Warnings: more talk about sexual abuse, but it's not detailed; pregnancy hormones, and talk of non-physical child abuse.

Sorry I didn't get this out yesterday :(

1.7 and 2.4

Freya hates recounting the story, but she'd decided when she was hugging Finn that he needs to know. They'd survived so long in that mansion by keeping very few secrets.

So she tells him. She tells him about the sexual abuse - I consented, she hastens to say; it doesn't matter, he responds, it's not okay that he did that. - and what his reaction was to her getting pregnant.

She tells him everything. By the time they get to the hotel, she's regaled him with her life in 1999 - a not-quite-one year old dictating her life, and druggy boyfriends coming and going. How she went from Mystic Falls to Macon, Georgia, then to the hose where Radley was conceived in Savannah. From there, she went to Augusta, where Leah and Brooke were born, then Atlanta, where Nina had been born, and Graham, then Justin, had come into her life.

And thank god for Graham. He sits there, his hand on her knee, the whole time. When Finn makes a face at her past drug use, he squeezes comfortingly. When Finn tells her she spiraled and he doesn't blame her, he squeezes.

Finn takes them up to their room - across the hall from his and their older family members - and tells them his own story.

Like Freya, he'd been hauled over state lines ASAP, going from Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois into Missouri. He'd lived in a small town called Hallsville for a few weeks, then he went to Columbia, then Jeff City. He'd landed in St. Louis and never left. He doesn't seem too upset about it all, but when Graham leaves - to get ice, ostensibly, but really to give them some space - he clutches her in a hug and they cry again.

Finn hadn't gone through the same struggles as she had, but they'd been taken away from each other. They'd been forced to live their lives away from each other. They'd been ripped from everything they knew.

When Graham comes back, they wipe their tears away and make a pact. When Elijah and Kol and the rest come, they're going to need someone to lean on, and that someone is going to be them.

3.4 and 1.8 and 2.5

Elijah makes sure he's hugged Matthew goodbye and given Katherine a parting kiss that would have made his foster siblings proud. Eventually, after a lot of fretting on his part, she practically pushes him onto the plane.

He goes with a wave, trying to make himself look less nervous than he actually is.

There's no reason to be nervous, he knows that. He's just seeing the people he grew up with - hell, these are the ones who changed his diaper and not the other way around - and he's going to be staying with them for a little while. That's it.

Of all his siblings, he was never the anxious one. It takes the entire flight to remind himself of that.

When he lands, though, he knows what - rather, who - will be waiting for him. All of the anxiety he'd washed away with a stupid airplane movie comes rushing back. He pushes his head into his hands, and lets everyone get off the plane before he even stands up.

If Katherine were here, she would tell him something encouraging. She'd remind him that he'd known these people better than he'd known himself.

He stands.

His Katherine-related confidence pushes him through getting his bags and making it to where Freya and Finn had arranged for him to see them again. The confidence leaves once again when he sees them, sitting down across from each other in deep conversation, with Leif, Aerona and Torunn sitting next to them. The sight brings him back to his childhood, when he and Niklaus were very pointedly not invited to their everyday life. Kol had felt the same way, isolated from his older brothers, and sometimes even Rebekah, who was always with Henrik.

He swallows and keeps moving.

Freya sees him first. She stands and Finn follows suit. They all stare at each other. Elijah drops his bags to the floor.

Aerona says playfully, "well, are you kids going to hug or not?"

Freya lets out a laugh that's a little watery. Finn takes the challenge and pulls Elijah into a hug. "Brother," he greets warmly.

"Finn," he responds, clutching maybe a little too tight. Finn wasn't his closest brother, but they'd always had fun. They'd always helped each other.

Freya's arms wrap around the both of them, and they don't part until there's a snap behind them.

Elijah pulls away at the sound, and finds Torunn standing with her phone up. She looks far removed from the paparazzi behind her.

He sticks out his hand, "hi. I'm Elijah Mikaelson. And you must be Torunn." She nods, so he adds, "it's a pleasure."

She grins. "You're much more mannered than your siblings." Freya laughs again, while Finn does that indignant squawk that always made Kol and Bekah cry with laughter. "It's a pleasure to meet you, too."

He nods, and greets his grandparents, face to face for the first time. Finn comments, "if Niklaus were here, he would be calling you Goody-Two-Shoes."

"I'm aware, brother." Elijah deadpans.

Freya makes a comment about how Finn used to be Goody-One-Shoe - and Stupid-One-Shoe at the same time - and leads them out of the airport.

He can already tell he'll have to work himself back into the dynamic of the Mikaelson family, but if he gets to watch Freya and Finn makes fun of each other like they're still children, then he'll do anything.

5.5

Taylor sighs like his stupidity is physically painful. "Cole, you just got home. You said in several different interviews that you planned on taking a long break. Less than a week is not a long break!"

"I'm aware, I can count," he says sarcastically. He settles heavily on his bed, ready to fight for this. "I don't care. There's extenuating circumstances. I want to go back, and I want to do it as soon as possible."

Taylor sighs again. Kol prepares for Taylor's trademarked Bitch Tone. "You must've been pampered as a child. Whatever Cole wanted, Cole got."

Any humor Kol felt about the situation - the Bitch Tone is hilarious, but it isn't cheering him up like usual due to him being possibly delayed in seeing his family - leaves instantly. Taking on a tone Mikael had enjoyed to use, he hisses, "no, I wasn't pampered. In fact, I was ignored. My parents decided to forget about me as soon as my mother pulled me off the tit." He takes a deep breath and counts to ten, then thinks about Hailie when the stupid exercise doesn't calm him down.

"Cole. I'm sorry." Taylor sounds cautious and regretful. He drags a hand down his face, cursing his temper and his stupid father for giving it to him.

"You should be," he snaps, before he reigns himself in. "Sorry…. Just, I need to go see them. I need to ASAP, Taylor… please. This is really, really important to me." He's basically pleading to see his siblings. He hates it, but he'll do anything to get Taylor to let him go back to New York.

Taylor sighs once more, softer this time. "Fine, Cole. But I'm taking a week off once all of the hype around this goes down."

Kol smiles widely. "Thank you, Taylor. You're a saint."

He hangs up, and goes to Twitter to announce he'd be on his way soon.

6.2

Rebekah decides that she's going to go out to the car now, instead of waiting in the building for Fred. He's got a meeting with parents; it's going to take a while. He asked her to stay inside, but Rebekah has other plans.

She rolls the windows down enough to get a good breeze, then locks up the car and takes the keys out. School got out at three, and it's now three forty five. She's all alone in the parking lot.

Perfect, she thinks. Her phone opens to her lock screen - a picture of her adoptive family, Fred, and herself on her wedding day - and it makes her smile, just like always. She's going to need it.

YouTube asks if she's interested in several, boring-looking videos as soon as it's opened. Rebekah ignores them and searches, 'Mikaelson'.

The top video is titled "Oldest Mikaelson Siblings Reunite". She clicks on it, and watches as a tall figure - very clearly Finn - embraces a slightly shorter figure - very clearly Freya.

She watches it three more times. The way Finn's whole face lights up at the sight of Freya is burned into her mind. The way Freya clutches at his shirt, like she's scared she'll lose him again if she lets go, will haunt her for years to come.

By the third re-watch, she's crying - not weeping or sobbing, just crying. I'm leaking, she thinks a little hysterically, not bothering to wipe away her tears.

She clicks out of the video and finds that the second top video is titled "Elijah Mikaelson FOUND". Without having to think about it, she clicks on it.

It starts out in the same airport, but there are more people this time - an older couple, a woman who looks like she isn't much older than Freya, a man who looks about Finn's age, and her siblings. Freya and Finn are talking, while the other four occupy themselves with other things.

Then Finn looks up, and the camera swings to what he saw - a dark haired man that Rebekah knows is Elijah without needing the helpful arrow and bolded ELIJAH on the screen. She watches them greet each other, and hug. She watches, still crying, as they walk out, looking happy and contented. I want that, she thinks.

There's a knock on the window, and she startles, dropping her phone onto her lap. It's just Fred, giving her a concerned look. "Are you okay?" He asks through the window.

Before she can hastily say 'of course', the video changes to a couple who start talking loudly about how Cole Henderson is Kol Mikaelson, and when is he going to reunite and when is he going to give an interview.

She ignores it, and unlocks the car so he can get in. He slides his stuff to the back as soon as he's got the door open. He settles, then rubs at her cheeks to get the dried tears off. She pulls her head away, and looks down so she can turn her phone off.

"Honey, why are you watching YouTube videos alone in the car?"

The words make her sound crazy, but his tone is so understanding that she doesn't have a mood swing over it. Instead, she says, "Fred, I'm Rebekah."

He gives her a look like, this bitch is crazy. It's a look she's been on the receiving end of for years. When he speaks, however, his tone is still just as understanding as before. "Yeah, that's you."

"No, I mean, I'm Rebekah Mikaelson. Not Rebekah Bell, or Rebekah Dawson, but Rebekah Mikaelson."

"Bex, what do you mean?"

She explains, "I told you before, I was adopted."

He nods, looking confused, adorable, and adorably confused. "I thought you didn't know who your parents were, though."

She shakes her head. "No, I do. I remember all of my siblings' names still."

"Howard and Kayley?"

She gives him a look. He smiles back at her, clearly trying to make her laugh. "No, my biological siblings. Freya, Finn, Elijah, Nik, Kol, and Henrik." When he gives her the look back, she sighs. "I promise I'm telling the truth. I have proof - "

"I don't not believe you, Bex, it's just…. Watching videos on YouTube is not healthy - I mean for the baby," he interjects when he senses she's going to interrupt. "You're stressing yourself out over those videos." He raises an eyebrow challengingly.

She rolls her eyes, but doesn't confirm or deny. He grins and takes her hands in his.

"If you don't do that again, I'd love to help you get your proof together to present to the guy running the whole thing."

She smiles and leans over to hug him. He hugs back, and with their child between them, and the idea of seeing her siblings again, Rebekah is more content than she ever thought possible.

5.6

Kol steps off the plane, feeling so jetlagged it was a new personal record. He's got bags to go get, he knows that, but his brain isn't exactly firing on all cylinders. He couldn't sleep last night, too excited and anxious, and hadn't slept on the plane, because the guy next to him would not shut the hell up. Kol doesn't care about your bunion, dude! Really!

He's preparing to just go straight to where his siblings told him they were, when Taylor calls. "Hello?"

"Get your bags."

That's the whole conversation - the dial tone hits his ears as soon as Taylor stops talking. He blinks at his phone, not comprehending what he was just told to go do.

It takes an embarrassingly long moment before it clicks. He struts off towards baggage, gaining a little momentum. He grabs his bag quickly enough, and manages to go around the media frenzy in another new personal record.

As soon as he's around the crowd, he sees his welcome party - Elijah first, then Freya and Finn, then Freya's husband, Torunn, and his grandparents.

He can't be responsible for what he does next.

He rushes forward and jumps on top of Elijah. (Now, Kol is not short. He's 6'1". Elijah looks to be about 5'10" or 5'11". It's not a huge difference in reality, but ask Elijah that.)

They hit the floor hard, but Kol doesn't care. He's got hugs to dish out. He squeezes his big brother, then stands gracefully, and mashes his other big brother into a hug. Freya comes forward willingly, and then he's hugging Leif and Aerona.

Before he can hug Torunn or introduce himself to Graham, he's pulled backwards. An arm goes around his chest from under his armpit to his shoulder, and he's getting noogied for the first time since high school.

"What was that, brother?" Elijah cries playfully. "Think you can just take me down and not get retaliation?"

Kol does what he's always done in these situations - he doesn't respond, and drops his entire body to the ground.

Elijah and he go down again. This time, though, they stay there. Finn, Graham, Torunn, and his grandparents are all laughing, while Freya jokingly does the picture frame hand gestures.

"I think this is one for the books," she says with a stupid accent.

Kol laughs and laughs.

All the worrying he'd done last night, it was all for nothing. He's barely been around his siblings for ten minutes, and he's already having a good time. He can't imagine anything going wrong in the future reunions, not after having his own.