"I'm fine Caroline, please just let me be."

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Camilla wakes up with a massive headache. Groaning she stretches like a cat and slowly opens her eyes. She couldn't remember anything outside of telling the boys that she loved them and passing out.

She suddenly feels someone moving near the bed and her head shoots up. Although she immediately regrets that quick decision because her head begins to pound. 'Shit' she whispers.

Lifting up her head slowly this time she sits there dumbfounded with her jaw dropped. There sat Stefan Salvatore in all of his glory sleeping besides the bed in a small chair.

Ignoring the pain in her head she shoots up off the bed throwing herself on top of Stefan making them and the chair fall backwards onto the floor.

He abruptly wakes up alarmed. He wraps a hand around the throat of his supposed attacker and flips them on the ground below him. His lips part in shock when he sees Camilla underneath him. He apologizes profusely chocked up that he just did that but she just ignores him and caresses his face. The pounding in her head going significantly away when they make skin to skin contact.

"Am I dead?" She asks softly rubbing her thumb on his bottom lip.

He laughs loudly throwing his head back from where he towered over her small petite body. Her eyebrows frown. "What's funny? I'm definitely dead aren't I?"

"No Cami you're not." He says calming down slightly, smiling down at her.

"Then you aren't real?" She asks with a trembling lip and teary eyes already. Was she hallucinating?

Stefan curses himself for making her upset in the first five minutes of her being awake.

"Hey, hey, hey. I'm real. It's okay. I'm here for real. Something brought me back to life. I'll explain it to you later okay?." He whispers reassuringly.

She nods and latches onto him like a koala bear nuzzling her face into his neck making him smile widely. She use to always do this when they were together and he loved how attached she was to him. It was like she couldn't get enough. He couldn't imagine what it'd be like now that he died and came back to life.

He lifts her up laying her back on the bed while he lays on top of her but makes sure he's holding up most his weight up.

"The kids are all going to want to see you." Stefan whispers in her ear, she nods and mumbles a tired 'later.'

She was still exhausted from all of that mental torture she didn't even know she endured the day before.

Thinking about how happy the kids were going to be when they found out their mom was awake was enough to bring a bright smile on Stefan's face. He had spent some time around them the past couple of days and they all grew up to become amazing kids.

His smile fades a bit when he realizes there was one of her children that was extremely nervous and very scared to see her when she woke up with her memories. One she didn't know about yet.

He hesitates when lifting his head from her neck giving her a cautious look. "Cami there's something we need to talk about."

"What is it? Are you okay? Are the kids okay? How is Caroline doing with all of this?" She says rambling off questions worried to the max already.

Anxiety was getting the best of her at the moment as she begins to get up to check on everyone but Stefan softly pushes her back down.

"No. No, they're all fine. But we found something out when you were asleep." He says studying her face trying to gauge her reaction but she keeps her face semi neutral less worried than before.

"Stefan What is it?" She whispers eyeing his face top to bottom. He was being extremely cautious and it was kind of scaring her.

"You had another baby." He says smiling softly at her saying it straight out. Her eyebrows scrunch up in confusion and concern.

"Stefan I know you just came back from the dead and all but I hope you at least had Bonnie check you out." She says putting her inner wrist on his forehead while he rolls his eyes amused with her antics. "I think somethings wrong with you, what do you mean I have another baby? Of course I don't have another baby."

"When Bonnie was trying to find a solution to heal you she eventually came to a conclusion. All of your kids needed to perform a difficult spell together but when Bonnie tried to track them all with your blood 5 dots appeared on the map instead of 4. I know you had your suspicions, Caroline filled me in on everything."

"How is that possible? I tried to find a conclusion as to how it happened but it just didn't make any sense." Camilla whispers getting more and more anxious. The more he explained it the less crazy he sounded. After all she had a coven transfer two babies into her womb at one point.

"When you were pregnant with Jace it turns out he wasn't the only baby in your belly. You were pregnant with twins. The other baby was transferred into another woman. Just like how the twins were transferred into you" Stefan says warily, kissing her forehead trying to calm her heavy breaths.

"Why would someone do that to me though? I doubted that I was right because why would a whole coven of witches take my baby from me?" She croaks out becoming more emotional.

"You did nothing wrong." Stefan replies softly, after seeing her breakdown last night he never wanted to see her upset again. But he knew this was something she had to know sooner rather than later. "It was a coven of witches plotting against Klaus."

"Who is it?" She says slowly trying to get her mind to catch up with these shocking events. She assumed they found out who it was if she was awake right now.

"Her name is Hope Mikaelson." He whispers with a small smile.

Camilla's eyes widen in shock and she freezes. "Hayley took my baby? And I never knew?" She stutters out beginning to cry. "I missed everything Stefan. Her first steps, her first words, and oh my god. Everything she went through as a child in New Orleans. I heard about it all but I n-never, I could've been there for her."

Stefan nods sadly and pulls her closer flipping them so that she was on top of him snuggling into his embrace. "It's okay. We'll figure it out. Together. She's okay now. Just relax, she's safe."

She nods her head doubtfully blaming herself for not being there for her second born child and continues crying into his arms eventually falling back asleep.

A couple of hours later Kol walks in for his daily chat with a sleeping Camilla. He had been doing it ever since she first fell into her 'death coma' as he called it.

His eyebrows scrunch together in confusion when he sees her and Stefan all cuddled up fast asleep.

"SHE WOKE UP AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME!" He screams making Stefan jolt awake.

Kol speeds to the bed and pushes Stefan off making Camilla stir awake. He jumps onto the blonde hugging her tightly screaming like a little girl on Christmas.

Stefan sits up on the floor with a firm glare towards the Mikaelson. The door slams open and everyone rushes in worriedly having heard the screaming.

"What's going on?!" Caroline yells rushing into the room wondering what possibly could've gone wrong now. The past few weeks have been the most exhausting weeks she's ever had.

Everyone takes in the scene before them amused and surprised. A grumpy Stefan sitting on the floor, a happy squealing Kol, and a dazed Camilla.

"Cami you're awake!!" Caroline squeals running and giving her sister a tight hug that Camilla replicates.

"She's been awake and The rippah never told anyone! He kept her all to himself!" Kol says throwing his hands up in the air from next to Camilla on her bed like it was the most unbelievable thing to ever happen.

Everyone's head snaps towards Stefan with an accusing glare.

He rolls his eyes putting his hands up in surrender.
"She was still tired, sue me for taking a nap with my wife after coming back from the dead."

"Not the point brother." Damon says still glaring at him. He rushes forward to give Cami a huge hug nearly cutting off her air supply.

"Dams, I need to breath. Unless you want me to go back into a coma." He immediately lets go checking her over for injuries but she laughs and pushes his arms away.

She looks towards the corner of the room where she sees all of her kids except one.

She opens her arms smiling widely, "Come here my babies."

They all sprint jumping on the big bed pushing Kol off the bed with out a care, they had their mother back.

Kol falls on the ground with an 'oomph' looking next to him to see a smug looking Stefan. He rolls his eyes and looks at the kids taking in all of their mother.

"Momma we missed you so much." Jace says clinging to her whilst crying into her stomach.

"It was so bad mom, please never leave me again." Lizzie cries into her shoulder. "You can't die, I'm not ready for it. I'm never going to be ready for that again."

Camilla's right shoulder was taken up by Lizzie, her left by Josie, and she had both boys on each side of her waist clinging onto her for dear life. She embraces the moment, glad she got to see her babies again.

"I'm not going anywhere my loves." She replies looking towards Bonnie who nods in reassurance. Their moment as a family gets interupted by the one and only, Damon Salvatore.

"So Cami I just need you to set the record straight." He says shrugging like it was no biggie and as if she didn't just officially wake up from being on the verge of dying.

Elena sighs annoyed rolling her eyes. He had been talking about it for days now. How he couldn't believe that Kol thought he was Cami's best friend when only he could be her best friend, etc. She even tried explaining to him that Camilla could have more than one best friend but he just looked at her like she was ridiculous and replied with, "um Elena, it's 'best friend' as in your best, friend. I am the best friend that she has."

Camilla nearly raises a brow in his direction when she hears everyone collectively sigh besides Kol who scoffs. "Yes Cami we need you to clear the air."

"Tell Damon that I'm your best friend." Kol says at the same time Damon says, " tell Kol that I'm your best friend."

Camilla laughs loudly which brings a large smile to many of their faces. "Have they been like this the whole time?" She asks looking towards Davina and Elena who both nod annoyed.

"He talks about it when we get ready in the morning, before we fall asleep, when we're eating..." Davina says rubbing her temples frustrated.

"Damon called me from the store the other day, I answered because I thought he forgot something but he just told me that he was thinking about it again and he needed a confidence boost." Elena replies shaking her head.

"Hey!" Both of the men say in unison looking towards each other giving the other a glare when they hear the other.

"Well I love you both equally." Camilla says smiling looking between them, her smile falters a bit when she sees both of them glaring at her. "What?"

"Ignore them." Stefan says rolling his eyes finally getting up from the floor.

The door creaks open and everyone looks towards the incoming person. Hope walks into the room panicked thinking something had gone wrong again while she was in class. She couldn't see that Camilla was awake because of Elijah and Damon crowding the door.

"Why is everyone in here again? Is she okay!? What can I do?" Hope begins to ramble on profoundly.

Camilla smiles hearing the voice go on and on about how to help. She was in for a surprise. She frowns slightly when she feels both of the twins tense, she tries to get their attention but they both avoid her eyes. She looks towards Stefan who shakes his head slightly signaling to leave it for now. With a nod she looks back in the direction of her second born baby's voice.

"Actually there is something you can do cupcake." Damon replies giving her a Lob sided smile.

"Of course anything what is it?" She asks urgently.

"Meet your mother." He says moving aside.

She looks at him confused, "wha-" she looks past her uncles to see all 4 of her newfound siblings cuddling up to her very much awake mother who smiles softly at her.

"Hi Hope." Camilla says patting an empty spot on the edge of the bed. "Come here please."

"Don't let that thing near me." Lizzie and Josie both scoff in disgust. Everyone in the room freezes looking towards Camilla wondering how she'd handle the situation, they had been trying to get the twins hatred for the Mikaelson girl down a bit but nothing ever worked. At one point even Klaus tried talking to Lizzie very nicely and she snapped his neck out of anger.

Camilla shocked and slightly angry they'd treat someone who was technically their sister like this looks at them both with wide eyes. She looks towards her two boys next with a raised eyebrow wondering if they were in on this bully fest as well. They shake their heads curtly not wanting to be apart of this yell fest.

She snaps her fingers loudly making the kids slightly flinch knowing no good was going to come of this. "ROOMS NOW!" She raises her voice at the twins. They both look down like scolded puppies. "Now girls! I didn't raise you like this, we'll talk about this later. Go." She says pointing towards the door looking at them disappointedly. They were going to have a very long conversation later.

They both leave the room but not before sending a glare towards hope. "Hope I think I should come by your room later so that we can talk privately." Her face softens as she takes in every detail of this girl who she learned recently was her daughter. Hope nods with a small smile, she had hoped they could talk right away but she understood there were so many people in the room and she needed to deal with the twins.

After a couple of hours everyone has made there way back to their own rooms and Stefan had said he was going to grab something from the kitchen and be right back.

He wasn't sure if she was comfortable with him sleeping in the same bed as her as it had been years since they were together. Although, things had stayed the same for Stefan who's days in peace consisted of dreaming of when he'd finally see his love again he realized Camilla might have moved on after so long.

She quickly reassured him that there had been no other men in her life since his passing which relieved him to no end. She assured him that she still loved him to the ends of the earth which made him the happiest vampire alive.

She hears a knock on the door and raises a brow. Did Stefan forget how to open a door?

She walks towards the door opening it with a wide goofy smile, her smile drops a bit when she sees who it is.

"I think it's time we finally have a chat, love." Klaus says with a small sad smile. Every time he looked at her he recalled her heart breaking sobs and her claims of wanting to die because of him. He wished he was the one to bring a smile to her face instead of a frown. Laughs instead of tears. But he had been the one to cause her so much pain. And he couldn't take any of it back or forget it never happened.

Camilla nods curtly opening the door enough for him to come in and closes the door behind him. She knew this was coming eventually.