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The Lockwoods just stared at Haraldr for a moment in shocked silence. Eventually anger began to override the shock within the mayor.

"How dare you? You think you can just accuse us of being monsters and killers?" He was practically spitting as he yelled at Haraldr. Quite an accomplishment with the Calming Draught in his system, though he could be burning though it a bit faster due to the fact he had the werewolf gene…activated or not.

Haraldr just raised a brow at the mayor before speaking calmly. "It could also be activated if you kill a vampire."

The silence that followed that comment was interrupted by an incredulous Tyler. "You are nuts. Werewolves…vampires? They don't exist man!" Tyler looked over at his dad to rant about the craziness of their kidnappers, but fell silent again as he took in the wide eyed stares of his parents. Those were not the looks of people that thought they were hearing crazy talk. "Dad?"

His dad looked from Haraldr to Tyler and back for a moment before addressing his son. "I don't know about werewolves, but vampire's do exist. The founding families of this town have done their best to keep them at bay…but they eventually come back. We have been finding bodies lately and blaming it on animals, but we think that they have come back again."

Haraldr gave Tyler a moment to take in that information before he spoke. "And you would be correct about that. The coach was killed by a vampire, and Vicky Donovan was attacked by one. We were not expecting to find vampires when we came to town, but we did know that at least one would come to Mystic Falls eventually. I was planning on just keeping to myself until then, but with your having the gene and there already being vampires in town, I thought it was probably for the best to talk to you now. If you kill one of the vampires, you will activate the gene…and because you have the gene, I highly doubt that you will survive what will come as a human and without activating the gene. It will be activated whether you wish it to or not."

"I don't understand. How could killing a vampire activate the gene? They are already dead." Richard looked confused.

"Their souls are still very much intact. It is not the fact that you cause someone to stop breathing and their hearts to stop that activates the gene; it is the act of severing a soul from its body. If you were to destroy a homunculus housing a soul, the gene would be activated as well...If someone to cut their soul in pieces though, it would only activate if it was the last piece."

"Ah. I don't want to know why you know that last bit, but I don't really understand how they can still have souls and kill the way they do. Wait, why do you say that they will activate it anyway? With your warning they could just not actively kill vampires and be fine right?" Haraldr was surprised that Carol was not freaking out at finding out that her family carried a gene for a supernatural being. He could tell just by looking at her that she was more worried about her family than fearing them, which made him like her a bit more.

Tyler and the mayor were looking at him as they waited for him to answer. "There are a few reasons actually. The first is that your wolves are pushing. They know that vampires are a danger and they are trapped, unable to defend what they see as their pack. This will make you both more volatile and more likely to accidentally activate the gene. "Haraldr paused a moment as he took in the expressions of fear that crossed the two Lockwood male faces.

"I want to make something very clear. The wolf is not the curse. It has always been a part of you, but it has been forced into dormancy by a curse. The wolf is nothing to fear."

"What do you mean?" Again it was Carol that asked the question as it seemed that her husband and son were having trouble putting thoughts into words.

"The main thought on werewolves is that it is you are cursed to be a were wolf as punishment for murder. Most that turn into werewolves believe this to be true. I came across records of an archaeological dig that occurred a few years ago in Egypt where the ancient city of Heliopolis was located. Before the city was built there were priest there that worshiped the god Atum and the priests left carvings in a cave nearby that now detail what the researches think is a myth. The carvings tell of a priest that was attacked by a wolf-man in retribution for his having taken his wife as a sacrifice to his god. I looked, but I could not find any record of human sacrifice being something that was offered to Atum...at least as far as anyone knows...so I am unsure as to the true circumstance that caused the conflict. Anyway, the priest's…apprentice would be accurate I guess…cursed the wolf-man in retaliation. Essentially the curse was to bind the wolf of the man and his descendants, only to be released after they had killed someone. An effort to make them feel like their natural nature was a curse. "

"Oh my god, that is horrible." Carol exclaimed. Again, Haraldr found himself surprised at her reaction.

"I have to ask, I have told you that your husband and son are werewolves…still bound yes, but they will eventually activate their gene. How is it that you are taking this so well?"

Carol looked over at her husband and son for a moment before turning her attention back to Haraldr. She would have been hugging her son to death if she could have moved anything but her head. He looked both shocked and lost at the information they were learning.

"Richard is my husband, and I love him. Tyler is my son, and I love him. All of them." Her voice stayed firm as she answered. Richard and Tyler looked relived at the response though a bit overwhelmed.

"Amazing. You are truly unique Mrs. Lockwood. They are very lucky to have you in their lives."

"We are." Richard finally spoke, though he had to clear his throat due to the emotions that seemed to want to block his voice. He looked over at Haraldr. "Can you release us so that we can move. We will stay so that you can continue, but I…" Haraldr watched as he stopped speaking to clear his throat again.

"Alright, just don't try and leave before everything has been explained.

Haraldr waved his wand and released the spell holding them in place. He smiled as Richard immediately wrapped his arms around his son and wife, all of them seeming content to offer each other comfort. A quick glance around the room showed Haraldr that Severus had left the room at some point, probably to take care of a potion or something. His attention was pulled back to the family on the couch when Richard cleared his throat again.

"Alright. I think you were explaining the reasons that we will be activating the genes. You said that our increased aggression was going to have a part to play, especially with the danger of vampires being in Mystic Falls again, but what was the second part?"

"The second part is because the vampire that I came to Mystic Falls to wait on will not allow you to remain inactivated."

"Who is it that is coming? And why would he force us to activate it?" Richard looked indignant while his wife just looked scared.

"He is a hybrid. His birth-father was a werewolf and his gene was activated right after he was turned into a vampire and killed his first victim. His mother, the witch that turned him into a vampire, then rebound his werewolf. He will be coming to Mystic Falls to remove the curse that bound his werewolf again, and he is going to be looking for a pack. He will be able to smell you out just like I was."

"I have a few things to ask about what you just said…" The Lockwoods looked like they were having trouble with this new information. Richard was obviously trying to get as much information on what was coming for his family as he could, but was struggling to put the questions in word form. "Alright first, you said that a witch turned him into a vampire…how is that possible?"

"He and his siblings are known as the Original Vampires as they were not turned because they died with vampire blood in their system but they gained their immortality though a spell. From them all vampires were made. They are truly immortal. He however is the Original Hybrid, and he is the strongest of them all."

"That does not sound good." Tyler deadpanned while looking at Haraldr. "When you say immortal…do you mean immortal or immortal?"

Haraldr smiled, causing the Lockwoods to lean back a bit at the expression. "I mean immortal. Fire will not kill them, staking them will not kill them, blasting them to the moon would just mean that they would be space vampires and that the moon would not be safe for astronauts…they are immortal in every since of the word. A vampire that is turned by dying with vampore blood in their system can be killed…they cannot."

"Good god." Richard placed his elbows onto his knees and leaned forward to place his head into his hands. He drew in a deep breath before asking his next question, dreading the answer. "Why will he come here to end his curse?"

"There are actually a few reasons for that. This was actually where he was born and where the curse was cast. They were Vikings that came here to settle long ago and he returns here periodically. This is also where the most important ingredient is for the removal of the curse…the Petrova Doppelganger."

"What is a Petrova Doppelganger and what else would be needed."

"The Petrova Doppelganger is Elena Gilbert. A Doppelganger is a shadow self of someone that has lived before and is a supernatural creation. I have found a few references about Doppelganger blood being a wonderful way to bind a spell. The spell can only be released with her blood. I have a way to cast the spell without killing her, though honestly, she is more than a bit bitchy." The Lockwoods blinked at his muttered add on. "The other ingredients are a vampire, a werewolf, a witch to do the spell and the moonstone that the spell was bound onto."

"Moonstone?" Haraldr paused as he noticed the hesitation in Richard's voice.

"Yes, the binding curse was bound to the moonstone. A fairly large one that would be a bout yay big." He indicated its size with his hands. "My grandmother has told me that the first time he tried to break the curse was in the fifteenth century when Katerina Petrova was the Doppelganger. She escaped her fate and she took the moonstone with her. She turned herself into a vampire with a bit of manipulation and has been running from him since. She changed her name at some point and was going by Katherine Pierce and even lived in Mystic Falls for a while during the civil war."

"I see." Richard looked like he was deep in thought. Haraldr's gaze was pulled away from the man when Tyler spoke again.

"I Don't get it man, you said that you were waiting on this Original Hybrid to show up here. Why are you looking to meet with him if he is so dangerous?"

Haraldr smirked at his classmate. "Because he is my father."

While the Lockwoods sat staring at him in shocked silence, Haraldr noticed Severus slipping back into the room with a pouch in one hand and a potions journal in the other. He settled back in his chair and began to read his journal after raising a brow at the dumbfounded Lockwoods.

"I'm sorry." Tyler's voice caught Haraldr's attention. "I could have sworn that you just said that the Original Hybrid was your dad."

"Yep, that is what I said." He was grinning again. "I haven't met him yet and he doesn't know about me, so I came to Mystic Falls so I could meet him."

Richard's eye was twitching. "How could he even have children if he is a vampire?" His eye narrowed at Haraldr.

"My grandmother said it is because of the werewolf gene and the fact that my mother had a magical core. It allowed the pregnancy to go to term."

"I am going to ignore the grandmother bit for a moment...you keep talking about her and I have been getting the feeling you have been talking about your father's mother and not your maternal grandmother…what exactly are you?" Richard was staring hard at Haraldr now. Tyler was looking at Haraldr with wide eyes as he processed what his dad was implying about the grandmother Haraldr kept mentioning.

Haraldr shrugged and leaned back in his chair as though he was completely unconcerned with their reactions or opinions. "I, like my father, am a hybrid. However, I am a werewolf that can do natural and core magics and I am also a vampire." Haraldr looked a Richard for a moment before adding onto his comment. "I activated my gene when I was younger than five. The uncle I was living with was abusive and he died when my magic reacted in defense of me. I was actually the only living vampire in existence until my seventeenth year when I died. I stopped aging then."

"How old are you?" Tyler had an odd expression on his face as he asked.

"Well, I would be twenty-seven if I kept aging. I was born in nineteen-eighty one."

"Weird." Tyler muttered.

"And you are not the one that has been killing people? Either of you?" Before Haraldr could speak, Severus snorted and drew the attention of the Lockwoods.

"You wouldn't ask if you had lived with the brat. He has very little tolerance for vampires that kill for no other reason than that they can."

Haraldr rolled his eyes and went on to reassure the family sitting on his couch. "I have only killed two humans…wait three…in my life time. My uncle; Ronald Weasley, who was planning on drugging me and sealing my inheritance; and a man named Frank Kirkland in France. I wanted to see if I could make a hybrid out of a human and he was a pedophile that bought his way out of trouble with a judge that he went to school with. I can only make a vampire if I was to give someone my blood and they would just be a vampire unless they had core magic or carry the gene. If they were like uncle Sev and killed while in their first feed while carrying the gene they would turn into a hybrid. That actually happened before we found proof that Severus did indeed carry the gene and that it was not something that I passed on accidentally, and I killed him afterwards because having a vampire pedophile running around would just be irresponsible."

"But vampires kill when they feed." Carol asked hesitantly. "We have no records of anyone not killing while feeding."

"That is because they decide to do so. I think this behavior is the result of so many vampires turning off their humanity to deal with their deaths. This basically bottles up their soul so that they are not influenced by it and is extremely unhealthy. Then, as those turned others, it became the normal behavior to act like an idiot with no brain." Haraldr was clearly irritated as he talked about his theory regarding how most vampire's acted. "It is completely pointless when it is a simple matter to feed and then go, leaving the donor unaware. Stupid idiots unable to act with a bit of discretion." The last was muttered as Haraldr squinted off to the side.

Severus put his journal down before drawing attention away from an irritated Haraldr. "Before we came here we traveled, and as I have said before, Haraldr has very little tolerance for certain behaviors. Feeding like an animal is one of them as is lording yourself over someone else as though you are better than them. Three years ago we arrived in New Orleans. Haraldr's father lived there as it was practically being founded, and he wanted to see places his father had been in the past."

"What happened?" Though Tyler was the one to ask, it was clear that all three wanted to know.

"Almost as soon as we arrived we were approached by Marcellus Gerard, a vampire turned by Haraldr's father that went by Marcel. The idiot had decided that with his sire leaving, he would become the leader of the supernatural of New Orleans."

"The bloody idiot set himself up as the self-titled 'King'!" Haraldr snarled, startling the Lockwoods at his expression.

"He demanded that Haraldr and I fall into his ranks and toe the line that he had drawn."

"What happened then?" Tyler was enthralled in the story they were being told.

"Well," Haraldr had a gleeful expression on his face as he leaned forward "he decided that Severus and I would need to be at his base as we swore loyalty to him…it was his second mistake."

"What was the first?" Richard interrupted.

"Thinking that I was just a vampire." The answer was matter of fact. "As soon as we were inside his little base and all of his little followers were gathered around to witness our swearing in, I used a natural magic spell on everyone except for Severus and myself. It causes an aneurysm, something that vampire's and werewolves heal from quickly, so it does not kill them, just incapacitates them. As I held the spell, Severus went around and stunned the lot, well…except for Marcel, he we bound into place with the spell we used on you earlier."

Severus took over the story. "I am more proficient in Legilimency than Haraldr, so I ripped into Marcel's mind and found that he had banished the local werewolf pack from the city and he was practically holding all the witches in the city hostage with his regime. He would throw parties where his followers could feed, practically in the open."

"He also had a witch curse the werewolves he drove out with a curse that trapped them in their werewolf bodies, only allowing them to be human on the full moon…it is just as bad as the original curse. We are not meant to be bound in such a way."

"That sounds horrifying. What did you do?" Carol asked quietly with a hand on her chest.

"I had Severus check all of their minds. They had no way to block the Legilimency as they had been human before they turned. Only six disagreed with the killing…out of almost one hundred vampires, only six thought that it was wrong just to kill whenever you felt like it. All but those six and Marcel were killed immediately. They were no better than a serial killer or the pedophile I found buying his way out of trouble. Marcel…well, I used him to see what would happen when a hybrid bit a vampire. You see, a werewolf bite is lethal to a vampire…turns out…so is a bite from a hybrid. My grandmother thought that the blood of a hybrid would heal a werewolf bite and we learned that is also true…after that, I bit him again and watched how long it took for him to die. It took him two days to actually die, though he was in a coma like state for most of the second day."

"Oh." Carol whispered, unsure of how to respond to the satisfaction on Haraldr's face.

"After that was taken care of, I had to deal with the werewolf pack. I removed the curse so that they could be human most of the time. They still think I am just a…I think they called me a warlock. I decided that the six vampires should be monitored in case they decided to do the same as their leader, so now one of my school mates lives there and keeps an eye on things with his wife. He will let me know if something happens that needs me to return."

"Yes, Draco sent a letter today by the way. He was complaining about the heat...again." Severus drawled from behind the journal he was reading again. Haraldr just rolled his eyes.

"Good for him." Turning back to the Lockwoods he looked them over to see how they were doing with all the information. "So…do you have any questions?"

Richard looked at his family before turning his attention back to Haraldr. "What now? You said that you don't think we will avoid activating the gene…so what do we do now?"

"There are a few options, the first being that you can move. There are currently at least two other vampires in town, one that I know is currently feeding on humans, and the other has a control problem when he is not on animal blood. The fact that my father will come to town will just increase danger to your family."

The Lockwoods shared a long look before turning back to Haraldr. "This is our home. We cannot leave, especially if the town is in danger. I may have the gene, but the Lockwoods have a long history of trying to protect this town."

"I thought it likely that you would want to stay. Your second option is to take things as they come. Change nothing and just hope for the best."

"From what you say, it is not really an option."

"It is not, but I have found that a lot of people think that it is." Haraldr smirked before looking at them seriously. "The third option is that I give you each a vial of my blood to drink in case of emergencies. It would only be helpful if you are able to drink it. It would allow you to heal if you get hurt, but if you die with my blood in my system you will turn into a vampire…and Tyler and you, Mayor Lockwood will still be able to activate the gene making you hybrids."

"The forth option is that I give you my blood and you ingest every morning. If something was to happen and you died and could not drink blood, you would be changed. It would stay in your system for about twenty-four hours and it would provide a way to guarantee that you survive…just not as humans."

"Oh, I don't want to kill anyone though." Carol was looking at Haraldr with tears in her eyes when faced with the choices he laid out.

"You wouldn't have to. We can give you vials of blood laced with Appetite Suppressant and Calming Draught that you can wear as a necklace. Not only would it provide the needed blood for you to finish transitioning, it would give you enough control and keep you calm enough to get to me and Severus. From then on you could feed from the bottles of blood we keep like we do. There is no need to actually feed from someone at all."

"You don't feed from humans?" Richard looked like his world had been turned on its axis.

"No, when I was very young, my grandmother realized I needed blood even though I was living. My aunt gave me three glasses of blood from that point on and I have never really liked how messy it is to actually feed from someone."

"He is understating that…he loses his mind a little bit when he sees a vampire feeding that way. I have the same diet though, we have donated blood sent here and can provide you with some if you are turned. I could also add the suppressant and Calming Draught to it while you adjust and gain control." Severus slowly turned the page of his journal and went back to ignoring the conversation.

"We will be drinking your blood daily then." Carol suddenly said, causing her husband and son to jerk their heads in her direction and Haraldr to raise a brow. Severus even looked up from his journal to look at the woman at her declaration.

"Carol, you would be turned into a vampire, you understand that right?" Richard asked hesitantly.

"I know, and I don't care. Haraldr and Severus can apparently keep us from becoming murderers if that happens, and I want my family safe. I don't care if you are a werewolf, or a vampire, or both…you could be a demon for all I care, I want you safe. I won't lose my family."

The men in the room just looked at her with amazement. Such devotion to family was something that few had the privilege of seeing, and to see a family where they were agreeing to the possibility of becoming the very thing they hunted, just for the sake of family, was amazing.

Richard and Tyler shared a look before turning back to Haraldr. Richard spoke with no hesitation in his voice anymore. "You heard the boss."

Haraldr just nodded and said that he would have a bottle of blood they could take with them ready in a few moments.

Leaving the room to grab a bottle that already held preservation charms so that he could bleed into it, he thought about how the night and the conversation with the Lockwoods had gone.

It looked like his pack would be growing soon.