Prolouge

She wasn't supposed to be here. Something was indeed terribly wrong. All of them could feel it, the power rippling over their skin like a pulsating snake.

But even so, it was a pathetic slimy reptile that lacked any venom in its bite.

Adelaide had felt traces of this specific "magic" before, remnants left on ancient relics within the library of darkness.

The hybrid was finally breaking his curse. To some, it was a horrible occasion and rightfully so, but to Adelaide, it made every fiber of her being vibrate in anticipation.

A truly extraordinary event made even more glorious by her being able to witness it.

Her back was pressed firmly to a tree, confident that the shadows shielded her and that her aura could not be sensed.

She felt the hand hover over her shoulder before there was any contact, though when the hand touches down it is cooler than she imagined."How long will you refuse to speak to us, Adelaide?"

Bristling, she pulled her hood up as the elated mood she felt slowly disappeared into the cold air. Feeling the hypothetical knife her companions yielded digging into her spine. Leaning further into the wooden embrace of the tree, she suddenly lifted her wrist to watch the gold bangle be manipulated by the moonlight.

It was a silent reminder. There was a reason she wore gold on both her ears and wrist and her companions did not.

The hand immediately fell from her shoulder as quickly as it had been placed.

"I do not owe either of you anything," She hissed roughly the sound grating when compared to her pleasant french lit, no longer caring to hold up pretenses. "You two knowingly left me uninformed to the matters of my own family."

Gabriel hiding only a couple trees behind them withdrew his gloved hands from the side of his black coat pockets. Adjusting the thick dark spectacles he wore that made his eyes look even more vibrant. "We wrongfully believed the situation could be handled more smoothly and with more sensitivity if you were left out of it, Adelaide."

Glancing down at the scene before her. Watching as Niklaus Mikaelson smirked, barely able to hide his excitement. He had been waiting for this moment for centuries. Just as she had.

"So what are you implying is that you didn't trust my judgement." Her tense form excluded an animosity that was like acid, her sigh however was softly deflating. It was as if she allowed the tension to be replaced with melancholy.

Lucille shook her head so vigorously that her auburn hair hit her cheeks. "There it is that anger I knew you bore us."

Adelaide suddenly stood, knowing the darkness just barely kept her hidden from sight.

"How long have you been waiting for me to lash out so I would feel as guilty as you should? Well I don't. I have been a good and loyal friend and what were you?"

"It was a mistake. We made a mistake."

"It was a choice, Lucille. We all have choices." The high collar dress Adelaide wore suddenly felt constricting around her neck, the beautiful red lace becoming a chain.

"Well I don't, not anymore. Gabriel doesn't. But you do and you always will because of who and what you are."

Adelaide snorted decisively, "Your cage is invisible but you feel it all the same, and has it ever occured to you that it is of your own making. That the bars formed the minute you considered me just by namesake and being, but I suppose it is easy to forget so when faced with an abomination such as myself."

His jaw clenched, "We didn't-"

"You didn't have to say it, Gabriel. You never had to say it. It's the reason you wouldn't let me handle the family that abused and abandoned me, it's the reason I am here at this very moment. I am tired of being alone."

"Niklaus Mikaelson is not like you Adelaide. He is a monster."

"Even so, he is my monster now."

It was said with such force that they both cowered. And Adelaide could have sworn, for even just a second as the transition took hold on Niklaus's body, that his eyes had been searching through the darkness where she stood.