Author's Note:
Sorry for the long wait. I really have no excuses to say expect that I got lazy.
Chapter XIII: Family Love
"You can not earn her loyalty without gaining her love."
Elijah's words echo through Klaus' mind as he went to search of his lost daughter with whom he had got into a fight with. Often in his spare time when he wasn't trying to find ways of making hybrids he thought about what it would have been like to have a family. What it would have been if Katherina would not have ran, if she stay. Would they have been married? Would Aria have a normal childhood?
No she would not. She would have been spoiled and I would have made sure that everything she owned would only be the best.
"You know if your looking for Aria, she's by the lake in the forest." Lucian said snapping the hybrid away from his thoughts.
Klaus stared at the spirit, "What game are you playing?" He questioned after a long moment of silence. He knew that the spirit was hiding something, well to Klaus he seemed suspicious always popping at the weirdest times as if it were planned.
Was the spirit a future enemy?
Lucian did not speak as a minute passed then he sighed, "Niklaus I'm am not your enemy...I was never meant to be in this position."
He sensed the hybrid's confusion, "I think it's best if you know my story to understand me." Klaus nodded as he sat on the closet rock, "Well continue on..."
"Your mother, Esther was a kind lady, Klaus." He paused as he saw Klaus' expression which was murderous, "Before you rage out. I know about your mother and trust me, if I haven't told anyone and never will." He noticed that Klaus had relaxed, just a little bit. Lucian wasn't afraid of Klaus nor did he wish to angry him either.
"How do you know of my mother?" Klaus asked the burning question with such disgust.
"See that's where my story begins."
1045 AD.
"Father. Father!" Lucian turned his head to face his daughter, Serena.
"What is it?" He said worried. Her face was red with tears streaming down her face.
"Momma...she's dying." Lucian dropped his pile of wood and rushed home.
"Reyna." Lucian stated as he saw her beautiful tanned skin turn snowy white pale.
She smiled forcefully, "Serena give your father and I, a moment." She nodded and slowly walked out. Lucian was sitting next to her with her hand in his.
"I am dying Lucian." She said caressing his cheek, "My life is linked with Serena." Lucian was startled by this news.
"How?" He was frighten that he would lose both his child and lover.
"A witch must help. Her name is Esther."
"So let me guess. My mother helped bring your wife to back to life?" Klaus interrupted.
"Not exactly."
Esther chanted from her grimoire as Lucian watched along side with his daughter. He could feel the supernatural force around him as he began to feel light headed.
When he woke he saw his daughter and his wife, who had recovered from her sickness weeping over him.
"Lucian." He turned towards Esther who was wore a sad smile.
"Thank you." She nodded and looked towards his family, "I cast a protection spell over them."
"You sacrificed yourself." Klaus said bewildered, "Why? and..."
"My daughter was part of the Petrova line." Lucian interrupted, "Ever since Esther cast that protection she made me promise to keep the doppelganger line safe."
"That would make Elena, Katherina and Aria, your thousand times great grand daughters..." Klaus trailed off.
Aria was finished from her recent kill, a deer that she had managed to catch. She need to calm herself down. Sometimes she wished she was never born then everyone's life would be better off without her.
Including my parents and Rose along with Trevor's lives as well.
She was about to find the way out of the woods when she heard bushes rub against each other. She could have swear that she saw something move.
She finally gathered her confident, "Whoever you are have ten seconds to reveal yourself before I rip the beating heart out of your chest."
Klaus could have laughed if he wasn't in his 'serious- no bullshit' mood. Instead he walked out, right in front of Aria.
She rolled her eyes, "What do you want?" She wasn't exactly in the mood to talk to anyone, especially her father.
Klaus looked into those emerald eyes and knew that he couldn't be like his step-father. Aria didn't deserve the yelling and all his anger he had placed upon her. She hadn't done anything wrong, she was just worried for his sake.
She just worried that she would be abandoned...just like me.
"Well?"
Klaus took a deep breath of air in before speaking, "So this is where you run off to?"
Aria lowered her glare on him just a bit before answering, "This is one of the places I come draw. It's pretty calm around here." She had surprised Klaus when she had admitted that she like arts as well as he did.
"Well maybe I can take you a great art museum, someday."
Aria furrowed her eyebrows and sensed that he wanted to say more than he let on, but he seemed to be struggling.
Was he trying to apologize?
"Umm okay." She said, unsure of how to respond.
"I'm sorry for the way I acted earlier..." He was taken by surprise as Aria flashed towards him and hugged him. He awkwardly patted her back. As they pulled away he heard something step on a twig, Klaus looked up as well as Aria, who was grinning.
"Mom. You can come out now." She called out, Klaus looked at her with confusion filling his face, and he was also irritated that she had addressed Katherina as 'Mom' but didn't address him as 'Dad' or 'Daddy.'
How did she know? Must have been the bond or something.
Katherine slowly emerged from the trees, looking like she had been caught cheating.
"How long were you spying?" Klaus demanded.
"Long enough." She smirked, "I was actually looking you." She said turning towards Aria.
Klaus seemed to notice the worried expression that was on Katherina's face. That was something that he rarely saw. Which usually meat that something was wrong.
"What's is the matter?" Klaus finally asked after a moment of dead silence as Aria was looking back and forth between her parents.
"Are you alright? The witch didn't drain you completely did she?" Katherine asked ignoring Klaus. She was worried for the past three weeks and she finally convinced herself to check on Aria.
Aria shook her head as Klaus watch their conversation quietly.
"Who is this witch? What does Katherina mean by draining your powers, love?" He finally spoke as Katherina and their daughter pulled away from their hug. Katherine could feel Aria stiffen up, and she decided it would be better if she told Klaus herself about the truth of Gloria.
After Katherine finished, Klaus slammed her against the trunk of a tree. Aria rushed forwards trying to get him to stop.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He said turning towards Aria as he tighten his grip on Katherine even more. The anger in his eyes could be seen miles away, not only that but he felt betrayed.
"Let her go." Aria demanded as her voice rose.
Sighing Klaus let go of his grip and Katherine fell straight on her ass.
"Why did you not tell me?"
Aria shrugged, "I did not think it mattered."
Katherine watched in amusement as Klaus lectured Aria, who looked pretty bored, on her safety.
"... I won't be able to forgive myself if anything happened to you."
Katherine started to laugh, which caught both Klaus and Aria's attention.
"What so funny?"
"I never thought I would see Klaus like this." After she finished Klaus shot her a murderous look.
"You know I still could kill you after everything you've done." He threatened but she wasn't in the mood.
"Oh really. Why haven't you done it yet? Clearly you wanted to in 15th century so what's stopping you now?" She said pushing Klaus away from her.
They both knew the answer very well: Aria. He knew that if he wanted his daughter to stay by his side, he would have to keep Katherine alive, and Katherine was definitely taking that advantage over Klaus.
"Your silence just answered my question, sweetheart." She said smirking as she made her way over to Aria, who seemed deep in thought oblivious to the string of events.
As Klaus was about to respond to his former lover, his phone went off. Elijah.
"Hello Brother."
"Where are you? Did you forget about our dinner plans?" Aria rose her eyebrows as well as Katherine.
"I'll see you in a bit." He hanged up.
"I'm staying with Mom." Aria announced surprising both of her parents, but Klaus nodded flashing away.
At least I have one less thing to worry about.
He knew Katherine would protect Aria if anything happened. She had proven herself went she spied on them.
Katherina actually may care about someone else rather than herself.
"Well, we can sit and eat or I can reach down your throats and pull out your insides. The choice is yours." Klaus said with a bright smile as he sat down in a seat.
The four of them all sat down at the table. The servers who Klaus had no doubt compelled began bringing in food and started pouring wine for everyone. They all sat there eating and drinking except for Stefan was miserable as per usual. "Thank you love." Damon eyed the server who had just refilled his glass for him."
"You lost your appetite." Klaus noted looking at Stefan who had yet to touch his plate.
Damon turned to Stefan. "Eat. I thought we agreed that we would leave the grumpy Stefan at home?"
"That's the spirit. Isn't it nice? The four of us dining together? Such a treat. Is this what you had in mind when you pulled the dagger from my brother?" Klaus asked Damon.
"Well let's see... I figured the more, the merrier so I pulled the dagger out." Damon cheerfully said.
"Well, Elijah and I have had our share of quarrels over the century. But we always make it through…"
"Kind of like you and Rebekah, right? Where is she, by the way? Last I checked she was still daggered because you were afraid to face her." Stefan questioned.
"If you're referring to the fact that Rebekah knows I killed our mother, I've already come clean to Elijah." Klaus said as he shared a look with Elijah.
There was no way that he was cool about Klaus killing their mother...
"Hey, Stef, remember when you killed dad? Might want to dial down the judgment until dessert." Damon quipped.
"We're here to make a deal, Damon. Doesn't mean we need to kiss his ass for seven courses." Stefan retorted.
"I'm just saying we have a long evening ahead of us. Pace yourself." Damon forcefully replied.
Elijah seemed to notice the tension between both brother and decide to move the conversation along.
"Stefan. Where is the lovely Elena tonight?"
"I don't know. Ask Damon." Stefan dryly quipped which caused Klaus to laugh and Elijah looked confused.
"I'm sorry, you've missed so much. Uh- trouble in paradise." Klaus explained as he snicker in amusement.
"One more word about Elena and this dinner's over." Stefan said but it did nothing to stop Klaus who just kept laughing.
"You know what, probably best just to keep Elena in the do not discuss pile." Damon suggested.
"You're probably right." Klaus said nodding to himself before laughing yet again and turning to Elijah. "It's just the allure of the Petrova doppelganger, still going strong. What do you say, brother? Should we tell them about Tatia?
Elijah tensed up slightly and seemed unease. "Now why should we discuss matters long since resolved?"
"Please do tell all Elijah, you know that I love a good story especially one with a historical element to it and given how the interesting the two doppelgängers have been I'd loved to hear about the progenitor of the Petrova Doppelgänger line." Damon said as he took a sip of wine.
"When our family first settled here, there was a girl named Tatia, she was an exquisite beauty. Every boy of age desired to be her suitor, even though she'd had a child by another man. And none loved her more than Niklaus." Elijah began.
"I'd say there was one who loved her at least as much." Klaus replied looking directly at Elijah and both Salvatore's looked at Klaus and Elijah in shock.
Another love triangle involving yet another Petrova...
"Wait a minute, so you both loved the same girl?" Damon questioned in amazement.
"Our mother was a very powerful witch. She sought to end our feud over Tatia and so she took her. Klaus and I would later learn that it was Tatia's blood that we consumed in the wine on the night where our mother performed the spell, which turned us into vampires. Tatia wouldn't make a decision between the two of us, so for some time Niklaus and I... grew estranged. Harsh words were traded, we even came to blows, didn't we, brother?"
"But in the end we realized the sacred bond of family." Klaus said.
"Family above all." Elijah replied as him and Klaus both raised their glasses.
"Family above all." Klaus repeated as the two of them clinked their glasses together.
"Wait so what about Katherine?" Stefan interrupted, Damon looked at his brother.
What game is he playing?
"What of Katherina?" Klaus replied before sipping his wine.
"You clearly had some attraction towards her or else Sophie wouldn't be here..." Damon trailed off, hoping to get something from Klaus.
"She was just like her doppelganger." He simply replied.
"So, why don't we move this evening along and discuss the terms of this proposal?" Elijah said moving things along.
"That's very simple. Klaus gets his coffin back, in exchange, he and the Original extended family leave Mystic Falls forever. Stefan, Elena, and myself live happily ever after. No grudges." Damon stated.
Elijah looked at Klaus. "The deal sounds fair, brother."
"I don't think you understand, Elena's doppelganger blood insures that I will always have more hybrids to fight those that oppose me. I will never leave her behind." Klaus said as got up and started to pace around the room. "Let's say I do leave her here, under your protection, what then? How long before one of you turns her into a vampire? Or worse, how long before she dies caught between your feuding? You see, each one of you truly believes that you're the one that can protect her, and that is simply a delusion. Gentlemen, the worst thing for Elena Gilbert is... the two of you."
"I'm gonna get some air." Damon said getting up and walking out of the room.
"Let me deal with this." Elijah said following the older Salvatore.
"You know, all this talk has made me thirsty… can I interest you in a little after dinner drink?" Klaus offered as one of the blonde serves walked in and stood next to Klaus and needing no invite he bite on her. He fed off her completely and a couple of minutes he dropped her dead body on the ground. "Delicious. Aged to perfection."
"What do you say, Klaus? It's time for you to put something on the table. We've made our offer, now you counter." Damon said as he and Elijah walked back into the room.
Klaus chuckled as he wiped his mouth with his sleeve. "Okay. I offer Elena's future happiness. You see, what she needs right now is to be rid of you lot. And to fall in love with a human, maybe that nice football player, you know the blond one? Best friends with Elena…"
"Matt Donovan? Really?" Damon scoffed.
"Yeah, why not? They'll marry, live a long and fruitful life, and pop out a perfect family..." Klaus began.
"–And continue the Petrova bloodline. Every few hundred years, you'll have a new doppelganger to drain and never run out of hybrids, right Klaus?" Stefan said finishing what Klaus was no doubt going to say.
"Consider it a small return on my investment in her well being. See after you hand me back the coffin, I'll ensure her safety for the rest of her natural life, you know it's what's best for her." Klaus said as he got up and walked over to Stefan. "So, what do you say Stefan, do we have a deal?"
Stefan didn't say anything instead he just took a few steps closer to Klaus and the hybrid held out his hand but Stefan just grabbed it. "Nice try, Klaus. But no deal."
Not getting the response Klaus broke Stefan's arm then kicked Stefan's leg and broke that as well and then pushed his hand into the fireplace where it started to burn, when Damon attempted to stop Klaus Elijah pushed him up against the all. "What are you doing?" Damon demeaned.
"Now, bring me my coffin before I burn him alive." Klaus yelled.
"Where are you manners, brother? We forgot dessert." Elijah said with a small chuckle as he took off the cover off the plate a blonde woman is carrying to reveal the two daggers.
"What have you done?" Klaus questioned, he released his grip on Stefan.
Elijah seemed relaxed as he answered, "What have you done? You see I've learned not to trust your vulgar promises, Klaus. We're doing this on my terms now."
Suddenly another vampire came towards Klaus.
"Kol…" Klaus began.
"Long time, brother." Kol said as Klaus began to back away and as he did the other vampire brother appeared and grabbed a dagger off the plate and proceeded to stab Klaus though the back.
"Finn, don't!" Klaus pleaded with his other brother as he tried to run away but he ran straight into the not so happy Rebekah who liked furious with him. "Rebekah?
"This is for our mother." Rebekah stated moments after she stabbed him and Kol stumbled back and fell into Kol's arms who began to restrain him.
"You're free to go. This is family business." Elijah announced to both Salvatore brothers as they walked out.
"You know you didn't have to stay with me?" Aria said.
"I really don't want to be around Klaus either." Katherine shrugged.
They were both leaving the nail salon at where they both got their nails done. Suddenly Aria groaned in pain and bent over and leaned on Katherine for support.
"We need to get you home." Katherine stated as she helped Aria, who groaned in pain. If the pain that Aria felt slowly died down as her mother drove them back to the mansion.
"I don't understand how this works..." Katherine said as they stopped at a red light.
Aria sighed, "If either you or Dad get hurt I can feel the pain as well but it'll only stings, only certain blows I can feel."
"c-Can it kill you if we were both attacked?" Katherine said as her voice cracked.
"Possibly." Lucian called from the backseat, "But that why I'm here." He handed Aria a smoothie.
"Why a smoothie?" Katherine questions as Aria took a sip. After a second of silence, Aria turned only to be face with an empty seat.
I hate it when he does that.
Katherine only rolled her eyes as they drove up onto the driveway of Klaus' home. When they entered the house it seemed quiet until Aria heard a noise coming from the dinner area, as she like to call it.
Aria was about to whisper something, but her mother over her mouth and placed a finger on her lip signaling her to be quiet. Katherine pointed to her ears, which only got Aria more confused. Then she realized that she wanted to focus more, so Aria placed her full concentration on the dining area as they quietly moved closer to that area.
She heard an unrecognizable female voice, "Niklaus, do you know why I am here?"
"To kill me." Her father's voice trembled.
Aria had never heard her father sound so scared before, she glance at her mother who seemed to be listening intensively with a blank expression.
"As much as we would like to kill you, we are not." said an muscular voice.
Katherine's eyes popped and Aria took into note that whoever the man was made both Klaus and Katherine afraid, so who was he?
"y-You aren't?" Klaus stuttered.
"No we are here to became a family." The lady's voice replied.
Without waiting much longer Aria run into the dinner area with Katherine trailing behind her. Klaus smirked, hearing the footsteps approach the room.
His family was in for a big surprise.
All eyes turned to face her, most were pure shock.
"Dad."
A/N: Voila!
To summarize, we are going to pretend that Klaus hasn't killed his (step) father yet.
I repeat, Mikael is not dead.
AND I know that I'm not the only person that excited for TVD or The Originals, not really digging the baby plot but whateves.
Any guess to what might happen next chapter, and sorry about not having enough Klatherina moments but those will come slowly in time.
and guys I have no idea what to do with Klaroline, should I just keep it friendship or... something else.
Please leave a review if you're confused in way.
Love you too the moon and back
-Jenny xox