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Tagging @icarusofathousanddays @cringewritinginprocess (back at you both!)
New Fic idea(SOMEONE STOP MY BRAIN!!) Reborn - Elijah and Klaus are given a second chance after their deaths, only to find their new lives area little different.
(Elijah gets to be the true eldest and save Freya at the cost of himself, meanwhile Klaus becomes the baby of the family and has to deal with all of what he placed on Rebekah. But Hey Elijah gets the undivided attention of a parent and Klaus get's Mikael's love and saves Henrik)
Ingrid was five when the memories returned, a thousand years as Klaus Mikaelson, the hybrid and a nightmare story in the supernatural world suddenly broke though the thin wall in her mind overwhelming her.
It was only Henrik's hand slipping into her at the first hitch of her breathing that stopped her from breaking down.
Something Ingrid was blaming on her body being unfit for the memories of a thousand years of blood, it should have been far moreĀ humiliating to go from feared hybrid to little girl but he-she struggled to feel it.
She had Henrik alive and hers in a way no one could take from her, her family was happy and father loved her.Ā
Yet something was missing.
It wasn't until days later that it hit her, watching Finn, Elijah and her once self- now older brother return from training with father.
That wasn't her Elijah; her first one, the one that had died with him, insisted on not leaving him alone, who had accepted the deal with him.Ā
He should be here, born again in their family to do better this time and yet he was missing.
There is no Henrik to hold her hand this time, to prevent the hitching breaths turning into sobs, her new twin having spent the day with mama, a thing Ingrid had struggled with since the memories had returned.
Mikael was different, Ingrid knew eventually she would have to deal with him but until then she wished to enjoy it, Esther however was unchanged from Klausā-Ingridās first life making it hard for her to ignore the true under her love.
Her hands shook and she failed to regain control of herself, the hurt was too much for this tiny young body before she could crumpled to the floor, the absence she hadn't been aware of before turning into a aching hole in her chest of fear and grief, soft hands caught her, warm comforting word surrounding her as she was easily lifted into a hug.
āBig sisterās here.ā Freya promised, āNo matter what, big sister is here.ā
Ingrid allowed herself the comfort of cuddling closer for a moment, no matter her trouble now trusting Esther-mama, Freya was different.
Freya who had always been there and yet she had been an unknown absence in his first life.
Now Klaus-Ingridās Elijah was.
āSomeone's missing.ā she managed to say, forcing the tears away and looking up at her.
Because how was she here? Dahlia should have taken her, leaving Finn a distant brother thanks to the grief he couldn't share and Elijah filling in the roles that should have been theirs.
This life was instead filled with Freya and Finn being there, Elijah a shadow between them, only filling their places when Finn was called away by father and Freya by Esther.
Just as loving but without the weight or pressure Klaus had been blind to, now as Ingrid she was only noticing when it was no longer a problem.
"Who told- that doesn't matter." Freya shook her head before swallowing thickly and staring again
āI once had a sister, like you have Henrik.ā Freya confessed,a pain in her voice that Ingrid was familiar with even if it wasnāt from this life. āHer name was Frigga, she looked like Kol and Henrik.ā
It made sense, Ingrid hated to admit, he had been reborn as the youngest of the family, while Elijah had been born as the eldest.
As the firstborn that Dahlia claimed and took.
