Brother |TW x TVD x TO

Five

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"You're a good person, Nikki."

Niklaus fidgeted with his fingers, looking at them with tears in his eyes. He didn't react.

"Liking someone doesn't make you a bad person."

"But what if it's wrong, who I like?"

The sixteen year old brunet sighed.

"There is no such thing. You're speaking about love as if it's a horrifying thing, trying to eat you alive."

"Maybe it is— trying to eat me alive, I mean."

The boy sighed again, "maybe you're just scared."

"I'm not. I'm just—" he sighed back, and paused to catch his breath— "I'm terrified. This love is wrong and, and I just want to kiss them. But I know they shall be punished."

"What makes you say that?"

He finally looked up to meet the stunning brown eyes.

"Because it is a sin."

"But isn't a sin different in everyone's eyes? Some may say one is a sin, but others may say the other is a sin."

He shrugged, "maybe."

The brunet tilted his chin up, "I promise that one day, your love will be praised."

He tugged his hair behind his own ear and let his chin rest on the slender finger. "You promise?" He murmured.

The brunet smiled and his beautiful pale cheeks got colour, dimples showing. "I shall promise to you."

Then in a surge of hope—foolish hope— he connected their lips.

***

 Klaus shook his head free of the memory. It still doesn't do anything but bring him pain. "Just like Elena is one, Stiles is too. Sort of. He's more than that. He is a miracle.  But... he died. And that was my fault."

 "How could it have been your fault?" Allison asks softly.

 Klaus sighs. "Let me tell you about the day he died, the day he died in my arms."

***

 The whips hurt, Mikael made sure of that. The brunet was punished along with Niklaus. It made no sense as why, yet it happened. The brunet tried to keep quiet, but failed. They were being punished for being caught kissing. With one last whip, the brunet stilled. His chest stopped heaving and Mikael grunted. "The rat couldn't even survive this. How weaklings survive so long, we shall never know."

Niklaus tried not to cry. He vowed to himself that he would make Mikael pay. Pay for stealing something so pure from him.

***

"I still haven't forgiven him."

"That's horrible, he died just because someone ratted you out?"

"Rebekah did."

TSDG2.0 gasped. "So that is why you--" Klaus nods. 

"OI! NIKKI! LET ME OUT!" Klaus sighed, "looks like he's awake."