Revelations - Klaus Mikaelson

Chapter 6; Getting her back

Lilly

It’s been a couple of days since we started to help bring Phoebes memories back and I’ve stayed away apart from when I needed to dose her up with more wolfsbane and witch hazel, so to help block the noises coming from downstairs I busied myself with searching up my birth family.

“How’s it going?” I asked Nik as he walked into the room. “We’ll get there” He promised as he came and sat next to me. “We’ll need a miracle” I whispered as I rested my head on his shoulder. “Atticus said the witch hazels wearing off” Nik spoke softly running his hand through my hair.

“Okay” I whispered before pressing my lips against his and heading up to my witch room to collect the witch hazel along with the wolfsbane and vervain to make my daughter weak, it’s the only way to keep her weak as she’s all three species.

Walking down the stairs leading down to the basement Kol appeared with blood on his hands making me cringe, I didn’t even wanna begin to think about what he had been doing to her. “She’s all yours”

Everytime I come down here they all leave, I guess it’s because this is the only time I get to spend time with her. “Is it my daily visit again?” Phoebe asked as I stepped into her view. “It looks that way doesn’t it” I spoke as I stared at her, it hurt me seeing her like this.

“So what are we talking about today?” She asked with an amused smile on her face. “Nothing” I spoke as I stuck the needle into her neck, once the needle was poison free I pulled it out before walking back towards the stairs to leave.

“When I was a child I had this dream” Phoebe started making me stop in my place at the bottom of the stairs, this is the first time she’s started a conversation with me since she flipped the switch. “There was a woman and a man, they used to tell me stories” I turned around to face her, interested in what she was saying.

“Stories about what?” I asked her. “You” I raised my eyebrow confused. “Me?” I pointed to myself confused. “Yes, how you used to be such a sweet young girl and you didn’t deserve the life you was given and how they were sorry for it because I wouldn’t have had the life I had”

“What?” I whispered shocked, someone knew about the life I lived and told her in her dreams? “If you ask me you deserved everything Giuseppe did to you and I’m glad I got sent to some other family, they made better parents then you could ever be” She spat, I blinked the tears away as I turned back around and walked back upstairs making sure I didn’t burst into tears in front of her.

I ignored the others as I grabbed my coat and the keys to the car before walking out of the house and sped off in the car. I didn’t want to be there anymore knowing everyone heard what she had said and be sat getting sympathy looks from them all, it didn’t help that I was having constant flashbacks of all the times Giuseppe abused me.

I didn’t even know where I was driving to I just turned when I felt like it I wasn’t even thinking about it, but after a while I came to a dead end making me pull over and look around my surroundings, I was near a trail that led to god knows where.

Wherever I was I felt safe enough to sit and think without taking precautions, I could sit and be lost in my own thoughts without worrying about someone coming to attack or anything.

As I sat playing with my lapis lazuli ring I thought about my life, I did nothing to deserve the life I was dealt, the only thing I’m happy with is my husband, siblings-in-law, and children, yea I enjoy the whole immortality thing but when you have nothing but bad memories it makes it a lot harder. Alcohol helps, but I’m not allowed any of it since I’m carrying a miracle child.

It’s what I’d be doing now; drowning my sorrows in alcohol, but instead I’m sat in a car in the middle of nowhere, remembering everything bad that’s happened to me, getting abused by Giuseppe, loosing Phoebe, not being strong enough to save or protect her, loosing Nik, being held captive by Mikael for 71 years, finding out that I was left on the Salvatore’s doorstep, and now my own daughter flipped the switch.

Hearing the passenger door open I snapped my head to see who it was expecting it to be Nik, but it was a man who I didn’t know, he had dark curly hair and a beard. “Who the hell are you? Get the hell out of my car”

“You’re far away from home princess, what’s troubling you?” The man asked completely ignoring the fact that I’ve just asked him to get the hell out of my car.

“You have three seconds to get out of my car before I kill you” I threatened him but he burst out laughing. “You can’t” He winked at me before growing serious. “It’ll all get better soon” He spoke with conviction making me chuckle “What are you? A witch?” I asked squinting my eyes trying to sense any magic from him but there was nothing. “You’ve just answered your own question” He smiled at me before it went silent.

“Who and what are you?” I asked after I couldn’t read him. “I’m someone who knows you very well” He answered vaguely. “That doesn’t answer my question” I snapped glaring at him.

“You’ll get your answers soon but for now be patient. Go home back to your family, get to know your brother again, bring your daughter back and when you get your answers you’ll know what to do” He stated making me stare at him shocked.

How the hell does he know about what’s going on in my life.

Once I snapped out of it I noticed he had disappeared and the passenger door was left open. Who the hell is he? Something he said was repeating again and again in my head. ‘Get to know your brother again’ My eyes widened remembering the memory me and Atticus had a couple of days ago, we weren’t babies we was about 4 or 5.

But Lillian said I was left on their doorstep when I was a baby.

My jaw dropped by the time I realized what happened to us, someone must have put a spell on both me and Atticus making us newborns again.

How old am I?!

Starting the car back up I made my way back to the house. It took some time since I didn’t think about using the Sat Nav and I was enjoying myself just driving around on my own, it gave me time to think about everything.

By the time I pulled up outside the mansion it was dark and as I looked at my phone I realised I had a bunch of missed calls and messages from the family, rolling my eyes I quickly made my way inside to see what damage had happened since I left, there’s always something going off in this household.

Surprisingly they weren’t panicking the seven of them was sat in the seating room relaxing and they were all calm, there wasn’t any arguing. As I walked in they all looked at me giving me small smiles before going back to what they were doing.

“Where did you end up going to?” Nik asked as I laid down on one of the couches. “I don’t really know, but I just sat and thought” I shrugged earning a small smile before he went back to his sketching.

I looked over at Atticus who was reading one of his grimoires. “Have you thought about the memory at all?” He snapped his head up looking at me confused. “Not really” He shrugged. “Neither have I until tonight… We looked about 4 or 5 Atticus. I was under the impression we were given away at birth” By the time I finished talking I had all eyes on me. “I never thought of that” Atticus mumbled. “They turned us into newborns” He stated making me nod.

“My thoughts exactly… Any idea how old we actually are?” I asked as we both stared at eachother, this whole thing was starting to get crazy.

We need answers, I’m tired of not knowing anymore, I don’t even bloody know my own age anymore! “Can a witch do that?” Henrik asked confused. “If they have enough strength and magic...” Atticus trailed off. “They had to be super powerful, like me, Atticus and Phoebe put together powerful” I added making his eyes grow wide while me and Atticus looked at eachother.

Who the hell is our family?!

By the time everyone was in bed, I was laid wide awake.

I couldn’t sleep, unlike Nik who stayed awake for a while to have a cuddle with me promising me we’d get through it all before he fell to sleep, and here I was laid wide awake at 4 o’clock in the morning listening to everyone’s laboured breathing indicating that they were all asleep. If I listened closely enough I could also hear Phoebes.

Not wanting to lay there anymore I slid out of bed doing my best not to wake Nik before I silently made my way downstairs. I wanted to sit with Phoebe and since she’s asleep it was the one time I could sit with her and not get verbally attacked by her. As I stood at the bottom of the step looking over at my sleeping daughter I couldn’t help but let the tear drop.

“I wish it didn’t have to be like this” I whispered as I walked over towards the wall before sitting down on the floor with my back against it, still looking at the sleeping Phoebe. “Everything you said about me not knowing who I am, was right. I don’t know who I am” I admitted, since I knew nobody was listening to me. “I figured out today that I’m a lot older than I thought I was… I needed you there with me.” I spoke rubbing my hands over my face. “I need to know, not just for me, but for you, for your brother or sister. I need answers… How can I be a good mother, if I don’t even know who I am?” I asked myself shaking my head in disbelief.

I’m not a good mother, look what’s already happened to Phoebe.

“I know you don’t like the fact that I’ll be able to bring this child up right from birth but I couldn’t with you and I apologise for that. If I could have done anything to get you back, I would have done. It was one of the best and worst days of my life… I gave birth to a beautiful little girl, but before I could even hold you, you were gone” I whispered, remembering when I gave birth to her.

Lillian telling me that everything was going to be okay and that a couple of more pushes and I’d have my daughter in my arms, but I never did.

“You are one of the most important people to me, Phoebe. You were as soon as I found out I was pregnant with you, I thought I’d be able to have a better life with you, my daughter…” I trailed off before sighing and standing up, ready to head up to bed to try and get to sleep before the whole house wakes up.

Just as I was about to head upstairs I stopped when I heard something I didn’t think I’d ever hear again. “I love you mum” I quickly turned around and stared at my daughter in shock.

Once I snapped out of it I realized Phoebe was hysterical, her whole body was shaking as a river of tears fell down her cheeks. I rushed over to her quickly using my magic to take the chains off her and pulled her into a hug.

“Shh, shh. Everything’s okay, sweetheart” I tried to calm her down but it was no use. “I-I’m so sorry” She cried as she clung onto me. “It’s okay” I tried to reassure her. “How do you not hate me?” She cried making me pull away grabbing her head in my hands, making her look at me.

“Oh, my sweet girl, I could never hate you, you’re my daughter. No matter what you do I could never hate you” I promised her with nothing but honesty in my voice. “But I tried to kill you and the baby” She cried as she flicked her eyes to my stomach. “We’re both fine, honestly, listen” I told her making her listen in, when she heard the baby’s heartbeat she let out a sigh before pulling me into a hug.

“I love you mummy. I’m so sorry for everything I said, you’re a brilliant mum” She told me making me give her a weak smile.

I wasn’t a good mum, but I will be from now on.

“Come on, let’s get you cleaned up and get into bed before the whole house wakes up” I told her going to pull her up out of the chair but she quickly shook her head vigorously. “They all hate me” She cried making me sigh. “They don’t hate you Phoebe, they love you” I promised her but she wasn’t having any of it.

As I thought of a way to convince her otherwise the basement door opened making Phoebe hide behind me hoping they wouldn’t see her. “She’s right princess” Nik spoke as he walked down the steps. “We all love you and everything we did to you was to just bring you back, It wasn’t out of hate”

I looked behind me at Phoebe smiling her. “So are we going upstairs to get you cleaned up?” I asked her receiving a nod from her, before smiling widely at Nik.

As Phoebe walked past Nik, she quickly gave him a hug. “I love you too daddy” She kissed his cheek, before walking up the stairs. “I’ll go get cleaned up” She told me before disappearing.

“How long was you listening?” I asked him raising my eyebrows and my lips twitching in amusement. “Since you left the bedroom” He answered honestly. “I wasn’t asleep, I knew that at one point you’d end up coming down here to talk to her, especially with what’s bound to be going off in your head right now and if it turned nasty I wanted to be there for you, but it didn’t so go spend the night with our daughter” He told me before pulling me into a kiss.

“I love you” I whispered once we pulled away. “I love you too” He smiled down at me before I pressed my lips against his. “Now go spend the night with Phoebe” He winked at me making me smile at him and peck his cheek before rushing up to Phoebes room.

As I walked in she was all freshened up and laid in bed. “Do you want some company tonight?” I asked her, making her smile widely at me. “You don’t have to mum, I’m sure I can manage to sleep in my own bed” She laughed making me roll my eyes. “Even so, move over” I told her before sliding under the cover.

“I want to help you” Phoebe whispered breaking the silence between us. “Help with what?” I asked confused as I stared up at the celling. “Finding your parents” She elaborated. “You and Uncle Atticus” She added making my eyes widened.

“Are you sure?” I asked not wanting to force her into spending time with Atticus. “Yes…. Goodnight, mother. I love you” She whispered tiredly.

I turned my head towards her being able to see her thanks to my supervision. “I love you too sweetheart” I whispered back before falling to sleep with a big smile on my face.

I have my daughter back.