EVELINA

"So who exactly is this wolf girl again?" I asked Rebekah from her spot in the passenger's seat.

Rebekah was looking at herself in the side mirror, making sure her hair and makeup was perfect and wiping the blood from her cheek. We had just been in a bar where six vampires were trying to hit on us and received a pool stick to the heart by Rebekah or an exploded head by me.

"I think Elijah said her name was Hayley," Rebekah informed me and I nodded.

"Do you still hate my brother?" she asked me and I looked around at her and smirked.

"Which one?" I asked her, turning my eyes back to the road in front of me.

"Eve, you know which one," Rebekah told me and I could feel her concerned gaze burning through my head.

"I have every right to hate both your brothers. Elijah turned me then Niklaus made me marry him. The only brothers you have that haven't done anything to me are Kol and Finn, which one of them was stuck in a box for almost 900 years and now both of them are dead," I snapped at her which I shouldn't have because it wasn't Rebekah's fault that her brothers are asses.

Rebekah remained quiet for the rest of the car ride, knowing I didn't want to talk anymore. It was bad enough that Rebekah called me to help with Niklaus' knocked up wolf problem and now I had to see the face that made me a monster.

I parked in front of the Mikaelson mansion while Rebekah left another message on Elijah's phone; "Elijah, if not answering your phone is part of your clever plan to get me back to this godforsaken city, then well done. I'm here, and I'm worried. Now pick up before I kick in your bloody door."

We walked up the front steps and opened the door which when we walked in, I noticed a pretty female with light olive skin, hazel green eyes, and dark brown hair wielding a fire iron.

"Who the hell are you?" The girl asked when her eyes met us.

"Ruby?" the girl asked me when I turned around to face her.

"So I did have a doppelganger. Sorry, my name is Evelina Petrova," I informed her making her stare in shock at me.

"Oh, you must be the maid. My bags are in the car – get them, will you?" Rebekah demanded making me roll my eyes because the girl wasn't a maid; in fact, I'm pretty sure that she was Hayley.

Hayley, smiling wryly, put down the iron poker before informing Rebekah that she wasn't the maid. "Right. You're that werewolf girl my brother, Klaus, knocked up. I was expecting to see some kind of supernatural, miracle baby bump. Guess you're not showing yet. It's Hayley, isn't it?" Rebekah asked making me shake my head at her manners.

"You have your brother's manners," Hayley remarked to her making me chuckle.

"And his temper, too, so watch it. Where's Elijah?" Rebekah asked, looking around the house as if Elijah would suddenly appear while I threw the sheet off one of the couches and sat down, my legs were thrown over the armrest.

"Beats me. He's long gone," Hayley told us making me raise an eyebrow.

"What do you mean, "long gone"?" I asked her, confused because that doesn't sound like Elijah.

"Well, one minute he was here making epic promises about protecting me in this predicament that a bottle of scotch and some bad decisions got me into – he was all poetic about how we're family – and then Klaus told me he bailed. Guess that's what I get for trusting a vampire," Hayley informed us making us even more confused.

"Elijah is not just any vampire, and he doesn't break promises. Which means Niklaus has done something dastardly and Klaus-like. Klaus! Get out here and tell me what you've done with our brother, you narcissistic, back-stabbing wanker!" Rebekah screamed making Niklaus finally appear as he opened a pair of doors and enter the room.

"Enough with all the shouting. Little sister, I should have known. And the lovely Evelina. I assume the six dead vampires were your doing? Niklaus asked

"They were very rude. Trying to victimize two poor, innocent girls just trying to find their way to the Quarter. So sorry, were they friends of yours? Oh, that's right, you don't have any friends," I snapped at Niklaus who smirked at me.

"I do have friends. I have Marcel. You remember him, don't you? Yes, of course, you do. He fancies himself the 'King of the Quarter' now, and he has these rules about killing vampires. It'll be fun to see what sort of punishment he comes up with for you two," Niklaus threatened us making me laugh.

"I don't care about Marcel or his rules. Elijah doesn't welch on deals. What did you do to him?" Rebekah asked making Niklaus respond with; "Perhaps he's on holiday... or taking a long autumn nap upstairs. Well, go on. Take a look around. You remember this house as well as I."

Rebekah, who had gotten up to leave the room, turned back to Niklaus. "I remember everything. I remember how the drunken fool of a governor hid away all of our vampire sins in exchange for gold. I remember the lavish parties the governor threw as if to impress you. I remember finding a moment of affection with the governor's son, Emil. And I remember that even Elijah was happy," Rebekah remembered her time back when they first arrived in New Orleans which lucky for me, I wasn't with the Mikaelson family at that time.

"Well, he wasn't good enough for you," Niklaus remarked making me again roll my eyes.

Being near the Mikaelson family always made my head hurt. "No one was ever good enough for me, Nik, you made sure of that. Now, where is Elijah?" Rebekah asked again but Niklaus' phone started buzzing which he checked it, stood and moved to leave.

"Where are you going?" I asked, now standing up from my spot on the couch.

"It appears the night is not quite over, yet. I'm off for another drink with Marcel," Niklaus informed us making Rebekah speak up again; "Elijah told me about your plan to take apart Marcel's empire piece by piece. I don't remember it involving you two drinking New Orleans dry together."

"I know you don't have many friends, Rebekah, but what some friends do when they get together is they drink. And when they drink, they tell secrets. Marcel has somehow found a way to control the entirety of witches in the Quarter, and I aim to uncover the 'how' so I might take it for myself. Finding Elijah didn't make my to-do list today," Niklaus turned and walked to the door, but pauses before he left.

"Oh, and welcome home, little sisters." The door shut behind him and I glared at his name for me.

Niklaus always called me that when he wanted to get on my nerves as he knew I had a strong hatred for being forced to marry Elijah after being turned. "Who are you exactly?" I heard Hayley from where she was sitting on a landing above.

"Sadly, Niklaus' sister by marriage and Elijah's wife," I answered her and I noticed her stare at me in confusion.

"I was forced to marry him after I was turned and Niklaus forced to travel with the Mikaelsons for almost two centuries as I'm a Hybrid like Niklaus but a Vampire-Witch instead of a Vampire-Werewolf. I left them in search of my sister, Katerina. Now Rebekah has driven me back into the family drama which unfortunately involves you," I explained to her, giving her a sad smile because I knew she didn't want to be involved.

"Do you hate them?" Hayley asked me with a small voice as I sat down next to her.

"I hate them for making me what I am but trust me, Hayley, I won't let any harm come to you or your child," I promised her, lightly grasping her hand in mine.

She smiled lightly at me, knowing that she had someone to protect her now that Elijah is gone. "Are you going to find Elijah?" She asked me after a few moments of silence.

"If that is what you wish then I shall follow through. I may hate Elijah for what he did to me but he did make a promise and he always follows through with his promises," I informed her which made me remember a time where my hatred for the Mikaelsons was overpowering.

1692

"I want to see my sister, Niklaus! You can't keep hiding her away from me" I screamed at him but Niklaus smirked at me.

"And let you leave your husband? Now, Little Evie, I won't let you do that," Niklaus taunted me which only made him received a massive pain through his head.

Niklaus shouted in pain as he grabbed his head and fell to his knees. I didn't normally use my magic against the Mikaelsons because I knew they would kill me for hurting them but now I didn't care. Niklaus was in the way of me finding Katerina who I thought had died centuries ago. "Evelina, stop!" I heard Elijah shouted at me as blood began running down Niklaus' nose.

I didn't listen to him; my hatred for Niklaus finally taking control of my body as now I wished for him to be dead. Suddenly, I felt someone grabbed my head and twisted causing my neck to break and sending me unconscious. I woke up a couple hours later and I was now laying down on my bed with Elijah sitting on a chair beside my bed. "You shouldn't have done that," Elijah informed me when he noticed I was awake.

"There's a lot of things I shouldn't have done according to you," I snapped me, moving away from him but unfortunately, he moved closer to me.

"I understand why you hate us so much but don't let that hatred get you killed, Evelina," he informed me, now sitting beside me on the bed as I glared at him.

"Then I understand why I need to see Katerina. She's the only family I have left," I spoke in a soft voice.

"I'll make you a promise, Evelina. If you don't step out of line for two more years, I'll convince Niklaus to let you find your sister," Elijah promised me making me stare at him in shock.

Lucky for me, Elijah did follow through on his promise and in 1694, I left the Mikaelsons to find Katerina.

"You, wolf girl. I'm going to search this house inch by inch until I find what my evil brother has done to my good one. You're helping," Rebekah's voice broke my flashback.

Us girls walked down the spiral staircase while Rebekah informed us of the house; "The governor had lots of secret rooms. I'll show you his favourite."

We arrived in a dusty, cobwebbed cellar room and I noticed the coffins that Niklaus used to keep his siblings in after he daggered them.

"You think Klaus killed him," Hayley spoke making me slightly giggle at her.

The poor girl had a lot to learn about the Mikaelsons. "We can't be killed, silly girl. That doesn't stop Klaus from finding ways to torture us. He has a set of mystical silver daggers. One in the heart sends us into a deep slumber. Klaus gets his jollies from keeping us in a box until he decides to pull the dagger out. That must be what he's done to Elijah. This one's mine," Rebekah informed Hayley, standing in front of her coffin.

"He keeps your coffin on standby," Hayley remarked as I looked at all the coffins.

"He likes to be prepared for when his family members inevitably disappoint him. Elijah's isn't here – he must've stashed him elsewhere," I informed them after noticing the missing coffin.

"I feel sick," Hayley said, her arms wrapped around her stomach and I noticed she was turning slightly green.

"Welcome to the family, love. You should've run the second you realized Elijah was gone," Rebekah told her and Hayley explained why she was still staying here; "Yeah, well, the witches have put some sort of hex on me. As long as I'm carrying this baby, I can't leave New Orleans. If I do, they kill me."

"Well, knowing Klaus, he's planning a box for you the second you give birth to whatever's cooking in your tum. I'm leaving as soon as I find Elijah. Being daggered in a box for decades sucks, trust me. You'd best find a way to break that hex and run," Rebekah informed Hayley before leaving the room to continue her search for Elijah.

"Come on, Eve! I need your witchy powers," Rebekah shouted at me making me roll my eyes.

I gave Hayley a smile before following Rebekah because the sooner we find Elijah, the sooner I could leave.