Sophia's POV

I paced back and forth in Nik's office with my phone pressed against my ear for the thousandth time trying to get ahold of one of my brothers but neither of them were picking up and while that wasn't unusual I gathered one of them would have answered by now, I sighed dropping my phone before I headed into the parlor room seeing Nik and Rebekah sitting at a small round table with a rather large breakfast spread which was usual for Niklaus especially seeing him bite into the wrist of a girl and drain her blood into a glass right as I sat down and he placed it in front of me before grabbing another and filled that one as well for himself while Rebekah stared at him.

"Have you spoken to our good friend Marcel today?" Nik spoke up looking towards Rebekah.

"No, should I have?" she asked sipping at her tea.

"He's been mysteriously silent...avoiding me some might say, I thought perhaps he may have whispered reasons into your ear along with all of those sweet nothings" I rolled my eyes as I picked up a beignet from the middle of the table.

"If I see him I'll be sure to ask if he's still sore at you" Rebekah spat back glaring at him.

"Let me give a voice to that look in your eyes, my saintly noble brother lies writhing in agony in the bayou victim of my bastard-brother's-bite when just one or two drops of his blood would ease his pain"

"On the contrary Nik, I am simply enjoying my brekkie waiting for Elijah's healthy return" she replied and I sniggered a just enjoying staying out of this sibling squabble while I enjoyed the amazing beignets since I'd forgotten how much I missed them.

"Oh, come on Rebekah, you've been giving me the devil's eye all morning, out with it"

"Perhaps I'm concerned that if I voice my opinion about what you did to Elijah, I will end up on the wrong side of your toxic hybrid teeth" she replied and Nik slammed his hand down against the table before pointing at her.

"Poppycock, I would never bite you" he told her and I frowned shaking my head at their behavior, especially Nik since I didn't agree with what he did to Elijah. "Elijah made some very offensive accusations about my intentions towards my child, he deserves a day or two of discomfort besides you know my preferred method of punishment for your indiscretions is the dagger"

"Niklaus" I warned carefully giving him a look where as Rebekah just smirks as she gets up from her chair.

"There is something fundamentally wrong with you" she states before she leaves the room.

"You really need to develop a damn filter on your mouth" I scolded him grabbing another beignet as I couldn't get enough of them. "Mm these are good" I moaned seeing him smile.

"The flavors of home" he replied and I only could look up at him before I nodded since despite everything that's been going on, I hadn't really allowed myself time to take in all the things that I used to love about this place but to be honest I didn't really think of it as home anymore.

"This isn't my home anymore Niklaus" I sighed before I stood up grabbing his glass of blood as I walked out heading back upstairs to my room contemplating whether I should call Hayley to check up on her but decided against it seeing as I was probably on the list of people she didn't want to see or talk to right now so I settled for trying to trying to get into contact with Stefan and Damon again as their silence was on my list of top five concerning issues right now. "Damon Giuseppe Salvatore, I'm getting worried and if you keep ignoring my calls then I'm personally going to come back to that godforsaken town and kick your ass, call me back...please" I left him a message before hanging up and angrily tossed my phone down onto my bed before flopping back staring up at the ceiling letting out a heavy sigh.

"My siblings are as deceitful and diseased as my parents ever were, accusing me of using my baby for my own gain, trusting others before their own blood" I heard Nik's voice from downstairs with the repeating tapping of a typewriter before I heard another person sigh.

"Would a laptop kill you" my face fell at the sound of that voice, Cami O'Connell...seriously he was still making her write his ridiculous memoirs.

"That typewriter was good enough for Hemmingway"

"I can see the resemblance, booze and random acts of violence" Cami snarked back at him as I stood grabbing my phone needing to have it with me at all times in case either Stefan or Damon called as I headed downstairs.

"Elijah and Rebekah have cut to the quick with their vicious lies about me, my wife is the only one to stand by my side and trust my intentions when all I've done is tried to win this battle of wills over Marcel's control of the Quarter in order to reclaim our home...type please!" Nik went on.

"What's the point, you just repeat the same thing over and over again, Rebekah's out to get you, Elijah's out to get you, Sophia's trust issues with you, is there anyone who isn't plotting your downfall, I doubt you trust your own reflection"

"I don't know about his reflection but I've never plotted against him" I spoke up watching Cami jump as I stood leaning in the doorway with my arms crossed avoiding Nik's eyes as I could feel them on me.

"If the daggers weren't missing, I would put one in each of their hearts...well except for Sophia here and rid myself of the burden of my siblings for a couple of centuries" I rolled my eyes at Nik's words.

"Look at you, repeating the same destructive cycles over and over again, you are the architect of your own unhappiness" Cami replied and I raised an eye at her since I think she's the first human to not be afraid of Nik, she wasn't afraid to tell him exactly what he needed and I actually liked that about her.

"I don't remember asking for your advice"

"Oh really, so of all the people in New Orleans you chose someone with a master's in psychology to record your life's story" Cami argued and I smirked a little since she had him there. "You're over a thousand years old, pretty damn sure you know how to type"

"Ooh burn" I laughed seeing Cami smile at me while Nik's eyes narrowed at us.

"The truth is you compel me to come here because you believe you have no one else to talk to and you want to be understood" I frowned chancing a look over at Nik seeing him looking at her. "Then you compel me to forget everything as soon as I leave your presence because your too scared to trust"

"I am scared of nothing" Nik argued walking towards her while I looked down at my feet mulling over Cami's words, I know that I'm too scared to trust so maybe that's why Nik and I butted heads when it came to trust since we were a lot alike in that aspect. "What is this?" he suddenly asked pulling a piece of paper from Cami's notes.

"It's an ancient mystical plot I'm using to destroy you" she snarked back and my lips tipped up into a half smile especially with Nik's annoyed look towards her. "Relax, it's a tattoo design" she then said but something about the way she said it lead me to believe that was a lie.

"Draw on your own time" Nik spat handing it back to her.

"This is my time, you steal it from me!" she exclaims standing up getting into his face before she grabs her things and walks out the door leaving me to turn back to Nik raising my eye at him.

"Not having much luck today are you"

"Oh sod off Sophia" he sulked falling into the chair in which Cami had vacated.

"Whatever, be stubborn but before you get all pouty, I came down here to tell you that I need to leave" his eyes snapped up towards me.

"Where?" he demanded making me roll my eyes.

"Mystic Falls, my brothers are...silent and I can't help feeling like something is wrong"

"Sophia now is not the time for you to leave, trailing after your brothers messes"

"It's a twin sense Nik, somethings wrong and I have to" I argued walking around the desk to stand next to him leaning back on it. "I'm not exactly doing anything around here anyway, Hayley is safe out in the bayou with Elijah since I know he won't hurt her even under the effects of your venom, Rebekah hates me for siding with you and my brothers aren't returning my calls so if they're in trouble then I want to help them, I can't lose them again Nik" he looked down and I could see his brain working before he looked up at me.

"How long has it been since you heard from them?" he asked and I frowned.

"Stefan hasn't returned any of my calls or texts all summer and while that's not unusual since he and I didn't exactly get on at the best of times but Damon hasn't returned any of my calls and texts in weeks and that's unusual because he's the one that made me promise to stay in contact" I told him and he let out a sigh slowly nodding his head. "You don't need my help right now either"

"That's not true, your my only ally right now" he argued and I sighed looking down at the ground.

"That's not my fault"

"Give it one more day, if they don't return your calls by tomorrow then you and I will personally go back to Mystic Falls and see to they're silence" he offered and I contemplated this for a couple seconds before nodding my head.

"Alright I'll stay and help you but on one condition" he smirked raising an eye at me. "You make nice with Rebekah and Elijah, we can't afford to be at war within the family right now when were already battling a war"

"I'll try" he nodded and I nodded back knowing that was all I was gonna get from him.

"Okay so what's first, what's your next move?" I asked him and his smirk suddenly grew before he pulled me towards him making me fall into his lap and before I could say anything his lips were on mine and I didn't protest as his hands gripped at my waist and I put my arms around his shoulders going along with it for a couple minutes before I bit down on his lip making him pull back to stare at my face as I felt the veins move under my eyes as I licked his blood off my lips watching him stare at me before he smiled and cupped my cheek tilting my head slightly.

"As much as I would love to continue what you just started my love, we have a young vampire to see about some daggers" he said immediately making my face return to normal as I stared at him with narrowed eyes before I rolled them and stood up out of his lap.

"Firstly, you started that and secondly, why do you need the daggers?" I asked him.

"I'd like to know where they are?" he shrugged but I didn't believe him and scoffed.

"Your unbelievable, you want to dagger Rebekah again!" I shouted at him. "After you just said that you'll try to patch things up with her, you never learn from your mistakes do you" I turned and walked out of the room leaving him behind but I watched him leave the house a couple minutes later so I decided to follow him.

I watched him walk to the warehouses down by the docks and he suddenly stopped making me duck behind some crates in fear that he'd noticed me but he turned and walked into one of the warehouses so I snuck forward and managed to peer through one of the windows seeing his day zero vampire that he'd compelled to spy on Marcel, Joshua I believe his name was.

"Why do I get the feeling you studied theatre?" I rolled my eyes at Joshua's ridiculous nervous chatter.

"All the worlds a stage, young Joshua" Nik replied smirking at him. "And it just so happens I have the role of a lifetime for you" I frowned when he tasked the kid of getting the dagger from Marcel since if he was discovered then it would likely end in the poor kids death and unfortunately he didn't have a choice either and I watched Joshua leave. "You can quit the following act Sophia!" I heard his voice say, not even bothering to raise his voice and I huffed stepping out. "You really think I wouldn't know I was being followed"

"Well here's hoping but no not really, I'm only here to make sure you don't hurt anyone...including Rebekah and Elijah" he frowned at me but I didn't care, I wasn't on anyone's side right now, more like stuck in the middle of the Mikaelson drama as usual.

"I thought you of all people would understand" he scoffed leaning against one of the cars in the warehouse while we waited for Joshua to return.

"I usually do but you know I don't agree with daggering your siblings, I never have and never will" I replied sitting down on some crates crossing my legs as I leant back. "I'm how you say...Switzerland right now, I'm not on your side but I'm not on theirs either as all I want right now is for Hayley to remain safe and our baby to be born in a semi-normal world and I'd like you on mine for when that happens" I added staring him down. "I've stood by your side for over 150years Niklaus, its time I stand on my own" I finished right as the car that Joshua left in returned parking and he got out, eyes turning towards me with questioning eyes. "Hello Joshua, my names Sophia" I held out my hand and he shook it looking over at Nik.

"Long story" he shrugged glaring at the baby-vamp making me roll my eyes. "Did you find it?"

"Alright so I'm not doubting your mad vampire skills of destruction or anything but Marcel is on red alert, surrounded by like an army, you're totally boned unless-"

"Unless what?" Nik cut him off.

"I overheard him arguing with Diego, apparently he's clearing out the compound tonight for a date or something" I raised my eyes since Marcel had a date, I thought he was still hung up on Rebekah or at least still talking to Cami but then maybe those ships sailed. "That's where Marcel will be"

"When I run New Orleans, there will be a permeant daylight ring in it for you Joshua, for services rendered unto your true king" I rolled my eyes at Nik's words.

"Cool" Joshua smiled and I twirled my own daylight ring, I often forgot that very few vampires got to experience the sun again after they turn and felt sorry from them as I couldn't image having to hide from the daylight.

"But if you ever betray me, I will make sure you spend the rest of your eternal life in exquisite agony wishing for a merciful death" Nik threatened him clapping him on the shoulder before he walked out and I was quick to follow him since I didn't trust him right now, he had his murder look.

The next stop Nik made was the church and I was confused as he went in and sat down next to the priest who looked like he really didn't want company right now, not like that would stop Nik and I sat next to him seeing as it was rude to stand in a church...although considering I killed Agnes in here...my soul is pretty much damned anyway.

"What do you want?" the priest asked not even looking up.

"It's Poi tin" Nik offered him the flask in his hand. "It'd raise the dead, kill 'em and raise them again" I shook my head as I looked around, this church was falling apart and had seen so much death that I wondered why this priest even stuck around. "I'd like to talk to you about your niece, Camille" I snapped my head back to look at Nik, eyes wide since I hadn't known that. "I'm sure you suspect this already the gaps in her memory, I compel her" he confessed and I raised my eye at him. "At first it was because she was a useful spy but now for her own protection"

"I assumed a vampire was messing with her mind, although I never anticipated a confession"

"She won't leave things be, her mind churns with the permutations of what happened in this church when her twin went on his slaughter spree" Nik replied and my eyes widened, since I hadn't known that either that Cami had a twin. "Now if she finds out what really happened, that the vampires and witch hexes were involved she will dig and dig and dig until she digs too deep and gets herself killed, New Orleans will be the death of her" I frowned since I think Cami deserves to know what happened since I gathered her twin was killed and if that was me and Damon I'd want to do everything I could to find his killers and make them suffer, a twins bond knows no bounds and unless you were a twin you couldn't understand that. "She needs to leave" I turned back to Nik with a frown but he was too focused on the priest. "And as ironic as it seems it should be her choice"

"Yes, it is ironic discussing free will with a mind controlling vampire" I sniggered a little at the priests reply.

"She's a clever girl, she gave me a piece of her mind earlier today I would've killed others for less, I care about her survival" I narrowed my eyes at Nik as he said this. "I smell war in the air and with every war there is the innocent victim who could've been spared if they had just walked away, please convince her to walk away from New Orleans or I'll be forced to compel her to go" I shook my head since why the hell did he care for Camille, I'm not usually the jealous type but with our rocky relationship lately I'm a little...concerned.

We left the church just as the sun was setting and by the time we had reached the compound it had said and night was casting a dark shadow on the compound courtyard as Nik and I walked in and just like Joshua had said the place was deserted but Marcel was nowhere to be seen and I couldn't help feel...like we're being watched.

"Klaus, Sophia" we spun around and finally there stood Marcel but something still didn't feel right.

"You've been avoiding my calls"

"A little pissed off lately" Marcel replied looking at Nik.

"Apologies for my behavior can come later, you have something of mine I want it back" Nik said and Marcel pulled one of the daggers out of his jacket revealing it.

"Sorry but I can't do that" Marcel protested as he held it out and Rebekah stepped out taking it from him and my eyes widened at the sight of her, I knew she was angry at Nik right now but to stand against him beside Marcel...was she crazy.

"What is this?" Nik asked looking at Rebekah.

"...'Apologies for your behavior'...you don't apologize you just act, I've had enough, we have had enough" she adds the last bit looking at Marcel briefly and I narrowed my eyes, I never hated on her with Marcel as she accepted me into the family when I married Nik but this felt like a backstab.

"Well look at you, finally in possession of the one thing that can take you down, how does it feel?" Nik asked walking towards them.

"Great" she spat at him before Marcel whistled and a crowd of his vampires stepped out of the shadows and I looked out before glaring back towards Marcel and Rebekah.

"So this is it, the evil bastard Klaus has gone too far, must be punished and by his own sibling...none the less how positively biblical" Nik said looking at Rebekah. "And you Marcel, is this your idea of a hit, I taught you better than this paltry excuse for a takedown, you think you can subdue me with this!" Nik yelled at them.

"No but I think I can with this" Marcel chuckled before whistling again bringing out even more vampires from the shadows and I looked around at the sheer mass of bodies we were going to have to go through and I heard Nik let out a sigh. "Sophia this doesn't involve you" Marcel told me and I glared at him.

"You're going after my husband, seems it does involve me sire-brother" I saw his eyes narrow as I called him my sire-brother as its what we used to call each other since we were both sired by Niklaus Mikaelson and in way he'd always felt like a brother figure to me but now he was an enemy.

"I don't want to hurt you but we will if you don't stand aside" he tried again but I shook my head and stepped up directly to Nik's side.

"Let's end this charade, shall we?" Nik smirked at Marcel. "Vampires of New Orleans, do recall that I'm an original, a hybrid, I cannot be killed, eternity is an awfully long time, how long do you think Marcel will stay in power, what if one of you lot were to release me knowing I will be eternity in your debt, oh I would pity those of you who dared to cross me I can assure you your ends would be spectacular" he turned towards Marcel. "To borrow a trick" he then held up a coin. "From an old friend...whoever picks up this coin gets to live" he tossed it down to the ground. "Now which of you magnificent bastards wants to join me"

"Anyone who wants that coin, pledge allegiance to Klaus take it now" Marcel speaks up talking to his vampires but no one moves and I frown at this. "Go ahead, the choice is yours" he adds but still nobody moves to take the coin. "Take him"

"Sophia stand down" Nik told me and I frowned but he nodded at me so I stepped aside glaring over at Marcel so he knew I wasn't on his side and if Nik even looked like he was in trouble then I would intervene.

Two vampires sped over to Nik but he broke the knee of one and pushed him back before grabbing the other guy and snapped his spine in one whole second throwing him against the wall unconscious, his eyes never leaving Marcel challenging him to give him the best he could, Marcel gestured with his hands and two of his vampires with chains managed to flick them out to secure out around Nik's arms and pulled him back and I flinched forward but stopped myself as Nik got right back up and started fighting the hoard that came at him but it wasn't enough and soon they were all over him.

"Nik!" I yelled and moved forward but hands wrapped around my wrists and held me back and I glared back at Rebekah.

"Let me go!" I growled at her.

"No, let him go" she told me and I glared harder before I turned back when I heard the chains rattling as they dragged him down the alley and hung the chains up pulling him tight to be strung from either side by his wrists and his head was lowered looking like he was out cold but then he looked up, his eyes golden and the veins moving beneath his eyes as he let out a low growl that made me smile especially when Rebekah's grip loosened on my arms taking a step back but I remained in place since the sight wasn't frightening to me at all...if anything it was sexy.

Nik pulled on the chains getting them loose and went back to attacking the vampires that refused to give up and Nik even bit into one of their necks before throwing him aside without a care then looked straight down at us.

"Marcel, come and finish this!" he yelled still going through the vampires, neutralizing some but killing others and Marcel went to go but Rebekah grabbed his arm stopping him.

"No!" she yelled at him. "Take the coin"

"What?" Marcel asked her surprised by her saying this but I just smirked and crossed my arms enjoying their fear.

"He won't stop until everyone is dead and he will kill you to, end this pick up the coin" Rebekah spat out fearfully looking at Nik.

"I'd listen to her Marcel unless you want to burn your entire posse" I added with a smirk and he glared at me before looking back at Nik as he continued through his army like they were nothing.

"Enough!" he yelled finally and Nik stopped letting the last vampire drop from his hands after snapping her neck as he looked up and watched Marcel walk over to where the coin laid and pick it up kneeling as Nik walked towards him.

"Well, well, well...the great Marcel self-proclaimed king of New Orleans bowing before me"

"There" Marcel spat tossing the coin to Nik's feet. "I hereby pledge my allegiance to you, you have the keys to my kingdom, it's yours" his voice broke at the end and Nik smirked.

Half an hour later I stood in the room I had once shared with Nik, everything looked absolutely the same like Marcel had memorialized the room and found myself looking over at the bed...the same bed that I had shared nights, evenings and mornings in the throes of passion with Nik...both before and after we were wedded, I still can't forget the first time.

I found myself sitting on a lounge in Nik's room, he had said he needed a model and while I was a little embarrassed he had talked me into it and he was currently standing at his easel with his paintbrush moving across the canvas while I refrained from moving.

"Couldn't you have compelled some woman to do this for you?" I questioned making him look over at me.

"That wouldn't be very fun, besides no one can compare to your beauty Sophia" I turned my face to hide the blush from his compliment as I'll never get used to them. "Ah, ah don't move" he scolded me and I rolled my eyes smiling softly as I moved back into the position he had put me into when we began...over three hours ago.

"Well can you hurry up, I'm growing bored of sitting here" I complained half-hazardly.

"Art cannot be rushed, my love" again I hid my blush as he called me that, I was the only one that he called that.

"Well I'm sore and hungry" he smirked up at me putting down his paintbrush gesturing in someone and I smiled at the girl that walked in clearly compelled and she sat down next to me immediately offering her wrist and I took it in my hand looking at Nik before I bit down on her wrist letting her blood drain into my mouth not noticing Nik move over and sit on the other side until he was biting into the girls neck, the two of us feeding together before the last drop of her blood fell into my mouth and her heart stopped so I pulled back licking the last little drops from my lips as he pushed her to the floor then cupped the back of my head and turned me to face him.

"So beautiful" I smiled at him as he traced his hand along the curve of my cheek and I leant into it closing my eyes from the sensation of his touch, 15 years as a vampire and I've never gotten used to the heightened feelings that sparked my senses.

"Nik" I breathed out, my breath feeling heavy at the intensity of his touch and when I opened my eyes and found his looking into me I felt my breath leave me completely, ever since he'd comforted me when I was mourning my brothers I'd been feeling a change between us...an intensity that hadn't been there before, for 15 years he had been my friend but now...I think he was more than that. "Kiss me" I found myself saying before I could stop myself and my eyes widened. "Sorry I shouldn't have-" I was cut off when his lips met mine and I felt what I could only describe as an electric shock flooding my senses before I finally moved kissing him back and I didn't ever want to stop, he was like a drug and I never wanted to stop tasting it...this was my very first kiss...we parted and I had to suck in a deep breath of air to reground myself as my eyes reopened having closed the moment his lips had touched mine.

"I wanted to do that months ago" he smiled at me.

"Why didn't you?" I asked him.

"I wanted you to be sure you wanted me to" he replied and I couldn't help smiling back at him. "I've grown to care about you Sophia, more than I have grown to care about anyone before"

"I feel it too, I've wanted you to kiss me for months now...I care about you too Nik...I think I've actually fallen in love with you" his eyes widened and I immediately regretted it so I turned my face away. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that" he grabbed my face and turned it back towards him.

"I've fallen for you too Sophia Salvatore" he smiled and my eyes widened.

"But how...why I'm nothing-" he cut me off by pressing his lips against mine again and I quickly found myself being pulled to straddle his waist and I didn't protest even when I felt a growing bulge in his trousers.

"You are not nothing, you're my everything" he smiled and I couldn't help smile back before I took a deep breath and raised my hands to the strings on the front of my dress which would loosen it and his eyes widened before he grabbed my hands stilling them. "You don't-"

"I want to" I smiled at him moving my hand against his face sliding it into his hair. "I want my first time to be with you Niklaus"

"Your first time?" he asked and I blushed a little in embarrassment.

"I never found anyone, it was never for me to give my maidenhood to anyone as it was expected of me-" he cut me off with another kiss but this one was shorter than the others.

"I understand Sophia" I nodded before looking at him.

"Do you not want to?" I asked him and he was quick to smirk.

"My love, of course I'd want to but only if you're absolutely sure you want to" he replied and I smiled leaning forward to capture his lips in another kiss before leaning back.

"There's no one else I want to give this to than you" he nodded his head and I quickly found his hands grabbing my thighs and lifting me up as he walked to his bed and dropped me down onto it sliding the dress skirt up and over my knees.

"You want me to stop at any time, you need only to say my love" I nodded my head as he reached for my undergarments and pulled them down before sliding the dress up and over my head leaving me completely bare and I blushed hands raising to cover myself but he quickly grabbed them and held them to my sides. "You're beautiful, every inch of you" his hand trailed up my legs sending a tingling sensation to brush over my skin before he leant down and captured my lips again.

"Nik please..." I begged as his touches were igniting my senses, it felt like he was touching every nerve on my body right now.

"Patience, you should enjoy your first time...learn to explore all your senses, your sweet spots, what makes you feel good" his lips trailed from my lips down to my neck and he sucked on my skin which was clearly going to leave a bruise while his hands roamed my body. "This is for you Sophia"

"I just want you" I breathed out, my breath sounding short and fast as even I heard my heartrate picking up with each of his words.

"And you shall have me" he replied stepping back to remove his shirt and I leant up on my elbows to take in his hardened body before he dropped his trousers and my eyes widened while he smirked as he came back and hovered over me. "Be mine" he whispered against my lips. "Always and Forever" my eyes widened as I knew that was their family moto and for him to say it to me was huge, even I knew that.

"Nik..."

"Say it Sophia" he cut me off, his voice a dominating sound and I didn't care.

"I'm yours Niklaus" I breathed out right as I felt him enter me and I gasped as I was jerked up from the movement and he continued to push in until he was completely inside me and while it hurt a little the pain was quickly gone and replaced with a different feeling...one I never wanted to end especially as it grew when he begun to rock in and out, our moans and breaths the only thing either of us could hear as his hands found mine pushing them into the mattress before they entwined to hold himself above me and I felt something building in the pit of my stomach...it growing the more friction we created. "Nik..." I breathed out as he planted kisses against my neck.

"Sophia" he breathed out in the same tone before it felt the feeling snap and I cried out wrapping my legs tighter around his waist as he continued to move with a few more jerks of his hips before a harsh moan into my ear and he stopped, our chests meeting in heaves as we recovered from our highs and he swiftly pulled out moving beside me where he pulled me into him and I smiled up at him.

"I love you Niklaus"

"I love you Sophia" he smiled before kissing me...

I jumped feeling the arms wrap around my waist and while I was still recovering from the memory that I had flashed it's way through my mind I moved back against the chest that was pressed against my back.

"Care to tell me where your head just travelled to, my love?" Nik whispered into my ear and I smiled a little despite the fact that I was still slightly angry at him.

"Us...1879, the beginning" I replied and felt him press a kiss to my neck.

"Your still as beautiful as that day" I turned around to see him clean, probably having showered to wash all the blood off himself and had changed clothes.

"Your still the only man I've ever been with" I replied before looking down as I remembered what he had said about Cami. "You'd tell me if there was ever someone else right, if you and I were...if you were done with me?" I asked feeling insecure all of a sudden.

"Where's this coming from?" he asked and I only shook my head.

"We've just been fighting so much and I can't help wondering if there will ever be a day that we can't be fixed or that you'll find someone else" he cupped both my cheeks.

"There will never be anyone else for me, your my everything Sophia Mikaelson"

"So what happens now Nik?"

"We move back in, make our home here for our child" he smiled and I smiled back at him.

"Marcel is just handing this place over, just like that?" I questioned and he nodded which made me frown since while I was happy to return here, the way it happened is what I don't like since it shouldn't have had to be this way.

By morning we returned to the plantation to pack our things to move into the compound and to grab Hayley since after all this Elijah would be okay by now and I hoped that he would have brought her back and while upstairs packing my bags since not only was I moving into the compound with Nik but now that he now had what he wanted meant I was probably going to check up on my brothers, I was just gonna get settled in then go but I heard a car come up the drive and peeked out the windows seeing Elijah's car and let out a sigh of relief that Hayley was back so I picked up my bags and headed downstairs stopping in the doorway when I saw Nik standing at the window with the dagger.

"Don't even think about it Nik" I said dropping my bags and approached him wrapping my arms around his waist leaning my forehead against the muscles of his back. "You don't need to do this, just leave it be...you still have me in your corner Niklaus" he put his arms over mine as we stared out the window together but then a set of footsteps entered the room.

"Elijah is home, there's only one dagger which one of us will you be punishing today?" Rebekah asked and I frowned since just when I was talking Nik down she had to come here and remind him of her betrayal.

"I contemplated a game of eeny meeny minie moe" Nik said before speeding out of my grasp and grabbed her around the neck from behind with the dagger threateningly pointed at her. "You betrayed me, my own sister"

"Niklaus, don't you dare" Elijah said appearing in the doorway and I let out a sigh since this just got better and better.

"Well perhaps it should be you, brother, stealing my child away with every fawning moment of tenderness you show to Hayley" I frowned since is that really what he thought.

"This has nothing to do with Hayley".

"It has everything to do with her!" Nik yelled at them. "She's adored you since she arrived and now my child, my blood will grow up to call you father!"

"Nik that would never happen" I argued since I wouldn't let that happen, that baby was mine, it was ours and Hayley might be carrying it but she held no claim to it or what happens to our child and she will not take it from me, no one will and Ill be dammed sure to insure that to anyone who thought differently.

Is that what this is?" Rebekah asked him. "You are once again worried that you will be left behind, has history taught you nothing we don't abandon you, Nik, you drive us away"

"Is that so?" Nik remarked glaring at them. "What have I done lately other than cooperate?" he asked them then turned to Elijah. "I bowed down to you, brother...to make up for daggering you for the greater good of our plan to reclaim our home" he then turned to Rebekah. "Look the other way sister while you repeat the same cycle with Marcel, falling again for a man you shouldn't be with, while he controls the empire that we built, that he took!" Nik's voice continued to get louder with each word. "Now, I make no excuses for past sins but in the one moment when you two could have chosen to stand by me, to believe in me...and believe my intentions for my own child were pure, you chose to stand against me...to side with my enemies, I wanted our home back, now I have it, so I'm going to live there and the two of you...you can stay here together...and rot" I noticed a tear roll down Nik's face before he held the dagger out towards Elijah who took it before he walked out and I was quick to follow him grabbing my bags on the way as we walked out the front door seeing Hayley siting on the front step of the porch. "You're coming with me, little wolf" he spat at her and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Why would I go anywhere with you?" she asked glaring at Nik.

"Because Hayley that child you carry is the only thing on this earth that matters to me besides my wife, now you can fight me on this but you will lose, as will anyone else who tries to stop you getting in this car" Nik argued walking over to his SUV and opened the door turning back to her challenging her to refuse.

"Hayley please" I begged her and she looked back at the plantation house before standing up and walked over getting into the car making me let out a sigh of relief before I walked over and placed the bags into the back taking my own last look at the plantation house before I got into the passenger side as Nik held my door open for me with a smile closing it for me too before he got in and drove us to the city.