E p i s o d e 8 P a r t 2

Aleksios P.O.V:

"It's Marcel. He tried to dagger me. And Rebekah helped him." He says in a vunrable and hurt voice. My anger flares and I feel my eyes glow and my fangs grow. I speed of the bed so that Davina doesn't see me like this.

"What?" I ask in a low tone, laced with hurt and confusion. My own sister and the guy I thought of as a brother betrayed me like this. I know it's Nik they tried to take down but we're twins. We're a package deal.

"He ambushed me, Rebekah she was there too. I fought off Marcel's vampires until he picked up the coin I put down." He tells me in a hurt voice.

"I'm sorry." I tell him, hurt and anger evident in my tone aswell.

"Can you come to the plantation?" He asked me and I nod before I realise he couldn't see him.

"Yeah. I'll be right over." I say, my anger still flaring and I hang up.

I let our a roar of hurt and anger and my chest burns in hurt from their betrayal as it heaves up and down from the roar I let out.

How could she do this to him? To me?

I feel tiny arms wrap themselves around my waist from behind and my anger melts away but my hurt is still there. I turn around and I bury my face in the crook of her neck. Taking a deep breath of her scent I take a step back.

"Marcel is dead." I say and I see Davina's eyes widen.

"No!" She says and she thrusts out her hands and releases a wave of magic but since magic doesn't work on me I just stand there looking at her with hurt.

"You'd really use you're magic on me?" I ask her in disbelief.

"I'm sorry." She says softly anf I nod, accepting her apology.

And as soon as she spoke her next sentance shit started to hit the fan.

"Just don't kill Marcel. Please." She asks and I furrow my eyebrow.

"Love, he not only betrayed me but my brother as well. If I don't kill him, my brother will." I tell her honestly.

"Then I'll kill your brother." She says confidently and her words hits me like a slap in the face. I take a step back from her. Not her too. Marcel and Rebekh going after my twin I can still handle. But her? The girl my brother, and I maybe, think I'm falling in love with. I don't think I can take it.

"What?" I ask in what was meant to be a strong voice but came our a hurt and broken tone with tears welling up in my eyes. I haven't cried since Kol died and before that I only cried back when I was human.

"Aleksios, I-" She starts in a apologetic tone but I cut her off.

"Don't tell me you don't mean it or that you're sorry because if you really didn't, you wouldn't have said it in the first place." I tell her in the same whisper with a tear slipping down my cheek and I wipe it away quickly.

In all of a thousand years I have never felt emotion like this, this kind of hurt. Not even just now when Nik told me what Bekah had done. It hurts badly, it hurts so bad. Is this what happens when you let someone in? You give them the power to hurt you? I hardly know her and she has me shedding tears. No, I can't have this. I need to stop these feelings before they destroy me. I need to walk away.

"Can I jus-" She says but I cut her off again. I see the hurt in her eyes and I know she is feeling just like I am.

Hurt.

God, how I hate that word the feeling even more, because putting it simply: it sucks.

"No. Don't say anything. Just listen." I state in a firm tone and just nods.

"I know my brother isn't always with best person. Hell, I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person he's never had serious fight with or betrayed or tried to kill. But that's just the thing he's my brother. My twin, my best friend. Has been for a thousand years. In our millenia long life, each other was the one constant thing we had besides our siblings. I get why you'd want to take him down but you need to understand that when you go against him, you go against me. That goes for our entire family: you mess with one of us and we all mess with you. Well, when we aren't busy fighting amongst ourselves." I tell her and I see her shedding some tears. I ache to go forward and wipe the tears away and hug her tightly. But I don't. I stay where I am even though every fibre of my being is screaming at me to reach forward and do it.

"What about you and me?" She chokes out and my chest tightens, as if though I am being suffocated.

"Lets be real here, this-" I say gesturing between the two of us. "-whatever this is, was not going anywhere." I say and it hurts so damn much do say this to her and the heartbroken expression on her face says she's hurting just as much.

"I'll make you one last promise though. I promise Marcel will not die but my or by Nik's hand. More than that I can not give you." I tell her and I turn around to leave.

"Aleksios." She call out in a whisper and I turn back.

"Yes?" I ask her crossing my arms over my chest.

"You-you haven't called me love." She says, her voice thick with emotion.

"I know." I say nodding sadly.

"No." She says and her face pales but her words are in a firm tone, but I can sense the emotion in it, as she realises what I'm doing.

"You don't get to walk away." She say, her voice rising.

"And why not?" I ask her my voice raising as well but not screaming level.

"Because you don't! Because whatever this is, I want it! And I know you want it too!" She yells at me and tears wells up in my eyes again but I blink them away.

"You're right. I do want this." I say nodding and hope sparks in her eyes. "But my brother will always come first. It's part of being a Mikaelson. Family above all." I complete my sentance and all hope dies in her eyes.

I turn around to walk away from her and stop this before it truely began. For both our sanities.

"Aleksios, please don't walk away." She pleads in a broken whisper.

Without turning around to her I say the two words that will break both of us in one way or another:

"Goodbye Davina."

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I know, what have I done? But what's that saying: it always gets worse before it gets better.

Anyway, here you go, enjoy.

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-mixie_2000