Book One: Worlds Apart (Loki)

Chapter Twenty Three

1939: Katri hugs Jack who hugs her back, they've been friends a long time now and she hates seeing him leaving, like she's loosing another son. Ark smiles softly watching them, stood in his uniform ready to go, she doesn't want to say goodbye to either of them, she pulls back from Jack and gives him a worried look.

"I'll be alright, darling" he assures her. "Come on, you've seen me go through worse half cut"

"Jack" she starts. "You're half cut right now" he nods.

"Yes I am" he pokes her nose a little as Ark rolls his eyes.

"Alright, party boy" Ark takes Jack's shoulders and turns him from Katri before looking to his mother himself.

"Look after him, Ark" She warns. "You know what he's like drunk and with a gun" Ark smirks and nods. "And be careful" she whispers, he touches her shoulder and then pulls her into a hug, she hugs him back tightly. Mother and son just clinging to one another.

"I'll be fine. You know I will" Ark whispers and then pulls back clasping her face in his hands. "Don't drive yourself mad with worry" he begs a little. "I can look after myself, and I will look after Jack" he promises her, she looks to him softly and nods. "I love you, mother" she opens her mouth then closes it again, he understands she won't tell him back, the last person she told was Loki and he abandoned her. He nods and kisses her forehead before walking away with Jack.

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1941: Katri sits with Carlisle both of them watching the tv play a news story on the war. She chews on her fingernail listening. Carlisle touches her arm trying to comfort her, she'd turned up at his home not three days after Ark and Jack had left an emotional wreck, her vampire emotions spiking all over the place. It's been getting worse the longer her boys are gone.

"I feel myself slowly going insane" She comments, Carlisle smiles a little.

"You're a mother, you're bound to get a little scared when your son" Carlisle stops and then smirks. "Sons" he corrects, Katri shoots him a look. "Run off to war" he offers sitting next to her, she looks up as a huge vampire steps into the room, Katri raises an eyebrow.

"Wow, I thought Ark was huge" she comments eyeing up the vampire in front of him. Carlisle laughs a little.

"Katri, this is my son, Emmett" Carlisle offers. "Emmett this is Katri Mikaelson, a dear friend" Emmett smirks a little.

"Where'd they find you?" Katri asks raising her glass of whiskey to her lips.

"Rose found me in Tennessee" he answers.

"Rose is the girl from Rochester, right?" Katri asks Carlisle who nods. "Alright, nice to meet you" she offers Emmett.

"And you" Emmett offers.

"Is there something you wanted, Emmett?" Carlisle asks.

"Just curious" Emmett offers. "Heard we had a guest" Katri snorts. "What? Edward said you were special" Emmett offers, Katri runs her tongue over her teeth as Carlisle smirks.

"Katri is one of our progenitors" Carlisle points out. "She's an Original, as in....the Original vampires" Katri waves her fingers at Emmett who nods impressed.

"Thought you'd all be creepy and pale and...old" Emmett offers, Katri mockingly laughs, Carlisle smirks.

"Goodbye, Emmett" Carlisle tells him, Emmett leaves the room laughing. Katri and Carlisle share a look. "Look, if it's bothering you this much, maybe you can do something to check on them, maybe compel a contact in the military" Katri touches her chin thinking before handing a cookie to monkey Jack who jumps up onto her shoulder.

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1943: Ark closes his eyes laying back on the medical bed, months of being trapped, captured in a whole with other POW's sucks. It even took it's toll on him and Jack and they're tougher then everyone else. Doesn't mean hearing people screaming didn't bother them, even Jack seemed to show some humility in that place. He shifts on the bed and sighs.

"Stop fidgeting, mate" Jack complains from the bed next to him, they're being kept in or observation just to be on the safe side. "We came, we saw, we got our asses kicked" Jack tells him. "Time for a drink and a nap" Ark huffs a little and looks to him. "What?" Jack asks him. Ark lays back and sets his arm over his face as the medical tent opens and heeled footsteps approach them, a nurse no doubt. The other soldiers are asleep or writhing in pain so they barely look up.

"Hello, I'm Nurse Mikaelson" A voice states, Ark and Jack both snap their heads up, there stood at the end of his bed, dressed as a nurse, is Katri.

"I'll be damned, darling, that's a fetching look on you" Jack offers as Ark chuckles.

"Couldn't let the boys have all the fun, huh, mother?" Ark asks from his bed next to Jack's. Katri shrugs.

"It was this or me sitting at home worrying myself into slaughtering the neighbours" she comments. "And when that letter came" she starts getting upset. "That said you were both..." Ark touches her arm. "MIA"

"We're fine" he assures her. "You know we are" she nods a little and takes a breath. The flap to the tent opens and two soldiers walk in laughing with one another, Ark and Jack both sit up a little.

"Jack, Derek" the blonde states walking towards them. "You both look better" the brunette at his side looks over Katri.

"Kat, this is Steve and Bucky" Jack offers. "Steve is the one who marched in and single handedly rescued everyone" Steve looks down a little.

"It wasn't like that"

"Pretty much was" Bucky argues back nudging Steve who glances to Katri.

"Steve Rogers, ma'am" he offers Katri his hand and she raises an eyebrow.

"Kat Mikaelson" she offers back. "I'm...."

"My sister" Ark offers interrupting her, she raises an eyebrow looking at him.

"You never told us you had a sister, or that she is beautiful" Bucky teases punching Ark's shoulder, Ark glares at him a little at Bucky as Katri snorts.

"It was nice meeting you boys" she comments. "But I have patients to see to" she looks to Ark who nods and then she walks away