Part one: Esther'smemories

After Esther had linked all her children together in a spell, which would later cost them their lives, she started to wonder about her family's tragedies.

When had it all began...With her sins? Perhaps, but which one:

Kissing Ansel? Keeping Niklaus? Lying to Mikael? Ignoring the madness in her husband's eyes? Dismissing Mikael's pleads when he told her he was losing his mind? Did it really being when he begged her to stop him from becoming a monster...and she didn't listen?

Some glasses of wine later, her mind floated through the memories of her children...their births, laughs, fights and sorrows...

In the end, she decided to tell them the truth about the past, since she could not tell them her plans for the their future...Esther decided to give her children back the memories Mikael and her saw fit to take from them.

She knew it would change everything for them. But she could not bring herself to go forward with her plans without telling her children the truth. Yet she knew: her family's tragedy would still be a tragedy even if their children knew how much their parents loved them...