Hello readers, new and old!
Here is my re-write to one of the best fanfics that I've written: Twin Hearts.
As you can see, it has been completely revamped! I want to make it more than what it was. I wasn't giving Pia the justice she deserved and things had just come to a halt as far as where my imaginations had gone. Therefore, here is a new title and a new cover for my revamped fanfic!
Say hello to My Lifeblood.
This story will run in a similar way as far as jumping around the timeline and adding my own spin on things. Some characters will be dead and others may be a little more alive than they should be in TVD timelines. ;) I will include flashbacks as I did in the previous writing and some more standalone chapters that may have been created through my dreams that revolve around Pia and Nik's saga.
I hope you give My Lifeblood a chance and leave a little review as to whether you want to read more of my re-write! Thank you for checking out my little page.
Michaela x
Song(s) for this chapter: Raise the Dead by Rachel Rabin, Gunshot by Lykke Li, Wicked Game by Ursine Vulpine
Warning(s): Mentions of incest, but nothing descriptive.
Rebekah sneered at the sight of the grey structure in front of her. "How undignified." She muttered under her breath. Her nose crinkled at the smell of the damp in the air. "How could you have been left here?" The sound of light steps behind her made her turn.
"This isn't the part where you kill me, is it?" Caroline questioned the vampire in front of her as she saw the very much abandoned looking warehouse standing before them. The building looked like the perfect place for murder from what she had seen on those shows that aired late at night.
"Don't worry, Caroline. We are here on matters of much more importance than you." Rebekah reassured her dryly with a roll of her eyes. "You are my insurance."
"Insurance? What exactly do you mean by that?" Caroline's brows crinkled in confusion. What was the Original up to?
"Hopefully with you here Nik won't do anything stupid. You seem to have some sort of calming effect on him. Why he finds you so special is beyond me…" Rebekah trailed off as she turned to face the building once again. No, this place was disgusting and the sooner this was over the better. She could already sense the musty scent beginning to cling to her hair.
"Okay, I'm done! I knew I shouldn't have come with you." Caroline huffed but barely managed to take two steps backwards before the urgency in Rebekah's voice stopped her.
"Wait! Look, this is important, okay? You want Tyler to yourself and Nik to leave you be? This is how that happens. You can go back to being a lovesick teenager and Nik can be whole again. Caroline…" It was at that moment that the teenager cursed herself for being too soft as she knew that she wouldn't be able to leave Rebekah here considering the pain that was showing in her tone. This was serious. "I wouldn't ask for your help if it wasn't important…" At the look of exasperation that Caroline gave her, Rebekah knew she had won this battle. She allowed a small smile of victory to show on her face before motioning with her head for the other blonde to follow her. "Ugh. Yuk!" The handle to do the door was wet from the mist that had started to settle that night. "I'm going to need a long shower after this." Caroline made a noise of agreement from where she stood; this really was a bleak place. With a small tug the door slid open with a loud creak. The stale air immediately hit them causing both blondes to pull a disgruntled expression and lean back a little.
"What are we doing here?" Their heels clicked across the cold ground as they made their way into the dismal, damp space. Rebekah flicked a switch to her right and sneered as only two lights flickered on to light up the area at the back of the warehouse.
"You'll see." This was all Rebekah said before carrying on forward to the dusty coffin that was at the far side of the building. Caroline took a quick survey of the area as she followed; the walls were a depressing grey colour with green mossy stains covering most of the surface from where the damp had built up. A few cracks were in the roof causing puddles to form on the ground. The dripping of the water only added to the grim atmosphere. Rebekah muttered to herself before continuing forward. "It's quiet."
"Isn't that a good thing?" Caroline inched away from the sight of a large cobweb to her left and quickly scampered closer to the Original Vampire.
"It depends on how you see it." Rebekah reached the coffin at the back of the empty space with a small smile. She used the sleeve of her jacket to rub the dust that had settled on the once shining surface. "How could he let you stay here?" Rebekah questioned her brother's choice in storage out loud before reasoning that she had killed the witch that had put the protection spell on the place so it was fairly safe for the short period that the coffin had been kept here, and that Nik had probably been distracted with getting the curse lifted rather than keeping the coffin immaculate. At least it wasn't damaged, Rebekah supposed. A little bit of dust would be fine. Her hands ghosted over the unmarked surface with a slight tremble. Whether it was due to excitement or nervousness Caroline couldn't tell, but the few tears that built up within the Original's eyes made her forehead crease.
"So… who is this?" Rebekah quickly straightened her form and looked at Caroline with a cool expression.
"The last piece of the puzzle." Rebekah exhaled a deep breath before grasping the opening of the coffin. The lid opened with a creak to reveal a slim girl with wheat coloured hair. Despite the grey tone of her skin Caroline could immediately see the similarities that the daggered female had with Klaus. Her hair was loosely curled and tied back with a red piece of ribbon. She wore a simple, white dress that flowed down to her feet and covered her arms. "She was asleep when he daggered her. He didn't want her to feel anything or be scared of what he felt he had to do."
"Why does she look like Klaus?" Rebekah gave another small smile and brushed back a stray curl that had fallen from the ribbon. Her fingertips traced over her cheeks and lightly touched the necklace that hung around her neck. It was nothing special, just a piece of moulded metal that resembled a half-moon and was attached to a piece of black string, but it held over a lifetime of memories.
"She is his twin. His only full-blooded relative and she has always meant everything to my brother." The loud gasp that came from Caroline made Rebekah let out a wry chuckle. "It's strange, isn't it? People think they know everything about us and then we surprise you once again."
"I- how? How long has she been like this?"
"At least five centuries."
"He- he left her like this for five hundred years?" Caroline was in disbelief. If she meant so much then how could he leave her like this?
"Nik was… struggling… he had been so close to breaking the curse and the pain he felt from failing had made him unbearable. They had been arguing for days, and unlike the other times that they had squabbled, this time felt different. Pia was truly giving up, I think. She wanted to leave. Then one night something felt wrong. I realised that all was far too quiet and so left my bed to see whether Pia was alright. Nik had already plunged the blade into her chest by the time I realised what he was doing." Rebekah wiped away a stubborn tear that fell down her cheek and studied the small form within the casket. "She may have been my older sister, but she always looked like the youngest of us. She never seemed to grow as quickly as the other girls did… I suppose it may have been due to the sickness she caught before her thirteenth birthday… we nearly lost her then too."
"I never knew that Klaus had a twin. He's never mentioned her before." There was a slight jealous tone in Caroline's voice as she spoke; Rebekah fought off the urge to let out an unladylike snort.
"We didn't know she was related to us either until long down the line. It was all too late though… much too late."
"What do you mean?" Caroline stepped closer to get a better look at the secret Original sibling.
"She arrived at our home when she was small… four years old, I think. We were told she was an orphan and that her family had been killed by the wolves. I always noticed that my mother looked at her tenderly and with more love than just a guardian, but I just thought it was out of pity because of how much she had lost at such a young age.
"Pia and Nik were as thick as thieves. Of course, Henrik and Kol enjoyed having someone around that was as mischievous as they were, but her bond with Nik was different. They would finish each other's sentences and they'd stare at each other for ages without saying anything. I used to think that they could speak within their minds! Then I remember one day - they had just celebrated their fourteenth birthday - something had changed. They held hands and snuck kisses in the stable. They would play footsie under the dinner table and sneak into each other beds when they thought no one was awake. I'd wake up to either Nik creeping from our bedroom or Pia just crawling back under her quilt with flushed cheeks."
"You don't mean that they…?" Rebekah didn't need to look to her side to realise that Caroline was looking at her with disgust.
"Once we were all turned into vampires their werewolf genes were activated due to their first human kill. That was when all was revealed. They were siblings, not just lovers. The curse that was placed upon the twins was hard enough for them to handle, but the continued attraction they felt for each other made it even worse. I'm not saying that we didn't slaughter a lot of people, because we did, but as they denied their feelings they would kill hundreds more to satisfy their cravings. It wasn't until they mated again that their ravenous hunger finally lessen-"
"I think we've had enough story time, Rebekah." Both girls swung around to see Klaus slowly making his way towards them; the stony expression on his face and clenching of his fists revealed how much effort it took for him to not rip them into pieces. In an act of defiance his sister pulled the dagger from Pia's chest and held it in front of her with a shaky grip. Klaus' face twitched and he glanced at where his sister lay before taking in a deep breath. He raised his hands in surrender as he evaluated the situation. Pia would wake shortly and he needed to be the first thing she saw; he needed to get to her. Both parties walked in a circle until the hybrid was stood in front of the coffin. He immediately turned his back on the girls, not even bothered about the dagger, and looked down at his twin. His expression softened as he scanned his eyes over her. She was still absolutely perfect. "My beautiful Pia.
"My lifeblood.
"My everything." He carefully leaned down and pressed a soft kiss upon her cold lips. "Oh, how I have missed you, my love."
"Klau-"
"Do not speak, Caroline. You should have never known about Pia until I was ready for her to walk the earth again." The blonde immediately stepped back and observed this new side of Klaus that she was seeing. He seemed… different. She had never seen him so vulnerable before. He almost appeared human. He still hadn't looked at them; his hand caressed Pia's face as though she was a made of glass. Caroline could have sworn that his fingers were shaking a little too.
"Nik, she never deserved this!" Rebekah finally exploded in anger. "She never deserved to have five centuries stolen from her." Klaus' shoulders straightened and he turned to face his snarling sister with a blank expression. "Do you think she will forgive you for over five hundred years of betrayal?! I mean, look what happened with Finn!"
"Rebekah, you should have more faith in me. I was waiting until the right moment." He kept his voice quiet despite wanting to do nothing more than yell back at his little sister. It felt like a stab to the chest as he realised that none of his siblings trusted him. He knew that they would be angry at him for how long they had been kept asleep, but couldn't they realise that it was safer for them? Mikael would have used them to get to him if they had gone off on their own and he couldn't have had that. He wouldn't have them suffer for something that their mother had ultimately caused.
"What?! Another century?! A thousand years from now?! Nik, she has missed out on so much!"
"And if Mikael had caught her then he would have made sure that she'd never open her eyes again! He would have taken her and killed her in the most brutal way possible just to send a message to me!" Klaus quickly stopped his shouting and calmed himself. He wouldn't do this in front of Pia. She deserved a little bit of peace when she woke up. He glanced over his shoulder and noted how her fingers had begun to twitch a little. "I was going to bring her back soon so that we could be a proper family. I would have brought her back to our house and then removed the dagger so that she could wake up in comfort and not in a cold place like this… you know she always hated the cold."
"Yes. Sometimes we'd have to drag her away from the fire before she caught aflame herself." Both siblings smiled at the memories of the countless winters that Pia had curled up in a ball under mountains of blankets and stayed in front of the fire. Not even Henrik could persuade her that the snow was fun to play in and that the falls looked beautiful when frozen. She had always been so slim and so terrified of becoming sick. The air changed at that moment. The anger was replaced with sadness for how much their family had gone through. Caroline shifted uncomfortably as she felt like she was intruding on such a private moment.
"I wouldn't have let her rot like this, Rebekah. You know that." The blonde walked forward and placed her hand on her brother's shoulder.
"She won't care where she wakes up as long as she's with us, Nik." Rebekah lied at that moment. Pia was going to be furious with Niklaus for daggering her in the first place, and then she would turn on her other siblings for not helping her sooner. Pia may have been small, but her temper was legendary. They could only hope that she didn't wake up as her and was her true self when she arose from the desiccation.
"She's going to be so angry." Rebekah nodded; at least Nik wasn't lying to himself.
"Well, you always did share the same temper." The half-siblings shared a small laugh.
"Ah!" The small girl breathed in and her eyes shot open to reveal light blue pools. Caroline jolted backwards as the sudden noise made her jump. Pia's hands moved up to the sides of the coffin slowly as though testing her sense of touch. Steadily she sat up from her resting place and glanced down at herself. She turned her hands over and flexed her fingers as though testing her body. Finally she took in her surroundings and gasped at the sight of the dingy roof above her. Her gaze darted about in panic before she zoned in on part of her family. The fleshy tones of her skin slowly seeped back into her body as she silently observed her twin and only sister. She cocked her head to the side; Rebekah flinched as her neck let out a large cracking sound from the sudden movement.
Dark veins immediately grew around her eyes and blue faded into amber as her hybrid features made themselves known. "She needs to feed." As if on cue, Klaus disappeared for a few moments before returning with a compelled human. Pia snatched him from her brother and dragged the human nearly into the coffin with her. Her fangs instantly shot out and she hungrily drank from the male. It took a few seconds before the body dropped to the floor. Klaus looked on appreciatively at the sight of her; it looked like it really did only take one of them to break the curse. They were going to be unstoppable once properly reunited.
"My, my, you must have been hungry, Pia." The girl still didn't say anything and merely stepped out of the casket with unnatural grace. Caroline compared her to that of a swan; she was so elegant even with the red staining her mouth. She slowly licked the blood from around her lips and cleared her throat.
"Just how long have I been daggered for, Niko? I can't imagine it's still 1537 considering the clothes you are wearing."
"It is 2010, my love." Klaus replied whilst taking note of her flat tone and blank features. Her expression didn't waver as she processed the sheer amount of time that she had been kept in that coffin.
"How interesting." Pia glanced at Rebekah before zoning in on the unfamiliar scent in the room. Caroline avoided her gaze and kept her eyes on her feet. She had never felt so unimportant before. "So kind of you to bring an audience…" It was then that a tear finally fell down Pia's cheek. Her bottom lip trembled as she used her stubborn Mikaelson pride to keep a straight face; it reminded Niklaus of all the times she had looked down at him when holding his head in her lap after another humiliation caused by their 'father'.
Klaus immediately cradled her in his arms and tucked her face into his shoulder. He laced his fingers within her hair and breathed in the scent he had missed for centuries. A growl of appreciation rumbled from his chest as he finally felt whole. The wolf within him scratched and howled wildly as their mate was returned to them.
Mine. All mine.
A second growl rang through the warehouse as Pia tensed in her twin's arms. Klaus steadied himself as she fidgeted within his grip in a half-hearted attempt to escape from him. "I hate you, Niko!" She hit her arms against his chest before slumping forward in exhaustion. She needed more blood, he noted as her body gave away. Klaus instantly brought an arm under her knees and picked her up so she was held firmly against his chest.
"Forgive me. I swear that I will make it up to you. I will make it all up to you."
We will never part again.
The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you
No, I don't wanna fall in love
No, I don't wanna fall in love
With you
What a wicked game to play
To make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do
To let me dream of you
-Wicked Game by Ursine Vulpine-
