Prologue:

There is one story about their family that the Mikaelson siblings could never bring themselves to tell. The tragic story, about how they slowly, bit by bit, lost their youngest brother, Genim, whom they've never spoken about to those outside of the family.. Genim was the youngest Mikaelson child. He was loved and adored by all who met him (so much that even Mikael couldn't help but have a soft spot for him in his stone-cold heart. The other Mikaelson children never hated him for that though, in fact, they adored him even more than Mikael and Esther combined.). He was a warlock, a very powerful one at that, maybe even more powerful than Ayanna and Merlin put together. He was turned into a vampire along with Kol, Elijah, Finn, Henrik, Rebekah and Niklaus. In fact, he happened to be the first Mikael and Esther turned. Getting turned into a vampire took its toll on Genim. He was cut off from the earth, and to him it felt like the world was ending. He hated feeding on humans, he hated the killing and the bloodshed. He hated being the monster he was. So he begged and pleaded for Esther and Mikael to kill him. They refused, so as an alternative Mikael compelled Genim to forget all about his life as a Mikaelson. To forget all about them. They let him go, and they never saw him again after that. That is until one day they met again by pure chance, in the year 2014.