So this is a small idea that popped into my head while I was reading over the weekend. Right now it's sort of a one shot but I could happily continue this if you all wanted me too. This is also my first Vampire Diaries fan fiction how cool is that?
Emotionless fans: I have another chapter almost done and ready to update for that as well.
Please review and tell me what you think.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the VD characters except for Rosalia!
Elijah pov
"Lijah?" I heard a small voice whisper. Turning around in my bed I awoke to see two pairs of bright blue eyes staring at me. The little girl had curly blond hair that went to her back and she was holding on to a small blanket that she had brought from her room. I rubbed my eyes as I sat up straight to look at the girl. My eyes traveled over the small room of our hut and saw that both Niklaus and Kol were fast asleep. "Lijah?" I turned back to the small girl feeling a smile come to my face almost like every other time I saw her.
"Yes Rosalia?" I said. She held out her arms to me and I happily took her into mine holding her close to my body. She had small tears running down her cheeks and I wiped them away. "Come on little sister no need for tears," I cooed softly to her rubbing her back with my other hand. Ever since she had her first cave experience with the wolves a few moons ago Rosa had been having nightmares about the wolves. Each night she would sneak into my room and I would hold her until she fell asleep again.
"I'm scared Lijah what if the wolves come for us? What if they hurt our family," she sobbed against my nightshirt.
"It's going to be alright little sister a wolf will never harm our family do you hear me?" I pulled away from her so that she could answer. Rosa nodded her head before squirming back into my arms once again this time falling asleep. I lay back down against the small bed again with my little sister on my chest. I kissed her cheek before finally falling asleep as well.
I was awoken by someone poking my cheek.
"Wake up. Wake up 'Lijah," my eyes opened to see the small smile on my little sisters face. Groaning I took her into my arms and made sure that she was squeezed between my body and the bed. I could hear her screaming for me to get up, but I didn't listen to her. Just like everyone else she had me wrapped around her little finger. Being the youngest of Mother and Father she was the one that needed the most care therefore she was normally watched by either Finn or me, but there was one person she loved more than the rest of us and that was Niklaus. She wouldn't admit it saying she loved us all as one, but everyone knew that she loved messing with Niklaus more than the rest of us including Bekah.
Though Bekah had tried to get Rosa into playing with her Rosa would always shadow Niklaus for the entire day until supper. Everyone always told me that she cared for me more even though she followed him around all the time, but I didn't believe it.
"Lijah!" she always skipped the 'e' in my name. "Come on we need to go see the sun!" sighing playfully I got off of her as she just sat there on my bed waiting for me to pull on some more comfortable clothes.
"Come on little one," I said giving her my hand, "Let's go see the sun shall we?" Rosa nodded her head hard and ran to go see the sun practically dragging me with her. I remember as a younger child when she was still about one moon old how I taking her out to see the sun when she woke up would always calm her down. Therefore she was always the first person awake in our small hut.
Sitting on the hill we watched the sun come out and Rosa would try naming all the colors she saw. Sometimes she convinced me to name some with her when she couldn't figure it out herself. I just watched with amazement as she stared at a purple cloud.
"Lijah why is the cloud purple?" She asked pointing to a cloud.
"It's not actually purple Rosa, the light just makes it look purple," I tried explaining to the four moon year old. She frowned just staring at the cloud with the scowl that Niklaus had taught her over the moons. Everyone would always laugh when she tired mimicking others. No one knew what it was about Rosa, but she could always make anyone smile no matter what the situation was.
"Do we have to go see the wolves again tonight?" She asked softly staring out into a pair of trees. I took her hand in mine as I stared at her glassy eyes. I knew she hated the full moon since we had to be stuck under the ground and she was terrified of the dark despite our Father's wishes.
"We won't actually see the wolves Rosa, we just need to stay underground until the sun comes up," she frowned again.
"So we won't get to see my purple cloud tomorrow?" I could hear the sorrow in her voice as she quivered.
"We will try alright Rosa; we can try to sneak out to see our purple cloud."
"What, 'Our' purple cloud? It is my cloud Lijah, and it always will be," she stuck out her tongue at me making me laugh at her annoyed face. I kissed her head before she took off looking for Niklaus most likely. Sometimes that girl was too adventurous for my liking.
xXx
Nightfall came fairly quickly and when the whole family was starting to leave Rosa started sobbing and saying how she was scared of the caves. Everyone, surprisingly even Father, had tried to comfort her into coming along. Eventually she fell asleep from her outburst and I was voted into carrying her to the caves. Her head rested on my shoulder as she slept and her arms were draped over my shoulders and were wrapped around my neck holding her tightly to me.
When we all reached the caves I placed Rosa gently down on some blankets that we had all set up for her and the others before going off with Finn to resume our chess match that we had started the last full moon. Every few minutes I saw him staring back at Rosa who was holding the blanket close to her body.
"Do you think she'll ever get over her fear of the wolves?" Finn asked me.
"I don't know Brother, I don't know," I replied smirking at the chess board, "Check mate."
He cursed loudly making me chuckle.
Klaus pov
After we made sure that everyone was asleep Henrik and I snuck out of the cave. We had been waiting for this moment for days so that we could go and see the wolves transform into actual wolves. When we snuck out we ran to the cliff tops where all the men and women who had triggered the curse would be gathering, and we watched in amazement as the wolves turned into beasts. We watched as they screamed and every bone in their body started breaking.
Everything was going fine until I heard a small scream. Both Henrik and I jumped and turned back only to see the terrified face of our little sister, Rosa standing there with tears streaming down her face. If she was scared of the wolves before she was now truly terrified of the wolves after hearing the screams and watching them turn. She ran to my side and buried her head into the pants leg clinging to me for dear life. I tried to get her off so that Henrik and I could take her back to the caves before she got hurt, but she was frozen with fear until I heard another scream.
We had been so busy trying to calm Rosa down that we hadn't seen that one of the wolves had fully transformed and had followed the noise over to us. The wolf was now sinking its teeth into Henrik and was shaking him around as he screamed. This sight caused Rosa to let go of my leg and run off into the woods were another wolf followed her.
"No!" I shouted, but I was attacked by a wolf. Although I had brought my sword and was easily able to cut the wolf a few times while the other wolves were either scattered or attacking a now mute Henrik. Temporarily forgetting all about Rosa I ran to my brother's side slashing the blade at all the wolves who tried to come close to him. I don't know how long I stood there protectively over my brother's body until the sun came up above the horizon and the wolves started retreating towards the cliff top once again.
I scooped up my brother and ran back to the village. When I got home I saw that Mother was in hysterics along with Father and Elijah. I ran into the garden where the family was with Henrik in my arms and tears streaming down my face. The second they saw me they all rushed towards me as I placed him on the ground falling down myself.
"What happened?" Mother shouted and I saw Ayanna running into the gardens as well. I was in tears as I placed my knees just below my chin.
"The wolves, oh I'm so sorry Mother," I cried out. Elijah was just staring at the scene completely shocked. Rebekah came out to comfort her older brother, but I could tell that something was raging at Elijah's mind.
"Where is Rosa?" Mikael roared making me freeze on the spot. Oh god, I had forgotten about Rosa. Oh no she was still somewhere in the woods. Father must have seen me freeze because he came over to me with his blade in his hand. "Where is Rosa, boy? What did you to her?" I sobbed harder and I could see Elijah's eyes go wide and tears cloud his eyes as well.
"No, tell me it isn't true," he ran over to me and pulled me up by my collar tears now falling down his face, "Tell me that Rosa did not follow you and Henrik on your forbidden quest, please Niklaus on all your honor tell me that she is just watching the sunrise looking for her cloud," he begged of me.
"Niklaus," Rebekah chocked out, "Where is Rosa?" I could no longer hear or see anything for my cries, sobs, and tears were clouding every bit of my senses. When I finally came to I saw that Father was trying to comfort Mother with a look of hatred and sorrow in his eyes, Elijah was throwing things around cursing loudly, while Kol, Finn, and Rebekah were trying to comfort one another.
Rosa was the one thing that held the family together. When she was born Father started being nicer to his children and had actually called me his son once. She always picked flowers with Bekah in the late afternoon after lunch, Finn was trying to teach her to play chess, and she would always help Mother and Father as much as she could. I still remember that one time that Father had come home with game for supper and she had tagged along behind him and was trying to lift the deer's feet up with Father chuckling all the way into the hut with it while she complained how she was too small to reach.
Even with Kol she liked to play with him on occasion. He would go out with her and they would hike up into the woods and Kol would come back with lilies in his hair. No matter how many times we would tease him about it he would always take her into the woods when she asked. Although no one could resist her doe eyes when she brought them on especially our family, even sometimes our neighbors would enjoy seeing her smile.
Elijah was like her world, I never understood why she would follow me around, but next to me she would always be by Elijah's side no matter what. Everyone in our family knew how much she and he loved to get up in the morning and watch the sunrise. When Finn wasn't busy he would play chess with her, and he was even teaching her how to handle a small blade so that she could help Father with the hunting. When Kol wasn't busy he would take her out into the woods and he would be the one coming home with flowers in his hair. When Rebekah wasn't busy he would go with her to the field and pick flowers with her. He loved her more than anything in the world.
She only followed me around because I would travel around town all day while the others did something else. She would just follow me around and ask me questions. Sometimes she would go with me to our secret waterfall that I had showed her the other moon.
The rest of the day you could tell that something was missing from our home. No one smiled the whole day, not even Kol who always seemed to have something to say never opened his mouth once. The only person who said anything was Elijah who was just huddled up on the hill where he and Rosa used to watch the sunrise and beg that she would come home. He sat there the entire day just telling the sky to bring her home.
The rest of the day Father was in the woods searching for her, but he came home with a frown on his face. He didn't even yell at me which meant something. He never said a word to me about Henrik or Rosa. We buried Henrik in the small field on the other side of the village with the rest of the dead the next day, but the second it was over Elijah was grabbing his blade and a few apples in a knapsack.
"Where are you going?" I choked out as he opened the door. Elijah only glared at me and slammed the door to the hut shut.
"He is going on a search for her," Finn said quietly returning his attention to an abandoned chess board. It was the same one that he had been using to teach Rosa, and it was still set up from the last time they had played.
Everyone was hurting, and it was my entire fault.
Elijah pov
After grabbing the necessary things for my departure I left our home and started off into the woods. I was going to find my sister today, or at least I was going to find her body. I shuttered at the thought of seeing my four year old sister's body all torn up and chewed. It still needed to be done. I was not going to let her sit there in the woods and not be given a proper burial. I gave her my word that first full moon that I would never allow any harm to come to her, and I had failed that promise. The least I could do was give her a proper burial. I needed to make sure that she would at least rest in peace.
I knew that this was probably the breaking point between my brother and I he knew that I had an unbreakable bond when it came to my sister and he had almost ruined that. I still loved my brother, but this was crossing the line just a little bit.
I searched the woods the entire day. I searched throughout the entire cliff top where the wolves changed and several miles away from each direction. Just when I was about to give up I heard a small cry of pain. I immediately stopped what I was doing and listened. I didn't hear a thing for a moment or two and I was about to give up and move on when I heard the sound again.
It sounded like the person was in complete pain and agony. Hope suddenly filled my body as I ran towards the sound. I must've run like the wolves themselves were chasing me all the way towards the small sound that had reached my ears. When I finally stopped I saw that I was in the middle of a small field in the middle of the forest. I stopped for a few moments just listening until I heard it again.
The unmistakable sound of a small child crying.
"Rosa?!" I shouted looking around.
"Lijah?" I heard someone sob. I could've lit the entire village with the smile that spread across my face I knew that small voice who skipped the letter 'e' in my name. I looked through the small clearing the best I could, but I couldn't see my sister's blue eyes anywhere.
"Rosa, where are you little sister," I pleaded hoping that this wasn't just my imagination. I heard some shuffling until I finally spotted her. Sitting under two very large rocks was a familiar looking face. You could see the claw marks on the rocks where the wolves must've tried getting at her. Another smile spread across my face. She was smart enough even at her age to find a place to get away from the wolves.
"Lijah? Are the wolves gone?" She cried out from under the rocks. Looking over I saw that there was no way that anyone other than someone her size could ever wedge their way into the small hole that she had gotten herself into.
"Yes Rosa they are gone now you can come out," I said crouching down in front of the rocks.
"Lijah my legs hurt," I could hear her starting to cry again and worry overcame me once again. The wolves must've gotten her legs.
"Alright can you move your arms out of the holes little sister?" I asked her. I could hear more shuffling from under the rocks and soon two small arms stuck out under the rocks. I reached down and tried as gently as possible to lift my sister out of her little hiding place, but I could still tell that she was in major pain. "You're doing great Rosa just a little longer," I cooed to her finally pulling her out of the rocks.
It almost pained me to see her like this. Tears, old and new, were on her face while her dress was covered with dried blood. Her legs were all chewed up with wounds so that you couldn't see any flesh anymore. All there were was blood. Her arms and hands were scraped, her hair was in tangles and caked in blood as well, and her blue eyes that I love so much were full with so much terror that even I was shocked.
Once I pulled her out I took her straight into my arms and fell onto the ground with her. She wrapped her arms around my neck and wouldn't stop crying, but neither could I. I pulled away from her for a moment to look at her.
"Rosa," I pulled her once again back up into my arms. I don't know how long we just sat there and clung to each other, but soon I noticed that it was getting dark out. I stood up but still held her close to me as I ran home knowing that her legs would need to be healed before she could walk again.
"Lijah my legs hurt," she told me as we were nearing the entrance to our village.
"I know little sister we're almost home," I reassured her running through the entire village before I finally settled in front of our home.
"Lijah!" She screamed when I accidentally hit her chewed up leg with one of my hands.
"I'm sorry Rosa. Mother!" I yelled out, "Mother!" I screamed running into our home.
"Elijah what-? Oh my goodness Rosa, Mother!" Shouted the second she saw her younger sister. Finn too came into the room with a confused expression on his face until he saw the small girl in my arms. Soon all three of us were all calling for Mother. I had noticed that Rosa now had a far off look in her eyes and tears welled up in my eyes once again.
"Come on Rosa just a while longer, Mother will be here soon. Please don't close your eyes dear little sister," I begged of her. She had one last smile on her face as she pulled her small hand on my cheek. I took her hand in mine as she just continued to smile at me and the others in the room. I couldn't help but return her smile with Rebekah and Finn.
"I love you Lijah, Bekah, and Finny," Finn chuckled at his nickname from her. Even on the brink of death she could still make our stoic brother laugh a true small laugh. "I see my cloud Lijah," she smiled at the ceiling and giving a small chuckle before she was set into a fit of coughs.
"Is it purple?" I asked her trying to comfort her. The pain was still in her eyes as she just stared ahead. Rosa just stared for what felt like forever until she spoke again.
"It is violet," another small laugh and a cough, "I see lilies as well brother, can I have lilies when you put my into the ground?" I could hear Finn growl.
"You won't be put into the ground dear sister," he told her stroking her hair softly, "You will make it do you hear me sister? You will live."
"But I hurt Finny I cannot feel my legs no longer," she said. I still had her hand pressed up into my cheek when I heard the door open. Soon Kol, Niklaus, Mother, Father, and Ayanna ran into the room. Finn traded places with me as I held our little sister's head in my lap. I told her soothing words as Mother started looking over her body.
"I am so sorry Rosalia," Niklaus said tears running freely from his eyes.
"I blame you not Nik," Rosa said with that small smile on her face, "I should not have run off." Rosa once again took a deep breath and started to close her eyes.
"No, no Ayanna please help," Mother begged Ayanna. She had a torn look on her face as she studied my sister.
"I cannot Ester the Spirits won't allow it," she said calmly.
"No this is my daughter, she is only a child, please Ayanna there must be something for her," Ester cried out.
"There is no way to heal her, I am truly sorry Ester but there is nothing I can do," Ayanna said sadly. Mother was in sobs right at the moment as she reached down and was stroking Rosa's hair.
"Mama is I going to see Henrik?" Rosa asked making Mother cry harder. She must not have been able to take it anymore before she ran out of the hut leaving me alone with our siblings.
"No," Rebekah sobbed out clinging to Finn who was frozen with tears streaming down his face. He took Rebekah in his arms and carried her out of the cut trying to get her away from the scene before she really broke down. That just left me with Rosa.
"Lijah?" She asked. "Nik?"
"Yes Rosa?" I looked at down at her.
"I love you both," she said smiling up at us before her eyes started going off once again, "I see Henrik," she said with a smile on her face. I couldn't help that sob that escaped my mouth.
Rosa passed with a smile on her face.
The second I saw her eyes glaze over and her skin began to grow cold I knew that she had passed. I cried out holding my now dead sister in my arms. Leaning over I cried over her body until I couldn't cry any longer.
"Elijah," Niklaus started, but I stood up and whipped around to speak to him.
"It is your fault Niklaus!" I yelled at him. "You killed her and Henrik!" I couldn't take it anymore I broke down on the ground.
"Elijah I am so, so sorry," he said, but I didn't respond to him. I turned back to my sister and pulled a blanket over her body so that no one would have to look at her legs. I took her into my arms and brought her into her room that she shared with Rebekah. Once she was resting peacefully on the bed I ran out of the room not wanting to look at her another moment longer.
She was gone, my little baby sister was gone just as her life was beginning. She didn't deserve that punishment; she didn't deserve to die, and to have such a painful death by the one thing you feared. No she didn't deserve this. Rosa was so innocent and had always managed to make everyone smile and laugh even in their darkest moments. I ran out of the room, out of the house, and into the darkness of the night. I still didn't want to believe it. I couldn't believe it. My sister the one so full of light was not dead. She couldn't be.
She didn't deserve to be dead.
Yet she was.
So yeah, tell me what you thought please.
Love to all.