The meeting (part one)

New Orleans, 1918

Maria danced around the Mikaelson mansion room, while organizing some old books on the shelves.

What she didn't know is that she was being watched by a certain original noble.

Elijah watched the witch and found himself smiling, when she dropped a bunch of books and was distraught.

The vampire admired the younger one. He admired her kindness, how she was always willing to help others, the way she dealt with problems, her positivism, etc ...

"Let me help you." he said, appearing in the room and helping the youngest.

"Thank you, Elih." smiled shy "You were there a long time?"

"No." he lied "I arrived right now."

"Seriously? I don't remember hearing you come in." surprised

"I'm a quiet person, Mar." he smiled and put the books on the shelf

Klaus, who had just returned from a meeting, stopped to observe that moment between his brother and his beloved.

"Do I interrupt?" he asked, approaching them with his hands behind his back.

"No," replied Elijah, staring at the bastard

"Nik, you're back." Maria went to him and gave him a kiss

Niklaus put his arm around the girl's waist and pulled her closer to him, still facing his brother.

"Elijah, you're finally here. Hayley was already crazy with worry." Kol mocked

"Shut up, Kol." said the hybrid, addressing Elijah and hugging him.

As much as he liked Hayley, at that moment, the original was not comfortable with the proximity. He just didn't know why.

"What did Marcel say?" questioned Freya, interrupting the moment.

Klaus entered the room in silence and attention focused on him.

"Please start, Elijah. I look forward to hearing what you have discovered." affirmed the original hybrid, giving a false smile.

Elijah started to reveal everything Marcellus had said to him and everyone listened in silence.

"Well ... less a problem to deal with." Hayley said, trying to take the tension out of the air.

"She wasn't a problem." Rebekah got up "She was family."

Rousseau's.

It was the place where Maria had agreed to meet Marel and her psychologist friend.

She was at the bar, drinking a beer, while she waited for the others to arrive.

"What makes such a beautiful girl alone in a bar?" a stranger said, sitting down next to her.

"Okay, that coupling phrase has gone out of style for over 15 years so I suggest that when you approach women in a bar that you use another one." she replied, turning to face the man.

"Wow, so the vampire is nervous."

"Say that one more time and I'll rip your heart out." threatened.

Maria tried to hear the stranger's heart but failed, which meant she was also a vampire.

"Lucien Castel." introduced himself, while extending his hand.

The trybrid looked at the outstretched hand and ended up squeezing it.

"Maria."

"Well, even though you threatened me, it was a pleasure to meet you, Maria."

"I can't say the same, Lucien."

"You can."

He winked and left the bar.

Maria rolled her eyes at this convinced attitude.

After a few minutes, she saw her friend enter the establishment accompanied by a blonde.

"Good eyes see you, Marcel. I could see you left me hanging!" she exclaimed as soon as they approached.

"We wouldn't do that." Marcel laughed and greeted his friend "This is your new psychologist." she presented with a mocking smile.

"Hi. I'm Camille, but you can call me Cami if you want. You are Alexa, right?"

The human extended her hand to the brunette, who was staring at her with a strange face.

"Alexa? What the hell ... my name is Maria Dias, stupid!", Thought the vampire.

Maria looked at Marcel and soon realized the situation.

"What's up? Am I mistaken in the name?" asked Cami, embarrassed.

"Nothing. You were not mistaken. This is me, the incredible Alexa." she shook the blonde's hand and tried to smile at her.

"I've been talking to Cami and since you don't like doing this in public places, your appointment will be at her home." informed the brunette.

"Then maybe we better go walking to your house. The sooner we get this done the better, Carmen."

"Cami."

"As you wish."

The two women left the bar and Marcel shook his head, laughing. He knew that Maria had purposely made a mistake in the psychologist's name and would try to push her to the limit. Camille would have to be very patient.

The drive to O'connel's house was quick. As soon as they entered, the human tried to make her guest comfortable.

"Do you want to drink something?" she questioned as Maria watched the room

"Do you have blood?" cami was surprised "Oh wait, you're human, I almost forgot. Can you bring me a beer, please."

While Cami went to the kitchen to get the beer, Maria sat down in one of the armchairs in the room.

"Here you go." she-handed her the drink.

The sound of the blonde's cell phone was heard and she excused herself, immediately picking up the device to see who she was.

Klaus.

"I better take this call."

"As you wish." said the trybrid without giving any importance.

"Yes? ... I can't ... I'm busy right now, Klaus."

Maria began to pay attention to the conversation as soon as she heard the name of the hybrid being pronounced.

"Does the damn psychologist know Klaus? That Klaus? I can't believe Marcel put me ahead of him with someone who knows the Mikaelson's!", thought Maria.

"Ok ... As soon as I finish this, I'm going to the mansion ... See you soon."

Camille ended the call and turned to her "patient".

"You have a beautiful house." commented the supernatural

"Thanks." she sat face to face with Maria.

"Was it your boyfriend?" the older woman asked, innocently, taking a sip of her drink.

"What? No." camille was embarrassed, again "He's not my boyfriend. It's complicated. He has become a better person, but he has already made very horrible things ..."

"But you still like him." observed the wolf "You can't blame him for doing bad things, we've all done things we are not proud of, right?"

The psychologist looked at the brunette, trying to understand the meaning of that.

"What horrible things have you done?" she asked, curious and reaching for her notebook.

"Let me see, where do I start?" she pretended to think "Oh yes, there was that time ..."

Malta, 1946

She had killed more than 100 people from that small village on the island of Malta.

He didn't feel bad about it, it was the good part of having humanity turned off.

She didn't want to know that she ended the lives of those innocent people, she only cared about who her next victims were.

"You used to be a ripper." concluded the blonde.

"Yes and for some good years."

Cami felt that they were going in a good way. Strangely, the vampire was opening up and talking about herself to the human.

"Why did you do it?"

"I'm not sure ... I think for survival. It was my way of venting anger for things that had happened."

"What things?"

"That is not the topic of our consultation today, doctor." she took a sip of her drink.

Camille sighed. Good way but not so good.

"You became a monster when you shut down humanity." observed

"Disconnecting humanity does not make you a monster, unless you are already one."

"How did you get it back?"

"I think the right question is not HOW I got it back but WHO helped me get it back."

Mystic Falls, 1967

Mystic Falls.

Maria had already heard a lot about that city. Unfortunately it would be just another place where she made victims.

"Keep calm. Do not scream." she said while compelling a 20 year old.

The vampire was about to dig her fangs into the boy's neck when she heard someone scream for her.

"Stop! Don't do that!"

She took her victim by the neck and turned to the stranger.

"I don't know who you think you are to be interrupting dinner, but if I were you, I would disappear before you became dessert." she warned

"You don't need to do that." he approached slowly "I can see that you are a ripper and kill for fun. I used to be like you. You have another option, believe me."

Maria rolled her eyes and looked at the human again, turning her back on the stranger who was trying to teach her a moral lesson.

"You're killing an innocent. This boy has a family, people who like him waiting for him at home. He deserves to die in a dignified way, not at the hands of a monster."

The hybrids closed their eyes and took a deep breath, opening them and facing the boy who was trembling with fear.

Looking at him, she felt ... sorry.

She felt...

If she were just a vampire, her humanity wouldn't come to light so easily, but being a wolf and a witch, there were parts of her that still had humanity that she couldn't deny.

"Forget what happened here and go home." she said looking into the boy's eyes, who quickly did what the witch told her.

She came face to face with the anonymous vampire and faced him.

"You made me feel sorry for him." she paused "For years, people I know tried to make me feel something and they didn't succeed and you, coming out of nowhere, arrive and make me feel bad for killing a boy, simply with a lame speech." after a few seconds of silence, she laughed "Who are you?"

"Stefan Salvatore."

"It was a complete stranger that made you have feelings again." Maria nodded "Did you have a relationship with him?"

"Yes, for two years." she confirmed "I fell in love with him, he made me feel something I hadn't felt in years and for a while I thought there was hope for me. I came to think that I was just confusing gratitude with passion but no. It was love."

"Why did you two break up?"

"It was no longer the same thing and we knew it. The feelings were spent over time and it was no longer the same as in the beginning." she smiled "We ended up being quite friends and still visit him now and then."

"Did you ever turn humanity off again after you were done?"

"No. But I can't tell you that I didn't kill anyone again because my killing list was still long."

She set the empty bottle down and stood up.

"I really enjoyed the consultation, Dr. O'connel, but I think it already worked."

"We still have a few more minutes ..."

"Listen, I have more thingd to do and you have an appointment with your boyfriend who is not a boyfriend but who is complicated".

She opened the apartment door and said before leaving.

"It was a pleasure to meet you, Camila."

"Camille." she corrected her, even though she would no longer get an answer.

Camille entered the Mikaelson mansion and found Hayley playing with Hope in the living room. She greeted the hybrid and her daughter, then asked:

"Do you know where Klaus is?"

"He's up there in the office if I'm not mistaken."

The blonde thanked her with a simple smile and went to meet the hybrid.

"Klaus? Klaus!" she called

"I'm here, Camille." he said, appearing with a glass in his hand.

"What do you need?"

"Sit over there at the typewriter, please."

"I thought we were over that of documenting your story." she commented, obeying the original's request.

"Me too." he agreed.

The vampire began to tell the whole story about Maria from the last century until that day.

Cami felt a little uncomfortable having to write about Klaus' old love, but she didn't let it show.

"I'm sure she was very pretty."

"She was." he said "There is an old photo of her in the first drawer of the desk."

The blonde opened the drawer and blurred the photo, her eyes widening when she saw it.

"Was this her?" asked in amazement.

"Yes, why?"

"I was with her."

"What?"

He quickly approached the human and stayed behind her.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. It was with her that I was having the psychology consultation."

They were interrupted by Elijah's entry into that division.

"I apologize for interrupting, I didn't know you were here, Cami." - stared at his brother "What face is that, Niklaus?"

"Maria is alive." - he paused - "Cami was with her."

"That's not possible." he looked at the psychologist. "Be more clear, please, Camille."

"Marcel said that a friend of his needed a psychology consultation and asked me to help him. She was this woman. Only Marcel told me that she was called Alexa. I was with her right now, before I came here."

"That means Marcellus lied to me." Elijah said, with a not good face.

He tightened his suit and left at vampire speed. He had some fears to deal with Marcellus.

"Marcel !! Marcel !!"

He quickly entered the place where the dark vampire was.

"You lied to me and said that Maria was dead. I warned you, Marc ..."

The original nobleman was unable to finish his sentence because someone appeared behind him and broke his neck.

"Now I understand why you hung up that call in a hurry."