"Absolutely not! You're not using my sister's grief to lure my brother here." I state to Elena, Stefan, and Damon, who are standing outside the room where Rebekah is sleeping.
"I thought you hated Klaus now you figured out he killed your mother." Damon states.
"My love for my sister is stronger than my hatred for Nik. You're not using her." I state, irritated.
"See, I told you she wouldn't help; she still cares about Klaus." Stefan says, making me roll my eyes.
After we found out about what Niklaus had done, I stayed another night so that my sister could rest. She cried for four hours straight last night, and I comforted her throughout the entire time.
The gang is planning to kill Niklaus now and wants to use my sister to lure him here. I am trying to figure out if I don't want Rebekah to bring him here because I don't want Nik to die, or because I don't want to bring my sister any more pain.
The real question is whether I'll allow my brother to be killed by Mikael, because of what he did to our mother.
"Okay, then why don't you talk to him?" Elena asked me, and I immediately shook my head no.
"Why not? You seem fine." Damon stated uncaringly.
"I have to be fine for my sister. And I am the last person who's going to bring Niklaus here." I state, irritated.
"Why don't you hate him for what he did? He has been lying to you for 1000 years and has made you live in hiding because of it." Elena asked me.
"You don't get it. Niklaus killed our mother and has been deceiving us for 1000 years, but Mikael hunted us down for 1000 years and tortured me for five, which were the most excruciating years of my life. It's not exactly an easy choice to make." I state irritated when Rebekah walks out of the room.
"I'll do it." Rebekah stated, walking out of the room and I looked at her surprised. "Nik has had control over our lives, my life, for too long."
"Rebekah..." I start to say, but she looks at me sincerely.
"It's fine, sister." She stated looking at me and looked over to the trio. "Let's just get this over with."
"Right this way." Stefan states down the hallway, and Rebekah starts to follow. Stefan and Elena start walking, but Damon stays back.
"Tell me you're not going to be a problem." Damon states cruelly to me, and I look at him with a little grin.
"When I see Mikael's face, I'll let you know the answer." I say with a smile, before walking away from Damon.
I stay in the kitchen, drinking a bottle of bourbon, while they all try to lure Niklaus back into town. I listen at the wall to their conversation.
After about a half hour, I don't hear any talking anymore. I came out to see Rebekah doing her nails, and continued walking to see Mikael on the floor desiccated, with the dagger out of his chest.
I analyze his body for a few moments. Just seeing him disgust me and makes me want to stab a wooden stake in his heart over and over again. He has put me through so much pain, as well as the rest of my family. And now we're just about to work by his side to kill Niklaus.
My family is so messy. This whole situation is messy. Either we let Mikael kill Niklaus and risk our lives in the process, or we kill Mikael once and for all and let our backstabbing liar of a brother live another day, knowing that he has won, once again.
Either way, it's an impossible situation.
"We still have time to put the dagger back in him." I state, walking into the room and Rebekah turns to face me.
"Trust me, I almost did it a hundred times." Rebekah states, putting down her nail polish as I come to sit next to her. I look down at Mikael's body.
"Are we really about to let Niklaus die, and Mikael live?" I ask shocked and Rebekah looks at me unsure.
"I don't even know anymore. Our family is so messed up that I'm not even sure what's right or wrong anymore." Rebekah states, and I agree.
We then both see Mikael's fingers start to undesiccate, along with the rest of his body. His face, undesiccates last, and he starts breathing heavily.
"Finally. Took you long enough." Rebekah states cruelly, making Mikael look towards us. I give him a death stare as the last time I saw him, wasn't that long ago for me.
"Rebekah...Kallandra." Mikael stated, looking at the both of us.
"Whatever fatherly rubbish you're going to say, save it. None of it matters to us." Rebekah states in a harsh tone. I decide to stay silent because there is nothing I need to say to this man.
"Very well..." Mikael stated slowly getting up from the ground. "Where's my dagger?"
"Elena has it. So you can forget your plan to use it on me." Rebekah stated.
"You were never the one I was after." Mikael states, making me actually sick. Cannot say the same for me, can you?
"Nik was my family. If you were after him, you were after me. After us." Rebekah states, including me in as well.
"He blinded you. He killed your mother." Mikael recalls, making Rebekah get up from her seat and make her way to Mikael.
"I know what he did. And he will pay for it with his life. But Niklaus wasn't born a killer; none of us were. You did this to us." Rebekah states angrily. "You destroyed our family, not him."
She walks away from Mikael and out of the room. I also start to walk out of the room because I will not stay in the same room as him. As I walk past Mikael, he grabs my arm.
"Kalle, wait-" He starts to say, but I throw him across the room, making him hit his head on the wall.
"Do not touch me. Do not talk to me. Do not call me that name. I have never hated anyone as much as I hate you and the only reason why you are not dead, is because I loved my mother so much that it broke me when she died." I state furious and angry, as I watch Mikael feel the blood coming from his head. "So you better pray that my love for my mother is stronger than my hatred for you."
I walked away, as I saw Rebekah still standing at the entrance of the lounge. I just walked past her and headed to my car. She followed me outside.
"Where are you going!" Rebekah asked me, and I stormed out of the house.
"I need some fresh air." I state, and get into my car.
"Kalle, don't leave." Rebekah begs at my window.
"I cannot stay here. I thought I could handle it, but I cannot be in the same room as him. I'm sorry, sister." I state sincerely as I look at her somber face. I then look forward and drive my car away from the Salvatore house.
I have no idea where I'm going; I just need to get away from everything that is going on.
I keep driving and driving, until I realize I have no idea where I am going. It's like I'm going somewhere I've been before, but don't remember. After a good 15 minutes of driving around on the streets, I started to drive up this mountain.
I remember this mountain when we first came to this town. Before it even was a town. We came upon this mountain, and just looked at the horizon. Well, my family came here, and this town was a ghost town. The town had not even existed.
Once I reach the mountain, I turn off my car. I start to compose a text message, as I need answers. I cannot go on like this anymore.
"Meet me at the cliff. You know which one. " I sent the text. I then put my phone in my pocket, and got out of the car.
I walked towards the cliff of the mountain and looked out into the horizon, just as I had done with my family centuries ago. It was so different then. But now, there are homes, streets, lights, and most importantly, people.
No matter how many times I complain about this stupid town, I have to admit it is pretty beautiful from a distance. As I am admiring the beauty, a breeze comes from behind me.
"You got here quickly." I state, continuing to look out into the horizon.
"Well, you've been ignoring my calls, and I was curious as to why." Niklaus said behind me.
"I've been busy." I state, still not looking at him. I hear his footsteps coming closer to me, until he is standing next to me.
"I'm assuming you heard the news from Rebekah?" Niklaus grinned and questioned me.
"Yes, I know of Mikael's demise." I lie to my brother and I can see his smile get wider.
"Then why so grim sister? This is a time for celebration. I'm actually hosting a wake at Tyler's house tonight and you are most certainly invited." Niklaus says with a smile and I continue to not look at him.
"So nice of you to have a wake the same night as homecoming." I state.
"Oh the wake is homecoming. Have to have as many people to celebrate as possible." Niklaus points out and I give him a short nod.
"You know Niklaus, I have been thinking a lot about that promise we made after our mother's death." I stated and turned to face him. "Always and Forever, you remember right?"
"How could I possibly forget." Niklaus looks at me confused but still keeps his little grin.
"You know, not only did we make that promise to each other, but we also made it to our mother. She wanted us to be together and in honor of her death, we kept that promise." I turn to look at my brother.
"Why are you thinking about this?" Niklaus asked, dropping his grin. I turned away from him and started looking at the horizon again.
"I remember when you told me about mother's death and my reaction. I cried for hours and hated Mikael from that point onward. Then I realized I could still talk to her from time to time. Still, I contacted her. But once mother stopped talking to me, because I became, in her words, "A disgrace and unrecognizable" as her daughter, my heart broke again. After that, I believed that I hated mother too." I stated in a somber tone.
"Kalle what happened while I was gone?" Niklaus questions in a harsh tone and I look up to him.
"I talked to mother." I stated, and his face turned to shock and disbelief. I turned to face the horizon again. "Yeah, that was my face as well. It was only a short conversation, but a lot came from it. The most important thing about it was that mother said something interesting about you."
Niklaus started to look worriedly at me. "What did she say?"
"That you have secrets that you haven't told me, told anyway of us. I had no idea what secret she was talking about. I know there are some things you have not told us, I mean we all have some type of secret. But then I came back to Mystic Falls, and Elena shows Rebekah and I these interesting drawings of what happened the night mother died." I state, turning to face Niklaus.
"Kalle..."
"I want the truth, Niklaus. The whole truth, okay, no bullshit." I take a step forward to him and he looks down at me worriedly.
"If you would just let me-"
"I want to know what happened that night." I take another step forward, but he takes a step back from me.
"Kalle."
"I want to know why you lied to us for a millennium." My anger grew louder with each word.
"Kalle, please."
"I want to know why did you kill our mother?" I say with my voice cracking, feeling a tear flow down my cheek. I tried to hold myself together, but I just couldn't. I need to know the truth, whether it's good or bad, I need to know what happened.
I need to know what could have been going through Nik's head to make it seem that it was okay to kill the woman who bore him.
To kill his mother.
Niklaus took a deep breath before speaking again. "Sister, you need to understand that I was angry; Mother had me conceal the other half of myself. She may have made you feel loved along with our other siblings, but I never felt that way. I always felt like I didn't belong, like I was an outsider in my own family."
"But we did not care if you were part wolf you were still our brother! We never saw you any differently!"
"I SAW MYSELF DIFFERENT!" Niklaus screams in my face, making me step back. He takes a deep breath, and calms down. "I was the only one of my kind. Father hated me my entire life, beat me without any restraint and mother did nothing. Once father and Elijah saw me turn, they held me down as mother casted a spell to suppress who I truly was. So, you may have had a loving mother who cared for you, but I had a mother who saw me as a mistake. Because that's all I am right, a bastard?"
I started to calm myself down and feel sympathy for my brother. He was right; I didn't know how he felt. I knew the pain he had endured from our father, but I never knew he felt the same way about our mother.
"You never went through what I went through Kalle! You do not understand how it feels for your own family not to like how you truly are. Do you truly believe I wanted to kill our mother for the fun of it? I wanted to leave, to escape. I did not want to suffer under the hands of father anymore, I did not want to be see as a monster or the bastard child that was created!" Niklaus tells me, as his voice keeps getting louder and louder. I feel my eyes getting teary once again, but I push it down this time.
"But I wanted my siblings. My family. I didn't want to be alone, and I wanted my family by my side." Niklaus states, with his voice breaking. "What better possible reason to explain my terrible deed than that? You cannot fault me for wanting a better life, sister."
"She was our mother, Niklaus."
With one simple sentence, he immediately stopped talking. Niklaus stared at me with wide eyes, and I watched as his eyes turned red. No words came out of him when he opened his mouth.
"I understand what both our parents put you through, Nik. I understand that none of this could have been easy, and I understand you lied to us about father. Because no matter if he killed mother or not, he is still a monster." I state sincerely, and Niklaus looks at me, a little stunned.
"I noticed you still have not mentioned mother's name." Niklaus says in a low tone and I nod.
"Because although I understand your motives, I will never fully understand why you did what you did Niklaus." I state honestly.
"I've regretted it so many times. But I could never take it back. I just...I was so young. I did not know better I...I'm sorry Kalle. I'm so sorry for taking our mother away." Niklaus apologies and I turned to face him a little surprised.
I have never heard Niklaus apologize like that. I know my brother. I know even though he killed our mother, he probably didn't even know what he did until after he did it. It wasn't an easy task, and I could see it in his eyes. In the way he spoke. And I know for a fact that when we buried her, he was just as heartbroken as the rest of us.
"You know Nik, when I spoke to our mother, I was so relieved to talk to her again. It was so nice to hear her voice after all these years and knowing that you killed her made me more angrier than it should have. But I know that if I had found out about all of this a month ago, I would not be as furious as I am right now. And you know why?" I ask curiously, and he looks towards me.
"Because mother abandoned you and called you a disgrace to society?" Nik asks and I roll my eyes.
"No. Because she died. Over a thousand years ago." I state and he looks at me confused. "Nik, whether you killed mother, or Mikael killed her, she was going to die eventually. She was not immortal like us. So even though you took her away from us way sooner than she needed to be, life would have taken its course anyways."
Niklaus looks down at me even more confused. "Wait a minute. So why are you so mad at me?"
"I was mad because I didn't know if you regretted it or felt any remorse. And I will admit, I was furious you killed our mother and lied to us for a millennium, but it was a very long time ago. I don't know if you realized but I'm not one to hold a grudge for that long."
"Tell that to Elijah whom you let me dagger." Niklaus jokes, with a small smile appearing on his face, and I punch him.
"Not the same. A millennium is wayyy longer than a century." And he laughs a little. The most joy I've seen on his face since we started talking, but it quickly goes back to being serious. "Look, I'm not saying what you did was right, nor am I saying I forgive you."
"But you're not mad at me?" Niklaus questioned.
"Oh no, I'm pissed off." I quickly answer and Niklaus looks at me questioning.
"So, you're saying what I did was wrong, you're not forgiving me, and you're still pissed off at me. So what good came out of this conversation." Niklaus asks confused.
"I don't feel the urge to kill you anymore." I state with a serious tone, and Niklaus looks at me questioning. Then he starts laughing. I don't break a smile and continue to look at him seriously, and once he seems my face, he stops laughing.
"Wait, are you being serious?" Niklaus asks in an angry tone and I shrug my shoulders, walking back to my car. "Kalle!!"
"You killed our mother and think you can be mad at me?"
"YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT KILLING ME!" Niklaus yells angrily and I turned to face him.
"'Were'. Key word." I smile at him and he continues to look at me with a glare. "And besides, now that I'm not your biggest problem, I would start worrying about Rebekah and the others."
"I can handle Rebekah." He states cockily, and I cross my arms at him.
"You know Rebekah is not as forgiving as I am. She cried for hours last night when she heard the news." I explained and Nik looked at me a little surprised, and seemingly sad, but then shrugged it off.
"I will be fine. Rebekah always forgives me in the-" Nik then stops talking in the middle of his statement and I look at him confused. "Wait, what do you mean the others?"
I take a deep breath before explaining. "Your lap dog found a way around your compulsion."
"Impossible, he couldn't have-"
"I said he found a way around it, not saying that he broke it." I state again and Nik looks at me interestedly. "You told him to be honest with you, which is what he did. But like you know, it is very easy to get around the truth without actually lying."
"What are you saying, sister?" Niklaus asked as he walked closer to me.
"We have been running away from Mikael for a thousand years. You really think a couple of hundred year old vampires, a newbie witch, and a human managed to dagger him when we couldn't?" I ask and Niklaus looks at me suspiciously.
I open the door to my car, hoping my brother gets what I'm saying. I'm terrible at lying to Rebekah. She somehow always knows when I do something I shouldn't have and if Rebekah asks me what happened, she will know I told Nik. This way I can tell Nik, without actually telling him.
Once I get into my car and start the engine, I realize my brother is gone. I head to the store to change into a better outfit.
Homecoming, a wake, and a soon-to-be funeral on the same day? That has to be a joyful occasion.