Aurora pov.

Hope and I were playing a game called hide and seek with uncle Nik. Uncle Nik was supposed to find Me, and hope. Uncle Nik told us it had been mama's favorite game while they were still human. He told me how she would always hide int he Forrest. He said she was always the last person to be found. It was nice to hear him talk about mama. Papa and the others never talk about her. Aunt Di says it's because Papa misses her so much. It always made me feel guilty. It was my fault mama was gone. She didn't love me. She didn't want me. I took her form papa, and now he hates me for it.

I heard uncle Nik approach. " I'm gonna find you girls", he called out. I held my breath hoping he wouldn't find me. I heard him nearing the bush where I was sitting. He stopped in front of the bush I was hiding in. After a little while, he walked away. Soon I could hear Hope giggling. Did he find her? Had I won the game? I decided to take the chance and stepped out of my hiding place. I saw uncle Nik hugging a giggling Hope. I stopped not wanting to intrude their moment.

A strange feeling hit me. I felt like a thousand butterflies were fluttering around inside my tummy. Why didn't papa ever play hide and seek with me? Why didn't he hug me like that? The last time he had hugged me was...When was the last time he had hugged me? I couldn't remember the last time he'd had time to play with me or to read for me. " You don't deserve affection" The voice in the back fo my head whispered.

" you killed your mother, You are nothing but a murderer. " No one loves you, for who would love a murderer? Certainly not you're farther. He wants you dead." No, I thought. I know it's my fault that mama is gone but He doesn't want me dead. I know I don't deserve any of this. I know all of that but papa doesn't wane me dead I thought.

"Are you sure?" the voice taunted. " Remember what I told child, " I know everything that happens in this castle." It couldn't be true, it just couldn't.

"Prove it", I thought

Suddenly everything started spinning making it hard to keep my balance. I felt myself fall and suddenly everything around me was a blur of colors. When my vision cleared I was no longer in the garden. Instead, I was in papa's office. My father and uncles were having some sort of meeting. I noticed that none of them was looking at me and it confused me. " They can't hear or see you child" the voice whispered.

"why not?" I thought

"It is a memory, you can't interact" the voice whispered back.

I turned my attention back papa who was now pacing the floor angrily.

" I can't do this anymore", he said.

"Brother - No Aro this has gone far enough, I don't want her, she is a murderer!" Papa cut off yelling. " I want her dead!"

" Are you sure- Yes Marcus I can't stand this a moment longer. We will do it tonight at the ball. She will be executed for treason", papa said.

The moment he was finished I felt my heat brake in a million pieces. All my fears and doubts turned out to be true. I couldn't understand. Hot angry tears ran down my cheeks. I turned on my heal not wanting to see more and ran out of the study. I didn't stop before I reached an empty hallway. I stopped and dried my tears. " So now you see", a very familiar voice said.

I realized that the voice wasn't in my head. I turned to where the voice had come from and was greeted by the sight of a woman dressed in a simple green woolen dress. She smiled kindly at me. " wh-who are you?", I stuttered out nervously.

"You don't recognize me, child?", she asked.

I thought about it, I couldn't remember ever seeing her before but her voice sounded familiar. Like I had heard it a thousand times before. Suddenly it clicked She was the voice I had been hearing for so long now. She was the ghost who saw everything.

" I thought the only way you could communicate was through my thoughts", I said.

" It is", she said simply. I was confused by all of this, how did I even get here and what happened to Hope and uncle Nik? Were they worry about me? Did they realize I was gone? I had so many questions.

Almost as if she knew what I was thinking she said, "Ask as many questions as you would like".

"Are we in my head? ", I asked.

She noded, it was the only way I could show you the memory, And it is why you see my physical form now.

I nodded and bit my lip thinking about my next question, She looked familiar like uncle Nik and mama.

"Are we related? ", I asked carefully. She seemed to think about it for a moment and then she nodded once.

" I'm your grandmother", she said.

I gaped in shock, She was my grandmother, the original witch. I hadn't heard much about her, but I knew a little from a conversation I had overheard. It wasn't much but it was enough to leave me curious. When I had asked papa he had scolded me for eavesdropping. It wasn't becoming of a princess he said. Then he had told me to drop the subject.

" B- but mama said you were dead I stammered out.

"I am", she said.

That just made me even more confused. if she was dead then how could I see her, how was she inside my head. How was any of this possible?

As if sensing my confusion she answered: "I am here to help you."

"Help me?", I asked confused. She nodded. " I want to train you, train you to do great things. To defeat your father. To defeat your aunts and uncles." she said.

I was confused, why would I defeat my family? In my books good always defeats evil. Did that mean they were evil? They couldn't be could they? If they were evil, did that mean hope and I were evil too? Hope couldn't be, she was innocent. She had to be.

But what about me? I had killed my own mother, my family was disgusted by me. Was that evil? I knew that vampires killed, but I wasn't a vampire, I wasn't even a wolf yet. I was just me. A freak nobody wanted, a girl who killed her own mother.

" Am I evil?" I suddenly blurted out. Grandmama smiled gently down at me. " no, you aren't the evil one here - you are jus-" But I killed mama, I said. She knelt down in front of me. " you are not the evil one here", she said with a sad smile on her face. I suddenly felt guilty to have mentioned mama. She must have sensed my guilt. Because the next thing she said shocked me. " You are not the one at fault here child if anything I am to blame, she said. I was confused.

"Why would you be at fault?", I asked. She smiled sadly at me. Your mother never told you the story of how they were turned did she?" I shook my head.

" Can you ever forgive me, my child, afterall it is my fault, I did what I did to protect my family but, my children turned against me. They became the monsters that are trying to kill you."

I looked at her shocked, was it true, I had hoped all of this was just a sick dream. " Will you tell me the story?" I asked.

Esther pov.

Finally, after years I will finally get revenge. Finally, my children will die. I had the perfect plan. I would fill Aurora's head with stories, stories of how awful my children are. she will see the truth. She will finish what I started. But most importantly, I will destroy Nicklaus. And what better way to that than destroying the last piece he has of Lucianna. His precious little niece.

I will train her. Train her to be the perfect little soldier, She will kill them all. Starting with Niklaus brat. They won't know what hit them. She will be ruthless, She will kill anyone that stands in her way. She will destroy every single vampire including those cold ones. And then she will die. Her training starts today.

Niklaus pov.

I was in the rose garden playing hide and seek with my hope and Aurora. It had been hard to convince Caius to let Aurora play with us but after about ten minutes of puppy dog eyes from both Hope and Aurora. he had finally given in. I shook my head, I could understand his need to keep the child close, but this was getting out of hand.

Aurora was a beautiful and bright child, but she was also very curious, but also very shy, almost the opposite of Hol - no Nik don't go there. She is gone. Thinking about it will only make it worse. I needed to focus on Aurora and Hope. Though it saddens me that my niece would never know her mother.

The sound of my daughter giggling brought my focus back to back to the game. Smiling I called out: " I'm gonna find you, girls". I began walking through the garden pretending to search for the girls even though I knew exactly where they were hiding.

After a minute I stopped in front of the bush where Aurora was hiding internally debating whether I should find hope first. Deciding to let her win this game I walked away from her hiding place pretending to search for my daughter instead. I walked around the garden for about a minute before I heard Hope giggling again. Smirking I silently speed to her hiding place.

Sneaking up behind her I lifted her into the air and spun her around. " Found you little wolf", I said. She giggled and smiled brightly at me. I hugged her. " I love you little wolf," I said smiling.

" I love you too daddy", she said. I gave her a smile and spun her around one last time before setting her down. " now let's go find Aurora", I said.

Turning around I saw my Aurora standing in front of a rosebush. As we got closer to where she was standing I noticed that she was swaying. I was about to call out to her when her eye's suddenly rolled into the back of her head and she collapsed. Using my vampire speed I cathed before she hit the ground. She began twitching violently in my arms as if having a seizure. Her eyes opened wide before closing again.

She went dead still in my arms. Knowing this wasn't normal I rose from the ground holding Aurora bridal style. I glanced back at Hope who looked just as shocked me. Shifting Aurora in my arms so I could hold both her and Hope, I let hope climb on my back Telling her to hold on tight. I speed towards the castle. The minute we reached the door that leads to the gardens behind the castle.

I set hope down taking her hand I quickly approached the vampires who were guarding the entrance. " Send a message to the king's, and tell them to meet me in the princess the chambers", I instructed. The glanced at each other and then at Aurora hesitating. Felling my patience slip up, I flashed my hybrid eyes at them and repeated my statement. Quickly one of them speeds away.

Turning my attention to the other guard I trusted Hope's hand into his. "Take my daughter to my siblings, Tell them to meet me in the princess chambers", I said. He nodded and sped away. I speed to Aurora's chambers. Reaching her bedroom I opened her bedroom door. Once I was inside I gently placed Aurora on the bed. A few seconds late all three kings arrived. Caius immediately went to his daughter's side.

I was just about to explain, what had happened when someone knocked on the door. " Enter", Caius stated. Freya and Kol entered the room.

" What happened?", Freya asked as she walked closer to Aurora's bed.

"We were simply playing and she collapsed", I explained.