𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 - Klaus Mikaelson (1)

21. Homecoming

3.09
Present
Mystic Falls

Third person p.o.v.
A small little dog strolled throughout the Salvatore House with somewhat of a smile on his face. Next to him walked his owner. Arabella had a cautious look on her face. She kept hearing noises and whispering inside her house and after the ghost problem they encountered, she was still on edge.

The brunette vampire walked into the library, seeing Rebekah on a couch painting her nails. Rebekah looked up and smiled at her, Arabella smiling back. The smile fell once she saw what, or rather who, was on the ground.

Rebekah sighs. "I know how it looks."

Bucky went up to smell the figure in the floor as Arabella shook her head. "I'd be worried if you didn't."

"Nik killed my mother. He has to pay for what he's done."

Arabella scoffed. "Using Mikael?!"

"We didn't have a choice." Rebekah argued.

Arabella pauses. "We?"

Damon was about to walk into the library, but his senses told him something was wrong. He saw Rebekah glance at him before she turned back to an angry Arabella. Damon's eyes widened before he slowly backed out of the room, leaving Rebekah to deal with his sister.

"Well, you know how your brothers are."

Arabella narrowed her eyes at Mikael's desiccated body. "Did Elena do this?"

Rebekah nodded as Bucky started to lick his grey fingers. Arabella cringed and called her dog to her. Bucky went over and sat down next to her feet as Arabella stared down Rebekah.

"Don't you remember what he's done?"

Rebekah looked up from her painted nails. "Of course I do."

"We lost almost everything because of him. We ran for decades. We lost our home because of him. We lost Marcel-"

"You don't think I know that?" Rebekah snapped back.

Arabella nodded quietly. "I'm sorry, it's just... he's taken so much from us."

Rebekah stands and pulls Arabella into a hug. "I know he has. And don't think for a second that I trust him."

Unknowingly to the girls, the grey veins around Mikael's hands started to disappear as he started to shake his hand in response to being alive again. The girls turned to stare at his turning alive body. Mikael gasps and coughs himself into a sitting position. He sat up and breathed a an awakening sigh.

"Finally." Rebekah announces, making Mikael see the two girls. "Took you long enough."

"Rebekah." Mikael moves his gaze from his daughter to his almost daughter-in-law. "Arabella."

"Oh, so you remember me." Arabella crosses her arms over her chest and glared at Mikael, who ignores her.

"Whatever fatherly rubbish you're thinking, save it." Rebekah states plainly. "Nothing you say matters to me."

Mikael looks down, turning away from Rebekah. "I see." Mikael stands fully from the floor, shooting the two girls glances. "Where's my dagger?"