His Only One

*Chapter One* {Bringing Out the Dead}

For the first time, in nearly a thousand years, the dagger that has been embedded in Finn Mikaelson's chest is removed. Only when the greyish tent to his skin has vanished does his eyes open. He sits up noticing that his siblings, save for Klaus, are in the room as well. His younger sister, Rebekah, is climbing out of a coffin of her own and Kol, his younger brother, is satisfying his thirst.

Upon seeing Kol drink blood from a bag, Finn feels his own thirst burning in his throat. The pain is practically unbearable but he has lived with it for centuries. He's forgotten what it's like to not have the burning sensation. Nonetheless, he's relieved when his brother, Elijah, hands him a bag of blood. Wordlessly, Finn accepts it and drains every drop. It's not nearly enough to satisfying him but it's enough to get him moving.

"What year is it?" Kol asks their noble brother.

"2010," Elijah answered. Finn's heart drops like stone in water. He knew he had been in the coffin for a long time but he could hardly believe that they left him in there for as long as they had. However, he knew Elijah spoke the truth for he had no reason to lie.

"Well, at least I haven't missed much," Rebekah sighs feeling some relief that she hadn't been daggered for years but mere weeks, perhaps months.

"Our father is dead," Elijah informs them. Finn looks at him in disbelief. The man who had haunted them for so long is dead?

"And what of Niklaus?" Kol asks. The disbelief in Finn washes away and is filled with anger towards his bastard brother. He quickly flashes out of his coffin, eager to inflict some sort of revenge for being abandoned for so many years.

"Upstairs," Elijah motions to the staircase. "Follow me," He leads his siblings out of the basement and up to the main room. Finn is momentarily taken back by how updated everything is.

"Elijah... Why haven't you left?" Klaus asks apprehensively. 

"Where are your manners, brother? We forgot dessert" Elijah says uncovering the two silver daggers, the third clutched in their sister's hand.

"What have you done?" Klaus whispers.

"What have you done?" Elijah retorted. "You see, I've learned not to trust your vulgar promises, Klaus. We're doing this on my terms now,"

"Kol," Klaus breathes as he's the first to enter the room.

"Long time, brother" Kol smirks enjoying the fear clearly displayed in not only Klaus's eyes but in his expression as well. Finn steps into the room and is quick to grab a dagger.

"Finn, don't!" Klaus pleads but it falls in deaf ears. The eldest brother races forwards and stabs him through the hand. Klaus tries to escape but ends up being blocked by Rebekah. She stabs him with her dagger dedicating it to their mother.

"You're free to go, this is family business" Elijah tells the two vampires that are also in the room. Finn spares them a glance but doesn't think much of it as he turns his attention back to his hybrid brother.

"I like what you've done with the new place, Nik" Rebekah says walking around. She picks up a vase and smashes it into a painting.

"I wanted it to be for all of us," Klaus painfully confesses. "A place we could all call home. A place we could all be a family. None of us would ever have to be alone again," Finn could help but to snarl at the audacity of his brother. How dare he consider them all family when they all left him to suffer in immobile silence for centuries on end.

"Well, you're right, none of us will be" Elijah agrees with him.

"You're staying behind," Finn tells him.