A/N: Again Thank You again for your follows and reviews, this is far from finished and there is going to be a few surprises, don't worry 'flashbacks' will be an occurence for the pieces you feel are missing, I will be going back to explain parts, fear not all will be revealed :)

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The Original Wife

Chapter 3 - Moment our lives changed

It was coming up to a year now, even though I don't know how long it had been in my time. I missed everyone, my family and friends. I have gained more but it wasn't the same, I just hope that I haven't changed too much in the future.

Tonight is the full moon and we have made our way to the caves, Elijah and I are in a cave close by to his family, we did the same thing every full moon, except this time I hadn't seen or heard Klaus or Henrik in the caves with us. Then it dawned on me, tonight was the night Elijah would lose his youngest sibling, who I had come to care for also. It kills me to know what lies ahead, and not be able to do anything to prevent it. I keep telling myself that this has to happen, it has to. So I make myself busy and I prepare dinner for myself and Elijah. Unknown to anyone else that I let a tear fall from my face, this night would change everything, the pain I feel at this moment will only be worse for the others.

Although I saved Henrik once before, I was unable to do so this time, seeing their faces after they came running to our aid by the waterfall the first time, only made realisation hit home, I couldn't save him, not this time. It was his time even though I didn't want it to be, he deserved to grow up into a young man and marry, have children. No matter how much I wanted that for him, I couldn't change the past/present, If I did everyone I know wouldn't exist, myself included.

Sleep was not easy to come by that night, knowing what was about to happen kept me up. Even with the arms of the man I love around me, I couldn't sleep. I laid there in silence and hoped that Elijah wouldn't wake up from my movements.

The next morning we had packed all our things and returned home, Elijah and I were kissing when we first heard it. Klaus was yelling in the village, I could hear voices of others screaming, Elijah ran out of the house and I followed shortly behind, already knowing the heartache that they were witnessing. Henrik lay lifeless in the arms of Klaus with blood covering him. My husband was supporting his mother and siblings, while I supported him. He needed me, they all did, so I stood back and waited for the mass of emotions that would come.

It had been a couple of weeks since the death of Henrik, everyone took it hard, Klaus the hardest since he blames himself, we supported him the best we could. He already felt alone even with his siblings, the lack of love from his parents had made him accept that he was destined to be alone. Not long after this had Mikael demanded, that their be a way for his family to protect themselves from the wolves, believing the caves weren't safe enough anymore. All this lead to the birth of Vampires.

We were all called one night for a family dinner, even myself. We entered the house belonging to my In-laws and waited, I knew what was coming but never made it known. Tonight was the night The Original vampires were created by Esther, an immortality spell which would use the dark magic, and in turn go against the servants of nature.

Mikael came and placed a cup of what I could only assume was something laced with Tatia's blood, the life essence of the original doppelgänger sitting in a cup on the table. one for each of us. He told us all to drink it, close our eyes and drink until it was all gone. We hesitated at first but we eventually succumbed to his glare, everyone sat a little on edge after being made to drink an unknown substance, and before I knew it, he had stabbed each of us in the chest.

Last thing I remember was Elijah standing in front of me and the next moment everything went black. As I started to come around everything was blurry and I could hear distorted sounds, after a couple of minutes my sense had settled feeling sharper than ever before. I knew everyone said that everything is heightened but until you go through it, you don't understand to what extent they mean. When I looked around everyone was on the floor, blood on their clothes, a hole where the knife had pierced the clothing but couldn't see any visible marks. We were all in transition, I felt a hunger I had never known before and while I knew it was expected, I didn't believe just how strong the craving was.

Rebekah was the first to transition, she was biting in to the wrist of a young woman, Mikael must have sacrificed this girl so that everyone could complete the transition. Everyone had tasted the crimson liquid, dark veins under the eyes and the first appearance of fangs, once that happened I felt the strength and power within me. I was craving blood and now started my new journey of living off human blood, in this time blood bags aren't available I would have to drink from the vein.

We were stuck inside keeping out of the sun, already knowing that without a daylight ring we would ultimately turn to ash and disappear. Staying inside until the sun had set were we able to leave our homes. A couple of weeks later Esther had found a way for all of us to be outside. She had spelled a daylight ring for each one of us and slowly we began to enjoy the freedom again, but the villagers now feared us, friends that we once had now were wary and it took some time before we were found to be trusted again.

I had managed to stay out of trouble and not kill anyone, I couldn't say the same for the rest, but I did try and help them to learn control, I wasn't sure why it was so easy for me, maybe the compassionate side of me did not want me to kill anyone, or I was so worried for the others I forgot about my own cravings, it could have been that for the last year I have been surrounded by vampires and knew what to expect. What ever it was that made it easier for me to deal with my new life, I was grateful. In my old life I wouldn't have wanted to become a vampire, however being a vampire meant being with Elijah for eternity, humans get 20 to 30 years to be with each other, time for a vampire meant very little in the grand scheme of things.

Seeing their lives unfold had made me consider that they had never asked for this, they were normal human beings living a normal life, and it was all taken away when Esther and Mikael had decided to go against nature and create Vampires. They had all suffered a loss of some sort, Rebekah lost her dream of having children, Kol lost his magic and his connection to nature, for you couldn't be both vampire and witch, this caused him to go in to a state of depression, once he had passed that stage he hit the destruction mode button. Klaus had lost Tatia and although she had not given herself truly to him, it didn't stop his feelings towards her, someone besides his family had made him feel love and now it had been taken away by the very person he despised. Finn, he never accepted his new found life, he didn't like taking life and I believe this is why he chose to work alongside Esther in the future. And finally Elijah he may be a noble man but he did dream of having a family, we may have been married, but the prospect of never having children still halted him, but we were both fortunate that we had found each other, we now had an eternity to live our lives together.

I was at home when it happened, but Klaus killed someone, he triggered his werewolf gene. Mikael soon knew the reason and demanded they suppress his werewolf side, that way he could continue being like his other siblings. Mikael hadn't been a great father as it was and now with the knowledge that Klaus was not his son, only spurred on his hatred further. Klaus had killed Esther not long after a curse was put on him, finding out that he was the result of an affair was devastating and he soon believed Mikael's words, he wasn't his son and he would never be loved by anyone. With his werewolf gene being held dormant didn't stop the anger that rose within him, so much that he had searched out Esther and killer her. Her death was blamed on Mikael but I knew it wasn't true, I couldn't tell anyone, as this was another thing that set everything in place for the future, he needed his siblings and me, hopefully that will be enough to show him he still has family.

Standing outside in the middle of the village, Klaus or Nik as I had come to call him was burying his mother and putting her to rest, Rebekah had been with him reassuring him that he was loved by his mother and that she hadn't meant to treat him different. Soon after Elijah had walked to join his younger siblings, they were family and he would always protect them. Always & Forever we all said, as I stood by Elijah while holding hands with Rebekah. We had made a promise that we would stick together and always protect those that we loved, from here on I had to keep my promise to them. They were my family now, the humans they were and that I got to know, are not the people I met in Mystic Falls and even though I knew what was to come, it didn't matter I wouldn't stop caring about them. Always and forever was a promise, and I intended to keep it, now more than ever.

I kept my promise for 20 years in this timeline, we had ventured to numerous towns, it was hard to stay in one place without raising suspicions due to our unchanging faces. We had all stayed together as a family although some years Finn would go on his own, he never took to this new life. I had tried to keep killing to a minimum, teaching the way of healing those we feed on with our own blood. We tried to live normal lives, as normal as they could be and although Kol missed being a witch, he was still himself although that still didn't mean he wasn't immature at times, he tried to keep that side of him out of the house. It wasn't unknown that the Mikaelson siblings had tempers and they had agreed at the this time that all the anger should be taken away from the house, they were family and they didn't believe in harming each other, not yet anyway.

Elijah and I would go hunting together, I learned from the best but the women of this time never wielded a sword at this time. As Elijah walls began to lower around this objection he started to train me in combat, it was something we shared together and it was also time alone away from his siblings. I had so much love for this family but being alone was something that became very rare, so a trip to the forest made for great isolation.

One day we returned hand in hand, and we were all gathered in the living area when Nik had gotten word that Mikael had slaughtered a whole village not too far from them, and once those words were out of his mouth we all gathered what we could as fast as possible. Everyone had returned to the living area trying to plan where to head next, with Mikael being so close we didn't have much time. We all decided to head further north, worried faces filled the room and we again made the same promise to each other.

"We must leave now, but before we do remember that I love you all, always and forever" Nik had expressed these words with the most certainty, life threatening moments had made his true feelings come to the surface.

It was after that declaration that I felt a feeling of peace wash over me, every emotion was at bay for the moment, I started to feel like I was floating. It was time. Time to leave and go back to my old/new life, lights began shining around me, with a gust of wind and I quickly said that promise 'always & forever' hoping they would hear me, and then I was gone.

A/N: Sorry there isn't much Elijah yet, but he will be appearing soon, and once he does he doesn't disappear, just needed to get a little background before I throw him in the mix. I hope you enjoyed it.