Henrik Niklaus Mikaelson: Reborn as Hope mikaelsons twin

6)"Why don't I recognize you?"

"Can I hold my son now?" a voice says from somewhere behind me. I tilt my head to see my new mom, looking eager and just a bit sad.

sad? That's confusing. Why would she be--oh! I just said my first word, and it wasn't mom. Of course, she would be sad. What parent wouldn't be? While I was mentally smacking myself for missing something so obvious, dad was already passing me over.

I braced myself to feel the same tidal wave of safehomefamilymineminemINE that I felt when I touched dad, but.........nothing.I felt nothing. Mom smiled down at me, her face radiating her love for me. She talked to me, fed me, changed me, and played with me; she did nothing wrong, but.........something was missing. I didn't see her as my mom, not as I knew instinctively with my dad that he was my father. I felt nothing for her, even after the whole hour I had spent with her.

Something's wrong.

I didn't like this, the feeling of being in a stranger's arms and feeling like something was wrong. I blame my stupid baby body that bursts into tears at the slightest discomfort for starting to wail when she tried rocking me to sleep in her arms.

"Dada!" I yelled the only word I could say at the time, wanting to get out of this uncomfortable situation as soon as possible, "Dada! dada! dada!"

Dad zoomed into the nursery, looking around for the threat, but only found Mom trying her best to shush both me and Hope, who had burst into tears a second after I had.

"What's going on?" He asked, still looking around as if waiting for an enemy to pop up any second, "Why are they crying?"

"I don't know," Mom said, looking flustered, "Henrik's been squirming for a whole hour now and suddenly he just burst into tears! And then Hope started crying too! "

She looked close to tears when I and Hope cried louder.

"Here, hand Henrik over to me," Dad said, "go look after hope or call Rebekah. She will help. "

Mom nodded and handed me over to Dad, and then zoomed out of the nursery with hope, probably to look for Aunt Rebekah.

"Hey, hey now, everything's alright. No need to cry," Dad said, trying to soothe me.

The moment I was in his arms, the feeling of safehomefamilymineminemINE hit me again, helping me to calm down. I leaned against his shoulder, exhausted from all the crying.

"There now, that's better." Dad smiled down at me, though I could see the worry in his eyes.

"Now, then, why did you start crying, hmm?"

I sniffed and wrapped my arms around his neck as much as I could

"Were you bored, perhaps? Well, I don't blame you; your mother can be a bit of a Debbie-downer. "

His words caused me to giggle, making him grin down at me.

"Niklaus," a disapproving tone that could only belong to Uncle Elijah, sounded in the nursery, "What did you do now? I saw Hayley looking for Rebekah with tears in her eyes"

His tone made me frown. He said it as if it was obviously Dad who was the cause of all the tears and crying and couldn't imagine it not being his fault.

Obviously, Dad didn't like his tone either.

He sneered and said, "Well, if you must know, Elijah, Hayley was the cause of the children's tears. She obviously did something wrong. Why else would Henrik yell for me? "

He walked past Uncle Elijah, who was obviously shocked, and said, "Perhaps, instead of trying to find fault with me, you could try to help Haley so this incident is not repeated, hmmm?"

He then walked towards a room I hadn't seen yet. There was a canvas in the middle of the room, and a few paintbrushes and paper towels were strewn around. Obviously, this was dad's temporary painting room.

Dad sat down on the stool. He adjusted me so I was laying on his shoulder and he was holding me with one arm, while holding a paintbrush with his other hand.

"Take a nap, Henrik," dad advised. "Your Aunt is in a festive mood and will undoubtedly drag us all into it. It's better to conserve energy. "

Dad's voice softened before he continued.

"Sleep peacefully, little wolf, for no harm will befall you as long as I am here, and I assure you, I'm not going anywhere"

It was only after I heard those words that the suffocating feeling in my chest disappeared ,and I drifted off to sleep.