Felicity had trouble sleeping that night, so Klaus sat up with her. She managed to fall asleep a couple of times, but it was never for very long. At sunrise, when Selina came to check on Colin, he asked her if she'd watch Felicity too. He had an errand to run.

"So early in the morning?" Selina asked. "Where are you going?"

"Just out," He said curtly. "It's none of your concern where I'm going or what I'm doing."

"Well, all right," Selina said, her hands up in a gesture of surrender. "I was just a little curious. Excuse me."

Klaus just glared at her, shook his head and then left the house.

He arrived at Helene's front door soon after and knocked. Helene answered the door. "Well, what do you want?" She asked. "I don't see Felicity with you, so I have no idea what you'd want here."

"I want to be let in," Klaus said. "May I come in? Please?" He asked this in his most charming voice.

"All right," Helene said a little nervously. "Come in, please."

"Thank you," Klaus followed her into the house and sat down on the sofa. "Can I have some coffee?" He asked. "I know it's early, but I want some."

"Fine," Helene narrowed her eyes. "I'll get you your coffee, you tell me why you came, and then you get out."

"That's not a very smart way to speak to me," Klaus said. "I suggest you change your tone to something more friendly."

"Do you think I'm scared of you?" Helene asked. "Because I'm not."

Klaus scoffed. "You may have been able to manipulate Adrian like a puppet, but I'm not so easily manipulated myself."

"What do you want?" Helene asked, plunking down his coffee in front of him. "Why did you come here?"

"I came here," he said, picking up the coffee cup, "to tell you about the evening I had. Didn't get much sleep at all. Would you like to know why?"

"Fine," Helene said. "I'll humor you. Why did you not get much sleep last night?"

"It's a strange thing," Klaus told her. He stood up now, coffee in hand and approached Helene. "Ever since we rescued Felicity from your clutches, she's had trouble sleeping. Mostly early in the morning hours from around midnight until sunup. She'll just cry and cry with all her might, her little body wracked with sobs. And can you imagine why that is, Helene?"

Helene shrugged. "I don't know. But she was exactly the same way when I had her. That's why I cast that spell to shush her because she would just not shut up!"

Klaus let out a growl, threw his coffee on her face, and shoved her forcefully against the wall. She was dazed afterwards, and when he let her go, she stumbled around aimlessly. Then she paused and Klaus forced her down to the ground, snapping each of her legs in two with a crunch that was nearly drowned out by her screams of pain. As she gathered up her strength and tried to crawl away, he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her back.

"Now you'll know what Felicity went through," he said quietly. "What it feels like to be helpless without having anyone there to help you, even though you scream and scream for it. Better hope your father comes and visits today so he'll find you. Otherwise, I fear you'll have some difficulties." And with a grin, he shoved her through the door that led to the basement stairway, her body thumping down each step, accompanied by her cries and screams of pain. By the time she reached the bottom, she was silent. His mission accomplished, Klaus left the house and made his way to his car, just in time to be confronted by Alistair.

"Why is Helene screaming so?" He asked. "What's happened to her? I could hear her calling very clearly. She seems to be in agony."

Klaus shrugged. "I don't know," he said. "Go inside and see for yourself."

Around noon, Alistair called Selina to tell her how he'd found Helene. "She was an absolute mess," he said. "She had a bump on her head, burns on her face, really bad burns, and both her legs were broken. She was crumpled at the bottom of the stairs and sobbing like a child."

"I'm sorry," Selina told him. "It must have been awful to find her like that."

"That's not the worst part," Alistair said. "I think Klaus was the one that did it to her."

"Why?" Selina asked.

"I caught him leaving the house at the exact time I showed up. He acted like he had no idea what was going on with Helene, but when I asked her what happened to her, she told me he did it."

"Did she mention why he'd fall back on his old behavior and do something so horrible?" Selina asked.

"She said it had to do with Lissy," Alistair told her.

Selina sighed. "Of course. I should have guessed. Seeing how Helene behaved toward her really hit him hard. He probably thought she deserved some sort of payback for that and in a small way, do you really blame him for feeling the way he does?"

"She was going to be held accountable for what she did to Felicity by the witches," Alistair said. "We weren't just going to let it go, especially since she was using her powers as a way to abuse Felicity. Astrid and the others at the council are most likely going to take Helene's powers away. Hurting her was not necessary! He could have killed her and what would that have accomplished?"

"Nothing," Selina replied. "Don't worry, Alistair. I'll talk to him. I'll get him to apologize if it kills me."

"How could you do it, Nicky?" Selina raged. "How could you do that to Helene?"

"How could I not?" Klaus retorted. "After what she did to Felicity? You can't expect me to just let that go!"

Selina's eyes narrowed. "You were here when Roxie was yesterday, Klaus. You saw Laura and Addie get into that fight. You heard me tell her that it was wrong to hurt your family members, no matter what they might have done to you."

"Yes," Klaus nodded. "I heard that and it's a good lesson, but I don't think it applies to me."

"Yes, it does!" Selina nodded and began pulling some of her clothes out of the dresser. "Niklaus, Laura looks up to you! If she knows that you're just killing whoever the hell you want, she'll think it's okay for her to do it too! It'll completely undermine the lessons I've been trying so hard to teach her."

"You can't expect me to turn into Elijah for you," he said. "Or Laura. I won't."

"And I don't want you to!" Selina retorted. "You can kill all the random people and enemies of yours that you want. That is okay. I won't stop you. Hell, in fact, sometimes I might even help. But when I am trying to teach Laura something, you will behave yourself, because-" Suddenly, she was cut off as Klaus captured her mouth in his and pushed her against the dresser, pulling the clothes out of her hand and throwing them on the bed before moving his hands down her body. When he pulled out of the kiss, he whispered in her ear, "What were you taking those clothes for? Moving out? I don't think so."

"Let me go," Selina said. "I'm going to leave this room now. At least until tomorrow. By behaving this way, Klaus, you're reminding me of the reason why I divorced you."

"Fine!" Klaus said, shoving her away. "You go! I don't care! I don't need you anyway!"

"When are you gonna go apologize to Alistair?" Selina asked Klaus after they both had cooled down a bit.

"How about...never? I don't see why I have to apologize," Klaus replied.

Selina's jaw dropped a little. "Are you kidding? You injured his daughter! You could have killed her! What she did to Felicity and even Adrian was awful, but she doesn't deserve to be killed for it! What she deserves is to be alive for whatever the witches are gonna do to her, and having to deal with the knowledge that she did horrible things that made her lose her daughter. She's going to be thinking about that every day for the rest of her life, Nicky. She'll never have as good a relationship with Felicity as she should have because of her stupid mistakes. Isn't that punishment enough?"

"Not really," Klaus shook his head. "I want to see her hurt. I want to see her bleed."

Selina shut her eyes tight and walked out of the room, not knowing how to reply, or even if it was worth replying to at all. She left the house and went to the store to get Roxie presents for her birthday.

Selina wrapped Roxie's presents and put them in the closet of her spare bedroom, then brought the box with a toy she'd bought for Lissy in it into the living room, opened the box, and let all the little bits and pieces fall to the floor.

"Oh, god," she said as she looked down at the large pile. "So many pieces! This is going to take awhile." She paused. "At least I'll have handy dandy instructions to tell me what to do." She dug the instructions out of the box, looked them over and groaned. They were solely in French and there seemed to be no English version in sight. She picked up the box and shook it upside down once more, but she had been correct the first time. Sighing, she picked up the instructions and squinted at them, seeing if she could figure out what they said. She had spoken French quite fluently in Paris, of course, but that had been over a century ago and her grasp of the language had become very rusty. There was only one thing she could do. She got up from the floor and went into her and Klaus' bedroom door. "Nicky?" She asked. "I need your help." But he was lying on the bed facing away from her and refused to turn over. She sighed. "Not talking to me, huh? I guess I'll just have to take my shirt off by myself, then. And my bra. And my pants. And my-" She broke off as he turned around to face her, his expression eager. When he saw that she was still dressed, he growled angrily. "You can't do that to a man," he said. "Selina, what is the matter with you?"

"I told you!" She said. "I need your help. Sadly, though, that's not a euphemism for anything."

Klaus sighed and sat up. "What is it that you need?"

"Come into the living room with me and I'll show you," she said.

He followed her into the living room where the pile of bits and pieces still sat and Selina was relieved to know that none of the kids had found the pile and choked on anything.

"What a mess," Klaus said, getting down beside the pile. "What's all this supposed to be?"

"It's one of those little scooters that babies can ride around on," Selina said. "I thought it would be a good first step toward independence for Lissy. But the only instructions in the box are in French, and my language skills are a bit rusty, so how about you read and I assemble?"

"Why can't you read and I assemble?" Klaus asked.

"Cause this is my thing that I bought for Lissy and I want to have the pride of knowing that I put it together myself," Selina replied. "That is exactly the reason why I didn't let the guy at the store put it together for me, although if I'd known the instructions for it wouldn't be in English, I would have forked over the extra $25."

Klaus gave her a look. "But then we wouldn't have a chance to have this great time together," he said. "That's a plus, right?" He asked sarcastically.

Selina sighed. "What do you want me to do?" She asked. "What do you want me to apologize for? Cause this attitude of yours is getting us nowhere."

"There!" Klaus said. "Exactly what you just said. Blaming me for everything when some of the fault is yours."

"Fault for what?" Selina asked. "What did I do?"

"You say you'll accept me for myself and then you berate me for going after Helene and say that being the way I am is going to make you want to divorce me again, and that I'll corrupt Laura and things like that. None of that is true."

Selina sighed. "Well, perhaps I was a little harsh, but all I want is for you not to encourage Laura to kill or anything like that yet. She's too young. I know I sound like my mother here, but I really don't see how Laura or anyone else being sold on 'the joy of the kill' this early will help anything. That's all I'm trying to get at. You can do whatever you want, otherwise."

"Fine," Klaus replied. "I won't mention a word of what I did to Helene to Laura. And I will talk to Alistair. I won't apologize, but I'll at least explain to him why I did what I did. That's as close as I'm going."

Selina nodded. "And in return, I promise that if I ever have concerns about anything you do, I won't bring them up in our bedroom. That will just be a place for sexy fun time and light chatter."

Klaus nodded. "Sounds good to me. Now, are you gonna read while I put this toy together or not?"

"Fine," Selina said, picking the instructions up. "I will read. You will put the toy together."

After they got it put together, Selina went and got Lissy, placing her on the scooter and watching as she happily scooted around the living room, before she suddenly transformed into a bat and began flapping around.

"Oh, for the love of god," Selina said. "Nicky, go call Alistair!"

"Well, you have to admit this is a much quicker way for her to get around by herself," Klaus said. He then called Alistair, who answered after a long time.

"What do you want?" He asked. "I've been watching Helene all day thanks to what you did."

"Lissy's turned into a bat!" Klaus all but yelled into the phone. "And we can't change her back, of course. You come and do it!"

"Well, I don't know," Alistair said. "Being a bat isn't hurting Lissy at all, and in her current condition, Helene needs me much more, so..."

"I'm sorry I hurt Helene," Klaus said through his teeth after he heard a crash and Selina's shriek of frustration. "Now, come on!"

There was a pause, and then Alistair finally said, "All right. Just a minute."

He appeared in even less than a minute and strode into the living room where Selina was trying to corral the animal.

"Hi, Alistair," she said when she saw him. "Thank you so much for coming."

Alistair nodded. "Now let's wait until she lands and then get me a ladder."

"Why do you need a ladder?" Selina asked. "Can't you just levitate up there or something?"

Alistair nodded. "I could, but I don't feel like it right now."

They waited until Lissy was hanging in the rafters, then got Alistair the ladder, and he brought her down and turned her back. "There," he said, giving her to Klaus. "I need to go back to Helene now, but if anything else like this happens, let me know immediately."

"Sure," Selina nodded. "Thanks, Alistair."

He nodded and disappeared.

"So," Selina said to Klaus, "Want to talk about Roxanne's birthday?"

"Surprise!" Klaus and Selina said together when Roxie opened the door on her birthday.

"You made it!" Roxie exclaimed, feeling a little shocked. "I didn't think you would. Well, together, anyway."

"Hey, you said that's what you wanted for your birthday, and it wasn't like it was a difficult request to fill," Selina told her. "Alistair even agreed to watch the other kids so you could have us all to yourself."

"That's what she wanted the most anyway," Vince said, coming to stand next to Roxie. "She told me that she hoped you wouldn't bring any of the other kids around when you came."

"I know it might seem kind of selfish," Roxie admitted. "But it's my birthday."

"We know," Selina said. "And we agree. That's why we didn't bring anyone." She shifted her grip on the cake she was carrying. "Can we come in?"

"Oh, sure!" Vince said. "Sorry. Want me to take that cake from you?"

"Sure," Selina nodded, hefting it. It was a big cake. As soon as Vince put it on the table, Addie came running out with Joey following. "Chockit cake!" She exclaimed. "I want!" She and Joey both reached for it and Vince moved them away. "No," he said. "Not yet. That's for your mommy."

"But I want!," Addie repeated.

"And you'll get some," Vince told her. "Just be patient."

Sadly, Addie went to sit by her mother and Vince picked up Joey, who showed much more emotion than usual as his father pulled him away from the cake.

"See?" Addie pointed out. "Joey wants too."

Vince said nothing to this remark and after a couple of seconds, Roxie changed the subject as Klaus put all her presents near the fireplace.

"Full moon coming up," she said.

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "Why are you mentioning it?"

"Did you know that Lucy's moved into the woods or something cause Uncle Jake told her it would be best to give in to being a werewolf just once?" Roxie asked.

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "Taking her to Jake's was my idea in the first place. I hope she's okay. I haven't heard anything from her." She looked at Roxie. "Have you?"

"No," Roxie shook her head. "I'm a little worried honestly. She paused. "But it's nothing cake and presents won't cure, right?"

"Which one to you want to do first?" Selina asked.

"Presents," Roxie decided, and then headed to the fireplace, picking up a few of the boxes.

"I help!" Addie said, coming to sit in Roxie's lap and tearing the paper off of the present to reveal a blue sweater.

"That'll look good on me," Roxie said, looking it over. "Thanks, Mom."

"You're welcome," Selina said. Addie helped her unwrap a purse, a book, some earrings and a set of keys.

"What are these keys for?" Roxie asked.

"I thought you could use a bigger car," Klaus said. "We came here in it. It's outside right now."

Roxie's eyes widened. "Really?" She ran outside to have a look at the cherry red SUV and Vince followed.

"Seems like she liked the car," Klaus said to Selina when she was gone.

"Yes," Selina sighed. "What's a sweater you knitted yourself compared to a car?"

Klaus took her in his arms and kissed her forehead. "They had to have a car," he said. "One that actually worked. I wasn't trying to show you up."

"I know," Selina said.

"And you made the cake," Klaus reminded her. "Everyone wants a piece of that."

Just then, Roxie and Vince came inside and they lit the candles on the cake and sang Happy Birthday. After that, the grownups cut slices for themselves before handing the rest to Joey and Addie, who attacked it like wild animals, their faces, hair and clothes covered in chocolate.

"Looks like some people are gonna need baths tonight," Roxie said with a grin.

Selina stood up and headed into the kitchen to get more napkins. Klaus followed her, his eyes on her bottom.

"What are you looking at?" Selina asked, feeling his eyes on her. She turned and he licked his lips. "Something I want more than cake," he said.

Selina walked into his arms and kissed him deeply, her hands going all over his body. "Well if you would just tell me when your birthday is, at least I'll know what to get you for a present."