Chapter 3: We Are Family

The party was set to start at 7 o'clock that night, the preparation had occurred without a hitch, though that could partly be explained by the simple fact that Rebekah had been the one to prepare everything and, after a thousand years, she definitely knew how to throw an impromptu ball.

For the first time in days, all of the Mikaelson siblings were in the same room without any threats being yelled at the top of their lungs to each other. Most of them being delivered by dear Niklaus who, as usual, used the threat of a dagger to the heart to get what he wanted which really shouldn't be that big of a surprise. While the rest of them were equally shared by all Mikaelson's. Though, to be honest, if you counted Kol nicely reminding Klaus of the whole 'burning-all-of-your-art-incident' like the twins affectionately called it, he was close to the Hybrid's count.

"Rebekah?" Kol called out from his spot in front of the mirror to his sister who was currently getting her nails done, "Tell me how handsome I am." He looked at her through the mirror, adjusting his suit, a smirk gracing his lips.

Rebekah glanced up from her nails, "Oh Kol, you know I can't be compelled." She said without missing a beat, earning a grin from everyone in the room.

Kol pouted childishly, turning around, his eyes falling on his twin, "Lala." He whined, "You won't be mean, will you?"

Kayla who had been looking over a couple pair of shoes for the night, scanned her twin, nodding in approval, "You will be the most attractive person there, Olly." She assured him.

He smirked at her, moving towards her and twirling her, "Ah, now, darling, I do believe that that title belongs to you." They danced to the music that was flowing out of the speakers slowly, "Though, I will be close second." He added, his eyes shining in mirth.

Kayla laughed at him, shoving him forcefully back to his previous place, "Go back to staring at yourself. I need to pick my shoes."

Kol gladly took back his spot in front of the full length mirror, continuing to admire himself in the fancy tuxedo.

The guests were finally starting to show up so the siblings parted ways, going to play the role of the rich newcomers. The twins stayed together, standing in the middle of the hall and giving fake smiles to whom ever came to introduce themselves without holding back the sarcasm in their voices, though none of the other Mikaelson's commented on it, knowing they were more likely to behave if left alone.

The two troublemakers, just recently having arrived back in town, didn't know most guests, but Elijah had briefed them on who was 'in the know', which is why they both honed in on a conversation when they heard someone addressing a middle aged woman as 'Mayor Lockwood'.

They approached her after ditching the annoying people talking to them, quickly taking notice that the person next to her was none other than Damon bloody Salvatore.

They caught the end of what the mayor had been saying, "―protect this town. They've assured me they want peace, and I've assured them that I'd enforce it."

"Mayor Lockwood." Kol kissed her hand in greeting, his eyes which spoke of bloodshed and chaos piercing hers, "We haven't formally met, Kol Mikaelson." The way he said his name was clearly meant as a threat.

"Kayla Mikaelson." Kayla said with the same tone as her brother, staring deep into the mayor's eyes when she turned her attention to her, "I hope you're lovely town embraces us just as much as we plan to embrace it."

Damon held out his hand, a mocking smirk spreading on his face, "Damon Salvatore. Have we met?" He asked with a touch of smugness.

Neither of the Mikaelsons moved to accept his hand, "We've met a lot of people―" Kayla started, her voice dangerously calm.

"―And you don't particularly stand out." Kol finished with a wicked smirk.

The two threw them an amused grin before stalking off to get a well deserved drink after having dealt with so many humans.

"This is bad." They heard Damon Salvatore mutter.

As they got their drinks they could hear the people at the front of the hall quieting, mutters about 'Elena Gilbert' replacing the previous conversations. Their identical brown eyes zeroed in on said girl easily; they had already know who the name belonged to due to Niklaus' complaining, along with Rebekah's. They smirked when they saw both Salvatore brothers' grab one of her arms.

"Ah! The Petrova doppelganger." Kol sighed dramatically, highly amused by the scene.

Kayla smirked, "They truly are all the same. Strumpets the lot of them. Don't you agree, Olly?"

He hummed, "I truly don't understand their obsession to play with pairs of brothers." Kol commented.

"Well, dear twin, they are known for their looks―or rather look, not for having a brain."

Already bored with this news, they decided to go people watch from the top of the stairs. Their identical eyes scanned over the hundreds of people below them.

"The girl in the ratter revealing red dress." Kayla's eyes settled on said person, "She never had any money which pushed her to stealing children clothes and wearing them for herself, thus the reason why her left boob is almost out." She said with a smirk.

Kol chuckled, "The man in the oversized brown suit. A deer once mistook him for a tree while he was out for a walk and he has an unhealthy fear of defenseless forest animals ever since. Poor lad probably hasn't washed the thing guessing by the horrid smell coming from that direction."

His twin snorted, "Ah, speaking about that stench, he will probably be escorted out by one of Nik's 'employees'"

Just has she had said that one of said 'employees' came to lead the man out.

"More like slaves." Kol commented, amused by the look of outrage of the man's face.

"Who's that with Nik?" The youngest of the two pointed out their older brother who was currently talking to a blond girl wearing a very similar blue dress that they had seen in the sitting room earlier.

"Guessing by what she is wearing, that must be his date. I heard Beck's complain about him inviting a 'baby vampire' who is apparently one of the doppelgangers' friends."

"He invited a baby vampire?" Kayla asked shocked, "And one of Tatia 3.0's friends nonetheless. Well, it appears that our dear brother is losing his touch."

Klaus who had caught the tail end of the conversation glared up at them from the first floor, clearly not amused by his younger siblings' gossiping.

"Look at her bracelet, Olly." Kayla said, completely ignoring their brother currently giving them a death stare.

"It strangely resembles the one belonging to the french princess who had fallen head over heals for Nik during the 13th century."

"Ah yes, I remember her. She mysteriously died one night while out in the town with her secret lover and her iconic diamond bracelet had disappeared inexplicably. The lover was sadly never found and the whole homicide remains a complete mystery. But to see this girl wearing a near replica of the thing is truly an unforeseen coincidence, don't you agree brother?"

He smirked, "Truly astonishing."

Elijah and Finn started to climb the stairs quickly followed by Rebekah and Nik, which meant it was time to present themselves to the citizens of Mystic Falls.

Once they had all taken place on the stairs―the twins standing at each other's side, of course―, Elijah caught the attention of everyone.

"Welcome, thank you for joining us. Whenever our family is reunited like this, it is tradition for us to commence the evening with a dance."

"It is tradition for one of us to get a dagger in the heart." Kayla said sarcastically, though no one outside of her family heard what she had said. The twins threw a glare at Nik who had turned to give her one as well.

"Kayla. Kol." Elijah warned them quietly. "Tonight's pick is a centuries-old waltz, so if all of you could please find yourselves a partner, please join us in the ballroom." He resumed his speech, the humans none the wiser.

"Systir, may I have this dance?" Kol asked her with a wicked smirk.

"Yes, you may bróðir" Kayla responded, her face quickly morphing into her twin's expression.

They started to dance, listening in on their siblings conversation, "Lala, is that Matt Donovan with Bekah?"

She lazily looked over the guests quickly seeing her sister and her dance partner, "I do believe it is, Olly."

"Well, I think it is our duty as her older siblings to make sure the boy is good for her." Kol said darkly.

"Indeed, I suppose a talk with the boy who came with our little sister is long overdue."

When it came time to switch partners Kol went with Rebekah while Kayla danced with Klaus.

"Bekah, dear, how are you fairing this evening?" Kol asked with a wide grin.

She gave him a dark look in reply, "I'm fine Kol, what about you? I haven't seen you two for a while."

"Ah yes, we were just appreciating the diversity of people here."

"Kol." She said curtly, "If you make a spectacle and ruin my party I will have you bled and hung in the middle of this very room."

"Calm yourself, baby sister, I would never dream of sabotaging your night." He said with a sly smirk.

"You look lovely, sister." Nik complimented.

Kayla smiled up at him, "And you are quite handsome yourself, brother. Now tell me what is happening with that girl I saw you dancing with."

"Her name is Caroline. She's rather intriguing for a baby vampire."

"I must say Nik, the last time we threw one of these bloody things you ended up daggering both Kol and I. And yet now you wish for us to be reunited. What changed?" She asked him.

"Mikael is dead." He stated.

"Yes I know, Nik. But that isn't enough to completely change you. Something else happened. Other than you finally ending our father and breaking that damned curse."

"When Mikael confronted me he said that I had no one." He grumbled making sure no one could hear but Kayla.

She sighed, "So now you're running after a baby vampire by fear of being alone forever." She stated, "Nik, you idiot, we might fight all the time and we might want to kill each other at times, but at the end of the day, we are family. If you would just stop treating us like enemies and constantly threatening us, you wouldn't be alone."

He didn't look in her eyes causing her to sigh again, "Niklaus, we are Mikaelsons. We are The Originals. People quake with fear at the sound of our name because we have the power to make them afraid. We have killed thousands mercilessly. And we have done worse to the people who dared to cross us and this family. We might be slightly unconventional at times," he snorted, "but when it comes down to it, we are there for each other. You are a Mikaelson―The Original Hybrid, nonetheless. Don't forget it."

With that said, she walked away to go find her missing twin.

Hello there! (yes I'm still alive...)
It's been a while, but I am happy to report that I am officially on my summer break! I'm so so so sorry about the very (extremely) long wait for this chapter. But I refuse to abandon this story. Thank you guys so much for all the reviews (and shout-out to Mikey8142 who officially gave Kol and Kayla a BROTP name: Kolya).

Amalia: Hello there, sorry for the wait. I'm not sure what will happen to Kol yet. But I can promise that it won't be like in the show because I hated how they killed him off (with Elena and Jeremy) and I despised how the Mikaelsons didn't do anything in retaliation. So we'll see... And thank you so much -xox-

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