When Selina came into their bedroom that night, Klaus was waiting for her, watching as she undressed. "How'd things go with Roxie?" She asked him. "Did the two of you clear things up?"
Klaus nodded. "A little. She says she's going to start visiting now."
Selina put a nightgown on and climbed into bed next to him. "Well, that's a big improvement on nothing for the last ten years, isn't it?"
He nodded and started rubbing her stomach, but she squirmed away. "Not tonight, okay? I'm too tired."
She turned away from him.
"Did I do something?" He asked. "I haven't bought you anything recently and I promise I never will again."
Selina looked up at him. "Not even on my birthday?"
"Well, what's wrong?" He asked. "Talk to me."
Selina's eyes widened. "You want to talk now? Really?"
He nodded.
"Well have you noticed," she said, "that pretty much all we do now is have sex? We don't do anything else?"
"Well, I suppose," he said thoughtfully.
"And don't you think it would be a big help if we tried to do more then that?" She continued. "Like we used to. We used to go out to eat and go to museums, and there was the time you got me up in that plane."
He grinned. "You were so scared!"
Selina scoffed. "Yeah, well it was 1927! Lindbergh had just flown across the Atlantic. And planes didn't even have roofs back then. I could have fallen out and plunged to my doom!"
He leaned forward. "But you still went with me, didn't you?"
She nodded. "Yeah. Yeah, I did. And I'm glad for it, too." She paused. "How about you come with us when I take Lucy to the park tomorrow? We can talk more then."
He grinned and nodded. "All right, darling. Goodnight."

Selina was the one who shook Klaus awake the next morning. He looked up and saw Selina standing over him, holding Lucy. Both of them were awake and dressed. "Isn't it a little early for you?" He asked groggily.

She nodded. "Usually, but Lucy didn't feel like sleeping, so I figured we'd get an early start. Do you still want to come?"

He sat up, blinking. "Of course I still want to come. I just have to get myself awake."

"I made coffee," Selina grinned, holding out her hand to help him out of bed. He took it, got out of bed and went to dress.

When he came into the kitchen, Lucy reached out for him and started squirming, so Selina handed her over. "Yet another one you've managed to snare," she said. "I commend you."

He grinned. "What can I say? I'm just that good."

Selina grinned back. "Nice to see you're so modest." She decided that she should tell Roxie where they were going just in case she wanted to come too.

"Hey," she said, knocking on Roxie's door. "Your father and I are going to take Lucy out for a walk. Would you like to come with us?"

"No," Roxie called back. "I hate Lucy!"

Selina frowned and opened the door. "What do you mean you hate Lucy?" Selina asked. "She's just a baby. I mean, I realize you're upset that your daddy gave your bear away, but is there anything else you'd like to talk about?"

Roxie pouted. "Why did you have to have her anyway? Am I not good enough or something?"

"You've been gone for ten years!" Selina said. "Your dad wrote you letter after letter, email after email, but you never wrote back. Did you just expect us to wait around until you felt like coming back?"

"That would have been nice," Roxie nodded.

"Well, it doesn't work that way," Selina told her. "Everyone is entitled to have their own lives and we've all moved on with ours."

"It's not fair," Roxie said huffily. "Daddy used to like me best but now I'm no better than garbage!"

"That's not true," Selina said. "He still loves you a lot."

Roxie shook her head. "No he doesn't!" She cried. "And he won't as long as stupid Lucy is in this house!" She turned away from Selina and put her face in her pillow.

"Now stop that!" Selina said. "You're acting like a two year old!"

Roxie shook her head. "No, I'm not! Now just go away!"

"Fine," Selina got up and walked to the door. "But we're not done here. I'll be up here to talk more when we get back."

"No, you won't," Roxie said. "Just leave me alone!"

Selina shut the bedroom door just as something hit it, a pillow probably. She sighed. "Here we go again," She whispered to herself.

"So, is Roxie coming with us?" Klaus asked.

"No," Selina shook her head wearily. "And I think we'll need to have a talk with her soon."

"About what?" Klaus asked.

Selina looked him straight in the eye. "Remember how before I had Roxie, Enid warned us that I'd have to work extra hard to get along with her because I might have feelings of jealousy that would make me want to kill her otherwise?"

"Yes," Klaus nodded. "I remember that."

"Well, I think Roxie is starting to have those feelings about Lucy," Selina said. "She definitely sees Lucy as a threat to what you and she had."

"But I talked to her yesterday," Klaus said. "I told her I was sorry I gave her bear away."

"I think it's about more than just the bear," Selina said. "I think your little princess is going to try and do some overthrowing unless we do something to head it off."

"What?" Klaus asked. "Are you telling me that you think Roxie will actually try and harm Lucy?"

Selina shrugged. "It's possible," she said. "I wouldn't put anything past her."

"Should I try and talk to her now?" Klaus asked.

Selina shook her head. "I really don't think she's in the mood to talk to anybody right now."

During their walk, the Roxie situation was all they could talk about.

"I think we should get Lucy out of the way until we've had a chance to talk to Roxie," Selina said. "I could just drop her off at Damon's next time I go to talk to him about Sam."

"But then I won't see her," Klaus said. "That's not a good idea."

"Given the situation, I think you need to spend as little time around Lucy as possible until we can convince Roxie that she's not a threat anymore."

"So we should just do what she says?" Klaus asked.

Selina nodded. "In this situation, I think it would be warrented. And I don't see how bowing to her every whim is going to be so difficult for you. It's what you've always done."

Klaus scowled at her. "How about we move Lucy in with Elijah and Susan?" He suggested. "That way, as long as I'm careful, I can still see her."

Selina shook her head. "I don't think it's fair to get Susan and Elijah wrapped up in this," she said. "Let's just keep it between us and people who can actually be helpful."

"Elijah and Susan can be helpful," Klaus said. "I'm sure they'd be glad to watch Lucy while Roxie slowly spirals into madness."

Selina rolled her eyes. "Fine, you can go and ask. But I don't want you to make it seem like they don't have a choice. I think I'll go ask Enid what to do. I haven't been to the bar in awhile, anyway."

"I got a call from Adrian," Klaus said. "Enid's not at the bar. She's at Astrid and Alistair's while she recouperates."

"Recouperates from what?" Selina asked.

Klaus shrugged. "Adrian didn't say. All he said was that Enid had been hurt and she was at Alistair's house recouperating."

Selina sighed. "It pains me to bother her while she's having all those other problems, but this is an emergency. You go see Elijah and Susan about Lucy and I'll go ask Enid if there's anything we can do about Roxie."

"Selina!" Astrid said in surprise. "I didn't expect to see you back so soon. Do you have something else you need to talk about?"

"Yes," Selina nodded. "But not with you. I'm giving you a break today. Enid's not around, is she?"

Astrid nodded, leading Selina inside. "She's recovered remarkably well."

They found Alistair and Adrian with Enid in the living room. "Selina says she needs to talk to you," Astrid said.

"But it can wait if you're not feeling well enough," Selina said quickly.

"No," Enid shook her head. "I'm much better, thank you. Tell me what you came to ask."

Selina sat down next to her. "Remember how you told me before I had Roxie that I had to be careful with her so that I wouldn't get jealous and hurt her?"

Enid nodded. "And you handled it remarkably."

"Thank you," Selina said. "But we just had another little girl recently, and she and Nicky have bonded and now Roxie is a bit jealous and I'm worried that she might do something terrible to her sister."

Adrian looked up. "Roxie's jealous of Lucy? I always knew she'd crack someday." He shook his head.

"Yeah, apparently," Selina nodded. "If the words 'I hate Lucy, why'd you have to have her anyway'? are any indication."

"Do you have a plan to get Lucy out of your house?" Enid asked.

"Yes," Selina nodded. "Nicky is going to take her to stay with his brother."

Enid nodded. "Good. Because you know that Roxie is pure wolf so she can't control her emotions as well as you did."

"That and the fact that she doesn't want to," Selina said ruefully. "So besides moving Lucy out, is there anything else we should be doing?"

"Find something to distract Roxie," Enid said. "Has she found her mate yet?"

Selina nodded. "They're living together, actually. They just got a new apartment."

"Good," Enid sald. "Do the best you can to convince Roxie that she needs to go home and be with her mate. It'll be difficult, but it has to be done."

Selina nodded. "I see. Now, what are you all doing?"

"We're trying to figure out who came after Enid. We're absolutely sure it's a 'who' now, rather than a 'what'."

"Why isn't Helene helping you?" Selina asked.

"Because technically, I was supposed to compel her to forget about Alistair and Astrid months ago. Alistair doesn't want her involved cause someone is also after him and he has this fear that they will use Helene as bait if they know that the two of them are related," Adrian said. "I compelled her at first, but then I uncompelled her cause she's a lot smarter than Alistair gives her credit for."

Selina grinned. "Oh, that's so sweet."

Adrian blushed a little. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever."

"What kind of thing is going after Alistair?" Enid asked.

"He just got a phone call a little while ago telling him it was time for him to pay the piper, and then his magic disappeared, so Helene insisted that he take hers."

"Helene doesn't have magic anymore?" Selina asked.

"No," Adrian shook his head.

Enid frowned. "This is one situation where I wish my sister Hazel was still alive. She knew all about the old witch lore." She began to pace. "I've heard rumors about some trouble Alistair got into in the old days, long before he even had Helene."

"Are they rumors about how Alistair usurped the leader of his tribe and had him killed so he could take over? Cause Helene said that's true. But why would that matter?" Adrian asked. "The guys been dead for centuries."

"But you should know," Enid said, "that just because a witch is dead doesn't mean that they're necessarily gone. Helene had her own issues, as I recall, that led to her wreaking havoc as a spirit."

"She died on prom night," Adrian said. "That would upset anybody."

Enid raised an eyebrow. "And being brutally murdered in a coup wouldn't?"

"Wait," Adrian said. "So you think that the ghost of the wizard Alistair killed is trying to take vengeance on him?"

"It's possible," Enid nodded. "Very likely, I think."

"So what do we do?" Adrian asked. "Anything? Could we look stuff up in books, or..."

"I think the best thing to do would be to ask Alistair himself," Enid said.

"He's been up in his room all day," Adrian said. "Astrid is starting to be concerned."

"Poor Alistair," Selina said. "Well, I should probably go and see how your father is doing with Lucy. Good luck."

"You too, Mom," Adrian called after her.

As Selina pulled away from Alistair's house, she got a call from Elijah. "Hey," she said before he had a chance to say anything. "Sorry if Nicky strong-armed you into taking Lucy. It was his idea to bring her to you in the first place."

"He could never do anything of the sort," Elijah said. "He explained the situation to me, although it wasn't really necessary. I never approved of how much he doted on Roxie. I knew it would lead to a bad end someday."

"You're telling me," Selina said. "So you and Susan are going to take her?"

"Susan is," Elijah said. "I was thinking that I might assist with Roxie."

"Are you sure?" Selina asked. "This is kind of a delicate situation and one wrong thing said could push her over the edge."

"Well if Lucy isn't at your house, why would that matter?"

"Wait a minute," Selina said. "Are you suggesting that we make Roxie angry so that she acts out and does who knows what?"

"I believe that would be a good idea," Elijah said. "She's never had to face reality before, and now is the chance."

"I don't know..." Selina said.

"Come on, Selina," Elijah said. "Don't tell me you're afraid of your own daughter."

"What? No, of course not!" Selina scoffed. "I just..."

"I'll meet you at your house," he said, cutting her off. "Then, we'll get to work."

"Never thought I'd see you again." Helene looked up from the book she was reading. "Hanz! What are you doing here?"

He sat down next to her and gestured expansively. "This is a public park. I assume anyone is allowed to come if they want to."

"Well, yes," Helene nodded. "Of course, but..." She paused. "I mean, I'm surprised you'd want to talk to me after, you know."

"Ah, yes," he nodded. "After you abandoned me."

"Isn't that being a little overdramatic?" Helene asked.

"Why did you want to be with me?" He asked. "What was the purpose?"

"Because I liked you," Helene stuttered.

Hanz' eyes narrowed. "You're lying to me, aren't you?"

Helene cleared her throat. "If you're so smart, then why do you think I was with you?"

"Because you didn't want to be alone," he said. "You liked Adrian, but Adrian no longer liked you, so you thought you'd go and find someone to dangle in front of him until he did what you wanted and came back to you. Then, you dumped me like trash."

"No," Helene shook her head. "It wasn't like that."

"Really?" He asked. "What was it like?"

Helene looked away. "Well, um...look. I didn't pick you, okay? Vanessa did. She thought we'd be good for each other and she said she wanted to make it up to me for killing me on my prom night!"

He nodded. "She always tried to help people. She helped Myna."

Helene looked up. "What?"

Hanz looked up at her. "I told you that what killed my family was consumption and that none of us were vampires, but that's not true. Myna was from the first. She became that way after her fiance died. She was heartbroken. At his funeral, she met a woman who claimed to be his sister. This woman told her that she had a miracle way to help her end her grief. Then, she turned Myna into a vampire. And that night, after everyone had left, the sister led Myna out to the cemetery, and together, they got her fiance out of the ground. He was a vampire too. Myna was indebted to the woman after that. Promised to do whatever she asked, even the strange requests about killing the villagers at the edge of town, who she claimed were werewolves. They were together often. I even met her once or twice."

"And Vanessa was that woman?" Helene asked.

Hanz nodded. "Yes."

Just then, Myna appeared. "There you are, Hanz! We have to meet a friend of mine in twenty minutes and we don't want to be late." She didn't acknowledge Helene at all. They left Helene going back to her reading and once they were gone, Helene called Adrian. "I have a possible suspect for Enid's attacker."