What Really Happened

Chapter 1

Niklaus Mikaelson was a troubled soul. Often people would use words like monster, paranoid, unforgiving, and outcast to describe him, and those people would be correct. He was all of those things, had been for 1000 years. Almost. People say he is afraid of letting people in, afraid of trusting. And again those people are correct, even if he himself will never admit it. But what they don't know is his story, sure everyone knows that his mother laid with another man to produce Klaus, and that man was a werewolf. Causing Klaus to be a hybrid. But that is a different story, I'm talking about everything that happened between then and when his mother turned him and his siblings into vampires. When he was growing up. The story that all his siblings know by heart, because they woke and slept with it for 1000 years.

It feels like yesterday that little Klaus was born. When he was just a tiny, vulnerable baby. Mikael took his newest son in his hands and cradled him. If he was being honest he was hoping for a daughter, after losing his only one to plague. There was a change in him, Ester noticed, since then. He was colder, and fiercer. But she knew he was just grieving, as she was. If only he knew the true story, he would become angrier than she had ever seen him. Older Finn and Elijah were ecstatic about getting another brother. Elijah because he would no longer be the youngest, and Finn because he found babies fascinating.

As Mikael held Klaus is his hands, Ester couldn't help but feel guilty. She thought of Ansel and how she had forbade him to see his son, hoping that Mikael would except him as his own and ask no questions. So far he had not. The thing she was most concerned about was his werewolf gene. If he triggered it, then everything would be lost.

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1 year later and Niklaus is a happy child, he loves playing with his older siblings, Elijah more than Finn whom he found a little frightening. He didn't yet know that a hatred was brewing in his father's gut for him. Everybody was happy today, he didn't know why, but he could see a bump in mommy's belly that everyone seemed to keep touching.

At the same time another pregnancy was being celebrated, and werewolf pregnancy celebration were always the hottest thing around. The impregnated wolf was celebrated and pampered. They were lifted high in the air. They would laugh and joke and have so much fun. Because for a werewolf, it meant for the next nine months they didn't have to transform.

Baby Kol was born into the Mikaelson family with glee. Again there was a piece of Mikael that was hoping for a girl but this baby struck a cord in him, something he hadn't felt since Elijah was born, it barely registered to him that he didn't feel that with Klaus, that he was his only kid with whom he didn't feel it.

On the other side of the town, baby Serena was born into the Luna family. They were the royalty of werewolves. So naturally there were dozens and dozens of people at the birth. Including a Pack called the Crescents, they had a powerful Alpha who looking to do a wedding ceremony. Little Serena was loved from the moment she was born. She was smiling and crying and she was a downright beauty.

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5 years later, Klaus understands his father. He has seen him at his worst and at his best. He has felt his hardest strike and his most loving touch. But the one thing he could never comprehend is the fact that he seemed to love his sibling more than him. He remembered the day Rebekah was born, the smile that rested upon his father's face. He had never received that look from his father in his memory. He was just learning to hunt and his father was not happy with his slow progress. Elijah would insist that he was just a little boy and he needed time to mature before he could be good at hunting, that he himself wasn't good until a year ago. But his father didn't want to hear it. Mikael was cruel to Niklaus.

Serena lived a happy life with a wonderful family. She was a very curious child. One day she wandered over to the villagers on the far side of the town. The ones that were human. There she met a young boy named Kol. She liked Kol, he was funny and nice.

"Kol, dinner is ready!" a boy not much older than the boy in front of her yelled before he started making his way over to them. "Who is this?" he asked his brother.

"My name is Serena." Serena replied before Kol had a chance.

"I'm Niklause, though I prefer Klaus, or Nik, which ever you like."

"Well hello Klaus, nice meeting you."

"You too, Serena. Now if you will excuse us we have to go to dinner, my father is rather impatient tonight. He's very tired." Something flashed in both the boy's eyes and Serena didn't miss it.

"Of course." She smiled and started to retreat. The next day she returned and played with the two boys. As she did the next day and the next day and the next day, for a long time she went to the place across the town and played with her friends. Until one day she went to dinner with them.

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So this is really short, but chapters will get longer, hopefully. I hope you like this.

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