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jessisthebestduh: I'm giving you a little more Klaus and Maya in this one!
Blu3b3rryT3a: Yeah, Jenna and Elijah both had a judgment lapse. And I think that the teasing for Jenna is only gonna get worse when they all go back to Mystic Falls. Maya's got a plan that she's hoping that will work, but like she said, she also expects her plan to go off the rails.
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ArtemisLuna85: I think that Maya's waiting to get back home to Caroline, and Liz, so that all three of them can tell Jenna off for her lapse in judgment together. Hopefully you'll like this chapter, and maybe some Maya/Nik interaction…maybe.
xotinkerbella: Kol's a womaniser, he would totally be the first one Klaus thinks of when someone complains about his brother sleeping with someone. I don't think Elena could have Traveler magic because she's a doppelgänger.
Serena Salvatore: I think Maya's mostly hoping that in order to get on her good side, Elijah isn't going to tell anyone about their little side trip.
WiseGirlDivergence46: Her eyes started turning black after Death brought her back to life, and he gave more of himself to her to make sure that she could stay alive. It's sort of symbolising that she has more of Death in her than Nature.
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Saiyanprincess1511: I'm sure Elijah will get there soon, more so because he likes Jenna and wants to stay with her.
Nicolle Cullen Masen: The dagger is kind of Klaus's go to thing. Maya and Elijah are going to have to get along for Jenna's sake. And Jenna is definitely not going to let Maya influence her decisions, not that much at least.
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Elijah had lifted the large crate with his Vampire strength and sped out of the cellar, taking it topside. Maya still hadn't told him exactly what it was that she'd come for, and he was going to find out. Meanwhile, she was searching the area for a truck or box van, the Travelers had to have used something that could transport the anchor. "Aha!" she found an old white box van, and after a little bit of looking, she located the keys. "Elijah!" she called, "Over here!"
He whooshed over to her with the crate, and put it in the van, "What are you going to do about your car?" he asked, she'd driven it to the mountains, and she couldn't take both vehicles with her.
Rolling her eyes, she shot a text to a familiar number, and a few minutes later, a Vampire appeared before them, "Yes?" he asked.
"Do me a favour," she tossed the car keys at him, "Follow me in my car."
The Vampire took the keys and whooshed back to her car, where he would wait for the van. "Who was that?!" Elijah asked.
"One of my bodyguards," Maya shrugged.
"One of your what?!"
"Bodyguards," she repeated slowly, as though he was stupid, "Aren't you supposed to have excellent hearing? I shouldn't have to repeat myself."
Elijah pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance, "If you had bodyguards, then why didn't you use them to deal with the Travelers?!"
"Because you're indestructible, and they're not," she replied, as though it was obvious, and moved to the driver's seat of the van.
Elijah rushed into the passenger seat, "Where did you get bodyguards?!"
"Nik's had them watching me for a while," she shrugged.
"And you're just okay with that?" Maya seemed like she was very independent, he didn't think that she would have been happy to have guards, that were likely reporting her every move to his brother.
"I'm seventeen, not stupid, I know there are things that they are better equipped for, if you hadn't have followed me, they would have been the first ones in to deal with the Travelers. Besides, the guards and I have an arrangement, they don't give Nik a play by play of my actions, and I don't tell Nik how many times I have been able to ditch them. It's a win-win."
Elijah rolled his eyes at her explanation, of course she would make a deal with the guards, it sounded exactly like something that she would do, because it sounded like something Kol would have done in the past…in fact, it was something that Kol had done in the past! Back when they were human, and Kol had no chores to do, Klaus, or Elijah would have to watch him, and their baby brother would always escape. They never told their parents that Kol ran off, because then they would both be punished. "What's in the crate?" Elijah asked.
"None of your business." Maya replied.
"I think I deserve to know, considering you had me fighting your battle!"
"You inserted yourself in my business! I told you to leave and you didn't, so no, you don't get to know."
Sighing Elijah tried a different tactic, "Tell me what's in the crate, or I will phone your mother immediately and inform her that not only did you head off on a dangerous mission without telling her, but that you had the opportunity to have multiple Vampires by you side to protect you, and you chose not to."
Maya slammed on the brakes and glared at the Noble Original, he was playing dirty, taking the chance that she wouldn't want to get into trouble with her mother, and the fact was, she didn't. "Fine." She pulled off again, taking a left, and heading straight onto the motorway. "It's the Anchor."
"The Anchor to what?"
She sighed, "The Other Side isn't a natural occurrence, it was created by a Witch 2000 years ago, now it's pretty much cemented in nature, but it can still be destroyed. By destroying the Anchor. You see a spell of that size and magnitude needed to be bound to something powerful and eternal. The Anchor can only be destroyed by one thing, and no one knows where it is."
"Why did the Travelers have it?"
"They killed the Witch that created the Other Side 2000 years ago, and stole the Anchor, they want to use it to resurrect their leader, who is stuck on the Other Side. With him, they would be able to erase all magic but their own from the world."
"So you just took it upon yourself to retrieve the Anchor without telling anyone?! What if they had been better protected?!"
"One of the reasons that they want to destroy all magic, is because their coven was cursed by Witches, they can't gather together in large groups for long without causing a host of natural disasters. They couldn't have more people guarding it, plus, it's in their name that they move around, the Anchor is never in one place for long, I couldn't let the opportunity to escape me. And now I have it."
"But they know you have it!" Elijah said, "I killed several of those Passengers, before you locked them in their bodies, which means that their spirits travelled to their original beings!"
Maya rolled her eyes, "They think that I'm a Gemini, they're going to go after that coven, they'll never be able to find me."
"You set the Travelers on an innocent coven!"
"No, I set the Travelers on a coven that would try to kill me if given half the chance. With any luck, they'll take each other out, so I don't have to."
Again, Elijah was reminded of Klaus, it was something his brother would most definitely do, point two factions that would cause him trouble at each other, and let one take out the other, leaving the remaining one, weakened and easy to destroy. "You're just like Niklaus," he muttered.
"What was that?!" she snapped.
"Nothing! Nothing!"
/ / /
"Where are we going?" Elijah asked impatiently, they'd been driving for an hour and a half, and not in the direction of the city.
"I'll know it when I see it," Maya replied, she was following a pull deep inside her, guiding her to exactly where she needed to be.
"We've been driving for over and hour and you don't even know where we're going?!"
"I know where we're going!"
"You just said-"
"I know what I said! Just because I don't know where I'm going, doesn't mean that I don't know where I'm going!"
Elijah shot her an incredulous look, "That makes no sense."
"You make no sense!" Maya snapped back, the pull was getting insistent, and the longer it took her to reach her destination, the more of a headache she had.
"I-I don't know what to say to that," Elijah shook his head.
Maya rolled her eyes, and finally pulled near to her destination, "We're going there," she pointed.
"The Arch of Galerius?" He asked, "That's a major tourist destination." He could see all the people milling around.
"So was the Hollywood sign," she muttered.
"What?"
"Never mind."
She got out of the van, and climbed into the back, and Elijah followed, "Well I'm not taking the whole crate," she said looking over at him, "Go on, do your thing."
"What thing?" Elijah asked.
"Ugh, use your super strength to open the crate so I can get the anchor!" He just looked at her, "Chop, chop! I don't have all day!"
Elijah raised a brow, and then pried open the crate, "Wh-Is that-"
"The doppelgänger? No, that's not."
"But that-"
"Is something I'll explain later," she said, "Now I'm taking this and putting it somewhere no one can ever find it, and you… well…you can do what you want but you're not coming with me."
"Oh really?"
"Yes, really."
"How do you plan on moving this? It's solid rock, and last I checked, you don't have super strength. You need me."
Maya smirked, "Levare," the Anchor floated out of the crate.
"You could do that the whole time?!"
"Uh-huh."
"Why did you make me cart around the bloody thing while you looked for the van?!"
Maya shrugged, "Because I could. Invisique." Both she and the Anchor disappeared from sight.
Elijah looked around, he couldn't sense her presence anymore, "Wh-Where did she go?" He spotted Maya's Vampire bodyguard coming up to him, "Where did she go?"
The bodyguard shrugged, "Uh, I don't know, she does this all the time, she'll be back."
"And if she doesn't come back?"
"Then Klaus will kill me," he crossed his fingers, "So here's hoping she comes back!"
/ / /
Maya crossed the ancient gate and disappeared from the living world, and ended at anther weak spot in the veil. The cave, of course had no entrance or exit, this one glowed both blue and purple, with a vast lake that stretched out further than she could see. She pushed the Anchor in front of her, guiding it into the water, and she followed it in. She didn't know why, but she felt like she needed to submerge herself in the water too. As the water covered her head, she was drawn straight into a dark, yet comforting space.
"Hi," Maya said.
"Hello darling," he replied, walking up to her, he cradled her face in one hand, stroking her cheek with a thumb.
"Your sister's a bitch."
"I know," he gave her a sad smile, "How are you feeling?"
"Stupid, angry, hurt, sad, you know, like a crappier version of the seven dwarves. I miss Nik, and Kol. I just want everything to go back to normal, you know?"
"My sister did a lot of damage," he said, running his fingers through her hair.
"I'm working through it, slowly."
"Maybe I can help a little," he shrugged.
"How?"
"Let's figure it out."
It was 11 a.m. back in Mystic Falls, Caroline was on her own, her mother was a little more relaxed knowing that Damon and Enzo were out of town, so she'd gone back to work and let Caroline have some free time by herself. She wasn't enjoying it, almost every one of her Christmas breaks was spent with Maya, she'd only had one other Christmas without her in her memory, and that sucked to. But this was somehow worse. She was all alone, sure she had other friends, but none of them were like her best friend, and she missed her, God help her, she even missed Denzo! She was at home without anything to do.
Someone rang the doorbell, and when Caroline answered, she was surprised to find Bonnie on the other side. "Bonnie! What are you doing here?"
"Can we talk?" she asked, looking very unsure about being there.
"Alright," she slowly, "But just so you know, if you try anything, someone will be here so fast your head will spin, literally."
Bonnie nodded and stepped inside, "Where's your mom?"
"At work. What did you want?"
"I-can I sit?"
Caroline nodded and guided her to the couch, "Sure."
"I need to talk to Maya, but she's-she's not at home, do you know where she is?"
Caroline sighed, "She's on vacation, why do you want to speak to her?"
Bonnie eyed Caroline for a moment, and realised that Maya wouldn't have kept Caroline in the dark about anything, "She has something that belongs to my family."
"And what would that be?"
"The talisman, it belonged to Emily Bennett, my ancestor."
"Why do you think she has it?"
Bonnie crossed her arms, "I know she has it Caroline! I've ended up outside her house four times in a row thanks to that stupid talisman! It's calling to me, and it won't stop till I get it!"
"Huh," Caroline said, "Maya said that might happen," she went to her room, and brought out a little bag filled with ingredients.
"What is that?" Bonnie asked as Caroline handed it to her.
"It's a hex bag, Maya thought that Emily might try to interfere with you, so she made you this. You put it under your pillow and you can sleep ancestor free."
"Why would she do that for me?" Bonnie looked at Caroline in question, why would Maya try to help her? It wasn't like they were friends, in fact, her grandmother had threatened Maya before, why would she do anything to benefit Bonnie?
Caroline rolled her eyes, "Because, when you're not hanging around Elena, you're not that bad, and you should be able to go to sleep, without people interfering in that."
Bonnie narrowed her eyes at the blonde, "But, you know that Emily would stop, if I had the talisman? Why can't I just have it?"
"That's a question for Maya to field."
"Caroline it belongs to my family anyway! Maya shouldn't even have it!"
"Actually, Emily gave it to Damon, just before she died, and he gave it Maya. Emily may have made the talisman, but it's not actually hers, which means that it's not yours. But I wouldn't worry about it, Maya's not gonna use it."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because unlike you and Elena, Maya tells me everything. But if it makes you feel any better, then I will talk to her about it for you."
"Why?"
"Like I said, when you're not around Elena, you're not terrible."
Death had both of his hands placed on either side of Maya's head, as he searched her mind for exactly what his sister had caused. There was a lot of damage, a mortal mind wasn't supposed to hold all of those memories, at least not the way that it had been done. She had been falling into her past lives more often than not, and it was because her mind couldn't handle it, and that meant all of his Old Souls were going through the same thing.
"Do you have an idea of what to do?" Maya asked.
"From what I can see, the problem is when my sister gave you back all your memories, she made you feel them again, and that's the issue."
"So…what? You're gonna lock them back up again?"
"No," he shook his head, "I can't lock them away, she's released them, in all of my Old Souls. What I can do, is separate them from your sense memory."
"My what?"
"Your sense memory," he said slowly, "You have your memory, and your senses are all intertwined with it, the problem is, you're feeling what you remembered, if I can separate that out with your past lives, things will become easier for you."
"So…I'd still remember what happened, but all the bad parts, all the things that hurt me, I won't feel them anymore?"
"That's the idea."
"What about the rest of them? You said that she did this to all of us, so this has to be happening to them."
Death nodded, "She used you as the key, to unlock all of their memories, I can use you as the key to fix them."
"Okay, fix me."
/ / /
Maya reappeared in the land of the living, but she was atop the Arch, and a storm gathered quickly in the area.
"What's going on?" the Vampire bodyguard asked, looking around at the sudden onslaught of rain, that caused most of the people in the streets to run for cover. "Oh crap," he muttered, looking at the top of the Arch, "How did she get up there?"
Elijah followed his gaze and spotted Maya, "I have no idea."
As Maya stood on top of the Arch, her hair and eyes turned pitch black, she lifted her hand in the air, and the storm grew, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled. "PHASMATOS MORTEM, SANARE CONTAGIONEM!" Her voice resonated in the air, and a bolt of lightning shot out of her hand, split apart, and spread through the sky, expanding further than anyone could see. Maya vanished from the Arch and reappeared in front of Elijah and her bodyguard. "Shall we go?"
All over the world, Old Souls felt a shockwave travel through them, and a clear picture of a woman, with dark hair, glowing green and black eyes appeared in their minds, and all of them knew that she was the one who had just taken away their pain.
Maya had called shotgun, so was sat in the passenger seat of her rented car, while the bodyguard drove, and Elijah had been relegated to the back seat. The bodyguard, Jonah, turned on the radio and started blasting pop music. "Oh my God!" Maya gasped, "Busted! How did you know I love British Pop?!"
"Must we listen to this drivel?" Elijah asked from the back.
"One rule in the car Elijah, driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole, and in this case, the back seat passengers!" Maya said.
"That's the rule," Jonah agreed, "And Klaus made us all read a binder on you, you know, so that we can make sure that we keep you happy."
"Really? That's so sweet!"
"Really? Must you blast this noise?" Elijah complained
"When we're in the car Elijah, we do more than just listen." 'Crashed the Wedding' came on, and Maya started belting it out with Jonah, "AND I'M GLAD I CRASHED THE WEDDING! IT'S BETTER THAN REGRETTING!"
"Alright enough! Stop the car!"
Jonah did and Elijah whooshed out of the car, disappearing from sight, "Oh my God!" Maya laughed, "I didn't think that he would leave so fast, I figured we'd get at least two songs before he ran away."
Jonah laughed, "He's tightly wound that one."
"I'm gonna climb in the back seat and take a nap, because all of that witch-woo really took it out of me, wake me when we get back to the Villa."
Jenna sat across from Elijah in his hotel, "Jenna I want you to know, I truly wasn't aware that Maya was your daughter."
"I believe you," she said, "It doesn't change the fact that it's added a whole layer of complication to this."
"Jenna-"
"I mean the other night was supposed to be our actual first date! I made a decision about what I wanted, and I want you. But I don't know what we're supposed to do now, I don't know what I'm supposed to do now! You being a Vampire didn't really factor into my thinking!"
"Is the fact that I am a Vampire the real problem here?"
"No," Jenna shook her head, "I don't care that you're a Vampire Elijah! I care that you're Klaus's brother! And not because he's like the 'big bad wolf'! My daughter is insanely in love with him! And even if he won't admit it, he feels the same way about her! If they get married, I'm gonna be his mother-in-law! And you're his brother! Klaus's mother-in-law can't date his brother! That's so weird!"
Elijah laughed, "Jenna I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself, Niklaus will never get married! At least not in this century, besides, he has just adopted children, he has no time for that."
"Oh my God! He's adopted kids," Jenna gasped, "He's gonna make me a grandma! I can't be a grandma Elijah! I'm 34! I'm way too young to be a grandma!"
"Jenna! Jenna!" he reached over and grabbed her arms, "Calm down, you're not going to be a grandmother, I know my brother and Niklaus isn't going to get married."
"Really, because I bet there was a time when you believed that your family would never wake up, and that your father would never die, but it happened, and it happened because of Maya, so if anyone can convince Klaus to get married, it's her."
"You believe that she'll want to marry my brother?" Elijah asked disbelievingly, Maya was young, and she had her whole life ahead of her, she had so many things to do and explore, would she want to be tied down to his brother for the rest of her life?
"One day, in middle school, a new girl tried to make friends with Maya's best friend, Sunshine. She was bright, and bubbly, and loved the Notebook, just like Maya's best friend." Elijah raised an eyebrow, wondering where she was going with this, "So anyway, the girl tried to take Sunshine away from Maya, and Maya did not react well…in fact, she made the girl see snakes coming out of everything anytime she got near Sunshine."
"What's your point?"
"My point, is that…Maya is extremely possessive. Especially with people, once Maya and your brother are together, she's not gonna let him go. And to be honest, I don't think Klaus wants to be let go. If anyone can convince him, Klaus Mikaelson, the big bad, to marry them, it's her."
"So where does that leave us?" Elijah asked, "Because I like you Jenna, when I see you, when we talk, I feel like I can just be me. I haven't been me in so long, I…I have fun when I'm with you. And I don't see why my brother and your daughter should be a reason for us to stop seeing one another."
"Elijah it's weird, don't you think so?"
"To be fair, my sister dated Niklaus's first adopted son."
"What?! Your family is so messed up!"
Rebekah was slinking around Mystic Falls, she'd seen Stefan and the newest doppelgänger together, it sickened her, how could Stefan fall for such a duplicitous whore? All the doppelgängers were the same, and she had no doubt that this latest one would show her true colours eventually. Sighing she headed into the Grill, and took a seat in the blond boy's section, he was nice to look at.
/ / /
Caroline walked into the Grill and zeroed in on the newest blonde that had been seen around Mystic Falls for the last few weeks. She looked familiar, and she wanted to know who the new girl was. She breezed up to the girl's table and took a seat across from her. "Hi," she said, "I'm Caroline Forbes, the Sheriff's daughter, you must be new here."
Rebekah raised a brow and the girl's brazenness, "I'm Rebekah," she said, eyeing her curiously.
Caroline gasped, "You're Rebekah Mikaelson!" she whispered, "The Original!"
Rebekah narrowed her eyes, and reached across the table to grab the girl, but Caroline used her new magical reflexes to dodge her, "What- How?"
"I'm Maya's best friend," Caroline said, "I know who you are, I'm not your enemy."
Rebekah pulled back, "You're the Witch's best friend?" she looked at her with interest.
"Yeah," Caroline nodded, "And you're the one that she saved."
"She really doesn't keep anything from you, does she?"
"I've met your brothers, not all of them, most of them, Finn threatened to kill me once, Kol helped make something that protects me, and Klaus…sent me a beautiful jewellery box for my birthday."
"You're not scared of me," the Original said.
"Oh I am," Caroline said, "More so because Maya's not here right now, but, judging from the way you were glaring daggers at Elena, I'd like to think you and I have the same opinions on the doppelgänger."
"You don't like her?" Rebekah asked, from what she'd seen from most of the town, the doppelgänger was well liked, although there were a few notable exceptions.
"She's a bitch," Caroline said, "And she killed Maya."
"What?!"
"Didn't stick, but she did, and the only reason she cares, is that it made her look bad in front of the town."
Rebekah felt a rush of satisfaction at that, her brothers had been obsessed with Tatia, and believed that she could do no wrong. Elijah was hopelessly in love with Katerina for centuries, and now here was Stefan, in love with the newest version of Tatia's face. "What did you say your name was again?"
The Other Side
Qetsiyah was in her cabin in the woods, when there was a knock on the door, she startled as she looked towards the entrance, no one on the Other Side knew where she was, no one had ever come to her home of their own accord before. Opening the door she gasped, "Lord Death." She said. Before she'd created the Other Side, Witches were much more in tune with the world, with life and with death, "You're here."
"Hello Qetsiyah."
"How are you here? This place has been locked away from you since its creation."
"It was, until Maya lived up to part of her deal with you."
"She found the Anchor?"
"It's in my possession. No one can get to it now, which means that you need to live up to your deal with her."
Qetsiyah nodded, she didn't want to anger one of the creators, "Of course, I will, immediately."
Death smirked, "I'm looking for someone, and I'm sure you can help me find him."
"Who?"
"Markos."
It was the 21st, six days since Maya and Death had had their meeting and she'd been feeling much better, she'd stayed inside for most of that time, Damon and Enzo were spending time together, being romantic out in the city, her mother had been in and out of the Villa, Maya guessed that she was sneaking out and seeing Elijah behind her back.
Instead of worrying about it, Maya threw herself into a new project, and she'd finished it the day before, sending one of her bodyguards off with it, it would reach its destination very soon. So now, she'd slid into her bed, it was 10am where she was, but it was midnight somewhere else. Closing her eyes, she slowed her breathing and projected her spirit halfway across the world, to Arizona.
When she opened them again, she was in Klaus's bedroom, he was asleep, and she smiled, it had been so long since she'd seen him and been happy about it, but she was! Maya couldn't take her eyes off of him, he looked so peaceful, she wished that she could have projected her whole body there, but she wasn't strong enough for teleportation. "Nik," she whispered, "Nik!"
His eyes snapped open and faced her, "Maya?" he asked.
"Hi Nik."
"How are you here?"
"I'm not," she shook her head, "I'm on vacation, I'm astral projecting, you can see me, but I'm still in Greece."
"What are you doing here? Not that I'm not happy to see you, but you made it clear that you needed time."
"Yeah," Maya nodded, "I did, I did need time, I um…I went to another veil, saw Death, he helped me separate out what happened to me in the past and who I am now. I'm sorry it took so long, and I'm not all the way better, but…but I miss you."
Klaus ran a hand through his hair and smirked, "You missed me?"
"Yeah," Maya nodded, "Did you…miss me?"
He reached for her, and his hand slipped through her projection, "You're not here," he reminded himself, "When will I see you, in person?"
"When you come to Mystic Falls, which will be in May."
"Five months, you're certain?"
"Yeah, Damon put the word out that the tomb was open, so Katherine should be making her way to town soon."
"I don't like leaving you alone with her."
"I won't be, Caroline says you've sent Rebekah to town."
"She was supposed to keep a low profile," Klaus muttered.
"It's a small town, and she's like super-hot, everyone noticed her."
"Super…hot?"
"She's a Mikaelson, you're all ridiculously pretty."
Klaus laughed, "I think I prefer handsome, sexy, ruggedly good looking."
Maya giggled, "I have to go, but um, I got you a present for Christmas, two presents actually."
"Really? What did you get me?"
"It's a surprise," she smiled, "Bye Nik... I love you." She disappeared before he could respond.
There was a knock at Klaus's door and he rushed to open it, "Cary, what are you doing here?"
"Um a Vampire just dropped this off," he said, holding a large package, "I was just gonna put in your office, but I heard you moving around, it's from your girlfriend."
Klaus took the package, "She's not my girlfriend."
"Sorry! Your friend, that's a girl."
Klaus glared at him, "Go to bed!" he snapped, and Cary left before Klaus could get angry at him.
Other Side
Death and Qetsiyah walked the Other Side, heading to Markos. "He's in Greece," Qetsiyah said, "He likes to be wherever the Anchor is, and it's last known location was Kavala."
"Excellent, I can get to him, and you can go to Maya, keep your end of the deal."
Qetsiyah nodded, she was powerful, but no one was more powerful than Death, except maybe Nature, she wasn't going to anger him. When they reached the city on the Other Side, they parted ways, Death going towards the mountains, while Qetsiyah headed to the Siphon.
Death made his way into the underground area, where the Anchor had been hidden on the Living Plain, he could hear Markos losing his mind about losing the Anchor. He would usually follow the Anchor to wherever it was, it wasn't the first time the Travelers had it taken from them, but it was the first time that he couldn't follow.
"Hello Markos."
The leader of the Travelers spun around as he came face to face with Death itself, "What are you doing here?" He took a step back, he could feel the raw power coming from the being before him, and he didn't know if he would be able to take him on.
"Your plans to destroy all Witch magic, 2000 years ago I would have helped you, alas, you took far too long to get all your ducks in order, and now my plans for the world differ. You're no longer a part of them Markos, which means, you can no longer stay here."
Markos frowned, he wasn't going to let this man try to destroy him, "Krvácet!"
Death raised a brow as he felt the spell touch him, and do nothing, "I am Death," he said, "What do you think you can do to me?" He grew in size, his skin melted off, and his true form came forth, all he had to do was lay a hand on Markos, and then the Travelers body disintegrated before him, before the eyes of his followers, not even giving him time to cry out in the agony that he had felt in that split second. Death turned to the Travelers that had gathered around Markos, only allowed to truly gather together on the Other Side, "Who's next?"
/ / /
Qetsiyah found herself in the Villa, watching over Maya's unconscious form, the girl had attempted astral projection for the first time, and it was successful, she wasn't going to interrupt her. As she saw Maya's consciousness find its way back to her body, she touched her forehead, and Maya's eyes fluttered closed, and she ended up on the Other Side.
"What the- I did not just kill myself!" she whined.
"You didn't."
Maya spun round in shock, "Qetsiyah! Why am I here?"
"You lived up to the first part of the deal," the ancient Witch said, and lifted her hands, placing them on either side of the Siphon's head, "You're here, so that I can live up to the first part of mine."
Maya gasped as knowledge flooded her mind, and then she woke up, back on the Living Plain.
Caroline and Rebekah had met up several times over the week, and with a few ground rules, the cheerleader felt comfortable enough to introduce Rebekah to her mom. Normally she would wait for Maya to come back before she did something like this, but she'd found out that Rebekah was going to be in Mystic Falls until her brother showed up, which meant that she was going to be spending Christmas alone. "Okay, quick reminder, try not to be scary Vampire lady when you meet my Mom, just show her that you're a regular teen, albeit, a thousand years old, but…just be nice. Because I can't lie to my Mom about you being a Vampire, because she's the Sheriff, and she'll find out eventually, and ground me for lying, and inviting another Vampire into the house, and I can't do that again."
"Just…be a regular teenage girl," Rebekah repeated, "I've never done that before."
"Well here's hoping that you can pull it off right now, because we're here!"
The girls pulled up to Caroline's home, her mother was waiting in the back garden, unwilling to let another Vampire in the house without knowing exactly who they were. "Caroline," Liz said, as she saw her daughter come around the side of the house, "You must be Rebekah."
Caroline elbowed Rebekah and the Original moved forward, suddenly very nervous, she'd never wanted a friend's parents to like her before, it was a new feeling, "Sheriff Forbes, it's lovely to meet you. Caroline has told me great things."
"Well I doubt that," Liz muttered, "Please sit," she gestured to one of the swings on the back porch, and Rebekah sat down, Caroline followed, sitting with her mother, to make Liz feel better, and shot the Vampire a hopeful smile.
It was Christmas Eve, and Klaus was in his bedroom, with the door locked, he rarely locked the door, but he didn't want either of the children bursting in while he was sorting out their presents. More than one large tree had been put up downstairs, and the children of the pack had decorated one, while the others had been done by the teens, and then one for the adults, and the presents had been split up accordingly under the trees. He'd finished wrapping his presents for Liam and Luna, and had even gotten one each for Freya and Kol, who'd decided that they wanted to stay for Christmas, when the parcel that Maya had sent to him caught his eye. He had opened the box when he first received it, only to find a note atop it, saying that he could go no further till Christmas, she'd spelled it shut. There were only a couple of minutes left until midnight, and then he could finally see what she'd gotten him.
He put the parcel in front of him, and watched the clock as the time ticked down, the moment the clock struck midnight, he opened the parcel, there were two things that had been wrapped for him, a small book, with a card on top, and a wooden box was next with a note stuck to it. He went for the wooden box first. 'This is a little something for your Beta, and enforcers, you feel they deserve them, they've all been individually marked.' He opened the box and was met with moonlight rings, in their own individual bags, all of them named so they wouldn't get mixed up. He wasn't going to ask for any more moonlight rings, not when he knew what had happened to Maya the last time she did it, but she must have felt confidant enough in herself to make more, and she'd done it, without any prompting from him.
Smiling he moved to the card and the little book, 'The album has been spelled for your eyes only. Merry Christmas Nik xxx' He opened, what he now knew to be an album, and he couldn't hold in his smirk, it was filled with all of the boudoir photos that she'd done. Including ones that he'd never seen before, all of them black and white, and not one of them showed her face, but it was perfect, each photo appealed to the artist in him. Each one beautifully shot, and in one of them, she was definitely wearing his shirt, he'd wondered where it had gotten to, it was one of his favourites. He went through the album more than once, now he'd have to figure out what the perfect Christmas gift for Maya was.
It was Christmas morning, Maya woke up with a grin, it was her favourite time of the year, and it was the one day that she woke up early, earlier than everyone else in fact, "It's Christmas!" she said excited and burst into her mother's room, "It's Christmas! It's Christmas! It's Christmas!" she chanted, jumping on the bed and waking her up, "Get up!". She rushed out of Jenna's room and banged on Denzo's door, "It's Christmas! Wake up!" she rushed downstairs after they woke up.
Everyone was downstairs in a few minutes, grumbling about how early they had to get up, "How is this literally the only day of the year that she'll wake up early?" Damon groaned.
"Quit complaining," Enzo said, "It's one day a year."
"Easy for you to say," Jenna whispered, "All it takes is one sip of blood and you're up for days! I'm the human one here!" she hissed.
"Hey!" Maya called, "Quit stalling! I wanna open presents!"
"This is gonna be a long day," Damon sighed, and headed over to the tree.
Rebekah knocked on the door to the Sheriff's house, with Liz's favourite wine and a gift that she believed that she would appreciate. Liz opened the door and Rebekah smiled at her, "Hello Sheriff. Merry Christmas." She handed over the wine and the wrapped gift, "I brought you something."
"You didn't have to get me anything," Liz said, eyeing the girl thoughtfully. Who would have thought that the innocent and young-looking girl would be a thousand-year-old, indestructible Vampire. But she was, and Liz was still trying to wrap her head around the fact that Vampires were both the same, and very different from what she'd been taught.
"It was no trouble at all."
"Well thank you, come in Rebekah."
Rebekah's smile widened and she cautiously took a step inside, not quite believing that she'd been invited in, "I already gave Caroline her present, hopefully she didn't open it yet."
"Oh you don't have to worry about that, Caroline is very strict when it comes to Christmas, she doesn't let anyone open anything early," Liz said leading her inside. "Caroline! Rebekah's here!"
Caroline came out of her room and grinned, "Rebekah! Hi! I'm so glad you could make it!" she dragged the girl to the couch in the living room, "Now that you're here we can open presents! Right mom?"
Liz rolled here eyes, "Yes honey, we can open presents."
It was so strange for Rebekah, to be in a regular home that actually housed a normal family, "Sheriff, why don't you open yours first."
"Okay," she said slowly, she unwrapped the gift, it was book, that looked very old, "Uh what…"
"It's a bestiary," Rebekah said.
"What?!"
"Do you mean-" Caroline started.
"No Caroline, I said bestiary. It's a book on various kinds of creatures, in this case supernatural creatures. A lot of them are thought to be extinct, but so were Werewolves at one point in time. This not only has descriptions of those creatures, but also their weaknesses. I know that you are having a hard time with all this new information that you've been given about Vampires, and I thought that something like this would help. You know, keep you informed of what's out there, and how to defeat it."
Rebekah looked at her hopefully and Liz actually smiled. It was a practical gift, one that she could study and use to arm herself to keep everyone in town safe, "Thank you Rebekah, this is great."
Caroline gave Rebekah a thumbs up and the Original grinned excitedly.
Luna burst into Klaus's room, "It's Christmas! It's Christmas! It's Christmas!" she chanted, bouncing on his bed, waking him up, "Daddy, wake up! Wake up!"
Klaus jumped up and grabbed her before she landed on him, "Luna love, it's six in the morning."
"It's Christmas! I want my presents!"
"No one's even awake yet," he replied.
"Then wake them up!" she complained, "You're the Alpha! Please Daddy!" she gave him her puppy dog eyes and he sighed.
"Fine," then he grinned, "Why don't you go and wake up your Aunt Freya and your Uncle Kol," he put her on the floor, "Oh, and Kol is very hard to wake up, I suggest you take bottle of cold water to use on him."
"Okay!" Luna grinned and ran out of the room.
It was only a few minutes later when Klaus heard his brother scream his name, and laughed.
/ / /
An hour later everyone in the pack was up, still in their pyjamas, but everyone was downstairs, with the trees. Kol walked in, his hair still wet, "I'm going to get you back for that," he muttered and Klaus smirked.
"Let's do presents!" Luna insisted, and Klaus stood up, grabbing a bag of gifts that he had yet to put under the tree.
"Alright," he said, moving to put the gifts away.
Kol got up and whooshed over to his brother, dropping a red velvet hat on Klaus's head, and snapped a picture, "Look! It's Santa Klaus!" he said, causing Freya to burst out laughing.
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