Alessa suppressed a sigh as she listened to her brothers. They had come down, driving several hours to her collage in LA to see her, after visiting their friends at their collage in VA. Now she was eating lunch with them, listening to them complain about how she should have gone to the same collage as their friends, how they would have seen her more.
Her brothers were very protective over her, they always had been, even though she was technically older than both of them. She was the older twin sister of the elder brother, Damon, and then there was their younger brother Stefan. They had grown up on a plantation with their mother and father in the mid 1800's. Their mother had passed away when Damon and she were 17, and Stefan was 10.
She had been married off to a man, Niklaus, passing through who made a deal with her father, not long after. They had moved away to LA and she was forbidden contact with her family, in an effort to protect her. He had seen how abusive her father was and had stepped in to save the day. She didn't like not being able to communicate with her brothers who she had been close to, but she was perfectly happy to never have anything to do with her father.
Niklaus and Alessa lived with his brother, Elijah and Niklaus' young ward Marcel, in New Orleans. There she found true happiness, for the first time I. Her life, despite missing her brothers desperately. She found out not long after that the man she had been married to was a vampire, who turned her. She had lived with him and his family for many years before they separated. They never loved each other romantically but they were rather fond of each other, though the sex was always amazing.
Niklaus and his family were old vampires, they were the first to walk the earth. They were nearly indestructible, only vulnerable to the White Oak tree, which they had burned down not long after they had been turned. The only weapons to take them down was the white oak stake, held by their father, who they were hiding from because he wanted to kill Niklaus, who was not his son; and a set of daggers that had been dipped in white oak ash. The daggers didn't work on Niklaus who was half werewolf, inheriting the werewolf gene from his birth father, a man he had never met, but they worked on his siblings, who he kept in line with threats of being daggered.
At the time that Alessa was turned at the age of 21, Niklaus had daggered three of his siblings. Finn, the oldest, had been daggered for roughly 800 years. Kol the youngest brother, had been staggered for 41 years, and Rebekah the youngest, had been daggered for 27 years. She met Rebekah first, when she was undaggered in 1887 and the two became fast friends. She met Kol in 1901, and the two fell in love. She had separated from Niklaus by this point, and she and Kol had started a tumultuous relationship.
Alessa's time with Kol was short, having been on the receiving end of Niklaus' daggerings for so long, and feeling like he didn't belong in their little family, Kol plotted revenge. Alessa couldn't talk Kol out of it, and not wanting betray him to Niklaus, she could do nothing but ride it out. In 1914, Kol was found out and daggered in front of her during a Christmas party. Devastated Alessa left the family to travel, finding her way back to Mystic Falls, VA her home town.
There she had discovered that her brothers were still alive, having been turned into vampires about 10 years after she left. They had come back into town for the funeral of their nephew. (I know the funeral was in 1912, but I changed it for the purpose of the story). Damon had loved the fact that he was now older than her.
She had travelled with Stefan for a few years after that meeting. Stefan, she discovered was a ripper, a vampire that had no control when it came to drinking blood. Damon had convinced him to drink human blood from the vein while they were in Mystic Falls, and Stefan who was on an animal blood diet fell off the rails. Stefan became notorious over the years for his horrendous acts, but Alessa traveled with him still, he was her baby brother after all.
In 1922, while in Chicago, they ran into Niklaus and Rebekah. Stefan and Rebekah started dating, and she and Niklaus picked up where they had left off before they separated. Though not in love, they were lonely, and she knew it would be a while longer before Niklaus undaggered Kol, after what had happened.
Not long after, Niklaus and Rebekah's father came to town in search of them. Niklaus daggered Rebekah when she wanted to stay with Stefan, and then compelled Stefan to forget about him and Rebekah. Niklaus was unwilling to travel without Alessa, who agreed to travel along with him as long as he didn't compel Stefan to forget her. Niklaus agreed and compelled Stefan to believe that Alessa had decided to travel alone for a while.
Alessa traveled with Niklaus for many years, until the 1970's when she ran into Damon in New York. Damon had his humanity turned off, so Alessa begged Niklaus to let her travel with Damon for a time, and Niklaus agreed.
Alessa traveled with Damon for many years, until they found themselves in Mystic Falls in 1994. Damon claimed to want to make amends with Stefan, which ended in naught when Damon ended up killing their nephew Zack's pregnant girlfriend. Alessa left her brothers, then keeping in touch but traveling alone, until she ran into Elijah.
She traveled with Elijah for some time, until he was lured to a farm house by a couple of vampires who had been running from him for 500 years. After that she was thrown into a series of events that involved her brothers being at odds with her husband's family (thought separated, they had never divorced).
Niklaus had broken his curse, by killing Stefan's girlfriend, the doppelgänger of the very woman who had turned her brothers. The events that followed almost destroyed her brothers and husband, and led to the eventual undaggering of all the siblings. Alessa had been reunited with Kol only to have him ripped away permanently by her brother's girlfriend. Deviated once again Alessa had opted to go back to LA, the one place she truly felt at home and go to college, something she had always wanted to do but never had.
Not long after moving to LA, she had discovered that Niklaus' ward was still alive, she had been told he had died when they fled the city. Marcel was not only alive he was now king of the city, but not long after she moved there, Niklaus and Elijah followed. She remained on friendly terms with them, even though she finally divorced Niklaus. Niklaus had mystically knocked up a werewolf and with the baby on the way, she figured it was time.
Though she saw them often, drama followed them, and she tried as much as possible to stay out of it. She had a small apartment, on the top floor of a building that housed small stores and apartments alike. The apartments were not well known, hidden away in a corner of the building only seen by workers, and never the patrons on the stores, something she quite liked.
She still kept in touch with her brothers, not so much their friends, of whom was Stefan's ex-girlfriend who was now Damon's current girlfriend. The only friends of theirs she could stand was Caroline, of whom Niklaus had taken an interest in and Stefan's best friend, and Matt, Caroline's ex-boyfriend and Rebekah's current love interest.
It was her contact with her brothers that led her to them visiting her. They had found out that Niklaus' family had also come to town and were trying to convince her to transfer to Whitmore, where Damon's girlfriend and Caroline were attending. So here she sat, suppressing a sigh at their attempts to tell her how evil her ex-husband was and how she was in danger living in such close vicinity to them.