My Gift to You

The Time After

Niklaus Pov

Arabella's breathing stops as her skin finally turns to grey, veins, and wrinkles covering her once flawless skin. Her eyes close slowly, but I look into her pupils before they close and watch as the life drains out of her. Kol's eyes are unable to move, pure shock and pain gloss his once carefree mind. A rage unlike before shakes off his body and he reaches for the stake that is logged in Ara's chest, he's going to kill himself. Before Kol can even move the stake and inch out of Ara's body, I speed over and snap his neck swiftly watching him drop to the floor. The witch doesn't have a look of regret on her face, but of satisfaction. 

"What did you do?" I growled as she stepped back slightly but not an ounce of fear is shown through that little witch's eyes. "One of you had to die, it didn't matter who." She lets off a confidence sounding tone but I know that once I'm done with her, she will be nothing but a broken shell. I reach over to grab her but a barrier stops me, "Bonnie, you better hope that when we get out of here, you are far gone from this place. My family and I will make you pay for what you've done. Now, if I were you, I'd run." Bonnie slowly moves backward out of the house and into a car, moving the barrier towards the door. She turns back to meet my eyes, "The barrier will only last the next 24 hours, nothing supernatural can come in or out. Just to let you know, Elena will not die. I had broken the bond between her and Arabella in case Ara did become a threat. I've done it to most of her line due to it being mostly of people I know, have a good life, Klaus."  The witch climbs into the vehicle and speeds away fast, if I can't get my revenge on that witch for killing Ara then the Cullens will do just fine. 

The force holding them against the wall had been taken away once Bonnie fled the house, I speed over and wrap my hand around that little sparkling controlling pixie boy. "This is all your fault Cullen, Ara will still be apart of our family if you hadn't tried to claim her as your mate. You took away a member of my family, I'm feeling merciful today." I release my hand off of his neck allowing him to settle on the ground. His eyes show relief, I bend down to meet his eyes. "You will have a quick death." I swiftly extend my claws and take his hand off of his body, flinging it into the fireplace's high flames. The remaining Cullens gasp after his head burst into flames, I turn towards the dark-haired pixie and flashed my hybrid eyes. "You will all receive the same mercy as your golden boy." 

All the Cullens bodies were burned in the fireplace, cleansing the room of the sparkling cold ones. Ara's body turned to ash a while ago, randomly even. Burning the stake along with her, Elijah and I place Kol on the couch and Bekah had placed all of Ara's ashes into an urn. I lean down towards Kol and whisper softly into his ear, "We will get her back for you brother, you just need to hold on."