Disclaimer: I don't own anything related with or to 'The Original's' like characters etc.

Pairings: Finn and Freya

Slight Finn/Kol

Maybe Kol/Freya

Summary: "I have waited a thousand years for you."

M note: The story is AU-ish, characters are ooc-prone and I might divert from canon but incest is still involved. Although I explained it in 'Autem'...so yeah basically same principle.

Finya is 'Finn/Freya'. Idk if it's a thing or a ship name but the thing is, it's one now.

I was listening to 'People get still' and 'Union' by Deptford Goth

M note 2:know this has nothing to do with the story but oh my Destiel feels and Cas's tie.

Shit ok I died when Cain said his fate would play backwards because that means Dean found his Colette in Castiel and all the foreshadowing. I feel so sad for Crowley but his mom is awesome.

"Hugin and Munin

Fly every day

Over all the world;

I worry for Hugin

That he might not return,

But I worry more for Munin."[1]

- excerpt from the Eddic poem 'Grímnismál'

Here's a fun fact. Odin's raven's names are derived from hugr, 'thought' and munr, 'desire'. Both of which are distinct parts of the self in their own right.

By Degrees

He was not supposed to be alive or at least not still attached to the body he had been possessing previously.

Finding Hope wasn't intended to be a suicide mission but he was ready for it just incase.

Paranoia did him well this week. He had confronted his demons and made someone happy in the process.

Kol would hate him for a while but with any luck and he'd get over it soon. His other siblings, he couldn't care less about.

Well Rebekah isn't that bad. Niklaus just loves pissing him off and Elijah is nuisance.

Still as he looked around the morgue he felt strange. Safe but on edge all at once.

His plan had worked but his tie to magic was severely damaged.

Words couldn't express the levels of shock he was in when he woke or noticed who it was that saved him.

"Why would you help me? Now that we're on the subject, how did you do this? Only person I knew who could..."

She waited for him to drink some water and he did after a moment then continued solemnly.

"Died a thousand years ago, her name was Ayana. She was the most apt of the Bennett bloodline where magic was concerned. Have you heard of them?"

He felt goosebumps for a second but ignored it as he sat up and put on a new shirt.

"Aunt Dalia taught me many things. Shame mother didn't help you much. I don't know many people outside of well, anywhere. I'm not exactly a people-person."

He moved to touch the necklace she had let him barrow and she gave him a sad look as he whispered the words.

"I had an accident when I was human. It's ironic so I won't give details. But to summarize, Ayana convinced our parents that the best thing for me was to lose my magic until I found you or well my priestess."

She looked away for a second and he didnt bother catching her gaze as he said.

"I tried calling out with my magic long ago. It terrified me that I could never get an answer."

Freya looked like she was about to leave as she spoke quietly.

"Calling for me? For years I tried the same. Even after my escape but you were asleep. I got to see our siblings. They are monsters but Rebekah is different, she is kind and lonely. Like you."

Silence filled the room and he couldn't help contemplating her words.

The beautiful girl next to him looked livid in her ire and he was briefly reminded of their father.

Speaking of parents, his were probably awake and aware that he had failed them. Again.

Damn.

Dalia would come for them all but perhaps they still had a chance if and only if they work towards the same goal.

.

"I despise traitors. Elijah will rue the day he moved against you. That is my vow to you, brother."

Finn blinked as he smiled slightly then shook his head and pulled on a jacket that had been sitting on a nearby chair while he spoke.

"He will reap what he has sown in due time. For now he isn't a problem."

Soon the members of the Mikaelson family would need all the help they could get.

He didn't want to call 'truce' but knew they needed him more than anyone was willing to admit.

"Kol is dead. At least his human corpse is. Soon he will be what he's missed most, a vampire."

She handed him a scarf but he declined by raising his hand in a stop motion. With a sigh she put it on herself and spoke quietly, curious in manner.

"You turned him into the one thing you hate above all else. Why? Didn't you tell me that when mother turned, you nearly died of a heart attack."

Freya gave him an weary look as she waited for him to answer.

When he did she couldn't help the odd feeling bubbling up inside her stomach and couldn't even pretend to be okay with the answer.

"He missed it. And has a better chance at survival now that he's back to his original body. Honestly as a witch he couldn't cut it."

Finn laughed lightly then stood up and began to pace the room as if that could be of help to him.

Freya tossed him his phone and cursed when it hit the floor because it had landed a few cemeteries away from him.

They laughed as he picked it up but it died when he leaned against a wall and sat on the floor.

"I just wanted you back. Now you are here and she wants to take you away. Our mother sacrificed everything for us. Our father loved us. I have fallen from grace but it's not too late for you, sister."

Freya walked over to his side quickly and wrapped her arms around him as he cried into her shoulder.

It was an ugly cry and he felt good yet bad about it. All these emotions just came at him.

Somewhere in his mind he knew he should have registered embarrassment but he doesn't and can't for the life of him remember when the last time he did this was.

Perhaps it was the day Freya was claimed. Was it the day Henrik died? Maybe when Niklaus killed their mother. Or the night he awakened from a coma just to realize he lost his magic.

It mattered not. At least in this moment it didn't.

.

.

She kissed him suddenly and with gentle ease but he pushed her back with a little more force than he had intended.

"What are you doing?" He wiped at his tears and breathed for a bit to calm himself down. Maybe he imagined it?

She smiled cheerfully then kissed him again before he could protest. Okay he wasn't going crazy, great.

The kiss seemed to electrify something within but he didn't want to do this.

Not because he found her unattractive but shit like this needed to stop because the 'keep it in the family' idiom was taking on a whole new meaning to him.

"Freya, don't. You do not want this, at least not with me. Trust me."

She began to unbutton his shirt at a deliberately slow pace. All the while looking him in the eyes as if searching and she said.

"I knew you were mine the second you were born."

"Munin."

There it was, the tone she had heard a few nights ago. It made her feel interested but she stopped her actions when she heard her old nickname.

How sad was it that she missed hearing him say it more than she missed her own mother.

Probably, very.

He touched her shoulder gently for a second then continued, sure that she would heed his words.

"You are awake for a year out of a hundred. This is not happening. I will not ruin you or drag you down. And that line, if you never use it again in your life it will be too soon."

He began to move but she held him in place with a hand although no magic was needed.

"Pretend I'm him."

Freya whispered the words quietly as she started to take off her shirt.

"Fuck me."

"I can do that."

"What no it's an expression not a suggestion."

He handed her shirt back as he stood up quickly and resumed his speech in a sincere tone of voice.

"Listen, you are lesser to no one. Why is it that all of our siblings think that? Like did I miss a convention or something. Whatever. Look Frey, you are my sister-"

"Right like that ever stops anyone. Look you have been asleep for 900 years, I think you are my best option at the moment."

It clicked instantly but he wanted a confession so he went along or tried to sound as if aloof.

"How do you know those words, Freya?"

Her playful smile seemed to dissolve as he whispered the words while leaning just enough to make this dangerous.

"Now that I think about it, why put them in that order?"

Freya giggled for a moment then sighed and looked dead-serious as she looked him in the eyes with all the commanding grace of a Mikaelson.

She stood up quickly and spoke calmly but he knew better.

"I saw you and Kol near the cemetery on the day that you cursed him. I would have made my presence known but the two of you were a bit occupied. Now I just want what is mine, you."

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.

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"That son of a bitch! I am so not shocked by this outcome but thought he was lying. I am happy to back in my body but I'm gonna kill him. Finn is going to-"

Kol couldn't help smiling like a loon as he broke the lid off his coffin but stopped moving and talking to himself when both of his parents just stared at him expectantly yet somehow confused.

"Excuse me?" Esther gave him a look and Mikael rolled his eyes then tossed him a blood-bag.

"Where is Finn, Kol?"

Mikael asked the question as he looked around for a second then his eyes landed back on his youngest son.

"Elijah went pyro on him so he probably body-jumped. Did you know that Finn killed me? Yeah, that happened. Oh have I got news for you. Your favorite child is back."

Mikael and Esther gave each other a wtf look and both were probably going to say Henrik so Kol burst their bubble.

"Freya is alive."

So: I saw most of the 'I love you, goodbye' episode but 2 questions.

1.) Why was Elijah crying? Like I don't get it, they just fucked once.

(Is that what people do at weddings now. Why not just buy the happy couple a toaster or a full-expense-paid trip to Fiji. Fuck, I'd probably give them both because Jayley is awesome.)

2.) How does that merit tears but his brothers dying before him don't?