Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

eight

"A werewolf" Aria realised.

"Yeah, it's the Lockwood diaries" Damon said, "Pictionary style".

"I don't understand" Elena said, "I thought the Lockwood came here with the original founders in the 1860s".

"This isn't the Lockwoods" Aria said, "This is the people who we used to live near".

"What do you mean?" Alaric asked.

"In my past life, me and the Original family, we used be neighbors to werewolfs, that's how Henrik died, and that's why vampires were made, to protect themselves against werewolves" Aria explained.

"How were vampires made exactly?" Elena asked.

"I-I don't know" Aria replied, her head starting to hurt.

"Ria" Damon warned, "Don't strain yourself, just relax, Ric show her the rest".

"Names, and they're not native, they're written in runic" Alaric showed, "A viking script".

"Vikings?" Elena asked shocked.

"This name here, when translated, reads Niklaus" Alaric revealed.

"Klaus" Elena realised.

"And Elijah" Alaric read, "Rebekah, these two names is what made me and Damon realise that Aria has been here before and that this isn't fake, it's very real".

"What do they say?" Elena asked confused.

"Ariana and Kol" Aria said, her mind suddenly remembering the time the names were written.

"Rebekah, let me have at it" Klaus complained, as Rebekah carved her name into the cave.

"Quiet, Niklaus" Rebekah snapped, "I'm to have my concentration if I'm not to slice off a finger".

"Father will not like you handling the blade" Klaus said.

"Well your father isn't going to find out" Ariana said, walking into the cave with Kol right beside her, "Finn and Elijah took it upon themselves to make sure Mikael doesn't realise where we are, their only condition, that we don't forget to crave their names in the cave as well".

"Let's face it darling, whether they told you or not, you were going to regardless crave the whole Mikaelson family's name down here" Kol teased.

"Everyone except your mother" Ariana joked, "Plus, people need to know who we are, in a hundred years time, other people will move into this village, they must know who lived here first, it's all about--".

"Leaving behind a mark" Klaus, Kol and Rebekah said simultaneously, making Ariana look at them sheepishly.

"You know, you can make fun of me all you want, but you all know I'm right" Ariana said.

"We never said you weren't" Rebekah said, "Here, finish the job".

"Oh, so you give the blade to her but not to me" Klaus complained.