No One's POV

Time passed differently in the green room than in the world in which Genesis and Finn left, or rather, Genesis had allowed herself and Finn to be somewhat suspended in time and thus, little time had passed since they left, barely minutes, perhaps ten at most.

"What the hell!?" Stefan states again, looking extremely confused and startled as Genesis and Finn appear in a flash of light and rumble of ground shifting.

"If someone doesn't tell me what is going on here, right this second!" Niklaus growls, pacing like a caged animal, making several aggressive moves towards his eldest brother, hating that he didn't know what was happening nor have control over the situation.

"Genesis!?" Damon blurts out, looking a little shell-shocked about everything as if he's trying to put into terms what is actually happening.

Genesis manages to look at least marginally contrite about things, offering a small half-smile and tilt of her head as if to say sorry.

"Finn, can you clarify things for us?" Elijah finally steps in to alleviate some tension before one of his brothers finally snaps and attacks; Elijah, as always, the peace maker and patriarch of the Original family.

Finn, instead, immediately looks to Genesis, already taking a duckling-like attachment to Genesis, as if she were taking the place of Esther in his life; none of the Mikaelsons children had had much of a mother-like figure in their life, not in their human lives and certain not in their long vampire lives, but least of all Finn.

And, out of all the children, Finn perhaps, craved it the most. Perhaps it was odd, a thousand-year old vampire, who at least physically, was probably older than Genesis, but in experience and wisdom, much younger; with that perspective, however, perhaps it was not all that odd or unreasonable to see and expect Finn to glomp on to Genesis like a duckling who just imprinted on its mother.

Genesis simply makes a small motion to Finn, a single finger touching her lips, almost indiscernible to anyone else, the action telling Finn to remain silent of their interactions and her revelations to him in the other dimension.

Instead, Genesis steps back a few steps, her back straightening and shoulders squaring like a soldier going to battle; lightning flashes and thunder booms in a loud sound as if threatening to rip apart the ground and surrounding forest, alright, so maybe she was channeling her older brother Gabriel, strike her down with lightning, she was the youngest after all, she learned from the best.

Two large shadows of her wings arc behind her, Genesis hiding her other four not quite ready to reveal everything, particularly to all company present; she knew the Original family after all, it wasn't the right time.

"An angel?" Damon is the first to put the clues together; his voice certainly did not rise like a girl's. "Unless I'm hallucinating everything. Which honestly, I'm not quite certain, I'm not…" Damon continues to ramble a little, staring at Genesis as if he'd seen a ghost.

Genesis actually rolls her eyes at this, her wings snap back, the lightning and thunder ceasing immediately as her power retracts from the Earth and nature around her.

"An angel?" Damon repeats dumbly.

Genesis sighs again, this time giving Damon a look as if to say "really" or "get with the program".

"Come on, what do you expect? Give me a minute." Damon snarks. "I rescued a literal angel… And I didn't know it…"

"Your name is Genesis, correct?" Elijah confirms, recognizing the young woman, angel, from his previous encounter with her at the mall with his sister. "You were shopping, with my sister this afternoon."

Genesis simply nods.

"Can you not speak?" Niklaus butts in, his gaze contemplative and calculating, not trusting the angel, who by all accounts was probably much more powerful that himself and his family; a thought that did not settle with him at all.

"Niklaus." Elijah rebukes rather sharply.

"Why are you here?" Kol asks, inching closer to Genesis, like a puppy who was inquisitive or who had found a new playmate to play with, his gaze drifting to where Genesis' wings once had been, head cocked a little to the side, clearly interested in the prospect of an angel on Earth.

"No, she cannot." Finn replies in lieu of Genesis and answering Niklaus' question, not particularly understanding why Genesis was choosing to keep quiet, in this case, quite literally, but accepting her reasoning and secrets for what they were; which were that they were hers to keep.

"Protection." Genesis answers, Damon finally snapping out of his silent shock to play mediator between Genesis and the Mikaelsons, and wow, that was new for him, since when did he become a messenger pigeon?

"Protection? From what?" Niklaus questions, his gaze still suspicious; honestly, if he believed his own shadow was out to get him, he'd probably try to kill that to, it was honestly how paranoid he was sometimes. "And wait- you can understand her?" He asks, looking at the eldest Salvatore, annoyance clear in his tone and expression.

"Crash course. You'd be amazed at what you can look up on internet these days. Porn. Dancing cats. And even American Sign Language 1-oh-1." Damon snarks dragging out the last syllable in the 101. "Do you want to understand her or not?" He rolls his eyes.

Elijah merely sighed, taking on this sort of put upon look.

"Niklaus-" Elijah attempts to intercept his brother; he had actually picked up some sign language in his travels around the world chasing after Niklaus, not enough to be fluent, but perhaps get by with some conversation with Genesis and with some more brushing up on the language.

"Fine." Niklaus growls. "Whatever."

"I was sent away. It's- it's complicated." Genesis explains rather nonchalantly, finishing the answer to Niklaus' question, waving her hand in an ambivalent motion. "War."

"She was sent away. It's complicated." Damon answers, reading Genesis' signs, his quick study he managed earlier helping to interpret Genesis' sign language, although he had heard that before and didn't need his crash course to interpret the first part. "War."

"War with-"

"Does it matter?" Finn interrupts what would surely be a long inquisition from his younger siblings, his tone the closest to a growl his younger brothers had ever heard from him.

Genesis simply places a hand on his shoulder as if to calm him, her wings, unseen to any others, flicking out to rest over him, this a reassuring gesture; Finn couldn't help but scoot closer to Genesis, an action not missed by his siblings.

"I am no threat to your family. I seek refuge. Until I can return to my brothers and sisters." Genesis replies.

"She says she is no threat to your family. She seeks refuge. Until she can return home to her siblings." Damon summarizes, an uncomfortable feeling settling in the pit of his stomach.

"Hmm. We will see." Niklaus simply hums, his head tilting slightly in acknowledgment.

"Well… As fascinating as this was…" Stefan finally interjects, his expression somewhere between complete indifference and absolute curiosity at the new revelations. "We did what you asked. That is- until Genesis stopped us. Either way… Esther was stopped and that is all that matters. Tell Rebekah to release Elena."

My story board for Genesis on Pinterest is UP!

Also, Fanficqueen306 made me some AMAZING collages for Legacy... I can't link them on FF, so I put them on Pinterest. They are so beautiful... I have them both on the Legacy & The Hollow Crown boards. I honestly could stare at them all day... Daddy Mikaelsons are the BEST! *tears up* *sniffles*

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