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Pairings: Kol/Bella, Rebekah/Stefan, Klaus/Hayley, Elijah/Davina, Matt/Caroline, Bonnie/Jeremy, Damon/Elena
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries or Twilight nor its characters.
"Okay well then let me start at the beginning." I started - and I did. I told them everything, from top to bottom, leaving nothing out. How utterly tired I felt growing up. Taking care of my parents; cooking, cleaning, paying bills, it was all exhausting. How meeting Edward made it seem like someone cared enough to ask how I felt and what I thought. At least at first. How controlling him and his family had become and how complacent and okay with it & everything I had been. How until I had been bitten by James, I hadn't even noticed anything had been wrong at all. How after Edward left, my powers became so uncontrollable that I had to spend all my free time reading my grimoires and learning how to control my power so that anytime I got angry nothing would catch fire. How I read in both grimoires that my grandmother, mother, and several other witches had to cast a spell on me as a baby so not all my powers would manifest at the same time; they knew I wouldn't be able to handle or control it and would've ended up in the looney bin, trying to end the world and kill everyone.
Once I finished everyone looked stunned and Nik didn't look so … constipated anymore. After a few moments of silence, Nik told his story and the others followed suit. I understood and related to them more than I thought I would and I knew they felt the same. While Kol was telling his story, I noticed that at particular parts Rebekah, Elijah and Nik would look guilty or regretful which made me forgive them just a smidge for hurting Kol in the first place. Once everyone was finished the atmosphere had changed to an almost kinship type of feeling, and the weirdest part about it was that I think, everyone - including me - was enjoying it.
"Why don't you guys talk about it?" I blurted out before mentally slapping myself. I felt like I was overstepping, they had just 'properly met' for goodness sakes, and she already wanted to be their therapist! She sighed inwardly because she knew she couldn't back out now. These are the Mikaelson's, she had just earned their respect and trust and she was not willing to give that up just yet.
"Talk about what, darling?" Kol asked nonchalantly, swirling and staring into the glass of whiskey the guys had grabbed during all the storytelling. I scowled, annoyed at the dismissal and his irritatingly and unconvincing feigned ignorance.
"You know what, Kol." I growled sending a shock wave his way causing him to growl and his visage to show. I narrowed my eyes before moving toward him, flopping down beside him on the couch and grabbing his hands.
"It isn't healthy, Kol," I said softly staring into his eyes before turning to the rest of them.
"It's not healthy," I repeated to them. "It's just gonna get worse and build until you all fall apart, trust me, I've seen it before." I assured them, a bit bitter but hoping that this family wouldn't end up like mine.
Nik sighed before finding himself a seat, his newly filled glass gone in a second.
"Where do we start?" He asked me. I felt unnerved for a second before I channeled my inner Oprah.
"Let's start small, Why do you dagger Kol, knowing he doesn't like it?" I suggested with a shrug and Kol choked on the whiskey he had just gulped into his mouth.
"That's small?" He asked incredulously and I swatted at him to quiet. He growled but otherwise stayed civil, shifting as he tried to discreetly watch Nik, fighting to keep his face neutral and disinterested. Nik sighed, wiping his hands across his face before sitting back, staring into nothingness.
"I -" His voice broke and he cleared it to start again while everything and everyone was still and quiet, waiting for Nik to speak.
"I've lost so much, Kol. Henrik is gone because of me, I don't know if my own parents loved me, my supposed father loathed me and I couldn't - can't lose anyone else, Kol. Especially any of you. It's my job to protect you and I've already failed Henrik, I won't - I refuse to fail any of you, too. So, if I needed to dagger you all to keep you all safe then I would." Nik said, his eyes a bit glassy but a quick throat clear and a blink and they were gone.
"Then why was I never a part of the 'always and forever'?" Kol asked, his voice cracking and his expression clear and even I didn't fall for that. I clasped our hands together and he held mine tightly. "I don't know, Kol. I just wanted you safe. You were always doing your own thing and I just assumed you were tired of me. That you wanted space away from me, but when you would come around we had the greatest times. But, Elijah was right. We couldn't draw attention to ourselves or Mikael would've found us. I wanted you safe but I shouldn't have kept daggering you. I am sorry, Kol. And, I promise, no more daggering." He said, staring into Kol's eyes before swishing out of the room, appearing in front of us with the daggers. He held them out deliberately for all of us to see before nodding for us to follow him. We walked in silence to the ocean before Niklaus threw the daggers out into it. He turned toward Kol before speaking softly,
"I have a lot to make up for but 'always and forever', brother. It's never and will not ever change, brother." He said clasping Kol on his shoulder before pulling him into a hug. The rest of us turned away from such an intense moment to give them privacy and I smiled. They wouldn't end up like my family, even if I had to babysit them and make sure it didn't happen myself.
