Before you read, A lot of you asked me why I was rewriting this story. I want to thank you for thinking that it was a great story as it was but I needed to correct a few mistakes (grammatical mostly) and I hope I got them all. There was also Rebekah's name that I had misspelled the entire story so I took the opportunity to change that as well. While doing so, I got inspired at some places and added a few details, changed some facts... It's not much but some details change things a bit...

I hope it cleared things up for you.

Have a good read.

Lorelei Candice Black


Chapter 4:

The next two weeks went by very fast for Bella and they all followed the same pattern. The mornings were spent making her wedding dress with Rosemarie. Bella had insisted that she be the one the make it and since it was so important for her, they all let her have that. Niklaus came to see her every afternoon, sometimes with Elijah, sometimes on his own and they always talked about a lot of things.

Bella was happy.

She wasn't lonely anymore and she had a feeling that she never would be ever again.

She had had the occasion of spending some alone time with Elijah as well and she grew to like him a lot. He was more like a big brother to her now than her real brothers ever were. She couldn't wait to meet the rest of the Mickelson family but she knew it would be hard for Klaus at first. Bella was truly touched that he would face them with the truth for her. Though to be honest, she didn't ask it of him and never would have. To her, it was a testimony of the importance she now held in his life.

During those few weeks, Niklaus had send word to Sage, Finn's true love, of what was happening and that she was welcome to come and join him before the wedding. He knew that it would take some time for the word to reach her as he didn't have anything of hers to send her a message the magical way like he did Rebekah and Kol.

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Niklaus had come earlier that day because Rebekah and Kol were to arrive in the middle of the afternoon. Elijah was watching over Finn as he woke up.

"I have to go now love…" Klaus said while holding the woman that haunted his dreams tighter against him.

"But I'll see you tomorrow right, along with the rest of your family?" She needed reinsurance.

"Of course my sweet Bella; I can't wait for them to meet you!" He smiled softly.

"They might be mad at you… What if they don't like me?" Bella had asked him the same questions for the past week. She was scared that his siblings wouldn't like her and would get mad at him for choosing her.

"Just be yourself and everything will be alright, I promise you love!" He knew that they will love her; he just had to make sure they accepted his apologies first.

"Will you send word before I go to sleep so I know they didn't kill you?" She asked.

He was touched by her concern and happy to finally have someone he knew he could completely trust.

"As you wish my love, I'll send Trevor to Rose with news. Is that okay with you?"

"Very well…"

"I love you Bella." He said before kissing her lovingly.

They had very few opportunities to be alone and have real kisses but each time was preciously engraved in his memory.

"I love you too… I'll miss you." She said.

"I'll miss you more." He said smiling and winking at her.

"Impossible." She chuckled before letting him go.

She watched him leave until his horse had completely disappeared behind the trees. Then she went back to her room to finish her dress with Rose, trying to keep the nerves calm enough.

"Have you met his siblings?" Bella asked Rose, which was more of a friend to her than a maid.

"Kol and Rebekah yes."

"How are they?"

Rose smiled at the insecurity in her friend's voice.

"They will love you don't worry… Rebekah is blond, full of life and good at hiding what she really feels… I think she doesn't have enough female friends, she spends too much time with her brothers for that, and she never stays in one place long enough to make friends or care for someone. Kol is the youngest of the 4 brothers and he is very childish, immature. Your brothers remind me a lot of him. Again Bella, they will love you." Rose smiled.

"I hope they don't hurt Niklaus tonight!"

Rose laughed at Bella's nerves and handed her some tea to calm her down.

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Meanwhile, at the Mickelson's, Klaus had arrived to see that Rebekah and Kol were there. Finn was standing in front of him and he could hear Elijah telling them the short version of the story behind his engagement to Bella.

When he stepped inside, they all turned towards him. Finn had changed clothes already.

"Finn, Kol, Rebekah..." Klaus greeted them before going on "I trust Elijah told you what brought this on?" It was obvious that he was nervous.

Finn answered:

"He basically told us a story about you falling in love with a human girl and that you want to be better for her. I find it hard to believe that such a person would exist. It would be miraculous."

"Believe it brother… My Bella is… She is not only incredibly pretty but funny, smart, sweet, understanding, compassionate…" He had a dreamy look on his face.

"Did you compel her to love you?" Kol asked earning a glare from Klaus.

"No I didn't! She can't be compelled anyway, neither can her father."Klaus was hurt that they would think that low of him.

"Finn, I'm really sorry for what I did to you. I know you are mad at me and I swear I will do anything in my power to make it up to you. I sent word to Sage that you were awake as well as our location. She's probably on her way as we speak… I never should have gotten so mad at you…I never should have doubted your loyalty toward me…"

"What does your Love think of this?" Finn asked, trying to hide his emotions.

"When I told her, I expected her to get mad at me… She just told me that I did it because of Mickeal…" he was interrupted by Rebekah:

"What has he got to do with this?" Klaus was embarrassed but he knew that if he wanted forgiveness he had to be open and truthful with them.

"According to Bella…She thinks that because my father didn't love me I unconsciously think that no one ever will. She said that this is why I want to break the curse, so that I can make other hybrid and be assured never to be alone!" They knew that this was hard for him to tell them and they were grateful that he finally trusted them…

"She seems like a very wise woman. How old is she?" Finn asked.

"Just 17." Elijah answered.

"I guess you won't change her immediately then?" Rebekah asked.

"Actually we spoke of it for the first time today… She wants to wait until she reaches an age closes to mine…" Klaus explained, more open that day with his siblings that he had been during his entire life.

"Again, it is very wise of her. I can't wait to meet her." Kol said, impressed by the girl.

"She never stops to impress me..." Klaus said, making Elijah smiled.

"I also grew very fond of her… She is something special. I'm sure you will all love her." Elijah said, smiling at his reunited family.

He frowned when he saw Klaus standing up to turn his back on them before speaking:

"I have something else to apologise for to all of you… Please don't interrupt me before I'm done because this is probably the hardest thing I have to do tonight… I need to tell you what really happened when mother died… it was the day after the curse had been put on me. I felt the restrains immediately and got mad. I ran to Ayana, thinking that she did it. She was the most powerful and had warned mother enough about the consequences of her actions. She assured me that she didn't do it. Ayana said that mother was ashamed of me, because I now was the proof of her infidelity and that she tried to make it right by Mickeal by binding my wolf side… I left immediately and found mother, she was doing the spell that turned Mickeal into a hunter, the spell that made him stronger than us. I interrupted, I was so mad… It comes with the werewolf curse I've learned since… I asked her to break the curse, that I didn't deserve this… She said…" By now tears were running down his face, his siblings could see them in his reflection.

He continued:

"She said that I was an atrocity. That I was lucky she allowed me to live at all. Because of the spell she was performing Mickeal was stuck, he couldn't move… I'm so sorry… I got so mad, it was unfair, and I just wanted her to break the curse. It was HIM I was trying to kill… I had overheard her on the way as she told him he had to kill us now that the tree was destroyed… I wanted to kill him to punish her as she punished me but as I went to rip his heart out she stepped in front of my hand so fast I couldn't stop myself. Before I knew it she was dead and the spell on Mickeal was complete. He told me he'd kill us all and left… I'm so sorry I lied to you all these years... I just didn't want you to leave me too…"

Klaus was now on the floor, crying. He didn't dare to look up to his family.

They were all shocked.

Both by the confession and by what their mother had done. Before she died she had assured them that Ayana had placed the curse on him… Slowly, one by one, they all made their way to him, telling him that he was forgiven, that it was okay… After a while, once he was calmer, Elijah was the first to stand and said:

"Well, look at us, the oldest vampires in history and we're all crying on the floor… This moment never happened!" he declared chuckling as the others stood as well.

"So Nick, why don't you show us what the mysterious Bella looks like?" Rebekah asked.

He made his way to his study and came back with several drawings. They spend the next few hours speaking of Isabella, the wedding and what the girl was like.

"Klaus, aren't you forgetting something?" Elijah asked him as he was heading to bed.

"What am I forgetting?"

"I thought you promised Bella you'd send word that you were still alive after our little family reunion… You know her better than I do, she won't sleep until she knows that you're still alive and doing well…"

"You're right brother, I almost forgot. I'll send word with Trevor right away." As he said that, Klaus grabbed one of the drawings of Bella in her garden and left running.

"He really loves her." Finn said astonished by everything.

"She does too. She was truly concerned of what you would do to him Finn…" Elijah said.

"And he told her everything?" Rebekah asked.

"Yes, from what he just told us to Tatia and the curse… She knows it all now..."

They kept talking among themselves until they were too tired and decided to rejoin their rooms.

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In her room, Bella was seating in her bed, trying to read but really worried about what was happening to her love. After what she felt was an eternity of waiting, Rose came in with a drawing of her in her garden. Once again, she looked much prettier than she felt she really was. At the bottom was a note that said:

"I'm fine love.

We will all see you tomorrow.

Sweet dreams.

Love,

Klaus"

Smiling, she put the paper on her night stand, wished Rose a good night and joined the land of the dreaming.


You know the drill,

Love,

Lorelei Candice Black