Wish I were dead

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Kol, Rebekah, and I arrive at the dinner the next day by nightfall

as soon as we walk in Elijah stands

I put Hope's carrier on the table and shake his hand, Kol nods, and Rebekah hugs him

Rebekah slides in the booth on his side as Kol and I sit on the other

he picks her up

"Look at you" he utters "so big. So perfect"

"Yup" I chirp "She has favorites and it won't be you"

Elijah stares at me before looking back at Hope

"Lijah is jealous" Kol snickers "because he's not even second favorite"

"It's because I am" Rebekah laughs

Elijah smiles "I can't imagine the joy of spending every day with her. It's.."

"Amazing" "brilliant" comes from Kol and I

"Quite Lovely" Bekah sighs "It would feel human without hooligans' one and two"

"Yes...some would argue the most human of experiences" Elijah recites out of a book

I sigh "Makes me miss Ace"

Elijah continues to rock Hope

"Yes. Unfortunately, we can never have a happy existence with our curse"

Kol whistles "mother did some damage on you"

"Yes, Mother tortured me for days with memories I thought I'd buried long ago" then big brother licks his lips "then, she mad an offer...to make us all mortal again" Rebekah of course goes silent "You see, siblings of mine, she believes that by placing us in new bodies, we can then reclaim some kind of...purity. We can begin families of our own again. And, I have to confess....this invitation, however cruel in delivery, had a certain appeal"

I scoff "I already had a family. She killed my son and now my wife is dead"

Kol nods "Ya, why would I want to be human. I'm my amazing self now"

Rebekah holds Elijah's sleeve

"You needn't worry" Elijah says "We're safe"

Rebekah licks her lips

this signals to Kol and I that something is wrong

we got the system when there were all those party's in Jamaica

Kol tenses next to me looking at Elijah's sleeve

when he looks up I look

a stain...

"Looks like this little one needs her diaper changed" I say getting up and taking Hope

going towards the kitchen I find bodies drained of blood

my fingers cross behind my back signaling Rebekah to walk to us

she opens the door and stops breathing when she see's this

"There's no changing station in the men's room" I gulp

"right" Rebekah voice wavers some "I have this" then takes our niece

exiting the kitchen area I go back to the table where Kol is idle chatting with Elijah

"So...Elijah" I sigh "besides being tortured by our mother, the devil, what have you been doing?"

he smiles "missing Hope....it's difficult to believe we were once innocent" then sighs "we mustn't let the world ever hurt her"

Kol zooms behind him and snaps his neck "You're right, brother" he falls to the floor

Rebekah rushes out and follows us back to the car

at once I call Nik

"About time"

"Sorry" I snap "What the fuck is up with Elijah? There's a kitchen full of dead people who just like awful food. Since when does he kill people when he could compel them? This drawls mother's attention"

Nik sighs "Her torture must have affected him more deeply than I'd realized. Where is he now"

"Kol broke his neck" I hum "So meet at the house?"

"of course"

Rebekah and Kol are giving me looks

"Do you and Nik have secret chats the rest of us don't know about?" Rebekah questions

with a purse of my lips I keep my eyes on the road

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Rebekah gets done decorating this shitty ass house "Well, isn't this place rather nice"

"Bekah" I groan "Elijah's a big boy now"

"A big boy who likes to go crazy and kill people when he has a stain on his nine thousand dollar suit" Kol comments

Elijah glares at us all

"How are you feeling" Rebekah asks

"Patronized" Elijah huffs

Hope is gazing up at Kol and I "Unkeys, Unkeys"

"Told you" Kol laughs

Elijah glowers "Soon enough she'll be choosing me over you two"

"Good luck with that" Rebekah chuckles "those two spoil her rotten"

"Do not" Kol and I both say

"Was her thousand dollar dress to that birthday party really something a six month old needs?"

Kol stares "only the best for our niece"

"She had to outshine all those other babies" I claim "In everything"

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Kol walks into my room where I'm reading a book

"Rebekah is making a bonfire"

closing my book I look at him "I care why?"

"She wants us all to do it together since we are all actually together" Kol sighs "We haven't done it for about nine hundred years now"

a car pulls up outside

"I think Nik and his baby mama are here" I snicker "Let's go meet the lucky lady"

Kol and I join them outside where they are smothering poor Hope with kisses

"UNKEYS" Hope screeches when we come outside

Nik's jaw sets at us

"I think this is where we run" Kol whispers in my ear

a laugh escape my mouth "Pay back is a bitch....you do remember what my son's first word was right?"

"Nik" my older beast of a brother groans

that's when I turn to the girl

"You slept with her" I ask

Kol laughs "she has fishy eyes"

Rebekah spits her drink on the ground

"Kol, Skule" Elijah reprimands harshly

"Who are they" fishy eyes asks

"I am a Kol Mikaelson, the handsome brother"

"Skule Mikaelson, the badass brother"

the girl rolls her eyes "The Phycopath and the Ripper. I'm Haley"

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