The Other Mikaelson- Book 1

Chapter XV

"I was in the mansion, and someone shot an arrow at me. When I woke up, I was in a truck tied up with vervain ropes next to Caroline. Then the car crashed, and Tyler came up to it. Caroline started crying and all that teen drama stuff, and he freed her, but when I asked him to free me, he said, 'keep 'em busy, little sister.' meaning Nik is in Tyler's body!!!" Rebekah explained.

"Oh my god..." Keira said as someone walked out of the mansion. "Nik!"

Nik stood at the top of the stairs and stared down at his sisters. Keira sped up to him, and smacked him.

"Ow!" he said. "The hell is wrong with you?"

"Thought you were dead," Keira said, before hugging him. She pulled away quickly and then smacked him again. "That's for not telling us you were alive," she smacked him again. "That's for pretending to be dead," she smacked him again. "And that's for the twenty dollars you owe me from dinner three centuries ago!"

Rebekah was still staring up with Nik, with a lot more anger than her younger sister.

"Bex?" Keira asked. Rebekah glared at their brother. "Er- I'll, um, leave you two alone for a while, I guess?" she sped into the mansion to her room, before calling Kol.

"I take it I was right?" he said.

"And, someone's gotta tell Elijah," she said. "Since Rebekah and I have already both been killed today while you've been off relaxing who knows where, I say you do it!"

Kol hung up abruptly to call their now oldest brother. Keira then heard yelling from downstairs, and sped down to eavesdrop.

"How dare you save Caroline over me!" yelled Rebekah.

"'Hello brother. Thought you were dead. So pleased you're not!'," Nik said, imitating what he wanted Rebekah to say.

"You left me!"

"I only had time to save one of you and you can't be killed. Rest assured, I had a worse day than you. I think it's time for us to move on; find some more werewolves."

"So you can create your hybrid family? You don't know anything about family!"

"Well, I know how easily they can be silenced with a dagger," Nik said. Keira looked down as she listened. Rebekah growled, picked up something, and threw it at all wall, bursting it. Nik yelled out in anger, and Keira walked out from her hiding spot to see her holding the last two blood bags of doppelganger blood, aka the only blood usable to make hybrids.

"Rebekah..." she said from behind them.

"Drop them," Nik said sharply.

"I mourned you! My heart broke thinking I'd never see you again!" Rebekah cried, Keira watching her siblings fight.

"Put the blood down, Rebekah. There's a good girl," said Nik. Bekah did not oblige.

"It's always been me! Not Finn, not Elijah, not Kol, not Keira, me! I loved you through everything and you don't even care!" Rebekah screamed.

"DROP THEM!!!" Nik yelled angrily. Keira stepped back at his burst of anger.

"You want your family?" Rebekah asked. She squeezed the bags, popping them and making them spill everywhere. "Here's your family!!!" Keira watched, mildly afraid of what her brother could do.

Nik sped to Rebekah and grabbed her by her throat. "You know something, Rebekah, you're right. I don't care. From this moment on; you're not my family, you're not my sister, you are nothing," he said. Keira widened her eyes realizing he had disowned her. He then snapped her neck and she fell to the ground.

"Nik!" she yelled. He stared down at his sisters for a moment, before turning and walking out of the room. Keira knelt by her sister.

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"Rebekah, go inside! Mother wishes you to tend to the meal," said Keira.

"Does she want me to do it, or are you attempting to trick me into volunteering in your place?" Rebekah replied. There stood Keira and Rebekah Mikaelson- except younger. Rebekah was about eight, and Keira was about six.

"Just go inside!" Keira whined. "I don't want to skin that pig alive, it's terrifying and disgusting!"

"Oh, come on, sister! You have to learn how to do it eventually, if you are to marry and be like mother."

"I don't want to though!" Keira said. Her sudden outburst caused Rebekah to fly backwards into the tent, and Keira heard her mother jump in shock. A few seconds later, Keira's older brother Kol, who was nine, came out as well.

"You've really got to learn how to control that, sister," he said. Keira pouted.

"I don't want to kill helpless animals!" she said. Nearby, a fire enlarged momentarily before extinguishing. Kol sighed, before staring at the fire, which reignited immediately. The villagers tending to it stared at them as if to say 'that family is crazy.'

"Bekah's right, you will have to eventually!" Kol said. Keira made her usual six year old angry face. "Finn learned, Elijah learned, Nik learned, I learned, Rebekah learned, and now you have to learn. When mother asks you to do something, just do it!"

"Shouldn't it be Henrik's turn then?" Keira said cheekily.

"Keira, Henrik was born barely a year ago," said Nik from behind them.

"Don't you remember when I tossed you across the room when I was a year old? If I can do it, Henrik can!" Keira said.

"Henrik," said Kol. "Has not tapped into has magical powers, and you know that."

"I still don't want to kill cute defenseless animals!!!!!" Keira said. "They have parents, and brothers, and sisters, just like us!!!" she whined.

"If it makes you feel any better, there are spells that make them not feel any pain," said Kol. Keira pouted and crossed her arms.

"Oh, come on sister. Please don't throw a child tantrum," said Nik.

"What to the animals' families think about their relatives being killed and eaten?"

"Sometimes they just don't care," said Nik. "Sometimes the ones we eat are the runts that no one likes."

"The runts are adorable!" Keira said.

Kol ruffled his sisters hair, messing up her braid. "Like you, little sister."

"Do the parents and siblings disown their family?" Keira asked, looking down a bit sad.

"Yes," said Nik, without remorse.

"Would you ever do that to any of us?" Keira asked her half-brother.

"No."

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"You're a liar, Nik!" Keira yelled, before storming out of the Mikaelson Mansion.