The Mikaelson Twins Return

Epilogue

I woke up and heard Landon say "Dr. Saltzman?" Ric said "Landon. I'm on my way." Landon said "Okay. Uh... I don't... I don't really know what happened but Ember looks hurt." Ric said "Em? Are you ok?" I said "My head hurts and my gums hurt... I... I think someone killed me." Landon immediately said, "It wasn't me." I said, "Landon chill, no one said it was you." Ric said, "I just found a note that you'd need me." Landon said, "I guess we do." Ric said "I'll be there as soon as I can and Em I'll bring you some blood." he hung up and Landon said "Em? Are you ok?" I said "Ask me when we're back at school." he chuckled "Ok. What's the blood for?" I said "Have I never told you what happens when I die?" he said, "No, you said your a werewolf witch tribrid but you never explained the tri-part." I said, "Well we got nothing but time so, yes I am a tribrid, I was born a witch, then a few years ago before my parents died I had a magic freakout and accidentally killed a human student from your old school who had snuck on our campus, which activated my werewolf side, and now I was killed which puts me in transition to be my full tribrid self." Landon said "Vampire, werewolf, and witch." I said "Yep if I complete the transition of course." he said "If? Don't you just have to drink blood?" I said, "Yeah I have 24 hours to drink blood or I die again and honestly that's kind of appealing right now." 

He said "Why? You have the chance to live forever why would you want to die?" I said "Because I have nothing left Landon. Nothing to live for. My parents are dead, my aunts and uncles don't talk to me, the school was always my safe place and now all I can think of is Triad stormed our school for some stupid chalice that we didn't even have." he said "Wait, what happened?" I said "Oh right you weren't there. Well, your message was a little weird I mean you said hi to Jed, so I got Roman to listen to the background of the message and realized Triad had you so I got the squad together and we were going to save you but Triad showed up with guns with malivore bullets and cut off our magic. They shot Josie, I really hope she's ok." I heard Ric's voice "She is fine, I fed her your blood and she is resting with her sister. Here drink this." I said, "No thanks let's just go home." I stood up and walked out, Landon and Ric followed and Ric whispered "What's wrong with her?" Landon said "She says she has nothing to live for." it was a quiet drive to Mystic Falls and then I escaped to my room. I laid down and stared at a picture I had of me and my mom. 

A few hours later my door opened so I groaned, "Go away." Raf said "Not gonna happen." he came in followed by Lizzie, Josie, MG, and Landon so I sat up begrudgingly. Raf handed me a blood bag and said "You need to drink this." I said, "I don't know if I want to." Lizzie said, "Why not?" I said "Because I don't know if life is worth it. I mean people have been trying to kill me since before I was even born, maybe it's time to let them win. Clearly, I shouldn't be alive." Josie grabbed the bag from Raf and he pulled me forward enough to slide in behind me. He wrapped his arms around me and said "Emberlyn, I am begging you for me, drink the blood. Live, Please." MG said "Yeah, we need you Em. You may be known as the Dark Ember because of the Hallow but you are our girl. You have your own super squad right here in this room. We're your friends, your family." the twins sat in front of me and took one of my hands Lizzie said "We need you Em. We love you." Josie said "And my dad loves you, so please." she laid the blood bag in my hands I said "I'll think about it." the door opened again and I groaned and fell back on the bed with my eyes closed "What now?" I heard Ric's voice "All of you out." they all left and he sat on my bed and laid his hand on my thigh "Em, Talk me through it." I sighed but sat up and switched so I was leaning on him and laid my head on his shoulder as I said "I... I feel so alone. Mom and Dad died and suddenly my aunts and uncles are too busy to even visit or call. What's the point?" 

He said, "Have I ever told you that I was a vampire once?" I said "You were?" he nodded "Your grandmother turned me into a vampire as a way to kill all the other vampires, the only way I could be killed was if Elena was, so I had to protect her. Have you ever heard of Tripp Cooke?" I nodded "Aunt Bonnie mentioned that name, and said he grew up with Elena's parents and Caroline's mom." he nodded "Well at this point the travelers had a magic-free barrier around Mystic Falls so Tripp dragged me across the border which stripped your grandmother's spell from me and Jo took care of the wound and saved me. I said "Jo is your wife right? The one that was killed by her brother at your wedding?" he nodded, "Em I'm not gonna try to tell you what you should do, but I do think you should think about it because once you make your choice then there is no going back." There was a knock on my door making me roll my eyes as I said "Come in." Bonnie came in and said "Ric, can I talk to her?" he said "Sure Bonnie." she held her hand out for me, so he took the blood bag from me and I took her hand. She drove us to Mystic Falls and pulled into Damon and Elena Salvatore's house. I saw Sherrif Donovan in the window and said "Bonnie what are we doing here? Sherriff Donovan is probably gonna vote dead, he hates our school and all of us in it." 

She said, "Come on." I got out and she wrapped her arm around me and led me to the door. Elena opened the door and let us in, she said "Em go get some food while I talk to Bonnie." I said "Ok." and headed into the kitchen, Jeremy said, "Hey Em, come sit down." I sat next to him and Damon placed a plate of food in front of me before sitting down. Jeremy said, "So what's about Caroline saying you're dying?" I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms leaning back in the chair "So that's what this is about. I was killed in Georgia, and everyone seems to think that I need to complete the transition when I just want to let myself truly die." Damon said, "How long?" I pulled out my phone to look at the time and spoke "A little over an hour." Matt said "Cutting it a little close there." I said "What do you care? You don't like us at school." before he could respond Bonnie, Elena, and a very cute but familiar boy came in, though I didn't know where I knew him from. Bonnie said "Em this is Jason. J, this is Emberlyn Mikaelson." I said, "You look familiar." he said, "Walk with me?" Jeremy nudged me so I got up and followed him to the porch and sat on the railing while he paced a little bit. He said "I look familiar because we've met before. Emberlyn Rebekah Mikaelson, born May 2, 2012, to Hayley Marshall and Niklaus Mikaelson." he squatted in front of me and laid one hand on my thigh while the other hand gently traced the scar on my wrist.

He said "The first time we met you were almost 15, you were hurt. You and Lizzie Saltzman got into an argument and when your magic backlashed you killed a human who had snuck onto the grounds. Then she screamed you were a monster and ran to tell Caroline and Alaric." I gasped as I remembered.

(Flashback)

(Ember's POV, Ember was 10)

I ran to the mill after Lizzie Saltzman called me a monster. She was a very cruel 12-year-old. I curled up on the floor and cried, I didn't mean to kill that boy, I heard someone crouch in front of me and felt their hands rest on my thighs and said "What could make a beautiful and strong witch like yourself cry?" I looked up into beautiful blue eyes and said "She's right, I'm a monster." he grabbed my hands and pulled me up, and led me to the stairs. I sat down next to him as he said "What happened?" I sighed "I messed up big time and now Ric and Caroline are going to send me home permanently." he said "What did you do?" I said "I'm Ember by the way, If I'm going to be telling you my problems, you should know my name." he said, "Nice to meet you Ember, I'm Jason." I said, "I got into an argument with another girl, and my magic got out of hand, I didn't know he was here." Jason said, "Who?" I shrugged "Some human boy from Mystic Falls, I accidentally caught him in my magic burst." Jason said "And he died." I nodded "I killed him." he said, "You didn't mean to Ember, they'll understand." I said "They won't, Ric didn't even want me to come to this school, to begin with." he brushed my hair behind my ear and said, "You are not a monster, you are amazing, I've been watching you Emberlyn." I looked over at him in shock and he surprised me even more when he kissed me.

(End Flashback)

I said, "You kissed me back then." He said, "I did." I said "Why?" he said "Because I like you, and I thought it would be my only chance. I guess I was right since you're letting yourself die." I said, "You don't understand." He said, "I do, but drink the blood, let me show you how much life you have yet to live." I said "As amazing as that sounds, we're out of time. I feel the sickness, the exhaustion. The pain." he pulled a blood bag out of his jacket, "Maybe not." I said "I see you've come prepared." he said "You can argue with me about it later, but for now drink." he opened the tube and put it to my lips but I couldn't bring myself to. He whispered in my ear "Drink. Now." I closed my eyes and drank from the tube.