Stand Up Straight - with Harry Styles. (Under construction.)

What's Your Name?

"....W-what?" Selena managed to get out. "They are looking for wives. "Oh! My granddaughter is very excited!" One of the older woman said. Selena and Caroline didn't know what to say. Are they going to come here, to their small town? Are they just looking for other royals? Were the girls to be pick out? "And they are coming here, yes?" Caroline asked, not letting her voice shake. "But of course!" The lady said. "They will be here tomorrow, so i suggest you two have your dresses cleaned by then." Caroline and Selena walked down the road to their homes in silence. They made it to Caroline's house first. "This is my home. thank you for walking with me, it was nice to meet you selena." caroline said with a smile. "Do think we will get picked?" Selena asked suddenly. "I mean, we've all heard the stories since childhood, but they are really going to be here at dawn, and we have to see them. Face to face." Selena said. The stories of the Mikaelson family have been told for years and years. They were the monsters you told your children about when they would misbehave. Even though Caroline's fave didn't show it, in her heart, she was terrified. Like a 10 year old who was just told they had to go to war, and there was nothing they could do to prevent it. "It's okay, there's going to at least 50 other girls our age out there, there's no way we will be pick by those vile creature, right?."

"Okay." was all she said. "Have a goodnight and get home safe." Caroline said as she walked into her house. When she was inside, she the tears get stuck in her throat. She was beyond frightened. "Father! Father, come quick!" She yelled. "Are you crazy? Why are you yelling like that?" bill asked his daughter. "The Mikaelson's are coming!" She ignored her father's harsh toned and told him. "What? Here? To our home?" Bill asked, confused as ever. "No, not here here. But here to our village, tomorrow." She said trying to calm down a little. "So what? We'll just bolt the door if they come knocking."

"No, no! Not like that. They're coming to look for wives and every girl in the village is to be there tomorrow" she said with tears. "Well that's great!" Bill exclaimed. "...W-what?" She asked him. "Think about it, care, if they pick you then you will be a princess and that means money. Care, you can get us out of this hell-hole!" he said, excited as ever. "But they are monsters.." She said with tear filled eyes. She felt numb, how could the first thing that came to his mind be money and not her welfare?  Ignoring his daughter's pain, he said "Let's get you ready for tomorrow." - When Selena got home, her mother greeted her at the door. "There you are. I was just getting ready to send out a search team for you." She joked. Selena was looking at the ground and didn't acknowledge her mother's joke. "...Selena?" she asked. Selena took a deep breath and said "Th-the Mikaelsons are coming. they are looking for wives. They will be here tomorrow.... and i am to be there."Selena said quietly. Her mother drop the dish she was washing suddenly. Selena snapped out of her daydream-like stage when the dish crashed on the hardwood floors. "Come on, we'll leave right now." Her mother said as she went into the small hall closet and started to pack up their things. "What? No mama, we cant leave."

"I will not just sit here and let those... things come and take you away from me!"

"Mum, stop. We are not leaving. We don't have much, but i will not be run out of my home because some creatures want to just come in rob some innocent girl from theirs!" Selena walked over and took her mothers hands. "You taught me alot of things, but one of the most important things I've learned was to never run away." Her mother couldn't help but cry. Was she scared? Yes. But she was so proud of the girl who was in front of her right now. With tears in her eyes, she put her hand on her daughter's cheek and said "Okay. If it's what you want, then we'll stay here." Selena smiled and gave her mother a hug but deep down, even if she didn't want to admit it, she was scared. - The next morning the Mikaelsons stood waiting for their maids and butlers to prepare their carriages for the ride down to the village. Niklaus was watching from the window in his bedroom when Harry appeared at his door. "Can i come in?" he asked. Eyes never leaving his window, Klaus only nodded to him. Harry came in and stood by his brother's bed and asked "Are we really getting married?" and Nik, with a smirk, turn his head to his younger sibling and said "That's what they think." Harry didn't really like asking Klaus what he means when he says things like that, and he always says things like that, and they usually result in, well, death. "Exactly what are we suppose to do when we get down there?" Harry asked. He honestly thought this whole thing was all a joke. He was a vampire, a Original vampire. He didn't need the help of some woman to rule over a village. "Ugh, Elijah said all the women in the village are standing outside waiting for us to arrive. We are to pick but one girl to bring back here." He said as he sat on his bed next to harry, who asked "What did you mean when you said, you know, "that's what they think?"

"Our lovely parents, and i use that term loosely, want us to marry for them. But we can't marry if the girls come up missing." Harry knew it had something to do with death, like always. "You mean kill them, you know i cant do that."

"Dont worry, i'll teach you."

"No, no. I mean, my powers haven't kick in yet." He said more in a whisper. "I know. And that's another reason mother and father want you to marry. You're different harry."

"Then i'll do it, i mean if i have to marry to get my powers then what other choice do i have?"

"Well, you can get them like the rest of us did.... you can kill."- Selena and her mother were walking to where the Mikaelsons were to be in town. A guard came knocking on everyone's door early in the morning to warn them about the Mikaelsons arrival. Like everyone in the village didn't already know about it. Her mother kept fidgeting with her dress, even though it didn't need anything done to it. "Mum stop. I'm fine." She said, stopping her mother from wiping her shoes. "Oh. Sorry. I'm just nervous, so nervous, are you nervous?" she said really fast. "I'm not, but if you keep saying it you're going to make me nervous!" Selena said only this time she was the one to say it really fast. They walked for what seemed like forever, but was only about 10 minutes. it was 7:30am and, because it was London, the sky was a dim blue color and you couldn't see much but fog. When they finally got there, they could see about 70 girls her age from the village, alone with some type of guardsmen standing to the side. Some girls were excited, laughing even. And some were just a nervous wreck. "Wow. Huge turnout." Selena said. "Yeah, but it's not all the girls in the village" Someone behind them said. They turn to a familiar blonde. "Some left during the night."

"Hey Caroline." Selena said. "Hello Selena, i'm glad to see you came." She said with a smile, she was happy someone was here she knew, well, some-what knew. "This is my mother, Maria." Selena said. Caroline gave her a curtsey and said "How do you do? This is my father Bill." He gave them a weak smile and kept looking off into the distance, her guess, he was looking for the Mikaelsons. They were talking when one of the guardsmen shouted. "FORM A CIRCLE!" Which all the girls did immediately. "I guess that's for us." Selena said to her mother and left to joined the circle with Caroline. Everyone was still talking amongst themselves. When they heard the horses and carriages approaching. And then silence fell. There were 3 of them. As they came to a halt, the doors came open and occupies were revealed. Out of the first carriage was more guards. The second, two guards and prince Elijah Mikaelson. And out of the last was prince Harry and prince Niklaus Mikaelson. Everyone held their breath. The guardsmen shouted "INTRODUCING! PRINCE ELIJAH, PRINCE NIKLAUS AND PRINCE HARRY!". All three of them stood together and bowed to the ladies. As all the women curtsey before them. Selena, for the first time, felt her heart beating out of her chest, but she didn't dare let it show on her face. Caroline on the other hand was a different story. Selena could hear her breathing, she kept doing small thing s to her hair, even though it looked perfect as it was. She was terrified. Prince Elijah was saying something to his younger brothers that the group couldn't hear, Then he turned to stand to the side while his brothers approached the ladies. They both went from one girl to the next, they didnt say one word to any of the woman. They simply looked at them and walked to the next, most of the girls kept their heads down and if their heads were not down, as soon as they looked one of the brothers in the eyes, they put them down. Niklaus was the first to walk to Selena. She only looked up at him for a second, then averted her eyes to the ground. He moved on to the person next to her, which was Caroline. He stopped when he got to her and Caroline stopped breathing. He then took a step closer to her, she didn't dare to look up at him, all she heard was him chuckle before walking back to Harry to whisper something to him and then he walked back to Elijah. Caroline finally let out her breath she had been holding in, but then it was Selena who was holding her breath now because Harry stopped dead in front of her. He too took a step closer, Selena was not one to be scared and she wasn't going to start now. So she held her head up and looked him right in his eyes. He realized then that she was challenging him, and when his "Scary stare-down" thing didn't work on her, he smiled. Speaking for the first time since coming, he asked "What's your name, love?". -