Family Tragedy | Viking Age AU | book 3

II. But It's Always The Parents' Fault

A/N: In this one there's a lot more backstory I think. Most of the stuff here happened in previous books. Please tell me if it's confusing!!

Anyways, please vote and comment telling me what you think! Enjoy.

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When did the tragedy of the Mikaelson family begin?

Did they ever had a chance to be happy, or were their curses passed down by their parents...

A bit of generational agony to go with their tender tragedy...

The parents... they were the first to love and sin...

Perhaps they were the ones to anger the Gods and to fall into the many traps of Fate...

The Kind Ansel,

Ansel had always hated his werewolf nature. But, by gods, he had always loved Mikael, and he could not say no to him. He had sworn never to go back to his pack, but when his childhood friend asked Ansel to talk to the werewolves, to help bring peace to the new home Mikael was working so desperately hard to build for his family... Ansel could not say now. Besides, with Mikael by his side, Ansel always felt invincible.

So Ansel went back to the place where he killed his own father. He went back to his pack, and with Mikael's help, Ansel became what he never wanted to be: he became his pack's leader. It was one of his first sins.

But maybe his most terrible sin was betraying Esther... his friend, the best friend he ever had in the world. The only other person who loved Mikael just as much as he did. The only other person who knew how wonderful and terrifying Mikael's love could be...

And Ansel broke her trust. They drank together one night, just as they had done many times before, but then... he could not remember. He never wished to remember. So he left. He left Esther with her shame and ran away with his own.

Esther would never look at him in the same way again, and Ansel could never look at her or Mikael in the eye again.

But Ansel was too kind, and too in love with Mikael, to not answer whenever Mikael needed him. Still, he was too afraid to stay with Mikael and Esther when they asked him to be part of their family. Maybe his fear was the one to guide him, the one to make him break Esther's trust and his own self respect....

In the end, He was too much of a coward to follow his heart and let himself be happy for once... was that the only trait he ever passed down to his son?

His son. Klaus. The boy Ansel could never even find the courage to hold. Was Ansel wrong to think Mikael would be a better father, when Mikael was so much better at everything else?

Maybe Ansel was simply too naïve, too faint of heart, and too cruel to claim Niklaus as his son. He would not want to hurt Mikael by telling him the truth... Even if he knew the lies broke Mikael's heart... Even if Ansel knew damn well Mikael could not care less about Ansel's and Esther's betrayal... why would he tell the truth when the cruel voice in the back of his head told him not to do it?

Ansel was sure Mikael would love Klaus as his own, no matter what. Mikael had said it himself more than a dozen times. But every time Ansel lied, pushed and punched Mikael away...

His greatest sin was to leave Mikael when he got on his knees, begging Ansel for forgiveness for a crime he never committed and imploring him to stay with them, to be happy...

But maybe his fatal sin was to be too cruel to let himself love and too weak to stop himself from loving and hurting the ones he loved.

Did the tragedy begin because of Ansel's shame and fear?