Hurt

Authors Note/Disclaimer: Obviously I do not own The Originals, that credit is due to go to the writers/creators.

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Summary: Sixteen years after she hurt him, she gets the chance to see him once more.

Two Shot
Part 2

Klaus swirled is whiskey around his glass, Rebekah and Elijah sat on the black leather couch in the library waiting for him to begin talking. For once he didn't know what to say, in sixteen years he had changed no longer the same man he was when he left New Orleans. Not as full of hatred or pain, forming a family, finding love with Camille had helped to settle him down and allow to enjoy life in the moment. No siblings to worry about nor feel betrayed by.
He looked up at them, seeing the nervousness in Rebekah's features, the curiosity in Elijah's. They both wished for an explanation, wanting to be filled in on his life. "Where to begin?" The words left his lips breaking the silence.

Rebekah jumped startled, her eyes focusing on Klaus. "You have changed dramatically"

Klaus nodded slightly at her observation, sitting down in the chair across from the couch. "I suppose I have"

"A son. Camille. Davina" Elijah rallied a few things off his tongue. "This is a change, Niklaus. I feel as though a little explanation is deserved"

Klaus raised his eyebrow at his brother's tone. "I do not feel as though you deserve anything, however I will explain what I choose" He took a sip of the whiskey, taking a moment to observe Rebekah. "You need not worry, little sister, as I explained earlier I am no longer angry. I have had many years to think about all that we have been through; you did what you thought you needed to do at the time"

"I never actually wished you dead, Nik"

"I know that now. Leaving New Orleans, travelling with Cami and Davina gave me the time I needed to analyse all that had happened, one thousand years placed into such a short space" He took a deep breath. "We were in Paris when I realised how even though we are immortal, have lived for such a time, I have never truly been on my own. One of you have always been with me"

"How it was supposed to be, we vowed…"

Klaus shook his head. "Being together always it was part of our drama. We needed a chance to grow on our own. In the sixteen years I have created a family that never would have existed back in New Orleans"

"Davina"

"Ah, the little witch, well vampire now" He smirked, closing his eyes as if thinking back on a memory. "In New Orleans I probably would have continued to try and use her as a pawn against Marcel. When Hayley asked me to take her with me, I almost said that I couldn't yet something in my mind begged to differ. I needed a change; I had to do something different with my life. In the years that have passed my relationship with that girl has transformed from one of hate to one of love. While Hope is the biological daughter I never thought of having, Davina is my daughter of choice, one I never contemplated I would accept into my life"

Elijah frowned, letting the information seek into his brain. This man before him was not at all like the brother that left New Orleans sixteen years ago. "And Mason, what of the child?"

Klaus let a small smile greet his lips. "I was out on the town, hungry as usual when I smelt blood it was accompanied by the sound of a crying child. I found him in a car wreck; mother had died on scene, the two year old crying in the backseat. I brought him home and Camille held him, Mason stopped crying in that moment and when I saw the look on Cami's face I knew that this was the moment we had been waiting for. He seemed to fit perfectly, fell in love with Davina instantly and when he met Hope it just seemed to fit. The night I brought him home he became a part of this family"

Rebekah raised her eyebrow, stunned by her brother's confession. "His human family"

"His mother was his only living relative. Camille and I searched before making the decision to take him in completely as our own. We are his parents, nothing will change that now"

The room fell silent once that that been revealed, there was no tension just silence among the siblings. None of them knew what to say or where to carry the conversation next.

"Where do we go from here?" Elijah asked softly.

Klaus frowned, his eyebrows burrowing. "I am open to contact, to establishing a relationship but we cannot live together. Time apart has done us good, allowed Rebekah to live life away from my clutches, allowed you Elijah to enjoy a life with Hayley and as for me I have had an opportunity to build a family" He placed his drink on the table. "Instead of going backwards and allowing ourselves to fall into the toxic relationships we once had, I feel as though we should still stay apart, have contact but start off small. Jumping in, you staying in this house will only pull us back into old ways"

"You have changed so much. My big brother never would have looked at things in this perspective before" Rebekah mumbled looking at Niklaus with an unsure expression, this version of her brother was not one that she was used to.

Niklaus just smirked. "Well sixteen years away from the people that mean the most was bound to change me. We will do better starting off slow" He stood up taking a few steps forward to touch Rebekah's cheek. "Know, little sister, that I am glad that Hope brought you here. I have been mulling over the idea of reaching out to you for some time, this was the push I needed. I am no longer anger, I have a family. Two daughters and a son, a wife. I want you to be a part of the family I am building so let us take this slow" He leaned down and placed a kiss to her cheek, casting a look at Elijah.

They all knew that eventually they would be okay.

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