Bad at Love

Chapter 7 - Who do You Truly Love?

"Wha-"
I was cut off by Niklaus kissing me deeply, holding onto me. I pushed him off instantly as tears fell
"I am so sorry...Tatia brought to me her sorrows of her late husband and her feelings and...and..."
"And I shall always be second place...I understand. More excuses"
I said coldly.
"Jessika no! I mean it I love-"
"Leave me alone Niklaus!"
I yelled. He started to scream in pain, holding his head.
I quickly pulled away
"What?"
I was so confused. Esther ran out hearing her sons screams of pain:
"Oh my..Jessika..you still have your powers... how is that possible unless..."
"Unless what?!" I asked panicked.
"What line of witch do your family come from Jessika?"
Esther looked at me urgently. I remained quiet for a moment. My mother told me never to speak of it.. but Esther was wife to the leader of this clan...
Tell me!"
Esther yelled gripping my shoulders.
"The Gemini coven! But we were casted out once I was born! They called me a cursed child because my father is not mine by blood!"
Esther stares at me with wide cautious eyes
"Do you know the origins of your real father?" She asked with a strange worry in her voice
"No my father does not even know! The Gemini Coven erased his memories to save my mother from a brutal murder!" I said staring at her.
"What else?!" Esther asked harshly
"I had no powers of my own! I could only use others for my strength.I was just a baby when we left! My parents traveled until they came across your village...my mother told me to never speak of it before we came here to this new land!I don't know anything else though!"
I said honestly
"Gemini..Yes then that explains it"
Esther walked over and grabbed her grimwar...
"A heretic..the first ever Heretic"
Esther said watching me with fear in her eyes.
"What is a..heretic?"
I asked confused as I followed her inside, completely forgetting about Niklaus...
"You are a loophole in the supernatural world. You could only syphon power before, but now that you are a supernatural being, you can syphon your own power and use your powers as if you are just a regular witch! This is extraordinary and Odin knows what else with your biological father"
Esther said in astonishment. Mikael stepped up and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"She will prove to be useful in the fight against the werewolves"
Mikael said smirking down at me. Rebekah, Niklaus, Elijah, and I all stared at one another in fear.
The next few weeks were awful......
The ancestors were angry and had turned on us for Esther's spell that had changed us with no regards of how we felt about it....
For every strength there would be a weakness....
We couldn't go out in the sun for weeks...
Esther gave us all daylight rings with enchantments over them so we could walk in the daylight with no problem...
But it didn't solve the problem of my parents trying to avoid me at all costs along with the rest of the village and it wasn't just me it was the entire Mikaelson family as well that the village avoided...they were afraid of us.....
Tatia was totally oblivious...but I out of fear for her life I avoided her at all costs.
We could no longer come into the homes of others without their consent.
The flowers at the base of the white oak trees would burn us and protect against compulsion, not that we knew about that yet.
The spell decreed that the tree Esther had used to give us life, could also take it away....
One splinter of white oak wood would paralyze us forever....
So we burned them all to the ground...
But one thing we never expected to be so terrifying,
So dark...
Was the hunger...
Our lust to drink and consume blood...
It was like we hadn't been fed in weeks.... Blood was made us reborn and blood is what we craved above everything..
Controlling it back then was never an option..
We just couldn't..
And just like that, we were reborn..
Into monsters.....
Finally after a couple weeks Esther had told us we were having a celebration.
We were eating and burning all of our livestock to appease the gods for the next season to come...
Everyone had masks on and were dancing around our 7 ft bonfire happily....
This feeding responsibly thing was hard...but we mostly fed on enemies trying to raid our village or random people Mikael would bring to us...or the werewolves...
Anyways, so everyone was dancing and having fun.
Tatia and Niklaus were dancing together, laughing and having fun...
Elijah and I stood in the background looking sad.