LONDON: 1300.
"King Nathaniel, I would like you to meet Lord Elijah, Lord Kol, Lord Finn, Lord Niklaus and Lady Rebekah." Our servant, Trent says and Emma looked up, when she heard them introduce the guests.
"It's a pleasure," Nathaniel - Emma's father says. "This is my daughter, Emma." He says as the young girl, merely the age of 17 stood up.
"Pleasure to meet you," She said, "If you excuse me father, mother wishes to see me in my bedchamber." She says, looking at her father for permission.
"If you must," He says, waving her off - she curtsy's to the guests before walking calmly out of the room. She sighs when she finds her mother in her bedchamber - her mother, Natalia was a beautiful women, no kidding.
Everyone says Emma got her good looks off of her mother, but what they don't know is what goes on behind the kingdom's doors. "Come child," She whispers, and Emma walks towards her. She sits down, and her mother tugs at the side of her dress, and pulls the plaster off of her knife wound.
"Why does father do it? Does he not like me?" Emma questions, and her mother sighs as she pads an detergent on her shoulder.
"Of course not love, your father just -- has difficulty showing emotions." She says, as Emma breaks down in tears, "Oh, come here. It's going to be okay, it's going to be okay." She whispers soothing words into her youngest daughters ears.
It had been another session where Emma had been beaten down, verbal words shouted and fighting occurred - not knowing that the Mikaelson's had been watching, she ran. "That was intense, are you alright love?" Lord Niklaus's voice arose behind her, and her head snapped to the side.
"Oh, my lord. You shouldn't have followed - I'm quite alright." Emma said, running her hands through her hair.
"Don't lie to me love," He says as he sits down beside her, "I know what it's like to be the bastard child of the family. My father, he didn't like me very much - and took every moment to physically and mentally take me down." He admitted.
Emma's green eyes with small speckles of gold meet his icy blue ones, as tears roll down her eyes. "It's going to be okay love, I promise." He whispers, wiping away some of the tears. Emma sighed.
"We must get back or my father will get worried," Emma said as she stood up - Niklaus stood up a millisecond after her.
"Do you want me to heal you?" He questions, and Emma cocks a brow - herself knowing about the supernatural. She sighs.
"I know what you are Lord Niklaus, the original hybrid." She says, and Niklaus raises an eyebrow at the young girl. "I've heard stories, my friend Madeline, is from a poor family but is a witch." She explains.
"Here," He says, biting down onto his wrist - and she looks at him with confused eyes.
"Why are you helping me? You've never showed kindness to anyone before, why me and why now?" Emma questions him.
"You're innocent, young - just a girl trying to survive when it's so very hard to do so." He says, "And that's why I'm helping you - now come on love, drink." He says, and Emma grips his forearm and drinks from the small wound on his arm.
Niklaus instantly saw her injuries healing, but both didn't see Elijah, Rebekah, Finn and Kol watching from afar. "That's the first act of innocence, he's ever shown on a mortal before." Kol says, with a longing look on his face.
"Shove it off Kol, let's not damage the bond these two have already." Rebekah scolds and Kol sighed, Elijah looked at the younger girl with amazement as she looked at his younger brother with admiration.
"Thank you," They heard with their advanced hearing, "I must go now, father's probably waiting." Emma says, before walking away - her pace fast as her long dress follows after her and Niklaus sighs.
"You guys are never really good at making yourselves unnoticed." Niklaus says facing his siblings.
"That's the first time we've ever seen you act so kind with a mortal, we couldn't pass it up." Elijah says, walking up to his younger brother.
"She's just a girl, like I said - she's trying to survive in a world that is very difficult to do so." He says, before walking away. Rebekah looked at Elijah.
"He feels something for her, it's nothing like I've seen before - Nik would've just fed her his blood and then killed her, turning her evidently into one of us but yet he didn't." Rebekah says, "Maybe he sees what happened to him in her, and doesn't want her to go through the same."
"Maybe there is some hope for Niklaus," Elijah says, "For all of us, in that young girl."
"Where were you earlier?" Emma's father scolds as she sits at the foot long table, "Emma! I'm talking to you!" He shouted, banging his fist down on the table, making the young girl jump in shock and her eyes to meet Niklaus's.
"I-I was out in the garden's." She whispered, and her father growled.
"Nonsense, I sent Trent out there and you weren't out. Do not lie to me." He hissed and Emma felt tears roll down her eyes.
"I went to the river," Emma whispered, finally not lying about where she really was.
"And saw that girl, what was her name again? Madeline?" Her father asked with a menacing look in his eyes, "I forbid you to see that girl again," He says.
"Father you can't! She's my friend," Emma said, and her mother stood up.
"Nathaniel!" She shouted, as tears poured out of Emma's eyes. "You can't forbid her to see a friend, one such as dear as Madeline." Natalia says, and Nathaniel looked at her with a smirk.
"I can and I will, if I see you hanging out with her one more time - I will get her executed, do you hear me?" He asked and Emma bowed her head, "I said do you hear me?" He bellows and Emma stands up.
"Yes!" She shouts back before taking off out of the lavish dining room. Her dress flowing behind her as tears hit the ground at fast pace. Before she could comprehend, she was pushed against the wall nearby and the blonde looked at her with saddened eyes.
"Come, I'll help you get cleaned up." Rebekah says, grabbing her hand and dragging Emma towards her bedchamber.
Emma couldn't believe she was defying her father's orders, Kol looked down at her. "Are you sure you want to do this darling?" He questions, and Emma looks up at the youngest Mikaelson before nodding.
"I'll be right here," He says, and Emma leans up and pushes a kiss to his cheek.
"Thank you Kol, for everything." She whispers, before running towards Madeline's door and pushing it open - finding a gruesome sight. She screams, tears rolling down her eyes as she sees Madeline with a knife plunged through her heart and her parents both dead.
Just as she was about to fall, Kol came through the door and encased her in his arms. His hands instantly when to her hair in a soothing motion - he knew instantly who had done this, after all - he did threaten his daughter last night.
"Shh," He whispers, when the door slams open - Niklaus and Elijah came in.
"We heard screaming," Niklaus says, before looking around the room.
"They're dead, they're all dead - at my own fathers hands." Emma whimpered, as Kol handed her over to Elijah - so he and Niklaus could search the now bloody scene.
"It's going to be okay, we're here. Shh," Elijah cooed, trying to calm the younger girl before nodding at his brothers - telling them to look around.
A scream echoed through the house, and Emma was quickly out of the second eldest Mikaelson's arms. There was one person that wasn't in the house, and that was Rico. The eldest brother.
"Emma?" He questions, as he notices the tear marks on her face.
"Rico, I'm so terribly sorry - I took this fate apon your family. M-My father threatened to kill your sister, if I didn't stay aw-" She whimpers as the boy took her in his arms.
"Shh, it's okay. It's okay," He whispers, before pushing a blade through her heart. "That's for my family," He whispers, as he lets her drop to the floor. Before she could hit the floor, Elijah caught her in his arms, scooping her in his arms.
Giving Niklaus a quick look, Nik couldn't see fit that his blood would still be in the girls system. Rebekah and Finn came through the door quickly, seeing the girl they now treated as family in pearl of dying.
"Elijah, do something." Rebekah hissed, and Elijah looked at her.
"I don't want to force this apon her, She must decide if she wants this." Elijah says and Kol stands beside them.
"She's dying Elijah," Kol whispers, tears forming in his eyes - as he looks down at the girl he thinks of as a younger sister.
"E-Elijah, I want this - I don't want to die," Emma whimpers, her form was growing weaker by the second - Niklaus quickly leaned down beside her and grabbed her hand. Pressing his lips against the back of her hands before nodding at Elijah.
Elijah sighs, before biting down onto his wrist and shoving it into Emma's mouth, "Drink sweetheart," He whispered, when he thought she had a significantly enough in her system. He quickly takes his wrist away and snaps her neck.