Chapter 7

Alaric P.O.V.

After someone knocking the door I open to see Valeria with a smile and dressing casually.

"Hello Alaric. Elena told me I could find you here. I hope I am not disturbing?"

"No, you aren't." I ask and make a move so that she could get him passing by me. She is truly beautiful with shiny brown her and her with perfect figure but it is her eyes, her incredible eyes. "So what bring you here?"

"I came to see how you were."

"I am good, thank you."

"Are you sure?" She asks me.

"I am. I'm still trying to adjust but I am good."

"If you want I can help you with something. Maybe, help you too control your powers."

"I wouldn't mind a little help." He says.

"Valeria." Elena says with a smile, coming from upstairs.

"Hello Elena." She says with a kind smile.

"What bring you here?"

"I came to see if Alaric needs any help. How are you?"

"Great. Maybe you could tell me more about our family story?"

"Of course."

"What are you doing today?"

"Actually I am going to Washington with Becca to get some of my stuffs. You can come of you want." She offers but I knew Elena didn't like Rebekah and that the original didn't like her too.

"I don't know if Rebekah will be ok with me going."

"She won't mind, I am sure. You can bring Caroline too. Make it a girls' trip."

"That would be nice. I will call her."

"I will meet Rebekah outside of the grill in half and hour, you girls can meet us there we will be back around dinner time." She says and Elena leaves the room with a smile.

"Thank you." I say to her and she turns to me confused. "For Elena, she is happy that she found her family. Isobel and John, her biologic parents, were kind of disappointment to her. She is happy since she found out about her roots."

"You are welcomed. She is family."

*1493*

I found a familiar girl crying in the empty house, where the bodies where killed.

"Katarina?" I ask her and she turns and when she recognize me she is frightened. "I am not here to hurt you. I promise." I say and I sit next to her. "Where they your family?"

"Yes." She whispers.

"They are mine too." I say with sadness and she turns to me.

"You're family?"

"Yes. My sister, her name was Tatia, she was the first doppelgänger. She was your ancestor."

"So that makes you my family too?"

"Yes." I say taking a deep breath. "I am your grand, grand, a lot of grand, aunt." I say and we both giggle a lit and I look her. "You look so much like Tatia."

"How was she?" She asks and immediately ads. "Like me."

"She was, beautiful, like you, of course expect the hair, her was wavy, not curly like yours." I say. "She was my younger sister. She had following her around, her beauty conquers them all and she loved it in, the end it was that destroyed her." I say and I look at the girl looking just like her. "The last time I saw her, we were not speaking to each other."

"What happen?" She asks and I look down. "I am sorry if I bought something I shouldn't."

"It's ok. Before I was married, Elijah and Klaus, loved her and she would led both of them, like some other man in our village, I warn her she was separating the two brothers."

"But you married Elijah." She says and I nod remembering the infidelity and the hurt that torments me.

"Yes. We felt in love and got married. We were happy for 2 years and Klaus was also moving on from my sister which she didn't like."

"So she tried to come between you two."

"Yes, she wanted Klaus and Elijah to herself but they didn't want her, she blamed me. We had a big fight and we never spoke again, them she died."

"I am sorry."

"For what?"

"For what happen between your sister and you, for her faith and most of all for what I did to you." She says and I look down trying to control my tears. "I shouldn't have come between you too. It wasn't right. He truly loves you."

"And I will always love him." I say and I look at her and see her sadness. "Is something causing you sadness."

"My daughter, I can't find her." She says tearing.

"I will help you." I say putting my hands on hers.

"Why? First you helped me escape the ritual and now you want to help me find my daughter."

"Because we are family."

Valeria P.O.V.

"Why are they coming anyway?"

"Because Elena wants to know more about our family and I kind of like Caroline."

"Of course you do. You like everyone." She says and the two girls who just arrive.

"You girls came." I say. "And hello Caroline."

"Hello Valeria." She says with a smile. "Rebekah" She compliments her with a neutral tone and I look at the original vampire.

"Caroline." She says with the same tone. "Elena."

"We should leave now. We have a two hours travel waiting for us."

"So you found her daughter." Elena asks me. She and Caroline are in the back sits and Rebekah is at my side while I drive.

"At first no we didn't. We look for her from months while I help her adjust it after I year she left but I stay trying to find some connecting to my own roots, when I found her daughter."

"Adjust?" Caroline asks me.

"Yes, she was a brand new vampire and she didn't knew anything, so I help her."

"I can't believe you help her after what she did."

"It doesn't matter what happens she still my family."

"You are so altruist. Too altruist."

"You still forgave Nick when he dagger you, didn't you?" I say and she looks at the window and I smile.

"You did too." She says still not looking at me. "And thank god you did."

"Why?" Caroline asks her.

"Because she is the only one who can put him in his place." She says laughing.

"Why does he call you Natalie?" The blonde girl asks me.

"It's a long story."

"We still have 50 miles." Rebekah says to me.

"Unfortunately I couldn't leave all the time in Italy with my family and in the late 1700 I was leaving in the Russian Court. Catarina, the great, was in that time the Imperatriz at the time. Back then and to fit in I went by the name of Natalie."

"Where Klaus was also." Rebekah says and we turn to her. "Before we went to New Orleans, Elijah and I were in Paris but Klaus was in Russian."

"Yes, it was when our pads cross again."

*1766*

Everyone was dancing to the sound of the music.

"Natalie, aren't you enjoying the ball?" The female voice says and I polity compliment the Imperatriz.

"I am, my Imperatriz."

"Natalie, I already told you, call me Catarina."

"I will and the ball is impressive are you enjoying?"

"I am, there is someone I would like you too meet."

"Another lover?" I ask her and she smiles at me and I follow her.

"Sir Nicklaus there is someone I would like you to meet." She says and I sock when I see the familiar blonde hair man. "This is Lady Natalie." She says and I give my hand to him which he kisses.

"Pleasure." He says and I can take me eyes from him. It has been more than 250 years.

"I apologized but there is someone who I need to talk to." She says leaving.

"Valeria." Nic whispers.

"I'm Natalie now." I say with a little smile and he just looks at me. "What is it?"

"Nothing. It just, it's been long time since I saw you."

"True." I say and I look around trying to see if I found someone familiar.

"He's not here." He says and I look at him and I nod. "How have you been?"

"I'm good, life has been interesting."

"We missed you." He says to me and I feel tears but I control them. He hold me arm softly. "I am so sorry Vally."

"After that we try to rebuild our friendship. We left Russia after 2 years and went on a trip to France, who was that time, the biggest city in the world. When he left to New Orleans I went back to Italy."

"You guys meet again?" Caroline asks.

"Yes a lot of time. We would write to each other, keep in touch."

I told them more stories about Nic and I when we arrive at DC.

"What do you girls say about lunch?"

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