Young Anastasia ⬇️
At first, the change were slight. You would never really notice if you didn't really play attention.
As the girls grew you could see who was clearly favored by a majority of their family. Hope as the firstborn was always praised while Anastasia was usually left behind.
Her Uncle Elijah, Uncle Kol, and Aunt Davina along with Marcel, and the twins had always been there for the second-born Mikaelson heir. She was a different from her family, she was mutant. At a young age, she found out that her ability to have dragon like powers and spells.
Davina and Kol helped her control her abilities but not fully by the age of 7, she was extremely powerful she was receiving from her family. There were two people she wanted it from the most. Her mother and father.
Every chance she could, she tried to show them something that she had learned from her Aunt and Uncle they ignored her because she was a freak.
It broke the girl's heart because these were her parents. They were supposed to show her love, and they did show love, but only to Hope.
Anastasia as always slightly envious of her sister. Mainly because she was showered with love from their parents.
When Keelin became more frequent face at the compound she also took notice of how Klaus, Hayley, Rebekah, Clark, Loki, Cheryl, and Freya always paid more attention to the firstborn.
Keelin made sure to spend time with the youngest who always appreciated her company. The ones who watched over Anastasia noticed how intelligent she was and began to jot down every single thing she did.
They would later come to find out that their Princess was a genius.
They all watched as Anastasia slowly built a wall around herself. She wasn't the bright, bubbly, happy little girl they had grown used to seeing, and it hurt them. A lot.
They were determined to bring their sweet Star back. It took them quite a while. But they managed to get her back. They reassured her that they loved her and that was what mattered, but she still couldn't help but feel upset at the prospect of her other family members loving her.
For Mother's Day, she had decided she would give her mother and aunts something that would make them notice her.
On the morning of Mother's Day, she stepped into Hayley's bedroom as she was part cat she was stealth and left a beautiful flower crow that she made herself along with a card.
For her aunts, she made poems about them and painted them a portrait. It took her a month to paint the portraits.
For Davina and Keelin, she was quite nervous that they weren't going to like what she had gotten them.
Even though Keelin wasn't related to her by blood or marriage yet, Anastasia still saw her as family.
After delivering the gifts for her mother and aunts she entered Elijah and Kol's room with a frightened look on her face.
"Hello, darling." Kol said to his beloved niece as she climbed on the bed in her cat form.
"Hi, Uncle Elijah, Uncle Kol and Aunt David." She said quietly. She scooted closer to Davina who was in the room who put the small girl on her lap.
"What's the matter Dragon?" Davina asked the child.
"Nothing. Just nervous." She replied quietly but was still heard.
Elijah, Kol and Davina looked at each other confused. Why was she nervous? They were determined to find out.
"What are you nervous about, darling?" Elijah asked. He caught out of the corner of his eye. She was holding something more specifically a card and a small box.
A small knowing smile grew on his face. He remembered that today was Mother's Day.
"Happy Mother's Day, Auntie Davina." She said with a small smile on her face as she handed Davina the box and card.
Davina smiled widely at her niece.
Davina opened the box and gasped at what she saw. It was a necklace. It looked like it had the colors of the rainbow on it.
"Auntie Keelin helped me pick it out. The color are supposed to be the seven healing chakras." Anastasia explained.
"It's a beautiful necklace Princess. I'll never take it off." Davina told Anastasia and Kol helped put the necklace around her neck.
"I have a matching one so we'll look the same!" The blonde child said as she showed Davina her matching necklace.
"You look like twins now." Kol and Elijah teased their niece lightly as they began to tickle her. While he was distracted Anastasia, it gave Davina time to read the card she given her.
"Auntie Davina, Happy Mother's Day! You are the best auntie in the whole wide world!! You make me smile and I love you sooooooo much! Love to the moon and back, Your Princess."
Davina teared up. When Elijah, Kol and Anastasia were finished goofing around, she pulled the girl into a hug and kissed all over her face.
"I love you Little Princess." Davina whispered. "Love you too." Anastasia whispered back.
Elijah and Kol watched with a smile on her face.
Later that day, Anastasia was sitting with Keelin as she finished up some work. It was about a patient with mental health issues and the youngest Mikaelson heir could feel their emotions and was intrigued.
Something the ones who looked after Anastasia noticed quickly was that she loved the human and mutant mind and how it worked. Her favorite thing to read besides her language were about medical.
While her sister would probably never work a day in her life because the Mikaelson's were very rich; Stella was determined to help others. She decided at the very young age of 7, that she would become something that involved the field of helping people, including mutants.
"All done?" Keelin cheered as she finished the last of her work and Anastasia clapped for her. "Now what did you want to show me?" Keelin asked, all of her attention on the blonde.
Anastasia became slightly bashful as she handed Keelin a card and a box. "Happy Mother's Day, Auntie Keelin." Anastasia said to the wolf.
Keelin smiled as the girl and pulled her into a hug. "Thank you." Keelin said and opened the box. Her eyes widened when she was the beautiful wolf necklace inside.
"Like the one you helped me pick out for Auntie Davina I have one too." Anastasia explained and showed the wolf necklace that was around her neck.
"It's beautiful Anya. Can you help me put it on?" Keelin asked the girl who nodded and began to try and put the necklace on the werewolf's neck. That gave Keelin time to read the card.
"Auntie Keelin, Happy Mother's Day! I know you aren't technically my Aunt but you've done so much for me! You always make me smile and I love you soooooo much! Love you to the moon and back, Your Princess."
The girl cheered as she finally got the clasp closed on the necklace properly.
"What do you want to do now?" Keelin asked the blonde Mikaelson child. She watched her face crinkle and in concentration before nodding to herself.
"Can we go to the cemetery?" Anastasia asked. Keelin was surprised and hearing the little Mikaelson's request Elijah, Kol and Davina who were in the next room came in confused.
"Why would you want to go there Anya?" Davina questioned the girl.
"To see Grandma Esther." The child answered simply as if it was the easiest thing in the world.
Elijah and Kol visibly tensed. Anastasia was too smart for her own good and had wormed the truth about her grandparents out of them and how their mother had turned them into vampires.
"Why would you want to see her?" Elijah asked still very tense. His and Kol niece, noticing their disposition climbed into Elijah's lap and felt his form relax.
"It's Mother's Day. Even though she's done bad things, it doesn't mean she should go unvisited on Mother's Day." Anastasia explained.
The four adults were in shock.
"When did you get so smart?" Kol teased the 7-year-old as he tickled her sides lightly. "I don't know. I was just thinking about it and it's only fair that one of her grandkids visits her on Mother's Day." She shrugged.
So off they went to the cemetery.
In her hand was a small bouquet of wildflowers that she had picked and were now placed in front of the headstone. Elijah, Kol, Davina and Keelin backed away to let her have her space but she was still in their sight and for Elijah, Kol and Keelin, their hearing range.
"Hi Grandma Esther, I don't know if you know who I am. But my name is Anastasia Rose Mikaelson. The daughter of your son and the werewolf Hayley Marshall. And I am what people call me a mutant. I wanted to come and visit you today because it's Mother's Day and you deserved to be visited. Even though you made mistakes in the past I understand your need to do what you felt was right. Even if it was wrong for others. My parents won't bring Hope here but I convinced Uncle Elijah, Uncle Kol, and Aunt Davina, along with Keelin to allow me to come and see you. I want you to know that I Love You, Grandma. Even though you may not believe you deserved love after everything you did. I'm here to tell you that you do. I'll be back to visit more often and I will visit Grandpa Mikael and Grandpa Ansel's grave more often and I'll visit them on Father's Day! I will wish you were here to help Aunt Davina teach me to control my powers, it would be really special to learn from you. It's starting to get dark outside so I have to go now but I'll see you soon Grandma! I love you to the moon and back!" Anastasia said to the headstone and walked back to Elijah, Kol, Davina, and Keelin unaware that they had heard her entire one-sided conversation to Esther.
As Kol scooped up his niece and the five of them walked out of the cemetery, no one could see the spirit of Esther, Mikael, and Ansel looking at the head of blonde hair with smiles on their faces.
Yes, the great and fearsome Mikael was smiling.
Every Mother's Day and Father's Day she would visit every single one of her family members and spend time talking to their graves. The spirits forms watched her grow into the beautiful young mutant girl she had now become.
But they didn't know that those visits would be the last visits they would receive for a while.
Davina's Necklace ⬇️
Keelin's Necklace ⬇️