AN: 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 Three of Four

Kol Mikaelson; Mikaelson Compound; New Orleans, Louisiana; August 28, 2011

Who knew his siblings were so much fun!

They had spent the past days torturing Damien and Edna as a family and it was lovely. Sage and Hayley joined in on the first day, but lost interest after a few hours and opted to spend their time with Bonnie and Aaron researching. So the task fell to him and his five siblings. Which was fine with Kol as they were due for some bonding time.

Kol had always knew how his baby sister and Nik preferred their torture, because like him they were the most sadistic; as noted by their collections of preferred tools. Kol got to use his collection of bats and spiked clubs, Bekah brought out her knives and Nik had a his trunk of torturing tools waiting for them when he and Finn threw them in their cells. And now, with all the sibling bonding time over Dana and Ellen bloodied and screaming bodies, Kol was learning more and more about how his eldest brothers preferred drawing blood when not for food.

It seemed that Elijah had preferred the hands on approach, by tearing out this organ and that organ. According to Bekah he typically just tore out the persons heart and was done with it. But killing Kol and Finn, the obsession with trying to kill Nik, the mental and physical torture of Elijah's adopted child, the attempted murder of his wife and a host of other atrocities leveled against his family was enough to justify a drawn out torture to Eli.

Kol also learned that Aaron loved setting fires. After spending many hours with Bonnie figuring out how to save Katerina, Aaron would come to join them in the lowest level in the early afternoon. He would get his hands dirty and was capable of inflicting pain like the rest of his siblings but Aaron would always be more Warlock than vampire. He did not see the point in touching the 'imbeciles' to inflict pain when his spells were more than efficient. Flames were his favorite though, Kol heard Aaron's thoughts, and the lad enjoyed fire immensely.

Perhaps the most surprising was Finn. Finn, who never really was unnecessarily violent, who hated with all his being the monsters inside himself and his siblings and hated their nonchalance in regards to violence. Finn loved the family more than he hated the monster inside, as Kol read his thoughts, all focus was on what would have happen if Aaron had not been able to resurrect them. Finn, Kol, Sage, and Erik would be dead and their family would have been fractured even more than it had been. The thought made Finn angry beyond belief, because although big brother was a man of very few words, he loved every single member of the family deeply. So Kol watched as Finn from the moment it the torture began took control of what was happening, a task that Kol had assumed Elijah would undertake. Finn said who could do what, when, where and for how long. He calculated the best way to inflict pain for maximum damage. He also had a few ways to inflict psychological pain on one.

The first thing that Finn did when they threw them in the cell a few days ago was throw a coin on the ground and tell them that whoever picked up the coin got to live longer than the other. Edith wasted no time rushing for the coin, and Dustin who had been looking at her thinking that they would talk it over as a couple was left to feel betrayed. During their brief reprieves from their punishment, while the family spent time together and slept, they argued over it, which Kol knew because Dante replayed the arguments in his head in sorrow while he was punished.

It was also Finn's idea to compel them not to be able to sleep during their reprieves. Without sleep and the proper amount of blood a vampire could not heal, making the wounds left behind fester and be constantly as painful as they were when first inflicted.

Then again it was Finn and Elijah that ended it all for good this evening. They only had a day or two until Silas arrived and decided that the family should focus on being together, not torturing Doug and Elisa.

Kol supposed that it was no longer as fun as it was when they began, but he enjoyed the sibling time the most and made them all promise for more moments together without their significant others about. They all agreed, with the added stipulation that they weren't all bonding over torture each time. Finn had reached is tolerance for the decade it seemed.

After argument it was agreed that Elijah should be the one to give death to the captives. Eli ripped Diego's heart out without hesitation, but hesitated when he went to kill Eva.

Sensing Elijah's hesitation to kill someone that was the carbon copy of his beloved wife, Emily began to plead. "Elijah, please don't do this" This unfazed them all because she had taken to chanting those words the past few days because her voice made Elijah not want to harm her, something his siblings had no problem in stepping up and doing for him. "…you all promised that if I picked up the coin you would not kill me."

"Actually no." Elijah said. "Finn stated that whoever picked up the coin would live longer, meaning they would not be the first to die."

The woman let out a whimper. "Would you kill me Elijah? Would you kill the woman who could be your loves twin? Especially since the woman you love will die very soon, when Silas gets his hands on her."

That was not the right thing to say if Edna wanted to live, because that made Elijah very angry. "You are correct Elena. I cannot kill you. You will kill yourself." He said grabbing the smaller part of a broken in half baseball bat of Kol's.

Then Eli turned to her and placed the piece of wood in her hand before speaking again. "You will drive this through your heart." He said using compulsion on her.

When she was dead they all left the cell, deciding to leave the clean up for another day.

AN: Hey, so I'm going to be gone for a few days but wanted to give you something because I may be unable to internet until Wednesday, I didn't want to wait until then to post.

So instead of three parts like I planned, this chapter is now in four parts. I know it's a bit annoying and I'm sorry. But I also know some of you are happy because you have voiced your preferences of less narration changes in each "chapter".

Hope you enjoyed hearing from Kol. I hope to have Aaron's part posted as soon as I can Internet again. LoveLou!

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