I was dating the famous Klaus Mikaelson and I had been for some time, during this time I had grown extremely close to all of the Mikaelson siblings. I had known Lucien Castle my whole life, he was my best friend and when he turned into a vampire I asked him to turn me and he did. Now here I am 1000 years later watching my family kill my best friend.
Klaus x Reader, Lucien x Reader (Platonic), Mikaelson Family x Reader (Platonic)
Requested by Anon
Using the prompt 5) "I did it because I love you"
Warnings: Death, blood, angst
Chapter 1
"Freya, have you seen Nik?" I asked the oldest Mikaelson in a worried voice, my boyfriend had mysteriously disappeared on me without leaving me some kind of clue as to what he was doing.
"I think he went somewhere with Elijah, but they were very vague about where they were going," she replied as she looked at me with furrowed brows. I walked over to the woman I thought of as my sister and joined her on the couch, she was working on a spell to turn Lucien back into a normal vampire.
"Are they going to kill Lucien?" I asked. I hoped they wouldn't, I'd grown up with Lucien so the two of us had been best friends for 1000 years and I had been delighted when he showed up in New Orleans.
He had gone off track lately though, he was killing people and he had just forced Freya and Vincent to turn him into this monstrous being and he had killed Finn and yet somehow I still cared for him, much to the Mikaelson's dismay.
I had no idea what they were planning on doing and honestly I didn't really want to know, not if it involved killing my best friend of 1000 years.
"I don't know Y/N," she replied as her phone vibrated on the table, she picked it up and read the message she had gotten before I could see who it was from, Freya might not be a vampire but she sure did have some brilliant reflexes.
"I have to go, you going be okay here?" she asked me, she smiled warmly at me but from the look she had in her eyes I could tell that there was something she wasn't telling me, I nodded and she left.
Chapter 2
I waited for a minute until I heard her car engine pull out of the driveway before getting up and following her, being a vampire meant that I could use my speed to follow her on foot without being noticed.
She pulled up next to the woods that were a few miles outside of New Orleans and she started walking from there, she kept looking back to make sure nobody had followed her and each time she looked back I hid behind a tree so she wouldn't see me.
She came to a clearing where an abandoned house sat, she started chanting something, the leaves blew around her, someone screamed and then she stopped, I looked around and in the middle of the clearing was Hayley, Klaus, Elijah and Kol, they were standing around something, it must have been a person considering they were talking to them, the next voice I heard was not one of the Mikaelson's, it was Lucien's, my heart felt like it was my throat when he spoke, "Y/N will never forgive you if you kill me, Klaus. They are going to hate you for this," I moved closer to them and I could see Lucien's bloodied and battered face, would Klaus really kill my best friend?
Would the people that I call family really allow him to kill my best friend? I looked at Elijah's face, he looked kind of guilty, I had grown very close to Elijah in all the years that I had known him and he knew that if Lucien died I would be heartbroken.
"We will explain to Y/N what happened, how you tried to kill Hayley and Klaus and that we killed you to protect them and everyone else," Elijah spoke softly as his face hardened into an unreadable expression.
"At least let me see them one last time, Y/N has been my best friend since I was a child and I will not allow you to kill me without letting me say goodbye to them, please. Just let me say goodbye," I clasped my hand over my mouth as a tear slipped down my cheek.
"Y/N isn't here Lucien, they're at home," Kol replied as he shoved his hands in his coat pockets.
"Are you sure that Y/N is at home? That they're safe?" Lucien asked them and they all turned to Freya, they knew that she was the last one to see me.
"Yes, Y/N is at home. They're away from you, they're safe," Freya replied between her teeth.
"Really? I don't think they're at home. In fact, I think they're here with us right now," everyone looked at Lucien with furrowed brows and my eyes widened, had he known I was here the entire time? "Y/N? Why don't you come join us? Come and see what you're family are doing to me," his head turned so he was facing the tree I was hiding behind and everyone else followed his gaze.
Chapter 3
I took a deep breath and walked into the clearing, everyone's eyes widened when they saw me, I had tears running down my face and the only person I could look at was Lucien. "You're really going to kill him? Were you really going to kill him without informing me? Without letting me say goodbye? He is my best friend, how could you do this to me? I thought we were family," I said as my eyes darted around all of their faces, my hardened gaze stopped at Klaus who looked shocked, he was knelt down in front of Lucien who had a smirk on his face.
"Y/N, I-"
"I don't want to hear it Niklaus. You were about to rip out his heart!" Klaus looked at me with tears in his eyes before looking over at Kol and nodding slightly. I felt a pair of arms wrap around me as I was pulled into someone's chest, Kol's scent filled my nose and I started sobbing into his chest.
I heard Lucien whisper "Stay safe Y/N, I love you," before everything went silent, I peeked over Kol's shoulder and saw Lucien's desiccated body slumped on the ground with his heart next to him.
I pushed past Kol and rushed over to Lucien and rested his head in my lap, I looked into his lifeless eyes and I couldn't stop the sobs from escaping my lips, "How could you do this Nik? I could have helped him become a better person, I could have helped him. Why did you do this?" I whispered as I ran my hand through my dead best friends hair.
"I did it because I love you, I want you to be safe, I wanted my family to be safe and that wasn't going to happen while he was alive," he replied as he knelt down beside me and pulled me into his chest, I tried to push him away but he was a lot stronger than me so eventually I allowed him to hold me as I cried into his chest, leaving tear stains on his shirt.
"I love you too Nik but I could have helped him. He was my best friend. I need to bury him, it's the least I could do for him," I said as I fiddled with a worn out bracelet on my wrist, the bracelet Lucien had given me for my twenty-first birthday, it was all I had left of him.
"Then we will bury him love, do you forgive us for doing this?"
"Yes, I understand that he was dangerous. I just wish that I had a chance to help him become his old self again, but you're my family and I love you. I don't completely forgive you quite yet but I'll get there eventually, I hope," I whispered as I looked at all of them and they nodded at me, I wasn't happy that they had killed Lucien but I knew deep down that Lucien would never be his old self again so maybe it was for the best that he was dead, maybe he could finally be at peace.
A few days later Klaus kept his promise and helped me bury Lucien, a little voice in my head told me that I shouldn't forgive Klaus for what he had done but the love I had for Klaus over powered that voice and I forgave the man that I loved with all of my heart because I knew that he did this for me, he did this to protect me and his family. I knew no matter what happened that Klaus and his family would be right by my side and I loved them for that, I loved this dysfunctional family with all of my heart. Klaus pressed a soft kiss to my lips as I said goodbye to Lucien for the final time.
