Klaus's eyes widened and he immediately pushed her away. "You left Roxie all by herself? What were you thinking?"

Selina frowned. "Well, I wasn't planning to leave her by herself, you nitwit! My plan was to get all of our stuff out of the woods, go back to the house and then call Elijah to come and let us in with his key because I locked mine in the car."

"Why were you in the woods?" He eyed her curiously. "You hate the woods."

"Well, yeah, I do," she nodded. "But I just wanted to...not be bunny anymore. I wanted to be back to normal and I thought that if I took Roxie out into the woods for a couple of days, we'd be able to discover our inner outdoorswomen instead of calling somebody to help us with every little thing. And it would have worked too, if you hadn't magicked me to wherever we are right now! May I just say that you are a terrible person?"

Klaus scoffed. "Well how was I suposed to know that you and Roxie were alone in the woods?"

Selina shrugged. "I don't know. But who cares? We have to go and get her. She might be lost or hurt, or... oh, god."

But Klaus wasn't moving. She glared at him. "Why aren't you coming with me? You like her more than I do and you don't even seem worried at all!"

Klaus sighed. "Remember when Vanessa shot Adrian? What happened to him afterwards?"

Selina swallowed. "He was hurt for a little bit and then he got right back up again."

Klaus nodded. "Exactly. And I have a feeling Roxie will be the same way. But just to be safe, let's get going."

"Right," Selina nodded and they marched out of the cabin and roused a very grumpy Alistair to magic them back to the woods by their house.

It took awhile, but Selina finally located the stump where she had instructed Roxie to wait for her. "She's supposed to be right here."

She looked up at Klaus confusedly.

"But she's not," he said. "So where is she?"

Selina growled. "How the hell am I supposed to know?"

"You saw her last."

Selina felt herself getting angry again. "I want to hurt you right now." Klaus' eyes twinkled. "Oh, really?" he asked.

"Yeah," she frowned. "I really do. But it won't do us any good to fight now. We have to find Roxie."

"But we don't even know where she is. Or who took her."

Selina turned around quickly. "I think I remember Pete telling me once that a werewolf pack lived around here. It's near the cabin that he said was his pack's base!" She was getting eager now. "Don't you see? That's it! We just need to find the cabin. Maybe she's there! But we should probably transform first. Otherwise, we'll have absolutely no chance of getting in."

He nodded. "Good plan. And when we get there, all hell will break loose."

Selina grinned. "And I'll make sure to keep a few alive so you can get some new hybrids."

Klaus grinned before they both transformed. "Sounds good to me."

After they transformed, they began roaming the woods for any sign of Roxie. Eventually, they found a path and followed it to the same tiny cabin where they had ended up before. This time though, it was surrounded by people. Mostly rough-looking men. Selina stepped back a moment and gestured for Klaus to follow her back into the shadows where they wouldn't be seen.

"What?" He said after they changed back again. "Why are we hesitating? That's the place!"

Selina nodded. "I know it is. But how are we supposed to get in? They're gonna know we don't belong there. If they try and stop us, should we say we know Pete and hope that'll be good enough for them to let us in?"

"We could do that," Klaus said, a wicked twinkle in his eye, "Or we could just fight our way in. That would be so much more interesting."

Selina winced. "I say we use Pete as our in. We're probably going to have to kill some people in order to get Roxie back and I don't want the death toll to be higher than we can help."

Klaus scoffed. "Why not? These people kidnapped our daughter! I say we leave no one alive. And you're acting all saintly and cautious now. Why is that? Not twenty minutes ago, you said-"

She cut him off. "I know what I said. But now that I've had some time to reflect on what I said, I'm retracting it."

He laughed a little and ran his fingers through her hair. "You say that now, love. But I know you. Once you start killing, you won't be able to stop until every last one is gone. And that's why I love you." He took her in his arms again and kissed her long and hard before she finally pushed him away. "Let's just go and get this over with," she said. "We can't afford to be distracted now. Who knows what's happened to her in the time that we've wasted standing here and talking?"

Roxie did her best to fight the man who had thrown her over his shoulder, but it was no use. "Let me go!" She cried, hitting his back repeatedly with her tiny fists. "Let me go! My daddy isn't going to be happy that you took me! And neither is my mommy!"

The little slob boy was walking behind his father. He looked up at her and smirked, his teeth flashing white underneath his grimy face.

Roxie frowned. "What are you smirking at, you grimy little twit?"

Just then, his father pulled her off his shoulder and held her at arms' length, shaking her roughly. "I don't know who you think you are," he said, his voice matching his movements. "But you will not talk to my son that way if you expect to make it to shelter alive. Do you understand me?"

Roxie stared at him in shocked silence for a moment, then she burst into tears. "Why did you h-h-hurt me? What did I ever do to you?"

The boy came up behind his father and gave Roxie's long, curly brown hair a rough tug. "You insulted me, that's what you did. And it's not nice to insult people!"

Roxie stopped crying that instant, her tears freezing on her cheeks. "Well it's not nice to kidnap people and take them away from their mommies and daddies either. You're going to be sorry you did that!"

"You keep saying that," said the man who held her firmly. "But I doubt it's true. Just who is your father?"

Roxie frowned. "He's somebody important! So important that some lady named Vanessa made him into a vampire, but she didn't know that his daddy was a werewolf, so he could be both, and then he discovered that my mommy could be like that too, so now they both are, and they don't like people who hurt me."

It was then that the man's face changed from a look of unbridled malice to one of uncertainty. He quickened his pace so much that the little boy had to run to keep up with his long strides, and he didn't say another word until they reached the hideout. He got in and dropped her unceremoniously on the floor of the cabin. When she looked up, she saw several faces staring down at her. Finally, an old man looked up at the man who had kidnapped her and said, "Rex, who is this?"

Rex shrugged. "I don't know. Vince found her alone in the woods. A little smart aleck she is. I thought she could do with being taught some manners."

"She said her daddy knows Vanessa," Vince added.

A stocky man with black hair and a very impressive beard shoved the old man aside. "If her father knew Vanessa, then she's obviously no friend of ours and neither is anyone she knows. Let's kill her!"

"No, wait!" The old man managed to hold him off. "We can't do that yet. She might know something. It would be a shame to dispose of her if she should prove useful." Everyone stared down at Roxie expectantly. She got up and faced them with dignity despite the fact that her hair was a mess, her face was dirty, and her dress was wrinkled and torn. She cleared her throat. "My name's Roxie, and I don't know what you expect me to know, but I don't know a thing. Now take me home! I demand you take me home right now!"

The old man got down on his knees beside her. "You don't understand, dear. You're not going anywhere. And if you don't tell us something useful about Vanessa, we'll hurt you until you do."

Roxie's eyes widened and she slowly backed away. "I don't know anything about Vanessa. Only that she tried to kill my mommy lots of times. And my brother. And Helene, once." Roxie brightened. "Actually, she did kill Roxie. That's why my brother talks to himself all the time now."

Rex put a hand on her shoulder. "That's a good start, but surely there's more. Like where she's hiding? Enid needs to know."

Roxie shook her head. "No, that's all I know! I don't know anything else!" She took off running, but she wasn't quick enough. The old man grabbed her, and carried her, struggling, back to the group. "I think she knows more than she wants to tell us," he said. He looked sadly at Roxie. "It's such a pity," he said. "You really are a pretty little girl."

He carried her to a bathroom where two women stripped her naked and ran a bath, pouring a clear liquid in it that made it smoke. Then, they threw Roxie in and she experienced the worst pain she'd ever felt. The water burned all over her body. "It hurts!" She cried. "It hurts!"

Rex watched her flail about, laughter on his lips. "Do you know why?" He asked. "It's called vervain. It makes vampires hurt. And didn't Vince say you're a vampire?" He chuckled. "Well obviously, from the look of you." He instructed a woman who turned out to be his wife to grab Roxie by the hair and shove her face first into the water. Roxie screamed again. Her face felt like it was burning off. She was screaming and crying for her mother, but that only made everyone laugh harder. Then, just as the woman was about to dunk her face in again, they heard a terrible commotion outside. Howls of pain, growls, whimpers and scuffling.

"What do you suppose that could be?" Rex asked, getting up. But as he reached the door, it suddenly flew open, cracking his skull and knocking him to the floor. In the same instant, the woman who had hold of Roxie cried out out for two seconds before a dart landed in her neck and she fainted to the floor. Roxie did her best to breathe. She looked up and saw her mother standing over the woman's prone body. Then, she kicked her aside and picked Roxie up out of the tub, ignoring the pain as the vervain hit her too. As Selina and Roxie made their way out of the room, Rex grabbed Selina's left ankle. She was thrown off balance for a second, but then she kicked him in the head again and he was still. Selina slammed the bathroom door shut behind them.

Once they were out in the hallway with the cool air rushing over them, Selina looked down. "It's going to be all right," she said, holding Roxie to her. "Your father's here too. He's taken care of everybody else." She put a hand gently under her daughter's chin. "Now where are your clothes?"

"Front room." Roxie burst into a fresh round of sobs and buried her face in her mother's shoulder. Selina held her tightly, glad she'd grabbed a towel on her way out.

They made their way to the front room, where Selina saw that Klaus had indeed taken care of everybody else. Several were without their heads, some had been strung up and were slowly choking to death, while others were burning in a fire pit he'd made in the center of the room.

Selina went up to him. "Well you were certainly thorough. And quick. But you know that not all these people are going to die."

Klaus nodded. "Killing them was not my intention. See?" He pointed to the choking bunch. They'd been garrotted while sitting in chairs they'd been chained into. "They're never going to be able to get out, are they?" She asked.

"Nope," he shook his head.

"But what about the fire?" Selina asked. "That's going to burn out eventually."

"Not necessarily," Klaus said, grinning again. He snapped his fingers and Alistair appeared a second later. He looked around, and then made noises in his throat as if he were choking himself. "What happened here? What are you doing?"

"This bunch kidnapped Roxie and was torturing her for some reason," Klaus said.

"Vanessa," Roxie got out, her voice no louder than a whisper.

Selina looked up. "They did this to her because of Vanessa. Maybe they thought she had information or something."

Roxie nodded.

"My god," Alistair said.

"So you see why I can't let them get away with this," Klaus said.

Alistair sighed. "Well, what did you want from me?"

"Make the fire magic," Klaus said immediately. "So that it burns forever and never goes out. And make sure that those being choked can't ever leave their chairs."

Alistair eyed him for a moment, hesitant.

"Selina," Klaus said sharply, "Show Alistair what those sons of bitches did to our daughter."

Slowly, Selina turned Roxie around so that Alistair could see the full extent of the damage that had been done to her. He gasped. He felt as if he'd been punched in the stomach. He reached out and gently stroked her face, wiping a tear out of her eye. "My god," he whispered.

"So you see why they have to be punished," Klaus said.

"Yes," Alistair said quietly. "I do."

He did as Klaus asked and then took Roxie out to the car along with her clothes.

"Now," Klaus said, as soon as Roxie and Alistair were gone. "Let's have a look in that bathroom. Finish the job. We have to be thorough." They headed back to the bathroom, where Rex was still unconscious, as was the woman who'd been dunking Roxie in the water. Klaus looked at them. "Are these the people responsible for torturing her?"

"Yes," Selina nodded.

He looked at her. "Would you like to kill them? Or I can."

"Actually," Selina picked them both up. "I have a better idea. We could use more help around the house, couldn't we?" She asked. "Let's compel one of them to work for us and give the other one to Roxie to play with. She'd like that."

"Good idea," Klaus said. But as they dragged the pair away, Vince came charging in and tried to attack them. Klaus held him off easily. "What do you want to do with this one?" Klaus asked Selina, foisting Vince up by his wrist. "Should we kill him?"

Selina looked at him for a second, moved by the sudden fear she saw in the little boy's eyes. These two must be his parents. She sighed. "We can't kill him," Selina said. "That would make us just as bad as this bunch. Besides, I think this is Pete's nephew and based on what we've done to the rest of his pack, this little boy will be the only family Pete has left. Just let him go and let's take the other two and go home."

Klaus agreed reluctantly and they brought his parents out to the car and made their way back home.

Once they were safely away from the hideout, Alistair leaned forward. "Roxie wants to know if we can get ice cream."

Selina nodded. "Sure. Of course we can."

They stopped at an ice cream stand. Selina and Roxie got chocolate, Alistair got strawberry and Klaus got vanilla with strawberry sauce.

When they arrived home, they put some life in their hostages and Klaus compelled them as planned. The woman read Roxie a bedtime story and they all went to bed.

When Pete arrived at the hideout, he was unprepared for the horrors that met his eyes. He had no idea what had transpired in his absence, but was overcome with relif when he found Vince alive.

"Mommy and Daddy are gone," Vince sobbed into his uncle's shoulder.

Pete nodded. "It's going to be all right. I'm here for you. Let's get your things and we'll go to Enid's for the night. Then we'll figure out what to do in the morning."