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"If you known nothing else know this.
Family is power. And make no mistake that ours is the strongest
Our love and our loyalty; that's our power.
This is what it means when we speak those words,
Always and Forever..."
Two days prior.
"How long are you going to pout, Prim? It's been a decade."
"It's been ten days." Spring green eyes interwoven with molten gold narrowed on the words of the book she was reading even as she spitefully muttered "I wonder if I ignore you long enough, would you leave me be?"
"I certainly wouldn't hold your breath." He replied and even as she glared at the text in front of her refusing to look upon him she could hear the amusement in his tone.
She heard him sigh and plop down next to her, she had a second to mark where she was reading before the tomb was plucked from her hands and tossed on the other side of the room, but still she refused to look at him.
When he griped her chin turning her to face him she shut her eyes in defiance making him chuckle.
She stiffened when his lips ghosted over her own, and her eyes snapped open to gaze into eyes the showed where the sea and trees met. The curly hair blonde in front of her whose ever changing blue and green eyes glittered in with laughter and she once more rolled her eyes. When he pulled her into his lap she did not fight back and was just beginning to melt into his familiar touch when they were interrupted.
"Primula."
She turned her head catching sight sight of the tall brunette who was glaring at her and raised an eyebrow.
"To what have I done to deserve such a dark look?" She asked curiosity even as the blondes hands scoured her body.
"If I've asked you once I've asked you a thousand times to please keep your pets outside in the mews."
She narrowed her eyes at him, this was an age old argument. "And I've told you a thousand times, that I would never imprison my birds no matter how gilded and pretty you make the cages. Elijah birds are just like your precious cats. They are independent creatures that need their own space. You don't see me nagging you about on Miss Kitty, leave my strigiformes, raptors and the rest of my passeriformes be."
He narrowed his eyes. "You threaten, torture and insult my cat on the regular."
"I do not!" At his affronted look she huffed. "Then tell me what I've said to your stupid stuck up feline."
"'Life on this earth is brief, and yours will be obsolete Miss Kitty.' You said that as you asphyxiated her." She scowled at Elijah's words her eyes flashing with ire as she jumped from the lap she had been residing to her feet.
"Your saying that as if your cat isn't a murderess herself, and whats worse, she's a child killer. Are you proud to be the owner of a child killer Elijah?!"
Elijah sighed. "I told you that was a freak accident, Miss Kitty-"
"I don't care what you say in her defense. She ate Roisin's chicks!"
"What about when you said 'You wanted to be beautiful of the inside didn't you?'" She and the other males turned at the sound of a younger males voice. She felt her lips twitch at the brunette that waltz into the room so he could take part in the chaos along with his blonde sister on his arm.
"Oh come on. I only said that after the daft creature ate and threw up my favorite ribbon, Kol you thought it was funny. you tried to get her to swallow another one for days." She pointed out not at all ashamed for throwing him under the bus. He moved out of Elijah's immediate reach when his older brother cut his eyes towards him.
Rebekah raised a single blonde eyebrow stepping out of the way when Elijah flashed towards Kol, who yelped when Elijah got his hands on him. "'You understand that life is meaningless and that we must take pleasure where we can. For you it is this lavender blanket, for me Miss Kitty, it is your suffering.' Before you then processed to set the thing on fire with the fur ball on it."
"What?!" Elijah and Nik choked out though for different reasons. Elijah turning back towards me in horror. The pause was long enough for Kol to break from his hold, his eyes glittering with laughter.
"When did that happen and where the bloody hell was I?" Kol said no longer able to hold back his laughter, it was better than Nik, Nik didn't even try. "Prim darlin, what other naughty things have you done to the fur ball?"
"Traitor!" She hissed pointing at Rebekah to emphasis her point. "What happened to female solidarity?!"
Rebekah just smirked.
"'You are a single insignificant bead on one of many strings of lives I hold Miss Kitty, tread carefully least I decide your obsolete Lijah be damned.'" Finn said as way of announcing his presence to the room and I pouted at him.
"Not you too Finn!" I stomped my foot ignoring Elijah's glare boring into me, this was after all getting ridiculous.
"Sorry, I couldn't resist."
She huffed. "This is absolutely barmy. I'm surrounded by nothing more than enemies and traitors..." She looked at the blonde male whose face was flushed with mirth. "At least I have you Nik."
"You'll always have me love...but now what was it you said to the fur ball this morning?" He mused and she tensed. "Ah yes I believe it was 'I will fight you before Arawn upon a mound of bones Miss Kitty.'"
"You are sleeping on the couch henceforth!" She hissed with such venom, her eyes burning with green hell fire, her strawberry blonde hair looking much like fire itself as her control on her magic slipped, the air around her cackling. Kol and Rebekah held on to each other while Finn and Elijah winced on behalf of their younger blonde brother.
She turned back towards Elijah and co. when Nik whimpered pitifully, her hands on her hips. "So I hate your muggle house cat so what? If you'd let me get you a damn kneazle we wouldn't even be having this problem. Furthermore what does this have to do with anything much less my precious winged babies?"
He scowled as he remembered why they were having this conversation. "Everything. While I except that your love for those feathered creatures might just go beyond your love for my own brother-"
Nik whimpered again but Elijah continued as if he didn't hear him. "I at least expect you not to allow them to traipse throughout the manor."
"I don't allow them to traipse throughout the manor, I have nothing but lovely obedient aves-"
"Dangerously intelligent man eating birds." Rebekah, Finn and Kol added but I ignored them.
"-with beautiful eyes and gorgeous feathers." She ended crossing her arms.
"Then what prey tell is this?!" He growled before opening the door and she could only watch as the male ducked his head in time to avoid the talons that had been aiming for him.
"Cian!" She said instantly recognizing the bird on first glance and jumping out of Nik's sneaky arms that had begun to wrap around her, to intercept him.
He landed on her arm the moment she called his name and preen under her touch as she cooed at him.
"Oh Cian, its so good to see you again, look at you so lovely!" She said to him admiring his feathers. "Always so handsome~"
"Primula."
"Hm but what are you doing here my lovely?" She asked ignoring the men that vied for her attention focusing completely on the bird as he dropped the letter from his talon.
"Whats this, a letter from Nia?" She cooed as she opened the letter and quickly read over it. She could feel the rooms occupants gaze on her especially when her hands trembled and her breathing hitched. She didn't knowing that she had started walking until she heard their footsteps following after her.
"Primula?"
She ignored Nik as she burned the letter upon finishing it before looking up at the bird that sat perched on her shoulder staring back at her with knowing eyes. "Your such a good boy, you deserve a treat for flying for so long."
"Primula..." Elijah called skeptically, relaxing when he noted that she was going to feed the carnivorous bird outside.
They watched as she held out her hands, and waited for her to summon a rabbit like how she did with the other large carnivorous birds she loved to keep but instead she said. "Accio Miss Kitty."
A black bombay cat with an obnoxious sized pink bow around her neck appeared in her arms hissing at her before yowling and jumping out them in fear upon the sight of Cian.
"Is-is that my cat? Primula... what are you doing with my cat?"
"Cian..." She smiled, the dimple in her cheeks on display and it was something that the immortals around her thought was truly evil. "Din-din~"
"Primula!" Elijah snapped taking off after Cian even as Cian took off after Miss Kitty with a bloodthirsty cry.
Rebekah snickered. "You know you would think by now that Elijah would know that those demon birds of yours are trained not to eat cats."
"Well Roisin doesn't because I find them to be too much like junk food, but Nia would just because she could... but then again she hates muggle cats more than I do." She said with a laugh as Rebekah stared at her in horror.
"So then Miss Kitty has an actual chance of being eaten..." Rebekah said still horrified at my actions.
"If Cian catches her...absolutely. I wonder if she'll make it till morning, I'm pretty sure she's down to her last life..." She said before laughing again as Rebekah took off after Elijah.
"You guys should probably help too." She said to Nik and Kol.
"And why is that? I don't care if Lijah's little feline lives through the night." Kol said with an eye roll.
"Because you don't want to get on my bad side." She said to Kol in warning making him smirk before turning to Nik. "And because you don't want to continuing sleeping on the couch for the rest of the month." She said digging her finger into Nik's chest before kissing his lips.
Nik sighed but relented smirking when Finn cuffed Kol and called him a bloody wanker when he made kissy faces at me and asked if he could get a kiss too.
"You love, are positively prime evil." Nik said wrapping his arms around her.
She tilted to the side cutting her eyes at him before kissing his lips once more. "Remember that the next time you decide to turn on me. Now go because Cian seriously is trained to kill his prey on sight and while Roisin knows better than to eat a cat Donovan has yet to kick the habit. Once they hear Cian's call they'll join him in the hunt. I also don't want Elijah to have reason to kill my babies."
Nik cursed under his breath and disappeared in a flicker with Kol in toll.
"And now that you've got me alone." Finn said after a moment of silence stretched between us.
She turned to him, her eyes dark. "I need you to come with me to Surrey, there's been a situation."
She let him lead her back into the manor a compelled human placing a hot cup of chamomile tea and cookies in front of them. He motioned for her to take a cookie and only after she had taken a deep draw from her tea and begun to relax against the chair did Finn speak.
"Now, what is going on, it has something to do with Cian and the letter you burned."
"Yes, Cian belongs to Nia- my younger sister Petunia's familiar. She sent him posthaste to inform me of what has be going on in my absence."
Finn nodded even as he raised an eyebrow. "I remember, but it is not unlike Petunia to send you letters of the on goings. Why is now any different?"
She took a deep breath before releasing it. "This past summer was Harri's eleventh birthday...it is the age that young witches and wizards of the Europe continent are allowed admission toward the magical institutions of their parents choice at the beginning of of the fall.
Finn's eyes brightened and he gave a small smile. "Ah yes, and how is he enjoying Pyrenees? How is he fairing wearing gold and the palest shades of cerulean?"
She gave him a tight one in return, her grip on the tea cup tightening. "Harri is unfortunately not attending Beauxbatons."
He frowned. "Truly? But I thought that was all you asked for when-"
"Lilium naturally would sign him for Hogwarts." She said cutting him off. At his stern look she sunk deeper into the chair. "Sorry, my baby sister is still a sore spot...knowing that even from her grave she's still screwing with me...it is hard to swallow."
He sighed in understanding before speaking once more. "You attended Hogwarts for a time, if I recall correctly."
"Yes, and while I adore my friends that I have made. I would have signed Harri for Beauxbatons, Drumstrung and Ilvermorny before Hogwarts."
"Ilvermorny..." He said slowly as if she were a small child. "Is in america love."
"It would still be a thousand times safer than sending him to Hogwarts. That school is a bloody death trap under Albus-I-Know-What's-Best-For-Everyone-Because-I-Believe-I'm-The-Next-Coming-of-Myrddin Dumbledore's watchful eyes." She said her eyes flashing.
"It's been a decade since you've spoke that name with such venom...what has happened." Finn stated calmly and she felt herself sag under the weight of his gaze. Her voice was quiet, so soft that if could not be heard by human ears.
"It's Harri...Nia says he's killed a man."
Finn's eyes widened. "What."
"And that's not even the worst of it...she's been monitoring him since he's gotton back home. She says in the beginning his emotions were all over the place, hot one minute cold the next, but as the days stretched on one emotion above all else was always predominate. Anger. She notes his mounting aggression with that of this coming full moon. She says shes even had to have Dudley distract him so that she might slip him a calming drought, but its getting harder because she believes his senses have heightened and that he can smell the potion. In recent days of her observations she has gone to describe his state as almost feral."
Finn's eyes widened even further. "Are you- this is a lot to accept...how does she know? Is she certain?"
"Nia has always been clinical in her observations." She said with a chuckle before licking her lips nervously. "She wants me to come to her house in Surrey but mentions that it might be best for us to go as far as return home...and take Harri with us."
Finn's eyes widened even further than before, before giving her a rather hard look. "Return home...that is not an option. Niklaus won't accept that place and neither do I."
"Nik doesn't accept any place that he cannot follow but that might be the best option, at least for a while yet..." When he remained silent continued. "The first full moon since he's returned home is in three days...I'm going to send her a letter to inform her that I'll be there...but I was hoping that you would join me."
"You should tell Niklaus."
"I don't-I can't. You remember how he reacted to this whole affair in the first place...if he finds out about Harri-" She shook her head unable to finish her sentence.
Finn sighed after they sat in collective silence. "Alright."
She looked at him with hope shining in her eyes and he gave her a stern look. "I do not approve of how you are choosing to attend to this. Niklaus has the right to know, especially if you and Harri are to return to that place."
"And he will if it comes that he needs to know." She said honestly. "But our lifestyle is dangerous... I just want- I need to be certain first. Surely you know that Nik was never supposed to be involved any way."
"I am aware." He finished his tea and stood. "You should think about what you are going to tell Niklaus. He will not approve of your absence from his side especially given the time of the month."
"Yes, thank you Finn." She said softly giving him a small smile.
He gave her a smile that made his cedar toned eyes twinkle as he leaned over pressing a kiss to her forehead. "We are family sá litli, always and forever."
Notes for this chapter:
Prim/Primula is Petunia's Older sister
Primula is also Áine
Fyi: Freya does not exist in this fanfic, just gonna throw it out there, no bash to her character, but yeah. Finn is the eldest, period.
Finn, Elijah, Kol and Rebekah are undaggered, obviously. But that doesn't mean they weren't always. ;D
Big Brother Instinct on 100 = Finn Mikaelson
Elijah is a cat lover as well as a neat freak.
Niklaus is Niklaus...nuff said.
Kol and Rebekah are both troublesome, they are the twins that should have been but never were.
Kol and Finn are actually included in the Always and Forever.
Finn knows of Harri, can you guess who else knows of Harri?
sá litli - Is Icelandic(the language that is closest to what the vikings spoke) meaning 'Little one'
WARNING: This story will have some crackish moments.
