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guest: There's a lot happening in this chapter, and there was no way that Enzo and Damon wouldn't notice the fact that Caroline was missing, when they know that she and Maya are a huge part of each other's lives.
sammyleann: You'll get more info in this chapter!
xotinkerbella: The guys would definitely know that something was wrong with Caroline, and psycho Kol will come out to play, but first he's got to get back to the land of the living!
YD9274: You'll just have to read to find out what happens, I'm not going to tell you.
musa22lbl: You might just find out a little bit in this chapter!
: A lot of things are happening in this chapter, hopefully they'll answer some of your questions!
Careena1: You will find out in this chapter! And yeah, I don't think Finn is thinking logically, I don't think he truly realises how bad Klaus can be, I mean he was locked away for 900 years, he missed seeing his brother turn into a monster, unlike the rest of his siblings.
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Guest: You'll find out about Jenna in this chapter.
MizzRKOANIMALCENA: You'll get a little bit of an answer about Jenna in this chapter, just a little bit. Kol has to come back from the veil before he can show those wolves what pain really is.
.Winchester.17: You'll find out in this chapter.
Bornkiller9: You're right, he was invited in, I forgot to change a bit in the chapter before updating, but I've fixed it. You will get some more info in this chapter about Jenna, Caroline, Katherine and Finn.
HEYITSJACE: She's not going to be a Vampire, you'll find out what she is and what she can do in the next few chapters.
Ovgsmesa: If Maya became a Vampire then she'd be a Heretic because she's a Siphon, so she would have access to her magic. There were a lot of inconsistencies in the show with the Heretics, so I'm gonna try and set out a set of rules for them. And yes Maya loves Klaus, so if she turns with his blood, there would be a sire bond, because a Vampire bonds to their sire when they feelings for them as humans. And Maya knows about the sire bond, so she probably wouldn't want Klaus's blood to turn her, especially because they keep strengthening their bond every time he bites her and she drinks his blood.
APridefulSin: The wolves are gonna suffer no matter what, but Maya and Kol need to get out of the veil first.
Blu3b3rryT3a: You'll find out who attacked Jenna in this chapter, no one got into the house, Jenna was killed just outside it. Kol is doing something selfless, I think because he doesn't know what to do with the guilty feeling he has for what he did to Maya's past life.
Careena1: The wolves will suffer, Finn and Sage are being really stupid, and the sacrifice is getting very close now!
Twihardkarebear38: Thank you for reading! I'm sorry that the chapter brought up painful feelings for you, I lost someone recently, and I know how much that hurts. You'll get a couple of answers about Jenna in this chapter.
Enzo rushed out of the panic room after seeing the footage, gasping for breath, "Hey!" Damon grabbed hold of his arms, "Enzo!"
"I can't-I can't breathe!" Enzo gasped out, bent double trying to calm down. "I can't-"
"It's okay, it's okay, we'll figure this out," Damon tried to comfort him.
"It's not okay!" Enzo snapped, "She's dead! Jenna is dead! I promised to protect her! I promised to keep her safe! And now she's gone! She saved my life! And now she's gone!"
Damon could see not only the anguish in Enzo's eyes, but the temptation to do something drastic, "Hey!" he demanded, "Look at me! Don't you do it Enzo! Don't you dare! You are not turning it off!"
"Damon-"
"NO! Maya is still out there! Caroline is still out there! Missing! We need to find them! If you turn it off, what good are you to them?!" Enzo snarled, "Maya saved your life too! You owe her!"
Enzo backed off, "We find them," he said.
"We find them," Damon nodded.
"Wh-what do you mean?" Maya asked, rubbing her face.
"Kol's going to let your…uh…father…use him, to try to bring me back."
"Mom, I don't understand," Maya shook her head.
"Neither do I baby, but they're gonna try, I don't want to leave you."
Maya looked at Death, "Please bring her back," she pled, "I don't wanna go back without her, please."
"I'll do what I can," he replied, hating the look on her face, it was a different face than her first, but the pain he felt from her, was the same pain he'd felt from her the very first time they'd met. He would find a way to bring her mother back to life, no matter what.
Enzo, Damon, and the two Originals had searched the town for the whole night, they'd come up with nothing, "This is ridiculous!" Enzo snapped, "Where the hell are they?!" They'd all agreed to meet at Mikaelson mansion, as it was the first place Klaus would go, considering he had the children with him, and he was due in at any moment.
"There's no sign of them anywhere…or Katherine." Damon said, when he'd seen the security footage, watched as Jenna had been murdered, he didn't know that he was capable of feeling the way that he did. Katherine had come up behind Jenna, and not one to make the same mistake twice, she didn't let the human get anywhere near the house, she'd played with Jenna for a while, she could have just killed her. But instead, Katherine broke her arm, and her leg, she'd cut open Jenna's stomach to let her bleed out, presumably doing all of it to see if the woman had Vampire blood in her system, to see if there was a chance that she would come back, and when Jenna hadn't healed, Katherine finally snapped her neck. Once he'd seen that, Damon had sent Stefan to stay with Elena and her mother, with Katherine free, there was no telling what she would do.
"What did the Sheriff say?" Rebekah asked softly, quickly realising that she was going to have to be the voice of reason, even Elijah was in a state, he'd tried to keep his anger in check, but it hadn't worked very well, and he'd destroyed his bedroom. "Did she have any luck tracking their phones?" When they'd confirmed that Caroline was missing, Rebekah had gone straight to the Sherriff, seeing if the woman could track Maya and Caroline that way, because they were down a Witch, there was no way that they would trust Bonnie Bennett with this.
Enzo shook his head, "It's like Maya's phone is out of reach."
"And Caroline's?"
"We're waiting for the trace to come back, Liz said that she would call the moment that she had something." Enzo would have continued, but he heard the door slam, and Klaus rushed inside, with his sister at his side, "Nik!"
"Where are the children?" Elijah asked, needing something, anything, to distract him from his own anger.
"I dropped them at pack house," Klaus replied, "What do we know?"
No one had wanted to tell Klaus what had happened over the phone, no one wanted to let him know that Katherine had escaped, let alone that she'd murdered his girlfriend's mother. "Nik," Damon said, "It was Katherine."
"What?!" he growled.
"I don't know how, but she got out of the tomb, she killed Jenna."
Klaus shook his head, "That's not possible," there was no way that the Bennett Witch was strong enough to take down Maya's spell, and there was no reason for her to do so. But then he looked at his brother, Elijah was always the calm one, cool headed, yet, now, in his eyes, there was a simmering...rage, he wasn't saying anything either.
"It's true," Enzo said, "Kol and Maya arrived not long after, they found her, and Maya sh-she did something, let out a powerful burst of magic, and then they were gone, they were just gone!" Enzo was trying to hold himself together, one of his saviours was dead, and the other missing, and he hadn't been able to do a thing about it, "We've searched the town, they're not here."
Klaus looked around the room, noticing someone else that was missing, "Where the hell is Caroline?" From what he knew of the Baby Vampire, she would have been the first one at Maya's side, but she wasn't, and she wasn't even there to help with the search, something was very wrong in Mystic Falls.
"That's the other thing," Rebekah said, coming over to him, "She's missing too, she didn't show up at the house, but Damon and Enzo insist that she would have felt Maya's pain and come for her."
"She would have," Klaus replied.
"We can't find her, her mother is tracing her phone now, and will let us know as soon as she has something."
"Freya," he turned to his older sister, "The tracking spell that Maya came up with, can you do it?"
With Kol at such a distance, Freya hadn't been able to do the locator spell in Arizona, but now that she was in Mystic Falls, she could feel her magic again, "I can," she smiled.
"Why are you smiling?" Elijah asked, he didn't really know about the restrictions on Freya's magic.
"Because it means that Kol is somewhere in this town," she replied, "I can't do magic when we're separated by more than that, it's part of the failsafe that Maya put in place when she didn't know whether or not I would be on her side."
"Do the spell," Klaus said, and Freya nodded.
"I will need some of your blood," she said, and Klaus bit into his wrist, allowing it to drop into a small bowl that she'd produced, she'd gotten all the ingredients that she needed for the spell ready on the plane, so that she could do it as soon as she arrived in Mystic Falls. Lighting some herbs on fire, she dropped them into the blood, and began to chant, "Siphonem quaere, da locum suum ad sanguinem meum, invenio nexum meum." She was calling out for the Siphon's location to be brought to the owner of the blood, depending on how far away Maya was, would change how Klaus would receive her location.
They waited for a few minutes before Klaus took off, the Vampires following him as he raced through the trees, he came to an abrupt stop, in the middle of the woods. "Nik where-" Rebekah cut herself off as she looked around, she recognised this place.
"This is-" Elijah glanced at the area, it was far away from town, close to the Salvatore crypt.
"What?" Enzo said, looking between the two of them, "What is it?!"
"This is where our home was," Elijah finally said.
Klaus had strained his senses, but he couldn't detect a hint of where Maya could possibly be, he pulled out his phone and called Freya, "There's no one here, do the spell again." She did, but Klaus was provided the same location, "It's not working!"
"Wait," Enzo said, realising something, "You said this was where you lived."
"Yes," Rebekah replied.
"Is this where you were all turned?" he asked.
Klaus gave him a sharp look, "Yes, this is where we died."
"Then I know where she is!" Enzo exclaimed.
"Where?" Klaus demanded.
"She's at the veil!"
"What the hell is that?" Rebekah asked.
"A point, where the veil between life and death is at is weakest. That has to be it!" he looked at Elijah, he knew that the oldest Original had seen Maya reappear out of a veil, but she probably hadn't explained it, "When we were in LA, she walked into a veil, and disappeared from sight, and then just reappeared from nowhere. I couldn't see it, but she could. She did the same in Greece, didn't she?"
Elijah nodded slowly, "She cloaked herself going in, but she reappeared as if coming from nowhere."
"It's a veil!" Enzo repeated.
Damon nodded in agreement, "It has to be! Think about it! Death's magic crossed over here! To make Vampires, it would stand to reason, this is where the veil is at its weakest!" and then he frowned, "Which is probably why you could get a location."
"A place that's here, but not here," Elijah said in understanding, finally realising the meaning behind Maya's words in Greece.
"That doesn't help us get to her, and Kol!" Klaus ground out.
"We can't, she's the only one that can access it."
"Where's Kol then?"
"She let out a powerful blast of magic, that must have helped him transport her!" Enzo reasoned, it was the only thing he could think of, the only thing that made any sense.
Klaus was about to say something, but Rebekah interrupted them when her phone went off. "It's the Sheriff, she says she has the location of Caroline's phone."
Caroline woke with a start, the pain in her head was unbearable, she felt her forehead, and found the wound, digging her fingers in, she whimpered as she pulled a wooden bullet from her head. Struggling to get up, she made her way to the door of the cage and tried to unlock it, but one of the Werewolves came in, the one that had shot her in the first place.
"I see you got the bullet out." He said, with an evil look in his eyes, "That was nasty. I got lots of wooden bullets, and other toys. It's gonna be a long night for you, sweet pea." He shot her again and she screamed.
"Why are you doing this?!" she cried, she hadn't done anything to anyone, since she'd transitioned, she hadn't hurt anyone, not a single slip up.
He didn't answer her, just shot her again, this time in both of her knee-caps, causing her to scream out, "How many Vampires are there in this town anyway?" he asked her.
But Caroline refused to answer, so he threw vervain at her. "AAH!" Caroline screamed in agony covering her face, as she tried to push herself further back in the cage, but there was no room for her to move, "Why are you doing this to me? Why?!"
"You're a Vampire. Why not?" he shrugged and picked up a wooden stick, throwing it at her, it embedded itself into her stomach, causing her to double over in pain. "I'm sorry, what was that?" he asked.
"Let me out!" she cried.
"Excuse me? What was that?"
"LET ME OUT!"
The Werewolf shot her in the head again, and then walked out of the room, meeting Jules outside, "Did you get it out of your system?" she asked.
"No, I'm just getting started," he replied.
"Brady, let's be smart about this. I just want to find out what happened to Mason, and who killed him. It's our duty to avenge him, it's who we are."
"You want to talk duty and honour? These are Vampires! They cross one of us, they cross all of us! That's who we are!"
Damon, Enzo and Rebekah had sped over to the Sheriff's station as soon as they received Liz's message, she hadn't met Klaus or Elijah and they didn't want to frighten her with their surprise presence. She looked upset, which wasn't a good sign, "I tracked Caroline's phone to outside the Grill, it was on the ground, by her car."
"Did you check the cameras?" Rebekah asked, and Liz showed them the footage, a man and a woman had followed her out, looking very sketchy, "I don't know who they are, but this is all the footage that we've got." She looked at the Vampires, "I don't know what to do, we don't have any leads! Can Maya do a spell? Can she find her like that?"
Damon and Enzo glanced at each other for a moment, they hadn't told Liz about Maya and Jenna yet, not with Caroline missing too, it would be too much for her. "Can you send us that footage?" Damon asked, and Liz sent it to his phone, "We'll need blood of a relation for a locator spell."
Liz grabbed her empty coffee mug, and then looked around for something to cut herself with, "Here," Rebekah said, coming round to her, taking out a dagger that she kept on her, Rebekah took Liz's hand and made a small cut, dripping the blood into the mug, "Is that enough?" Liz asked.
"We'll be able to work with that," Rebekah nodded, "Do you want me to heal that?"
"No," Liz shook her head, she was very wary about having Vampire blood in her system, "I'll be fine, please just find my daughter."
/ / /
The three Vampires made their way back to the pack house, where Klaus, Elijah and Freya had gone, after finding nothing at the site of their first death. "Caroline's been taken," Enzo said, handing over the mug containing Liz's blood to Freya, "This is her mother's blood, can you use it for a locator spell?"
She glanced at Klaus, who nodded, "Of course," she went to get a map of the area so that she could hopefully find the other missing person in town.
"Do we know who took her?" Klaus asked, upon his arrival to the pack house, his three Enforcers had gathered around him, but they'd also brought Mason, none of them willing to leave him alone, especially with Katherine on the loose now.
Damon pulled out his phone, "These two followed her out of the Grill, but we don't have any other footage of her." He showed Klaus the video and Mason paled, he knew who those two were, and he knew that the young Vampire wasn't safe.
"I know them," he whispered, and all eyes snapped to him.
"Who are they?!" Klaus demanded, his Vampire coming to the surface immediately, he couldn't reach Maya, couldn't help her, the least he could do is save her best friend.
Mason took a step back, only to bump into Scott, "That's-that's Jules, she's my pack's Alpha, and that's Brady, her mate. If Caroline's with them and she's a Vampire…she's not safe."
"Why?!" Enzo asked, coming to stand by Klaus, his anger plain as day.
"Brady hates Vampires, I've never seen it, but I hear he keeps a cage in his trailer…"
Klaus snarled, he would be damned if Maya came back to find that her best friend had been tortured and killed by wolves, he looked to his Enforcers, "We're leaving as soon as Freya gets a location, one of you needs to stay here with the children." They nodded, eyes hardening, it had been a while since they'd had a clash with anyone, a fight with Werewolves could be fun.
Freya bust into the room, "I found her!" she brought the map with her, and showed them her location.
"That's not far from the tomb," Damon said, perhaps when they'd gotten Caroline back, they could check it out, find a clue to how Katherine had escaped.
"Let's go," Klaus said, "Freya, are you ready?" he asked, she nodded and he grabbed her. He whooshed out, of the pack house. The other Vampires grabbed two of the Enforcers, leaving Scott and Mason alone.
"You know," Brady said, with a sick grin, walking back inside the trailer after the rest of the pack had arrived, "I'm glad you decided to keep your mouth shut," He pulled out his gun again, "It means I get to have so much more fun." He shot her in her chest, close to her heart, but not close enough to kill her.
Caroline gasped in pain, pulling as far back into the cage as she could, she'd been taken the night before, and she knew that she wasn't going to be there for much longer. Her friends would come for her soon, and when that happened…well she almost pitied the wolves…almost. "Enjoy it…while you can," she struggled out.
"Oh?" Brady fired the gun into her shoulder, "And why's that?"
"Because…I'm not the only Vampire in town…and it's not a full moon."
"Hmm," he picked up a bottle full of vervain water, and tossed it at her face, and Caroline screamed as she felt her eyes burn, "You Vampires, you think you're better than us, I'll kill anyone that comes for you. Or better yet, I'll put them right next to you."
Caroline let out a weak laugh, despite being temporarily blind, "You have…no idea…what you've done."
/ / /
The group of Vampires, Werewolves and one Witch stopped just outside where they'd gotten a location on Caroline. The wolves stretched out their senses, "There's a whole pack here," Regina smirked, she'd been itching for a fight.
Klaus focused his hearing, and heard Caroline cry out in pain, "Let's introduce ourselves," he said, a sinister look in his eyes, whoever was torturing Caroline would not have the privilege of a swift death. "Sister," he looked at Freya, "Could you put up a barrier? To stop them from running?"
"Keep them distracted," Freya nodded, planting her feet and beginning the spell.
"I'll stay with Freya," Elijah said, as much as he wished to let out his own monster, he wasn't going to leave his sister unprotected whilst she cast a spell, even if the odds of her being injured were beyond tiny, he would protect her. Besides, he knew from just looking at his brother, Klaus needed to let out his anger first.
/ / /
"Well, well," Klaus said, strolling in the middle of the Werewolf encampment, "What do we have here?" His sister beside him, Damon and Enzo behind them, with his two Enforcers bringing up the rear.
"Who are you?" Jules asked, stepping in front of her own Enforcers, she could smell the Vampire on them, but oddly enough, there were two wolves with them. They had to have been here for the girl, but she had no idea why the wolves stood at their side. They certainly weren't hostages, being used to trade for the Vampire in their position, they stood tall next to the Vampires. She was more than wary, there were far more Vampires in town than she thought.
Rebekah straightened, this was one of the people that had followed Caroline out of the Grill, one of the ones that had taken her friend, Jules, is what Mason had called her, the Alpha, "Well if you can't tell, we're Vampires, and you've taken someone that belongs to us."
"We didn't take anyone," Jules refuted, "Just picked up a leach when we were in town."
Damon and Enzo snarled, letting their monsters come forth, Klaus barely reacted though, his eyes narrowing in anger, "If you don't hand over the girl, I will wipe your pathetic pack from existence."
Brady came out of the trailer, Caroline's blood on shirt, and stood by his mate, "And what are you gonna do if we do hand her over?" He wasn't about to trust the word of a Vampire, there were more of them than he'd anticipated, but capturing the blonde had given him a false sense of security, the pack outnumbered them.
"Then some of you may yet survive," Klaus's mind already brimming with the possibility of making a few members of this pack his test subjects, he wasn't planning on turning his own pack in Hybrids, without knowing that it worked first. He could use them as cannon fodder, send them out in the world, to find more packs for him to turn.
Jules scoffed at that, signalling the other members of her pack to circle up, and surround the group, "There's more of us than you," she said, "And she wasn't all that hard to take down, I doubt you'll be any different."
Klaus let out a humourless chuckle, "Oh? We'll see about that," he was losing his patience, waiting for Freya to finish her spell, a little more complicated than a simple barrier spell, if she wanted to make sure that only the wolves in the enemy pack were trapped. His smirk widened when he heard his sister's whispered words that she was finished, and wordlessly signalled his Enforcers to attack. Damon and Enzo followed, and Rebekah headed straight for the trailer, she could smell a lot of Caroline's blood, and the girl had barely made a noise since they'd arrived at the camp.
Jules and Brady were stunned, they'd never seen any Vampire move as fast as Klaus and Rebekah, and they'd severely underestimated the other two Vampires. "RUN!" Jules yelled, when she realised that her people wouldn't survive.
The wolves attempted to scatter, but quickly hit the invisible wall that Freya had put up, Regina and Alexandra both dragged a couple of the wolves back to the centre of the camp, leaving them alive for their own Alpha to decide what to do with them. But any of the wolves that had crossed Klaus's path were decimated, with ruthless efficiency, leaving only three wolves beside Jules and Brady alive.
Damon and Enzo grabbed the Alpha and her mate, shoving them to the ground, there was no way that the both of them were getting off as easily as most of the pack, they would suffer for what they'd done to Caroline.
Mason looked at Scott in question, "Okay, what the hell is going on?!" he demanded, "You said that I'd meet your Alpha! But I'm pretty certain that your Alpha is a Vampire! What the hell?!"
"We don't owe you an explanation," Scott dismissed, in truth, they weren't expecting to have Mason meet Klaus before he broke his curse, given how much Mason hated turning ever month, they believed that he'd be an excellent candidate to be a Hybrid, not a high ranking one, but Klaus had planned to use someone from outside of the Pack to ensure that nothing would go wrong with the transition. Of course, that plan was all shot to hell now.
"The hell you don't!"
Rebekah ripped the cage door off, crawling inside to see Caroline, she hadn't moved, and Rebekah could only hope that the wolf hadn't been foolish enough to kill the girl. Caroline groaned, as she felt her body pushing out the bullet in her skull, she no longer had the strength to take it out herself.
"Bloody hell!" Rebekah cursed, pulling the younger woman out of the cage, there was no way that Caroline could walk on her own, and none of them had thought to bring any blood with them. "Come on Caroline," she muttered, lifting her into her arms.
"Rebekah?" Caroline whispered, confused and relieved, she'd told the wolves that someone was coming for her, but after a full day of her being missing, she was worried that she may have been far further from Mystic Falls than she'd originally thought.
"It's alright, we'll get you some blood, and it will fix you right up." The Original walked outside, to find that her brother had already made the wolves pay. "Damn," she said, "You could have left some for me."
"Relax sister," Klaus turned to face her, "These two are coming with us." He knew that Kol would want to take his pound of flesh from each of them, not to mention that when Maya returned, she would need an outlet for her pain, while they searched the town for Katerina. He eyed the Baby Vampire in his sister's arms thoughtfully, she would need to feed, and soon, if her greyish pallor was any indication. "Get her back to Maya's house," he said, "We'll lock these two in the mansion." Rebekah nodded, flashing away with Caroline, while the rest of them sped back to Mikaelson Mansion, leaving the few wolves that were still alive, trapped in their own camp.
Maya watched as the water in the cavern turned opaque, and crawled up Kol's body, she was worried, but if this would bring her mother, then she wasn't going to stop it. The Original choked as the dark water entered his mouth, blocking up his throat, and pulled him all the way down, and she fought the urge to pull him back. Kol was her friend, and whatever was happening to him, it was clearly painful.
Kol grunted as he felt himself burning from the inside out, trying to keep his struggles to a minimum. Death said that this would hurt, he just wasn't very clear on how badly it would hurt, the pain was reminiscent of the first time that he'd been caught out in the sun, without his ring, it felt like his flesh was melting from bone, and he understood, he was being remade, not like Maya, but something else entirely. And just as he felt like he couldn't take the pain any longer, a connection, a spark of life that could only be Jenna glowed within him. She was connected to him! The only question was, how much longer was he going to have endure this agony in order to ensure that Jenna came back with him?
Caroline curled up in her bed at the Sommers house, her mother at her side, she hadn't seen Maya, or Jenna and no one would tell her where they were, but honestly she was too hurt and tired to push, she knew that the only reason they wouldn't be there with her was for something good. "Mommy," she whimpered, as her mother squeezed her tighter.
"Shh, shh, shh," Liz rocked her daughter, "It's okay, you're okay," Rebekah hadn't been very descriptive with what had happened, just that Caroline had been taken by wolves that held a particular dislike for Vampires. But she supposed, she didn't really need anyone to go into detail with what happened, she could see it on her daughter's face, the pain, the suffering, that haunted look that she'd seen on her oldest deputy, one that had been to war. Liz's heart broke for her daughter, she never wanted Caroline to ever feel like this, but she did, and she didn't know what to do, how to help her, and to make matters worse, Jenna was…and Maya…she wasn't equipped for this, all this supernatural drama. She had no idea how to make things better.
Klaus, Enzo and Damon were dealing with the two Werewolves that they had brought back, Freya was with the children, and Elijah…Elijah was in the shadows of Mystic Falls, searching for the woman that he once loved, the woman who had just murdered one that he could potentially love. Katerina was somewhere, he would find her, and she would pay for what she'd done.
/ / /
Katherine raced back to a little apartment that she was hiding in, she'd been instructed by Finn to lay low, until he had need of her, the oldest Original was waiting for Klaus to come to town, so that he could destroy his brother's chance of breaking the curse. And while she'd been told to stay hidden, she couldn't resist causing a little mayhem, that Witch bitch Maya had gloated over her, locked away in the tomb, left as a 'gift' for the monster that she'd been running from for 500 years. And she'd gloated, because she didn't know what a mistake it was to provoke her, so Katherine made her pay, at the same time, she'd punished that foolish woman, the one who'd thought to threaten her with the Originals, the one that acted like she knew so much.
It was like neither of the women had known, 'you do not fuck with Katherine Pierce', well, at least the Witch would know that now. She would know that it was her fault that her mother was dead, she would know that Katherine stood over her mother's corpse, and gloated, Maya never should have crossed her, but she did. And because of it, she was suffering the consequences of her actions.
/ / /
Elijah watched from a roof two blocks away from the apartment, he could see Katherine through the window, the apartment was in a human's name, so he couldn't go in, he didn't want to alert her to his presence, he knew that Niklaus would never forgive him if he let her escape, he wasn't sure that he would forgive himself if that happened either.
He pulled out his phone, ready to call Niklaus, when he saw his eldest brother show up at the door, straightening Elijah focused his hearing, Finn was here, Finn knew Katherine, and that was a problem. So instead of calling his younger brother, he texted him, "I know how Katerina escaped the tomb."
"What are you doing?" Jenna asked, watching as Kol was pulled down, further into the threshold.
"I need to connect him to you," Death said, "Connect him to me more thoroughly."
"It looks like it hurts," she said, as the Original struggled against the burning pain.
"I'm changing him, at a molecular level, it hurt when he died, this will hurt worse, because this time he's awake for it."
"Is…is he going to be okay?" Jenna asked, she wanted to come back, she did, but this…this looked-it felt wrong, to be doing this to him, he was suffering.
"He's an Original," Death replied, rather clinically, "He has suffered before, he will suffer more," Death used his influence on Kol, altering his very being, it was working, "But he will be better for it."
"I-"
"You are a kind woman Jenna, when I gave you my most precious creation, I knew that you would have a…profound effect on her. If I can give you back to her, I will, even if it hurts him."
"But-but you need him!" Jenna said, she was vaguely aware of the fact that Death needed the Originals to remain as they were on the Earth.
"It won't kill him, and I'm not changing him too much, he will remain an Original, just be a little…different." He took her hand in his, "Now, I need quiet."
/ / /
Kol's hand shot out the dark water, he grabbed hold of the ground, and dragged himself out of the water, coughing and spluttering as he choked on the black substance.
"Kol!" Maya gasped, scrambling to her feet, "Wh-what happened?!" She rushed over to him, pulling him out of the water, turning him on his side so that he could get rid of what was inside of him, "Kol where's my mother?"
Kol pushed himself up, "Maya," he started, it was odd, this connection he felt, two connections actually, one with his creator, and the other with the missing woman.
"Kol where's-where's my mom? Where is she?! Where is she Kol?!"
He looked back at the water, "I can feel her," he replied.
/ / /
"What's happening?" Jenna asked in a panic, all of a sudden, it was like she could feel everything, she was drenched in water, her stomach split open and her leg and arm broke, "Aah!" she fell to the floor, and then her neck snapped. Death watched as everything happened almost in slow motion, her spirit needed to match her body before he put her back in.
He reached out for her body, taking her spirit and placing it back inside her broken form, and then, her neck twisted back, righting itself, then her arm snapped back into place, followed by her leg, finally her stomach stitched itself back together. "There we go," he smirked. Picking her body up, he strengthened the connection between her and Kol, and sent it back through the threshold.
/ / /
Maya and Kol stared at the water as it began to bubble up, as though it was being boiled, and then, Jenna's body appeared, floating on the surface. "Mom!" Maya cried, racing into the water, to grab her.
"Maya!" Kol followed, they got to Jenna together, bringing her back to the land.
"Mom! Mom!" Maya gasped, shaking her.
"Maya!" Kol pulled her away from her mother, before she lost her mind, "I can hear her heart!"
"What?!" she looked up at the Original, "What did you say?"
"Her heart, it's beating again."
"But- but she's not awake!"
Kol could feel Jenna's consciousness, faintly humming in the back of his mind, "We need to leave." Now that both he and Jenna were out of the water, he could see the Siphon becoming paler, "She'll wake at home." He lifted Jenna into his arms, "We need to go now! Do you know the way out?"
Maya looked around the cavern, really looked, "Where did we come in?" she asked.
Kol motioned for her to follow him, and they made their way to where they had first appeared. "There's nothing here," he said, "No way out."
"There is," Maya could see it, in her mind's eye, the opening, the veil between worlds, "You have to hold onto me," she said.
Kol shifted Jenna to over his shoulder, and took hold of Maya's hand, "Alright, where are we going?"
"Close your eyes, you can't see it, but I can," he did as she said, and Maya guided him out of the cavern, through the invisible gateway, the one only she could see. And in seconds, they appeared in the forest in Mystic Falls. "You can open them now."
Kol looked around the area, "This is where we died," he said, "This was our home."
Maya nodded, "That makes sense." All she could see were trees, "Can you get us home?"
Kol grabbed her, and whooshed back to the Sommers household, not realising how long they'd been missing for, not realising that there would be a whole host of people waiting for them.
Klaus joined Elijah on the rooftop, staring at the apartment block that housed the wayward doppelgänger, "What the bloody hell is Finn doing here?" he demanded, "How did he know about this?!"
"The message that was sent to me was sent on a very open forum, it's entirely possible that Sage saw it."
"What are they even doing here, Elijah?!"
His brother looked at him, "Well, and this is only a guess, but I would think that they are here to prevent you from breaking the curse."
Klaus growled, "I knew I should have left him in his box!"
"Niklaus please, that is what got you into this mess," Elijah sighed.
"Need I remind you that they released Katerina, who just murdered your girlfriend!"
"And Katerina will be punished, but Finn is our brother."
"It's either I put him down, or when Maya returns, she will, and believe me, for once, I'm the more merciful option."
Elijah clenched his jaw, the Old Soul had shown him glimpses of real darkness, a darkness that matched his younger brother, he'd seen how Klaus acted around her, he had a feeling that his brother would give her whatever she desired, and if she desired Finn's head, then Klaus would give it to her. "Freya won't be happy if you dagger Finn."
"Freya would prefer him alive than truly dead," Klaus dismissed.
"We still need to get into the apartment," Elijah reminded him.
"Find the owner and get an invite," the Hybrid replied, "Do not let Katerina escape, brother."
Kol burst into the Sommers home, with both women in his arms, stopping short at everybody waiting inside, "What's everyone doing here?"
"Kol! Maya!" Rebekah exclaimed, rushing over to her brother, "We've been looking everywhere for you!"
The Original released Maya from his hold, "Get her in bed," she said, and Kol sped upstairs, putting Jenna in her room and coming back down.
"Maya, love you've been gone for almost two days!" Enzo said, rushing to her, wrapping her in his arms, he'd been on a rollercoaster of emotions he'd lost one of his saviours permanently, and he knew that Maya was going to be a mess.
Maya pulled back, "It's okay, I'm- we're okay."
"Love," Enzo said, "Your mother- Jenna she-"
"It's fine," Maya sniffed, straightening, "She's fine."
"No, love we saw everything that happened! I know it hurts but…Liz is here we have to deal with…the body." Enzo was really struggling, he'd known Jenna for 10 years, he couldn't believe that she was gone, his emotions were going haywire, all he wanted was to turn everything off, but he couldn't, not when Maya was clearly in denial, she needed him.
Maya sighed as she realised that he had no idea what had gone on, he didn't know that her mother wasn't gone, "Enzo," she reached for him, taking his hand in hers, "I know, Mom died, but we saw Death, she asked for him… he brought her back."
"What?" Enzo looked confused, "What are you talking about?!"
"Come with me," she took him to Jenna's room, where Kol had placed her on top of the covers, "Listen," she said.
Enzo focused his senses, and that's when he heard it, a heartbeat, strong, steady, it didn't sound like Jenna's regular heartbeat, but it was coming from her, "What happened?"
Maya shook her head, "I don't know, he said that he couldn't bring her back, because she'd lost her link to this plain, so Kol…he had her linked to him. I don't know what happened, and she hasn't woken up yet."
Enzo frowned, he didn't really understand "Does Kol know what happened?"
"I think he's waiting for Jenna to wake up too." She looked over at her mother, "I'm gonna wait here, wait until she wakes up."
"Love there's something you should know, something else happened while you were gone…"
"What?" Maya asked, "What is it?"
He sighed, "…Caroline was taken, by Werewolves, tortured."
"WHAT?! Where is she?!"
"It's okay, we've got her, she's in her room here, with Liz."
"I-" Maya cut herself off, looking back at her mother, she wanted to check on Caroline, but she didn't want to leave her mom.
"Go see her," Enzo said, seeing the how torn she was. "I'll stay here with Jenna, I won't leave her side."
"I-"
"Caroline is awake, your mother is not, I will stay, and call you the moment there is a change." Maya nodded and rushed to Caroline's room.
Klaus left Elijah to watch over Katherine, while waiting for Finn to take his leave, he'd gone back to his own mansion, wanting to see the children, while he tried to figure out how to get to Maya, "Nik!" Rebekah burst inside.
"Rebekah?"
"Maya's back!"
"Watch the children?" he asked and when Rebekah nodded he whooshed out of the room, heading straight for Maya's house.
/ / /
"Caroline!" Maya gasped as she burst into the young Vampire's room, Caroline and Liz both startled at her sudden arrival.
"Maya!" Caroline exclaimed, "Where have you been?" No one would tell her anything, Jenna wasn't there either, something terrible must have happened, Caroline didn't want to sound self-centred, but she had been in trouble and there was no way that Maya wouldn't have been there to rescue her.
"Mom died," the Siphon replied.
"WHAT?!" Caroline yelled.
"It's fine, she's alive now!" Maya rushed out, "But I- I was gone for a while. I couldn't-I couldn't feel you, I'm so sorry I wasn't there Sunshine. Aunt Liz I'm so sorry!"
The Sheriff came over to her, bringing the young girl into a hug, "No honey," she shook her head, "This wasn't your fault," she brought her over to the bed and Maya settled in with Caroline, Liz holding on to the best friends. "What happened with Jenna?"
"I don't know," Maya shook her head, "I haven't-I haven't asked yet, Mom's not awake yet, I ha-I have to be with her," she sniffed.
"Go be with her," Caroline said quietly, she couldn't even imagine what Maya was feeling, she didn't know what she'd do if she lost her Mom, and now Jenna was back but not awake, the rollercoaster of emotions that she must have been on was insane.
"What?"
"Go be with her, Mom's here, I'll be fine, but Jenna shouldn't wake up alone. Go sit with her."
"Caroline-"
"It's okay," Caroline said in understanding, "You need your Mom, and I need mine."
Maya nodded, squeezing her best friend tightly, "I'll come check on you later, okay?" she scooted out of the bed and went back to her Mom's room, where Enzo had brought a chair to sit with her.
"Here love," he moved to get up, but Maya shook her head.
"It's fine, stay there." She sat on the floor, her back to the wall, directly across from the bed, so that she could see Jenna, finally letting the drama from the past two days settle in.
/ / /
"What the hell happened Kol?" Damon demanded, the youngest Mikaelson brother was downstairs, staring at his hands as though they were foreign objects.
"We went to see Death," he murmured.
"Yeah, we figured that part out!"
"Maya couldn't be without her mother, but he couldn't bring her back without a connection to this world…so I offered him myself."
"You're connected to Jenna," Damon said in understanding, "What does that mean? What did she come back as? Is she a Vampire? Did-did you come back the same?"
Kol still hadn't looked at the other Vampire, curling his fingers in fascination, he didn't feel the same, he couldn't feel nature like he could as a Witch, but he could feel…something, he reached out to touch one of the plants in the living room, pushing some of the energy he could feel towards to the plant, and watched as it withered before his eyes. But it didn't just wither away, he could see the energy from the plant travel through him, and for a moment, it was like he could feel his magic again, "Incendia," he whispered, and the dead plant burst into flames, startling both him and Damon. "No Damon," he looked at the younger Vampire, "I did not come back the same."
"Stefan are you sure Aunt Jenna's dead?" Elena asked, "I mean really sure?" She didn't want to tell Jeremy that she was gone without actual confirmation.
"She's dead, but…her body's gone, apparently Maya let out a blast of magic and disappeared."
"What do you mean disappeared?"
"I mean, one moment they were there, the next, they were gone."
"I can't- I can't tell Jeremy without a body!"
"Damon, Enzo and their friends are looking for Maya and Jenna right now," Stefan replied, trying to calm his girlfriend down.
"Who are these friends?! Why are there so many Vampires in town?!"
"They all know Damon, but that's good! He said that he would help protect you from Klaus, and they can help too!"
Elena shivered at the mention of Klaus's name, "How can you be so sure?"
"Damon wouldn't let them in town if he thought they would hurt you, not when he promised to keep you safe."
"And you trust him?!" Elena asked, she didn't know why Stefan would, he spend most of his time telling her how bad Damon was, how dangerous his brother could be, and now Stefan wanted to trust him!
Stefan sighed, "I hate to say it, but you look exactly like the woman that he spent loving for 145 years, I trust him to keep you safe."
Maya was so tired, she had to keep shaking herself awake, every time she nodded off, "Love go to sleep," Enzo said, "You're exhausted, you need the rest."
"I can't," Maya shook her head, "She's not awake yet! What if she needs me?!"
"You're two doors away love, if she needs you, I'll come and get you, but you'll be no good to her if you can't stay awake."
"But-"
"If it makes you feel any better then I'll get Damon, he can stay up here with me."
Maya frowned, she didn't want to leave her mother, but she could barely keep her head up, "You call me the second she wakes up!"
"I promise," he nodded, "Now go to bed."
"Fine," Maya pulled herself off the floor, and stumbled to her own room, she nearly fell to the ground, but was caught by the Hybrid that had just sped in. "Nik?" she whispered.
"Hello love."
/ / /
Klaus carried Maya to her room, depositing her on the bed "You caused quite a stir love."
"You're here early," she murmured.
"You disappeared… without a trace, what did you expect?"
She pulled him to her, and Klaus settled next to her, letting her bury her face in his chest, "Caroline said you knew she was missing."
"So did Damon and Enzo," he shrugged.
"But you had Freya do a locator spell for her…"
"Your mother was dead, if you came back and so was Caroline…"
Maya gripped Klaus tightly, "Thank you," she whispered.
Klaus ran his fingers through her hair, tugging her head back and pressing his lips against hers, "Go to sleep love, I'll stay here."
Jenna could feel her body changing, becoming something else entirely, it was both terrifying and exhilarating, Death had told her that he wouldn't know how her body and his magic would react when she was sent back to the living plain, he told her that she would change, and that she would need re-learn her body, use her connection to Kol to understand what she had become, and she would need to train with Maya. Jenna could feel herself come around, and start to wake up, groaning a little as she woke, she gasped when she found Damon and Enzo passed out in her room, one in a chair and the other on the floor.
"Uh guys," she said, but they didn't wake, "Guys!" she said louder and they both startled awake. "What are you doing?"
"Uh we were watching… over you," Damon said, glancing at Enzo.
"We wanted to make sure that you…stayed alive!" Enzo finished.
Jenna frowned, "But both of you were asleep."
Enzo looked at Damon, "You were on watch last."
Damon rubbed the back of his neck, "What are you talking about? You were on watch last!"
"No, you were on watch last!"
Damon's eyes widened as he looked back at Jenna, "I might have been on watch last," he agreed.
Jenna rolled her eyes, "My heroes!" she pulled back the covers and stood up, stretching out her sore muscles, "Where's Maya?"
"I sent her to bed…and I…promised to wake her when you woke up, Ill go do that now!" Enzo exclaimed, rushing out of the room.
"I'm gonna get started on breakfast!" Damon said, before flashing out of the room, leaving Jenna to get dressed.
/ / /
Maya moaned as she woke up, snuggling deeper into Klaus's arms, "I believe it's time to wake up," he whispered, tightening his hold on her.
"I-Is my Mom awake yet?" Maya asked.
Klaus shook his head, "No, not yet."
"What if she doesn't wake up?" Maya wouldn't look up at him, "I don't know what Death did to her, I don't know how she'll react here…what if she doesn't wake up?"
"She will."
Maya shook her head, "You can't be sure of that."
"I can," he replied, "Because he never would have given her back to you if she wasn't going to wake up."
"When she was gone, when I got there, and Mom wasn't breathing, when she was cold and she had bled out…I was…I wanted to burn everything…everyone. I wanted to destroy it all." She looked up at him, "When I saw her, in that moment, I wanted everyone to feel what I did. And I would have done it, I am a terrible person Nik."
"No," he slid his hand behind her neck, thumb resting just below her ear, "You are the best person that I know."
"I'm awful! I hurt people, and if they're not mine, then I don't care about anyone…I'm serving up my cousin to you on a silver platter and I don't care! I'm a terrible person!"
"You are not a terrible person, I know terrible people, and you are not one. You said it yourself, I would have come for Elena anyway, I would have killed her, I would have used her, hurt her, hurt…many people. And because of you, these people, this town, they will suffer nothing. You know me, you know what I have done, the things that I will do. I am a terrible person, and I don't care that I am, a terrible person doesn't care, and you do."
Maya looked up at him with wide eyes, this was rare, Nik wasn't one for being comforting, it was a sign of weakness, but he was taking care of her, he was comforting her. And that was when she realised, that he wasn't just comforting her, he was comforting himself, he hadn't let go of her since he arrived, not once. "I disappeared," she said, "And you came for me."
"I searched for you," he would never be able to describe the helplessness that he felt, when he couldn't get to her, when he couldn't fix the damage that had been done. And he would never admit that the fact that Kol was the one who could fix it, who did fix it, ate at him. Kol was his baby brother, and he was the best person to go to with magical problems, but that didn't change the fact that Klaus hated that it was his brother that saved the day for Maya and not him.
"Thank you," she said, brushing her mouth against his.
Klaus deepened the kiss, letting his hands drift down her body, but before either of them could go any further, Enzo burst in.
"May-Ah!" He covered his eyes, "I can't see that!" he whined, "Get off of her Nik!"
"Oh my God! Enzo! Knock!" Maya complained, pulling back from the Original.
"You told me to get you when Jenna woke up!"
"She's awake?!" Maya scrambled to her feet, rushing out of the room.
"Was that necessary?" Klaus glared.
"Seriously?! No boys allowed in here!"
/ / /
"Mom!" The Siphon exclaimed, rushing into her room, "You're awake!"
Jenna's smile lit up the room, "Honey!" she met her in the middle of the room, and wrapped her arms around her daughter. Despite what Death had said, she had been terrified that she would never get to see her little girl again, she was so afraid that she was going to have leave Maya to live her life alone, and she knew that this time round for Maya, it would have been a very long life. But here, now, she had her daughter in her arms, she was dead, and now she wasn't, she was murdered, but she now she was back, she had a lot to do, a lot to learn, but she was here! She was alive! She had a second chance! And she wasn't about to waste it.
"You're awake! You're okay!"
"I'm awake," Jenna smiled.
"How-how are you feeling?"
"Weird, really weird," Jenna thought about the odd connection that she felt with the Original downstairs, and that was even weirder, she could feel Kol, not a lot, but she knew where he was, like exactly where he was. And she could sort of…sense what he was feeling, he was excited, she didn't know why, but she knew that she was going to find out soon. "But I'm alive, and I need to see Kol."
"Really," Maya made a face, "The first thing you want to do when you wake up is see Kol?"
"No the first thing I wanted to do was see you, the second thing I want to do is see Kol."
Maya scrunched her nose, "Hmm, better not let Elijah know that."
"Oh my God, Elijah!" Jenna breathed, "Does he know what happened?"
Elijah watched as his brother finally, finally left Katerina's apartment, he'd seen Finn compel her, so he knew that she wasn't on vervain. He waited until Finn was far enough away, and then he whooshed to her apartment, and knocked on the front door.
Katherine opened the door, like she'd been told to by Finn, if someone knocked, it would be either him, or Sage, he told her not to leave the apartment, and he really hadn't been happy to find out what she'd been up to. "Elijah!" she whispered in surprise.
"Do not move, Katerina."
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