Amelie

Summary:"You have loved and you have lost, all while I have succumbed to: the darkness, the light, to my wildest dreams and deepest fears. I have loved you while you have lived your life to its fullest, now I must live mine." Klaus kept his last love a secret for a lifetime but now it's time to reintroduce her to the world.

Chapter Twenty

The new year had been and gone by the time Amelie broke her sire bond. She was relieved as she stopped shifting back and forth between her human side and the side of the beast. Her eyes met Klaus' as he crouched down in front of her with a warm look and a fresh set of clothes. He let her out of her chains and placed the warm jumper over her head as she held up her arms. She placed a thankful peck on his cheek and got onto her feet slowly and shakily.

"How long have I been down here?"

"A week and a half, I expected you to be down here longer but I'm glad you were able to break it quickly." He helped steady her and walked her upstairs where the rest of the Mikaelson family were waiting.

Hope ran up to Amelie and wrapped her arms around her legs, looking up at her with her big brown eyes. "You're finally home! Dad said you went on holiday."

Amelie looked at Klaus as he shrugged a little. "Yes, I was away but I'm home now, means we can play dress up with your dollies again."

Hayley approached Klaus' lover and placed her hand on Hope's shoulder and gave her a sweet smile. "Do you mind if mummy talks to Ama?"

"Don't keep her for too long mum, I have to show her the new doll I got." She let go of Amelie's legs and looked at Amelie once more, "She's really pretty."

"I bet she is sweetheart." Amelie smiled and watched the little girl happily skip back to the table of dolls she had set up in the living area. Elijah and Freya stepped into the kitchen and closed the door behind them, worried expressions covered their faces. "What's going on?"

"We need to talk to you about your brother." Freya said as she folded her arms across her chest.

"It seems as if your parents lied about his death and now," Elijah cleared his throat and ran his fingers through his hair, "well let's just say he hasn't been quiet about wanting to see you."

Three days ago,

Jacques strolled into the Mikaelson compound as if he owned the place, but there was no one in sight. He helped himself to some cereal that was left on the counter and leaned against the work top as he glanced at the cellar door; Amelie was still down there but from the sounds of her growling, she was still in her beast form. He didn't feel like getting bit today. Hayley and Hope walked into the kitchen and froze as they caught a glimpse of him.

"Don't fret, I'm not here to hurt you." He said calmly, setting the now empty bowl on the counter top.

"Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?" Hayley held onto Hope protectively and stared at the face she just about recognised.

"I'm Amelie's brother but I can see that she's not here."

"If you're Ama's brother, then why do you not talk like her?" Hope said from behind her mother's hair.

Jacques looked at the small child and gave her a fleeting smile. "Because I grew up in America while Amelie grew up in France." He turned his attention to Hayley. "Where's your boyfriend? I need to have a word with my old friend."

She just stared at him but as he took a single step towards her, she rolled her eyes and nodded towards the staircase. "He's in his study."

"Good girl, sorry about the cereal, I was rather peckish." He smirked as he stepped past her and made his way up the stairs.

He could see from the artwork on the walls and the decadent furniture throughout the house that the Mikaelsons were filthy rich, obviously acquired through their compulsion; they weren't always rich, they were once just villagers in the old colony of Mystic Falls. Jacques knew all about their history, he was once Elijah's best friend and they shared almost everything together. He could hear mumbling from the room at the end of the long hallway and he knew straightaway that it was Elijah's voice and they were talking about him.

"He's not a dangerous person, at least not to us," Elijah tried to plead Jacques case but Klaus and Freya were having none of it, "he was my friend when I didn't have anybody. If he didn't help me find Katherine, then you wouldn't have been able to find her so easily in Mystic Falls."

"Friend or not, there's something about him that terrified Jon and Alexander St Martine so much that they had to send him away."

"And we don't know what state his mind is in," Freya added, "eighty years, trapped in a cave with no food, water or contact with the outside world has bound to shape his mind."

"Being sent away didn't change me for the better, I can tell you that." He answered as he stepped into the room.

Klaus got onto his feet and placed his hands on his hips. "What are you doing here?"

"I want to know how Amelie's coming along, she is my baby sister after all."

"A sister that you didn't know you had until a week ago." Freya interjected.

"Who are you and why haven't we been formally introduced?" Jacques got a twinkle in his eye as he approached Freya with his hand outstretched.

Elijah grabbed onto his arm, not too hard that it would make Jacques hostile but hard enough to let him know that he should back off. "This is our older sister, Freya."

"I knew about all of the Mikaelsons, but I never heard you mention a Freya."

"I'm kind of like you, taken away from my siblings with a complicated backstory. What's your history by the way?" she smirked, leaning across the desk.

He let out an arrogant laugh and shook his finger at Freya then looked at the Mikaelson brothers, the youngest one first. "I like her, she thinks she's smart." He turned his focus back onto Freya and began to pace around the room. "No, I won't be telling my story until Amelie is able to hear it."

"Which won't be until she breaks her sire bond." Elijah reminded him.

Jacques turned his body towards Klaus and glanced at the watch on his wrist, tapping at the glass. "When will that be, you see I want to have the time to get to know her."

"I don't know when she's going to break the bond, it could take months. But I told you that you aren't going to meet Amelie unless she wants to meet you."

"Which I agreed was fair enough, but I did not expect her to be kept away for so long."

"It's been a couple of days, it hasn't been that long." Klaus inched closer towards him and balled his hands into fists. "Instead of patronising, perhaps you could actually be supportive."

Jacques reached into his pocket and handed Klaus a syringe full of a yellow liquid. "Give that to her while she's in her wolf form, it'll make her transitions quicker and a lot less painful."

"What is it?" Elijah called from behind him.

"My venom, I used my magic to ease my suffering a long time ago. Unlike Amelie, I don't get the choice of picking and choosing when I get to turn. If you want to help her, give her that and then send her my way. It's time I got to talk to her properly."

Klaus glanced down at the syringe and put it into his pocket for safe keeping. "Thanks, I'll let you know if it works."

"I'm not your enemy," he walked towards the doorway and placed his hand on the door frame as he took one last glimpse of the Mikaelson siblings, "remember that before you start throwing stones in a glass house."

Today

"He was telling the truth about his venom, it sped up your transitions and it broke your bond faster." Klaus informed her as she took a seat at the kitchen table. He took the seat beside her and took her hand, rubbing the top of it with his thumb. "He was telling the truth." He repeated in a displeased mumble.

"Where is he now?" she up from the table and looked Klaus in the eye. "I want to thank him."

"There's a full moon tonight, he's probably getting himself ready for his transition." Hayley informed her as she took the other empty seat beside Amelie. Elijah placed his hand on Hayley's shoulder which made her relax a little bit. "I don't want you to bring Jacques into this house while Hope is here; Klaus agrees with me."

When Amelie looked at him with a shocked look he broke his eye contact with her. "We don't know if he's dangerous yet." He didn't want to cause tension with Amelie, especially not after the week she had; but his daughter's safety was more important than Amelie meeting Jacques.

"All he wants to do is meet with me Klaus, he isn't going to hurt anyone."

"Alexander doesn't seem to think so. And from my history with your brother, he does have a wild side to him." Elijah was trying to tread carefully around Hayley and Amelie.

"Then this full moon tonight gives me the perfect opportunity to speak with Alexander about Jacques without him interfering." She got onto her feet and wrapped her baggy jumper tighter around herself.

"I'll go with you." Klaus got up to but when Amelie placed her hand on the front of his shoulder, he scowled.

"I need to do this by myself; I can't have people making judgements on Jacques before I've made mine."

"Very well, at least let me drive you to Alexander's home."

"I could do with the walk, stretch my limbs a little bit." She kissed him on the cheek and ran her hand through his curls. "Thank you for the offer though, I'm going to be just fine." She nodded at the other Mikaelson siblings and gave a quick, but sarcastic smile to Hayley before facing the chopping block.

"She totally hates me now." Hayley said into her hands.

"She doesn't, she's just a little upset." Klaus glared at his watch and tapped his fingers together. "I'll give her a couple of hours before I start to panic. She'll be fine, right?"

"I know all about separated siblings," Freya moved towards her brother and touched the mid of his arm, "Jacques will not hurt her."

Amelie stepped onto the all too familiar porch of the St Martine home and noticed that the door was unlocked. When there was no answer to her knocking, she tried to step in but it was as if something was blocking her from stepping foot into the house. It was one of the biggest downsides to being a hybrid. She took her phone out of her pocket and called Alexander, praying that he would pick up.

"Did you finally wake up?" he answered in a tired tone.

"I need answers about Jacques, before I can have a relationship with my brother, I need to know why you're so terrified of him."

"I'm not scared of Jacques."

"You were always a terrible liar; I saw you run away from him."

Alexander was silent for a moment before he sighed, Amelie could hear mumble something to himself almost incoherently. "Okay, if you want to know the truth, I'm petrified of that man and I don't scare easily. Where are you now?"

"At your house."

"I don't live there anymore but I'll meet you somewhere public, that way I can't be executed."

Amelie stepped off the porch and looked around the isolated street. "Tell me a place and I'll be there."

"Rousseau's in twenty minutes. You're buying me a drink, god knows I need one."

"I'll meet you there, don't be late."

The bar was packed full of people carrying the celebrations on from New Year's Day but Amelie couldn't join in the festivities, she wasn't even sure what year it was. She looked so out of place compared to everyone, she looked basically homeless; hair dishevelled and her clothes barely fitting her tiny body. She almost jumped out of her skin when Alexander sat down beside her, she barely recognised him; he wasn't the man he once was, the clean shaven and impeccably dressed man was gone.

"You almost look as bad as I do." He commented as he waved the barman over.

"I've been locked in a cellar trying to break my sire bond for the past week, what's your excuse?" she was snarky, she didn't appreciate his observations on her appearance.

"I thought you would've wanted to keep that sire bond; be in debt to Klaus Mikaelson for an eternity?"

"Klaus wants me to be able to make decisions for myself and not the bond. But we're not here to discuss my relationship with Klaus, we're here to discuss your relationship with Jacques."

Alexander ordered himself a couple of drinks, lining them up in front of his hands. "These are on you by the way," he downed each drink one at a time and let out a groan with his eyes closed as the burning alcohol travelled down his throat, "Jacques is a cruel man, Amelie and I know cruel men, I used to be one."

"What did he do that was so bad?"

"You're aware that he's a witch-werewolf hybrid, right? Well your mother had an affair a week after she married your father and got pregnant to a witch from my mother's coven. But it was a whole big secret until his powers started kicking in. Outraged, your father demanded that he should be exiled and so he was. That's the story behind you never meeting him, he was long gone before you were even thought of."

"I have a feeling there's more to this story than you're telling me."

"It's Jacques place to tell you all the nitty gritty details, I'm here to warn you off him; but knowing you you'll pay no head to my warnings."

"So, tell me, what did he do?"

"You'd be too young to remember, I'm too young to remember but Jon told me about this group of wolves who weren't just wolves but also witches. They called themselves The Seven Devils. They caused havoc all over the world because they had the expenses to travel anywhere they desired."

"So, Jon decided to take you, when you were old enough, to stop them?" she made a pretty accurate assumption but all the information was starting to overload her brain.

"Jacques, or Jack as he went by to disguise himself, made friends with all the wrong people while he was in America. He was allies with Elijah Mikaelson which wasn't a good thing way back in the day. Jacques was also getting to trigger happy with his magic and his abilities under the moonlight." Alexander looked away from Amelie and cracked his knuckles. "He had a thing about wiping out villages, so while we were here trying to locate you, we put Jacques in what should've been a permanent time out."

"How did he get out then?"

"Jon's death broke the spell. But we were almost certain that Jacques would die of old age before Jon died. But he preserved himself."

"But Jon didn't have magic, so how would his death free him?"

"Jon was the only one brave enough to put Jacques away, so I gave him my magic as a temporary loan."

Amelie grabbed Alexander by the arm and made her look at him, almost pleading with her eyes, "Am I in danger?"

"I don't know, that's the problem. I'm in danger for helping Jon but as for you, I don't know what his intentions are. You just need to watch your back with him, he's a cold-hearted snake." Alexander got off the bar stool and gave one final look at Amelie. "If you need my help putting him down, I'll happily help. Thanks for the drinks."

A:N Should Amelie make assumptions based on Alexander's words or is he actually right? What do you think Jacques intentions are with Amelie, a sibling relationship or is there an ulterior motive? Let me know what you think of this chapter!