I Do Not Own Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies

Jo pulled up to an old, worn-down mansion which looked one good wind blow from falling over. However, she saw Kol, he was hard to miss, he towered over the two witches with him, and the other tall, dark and handsome man who was shorter than Kol. There appeared another man, he was about the same size as Kol though he didn't hold himself in the same way to make his size as imposing. The girls were obviously who these men were circling.

The first that stood out was the young, hazel eyed witch with long black hair; she was a rather ethereal young woman, potential for some great beauty. She was a petite build and bundled up. She stood closer to the tall, dark, and handsome man with ghostly blue eyes.

The second girl was harder to notice. Kol seemed to have maneuver himself to between her and Jo's view. But she saw a noticeably young features, and large blue eyes, the girl was very small, smaller than the other witch, and her hair was dark. Both Kol and the other man seemed to be maneuvering themselves to keep her hidden.

"Hello," she said as she got out of her car.

"Hey," the hazel-eyed girl greeted. The dark man came down the steps and now Jo had a better view of the other girl. Kol had her neatly tucked against him, she was sickly shades of yellow and brown marring her pale skin, and her eyes were piercing.

"I'm Marcel Gerard," the man said as he flashed her a wide, white smile filled with lazy charm but like Kol's it was cut with a lethal edge.

"Josette Laughlin," she said as she shook his hand.

"I'm Davina Claire's dad," he stated as his grip tightened on her hand. "If the Merge harms her, in any way, I will make it my personal mission to kill you, and if I should fail, Kol won't," he stated lightly as he kept a painful grip on her hand. "Is that understood?"

"Yes," she hissed.

"Good," he dropped his façade of charming southern gentleman as now a warrior came to surface. "Cause that girl means the world to me," he stated and released her hand.

The small girl moved from Kol to Marcel, it illuminated a lot of injuries on the girl. Kol only approached her once the girl was with Marcel again. Jo could feel the girl's power now that she had moved from Kol's presence, and it was almost like she was standing in the center of a wildfire. Now the hazel-eyed girl moved with Kol.

"I'm Bonnie Bennett," the girl greeted with a smile. She hadn't hidden her power but compared to Kol and the other girl she wasn't as impressive. "He's Damon, and that's Davina," she said as she pointed at the blue eyed man then the blue eyed girl who was peering around Marcel. "And you've met Kol and Marcel," she said.

"I have," she admitted. Her hand was going to be a horrid bruise.

"Kol said you wanted to work with our Coven, but we're not a Coven," she said firmly. "Kol and Davina are my friends. No harm shall come to them," she warned sternly.

"I don't think I could if I want," Jo admitted. Comparatively she was nothing to those two's power.

"Then I'm happy to work with you. Welcome to the Bennett Ancestral grounds," she said.

Davina remained close to Marcel as she approached. It was now she saw the girl was healing and bruised to hell. Kol appeared behind Davina who promptly leaned back against him, they were a unit, she noted, one founded on mutual trust and Jo felt a stab of envy for the young girl.

"Hello Davina, I'm Josette, you may call me Jo."

"Hello Jo." Davina gripped the arm Kol had wrapped around her as she peered at Jo with a look of complete suspicion. It was almost adorable, if Kol Mikaelson hadn't had himself wrapped around her like a protective guard dog and Marcel looming like a dangerous papa bear. "You're going to try to connect with my souls."

"I am."

"You think you can merge us."

"I don't know until I have a look."

"Where's your magic?" Davina asked her flatly. It startled her that the girl sensed her magic was missing.

"I… I put it in an object," she admitted.

"Why?"

"It's complicated."

"Try me," the girl's lips quirked challengingly, and Jo raised a brow. The girl couldn't be more than sixteen, at the most, and that was being generous, and yet there was a way that Davina looked at her which made her feel like a new boot.

"My brother is a siphoner, I cannot win against him in the Merge, and if he should win, he'll be a lunatic destroying our Coven and practices, so I relinquished my magic," she stated.

"That's different. I could never relinquish my magic," she admitted with a comical wrinkle of her nose.

Jo smiled patiently at the younger woman. "Not all of us love being a witch," she said softly. "Still, I brought my magic, but you'll have to be patient with me, I'm out of practice," she informed the younger woman.

"Bonnie and I will help you, Kol will keep me anchored," Davina stated as she pulled herself from Kol's grasp as she walked into the house slowly. Everything about her screamed sore and injured, but the way Kol and Marcel circled the girl like sharks made it more obvious she had just survived something horrible.

Davina followed Bonnie to a living area, Jo pulled her knife as she walked and pulled her magic back to her, gasping as the flood of power hit her hard, out of control though. Kol appeared before her then.

"Painful as it is, focus," he said as he caught her hands. "Breathe," he ordered, and she felt his magic flooding her system as he wrapped it around her chaotic magic until she could breathe again. Finally feeling her magic settle into a gentle rhythm through her body as she breathed, she released him.

"You good?"

"Yes, how'd you do that?"

"I just did it," he shrugged.

"Don't worry, he does that a lot," Bonnie said. "He reconnected once and I don't think he actually thinks about magic, it's just an extension of himself and his will. He wants you to connect and be calm, so he made it happen. Kol knows more about magic and utilizing it than anyone I've ever encountered."

Davina flicked the candles to life as she walked into the outline, she had spent most of the morning laying out. She didn't want this connection to be like the first one she and Bonnie had had, with all the memories and emotions, she did want to keep some things to herself for a change. She had also had a massive fight with Kol about who was going to be examining her souls. Mostly she didn't want a connection with Kol and her memories. Little Her didn't understand it, but Davina felt the less people who knew about who Kol had been to her, the less likely it was to ruin her, Little Hers' future chances with Kol.

The more one knew about the future the harder they fought it and the harder they fought it, the more they sealed their fates or ruined themselves. If she and Kol were meant to be then it would be on Little Hers and Kol's terms, Davina accepted that. But she wouldn't ruin it by informing more people than Hayley and Bonnie.

"Hey, are you alright?" Bonnie asked.

"Fine."

"Kol seems…"

"Royally pissed because I wouldn't let him in my head to see if he could fix my souls because I don't know about what memories will be shown… yeah… it's been a delightful morning, into the circle," Davina sighed. "Oh, and little me is pissed I'm not letting Kol join us in this little adventure and stuck to having you do it instead of him. Don't take offense, please, but Little Me thinks you aren't connected to yourself enough to pull this off again."

"I'm not offended, I was surprised you asked me to instead of Kol."

"He's been arguing it all morning, so, please don't bring it up again."

"You two can't just have normal problems," Bonnie sighed.

"Nope, so, here we are," Davina sighed as her dad and her husband circled the spell, and Damon was eyeing her suspiciously. "Why is Damon here?"

"He and Elena had a blow out because of all the favors I had him doing while you were hunting Silas, and now he's feeling lonely. We're kind of friends, not sure, but he didn't think I should do this alone, and since I didn't tell anyone else, he came along," she said.

"Huh, nice of him."

"I was surprised," Bonnie confessed.

"So… how are we doing this?" Jo asked as she appeared.

"Well, that's the painful part," Davina admitted as she held out her hands. Bonnie took one and held out a hand for Jo. Jo took her hand and Davina grimaced feeling the current of magic between the three of them before she took a deep breath. Jo seemed about to collapse when she connected with them, but Davina didn't let that happen as she started chanting softly.

The spell didn't take half as much effort. Davina soon found herself on the astral plane where she saw her Younger Self, Monique, Abbie, and Cassie all clustered together, there was also Anna Marie, Stephanie, Amy, and Jessica to the side too and she turned to see Bonnie and Jo.

"Whoa," Jo whispered.

"Welcome to the messed-up souls of Davina Claire," she and her Younger Self said in unison. "I'm Big Davina."

"I'm Little Davina," her Younger Self stated to Jo.

"Hey Davina," Bonnie smiled.

"Hi! Sorry, I did want Kol perform the spell, I didn't think you had the needed control," little Davina admitted with a grimace.

"I don't blame you, completely get it, I think last time we were lucky I didn't blow us to kingdom come," Bonnie admitted as she hugged Little Davina.

"Who are…?"

"Um… so, I was involved with a sacrificial ritual," Little Her explained. It was after an in-depth explanation to Jo that she introduced Monique, Abbie and Cassie to Jo.

"So these souls are also housed in your body?"

"God no, we'd really be a head case. I think because our powers were tied together for the Harvest, they follow me wherever I go, I channel their power a lot," Little Davina sighed.

"What about those four?" Jo said.

"They're from my time, I don't know why they're here," Davina admitted. "I was the Ancestor who returned them, last I knew they were all alive. This is Jessica, that's Amy, I think that one is Anna Marie, and that one is Stephanie," she said as she pointed to the other four girls who hovered just out of reach.

"Oh God," she muttered looking around at the nine girls.

"As I said, I'm complicated," Davina sighed as she looked back at Josette who was staring with an expression Davina couldn't place.

"No one should be able to contain this much power," Jo muttered.

"I'm aware, but I do right now," Davina stated. "It's not permanent," she assured Jo.

"Um… this complicates it," Jo acknowledged. "You might not be housing their souls, but you're their power is tied to your souls. I don't know what this would do to them if you two Merge. I'll… I need to talk to my father," she groaned then.

"You think he'll help?"

"I don't know, but this, this is too much power for a single body."

"I know," Davina sighed, and Little Her came to hold her hand. "But there's nothing we can do about that right now," she admitted as she squeezed her Younger Self's hand.

"We didn't ask for this," Little Davina said softly.

"No, we didn't, either time," she agreed.

"Why's it taking so long?" Marcel demanded as he circled the women.

"It takes time," Kol answered patiently.

"Shouldn't they do something!?" Marcel demanded.

"No," Kol grounded out.

"We should do something," Marcel started.

"If you attempt to touch any of them, I will give you a headache that'll last you a century!" Kol snapped. "Be patient, they haven't been under that long."

"What are they doing exactly?" Damon asked warily.

"They're on the astral plane at the moment. Witches, if focused, can project their souls to a place not on the Other Side, but sort of beside it," he explained. "It's different for each witch."

"How so?"

"I went to my farm, Davina went to Jackson Square, Bonnie probably has a place she goes."

"How do you know where Davina goes?"

"Safe guess from her dreamscape, like a dream, the soul goes where it's subconsciously safe or happy, for her that was Jackson Square," he shrugged.

"Great," Marcel muttered sourly.

"Relax, they're safe."

"You're not with them! None of this would've happened if you and Davina hadn't had that spat this morning! You'd be with her ensuring she's safe!" Marcel retorted.

"Our little spat was about me going, she refused to do the spell if I went, and I refused for her to go if I didn't!" he hissed.

"She…"

"There are things she has not divulged and is not inclined to share yet," he stated. He didn't let his annoyance about that fact show. Big Davina had secrets, he accepted that, because what woman didn't have secrets? But it annoyed him greatly that she was so desperate to keep some of them she'd shut him out completely, he feared it had to do with whatever her actual relationship with him in her time was. It was rather bothersome to have to worry about.

"Why's he here!?" Marcel said jabbing a finger at Damon.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, leave me out of it!" Damon spat out.

"I would actually like to know," Kol countered as he tore his eyes from the girls to Damon.

"To make sure you don't hurt Bonnie," he answered with disdain etched on his every feature. "I don't like what you're insinuating!"

"You're not the friendliest sort," Kol shrugged.

"Says the guy who tried to kill my brother and me!"

"Your brother is a doppelgänger who was attempting to eat my witch!" he snapped.

"You mean that homely blonde with you?"

"What blonde?" Marcel snapped.

"Mary-Alice Claire," Kol answered. "You remember her, grandmother to our current favorite witch, lovely, long, curly blonde hair, round face, Davina's eyes," he drawled. "Curvaceous body, she had no need for a corset, bloody hell, she was all curves, just one big curve, slim waist, seriously, Mary was gorgeous," he groaned as he remembered her.

"Don't talk about Davina's grandmother like that when you're practically with my kid already! And why were you guys here!?"

"Davina and I are not a thing, not that she's not beautiful but she is rather young, even by my standards regardless of the time travel mess and she's my partner in crime! And Mary and I had come to find the doppelgängers because I was trying to figure out how to undo mother dearest's curse, said doppelgänger attempted to devour Mary," Kol stated blandly. "Can't really blame me for attempting to tear the offender apart, or offenders. It was Sage who sent you after us, was it not?"

"Sage suggested I might like the taste of blondie, Stefan was in his Ripper phase, so yeah. Besides, Sage was hot, sexy, vivacious, my hottest teacher really. Taught me all I know about being a vampire."

"Naturally, you do know what she was before my brother married her, right?" Kol sneered.

"What's that have to do with anything?"

"And you wonder why I despise your existence," Kol snarled.

"Alright, enough!" Marcel snapped.

Davina gasped and Kol leapt to catch her as she stumbled back, Damon caught Bonnie and Marcel managed to catch Jo who was the most out of it.

"Ow," Davina muttered.

"Davina," Kol greeted flatly.

"Hey," she smiled a bit. "Why are you holding me?"

"I always make the ladies swoon," he offered her with a cheeky smile.

"Har-har," she muttered as he set her on her feet. He held firm until she was steady.

"So…" he turned to Jo who was wiping the blood from her nose. "What can you tell me?"

"That I need to talk to my father," she answered as she stood up on shaky feet. "But it's more complicated than a simple Merge."

"How?"

"Davina's channeling the power of seven other girls," Bonnie said. "The first three, Monique, Abbie, and Cassie from the Harvest Little Davina was part of, and then the other four, Amy, Jessica, Stephanie and Anna-Marie from Big Davina's time, though we're still not sure how the other four are tied to Big Davina," Bonnie said.

"Because she's channeling so much extra power, and that power is tied to the souls of others, I don't know if we can manage a merge with just the Davina aspects of her soul."

"Hell," he muttered as he pulled Davina close. Her arms looped around his waist as she leaned on him. "I'll figure this out."

"It's okay if you don't."

"It isn't. I'm going to figure this out Davina Claire."

"My father might have more insight on the Merge, especially if you can break the curse," Jo said as she seemed to return her magic to the knife.

"Why?"

"He knows more about it, and he's got access to more information in the Gemini Coven than I do, I don't practice," Jo repeated.

"You've said."

"Look, if you offer a chance for him to save Luke and Liv, he'll take it. Liv won't survive the merge and he loves her more than any of us," Jo promised.

"Alright," he nodded as he dragged a hand through Davina's hair. He wasn't going to lose either Davina, not if he could help it.