Mid afternoon the next day Camilla walks towards Hope sitting on a bench who seems to be too deep in thought to sense her coming.

Camilla had been slightly overwhelmed with everything going on. From almost dying, losing her memories, Stefan coming back, and a couple nights prior, Jace's mental break down. She didn't have the time to speak to Hope and she knew she needed too. She wasn't the only one suffering, she had her daughter unknowingly taken away from her but Hope had a mother and siblings taken away from her. She was living a lie her whole life.

Camilla gently puts a hand on the young tribrid's shoulder and Hope almost jumps out of her own skin flinching away from the unknown persons touch.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Camilla says softly, analyzing the young girl for the first time since finding out she was her first born daughter.

Hope avoids eye contact nervously and mumbles a small, "It's okay." She gets up and prepares to walk away and quickly attempts to come up with an excuse. "I'll let you sit. I should go anyways."

Hope didn't share her concerns with anyone but she was so frightened of Camilla wanting nothing to do with her. The twins, Alec, and Jace had their whole lives with her while she was raised by her father who broke her heart and Hayley who knowingly, stole her from her real mother.

Camilla looks at her with firm yet soft eyes. "Come on sweetheart, I think we both know it's time we talked." She says patting the seat Hope had just occupied.

Hope silently sits next to her leaving a comfortable distance between them and begins fiddling with her fingers nervously.

"You know, if I had any idea you were my daughter I would have came for you the second I found out." Camilla breaks the tense silence. "I heard a lot of what was going on in New Orleans in the last almost two decades. I'm sorry you were raised in the middle of a war zone, I wish I had known sooner."

Hope lifts her head to see Camilla looking towards the horizon with tears in her eyes and shakes her head. "You couldn't have known."

"I always felt like something was missing. Funny enough I thought it was because of your father so I ignored it." Camilla says with a humorless laugh. The irony of her thinking it was her first love when it was her first born child that was with him the whole time.

"My dad never would've let you take me out of New Orleans." Hope shrugs helplessly with a longing sigh. "He kept me safe don't get me wrong, but no matter what happened no one could convince him to go anywhere else. He enjoyed the 'throne'"

"You mistake me for your aunts and uncles Hope." Camilla says with a slight smile full of mischief. "If I knew you were my child, the second you were in danger I would've taken you far away. Regardless of what your father said. A mother is the scariest person in the world when her child is in danger."

"I-I know you don't really see me as a daughter." Hopes voice trembles as she speaks and Camilla tilts her head in confusion and sadness. "Lizzie, Josie, Jace, and Alec had their whole lives with you and suddenly I'm sprung onto you and it's okay i-if you don't wanna be my mom."

"Oh Hope." Camilla sighs with a disbelieving look. Hope begins sobbing and Camilla brings her into a motherly hug.

After Hope slightly calms down Camilla softly lifts her head up with both hands on the teens cheeks. "Listen to me Hope Mikaelson. I love you just as much as I love the rest of my children. No matter how much more time I got with them."

Hope shakes her head in doubt closing her eyes but Camilla beckons her to look at her. "I could've had a childhood with my mom and four siblings and I can never get that back." She sobs. "I just feel like I had something stolen from me."

"Because you did Hope." Camilla says honestly. "We both did. You were ripped from a whole family you didn't know about and I had my first daughter taken away from me. But that doesn't mean we can't start now, we have all the time in the world to make memories and be together. We can't get back your childhood but we can be happy that we're together now. Because you're my daughter and I love you, okay?"

Hope stares at her for a moment, after seeing the honestly in her eyes she nods as they hug again.

After a minute or two of relishing in the warmth that only a mother can provide Hope says, "The twins hate me."

Camilla jerks in surprise looking towards Hope in confusion. "What do you mean?"

She had seen the slight glares and she remembered sending the girls to their rooms because of their comments towards Hope but she never got to talk to them about it and she wanted to know the full extent. She had no clue why they were acting like that.

"They tell me that you're not my mom, that you're only theirs. They told me to stay away from you. More stuff but I don't feel like saying it out loud." She sighs sadly staring at the ground in front of them.

"Don't worry about it anymore, I'll talk to them." Camilla says running her fingers through Hope's hair soothingly.

"No, no it'll just make it worse, they'll just hate me even more." Hope shakes her head and looks towards her mother with a pleading look.

"You're my daughter as much as they are Hope. I love you all and they need to understand that what they're doing is not okay nor acceptable." She says with a stern look making Hope nod her head in defeat.

Hope untangles herself out of her mothers embrace after a few moments with a fond smile, "I have to go to class, I've been missing a lot lately. You know with everything going on."

Camilla nods understandingly and stands along with her pressing a kiss on the younger girls forehead. "I'll see you later Hope."

She watches Hope walk away and hears the familiar swoosh from behind her. "I'm guessing you eavesdropped during the whole thing?" She says as more of a statement than a question as she turns around and raises an eyebrow at the male.

"Well love, I wouldn't call it eaves dropping. I was just walking by and happened to over hear." Klaus says with a fond smile towards the female. "Thank you for that, by the way. What you said to her."

"It wasn't for you, she's my daughter too. Remember?" She teases and laughs light heartedly.

"Ahh yes. So I've recently been told." He laughs still disbelievingly.

It was crazy, even for him to find out he had a child. Let alone twins, with someone he believed to be the love of his life. He'll always love her, she will always have a place in his heart. But seeing how happy she is he realized he needed to move on. She was once his only friend and he wanted things to be like that once again, of course it couldn't be exactly like how it used to given their history but he wanted her in his life even if it wasn't as more than friends.

"We made something really special." She says smiling in deep thought. Looking over her shoulder when she hears a noise her smile widens.

Klaus follows her line of vision and sees Alec and his son Jace throwing a football around with Damon messing around and laughing. His smile falters when he gazed at Jace.

Camilla notices and reassures him, "You can't stop trying with him Klaus. He'll come around he just needs time to process everything happening."

Klaus nods but she can see the doubt on his face. "Mikael was a horrible father, I never thought that some day I'd be seen just like him."

"You're nothing like him Nik." She says firmly. "He just doesn't know how to act, he's a mamma's boy to a fault but to everyone else he's a confident boy who never lets anything bother him. He protects family no matter what the cost is. Something you two have in common. Just talk to him."

She can tell her words got through to him as he stares at their son and she lets out a warm smile looking between the two. She slightly pats him on the shoulder before walking back inside leaving him to his thoughts.

Seeing Kol by Davina with their backs faced towards her she sprints into a run and jumps on his back making him let out a very female squeal. Davina turns towards her husband with a raised eyebrow.

"Koala Bear!" She shouts hugging him. She jumps off his back and goes in front of him with a hop in her step.

"And why are you so happy?" He says slightly suspicious. He knew she was up to something.

"Because I have come up with a fantastic idea!" She exclaims jumping up and down like a kid.

Davina couldn't help but smile at the beaming woman in front of her. She couldn't help but wonder how anyone ever did her wrong.

Stefan was walking by when he sees Camilla jumping up and down like a kid on Christmas, with a smile spreading on his face he walks towards her and wraps his arms around her waist. "Why are you so happy?"

"Everything's been so hectic lately so what better than a bonding day tomorrow!" She exclaims clapping her hands excitedly.

"You know I always love spending time with you." Stefan assures her.

Her smile falters as she steps away from him earning narrowed eyes from Stefan and a large laugh from Kol.

"About that..." she says with a warm smile. "You guys are having a boys day while we have a girls day, no boys allowed."

Both Stefan and Kol's faces drop as Davina laughs and rubs his shoulder in reassurance and amusement.

"But-" Camilla cuts Stefan and Kol off with a firm head shake. She didn't care if she had to kick their asses, everyone was going.

Kol rolls his eyes and crosses his arms, "Well, who is supposed to come to this 'guys night?'" He says quoting the 'guys night' part in a mocking manner.

Camilla thinks for a second before putting a finger up for every person she named. "Jace, Alec, Alaric, Klaus, you, Stefan, Damon, Elijah, and Enzo."

Kol and Stefan both immediately start shaking their heads in a disapproving manner.

"You want me to spend a whole day with his crazy siblings?" Stefan asks in disbelief pointing towards Kol.

At the same time Kol says while pointing at Stefan, "You want me to spend a night with his ridiculous brother?"

"Yes." Camilla nods slowly like she was speaking to a child.

"Who's going to girls night?" Kol asks in curiosity. He wanted his wife and his best friend to get along. They were his two favorite women. He knows a lot has been going on, but he was excited and hopeful that they'd become very good friends.

"Me, Davina, Rebekah, Freya, Lizzie, Hope, Josie, Elena, Bonnie, And Caroline." She shrugs nonchalantly like she didn't just name ten different people.

"You're inviting me?" Davina says in happiness and surprise. Freya and Rebekah never really did anything girly together, they went their own ways leaving Davina to be stuck with the men all the time. She wanted female friends.

"Well of course, your one of my best friends wives." She says it like it's obvious with a smile.

"What do you have planned?" Kol questions, wondering what a girls night was considered.

"The spa, shopping, going out to eat. Those types of things." She nods still thinking on what else they could do all day tomorrow.

"And what about us? What are we supposed to be doing?" Stefan asks with a raised brow slightly brooding over the fact that not only would he not be near Cami but he'd be stuck with his brother and the Mikaelsons for the whole day.

"I don't know." She shrugs while the males give her a disbelieving look. "I'm leaving you and Kol in charge."

"Why are you leaving Kol in charge?" Davina asks with wide eyes while he turns towards his wife in offense.

"Well yeah, Stefan will make sure they're staying safe and not doing anything too bad. While Kol makes sure they're actually having fun." She shrugs.

Both men looking at their partners in offense. "Are you saying I don't know how to have fun?" Stefan questions in mock hurt.

"Debatable." Camilla shrugs with a cheeky grin. "Anyways I have to go talk to the twins now. I'll meet you in our room." She says giving him a quick peck before scurrying away towards the twins bedroom.

Opening the door she sees both the girls on their own beds doing their homework and they visibly perk up at seeing their mom.

"Mom!" They quietly cheer with large smiles beginning to get up when they see her expression.

However Camilla just closes the door behind her and turns towards the twins with a serious and scolding face.

"We need to talk." She says and both the twins look towards the other nervously and visibly gulping.