Warnings: I do not own nor claim to own the copyright or any of the characters within the TVDverse which consists of shows including "The Vampire Diaries", "The Originals", and "Legacies".
18 Plus: Some chapters may contain graphic descriptions of sex, sexual smut, and fluff, that may be considered somewhat pornographic but only some chapters, think of it as a plot with some porn instead of porn with a plot. All chapters contain moderate to strong violence, language, and sexual innuendos. Strong displays of violence, gore, and torture, with supernatural horror elements and scenes of a sexual nature.
F/F, M/M, F/M, GEN, OTHER +
Sometime within the 13th Century…
Darla Petrova had a rather tragic upbringing, having been abandoned on the doorstep of an orphanage located south of France in a small town called Pierlot when she was six years old, under the belief her parents Emile and Germain Petrova would one day come back for her but they never did.
The orphanage in which Darla spent the remaining of her childhood was run by nuns, nuns which were not particularly kind nor unkind but strong in their religious believes which mean when a sixteen-year-old Darla began showings signs of the traveler magic within her they quickly began seeing her as an apprentice to the devil, forcing her out of the orphanage, without a penny to her name.
The town of Pierlot quickly began hearing the gossip about Darla Petrova from the loose-lipped nuns as this young girl was quickly labeled as the bride of Satan, a label in which she found no choice but to revel in as she used her bad reputation to form a way of living, making an earning independently and using it to help create the one thing she always longed for, a home, a place to belong, a place that was hers, and could not be taken from her like everything else had been her whole life.
Darla played the role of Satan's bride very well using it as her niche within the sex market she had begun working in, quickly making enough to buy her own home, taking other women in as turning her house into a brothel, turning the seemingly quiet and perfect town of Pierlot into a fit of chaos as their hatred for Darla Petrova continued to grow.
Despite having many reasons to hate all of humanity Darla had a soft spot for lost girls, girls that reminded her of herself, taking them in and teaching them the ways of life, living by her standards, creating a brothel out of lost girls who not only found themselves but learned to fend for themselves, to not rely on anyone, and most importantly answer to no-one.
It did not take long for the women who lived with Darla Petrova to find their reputations just as tarnished as the so-called devil's bride, however, come night many of these townsmen flocked to Darla's little whore house, some of these men in question being powerful men which ultimately put Darla and her girls into a place of power themselves.
Darla had built for herself a sinner's paradise within the town of Pierlot, making the most out of nothing but what little happiness she found herself having was fleeting as she soon found herself going down her darkest path yet, led by a man she believed was her friend, a man who was more monster than man, a man who went by the name Kol Mikaelson.
Within their first meetings, Darla could tell there was a darkness within her new favorite client, but he also paid his dues and brought great humor, fun, and even more debauchery to her home proving himself quite a hit with Darla's women who found themselves enjoying their time with Kol Mikaelson just as much as he clearly enjoyed them.
Darla found the darkness she sensed from Kol alluring, knowing there was darkness within herself too, but it was not until one fateful night when the fearless Petrova woman was out for a late-night walk that she truly got a glimpse into Kol's true nature and instead of being afraid or disgusted she found herself excited, intrigued and dying to get as much out of her new friend as she possibly could.
"I've heard about your kind, it's truly remarkable the kinds of creatures who walk through my doors, particularly the creatures that need to be invited in first," Darla said to Kol after finding him in a dark alleyway, seeing him in full vampire face mode as he drank from a man's neck, draining his victim of his blood before throwing the lifeless body to the ground. "I know I'm some kind of messed up version of a witch in fact that is how I earned the title of the devil's bride, but it was not until I met someone like you that I found myself not only wanting to explore that side of me but wanting so much more than just a place to call home in a tiny part of a big bad world."
"You're a witch? I'm generally good at spotting a witch but I must admit I did not think of you as one." Kol admitted as he cleaned the blood of his victim off his face, his vampire face turning back to his normal face, as he walked over to the woman who had just witnessed his latest murder.
"If I were a good woman then I'd scream right now, wakening the town to learn of a gruesome murder, however, everybody already knows I am not a good woman and those who are not under my roof are not my problem…you could murder every last one of them for all I care about," Darla replied to the original vampire, shocking him by her lack of fear towards the situation she had found herself in. "There's a darkness inside of me too but I am, but, a novice, and something tells me that you would make the perfect tour guide to lead the devil's whore into true darkness."
"So, let me get this right, instead of screaming like a bloody banshee you're wanting to make a deal with a man who you just saw kill another man?" Kol asked her with a smile on his face, clearly amused by her. "You keep proving yourself to be a far more intriguing creature than this simple-minded townsfolk could ever understand."
"I want you to teach me everything that you know to mold me into your perfect prodigy and truly embrace the darkness beneath my surface," Darla demanded from the Mikaelson man. "I've had but a taste of power and I want so much more, I believe you could lead me to true power."
"And if I do agree to make you an accomplish in my wicked deeds it would mean showing you so much more than the limits of this small town, diving into one's darkness should never be taken lightly," Kol answered her, as he began genuinely contemplating Darla's possible alliance. "If I was to say yes then you would have to truly be willing to do me one hell of a favor in return."
To get a taste of true power Darla was more than willing to do anything even help Kol Mikaelson in his mission to take his brother Klaus out once and for all, Kol being determined to be free from his older brother's ruthless rules, but as these two new friends were about to learn, Klaus Mikaelson was not someone to underestimate, a lesson his own brother Kol should have already learned.
Darla Petrova came from an especially important bloodline being a descendent of the original doppelganger Tatia and the ancestor of doppelganger turned vampire Katerina, history would prove she was much more like the latter but one thing all three Petrova women had in common was they all became victims to the Mikaelson family.
Tatia Petrova was a grieving Viking widow who defied death despite it being custom for her to kill herself following her husband's death and instead moved to a magical town called Mystic Falls where she found love again with Elijah Mikaelson only for death to catch up to her as she was killed by a newly turned Elijah.
Katerina Petrova found herself in trouble long before meeting Klaus Mikaelson, but she found more trouble afterward as she narrowly avoided being sacrificed by turning herself into a vampire and then lived an undead life on the run from Klaus for 500 years until she fell at the hands of her love Stefan Salvatore.
Darla's story began with her foolishly putting all her trust in Kol Mikaelson, under the belief she would leave Pierlot with her new friend and that he would show her a world that before she could only but imagine but sadly the truth to her story was a far grimmer fate for the self-made traveler turned small-town madame as the once-abandoned child find herself once again completely and utterly alone, this time only having one man to blame, Niklaus Mikaelson.
Late one night Darla awoke from her slumber to find her house eerily quiet, the sound of silence being something rarely heard within a house filled with beautiful women and their many clients, and so Darla climbed out of her bed eager to investigate the disturbing peace, leaving her room and making her way downstairs, and then into the living room, only to unwittingly walk into the most horrifying scene she had ever witnessed.
"No!" She screamed in a fit of disbelief and horror as she looked around her blood-soaked and stained living room to find the women, she loved like sisters spread across the floor and the living room furniture brutally murdered.
"It never ceases to delight me that people are still shocked to discover that crossing me is something one should never do." Klaus declared after vamp speeding into the room, the blood of his victims on his clothes, his victims being the murdered women laid before him and Darla. "And yet there are still fools like you who continue to side with my idiotic brother Kol, had you sided with me I may have granted you a promise that only I could fulfill, but instead you chose to come for me, and now your whores are dead but do not worry because you will soon be joining them."
"But it has been days." Darla cried as she struggled to take her eyes off the gruesome scene before her, realizing at that moment that the women she had promised to protect had died under her roof because of her actions, her longing for more, wishing at that moment that she had just stayed happy with what she once had, knowing now that it was all gone.
"Kol's always making a move on me I'd be a fool not to say compel a working woman or several of them under the very same roof he frequently visits to keep a willing ear and a spying eye on his movements," Klaus admitted with a great sense of pride over unmasking Kol and Darla's plotting against him.
Without so much as a chance to plead for her life or beg for mercy, Klaus vamp sped over to the traveler, grabbed a hold of her neck with both hands, and with full force, instantly snapped her neck, before throwing her lifeless body to the ground.
"Forgive me Tatia but the blood of your blood was too idiotic to be granted another day of breathing." Klaus sarcastically mumbled to himself, unapologetically apologizing for murdering somebody of Tatia's bloodline, not that it bothered him in the slightest.
However, unbeknownst to Klaus he was not taking out an enemy like he had thought but had instead awakened a new, far more powerful enemy.
Darla Petrova died that day, however since making her deal with Kol Mikaelson she had been drinking vials of his blood as insurance to give her some security while they plotted against Klaus and although none of their plans came to fruition, the vampire blood in her system brought Darla back from the dead so to speak.
A secret Klaus or any other of the Mikaelson family would not find out for many centuries to come, Darla being far too smart to let them know she was still among them, plotting away as she set out to prove that a Petrova scorned was a far deadlier creature than a meddling Mikaelson.
