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HEYITSJACE: Yes Bonnie and Elena have had a bit of revelation, hopefully Stefan will get one soon.

zainabdiggie: Not the bad guy, just horribly misinformed, and a little afraid because of what happened with her brother.

Twihardkarebear38: We'll have to see what Mason does, after all he came back to Mystic Falls because he was desperate not to have to turn anymore, he may see them being Hybrids as exactly what he wants.

xotinkerbella: To be honest, I think that a lot of who Kai became was as a result of his father's treatment of him. If you think about it, as a Siphon, he was probably denied any form of human contact, because everyone around him had their own magic, and he was already believed to be an abomination. He probably saw the merge as the only way to escape that, because if he won, then they'd have to respect them. And then to find that his parents kept having children, so that he wouldn't get the chance, of course he snapped. I think that if Kai wasn't treated as an abomination from the start, then there's a good chance that he would have never killed most of his family. There's a whole little speech he makes to Josette, that I think got cut out, that shows his POV, I think it was cut because it would have made people have sympathy for Kai when he was supposed to be the villain. And then after Kai's merge, and regains some of those human feelings, you can see that he's trying to be better, and Bonnie leaves him in another prison world, it was probably way easier for him to go back to what he knew and become the bad guy again. The Gemini coven is suffering from their renewed fight with the Travellers, (they still don't know that Maya is the one that put them on that path).

Blu3b3rryT3a: Finally she has some sense! I think that Jo is only using what she knows, I bet horror stories of Siphons have been passed down through the coven for years, and then she saw what her brother did first hand, so it definitely would have coloured her vision regarding them.

Assenavira: I've said it before, I'll say it again, Maya is not Kai's daughter, he'd never had any connections outside of his coven, which means that he never left his home town. Maya's bio father isn't relevant to the story at all, as far as she's concerned, he's just a sperm donor.

Careena1: The coven has been winning against Siphons and Heretics for as long as Vampires existed, I can understand why they think that they can win, prison worlds aren't exactly a widely known thing, I'm pretty sure only the Gemini Coven can create them with the Bennetts, which means that they're probably confident in thinking that Maya doesn't know they exist.

Ovgsmesa: There's too much drama to milk out things that can be done with, we don't need Elena or Bonnie anymore, so they'll fade out of the story, and characters who are part of the new drama will fade in.

Guest: Thank you! There's always going to be trouble if you're with the Mikaelsons!

NaRuKo-InuTaiSHo-XD: Thank you!

TikiKiki: You might just be onto something! The Gemini's believe when it comes to Siphon's they know best, and hey, if they can take down an Original too, that's great in their eyes.

sammyleann: We'll see what Kai does, he got to kill his dad in canon, but Maya's connected to the Gemini Coven, and the death of the leader, usually leads to the death of them all.

Starhunter18: Thank you!

smilin steph: Time to move on to the next drama!

aandm20: If they have all the information then there's no story, no drama! And we need the drama!

AvidReader2425: Thanks!

edwardsgirl21: I think we can all agree that Papa Parker sucks!

reineoueidat1: When I first started this fic I had almost a whole year before I started my new job, and I wasn't working, so I could update more frequently. But now, I have a full time job (it's busy season right now) so I'm having to do a lot of overtime, and I'm studying for a qualification so a lot of my free time goes to that. I try and get at least one chapter out every month now, if I'm lucky, two, but there's no definite schedule, because I don't know when I get the time to write in advance. It's only when I finish work and have the energy to write that I can update. Sorry.

Klaus found Maya curled up under the covers in his bed, he'd been so busy with the pack that he hadn't even had the chance to celebrate his new found freedom with her, and he wanted to celebrate. She smiled at him as he entered, "You took your time," she said, holding the sheets up, covering herself from his view.

"I had to get a few things squared away," he replied, pulling his shirt over his head, and dropping it to the floor, stalking towards her.

"Oh?"

"The children are staying at the pack house tonight."

"Really?"

"So tonight, it's just you and me." He knelt on the bed, tugging the sheets from her grasp, and revealing her bare body to him.

Maya pulled him towards her, his lips found hers as he pressed his weight against her, Klaus traced every part of her with his mouth and his hands, before kissing her again. It seemed like it had been an age since they had been alone together, and Klaus, with his newly released wolf, was eager to mark his woman, and show her off as his.

Maya gripped his hair tight, as she kissed him back with a fervour, Klaus was about to sink his fangs into the familiar spot on her neck, but she was suddenly hit by a vision, gasping, she pulled away as her mind was flooded with images of a Werewolf by the name of Haley Marshall, a baby girl called Hope, and the death of the Mikaelsons.

"Oh my God!" Maya pulled away as Klaus reached for her, hopping out of the bed, and throwing a shirt back on.

"What?" Klaus asked, "Love, what is it?" it had been a while since he'd seen her so worried that she was literally trembling at the aftermath, had she seen something to do with Lucien? Dahlia? Whatever it was, it was clearly a problem.

"I uh…" she looked at him in shock, she couldn't believe what she'd seen, logically, she knew that all of that knowledge was already there, but to see Nik father a child with someone, to see him give up his life for that child, it broke her heart. "It's uh…" she wasn't sure how to tell him what she'd seen, it was impossible and yet completely true.

Klaus could see her struggle to put her vision into words, "Show me," he prompted, "You've done it before, show me what you saw."

For a moment, Maya was unsure, she'd just about managed to get over her insecurities regarding Aurora, but this, this was bigger than that, this was a child, if he saw what she'd seen, would he want that child? A child with her mother's good noble heart, and her father's wicked eyes? Because Maya was many things, but she wasn't noble, she wasn't 'good'. But Hope was, Maya wouldn't be able to raise a child like that, one who was so willing to selflessly give up what she loved in order to protect the world. Maya would rather burn the world down, and any child she raised, well they would likely have the same temperament. Would Klaus know that? Know that any child she had, wouldn't live up to who Hope Andrea Mikaelson could be? But she knew that she had no right to keep this from him, he deserved to make his choices with all the information, she would never want to blindside him with something like this, not like he would have been without her in his life.

"O-Okay," she finally said. Coming back towards the bed, taking a seat next to him, and hugging her knees to her chest, she whispered, "Take a look."

Klaus placed his hand on her temple, and let himself into her mind, immediately being met with the picture of a child, one that grew up too fast, one that was too powerful, one that was all alone, because her family of immortals were all dead. Her mother, burned alive in the sun, after enduring the same curse that he had been burdened with, her Uncle Finn, dead before she could even meet him, her Uncle Elijah dead by Klaus's hand, and Klaus by Elijah's in order to save her. Her Uncle Kol had taken the cure, to live and die with his wife, Freya followed shortly after. And Rebekah was the last, taking the cure to be mortal. Leaving the child, his daughter, as the only true immortal in existence, leaving her all alone, even though they'd promised to take care of her. He saw his daughter suffer without her family, saw her kill the man she loved to save a world that wished her dead, he saw the Triad - Vampires, Witches and Werewolves that believed in the purity of their species, try to kill his daughter over and over again. And he saw his child, Hope, lose a small part of herself every time she lost a companion, even the Vampires. She alone couldn't be killed, and her family was gone. There was no Always and Forever for his daughter, and he couldn't stand it.

Pulling back with his heart in his throat, he gave Maya a questioning look, "I guess I got the vision because you've freed your wolf now, which means that you could have a biological child." She fidgeted with her fingers, not really ready for what the vison implied.

"You're certain?" he finally asked, still processing the fact that it was even possible to have a child of his own blood.

She nodded hesitantly, "Malivore still exists here, his weakness was the original Werewolf, Witch and Vampire that created him. But he killed them. And…"

"And Nature says that everything must have a weakness," Klaus finished.

"Yeah... so Malivore's only weakness now... is a creature that is all three, which could only come from you."

"From us," Klaus said.

"What?" Maya looked up at him.

"The child I saw, she was beautiful, and powerful, but she suffered. Her mother's blood allowed a being long dead to take her over, it separated her from her family, and to keep her safe I killed myself for her, and she still suffered! Every member of my family left her alone."

"Nik-"

"I know that's something that you would never let happen."

"Wait, what are you-what are you saying?"

"I'm saying, that if I am going to have a child with anyone, it will be with you."

"Nik…I'm not ready to have a child, I plan on becoming a Vampire in a few years! Having a baby of my own, never factored into that! I don't know what I want."

Klaus took her in his arms, he could see how unsure of herself she was in this, he knew that in all of her past lives, she'd never had children, dying before it was possible for her. But this life wasn't like any other, and if this was something that she wanted, then he would give it to her. "I already have children, this is your choice, you don't have to have an answer right now. You have plenty of time."

"Do I?" she asked, "Because I've never passed the age of 27."

"You never had me before." Klaus held her close, and waited until she fell asleep before he slid out of bed, threw his clothes back on, and headed down to wine cellar. If Maya decided that she wanted to have his child, then he needed an army, ready to take on any and all enemies that would be coming for a vulnerable Mikaelson.

He found his newly turned Hybrid pacing the floor, he'd told him not to leave the room, so he couldn't, but still, he'd left Regina and David on guard, just in case. "I see you're still here."

"It's not like I had a choice," the Hybrid frowned, they hadn't even asked his name, but when Klaus told him to stay, that's exactly what he did.

Klaus smirked, having the Hybrid sired to him, because he wasn't loyal was very convenient, "How would you like to get out of here?"

"What do you mean?" the Hybrid perked up at the thought of leaving his torture chamber.

"I want to make more of my kind, so I need you to go out and find me some Werewolves to turn." There were the packs that his brother and sister had rescued, still staying at one of their properties, but Lucian had all but decimated those packs, they needed time to heal, and grow, before Klaus even attempted to convince some of them to turn.

"You have Werewolves," the Hybrid gestured to the two wolves who stood by Klaus's side, "Turn them."

Klaus took a few steps forward, and the Hybrid couldn't stop himself from flinching, "They're my pack, if they wish to become like me, they get to choose."

"But not anyone else," the former wolf replied, sardonically.

"Anyone not with me, is by definition, against me." Klaus replied, "Now," he clapped his hands together, "You're going to travel the country, locate packs, and report back to me, you will not engage with the packs, you will not tell them a thing about me. You will keep your distance from them, give me their locations and then wait for further instructions, is that clear?"

The Hybrid could feel the sire bond cement the command in place and he nodded, "Yes."

"Excellent!" Klaus gestured to the cellar's entrance, "Off you go."

He sped out of the room, leaving the Enforcers to look at their Alpha in question, "Klaus?" Regina asked, the last time they spoke, their Alpha was happy to only turn a few of them, but now all of a sudden, he wanted to change whole packs, "What's going on?"

"Circumstances have changed, it appears that I need an army far sooner than expected."

Elena and Bonnie had waited until the next morning before they'd decided to see Maya, Stefan of course tagged along, unwilling to let his girlfriend anywhere near her cousin on her own, they took Bonnie's car to the Sommers' house and knocked on the door, waiting for Maya to open up. None of them were expecting Enzo to be the one to answer, "Well, well, the Doppelgänger, the Witch and the Veggie Vampire, what brings you to my door?" he asked.

"I need to see Maya," Elena said, "I need to speak to her."

"She's not here," Enzo shrugged.

"Where is she?"

"With Nik."

"Nik?"

"Klaus," Enzo clarified, "She's with him."

Elena clenched her fist at her side, keeping herself from blowing up like she normally would, "Can you please get her?" She asked, "It's important."

"We know that she's an Old Soul," Bonnie said, hoping that would get Enzo's attention, and it did.

His eyes hardened, and before he could say anything Damon appeared at his side, "I'll get her, you watch them," he said, ignoring his brother's look of perpetual disapproval, so just for good measure, planted a kiss on Enzo's lips before rushing off.

/ / /

Maya was having breakfast with Freya, the two of them discussing ways to deal with Dahlia, the biggest thing that the Siphon was worried about, was the Witch's ability to get into anyone's mind, she knew the ingredients needed to defeat the Mikaelson's evil aunt, but didn't want to say anything, for fear that the ingredients would be plucked out of their heads.

"We need a way to protect ourselves from her mind manipulations," Freya said.

"It needs to be powerful, we can't take the chance of Dahlia knowing what our plans are, I don't want to take the chance of ruining our shot at killing her."

"She's had a thousand years to better herself, and her magic will be at peak strength when she wakes," the Witch pointed out.

"Not really," Maya replied, "She's only alive one year out of every hundred, but now, I have the memories of thousands of years of past lives, and I was Witch in plenty of them. With you, me and Kol working together, we'll find a way to defeat her."

"I've been trying to find a way to beat her for centuries," Freya was worried, she was always worried when it came to Dahlia, the woman had been in her nightmares for as long as she could remember. A vile, power hungry, abusive woman, who'd only ever tormented her. She imagined that it must have been exactly how Niklaus felt, when he thought of her father, and that continued to break her heart.

"You've never had help before."

The two of them were going to continue up to the magic room, to work more on their problem, but Damon appeared in the room, "Ladies, need to borrow our gal Friday here," he motioned to Maya and Freya looked at them both confused at the turn of phrase.

"What?"

"Never mind," Maya shook her head, and turned to Damon, "What's up?"

"Your cousin is demanding to see you, along with the Bennett Witch."

Maya rolled her eyes, "Of course she is."

Davina was with Monique, Abigail and Cassie, they were sat with Bastianna and Agnes, the Elders of their Coven, but Regent LaRue was nowhere to be found. The Witches were explaining that the girls had been chosen for the Harvest, a special ritual, that would renew their link to the Ancestors, and increase their power, which would help them in dealing with the Vampires who'd all but taken over the French Quarter. They explained that it was a great honour to be chosen, but the girls would have to be sequestered, from now, until the night of the ritual, no technology, no contact with the outside world.

Davina didn't know why, but the idea of the ritual, made her feel uncomfortable, before she met Maya, she probably would have been happy to go along with what her Coven told her to do. But something in her gut was telling her that something was off with the Harvest, she didn't really want to be a part of it, but there was no way she could get out of it. The four of them had been taken to a house away from the rest of the Coven, she hadn't been given a chance to pack anything, let alone grab her phone, or the hair from Maya and Caroline that she kept safe, in case she needed to contact them. She had no idea what to do, she was just happy that she still had her bracelet, she never took it off, and she had a feeling that she would need it to keep her safe.

Maya eyed Elena, Bonnie and Stefan with mistrust, Damon had brought her back home in order to speak to them, but they had yet to say a word. "What do you want?" Maya snapped impatiently, she wanted to go back to the mansion, back to Klaus, after her last vision, she was still feeling a little insecure, and she just wanted to be with him. Not to mention the fact that he'd already sent out his Hybrid test subject to find more wolves, she needed to find out what that was all about, because Klaus knew what would happen if he just forced a bunch of wolves to turn.

"I- I uh…" Elena paused, she really should have rehearsed this, she'd never had a civil conversation with her cousin, it was much harder than she thought.

Bonnie could see that her friend was struggling so blurted out the first thing that she could think of, "I spoke with Death!"

Maya raised an eyebrow in surprise, "Really?" she didn't know what Death was planning on doing while he was on the Other Side, she certainly didn't think that he would bother educating the Witches on the truth, mostly because he thought how wrong they were was hilarious.

"He told me what you are, what Vampires are…"

"And? Now that you know I'm actually part of the balance, you hate me less?"

"Well…" Bonnie shrugged, "All I knew was what my Grams told me! And it's not like you were really doing much to dissuade what we believed!"

"I shouldn't have to," Maya shook her head, "The only reason anything that I do impacts you, is because you get involved in my business! You're barely trained! You have no idea what I'm capable of!"

"Yeah," Bonnie nodded, "Death showed me some things…I still hate the way that you dealt with my Grams, especially now she's gone, but…I saw what happened that night…to Caroline, to Tyler's dad…they both died because of us. We should have believed you, when you said that you got rid of the Vampires in the tomb."

"So why are you here now?" Maya had to admit, it was nice to finally have that acknowledged, that she kept the town safe, even when the Bennetts didn't believe that she would.

"We just…want to talk."

"Are you really working with Klaus?" Elena finally asked, a familiar shot of terror going down her spine when she heard or spoke the name aloud, she didn't think that she would ever get used to it, but chalked it up to Klaus killing her, and it being a natural response to that.

Maya nodded, "Yes."

"Why?" she asked, "Isn't he…like really dangerous?"

"When you live in a world where Witches hate you, and believe that you should be killed or imprisoned, why wouldn't you team up with the oldest, deadliest thing in existence?"

"But he's not the oldest thing in existence…is he?" Elena asked pointedly, "How long have you been alive? Really?"

"I'm an Old Soul, I die, and then come back, which means that I've been alive a bunch of times…but my first life was about 6000 years ago."

Elena shook her head, "That's insane! How can you stand being alive that long? Don't you hate it?"

"No," Maya said, "I know what comes after, sometimes I spend a few centuries with Death, then I get bored and come back. Some people aren't built for immortality, but I am."

"That doesn't explain why you lied to us!" Stefan exploded, "You pretended like you were doing what was best for Elena, when really you were just doing what was best for Klaus!"

Maya rolled her eyes, "If I was doing what was best for Klaus, he would have broken the curse as soon as he got the moonstone two years ago! And Elena would be dead, permanently dead. You're the one that screwed up Stefan! If you hadn't have been so desperate to kill Klaus, which by the way would kill you, Elena would be fine, Uncle John would be alive, but you just knew better, didn't you?"

Stefan grit his teeth, "How could we possibly trust you, when all you've done is lie to us?!"

"Stefan your plan was to kill the strongest Vampire in history, when you can't even take on Enzo, who's younger than you! But you wanted to take on an Original, who literally cannot be killed! Why would I trust you with the truth?"

Elena held her hands up, separating the two, "Can we please stop arguing about this?! I didn't come here to fight! I just want answers, and I can't get them if you keep insisting on blaming Maya for something that wasn't her fault!" She glared at Stefan.

Maya was taken aback, Elena had never, ever, defended her before, she wondered what had happened to her cousin that made her actually bearable. While Stefan and Elena were arguing, Bonnie had something that she wanted to know. "Maya, you said that you couldn't give me Emily's amulet back until you'd done something in the summer. Was it breaking the curse?"

"Yeah, it was, I knew you'd try to interfere, and I didn't want to deal with it."

"Well…does this mean that I can get it back now?"

Maya regarded the Witch for a moment, it was true that she had made that promise to Bonnie, and she didn't want to break her word. "Okay," she nodded, "I'll go get it."

After Klaus had set the new Hybrid on his path, he turned the three Enforcers, Regina first, like she'd asked, then David, and then Emma. If he was going to have an army of Hybrids, then he needed experienced Generals, he would teach them how to utilise their new found strength and speed to their advantage. As Werewolves they were strong, but as Hybrids, they were even stronger. Luckily, he'd found that the Hybrids had much more control over their bloodlust than freshly turned Vampires had, which meant that he didn't need to worry about them chowing down on pack members.

Klaus had them spend the day getting used to their new senses, learning how to tune out all the extra sounds and smells that they were picking up on, and while they did that, he spent his time checking in with his spies in New Orleans, and the ones that he'd placed in Lucian's organisation, and then finally on the two semi-ancient members of the Stryx that he'd managed to catch off guard, drain of vervain and then compel to be his inside men. The biggest problem he'd found, was that while he knew where Lucian and Tristan were, he'd had no word on Aurora, and that worried him. Especially with Maya's newest vision showing him that Aurora was the head of the Vampires that wished to kill his child for not being purebred. He wouldn't let her do what that vision showed, if he had a child with Maya, Aurora would never lay her hands on them.

Bonnie had left the Sommers house with some answers, but more questions, she'd overheard Damon mention to Enzo that Klaus had sent out a Hybrid, to hunt for Werewolves. She had wanted to say something, wanted to point out that he shouldn't be turning wolves, because it was against the balance, but then again, maybe it wasn't. Werewolves belonged to Nature, and Vampires to Death, maybe a Hybrid was the perfect mix, maybe their existence would actually restore something that had been torn asunder a thousand years ago.

Either way, she knew better than to say anything, at least now she did, she'd only just received Emily's amulet back, and she a lot to learn by herself, but first, she needed a real night's sleep, without the herbs she'd been using to keep her ancestors at bay. As she pulled into her driveway, she found the Witch from earlier, Jo Parker, sitting on the front porch, waiting for her.

Bonnie got out of the car, the amulet clutched tightly in her hand, "Jo?" she asked, "What are you doing here?" she thought that they had discussed everything they needed to in their first encounter.

"Bonnie," she spoke softly, "I'm going back to my home, I just wanted to clarify a few things before I left. May I come in?"

Bonnie unlocked the door, and gestured for Jo to go inside, "What did you need?"

"Are you safe?" Jo asked, "You said that the Siphon-"

"Maya," Bonnie interrupted, using what she was, instead of her name, it did nothing but dehumanise Maya, which wasn't a good thing, Jo hadn't given her much information about what coven she was from, but if Grams had gone to them for help, then they probably believed that Siphons were just like Vampires, abominations. "Her name is Maya, and she's not going to hurt me."

"Your grandmother didn't believe that, I mean, look at what happened to her!"

"I love my Grams," Bonnie said, "But anything that Maya did to her, was in retaliation. Maya has never instigated a fight with us, even though it's clear that it wouldn't have been much of a fight. As long as we stay out of her way, she'll stay out of ours."

"And does that include the Originals as well?" Jo asked, "They're a whole different type of monster."

"You should leave them alone," the Bennett replied, "Klaus is going have his own kind soon enough and Maya has plenty of magic on her side, they don't care about us, and we shouldn't aggravate them," she repeated.

Jo looked at Bonnie in question, "What do you mean his own kind?"

Bonnie shook her head, she shouldn't have said that, "Nothing, it doesn't matter."

"Bonnie, tell me, is he looking for Werewolves to turn? Is he planning on forcing them to change?"

"I…"

"Bonnie, it's one thing to not help us, but not stopping him if he's forcing others to become like him…"

"No! Yes! I don't know! I just overheard that he'd sent out a Hybrid to look, that's all!"

Jo took a breath, trying not to look eager at that information, she would have to call her father immediately, let him know that they had a way to lure out the Original, "You're sure that you're not going to help us deal with the Si- Maya?"

Bonnie gave Jo a hard look, after everything that she'd learned from Death, and the girl in question, she wasn't going to go up against her, or Klaus, especially now that she knew that they were together, but she did feel the need to warn Jo. The woman was nice, kind, she'd been good to her when she'd brought her grandmother's ashes to her, so Bonnie wanted to give her one last chance to stay safe. "Jo, anything you do to her, anything, Klaus will kill you, your family, your coven."

"Why?"

"Because they're together."

When Maya went back to Mikaelson Mansion, Klaus had already turned his three Enforcers, there had been some initial worry for them, that they'd end up sired to him, but they hadn't. The theory was that because Maya had given them moonlight rings, because they'd already felt what life was like without being forced to turn, that gratefulness that they would have felt, that tie to Klaus that should have happened, didn't happen. Were they still loyal to him? Of course! In fact, the link that tethered wolves to their Alpha, had strengthened, they believed because they were now the exact same species as him. But there was nothing in their loyalty that would suggest that they no longer had full control over themselves, nothing to suggest that they would follow Klaus's orders at a detriment to themselves, and they'd tested it out, Klaus had ordered them to do all manner of things, escalating in danger, and they hadn't done them. They were safe from the sire bond, and so Klaus was outside with them, testing their mettle.

Maya ignored them outside, instead heading straight for the magic room, where she knew Freya to be, she needed some very rare ingredients for a contraception draught that would be strong enough to work against Nature, and fate and whatever else was at play that meant that Klaus could impregnate her. Which also meant that she would have to tell Freya what she'd seen in her vision, and then swear the eldest Mikaelson to secrecy, at least until Klaus told Rebekah, and she told Caroline and her mother.

/ / /

Maya walked into the Mikaelson's magic chamber and found Freya working on the Dahlia problem, the Siphon sat down next to the Witch and cast a quick soundproofing bubble around them, just in case Kol decided to show up. "Freya," Maya said, "I need to talk to you about something…"

The Witch turned to the red head, "What do you need?"

"Um…This is…gonna be hard to believe…"

"What is it, Maya?"

"So you know how sometimes I get visions?" Freya nodded slowly, "And sometimes they come true…"

"Maya just tell me what it is!"

"Now that Nik's broken his curse, he has the ability to procreate…"

Freya blinked in surprise, "What?"

"You know…have babies…"

"I know what it means Maya! I just don't understand why you'd think that!"

"Well it turns out, if I wasn't here, then Klaus would have knocked up some Werewolf, and the birth of that kid is what would have woken you and Dahlia from your slumber…"

"You're saying…"

"Nik could get me pregnant," Maya confirmed.

"Are you-"

"Oh! No! No! As soon as I had the vision, I put the brakes on well…that."

Freya grimaced a little at the thought of her brother having sex, and shook her head, "Then, what do you need from me?"

"Some herbs, Queen Anne's Lace, Artemisia, and Asafoetida."

"You want to make some kind of contraception, stronger than your average potion," she said in understanding.

"Yeah, I figured that human methods of birth control wouldn't really work for us, so I need to make something using magic. I remember those herbs being used centuries ago to prevent pregnancy."

"What about Silphium? It's arguable the best one to use."

"It's extinct," Maya sighed, it was the one herb that she wanted in particular, because it was an excellent form of contraception. It was something that her past lives definitely used, with great efficacy. "The Greeks and Romans used it so much that it became really popular, really expensive, and then it was just…gone. Wait…how did you even know about that? It was extinct before you were even born!" It had been thought to have been wiped out by 2nd century B.C.

Freya shrugged, "Witches found that it was particularly useful, for many spells, so it endured, even though the wider population thought it was gone. Dahlia kept it on lockdown, to make sure that I couldn't use it should I fall pregnant."

"Wait…are you saying that you still have some?" Maya asked incredulously, "Really?"

Freya nodded, "I kept a lot of things hidden in my coffin," she was, of course, referring to the glass coffin that she'd been found in, "I'll get it sent down here and see if I can grow some for you. In the meantime, the other herbs are growing in the garden, we can use them to make a fairly potent contraception draught."

"Oh thank God!" Maya sighed, "Seriously, you have no idea, if I was going to have to stop sleeping with Nik-"

Freya covered her eyes, "La, la, la, la! If you want my help stop talking right now!" she exclaimed, not wanting to hear anything about Niklaus's personal life.

Maya laughed, "Alright, alright! Sorry!"

Freya dropped her hands and shot a suspicious glance at the red-head, "I mean it, I don't want to know anything!"

"Okay!" Maya held up her hands in surrender, "By the way, you also can't tell anyone about this."

"WHAT?!"

"Dad, a Hybrid has been sent out to look for packs," Jo said.

"Good," Joshua replied, "I'll send someone to find the Hybrid and use it draw them out."

"Dad…to create a prison world, we're going to need more than a full moon, especially now that the Coven has suffered losses…there's nothing powerful enough coming up to use…"

"I know," Joshua sighed, "Josette I need you to come home…and bring the ascendant with you."

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