A/N I'm forewarning anyone who reads this story now. If the summary didn't give you a hint, then here it is, put plainly, this fanfiction includes incest. I've warned you now, so if you've got a problem with it, then just exit this page and find something else to read.

So far it's only rated T, some language, some sexual situations later on. Maybe the rating will change, maybe it won't. Not too sure on lemons or not, haven't really tried to seriously write one before.

Hope you enjoy!

- 983 A.D. -

"Tell me."

"Are you sure? What is Seen cannot be unseen, you know this."

Long thin fingers smoothed over the bulging stomach, rubbing soothing circles against the shifting skin under the fabric of her dress in comfort.

"Yes. As I've said with my previous sons, I need to know what will become of the newest member of our family. I need to know if he will be strong enough to survive. I need to."

The dark skinned woman acknowledged her words with a nod. She shifted forward upon the scuffed wooden seat to lay her palm against her closest friends swollen belly. The other cupped against the woman's forearm in a gentle hold. Her dark eyes closed and she breathed in deeply.

The air seemed to crackle with energy as she pulled at nature's life force and called to her ancestors to give her strength. When the vision came to her, it hit her fast, and it hit her hard. Almost like a punch to her gut, she was no longer seeing her dearest friend, but was instead Seeing what was to come.

Three children ran, their giggles smothered by dirty palms. Their footsteps loud with snapping twigs as they raced amongst the trees. The first child was recognized as the third eldest, his blond hair catching the sunlight through the leaves. He ducked beneath a tree limb before reaching up and catching it between his hands. Using what little upper body strength he had, he raised his legs and swung himself up onto the thick branch. He hissed as his palms were scraped from the rough bark, but continued up onto the next higher tree limb.

"Nik, we're not big enough. We can't climb up there. It's too high."

The prepubescent voice caused the elder brother to scowl down at the two. "Then find somewhere else to hide. Better be quick though, 'Lijah should almost be done counting."

The boy on the ground watched the other scurry further up the tree, the glare on his face emanating what he couldn't say.

A light tugging on his sleeve had him sighing in frustration.

"Kol, you can climb up there. You should climb up there. I'll be alright. I'll find a bush or something to hide in."

The brown haired boy looked to the frail girl beside him. Her ragged breathing and the dark bruises beneath her eyes let him know she was exhausted, that she should have been back at the homestead, resting, instead of running through the woods playing their game of choice. But her tired face held a timid smile, and her dark eyes, eyes the exact shade of brown as his, shone with an apprehension he couldn't deny.

Kol's hand reached for hers, her little finger immediately hooking around his. "We'll find somewhere together. I'll never leave you alone, Natalya. Never."

Esther's question was answered. The child would not only live past his fifth year, but he would come with a gift. The first girl of the family to be born in the New World. Twins.

The blonde woman pondered what that smile on the other woman's face could mean and her excitement began to rise. It could only mean good things were to come.

"Ayana-"

The witch's grip on Esther's arm became a firm one, her hand tightening uncomfortably. Esther didn't dare move. She knew what Ayana's visions were like.

Foresight began to take hold of the witch once more, coming in quick snippets, nothing solid, but more telling than any previous vision of Sight she had had of Esther's previous children. Laughter brought on by happiness, tears of anguish, fatigue caused by sickness, sighs of ecstasy and pleasure, screams of pain, roars of anger, the unyielding feeling of vulnerability and fear as a sharp pain appeared over her chest. And there was blood. Blood so dark and so full of life that it confused her. It all lead to one lasting vision,

"Kol?"

"Yes, darling?"

"...You know I love you." There was no query to her tone.

Kol curled a lock of her wild hair around his forefinger. "And I you, more than life itself."

Natalya raised her head from his bare chest and rested her chin against the faint beating of his heart.

"Until the end of time?"

"Until the end of time."

The last thing Ayana saw before the end of the mental image was Kol's lips molded to that of his sister's as he rolled the two of them over, passion taking them.

The girl's soft sighs were still ringing in her ears as she jolted away from Esther. The shock of what she'd felt, what she'd seen, held her tongue fast in those next few moments.

"What did you see?"

The witch stilled, her eyelids clenched shut. What was she to tell the expecting mother? That her second daughter born of her flesh would only know illness from her first breath? That the newest additions to their family would grow to love one another in a way that was more than familial? That the pain she'd felt in her chest meant the death of one, causing the broken heart to be the undoing of the other.

Ayana's eyes opened calmly to see anxious light eyes peering back at her. The expression of a mother frightened at the prospect of what her closest friend and mentor would tell her kept the truth from springing forth out into the open air between them. What to tell her indeed?

With one last deep breath, Ayana relaxed into a forced optimistic grin. "A boy, Esther. You will have a new son to add to the brood... Along with a daughter. Good tidings are coming your way."

Because what else could she say?

I hope you liked it! Hopefully I will be able to update at least once month, maybe sooner. We'll see. Don't forget to please review!