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The restaurant had been cleared out, and Elijah, Jenna and Maya had moved inside, Jenna and Elijah were standing together, while Maya was pacing in front of them. Jenna tried to speak, "Ma-"

"Ah!" Maya held out her hand to stop her.

"Bu-"

"Gah!"

"Really just-"

"Ah, ah, ah!"

Maya put up a wall of silence between them and her. "I can't believe this!" she muttered to herself, hands running through her hair, "How did this happen?" she covered her face as she tried to process what she'd just seen. Her mother and Elijah, Elijah of all people, together. "How is this happening? Why is this happening?" She paced in front of them some more, "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!"

/ / /

Jenna looked over at Elijah, "Can you hear what she's saying?" she asked.

"No," Elijah shook his head with a frown.

"Oh my God, she soundproofed me!" Jenna's eyes widened, "She is so grounded!"

"Jenna," Elijah started, "Am I right in thinking that…she is your daughter?"

"Yes," Jenna said, giving him the side eye and watching his reaction, it was miniscule, but it was there, the slightest tightening of his jaw, and furrow of his brow. "You know who she is…" Jenna realised. "How do you know who she is? Why do you know who she is? She's freaking out," Jenna pointed at Maya, "Why is freaking out? Does she have reason to freak out? Should I be freaking out? What is going on?!" she let out rapid fire questions and Elijah's eyes widened, he'd never seen her so flustered.

"She is…someone I am…aware of…" he said, unsure of exactly how much Jenna knew about her daughter's affairs.

Jenna narrowed her eyes, "What do you know Elijah? Who are you, Elijah?" she moved closer to him, "Pretend like you're talking to someone who knows everything… in fact, don't pretend."

"My name, is Elijah Mikaelson."

"Mikaelson," Jenna repeated, "Mikaelson," she paused, "I know that name, why do I know that nam- Oh my God!" she took a step back from him, "You're Klaus's brother?!"

Elijah nodded heavily, he had hoped that Jenna knew nothing of his brother, nothing of his family, it was nice to just be 'Elijah' for once, and not The Noble Original. "Yes."

"Oh my God! Oh my God! I've been sleeping with an Original!" she hissed, "No wonder Maya's freaking out! I should be freaking out! Oh my God! I slept with Klaus's brother! Oh my God! Oh my God! Elijah you're like a thousand!" she was officially freaking out, her hands rushed to her hair, just like Maya's had.

"Jenna-" This was certainly not the reaction he was expecting.

"Oh my God! Damon's never gonna let me live this down!" her hands went to her mouth, "Oh God! Kol is never gonna let me live this down!"

Elijah raised an eyebrow, she knew his youngest brother too?

"You're an Original Elijah! How could you not tell me that you're an Original?!" she hissed.

"Jenna you wouldn't even tell me your last name!"

"Don't you turn this around on me Mister! You're a thousand years old! How do you not tell a girl that you're sleeping with that you're a Vampire?!"

"Jenna I cannot just tell any woman that I sleep with that I am a Vampire, we are meant to be a secret." She was being ridiculous, he knew it, and she knew it, but she was…panicking.

/ / /

Maya had to sit down, she needed to calm down before she started hyperventilating, what was she going to do? How could she possibly handle this? She had no idea how to deal with this situation, she never thought her mother's sex life would have to be something that caused her worry, but now it had. Pulling out her phone, there was only one person she could talk to about this, even if she wasn't ready to see him, he was the only one who could possibly understand what she was going through right now.

/ / /

Klaus looked at his phone in alarm as he saw Maya's name pop up, he didn't think that she'd want to speak to him so soon, something must have happened. He answered the call and her face popped up on the screen, "Maya-"

"Your brother is sleeping with my mother!" she cut him off.

"Kol?" Klaus asked, he was sure his brother had a thing for darling Caroline, but it didn't surprise him, Kol was a bit of a womaniser. He picked up his bourbon and took a sip.

Maya shook her head, "No, Elijah!"

Klaus choked on his drink, "WHAT?!"

/ / /

"Family members making questionable sexual decisions is so not in my wheelhouse!" she said, she turned off the silencing barrier, and thrust the phone towards Elijah, "You talk to him."

Elijah looked shocked as he saw his brother's angry visage coming straight at him on the phone screen, he automatically took the phone from Maya's hand, and she waved her hand to create a new silencing barrier between Elijah and her and her mother.

"Mom! What were you thinking?!"

"I didn't know that he was an Original!"

"How could you not?!"

"I didn't know his last name!" Jenna snapped back.

"Mom!" Maya exclaimed in shock, "What were you thinking? Do you know how dangerous that is?!"

"You have literally been flirting with the monster that monsters fear for years! You do not get to lecture me on dangerous!"

"At least I know who Nik is! How long have you known Elijah?!"

"Uh…"

"What?" Maya asked, shooting her mother a look, she got the feeling that she wasn't going to like the answer.

"I met him… just after you turned 15…"

"TWO YEARS!" Maya yelled, "YOU'VE KNOWN ELIJAH FOR TWO YEARS AND YOU NEVER EXCHANGED LAST NAMES!"

"Okay," Jenna winced at the volume, "I have to admit, that does sound bad…"

/ / /

"What the bloody hell is going on Elijah?"

"Niklaus," Elijah sighed.

"No! Don't you 'Niklaus' me! You're sleeping with my- my…Maya's mother! How did you even meet?!"

"We met in New York," Elijah replied.

Klaus paused, the only time he could think of when Jenna and Elijah had been in New York at the same time was two years ago, when he and Maya met for the first time in person. "Two years ago?! You've been sleeping with her for two years!" How did he not know this? He made a point to know exactly what his siblings were up to, but he knew nothing off this!

"Don't be ridiculous Niklaus," he swept imaginary lint off of his suit, "If we'd been together for the last two years then I'd at least know her last name."

"You don't know her last name?! It's like I'm speaking to Kol!"

"You take that back!" Elijah replied affronted.

"No! What the hell Elijah?!"

Elijah couldn't explain it, but he found it refreshing that he didn't have to be on his guard with Jenna, she was beautiful, and vibrant, and so easy-going that she made him feel alive again. And it didn't escape his notice that Klaus had stumbled over explaining who Maya was to him. "I…didn't need to know her last name."

Klaus gave Elijah a look that he usually saved for Kol, "Oh because god forbid you get to know a woman before you bed her!"

Elijah furrowed his brow, "Oh when was the last time you got to know someone before you bed them?! And I didn't just 'bed' her, we were on a date!"

/ / /

"You know of all the people that I have to worry about, I didn't think that I would have to worry about you sleeping with an Original." Maya paced.

"Considering everything you have going on with Klaus, you're being very hypocritical." Jenna replied, getting a little miffed that she was being told off by her daughter.

"Do as I say, not as I do!"

"Hey! I'm the mother here! You can't use that against me!"

"I can when you're being reckless! Do you know how many of Elijah's girlfriends Nik has killed? Almost all of them! I don't want you on the kill list!"

"I'm not gonna be on the kill list," Jenna snapped back, "Klaus won't touch me."

"And what makes you think that?!" Maya threw her hands up in the air.

"Because he promised you he would never hurt me, remember?"

Maya paused at that, he had promised that he would never kill her mother, he'd promised to put her under his protection, "You're right…he's not gonna hurt you. In fact, you're probably the only person in the world that Elijah could date without worrying that Nik'll do something untoward." She looked over at her mother's satisfied expression, "But that doesn't mean that you should date him!" she rushed out.

"Well it's a good thing that you don't control what I can and can't do."

"Come on Mom! Can't you just…not have sex with Elijah?"

"Nope," Jenna shook her head, "He's amazing in the sack."

"Ahh!" Maya covered her ears, "I can't know that!"

Jenna snickered at her daughter, "Then I guess we shouldn't talk about it anymore."

"Oh you don't have to look so smug about it!"

"I know, but it's fun," Jenna shrugged.

Maya groaned, she wasn't going to be able to stop this, how could this happen? In her visions, Jenna and Elijah barely interacted, but apparently in this world, they had more in common than she thought. She couldn't figure this out, her mother was fun and reckless, and Elijah was just so…so…Elijah! Maya's eyes widened in realisation that now that they both knew who the other was, they would probably share more information, "You can't tell him where we live!" she exclaimed.

"Wha-What?" Jenna asked, she wasn't really expecting that response from her daughter. "What do you mean I can't tell him where we live?"

"If he knows where we live, he'll come, and he'll ruin something that Nik and I have been planning for years!"

"What are you talking about?" Jenna asked, what were she and Klaus planning together? What did it have to do with their home?

"I can't really…tell you." Maya hedged, the only person outside of Nik's circle that knew about the curse was Caroline, and that was because she couldn't keep things from her best friend for long.

"Maya!"

"I can't! It's Nik's secret! If he wants you to know he'll tell you. I can't take the chance that Elijah ruins this for him. Because while the Originals have a far from healthy relationship, Nik had been doing really well with not daggering any of them!"

"Oh my God, do you even hear yourself, you're praising your boyfriend for not stabbing his siblings in the heart!" Jenna threw her hands up in exasperation.

"I am, because for him it's serious progress! And if Elijah ruins this, even by accident, Nik will definitely dagger him…Oh my God!"

/ / /

Maya rushed over to Elijah's side of the room, and into the silencing bubble she'd put around him, she walked up to him and quickly took the phone from his hands, "Nik! No daggering!"

"What am I supposed to do then?! You told me to deal with it!"

"Not by daggering!"

Elijah raised an eyebrow in surprise, from the way that she'd… reacted to him and Jenna, he was sure that she probably would have appreciated a dagger being shoved in his chest, and yet she was advocating for it not to be. "That is literally the only thing that works!" Klaus protested.

"Ugh," Maya shot him an annoyed look, "I'll do it myself then!" she hung up on him and looked up at Elijah. "I don't like whatever you have going on with my mother," she started, before taking a breath and steeling herself, "But she's a grown woman, who can make her own choices. That being said," her eyes and hair turned black, her skin paling, "If you do anything, and I do mean, anything, to hurt her, I will desiccate you, and throw you into a volcano." She changed back to normal, spun on her heel, and in one move, brought down the silencing barrier and grabbed her mother, dragging her away. Just because she couldn't stop her mom from seeing Elijah permanently, didn't mean that she couldn't stop it now.

"Wh-Hey!" Jenna exclaimed as her daughter dragged her out of the restaurant, "Ugh, bye Elijah!" she said, and then, just to piss Maya off, "Call me!"

Elijah was back in the hotel that he'd booked for his stay in Greece, Klaus had called him twice so far but he had ignored his brother, in no mood to be yelled at for something that he had no control over. How was he supposed to know that Jenna was Maya's mother? They'd agreed early on to keep their lives to themselves, Jenna never told him the names of her friends and family, and he'd been the same. She was his escape from the blood, pain, and regrets surrounding his family, it had been so long since he'd had someone that he felt like he could be himself with. Jenna made him smile, made him laugh, she made him forget, just for a little while, about all the darkness in his life.

He had believed that she was just an average person, but she wasn't, her daughter was a Witch, a powerful one at that, one so intertwined with the supernatural world that she was his brother's personal Witch. A Witch that had exposed his family's deepest darkest secrets to his brother, causing quite possibly irreparable damage to the Mikaelsons, and yet his brother kept her by his side.

And then there was Jenna, she knew Klaus, she knew Kol, she knew his family, but she didn't know him, what was he meant to do? Should he call her? Should he stop what they were doing? There was no doubt that Klaus was unhappy with this development, if his now six missed calls and 12 text messages indicated. Was he putting Jenna in danger of his family just by being with her? It felt like Niklaus was angrier with him for getting involved with someone close to his Witch, and not actually angry with him for getting involved with someone. Usually Niklaus would have killed off his lover, citing that they were a distraction, they were a weakness, yet he had the feeling that if his brother did do something, it would be to him, and not to the very human woman that he'd been seeing.

Elijah didn't know what to do, but he'd always valued intelligence, he needed more information and he'd get it, not from his brothers, or Jenna, but from the source.

"Wait, wait, wait," Damon held up his hands, as he trailed after Jenna, who was most certainly trying to get away from the elder Salvatore's mocking tone, "You've been sleeping with Elijah Mikaelson, Elijah Mikaelson, for two years, and you didn't even know?!"

"Shut up Damon!"

"No but seriously Jenna, how did you not know that he was a Vampire?!" Enzo asked incredulously, "Did you not question it when he bit you?"

"He never bit me!" she exclaimed.

"Hold up," Damon cut in, "What do you mean he never bit you? I mean sure not biting a girl on the first night, but when Vampires have sex, we bite."

"Yeah," Enzo said suspiciously, "Sex and blood kind of go hand in hand, I mean, sex is fun, you relax into it, and lose control. If he didn't bite you, he had to have been totally in his own head."

Jenna stopped short, "Are you trying to imply that Elijah wasn't having fun, when we slept together?"

"Uh…"

"Are you trying to say that I'm not amazing in bed?! Because you only wish that you could be with someone as phenomenal as I am!" she spun on her heel and stormed out.

Enzo and Damon snickered as they watched her leave, "Oh my God that was so much fun!" Enzo said.

"I know! I wonder if Kol knows," Enzo mused.

Damon mock gasped, "I'm gonna call him!"

"What? No! I'm calling him!" Enzo snatched the phone out of Damon's hands and whooshed out of the room, with Damon hot on his heels.

"Get back here!"

Maya managed to keep Jenna inside the Villa for two days, before the older woman remembered that she was the mother, and no matter what her kid said, she could do whatever she wanted. Luckily for Maya though, when Jenna left the Villa for the first time since the 'Elijah bombshell', she took Enzo and Damon with her. And to Maya, that meant that Jenna wasn't sneaking off to meet said Original, it also meant that she was free to fulfil a promise that she'd made to someone years ago.

The Siphon took out a map of the city and a vial of Elena's blood that she'd stolen while her cousin was sleeping, she dripped some of the blood over her location on the map, her eyes turned black and she chanted in a language previously unknown to her, but thanks to Mother Nature's meddling, a wealth of knowledge had been revealed. Including the magic she'd used when she was once Nature's favourite. "Invenies primam huius sanguinis, invenies primam huius sanguinis, invenies primam huius sanguinis." As she chanted, the blood on the map began to move, slowly but surely, it found its place in the highest point of the city, the Pangaion Hills, about 40 minutes away from where she currently was. It was a good thing that the Vampires had rented two cars for the family, Maya grabbed the keys, and a backpack, filled with supplies and headed out of the Villa.

About 45 minutes later, she arrived at the base of Mount Pangaio, getting out of the car, Maya slowly expanded her senses, there was a layer of magic surrounding the mountain, dark, twisted, unlike anything she'd ever tasted before, and it was growing, slowly but surely. "This is definitely the right place," she muttered.

"The right place for what?" Elijah asked.

Maya spun around in shock, "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I did debate going to spend some time with your mother while you were away, but then I thought that you and I haven't yet had the chance to talk."

Maya narrowed her eyes, "We don't have anything to talk about," she turned back to the mountain, "You should leave." She headed towards a path to the East.

"I believe we have plenty to talk about," Elijah followed after her, "You know, if you wish to reach the summit, then I could have us up there in a second."

Maya sighed in annoyance, "I have nothing more to say to you, now go away! I'm very busy."

"You seemed so cavalier two days ago," Elijah continued to follow her, "Threatening an Original." There wasn't a hint of fear from her when she threatened to desiccate him and throw him into a volcano, "Even now, you turn your back on me, as though I am no threat to you. I know of no one else that would do such a thing." Elijah was curious, he'd seen snippets of how she interacted with his brother, seen how she spoke to him, without fear of retribution. He'd even felt how she could deal with Originals, she'd frozen both he and Rebekah in place for thirty minutes before they were free.

"Yeah well, I have something that others don't." She replied, resigning herself to having a companion.

"And what might that be?"

"The truth."

Elijah eyed her with barely concealed curiosity, the truth, what truth was she referring to? What did she know that left her so confidant when dealing with beings of power greater than her own. "What truth?"

"I don't think you could handle it," she looked around, there were mountain huts near the peak, and that was where she felt her tracking spell was drawing her to.

"Try me," Elijah said, as they left the path, and headed into the forest, honestly shocked at her hubris, her recklessness, here she was, alone with an Original, and she most certainly was not offering up the kind of respect that he was used to. It...irritated him, "And where are we going?"

"We aren't going anywhere, Ihave business to attend to and you are following me, and if you really want the truth, you're just gonna have to wait until Nik and Kol trust you enough to tell you."

"You mean the truth about you being a seer?"

Maya stopped short at that, "Me being a what now?"

"Kol told me, he told me that you'd witnessed his death, showed it to him. I didn't believe him at first, but then he told me of how you were the one to inform Niklaus of our family's secrets." He moved closer to her, she had shattered the fragile bond that they'd had as a family, and Klaus had chosen to stay by her side in spite of it.

Maya's eyes hardened, "I wouldn't have had to inform him of your misdeeds if your family decided, even once, to be healthy, open, and honest, but in a thousand years, all you do is lie to each other!"

"You know nothing of my family!"

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!" Maya yelled, "Every indiscretion, every betrayal! I know them all! But I've only ever told Nik what he needed to know."

"And why do you get to be the one who decides what my brother needs to know?!" Elijah's curiosity had turned to anger, she was a child, playing with forces far beyond her kin.

"BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO SAVE YOU ALL! You ungrateful prick! Mikael is dead, because of me! Your sister is safe, because of me! Nik is finally going to break a curse that has driven him to near insanity, because of me!" She waved her hand and Elijah was shoved backwards, "Who do you think is the reason that you and Rebekah have been investigating Lucien? Who do you think knew that a Werewolf venom that could kill an Original was even possible?! Me!" Elijah couldn't move, rooted to his spot by the Siphon, "I sent you after Lucien before it could come into being, if I hadn't, in a few short years your big brother Finn would be dead, and with him, his entire sireline." She released him from her grip, "Let's be honest here Elijah, did you really think that Aurora wouldn't find him and tell him the truth one day? How do you think that would have gone?"

Elijah didn't charge at her as was his initial plan, because she was right in that, Aurora was still alive, and eventually, she would make her way back to Niklaus, if not because she loved him, then because she wanted revenge, for what he did to her. "You broke my family."

"Just because it's broken, doesn't mean that it can't be fixed, look at Nik and Kol, did you ever think that their bond would have been repaired? That's because of me too, and that's not arrogance talking, that's the truth, you can ask them yourself. I gave you all a clean slate, without me, you'd all still be in coffins."

Freya and Kol had come to join Klaus in his study at the compound, they'd been finalising plans and were ready to tell Klaus all about them. "Why do you two look like that?" Klaus asked, they both had very suspicious looks on their faces.

"We've…made a discovery…about how to break the curse," Freya said.

"And yet, you don't look happy about that discovery."

"Well, there are two extra ingredients that need to be used in the ritual, one of them is known…and the other…not so known…"

"What do you mean, not so known?" Klaus asked, not liking the way this was going.

"Well the first is Katerina, she's a Vampire doppelgänger, and while her blood can't be used like a human doppelgänger's blood, we believe that her being a Vampire is actually fortunate for us, it can be used to combat Esther's meddling," Freya said.

"And the other thing?" Klaus asked, really disliking the fact that they were avoiding his question.

"The unknown ingredient, from what we've ascertained, is Death…"

"What?!"

Kol cut in, "Death is where we come from, mother drew from him, instead of Nature in order to create us, so we will need some of that same magic in order to break your curse permanently, and stop any failsafe's mother has put in place. But the problem is, we don't know how to get it."

"You're not suggesting that Maya be sacrificed?!" a glass tumbler smashing in his hand as he squeezed too hard.

"No!" Kol shook his head, "Maya's a Siphon, with no magic of her own to speak of, the fact that she's an Old Soul, doesn't even register on the magical scale, which means that even if we wanted to use her, she won't work. We need something else…the problem is, we're not entirely sure of what that is."

"Mother reached out to Death, all be it accidentally, but she did, and he answered, see if you can sister. Use Kol and I as connections, we've both been in his domain, see if you can speak with him."

Maya marched away from Elijah, she didn't have time for this, didn't have time for his accusations, his questions, his anger, he needed to deal with his problems on his own time, not hers. She had work to do, and she wasn't going to let the Noble Original derail her any longer. Elijah rushed after her, "Wait just a minute-"

Maya slapped her hand over his mouth and pushed him behind a set of trees as she sensed some of that dark and twisted magic moving in closer to her. "Quiet!" she hissed.

Seconds later, two, seemingly innocuous people appeared, "I thought I heard something," one of the people said, "It was coming from over here."

"Shit," Maya muttered, she took her hand away from Elijah's face, and grabbed his hand, "Invisique."

Elijah glanced down at her, when he felt a sharp prick on his hand, but she gripped him tighter, he was distracted by the sight of the two people, right in front of him, in fact, one of the men was looking him directly in the eye, but it was as though he couldn't see them.

"There's no one here!" the man called, before heading back to his companion, "It must have been an animal."

His partner didn't look all that convinced but nodded, and the two of the left.

"They couldn't see us," Elijah said.

"Or hear us," Maya confirmed, "As long as the spell is up, we're completely invisible."

"Just one question."

"What?"

"Do we have to keep holding hands?"

Maya looked down at their joined hands and immediately let go, "The moment you move too far from me then you'll be visible again. And I'm not coming after you, I have things to do, and I'm already way behind schedule."

"What are you doing?" Elijah asked, he'd put his issues to the side for the moment, he wanted to know what she was doing out here in the middle of the forest, on the mountain side.

"I'm looking for something, very old, and very powerful, and it is being protected by a coven of zealots."

"And you are out here on your own trying to steal from them? Don't you think that you should have brought your friends with you?"

"Enzo and Damon are here on vacation, I'm not going to ruin that just because I have business to attend to. Besides, I told them that I was taking a break from magic."

Elijah scoffed in amusement, "That's working out well for you."

"Normal is a setting on the dryer, I am not normal," she shrugged. "Besides, I made a promise, and I intend to keep it."

"Very well," Elijah adjusted his cuffs, "What's the plan?"

"Uh, what? You're not-"

"You're clearly about to enter a dangerous situation, and I do not think that Niklaus would be pleased to find that I left you alone to deal with it."

"Well Niklaus doesn't need to know," she replied, "Just go."

"I'm afraid that is something that I cannot do."

"Ugh," Maya rolled her eyes, she figured his noble nature would annoy her, "Fine! Just, don't get in my way!"

/ / /

"Gabriel, there is someone out there," a dark-haired man said, walking into the cabin.

"We don't know that!" A blonde man said, coming in behind him, "We saw no one."

"But I sensed them Ivan! Power! That is not our own!"

"Enough!" Gabriel said, "Oskar, gather the rest, if there is someone out there, we must protect the anchor!"

/ / /

Maya followed the pull of her tracking spell to a large cabin, deep in the forest, "It's in there," she said quietly.

"How can you be so sure?" Elijah asked.

"I did a tracking spell, plus, it's where the highest concentration of magic is."

"The coven that we're stealing from, who are they?"

"The Travellers," Maya said. "Ugh," she shook of the feeling of wrongness that surrounded her.

"What is it?"

"Their magic, it's dark, and twisted, it feels like I'm walking through a swamp."

"And you came here alone?" Elijah reiterated.

"I'm not alone," Maya shrugged, "You're here, aren't you?"

"I thought you didn't want me here."

"And you wouldn't leave, so you might as well make yourself useful."

Elijah rolled his eyes, there was something about her that reminded him so much of his brother, "Fine. What's the plan?"

"I'm gonna go in, steal the relic right from under their noses, and then I'm gonna escape, leaving them none the wiser."

"That's it?" Elijah asked, "That's the whole plan?"

"Pretty much," she shrugged.

"That's ridiculous," he shook his head.

"Look when it comes to planning, I basically follow four rules," she hissed as they moved in closer to the cabin, looking through the windows, "Damn it! I can't see it!"

"What rules are those?" Elijah looked around, the cabin was only one floor, but Maya was certain that whatever it was she was searching for was here.

"It's simple really. Make the plan. Execute the plan. Expect the plan to go of the rails. Throw away the plan."

Elijah stopped what he was doing and stared at her, "That's insane."

"It's worked so far."

"Then where is this relic that you believe is here?"

She expanded her senses again, pushing through the murkiness of the dark magic in the air, and locked onto the ground, "It's there." She said, heading towards the spot that she was drawn to. She waved her hand, and revealed a hidden door in the ground.

"A cellar."

"I told you it was here!"

"Perhaps you should leave the celebrating until you actually see it," Elijah commented, he didn't like this, she'd said that a coven of zealots was protecting what she was here for, but he couldn't detect any of them. No scents, no heartbeats, nothing.

Maya used her magic to unlock the door, and they both went down the stairs.

/ / /

As the two of them headed downstairs, Maya felt her cloaking spell lift, "Shit!" she muttered, there must have been a barrier up to remove any foreign magic.

"What happened?" Elijah asked.

"My cloaking spell, Invisique." She tried to get it back up, but it wouldn't work, "There's something blocking it." In front of them was a room, with several hallways coming off of it, it was like they were in a secret underground base.

"Which means that we can be seen and heard."

"I guess you actually get to make yourself useful," she sniped.

Elijah was walking ahead of her but he stopped, "If you have a problem with me, you should make it known."

"I have plenty of problems with you!" she replied, she'd always wanted to confront Elijah for his part in making Nik who he was, "Starting with the fact that you helped your mother and father curse Nik!" she hissed.

Elijah clenched his jaw, had Niklaus told her? "You know."

"I saw," she said, taking his hand and showing him the very scene that she'd witnessed, Elijah holding Klaus down, while Mikael chained him. "I saw the pain in his eyes, the fear, and most of all the betrayal. He begged you for help, and you ignored him, worse, you helped Mikael! Do you even know what happens to a wolf that gets locked back up? It's been tried several times, it drives the wolf insane, and then they die. Either by their own hand, or their pack's. The only reason Nik is still coherent is his Vampire side! You did that to him Elijah!"

Elijah ripped his hand from hers, "I made a mistake!"

"You made a lot of those when you were human. Somehow, Nik was the one who suffered for them!" She walked away from him, down one of the hallways, "See if you can find anyone." She whispered, leaving him standing there.

/ / /

Maya and Elijah separated and had searched most of the rooms underground. They had each come across a few Travelers and killed them with ease, alone Travelers weren't much of a threat. They met up at the same time, at the entrance to one of the last rooms that needed to be searched.

"There are at least twelve people inside, this is most certainly a trap."

"They're Passengers, we kill the body, they return to their original body, which is far from here." Maya had realised that with the first one she killed, she hadn't said to any of them what she was there for, hopefully, the Travelers that had returned to their bodies just believed that she was one of the many Witches that were hunting their kind.

"Then even if you get what you want, they will know you, and hunt you down."

Maya searched her now expansive knowledge, and remembered what Finn had done to Kol, locked him in a body that wasn't his own, so that when the body died, so did he. "Not if I lock them in first!" Her necklace was fully charged, and she had armed herself with several rings, each of which, had their own magic stored up in. "Phasmatos peregrini ligate ad has pelles," she spoke lowly, and felt the tendrils of her magic reach out to the Travelers on the other side of the door, "Phasmatos peregrini ligate ad has pelles," the magic wrapped around the Travelers spirits, intertwining them with their current bodies. "Phasmatos peregrini ligate ad has pelles!" Her eyes momentarily turned black as the spell cemented itself.

The two of them walked inside, but they could see no one. "There are definitely people here." Elijah said, he couldn't see them, but he could hear them.

They both took a look around the room, when a voice spoke up in Czech, "And who might you be?"

Maya and Elijah spun around, and twelve people revealed themselves, twelve Travelers, spread out in the vast expanse of the final room, Elijah leant down to Maya's ear, "I take it, this is the part where the plan goes… off the rails?"

"Shut it Elijah," she hissed.

"You have something that doesn't belong to you." She replied back, in the same language, surprising both the Original, and the leader of the Travelers.

Gabriel tilted his head in question, "And what might that be?"

Maya looked around, she couldn't see the anchor, but she could feel it, "Revela te." A large crate appeared, "That belongs to the woman your coven murdered. You stole it."

Gabriel took a step forward, there was only one coven of Witches who could know about that, "You're Gemini," he sneered in English, the coven had been hunting the Travelers for the last 2000 years, to no avail. The rest of them straightened up, before they were just dealing with a Witch and a Vampire, but now, there was the potential that there was a coven coming for them.

Maya smirked, "Am I? Or maybe," she moved to the centre of the room, Elijah keeping an eye on the Travelers who were moving to surround them, "You're not as good at keeping things secret as you thought." She eyed the crate, and those that surrounded her, this was going to end bloody. "The Anchor is coming with me."

The Travelers began to chant and Elijah rushed over to one of them snapping their neck, "Maya, what now?"

"This is where I throw the plan away!" she replied, "Motus!" One of the Travelers flew across the room and she grabbed him, siphoning from him immediately, the person collapsed as the Passenger inside the body was killed, leaving the human breathing, but unconscious.

The leader instantly noticed the red glow, the Travelers knew exactly what she was, "Nobody let her touch you!" he yelled, putting the remaining nine other members on the defensive. "You," he sneered, "You are an abomination! Gemini!" She was definitely a part of that cannibalistic coven, her kind only came from them.

Maya scoffed, "Like I haven't heard that before." She twisted her hand "Ossox!" and broke the neck of the one trying to sneak up on her.

"You are a perversion of pure magic. You don't deserve to breathe the same air as us!"

"Well, if you don't want to breathe the same air as me," her eyes turned black, "Then stop breathing." As she spoke, it was like all the oxygen was taken from the Travelers lungs, they began to gasp for air, it was like they were stuck in a vacuum. The remaining few, collapsed to the floor dead, leaving only Gabriel alive. She hated when people called her an abomination, just because she didn't come from nature, didn't mean that she was unnatural. She stalked towards him, Elijah whooshing past and grabbing him, stopped him from whatever he was trying.

"Look at you," she scoffed, "Without your coven, you are nothing, weak as a baby kitten. You call me an abomination when you can do nothing on your own! Your magic is dark, and twisted! You are the unnatural thing. I am the balance!" He struggled against Elijah's grip, but to no avail, he had barely any power without his coven, he couldn't even get of an aneurism spell to distract the Vampire.

She raised her hand, "Give a Markos a message from me," There was an aura of death around her, "Tell him, 'you lose.' Evellite!" Gabriel's heart was torn from his chest, and Elijah dropped the body to the floor. He pulled out a handkerchief and cleaned the blood from his hands, dismayed that it had gotten on his suit, he would need to change.

"Maya," he said, looking at the large crate, she hadn't come in something that could transport it, neither of them had.

"What?"

"Exactly how do you plan on traveling with this?"

Maya looked back at the crate and blanched, "I know I forgot something!" she lamented.

Two hundred miles away, six Travelers woke with a gasp, "What was that?" One of the ones who'd been killed by the Vampire asked.

"The Gemini Coven," another said stoically, they recognised the tell tale red glow that could only come from one of the broken members of the coven, "They found us."

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