Hello, everyone who did not give up on this story! I am so sorry for abandoning it for so long. Hopefully, I can finish this story with any more big gaps like this one.

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"NIK!" Kol walked into the compound first. Davina and Freya followed closely behind. He heard Nik upstairs moving towards them.

"What?!"

"We have a problem. Gigantic one."

Klaus appeared at the balcony and looked down at Davina: "And what are you doing here, love?"

"She is here with me." Kol moved towards her, ready to shield her, before he even realised he was doing it.

"Is she now? My, my, you were busy, brother." Nik smirked as he descended down the stairs.

"That is beside the point. All jokes aside, Nik. Mother dearest is back from the dead."

Klaus' smirk froze: "How? Where?"

"She apparently took over Abigail's body. And brought along Finn."

"What do you mean by that?" Elijah walked back into the compound. "And who are you?" He asked as he turned towards Freya. She opened her mouth to answer but Kol was faster.

"That is one of my witch friends." This caused Freya to shoot him a murders glare, but he continued on, ignoring her in the process. "Apparently, we have an aunt that is just as mad as mother and also happens to possess the ability to stay alive."

"I don't remember any aunt." Elijah noted.

"Neither do I, however, Davina swore that Finn was scared to bits of her. From what she overheard, Esther wants to kill the baby before it's born so Dahlia can't take her and her power. And Dahlia want the girl for herself." Kol could see that the more he spoke the more tense Nik was becoming. He was starting to see red. Pretty soon, things were going to start flying.

"You know awfully lot about the matter, brother." Klaus edged towards him invading his personal space.

"Look, Nik, I don't care what you believe. I have my own secrets, just like you two idiots. I don't expect you to spill your little hearts to me, so kindly stay out of mine. All I can do is give you my word that I am not plotting against you in any way. And I certainly don't want either of those mad witches getting their pawns on the girl." Kol said looking Klaus straight in the eye. He sure as hell wasn't going to let his brother intimidate him. They played that game for centuries now.

"What else do you know?" Elijah asked when Klaus continued silently watched Kol like a hawk.

"Not much else. She is planning to use Davina and the other harvest girls for something. She apparently got the entire acestrial plane wrapped around her finger. By the way, who's brilliant idea was that one?"

"We didn't have a choice. The whole town was going to be swallowed up." Klaus decided to join the conversation and moved away from Kol once more.

"Oh, right, because God forbid something was to happen to your precious New Orleans." Kol snorted. Elijah's hand grabbed Klaus just in time to stop him from attacking Kol.

"This is not productive."

"Fine." Klaus hissed.

"Now, what more do you know, Kol?"

"Nothing at the moment. However, the girls and I will look for more information. In the mean time, I would make sure the baby mama is safely tucked away."

"What about you, Davina? And…?" Elijah turned to the girls, finally bringing them into the conversation as well. He still didn't know the other girl's name.

Kol felt Davina's eyes on him. He looked back at her, trying to tell her not to divulge anything more, it seemed to have worked because she just shook her head. Freya stayed silent but Kol could literally feel the anger she felt towards him.

"Anything you require?" Elijah asked Kol again.

"Nope. Got everything we need for now."

"Very well then." Elijah turned to Klaus. "While our brother helps the witches to find out more, you and I should spread the word to the vampires and werewolves to be on the look out."

"Yes. You do that. I will stay here, with Hayley."

"Niklaus. I do not think they would strike just now." Elijah pointed out.

"Oh, he knows, Elijah." Kol snorted, "He doesn't want to leave the poor helpless girl here with me."

Elijah looked taken aback for a moment before he managed to school his features into an indifferent mask again: "He is our brother."

"Need I remind you of Finn?" Klaus hissed back at the accusation in Elijah's voice.

"Kol is not Finn. He certainly would not conspire with mother to end us all."

"Why not? He wouldn't even say how he got back from the dead. That must have been one hell of a spell."

"Niklaus…"

"Well, as much fun as it is to watch you squabble about my intentions, I do have work to do. Ladies, if you would follow me." He moved passed his brothers and up the stairs. "You two, feel free to finish the discussion without me." He tried to act as bored as possible. He managed to master that over the years. But inside he felt like screaming. He came here, warned them, brought Davina back to a place she did not want to be and they still question him. Even though Elijah stood up for him, it would probably take about one ill placed sentence for him to turn his back on him too. It hurt, no matter how much he tried to pretend it didn't.

He almost jumped as he felt Davina's warm hand close around his cold one. She gently squeezed his hand letting him silently know that she was still by his side, even if his siblings were not. That he wasn't alone. Maybe this whole mess Freya created wasn't as bad as it looked.

He led both Davina and Freya up to his room and closed the door behind them. Before any of them could say anything he reached into the pocket of his jacket and pulled out unused sage. He handed it to Freya without a word. She lit the sage and activated the privacy spell. She then carefully put the sage into a decorative bowl sitting on the chest of drawers, turned around and with the wave of her hand smashed Kol to the nearest wall.

Davina cried out as she felt the impact of it as if she was the one getting hit.

"What the hell?!" Kol stood up and dusted of his jacket.

"I am your witch friend, now?" She hissed. Aiming to smash him around again.

"Were you completely blind?" Kol spat out. He knew Davina was hurting because he hasn't healed from the impact yet. He needed to explain faster. "We just told them that Esther is planning on murdering a child they are both death set on protecting. They were already suspicious of me. What do you think would be their reaction to you? A long lost sister that went through God knows what? Best case scenario, Nik would not let any of us out of his sight. Worse case, he would kill you and then stuck a dagger in my heart."

Freya's hold on me eased off and he still kept talking: "I am used to that mind you, but since you decided to play supernatural matchmaker, I am not all that sure, Davina will survive it."

"What now?" Davina asked as both of the siblings calmed down.

"You and I are going to set up one hell of a protection spell. Then we need to take down Esther. Dahlia will follow soon after." And then hopefully, we can get out of this hellhole. Kol finished in his head. He wasn't really sure how open to that idea would Davina be, but he needed to get out of this town.

"You want to leave?" Davina gasped out. But then again, she should not be surprised. Kol had an aversion to New Orleans since forever. And the way Klaus just talked to him, she couldn't really blame him. If he was too close to his family, he would just keep getting hurt over and over again. Like he has for centuries. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to leave. If today was any indication of what life would be like for her, she didn't really want it. Sure, New Orleans was home, the only one she knew. But Kol could take her see the world. She's never really been anywhere.

"I…" Kol looked at her with shock and a quite bit of fear. "I didn't say anything, darling."

"Yes, you said that after everything we can get out of this hellhole." What was he playing at?

"No, I didn't."

Davina just stared at him. Was he trying to piss her off?

"He really didn't say that." Freya joined in.

"I did think it though." He admitted begrudgingly.

"It's the link. You will be sharing a whole of a lot more than you do now. The bond isn't fully developed. It's a fail safe. There would be too much input if it hit you all at once. But eventually, you will share each other thoughts, feelings, fears and desires, memories, even abilities. You will be one. Of course, if one of you dies, so does the other." Freya noted.

Davina was shaken. This was too fast. Everything was too fast. It felt like yesterday she was quietly sketching away in her attic and overnight she died, bound herself to an original vampire, discovered some evil plot and it was still only lunch time. It was all moving so fast. She didn't have time to process half of any of it.

"How much more do you know about the link?" Kol asked eagerly.

"A bit more. I will share, but right now, you need to put up a protection spell and I need to get aquatinted with this century." With that Freya turned around.

"Wouldn't it be better to take someone who has been around to help you?"

"This is not the first time, I have done this, Kol. I have a system for it. If I need help though, I will be sure to ask." She smiled and then left the room.

"Are you alright, darling?" Kol turned towards her as the door closed behind Freya.

"Like you can't tell yourself." She snapped at him.

He didn't say a word. He just lifted an eyebrow at her.

"Sorry." She said with a sigh. She really didn't mean to snap at him. She was just trying desperately to hold it together. She was tired, like she hasn't slept in weeks. "I don't know how you do it. You just go through it all and it doesn't seem to affect."

"A lot of practice." He smirked at her as he removed his jacket and she could see the muscles on his arm and back flexing as he turned away from her and folded it on the bed. "I had ran for almost a millennium, if you count my little naps."

"I don't think I will be able to do this. Live like you did. One crises after another."

"It's not so bad. You get used to it. But for now, I recommend file away all that you can and methodically sort one problem after another until you have time to ponder about it all. Distracting works too." The way he said 'distracting' made her stomach flip nervously.

She was sixteen and not completely stupid. But she was innocent. She had to be to as a harvest girl. And after, well her almost non-existent social life evaporated completely. She felt safe with him and she felt like she needed him more than anything. However, did she want to started something like that?

All she knew was that she was attracted to him more than to any other person she has met before.

"Relax, darling." He smirked at her distress, "I don't plan on jumping your bones without your permission."

"I know." But it still felt nice to hear him say it.

"Alright, let's start with that protection spell. I want you to sleep in a safe place for once."

Davina just nodded her head and watched as he searched the small drawers for all the ingredients needed for the spell.