I'm so so sorry that I haven't updated, and in case you're wondering why there is no episode name at in the title, it's because this takes place between Bringing Out the Dead and Dangerous Liaisons, also, there's not much action in this chapter, and though it is more of a filler I feel it's pretty necessary. Also, since there's no other way for me to reply to guest reviews, I'll start doing it in the AN.
Kilgrave: In case you wanted to know, I chose the name Valkyrie because of its connections in Norse Myth. Valkyrie was supposedly someone that led fallen soldiers to Valhalla which was a type of heaven, so basically it holds the same meaning as if naming a child Gabriel(after the Arch Angle) only in a different religion.
That night, while Nik had insisted she stay at her current home, Esther had demanded she stay at the Mikaelson Mansion.
The others, wanting to spend time with their sister supported the idea.
They didn't know.
But she did.
And that? Esther knew.
But for now? The girl just wanted to have fun with her siblings.
And that was just what the girl did.
It felt normal; easy for the girl to fall back into rhythm with her siblings. Kol and Rebekah were either fighting over her or the three were playing together. Nik would play with them some of the time, but was mostly with Elijah, watching silently over the younger siblings of the Mikaelson clan. Finn was with Esther, or Elijah when Nik was with the girl.
It was normal.
It was amazing.
And then, when the clock hit two in the morning, Kol, the girl's partner in all her schemes, elbowed the girl in her side none too gently, and gestured to Finn and Elijah who were conversing.
A smirk on her face, the girl began walking towards the duo. It was time for them to complete their first of many pranks of the century.
"Eli! Finn! I'm bored!" Though her words weren't a yell, whey were loud and a whine.
Elijah, blissfully ignorant, gestured for her to sit between the two, though there was a large amount of space between the two in the first place.
As the girl sat however, her two brothers moved closer so that they were on either side of their youngest sibling.
The conversation was normal at first, simply the three catching up with each other, before it became interesting.
"Hey Finn, do you remember that time that Elijah couldn't convince me not to drop a toad inside your furs?"
Elijah froze, as did Finn. They knew that this wouldn't end well now that her and Kol were reunited.
"Yes, but what relevance does that hold at the moment?" Finn's voice was controlled, guarded as he surveyed the room that was conveniently empty of their mother.
"Oh nothing, just wanted to revel in the memories."
"Is there any particular reason why, Valkyrie?"
"I don't think you wanna know Elijah." Her voice was teasing, and she knew that her brother wouldn't try and convince her to abandon her plans. Afterall, the second he told her not to place the toad within Finn's furs, she'd begun planning to do the same to his.
Twin 'manly' screams had pierced the night when she finally managed to release the toads.
It was worth the beating Mikael gave Kol and her the next day.
It wasn't until the sun came out, and a ball had been planned until the girl's plan for her brother Finn came to fruition.
It was amazing; the look on her brother's face when he opened the door to reveal the redhead.
The squeal that had come from Sage was one that the girl never thought that could come from the redhead's mouth.
The girl knew that it could take a few days for the ball to truly come to fruition, and so she'd called Sage, knowing full well that the elder woman would love a hand in the planning.
Sage had not only been her sister in blood at one point, but her sister nearly as much as Rebekah in all of the other lives that the redhead had managed to cross the girl's path.
As the redhead moved her gaze from her lover's eyes and to that of the girl's, the redhead tensed awaiting the seizure.
"Why aren't you writhing on the ground with your mouth foaming yet?" The redhead's words were spoken after a few minutes, and the familiar bluntness brought a smirk to the girl's face.
"Well see, Nik, used what I'm pretty sure was threats to get me this nifty little thing" Towards the end of her words, she lifted her wrist and shook it, displaying the diamond bracelet.
"Hmm, so that explains it" Kol, never the one to be left out of the conversation for long, decided to chime in then.
Going into the living room yet again, Kol and the girl sat down on the leather sofa, the girl on Nik's lap, and grabbed the black PlayStation controllers.
Now that Kol finally knew how to play, it was his goal to never lose to his sister in any of the games ever again.
Finn, his mate by his side, had left to upstairs not long after her arrival, and by Elijah's need to constantly have noise somewhere on the bottom floor, the girl could tell that they were doing...things.
Rebekah, claiming that she had business to attend to, left not long after Finn and Sage had went up to his room, but Elijah seemed to doubt that his sister had harmless intentions and so he followed after only a few moments.
After the girl beat Kol for what felt like the thousandth time, she handed the controller over to Nik, content to just lie there in his arms.
And just as the sun began to show itself over the horizon, the girl's eyes drifted shut, a smile on her face.
When the girl woke, she was in Nik's bed, covered in a red comforter, alone.
Raising her head up, she saw the glare of the bright sun, and she assumed that it was either late morning, or early afternoon.
Rolling over, the girl let out a groan before releasing a yelp as she nearly fell off of the large bed, her head now hanging off of the bed.
Letting out a laugh, the girl rolled back over, so that she was now properly situated on the large king sized bed.
She stared up at the ceiling for a few minutes, needing to gather her barrings before facing society.
However, her efforts were thwarted as the bedroom door flew open, Kol entering her room first, her other siblings following on his heels, with Sage and Finn coming in last.
It wasn't but a second after the door opened that a body jumped onto the bed beside the girl.
"C'mon Val, we've let you sleep long enough, we're bored" At the last part, Sage and Rebekah had joined in on Kol's words, as the redhead jumped into the bed on the girl's other side.
"It's already near noon, you've slept for over six hours! And humans only need six to eight hours of sleep!" Kol spoke, his words more like a whine than a true sentence which caused the girl to attempt at hiding beneath the warm covers.
"I'll get out of bed if there's waffles with cream cheese on them on the table" Waffles with cream cheese, such an odd pairing yet one that she loved to no end.
Next thing she knew, Kol was out of the room, and Nik had begun stalking seemingly menacingly towards the large bed, Elijah and Finn keeping their post beside the door.
The girl, surprised let out a squeal as she was thrown onto Nik's shoulder, now slightly excited for the day.
That was however only until she remembered that their mother was trying to kill them.
The waffles were amazing, and she even gained the delight of seeing Kol try and make them using a waffle maker.
Esther had sat to the side, quiet for the most part, a small smile on her face as the girl did her best to throw a spoon full of waffle batter at Elijah before standing, a new spoon in hand.
"You do realize that you are physically incapable of catching me?" Elijah had a smile on his face as he stood, hands braced against the table across from the girl.
"Not if I do this" And with that, Elijah's hands became stuck to the table, and the girl leaped across it, succuessfully managing to smear waffle batter across her elder brother's nose.
Needless to say, the whole room erupted into uncontrollable laughter at the siblings' actions.
"C'mon little warrior, unless you don't want to eat of course" Nik's words were teasing, as he spoke a small smile still on his face as the girl took the spoon that she'd used on Elijah and ate the remainder of the batter.
Glaring slightly at Nik, the girl sat down as he set a plate of two waffles both covered in cream cheese in front of her.
Reaching for her fork and knife, something extremely unexpected happened.
Esther actually spoke to her.
"Allow me Valkyrie, for I've missed doing things such as this for you" The words were soft, and slightly hesitant, and so when the girl moved back in her seat to allow he once mother to cut her food, she did so with a hesitant look on her face.
In fact, all of them watched with a curious look on her face, before Nik's phone rung.
The girl didn't pay much attention to the conversation, opting to eat the waffle that her mother had finished cutting.
"Finish up little sister, the taylor is coming to measure us for our outfits for tonight, and Mrs. Lockwood just texted me she wants you back by four."
Instead of verbally responding, the girl just nodded, continuing to eat her waffles, and occasionally sipping her coffee that she'd convinced them to allow her. Though, it didn't take much convincing once she'd given Elijah the puppy dog eyes.
Not long after she'd ate and brushed her teeth and hair, a human taylor come by, along with people sent to give the girl, Rebekah, and maybe even Esther a beauty treatment.
It was largely uneventful, especially for the girl since all that needed to be done were alterations from one of her old ball gowns.
The time passed by normally, with Nik leaving to do some aarons, before returning, looking positively furious.
"You went after Elena?"
"Here we go."
"Do you want another dagger in your heart?" Nik's words were harsh, though the girl knew that Nik wouldn't dagger their sister out of something so petty, well she at least hoped.
"Again with the dagger threats? Don't you have any other tricks?" Kol, words though said with an annoyed tone of voice, were harsh and nearly hissed.
Well, this was escalating rather quickly.
"Oh, go back to staring at yourself"
"And who are you? My father?" Kol's response to Nik was harsh as the two brothers grew closer to each other, both ready for a fight.
"Then perhaps we should-"
"Sing kumbaya, he wants to sing kumbaya"
"Stay out of it Valkyirie." The words were hissed towards the girl from her mate, who was not in teh least happy at her interference in his argument with their brother.
Just as the two of them finally stepped away from each other, Esther waltzed into the room where the siblings had been, and asked to speak with Nik.
Though Valkyrie's hearing was nowhere near as good as a vampire- even a baby's, she still had about the hearing of a werewolf, and so was able to overhear parts of the conversation-specifically when Esther asked Nik who he was taking to the ball.
At this point, all of her siblings had tensed, as they were all incredibly nosy, and all knew that Nik would not react well to Esther's proposal.
"What do you mean 'who am I taking'?" Though Nik had slept with many women that were not Valkyrie, he'd never done so whilst she had been an active participant in his life, believing it to be betrayal to his love.
"What I mean is, despite what grade she is in, and how old she looks, she is still not of age in this body Niklaus!" Esther''s words were harsh, and Nik merely left the room in response, opting to sit beside the girl as she got her nails painted by a compelled human.
She could tell that he was tense, and so though she disliked not being the one to initiate physical contact most of the time, made no protest when he placed a hand on her thigh.
The duo was silent until her nails were finished being painted, and Nik asked her if she was ready to go.
It was already almost three o'clock, and though she wasn't due at the Lockwood mansion until four, she knew that it'd be easier for the workers to set things up without her presence.
So, nodding, the girl got comfortable in the flipflops that would no doubt freeze her toes, the girl stood careful of her still wet nails.
Their departure was brief, as at the moment, their siblings were occupied within themselves.
The girl, wary of her mother, began a conversation for what felt like the first time in her life.
"Nik, something's wrong with mother. She feels cold and I just know something's up. She lied to you, she's trying to kill us, not save us." Her word vomit was met with silence from the man in the driver's seat, and it made the hairs on the back of her neck rise.
If Nik was on their mother's side, then things would end up worse than they already were going to.
But, Nik just sighed, running a hand through his hair, something she rarely saw him do after their human years.
He didn't know what to do, and that worried the girl.
"I know, and I suspect that Finn may be helping her, but as of now, there's nothing we can do. We have to see where this goes."
The girl didn't reply, instead opting to stare out the window, knee bouncing up and down.
She was never able to be still.
They didn't take long to get to the Lockwood home, and without a word exchanged, the girl left the car, and went inside the mansion.
She had to at least try and do something, with or without Nik's help.
The second she got inside the room, she put on her headphones, turning up the volume as loud as she could, before getting out some of the grimores that Nik had said were once hers.
She had to do something.
She would do something, because she had a feeling that if she died, she wouldn't come back.
And for some reason, the girl didn't want to die.
It was an odd sight, a girl, headphones atop her head, surrounded by books containing some of the strongest spells on earth, trying to find a way to save her own life, a life that had been dammed since she first came out of her mother's womb.
It was truly odd indeed.