The Other Mikaelson
Chapter 5
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Isabella Mikaelson-Cullen sat on the back-porch steps that lead out to the back garden. Scenarios ran through her head, some good and some bad, but she tried her hardest to focus on the vision that Alice had told her about. The vision that her brothers and sister would come for her, like she had always hoped for. But even when she found a flicker of hope, questions started to run through her mind like they were repeat, on a loop. Would they even want to talk to me? How did they figure out I was alive? How would they take the news that I had gotten married and had a child? She sighed, and then she felt a presence behind her. From the calming influence they had, she knew it was Jasper.
"Trying to calm me won't work, Jazz. I'm already calm." She looked behind her and he smiled, coming to sit beside her.
"You are, but you are also terrified. Why are you so scared, Bells?"
"All of my life, I have been alone. Everywhere I have moved to, I couldn't make friends or meet new people because I would have to move soon enough so people didn't notice I wasn't ageing. And anyone I had seen was a one-time thing because they couldn't see what I was, what I am. I was completely alone, until I met Edward. He changed everything for me, but you already know that, you can sense my emotions." Bella said quietly, Jasper nodded, urging her to carry on.
"I abandoned my family Jasper. I was too scared to feed and become what my mother made me. And then when I did feed, I was too ashamed to find them again. Even though I looked for them for half a century, us Mikaelson's have never been easy to find." Bella laughed.
"They'll forgive you, Bella. Trust Alice's visions, she's never wrong." Jasper vouched for his wife, who was leaning against the doorframe behind them.
Alice grinned and sat down on the other side of Bella.
"He's right." Alice's smile widened, and Bella allowed herself to hope, just like Elijah had taught her all of those years ago.
"Bella?" Bella turned her head when she heard Edward call her name from inside of the house.
"Go ahead, see what he wants." Alice urged. Bella nodded and got to her feet, touching Alice's shoulder briefly before walking into the house. She walked through the kitchen, into the living room, and down the stairs in search of her husband. She got to the last stair and called out of him when she saw him.
"What's up?" She smiled, reaching for her daughter.
She stopped in her tracks when she saw them, all of them, standing on the front porch. She gasped, and took a step forward.
"Isabella." Elijah spoke quietly, Bella's eyes moved straight to him and their eyes met. She could see no hatred, no sadness. Just pure love and joy. Bella grinned and took another step forward, and then another. She kept on walking until she was in her brother's arms. He reciprocated and held her just as tightly.
"Elijah." Bella sobbed, clutching to her brothers suit jacket.
"We're here, Isabella." He pulled back and wiped her tears away with his thumb. She grinned and turned to the rest of her family, but there was someone she didn't recognise, or rather three people.
"Who is this?" She smiled at Hayley and Freya, who had taken a step back. It was only now that she noticed that the brunette was holding a child.
"Isabella, this is Hayley, Freya and Davina." Elijah introduced them. From the way he said their names, Bella could tell the two women meant a lot to him, especially Hayley.
Bella's head snapped quickly to look at Elijah.
"Freya. As in Freya?" She asked, her voice laced with disbelief.
"Yes, Isabella." It was not Elijah that answered, it was Freya. Bella grinned and sped towards her eldest sister.
"It's really you. How are you here? How did they find you?" Bella called out several questions, Freya grinned.
"Actually, it was me who found them, but that is a long story for another time." Bella grinned and hugged her.
Bella smiled and took a step to the left so she was in front of Hayley.
"So, you're Elijah's girl huh?" She was shocked at my first question. Once she got over the initial shock, she smiled and looked up at Elijah.
"How did you know?" She asked.
"It's completely obvious. Who is this little one?" Bella took a closer look at the little girl and looked up at her brother Niklaus. They had the exact same eye colour.
"It's nice to meet you Hayley." Bella spoke quietly as she hugged Hayley, carefully because she was still holding hope.
She moved to Davina next. Davina looked nervous, Bella was unsure why.
"Hey, I'm Bella, you alright?" Bella asked. Davina nodded, reaching to put her hand in Kol's.
"You're dating Kol?" Bella was shocked that her brother had done so well. Davina noticed her surprise and nodded, her tension easing away.
"It's lovely to meet you Davina. Good luck with that one." Bella murmured, smiling at Davina as she turned on her heel.
Next there was Kol. Bella moved and stepped face to face with her youngest brother.
"Kol." Isabella grinned.
"Isa. Been a while." Kol laughed and swept his sister off her feet, swinging her in a circle.
"Oh, how I have missed you." Kol kissed the side of her head as he set her on her feet.
"I have missed you too, Kol, even though you are still the same person you were when I last saw you." Bella reached up to ruffle his hair and he sidestepped quickly, avoiding her hand.
Bella laughed and moved down to her next sibling.
"Niklaus." Bella muttered, the tears now evidently falling down her face.
"Oh, Isa." Klaus put his hands on Bella's shoulders and pulled her close, pulling her into his embrace as she cried.
"Will you forgive me? I'm so sorry." her cry was muffled by Klaus' chest.
Klaus frowned and pulled away from her. He bent his knees so he was eye-level with her.
"Isabella Mikaelson. There is nothing to forgive. You are our sister, always and forever." Bella closed her eyes and sighed, it had been a long time since she'd heard anyone speak those words.
Bella opened her eyes and grinned at Klaus. Like Elijah did moments before, he reached up and brushed her tears away with his thumb. Finally, Bella turned to her last sibling.
Rebekah was the sibling that Bella was most concerned about when it came to forgiving her. When they were growing up, Bella and Rebekah had always been the closest. Bella stood unsure, her hands clasped in front of her as she waited for her sister to speak.
"Isabella." Bella closed her eyes and looked down at her hands. She was almost startled when Bella felt Rebekah's hand take hers and hold it tightly.
"Nik is right, always and forever sister." Rebekah smiled and pulled her youngest sister into a hug. It was now that Bella felt the deep seep through, her seemingly calm façade was no more as the guilt flooded through her. Jasper seemed to feel it in the house and he pushed calm at her, although it did little to ease the immeasurable guilt she was feeling. Rebekah seemed to notice something was wrong and pulled away.
"You okay?" She asked, her eyebrows narrowed. Bella smiled and nodded, turning on her feel and walking to Edward's side, Renesmee was standing at his side, observing her new aunts and uncles.
"Where's Finn?" Bella looked around the group, they went suddenly quiet.
"Finn died. Not too long ago." Elijah spoke quietly, it was obvious he was still grieving for his brother.
"Finn's dead?" Bella whispered, ducking her head. Elijah nodded.
After a few moments, Bella raised her head to look at them.
"I guess you'll want to know why I vanished huh?" She murmured, ducking her head shamefully.
"Eventually, love. All that matters now is that we're together." She looked up and smiled at Klaus.
"So now that we're all reacquainted and such, who is this?" Kol nodded his head in Renesmee's and Edward's direction. I smiled up at them.
"Come on in, and I'll introduce you to everyone." Bella smiled and stepped aside for everyone to walk inside. She kissed Edward quickly before she lead her siblings and their respective partners up the stairs to where the rest of the Cullen's were waiting. One by one, everyone walked into the living room. Alice was bouncing up and down on the couch she was sitting in beside Jasper. Carlisle and Esme were sitting on the other couch, with Rosalie and Emmett standing behind them.
"Everyone, this is Klaus, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, Freya, Hayley, Davina and Hope." The Cullen's nodded, saying their greetings to every person standing before them.
"Guys, this is my mother and father for all respective purposes, Esme and Carlisle. As well as my brothers and sisters in law: Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and Alice. Last but certainly not least, my husband Edward and our daughter Renesmee."
"Sit." Bella ordered, pointing to the empty chairs situated around the coffee table.
"So, where do you want me to start?" Bella asked, looking to each of her siblings once they had each taken a seat.
"The beginning, start with how you left." Rebekah said.
Bella took a deep breath before starting.
"I was afraid. I was so afraid of what our mother had done to us, what she had made us. I was there with Elijah when Klaus started to turn into a werewolf. After that I ran, ran through the woods as fast as I could. I didn't want to turn into that, I didn't want to be in that much pain. I ran for miles, but I could still hear Klaus in pain, regardless of how far away I was." Bella stopped talking, she looked up at Klaus, his face was hidden.
"Klaus, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry I ran." Bella looked around her siblings.
"I shouldn't have done it. I shouldn't have been such a damn coward. I should have fed and had a life with my siblings and my family." Bella muttered, tears streaming down her face again.
"But if you didn't feed, how are you here?" Freya questioned.
"Because I did. I was walking around for days, and the further I walked the more pain I was in. I was okay, at least I thought I was, until I found this girl in the woods. It looked like she had been mauled. Her hair was a mess and her clothes were torn. But I completely overlooked that, the only thing I was thinking about was the blood pooling from her shoulder. I didn't even think before I…" Bella trailed off, taking a look at Renesmee. The siblings understood what had occurred next.
"And then?" Rebekah urged.
"And then I was alone, for thousands of years. Every time I would meet someone or become friends with someone, I would have to compel them forget me. It was easier that way. So that was it, for hundreds of years. Didn't become friends with anyone, didn't date anyone. Life was in one word, miserable, and even then, I couldn't pluck up the courage to find you. I didn't even know you knew I was alive until Alice had a vision of your arrival." Bella grinned at Alice.
The Mikaelson's nodded, seemingly aware that the Cullen's were Cold Ones.
"And then?" Hayley asked, bouncing Hope up and down on her knee until she got bored. At that point, Hayley handed Hope to Elijah, the baby was much happier in the arms of her uncle.
"Then eight years ago, everything changed for me. I wasn't alone any more. I had moved here to get away from an old enemy. I compelled the police of chief to believe I was his daughter and I started high school. Again. It was something I had done a hundred times before, and it is still a pain in the arse. So, I remained my miserable, lonesome self until I walked into the cafeteria one lunch time. This heavily irritating girl, Jessica, was sitting beside me and then the cafeteria door opened. And there they were." Bella gestured to the Cullen's using her left hands. Within the first four weeks of knowing them, someone had come after me, and I made him regret it. Foolish man coming after an original vampire and the people she loves." Bella smiled at the memory of tearing James apart in Phoenix.
"Then I was miserable again for a while, but I'm not talking about that." Bella held her hand up to stop Klaus from talking when he opened his mouth to speak.
"Then I became friends with a guy that lives out on the reservation, but he found out I was a vampire and I found out he was a werewolf and you can probably tell when ensued from that." Bella spoke of that part of her life quickly, not wanting to remember.
Bella was about to speak when Klaus held up his hand.
"Hold on. Wolves? Out here?" Klaus furrowed his eyebrows.
"Not actual wolves, they're shape-shifters. If they were actually wolves I'm sure they'd be dead by now." Bella said. Klaus remained confused so she explained.
"One of the Voltori hunted wolves to extinction but he…" Bella was interrupted by Klaus.
"Caius. What a liar." Klaus laughed. The Cullen's and Bella looked at him confused.
"What do you mean?" Carlisle asked, leaning forward in his seat.
"Caius said he hunted them to extinction? He's lying. Elijah and I found out about his little hunting expeditions and put a stop to it." Klaus laughed again.
"You know the Voltori?" Emmett spoke.
"We have met with them on several occasions, none of them pleasant and somehow someone always ended up without a heart." Klaus smirked in Elijah's direction.
"Then why did they not tell you about me? That I was alive, I mean?"
"No." Klaus' mouth was set into a firm line, anyone could tell he was annoyed.
"You've met them?" Rebekah asked.
"Yes, many times. Like your experiences, none of mine were pleasant either." Bella explained, running her hand through her hair as she remembered the last time her last encounter with the Voltori.
"So, after you found out the people on the reservation were wolves, what next?" Kol asked, a trademarked 'Kol Mikaelson' smirk on his face.
"Then James' mate thought it would be a good idea to bring us down with a newborn army. That didn't work either, although the wolves did make themselves useful for that." The Cullen's nodded in agreement.
"After that Edward proposed and we got married, I officially became Isabella Mikaelson-Cullen." Bella covered her smile with her hand when all three of her brothers turned to look Edward up and down.
"Okay guys. Easy." Bella laughed when her brothers all turned to face her.
"You're sure he's up to Mikaelson standard?" Kol smirked.
"I could ask you the same about Davina, but I can already see that you are punching way above your grade with her." Bella grinned at Davina when she laughed.
"I'm sure, Kol." Bella reached over Renesmee for Edward's hand.
"And has anything exciting happened since you got married? Besides the obvious." Rebekah smiled at Renesmee.
"Well, we have family up in Alaska, one of them came to Forks, and then she saw Renesmee. She ran to the Voltori, claiming that Edward and I had created an immortal child…" Bella was interrupted by Kol.
"What! Surely this woman is still not alive?" Kol demanded, Elijah put his hand on Kol's shoulder.
"Kol, maybe if you would allow our sister to finish what she was saying, you would get the answer to your question." Elijah spoke quietly to Kol, Bella smirked when Kol closed his mouth.
"As I was saying, they thought we created an immortal child, so they waged war on us. They came at Christmas, they were confident that they would take every one of us down. So, we gathered witnesses, people who could attest to the fact that Renesmee was born and not bitten. We were all ready to fight, until Alice and Jasper showed up." Bella nodded in the direction of her brother and sister in law.
"Alice showed them a vision, the vision said that the fight would end in their demise, as well as a few casualties on our side too." Bella shot a look at Jasper and Carlisle.
"They came to kill you? Knowing who you were?" Elijah asked. Bella nodded.
"Then I am sure it is time for us to meet with the Voltori, Niklaus. I'm sure they need to be reminded who is in charge." Elijah smirked, his teeth visible.
"It seems we do, brother." Klaus agreed.
"Not without me, I missed out on the fight last time because I was daggered." Kol looked hastily at Niklaus.
"What do you mean, daggered?" Bella directed her question at Kol.
"Nik sticks a silver dagger in our hearts whenever he seems to feel like it." Kol answered. Bella glared at Klaus.
"You what?!" Bella raised her voice.
"Isa, I'm not going to talk about my reasoning for daggering or not daggering our siblings right now." Klaus reached up to run his hand through his hair, Bella dropped the subject.
"So, come on then, it's your turn." Bella said to the siblings in front of her.
"Just like you, we roamed around for a while. We were on the run." Klaus started.
"On the run from who?" Rosalie enquired. Klaus looked up at the blonde to answer her question.
"Our father." He answered simply.
"He's still alive?" Bella asked, shocked.
Klaus laughed.
"No, silly Bella. The joy I had sticking that white oak stake through his heart…" Klaus trailed off as he reminisced.
"So, after you trailed around then what?" Jasper asked.
"We found a home. We helped build New Orleans nearly four hundred years ago. We lived there happily. That was until Mikael bowled into town and ruined everything." Rebekah muttered, her hatred for the man she called father evident.
"So where do you live now, if you don't live in New Orleans?"
"We still live in New Orleans, we took back our kingdom a few years ago. Although it was not without issue." Elijah answered. Bella furrowed her eyebrows, suggesting that he elaborate.
"There was a witch summoning me to town, but she died before I even got there. Then our noble brother showed up, always the voice of reason, and he figured out why the witches wanted us in town." Klaus answered.
"And? Why did they want you in town?"
"They supposedly wanted us in town to get rid of the vampire who was running the Quarter, Marcel. But as we progressed with our plans, we figured out Marcel had a witch that the witches wanted, we were there to retrieve the witch for them." Elijah's eyes flashed to Davina as he spoke.
"Davina is the witch the witches wanted?" Edward asked, Davina nodded.
"Then what?"
"We must backtrack first. Elijah convinced me to stay in New Orleans because we found out Hayley was pregnant. So, we stayed, and Hayley became an honorary Mikaelson." Bella watched as Hayley reached for Elijah's hand.
"In a nutshell. We were waging war with the witches and the wolves out in the Bayou. Hayley being the stubborn wolf she was, decided it would be prudent to move out into the Bayou, much to the irritation of Elijah and I." Bella laughed when Hayley glared at Klaus.
"So, you were at war with everyone?" Bella deadpanned, not overly shocked.
"Well, not everyone. After that we continued to protect family up to when Hayley went into labour and the witches took Hope to be sacrificed. Elijah had been bitten by a wolf and he was weak, and I was weak because of a witch. We had no power when Hayley was killed and she became a hybrid. But, I must say, her attitude has significantly improved since she has." Hayley glared at Klaus again.
"Then, we had to send Hope away with Rebekah until we could make sure that the Quarter was safe again. We used the wolves to do that, I was even going to marry a wolf alpha to unite the wolves and make an army. But it couldn't be done, I couldn't give my heart to Jackson whilst my heart was with someone else." Hayley spoke, Bella grinned when Elijah raised Hayley's hand to his lips and kissed it.
"So, you couldn't bring her home?" Rosalie asked, her eyes focused on the little girl on Elijah's lap.
"We did, eventually. Everyone in the Quarter thought she was dead, so that gave us an advantage to take them out. We did it, and we bought her home. Then the real issues ensued." Klaus looked over at Freya. Bella looked over at her eldest sister, imploring her to explain.
"We had an aunt. Our mother's sister. Her name was Dahlia." Freya started.
"Was?"
"She's dead." Bella nodded.
"Our mother made an agreement with her, that every first born Mikaelson was hers. That's why I was never in your life, and that's the reason she came to New Orleans." Bella's eyes locked onto the child sleeping on Elijah's shoulder.
"She came for Hope?" Alice summarised. Freya nodded.
"So, in the end, we daggered Klaus to keep him from doing anything stupid but he retaliated. He put a curse on Hayley and started to work with Dahlia. At least we thought he did. Turned out, he was on our side the whole time and he was just trying to protect his daughter. Ergo, the reason I am sitting here is because when she died a curse broke and I was made immortal." Freya explained, tears pooling in her eyes. Bella stood and moved to embrace her eldest sister.
"So that's it? No more excitement?" Emmett asked, he was grinning.
"We have recently come into some slight turmoil. Niklaus, explain." Elijah asked his brother.
"There's a prophesy for us. The Mikaelson prophesy or whatever that damned witch called it. Rebekah, Elijah and I will 'fall'. One by friend, one by foe and one by family." Bella gasped.
"What are you going to do?" Bella cried.
"Everything we can to make sure the prophesy never comes around." Elijah answered, Edward moved to my other side and put his arm around my shoulders in comfort.
"So where do the rest of us come into this?" I asked, looking at Kol.
"We have no idea, for some reason you, Finn and I were never included in the prophesy." Kol explained.
"So how did you know I was alive?" Bella asked, looking at each of her siblings in turn.
"We didn't. Not at first. Freya set up an early warning system to see which one of us was in danger. She used the blood of a Mikaelson witch, the blood that all of us share. She had an image of each of us, all of us except you. So, when Freya was made aware that one of us was in danger, we waited to see which picture would set alight, but none of them did. We were leaving when your portrait in the compound courtyard set on fire. It was then we knew you were alive and we had to find you. So, Freya and Davina did a locator spell and here we are." Elijah explained to the group. It was a lot of information for Bella to take in.
"Here you are." She muttered, running her hand through her hair.
"So, you think I'm in danger?" Bella looked up at Elijah to explain.
"We have no idea what is coming for us or what this prophesy means, but we will be able to put a stop to it as a family, I anything I am sure of that one fact." Elijah spoke only for his youngest sister.
"Okay, how do we do this?"
"That, Isabella. Is an excellent question." Klaus spoke, although he sounded completely unsure.
Bella smiled as she looked around the room. Her entire family was there. Not only her biological siblings, but the family she had gained along the way. She looked around and she couldn't help but wonder why she hadn't found her family earlier. They were always there for me. She thought. She smiled at her thoughts. The phrase, always and forever, really did mean something to each and every one of them.
And that's the end of chapter five guys! I really hoped you like the ending, but I am not done yet! The next chapter will be either a thanksgiving chapter or a Christmas chapter with all of them together celebrating in New Orleans.
I'm running a poll. Leave a review whether you think it should be thanksgiving or Christmas and I'll do whatever wins. I will decide on the 14/05/17 before I start to write the final chapter of The Other Mikaelson.
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