Chapter :-110 "Our Family"
Henrik took a deep breath and stretched his limbs to get the energy running through his body. He had actually fallen asleep on Kiyohime's lap not that he had any problem with doing so.
He opened his eyes and as her staring at his face with the beautiful smile etched across her face, mesmerizing Henrik as he stared into those beautiful crimson eyes.
"You are awake master….." She said in a soft tone but Henrik was too busy looking at her eyes to focus on her voice.
"You truly are beautiful!…" Suddenly out of nowhere, Henrik praised Kiyohime's beauty. The red flower over her white hair looked absolutely stunning, changing her beauty by many folds.
Kiyohime blushed and looked away from her Master who had just got up from her lap and sat beside her.
Both of them just sat in silence and enjoyed each other's company. Henrik moved his right palm and placed it over Kiyohime's palm before holding it.
She didn't say anything but her widening smile was enough evidence to prove that she felt happy with holding hands with the person she gave away her heart.
Henrik looked ahead and saw Freya helping Rebekah building the sandcastle. A smile formed over his usually apathetic face as he once again felt blessed for the second chance at life.
"Well, let us go back to the mansion. We have been out for too long and I am feeling hungry." Said Henrik as he stood up from the chair and helped Kiyohime like a true gentleman.
Both of them walked over to Freya and Rebekah to inform them that it was time they went back to the mansion.
"Freya, Rebekah….let us go back to the mansion. We have been on the beach for far too long, I feel hungry and want to eat something so let's go…."
"Humph!….sometimes it feels that you are the elder one out of us three…." Rebekah replied with an irritated expression over her cute face as she complained about Henrik behaviour towards them.
"I second that!…" Freya backed Rebekah and glared at Henrik who just shrugged before replying with an amused smile.
"It just that I am much more mature than both of you combined…Freya, you slept for centuries whereas Rebekah did the same, courtesy of my brother Nik."
"Unlike both of you, I was wide awake and unusually focussed on learning everything I possibly could from that prison." Even though he was very blunt with his words, both Rebekah and Freya knew that he wasn't complaining about any of it.
"*Sigh*…lets just go back Rebekah, otherwise our overly overprotective brother wouldn't stop pestering us and it is not like your sand-castle would just blink out of existence."
Freya convinced Rebekah to return back to the mansion while trolling Henrik for his overprotective nature.
"Yeah! Yeah! Call me overprotective brother but I really feel hungry and want to eat some good old home food!…."
The four of them returned to the mansion and changed into something more casual and home-friendly before Freya walked inside the kitchen along Kiyohime and started preparing for the dinner.
The Mikaelson family had rules and one of them was to eat together with the family on the large dinner table inside the dining hall.
Henrik and Rebekah placed the plates and glasses on the dining table while Freya brought the cooked food on a trolley with Kiyohime standing beside her.
The four of them pulled out their respective chairs and sat down before placing the napkin beside them.
The food of put of the rotating disk over the dining table and everyone took some from each container and filled their respective plates.
None of them spoke during the dinner and enjoyed the food cooked by Freya and Kiyohime.
After everyone finished eating, Henrik asked the maids to take away the plates and containers and motioned Freya, Rebekah and Kiyohime to stay back.
Soon after the maids exited the room, Henrik made a motion to 'follow him' using his palm and walked towards the research lab.
Freya, Rebekah and Kiyohime entered the lab and saw a wrapped up gift placed on the table in front of them, beside which stood Henrik. Freya and Rebekah stopped a few meters away from Henrik while Kiyohime kept walking and stood beside Henrik with a smile.
"What is it you wanted to talk about Henrik?" Freya asked Henrik with curiosity as she altered her vision between the gift on the table and her little brother standing beside it.
"Is that gift for us or what?…" Rebekah loved gifts, she truly was a kid at heart. So when she saw a wrapped gift beside Henrik, she immediately started thinking about the numerous possibilities, about what could be inside that gift box?
"Yes, this gift is indeed for both of you."
"Happy Birthday, Rebekah!"
"Happy Birthday, Freya!"
Henrik suddenly wished them "Happy Birthday" out of nowhere and it took them some time to realise that it was indeed their birthday. The last time both Rebekah and Freya had celebrated their birthdays was 4-millenniums ago; before Rebekah became a [Original Vampire]; before Dahlia took Freya away from Esther.
After that, they were so caught up in their own problems that they had actually forgotten about their own birthday. After Hope was born, both Rebekah and Freya celebrated their niece's birthday every year but they didn't do the same for themselves as remembering their birthdays brought back painful memories which both of them desperately wanted to forget about.
Tears burst out of their eyes as they rushed towards their little brother and tightly hugged him. They felt so happy! Someone truly and unconditionally loved them till the end of times, their brother has always been good, kind and loving to them.
What more could they ask for?
Henrik also didn't previously remember about his sisters birthdays, given that he was all too caught up in scheming and planning rather than focusing on the apparent moment of happiness that was in front of him all this time.
After the end of 3-World War, he finally realized that he hadn't celebrated his sisters birthdays for the past millennium after coming into this new world whereas the last two years he spent covering up his tracks.
Finally, after so many years did he had a chance to create happy memories with his family and enjoy the little moments of life.
Coincidentally, both Freya and Rebekah had their birthdays on the same day. So Henrik thought, what gift would be the best gift for his sisters.
Unsealing the chains of his two brothers coffins would probably be the perfect gift he could give to his sisters.
"I give both of you, ..…my beautiful sisters the most valuable gift I could possibly give you."
Saying so, he presented both of them with the box.
Rebekah quickly tore through the box and opened it.
Both of the sisters looked inside and were astonished by what they saw.
"Chains….you are gifting us broken chains!" Rebekah and Freya saw a bunch of broken chains inside the box. Thinking that Henrik had pranked them, Rebekah was about to burst into anger but Freya's trembling body stopped her.
"Rebekah t-these c-chains.….t-they!"
Freya was having a hard time forming words as she choked on the emotions she was currently experiencing.
"What happened Freya!?…"
Rebekah couldn't understand what was happening to Freya and was about to say something but Henrik best her to it.
"I am not gifting you broken chains, Rebekah…"
"I am gifting you, 'Our Family'….."
Two unchained coffins appeared behind the sisters and the hatchet flung open, revealing the two sleeping handsome males that laid inside.
Niklaus and Elijah…..