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GRACE RUSHES UP TO DAVINA, pulling the girl into a tight hug. Davina smiles as she hugs her back before they pull away from each other. Grace looks down at her, tilting her head as she brings one of her hands to the girls cheek. "My baby, how have you been?" She asks as she brushes her finger along the girls skin.

"Ive been great, Grace." Davina admits with a nod as she brings her bag more onto her shoulder. "What about you?" She asks as she wondered why she was back in New Orleans.

"You know me, love to keep myself busy."  Grace replies with a sigh as she brushes her hair behind her ear. "I heard you told your coven to shove it." She states with a smirk playing on her lips. Honestly, did they expect her to stay with them after everything?

"Yeah, I'm doing much better on my own." Davina tells her as she crosses her arms against her chest. Grace smiles as she rubs the girls arm.

"Well, that's good to hear. You deserve it." She says as she was glad that Davina was taking a stand and looking out for herself. "How about any new friends?" Grace asks as she wanted to know if there was anyone she needed to keep an eye out for. Just because they're your friend doesn't mean you can trust them. Hell, for the first year she was friends with Jenna, grace was super skeptical of her.

"Other than Josh and Cami, I don't have many." Davina admits as she shrugs her shoulders. She didn't need many friends, she had them and that's all she needed.

"So, no new man in your life?" Grace teases as she squints her eyes.

"Well.... Sort of." Davina says as she blushes slightly, moving her eyes down to the ground. "I met this guy the other day." She admits and Grace gasps, placing her hand on her hip.

"Ooh, is he cute?" She asks as that was essential to ask. Davina giggles as she nods her head.

"Very."

"What's his name?" Grace asks as she crosses her arms against her chest. Davina rolls her eyes playfully.

"Kaleb." She answers and Grace stares at her for a moment. Grace remembered the guy she hooked up with the night she left, but many people were called Kaleb so it probably wasn't the same guy.

"And do you like him?"

"I just met him."

"Mhm." Grace knew the witch was lying, it was so obvious.

"Shut up." Davina tells her as she slaps her arm. Grace smiles at her. "I'm glad you're back in town." She admits as it's been a long few months, especially with having to control Mikael and having him being so irritating.

"Yeah, I'm not sure for how long though." Grace admits as she wasn't sure whether or not to actually stay. It was one thing to think about it, but another to actually do it.

"Well, I for one hope you don't leave soon." Davina points out as she was one of the only people she could stand, especially those involved with the Mikaelsons.

"Because I'm one of your only friends?" Grace asks as she raises an eyebrow at her. Davina's mouth drops for a moment, scoffing lightly.

"I was going to say because you're fun to hang around but I now take it back." Davina scolds as she glares at the woman. Grace only laughs as she wraps her arm around the girls shoulders.

"Come on." Grace says as she pulls the witch down the street. "Let's go get some food." She tells her and Davina only rolls her eyes before a smile forms on her face and she wraps her arm around Grace.

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WALKING INTO THE COMPOUND, Grace notices Elijah heading into Hayleys room. Her eyes widen as she immediately goes in the opposite direction. He did not exactly look happy and she knew why. Klaus had taken Hayley a bar but it was one that was in the witches part of the city. One thing lead to another and let's just say there are a few less witches hanging around.

Grace heads into the dining room, seeing Klaus sat at the table as he read a book. She lets out a sigh as she walks over to him. "Elijah is no doubt going to come and scold you." She tells him as Elijah would probably blame Hayley for what she did. But Hayley could make her own choices and Elijah needed to see that.

"I figure he's talking to Hayley then?" Klaus asks as he flips the page of his book. Grace leans on the chair next to him, nodding her head.

"Mhm." She replies as she brushes her hair out of her face. She looks down at Klaus, seeing the way he just kept his eyes on his book. "Can I ask you something?" Grace asks curiously as she was wondering if the other night was just a mistake or if he did it on purpose.

"Anything, love." Klaus responds, glancing at her for a second. Grace squints her eyes as she bites the inside of her lip.

"Why did you grab a hold of me?" She questions curiously and this causes his eyes to move to hers. Klaus was a little bit confused but he knew what she was referring to after a moment.

"Pardon?" He raises an eyebrow at her and she only shrugs her shoulders.

"When we were talking, before Hayley and Elijah walked in. You put your hand on my cheek when asking me to stay at the compound." She explains to him and Klaus stays silent for a moment. He honestly didn't realize he was doing it until it happened. He could deny why it happened but he couldn't deny the way he felt when he gazed down into her eyes. Klaus clears his throat, shrugging his shoulders.

"A reflex."

"That's all?"

"Were you hoping for something else, love?" Klaus teases her with a wink and Grace only rolls her eyes at him.

"Just curious." She states and he only smirks at her. Grace looks at him for a minute. "Are you and Marcel back to being friends now?" Grace asks as she knew he went to Marcel for help in taking down the werewolves.

"Id say we're mere acquaintances." Klaus corrects her as he furrows his eyebrows. "Why do you ask?" He questions as she never really mentions Marcel around him.

"Because he tried to kill me and I never got an apology?" Grace retorts as she crosses her arms. Marcel didn't even speak to her when he saw her at the compound after Klaus had bit him.

"Marcel wouldn't have actually killed you." Klaus tells her and Grace just scoffs, raising an eyebrow at the original.

"Right, thats why he bit me until I was almost dead." Grace states, Marcel didn't seem like he was going to stop.

"Key word, almost." Grace just gives him a blunt expression, she understood they knew each other for a long time but she didn't care.

"I revoke your friendship status." She tells him as she places a hand on her hip. Klaus just stared back at her before shaking his head.

"Come on, love." Klaus replies with a smile as he leans against the table.

"No, you do not defend Marcel." Grace says as she crosses her arms, squinting her eyes at him. Klaus raises his eyebrows, chuckling lightly underneath his breath.

"Are you--"

"Niklaus, you took her on a witch hunt?" Elijah asks as he storms into the room. Grace and Klaus share a look, knowing he was just going to go off on him for no reason.

"I simply wanted to persuade those witches to locate the white oak stake for me. When they proved unable to do so, I let Hayley have her fun." Klaus explains to him as he shrugs his shoulders. Elijah scoffs as he glares at the man.

"She grows more savage by the day. Can you not see that she is falling apart?" He asks him and Klaus only sighs.

"Perhaps the problem is your high standards."

"Hayley should be allowed to get her revenge. There are different stages of grief and you just have to be there for her as she goes through them." Grace tells him as many people coped with grief in different ways. Elijah only looked at her like she was crazy.

"Killing people is not a coping mechanism."

"Mm, tell that to a lot of the scumbags I've locked away." Grace mutters as she rubs her face. All of the cases that she has taken while working as a prosecutor were those of intentional murder. If a case showed up where a woman had killed her rapist, she had immediately denied it. She wasn't going to apologize for doing that because the woman was clearly doing it either out of self defense or because he deserved it. If she was a defense attorney, she would fight for her.

"Hayley is one of us now. Being a vampire only exaggerates what you truly are, and wolves are wild things." He tells him with a sly expression and elijah only stares at him. Grace giggles to herself as she looks over at Klaus.

"In a lot of ways." Grace says as she bites her bottom lip. Klaus meets her eyes for a moment, a smirk forming and Elijah just rolls his eyes at them.

"She knows she cannot live up to the pretty picture of her you paint in your head. Your judgment only hurts her more." Klaus explains to him as his brother just needed to let Hayley do what she wanted.

"He's not wrong." Grace adds as she shrugs her shoulders. Elijah was making it out to seem like Hayley was some innocent girl who couldn't handle herself.

"I am trying to help her." Elijah says as he lets out a sigh. "And I asked you to help her, brother." He states as he looks at Klaus who just stood up abruptly.

"I am helping." Klaus replies harshly as he glares at him. "You should have seen her last night, covered in witches blood and smiling from ear to ear. She is embracing this, and less criticism from you, and Hayley will be just fine." Klaus explains to him, grumbling underneath his breath.

"Niklaus, the mother of your child deserves much better than just fine."

"She won't heal more than that Elijah." Grace states with a scoff, shaking her head at the original. "She won't be more than just fine until she has Hope back." Hayley was never going to be herself again until she had Hope back in her life and Elijah apparently didn't see that.

"You'll take her to the Bayou. Find any remaining wolves, perhaps her people can reach her." Elijah states as he points to Klaus who rolls his eyes. "Now, more than ever, she needs a connection to some of her humanity, some degree of dignity." He tells them before he exits the room and Grace can't help but glare at the back of his head.

"I now understand why you get so annoyed by him." Grace admits as she turns her head to Klaus who raises an eyebrow at her, amusement was in his eyes but she could tell he was frustrated with Elijah. "You had to deal with him for a thousand years?" She asks as she would surely have daggered him as well if he acted like that towards her, every single day.

"Don't I know it, love." Klaus mutters with a sigh as he leans against the table. Grace only bites the inside of her cheek, shaking her head.

"If he talks like that to me again, I'm gonna shoot him." Grace states, a threatening tone in her voice before she walks out of the room.

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HAYLEY STORMS INTO GRACE'S ROOM LIKE SHE WAS ON A MISSION. Grace simply turns her head to the woman, a curious expression on her face. Hayley didn't look too happy as she crosses her arms against her chest. "Why am I going to the Bayou with Klaus?" She asks in a frustrated tone as the original had practically walked up to her and demanded that she was going.

"Because Elijah is a self-righteous moron." Grace responds as she shrugs her shoulders. There wasn't much she could do other than tell her to just tell them to screw themselves.

"Will you come?" Hayley asks with a sigh as she moves towards the girls bed. Grace lets out a laugh as she covers her mouth.

"Sugar, you can not pay me enough to walk through those woods again." She admits as she shakes her head. Never again would she go exploring those damn woods, not even for a million dollars.

"Please." Hayley pleads as she closed her hands together. "I don't want to go with him alone." She admits and Grace just smiles lightly as she raises an eyebrow.

"Why?"

"Because he irritates me." She responds bluntly like it was the most obvious thing. Grace rolls her eyes as she lets out a sigh.

"He isn't that bad." Grace admits as she has met people who were way more annoying than Klaus was.

"Yeah, because he has some weird thing for you." Hayley points out making Grace furrow her eyebrows.  "I need you to keep the peace between us." She states as she wasn't going to survive if it was just her and Klaus. But Grace shakes her head, immediately denying.

"Nope."

"You're a bitch." Hayley scoffs as she glares playfully at the woman. Grace only smirks, tilting her head.

"I know." She replies and Hayley only groans as she turns around, walking out of the room.

"Klaus, she won't come with us!" Hayley shouts, annoyance in her tone as she storms down the stairs to get to where the original was standing.

"Did you expect her to go trapsing through the mud and mosquitos?" Klaus asks as even he knew it was no use asking her. Hayley bites the inside of her cheek as she did know that Grace would say no, but she at least needed to ask her.

"No." Hayley admits with a sigh as she places her hands inside her pockets. They walk towards the compound exit, Hayley glancing towards Klaus. "What is it with you anyways?" She asks as she has noticed the way Klaus looked at Grace and how he interacted with her.

"I'm not sure what you mean, little wolf." Klaus replies, his eyebrows furrowed as he glanced back at her.

"Admit it." Hayley says, a smirk forming on her lips which makes him even more confused. "You like her." She states and Klaus stops in his tracks, his eyes bulging out of his head.

"What?" Klaus asks, he didn't need to question who she was referring to because he could already tell. "Who put that idea in your head?" He crosses his arms against his chest but Hayley just laughs.

"I'm not blind." She tells him as she perks an eyebrow up at her. Klaus only scoffs as he shrugs his shoulders.

"Apparently your new senses aren't as useful as you think."

"Klaus."

"Am I attracted to her? Sure." He says with a sigh as he didn't know what she wanted him to say. It wasn't like she would support it at all.

"That's not what I asked." Hayley taunts as she places her hand on her hip. Klaus rolls his eyes as he glanced around before his eyes land back on Hayley.

"Do my days feel better when im around her? Yes. Does she get me in ways that no woman ever has? Undoubtedly. Does she make me feel things that I haven't in a long time? Absolutely. Does she catch my attention everytime she walks in a room? Yes." Klaus explains to Hayley but he was mainly talking to himself at this point. He realized that he did a few things that would indicate he had feelings but why would he tell Hayley that? "Have I fantasized about her? Yes, but only in two-- okay like five positions." He states and Hayley just grimaces, looking at him with a disgusted expression.

"Klaus." She scolds as she really didn't need to know that. Klaus only ignores her though.

"Am I the type of guy to try and steal someones sister, yes. But do I like her? No, you have nothing to worry about." Klaus tells her with a sigh as he crosses his arms. Hayley just stared at him for a moment before taking a step closer.

"Okay, one. Don't ever tell me you fantasize about my sister because that's gross." Hayley states bluntly as she didn't need to know what that man thought about when he jacked off. Klaus smirks to himself, glancing towards the ground. "And two... You so like her." She teases as points her finger at him. Klaus only groans, shaking his head.

"I don't."

"Mhm." Hayley only smirks at him before walking out of the compound. Klaus just rolls his eyes before following after her.

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GRACE WALKS INTO ROUSSEAU'S BECAUSE SHE KNEW CAMILLE WAS WORKING. Since she had already seen Davina, Klaus and Hayley were out in the Bayou and she just didn't want to particularly hang out with Elijah, she figured to pay Camille a visit. Hanna was a little ways out and if she was going to visit, she would do it when she was leaving.

"Cami." Grace calls out and Camille immediately looks over at her. A bright smile appears on her face as she throws the towel on the bar and heads over to her.

"Grace!" She replies before she reaches Grace, pulling her in for a tight hug. Grace returns it as she laughs lightly. "Ugh, I'm so happy you're back." Camille admits with a sigh before they pull away from each other.

"I'm sure you are." Grace tells her before she squints her eyes, placing a hand on her hip. "Although, what's with you sleeping with Marcel?" She asks in a scolding tone as she raises an eyebrow at her. Camilles eyes widen as a shocked expression forms on her face.

"H-how did you--"

"I know everything."

"I swear, it's just a fling. I know he hurt you, but he did tell me he regretted it." Camille explains to her as she knew it was bad to sleep with him after seeing what he did to Grace.

"Oh, a vampire with remorse." Grace says with a roll of her eyes as she wouldn't believe it until he actually apologized to her. "It's fine, just don't expect me to like him." She states as she shrugs her shoulders and Camille nods her head with a smile.

"I don't expect that from you and I cut it off anyways." She states as she was just getting sucked back into the world of the supernatural which was not her plan.

"Pour me the largest glass of wine you can." Grace tells her with a groan as they walk over to the bar and she sits down on one of the stools.

"Coming right up." Camille responds with a laugh as she goes to grab a glass from the cupboard. "So, what's on your mind?" She asks as she watches the woman just rest her chin on the palm of her hand.

"Just trying to get through the family drama." Grace admits as if she knew it was going to be this frustrating, she would've stayed in New York, even if she hated it there.

"Right, they're probably still grieving." Camille responds with a frown as she still couldn't believe that they lost the baby. And she knew Grace was affected too because that was her niece.

"That and Elijah is just annoying me." Grace admits with a sigh as she rolls her eyes.

"Oh?" Camille raises her eyebrows at the woman, laughing lightly as she wondered what the original had done.

"Like, the man doesn't understand that not everyone wants to be smothered when they're grieving." She states with a sigh as she watches the woman pour the wine in the glass.

"He does like to fix problems." Camille responds with a nod. Grace just groans as she bites the inside of her cheek.

"Well, he can stop trying to fix Hayley or she will hate him." Grace points out as he couldn't tell her how to act, especially when her daughter was gone. "Or I'll purposely do things so that he can never get her." She mumbles as she glares at the counter. If he wanted to act like that, then she will make it so he can never have Hayley.

"Elijah and Hayley?"

"They both have feelings, neither admits it though."

"Right." Camille says with a nod. "And how about you?" She asks as she places the glass down in front of her.

"You know I'm not looking for anyone, Cami." Grace says with a groan as she grabs at the glass. Camille shrugs her shoulders. The best love comes when you least expect it.

"That doesn't mean that someone hasn't snuck into your heart." She points out as she wiggles her eyebrows. Grace snorts as she rolls her eyes playfully.

"I think I'd know." Grace responds as she knew people could be flirty around her but that didn't mean anything.

"Mhm." Camille hums as she crosses her arms. "Because girls always know, right?" She taunts, smirking lightly and Grace only meets her gaze.

"Exactly. I'd know if someone was into me." Grace says as she shrugs her shoulders, turning in her seat. Camille just smiles tightly at her, nodding her head. Her eyes move down to the ground, fiddling with her fingers.

Grace brings her glass to her lips when she makes eye contact with a man across the room. A gasp escapes her lips as the glass slips from her hand, shattering on the floor. Her eyes were wide as she just stared at him, her heart stopping.

It was the man that she had never wanted to see again in her life. The man who had been harassing her with letters for the past few months. The man who made her childhood a living hell and didn't even feel remorse for what he had done. That man was stood at the door of Rousseau's, a smirk plastered on his face and she could see the same evil in his eyes that she had seen when she was fifteen. The man in front of her was the only person alive that could install fear into her.

Her father.

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