Family Always and Forever

by amethystgl

A prophesy was made back when the Mikaelson's first turned of a young girl who would change their e would become one of the family, a she-wolf:fierce, kind, and loyal. The Mikaelson's meet a young girl 1,000 years later, she catches all of their attention and challenges their outlook on lieving she is the one they kidnap her and force her to join them.*I own nothing*

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2 – The Ritual

Elijah parked just out of sight of the girl's house. He was immensely glad that he had been invited in before tonight. Now all he had to do was wait for the inhabitants of the house to fall asleep then he could slip inside, quietly collect the girl and no one being the wiser.

He reflected on his past encounters with the girl while he waited. She had captured his attention, intriguing him, their very first meeting. Despite the circumstances of him clearly having the upper hand she had tried to negotiate with him. In their later meetings when she has nothing left to negotiate with she still managed to convince him to agree to her terms.

Elijah's senses told him that the inhabitants of the house were asleep so he quietly vamp sped up to the house letting himself in. He quickly found his way to her bedroom where he found her curled up fast asleep. Elijah quickly picked her up genteelly, the girl didn't stir. Elijah slipped out of the house at vamp speed and placed her in the car. The girl never woke up until they were in the dungeons of the mansion and the witch had started the ritual.

When they reached the mansion Elijah parked and picked up the girl careful not to disturb her sleep. He carefully carried her inside the mansion where he was met from Niklaus. "Sage suggested we do the ritual in the dungeons." Niklaus told him softly.

Elijah raised an eyebrow at his words but said nothing. Niklaus led the way to the dungeons where the rest of his siblings were gathered around a table waiting. Elijah carefully set the girl down on the table, and turned to the witch for further instructions.

Kol quickly introduced Sabrina to his family and then let her begin the ritual. Sabrina instructed the siblings to gather around in a tight circle with her standing at the girl's head. Kol was to her right, Elijah to her left, beside Elijah was Niklaus. She instructed Elijah to hold the girl's right hand with his right hand and for Niklaus to hold Elijah's left hand with his left hand. Rebekah held Niklaus' right hand with her right hand and so it continued around the circle, right hand in right hand, left hand in left hand. Rebekah held hands with Niklaus and Sage, Sage with her and Finn. Finn held hands with his wife and Kol, and Kol held hands with his older brother and the girl.

Sabrina wrapped a red ribbon around each of the siblings held hands in a figure eight pattern. She then placed a garland of English lavender on the girl's head. She murmured a spell in Latin, the repeating it in English, as she spoke a small cut appeared on the palms of the siblings' and the girl's hands. The girl jerked as she unconsciously felt the pain of the cuts on her hands and she began to regain consciousness.

As she regained consciousness she became aware of her surrounds first noticing the words spoken. "Blood of blood, bone of bone. Family is born, spirit given until life is done. Now you are bound one to the other with a tie not easy to break."

Next the girl became aware of the fact that her hands were being held, and were tied together. She tried to get loose, but they were holding her hands too tightly. She forced her eyes to open and immediately wished she hadn't when she saw she was in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by the Mikaelsons.

Before she could say something or begin to panic Elijah whispered in her ear. "It's okay, we aren't going to hurt you. You're part of the family now, Elena. No one will ever hurt you again."

Elena's head began to swim at those words, what did they mean? What was going on? She didn't get to say a word because the next thing she knew, everything went black.

Elijah watched as Elena reacted to his words. He could see her brain working overtime trying to understand what was going on. He could see her try to work things out but it became clear that it was all too much for her when her eyes rolled back into her head and she passed out. Shortly after Sabrina finished the ritual, which bound them all together as family, always and forever. After Sabrina unwound the ribbon that was wrapped around their hands Elijah carefully lifted Elena in his arms tell Rebekah to show him her new room. Rebekah obliged leading him upstairs to the room she had prepared for her.

Elijah set her down carefully on the bed and took a moment to examine the palms of her hand where they had been cut open during the ritual. Rebekah handed him a cloth to wipe off the dried bit of blood and he saw that Elena had already healed.

"It worked," he told his sister. "She has accelerated healing."

Rebekah nodded before shooing him out of the room. "Go get cleaned up, I'll change her clothes and put her to bed, so she can rest."

Elijah reluctantly agreed as his sister shoved him out of the room, leaving her alone with Elena, the girl who had stabbed her in the back, the precious doppelgänger.