Watching their Life- N. Mikealson

Chapter 8

As soon as the screen went black all of the Originals turned so that they were facing Klaus.

Rebekah, with tears threatening to fall, gritted out, "Is it true? Did you kill our mother?" Klaus saw his family waiting for his response and gulped as he squeezed Åse's hand tightly out of anxiousness. Making eye contact with each of his family members his voice was hoarse as said one word: "Yes."

Instantly Rebekah let her vampire face take over as she jumped up from her seat. She wasted no time in trying to speed her way up towards her older brother. However, the blonde was almost instantly slammed into the wall by a force of red, tendril-like magic.

Åse had stood from her seat and kept her right hand outstretched as she magically held Rebekah to the wall. Rebekah thrashed against her restraints and screamed incoherently for several seconds before saying, "Let me go, Åse!" Out of anger Åse reverted back to their mother tongue as she yelled, "Ég mun ekki! Þú færð ekki að meiða hann án þess að vita alla söguna!" (I will not! You do not get to hurt him without knowing the full story!)

Rebekah's eyes were wild and filled with tears as she replied, "Mér er alveg sama hvað hann hefur að segja! Hann drap móður mína! Hann á skilið að borga!" (I don't care what he has to say! He killed my mother! He deserves to pay!) Åse pushed just a little bit harder with her magic so that Rebekah was looking her right in the eye as she spoke. With gritted teeth she said, "Móðir þín var áhorfandi að ævi misnotkunar! Já, það var mest lagt á Niklaus, en þú getur ekki neitað því hvað restin af þér og systkinum þínum þjáðust." (Your mother was a bystander to a lifetime of abuse! Yes, it was most heavily inflicted on Niklaus, but you cannot deny what the rest of you and your siblings suffered.)

She pointed at each of them as she said, "Finn var snyrtilegur frá því að hann fæddist til að vera hlýðinn sonur sem alltaf var til staðar til að hjálpa, sama málefnið. Elía var gerður til að vera sá sem metur alla í kringum sig á undan sjálfum sér að óheilbrigðu marki." (Finn was groomed from the moment he was born to be the obedient son that would always be there to help no matter the issue. Elijah was made to be the one who values everyone around him before himself to an unhealthy degree.)

Åse took a deep breath to calm herself before speaking of her favorite Mikaelsons. "Kol fæddist með töfragáfu, nema hann hafði engan til að kenna honum. Móðir þín, nornin, vanrækti töfrason sinn að því marki að hann varð að koma til mín til að læra að stjórna völdum sínum. Þó að ég sé þakklátur fyrir að hafa fengið að eyða tímanum með honum, þá hefði það ekki þurft að koma að því." (Kol was born with the gift of magic, except he had no one to teach him. Your mother, the witch, neglected her warlock son to the point that he had to come to me to learn how to control his powers. While I am grateful I was able to spend the time with him, it shouldn't have had to come to that.)

The brunette took another, shakier, breath as she gestured to Klaus. "Og Niklaus, ljúfur, saklaus, mannlegur, Niklaus. Hann varð fyrir misnotkun á andlegu og líkamlegu eðli næstum á hverjum degi. Samt gerði mamma þín ekkert fyrir hann! Hún stóð til baka og horfði á þegar Mikael öskraði, öskraði, barði og lét hann jafnvel blæða. Hugleysi hennar olli Niklausi mannslífi ótta, kvíða og ofsóknarbrjálæðis." (And Niklaus, sweet, innocent, human, Niklaus. He suffered abuse of the mental and physical nature nearly every day. Yet your mother did nothing for him! She stood back and watched as Mikael yelled, screamed, beat, and even made him bleed. Her indiscretion caused Niklaus a human life of fear, anxiety, and paranoia.)

All of the male Originals bowed their heads as Åse took a few seconds to breathe. Everything she said was true. They realized that now. They were all in stuck in their own thoughts as Åse moved closer to Rebekah.