"Okay," Eva said as she helped Sean out of the limo she'd zapped up and led him toward the plane that would take them to the island where they would be vacationing. "You can open your eyes now, Sean."
"I don't know if I want to," Sean replied and squeezed his eyes tighter. "No offense, but sometimes, your surprises horrify me."
"Fine," Eva replied. "If you don't want to come to a tropical island paradise with me to help you forget about your crazy cousin, I guess I'll have to go by myself. Too bad. I had planned for this to be so romantic." She sighed and then Sean opened one eye, and then the other when he saw the plane. "This is actually a nice surprise," Sean acknowledged as they walked to the plane and up the steps. "I guess I owe you an apology, Princess."
"That's okay, baby," Eva replied. "I don't blame you for being suspicious."
"You want a seat by the window?" Sean asked.
"Sure," Eva replied. "Why not? Oh, and I asked Mom and Dad to watch the house while we're gone. Is that all right with you?"
"Okay," Sean nodded. "I don't see why not."
"This is such a beautiful house," Vivi commented as she wandered around it with King's hand in hers. "Don't you think it's nice, King?"
"Sure," King nodded. "If you like the austere scholar aesthetic. Then it's just fine.
"Not all of it's like that," Vivi pointed out. "Lots of the rooms have color."
"Yeah cause those are the ones he let Eva decorate!" King pointed out. "If it had been up to him, the whole house would have been plain!"
Vivi smiled. "Luckily for Sean, we're here to be house-sitters, not decorators."
"But at the same time…" King replied and began zapping up more eclectic furniture and wall hangings as Vivi's eyes widened.
"What the hell are you doing?" Vivi cried, trying to zap it all back the way it was. "You can't just stride into someone's house and change all their furniture!"
"I don't see why not, Vivian!" King replied. "It's not gonna be like this forever. Just until Sean and Eva get back and then I'll change it all back to how it was."
"Oh, all right," Vivi replied, realizing that this could be one of those moments where she showed how much she was trying to tame her naturally controlling nature. "Go ahead. Just don't forget to turn everything back how you found it."
King couldn't even let the bed be how it was. "Sorry about that," he said later as he rolled off Vivi and she pulled the sheet over her naked self. "This mattress is too firm. I'm not comfortable."
"Well, no one is stopping you from changing it," Vivi replied, agreeing in her head that the mattress could use some work. "In fact, please do." So King made it a little less firm and then pulled her to him again, and as Vivi threw her arms around his neck and kissed him while he slipped inside her, she had to admit that the change made things much better.
Meanwhile, on the island, Sean and Eva were sitting in the sand and building a sandcastle in their bathing suites just close enough to the shore that the incoming tide got their legs wet. Eva then cried out in frustration as it collapsed after she'd just finished the third story.
Sean looked at her frustrated face and felt sympathy for her. She was doing so well with not using her powers for everything so the vacation would be less stressful and more enjoyable for him that he decided to reward her and, using his magic, made the tragic pile of sand swirl into a large and impressive castle, complete with towers and turrets.
"That's better, I think," he said, coming over to her, enjoying the look on her stunned face as he kissed her neck. "Don't you?"
"Yes I do," she nodded and gave him a kiss. "Thank you." She then picked up a small sand crab, set him on it and smiled and posed as people came and took pictures.
Later that night, they took part in a limbo contest and then sat and watched the sunset with drinks in hand before heading to bed.
"You know, I like being on islands," Sean remarked. "We should get married on one."
"I know, right?" Eva agreed eagerly. "My Grandpa Klaus has an island! That's where we should go. It wouldn't even cost us any money or anything."
"All right," Sean nodded. "I'd be willing to give it a shot." Then he leaned down to run his hands over her body and kiss her as she pulled the blanket over both of them.
"Where's Victoria?" Kai demanded of James, who came to visit him for what seemed like the millionth day in a row instead of Victoria. "I don't like you!"
"I've given her some time off after seeing all those horrifying bruises and cuts she had on her arms," James replied. "I want you watched, but not enough that I'm willing to put her life at risk."
"She faked those injuries with magic!" Kai cried. "She's a vampire too, you know! Any injury she gets will heal. Which is more than I can say for what she inflicts on me!"
"If she treats you so horribly, why do you want her back?" James wanted to know. "And I'm well aware of what she is because my children are like that too."
"Would you just get someone else who isn't you to watch me?" Kai asked irritably.
But James refused, which is why Kai experienced something that could be called relief when Victoria appeared in his mirror that night.
"Where the hell have you been?" He demanded. "I've got all this pent up energy and it's driving me crazy. It's no fun to hit things that won't hit back."
"James said I should stay home because I was so hurt," Victoria explained. "But don't worry. I'll sneak back tomorrow."
"You better," Kai told her firmly. "One more day with James and I'll be more psychopathic than I already am. I might even just kill him."
"You think you can do that even without magic?" Victoria asked.
"Don't you underestimate me," Kai told her firmly.
"Where is your spell book?" Victoria asked her father the next day. "I need to use it for something."
"It's in a secret place you'll never hear about," Declan replied firmly. "What sort of trouble are you stirring up that would require a spell book?"
"It's not just a bunch of trouble," Victoria promised. "It's for work. I want to age myself so I'll be safer."
"Did you okay it with James?" Declan asked. "Did he say it would be okay for you to do it?"
"Do you think he did?" Victoria asked.
"No," Declan shook his head. "I suspected as much, but as you're my daughter, I wanted to give you the chance to prove me wrong."
"So can I have your spellbook?" Victoria asked. "Please? Since the spell is for my own safety, it should be okay to do it."
"Here's the thing about spells," Declan told Regina. "You don't need other people's spell books in order to do them. You make up every spell you do that goes in the book. It's based on your own needs. I mean, it's safer, I suppose, for someone who doesn't quite have control over their magic to do a spell that's already been used, but it's not necessary."
"So I could just go to my room right now, wish to be like, five years older or something, and the magic would do it for me?" Victoria asked excitedly.
"Yes," Declan nodded, knowing that he'd most likely be in for a terrible shock once Victoria had cast the spell. "That's how it works."
"All right," Victoria nodded. "I've already seen my older self in the prison world. I'm beautiful."
"Well, that's not a surprise," Declan told her, then went to the living room to wait for the inevitable, knowing that he'd probably get a terrible scolding from Regina when she saw as well.
"I have something I have to tell you," Declan told Regina as she and Kol came into the house. "It's very important."
"What is it?" Regina asked. "Has something else happened to Victoria? Is she all right?"
"Or another question might be, 'Has she done something that will get her in trouble'?" Kol, the ever-supportive grandfather added.
"It's the second option," Declan nodded at Kol. "But not really. Cause she said she needed to do it for work to keep herself safer and you know I couldn't say 'No' to that."
"Okay, what happened?" Regina asked. But it didn't take too long to find out. Before Declan could answer, Victoria, now aged up to seventeen for good, strode into the living room. "Hi, Daddy," she said. "Mom. Grandpa Kol." Her long dark hair flowed freely down her back and her dark eyes sparkled. She wore a white jacket and a black top that exposed a bit of her stomach, boot cut jeans, and black ankle boots. "Did the spell work?"
"Oh, yes, it worked," Regina nodded, her eyes wide. "Victoria Juliet Mikaelson Hamilton what the hell did you do to yourself?"
"I just aged myself up a bit so James would feel more secure about having me working with Kai, that's all," Victoria shrugged.
"Oh, yes, I'm sure you only did this for work," Kol scoffed, his arms crossed. "I'm coming with you to work tomorrow. And I'm bringing my bat."
"Come on!" Victoria cried stomping her foot and waving her hand with force so that two of the windows broke. "Is that really necessary?"
"Yes," Kol nodded. "It is."
Victoria then turned her attention to her parents. "Aren't you two gonna do something about this? Like, you know…stop it from happening?"
"Since it's clear you won't change your mind about this, Daddy," Regina told Kol, "Why don't we just do it for a couple of days and if it turns out that Victoria handles herself just fine, then you can leave her. She's already shown she can handle this guy. Nothing has changed. Not really."
"We'll see, darling," Kol told her. "It all depends on how I feel."
"Ugh!" Victoria rolled her eyes. "This is gonna take forever!"
Kai tried not to seem too happy as Victoria strode through the door of the prison world and quickly shut it behind her. "Well, look who came back," he said dryly. "Miss me?"
"I missed making money, that's for sure," Victoria told him as she tried to block the door and then put a spell on it to stop it from being able to be opened from the outside.
"Is that your new tactic to stop me from escaping?" Kai asked. "Blocking the door? I can move you very easily, you know." He picked her up and opened the door. "See?" He remarked. "You need some new-"
He then let out a cry as Kol sped through the door and knocked the wind out of him, then pinned him down so he couldn't move.
"Now, that was unnecessary, Grandpa," Victoria chided him. "Let him up."
"No, I don't think I will," Kol replied and began strangling Kai.
"Okay, if you're not gonna let him up, at least let him breathe," she requested.
Kol reluctantly ended his attempts to stop Kai from breathing, although he still kept him pinned to the floor.
"Who the hell is this?" He asked. "Did you call him 'Grandpa'?"
"Yes," Victoria nodded. "Kai Parker, meet my grandpa, Kol Mikaelson. Grandpa, this is Kai Parker." She paused. "Well, that's actually an alias, but, you know, it's what he goes by now."
Neither man had a cordial greeting for the other, and Victoria spent most of her time with Kai watching Kol keep him in line. She had to admit that it was rather amusing to see, but she couldn't help wincing when Kol began hitting him with his bat while shouting things he thought Kai had done to Victoria. It was then, when he was laid out bleeding on the floor, that Victoria snatched Kol's bat away and ordered him to stand in the corner.
"You can't do that to me!" Kol told her.
"I have powers," Victoria replied, using them to make him rise and then land gently in the corner. "Yes I can." Then she sat down next to Kai. "Are you all right?" She asked him.
Kai coughed and some blood came out of his mouth. "Do I look all right?" He asked.
"No, you look like absolute shit," Victoria told him. She then zapped up a knife and cut her palm. "Gotta heal you up," she said, letting the blood dribble into his mouth. "It's no fun having you around if you're down like this."
"Are you out of your mind?" Kol cried from his corner. "What are you doing that for?"
"You beat him up," Victoria replied. "If you had just held onto your temper until you actually had something to worry about, I wouldn't have had to do this." She watched as the blood dribbled into Kai's mouth and he slowly swallowed it. Victoria waited, and when he was better, he snatched the knife out of Victoria's hands and ran at Kol, holding him against the wall and stabbing him repeatedly. Kol fought back, and as they sparred back and forth, Victoria just lay down on the cot and let them wear themselves out cause as far as she knew, there was no other real way to stop them.