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01 - Mikeal isn't coming home.

Aurelia groaned in frustration,

klaus had insisted that she came back to mystic falls with him despite her continuous denials and temper tantrums she still ended up walking around the lockwood mansion to help plan the homecoming party which was going to be 'unexpectedly' changing venues at last minute, Aurelia wanted to keep herself a secret from the scooby gang for as long as possible but should somebody become a threat to the hybrid Aurelia would feel inclined to help out.

She didn't plan on staying on land for so long, so she had never bothered on getting a job or any source of income using a few pearls to sell seeing as real pearls are quite valuable. But now she's still here so klaus has become her source of income, and luckily for her he happens to have endless amounts to influence her high maintenance standards.

So if somebody is threatening him by default they're threatening her, klaus had her living in the lockwood mansion while he was planning his own home. Which was annoying seeing as Tyler wasn't her biggest fan, not that he could do anything about it. He just found it irritating klaus gave her the authority to boss all the hybrids around, and which she makes them do simple things like her hair or helping her into her dress.

Like now, Tyler had been roped into being her personal assistant and following her around and now he was kneeling on the ground to fix the strap on her heel. It was a big blow to his ego, having this girl boss him around as if he was some sort of butler.  But whenever his sire was around he'd get a break because she was taken out the house to do God knows what. All he knew was that it most likely wasn't cheap.

Which is wasn't, everyday when he'd come back Klaus would take her shopping to satisfy her and as an apology for leaving her with his hybrids all day. Or sometimes he'd take her to the lake, which she loved very much getting to see her in her natural form was always a blessing (even when she tried to use her charms on him)

With the scooby gang

"Tyler come on you've got to help us here, can't you tell us anything about klaus!?" Caroline yelled, the group had met up in the boarding house to see if they could get any last minute information from Tyler before homecoming.

"I Can't Care! You don't get it, I would do anything for Klaus and he asked me to keep his secrets, to keep her secrets too! I can't just go against him" He blurted out, irritated that nobody understood the sirebond.

"Who's 'her'" Stefan asked, picking up on Tyler's use of female Pronouns.

"I- uh- I'm not supposed to say" He mumbled, looking down

"Not supposed to but that doesn't mean you can't. " Damon implied, sitting in his chair with his bourbon "listen lockwolf if klaus has a weakness we need to know"

"Her names Aurelia, I don't know who she is to klaus but he's very fond of her. She's a brat but also a fucking sociopath! She constantly bosses us all around- in a way we're sired to her too. I'd stay away if I was you." In the back of his mind be felt as if he betrayed klaus and Aurelia by talking about her.

Damon smirked and patted Tyler on the back, "finally something we can use."

The scooby gang couldn't fathom that Klaus- the man that ruined their lives and sacrificed their friend, could possibly have a heart. And therefore the only explanation was she was compelled. And to break the 'compulsion' klaus needed to be killed.

Elena and her self righteously selfish mindset thought that Aurelia was taking the attention from her, Klaus sacrificed her- who cares about some random compelled whore.

AURELIA SCREAMED IN ANGER, SILENTLY everything was going wrong, Mikeal aka the man who was supposed to be dead had shown up and grabbed her using her own hybrids who she asked to help around, he'd knocked her out and next thing she knew she was waking up and staring at Klaus through the door to the house.

Her head was pounding, everything was fueling her rage from the rebelling strand of hair that brushed against her neck to the clasp on her heels digging into her ankle. If she was in the water this wouldn't have been much of a fight but she was on land, she was vulnerable..and that..

That truly terrified her.

Klaus could see it in her eyes, the feeling of losing control, the vulnerability, the realisation that you was going to die. Because once upon a time, that was him.

"C'mon Niklaus, we mustn't linger! Father hates when you touch his things!" The voice of the youngest mikealson warned.

"Father need not know! Rebekah can't sleep without it" Klaus responded, desperately searching his father's room.

A while ago he'd carved a white Knight for rebekah to help her sleep during the storm, but when his father found it he'd stolen it. Claiming 'no son of his will spend his time on useless projects' and for weeks Rebekah had been struggling to sleep.

He offered to make another but his sister said it didn't have the same effect, leading him to his desperate attempts to retrieve it.

From outside they could hear heavy footsteps coming towards the door, meaning only one thing.

Mikeal had came home.

Once upon a time, Niklaus Mikealson had a heart of gold, a boy who wanted nothing more than to protect his family and said boy refused to endanger his little brother more than he already had. He'd pushed Henrik into the shadowed corner of the room, shoving the white Knight he found on the ground into his hands.

Niklaus was terrified, though he tried his best not to show it, the door was openened with unnecessary force as Mikeal's face came into the light, rage filled eyes landing on the child he hated with a passion.

"What are you doing here boy?!" He yelled, grabbing his son by the collar of his clothing.

"Nothing father! I was coming to inform you that dinner is ready" Niklaus lied, his voice shaking.

Though mikeal wasn't a fool, he'd spotted Henrik in the shadows of the room upon entering yet said nothing. But now his bustard of a son dared lie to his face? His rage was uncontrollable as he struck Niklaus across the face, though it didn't end there.

"DO YOU TAKE ME FOR A FOOL?! BOY"

He struck over and over again, stopping to deliver sharp kicks to his mid section, that was the worst beating Niklaus had ever received.

Klaus glared at Mikeal standing outside the doorway, Aurelia couldn't hear what they were saying, only hearing the sounds of blood rushing to her head.

A sharp pain made her scream out, light blue fabric turned red with blood. Her blood. She looked up at klaus through her lashes, seeing the single tear rolling down his face.

Everything was fading.

And next thing she knew.

It all went black.