"Get her onto the bed" Nadia ordered. Kol and Finn did as she told them
"I'll do a privacy spell," Bonnie said, already burning sage.
"Sage, Caroline, Kol and Finn go downstairs and I'll tell you went it comes out. She needs privacy"
Finn flashed out and Kol followed hesitantly after glancing at Katherine and seeing her in pain, Caroline and Sage carried out the body of the man with Bonnie closing the door behind them.
"Katherine" Nadia started "on the count of 3 I want you to push. 1. 2. 3"
Katherine screamed in pain as she pushed but outside the room they heard nothing.
Meanwhile in the living room, the captives and Trevor were more confused than ever. Kol, Finn, Bonnie, Caroline and Sage were pacing around the room in a panicked state then the front door was heard slamming open, Davina walked into the living room.
"I came as fast as I could" Davina said
"She's upstairs" Sage informed
"What do I do? She's probably screaming in agony up there, how do I help her?" Kol asked, pain etched on his face at not being so helpless.
"Kol you're just going to have to except that you can't help her this time, she has to do this alone"
"What's happening to Katerina?" Klaus asked. Kol ignored him and went straight to Elijah, pressing a hand around his neck.
"If she dies up there, I'll tear you piece by piece then I'll do it again and again until I get bored which is when I'll end you" Kol's grasp on his neck tightened with every word.
"Brother it's not his fault" Finn stated but made no move to help Elijah.
"Let him go, if she dies then she's the only one responsible for her life because it's her decision not anyone else's" Caroline added
Kol squeezed once more before releasing Elijah from his grip and muttered, "you have time, she's still alive"
"What is happening up there? And where's Nadia?" Elena demanded
"Elena for once in your life will you just shut up!" Bonnie shouted
"Why are you all keeping us in the dark?" Jeremy asked
"You'll find out in time," Sage answered, she was the calmest of them all.
"We can't do nothing!" Caroline exclaimed "I'm taking charge now. Bonnie, Sage you two go cook dinner, Davina make a list of everything we need to know about all of this and you guys…go build a house or something"
"Looks like the control freak is back" Bonnie smirked
"You bet she is, now go!" As soon as they left Caroline began cleaning up everything that had been remotely untidy "this place is a mess, how do you live in this…thing"
"Caroline what are you doing?" Stefan asked
"What does it look like I'm doing?" she said, using her vampiric speed to help her "I'm panicking? Who knows what else will go wrong?"
"What's there to panic about? If Katherine's dying it's for the best" Damon stated then a knife was thrown into his chest.
"I'd watch what you say, Salvatore" Caroline growled
"What happened to you Caroline? You used to be my best friend and now I can't even recognise you!" Elena stated
"I did change Elena. It might have been for the better or for the worse, I don't know but at least I admit it"
"What do you mean?"
"You've changed Elena as well but to make it worse you think you're doing the right thing. You always think of yourself first now never of whose life is in danger or who ends up getting hurt just because you want to be happy"
"Care-"
"No! I don't want to hear any excuses! Everyone changes and you can't stop that, why are you so much more important than the rest of us?"
"She's a doppelganger and that's not her fault" Damon defended
"So is Stefan, so is Katherine but they actually care about who gets hurt"
"But I do care about who gets hurt? I never meant to hurt anyone," Elena stated
"Then why do you keep doing it, you don't even fell the slightest bit of remorse for it"
"Of course I do and when have I ever hurt you?"
"Remember Jesse? Would you have killed Damon if he was in that situation?" Elena didn't answer "I thought so."
"Caroline why do you trust Katerina so much?" Klaus asked
"Because she trusts me just as much"
"She doesn't know how to trust"
"No Klaus, you don't know how to trust but unlike you Katherine is trusting us with something more important than her life. I'm not going to betray her trust"
"You mean like you did with your friends?" Rebekah accused
"I trusted them but they didn't trust me the same way and if there's one thing I learned from being with Katherine is that love and trust must always be returned"
"Katerina taught you that?" Elijah asked
Caroline sighed "I know that none of you know this and she'd probably kill me for telling you but Katherine is a good person, do you know how many lives she's saved?"
"Name one!" Jeremy demanded
"How about three? You remember Anna, the vampire that you kissed when you were with Bonnie; well Katherine saved her and her mother as well as Emily Bennett and probably all the tomb vampires. She's a good person"
After four hours of screaming the baby still hadn't come out yet.
"I CAN'T DO IT!" Katherine screamed
"Try once more, just once" Nadia encouraged
Katherine did as she was told then the room was filled with the cries of a newborn baby.
"It's a girl," Nadia informed as her mother smiled weakly.
"Can I hold her?" Katherine asked as Nadia handed her the baby covered in a blanket. "She's beautiful, exactly how you looked as a baby but she has Elijah's eyes"
"I think I'm going to name her something else" Katherine stated after a momentary pause.
"What?" Nadia asked
"I was thinking Serenity. Serenity Miracle Petrova"
"Why Serenity?"
"Because unlike me she'll be free to live a peaceful life" Katherine and Nadia smiled and that was when they heard Serenity laugh for the first time but the happy moment was short lived as Katherine felt surge of pain throughout her body. "Nadia, something's happening…if I die right now I want you to go free them" she fell unconscious.
"Mother" Nadia panicked then began shaking her "mother, wake up" by now even Serenity noticed the difference in her mother and began wailing again. Luckily Katherine was still breathing but she wasn't moving. Nadia gently picked up Serenity then flashed to the living room, Kol was the first one to spot her.
"What's wrong? Where's Katherine? Is she ok?" Kol interrogated
"I-I don't know," Nadia replied to Kol then looked at Davina "can you tell me what's wrong with her?"
"I'll go check" Davina replied then headed in the direction of Katherine's room but Kol flashed there before her.
"Is that…?" Nadia nodded to Caroline's unfinished question.
"What's her name?" Bonnie asked
"Serenity Miracle Petrova"
"Petrova? So all this time Katerina was having a baby?" Klaus' eyes widened at the realisation.
"Yes she's my sister"
"What is she? Witch, vampire or hybrid?" Finn asked
"It's too soon to tell but my mother-"
She was interrupted when Kol flashed into the room and put his hand around Elijah's neck then started speaking like a maniac "I told you what would happen if Katherine got hurt"
"Kol let him go" Sage ordered
"Why should I? It's his fault so he should suffer. Why is Katherine always the only one suffering?"
"What's wrong with Katerina?" Elijah choked out as Kol's grip tightened.
"Good news; she's still alive" Davina stated as she walked into the living room.
"What's the bad news?" Caroline asked
"It seems that she's in a coma"
"How is that possible?"
"I don't know"
"Kol let him go" Nadia demanded
"You're Katherine's daughter you should want to rip him piece by piece and torture him until he's broken so why are you telling me to let him go?" Kol asked
"Believe me there would be nothing that I'd enjoy more but my mother's last words were to free them"
"Katherine Pierce said that?" Rebekah stated not believing it.
"If she didn't your brother would be gone by now"
Kol glared at Elijah then slowly released him. Suddenly there was a bright flash and a 28-year-old man appeared before them.
"No it can't be" Klaus stated
"But... you're dead" Rebekah breathed as the other Mikaelsons froze.
"Brother's, sister" He greeted "it's been a long time"
"How are you here? And what are you doing here?" Finn asked
"I sensed that the goddess of love's child has returned" the man answered.
"Excuse me but who are you?" Damon asked
"Henrik Mikaelson, the youngest of the Mikaelson siblings"
"There's another one of you" Elena shrieked
"You don't look like Henrik" Kol stated "he was like this tall" Kol put a hand against his knee "and I think he was about 14"
"Nice to know you haven't change Kol" Henrik said
"What does that mean?" but he ignored his question.
"That's the goddess' child" Henrik stated looking at Serenity then at Nadia "and so are you?"
"Wait, Katherine is a goddess," Stefan stated
"Explain everything, you can start with how you know this" Sage demanded
"It's a very long story"
"We have time" Caroline countered
"After I died I was summoned to the home of the fates, they told me the story of the four gods and three goddesses who lived with the first generations of humans on earth at the beginning of time. The goddess of love, the goddess of peace, the goddess of harmony, the god of wisdom, the god of chaos, the god of war and the god of tranquility. Katerina is the reincarnation of the goddess of love, back then she had two friends who she trusted more than anything; the gods of chaos and war, the trio were inseparable and soon they fell in love. She fell in love with the god of wisdom, who was later became her soul mate, the soul mate for chaos was harmony and for war it was peace. As you can see they were all polar opposites, love revolves around the heart and wisdom is from the brain, harmony and chaos are completely opposite then there's war and peace, completely contrary. Anyway love and wisdom had a daughter and were to have another child but it didn't survive, they were so sad that they requested the fates for help and the fates made them a deal that if they all sacrificed themselves and a lot of human lives then they would be reincarnated to make sure their child could live in another life. The other gods felt the same for the unborn child so they happily agreed to the sacrifice but being soul mates they would at reunited with each other at the time of the baby's birth" Henrik explain
"What about Tranquility?" Finn asked
"His story is a little different but I'll get to it"
"So Elijah's the god of wisdom" Caroline stated then realised her mistake.
"What!" Elijah stated
"Oops! Well now's a good time as ever, surprise you have a kid"
"You mean she's my daughter?!"
"Yes" Nadia answered sending a glare at Caroline.
"And yes Elijah is the god of wisdom" Henrik answered
"You just said that all the gods and goddesses had to be there when the baby was born so that means that they're here," Finn pointed out.
"Yes they are"
"So who are they?"
"The goddess of peace is Caroline Forbes, harmony is Bonnie Bennett, chaos is Kol, war is Niklaus and finally tranquility is Finn"
"That means Serenity is..."
"The miracle baby, that has a second chance of life"
"Ironic since her middle name is Miracle" Nadia stated "but will my mother die?"
"I cannot say. It's even out of the fates hands, before the fates told her that there would be a catch and her life would be given to nature as soon as she was sacrificed so all this time she's been fighting against nature for her own life because if it's lost then she will be wiped from existence, right now she's remembering everything about her past life."
"When will she wake?"
"That depends on her,"
"The last thing my mother told me was to release all of you" Nadia stated as she unchained the captives.
"I need to speak to the gods and goddesses"
"Sage take Nadia, Serenity and Katherine to the new house" Kol ordered
"Where are you going?" Sage asked
"Kol and I are just going to catch up with our 'baby' brother" Finn informed
At the old Mikaelson mansion the five vampires and Bonnie waited for Henrik to further explain.
"Henrik tell us everything and this time more clearly," Klaus demanded
"The fates control the lives of everyone, human or not but Katerina traded her life away to nature for her daughter's life so she has to fight every single second to live."
"Explain the soul mate concept" Elijah asked
"Trust and love was very rare back then and Katerina wanted to change it so she created friendship with her and the gods of war and chaos as the first friends in the world. When that turned out to be a success she discovered love for her friends and ended up falling in love herself and as it brought so much happiness to those around her she unintentionally discovered the soul mate bond, something so powerful that even the fates were amazed. The soul mates made each other more powerful once the bond was placed but this made everyone greedy for power so they began scouring the globe for their own mate, using love for power. It ended up destroying the bond and a war was created but not before Katerina made sure that there would be at least one human couple to have the bond fixed, now known as Rebekah Mikaelson and Stefan Salvatore."
"Where do I come into all of this?" Finn questioned
"Tranquility was the first and only one to fall in love with a human but she was no ordinary human, she had the wild spirit, I'll tell you about that later. Katerina could see their love before they did so she bonded them but she died in the war. Tranquility was heart broken so they all made sure Sage was included in the reincarnation spell"
"Why didn't you call Sage, Rebekah and Stefan here?"
"Because I wanted to speak to the gods and goddesses only"
"Ok so in the beginning of the world I was the god of war and was friends with Katerina, in fact Kol, her and I were the first friends ever, Caroline was my soul mate, the soul mate bond, love and friendship was created by Katerina who fell in love with Elijah, we all sacrificed our lives to be reincarnated so that their child could be born but the fates told Katerina that there was a catch so now she has the responsibility of looking after her own life and the ripper and my sister were the first human soul mates. Then there's Finn who was the first and only god to fall in love with a human, Sage also known as the host of the fierce spirit. Do you see why I find this hard to believe?" Klaus stated
"You made a few mistakes, Katherine discovered the soul mate bond she didn't make even though she was needed for soul mates to properly bond and it lasts forever so Caroline not only was your soul mate but she still is"
"What!" Caroline shouted "but I can't stand him"
"Say what you want but you two were bonded forever by the soul mate bond because of your undying love for each other, bonded soul mates are also reunited no matter how many times they are separated"
"Katerina and I are soul mates?" Elijah asked though he knew the answer.
"Yes and your child is the Miracle that would have been part of the next generation of gods,"
"Hang on me, Nik and Kat were best friends? I understand me and Kat but Nik?" Kol asked
"It's true and the two of would have done anything and everything to protect her. She created love for the both of your happiness and the two of you sacrificed your lives for her happiness because you knew how broken she was when she lost her child"
"What else don't we know?" Bonnie questioned
"There was a war, everyone wanted love for the wrong reasons and when they couldn't find it they came for Katerina. Klaus was the god of war so he led the invasion against those who wanted to hurt her but they got to her, she lived though her child was gone. Bonnie and Caroline were the world's second friends and they befriended Katerina and later fell in love with her other friends. Stefan and Rebekah also fell in love but they found it themselves and Katerina admired them for that so she helped them bond,"
"What does the soul mate bond mean? How is it any different to loving someone?"
"The bond ensured that even if the couple was separated they would always return to each other, they were completely united and could draw energy from one another and their love would go on forever but it could only be created if the feelings were genuine and mutual. Since all of you have been separated you couldn't tap into your true power"
"You said that love and wisdom had a daughter?" Caroline asked
"Yes but I don't know much about her, the Fates wouldn't tell me anything"
"Is that all?" Elijah asked
"all that is necessary"
Elijah then turned to Kol "Kol, I know you hate me but I believe that Serenity is also my daughter and I have every right to see her"
Kol shoved past him muttering under his breath and in Kol speak that meant follow me.
"Wait you can't leave yet" Henrik stated and before they could question him they fell to the ground clutching their heads then they were all unconscious.
Back at the Salvatore boarding house Rebekah and Stefan were the only ones left in the living room. Jeremy had left and Damon and Elena were in Damon's bedroom feeding from blood bags while Elena talked about her traumatising experience trying to get sympathy. And with lack of anything better to do Rebekah stared out the window.
"Hey, are you ok?" Stefan asked popping next to her.
"I'm fine" Rebekah sighed
"No something's bothering you, I'm a good listener"
"It's just... Kol and Finn. I..."
"You feel guilty" she nodded in response.
"It should have been me that avenged them, not Katherine. I'm their sister, I should have done… something about their deaths"
"Rebekah, I don't think you're a bad person for not killing someone"
"How would you feel if you died and Damon practically befriended your murderer?"
"I...to be honest I'd be mad-"
"See, that's why I should've avenged them"
"I'd be mad but not forever, the bonds between siblings can't be broken besides at the time I put my trust in you and you didn't betray it by killing her"
"I still snapped your neck and tried to get the cure for myself"
"We all make mistakes, what we do to fix them is what counts"
"I didn't know you were so poetic"
"I have my moments"
"Then there's the problem of Henrik"
"What's the problem with that?"
"I haven't seen him in a thousand years and of all times he shows up and then there's Serenity, my niece. Life's just so confusing why can't it all just fix itself?"
"Think of how boring your life would be without all these problems"
"Or how peaceful it would be?"
"Well you can't do it alone, everyone needs a partner in crime?"
"Are you offering?"
"Maybe"
"Ok then I'll take you up on it but later, right now I want to enjoy a brother free moment"
"Alright then maybe after all this is over we could...talk and just...catch up"
"Sure" the two smiled at each other but the happy moment was short lived as they soon clutched their heads in pain and soon fell unconscious then their bodies faded away.
"Katherine's new room is upstairs, last room to the left" Sage informed as she and Nadia entered the mansion that Kol and Finn miraculously built in just under four hours. Nadia insisted on carrying her mother so Sage was now holding a sleeping Serenity as Nadia sped upstairs to put Katherine down on her bed. Sage looked down at the sleeping baby and smiled but also felt pity that it was born at a crazy time and in a crazy world. Sage walked into the living room and was soon joined by Nadia.
"What do you think is going to happen to Katherine?" Sage asked giving Nadia her sister.
"I don't know" Nadia replied "But I think it has something to do with the Mikealson guy, he said she was the reincarnation of the goddess of love and all that other crap"
"It's crazy but somehow I don't think he's lying"
"You believe him?"
"Maybe...I don't know but why would he be lying about it?"
"He could just be insane"
"Well he's been dead for a thousand years, he could've picked up a few things"
"I'm going to stick to him being crazy,"
"How can you be sure?"
"He told me my sister's a miracle baby who was supposed to be born in the beginning of the world"
"Good point but if vampires exist then shouldn't anything be possible"
"Fine, I give up, you win"
"I'm serious-" Sage cut herself off as she felt to the ground writhing in pain and was soon unconscious.
"Sage" Nadia said kneeling next to her "Sage!" but she didn't wake. Then her body vanished. Nadia flashed upstairs with her sister who could sense her worry so began crying. But when she reached Katherine's room her body was gone.
I just want to say that the next few chapter will be about their lives as gods and goddesses but other than that I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Review.
