Chapter Fourteen: You Can Never Change Who You Really Are

Flashback, Seven Years Ago 3rd POV

An entire year had passed since the beautiful dainty baby with the maroon colored locks and the different colored eyes came into their life. An entire year of more happiness and bliss since the time Henrik had been a baby. And as expected, the baby had been kept into the family, and it had taken months for the family to decide on a name for her (which they did indeed find out to be a girl from making Ester check). They had gone over many names including Armelle, Tatiana, Mary, Odette, or Opal, but the end result had been Camilla or Cami for short. It had been Finn who had came up with the name, and the entire family had liked it, even Mikael who had quickly disposed of the other names claiming that the baby needed a beautiful unique name that fitted her, something that was completely out of character for him. And consequently it made Rebekah jealous for she had been told truthfully from Elijah (after pleading to him to tell her to the point he got very agitated) that her father hadn't given much thought to her name once she had been born, and simply just let Ester named her whatever.

Although Camilla had been an unexpected surprise, the family soon to grow loving feelings for the baby girl, sometimes bickering over who got to hold her, or small things like that. However, no matter how perfect she was in their eyes, they all knew there was something off about her. For one thing, she never fought when they tried to feed her. Most babies have a rollercoaster of feelings going through them, and sometimes fight when being fed anything, but never once did she jerk her head out of the way. Another thing being she never once cried. This greatly confused the older members of the family for they knew even the most well behaved babies cried whenever they needed their diaper change or were hungry, it was their way of communicating, but never once did she cry. There was something defiantly off about Camilla, and the thing was, was that the only sound that she ever even made was a slight coo when she stared up at her family's eyes. She in all did not act like how a baby should.

At first they believed she to be deaf for they had known a couple deaf babies to not make any noises while in their infant stages but it was extremely uncommon. But the idea quickly flew out the window for they noticed whenever they mentioned a certain name, Camilla's eyes would light up; she understood. Then, being a witch, Ester believe maybe she was under some obedient spell for she knew from Ayana that in the past some witches had put spells on their children to keep them from crying, but when Ester did the reversal spell on Camilla, it did nothing; changed nothing.

Even though it had been bliss for Ester or Mikael not being woken up in the middle night due to a baby's crying, it made the job of taking care of her ten times harder. They never knew when the baby needed to be changed except for smelling the baby, they never knew when Camilla was hungry, and they never knew when she was tired; so, the entire time, they had to guess whether she needed food yet, when she needed a changing, and when she needed to sleep.

The blonde older woman had grown tiresome of guessing Camilla's needs, and when to Ayana for help once more. However, after Ayana inspected the baby, she ended up seeing something the rest couldn't see and told Ester that Camilla is special, and that there is nothing to be done about changing her.

That was in the past now, and currently, the family was sitting around the fire, looking like any normal, fairy tale-like family. Mikael sat on their deer fur cover couch, his arm wrapped around wife who was currently fixing up one of the boy's pants. Rebekah, Kol, and Klaus played on the floor with Henrik who was desperately trying to keep up with them. Elijah simply sat there and watched his younger siblings, smiling at their antics. However, Finn did not join in on their fun. Instead, he sat in a chair, cradling Camilla in his arms.

It was a usual sight for the family. Finn was always holding Camilla, always taking care of her. And like before, it made Rebekah jealous and a bit angry. From the stories she had been told, Finn had never really cared about his siblings when they were younger. But here he was now, holding this baby girl like she's the most important person in the world. And there were moments when the young blonde girl caught her eldest brother smiling down on her which was a sight for sore eyes considering he rarely ever smiled, and the only reason he did now, was because of the maroon haired girl in his arms.

Even though Finn was aware of his sister's petty glare, he simply ignored her. Instead, he focused his full attention on Camilla. Her soft features looked back at his, her eyes fluttering dreamily. The eldest then pressed a kiss to her soft forehead, and when he pulled back he felt his heart jump with happiness. The baby's lips curled in a sweet smile, opening a little to show her gums and her teeth starting to come in. Her nose scrunched up a little causing Finn to feel a sudden urge to kiss her tiny nose.

At that moment, he knew; even if Camilla turned out to be like his fellow siblings, there was no way he could treat her or dislike her like he dislikes/treats them. He's too close to her to hate anything about her, and he's too close to her to treat her emotionlessly. Finn loved his baby sister, Camilla.

To be continued…

A/N: Sorry about the short chapter. Just to warn you all but next chapter is going to be the same: another flashback, but it will be longer. Then finally we'll come to the present time again. Please review! Thank you for following/favorite/reviewing!

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