The sound of the bedroom door closing woke Klaus again for the third night in a row. "Hi," Caroline said, blushing. "I thought you were asleep. I didn't want to disturb you."

Klaus sat up and nodded. "Well, fine, but since you have, where have you been? Out with Selina's mother again? And if you're gonna lie to me about your whereabouts, at least come up with something believable!"

"Oh," Caroline kept her eyes cast down. "I figured you'd probably see through that, but I hoped you wouldn't." She sighed. "I was out with Tyler again. We were just walking around and talking about old times. It was nice. I like having him back."

"And yet, all this time, you never once wondered where he came from?" Klaus asked. "Aren't you the least bit disturbed that he came back from the dead?"

"Well, I never had to question where he came from, first of all," Caroline said, climbing into the bed. "Roxie found me looking at some of my and Tyler's old pictures and I told her that you and I were kind of in a rut lately, so she said she could do something about it. Next thing you know, Tyler shows up, alive at the front door. As for the whole 'being brought back from the dead' thing, weren't we brought back from the dead too? Us vampires? Tyler's not rotting or asking for my brains or anything, so I'm not worried."

Klaus scoffed. "You might not be, but what about me? What about us? Where does this leave us?"

"You know," Caroline said thoughtfully, "I have to wonder if there ever really was an 'us'. You and Selina were very attached to each other while you were together and you've never really gotten over her, in spite of the divorce, have you? You're still stuck on her. Wouldn't you feel better if you just admitted it?"

"To say I'm still stuck on her is not quite accurate," Klaus told Caroline. "I don't actually love Selina as much as you believe. We have a strong physical attachment thanks to our werewolf genes, but that's all."

"Even so," Caroline told him, "I think I deserve more than a guy who is still very capable of having sex with his ex-wife if the right circumstances come up. If Selina and I were both standing in front of you naked, begging for you to come to bed with us, you'd still pick her, wouldn't you?"

Klaus sighed. "I have to admit you're not entirely wrong about that. Very well. You go on and be with Tyler, but I can't say I'm not gonna miss you."

Caroline nodded. "In a way, I'll miss you too," she said. "I'm sorry this couldn't have worked out." She touched his cheek. "I really am." She sighed. "I'll go sleep on the sofa and tomorrow I'll start packing up my things."

Klaus nodded. "Goodnight, Caroline."

"Good night," Caroline replied when she reached the bedroom door, her hand on the knob. She gave him a long look, opened the door and left, shutting it gently behind her.

Selina knocked on Laura's bedroom door a few days later and went inside. "Honey?" She said, "I'm gonna go to the grocery store. You wanna come with me? I'll help you dress and everything."

"No need," Elijah said. "You just stay here and rest yourself. You'll need to for later."

"What's going on?" She asked, watching as Elijah pulled a pink dress over Laura's head.

"Toys!" Laura said happily, grinning at her mother.

"Toys?" Selina asked. "What about toys?"

"Niklaus and I decided it would be fun to take Laura to the toy store," Elijah answered. "Nothing wrong with that, is there?"

"No," Selina shook her head, her lip jutting out a little. "Of course not. The three of you have a good time. I'll just stay here with Colin and Gregory."

"What's the matter?" Elijah asked in a baby voice, coming up to Selina. "What's with the long face? Are you upset because you won't get anything? Don't worry, I'll get you a few really nice presents."

"I don't see what a toy store could do for me," Selina said. "But it's a nice thought. You just worry about having fun with Laura and I'll be okay."

"Well, all right," Elijah nodded. "But let's say that, maybe if I happened to pass by a jewelry store and see something really pretty in the window, you wouldn't hold it against me if I got it for you, would you? No, of course you wouldn't." He leaned down to put on Laura's socks and buckle her shoes and then picked her up. "Do you think Mommy should give Daddy a kiss before we go?" He asked her.

"Yay!" Laura nodded, clapping her hands.

Selina grinned and rolled her eyes as Elijah put Laura down. "All right, you," she said to him. "Come here!"

Elijah grinned and the two of them began kissing enthusiastically, but when his fingers sneaked under the waistline of her jeans, she gave his hand a light slap. "None of that now," she said. "Remember, there's a kid right there!"

"Oh, come on!" Elijah said, keeping a hold on her. "She's two, what does she know?" He began kissing down her neck. Selina resisted a little at first, but then eased into it. "Yes," she nodded. "That feels nice."

Laura watched them for a bit, and then grabbed one of her dolls out of her toy box and hit Elijah on the leg with it. He yelped and let Selina go immediately. "What was that for, young lady?" He asked her. "Why did you hurt me?"

"Toys!" Laura said sternly. "We go!" She grabbed his hand and began pulling him away from Selina and toward the door. "Wait, wait, wait!" Elijah told her. "Don't you want to say goodbye to your mother first?"

Laura gave Selina a long look and then shook her head. "No," she said and resumed trying to pull Elijah toward the door.

"I guess it would be best to just go with her then, wouldn't it?" Elijah asked Selina.

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "I guess it would be best."

Selina was sitting on a sofa in the library reading a book when Elijah strode through the library door and snatched the book out of her hands. "Hey!" she protested. When she saw it was him, she grinned. "Hey!" she said again, more warmly this time. "You need a little, you know?" She winked.

"Well, yes," Elijah said grumpily. "Of course I do. But my father has commanded that I come work with him otherwise he's gonna come here and drag me out himself. You miss work for a few days and suddenly it's like you're a criminal."

"I'm sorry," Selina told him, coming to sit on his lap. "What do you want me to do?"

"I need you to go pick up Laura from Niklaus'. She wanted to stay with him after we got back from the toy store and I said I'd pick her up later, but now I can't. Your presents are there too."

"Sure," Selina nodded. "I'd be happy to go pick up Laura. If you promise to take Gregory with you when you go see your father."

Elijah grinned. "I thought you'd never ask." His phone rang and he answered it with impatience. "All right, Father. I'm coming!" He let Selina up, then he strode angrily out of the room and Selina went to get Colin ready for a trip to Klaus' so they could pick up Laura.

It took her longer than she anticipated to actually get to the front door of the house. She had to stay in the car several extra minutes to feed Colin and then be extra careful so she wouldn't wake him as she carried up him the steps to Klaus' front door.

"Selina?" Klaus asked in response to her knock. "What are you doing here?"

"Well," she said, "Elijah was busy so he asked me to come and pick up Laura. Can I come in?"

"Oh, of course," Klaus nodded. "Come in, please."

"You know," she said as she followed him inside the house, having a terrific view of the back of him. "You look really good. Have you been working out?"

"Well, yes," Klaus said without turning. "Now that I'm on the market again, I have to keep myself in top shape, don't I?"

"You and Caroline broke up?" Selina asked in surprise. "Why? What happened?"

Now, Klaus turned. "Her ex-husband came back from the dead, of all things. Caroline seemed to think that being with him was preferable to being with me when, as she said, I couldn't focus on her because I was more stuck on you, so we ended things."

"Did she honestly say you were stuck on me?" Selina asked, locking eyes with him. "Well, that's just ridiculous, isn't it?"

"Yes," Klaus replied, his voice breathy as he focused on her lips. "Absolutely bonkers."

Selina put Colin down on the floor next to the sofa. "Well, if there's anything I can do to help..." she licked her lips. "Just let me know, okay?"

Klaus' hands suddenly went around her waist and he pulled her to him. They kissed long and hard, their hands moving up and down each other's bodies.

"Wait!" Selina said. "What about Colin? I can't just leave him down here!"

Klaus rolled his eyes. "Fine," he said impatiently, pausing kissing down her neck. "Take him up to one of the spare bedrooms and then get down here as fast as you can. Remember, I don't like waiting."

Selina nodded and then groaned. "Believe me," she said, pulling him to her to kiss him again. "Neither do I." She then pulled away reluctantly and took Colin upstairs, before coming back down taking the steps two at a time. Her momentum kept going and she ended up in Klaus's arms, knocking him down on the living room floor. As he unbuttoned her blouse, Selina asked Klaus, "Aren't you gonna ask why I'm like this?" She had a twinkle in her eye. "Aren't you curious?"

Klaus shook his head. "No, not really. I never ask questions when it comes to you and opportunities to see that beautiful body of yours. Although, Elijah won't be too happy about this, will he?"

Selina unzipped Klaus' pants. "Does that bother you?" She asked. "It doesn't bother me." She paused, looking down. "You're a big boy, aren't you?" She grinned. "Bigger than Elijah, I think...but don't tell him that. His ego's so fragile."

Klaus grinned and shook his head as his hand went under her jeans. "Don't worry, love," he said. "It will be a secret just between us."

"Get them off!" Selina said insistently, referring to her jeans. "Get 'em off!"

"Okay," Klaus said, flipping over so that she was underneath him. "But it might take a bit. They're tight, aren't they?" He unbuttoned and unzipped her jeans and then proceeded to peel them off of her and throw them on the sofa. "There," he said with satisfaction as he lightly ran his fingers over her lacy pink panties. "Isn't that better?"

"Or worse," Selina said breathlessly. "Depending on how you look at things. Oh, Nicky, I want you! Take me right this minute!"

He kissed her fingers. "You never have been very patient, have you, darling?" he asked with a twinkle in his eye. "Oh, well. I suppose I should end this torture, shouldn't I?" He whipped her panties off and pushed into her and her shriek of pleasure was so loud neither of them heard the front door open. Elijah came in and stood rooted to the spot, his jaw hanging open as he watched them. Finally, he found his voice.

"What the hell is going on here?" He yelled. The sound of his voice stopped Klaus and Selina cold. She looked at Elijah over Klaus' bare shoulder and gave him a wave. "Hi, sweetie! What are you doing here?"

"What am I doing here?" Elijah asked, a vein in his forehead beginning to throb. "I came here because I managed to get away from my father and when I got home, you weren't there so I came here to get you and Laura and here I find you and my brother like this! Don't you have any self-control at all?"

"Nicky, get off me," Selina said. She stood up and without bothering to cover herself up, approached her husband. "Darling, if I had any self-control at all, would we have been having as much fun as we have been lately?" She asked. "Besides, it's not like I came over here intending to have sex with your brother. It just happened. He told me how upset he was about his break up with Caroline and I asked if there was anything I could do to help, and then..."

"Oh, yes!" Elijah said angrily. "You're a lot of help. To everyone but me!"

"Hey!" Selina replied. "I offered but you said you had to go work with your father, so this is really your fault, if you think of it. If you'd been around so that we could've been together, then I wouldn't have come over here and done it with your brother. Do you see the logic?"

"No," Elijah shook his head. "Selina, you look at me. You will return to acting as you usually do in every possible way. You will get dressed and we will take the children and go home. Am I clear?"

All of a sudden, Selina blinked and then plowed her fist into Elijah's face. "Yeah," she said as she dressed. "We're clear. And here's another thing we need to be clear about: I don't appreciate being compelled into being a sex toy for you," she said. "There's no reason for it!" she zipped up her pants and put on her shoes and stared down as Elijah held onto his nose. "I don't want to hear anything else from you now," she said. "I'm going to get the kids and we are going to go home. Then we'll talk more about this, believe you me, you jackass."

As she ran up the stairs to get Laura and Colin, Klaus smirked at his brother. "Bold move compelling her," he said. "You've really got a tough set of balls, don't you?"

"Oh, shut up!" Elijah grumbled as he reached in his pocket for a handkerchief. "I blame you for this as much as I blame her. You should know better than to sleep with my wife!"

"Do we really want to have this argument again, Elijah?" Klaus asked as he dressed. "At various times, we've each taken her from the other, so we're not exactly in a position to judge each other, are we?" He paused. "You should have known better than to send her over here unsupervised after I've had a bad break up, shouldn't you have?"

"Yes," Elijah said grumpily. "I should have known better than to send her here at all. Which is why when we get home, I'm gonna lock her in a room and she won't be allowed to come out until I say so. And don't you tell her. You've fucked things up enough already."

Klaus' eyes widened. "Language, brother, language!" He grinned. "Just kidding. I really had no idea words like that were even capable of coming out of your mouth."

"Oh, I know many bad words," Elijah told Klaus. "But at the moment, the only ones I want to use apply to you!"

"All right!" Selina said as she came down the stairs with Colin's carrier in one hand and Laura's little hand in the other. "You go up and get Laura's toys so we can put them in the car and then we're out of here!"

Elijah frowned, but grabbed the toys anyway and threw them in the trunk of his car. The ride home was spent in awkward silence, and after putting Laura and Colin in their rooms (and ascertaining that Gregory would be okay staying with Mikael), Selina and Elijah finally got to her spare bedroom and shut the door behind them, letting all the anger out.

"I don't see what you're so mad about," Elijah said. "What did I do that was so wrong?"

"What did you do?" Selina asked. "Elijah, you compelled me! You hijacked my mind for your own personal use! Don't you realize what a bad thing that is?! And to make me your sex toy of all things! Something is really wrong with you, I don't care if you say otherwise. I'm going to call Alistair so he can come and have a look at you!"

"No!" Elijah said, grabbing her arm. "You're not going anywhere, especially not to see Alistair. As for what you did under compulsion, it was nothing that you wouldn't do normally. I don't see what the problem is."

"Exactly!" Selina said she was crying tears of frustration. "What I did under compulsion was nothing that I wouldn't have gladly done for you normally, which is why I don't understand why I had to be compelled for all of it to happen. Couldn't you have just asked me? I would have said yes, you know."

"Well, how can I ask you to do things for me if you're never home because you're always working at that stupid bakery of yours?" Elijah asked. "What do you need a stupid job for anyway? I bet you never had one when you were with Niklaus. He probably got to have you whenever he wanted."

"Things were different when your brother and I were together," Selina said. "Back then, I only had one kid at a time. I didn't have Roxie until Adrian was a teenager, and I didn't have Lucy until Roxie was a teenager. But now, I have three kids all under the age of five who need my constant care and attention. The bakery is the only way I can have a break! And when you act normally, you're always out hunting with your father, or preparing to hunt with your father. Has it ever occurred to you that sometimes, I miss you too?"

"Well, the solution here is very obvious then," Elijah said. "You and I just need to be alone. And if I wasn't still so incensed about finding you naked with my brother, I would gladly take you to the library and not let you out of my sight for hours, but based on your recent behavior, who knows when I'll feel like doing that?" He eyed her with distaste.

"Oh, like you're such a blameless guy yourself!" Selina replied. "At this point, I wouldn't sleep with you for any reason at all! So I guess neither of us are gonna get what we want, will we?"

"No," Elijah said firmly. "I guess not. Although..." He rooted around in the dresser drawer and pulled out the pair of handcuffs he'd used on her on her birthday, looked down at them, and then shook his head. He turned and held her tight. "You will stay in here until you decide you're going to behave yourself," he said. "Because I'm not a monster, I'll bring Colin in here too, so you can take care of him, along with some of his things, but basically, this will be where you stay. How long is your choice. I'm sorry it had to come to this, darling. I really am." She started to get up and he said firmly, "Stay! Don't you move unless your reason for moving has something to do with caring for Colin."

He left and came back with Colin and Colin's things a few minutes later. He handed Colin to Selina, put his things under the bed, and then left Selina without another word.

Once he was gone, Selina tried to stand up, but literally found it impossible. She growled and sat back down until Colin let out a cry and then she found that she was able to get up, grab him and get him taken care of before her body sat her back down on the bed. She thought her not being able to get up before had been a temporary thing, but try as she might, she couldn't get up when she tried again. "You can't keep me in here!" She yelled. "This is just wrong!" The door opened and Elijah looked at her. "Well, you know what you have to do to get out, don't you? It's not that difficult." He came in, his hand reaching down to rub her knee. "Are you saying you want out?" He asked. "Are you willing to do what I want you to in order to get out? How disappointing. I honestly thought you'd put up more of a fight. He grinned, his lips against her ear. "You have no idea how much you arouse me when you're angry."

"Oh, get off and go away, would you?" yelled, giving him a shove. He landed hard on the floor, frowning deeply at her and giving her a hiss. "Am I supposed to be scared?" She asked. "Go bother someone else, would you?"

"You'll regret how harsh you're being to me," he said. "Has it occurred to you that I don't want thing to be this way? I came in here hoping that your attitude had improved and I'd be able to let you out, but sadly, it doesn't look like that's the way of things. I'll be on my way now," he said, turning his back on her. Selina got out a very angry-sounding "Goodbye!" before he'd even finished his sentence. When to door closed, Selina leaned against the backrest of the chair, pondering what the easiest way to get out of here would be so that she could make contact with Alistair and he could come and fix whatever the hell was wrong with Elijah.

Elijah didn't try to come into the room again, which made it easier for Selina to think. Finally, she reached the only conclusion that made sense: she'd have to make Elijah believe she was ready and willing to apologize to him for what had happened with Klaus and prepared to make it up to him. She had no idea if he'd believe her or not, but it was the only idea she had.

"Honey?" She called. "Honey, come in here, please!"

She heard Elijah running down the hallway toward the room. He then yanked the door open and poked his head in. "What?" he asked. "What is it?"

"Oh," she said, trying to keep herself relaxed and looking happy. "I've decided I've let this silly fight go on long enough. Come here and help me out of this chair, would you?"

"Well of course," Elijah nodded. "As long as you really mean it. You're not lying to me, are you?"

"No," Selina shook her head. "I'm really not! I am completely willing to do whatever needs to be done to make things better between us. I don't like it when we fight. How about we kiss and make up, huh?"

Elijah felt that something was suspicious, but her lips were so enticing, he thought he'd take the risk. He pulled her to her feet and kissed her, but as they were kissing, he suddenly felt the wind get knocked out of him. Selina punched him in the gut and he toppled to the floor. He lay there for a second, momentarily stunned. But that didn't last long at all and he was able to crawl toward her as she ran for the bedroom door and make a grab for her ankle. She kicked him in the face and managed to make it out the door. Breathing hard, she shut the door behind her and took off running toward her and Elijah's bedroom. Her purse with her cell phone in it was on the bed. Alistair knew her number and would surely answer right away. She managed to make it to the room first and shut the door just in time, standing against it so that Elijah couldn't get in.

"Let me in, darling," he called. His voice sounded sweet, but she knew he was angry. "You know I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to talk, that's all."

"Drop dead!" Selina called back.

"Enough of this!" Elijah yelled. He gave the door a hard push and it opened, sending Selina toppling to the floor. She turned, a whimper escaping her throat as Elijah advanced on her, his face angry. Selina took a deep breath and closed her eyes, tears rolling down her cheeks, praying that when he killed her, it wouldn't be too painful. He lay a hand on her shoulder, but then, he let out a yell as he was suddenly picked up off his feet and thrown backwards into the bedroom wall, ending up in a crumpled heap on the floor. "What?" Selina asked, dazed.

"You called me, didn't you?" A voice asked. Selina looked up and saw Alistair standing over her.

"How?" Selina asked as she gave him her hand and he helped her up. "I didn't call you at all! I wasn't able to even make it to my phone! How did you get here?"

"You really needed me," he said to her. "You were yelling so loud, it was impossible not to hear. I know you think you didn't say anything, and you most likely didn't, but if a witch or warlock is needed bad enough, they can sense it telepathically. Kind of like an emergency helpline for witches."

"Oh, my god," Selina said. "So it doesn't just work in any old situation?" Selina asked.

"No," Alistair said. "You wouldn't emergency services if you wanted to order a pizza or something like that, would you?" Alistair asked. "Bad example, but you know what I mean, don't you?"

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "I suppose I do." She hugged him. "Thank you so much," she said. "I have no idea what's wrong with him, but I know something is. He's acting very strangely, doing things he never would normally. I mean, at first it was just little things: He bought jeans, walked around the house without clothes on expect for boxers, ate from people, that sort of thing. And I can't say I didn't enjoy that. Then, he suggested we have sex in his special chair. We did. It was great..."

"When did the troubling things start?" Alistair asked cutting her off.

"I don't think it's been too long," Selina said. "But he compelled me to be some sort of sexy plaything for him so that I'd stay home and stop going to the bakery. He basically made me lose all my common sense. And you know what I'm like without my common sense," Selina finished.

Alistair nodded. "Well, of course," he said. "I witnessed it for several years while you and Klaus were together. You were very physical the two of you."

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "Today, Klaus and Elijah took Laura to the toy store and then Elijah left Laura at Klaus' to play. Then, he had to go work with his father, which left me to be the one to pick up Laura. Klaus answered the door and then told me he and Caroline had broken up. One thing led to another and the next thing you know, Klaus and I are on each other like animals and Elijah strides in and sees us. That's when he took the compulsion off and then put me in the bedroom, forbidding me to come out until I agreed to 'behave myself'. I don't think I need to tell you what that's code for. I tricked him, escaped, he got mad, and here you are."

Before Alistair could say anything, they heard a groan as Elijah got up from the floor. "I don't feel so well," he said. His face was covered in blood and so was the carpet.

"Well, let's get you cleaned up and then we'll talk about why that is," Alistair said, hustling Elijah off to the bathroom. Elijah got cleaned off and when Alistair brought him back, he said, "Elijah, do you know why I'm here?"

"No," Elijah shook his head. "But it's probably Selina's fault. I told her I didn't want you here."

"It's good she called me anyway, though," Alistair replied. "Do you know why she wants me here? She's very concerned about how you've been acting lately. She feels you've changed for the worse. Do you have any idea why that might be?"

Elijah sat in angry silence for a moment and then he said, "I did it for her! She's always telling me that I'm not exciting enough, and I thought, 'Maybe she's right,' so I went to see that granddaughter of yours and she said she could make me fun. She did a little magic and there was this whooshing sound and then I was fun."

"You let an eight-year-old witch put a spell on you?" Alistair asked in shock. "No wonder you ended up like this!" He looked at Selina. "We have to go to Lucy's. That's where Lenora is and she's the only one who can undo the spell. Grab Colin and let's go."

"What's going on, you guys?" Lucy asked when she opened the door. They all went inside and Alistair said, "Is Lenora around? We have to speak with her. It's a matter of some urgency."

"She's not here," Lucy told him. "I've been having some trouble with my love life lately and as a result, I had Lenora do a time spell for me. I had her send Damon Salvatore the vampire back to 1863 while Damon Salvatore the human stayed in this time. Then, Lenora volunteered to go back in time to 1863 and check up on vampire Damon for me, so that's why she's not here. What's the problem? Is it something I can fix?"

"No," Alistair said. "It has to be Lenora. We need her to remove a spell. But I guess it will have to wait. We don't have any other choice, do we?"