"Lizzie, I think this is probably your worst idea. Ever. And that's saying a lot."
Elizabeth Mikaelson smirked at her older sister, her crystal blue eyes sparkling with mischief, "There's a fine line between bad and brilliant, Andi. I'm just skating on it a little."
Twelve year old Andrea rolled her hazel eyes. She should know better after ten years than to even try to dissuade her mischievous baby sister once she set her mind on something. She was stubborn and a constant pain in Andrea's butt. Her mom said she shouldn't say butt but that's what Lizzie was and Uncle Elijah always said to speak the truth. And the truth was, things must have been so much simpler during those precious two years when she was an only child. She chuckled. Uncle Elijah always said that too. Apparently the girls' father was a bit of a pain in his butt sometimes too. As were Aunt Bekah and Uncle Kol. Must be a younger sibling thing. Of course, Uncle Elijah would never say that. He loved them all much too much. But Andi could see it when he made that face where he looked like if he were not super controlled like all the time he would hit a wall. She knew that feeling. Boy, did she know that feeling.
"Lizzie, please. Let's just go back to the compound and find something else to do. You know Dad's minions are going to find us soon and you're going to get us both and them in trouble. Again."
"It's Mardi Gras, sister! I want the best view of our city!"
Andi rolled her eyes, "It's not your city, you moron, it's Dad's. Now get down from there now!"
Lizzie ignored her sister and continued to climb the fire escape ladder on the side of the building towards the roof. She'd heard Marcel say that the best view for the parade was on top of this building. She'd heard that because he'd been whispering it in Aunt Bekah's ear when Lizzie had been eavesdropping on them as they headed to their secret hiding spot that Lizzie had found years ago. But she never tattled. Aunt Bekah never tattled on her either, no matter what she did. They were partners in crime.
Unbeknownst to the girls, however, was the reason Marcel knew about the old building in the first place. It had once been home to a powerful family of witches, a coven he and Klaus had wiped out years before. Their magic still engulfed the place, stronger now in death.
Once she had climbed to the top, Elizabeth looked around at her view. It really wasn't as great as Marcel had claimed. Lizzie chuckled. He had probably just been telling Aunt Bekah that to whisk her away there for what they called "special grown up time." Lizzie assumed that meant kissing so she'd never had any interest in further details.
"It's a bust, Andrea! Mom would love it though! A definite project in the making! Too bad I can't tell her I was here!" she laughed, "I'm coming back down!"
Andi had been pacing at the bottom of the ladder, her fear of heights at war with her desire to keep her baby sister safe. She sighed in relief.
"Carefully, Lizzie, please!"
"It's not like it's going to kill me if I fall, Andi. Mikaelson hybrid, remember?" she chuckled, "Mom really would love it though. It would be like those old buildings in Rome we saw..."
Before she knew what had happened, she was falling. Too afraid to think or even scream, she shut her blue eyes and waited for the impact. No, the fall wouldn't kill her. She was a hybrid after all. But it was going to shatter her bones and, having fallen from more roofs than her mom and dad needed to know about, she knew how badly that hurt.
But the pain never came. Cautiously, she opened one eye, then the other, to find herself sitting comfortably on a bed in a room she had never seen before. It was an older looking room with big windows and three full beds, brought together in the middle by a tiny mini-fridge.
"Where am I?" she whispered, hopping cautiously from the bed and peering around the room.
"I know where you are. Why don't you tell me who you are? And what you're doing in my dorm?"
Lizzie smiled. She knew that voice anywhere.
"Mom!"
"Did it work?"
"Oh yes," the familiar voice chuckled, "My granddaughter has been sent back."
"And you're sure this will work?"
"All she has to do is change a few things in the past and everything will be different now. If he discovers that the baby vampire is hiding her feelings for him, he will leave New Orleans before he takes over and kills your family. You will all be safe."
"And we will keep up our end of the bargain, Esther. We will bring you back."
"And I will finally undo the evil I have brought into this world. I will destroy my children and all of Niklaus's evil offspring. For good."
