Chapter 1: Consequences

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." ~William James

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Persephone sat up with a jolt, her head was groggy as she rubbed her eyes. It felt as if someone had hit her over the top of the head and she was waking up from being dead. Suddenly a blonde woman was right in her face. "How do you feel?"

"What? Who are you? Where am I?" She questioned. There was a burning in her throat, she swallowed stiffly but it did not subside. The blonde woman let out an annoyed huff.

"How do you feel? You are in my brother's home." The woman replied, conveniently leaving out a part of the questions.

"My throat burns, and my head feels like it's splitting in many pieces. What happened?" Her look surprised Persephone.

"You really don't remember anything do you? Christ, my brother is such a twat." She huffed standing with a frustrated growl.

"What are you talking about, what don't I remember?" Just as the words came out of her mouth, the blonde woman was in front of her holding her cheeks in her hand.

"Us, you don't remember us. And you want remember this conversation. All you know is that I came up here to check on you. You're not feeling well and my brother brought you here to help you." Then the woman was gone. Persephone was confused, what in the world just happened. Turning her head she examined her surroundings it was then she noticed a clean dress laid out for her.

Downstairs the other woman was pacing in the foyer, she ran a hand through her long blonde locks. Her elder brother was sitting on one of the couches. He regarded her with concern while watching her curiously. "Are we seriously going to help him with this? Persephone was nothing but kind to us while we stayed with her. Elijah tell me we are not going to lie to this innocent woman. Who by law is our sister?" Elijah raised a brow at her statement.

"We are not to do anything but stand by. If this is what Niklaus wants then he will reap its consequences when they come." He responded diplomatically and the blonde woman let out an unsatisfied snort.

"She'll hate him forever ever when she finds out." Her brother nodded his head at her.

"Hopefully then Rebekah, she loves him more than that." There was a creaking coming from the stairs. The pair of siblings grew quiet at the look of the dark haired woman who was now dressed in clean clothes.

"I hope I'm not disturbing anything, but I feel very famished is there anything to drink?" She questioned meekly. The blonde woman was at her side suddenly.

"Yes, come with me. I'll be happy to get you something." She steered the woman out of the foyer and into another part of the house. Elijah stood from his seat as a knock upon the door sounded, quickly he made his way over to the door.

Elijah opened the door slowly, he was greeted by his less than pleased younger brother. "This is terriblly wrong." He stated as he entered the parlor.

"Is it done Kol?" The dark haired male nodded his head, before looking at his brother with a slight distain.

"I can't believe you who is the moral of us all agreed to this." And then he brushed past his elder brother pushing him slightly as he went. Elijah let out a low sigh. 'Nor can I.' he thought as he closed the door.

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What am I? She thought looking at her reflection curiously. That shouldn't have been her first thought after she had just killed someone but it was. The blood from the servant girl was still on her neck and dress but she hadn't cared at this point.

"You're a vampire." The voice startled her, it belonged to the man who own the house. She'd only seen him once in the three days she'd stayed in the manor so his presence came as quite the surprise to her. Turning her head she stared at him with confusion.

"I'm what?" He looked at her with such an expression that it overwhelmed her personally.

"Your dead Persephone, you were raped and killed. And as punishment to me you've been forced into this life. I never wanted this for you. Remember who you are." He spoke with such meaning in his tone as he approached her she couldn't move. A wave of moments flashed before her eyes.

"Nik." Her heart welled with a flood of different emotions, but she looked at him with such adoration that it broke his heart for what he was about to do to her. She wrapped her around, it felt like it had been forever since she'd last seen him.

Niklaus allowed them this last moment of togetherness. "Persephone look at me." Her eyes were on him instantly as she held his gaze.

"Yes Niklaus?" She questioned, looking at him with concern.

"Forget me." He told her seriously, she looked confused.

"But I love you. If I forget you I want remember that." He looked pained, as he brushed a dark strand of dark hair from her face.

"You have too, I have to protect you. And your love for me is misplaced. I don't love you Persephone, it's all been a lie. Now forget that we met in the woods, forget we married, had a life, and forget all of it. All you know now is that I found you the night you died, your safe with my family, we are going to help you through the transition." She'd never know how little truth his words held.

Persephone blinked, she felt empty. Something was missing but she couldn't place it. Shaking her head she looked around her. What had she been doing? But no matter how hard she tried she couldn't remember.

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Hollowed blue eyes stared at their reflection in the broken glass. Blood pooled around her feet from the incident. Two men and their sister stood by watching, until suddenly the deranged creature was in the younger of the males face. "How could you!" She screamed with such burning intensity, such insanity that the man took pity on her and snapped her neck.

"When she awakes brother, she'll be even angrier." His sister spoke with malice while watching him closely, he glared coldly at her.

"Mind your tongue Rebekah, this frankly doesn't concern you." The maliciousness radiated off him in large waves.

"I think Niklaus, what are sister means is snapping Persephone's neck after finding out you murdered her lover and then daggered our brother was a bit much. Besides, if you don't want her to be with anyone else-"The older of the two's sentence was cut short with a menacing look from the aforementioned.

"Unless you'd like to join our younger brother, I suggest you keep your thoughts regarding my.. Persephone to yourself brother dearest." The threat was clearly made, a tight line drew upon Elijah's lips.

"Very well, Rebekah prepare a bath for Persephone. She's going to need it when she wakes." He walked over to Niklaus slowly only stopping to where the currently incapacitated woman's body lay. Elijah bent down to the ground level and carefully picked up the woman cradled her in his arms. Her head fell back lifelessly, her long locks cascaded down in teasing waves.

Niklaus stood still for a long while, watching as his siblings vanished with his once wife. He let out an angered growl before sauntering out of the main foyer he needed to be alone.

Rebekah sat at the edge of the marble tub, she helped Persephone washed the blood out of her hair. Neither bothered to speak of what happened downstairs until the younger of the two women finally spoke. "How long has it been?" The blonde raised her brow at the sudden inquiry.

"Coming upon almost thirty summers now since my brother found you." The lie tasted bitter on her tongue as she spoke, but with a well hidden frown she spoke it well. Persephone nodded her head slowly.

"I thought after thirty years maybe he would allow me a little freedom. But yet for some reason, I feel extremely trapped within these walls." Her honestly made Rebekah feel sorry for her, shaking her head at the dark haired woman.

"That tends to be the consequences of the ones who my brother cares for. Whether you see it or not Niklaus considers you a close friend and this is the only way he knows how to show he cares." Persephone scoffed then splashed the warm water on her face. She then turned and looked at Rebekah with a sad smile.

"If he thinks us friends, then he is sadly mistaken. Friends do not threat each other as he threats me." The original wanted to be angry with the baby vampire but she for once found herself agreeing with her. Shaking her head she stood from the side of the tub.

"There, all the blood is out of your hair. Finish up, and will go grab a bit of something to eat." Rebekah said with a pleasant smirk one Persephone almost found herself returning. She didn't reply however as she sunk deep down into the water's comfort.

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Persephone lurched herself at the dark hair male with a wide grin. He snickered while picking her up and spinning her around. "It's been a while Seph." His smirk towards his elder brother went unnoticed to the oblivious woman as she hugged her close friend tightly. When she let go of him she turned her head to Niklaus and smile brightly at him.

"Thank you Nik, this is a fabulous birthday gift. To be reunited with my departed friend." Elijah shook his head from his position standing behind Niklaus. This was almost ridiculous, the way his younger brothers acted when it came to the woman.

Elijah actually though the whole relationship between Kol and Persephone was rather strange. How was it even possible for two people who had never met before to be as close as the two seemed to be? The more peculiar thing was from the beginning, even when she met them as a human she gravitated towards either Niklaus or Kol. Niklaus had always been an obvious answer to him, because no matter what his brother said he knew that a part of Persephone knew there was a connection between them.

Persephone tilted her head curiously at Elijah, he had the same look on his face for the last few minutes as she was a bit concerned. "Everything alright?" She questioned as Kol and herself approached the two.

Elijah shook his head at her. "I assure you Lady Persephone, everything is alright." She found herself rolling her eyes at how formal he always was with her.

"If you're certain. Well come along then boys' dinner awaits." Persephone smirked before gracefully walking out of the room. Elijah rolled his eyes at the woman, her quick switch of emotions about wanted to give him whiplash. That was another thing he hadn't quite understood about this version of her. Because it just wasn't possible for ones emotions to be as unstable as the woman, even Rebekah's mood swings weren't as drastic as their house guest at times.

"She wasn't always like that." Elijah raised his brow at Niklaus as he spoke, he saw the remorse in his brother's eyes.

"You could fix it." Kol suggested as he went to follow Persephone, Niklaus glared at him but didn't say anything. When it was just the two brothers remaining, Elijah turned to look at his brother.

"He is right you know, neither of you should have to suffer as you two do. Sometimes I catch her staring out the window as if she's desperately searching inside herself for what is missing." Niklaus anger was boiling inside him, he wanted to snap at Elijah. But it was unfortunate that he also knew his brother spoke the truth.

"Well are you two coming or not?" Persephone stuck her head back into the room, an almost confused look upon her face.

"You and Kol can start without us. Niklaus and I will join you both shortly." She nodded her head at his response before slipping back out of the room. Elijah shook her head with exasperation but followed soon after her. It was better to leave Niklaus to his own musing.

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Four hundred years was a long time to get to know someone. She thought as she watched the brothers interact with the nobles of her once homeland. Maybe she should have taken Rebekah up on the offer to go with her to Spain. "You would have hated it love." His sudden presence behind her left her startled and clearly unamused.

"I thought you had left early this morning for the main land?" Her tone was accusing, he smirked down at her coolly.

"I was planning on it, but then I thought. What better way to pester my loving brother on his name day then to stick around a few more hours." Persephone snickered to herself at his tone.

"You better get going Kol, before Nik realizes you haven't left yet. Besides I have things to do." She walked gracefully away from him. That was the first time she saw her, and in that moment Persephone should have realize just how much things were about to change.

Her bright brown doe eyes, and long chocolate colored haired fell is light waves around lightly tanned olive skin. She appeared nervous, Persephone approached the human with a kind smile. "You seem a bit uncomfortable. Everything alright dear?" The girl appeared shocked that she would even speak to her.

"My lady, I apologize if I come across that way. I meant no offense." Despite the girls near to perfect tongue Persephone could hear a variation of a Bulgarian accent. She offered another smile and she laughed pleasantly.

"It's never an offense, I just want to ensure that everyone is enjoying the festive and you my dear look a bit out of place. I assume this must be your first big outing since arriving?" Everything about the dark haired woman drawled the young girl in. There was something about her that made everyone feel safe. She blushed slightly, surprised that she was seen through so easily.

"I'll admit, it's a bit more than I expected." Persephone nodded her head in understanding.

"Nothing is ever as we expect, well I hope you do find it in you to enjoy the celebration Lady.." The girl had the right mind to realize that was a question for her name.

"Katherina, and I think I might just do so." Persephone offered a one last charming smile before dismissing the girl with a slight nod and walking away. Completely unaware of what consequences this one child would reap for herself and the Originals.

XOXOX

This chapter spans the first four hundred or so years of Persephone's immortality. The first two segments are obviously right after she's been turned, the next is a few years down the road, that segment before the last is a about seventy years after, and the last I know is a rather large time skip but I didn't feel like writing out filler for it at this moment. So as always tell me what you think! I can't wait to hear from you guys.

Sincerely, LaRae