Hello TVD fandom! This is my first TVD story so please be kind. I know there's been a lot of human AU's but I wanted to try one of my own. So let's see where this goes!

Disclaimer: I do not own The Vampire Diaries

Matt Donovan was a handsome young man. He was also one of the kindest souls you'd ever meet. Pretty popular too, as he was the quarterback of the Mystic Falls football team. Unfortunately, life was never so kind to him. His dad died when he was a baby from a car accident. That left him with his mother and his older sister Vicky. After his dad died, his mom took a turn to alcohol. She never really watched her kids, which is why Matt and Vicky spent most of their childhood with the Gilberts. When Matt was thirteen, his mom got a boyfriend. She would disappear with him for months at a time. That left Vicky in charge. But it got too hard on her that she turned to drugs. Matt had to pick up the weight, get a job once he turned 15. He loved his sister, he really did, she was the only person for him even when she was on drugs. He took care of her. She took care of him, in her own way. They were all each other had. Until Vicky had overdosed. Matt found her in the bathroom and felt his world crumble down. After the funeral, he told his mom to either step up or get out of his life. She tried to get better, but Matt sent her away anyway. He was only sixteen and completely alone. He had to pay bills and was failing three classes. But he had his friends to help him as much as they could. He had dated Elena Gilbert for a year, but when her parents died, she dumped him. He had a hard time with that too.

In Senior Year, he met a girl whose life was just as messed up as his too. She had long blonde hair, and bright blue eyes. She was sarcastic and a little mean, but very smart and funny. She had her secrets too. No matter how strong she looked, deep down she was broken. All she wanted was to be loved. Her family has their problems, but they love each other. Rebekah Mikaelson was that girl. She at first tried to seduce Matt to be popular; she had thought he was just another dumbass douche she had to give her heart to. But when he gave her his jacket during the football game and it was 30 degrees out, and held doors open for her, and didn't try to get in her pants on the first date, didn't even kiss her until she initiated it, she realized that he was different. Her heart fluttered when she thought about him, and little did she know that he felt the same way. She was a bright light in his life. Her smile fixed every problem he had. Her touch was fire on his skin, and kiss was toxic. He loved her. He knew he did. That was why when she finally told him her family problems, he wanted to hurt someone and Matt would never hurt anyone.

Rebekah came from a large family; her parents and six brothers. There was Esther and Mikael, her mom and dad. Neither would ever win parent of the year award, but we'll get to that later. Her brothers included Aaron, who died from sickness when he was five, Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, and Henrik, who died due to a car crash four years prior to the family moving from London, England to Mystic Falls, Virginia. Rebekah was closest to Klaus, but she and all her brothers had a strong bond. It was only because their father Mikael was an abusive alcoholic. And sadly, Klaus was the center of his anger. When Klaus was six years old he had a broken leg from jumping off the stairs, and he had to have a blood test. It turned out he wasn't Mikael's biological son. Instead of leaving Esther, who had an affair, he took it out on a poor, innocent child. Everything and anything Klaus did, he would get beaten or yelled at. Even for stuff he didn't do, Mikael just assumed it was him. Elijah couldn't take seeing his baby brother get hurt, so he started taking blame for a lot of stuff. Rebekah and Kol eventually followed along. Finn, being the logical one, tried to distract his father while his siblings cleaned up whatever mess they made. The saddest part was their mother not doing anything, and leaving them when Rebekah was eleven, only to come back five years later and move them all to America. Even though Finn, Elijah and Klaus were all in college, Finn almost finished, they were forced to stop their studies just to start all over in a new country. Kol and Rebekah had to say goodbye to their friends. Let's just say that the Mikaelsons hated their parents with a burning passion. Their parents are the reason why their youngest three get in trouble and don't show love. Kol hasn't said "I love you" to either of his parents since he was eight. Since their parents don't really love them, the five siblings take care of each other. Their fondest memories was swimming in the lake, and going to festivals together. Besides being protective of each other, they also have a habit of bickering too much but I guess all siblings do that.

Soon after the Mikaelsons moved to Mystic Falls, their dad died of alcohol poisoning. The siblings didn't even shed one tear between them at his funeral. Esther tried to pick up the damage of her family, only to have all her children give her the silent treatment. She still kept trying. Finn was the first to forgive her, then Rebekah and Elijah, but Kol and Klaus have a hard time even looking at her for taking their father back after what he did to her "precious children."

All of the kids got their happily ever after eventually. Almost right away after they moved to Mystic Falls, Finn met a redhead girl in a coffee shop. Her name was Sage. They dated instantly, even if his siblings didn't particularly like her at first (especially Rebekah who doesn't trust anybody but her brothers.) They dated for three years, were engaged for 10 months, and have been married for four years. They have a two-year old son named Tate, who has his mom's red hair and the blue eyes he shares with his dad, Uncle Klaus and Aunt Rebekah (and Grandfather but nobody mentions that.) When Elijah was 23, he met Katherine Pierce. She was a college freshman, and one of the most liked women in Mystic Falls, not to mention the most beautiful woman Elijah had ever seen. She was just as stubborn and loved to play games as she was beautiful. But he eventually won her heart, which is a hard thing to do because Katherine loves faking pretty much everything, but she truly loves Elijah. Klaus became friends with Stefan Salvatore during college, and Stefan introduced Klaus to his long time friend Caroline Forbes. Klaus was smitten with Caroline right away, but she had just gone through a horrible breakup. He drew her a picture of a horse (her favorite animal) and wrote her a poem saying how he hopes she gets everything she wants in life. Klaus uses art to express his feelings, and Caroline loved that about him. She became his friend and eventually learned to love Klaus and his rogue ways. They've been together for four years. It took Kol a while to fall in love. He didn't believe in love, even when he saw his brothers in it. The only true love Kol has ever had was his baseball bat. He use to beat the fence with it and pretend it was his father. His baseball was his safe object, he could use it for his anger. He was also very good at regular baseball, not just defacing property. But Bonnie Bennett and her daughter Emma Gilbert changed his mind about love. Finally, Rebekah had met Matt when she was a Junior, and I think you know the story. They've been together for seven years, with a few breakups here and there but they're completely fine. All of them vowed to never be like their parents, and they're doing so good so far.

Now, here we are years and years later. Matthew Donovan is 25 years old now, he and Rebekah have been together for seven years and Matt makes one of the hardest decisions he ever had to make. He wants to ask her to marry him. He's actually quite scared about it to be honest. He knows Rebekah loves him, but he's still scared she'll say no. She opened up to him very early in their relationship, but she still has trust issues. Not with him, but he's just very anxious. Another thing he's nervous about is that he's asking her brothers for permission first. They might actually rip his head off. Seven years and he's still scared of all of them. It's not like they like him very much anyway. Well, Klaus doesn't.

Rebekah had told him that they were all at Klaus' (and Caroline's) house for the day. Rebekah was hanging out with Caroline and Elena for a while, but she told him that she'd meet him there afterwards. Which means he needs to ask them fast. Matt parked the car in the driveway, and took a deep breath. He walked up the steps to the front door. He knocked on the door, and it opened after a couple of seconds.

Kol was laughing while drinking a beer. He nodded at Matt and opened the door wider so he could come in.

"Hello Kol," Matt smiled gently.

"Matthew Donovan, my favorite.. Boyfriend of my sister." Matt chuckled.

"I need to ask you a question," Matt sighed.

"Shoot."

"All of you. Can you get your brothers here," he said when they reached the kitchen where Elijah and Finn were sitting at the table. They looked up at him and nodded.

"NIK! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE!" Kol yelled.

Within a minute, Klaus was coming down the stairs.
"Matt," he said surprised. "I thought you were coming with Rebekah and Caroline."

"I'm meeting them here. I actually want to talk to you," Matt looked around at the four brothers.

"What about?" Elijah asked.

Matt took another breath,
"I know that maybe I'm stupid to be even asking this, and I guess I'm very old-fashioned and since her dad is, nevermind, I'm asking you. And I know you guys don't like me very much, but I really love your sister. I guess what I'm trying to ask is if it'd be okay if I.. Ask her to marry me." Matt stuttered the whole time but once he was done talking he squeezed his eyes shut and breathed in relief.

"It's not that I don't like you, Matt. I'm just very protective of my little sister," Kol was the first to speak up. "But you make Rebekah very happy, and that's what she deserves. You're what she deserves."

Elijah was the second to speak, "I've always liked you, you're a good man Matt. If you want to spend the rest of your life with her, and if she feels the same, I don't see why not you can't marry her."

Finn nodded, "I agree. Just don't hurt her, but I'm pretty sure she can hurt you herself."

Matt smiled graciously at the three of them. But the brother whose opinion meant the most was Klaus, because he was the closest to Rebekah, and the one who Matt was actually afraid of. He looked at Klaus, who was staring at Matt.

"Niklaus," Elijah acknowledged.

Klaus sighed, "Honestly?" Matt nodded. "I've always thought that you were the best thing that's ever happened to her."

Matt grinned, "Really?"

"Yes, really." Klaus nodded.

Before anyone could say anything else, there was the sound of the front door opening. Rebekah walked down the hall and into the kitchen. She grinned when she saw Matt, and ran to him, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing his cheek. He kissed her forehead as she wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Go get a room," Kol threw a grape at his sister. She stuck her tongue out at him and rolled her eyes.

Klaus smiled when he saw Caroline walk into the kitchen. She smiled at him, and it was the smile that reminded Klaus that all their lives are better. And they'll continue to.

Cheesy ending to the prologue, I know. Honestly I don't even know where this story is going, but it's just a human alternate universe. Everyone's in their mid-to-late-twenties. And don't worry, the rest of the Mystic Falls gang will be introduced in the next chapter! As well as their stories, which don't worry won't be so tragic. I'm trying my best to keep everyone in character as possible, but maybe not so much because they're not vampires lol.

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Thanks for reading XD