Damon sat in the field cradling Lucy's body for awhile. Then, suddenly, her eyes popped open and she coughed. "Wow," she breathed, her eyes wide. "I thought I was gonna be dead for much longer than that." She sat up. "Oh, I can't wait to see what it's like to be human!" She looked up at the sun, pulled off her ring and then gave a shriek as her hair and skin began to sizzle.

"For god's sake!" Damon yelled, pushing her ring back on her finger. "How much are you gonna put me through today, huh?"

Lucy took a deep breath. "I'm sorry," she said. "I just thought it would work. But something must have gone wrong. I shouldn't have burned like that."

"Well, you did," Damon said. "And now that you've done your little experiment and it's failed miserably, can we just move on, please?"

"No," Lucy shook her head. "Damon, I don't think I can. I want to be human."

"Well, how do you think you'll do that?" Damon asked. "You tried one way and it didn't work."

"I'm sure there are other ways," Lucy said. "And I'll find one." She stomped off and Damon sighed and followed after her grudgingly.

"I don't know what your problem is with this," Lucy said. "Why don't you want me to be human?"

"It's not that I don't want you to," Damon said. "It's just that you've grown up a vampire your whole life. You're used to being able to just make people do whatever you want whenever you want them to. I'm just not sure how well you'd be able to handle people who could tell you 'no' if you couldn't compel them or whatever."

Lucy narrowed her eyes. "Now I'm just insulted!" She said. "It's me your talking to, remember? Not Roxie! I would never purposely manipulate people for my own personal gain. Uncle Elijah frowns on that and he made it very clear to me that it's not something I should do unless it's absolutely necessary."

"I'm not saying you'll definitely do that," Damon said. "But it could be a possibility. And you may have been raised by your uncle, but you're still your father's daughter. And your mother's daughter, too, come to think of it. Even she has her moments."

"You're not gonna tell Mom about this, are you?" Lucy asked.

"Why shouldn't I?" Damon asked. "If there's nothing wrong with you wanting to be human?"

"Not that part," Lucy said. "The getting bitten part."

"I have to tell her that," Damon said. "It's the most important part of the whole story."

Lucy groaned. "She's gonna yell at me, I know it!" They plodded along for a little while and then Lucy said, "Why did you let Jake take the car with him? Did you know that we were gonna have to walk back to the clinic?"

"I had some other things on my mind at the time, like the fact that you were bleeding and possibly dead, so excuse me for making us have to walk a bit!" Damon said grumpily.

"Well, fine," Lucy said. "Sor-ry!"

They walked in silence for a few minutes and then Lucy stuck out her hand and held Damon's tightly. "I really am sorry," she said. "I honestly thought it would work. But why wouldn't it? I've read Uncle Jake's notes and talked to him and did exactly what the notes said."

"Well, for one, that thing, whatever it was, might not even be a werewolf. And for another, may I remind you that your father is an Original? So that means that you probably have something in you that makes you heal faster or whatever. Your body chemistry is different from a normal vampire's. That's probably another reason why you wouldn't become human if you were bitten by an actual werewolf."

"Damn my miraculous healing powers!" Lucy said. "Damn, damn, damn! Now I'm never gonna be human!"

Damon sighed. "I'm sure we can find a way somehow. Even if it's just for a little while."

"Phone for you, darling," Elijah said as he poked his head into Laura's room where Selina was dressing her.

"Oh," Selina turned and jogged over to him. "Would you finish up with Laura while I take this, please?"

"Of course," Elijah said. He stared at her until she said, "What?"

"Well," Elijah cleared his throat. "Well, it looks to me as if...you aren't wearing a bra, are you?"

Selina shook her head. "No, but so what? It's easier to fed Laura if I don't. Besides, it's not like I leave the house much anymore, anyway. Thank god I trust Edith and Abby to run the bakery."

"But if you left the house, you'd wear one, right?" Elijah asked. "Because I know you have enough self-respect not to let strange men ogle you as you walk down the street."

"They would do that whether I was wearing a bra or not," Selina said. "I'm breast-feeding, so I'm bigger now. That's just a fact of life. And besides, all bras are is an attempt by the patriarchy to suppress women sexually." She sighed. "Maybe I should just do like I did in the sixties and burn all my bras and..."

"Hey!" Damon yelled from the other side of the phone Selina held. "I'm sure the two of you are having an interesting conversation there, but I have something I need to say, so could you put a sock in it for a moment? Unless of course you let me join in this conversation you're having about Selina's chest because I do still have a few opinions."

Selina watched as Elijah's face got redder and redder. "Nah," she said to him. "I think the conversation's closed now." She left Laura's room and shut the door behind her. "So what did you call to say?"

"It's about Lucy," Damon said. "She's not hurt or anything. She just has this idea in her head that she wants to be human and she tried to get a werewolf to bite her but nothing happened and now she's sad cause it didn't work."

Selina's eyes widened and she almost dropped the phone. "My god! Lucy got herself bitten by a werewolf? Is she okay?"

"Yeah," Damon said. "She's fine. I tried to stop her, but would she listen? No, so don't you go pinning anything on me."

"I wasn't going to," Selina said. "You told me you tried to stop her and I believe you. Sometimes, that's all you can do. So nothing happened to her? Really?"

"Really," Damon said. "And it was very upsetting for her. I couldn't tell her why it didn't work specifically. The thing that bit her technically wasn't a werewolf. Your uncle is trying to figure out what the hell it really is, but I have this feeling that even if she did get herself bitten by an actual werewolf, it wouldn't be successful because of her Original blood and all."

"Oh, yeah, that would make sense. Vanessa tried to kill Adrian once and he just stood right back up again," Selina said. She sighed. "Tell Lucy to call me tonight and we'll talk about this being human thing."

"Don't try and talk her out of it," Damon said. "She seems pretty firm."

"All right," Selina told him. "I'll handle this from here on out. You just keep talking to her and being supportive. There are worse things she could want than to be human."

"All right," Damon said. "I'm sure she'll be happy to hear that you aren't gonna yell at her for this. That's what she thought at first. And just for the record, let me say that I still think you have a very nice pair of-"

"Stop!" Selina said. "Goodbye, Damon."

She turned the phone off and hung it up before heading back to Laura's room.

"What did he want?" Elijah asked, keeping his eyes on her chest.

"He just wanted to talk to me about Lucy and will you stop looking at my boobs?!" Selina said. "If I don't want to wear a bra, I'm not gonna, all right? You're just gonna have to deal with it!"

"But you don't understand!" Elijah said to her. "They aren't just yours anymore."

"What?" Selina asked, lifting an eyebrow. "What do you mean 'they aren't just yours anymore'? Of course they're mine! They're on my body! Who else's would they be?"

"The second we got married, they became both of ours," Elijah said. "Therefore, I will not let you traipse around au natural for all the world to see. If you leave this house, you cover up. End of discussion!"

"It is not!" Selina said. "I-"

"Shhh!" Elijah said. "I said, 'End of discussion' and I meant it!"

"Why are you in such a bad mood?" Selina asked. "You've been biting my head off for weeks and I don't like it!" She paused and whipped off her shirt. "What is it that you want? A little fun time with our boobs?" She rolled her eyes. "All right, fine. Take it."

Elijah's eyes were locked on her. He lowered Laura into her bassinet and strode toward Selina, backing her up against the wall. "You know that this is not the place for this," he said.

"Then where is the place, Elijah?" Selina asked.

He picked her up and put her over his shoulder. "Let me show you," he said. He carried her into their bedroom and put her on the bed. "In here," he said. "This is the place." He climbed up beside her, and loomed over her, looking deeply into her eyes before ripping off his shirt, sending buttons flying.

"Wow," Selina said. "I would have thought you cared too much about that shirt to ruin it."

He grinned, running his fingers lightly over her breasts and then she reached up and unzipped him. "Come inside me," she said. "Deep inside me."

He nodded. "It's been so long," he said. "Let's never wait this long again." Then he kissed her deeply and peeled off her jeans and panties, burying himself inside her as she let out a moan of pleasure.

When they reached a stopping point, Elijah said, "Just what did Damon call about anyway?"

"He just had something to tell me about Lucy," she said. "It's nothing you need to worry about."

"Is it something bad?" Elijah asked, pushing himself up on his elbows. "Is she in trouble?"

"No," Selina shook her head. "She's just suddenly been overcome with the desire to be human. I suppose it's an okay thing, in a way. Neither Adrian nor Roxie ever wanted anything like that. They're perfectly happy with what they are." She sighed. "I told Damon I'd have a talk with her about it, but I don't even know what I'm gonna say. I mean, I know what it was like to be human and the experience wasn't exactly pleasant."

Elijah kissed down her shoulder. "I'm sure you'll think of something," he said.

"Should I encourage this?" She asked. "Or would that be wrong? I mean, what if I let her be human, even for a little bit and she accidently kills someone? That could happen, you know, and then her werewolf gene will be activated and-" She gasped. "Oh, my god. My mother's voice just flew from her house to land in my mouth! What's wrong with me? You and I raised Lucy well. She knows right from wrong. If she becomes human, nothing bad will happen to her. When I talk to her tonight, I'll tell her that if she can find a way to become human she'll have my blessing."

"You're going to tell Lucy that she can be human forever if she finds a way?" Elijah asked.

"Or, maybe for Christmas, I can talk to Astrid or even Helene and see if there's a spell to make her temporarily human," Selina said. "I don't see the harm in that. Do you?"

Elijah shook his head. "I guess not."

Selina nodded. "All right then. Now that I know what I'm gonna say when I talk to her, I feel so much better about this." She looked at the clock and sighed. "I think we should go and check on the kids now."

"I'll do it," Elijah said. "You just stay here and wait for me."

Selina snuggled under the covers. "Okay," she said. "You go."

Elijah got out of bed and quickly put his pants on before leaving the room to go check on Gregory and Laura. Just as he entered Laura's room, which was near his and Selina's, but not too close, he looked up at the clock and realized that it was time for her to be fed again.

"Let's take you to go see your mother," he said. "And I will go check on Gregory." He dropped Laura off with Selina and then went to see Gregory, who was playing with his blocks. When Elijah came in, Gregory saw him and his eyes lit up. "Dada!" He said. He got to his feet and ran into his arms.

"Hi there," Elijah said. "Don't think I've forgotten about you. What are you playing?"

Gregory sat back down in front of the block tower he'd been building. "Bocks," he said and pushed some in Elijah's direction. "I'll just watch you for a little bit," Elijah said.

He watched Gregory stack blocks on top of one another with care, a somber expression on his young face. When the tower fell over, Elijah thought that his son would burst into tears, but he didn't. He just picked up the blocks and started building again. This time, Elijah decided to help him.

They were on their third tower when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in," Elijah called.

"If you're not planning on coming back, I'm going to take Laura and check some things out at the bakery," Selina said when she came in. "Will that work for you?"

"Bakey!" Gregory exclaimed, standing up so enthusiastically that he knocked down the tower. "Me go!"

"Don't you want to stay here and build things with your daddy?" Selina asked him.

"You know what?" Elijah asked. "It's okay. You take them and I'll stay here and get some work done in the office."

"Are you sure?" Selina asked. "You're more than welcome to come with us, if you like."

"Thank you, but no," Elijah said. "But would it be out of line for me to ask you to bring me back a really big cookie?"

"All right," Selina said. "I'll bring you back a cookie." She took Gregory's hand and looked down at Laura, who was securely in the carrier she was wearing and said, "All right, troops. Let's go."

"Did you remember to put on a bra?" Elijah asked her.

Selina looked at him for a moment, then handed Laura over. "I'll be back in a second," she sighed and then stomped from Gregory's room.

"So is today finally the day?" Kevin asked Stefan.

"The day of what?" Stefan asked.

"The day you finally tell me about the woman my father married," Kevin said. "Whenever I ask about her, you always say you'll tell me later. Why can't you just tell me now?"

"Tell you what now, Kevin?" Anna asked.

"Kevin wants to know about Selina," Stefan said.

"Yeah," Kevin nodded. "For some reason, they won't tell me about her. Is she crazy?"

"Hey!" Anna said to him. "You watch your mouth. You happen to be talking about one of my closest friends. Actually, my only closest friend. She is not crazy. Every bad thing she's done in her life has been completely justified."

"Has she ever...killed anyone?" Kevin asked.

"Yes," Anna nodded. "But what vampire hasn't, really? Your father has. He didn't mean to, but it happened. It's in our nature. We're hunters, predators. In order for us to survive, people have to die."

"Yeah," Kevin said. "I guess."

"Now what happened between her and your mother, that was a different story," Stefan began."

"What?" Kevin asked. "What happened to my mother? Is she okay?"

"She's dead," Klaus said. "Selina killed her."

"Why would she want to kill my mother?" Kevin asked, looking shocked.

"Why would you care?" Anna asked him. "Your mother dumped you off at a circus when you were a baby. She abandoned you."

"Well, yeah, but she's still my mother!" Kevin exclaimed, standing up.

"Oh, calm down, would you?" Anna said. "I'm sure there's a perfectly logical reason why Selina killed your mother."

"She did it because she was upset about how callously your mother talked about you," Klaus said. "It wounded Selina deeply that a woman could be so cold to her child. That and she was a living ex-girlfriend of your father and Selina has a problem with women who've dated your father. Or any of her exes. She can be the jealous type."

Anna nodded. "She can be, but like I said when we met you, Kevin, she's mostly a sane and loving person. She even owns a bakery and makes cupcakes!"

"Sweeney Todd and Nellie Lovett made pies," Klaus said. "And you remember what was in them. A bake shop doesn't necessarily guarantee goodness."

"Who's side are you on?" Anna asked.

"I'm just saying," Klaus told her.

"Where's her bakery?" Kevin asked. "I want to see her."

"No, you don't!" Anna said quickly.

"Anna's right," Klaus told him. "It's a little early for you to be doing something so rash. Maybe after we've trained you up a bit you can storm the bakery and avenge your mother's death, but not now, all right?"

Kevin sighed and sat down. "Fine," he said. "I'll stay here."

But that night, after Klaus had taken him back to his house, and Klaus and Caroline had gone to bed, Kevin stayed up to do some research on the internet, so he could find out where the bakery was located. He typed in Selina's name and it came up after a bit.

"Selina Warren owns Sweet Emotions bakery," he whispered. "Perfect." He wrote down the address and went to bed.

The next day, he told Klaus he was going out for some fresh air. "You want me to come with you?" Klaus asked.

Kevin shook his head. "No, thanks. I'll be fine by myself. But can I take your car?"

"Can you drive?" Klaus asked.

"Yeah," Kevin nodded. "I can drive."

Klaus threw him his keys. "Have at it, then."

"Thanks!" Kevin said and bolted before Klaus could ask any more questions. He drove to the bakery, staying in the car for a moment to inhale the smells coming from the building, before reminding himself that the woman who killed his mother was in there. He couldn't enjoy her cupcakes. Even the smell of them. He shut the car door and strode inside.

"Hi," The woman at the counter greeted him. She was pretty, with dark hair and big blue eyes. "What can I get you?"

Kevin shrugged. "I don't know," he said. "What would you recommend?"

She pulled out a pumpkin spice cupcake and handed it to him. "Why don't you have one of these?" She asked. "It's the special."

He smiled and unwrapped it. "Thanks," he said.

"I've never seen you around here," she said. "Are you visiting?"

Kevin nodded. "Yeah," he said. "I'm here to see my father. My name's Kevin." He stuck his hand out.

The woman shook it. "Nice to meet you, Kevin. I'm Selina." Just then, something bumped her from behind and Kevin heard a little giggle. "And this," she said, reaching behind her back and picking up a little boy, "is Gregory. He's my son. He comes to work with me sometimes." She smiled. "Like your cupcake?"

"Yeah," Kevin nodded and took a bite. "It's great. Just wonderful."