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Damon's Pov

He had to give the other coffins to Klaus, but thankfully he was able to hide the fourth one. He and Stefan hid it in the cave under the Lockwood property, where the vampires weren't able to get in. It was the best place to keep it safe. Stefan got Bonnie and Abby and asked them to open it, but he had something else in mind as well. When he asked Bonnie if she would be able to do it, she looked at him for a long time, before she finally agreed to give it a try.

Now, he just had to wait for witchy and her mom to do what he wanted.

Mikaelson Mansion

"Niklaus."

"Elijah"

Athena looked as both men greeted each other cordially, even though they were glaring daggers at each other. She looked at the man curiously. He was Elijah, which meant he was one of Klaus's siblings. She noticed that he was very captivating and handsome, had high cheekbones, a strong jawline, and a straight nose. He appeared to be in his early to mid-twenties and was very much well-dressed.

"What did I miss?" he asked pleasantly, as if he had not just removed someone's heart from their chest.

She looked at Klaus, who had gone pale and was staring at him in shock and was it fear? She watched as Elijah took out a handkerchief from his pocket and started cleaning his hands as he looked at Klaus and said, "You look surprised to see me. So, it wasn't you who removed the dagger from my chest."

She gasped at that. Klaus daggered his own brother? What kind of a man was he?

The gasp drew Elijah's attention and he looked at the girl standing there. She was extremely young and seemed quiet human, but what was she doing here with Niklaus? He noticed that his brother has, not so subtly, maneuvered himself between him and the girl, and he frowned. 'Niklaus was protecting someone? Sure, he was protective of his family, but he had never seen his brother worrying about anyone other than himself. Which was the reason every single one of them were in boxes, daggered. What purpose did the girl serve? His brother wasn't the one to do anything without any motive.'

So, he looked at Klaus and asked, "Who is the girl?"

Niklaus didn't answer and tensed, but the girl replied, "Um…Hello."

But as she tried to move forward, his brother grabbed her wrist and kept the girl behind him. So, the girl wasn't American. What was she doing here and that too with Niklaus?

The tension in Klaus's shoulders didn't ease as he said, "You look like you could do with a drink, brother." He could see the girl scowling up at him and frowned.

Klaus released Athena's hand and went forward to stand in front of Elijah. "We have a lot to discuss, brother. So, shall we?" he pointed towards the couch as he said this.

Niklaus was trying to avert his attention from the girl. Why?

Klaus didn't get the time to say anything else as Elijah pushed him with so much force and anger, that he went flying through the door, which shattered into pieces. But, he stood up fast and attacked Elijah, who fell and said mockingly, "You have every right to be mad at me, but I kept my word. I reunited you with our family."

That was the wrong thing to say, as Elijah started hitting him much more strenuously after that. They didn't pay attention and ended up in the room where he had kept the coffins. He didn't think, just opened one of the coffins and pulled the dagger out from Kol, pinned Elijah by his throat to stab him and yelled through gritted teeth, "Don't make me do this to you, Elijah."

Elijah didn't do anything, but looked him in the eyes and said, "Come on. Do it. I dare you. Then you'll have Kol to deal with."

Klaus released his grip on Elijah's throat and told him, "Mikael is dead."

"What did you say?" Elijah asked astoundingly.

"I killed him with his own weapon. He's gone, Elijah. Forever." He whispered, as he easily daggered Kol again.

Elijah looked from Kol to him with agitation and asked, "What are you doing?"

Klaus looked up at him and said, "I only ask you remember the oath of loyalty you once swore to me."

Elijah opened his mouth to ask more about it, but he heard a gasp and his gaze snapped towards the girl at the same time Niklaus's did.

He heard, more than he saw, his brother's sharp intake of breath as he looked at the girl with wide-eyes, who in turn was staring at both of them with horror.

'Who exactly was the girl to his brother?'

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Athena looked at both of them horrified. She couldn't believe that they were the part of a family and brothers at that. They attacked each other and demolished the whole house within seconds. From what she understood, her father, had daggered his siblings and had been keeping them locked in coffins. She barely held in her gasp, when she saw a desiccated body of a man inside the coffin, when Klaus removed the dagger from his chest and almost stabbed Elijah. Her dread increased and she couldn't help the sound that escaped her, which wasn't the best thing as now she had both their attention.

Klaus moved towards her, but she hastily stepped back, pulled her wand out and pointed it at them.

Athena gulped as she said, "Don't come any closer." But it came out as a whisper.

Klaus stopped short when he saw her scrambling away from him with nothing but fear. He wasn't going to hurt her. She was his daughter and he could never hurt her. He never wanted her to see the monster that was lurking inside him, but it seemed that it was the only thing he was capable of. He could see that she was terrified of him and his heart broke at that. He could see Elijah staring at both of them curiously, but he wasn't important at the moment, so he ignored him. He wanted to assure her that he won't let anyone harm her, he would always protect her, even if it was from himself.

He looked into her eyes and said softly, "I would never hurt you again, sweetheart."

Athena looked at him and his expression almost made her halt, almost, she wanted to put her wand away, but she couldn't. She wanted to run away from this, from him, but she couldn't even do that either. At least not yet. It just had to be her the witches contacted hadn't it? Why couldn't it be anyone else? After she told him about Esther, he would put a dagger in her chest as well and then would put her in a coffin too. Her mind was imagining all sort of scenarios he would try to kill her with, but in the end, she had to tell them no matter what and then she'll be out of here.

She took a deep breath, squared her shoulders and braced herself as looked at both of them, her wand still in hand.

"If you tried to hurt me in any way, no matter how old you are I swear I'll kill you." She told them in a deadly voice.

After all, he wasn't exactly her father. Not where it mattered. Yes, she had his blood running in her veins, but that was it. She had wanted to meet her father and maybe have a civil kind of relationship with him, when she read the letter and that's why she came here in hope, that maybe she'll be able to be the part of a family. Her family! However small it was, but it was there. Now though, she wanted nothing from him or his family.

"I know I haven't made the best of impression. I did what I had to do to keep our family safe. It might be difficult for you to understand with these circumstances, but I can explain everything. I just ask you to give me a chance and I assure you, that you won't regret it. You are my daughter. I won't let any harm come to you. I can promise you that." He said honestly, looking into her eyes.

He knew with everything that's happened, it wasn't easy for her to accept him or his family just like that, but he needed this one chance to know her. To show her that he was capable of loving his family. Loving his daughter.

Meanwhile, Elijah's eyes narrowed at both of them. What were they playing at and what was that in her hand? Niklaus's daughter? He adopted the girl? She was threatening his brother and Nick hadn't kill her yet, and instead he was placating her? He had never seen Niklaus like this, ever since Henrik's death. The girl must be important, but the question remained, why?

"Your daughter, Niklaus?" he looked at Klaus and asked curiously, his brows furrowed.

Klaus looked at Elijah for a long time, there was no easy way to explain this so he went for the kill and said, "Elijah, this is your niece Athena."

"You adopted the girl?" he asked confused.

She was getting irritated. She wanted to tell them and get out of there as soon as possible.

"No. He and my mum slept together and here I am. We don't know how it's possible, but we think it might be because of his werewolf genes." She answered Elijah testily.

"How is it feasible?" Elijah whispered as he stared at her.

"You know, when two people sleep together, things like these happen. You should try it sometimes." She said sarcastically. She was being deliberately rude, but she was getting tired of twenty questions and these people were the most barbaric people she had met and she had been through a war! Athena wanted to tell them as soon as possible and then forget about it all.

She then looked at Klaus and said, "I came here to tell you something. Can we get this over with?"

His jaw clenched as he looked at her, but replied curtly, "Yes."

Elijah stood there stupefied and dumbfound, looking from one to another. He stared at the girl and noticed that she indeed resembled his brother in looks, apart from her hair and the eyes. He hadn't heard anything like this before. A vampire fathering a child? She said it might be his werewolf genes, but the girl looked young, probably 16 or 17. How was this possible? He needed to find more about her.

"I need to talk to you too. It concerns you as well." Athena told Elijah.

Both the brother's eyes shot up at that. What exactly could she say that would concern Elijah? Still, he sat down next to Niklaus and looked at her with a raised eyebrow, waiting to know what it was.

She took a deep breath and started, "I don't know if you know about it, but there's an abandoned house here in the forest."

Before she could continue, Klaus asked, "How do you know about that place?"

"A friend needed my help to find someone." She said while staring at him.

His eyes tightened, but he didn't say anything else.

"Spirits of some thousand dead witches are still stuck there. Well, long story short. The witches tried to talk to me as soon as I entered the house, but of course I couldn't understand it. I lost consciousness as soon as I went downstairs."

"What did they want from you and why would they contact you?" Elijah asked instantly. Dealing with witches was always a tricky thing and he couldn't think of a single reason why they would contact Athena? Unless, he was missing something.

"I am a witch. They wanted my help." Athena answered hesitantly.

"They want you to help them in killing us?" Even though it was a question, it was more of a statement as Klaus was sure about it. The witches were the ones hiding his coffins and his fury rose at that. But where did she come in all of this?

"That's the thing. It wasn't the witches that talked to me. It was your mother." Athena said.

She noticed that both of them were staring at her with wide-eyes and Klaus has stopped breathing altogether.

"What?" It was Elijah, who whispered to her after a couple of minutes and then added, "That cannot be possible. Our mother is dead."

"How do you know it was our mother?" Klaus asked at the same time.

"For starters, I don't think thousands of dead witches would help a spirit, just so that she could lie to me." Athena snapped.

"How did she look?" Klaus looked straight at her and asked through clenched teeth.

"Niklaus, you cannot consider this… this farce." Elijah looked at Klaus said in astonishment.

"The woman had blonde hair and brown eyes. She said she made a mistake when she created the originals and that you should have died a long time ago. She said her name was Esther." Athena told them as she ignored Elijah and his outburst.

Salvatore Boarding House

Damon was pacing in the living room when his phone rang. He answered it on the first ring and couldn't help but smirk, when he heard the words. "It's done."

Finally, it was time for the 'family reunion'.

Mikaelson Mansion

They both went still at that, neither knowing what to say.

"How do we know you aren't lying to us?" Elijah asked. It was still difficult for him to believe that the mother who had given them this life, the one who dies a thousand years ago was trying to kill them.

Her anger flared and she shouted at him, "Did you not hear a word I've said? Why would I lie to you? I didn't even know who you were until a couple of days ago."

Elijah didn't know what to believe. The description gave by the girl was accurate, but why would their own mother try to kill them? He wasn't able to understand it. A couple of months in coffin and he felt like everything around him has changed. And, it was all Niklaus's fault.

So, he turned towards his brother and asked angrily, "Why do our family remain in these coffins? Finn for over 900 years, Kol for over a century."

Athena forgot everything else when she heard it. He had kept his family in the coffins for past 900 years! It started playing like a record in her head.

"Because of Stefan Salvatore. He holds the one thing keeping me from freeing them. There are things that you do not know, Elijah. About our past, our Mother's death. Things I never wanted you to know, but I am ready to tell you now." Klaus answered.

Elijah didn't say anything, just stared at his brother with a frown marring his features.

Klaus continued, "Always and Forever. I need you to stand by my side. Forever. Be my brother. Help me destroy Stefan and I promise you our family will be whole again."

Athena gasped as sudden realization hit her. All those times, Damon said he was planning to murder someone, his brother's new friends, the one creating trouble in town was none other than her father. She and Stefan had formed a tentative friendship and she didn't want to lose that. Damon had already been through so much and would never forgive her if he found out. It would be nothing but betrayal in his eyes and she shied-away from the though of him hating her.

"You cannot hurt Stefan." She choked out.

Klaus looked at her with a frown, but soon his expression turned cold and he asked angrily, "And why not, darling? He took my family away from me. He tried to kill me numerous times, and he still has the last coffin with him."

"He's my friend. Both the Salvatore's are, and as far as I know, you must have done something to provoke him. Please, just…don't hurt any of them." she said and looked at him desperately.

"Stefan Salvatore is going to pay for what he did." Klaus hissed at her through clenched teeth.

Athena stayed silent for some time, but then she spoke, "I came here just to inform you what your mother was planning. She and those witches asked me to help them in killing you and your family, but I told her that I won't help any of them because you are family. I thought maybe, just maybe you'll have some redeeming qualities after what you did to me, but I guess I was wrong." She stopped for a breath, looked him straight in the eyes and continued, "It doesn't matter even if you are an original or a hybrid. It would just take a spell for me to kill you. But don't worry, I won't harm you in any way. After all, you are my father," she almost sneered the word at him, "but I won't let you hurt any of my friends either." She finished assertively.

Elijah was looking at her with some unfathomable expression which she couldn't decipher, but Klaus was looking at her furiously. Athena glared at him, her eyes flashing as she braced herself and waited for him to attack her in his rage again, but was left shell-shocked when she heard his next words.

"I won't kill him." He was staring at her as he said this. Even though he didn't look 'happy', the words meant a world to her and she would have smiled, if she wouldn't have been in the state of shock.

It stunned Elijah so much, that he too stared open-mouthed at his brother.

But before anyone of them could say anything, they heard a voice and turned towards it.

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"Hello, Nick."

The three of them stared as Rebekah entered and smiled at Klaus, but it was a smile that sent chills down Athena's spine. She remembered a similar look on Rebekah's face, when she had first met her in that alleyway.

An extremely handsome man, about her age, with brown hair and dark brown eyes entered behind Rebekah, and he too smiled at Klaus.

"Kol." Klaus greeted, but he looked freaked out to Athena and with a sudden jolt, she realized that he was the one she had seen daggered in that coffin.

"Long time, brother." Klaus backed away from him and tried to flee, only to be stopped by another man, who looked extremely angry and savage, and he was holding a dagger in his hand.

"Finn, don't." Klaus said, but he didn't get time to do anything else as the man stabbed the dagger in his hand and then pulled it out in an instant as Klaus screamed in pain.

Rebekah blurred in front of him as he tried to escape, but Kol held him tight from behind and Rebekah stabbed him in the stomach.

"Elijah!" Klaus called his brother for help, but Elijah merely looked at him as he smirked and said, "I'm sorry, Niklaus. I have learned not to trust anything you say and they deserve vengeance." Though, he looked anything but 'sorry' to Athena.

Klaus looked around wildly, but couldn't find a way out and then said quietly, "I wanted it to be for all of us."

Athena gulped audibly and then blew out a needless breath, her hands clenched into fists at her side. Her eyes never strayed from the siblings. Klaus obviously deserved 'it', for locking his siblings in a coffin for centuries. '900 years', her mind supplied immediately and she shivered. She wanted to bolt and this was clearly family business. She tried to move hastily to the door, so she could apparate before any of them could catch her. But in her hurry, she hit the table, the glass sitting atop it fell down and shattered with a loud noise. Five heads snapped towards her as she closed her eyes miserably.

"You already have a snack for me, brother." Kol said as he blurred towards her, ignoring the shouts behind him.

Athena's anger flared. She had enough of these people and she had never been more thankful that she was a witch; she already had her wand in hand and conjured a shield around herself. Just as it was done, Kol collided with it, bounced back and fell on the floor. Then she pointed her wand at him and shouted, "Petrificus Totalus." And he froze on the floor.

Then she moved towards him, crouched beside him on her knees, looked into his eyes which were wide and were staring back at her fearfully. "Hello! I'm your niece and it's nice to meet you." Then she paused for a breath and added, "This is the most basic spell I learned when I was 11. You don't want to mess with me, Uncle." She whispered snidely into his ear and his eyes widened even further at that.

When she looked up, she saw four pair of eyes staring at her with nothing but alarm. So, they do care about each other, even if its just a bit, she thought.

"Don't worry. I didn't hurt your brother. It's just a body binding spell." She told them and the terror on their faces reduced, concurrently.

"Athena. It's good to see you." Rebekah said, as she smiled for the first time that day.

"What's going on?" Finn asked as he looked at her and then at his siblings. "Who is the girl?" He added as an afterthought.

Athena turned her head to look at the guy properly. He had long wild hair which were brown and had hazel green eyes.

"She's Nick's daughter. Finally, another girl in the family." Rebekah said with exuberance.

Elijah looked at Rebekah in surprise. She accepted that this girl was Niklaus's daughter? He himself couldn't deny the similarities between the two. And from what he had perceived until now, apart part from the looks, the girl had the same 'anger issues' as his brother. The flare of anger was unmistakable in her eyes, when Kol tried to 'attack' her. But for Rebekah to welcome someone in the family was baffling for him, so he asked, "You've met her?"

"How is it even possible?" Finn asked, disbelief clearly etched on his face.

"You know, when two people…" Athena started, but her aggravation was perceptible to all of them and Elijah looked at her in amusement.

"Do not finish that sentence." Klaus hissed through clenched teeth, as he interrupted her mid-sentence and they both glared at each other.

The three of them looked at the two of them and couldn't deny that there was an uncanny resemblance, but two of the three were still dubious. Elijah cleared this throat to gain her attention and the two glared at him, unknown to them, they had exactly similar expression on their faces.

"Wow! That's creepy. I don't think I'm ever getting used to that." Rebekah said, as she settled herself on the couch.

"I don't think Kol would appreciate being bound and forgotten on the ground. Could you remove the spell?" Elijah asked her and all their gazes snapped toward the man lying on the floor, who looked like he was seething.

"Do you think I appreciate being called a 'snack' and then being attacked?" she replied angrily, even though she muttered the counter spell.

Kol instantly got up and looked at her through narrow-eyes, but the expression faded soon as he smirked at her and said, "I like you, darling and if you are Nik's daughter, that would make it even more interesting."

That was the last thing Athena had expected from him and she spluttered as he continued, "I have always been the youngest in the family, I am so glad that 'the title' doesn't belong to me anymore. And, you are a witch. We are going to have so much fun together. But why do you need a twig to use magic?" he finished in a single breath.

"Its not a twig, it's a wand and my magic comes from inside my body, unlike the wiccan witches who get their magic from nature. It's easier with a wand." She shrugged as she told him.

Kol looked intrigued and opened his mouth to ask more, when another voice interrupted him.

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"You forgot to thank us for this lovely family reunion." A voice said sarcastically.

Athena knew that voice and her eyes widened, as she turned around to see Damon and Stefan standing there.

Stefan was standing there statically looking around, while Damon was smirking at Klaus.

"I was here all this time; how did you do that?" Klaus asked.

"Sometimes, getting help from a witch is not bad at all." Damon answered with a sardonic smile.

Stefan glanced at her and his brows knitted together in confusion.

Damon's smirk fell as soon as he saw Athena and he froze. His eyes met her and he asked, "Athena? What are you doing here?"

"Where else she would be? She's my niece after all." Rebekah snapped at Damon with a smirk.

"What?" Stefan said with bewilderment, still staring at her.

She turned cold all over at the way Damon was staring at her. All she could think was, 'She was going to lose the one person who truly cared about her' which was mixed with sorrow. She wanted to tell him that she didn't betray him, she couldn't even think about that. He was too important to her. He was looking at her with hurt shining in his eyes and she wondered if there was any chance he would believe her.

She could see when he concluded everything in his mind, after he looked around and at everyone in the room and asked, "Who is your father?" It was nothing more than a whisper.

"Damon…" she said and took a step towards him, but then halted as he backed away from her and her heart clenched at that.

"Who is your father?" he yelled at her deafeningly and she backed away from him, partially from fear and partially from seeing him like this. His face was twisted with a mixture of fury and pain.

She was still staring at him, when someone blocked her view.

Klaus looked at both of them as Damon shouted at Athena and took a step towards her threateningly, and he literally flew between the two of them.

"Now, mate. I wouldn't take another step if I were you." His eyes narrowed as his lips thinned into a straight line and he glanced at Damon as if he would kill him, if he made one wrong move.

They didn't need to answer his question out loud, it was clear to anyone by Klaus's reaction.

Athena moved from behind Klaus, so she could talk to Damon, but the look in his eyes broke her heart. The expression on his face could only be described as 'utter despair' which changed to rage within seconds. He shook his head and looked at her with pure loathing, then blurred out of the door faster than she could see.

Stefan was still staring at her inscrutably, but followed after his brother.

EN:Yeah. So, this happened. And for the people who are still wondering what Damon asked Bonnie to do and what the phone call was about, he asked her 'if she could remove the daggers from the originals by her witchy juju, she wasn't sure at first, but she tried and succeeded'. That's how the originals 'woke up'. It wasn't in TVD, so please don't ask me how! I won't be able to answer.

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Sept 13th, 2018