E p i s o d e 8 P a r t 3

Aleksios P.O.V:

I speed to the plantation with a very heavy heart. Inside, Rebekah and Nik have already returned and I hear them arguing. I stop outside the mansion and I take a deep breath and I compose myself.

"Are you okay?" I hear Elijah ask from behind me.

"I'm fine." I say in a cold tone, void of emotion. I am still mad at him for believing the worst of our brother.

Elijah and I walk into the mansion, him infront of me and I ignored him. Elijah and I entered the living room in the middle of Bekah and Nik's argument. She has yet to see me.

"Elijah's home. There's only one dagger. Which one of us will you be punishing today?" She asks Nik and I growl and my anger flares. I speed towards her and I grab her in a choke hold against a wall.

"HOW COULD YOU?" I yell out in anger and hurt.

"For centuaries he's taken away everything from me." She says and I throw her to the ground and I look at her in disgust.

"Fair enough. But what had I done to you? Except removing the dagger when Nik wanted to keep you in? Why would you take him from me? You know how we are without one another. Do you really wish to see that again?" I ask her in betrayal and I see guilt in her eyes. I turn away from her and I go to stand by Nik.

"I contemplated a game of eenie-meenie-miney-moe. You betrayed me. My own sister!" Nik roars in hurt.

"Niklaus, don't you dare!" Elijah says and I give him a heated glare.

Nik points the dagger at Elijah. "Perhaps it should be you, brother! Stealing my child away with every fawning moment of tenderness you show to Hayley!" Nik roars again and I almost roll my eyes.

"If he tries it, I'll never forgive him." I say to my twin and Elijah looks taken aback by my words.

"This has nothing to do with Hayley." Elijah defends.

"It has everything to do with her! She's adored you since she arrived. And now my child, my blood, will grow up to call you father!" Nik tells them and I sigh.

"Is that what it is? You are once again worried that you will be left behind? Has history taught you nothing? We don't abandon you, Nik, you drive us away!" Rebekah yells out.

"Just you, not me." I chime up. "And don't yell at him." I say with a glare.

"Is that so? What have I done lately, other than cooperate? I bow down to you, brother, to make up for daggering you. For the greater good of our plan to reclaim our home. Looked the other way, sister, while you repeat the same cycle with Marcel. Falling again for a man you shouldn't be with, while he controls the empire that we built! That he took! Now, I make no excuses for past sins. But in the one moment when you two could have chosen to stand by me- to believe in me, to believe my intentions for my own child were pure- you chose to stand against me, to side with my enemies. Lexie is the only one who always stands by me. I wanted our home back. Now I have it. So, Lexie and I are going to live there. And the two of you... you can stay here together and rot." He tells them.

He angrily shoves the dagger into Elijah's hands as he leaves the house and I follow him.

"Lex." I hear my eldest brother and my sister call in unison but I ignore them and walk up to my twin' side.

Outside, Nik and I find Hayley sitting on the front steps and heads toward the car.

"You're coming with us, little wolf." Nik says in a no no-nonsense tone but this is Hayley we're talking about.

"Why would I go anywhere with you?" She asks with a scoff and I sigh. Wrong choice of words. This can go one of two ways. I pray it's the peaceful way.

"Because, Hayley, that child you carry is the only thing on this earth, besides Lexie, that matters to me. Now you can fight me on. this, but you will lose." He tells her and I smile. He opens the door to the passenger's side of the car and waits for her to get in. "As will anyone else who tries to stop you getting in this car."

"I call shotgun!" I yell out and sprint to the door Nik is holding open.

"Thanks twinie." I say with a smile and I pinch his cheeks and he glares but I see the smile tugging at his lips

I hear Hayley sigh and reluctantly gets into the car. I get in as well. I look at her in the rear view mirror and say:

"Good choice."

"Not much of a choice to begin with." She says bitterly.

"Maybe. But trust me, this is much better than the alternative." I say and my brother gets into the car, having walked at a human pace.

"I figured." She mumbles and I smile slightly and Nik begins to drive away.

"Hey Nik." I say after awhile and he looks over to me.

"Yeah."

"About what you said earlier to our siblings. I love you too." I say with a smile.

"I know. I love you." He says with a smile and I grin.

"How can you be so gentle with her but so harsh with Elijah and Rebekah?" Hayley ask very confused from behind us.

"We're twins." We exlaim in unsion and smile at each other.

"It's more than that though." Nik says after awhile of silence.

"In all of the thousand years, Lexie has never left me, judged me or tried to change me. She has always chosen my side, looked past my faults and stood by my side without a second thought. She has scolded me when nessicary, celebrated when the occasion presented itself, fought with me when running from our father and I have done the same. She is the only one in my family who has truly given me always and forever." He tells Hayley and by the end of this little speech I look in the rearview mirror to see Hayley has some tears im her eyes.

"Wow." She lets out.

"Yes, wow. Lexie is an amazing person underneath her heart of stone." Nik says with a teasing grin.

"And there he is. Here I thought impending daddyhood has softend you completely." I say and we all chuckle.

"Can't have that now can we?" He asks with a grin.

"We most certainly can not." I say with a matching grin but it fades completely when I think of Davina and my heart gives a painful tug.

"You okay?" Nik questions on concern.

"Yes, why?" I ask him.

"Your eyes. Their different I don't know how to explain it, it's like a light has been dimmed." He says confused I just give him a 'later' look and he nods. I'm not surprised that he picked it up, he knows me better than anyone.

The three of us spends the rest of the drive in silence. Arriving at the compound I smile as I think of all the good memories this place has. I was very happy here, with all of my family except Finn. Then Nik daggered Kol. I ignored him for a month before I started talking to him again. Shortly after that our father found us and we had to leave.

"I guess it's true then." I say as I step out of the car.

"What is?" Hayley asks me curiously.

"There's no place like home." Me and my twin and I say together and we exchange soft smiles.

We enter the compound and I see Marcel looking at me nervously. I speed him to a wall and I grab him in a choke hold.

"I should kill you for your betrayal. Someone I thought of as a brother." I snarl at him.

"But I'm not going to. However, from this day forward you are no longer my brother. You may be a friend but that's it." I say to him and I let him go.

"I thought for sure you would kill him." I hear Nik say behind me.

"I want to, badly. But I can't." I say looking Marcel dead in the eye.

"Why?" Marcel asks in curiousity.

"I made a promise to someone spesical to me." I say and Marcel's eyebrows furrow.

"Rebekah?" He asks and I shake my head 'no'.

"I wouldn't make her a promise like that." I tell him honestly.

"Then who?" He questions more confused than ever.

"Remember that girl I told you about?" I ask him and he nods. "Well, I put that to a stop before it got out of control and because of her loyalty to you and then I promised her that you wouldn't die by my of Nik's hand." I tell Marcel. "Sorry Nik. He's off limits." I say glancing at him and he groans.

"No way." Marcel says in disbelief as he puts it together.

"Yes way." I say and his eyead grows three sizes.

"Of all the people in the world." He mutters.

"Tell me about it." I say and I walk towards the staircase.

"And I'm taking back my old room. So whoever took up residence in it better make like a rocket and dissapear." I say over my shoulder.

"There's no one in there. I kept your room empty. Couldn't see someone else in there. I changed it every decade though so it could fit with the times." Marcel says behind me and I nod and speed towards it.

Entering I quickly go into the closet to change. Marcel has good taste, I think to myself as I go through the clothes.

I finally get dressed in a tshirt and some flannel shorts. I plop down on my bed and go to sleep.

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