Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries.
A/N: Klaus is Mikael's biological son, so no hybrids in this story.
Chapter 1
Mikael was stomping around the living room, glaring at the clock on the wall. Elijah wondered when his father would lose his patience. It passed ten minutes since his younger siblings supposed to return from their over a hundred year trip.
Esther was sitting on the sofa, mixing some herbs in a small bowl. "They'll be here, soon." She tried to calm down her husband.
"They should be here now! I've written clearly in the letter, meet us here at three o'clock sharp!" Mikael's voice was getting louder by each word.
"I presume they might be stuck in a traffic," Elijah guessed.
"Vampires do not stuck in a traffic," Mikael grunted.
"If they have any luggage, then it's harder for them to move in a vampire-speed," Sage said.
She and Finn were sitting on the sofa, arms wrapped around each other.
"Well, you would know. You are always laden by the shopping you spend our money on."
Even after nine hundred years, Esther couldn't fully accept his oldest son's wife. It didn't help Finn and Sage had been always living with Finn's parents. There had been times where they had been lived by themselves; however, Finn's closeness with his mother didn't let it to be for too long.
Elijah admired Sage for the fact she didn't call Finn upon about his lack of independence, at least, not all of the time. He also admired his mother for putting up with Sage, whom Elijah did have nothing against, but his mother did. Those two were like water and fire, and poor Finn was stuck in the middle of it.
"I'm certain it's Kol's fault. He never had any responsibility in him." Finn shifted the topic in a different direction, hoping it would stop argument between his mother and wife.
"You're right. I only agreed on this trip, because Klaus went with them," Mikael said.
Katerina walked to him with a cup of green tea. "Here you go, I've prepared it to you." She handed the cup to Mikael who took a sip from it. "Thank you, Katerina, it will help to soothe my nerves." Katerina smiled at him, and then she gave another cup to Esther.
"Thank you. It's very nice to know there's someone to take care of you unlike some others." She took a sip from the cup. "Hmm, it's delightful."
Katerina, Elijah's wife, had always been independent, and since they had gotten married, she had refused to live with his parents, although they had been living in the same city, New Orleans, for over three centuries.
One day his father had decided he wanted to build a city, and he called all his family to help him with it. This town enjoyed the popularity of vampires and witches having a place where they could do whatever they wanted. However, werewolves were forbidden to enter the New Orleans.
Mikael along with his wife and children had never gotten over Henrik's death. He had been a youngest son and sibling who had been killed by a werewolf, since then his family had been holding a huge grudge against those species.
Elijah might be the only one who let his hostility to werewolves go away. He had tried to convince his father to drop his vengeance against werewolves, in vain. Mikael had informed that he would accept werewolves when hell froze over.
They heard door's opening, and voices coming from the hall. Elijah and others stood from the sofas, Esther and Mikael put their cups down on the coffee table. After a minute, three of Elijah's siblings appeared in the living room. Sage's guess about carrying luggage was right. Each of them were holding something. Elijah had tried to imagine them running with all of these, a small smile formed on his lips.
"You are twenty and-" Mikael looked at his wristwatch. "-six minutes left. I expect such behaviour from Kol but not from you two," he turned to Klaus and Rebekah.
"And here is our father welco-"
"I'm so sorry, father," Rebekah interrupted Kol before he could make their father even angrier. "The traffic was a nightmare."
"That's truth. We're lucky to be late only twenty-six minutes," Klaus said.
Mikael's eyes softened, and he took his children in his embrace, after they put down their luggage. Elijah was impressed by their ability to carry it all.
"Welcome home." Kol quickly got out of his father arms.
"I'm so happy to see you all. I've missed you so much." Esther hugged her three youngest siblings.
"We missed you, too," Rebekah responded.
"It is great to see you all. It has been quiet around without you." Elijah smiled. He missed them very much, and was glad they finally returned.
"Trust me, after a day, you are going to miss silence and you wish those three went on a trip, again."
"Oh Finn, one person, I didn't miss during the trip," Klaus said.
Elijah thought it was a good moment to interfere. "You need to tell us about the places you visited."
"Definitely," Rebekah agreed. "However, first, why have you," she turned to her parents, "ask us to come?"
"Exactly, we had to cancel our plans of visiting Mexico," Kol complained.
Elijah had been wondering about it too. Both his parents had been acting mysterious as they would holding some big secret. He doubted it was something bad, but it must be enough serious for his parents to gather all of them here.
"You must be hungry after the long journey. We ought eat first," Esther offered.
"You're right I'm starving."
"Kol, It's hard for me to believe, you didn't have a snack on a way here."
Kol rolled his eyes on Finn's comment.
"Mother, please tell us now. I judge from your look, it's a serious matter," Klaus said.
"It's nothing serious, but all right I will tell you now, please sit down."
All of them obeyed Esther and awaited for what she did have to tell them.
"New Orleans has been a place where we stayed for a longest time, and we are all proud of the city we had built." Esther eyed them all. Elijah didn't know, yet, where this conversation was going to. "However, I think it is a time for a change."
"Do you want to build another city?" Kol asked.
"No, I want us to return to the town where we used to live, Mystic Falls."
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