When he isn't with father, or taking care of our siblings, I like spending time with Finn. I sit next to him while he reads mother's grimoire and practices magic. Neither Elijah or Nik have tapped into their magic, and I suspect Kol will soon. I'm not interested in learning magic. It fascinates me, but i know there's a strong chance I will lose it in a few years if everything plays out the way it did in the show.

I think Ayana knows. About me not really being Rebekah, that is. The other day she stared at me while Mother and I were at her home then nodded. Maybe the spirits told her?

Growing up wasn't that bad, despite being an adult in a child's body. It was fun being a kid again. I used to be an only child and spent most of the time at my aunt's house. I had never thought about what it would be like to live a thousand years ago. I had always been so used to technology and modern day things that when my main sources of entertainment were wood carvings and magic, it was fascinating. Now I have siblings, four older brothers and a younger one coming soon. It would be fun to have a sister, but if I wanted to play with a girl I easily could, there were many in the village. Freya is still alive, of course, but it would be many years before I can find her.

"Rebekah," I heard from behind me. I looked up and saw my mother, Esther. She had her grimoire tucked under one arm and her other hand held out to me. This meant it was time to go to Ayana's. I grinned and grabbed her hand, keeping the wood carving Elijah had given me in my other hand.

We made the walk to Ayanas hut slowly, smiling when she was waiting outside her home "Esther, Rebekah," she greeted softly. I waved back, never letting go of the wood in my hand. Ayana handed mother a piece of parchment. "Could you collect these before we start? I will watch Rebekah."

Mother nodded, letting go of my hand and grabbing the parchment from her mentor. As she left, Ayana took me into her hut and sat across from me. "Hello, Ayana."

"I think it's time you and I had a chat, don't you?"

There it is. Ayana knows.

I hummed and nodded. I knew it was coming eventually, but there was no way in hell I was telling her everything. I just needed to put the information somewhere safe. "I thought it would come sooner." I told her honestly. I assumed she waited until I could talk properly.

"You are quite smart for your age Rebekah, not even five winters old yet." Ayana commented. "What do you know?"

"My name is Natalia Morrell," I started, looking around. Her husband would be home soon and he wasn't a big fan of 'Mikael's spawns', as he calls us.

Ayana hummed as she nodded.

"It used to be, anyway. My parents' names were Ellen and David Morrell. I was almost thirty and was going to propose to my girlfriend when I died. Well, I think I died."

"I thought it would have taken more to get you to talk about it." Ayana told me as she opened her a grimoire, but it wasn't the one she normally used. "You are an old soul in a child's body, but that does not explain your reactions to certain people around the village, including your own family."

I shrugged, playing with the wood in my hands. "Where I come from this is a TV show."

"TV show?"

Damn, I forgot about that. "I've seen this all play out. There are people in my old life who pretend to be people who really exist in our world for entertainment. For example, a man named Sebastian Roché looks exactly like Mikael, because he played Mikael for entertainment. The Mikaelson's, along with everyone else, are works of fiction in my old life"

She nods, eyes wider than they were before.

"You were mentioned a fair bit, but you were only in two episodes I think. Your descendant is one of the main characters, but that is a thousand years from now. There were many people I didn't like in the show, most of the main character's really. I did like the Mikaelson's though."

"Who did you like the least?" Ayana asked curiously.

"The doppelganger a thousand years from now, I think." I told her. "She was a whiny brat who literally killed and manipulated the originals then passed the blame onto the person she hurt."

"And the most?"

"Kol." I answered easily. "Maybe Niklaus? I liked the Mikaelson siblings. You have a pretty cool ancestor, as well, she's kind of crazy but I'm pretty sure I love her. I'd love to talk to her."

Ayana's head snapped up from the grimoire. Looks like she knows who I'm talking about. "Not anytime soon, child. What do you plan on changing?"

"My brothers will be loved, they will not spend years locked in coffins, I'll save my sister." I paused, looking outside then back to Ayana. "But I need your help, and my parents must never find out about this."

"What do you need?"

And that started the partnership between Ayana Bennet and Rebekah MIkaelson.

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Kol and I ran in together when Mother called for us, Elijah and Finn trailing behind. "Now, children, it's very hot! Rebekah, Kol, be careful!"

"Where's Niklaus?"

We all stay silent. Elijah gives Finn a knowing look, but Finn looks as though he's dying to speak.

"Elijah? Finn?" Mother asked, looking between them. "Where is your brother?

I watched as Finn hesitated, glancing at Elijah before answering her. "He's in the woods, Mother. Hiding."

I sighed as she left, Finn following her soon after. None of us talked as we ate. I remember this clearly, I had just watched season three before waking up here. After cleaning up, Kol and I followed Elijah out of the room.

Kol and I were troublemakers, but we made sure to never get caught by Mikael. We spent a lot of time together as we were the closest in age, so we learned to rely on each other quickly. When he had learned his first spell, it was nothing hard- he's only six winters old, he had come to me immediately after to tell me all about it. We'd sit and talk about how fascinating and exciting it was that Kol could do magic. When I made my first flower chain, I showed Kol and he went on about how pretty it was.

He and I did a lot together. I remember that in the shows, Kol always felt left out, so I made sure he wasn't. I spent time with him, sometimes not even talking, just being around him. We are only young, so there's not much we can do yet, but not nothing. He's also starting to spend more time with Finn as he's interested in magic, which is a good thing. Like I said before, I don't practice magic, but that didn't mean I couldn't spend time with my brothers while they did. I didn't do this all the time, as I still had two other brothers to spend time with, but I wanted to make sure Kol and Finn felt loved.

Mother and I are quite close. She tells me stories about how close her and Dahlia used to be, how much I remind her of Freya. She tells me that I should spend more time with the kids in the village rather than my brothers. Much to her shock, I disagreed immediately. I had stopped what I was doing and stared at her before saying "family comes first." She agreed and we continued picking berries like nothing had happened, discussing both Finn and Kol's latest spells.

Mikael and I have a strange relationship. Whenever he is home, the two of us go for a walk around the village and catch up. It's odd. Mikael is a big scary man who I'm absolutely terrified of, but then he'll take me on those walks and I'll talk to him like he's the best father in the world. I know he isn't, not even to me. He loves me, and to an extent, I love him. He's a far better Father than my last one, he'e actually makes time to talk to me. I'll tell him how many flower chains I made, where I found the flowers to make them, sometimes want brother I spent the most time with that day. He's tell me kid friendly versions of his adventures. Sometimes how badly he wanted to impale Ayana's husband for calling us his spawns, it varies.

He ignores the men's whisperers as I pull him around the village pointing out different beds of flowers. I ignore the talk of the women who go on about how his eldest son should be finding a wife by now, and how his daughter shouldn't be hearing about his battle stories.

It's almost nice.

I've been spending a lot of time with Niklaus and Elijah as well. Elijah tells Nik stories while I sit and listen, not saying much, I don't want them to feel unloved by me because I'm spending time with Finn and Kol.

There was a storm nights ago, and I'll just say my fear passed into this life.

I hid my eyes under my arm. I had never liked storms before, I've always been terrified of them. Now that I'm a kid a again, it's worse. I let out a quiet cry as the storm goes on, hoping not to wake any of my family.

When I heard shuffling, I moved my arm so I could see who was moving. Nik. He kneeled in front of me and grabbed my hand. "Hush now. It's just a storm. Don't be afraid. I won't let it hurt you."

I pull my knees tighter to my chest as lightning flashes. He lets go of my hand momentarily to reach over to where he sleeps. "Nik," I called quietly. "Don't go."

He grabbed something from his basket before coming back to me. He places what looks like a chess piece in my hand. I held it up in front of my face as I look at it, holding it tightly. "I carved it for father," he explained. "It's a brave knight. Now, you can be brave too."

I open my mouth to thank him but end up grabbing his hand as thunder clashes. "Nik, will you stay with me till the storm ends?"

He smiled, laying beside me. "I will always stay with you, Rebekah. No matter what."

Mother is pregnant with Henrik. She announced it a few nights ago, which my family celebrated. I smiled even though I was panicking in the moment. I had gotten so used to the family around me that would one day be the originals that I had forgotten that my soon to be little brother was fated to die.

It was something Ayana and I had talked about during one of our 'meetings'. She had talked to the spirits, and even before he's born, it was known among them that Henrik Mikaelson is fated to die young. After having helped me store all the information I had, she had talked to the spirits, her line of witches want to help me. Apparently, she has her house spelled so that only Bennett's can listen in from the other side, and Qetsiyah heard us talking. So, the spirts talked. They discussed me knowing the future, that I was from another world. It was decided that I was under Qetsiyah's unofficial protection.

Sure, she was a tad crazy and has been basically torturing her cheating fiancé (and Amara) for the past thousand years, but she was also super powerful. If I was under her unofficial protection maybe I can convince her to keep my parents on the other side after their deaths, unless it's to kill Dahlia. I'm not quite sure how that's going to work yet, but I'll figure it out.

hi hi hi, so heres chapter two of original sister! So, this chapter focused more on the bonds with her family rather than moving forward in the actual timeline. The Mikaelson's childhood was only shown in a few episode, but I'm doing my best to make it last longer! Her bonds with her brother are super important to her and she's spent most of her childhood so far making sure Finn feels loved by at least one of his siblings, as she remembers how alone he felt on TVD and TO.

Reader of this story on wattpad said they wanted to see more of rebekah/natalie and her bonds with her brothers!

I'm open to suggestions on what you guys want to happen or see, just tell me and I'll see what I can do!