AN: decided to upload this chapter in parts (two maybe three parts), So this is part one.

Remember: This fanfiction is unbeta-ed, and I don't own TO, TVD or the characters; I just own the AU/AR they reside in.

"This is us, the Original Family and we remain together always and forever."

Elijah Mikaelson TVD Episode 4.20 "The Originals"

This Is Us, The Original Family

Chapter Thirty-One: Elijah's Wrath, Nadia's Grief and Aaron's Plan

Part One of ?

Caroline Forbes Petrova; Mikaelson Compound; New Orleans, Louisiana; August 25, 2011

In the past few months she began to feel like these people had always been her family. Of course she missed her birth parents, she missed them everyday, even if they were both absent when they were living and her dad tried to torture the vampire out of her. But Elijah and Kat were kind and loving and protective of her and Nadia, even if she was only Kat's Vampire kid, they never let her feel any different.

Her and Papa had been laughing and talking in the hotel while Finn, Sage and Erik spent some time together. Then his phone rang, and after four seconds of indiscernible crying from Rebekah, Papa called the pilot to tell him to prepare the jet and ordered them all to be ready to go home. Caroline had never seen her Papa in this state, immediately after he got the call he straitened up, his features got darker and the way he spoke left no room for argument, he was frightening and she suddenly wanted to be away from him.

Then he told them that Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore had attacked Mama and force-fed her The Cure. At this her eyes immediately filled with tears and the veins around her eyes popped out. Damon had used and abused her, Elena had killed her Mom and now they both tried to kill her vampire mother. Would they always be there to ruin her happiness? Would her Mama survive this?

Papa had set next to her on the plane and held her hand. "Cara, your Mama will be fine. I will ensure this, and Elena and Damon will not escape punishment for their crimes this time around."

Caroline had trouble beveling him, because of her history with both Damon and Elena, she believed that they would always be there to harm her or those she loved, but she said "I believe you Papa." anyway to get his freighting stare away from her.

She apparently forgot he could detect deceit, despite not being a full witch; he grabbed her face in his hands and looked into her eyes, frightening features softening for a moment. "Cara, perhaps its time you tell me what happened to you from the moment you met Damon Salvatore."

Papa had left no room for argument, so Caroline saw no way but to tell the truth. The plane ride was full of Damon's verbal and physical abuse, Elena's forcing her to be friends with him, turning alone, Damon trying to kill her when she was newly turned, all the times she was captured and tortured to get to someone else, her father's torture, playing second fiddle to Elena, being 'teased' by Elena and Damon on a daily basis, being told that she had no one else so she had to deal with it, and finally when she attempted to find a friend in Klaus, Elena's murder of her mother. Papa's features looked more deadly after her story finished, and he pulled her to him in a hug.

"Oh Cara, do not cry." He said rocking her, "I will make them pay for what they did to you, to your Mama, to Bonnie, and to Finn and Kol. They will rue the day that they set sights on our family. Nobody hurts my family and lives Cara, no one."* He said darkly.

It was in that moment she believed him, the only reason Damon and Elena escaped his wrath before was because Silas needed them to find where they had the cure, now that the cure was used on Mama, Silas did not need them alive. Papa would not be putting the family in danger by killing them. We would finally be free of them. Papa would make them pay.

She hugged him tighter at the realization. Her Papa hugged her tighter to him as well. They sat like that the entire plane ride.

Katerina Petrova Mikaelson; Mikaelson Compound; New Orleans, Louisiana; August 27, 2011

Katerina was absolutely pissed that the Gilbert brat turned her human. Katerina Petrova was now a weak human and now that she was no longer indestructible she saw death everywhere. She was afraid to leave her room in the house for fear of the dangers that lay beyond the walls so her daughters and sisters brought her things she needed.

Apparently, she needed human food now, and the pain in her stomach grew worse when she did not eat. She also needed to use the bathroom toilet which was an odd experience that Hayley had given her a tutorial in as she was the first to arrive back that wasn't baffled on how to use the device.

Her fear of Klaus had been renewed when she woke to find herself human, because she was once again a doppelganger. But Hayley promised her that Klaus had no interest in her blood at the moment, and that it would be useless anyway because it held the cure.

This only fueled her fear of the warlock Silas, who apparently had gotten word of her being force-fed the cure and was on his way to New Orleans. She was going to die by his hand, there was no way her family could prevent it. The only way for Silas to die was by his own hand, and he needed the cure for that to happen.

She was awaiting her own execution, alone in her room.

She did not wish for her girls to see her this way, human and frail waiting for death, but they were her daughters and did not listen when she said to leave her be. But despite the company of her daughters she was mostly alone, as the family opted to spend their time researching ways to keep her alive and keep Silas happy or with Elijah torturing the captives.

Her only wish was to spend her last days with her family, in her husband's arms but that was not going to happen. They were all in denial about her situation, thinking she would live through this and going about the days intent on vengeance and outwitting Silas.

It seemed Katerina was the only one who saw the situation for what it was. There was no outwitting Silas, just her demise.

Her instincts screamed for her to run, but she knew that the people she loved would suffer if she did. She learned her lesson when she began running from Klaus and he killed her mother and sister, a person on the run should not have loved ones because they were the ones who paid the price for running. Now she had many loved ones and somehow, Klaus was among them. She did not what her sisters, daughters, brothers-in-law nephew or husband to suffer Silas' wrath if she fled. So she would stay and wait to die.

AN: I tried changing Caroline's last name in this chapter...idk if I want to keep it as "Forbes Petrova" , I'd thought I'd try it out and see what everyone thought because I'm still unsure about it.

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Footnotes:

* You may notice this line from The Originals episode "Fruit of the Poisoned Tree". Elijah used it when he killed Agnes, but it filled me with rage when I saw it on screen because internally I was screaming 'WHAT ABOUT THE IDIOTS THAT KILLED KOL AND FINN YOU JERK! THEY ARE STILL ALIVE!' but here I used it more appropriately…or at least I think so.