Chapter Four: Knight in Shining Armor

I woke up with a heavy head. It felt like someone was drilling a million tiny holes in my head.

Where am I?

The room that I am in is not mine. It had more of an ancient French feel to it. I sat up, and I immediately had to lay back down. My head started to spin. "Oh, no," I said that a little too loudly.

The bedroom door opened to reveal Hayley. "Hey," she whispered and walked over to me. "How are you doing?"

I sighed. "What happened?" I started to sit back up, but slowly this time. Once I was sitting upright, my head throbbed even more.

Hayley sighed. "Well, someone leaked out that there was a new wolf. Majority of the times, some people are not okay with a new person in the quarter, especially a wolf." She sat down on the bed next to me. "Does your head feel like someone is pounding a thousand hammers on it?"

I winced and rubbed my temples. "More like a million." I finally got a good look at my hands. "Why are my hands red and blotchy? They look so gross."

Hayley gave me a slight frown. "The flowers that you got were drenched with wolfsbane. Rebekah and I washed all traces of it off of you." I blushed thinking about them seeing me in that state. "Wolfsbane is a very painful poison to wolves. In some cases, depending on how much wolfsbane consumed, it is deadly."

I wiped away a tear that fell from my eye. "How close was I?"

"So close, but we caught it early enough," she said with a small smile.

I raised my eyebrows. "We?"

"Rebekah found you because she smelt it on someone. She brought you over here, and we tried to do what we could to save you." She sighed. "You kept calling out Niklaus' name, so we called him to come back to the compound."

My eyes widened. "I did?"

She gave me a small smile and a nod. "Yeah, you did. He gave you his blood right at the moment when we lost you, and that was the moment you stopped breathing. It took you five minutes to wake up, but you did."

My knight in shining armor.

Hayley laughed out loud. "Oh, no! Did I say that out loud." She nodded. "How was Niklaus through it all? Is he okay?"

She nodded. "When he ran into the foyer, he looked lost. It was almost like he was dead inside. When he saw you, something immediately clicked inside of him. He went into hybrid mode and fed you his blood. Now, he is out tracking with Elijah and Kol."

My eyes widened. "He gave me his blood?"

She nodded. "I think that is something that you should talk to Klaus about." She paused. "Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. The boys are home. Are you okay to have visitors?"

I looked around the room. "I have to get moving around. I can't just sit here. Help me walk? My legs do still feel like jello."

She giggled. "Yeah." She helped me up, and the two of us slowly walked us downstairs. I tried to keep as little weight on her as possible because of the baby. Once we hit that top step, Niklaus noticed me. "There is your knight in shining armor."

I looked at her and shook my head. "Oh, hush you." She just smirked at me. "All right. I can take it from here." I grabbed onto the banister. Niklaus ran up to me, and he stood right behind me. "Hi, Niklaus."

"How are you doing? What are you doing up?" Niklaus just started to fire off questions.

I put my hands on his face. "Nik." He immediately stopped talking and leaned his head into my gross looking hand. "I'm okay. Because of all of you, I am okay," I whispered. Something inside of me told me to hug him, so I did. I slowly wrapped my arms around his neck, and I leaned my head on his chest. "Thank you."

Niklaus' arms wrapped around me, and he kissed the top of my head. "Let's get you to everyone else." He lifted me up like a child, and we slowly walked with Hayley to the main room. When we got there, I started to unwrap my legs. "Not yet," he said. "I still need to be sure that you are okay," he whispered in my arm. I just couldn't bring myself to get down.

I turned my head to face Rebekah. "Thank you so much, Rebekah. I really appreciate it."

She gave me a gentle smile. "You are welcome, Bella. You are apart of this family now. We protect our own."

Niklaus put me down, and I leaned against him for support. My legs still felt like jelly. "Bella, this is the rest of Mikaelson clan," Hayley said. "Elijah Mikaelson, Kol Mikaelson, Freya Mikaelson, Davina Claire, Vincent Griffith, and Marcel Gerard."

My heart stopped when she said, Marcel. Everyone noticed it from their super hearing, and they all looked at me confused. "Is everything okay?" Marcel asked.

"I...uh...I." I cleared my throat. "You knew a Maia and Henry Labonair?" I finally got out.

Hayley looked confused. "How do you know my Aunt and Uncle?" She asked.

I looked at her and my face paled. "I have to go." I quickly wobbled out of the compound and ran to my house. I slid down the door, and I just started to cry.

There was a knock on my door. "Bella. Can you open up the door?" Hayley asked. I slowly opened up the door and let her in. "Hey, what is going on?"

"Andrea?" I whispered.

She nodded. "It's my birth name, but my foster family renamed me. Wh..." She paused. "You are Isabella Alba?" I nodded, and she started crying. The two of us hugged and just cried. After five minutes, she pulled away. "You are really part of the family, now."

I know that this chapter took me awhile. I'm sorry for the delay, but here it is. I know that it is short, but I wanted you guys to have at least something.