Familia • Klaroline [SLOW UPDATES] ✗

𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘹

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"Who the hell are you?"

The girls turned to see Rebekah Mikaelson standing a few feet from the sofa, Elijah not far behind her. Lexi froze up, too stunned to say anything. She'd seen drawings and photographs of her aunt and uncle but it was nothing compared to the real thing.

"Oh we're friends of Davina." Jade said so casually that Lexi herself almost believed it. Technically it was the truth, just avoiding certain details.

"Oh really? I know all of Davina's friends."

"Yeah, we met a couple days ago at The Grill; I work there." Jade was seemingly becoming Lexi's guardian angel, she would thank her endlessly for this. Rebekah narrowed her eyes and gazed at Lexi suspiciously, she was being deathly silent and seemed to have slightly pale.

"Anyway, great chat but we have to go. Can you let Kol know we've gone? Tell him, I have work and Lexi has family coming over today. He should know but knowing him he's probably forgotten already." Jade stood up from the sofa, gripping Lexi's wrist and pulling her up as well. The two put on their coats quickly and left the house before Kol could emerge from the room he was in.

Once they were out of earshot of the house, they both visibly relaxed - Lexi almost collapsed from nervousness. Jade slung her arm casually over Lexi's shoulder and the two began the short walk back to the boarding school.

"You're welcome."

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Alexia burst into her mother's office, words spilling out of her mouth faster than she could think of what to say. Caroline, more than used to one of her daughters tumbling through the door without warning, didn't look up from the folder she was flicking through. The young tribrid continued talking, not realising her mother wasn't paying her much attention.

Caroline sighed at her oldest daughter who was now pacing the length of the office in almost hysteria.

"Here we go." She muttered whilst standing from her chair. She caught Lexi's arms as she paced past her. "What happened?"

"Did you know the originals are in town."

"Technically not all of them are."

"Of course," Lexi scoffed, "When do they get here?"

Caroline turned back to her desk with another sigh. The glanced at the clock hung above the desk and internally cursed, 7.00pm. "They'll be in Mystic Falls within the hour."

Awkward silence followed. Both of the women in the room wished to just crawl into their beds and stay there until noon the next day. But they couldn't hide from the world and their combined stubbornness refused to let them.

Caroline took a breath, prepared to break the quiet surrounding them, "Do you want her to know?"

The young women paused, did she want her sister to know about her? Of course she did! But that would also require her father knowing and the rest of the original family knowing and then by extension, the rest of the supernatural world; the Mikaelson name was the reason she died, she didn't want to find out what other tragedies it would cause. But this was her sister, her dad.

"Yeah."

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Lizzie and Josie walked with purpose down the hallways of the boarding school; their mission clear in their minds. Both their mother and their older sister were locked up in the formers office no doubt wallowing in their feelings.

The moment Jade and Lexi had made it back to the school, the tribrid rushed off to her mother, meanwhile the blonde vampire left to find the Saltzman twins and tell them of their sister's - and no doubt mother's - state.

The two slammed open the door to the office, nearly taking it off its hinges. Caroline refrained herself from making a comment about the dent that was surely forming in the wall behind the door.

Lizzie walked over to her mother and pulled her up out of the chair she was sitting in whilst Josie did the same to Lexi. "Okay! Enough with the moping, us four are going out for dinner and no depressing subjects will be mentioned, okay? Okay!"

Lizzie didn't wait for an answer as she marched out of the room, expecting the others to follow her. Caroline and Lexi shared a look before bursting out into giggles, gripping onto each other's arm and following the determined blonde to The Grill.

Upon arriving the four women slipped into a booth, visible to most of The Grill. All 'depressing topics' as Lizzie referred to them, had been left at the school; they would worry about them later, for now they would enjoy their 'mother-daughter dinner' in peace.

That was until half of the Mikaelson clan waltzed into The Grill twenty minutes later, content and unknown of the Forbes, Saltzman and Mikaelson women sitting in a booth uncomfortably close to where they were standing. Josie was the first to notice them hovering, clearly looking for familiar faces. She kicked her twin, what she thought was subtly, in the leg but resulted in Lizzie screeching in pain and casting an accusing glare to her sister. "What the hell was that for?"

The Mikaelsons, clearly having heard what could only be referred to as Lizzie's pterodactyl scream, turned to the booth they were in. Josie, who was sitting next to Alexia, gripped the tribrids arm and pulled her down so her head was virtually on the wooden table. The brunette was thankful for the tall booth seats otherwise they would still be seen by the Originals.

"Hey, uh Josie? Whatcha doing?" Lexi mumbled as best as she could with her face smushed to the table.

"Originals."

The other three women at the table froze, Caroline and Lizzie subtly shrank down in their seats. "What!" Lizzie hissed.

"It looks like they're looking for someone."

"Most likely me." Caroline said in an uncomfortable tone, her spine was hunched up and her knees were pressing against the table leg in her attempt to stay hidden. Lizzie and Josie looked at their mother confused, Lexi was too busy trying to eat her food whilst not being seen to hear the story again; she'd been in Mystic Falls long enough for the story of the originals and the 'mystic falls scooby gang' to make the rounds.

"We may have, uh... tried to kill them a few times..."

"So honestly god knows how I happened." Lexi snickered.

Josie sat up ever so slightly to peak over the edge of Lizzie and Caroline's seat. The Originals, content that none of the scooby gang were inside The Grill, moved towards a table on the other side of the restaurant, causing Josie to breathe a sigh of relief. That was until the door open and two more people stepped inside.

Klaus and Hope Mikaelson.