"NO ONE KNOWS FOR CERTAIN
HOW MUCH IMPACT THEY HAVE ON THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE.
OFTENTIMES, WE HAVE NO CLUE.
YET WE PUSH IT JUST THE SAME."

-

It was one of the normal days for the citizens of Beacon Hills, no one got killed or hurt, there wasn't any new killers in sight and the pack had a normal day for once. For an example, Finn went grocery shopping with Argent and was also shopping for Melissa since she had a late night shift in the hospital making it impossible for her to provide for herself and her son.

The wisest once of the pack just finished up their grocery shopping for the evening and kept their conversation alive by talking about stuff that normal people talk about all day long like football, music history and, of course, his recent marriage with Alice.

After 1000 years of feeling miserable and sadness, he finally found his always and forever in Alice Everson. She made him feel like a new person, like there wasn't any darkness inside of him, like he was a person, a normal one. He felt completed with her on his side. Thanks to her, he wanted to be his better self.

What the two best friends didn't noticed, because they were deep in their conversation, was Finn's siblings lurking in the dark, watching every move they were making.

Right when they started to pack everything up in Argent's trunk, the voice of the noblest one in the Mikaelson family resounded.

"Brother"

Finn froze in his motion and sighed loudly as he realized who was behind him. Argent on the other hand, still had no clue who the guy in suit and tie was.

"Elijah"

Then realization hit him, it was his younger brother with his other younger brother, who was walking into the scene. Out of habit, Argent put his hand over his gun, that was attached to his jeans at his back, without the knowledge of the immortality of the family.

"It's fine, Chris", Finn calmed him down when he noticed his tensed statue.

He slowly backed his hand away from his gun and nodded at Finn as a sign of understanding.

"Can I help you with something? Or can I go since I have a delivery for a friend of mine", Finn asked them nicely, not really interested for a family reunion.

"We want to talk to you, it won't take long", Elijah told him in his mannerly way, though he was feeling so many different emotions for seeing his brother happy and alive, even living a life that he couldn't have for a thousand years.

Klaus on the other hand was inpatient, he's arms were crossed, he's jaw was stiff, every body part was tensed up.

But for Elijah's and everyone else's sake, he promised to give Elijah a shot for trying to convince Finn to come and talk with them. Otherwise he would do it his way, even though he knows if he did it his way, Nova wouldn't be happy about it.

He was being patient for her, maybe he didn't know what he did wrong, but he knew whatever it was, he didn't wanted to give her more reasons to not forgive him, if there were even reasons to forgive him.

"So tell me, why should I want to talk to you, when I can go back home and spend time with my wife, my two girls and friends?", he asked them tetchy and also mentioning Amal as his daughter, since Alice and him legally adopted Amal into their family, they tried it with Nova, but it couldn't work since both of her parents were alive, but he still saw her as his daughter.

Everyone knew that, he talked about her like she was his own, same with Amal.

"To clear of some air, how I said, it won't take long. If you don't like it, we will let you go, I promise", Elijah promised him.

Finn was thinking about it, maybe if he goes with them, they will stop harassing his newly built family, the life he grow to love and they will go back to New Orleans.

"Alright"

Finn gave his friend a questioning look.

"If you want you can come with me, but you don't have to", Finn asked his best friend kindly.

Argent glanced over to Finn's younger brothers and then looked back at him, sighing.

"I'll come with you, I got no plans for this afternoon anyways"

-

Finn and Argent followed Elijah and Klaus into the mansion they were staying in.

Finn was feeling uneasy since the last time he saw his family all together, it was while they witnessed his death. Argent on the other hand was taking in the place by one glance, noticing all these white walls with old paintings and all the statues standing around them.

"Finn", Rebekah called out his name surprised, but also delightfully, while walking into the living room with Kol right behind her.

"Rebekah", he said her name back, but not in a pleasantly way.

The rest of the family members walked in and made themselves comfortable in the room, while Finn and his friend were awkwardly standing beside the door.

"What do you want to talk about, before I decide to just leave", Finn warned them and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Maybe you could tell us how you are alive and not dead, for the start", Kol told him in a offended voice.

"Or why Nova came to this town without telling her family?", Freya asked him in a defensive way.

Freya was so happy but at the same time devastated when she found out that her brother was alive, but never contacted her about it, and he also had their niece with him all the time while they were desperately searching for her.

"You still don't get it, am I right? You are in Beacon Hills for what? A week? You lived with Nova for almost 14 years, right? She disappeared for three years? And you never asked yourself why she left? Why she didn't told you she left or one of you could have stayed with her instead of getting into trouble of bringing a dead uncle back that she never even meet properly?", Finn asked them the real questions and tried to maintain his anger.

The other Mikaelson family members kept quiet, giving Finn the answer that he wanted.

"You wanted to know why I am alive? Nova and Amal brought me back to life with black magic, because when they fled from Mystic Falls they didn't took someone with them that could be their legal guardian. They needed someone who they could trust", Finn answered Kol's question harshly.

"Nova moved to Beacon Hills to be away from you all, from the way you treated her like she was nothing, just because she was a second born twin. Maybe mother was a bad person, but she never treated any of us like a piece of nothing. She loved us, protected us and made us to hold together. Yes, father was a cruel person and mother married the wrong person, but she still loved us equally. What you couldn't do to two twin girls"

"And now? The girls, who are twins, don't even have a sisterly bond, Nova hates Hope for something that is your fault. And only yours. You want to know why she's exploding with hate everytime she saw one of you since you arrived? Because you treated her like dust and made her watch how perfect Hope was and treated her like a princess.", Finn exploded with the words he always wanted to say since he meet 14 year old Nova.

Nova changed him and he changed her. She never thought that someone of the Mikaelson family would love her like she was their own daughter but Finn did.

He showed her what the Mikaelson family showed Hope. Since they were both the outcast of their family, they never thought they would find love and family in people who were just strangers three years ago, but they would do anything in their power to protect them.

"You don't know what you did to the girl and you still demand to know why she left? Why she's feeling like the way she does? ", he ended his speech and gave Argent the sign that they are leaving now.

"You're still a Mikaelson, brother", Klaus said for the first time since he saw Finn in the parking lot.

"Everson, I took the name of my wife", he corrected him and finally walked out of the mansion, confirming the rumors of him being married.

Hope thought about running after him, to ask him an important question she was thinking since the day she saved her from dying, so she did.

"Finn", she screamed after him and run over to him, before he could get into his car.

Finn gave her a questioned look as he froze in his movement.

"How is she?", Hope asked him a simple question, but he understood her intentions.

"We both know she's more powerful than you are", he told his least favourite niece.

"I know"

-

While Finn was still not home, Amal being on a date with her boyfriend, Isaac and Alice spending time with Melissa at the moment, Nova stayed at home with Derek, since Finn told him to go over and keep her company as long as he was away.

They actually had a pleasantly normal day for once, they backed together, watched movies and even had a dance off.

Now Derek was sleeping on the coach while Nova was sitting on an armchair, reading a book.

In the few years since she knew about Derek, she started to hang out with the grumpy man until he found a place for her in his heart. He saw her as his little sister that had to be protected. But not physically, more mentally.

He didn't wanted her heart to be broken ever again since her own family  did that already, he wanted her to only feel love, admiration and happiness, what she also wanted for him. Since then they had a closer bond than Marcel and Hope.

Even though he looked like a brood, grumpy young man from outside, he had a soft spot for the teenage girl. He did everything in his power to make her laugh and be happy, even when it meant to lose a dance off against her. Though he already won by making her laugh.

Nova sighed loudly, the second book that she started to read an hour ago was way to boring for her taste.

"You couldn't get any more boring", she whispered to the book and flipped the pages every few seconds, not paying any attention to them.

She lazily threw her arms beside her, where a small table was standing with cookies, she made with Derek, and dunk it into the glass of milk, she had ready beside her and bit into the now soft cookie, while watching Derek sleeping peacefully on the couch covered with her favorite red cozy blanket, that she was gifted by Scott on christmas.

"Why are you still awake?", Finn asked her and came in with the filled to-the-top grocery bags after midnight.

"I thought it would be a good idea to start a book after 9 pm and I accidentally finished it", she answered his question and sighed again and added to her answer.

"I still wasn't tired enough to go to sleep, so I started to read another book, but it was too boring"

Suddenly she noticed it was so dark outside that it could only mean it's after midnight.

'Time really flies by when you're deep in thoughts', she thought and slowly got up with Amal's blanket she had around herself, hoping not to wake up Derek from his sleep, since he had some exhausted few days since he's back to his old self.

"You know, grocery shopping doesn't normally take so long, so where were you?", Nova asked him out of curiosity and sat down on a chair in the kitchen, watching her uncle put away the grocery one by one, smiling at him softly.

Her eyes went wide when she saw that he bought her favourite snack, oreos. When her uncle noticed her expression, she made some give-me-motions signaling him to give it to her.

"Something came up... I had to fix something with Chris together", he told her and poured her and himself a glass of cold milk to dunk into the oreos.

She nodded, ate her oreos, but not forgetting to dunk them into the milk, while telling him about her day and what activities she did with Derek, also letting him taste the cookies they made.

"How are you holding up with... the whole orphan thing?", Finn asked her referring to Violet, as the kitchen area started to get peacefully and quiet, making it easier for the two outcasts to fall into their own world.

"I'm...", Nova started to reply with the lie she tried to believe, too, but then remembered she was talking to her uncle, who understood her pain and anger.

"I don't know what to feel. Relieved? Angry? Sad? Happy? Maybe she killed people without us noticing it and it was 100% wrong, but she also was my best friend, my sister who I told everything and anything", she told him what was on her mind since she found out about Violet being a murderer.

Finn nodded through Nova's whole statement, understanding her pain she was holding into herself.

"She tried to kill my boyfriend"

For some it would have sounded cringey and cliched, but then again Finn saw how much Nova changed through Scott. Thanks to him, she started to open up to people, at first it was hard for the second oldest Mikaelson to see her suffer, be paranoid and angry at small things, though it was only, because she held a lot of things inside of her beautiful head.

Scott was there for her, helped her control it and use it for something worth it. He helped her to create beautiful moments to replace the lonely moments and feelings from her past in New Orleans and Mystic Falls.

That's also how it made the pack come together on every holiday until they were a family supporting each other.

It also made it into their daily routine: Finn and Chris, sometimes Derek tagged along, went grocery shopping for Melissa and sometimes for Sheriff Stilinski, Nova eat dinner with the Stilinski boys, Isaac and Derek almost lived with the Everson's/ Chatwin's, the oldest students in the family helped the youngest with their homework.

The point is, they did everything together.

-

The pure black of the night is her comfort, the blanket of generous velvet that keeps her safe. It is the pure black that makes the moon so beautiful, that makes a stage for her to stand upon. It is the pure black of the night that gives the stars their beauty, and in it her heart is safe.

The stars couldn't have shone brighter that night, they didn't compared each other, though they lived beside one another.

[Her outfit for the bon fire]

"V? You're still here?", Scott asked her with his famous soft smile and had a eyebrow go up.

Nova sighed, still looking at the sky, where the stars where shining brighter than ever.

"I don't know, I don't think so", she answered him slowly with a dreamily voice and sighed happily, feeling at peace.

Scott smirked at her reply, but he didn't wanted to stop her since she was at peace. Maybe just for the next few minutes but he still wanted to let it happen. If the sky with the bright stars made her smile so bright, he would brought her on a picnic date a long time ago.

Writing it down into his mentally notebook, he walked over to her and sat on the hood of his own car, where Nova was making herself comfortable the last ten minutes he was looking for her.

She was leaning back with both of her arms supporting her. As Nova noticed Scott's presence beside her, she glanced over to him.

He was looking up just like she was doing a second ago, his right knee was pressed against his chest with his right arm around it.

She smiled to herself, thanking whatever was out there for giving her this supporting boyfriend she had and looked up again.

"For almost five minutes, I'm watching you to kiss, so we could finally enjoy the bon fire, but you're not doing it, so I'm begging you to eventually do it in the next few seconds before I will grab your faces and squeeze them together", Stiles voice suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Both of them looked down from the sky to find Stiles standing beside two parked cars with his arms crossed over his chest and on his face an annoyed face.

Scott only shrugged with his shoulders and faced Nova with a smile on his face, only to find her already staring at him. Nova came closer to him and laid her lips slowly over his, making it a passionately kiss.

"Ok, guys, you can stop, it's disgusting to make it literally in front of me, you could at least gave me a second to close my eyes before doing the dirty in front of me, ok hey stop, jesus christ", Stiles complained about their bold action, but noticed them not stopping, so he had to rip them apart.

"It's not cool when you kiss someone sister in front of them", he mumbled under his breath and walked away.

Nova and Scott were laughing about his reaction like children, but followed him hand in hand anyways.

-

After Coach Finstock made a speech about not drinking, because it's not good for their bodies, and making sure we should look after each other out there, he dismissed the two teams, but not without whispering something under his breath.

"Now I need a drink"

"Where is the baby wolf?", Amal asked after they entered the field that didn't looked like their lacrosse field.

It was full of students who where dancing to the DJ's music and drank alcohol at the same time. The students were dancing so closely that it looked like they were chickens in a field.
[Look at all those chickens xD]

"I think he's trying to get drunk", Isaac answered for the others and was staring somewhere, what made the others follow his stare until they found a miserable Liam deep in thoughts with a drink in his hand, that didn't look like apple juice.

Before someone could say anything, Nova's mood dropped from 100 to one, when she saw who was at the bon fire too.

"What the hell is she doing here?", Nova asked bitterly more to herself, but the others followed her gaze and noticed who she was referring to.

Her twin sister, Hope Mikaelson.

It didn't took her long before her legs made their way to Hope to confront her.

"What are you and you're poisoned apples doing in here?", Nova confronted her and crossed her arms in front of her chest.

Hope turned around surprised about her sister's appearance, but kept on drinking her milkshake that her father bought her before they arrived to the bon fire.

"I asked you something", she throw her out of her thoughts, with an eyebrow up.

"I go to this school", Hope gave her a simple answer and shrugged with her shoulders.

Nova rolled with her eyes and crossed her arms before her chest.

"Last time I checked you're in this town for maybe about a week, so you're not really one of us"

Hope sighed, she was frustrated, she didn't know what she did wrong to get so much hate from her sister.

"Why do you hate me?", Hope asked her straightforward.

Nova blinked in surprise.

"Pardon moi?", Nova asked her surprised that she forgot to speak english.

"You heard me, why do you hate me? What did I do to hurt you so much?", she repeated herself, giving Nova a sad look.

"Don't. ever. ask. again.", Nova warned her through gritted teeth with a dramatic pause after every word.

With a blank, emotionless face, Nova turned around only walking into a strong, firm chest. As the girls were talking they didn't notice the hunters surrounding them.

Nova tried to look behind the guy, only to see other hunters carrying her friends away from the bon fire. She tried to call after Hope only to find her already unconscious in the arms of another hunter.

"You've got to be kidding me", Nova whispered more to herself and felt a sting in her neck, with a liquid entered her body, making her go limp.

She tried her best to stay awake and fight against the man, who did this to her, but it only made her more and more tired.

-

"Something's wrong", Derek interrupted the family who were arguing for hours now.

Instantly the "grown-ups" stopped arguing and glanced over to Derek, who was listening to the whole drama since the Mikaelson arrived to the Everson/Chatwin Mansion. He was leaning against the sofa and wasn't really talking, only backing up Finn.

"Who are you again?", Rebekah provoked him.

Derek gave her his famous Hale stare and looked her up and down, not even even thinking about to answer her, and raised a brow at her.

Finn tried to hide his laugh as he saw how Derek reacted to Rebekah.

"I'm going to look for Nova", Derek let Finn know as he exited the mansion.

Without any explanation Klaus dissapeared into thin air, leaving everyone else with question Mark's on their forehead, but Finn, Hayley and Elijah followed Klaus and Derek anyways.

Not long after four family members arrived at the bon fire, Derek arrived to already scanning the area for the pack members, not even finding an inch of them.

Before Derek could start a sentence, he heard Lydia's banshee scream, the new Beacon Hills citizens were confused about the scream, while Finn and Derek shared with each other a knowing look.

Though the others didn't understand a single thing, they still followed the two with the knowledge of what is happening at the moment.

-

While the older ones were rescuing the true alpha and the other ones in the pack, three hunters were at the swimming pool of the school with the Mikaelson twins.

Normally Nova would have rescued herself in a second and would also do her nails at the same time and went to get a drink afterwards, but the hunters somehow found out who she was or more likely knew what she was and put her under vervain, lobelia flowers and wolfsbane.

Just when Nova came back to consciousness, the hunters dumped her into the water, her hands tied together behind her with a rope.

She didn't even fought against the water that was swallowing her completely in, it was like something was telling her to let it go, to let it happen. So she did.

-

Bitterly cold and humid, the only things what Nova was feeling at the moment. She felt the bitterly cold breeze hit her body which was only covered by a thin white dress. Her skin was numb from the icy weather, making it impossible to move.

Her beautiful long lashes were covered by small snowflakes, her skin had a white-blueish color to it, making her look like death in person.

Through the environment, where Nova was at the moment, being covered by a thick layer of white snow, her hair embraced her reddish hair color even more.

A soft feminine voice, which sounded far away, called out her name, waking her slowly up from her sleepy state.

"Nova, Nova"

With a force she opened up her eyes and inspected the area she was laying in. It was the woods, but she was laying in the middle of a frozen down lake, surrounded with the tall, dark trees.

Still not feeling like getting up from the freezing ground, she looked up to the sky that she loved.

Though it was daylight, the stars where still there, faintly. They didn't showed themselves, only embracing there true nature at night. Maybe she won't witness it anymore.

Maybe she was dead and was seeing this just to decrease her pain of drowning.

Nova heard about people who came back from the dead talking about how it felt to drown and die. It wasn't as peaceful as she thought. It was painful and gruesome, maybe it was the sight of the sun shining into the water for the last time before sleepiness overcomes.

"Wake up, Nova", the soft voice whispered again, but this time not far away from her.

As Nova looked to her right, she didn't found anything suspicious, making her furrow.

Slowly and carefully, she stood up and took in her surroundings from the new perspective. Her feet deep into icy snow, making them even more numb than she thought.

"Nova", the voice said in a harshly tone and more alive.

Shocked, she turned around to see her dead grandmother, Esther, alive and well before her.

"What... where am I? And what is happening? Shouldn't you be dead?", the questions just fell out of her mouth.

"Slowly, my dear, we've got all time of the world", Esther slowed her down before she could ask more questions and smiled down to her granddaughter.

Little by little a single thought creeped into her mind.

"Am I dead?", Nova asked, noticing how the air in her lungs wasn't enough for her to breath.

"Of course not", she answered her, but also adding to her answer.

"Well, as long as someone is going to find you before die"

Nova thought about it, what if that was her life, nothing more, nothing less. She lived with a family that she thought didn't love her, moved away and found a new family that she loved and appreciated.

At least she found the love of her life and the father figure that she never had. She was happy about it.

"W-why are you hear?", Nova asked her freezing from the cold breeze.

"To tell you the whole truth, from the powers that you inherited, to the time where the hollow existed", Esther started off but paused, as she saw Nova's confused look.

"Walk with me", she simply said.

Side by side the two Mikaelson members were walking over top the frozen lake.

"Do you remember your father's aunt?", she asked her, trying to find a way into the confession.

"The one who tried to kill Hope, because she was the first born? Also was the one who started the whole first born being the powerful sibling and the second born is the weakest thing?Huh, no, not really", Nova answered her sarcastically, even if she felt like a zombie.

"Yes, her, after your father-", Esther started to talk, but was interrupted by Nova's scoffing.

"After Klaus and the others finally let us have our peace, Dahlia and I gave our power to you, it was because a powerful witch from another family put a curse on you"

"Why does it sound like the sleeping beauty", Nova interrupted her telling and rolled her eyes.

Esther ignored it and kept going. She told her about everything and anything. About when she was a baby and when the hollow started.

But somehow it made no difference about her family's situation, she still couldn't understand them ignoring her for years and only praising one child.

Suddenly the ice under her feet made some cracking noises, confused Nova glanced down to see the small crack in the ice, making her eyes go wide. It didn't took long until she fell into the freezing water.

Weirdly, she struggled to swim, even though she was a very good swimmer. She felt her strength leaving her alone until she sinked into the darkness, where she felt peace.

-

It's been almost two hours since the almost dying incident happened. No one dared to go over to the traumatized girl, who was sitting beside the chimney.

She was deep in thoughts about what happened to her and discussing if her family deserve a second chance, but from the outside she was sitting there in a thin blanket watching the fire play around.

Klaus was watching her, asking himself if he should go over there and try to comfort her, but then again, he only will make everything worse by appearing in front of her.

But before he could do anything, he saw her new family walk in, making him feel sick to his stomach and sad.

Scott, her boyfriend, went over to her and hugged her tightly. Alice, her 'mother', brought over a tea and Finn, came as a support.

Maybe it was to late for him to feel sorry about their bad behavior all these years.

Maybe always and forever was never Nova's thing, but whatever she was having at the moment was way better than what she had before, making Klaus feel even worse than before.

[A/N: so here is a new chapter, I know it took me long, because I had a lot to do and today (30/11) was/is my birthday and I had so much to prepare for it. But in return I wrote a 5000 words chapter.

Also I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving♡