A/N Hey! Thank you to the people who chose to follow or favorite this fanfiction! Seeing that people are actually interested in this story motivates me to continue writing it. This is the second chapter, where you can see a little bit of how Juliana interacts with the rest of her siblings. And for anyone who wants to know, I imagine Juliana to look like Amanda Seyfried.
To Mysterybooklover: Thank you, it really means a lot to me! As I already said, in this chapter you can see a little bit how Kol and Juliana interact with each other. Thank you for reviewing!
Chapter 2
Present Day, Mystic Falls
Dreaming. That was the best comparison Juliana could think of. When you were lying daggered in a box for years, decades or even centuries - in her oldest brother's case - you don't quite feel time. When you wake up again, a century could have passed just as well as a few days. So naturally Juliana had no idea how much time had passed when she opened her eyes and deeply inhaled to fill her lungs with air. She blinked trying to adjust to what she was seeing.
The last thing she remembered was being out on a hunting trip when Nik had gotten to her.
They had argued. The next thing she knew was feeling the sharp pain of the dagger piercing her heart.
Juliana sat up, her eyes darting around, trying to find something familiar. She didn't recognize her surroundings, what she did recognize however was the coffin she found herself in. Besides hers were four other coffins, similar to her own.
"Juli?" a voice brought her out of her thoughts.
She turned her head to see who it belonged to. When she did, dark brown eyes meeting her own cerulean blue orbs, her whole face lit up with joy.
"Kol?" she breathed, quickly jumping out of the coffin. Her brother's arms caught her and spun her around, their happy laughter because of being reunited after so much time filling the air. They were finally able to see each other again.
When Kol sat her down again, his hands falling to her waist, she took his face into her hands and smiled up at him.
"I've missed you, brother."
"As I have you, sister. Desperately." he grinned back at her.
They were interrupted when a throat cleared behind them. "Not to ruin the family reunion, but we kind of have a schedule to follow." a dark haired man with bright blue eyes she didn't know said with a sarcastic smile.
"I have not seen my brother in half a century, so mind your tongue." Juliana hissed, annoyance showing in her eyes.
"Now is not the right time, Juliana. We must confront Niklaus for what he has done." Elijah interfered, giving her scolding look. Nice to see how happy you are to see me again brother, Juliana thought bitterly.
"Alright. Where is that Bastard?" Rebekah snarled angrily at the mention of her brother.
"Oh, the ever following Rebekah is angry at Nik. What did he do to finally deserve such a treatment?" Kol teased mockingly. Rebekah was always quick to forgive Nik and followed him everywhere. Kol had never gotten such a treatment from anyone in his family besides Juliana. Not that he would ever do anything that would require her forgiveness. He loved her and unlike the rest of his siblings she actually trusted him.
Rebekah obviously didn't share that sentiment, seeing as she was part of the reason he had been lying daggered in a box for god knew how long. Again.
"This is no laughing matter, Kol! Mikael didn't kill mother." Rebekah said with a wavering voice.
"What are you saying, Bekah?" Juliana asked apprehensively. If Mikael hadn't kill her mother, then who did? It couldn't have been…? No. Her brother had done a lot of terrible things but he would never have killed their mother…right? She looked almost pleadingly into her sister's eyes. This couldn't be, this wasn't true.
But Rebekah only looked down. "He killed her. Niklaus killed our mother."
Juliana led out a choked sob when her fears were confirmed. Her own brother had killed their mother. Sure, before that she had thought if had been Mikael, her father. But Mikael had always been cruel, unlike her brother. When they were still humans Niklaus had been a sweet man who loved art and music. He loved his family. So how could he kill their mother?
She was pulled out of her thoughts when she felt a pair of familiar arms sneak around her waist. She turned to return Kol's embrace.
"It will be alright sister." she heard him whisper with a wavering voice into her ear. "We still have each other, remember?"
"Yes." Juliana managed to get out. "No matter what, you and I will make it. Together."
Another gasp filled the room and all eyes turned to the source. The oldest Mikaelson brother had finally awoken from his dagger induced slumber. Finn got out of his coffin and took in his surroundings with a confused look in his eyes. He had been daggered the longest, and judging by his clothing he hadn't been awoken while Juliana was daggered.
"Welcome back, Finn." Elijah cleared his throat and greeted his older brother. Then he turned his attention to the rest of his siblings. "I understand you all have questions, but they must wait until later. For now we have more important matters to attend to."
With that the Mikaelson siblings followed him out of the room. Elijah led them to a dining room, where Nik was talking to a young man. Elijah and the dark haired vampire stepped into the room along with a compelled woman who was holding a tray covered with a cloth.
"Elijah. Why haven't you left?" Nik questioned a bit confused.
"Where are your manners, brother?" Elijah replied mockingly. "We forgot desert." he added as he pulled the cloth from the tray, revealing two daggers.
"What have you done?" Nik asked with a low voice when he realized what had just taken place and took a step back.
"What have you done? See I've learned not to trust your vulgar promises, Klaus. We're doing this on my terms now."
Kol walked into the room towards Nik. "Kol." Nik exclaimed with wide eyes raising his hands in an attempt to pacify his younger brother and took more steps back. "Long time, brother." Kol stated, his eyes dark with anger and walked further towards him.
Finn flashed into the room, grabbing one of the daggers from the tray and pointed it at the immortal Hybrid. "Finn, don't" Nik pleaded and screamed as his oldest brother pushed the dagger through his hand and pulled it out again.
Niklaus tried to speed away, but was stopped by his two sisters. "Rebekah, Juliana" he recognized with fear in his eyes. "Where are you off to Nik? The family reunion has just begun." Juliana pouted mockingly. Rebekah staked another dagger into his stomach. "This is for our mother." she said as she pushed him back into Kol's arms.
"You're free to go." Elijah informed the two other men in the room who didn't belong to the Mikaelson family. "This is family business." he added as they left.
"I like what you've done with the new place, Nik." Rebekah stated just before she picked up a vase and smashed it against a wall.
"I wanted it to be for all of us. A place we could all call home. A place where we could all be a family. None of us would ever have to be alone again." Nik said sadly looking up at Elijah.
"And you're right. None of us will be." Elijah agreed before making his way to Rebekah.
"You're staying behind." Finn added as he, Kol and Juliana followed him. "We're leaving you, Nik. Right after I kill that doppelgänger wench. Then you will be alone. Always and forever." Rebekah mocked the vows that their family had so long ago sworn to one another.
"If you run, I will hunt all of you down." Klaus threatened, becoming defensive.
"Then you will become everything you hate." Elijah smoothly replied. "Our father."
"Perhaps you are more like dear old Mikael than we thought." Juliana wondered mockingly, knowing exactly what that did to her older half-brother. She hated her father and Niklaus knew it. She hated him, even now that she found out that it wasn't him who killed her mother, but Nik.
"I'm the hybrid. I can't be killed." Klaus yelled his temper and fear of abandonment taking over. "I have nothing to fear from any of you." he chuckled arrogantly, while pointing at his siblings who had taken a stance in front of him.
"You will when we have that coffin." Elijah calmly threatened. Niklaus just stared at him, pressing his lips together in a thin line.
Suddenly a door opened behind them, interrupting the stare-down. All the attention in the room shifted to the person who had just entered. Klaus gasped, the shock showing everywhere on his face.
"Mother." Rebekah stated, shock also lacing her voice. Juliana couldn't believe it. Her mother had been dead for a thousand years, ever since her brother killed her. But here she was. Dressed just like she had been when Juliana had last seen her, in her 10th century attire.
She grasped Kol's hand, needing something to hold on to. Her brother returned the gesture and intertwined his fingers with hers, giving her hand a slight squeeze.
They all made place, still shocked at the turn of events none of them had been expecting, as the assumed-dead Original Witch walked further towards her son who lowered his head.
"Look at me." she demanded when he still wouldn't look her in the eyes. "Do you know why I'm here?" she asked once he finally did.
"You're here to kill me." Nik replied with a defeated tone in his wavering voice and tears in his eyes.
Juliana was confused as to what exactly she was feeling. Nik had killed her mother, she should want him dead. But here her mother was, alive and breathing. That didn't make up for the fact that Niklaus had killed her, and that she had to spend a thousand years without the guidance and comfort her mother brought. Still at the thought of losing her brother, whatever the things he had done, her heart clenched painfully in her chest.
"Niklaus you are my son. And I am here to forgive you." she corrected and the tears in his eyes finally spilled at her words.
Esther than turned to the rest of her children. "I want us to be a family again." she declared.
A family? Juliana wondered. Her family was much too broken to ever be labeled as such again. Her mother hadn't been there in the last millennia. She hadn't seen how each of them had changed and grown apart. A thousand years of pain, betrayal and mistrust took more to fix than simply saying that you want it all to be as it was. But maybe, maybe her siblings and her could be a real family once again. After all they were immortal. They had an eternity to try and fix what they damaged, especially now that their mother had miraculously returned from the dead.
Well, she thought, I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.
A/N That was the second chapter. I couldn't change much in this scene, but I tried bringing Juliana in a few times. In the next few chapters you will find out more about Juliana and her relationship with her family – her siblings and her parents.
I hope you liked it. Please leave a review! I don't have much experience with writing and I hope I'm doing good so far. So please share your opinion with me, even if you don't like it.
Thank you for reading, bye :)
