Ch. 36

As I entered the dimly lit room it was to find everything already prepared. Archivists stood around the edges of the room, and in the middle sat Klaus' final coffin, illuminated by candles. I knew what was inside it already of course, the perfectly preserved body of my mother put in such a state by Ayana a thousand years previous.

I smile down at the coffin as I step up to it, running my hands over its surface before looking to the archivist in charge, "Is everything prepared?"

The cloaked figure nods once and my smile grows wider, "Wonderful."

My hands move off of the top of the coffin down to the latches and ever so slowly I lift them up, opening the coffin and revealing my mother's perfectly preserved body. With the coffin fully opened, Esther's eyes begin to flutter open, as the magic needed to unseal the coffin would also pull her from the Other Side and bring her back to the land of the living.

I smile as she blinks rapidly, bringing her hands up to stare at them, breathing for the first time in a thousand years. Then she notices me standing over her and almost imperceptibly flinches at the sight of me. She covers it up with a smile as she sits herself up, "Vali…"

Ever so slowly, she reaches for me, her hands coming to rest on the sides of my face, "My baby boy…"

I continue to smile, even as I bring my own hand up to rest on her forearm, pretending to luxuriate in her embrace even as my other hand comes up and snaps a single manacle onto her wrist. She instantly pulls back, eyes going wide as she stares at the enchanted magic nullifying manacle and then back at me, "Vali, what have you done?"

I laugh, "Come mother, you know what I've done. You've been watching over your children for a thousand years, haven't you? You've seen everything, every single kill, every single horrifying act. You know our crimes in more detail than anyone still living."

Her mouth opens and closes but no sound comes out, and she tries to pull away from me further. I won't allow it though, my grip on her wrists tightening as I pull her from the coffin and let her fall into a heap on the ground below. I stand over her as she looks up at me with fear in her eyes and watch as she tries to plead with me, "Vali, I love you, I love my children. No matter what you've done, I've forgiven you and the others. I will always forgive you. I'm your mother."

I sigh and kneel beside her, running a hand through her hair, "I know mother. I apologize for the rough welcome, but with Mikael doing his level best to kill Niklaus and I, I suppose I'm a little jumpy. You must be thirsty, please mother, drink some water."

I hold up an opaque container, genial smile fixed firmly in place as she slowly takes it from me and I show her how to undo the cap. She gets one swallow down before choking and spewing the red liquid all over the ground, coating her dress and the floor in blood as I've moved slightly out of the blast radius. My genial smile morphs into a wickedly one as she looks at me, her eyes wide, "W-why?"

I sigh and take the bottle of my blood from her unresisting fingers, handing it off to an archivist and turning back to Esther, "You should know that already mother. Let's talk about your plan to kill all of your children, shall we?"

Esther's flinch is even more pronounced this time, her eyes shifty and unable to meet my own as she stutters out, "I-I have n-no idea what you're talking about."

She does finally raise her eyes to meet mine as she finishes that little lie, beseeching me, begging me, "Please Vali, don't do this. Stop this madness."

In an instant I'm kneeling beside her again and holding her head in my hands, my intent obvious. I could snap her neck in an instant. Esther freezes up, tears welling in her eyes, "Vali, p-please…"

I smile at her, "Tell me now mother. Tell me how you planned to kill all of us."

Finally she stops and speaks the truth, barely moving in my deadly threatening grip, "I was going to connect you all to one another and turn one of you back to human, so that I could end you all at once. It needs to be done Vali, vampirism is a blight on nature. I made a mistake when I turned you all a thousand years ago, and it's up to me to undo it. Please, you must help me fix this."

I chuckle darkly, and the noise causes her to flinch again as I look upon her, "That's going to be rather difficult mother. You see, I've just finished spreading my siblings across the world, so getting them altogether for a connecting spell is going to be a little difficult. And then, there's the other thing…"

I trail off, my eyes leaving hers to glance to the side and against her better judgment, she asks, "Other thing?"

I bring my gaze back around and look her in the eye, "Well, that's obvious isn't it?"

With a twist, I break her neck right there and let her lifeless corpse fall to the ground. Standing up and brushing my hands on my jacket, I finish what I was saying, speaking down at her body in a casual happy tone that bellied my actions, "You no longer have access to magic."

I spend one more moment looking at her before grinning and glancing at the cloaked witches circling the room, "How was that? That felt pretty good. Real over the top dramatic."

One of the archivists speaks up in a calm subservient tone, "Very well done Master. It was quite moving if you'll permit me to say so."

I chuckle, "I shall permit it. And everything was recorded with no difficulties?"

There's a nod from a different archivist, "Yes Master, no problems there."

"Excellent! You're going to want to use that footage in the documentary. Bloody fantastic piece of acting, that. It's just unfortunate that so much history happened before the development of recording equipment. Ah well, what can you do?"

I hold out a hand, "Blood bag please."

A moment later someone plops one into my waiting palm and I crouch beside my mother again, bringing her up so that her head and shoulders are resting in my lap. I stroke her hair gently, waiting patiently for what comes next. In no time at all she's startling in my arms, coming back to life. Well, not quite back to life, she's transitioning after all.

Before Esther can fully comprehend what's happening I shove the opened blood bag into her mouth and she instinctively drinks, completing the transition and draining the entire bag in seconds. A moment later her eyes go wide and she's up out of my grasp in a blur of vampire speed, stopping several feet away and looking at me with such a betrayed look on her face I have to stop myself from laughing.

I settle for grinning instead, "Hello again mother. I think it was time for you to finally join your children in immortality."

She's a combination of fear, rage, and depression as she looks at me through teary eyes, "How could you do this to me Vali? Your own mother?"

I can't help it, I finally laugh out loud. I calm down a moment later and gesture at her, "It was incredibly easy, I just followed your example. You should be thanking me mother! The Other Side will be destroyed quite soon. I brought you back before that happened, instead of leaving you to be sucked away with it."

Her eyes widen even further, "D-destroyed? How is that possible?"

I grin wickedly, "Well you see mother, I recently acquired the anchor that keeps the Other Side connected to our world. The Pathway through which all supernatural deaths flow. Considering the amount of magical talent I have on my side, breaking it now that I have all the pieces is going to be the easy part."

My grin slips from my face and I take a menacing step towards her, "I still haven't heard a 'thank you' from you."

Instead of answering that, she goes for the clear entrance to the room, blurring over in a hope of escaping I assumed, though what she intended didn't matter as she rebounded hard off of the magical barrier keeping her here. Slamming into the invisible wall she fell to the ground with a moan of pain.

I walked over casually and crouched down, "That was ill advised mother."

Her desire for self-preservation has clearly left her as she looks up at me and snarls, "You have lost the right to call me that. You are no son of mine, you are nothing but a monster!"

I laugh and grab her by the throat, pulling her up onto her feet, and then off the floor completely, looking up at her as her feet kick uselessly against me, "That really is an excellent example of the pot calling the kettle black. But very well Esther, you are no longer my mother. You are nothing but another vampire. Do you know what I do with vampires?"

She's gurgling now, as my grip on her throat is cutting off her ability to speak, so I continue on as if she'd asked, grinning all the while, "I compel them."

Bringing her down to eye level I lock my gaze with hers and begin the compulsion, "Here's how things are going to go. You will follow every order I give you. You will not seek a way to regain your mortality or your magic. You will not plot against me or my siblings, you will not attempt to hurt any of us, physically, mentally, spiritually, whatever. You will not seek a way to undo this compulsion."

I release her and she stumbles back, eyes wide as the compulsion takes effect. She falls to her hands and knees, staying there for a moment before speaking, "What happens now?"

I shrug casually as I walk over to the coffin and slam it closed, "To you? Who cares, as you said, I'm not your son anymore, and you are not my mother. That said, I've stopped you from trying to kill my siblings, so I suspect they would be very cross with me if they were to find out I was abusing you or keeping you locked up."

That said, I flashed over to her and held out a card exactly like the one I'd given to both Rebekah and Elijah, "This will give you access to a small amount of my vast resources. Small in this case, meaning that you will be easily set for the next thousand years. There is someone upstairs waiting for you, to help you acclimate to the new world you find yourself in. Though I imagine given your voyeurism, you're much more prepared to exist in the 21st century than my siblings."

She takes the card from me slowly, "Why would you give me this?"

I smile, "Because it costs me nearly nothing, and it gets you out of my way. You're no longer a concern Esther. And when you inevitably meet each of your children, you will have a choice. You will either tell them how you planned to kill them for the abominations they were, leaving yourself at their mercy… or you will extoll my virtues, you will keep a smile on your face as you talk about your beloved son Vali, the one who put so much effort into bringing you back to our family."

I watch her eyes widen as she realizes the order I've given her, even as I finish it up, "That's all. Those are the two choices you have when you first see my brothers and sister. We both know the one you'll pick. I look forward to hearing about your praises Esther. Run along now, I have more important things to deal with than a baby vampire."

She turns around and walks through the doorway that was just a little while ago blocked with magic, disappearing into the elevator. I let out a low sigh as I follow and take a different elevator. Now that that's dealt with, I think I want to see how Katerina and Nadia are getting along.

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When I finally found Katerina and Nadia, they were in a small café connecting quite easily with one another. I plop down in an empty chair at their table and invite myself into their conversation with an easy grin, "Hello darlings, how are you two doing?"

Katerina is of course pleased to see me, but Nadia actually looks appraising of me instead of the angry that I expect. She speaks up before Katerina can, "My mother has been trying to convince me to have sex with you. Preferably with her there as well."

I blink at that blunt admission and look to Katerina with a raised eyebrow. She blushes, but doesn't deny it so I look back to Nadia, "And how open to this threesome she proposes do you find yourself?"

She swallows thickly, "She's been very insistent on your… abilities. I won't lie, I'm more than a little curious at this point, what exactly you've done to her."

I chuckle at that, once more looking at Katerina as I answer, "Well now, showing you that would take a hundred and twenty long years… but giving you a taste won't take long at all. If you're interested."

Nadia pauses for a long moment in consideration before nodding and stating it outright, "I'm interested."

I grin and drop a hundred dollar bill on the table as I stand, my two female companions standing as well, "Shall we?"

In under a minute all three of us are back at the manor in an empty bedroom. Katerina is quick to try to jump me and tear my clothing off, but I just laugh, catching her and throwing her to the bed, "Oh no love, this is between me and your daughter for the moment. Deal with your own clothing and pleasure yourself while you watch us."

Katerina pouts but does as she's told. I'm already turning to Nadia, who I find is entirely naked, standing completely unashamed as she stares at me with undisguised interest. Flashing over to her, I catch her chin and look into her eyes, "First thing to learn darling… compulsion isn't just about control. It can be for pleasure as well."

That said, I compel her, "Let's start you with three times your usual sensitivity and go from there." As it takes affect her body flushes slightly and I run my hands over her naked flesh much to her pleasure, my mouth capturing hers and my tongue warring with her tongue as she melts slightly against me.

Soon, her hands are working at my belt and she begins to undress me, pulling my shirt over my head and fishing my cock out of my pants before falling to her knees and licking up and down it. I grin down at her and rest a hand on her head as she dutifully takes my prick into her mouth, sucking up and down its length.

Eventually though I pull her off of me and push her towards the bed and towards her masturbating mother. I grin as I walk up, both women looking at me as if to ask what happens next. I gesture at Katerina, "I'm going to be fucking your daughter soon Katerina. Use your tongue to get her ready, won't you?"

Nadia opens her mouth at this, perhaps to protest, but Katerina is too used to following her orders, and before Nadia can react she's pinned underneath her naked mother, who quickly slides down her body and pries her legs apart, before diving into her incredibly sensitive honeypot.

Nadia's protests die before they can ever be spoken, her mouth instead forming an O as her eyes widen at the pleasure her mother's tongue is inflicting on her. It only takes a few moments for her to suddenly spasm, her body wracked with a powerful orgasm. I grin and move to her side, bending over her and locking eyes with her once more, "Let's try four times your normal sensitivity now."

Katerina continued her assault on Nadia's slit as I'd ordered, and Nadia was hit by a string of orgasms to follow her first, the pleasure growing more and more intense as we went. Moving from Nadia's side, I finally got onto the bed with the two beautiful women, placing myself behind Katerina and lifting her hips up before thrusting my hard length into her sopping wet cunt.

She moaned even as she licked, and those moans turned into screams that clearly had a delightfully pleasurable effect on Nadia as I began to thrust harder and faster into Katerina's welcoming passage. Things continued like this for hours as all three of us traded places and positions. I fucked Nadia while she ate out her mother at least once, I fucked both of them as they made out, one on top of the other.

I watched them fuck each other, and then I enjoyed the two of them fighting over my cock with their mouths. Somewhere along the way I brought Nadia up to the five times sensitivity Katerina was at, and left her there. By the end of things, all three of us were covered in the juices of our fun romp, and poor Katerina was passed out on the bed.

I lay back as Nadia climbed onto my cock, riding me cowgirl, slowly sliding up and down at her own pace as I just watched her, smiling, "It would seem the daughter has more stamina than the mother in this case."

Nadia gasps and smiles down at me, "Well, I had proper motivation to outlast my mother, didn't I?"

I raise an eyebrow at that, even as I'm more than a little mesmerized by the way her hips move in a circular motion as she rides me, "Oh? Wanted to get me all to yourself from the beginning did you?"

She nods, biting her lower lip as she leans back and places a hand on the bed to support herself, while her other hand comes up to fondle her own breast, "Mhm~ All to myself. So that I could do this!"

The hand I assumed was going back to support herself comes up with a makeshift stake in hand, and I have only a moment to wonder when the fuck she had time to make it, before it comes plunging down towards my chest and my heart.

I catch it of course, she's five hundred years too young to even think about being faster than me and grabbing her wrist as the point of the stake digs slightly into my exposed skin is child's play as I stare up at her with all humor gone from my face. She doesn't give up though, pushing with all her considerable might against my grip, straining with every ounce of vampire strength she possesses.

So I stop resisting, letting the point slide into my heart as I let out a pained growl in response to the piercing wood. The menacing growl is one Katerina knows well, and she wakes with a start only to find her daughter leaned over me with a stake in hand buried in my heart. Her eyes go wide even as Nadia begins to realize I'm not going grey like she expects.

Now Nadia tries to flee, releasing the stake and attempting to pull away, but my hand is not on the stake, it's on her wrist, and she finds my grip to be crushing as I pull her closer, my other hand coming up to grab her by the throat and spin us around, pinning her to the bed. She's frozen in fear as I hold her down, the wood stake still sticking out of my chest between us.

"Now darling, whatever did you think that was going to do?"

Nadia shivers, "You were supposed to die temporarily, and that would break the compulsions on my mother and me."

I nod slowly, "A good plan, if you were trying to kill a normal Original."

I lean back, keeping my hand around her throat in place as the other comes up and pulls the stake out of my chest, "Unfortunately for you darling, I'm invincible."

Katerina is at my side now, clutching my arm, "Master please. Please forgive her. She didn't know any better, please. Don't kill her."

I take a moment to glance between Katerina and the stake before smiling and tossing the stake hard enough that it pierces the wall above Nadia's head. She flinches and I release her throat and move off the bed, jovial tone back as I wag a finger at Nadia, "You get one freebie darling, and only because I'm a sucker for beautiful women begging me. Try that again and I'll rip your head from your body."

As I get my pants and shirt on I look to Katerina, "I think it's time you take a vacation Katerina. You and Nadia need to get out of my hair, and I mean that. You're going to avoid being in the same city as me for… let's say a few years."

Katerina actually looks lost at the idea of that, and I can't help grinning, "It's not you babe, it's me. I just think we need some time apart."

A hundred and twenty years has gotten Katerina used to my humor enough to recognize when I'm lightening the mood from murderous to amusing. She chokes out some laughter through tears and nods, "Yes Master, I understand."

Clapping my hands together, I smile, "Wonderful! Tata ladies!"

With that I leave the room. I have to go find something expendable to kill. Under my calm smiling exterior, I was actually more than a little angry, I was fully enraged. But I had a habit of sparing beautiful women for their indiscretions. I also had a habit of punishing others for their crimes. Perhaps that Traveler Nadia had been with. Gregor was probably either already captured, or being hunted down now. If he wasn't found yet, I'd find him myself.

I grinned at the thought of personally tearing his heart out of his body.

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