A GIRL IN A GILDED CAGE

"THIS IS WERE IT ALL STARTS"


Innocent is the word that would describe Skye Mikaelson the best. Or even the word harmless or fragile. That's all what people would see in her anyway. Since she was young people always felt the need to protect her, to shield her from the wrongs in the world. They didn't want a soul so pure to be tainted.

So when she turned into a demon of the night everything went up in smoke.

Her first kill was a simple one, a meaningless boy strolling through the nearby woods. Skye had been exploring the world with her newfound gift, what she would later realize was a curse, when she caught sight of a boy that couldn't be much older than her.

She was curious of what he was doing there. Not many people went out in the woods, afraid of the powerful and cruel beasts that lived nearby. She wouldn't even be out in the woods herself, wasn't it for the strength and immortality she was blessed with by her mother.

She was just picking flowers for her mother and father when she had seen the boy looking quite lost. Skye didn't think he could do her any harm, especially not with her promising strength, so she approached the boy, who twirled around when he heard a twig snap behind him.

He looked scared and pale and only now she saw he was bleeding. His clothes were soaked with it, his hair was stained red and there were bite marks visible all over his body.

When she was about to open her mouth, the smell hit her like a ton of bricks. It was alluring and she felt something steer inside of her.

The boy who had softened his panicked gaze when he had seen the girl turned into one of pure panic once again. He also had thought this girl couldn't do him harm with her blond wavy hair and her white dress. She had looked more like an angel than a demon.

He couldn't be more wrong.

The moment the scent of the fresh blood had hit her, black veins appeared under her eyes and the white in her eyes had turned red. The sweet smile that she first wore turned into one of pure evil.

And before he could react she jumped on him, teeth sinking in his neck, sucking out the warm thick blood that stilled the hunger that had risen when she had smelled the liquid. The boy withered and screamed in her grip but the girl was far gone.

The live flooded out of the boy and once his eyes became glazed over she let go. Blood stained her once white dress and fresh blood coated her mouth. When her breathing had calmed and her eyes had turned back to normal, she took in the sight in front of her.

Then she screamed. She was horrified with what she had done. She was scared of herself, the demon inside of her. The boy laid there in a pile of lifeless limbs and blood covering his entire body. All of it was his own. She knew that she wasn't the one responsible for all the bite marks that covered his body. She was only responsible for one, the one on his neck. She had made an end to once life, she had sucked the life right out of him. She was the one who killed him.

Her legs had given out underneath her and she fell to the ground, a sobbing mess.

The one who cherished live with all her heart had taken the life away of someone else. Skye couldn't look away from the death body lying in front of her, heartfelt tears streamed down her cheeks and she didn't even try to contain her sobs. They were heart wrenching and it was painful to listen to her.

After what seemed like a million years she stood up. Her expression didn't hint at any devastation. Skye had mastered the art of pretending to be fine. She had become numb and the only thought on her mind was going back to her family, letting them tell her she was okay, that all of this wasn't real.


The moment Skye strolled into the clearing, Rebekah, her sister, noticed her. They had been looking for her all over and they had been afraid something bad had happened to her. Her sister threw a few words over her shoulder, directed at the little cottage she was standing in front of, before running towards Skye.

Rebekah stopped a few meters away from her, taking in the sight of her sister. Rebekah's face had paled and her hands had flown to her mouth that was gaping wide open.

Niklaus and Elijah, two of her brothers, came running towards them followed by her other brothers Kol and Finn.

Just like Rebekah they stilled when they took sight of the fragile girl in front of them.

Under the gazes of her brothers and sister she broke once again.

Her whole body started shaking and her legs turned in to mush, but before she hit the ground she felt two strong arms wrap around her.

Skye turned around and buried her head in her brothers chest. The familiar scent of her brother Niklaus calmed her. He rocked her back and forth, comforting her until they were broken apart by her father.

But that moment had changed her. She felt even more bonded with her family than she ever had and a bit of her innocence was ripped away from her.

Later they found out that the immortality and strength came with a price.

The sun that gave them life burned them, their thirst was insatiable, and their neighbors could close their homes to them.

Vervain flowers that grew at the base of the white oak tree burned them and protected against compulsion. The white oak tree, which gave them immortality, could also destroy them.

The people had turned scared, scared of the monsters that lived in their village, around their children.

Afraid that the people would turn against them, they burned the White Oak, the only thing that could harm them.

That day her siblings and herself made a promise to each other, "Always and Forever."


After years of being together, Niklaus became more dominant. He was mad at his mother for putting a curse on him, suppressing his werewolf side.

Their father never had been a fan of Niklaus and now they knew why. Niklaus was a bastard. It didn't make Skye love him any less though. He was still her brother.

Their mother, a powerful witch that had put the spell on them, was supposedly killed by their father after she had put the curse on Niklaus. They had ran, scared that their father would come for them next.

Kol and Finn went their separate ways after several years, while the other four of them stayed together.

Niklaus and the others still tried to shield Skye from any evil, but she knew it was no use. She was still fragile and innocent, but she had a demon inside of her that was ripping her apart. She hadn't killed anymore since that boy in the woods, but that image was still vividly on her mind.

She would wake up deep in the night screaming and shaking. That made her siblings even more protective off her.

But Niklaus was heavily searching for a way to break the spell. Speaking with witches and even werewolves. They had long since found out that they could make other vampires if they fed them their blood and then kill them, but Skye had never done such things. She wouldn't want anyone to have this curse.

Along the way Nik had found out that there were special silver daggers that you could dip in the ash that was left of the White Oak, and that those could kill an Original, what they were nicknamed. It wasn't permanently, the dagger had to stay in the body to actually work, but it was a threat.

Niklaus horded all of them and often threatened to use them on his siblings whenever they went against him. He himself couldn't be harmed with it because his werewolf side could not be harmed by silver.

Never would they have expected that Niklaus would keep his promise of daggering them.

No, the time he held to his promise wasn't because someone went against him, he daggered one to protect.

Over the years they've gotten enemies and Niklaus feared for his youngest sister safety. So he daggered her. Putting her in a coffin to rot.

Elijah and Rebekah were furious, but they didn't stand a chance against Niklaus.

And that is how Skye Mikaelson had been in a coffin for more than nine hundred years.

But now she was back.