GOING BACK.

CHAPTER 1

THE PRESENT.

"This place is amazing," Hope exclaimed vamping from room to room in Tadcaster Castle. Klaus watched his daughter indulgently as she whooshed around the home he and his siblings had called home for two centuries in 1492. A large multi level sprawling estate in York, England, just a few miles from the city of York. An estate, with manicured gardens and endless green fields surrounded by ancient forest.

"When is the family getting here?" Hope asked her Dad.

"Tomorrow, I'm going to find your Mother." Klaus said as he smiled at Hope and walked away pleased. 

Hope over the last six months of travelling with him and Hayley had been able to enjoy her life again. No school, no monsters and no deaths or enemies. 

Klaus had taken both of them to his favorite counties and cities, all over the world.

Klaus walked into the bedroom that had been his for centuries and walked to the connecting door that was open. 

Hayley turned as she heard him, "What is this room?" She asked, standing in another bedroom, lavishly decorated and feminine. Hayley could see Rebekah's hand in this.

"This is the wife's bedroom. Aristocratic homes and castles were always built with a chamber for the husband and wife. They always slept separately, your own dressing room and later bathroom. The Mikaelson's had plumbing installed in 1492 not as sophisticated as today but you could bath in privacy and had hot and cold taps, the hot water being heated from the boiler room."

"Very progressive, just don't stick me in here Klaus." Hayley said with a smirk.

"Never little wolf, I couldn't sleep without you now love." He replied as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, his hand going to her breast.

"Mom! Dad!, bloody hell you too never stop, come on, Uncle Kol and Auntie Davina have arrived already. Aunties Freya and Keelin and uncle Vincent and the kids aren't far behind, seems they were eager to get here."

"Your all keen to do the spell to bring Elijah and Finn back. I too am looking forward to seeing them again." Klaus said with a grin, not letting go of Hayley.

"Daaad, you have to put Mom down, come on." Hope demanded with a smirk, whooshing out of the bedroom.

"Bossy." Klaus commented with a shake of his head and a good natured grin.

"Just like you honey." Hayley drawled kissing him and whooshing away, Klaus close behind her.

***

"So we have everything we need to bring them back." Hope asked looking at her aunts and uncles.

"We do, we should wait until Rebekah and Marcel get here, we need their blood for the spell." Freya stated.

"They had another fight, so they got held up." Davina announced to the gathered family in the drawing room. Kol sprawled out next to Davina bottle of bourbon in his hand.

"That's all they do now is bloody fight." Kol spat shaking his head, "It's like being around pecking vultures, the two of them at each other non stop like they are both dead carcesses."

"WHY?" Hope cried out.

"Because Rebekah is still going on about the cure and wants her own children." Freya said calmly, trying to settle the mood down, hugging her own children to her. Nicholas five and Andrea four, seated with Keelin and Vincent on the big sofa.

"But I'm so close to having the fertility spell for vampires, why is she still on about being human? She will die and leave her family." Hope cried out exasperated as she paced up and down the room.