My mother and I returned to Mystic Falls all too soon though, just because my mom wanted him out of town. She wrote a letter, saying there was a conspiracy against him in New Orleans. Whether it was true or not, I didn't know. But when he got home that night, and he read the letter, I came down the stairs and into the room. My heels clacked on the hardwood floor, and he looked up from my mother's script to see me standing there. Half him…half her.
"Glad to see you're not dead Father." I said distantly, not wanting to go to New Orleans, and wondering how I was going to break it to him.
"Adeline…Silas tricked me-"
"I figured. I knew something was off about your pain that morning…Some instinct…"
"Is that why you went off with your other instinct to find your mother?" he snapped at me and I sighed.
"Maybe…and I'm using that instinct to stay here."
"What? Why? You loved New Orleans."
"I admit I did stay for a bit…but it won't be the same anymore." Not without Uncle Kol…but I didn't speak a word of that.
"Adeline Camille…I won't force you…I'm sure your aunt won't budge either…so I'll go by myself. Choose the Salvatores, these high schoolers- over your own father."
"You've chosen them over your family. So has Aunt Bekah. Our family isn't even a family anymore."
"And what? You hope to find that in Katerina? She's as cold as I am! She has no home, no family!"
"I am her family though. And I will do as I please. I will stay with her, or Aunt Bekah, or my friends…but I need to stay here." Mostly to kill Elena, revive my uncle- but still.
"Is it because of that boy again?" he fumed.
"Dad, he has nothing to do with this! I've changed since then. You've changed. Everyone has…we're not the same anymore." It was silent for a moment as he stared at me. "Enjoy Mardi Gras." I muttered and brushed past him, heading out the door.
When I came back home, he was gone. Aunt Rebekah didn't seem to care, so I went along with it. It was actually quiet for a bit, but after another day of searching for Silas to no cigar, I came back to the manse to sense my Uncle Elijah with my aunt. I got inside, hearing them speak, and edged towards the room they were in.
The news that awaited me was something I wished I could forget immediately.
Apparently that Hayley werewolf nobody was pregnant…with my father's child. I fumed. I was supposed to be the only one! The miracle of nature! Or disaster, to take a different spin on it. I hated Hayley, and I hated that half-sibling that was in her now.
He was my dad. No sharing allowed.
"Excuse me?" I spoke in disbelief, coming into the view of my relatives.
"Adeline, listen-" Uncle came closer and I moved my shoulder as to move away and reject him.
"Kill her, and kill it. Watch it be a boy. Then he'll have the son he always desired and never could have in me. Now he can forget me and forget Katerina. He can forget I'm the child of the woman he loathed and chased for my entire life! He can just erase the last 520 years from his memory. Now that he has a perfect hybrid for a child, half and half." I choked out and my Uncle came closer.
"Adeline, you know he doesn't feel that way. I implore you to join us in New Orleans-"
"So I can stare at that filth and watch that thing grow inside her? Should I throw the bitch a baby shower? What next, call the thing my sibling? My family? Never. I won't watch that thing take my place."
"Adeline-"
"I'm not going. Good riddance to him. If he chooses that thing over his daughter, the one he already has…I say let him. I hope to never cross paths with him again after that."
"Adeline, I know this is shocking-" Aunt Bekah tried to calm me down, seeing how tense I was, as if she was scared I'd jump my uncle.
"If you choose him, you're no better than him! I was supposed to be the one! I was chosen! I'm the Original Daughter! He's my dad! MINE!" I screamed like a possessive little kid and turned, sprinting into the woods at vampire speed, leaving them behind.
"Dear Adeline, what a mess you are lately." I heard from around me in the cover of the trees. I stopped dead in my tracks and whispered softly, "Uncle Kol?"
"The one and only darling." He stepped out into view and a wide grin spread across my face for a moment, as he came closer. But in the next second, I had him pinned against a tree, and snarled, "You're not him."
He laughed. "What? Miss the 'favorite niece' charade that much? You really do know your uncle don't you dearest Adeline?"
"Silas." I said, realizing, and immediately I let go and stepped back, remembering all he had done already.
"You're very easy to read dear…Have you considered my offer?"
I paced in front of Silas for a minute, glaring at him narrow-eyed. "What offer? Some offer. You barely even put forth a deal."
"I know you're staying behind to bring back dear Kol…Favorite Uncle Kol." He smirked and I stopped pacing to look at the ground in the darkness. I took a breath and spun around to face Silas once more.
"Fine. I'll join you…but you have to bring him back…I'll do whatever you need me to do…if my Uncle Kol comes back…for real. Then he'll take me traveling like he promised, and we'll be out of your hair."
Silas chuckled darkly and nodded. "Good then…we're on the same team now…you better not back out…or you'll find all those you feel compassion for down in New Orleans as dead and…burnt as your dear favorite uncle." He whispered to me in the dark, and was gone. A chill ran down my spine and I turned around to find him completely gone. My breaths grew more and more panicked as I realized what I had done…who I had just joined…and I ran a shaky hand through my hair, anxious.
I collapsed to the forest floor, my hand over my heart, and whispered things to myself in an effort to calm myself, to rationalize this situation. But no matter what, I felt awful about it. Any witch would tell me I couldn't drop the veil, it was unnatural. But then again…they would say the same thing about me. And about…Hayley's child as well.
"God..." I whimpered pathetically, practically tearing my hair out. "Dammit!" I yelled and flew over in a flash to punch the tree where my uncle…Silas had been not too long ago.
I was staring at the near hole I'd made in the tree bark with that punch when my cell phone rang. I picked up without even looking at the caller ID and not tearing my gaze from the tree I answered, "Hello?"
"Adeline." She sighed. "I've been trying to call for an hour but your phone must have been off. Where are you?"
"Aunt Bekah." I managed. Silas must have interfered with my phone and interrupted any coming calls. I thought of the threat Silas had made about my father and Uncle Elijah and I blurted out, "Are you going to New Orleans too?"
"No, of course not. I would like to graduate high school you know." She answered back and I relaxed.
"Good…then I won't be alone."
"You will be tonight unless you get your arse back to the manse right now." She laughed and I laughed with her.
"Alright. I'll be home in a few." I promised and zoomed back home as soon as I hung up.
All of the next day, all I could think about was how much I detested, loathed being an older sister to some brat.
My mom came over, which was a surprise, but she wasn't there for me, she came for Elijah. Trying to convince him to stay, which in the end he didn't. "You'll have Adeline. She's enough Mikaelson and Petrova to comfort each of us when we are in need of the other's company. You need her…and she needs her mother now. Goodbye Katerina." He kissed her forehead, kissed my cheek, and was gone to watch after his younger brother, my father.
Of course Mystic Falls wasn't fun to be in, with Elena still being, well, alive. No one knew I was working for Silas, and if my mother knew…she'd probably have my aunt dagger me or something.
If Uncle Kol knew…he'd be so pissed to put it simply. Everyone drove themselves crazy over Elena, and when she finally got her emotions back, I wished I could just shut her up even more. She would miss Jeremy…but she would feel no remorse for killing off my uncles…She was the reason 2/5 of the vampire race was gone, and she didn't even care.
And when I heard she was using all her energy to focus on killing my mother, I wanted to rip her head off even more so than ever before. Any hope to go back to the days where I loved having her as a family member…no matter how many…generations stood before us, was dead and gone. Like hell I'd let her take away a third family member. I would not lose my goddamn mother to this bitch.
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