"If she dies now, she'll never be at peace."

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The next couple hours of waiting for Bonnie to arrive was pure torture for everyone there.

Everyone could tell Caroline was hiding something, that she had decrypted Bonnies secretive message. Everyone sat in silence watching Caroline pace and just mumble under her breath constantly.

"Okay Caroline! Stop pacing you're making everyone anxious." Alaric says standing up putting his hands on her shoulders. She brushes him off shaking her head.

"You know what the Bennett witch meant don't you?" Elijah speaks up with curiosity.

She stops abruptly and says, "I think so. But it's not possible. We would've known. Right? It's not possible. They couldn't be? No. No. I'm talking nonsense. She'll be devastated. No no no." Caroline rambles off.

Everyone stares at her worriedly. They had never seen her in such a state of panic, she was always put together with her head held high.

"Aunt Care what's going on?" Josie questions cautiously.

"I can't tell you. I just need Bonnie to hurry up and confirm it." She says, her face softening towards the young Gemini witch.

Just as she finishes her sentence the Bennett witch and Enzo bust into the room with a look of panic.

Caroline and Bonnie make eye contact and Caroline discreetly glances at the person before looking towards Bonnie. She holds her breath waiting for the witch to confirm. With a solid head nod Caroline goes into a frenzy.

"No! No! No! It's not possible, Bonnie Bennett! You're a witch! We would've noticed! She will be absolutely devastated that she never knew!" Caroline yells scaring everyone in the room.

"Kai knew Caroline. How? I don't know. But he knew. She was missing a piece of her that she didn't even know she was missing. And now that she has it, her hex has taken its root and I don't know how to fix it." Bonnie says her voice cracking at the end. Enzo encases her into a side hug attempting to comfort her.

"I called Damon and Elena on our way here they should-" Enzo is interrupted by Damon waltzing into the room.

"Honey I'm home!" He yells. Elena smacks his side at his insensitivity during the situation. She knows being sarcastic and never being serious is his way of coping with a situation. He loved Camilla. She's his bestfriend . Elena swore that sometimes they were soulmates.

He looks around the room spotting the Mikaelsons. He whistles "Well, this is awkward. I tried to kill all of you at least twice and we succeeded with you." He says pointed at Kol with a mocking grin.

"Uncle Damon!" Jace and Alec exclaim, their moods slightly lifted with the presence of their uncle.

Kol scoffs. "Seriously, that's why I'm not the favorite. HIM!? I stabbed him with a baseball bat once." He says smugly.

The Mikaelsons snigger at his obvious distaste towards the Salvatore.

"I'm also Cami's favorite!" Damon adds, adding fuel to the fire.

"No you're not! She thought I was dead, you're simply just a replacement." Kol says surely.

"Mhm she told me so." Damon says with a cocky smirk.

"She wouldnt." Kol says with his eyes narrowed losing a bit of confidence.

"I believe her words were, 'you'll always be my bestfriend dams, you've never left me, you're better than Kol in every way', well maybe not in that order but you get the gist." He says smiling wide at the annoyed and angered Mikaelson.

"Mom would never say that." Lizzie says rolling her eyes at her uncles alpha war.

"You've never met a drunk Camilla." Damon says pointing a finger at her.

"Okay off topic." Elena says turning towards Bonnie and Caroline who were having a quiet conversation. "What's going on? What did Kai know that we didn't?"

"Yeah did cami secretly have another baby?" Damon jokes but his smile falters when he sees their tight smiles. "No!" He yells. "She did not."

He points towards Camilla's seeming to be asleep figure on the bed. "She's not even able to defend herself right now and you're going to accuse her of having a secret baby! No! No! No!" He yells getting enraged that they think she would ever hide something like this.

Especially from him, they told each other everything. Anything Camilla's ever done was for her kids. She would never willingly give away a kid with out any one knowing. Damon knew how serious she was when it came to her kids.

"Wait what? You think mom had a secret baby!" Alec exclaims with an unbelieving look on his face.

"We're not accusing her of having a secret baby and not telling any of us." Bonnie says slightly calming them down. But Damon knew better. He's been through the mystic falls drama a hundred times. There's always a but.

"Come on Bon Bon. What's the but here?" He says slightly tense.

"We think she had another baby she didn't know about." Caroline says bluntly.

"What the bloody hell are you talking about?" Kol says standing up while davina tries to calm him.

"You think she was pregnant and someone transferred the baby from her to someone else with out her knowledge." Freya says figuring out what their thoughts were.

Bonnie and Caroline nod solemnly.
"Kai said when her family was complete would the hex take root."

"We haven't had any new transfers? Who do you think it is?" Alaric says curiously.

Damon watches as Caroline and Bonnie make eye contact as they watch Jace carefully.

"We think Jace had a twin in the womb but someone took the other." Caroline says carefully.

Jaces face goes into shock. "I have a twin?"

"A few days ago when Caroline filled me in on everything going on I did a locator spell on everyone that holds her DNA, the last thing we needed was for something to happen while all of this was going on. Josie, Lizzie, Jace, Alec, and someone else popped up. At the moment they weren't at the Salvatore boarding school." Bonnie says preparing herself. "That's when I put it together."

"Me?" Alec says confused. Ofcourse she was his mom but they weren't blood related.

"When your mom first found you she didn't want you to feel left out or for something to happen to you and for us to not be able to find you, so she had me spell her DNA into you. So you are DNA wise related to her." Bonnie reveals shocking all the kids. Alaric knew about it and loved the idea when she told him.

"Did you figure out who this other child was?" Davina says intrigued. Yes she was a harvest witch and had been through a lot but she had never heard of anything like this.

Bonnie nods and glances towards Klaus who is still in shock thinking he has another kid.

"Klaus, after you slept with Hayley and she left how much longer after did you receive that note about being plotted against?" She says warily eyeing Hayley.

Damon's eyes widen seeing where this is going and he shoves Elena behind him. They both had taken the cure and realized being humans was no longer something they wanted. Bonnie turned them into vampires again seeing as if they just took the cure out of their veins they would've died.

Hayley suddenly speeds to Bonnie shoving her against the wall by her throat. "Shut up!" She yells vamping out. Enzo is quick to throw her off his wife and into the wall across the room. Caroline rushes, vampire speeding each of the kids including hope and Alaric to the other side of the room where they wouldn't be hurt and takes a defensive stance infront of Bonnie.

All of the Mikaelsons stand up quickly not understanding what's happening.

"Answer the question Klaus!" Bonnie yells hurriedly.

"A week." He says confused as to where this was going.

"A supernatural pregnancy isn't visible until atleast 3 weeks." Bonnie says staring Hayley down with a glare.

"Oh my god!" Freya and davina
gasp putting all of the puzzle pieces together. They weren't at the boarding school because they were at the Mikaelson mansion.

"What the hell is going on?!" Hope yells out frustrated with all the crypto's messages.

"You knew didn't you!" Caroline snarls looking animalistic towards Hayley, ignoring hopes question.

"She didn't deserve her! She doesn't deserve to be happy! I'd do it all again if it meant taking away her happiness." Hayley snarls back flashing her hybrid eyes.

Caroline however is so overcome with anger she flashes her Vampire eyes right back and with no fear and rushes towards her kicking her leg out breaking hayleys knee and breaking off a chair leg and stabbing her in her stomach.

All of the kids watch with their mouths agape. They've never seen the violent side of Caroline. Of course they heard stories or read it in Stefans journals about the time she turned off her humanity but never in person.

"You took her away from my sister! She can't kick your ass right now so I will." Caroline yells punching her in her jaw and hearing a satisfying crack.

Hope throws her hands out in panic, "Motus!" And Caroline goes flying across the room until Damon speeds to catch her in mid air.

Lizzie, Jace, Alec, and Josie all turn towards hope infuriated.
The three syphoners syphon off of Jace and throw their hands out at hope making her fall on her knees screaming from the aneurism.

The Mikaelson all get in defensive position as Freya throws her hands up deflecting the spell back to the kids. Josie and Alec wince grabbing their heads but Jace and Lizzie keep their faces straight throwing one back to Freya who continues through the pain. Until Bonnie throws her hands up aiding the two blondes making Freya yell out in pain.

Kol stares with his mouth wide open looking between the two families. He would never hurt Camillas kids, he would never hurt Hope. But he would hurt his siblings.

As Elijah rushes forward towards the kids Kol pushes him into a wall. "Don't touch them." He snarls with his vampire face out in warning. Elijahs surprised face comes through as he stares at his brother in disbelief.

Elena and Enzo rush infront of the kids as the other Mikaelsons take a step forward with Damon protecting Bonnie and Caroline having Hayley on her knees.

Klaus' enraged face meets Jaces who rivals his own. They stare each other down. Rebekah helps Freya up and glares towards Elena. Davina rushes towards Kol's side, standing besides him as always. She would protect or fight whoever she had to.

"You May be the originals. But I'm a tribrid, my brother is a hybrid, my sisters are syphoners from the Gemini coven, who knew how to create their own prison worlds. My aunt is a Bennett witch which rivals the power of a Mikaelson witch. There are 4 vampires, 2 of which are over 200 years old and ones an Augustine vampire. And we're all pretty pissed you touched our aunt. You won't win." Jace states with a familiar smirk daring Klaus to do otherwise.

Klaus' jaw clenches. This was definitely his son.

Caroline smiles slightly at how protective all of the kids are over their family, that was definitely the Forbes in them.

"Get to the point Bennett witch!" Klaus hisses never breaking eye contact with his son.

"Hope is Camillas daughter." She says shocking everyone.

All of the male Mikaelsons immediately drop their defensive stances and their mouths drop open. All of the kids stand there in complete shock and denial.

"No! Mom only has 4 kids! And it's us!" Lizzie yells. The thought of her mother having a biological daughter hurts her and Josie more than they would ever admit. They always thought if she ever had a daughter who was biologically hers she wouldn't love them as much.

"Hope must have been transferred from the womb into Hayley by witches in New Orleans." Caroline says calmly.

All of the Mikaelsons whip their heads to a now bloody Hayley.

"You knew this!?" Klaus yells enraged. When she doesn't answer he speeds her into a wall by her neck. "ANSWER ME!"

"They told me when they first captured me and knew we had been i-intimate!" Hayley chokes out.

Hope stands there with tears streaming down her face unsure of how to feel as Freya and Rebekah attempt to comfort her.

Damon looks towards the kids to see Josie and Lizzie holding onto each other like their lives depended on it and Jace and Alec staring at hope like an alien.

"She's my m-mom?" Hope stutters out.

"She's not your mom!" Lizzie screams while crying, "She's our mom!" The lights begin flickering. Both twins powers going haywire from all of their emotions.

Damon and Elena give the twins sympathetic looks seeing where this is coming from. Jace and Alec each bring a twin into their arms attempting to calm them down as Hope gives them a slight longing look. She had siblings.

Klaus snaps Hayleys neck and lets her fall to the floor. He turns his head to stare at Camillas still figure.

"Yes she's your biological mother." Bonnie says being sensitive with her words around the twins. Josie and Lizzie both sobbing shaking their heads while still being hugged by their brothers.

"So she's never going to know unless she wakes up." Damon says bewildered alongside Elena.

Hopes head snaps towards him. She hadn't even thought about that. She was so busy trying to wrap her head around Hayley not being her mom and having 4 siblings that she completely forgot about the fact that her real mom might never wake up. She hated Hayley. She could've had all of this. A mom and a dad together, with 4 loving siblings. She kept her from her real family. And now she may never get the chance to speak to her real mother.

Hope starts slowly walking towards Camillas body and the twins go absolutely ballistic. Damon and Enzo have to step in to keep them from attacking. "Get away from her!" The twins yell in unison.

She stops abruptly. Her mother was so close yet so far. All the Mikaelsons and those around stare at her as tears leak from her face staring at Camilla. Some sympathetic, others enraged.

She looks towards Bonnie with a pleading look.
"Please help her. I never even knew her." She cries as Klaus speeds to her wrapping her in his arms when she falls to her knees sobbing.

"We'll help." Davina and Freya step up. They'd do anything for hope, and Kol didn't seem like he could live with out his bestfriend now that he had her back.

Bonnie nods in thanks to the Mikaelson and harvest witch. Her head turns towards Damon answering his question, filling them all with dread and sadness. Caroline's eyes pierce hers, she feels so useless right now and it seems as if things were only going to get worse.

"If she dies now, she'll never be at peace. There's no more 'other side' or hell, so her soul will just be stuck with unfinished business that she has no clue she has. She'll never even make it to Stefan."

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