Hothouse (An Edward Cullen Love Story) Chapter Five: On s'en va, a Twilight + Vampire Diaries Crossover fanfic

On s'en va par Shy'm is the song for the chapter

Alexandria's P.O.V Past

The pure idea of my life ever being easy is an understatement of the century and humans don't know the very status for a woman my age to go through for the pain, loss, and the disappointment I went through with Niklaus and Edward. The things a man or woman does for love is the sacrificial, selfless thing to do. Like my music, I am no saint and I am not a sinner, by the actions of my faults and my family. By Niklaus's hand and by my own. The anchor's that hold me back from going off the deep end are my children and my extended family that includes the people with my record label because they are my heart and they hold my mind in place.

From the first day I met Niklaus, I though that I could escape the torment Giuseppe put me through, hating me for being a girl, but being the person who killed her mother during childbirth. For being Stefan's twin, I had the support of Stefan and Damon because I was the middle child between them. For when mother died, I became the mother figure of the estate and Giuseppe saw to it that I should be married soon. So, in 1862 I met Niklaus, and his family the Mikealsons. Me and Niklaus were introduced at a party that they had thrown because of their arrival. I had dressed in one of my fanciest gowns back in the day and me, Stefan, Damon and our father arrived there in our estate's carriage. I had met Elijah in town and he thought that I was charming and intelligent so he promised me one chance to speak with him at their party. We met up and Niklaus was speaking with him. Elijah saw me and Niklaus turned to see me, our eyes interlocked.

No words were said, and I was fascinated by his looks and intelligent, artistic manner, not knowing the aggressive, violent activity he was known for. We were married half a year from when we met and I was with child a month after we consummated our marriage. He was rough and loving for the most part, we went 5 round of passionate lovemaking and I was exhausted for the 6th round we thought we were able to do the morning after, still. During my third to fourth month of my pregnancy I started to see the hybrid beneath sheep's clothing. I was appalled that he had kept that from me and I almost threatened to return home to my family's estate. One thing led to another and I was bruised, in more places than one after our violent fight. For my babies, I had almost lost them. Rebekah was the savior of the fight between me and Niklaus, Klaus I had called him. Only after a few minutes of trying to be civilized with ourselves, me and Nik made up and we had makeup sex to calm down my raging pregnant hormones. After that, I promised him that I would always and forever stick by him as a loving wife and mother to his children. I told him I loved him, for all he is and I was happy that I had married him because I knew that it is not the child's fault for the actions of their parents and that a bastard is still by right a part of one's family. He looked at me when I said this and he knew I had gotten over his walls and looked at the bigger picture, for his sake and the sake of our unborn children he was father to.

After that, our trust with each other changed and had gotten stronger through my pregnancy and afterwards, but soon after that, we had a complication, I went into a hysterical birth during my eighth month I was pregnant, I almost died during childbirth. Only after some help of drinking some of my husband's blood to help with the birth, I was able to push both of my twin son and daughter to safety of my husband's arms and the arms of my handmaiden present to help with the birth. Me and Nik agreed to Kleopatra and Johnathan for names because I wanted to name my son after John Gilbert, one of my father's friends that I knew very well, and Kleopatra after the Egyptian queen I memorialized in my youth. They were my saving graces and I knew I loved them then. They had the curse, but never triggered it, being that they were already immortal by their father. Then months later, I "died" and was turned into a hybrid like my husband and children.

Back to Present Alexa's P.O.V.
After lunch ended, I went to my second to last class, English with Mrs. Porter. I knew that Edward was in this class and I knew that mother's doppelganger was in there too, probably being happy with my love. Like all doppelganger's she is an obstacle that I have to take out. Like all the Petrova doppelganger's, that my family has history with, they get more seductive and selfish than the Original doppelganger, like Tatia, who was loved by my brother-in-law Elijah and my ex-husband Niklaus who never loved her more than he actually loves me, yet I bore him children where she had a child out of wedlock like her descendant Katerina, or I knew her by Katherine, and mother was the doppelganger of the Original woman of my lineage going back two thousand years to the Ancient Greeks, of my ancestor Silas, the immortal Salvatore Witch, he is prophesied to be the holder of the cure for vamprisim, stuck on the Other Side by his lover Questiyah, the Bennett Original Witch, the creator of the Cure. Let's just say, I have history of being the killer of the family line, second to my brother Damon who I had heard killed the end of our family line at our descendant Zach Salvatore, who had no family and I dearly miss him, pun intended. Bella Swan has a death sentence and I will dearly take that hit.

The class was easy to find because I heard the class begin talking about Romeo and Juliet, me knowing the real story because my family has the history of falling in love with the enemies we have created, also with the war between the two species of werewolf and vampire, but Niklaus was the holder of keeping that peace in a way because he was the Hybrid of both vampire and werewolf, so he was the King and everyone that he knew were his pawns in a twisted sort of way. Rebekah has the title too of falling in love with the first boy to give her attention because she keeps on doing it over and over again, first with her love Emil then Alexander, a Hunter of the Five, then Marcellus (Marcel), the "King" of the French Quarter. It is so funny how she throws her heart out for those guys, but I think I could say the same thing for myself because of the history I have of guys, two brothers who loved me throughout my childhood, living in the Salvatore home and estate until my marriage with Nik then our turning and me hating them for making me turn, then meeting Edward after maybe a century or more and falling in love with him because I knew he was my one true love and mate.

We were watching the film which I found that there are many mistakes in the whole first part of the film, only for me to have known and I wrote those down in my notebook. When the film was the middle point, I heard Edward talk to Isabella about how he was rather fond of Romeo, choosing death because of his true love, and explaining that to Isabella really hit me hard in the gut because he is so non-observant of how he treated me even under a pseudonym, but is still true that if you love someone and you leave to protect them, doesn't it mean that he or she still loves you? I did that to Edward because of Klaus and he doesn't repay the favor back to me because je l'aime a mourir and he hates me because of my actions and because Katherine was the cause of this, not me or my husband, more my husband and Mikael because we have to be afraid of the big bad wolf and the Original Vampire Hunter.

After a little pause in the film and class starts to let out, I started listening to the music on my phone. I met up with my kids and we walked to our lockers to collect our backpack's when I felt the pain inside my head when I knew someone was trying to dive into my thoughts, but I ignored it and sent it back only painfully. I only heard a faint gasp when I did it to know that it was probably one of the Cold Ones that live in the area. I don't know who, but it was only proper to do so. After this confrontation, I turned it down, and asked my kids if they wanted to return the slips to the office, they said that they would simultaneously like the twins they are after only 100 years, you kind of get used to it, especially when you are mother to said twins, so I told them that I would wait in the car and they left to the office after closing their lockers.

After closing my locker, I walked to my car and plugged my phone into the system and turned it up after the current song turned into Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey. It was a song about the '20's and I loved the '20's. The Jazz, The grand parties that seemed Gatsby-like. It was my world and I performed a lot, at Gloria's where I almost ran into Stefan and Nik while I was there. It was the same time my heart broke after Edward said those terrible things to me. It wasn't me, it was someone else that I blame for everything. They say time supposed to heal you, but I haven't done much healing, in the last 20-30 years and now my heart is breaking again with Edward loving my mother's doppelganger, my mother's shadow self, that I just want to run her over and kill her. Rolling down my windows, I began singing the song, making it seem like Lana wasn't singing, but me.

"I've seen the world
Done it all
Had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant
And Bel Air now
Hot summer nights, mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child

[Chorus]
Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

I've seen the world, lit it up
As my stage now
Channeling angels in the new age now
Hot summer days, rock 'n' roll
The way you play for me at your show
And all the ways I got to know
Your pretty face and electric soul

Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

[Bridge]
Dear lord, when I get to heaven
Please let me bring my man
When he comes tell me that you'll let him in
Father tell me if you can
Oh that grace, oh that body
Oh that face makes me wanna party
He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds

Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful?"

I poured my entire heart into the song and sang beautifully. After I was down, I rolled them back up after seeing Edward wonder what the voice or where it was coming from. After a couple more songs, my kids came back into the car and buckled in. I put the car in reverse and drove out of the parking lot and drove us back home.