after a pause, "It was…a long time ago, I was angry with him, and did something that I am not proud of. My brother didn't find out what I'd done until recently. I believe that he wanted to hurt me back."

"That sounds supremely messed up Elijah."

"Yes, well, my family isn't perfect."

"Screw perfect! It sounds like your family is seriously dysfunctional!"

"That is one way to put it," Elijah agreed, he loved his family and would stand with them against anything, but that didn't mean that he wasn't aware that together they had serious problems, "But I don't know what I am supposed to do now that I am on the outside of my siblings, I've never been on the outside before. I don't much like it."

Jenna gave him a sympathetic smile, "Maybe you need to be on the outside for a while."

"What do you mean?"

"Elijah, from everything you've told me about your family, it sounds like you all need some space. Like Chaucer said, 'Familiarity breeds contempt,' you've clearly spent way too much time with each other. You need a break."

"I can't just take a break from being an older brother," Elijah replied.

"Elijah all your siblings are grown ups! You can take a break! You deserve one! Do something just for yourself for a change! Your siblings are taking time for themselves, so you can too."

"But…" Elijah started, he'd never just had time to himself, not really, even these past 50 years without Klaus, he'd been working towards something. He'd never just been able to relax. "I don't think I know how."

Jenna smiled, Elijah was definitely a buttoned up kind of guy, she wasn't surprised that he had no idea how to relax, "Well, the holidays are coming up, why don't you travel? It's what we're doing this year."

"You're not coming to New York?" he asked.

"No, we're not really in the mood for New York this time around," Jenna shrugged, Maya didn't want to be near the Originals and she was more than happy to oblige.

"Where are you going?"

"Nothing's set in stone yet, but we're thinking Greece. My girl's got a thing for ancient history. Pick a place, and just do the tourist thing, see what happens, maybe you'll like it."

"Perhaps I will, although, things may go better for me if I had a companion…"

Jenna laughed, "I won't tell you my last name, I'm not going on vacation with you!"

"Ah well, I had to try," Elijah smirked.

Kol had arrived early in the morning, causing the wolves of the pack all to whisper in concern, they knew that Klaus had Vampire siblings, and they knew that eventually they would have to be around the siblings, but over a year of being Vampire free had made them forget what it was like to be around the only other real predators on the planet. The youngest Mikaelson brother had appeared before breakfast, he'd rushed the children out of the private dining room, given Freya access to her magic, and she'd locked Klaus and Rebekah in together, saying that she wouldn't let them out until they'd come to an understanding. So far the two had been trapped in the dining room for the past 4 hours arguing, and they had yet to get anywhere.

"Rebekah! I have forgiven you for calling Mikael to New Orleans what more could you possibly want from me?!"

"You don't understand! You have never let me live my life! Every time I meet someone new you ruin it! I never get a chance!"

Klaus fought the urge to snarl as he was reminded of a conversation he'd had with Maya not to long ago.

/ / /

Flashback

"I don't know what to do about Rebekah," Klaus sighed, "I feel as though I am starting to forgive her, but there's still this distance…between us."

"Of course there is!" Maya replied, taking his hand in her own, "You may be forgiving her, but she still has to forgive you."

"Forgive me?! For what?! The daggers? We've been over that!"

"Not the daggers Nik!" Maya shook her head, "You may have been on the run, but you have been allowed to do whatever you want, damn the consequences, and that includes hurting your sister, over and over again." He made to interrupt, but Maya held up a hand to stop him, "Rebekah has never had the chance to find love, not truly, and that is because of you!"

"None of those boys were worthy of my sister," he protested.

"Yeah, that's probably true! Because Rebekah is a badass independent woman, who for most of her life, has lived through an era where men have been in charge, and women have been less than nothing! I bet not one of those men that she fell for would have been happy for her to be strong, and independent, they certainly wouldn't have been happy whenever she decided to voice her opinion. But the problem is, you've never let her find that out for herself."

"She's my sister!"

"I know that! And I know that you don't want stupid boys to hurt her. But if you don't let her try, if you don't let her discover what is wrong with those men, she's gonna keep making the same mistakes, she's gonna keep picking people that don't deserve her! If you don't let her learn, then she'll never grow. You're her brother, yeah, it's your job to protect her, but at some point, you have to let her live her life, make mistakes, find out who she really is! And if it crashes and burns, then it's your job to take care of her. She's an Original Vampire, Nik, she's one of the most powerful beings on the planet. She doesn't need your protection; she needs your support!"

/ / /

He wasn't willing to admit that Maya was right back then, but she was, of course at some point it had occurred to him that perhaps the reason Rebekah was always picking the wrong man could be because she was never able to learn from her mistakes. But he'd dismissed that sometime in the 17th century, believing that he knew best. And now, here Rebekah was, saying the same thing that Maya had said to him, she was begging him for a chance to live, a chance to be responsible. She was begging for a chance to be let back into the fold, but also to be seen, to be heard, to be trusted, the way that he now trusted Kol. He wasn't sure that he was ready for that, and even if he was, how would he even begin to facilitate something like that?

"Rebekah," he sighed, attempting to calm down, (as soon as he got out, he was going to push Kol off a cliff for his part in this) "I cannot fix the past! What's done is done!"

"You made our lives- my life, a living hell! You tormented us! Never gave us a chance!"

"I love my family!" Klaus insisted. "You, Elijah, Kol, Finn, I love all of you! You rage about the things that I have done, and I know that I can be difficult, but I did not make myself this way. It was Mikael who ruined me."

"He ruined me too," Rebekah whispered, "That's what you forget. Centuries later, each of us is broken. You with your anger and paranoia, me with my fear of abandonment, Kol with his rage and inability to trust, Finn with his hatred of what we are, and poor Elijah, he dedicates his life to everyone but himself. We are the strongest creatures in the world, and yet we are damaged beyond repair. We live without hope, yet we will never die, we are the definition of 'cursed'. Always and forever." She dropped into a chair, and couldn't look at him.

But Klaus couldn't look away, his baby sister looked so broken, never had they spoken so candidly with one another. Rebekah, terrified of his reactions, and him with his refusal to make himself vulnerable to anyone, even his family. His sister was right, they were, all of them, cursed. Broken by their father, betrayed by their mother, this was not what he'd hoped for when he woke his family. He knew they wouldn't be happy with him, but their family was shattered, and he'd caused most of the damage as of late. The family couldn't repair itself; he knew that he was the one that needed to take the first step.

"We don't have to be," he finally said.

"What do you suggest?" she scoffed.

"Perhaps it's time I offered you a little trust, sister," he replied, and she looked over at him in question. Leaning forward, he rested his elbows on his knees and pulled her chair closer to his, so they were truly opposite one another.

Rebekah had no idea what he was about to say, "What are you talking about?"

He took a breath, "I found the doppelgänger," Rebekah's eyes widened, "She resides in a small town in Virginia, called Mystic Falls."

"Where we were born," Rebekah said.

"Maya…was also born there, the doppelgänger is her cousin."

"Why haven't you broken your curse then? Is it because of the Witch?" Was her brother truly putting off freeing himself, just because the doppelgänger was related to his Witch?

Klaus shook his head, "It appears that mother left one last gift in her curse. I kill the doppelgänger to become a Hybrid, and then I can't make any others like me, because the wolves would need her blood to transition."

"A failsafe," the Original sister whispered.

"Exactly. Kol and Freya are working on a way to break my curse without triggering the failsafe, we believe that because Freya is of mother's blood, she is the only one that could."

"That doesn't explain why you haven't gone there, don't you want to keep an eye on her while you wait?"

"I did, but Katerina hid the moonstone in that town, she's unaware that the moonstone is now in my possession."

"She'll return there to retrieve it," Rebekah said in understanding, "To try and bargain for her freedom, and you're going to let her."

"Well, it's easier than hunting her down," he shrugged, "I have several Vampires in the area who will inform me of her arrival."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"I will be moving to Mystic Falls for at least a year after the sacrifice."

"You're staying for the Witch?" He'd never upended his life for anyone, but here he was, doing it for her.

Klaus didn't answer that, "I have sent some of my wolves ahead, to get a home ready for us…all of us. I thought…perhaps you could go, keep an eye on things, take a shot at having a normal life…at least until the rest of the family shows up."

"You'd really trust me with this?" she asked.

Klaus tried not to growl at the thought, reminding himself that he had to fix what he'd broken in their family. "I'm going to try to." He finally said.

"What about Lucien…and his friends?"

"As long as my pack remains hidden, he will not have the final ingredient to create his upgraded Werewolf venom. And honestly, I would like to be at my full strength before we need to take on that particular trio."

"Are you sure about this?" Rebekah pressed, she couldn't believe that her brother was making the choice to trust her with the doppelgänger's location, with the location of his Witch, when he had yet to trust Elijah with this information. Perhaps her brother really was trying.

"No, I'm not, don't make me regret this sister."

The next day Rebekah had left to go to Mysitc Falls, she had the chance to not only prove that she could be trusted by her brother, but she also had the chance to find out everything she could about Nik's Witch. Discover whether or not the girl was worthy of Nik's affections. Because if there was one thing that she was certain of, it was that no one wanted Nik to suffer another heartbreak like he had with Aurora.

She'd packed up quickly, said goodbye to her new niece and nephew, and rushed out of the compound before Klaus was even dressed. And it was a good thing that she was gone by the time he'd showered and clothed himself, because she'd left him a little surprise that was sure to make him angry. After all, she was still put out with him over the fact that he hadn't told her about his pack.

/ / /

"REBEKAH!" Klaus bellowed.

His shout was so loud that it caused the pack to freeze, their wolves telling them to bow in submission to the Alpha who was clearly enraged. Liam and Luna shot their uncle and aunt alarmed looks, they'd only heard him yell like that once, and it had not been good. Kol and Freya glanced at each other, rolling their eyes, waiting for their brother to appear so that they could find out what their baby sister had done now.

Klaus came storming down the stairs, covered in glitter. Causing the children's eyes to widen, Freya to try and stifle her giggles, and Kol to burst into laughter. "It's the disco Hybrid!" Kol crowed, bent double as he didn't even try to control himself.

Freya snorted in amusement and slapped her hand over her mouth when Klaus shot her a murderous look. "It is EVERYWHERE!" Klaus yelled.

Cary held his head in his hands, "Please tell me its not all over the compound," he muttered, knowing that he would be the one that would have to deal with the clean-up.

Kol whipped out his phone and started snapping photos, he had to send them to Rebekah immediately, before Klaus realised and broke his phone, "WHERE IS SHE?!" Klaus shouted.

"Sorry your glittery highness, she's already left!" Kol laughed.

Klaus growled, "This. Is. Not. Funny!"

"No, Niklaus," Freya shook her head, "This is quite funny!"

"I know right!" Kol crowed.

"KOL! ANOTHER WORD AND I'LL TEAR OUT YOUR LIVER!"

"I cannot take you seriously right now," he shook his head and took more photos, "You're like 90% glitter and 10% Hybrid!"

Freya burst out laughing at that, the children falling into their own fits of giggles at the sight of their father, coated in pink sparkles. Klaus's eyes narrowed on the phone in his brother's hand, "Kol! Give that here!"

"Make me!" Kol shot back with a grin, already on the balls of his feet, ready to whoosh out of the compound the moment his brother gave chase. Klaus's Vampire side bubbled to the surface and Kol sped out of the room, his older brother rushing after him.

"KOL! GET BACK HERE!"

"NO!" Kol yelled back, whooshing around the compound, and hitting send on the pictures so that someone had evidence of Klaus's current state. Kol rushed back into the main living room, spotting his sister, "Freya! Save me!"

His older sister held her hands up, "Oh no," she shook her head, "You got yourself into this mess, you get yourself out."

"Betrayal!" Kol gasped in mock horror, "Whoa!" he ducked as a lamp was hurled in his direction, he rushed upstairs and Klaus followed, spreading glitter over almost every corner of the house.

Cary sighed as he eyed the trail of glitter that was no doubt everywhere by now, "This is gonna be a bitch to clean," he muttered.

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