'A Time To Love & A Time To Die' Sequel To 'The Desire' Series (In Editing)

Treachery & Betrayal Has No Honour....(Edited)

Klaus P.O.V

Once Star left with Damon last night I was left with many mixed emotions, the last thing I expected for her to do was kill Mikael. The words that she spoke before finally driving the stake through his heart ran through my mind all night long. How when Mikael held me in his arms moments after I was born, and spoke how he named me after his father as he could see that I would be victorious one day. That he vowed to love me until his last dying breathe, he stood there not denying any of it he just looked at Star with great sorrow in his eyes. All those words I wanted to hear from Mikael my whole life, how I wanted him to just treat me as he had his other children, but my mother's betrayal ran far too deep to allow him to love me as he did when he held me in his arms for the first time. In in his final moments he couldn't tell me why he treated me not like the son he should have, in that moment when Star drove that white oak stake through this heart and we watched Mikael die right before us all I felt was an overwhelming of grief. I Niklaus Mikaelson felt the loss of the man that I had ran from my entire existence, I watched as his life was taken by the one person I never thought would commit such an act.

Freya was distorted by Star's actions when confronting her asking why would she commit such an act, Star stood there expressionless and spoke how Mikael would been a disappointment to her, that she knew what it felt to long for a father. When I looked at the woman I love more than anything in this world it felt like she had reveal another side to her, possible a side that she had hidden away from us, the side of her that is ruthless and will do whatever it took to keep our son safe. As Hamlet said to Ophelia, 'God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.' The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. I watched as each of my siblings looked at me with their faces filled with disappointment as soon as Star walked away. While I just stood in the same spot unable to decide if I found her actions honourable, or that I felt the same as my siblings disappointed in her actions. In its purest form, a union becomes part of our very essence. And when that bond is broken, our essence is forever changed.

I walked back into the room where Mikael corps was still aflame, I stayed until his body turned into ashes, wondering if this fate hadn't be place on him would have things been different. All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept. Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness. I collected Mikael's ashes and placed them in a safe place as Star was right this was the one requirement we needed to make another enchanted object to stop Dahlia. I sat down reflecting over everything that had happened with bottle of scotch in my hand, wondering if my fear had all come true. A secrete, my biggest fear I've had since the moment we learnt of Dahlia and her coming is would Star fall... From what I saw tonight she had fallen from a great height. Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within.

I approached the entrance of St James Infirmary, the one place that no magic can used, I glanced through the window to see Hayley and Jackson both sleeping peacefully while Chance and Hope did the same in there crib. A glowing light in the far end of the room caught my attention, Star sat at the table with a stack of books beside her searching frantically through the pages. I walked in to see Damon by the bar he looks up and doesn't say a word, I continued to walk into the back where Star tense up before turning to me.

"You shouldn't be here." She stated firmly as I came closer to her, I took a seat opposite her and she sighed, I wasn't planning on leaving here until I knew why she committed such actions.