A/N: Hey guys, this is my first fanfic. I have been working on it for a while but I keep procrastinating to post it. I'll try update whenever I'm able to find time and when I truly feel happy with the chapter. Please read and give me a review at the end!

Disclaimer: Credits to Vampire Diaries goes to Julie Plec, and credits to Twilight goes to Stephanie Meyer. The only thing I own is the plot. Thank you so much for reading this chapter. Please review and continue reading my story! I would really like to know what you guys think about it!

Chapter 1: The Cycle of Trust and Betrayal

Bella POV:

When I was born, my father decided that he wanted my name to remind him of the old world, but my twin's name to remind him of the new world that he had moved to, hence I was blessed with the name Isabellah, and my twin brother was named Niklaus. As time has passed, I have changed that name far too many times to remember. Mariayana, my middle name came from my mother's mentor and best friend Ayana. She loved the name Marie, but my mother wished my middle name to be Ayana, so they combined the two to came up with Mariayana. Hence, the name Isabellah Mariayana Mikaelson.

Isabella Marie was one of my main aliases, as it was the closest to my original name and human blood helps me exist as an immortal being, or monster depending on how it is viewed.

My parents lost our oldest sister in the old world due to a plague that struck, which is why they moved to the new world. It was in order for them start afresh, and they hoped that they would never have to endure the loss of a child ever again. There were a total of nine of us. My father, Mikael, my mother Esther, then came my elder brothers Finnik, Elijah. Following which Niklaus and I were born as twins. Finally came our little brother and sister, Kol and Rebekah and our angelic baby brother Henrik.

I remember so much from those days. It's ironic how different things have become now, and I really hate it. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we hadn't changed into vampires. Would we actually been a closer family, or were we always destined to break apart and wither alone, for our lifetimes.

Being born in a commoner's family, was tough, as we had to do a lot of the work ourselves, however we were a huge family, so work was not as unbearable and hard as it would seem. My twin brother Nik and I were joint at hip, we used to be so in sync, and its uncanny how much we have changed, to the point that I am pretty sure that he would kill me in order for him to finally break his curse and become a hybrid. I remember one time, Elijah and Nik had been sword fighting, with Rebekah and I sitting on the side. Elijah had fought Nik with everything he had, but Nik was too powerful, easily overpowering Elijah. It was in these rare moments that we found our joy and our familial bond was true and visible for everyone to see.

Rebekah had always been jealous of the relationship between Nik and I, as we had been so close. She fortunately, was an understanding child, so she had just looked up to the both of us, and confided in Elijah, forming and strengthening the bond between them.

For my father Miakel, seeing this bond between the two children he liked the least, and the children he liked the most enraged him, and he constantly tried to put an end to it, and make us feel unwanted. However no matter what he did, I always enjoyed being with Nik, and I enjoyed having a closer bond to my siblings rather than my unloving parents.

I remember a time so long ago when Nik loved us all, and he gave me a carving of a man on a horse, after which before thanking him I had said,

"Nik! Is this not the carving that you wanted to give to father?"

"It was, but I think that it is far more important to give to you. It will protect you from anyone who wishes to hurt you." He said, looking at me lovingly. At the tender age of ten I had begun to learn the ancient witchcraft from my mother, and she had just taught me how to do a preservation spell: in order to preserve the meat and other foods.

"Phesmatos tribum, nos vex a conservare." I chanted the spell a few times until I was pleased with the results.

"What did you do?" Nik had asked me quietly.

"I placed a preservation spell on it, so it will be with me forever and ever, just like you will be." I said looking at him adoringly. He gave me a boyish grin, and we nodded of to sleep.

Throughout our days together, me and Nik were loving people. Even though we suffered neglect from our father, and our mother acted oblivious to this, our brothers and sister were our family. There is a saying, you cannot choose your family, but you can make a family. In our case, we never got to choose a family, and our parents did not even deserve the title of Mother and Father.

However, I was unbelievably happy that I was born with the people I love to call my brothers and sister. They meant the world to me, and I absolutely adored them. I always wished that I could stay with them forever, but life for us Mikaelsons never tend to be nice, or easy.

My youngest brother Henrik was a very curious boy. When he was thirteen he snuck out to see the men in our village change into wolves. My twin was worried for his safety and followed him, to make sure that he did not get into any trouble. Unfortunately, not getting into trouble was very rare for the Mikaelsons.

One of the wolves caught Henrik's scent, and mauled his body. Niklaus was powerless against them, and could not protect our baby brother. He went into a deep depression, and I could see it on his face, when he carried his body back to our home, with Henrik's blood dripping every step he took. I could see the utter anguish on his face, and I could sense his utter despair over the death of his beloved baby brother.

I wanted to do everything in my power to help him, but at the same time, I couldn't help but feel terrible at losing my youngest brother. If only Henrik wasn't such a curious boy, and if only I could have used a protection spell of some sort so that he would not have died. I guess as twins me and Nik were connected, so we felt as if we were the reason that Henrik was dead.

We were devastated, and my father wrought with grief over the loss of his youngest son, ordered our mother to create a spell of some sort, that would give us an advantage over the werewolves. Henrik was probably the only person who could bring out the humanity in our father, so there was nothing I could do to protect my twin from my father's rage.

When my parents turned us into vampires, and little did my father know of my mother's indiscretions. He found out about her adultery, when my twin and I killed our first victim, to complete the transition and become vampires, we also became werewolves. This shock of being betrayed made our father resent as more than ever before.

Due to the immortality potion my mother fed to us, we were vampires, however my twin, and I were the first hybrids, half-vampire, half-werewolf. We were stronger, faster, and our emotions were intensified further.

My mother worried about what my father would do, immediately placed a curse upon my brother Niklaus, and forced him to become only vampire. She locked his werewolf side and sided with my father stating that it was too dangerous.

However, she was unable to do the same thing to me. As the oldest Mikaelson daughter, I gained her powers as a witch, so she could not place a spell to bind me. However, she did manage to find a loophole around this, and placed a curse upon me. This meant that I could never change any werewolf into a hybrid like my brother and I but my bite was still lethal to vampires, and I had the added strength and rage of a werewolf.

We were stuck eternally as the only ones of our kind.

My mother sacrificed a lady called Tatia who to end the feud between Elijah and Niklaus, who were fighting among themselves to gain her attention. Due to Tatia being a doppelganger, it meant that we still had a chance of breaking the curse that our mother placed upon us.

I have been a hybrid much longer than Niklaus, and because I am part Werewolf, I am still partially alive so I have access to my witch powers. However this just meant that I could feel nature, but I could not do any spells. I was just immune to many witch spells and some rituals.

That night my mother and father deemed my brother and I to be worthless, and decided that we deserved to be eternally alone and die. Unfortunately, my brother Nikalus in one of his many fits of rage, stuck his hand into my mother's chest and tore out her heart. Furthermore, before our mother was killed, she managed to change our father's basic need for human blood, into a thirst for vampire blood, and she made him the ultimate hunter. His only wish to kill Niklaus and myself, and he didn't mind killing anyone else who got in his way.

He hid this from everyone, and told them that Mikael killed our mother and that he was the true enemy. My father enraged, immediately chased after Niklaus intent on killing him, in the meanwhile my other siblings, Finnik, Elijah, Rebekah and Kol had burned down the white oak tree, the only tree that could kill us and we made a promise to be with one and other; Always and Forever.

Kol and Finnik departed with us however, they soon left and went somewhere else away from us. Soon after when Finnik came in the 1100s Niklaus betrayed us for the first time and daggered him. We were all shocked, but after listening to his reasoning, we all reluctantly agreed that it was for Finn's safety that he was somewhere where Mikael would never find him.

...

Niklaus, Rebekah, Elijah and I travelled together for a while, before settling down in England in the 1400s. There we met the ever so charming Katerina Petrova. She introduced herself to us as, I took an immediate liking to her as even though she looked like Tatia, her personality was nothing like her previous doppleganger.

"Hello, good sir, my name is Katherine Pierce." She said as she introduced herself to my brother Elijah. We were immediately intrigued as she was the doppelganger who we had been searching for, for such a long period of time.

"Welcome Katherine, why don't come and join me, my brother and my sisters at Mikaelson manor." Elijah had asked in a British accent looking as charming as ever. Smiling at Katherine, he had escorted her to our house.

"Katherine, you must be so weary from your long journey, why don't you come in and rest, and we can discuss other things in detail tomorrow morning." I said looking sweetly at her, ushering her up the stairs and helping her into bed.

We talked and eventually become quite close friends however, once again, history repeated itself when Niklaus and Elijah fought for the affections of Katerina. Of course I was fooled at once and secretly hoped that Niklaus would marry Katerina, and we would be one big happily family.

Cheesy right? Anyways, I was soon proved wrong when I found out that my sweet twin (note the sarcasm) had no real feelings for Katerina unlike Elijah, who truly loved her.

He took one look at Katerina and thought of her as his doppelganger and nothing more. I loved Katerina as my own sister. Once again I was betrayed when Katerina ran away and changed herself into a vampire, and she changed into a completely different person.

A self-serving, manipulative bitch and I often wondered what it would be like if she was changed by Elijah and stayed with us, as her innocent self.

My brother, infuriated, ran to Bulgaria and slaughtered her whole family. I could could not even recognise my brother, but I reminded myself of my promise. I soon found myself chanting the words Always and Forever as if I was constantly reminding myself of the promise I made my siblings and most of all my twin brother. Out of everyone I wished the most not to hurt or to ever betray him.

However after multiple cruel acts I felt as if that loyalty to my so-called family was slowly diminishing. I was slowly becoming a very bitter and cold person.

...

In the mid 1600s, I split up from Elijah, Niklaus and Rebekah, and promised them I would be back in a few years after traveling.

I went around, and I met a wonderful woman named Alexia Branson. At first I was scared that she would betray me like Katerina did, but when I got to know her I found her to be wonderful. She comforted me, and helped me, never leaving my side. She was truly loyal, and for once I found happiness and hope that my brother could redeem himself if he found someone who could anchor him and protect him. He needed someone who would never leave his side no matter what.

Once upon I time, I would have probably been that person, but the bitterness and resentment had built up in our family breaking us apart into pieces over the past centuries. I think that's what happens have you have been living for so long. I still remember meeting Alexia to this day because she helped me get my life back on track and I felt as if I had regained my humanity when I looked upon that young girl.

"Hello sweetheart, are you feeling fine?" I had asked a girl, who was huddled on a stool sobbing her eyes out.

"Oh, sorry," she said wiping her tears, "I'm fine, sorry for bothering you." She said.

"No, it is not a problem." I said smiling sweetly at her before continuing "What's wrong?", I asked.

"My father is making me leave the house unless I marry a vile man of his choice, and I really wish not to, but I don't have a choice." She said looking at me. Feeling sympathetic I decided to help her, I convinced; in other words compelled her family to not let her get married to any man who was not of her choice, and eventually I actually became her friend and she accepted me for who I was.

I finally had someone other than Nik, other than my family who I could depend on and actually trust.

At the age of 21, Alexia begged me to change her, of course this made me scared that she would leave me, but she promised me that she would never do anything to hurt me because she considered me to be her older sister. Touched, I changed her. We travelled together for a while, before we split up and I went to go see my family. I was terrified to introduce her to me my family because I was almost sure that Niklaus would kill her. My trust in him had almost disappeared completely, due to his utter greed.

When I arrived home I was greeted with love from my family, and Niklaus actually cried when he saw me again. I thought that I had regained my wonderful twin brother. Elijah was still grieving over Katerina and his loss, and we worked together to try help Niklaus redeem himself. However, I was soon shown that Niklaus could never redeem himself, and had truly become a demon called Klaus. My Nik had gone, and a thirst to create Hybrids had taken over this body.

...

In the early 1800s my brother Kol came to visit us, like he normally did at least once every 100 years.

"Baby brother. Welcome back" Elijah said with a charming smile on his face, as he watched his youngest brother with curious eyes.

"Kol, darling you must be thirsty," I said, ushering him into the house. "Bekah, please go and fetch one of the maids for Kol to feed off." I continued smiling at my baby brother.

"Bellsy!" He exclaimed. "You don't need to take care of me like that, I'm a big boy now." He said smiling at me.

"Don't sass me little brother." I said to him continuing our little banter. We laughed together, and teased Rebekah when she came sauntering into the house after meeting her latest love.

"So who is the new victim who you have ensnared into your little delusional web of love?" Kol said teasingly, smirking as Rebekah scowled at him the dreamy look on her face quickly disappearing.

"Ugh! Kol! Stop teasing me." She said, pouting before running over and grabbing Kol in a big hug. "I missed you big brother. You need to visit us more often. Do you have any gifts for me?" She said fluttering her eyelashes.

"Idiot, of course I didn't buy any gifts for you." Kol said, flicking her forehead so she moved away. She pouted again looking up at Kol. Chuckling at their childish argument,

"Now, now children, be nice to each other." I said giggling at the look of annoyance that they shot in unison at me. Elijah looked at the rest of us with a straight face, yet there was a hint of amusement hidden within his features.

"Big sister, I did get a lot of presents for you," he said handing me a beautiful pendent. It was made out of silver, and was shaped into a tiger, with blue eyes. I looked at him questioningly.

"Lapis lazuli," he said, "I thought that you would like it." he continued, smiling at me.

"Thank you so much love." I said, taking the pendant away from him. "Will you put it on me?" I asked.

"Of course." he said before lifting my hair delicately and placing the chain around my neck. The delicate pendent settled right at the center of my collarbones.

"It's perfect." I said.

"How come she gets one and I don't." Rebekah whined. Everyone chuckled at that statement.

"Fine, you can have these earrings," Kol said smirking and handing Rebekah a pair of teardrop lapis lazuli earrings, which looked stunning. Rebekah and I gasped at them, before she said,

"You know for a guy, your taste is not to bad." She said giggling before running out of the room.

"Thanks. Hey, wait what is that supposed to mean? Rebekah! Come back!" Kol said before taking off after Rebekah.

"Baby brother. You're home." Nik stated.

"Miss me big brother, I had so much fun over the past years, you should join me." Kol said.

"You're killing sprees are attracting too much of Mikael's attention." Nik said coldly.

"Well it's a good thing that he only hates you." Kol said, getting more defensive as Nik berated him about being careful.

"That may be so, but unfortunately that is not a chance I can take." Nik said before, grabbing a dagger, and shoving it into Kol's heart. I watched for the second time in my life, unable to do anything as my brother's body withered until it was grey, almost as if he were dead.

A/N: Guys, thanks for reading please leave your thoughts. I'm open to any forms of constructive criticism and I'll take it into account when I post my next chapter.