Always and Forever, The Original Family

by LouisaHale

The Kings and Queens have been kidnapped by an unknown foe. It's up to the children to save them. Pics up from "We Remain, The Original Family" Chapter 15

10. You Just Might See A Ghost Tonight…

p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"AN: I didn't know how to end this; I've been agonizing over it. But I think its just best to get these last few chapters out the same day to rip it off like a bandaid./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"As of now I have no plans to continue in this verse, I was really trying to think out if I had enough ideas for a second act of this story, but I really don't. If I get and idea I may return one day, I loved this universe soooo much! This Is Us was my first fic, so it will always be my favorite and I'd like to think I've grown so much since I started publishing of FFdotnet.../p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"So without further ado here is chapter 10, a final character list post 10, and the epilogue./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Chapter 10: "You Just Might See A Ghost Tonight…"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Elya laughed at the seven shocked expressions when he, Nadia and Aunt Tally entered the room. "What loves? Did you think vampire-witch hybrids were rare or something?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The Heretics (the names these people came up with for themselves honestly) were some of the many witches that Grandmother had resurrected in her efforts to destroy the family, and now that Grandmother and Great-Grandmother didn't have any powers, they were trying to fill the power vacuum left./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""That was a nasty bit of magic I sensed you doing just now." Aunt Tally said to the room, their had all huddled into one corner, blocking something from view. "What do you lot got there?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Help!" A little voice said, blubbering as if in tears "They keep taking my blood."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"At the voice Elya, Nadia and their aunt sprang into action, and the Heretics quickly died painfully. They had planned on making a day of it, having a bit of family bonding over some torture and curses…but that voice made their plans change./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It was a voice of a young Petrova doppelganger. All of them had heard Lumi and Lux growing up, and Aunt Tally had known Mama so they knew that these Heretics had resurrected one of their bloodline to use the doppelganger magic against them./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"What an original idea./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"When the bodies were cleared they uncovered a tiny girl, who looked no more that four, if that. She was nude, bleeding and crying. His heart hurt for her pain. Elya took off his jacket to cover her and she covered herself with it, he took her into his arms and kissed her head, unlocking the innate magic of their bloodline so the girl could heal herself./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""What's you name love?" Aunt Tally asked./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""They kept calling me Elena." The girl whimpered burying herself in Elya's chest, "But I don't remember having a name. I don't remember anything before them but fire and darkness."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Elya looked up to his sister and aunt, who were looking down on the girl in shock. This was the Petrova that had grown up away from the family and strayed from her path. All the other doppelgangers had led lives within the love of family but this one had been away from all that and her soul corrupted by vampires./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Perhaps they gave us a blessing?" Aunt Tally asked, "She can be raised right this time."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Nadia nodded taking out her phone and sending a text. "Mama or I will raise her as our own. You have Emma and Elya will have three of his own soon."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Welcome to the family little Elena." Aunt Tally said kneeling down and giving the girl a kiss. "I'm your Aunt Natalia."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Hello." Elena said, "Aunt Nat, can I have another name? They called me Elena and they hurt me."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Nadia's phone dinged and she smiled before kneeling down with the rest of them and kissing Elena "I'm Nadia, I'm to be your sister. I just texted Mama and Papa and they are working on a new name for you now."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Elena turned to him, "And who are you to me?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I'm your big brother Elya." He smiled, "We have much more family to meet, would you like to meet them?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"His new little sister smiled brightly. "Yes! You will all keep me safe?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""And teach you how you can keep yourself safe little one." Aunt Tally said as they all stood, Elya with Elena still in his arms. "You are a Petrova, you are powerful in your own right."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"At that Sonia and Lynnea jumped through a portal, entirely to clean for having just caused a massacre, to give them a ride home. "Uncle! What did you do?" Sonia yelled./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lynnea laughed, and ushered them all through the new portal that Sonia made while yelling at him. "It was done when they got here. You can moan about our four year old aunt when we return home."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""At least today isn't entirely uneventful," Sonia sighed as was the last to step through the latest portal and before it closed she threw a ball of fire to the other side so the Salvatore house and Heretics would burn./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""That doesn't sound at all like you Sonny." Elya said, setting his little sister down so she could get acquainted with her surroundings./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Elya, you have no idea what I have been through today. Do not antagonize me." Sonia sighed, and Elya saw that she was really flustered. Their part of the mission must have had some complications of its own. "I'm going to make some finishing touches on the fifth floor so you and your wife and move and your new sister can be by Grandmamma and Grandpapa. Lyn, can you find some of our old clothes from storage?" Sonia said speeding away./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lynnea nodded, "I'm Lynnea and that was Sonia. We're your cousins…or nieces." She laughed at Elena's expression. "Our family is very confusing love, I'm going to find some clothes from when our cousins Astrid and Ingrid were your age, you're tiny like they were." Lynnie said before speeding away./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Aunt Nat and Nadia looked upstairs, "We should go help Sonia." Nadia said, "The work will need to continue while she leaves to get the rest of the family…see you soon brother, sister."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Come sister. You can meet my wife and watch me pack until Mama and Papa return." He said picking up Elena again. "And once I'm packed we can decorate the rooms how you want them."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Ok Elya." She said cuddling into his chest./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"His heart clenched. He would protect his new little sister from harm, just as fiercely as he would protect his little ones. Her new life will not be like her life as Elena Gilbert was, it would be happy and she would be surrounded with love and family./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Why did bad guys always stage their operations in warehouses? It was honestly getting old./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They stepped out of the portal, her and Lynnie were dispatched to take care of a coven that called themselves the Gemini who Grandmother had resurrected all the members she could to help her cloak her and Great-Grandmothers' locations constantly, so even without magic they were unable to find the women. As soon as she and Lynnie dispatched of the coven, Papa would begin to look for Esther and Bryndis' location. She and Lynnie anticipated a fun fight./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"As Sonia looked around the warehouse she saw all the bodies and it was terrifying. Someone had killed their enemy before they could? Were they friends or foes? She felt someone here, watching them, could feel their mind but not read their thoughts. That wasn't good./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She pulled Lynnie back before she went any further from her. "I don't think whoever did this is friendly to the crown."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Rude! And pompous!" Said a male voice as his body emerged from the shadows. "You don't even know me." He smiled./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sonia's insides were on fire, at first she thought it some spell and then she realized it was lust, attraction. She never felt that before to someone, and was convinced she was on the asexual spectrum like her aunt was… but this man… this was so very confusing to her. She wanted him./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Sonny…" Lynnie said, "He's a siphoner, stay as far away as possible."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""And a witch too, I don't need to siphon anymore unless I want to." The man said, his attractive grin flashing brighter, "Once Esther and the other one no longer had a leash on me, I killed my coven and family…again, took all their magic and preformed a little spell so I could have magic of my own. I've been working on it for decades."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Who are you?" Sonia asked./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Malachai Parker, soon to be The Last of the Gemini's. Call me Kai…and who might you be beautiful?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Sonia Mikealson." Sonia said, blushing "Daughter of King Aaron and Queen Nadia."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Lynnea Mikealson." Lynnie introduced herself, "Daughter of Queen Rebekah and Queen Caroline."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Kai raised an eyebrow. "The family Esther wanted us to help kill? Her abomination family that is ruling the supernatural world?" He spat. "I was never on board with her plan, I like to do my own thing. And I hate when parents call the children emthey made/em abominations."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lynnea collapsed and cried out in pain and Sonia knelt down to see what was wrong. "It's okay. Its just his emotions are so strong. He's not on Esther's side, he hates her and his family."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sonia sighed in relief. "Then he's not an enemy."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Great!" Kai said, "Lets be friends! Follow me on supernatural twitter! I'm CobraKai1972!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sonia looked at him and smiled. "SonnyP2019."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Kai smiled and took out his phone. "We should hang out sometime! 2055 is so different! Maybe you can show me around?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lynnea elbowed her and broadcasted in her mind. emHe has the hots for you too./em/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I'll try. Meet in Berlin in a month? That's where I'm based." Sonia said with a smile./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Kai grinned back, "Great. Well I'm sure you girls have people to kill too. I've got some plans to exterminate the all of the descendents of these guys…" he said waiving to the room. "Just a little preemptive strike before they figure out I'm back…"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sonia nodded, they didn't need any living Gemini's about wanting revenge, she and Lynnea had planned on just taking the magic from the descendents of those Esther resurrected but if this Kai wanted to eliminate the problem for them…/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Just message her when you're ready to meet up." Lynnea said with a wink./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Oh I will." Kai said before turning to leave./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"When he was gone Lynnea giggled. "I'm so proud of you Sonny. You tried to flirt! You were lusting after a hot guy!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sonia was embarrassed; she was a grown woman and felt giddy like a schoolgirl. "It was bound to happen one day…" she said while opening the portal to retrieve her Mama, Uncle and Aunt./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lynnie didn't say anything as they stepped through. But the scene they arrived at was almost as gruesome and surprising as the last one she was in./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bodies and blood everywhere and her Aunt, Mama and uncle were gathered around a little Petrova doppelganger./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"What had Elya done? Could this day get any more odd?/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The last time he had been to this place it had been to exterminate witches too but this time his adoptive Mom and his little sister Sigrid accompanied him. It was confusing, this new bond with his family, but it felt good. He felt wanted, loved and the possibility of a future./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"He wouldn't let Esther or those aligned with her threaten that./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"A lot had changed since he ran back to his first home to meet Dad; since Hayley, someone he tried to kill as a baby, became Mom; since he met all his sisters and reunited with Marcie-Mererid. He felt whole. His thinking had changed, and he was filled with regret for many things he had done in the past./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"When Delphine punished him he had cried, not because he didn't deserve it, but because his father, mother and sisters were ready to defend him, to fight with the family over what had happened. But Delphine had been right to do what she did, he deserved worse, he had hurt the witches of New Orleans, hurt little D, betrayed his family, and tried to murder his baby sister Ingrid. He deserved it all and more./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sigrid said a spell that neutralized all the witches of the French Quarter Coven that stood against the Mikealson family in 2011. These witches were his allies for a time when he was against his family, and now he needed them dead./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Once the witches saw them enter their sight and realized they couldn't use magic or leave the graveyard the witches panicked and started to run. Marcellus felt is face change and he saw his Mom and sister's faces change too./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I love a hunt!" Mom said with a smile, her wolf eyes shining, "And hunting with my son and youngest daughter for the first time! What a bonding experience!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sigrid laughed as she saw witches try to climb in tombs. "Can we make it a competition?" She asked./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Marcellus laughed, "Probably shouldn't, we're all sore losers."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Mom nodded. "Lets just time ourselves. We will try to eliminate them all within five minutes!" She said looking at her phone to set a timer, "Ready…and… Go."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The three of them sped around the graveyard and eliminated witches quickly. It was fun. When they were all dead Mom yelled. "Two minutes and fifteen seconds!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sigrid squealed and jumped on his back. "Carry me brother!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Mom smiled at them and waited for them to catch up with her, she then took his hand so Sigrid could teleport them all to their New Orleans home to wait for their portal./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""We have an hour until Sonia arrives." Mom said, "Lets go wash up. Sigrid there is a room next to Marcellus' for you. Marcellus your room is the room you had when you were a boy. Your Dad kept it for you. I had it modernized when I had Sigrid's room decorated last week."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Marcellus smiled and kissed Mom on the cheek before speeding up the stairs and plopping Sigrid in front of the door to the right of his room as the door to the left of his smelt like Elya./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I put some spare clothes for you both in your closets!" Mom yelled from her room./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sigrid smiled at him. "It's a nice feeling isn't it?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Family?" he asked, "Being looked after?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She nodded. "I missed it." She said opening her room./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Me too." He said opening the door to his room in New Orleans. It looked similar to when he was a boy, but Mom had updated it and put in some touches that made it feel like his suite at the castle. He was glad he still had his things from that time; it felt good, like Dad really did miss him all those years./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Marcellus had hopped in the shower with a smile. Today was a great day./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"strongemASTRID JOY MIKEALSON/em/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Inadu or The Hollow./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Esther had been really stupid to resurrect her. She wasn't a pawn to control; she just wanted power…well her power wanted power. She was also a relative of Ingrid and Astrid on both sides of the family./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The tribe that Inadu was born in was cursed to become the Crescent Wolves when they killed her, and her mother became the first Lebonair alpha. Inadu had an older half-sister from on her fathers side that he didn't know about while alive, a powerful witch in her own right, who's tribe lived around what is now Mystic Falls and her children eventually resulted in their Grandfather: Ansel The Ruthless. So they were related to The Hollow as wolves and as witches./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The Hollow was trying to get in the village the Crescents lived in, she had been at it for hours, but she couldn't get by the protections that Ingrid and Astrid put up to protect their wolf family./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She and Ingrid stepped out of the protective barrier and Inadu looked at them and grinned. "You are of my Mother's blood…and of my Fathers…you are powerful."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Astrid smiled at Ingrid who looked positively bored and they linked arms and chanted./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Inadu screamed as her magic was stripped from her body. They transferred it into a rabbit and immediately killed the rabbit. Inadu screamed louder. She was now mortal and they had put the wolf curse that Inadu had created on her./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""You choose if you live or die." Ingrid said coldly, "You are family after all. It's the least we can do."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Inadu glared at them. So Astrid spoke, "The Crescent Wolves aren't cruel, they will let you stay here. They take care of family. And you made them who they are, they are thankful for it."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Inadu, who was just a teenaged werewolf now looked at them thoughtfully. "They aren't like my tribe? They won't try to kill me?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Not unless you try to kill them…" Ingrid said, "You cant by the way, part of the spell is that you can't kill your own blood."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I choose to live." Inadu said./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Astrid was happy that they didn't have to kill her. She knew what it was like to be a child born of great power. Astrid, her siblings and her cousins had been nurtured and loved; Inadu had been loathed and feared. Maybe she didn't have a chance to be good, and could be if someone nurtures her./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Sean Kenner, who was now the Alpha of the Crescents since his Mom and Dad retired, stepped out of the barrier. "We would be happy to have you in the pack."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Inadu sniffed the air, and then locked eyes with Sean. Sean growled and Inadu shifted into a black wolf and ran. Sean shifted into his gray wolf and gave chase./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Astrid laughed at the disgust on Ingrid's face. "Why are you so uncomfortable with mating rituals?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I'm not uncomfortable. Maybe jealous it hasn't happened for me yet." Ingrid sighed./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""A viable mate is out there sister…" Astrid said, "Patience is key, Dad waited a thousand years for Mom."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Ingrid groaned. "Lets get home, Inadu will be fine. Mom will be expecting us soon."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I need to change." Astrid whined, "I got rabbit guts on me."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Ingrid and her laughed and they sped toward their compound and went right to their rooms to clean up./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"strongemBONNIE SHEILA BENNETT MIKEALSON/em/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bonnie linked arms with her sons and chanted; they decided instead of hunting down the ancestors of theirs that Esther had resurrected, they would draw here./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Qetsiyah and Ayana materialized in front of them with smiles on their faces. "You know she thought I was a Traveller…she had no idea my bloodline. Or that Ayana and I were both of the same line." Qetsiyah said, "Please call me Tessa."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Ayana moved to them and gave Bonnie and her sons each a kiss before speaking "Is my Aaron ok?" She asked./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bonnie nodded. "He sends his love."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""This is all lovely and all but there is the small matter of them siding with Esther." Leif interjected./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""We didn't." Tessa said taking a seat on a sofa, "I've done a lot of things but trying to kill my own bloodline? No."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Ayana nodded, "She resurrected us, but we refused to help her, and she refused to bring us back to the afterlife until we lent her our magic."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""…So here we are…trapped in this horrendous time…"she said looking out the window to see what passed for an automobile these days and glaring at it./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""There are only three Bennett witches left in the world." Ayana said, "All our other lines have died out. The First Bennett…well she wasn't called a Bennett… she was called Oda…but she is quite proud of what you and your sons are Bonnie…we all are. No witch of our line would stand against you."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bonnie nodded and noticed her sons relaxing; they weren't keen on killing those of their blood either./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Alec sat down next to Tessa, and Bonnie, Leif and Ayana followed suit, settling down in the living room of their home./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I miss the old Athens. It hurts to see this." Tessa said/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Do you wish to stay with us or return to the Afterlife?" Alec asked./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Sweet boy," Tessa said, "This is not my world anymore, I don't belong."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Alec, her sweet boy, looked heartbroken. He loved spending time with his ancestors, finding out more about their family history. But they had only gone as far as Grams' grandparents because they didn't know their bloodline name before they were called Bennetts./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""You can always summon us for a visit love," Ayana said, "Now that you know the name of our bloodline the spell will work."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""The first witch of our line was called Oda?" Leif clarified, "Or the goddess that granted our line magic."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""The first witch of our line." Ayana said, "The goddess we are linked to has many names over the years…"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""The Greeks knew her as Gaia. The Romans called her Terra. I don't know what she was called in Oda's time…I don't always understand the language she speaks…but she has forms in all cultures since the dawn of humans…" Tessa said, "We're from Mother Earth herself. It's why we focus on balance so much, and try to use magic as neutrally as possible. We are children of the earth herself, we are tasked with keeping the balance and protecting it."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bonnie was amazed. Their magic was from Mother Earth? She knew they were magical descendents of an ancient deity, but the earth herself?/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Alec looked amazed. Leif looked bored. So similar and so different the two were./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Your sons will be the greatest of our line." Ayana said, "The most balanced. Two sides of the same coin."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bonnie nodded. She was sometimes afraid of how powerful her sons were, but was proud that since they were teenagers they showed a great control over their magic. They kept their spells neutral, and if one of them went to dark or to light, the other counteracted it. She knew if they applied themselves the world was their oyster. "I knew that already, since I was pregnant with them. I knew they would be powerful and I'd be proud."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bonnie reached for her eldest to kiss him. Leif, as always, made a show of trying to get away before he let her kiss and hug him. "Mum! So embarrassing!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Bonnie laughed and turned to her ancestors. "Shall we?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They nodded and Alec spoke, "But you can visit?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Of course." The women chorused./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Then Bonnie and her boys said the spell to send their ancestors back to the afterlife./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The manor was gaudy, like everything that Tristan de Martel had built. When she Katerina, Caroline and Sage entered they were almost as disgusted with the interior as they were with the exterior./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"But they didn't have time for debating the tastes of their enemy because a coven of witches descended on them. They quickly had Inara and Sage on the floor in pain. They pain only lasted a moment as Kat and Cara had killed the witches quickly, they obviously weren't prepared for Petrova witches./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""That was cute." Katerina said and her phone buzzed. "Would you girls mind cleaning up the rest of the riffraff? I must answer this text."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Sure thing Kat." Sage said, as she led the charge into the great room where all of The Strix vampires were waiting./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The three of them killed their enemy efficiently and quickly. They saved Tristan for last, Kat had called dibs./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Kat came skipping into the room and quickly tore out Tristan's heart. "Cara! You have a new sister!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The three of them looked at Kat in confusion. "Kat are you okay?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Wonderful!" Kat said, "What do you say? Should I burn this horrendous looking place to the ground?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Sure Mama. But can we leave it first?" Caroline laughed./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Our portal isn't due for an hour." Sage said, "Perhaps we were to efficient?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Inara snorted, "They were just underestimating us. Mikealsons."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Katerina, Sage and Caroline smiled at her./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Now you're getting it!" Caroline said, "We love them but sometimes…ugh!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They lounged on the sofa and commiserated about the Mikealson Siblings, and Kat explained her new child to them until the portal arrived./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"strongemMERERID FAITH MARSHALL MIKEALSON/em/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She and Erik had followed the two redheaded psychos to a pub. They watched the two women drink, bitch and feed./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Aoife and Aurora; the first vampire children of Uncle Kol and Aunt Rebekah./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Mererid found the women annoying, and couldn't understand why her aunt and uncle ever turned them; it must have been on accident. That kind of madness was only amplified by vampirism; it had to have already been there./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She and Erik followed them as they left the pub and began dancing down an abandoned alleyway singing about how the Mikealsons would die. That's when they struck./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"In an instant Erik had staked Aofie and Mereid had staked Aurroa. And their work was done./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They spent the rest of the time they had in Dublin making out in their hotel room. Sonia was absolutely disgusted when she came to pick them up./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It felt familiar. Esther and Mother had been on the grounds begging the ancestors for use of their magic, but she and a feeling it would not work, as long as her children had her father alive, she and Mother wouldn't be able to use magic. She would be proud of their scheme if it didn't mean her demise./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She knew her time in existence was coming to a close, she knew no help was coming to their aid. She felt it in her bones when her children arrived./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"This was her end. She would cease to be like Dahlia had./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emOh sister…I miss you so… /emShe lamented. Dahlia was her enemy in many ways but had been her only friend, her only equal, her only defender./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Her children quickly circled Esther and Mother; Freya and Rebekah struck first each stabbing Mother with a sword. Mother screamed and she was gone in a flash./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They had used the same ingredients she had told them to use back when they destroyed Dahlia. When they killed her this time, she wouldn't wake in the afterlife once more, or in the attic prison…/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She would just cease to be./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"And that terrified her, as her sons started circling and her daughters started chanting…/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Good, they were going to claim her magic for themselves…they were so clever…/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Any last words Mother?" Finn asked./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I'm so proud of you all." Esther said genuinely, "I wish I had the capacity to love you…or the ability to not want to destroy you… but I don't. I am proud of what you all have become and built."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Her children looked like they didn't believe her, and she wouldn't either but she had to say it, her existence was ending, she wanted to spend the last few seconds not scheming to achieve power, she knew there wasn't a way out of this./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Don't let her words sway you boys." Mikeal said…she hadn't even noticed him standing behind their daughters./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Her sons struck swiftly and true, each of them running her through with a blade./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It was painful…it was horrible…it was heart wrenching…/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Her big brother and his wife had made the room so pretty in pinks and purples before they left to move into their new room. Her cousin Lynnie brought her the prettiest clothes and the best toys and filled the space with the best stuff. It was a good day so far, way better then when it started and she was living with the mean people./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Before her sister Nadia tucked her in for a nap, she told her that her Mama and Papa had settled on a new name for her. They were going to call her Iryna Adah; and Iryna liked it. She hated what the mean people called her, it made her scared and it felt like another little girls name, not hers./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Nadia kissed her and she fell asleep for her nap, she was excited because Nadia promised she would get to meet Mama and Papa and the rest of the family when she woke form her nap./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Iryna darling… time to wake up." A mans voice said while a small hand played with her hair./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Iryna shot upright in bed and saw the most prettiest lady ever sitting next to her smiling and the most handsome man standing next to her pretty princess canopy bed. "Mama? Papa?" She asked/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Yes!" Iryna said, jumping into her Mama's arms and hearing her Papa laugh./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Now lets get you dressed!" Mama said, carrying her to the closet, "Elijah! This will not do! These are all Marshall Girl hand-me-downs! They are decades out of style!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Iryna looked at the clothes Lynnie had brought her, and the toys… they looked awesome to her./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""We'll buy our little girl plenty of her own things Katerina, these will have to do for now…" Papa said./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""I thought they donated all this stuff?" Mama huffed while studying a purple dress and then helping Irnya change into it from her jammies./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""You know how sentimental Niklaus is…but need I remind you of all the things you have stored from Elya's childhood…"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Mama huffed and finished dressing Irnya. "You look beautiful."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"When Mama set her down, Iryna ran to her Papa to finally hug him. He laughed, picked her up and cuddled her for a moment. "There's many family members to meet darling girl, I don't know if we'll get through them all before dinner. And your Mama has a special spell for you to make you strong forever like us."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""We have big big family?" Iryna asked./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""Very big, and loud, and loving." Mama said. "And the ones who live here is just a start. Once you learn to speak Bulgarian, you can meet the rest of them."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""And no one will hurt me?" She asked, "The mean people stole my blood and hurt me."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Papa looked Iryna in the eye. "Never again will that happen love."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Iryna believed him, her Papa was strong, her Mama seemed fierce and her big brother and sister were protective, if the rest of the family loved her as much as they seemed to then she would always be safe. She wanted them all to love her, because she already loved them./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Mama and Papa each squeezed her one last time before Papa picked up Mama too (he was sooo strong) and sped them downstairs./p
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