A/N: Hey guys, this chapter is based on the scene where Esther makes her first appearance. The other chapters will be more interesting! I just wanted to include how this was actually a very bad episode for Klaus. A very Klaus-centric chapter!

I do not own The Vampire Diaries or this story line which is inspired from The Vampire Diaries.

Klaus kept his eyes firmly on his shoes, not wanting to look at any of his brothers or sister in the eye. He knew all he would see was contempt or disgust and it would hurt him. This was what he had been most afraid of – being ostracized, unwanted and rejected by his own family. Everything he had done was for his family to be whole again – he had killed Mikael, getting rid of the rampant father who had wanted his own children dead, yet everything else had backfired on him.

"You lied to me," Klaus said in a blank voice, his eyes still fixed on his shoes. "Why, Elijah?"

No one could mistake the disappointment and almost confusion in his tone.

"Maybe because you betrayed me before, Niklaus," Elijah said coldly. "You did this this to yourself."

Elijah had not only been a brother to him but had been his most loyal and trustworthy buddy. He had never thought Elijah would be the one to undagger his siblings and betray him. But knowing Elijah, calculative and vengeful, he now realised that he had been a fool to trust him.

"I did it for us," he said almost earnestly and angrily, "So our family could be whole again."

"Well, we are going to be a family again," Finn lashed out, "Just without you!"

The words stung as though Finn had raised his worst nightmares and had taunted him with them. Niklaus raised his eyes to stare at Finn with pure, cold hatred. This was the second eldest brother, the one he loathed without hesitation.

"If you dare run," he said with gritted teeth. "I promise you I will hunt you down and make you regret it forever."

Finn stared back at him, with the same look that told Klaus that he was despicable. His long dark black hair he had sported 900 years ago made him look like a crazed caveman but Niklaus was not scared one bit.

Having known his younger brother, Elijah was not surprised at all by his threat. Kol, his younger brother, had an expression that was unfathomable. It seemed like a mix between hard and amused. Rebekah, no doubt, was the most angry and annoyed.

"You never learn, do you, Nik," she said in an acidic tone.

Klaus could not face her and went on staring icily at Finn. But Rebekah was not done.

"Go on, tell them what you did," she almost hissed the words. "Tell them how you lied, Nik. Go on, tell them!"

Klaus stopped himself from flinching at her screech. The atmosphere of the room, if it were possible, turned darker as the siblings closed in on him sitting on a chair. Elijah was now on the chair next to him, Kol was leaning against the kitchen counter right in front of him, a wine glass in his hand, and Finn stood somewhere in between the arc. Kol and Finn looked at Rebekah with puzzled looks on their faces. Elijah was the only who tried to meet his brother's eyes.

"More lies, Niklaus?" he said in a dangerously calm voice.

Klaus steeled himself to hold Elijah's steady gaze, his brother's eyes a pool of only darkness. But he did not answer.

"Tell him," Rebekah demanded. "If you don't tell him, I will. Which is it going to be?"

"Our mother, Elijah…"

That was all he could manage without feeling something within him break. He felt as though his heart shattered a little inside for he knew that they were never going to be a family again now. It was over for him; he had irrevocably gone beyond the possibility of forgiveness.

He blinked a tear, his face expression now strangely murderous. Rebekah walked right up to him and grabbed his collar roughly.

"Say it, you coward," she said nastily, though her voice was now a little shaky and her eyes were now watery with tears.

Klaus stared at her, his green-blue eyes cold and empty, but he did not fight back. She released his collar by pushing him roughly back and walked away to stand next to Kol now at the kitchen counter. She glared at him, her dark eyes challenging him.

"I did it…," Klaus said plainly, now shifting his eyes from one sibling to the other. "I killed Mother… I killed her, Elijah…"

Elijah looked shocked, but he was at a loss for words. Finn seemed devastated and angry; his face was now contorted by rage in an ugly manner. Kol tried to hide that he was horribly appalled but the look of astonishment was evidently there.

"HOW COULD YOU –"

Finn burst out screaming as he charged at Klaus. Klaus was still sitting on his chair, calm as ever, but Eljiah had zoomed in between them to block Finn. He was still the eldest and the one everyone listened to.

"Don't, Finn," Elijah said firmly, a note of finality in his words.

No one could challenge that tone Elijah used. It reminded them that he was in charge and the strongest and most sound among them. He was the most reasonable and yet most calculating, not attacking when not necessary, taking action only when it was most necessary.

Shocked and angry, Finn moved back, muttering something under his breath sulkily. Klaus looked humoured as he stared from Elijah to Finn.

"Why not, Elijah?" he said arrogantly. "Go on, Finn, I dare you. Come on, attack me."

Finn did not look the least bit daunted. He looked rather more broken and furious.

"How could you, Klaus," he snarled. "She was our mother. She protected you, Klaus. She loved you!"

"SHE TURNED HER BACK ON ME!" Klaus burst into a fit of rage.

He saw Rebekah flinch at his words, the hurt filled in her eyes, but he could not care any less now.

"I will kill you," Finn growled. "I mean it. You killed both Mother and Father. You made us orphans, you monster! I will kill you even if it means getting myself killed."

Finn did not have to say that he had meant it; Klaus knew well enough that he did.

"I'm the hybrid," he sneered. "No one can kill me! Go ahead, Finn. Attack me! I will kill all of you. ALL OF YOU!"

"You think no one can stop you?" Elijah said, challenging him. "We will, once we have that coffin of yours."

Klaus almost gasped as he stared at Elijah with burning cold hatred. Elijah was no more than an enemy now to him.

We'll never forgive you for what you did to Mother, Nik," Rebekah's voice broke.

Klaus did not look her in the eye at all. He just could not bring himself to care. He was afraid his heart might break even the slightest. Rebekah went on staring at him determinedly, her eyes welling up with tears of hatred. Next to her, across the counter, taking a sip and fingering the wine glass, Kol threw her a look of pride and satisfaction.

Suddenly the front door swung open and everyone's head, including Klaus', turned to see who had intruded upon their family business. A woman, in an olive green dress, with blond hair that was reminiscent of Rebekah's straight, golden hair, walked in towards Niklaus.

"Mother," Rebekah breathed.

Everyone seemed dazed as though they were in a fantasy, except for Klaus who, shocked, was reduced to nothing but that of a frightened little boy. He shook with fear, his mouth open to say something but nothing came out. As the woman came closer, and Rebakah and Kol made way for her to stand only inches away from Klaus, Klaus' eyes looked at the ground, as tears slowly fell from them.

"Look at me, Niklaus," the woman said in a high and cold voice.

He felt his insides disappear as he boldened himself to face her.

"Do you know why I'm here?" she asked slowly, her voice hard.

He nodded shakily and tearfully. "T – To kill me," he stuttered.

"Niklaus, I am here to forgive you," she said drawlingly.

She turned away from him to face her three other children, who looked astounded and speechless. Behind her, Klaus still looked shaken and defeated.

"I want this family to be whole again," she said, with a note of finality that was familiar to them and stronger than the ones Elijah's tone had.