I woke with a harsh intake of breath, memories of my previous life mixing with those from this one. Pain assaulted my head. It didn't last long, but it was incredibly powerful. If it weren't for my new nature, it probably would have been painful enough to drive me crazy.
Still, it didn't, and a conclusive image of my previous and this life formed in my mind. I remembered the last moments in my previous life: saving a child and being given a boon by a higher being whose mortal child that was. Then I remembered my new life, remembered a familiar yet so different world, being a Mikaelson, a twin brother to Rebekah Mikaelson from one of my favourite TV shows.
The reason I say familiar yet so different is because while I was reborn into the Mikaelson family, the family itself is quite a bit different than I remember them in the show.
First, there are their looks. My parents and most of my siblings are pale, blue-eyed, and blonde, except Niklaus, who has inky black hair, blue eyes, and light brown skin. This, of course, made it quite obvious that he wasn't Mikael's son, making my memories of how Mikael treats him make sense, no matter how twisted.
But the looks are only the beginning of the differences, the biggest one probably being the place and people we live with. Ours is only one of three families from the old world that live here among the natives. The others are the family of the doppelganger and the ancestors of Bonnie Bennett. Both families came with us, all three running away from something. The "Bennetts" came from Greece, while the Petrovas came from somewhere in the Balkans.
All three families learned of the Viking expedition to the new lands and joined it. Once there, they separated from the explorers and continued travelling in search of a place to settle.
It was the Bennett witch who found this place, a white oak that would prevent our enemies from finding us, and Mikael who struck the deal with the natives. This is actually where it gets interesting; this part of the story I only know thanks to spying on my parents when I was a lot younger.
Apparently, my family was really desperate and in need of the shelter that the white oak tree provided. The deal my father made makes that clear. The Chief of the tribe that we live with took a liking to my mother, and in exchange for allowing us to live here, he demanded that she "service" him for a month. Somehow, Mikael accepted that demand and that is how Klaus came to be.
Only, even with the oak keeping us hidden, our parents didn't count on the other supernatural dangers, and it all led us to this. Me, with fangs buried in a native girl's neck, drinking her blood.
Yes, my messed-up family and I have become the first of a new species: vampires. As Mikael ripped the girl I was feeding on from my arms, I managed to look around the room at my siblings, all of them confused as Mikael went around making them finish the transformation.
I moved to Rebekah after she had finished feeding and took her in my arms, examining her, not sure what for, but it was my first instinct. "Are you okay?"
"I don't know," she murmured as she buried her face in my chest. I, for my part, just kept my arms around her, holding her close, my nose buried in her hair. "Everything will be fine."
My relationship with Rebekah, like most things in this family, is quite messed up. To make it short, we are lovers and have been for a few years. When we were younger, we saw our parents kissing and fucking, and we imitated them. It started with just kissing and culminated with the ritual we created and performed when we were sixteen. At the time we learned how Klaus came into being, and afraid that same would be done to Rebekah, we made a ritual that prevents anyone's cock except mine from even touching her, sexually at least. The ritual also made us the perfect sexual partners.
Quite messed up, but it happened and I can't change it. The ritual basically bound us for eternity. Well, that is not entirely true. Rebekah can still be with other girls, and the ritual doesn't prevent me from being with other women. So we will see what the future holds since I can't change the past. Given what our family is like, we came out better than I would expect people in our situation to be. We love each other fiercely and will do anything to protect one another.
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As I was taking care of Rebekah, Mikael had already made all my siblings feed, and now we stood looking at him and our mother, confused about what was done to us.
"Father! What is going on? What have you done to us?" Elijah was the first to ask, managing to gather courage faster than anyone else. Truth be told, we are all scared of Mikael. He was always quick to anger and harsh with his punishments. Although Finn always says that this wasn't true before we came to the New World. Who knows? Losing his firstborn and then being cuckolded probably had a devastating effect on Mikael.
"We made you stronger, able to survive anything. We will not fear the beasts anymore."
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I wrote the first and second chapters a while ago, but I'm not sure when the next one will come out. If people genuinely enjoy it, I'll probably keep going. This story includes a fair amount of NSFW content, including incest, and honestly, I'm a little anxious about posting that online.