Mors Est Domina

My Previous Life

My eyes opened slowly. They felt itchy from all of the crying. How long had I slept? I decided to walk downstairs, where I was met with a bunch of people.

"Good morning Ms. Bennett." Harper greeted.

"Please call me Maze." I said, sitting on the floor. I could Elijah's and Enzo's stare from the couch.

"Good morning." Anna greeted from the kitchen.

"Good morning." Pearl said.

"Good morning." Tyler and Jeremy said.

"Y'all sound like robots. 'Good morning'." Caroline said. She sat with Klaus behind her.

"GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!" I yelled, startling everyone except Caroline, who just snorted.

"Are you feeling better, Elskan?" Ok, first of all, I swooned at the nickname. Then I realized what had happened before I passed out. My smile faded from my face and was replaced with a sad smile.

"I guess you guys want to know what happened yesterday." Elijah sped over to me and placed me between him and Enzo.

"You don't have to darling. No one can make you." Enzo said, reassuring me. I smiled and shook my head. I needed to get it off of my chest.

"I was born in 1996. I was found in a train station by the train keeper. Someone had left me wrapped in blankets on the train. I was sent to the orphanage. The village was small and very poor. I was born partially deaf, which no one knew. They-uh, they used to whip us and beat us if we didn't do as we were told. Me being partially deaf, got into a lot of trouble." Tears formed in my eyes as the boys held my hands.

"I was adopted by one family. At first it was nice, until they had a baby of their own. I became a slave to them. The uh-the father kept touching me. He said that I was his type. I eventually ran away at the age of ten, where I lived on the streets. I used to get bullied for wearing the same clothes everyday, but I didn't care. I finally got a job at the age of fourteen. One of my coworkers actually allowed me to stay with them. She was my only friend, Maya. She was a sweet old lady. She helped me get set up in an apartment.

I met my first boyfriend in highschool. Senior year. We were in love. At least, I thought we were. When I told him I was pregnant, he freaked out. He wanted me to get rid of it." My hands shook as the memories flooded through my mind.

"I didn't. I wanted to keep it. But one night, he broke into my house. H-he stabbed me. My coworkers found me half-dead the next day. By the time I reached the hospital, it was too late. I lost the baby. And I was told I'd never be able to have children again."

"I am so sorry you had to go through that," Enzo whispered from the crook my neck. Caroline was tearing up in Klaus' arms, who was gritting his teeth.

"I'm sorry about how I reacted yesterday." I apologized quietly to the two boys holding me.

"My dear, you have nothing to apologize for."

"He's right. I'm the one who needs to apologize. I shouldn't have taken advant-" I cut Elijah off, placing my finger on his lips.

"I was the one who accepted it. Do not blame yourself for what I wanted." He nodded and kissed the back of my hand.

"I was twenty-four when I died. I heard a woman screaming in an alleyway and I couldn't help myself from checking it out. I saw a man trying to rape a woman and all I saw was red. I hit him with a pipe, but he had a gun. I got shot three times. But at least the woman was able to get away. When I died, I met this person, Azrael and some lady I forgot her name, sorry. They said that I had been born in the wrong universe, and they sent me to this world."

"When you say universe-"

"You all understand the multi-universe theory?" Everyone nodded in confusion, not understanding where I was going with this. "In my first life, this universe, this-" I waved my arms around, "was a T.V. show." It was Caroline who broke the silence.

"Is that how you know things?" I nodded.

"I lied about being a seer. This is the Vampire Diaries Universe." Tyler almost snorted at the last sentence. "That was how I knew Tyler had the werewolf genes. How I knew about the Salvatores and the dopplegangers. How I knew the Originals before meeting them. And I've been trying to change the future too." Elijah noticed that I was hiding something.

"What aren't you telling us?" He asked softly, stroking my cheeks.

"In the original timeline, Bonnie hated vampires. Caroline would be used as a blood bag by Damon and-" I shut my eyes. "He'd use her. For sex." Klaus roared in anger, ready to kill the Salvatore.

"Klaus! Stop!" Caroline yelled, holding his hands.

"Are you mad love? He-"

"Didn't use me. Bonnie protected me."

"Elena and the O.G. Bonnie weren't close with Caroline. And when she did turn into a vampire, Bonnie turned her back on Caroline. She hated Caroline. Tyler and Jeremy hated each other and were both screwing Vicki, who had turned into a drug addict when her parents left her and Matt. I didn't watch The Originals, but I heard what happened. I'm just going to sum it up. Everyone here dies/died. Klaus broke his curse and slept with this whore name Haley, who killed twelve of his hybrids just so she could find her parents. The reason why she killed them was to help Professor Shane, who wanted to release Silas." I watched Kol tensed.

"Kol gets murdered by Elena and Jeremy, who became one of the five after Elena killed the previous hunter. Finn gets stabbed by the Salvatores with the White Oak stake." The originals froze in fear.

"How did they get the stake?!" Klaus yelled.

"From the Wickery Bridge. But don't worry, I burned it down. Anyways, Klaus kills Tyler and turns him into a hybrid. Speaking of which, Klaus, your mother screwed you over. In order to create hybrids, you need the doppleganger's blood or it won't work. Luckily, I have a spell to revive her. Oh, because you slept with Hailey as a hybrid, you got her pregnant. It's because you are part werewolf that allows you to have children.

Your daughter, Hope, gets cursed by the Hollow and from what I heard, you sacrificed your life for her. Elijah didn't want to live without you, so he decided to join you. You both break a stake of the White Oak and stab each other. I'm not really sure what happened to Rebekah. Sorry, I didn't watch much. I ended up hating Elena so much that I stopped watching." Was I forgetting anything? Oh! Freya!

"Oh yeah, Finn, do you remember Freya?" Finn stiffened and nodded. "She's alive. She actually was Kol's date to a party and wanted introduce herself but Klaus daggered him and she ran off. Your aunt put a spell on her so she'd wake up once every hundred years."

"Who's Freya?" Kol asked. Finn stiffened again, not knowing what to say.

"Perhaps that's another conversation to talk about. For now, let's get Klaus' ritual done. I have the human doppleganger, you picked up Brady."

"Katherine will-"

"Not be the sacrifice." I glared at him, who glared back at me.

"She betrayed me."

"Technically, you betrayed her first. I mean, you courted her only so you could sacrifice her. When she ran, that was the response anyone would do. You've already killed her family. Enough is enough. Let bygones be bygones."

"You don't get to tell me what to do, love."

"Niklaus! She is helping you break your curse. Allow her this request." Elijah jumped in. My hero. I smiled softly at him. Caroline grabbed his face and forced tears in her eyes. Her lips quivered.

"Klaus, please. Will you do it? For me? Even though Katherine ran away, she has suffered for it already. 500 years on the run is not a life to live." Klaus wiped her tears and kissed her gently.

"Alright love, I shall pardon Katerina."

"Whipped." Kol coughed out, earning a dirty glare from Klaus.

"Where is Katerina anyways?" I asked.

"Downstairs."