"Just sign here miss" the burley delivery driver spoke handing me a clipboard with a receipt attached, I did a quick signature before handing it back to him and with that, he was on his way leaving me alone.

I sighed looking at the large antique chest situated in my living room, I had it delivered from my storage unit in New York.

Kat and Nadia had brought Eden out for the day before they were to drop her at her father's house for the night as I had suggested, I needed to be alone. I had also been dodging Detective Will's calls with everything that had happened in the past few days it was easier this way, for now.

I gulped falling to my knees beside the chest, opening it up only to be assaulted with the smell of old books, freshly pressed shirts, red wine, and the French countryside, the scent was uniquely Tristan.

I ran my fingers through the contents of the box, memories coming back to me like a tidal wave.

"Thyra please stay"

"Elijah needs me"

"And what of Klaus?"

"Niklaus means nothing to me anymore you know this. Rumour has it Niklaus is close to breaking his curse, which means he will come out of hiding. It is the perfect opportunity for Elijah and me to reunite our family and make us whole again".

"He will suck you back in he always does"

"Tristan, I promise he won't"

Tristan had been right Nik did suck me back in.

Nineteen-ninety-seven was the year I left him, in the name of the family I had turned my back on our decade's long affair.

I grabbed handfuls of photographs looking through them.

That moment in Mystic fall's when I came face to face with Niklaus again after decades apart, it was as if my time with Tristan never happened. I think I always knew I would end up back in my ex-husband's arms no matter how much I pretended to hate him back then.

I smiled, cringed and laughed at the photo's in my hands, what had I been thinking with those hairstyles.

Letters from Tristan, postcards and little trinkets from the place's we traveled along with other miscellaneous items that were tied to our relationship littered the box.

From nineteen-fifty-nine to nineteen-ninety-seven I had been with the De Martel's, and the strix, well besides that brief time in the seventies that I spent with Damon Salvatore in New York and some other solo ventures.

But It was in sixty-five that Tristan and I's relationship started.

Rio de Janeiro, colorful, bright and exciting, filled with music, dancing, and laughter, my kind of place.

I spent my days lounging on Copacabana Beach and my night's dancing on the streets with the locals, it was truly paradise here.

It had been six months since Edith had suggested we come here, she had stayed here all of two months with me before she had to leave on strix business.

So here I was alone in one of the most vibrant cities in the world, well except for the bodyguards the strix had provided for me.

It had nearly been six years since Edith and her brother had found me in Italy and offered to protect me from Niklaus. I, of course, didn't need protection but they had resources who could track Nik's movements so I didn't have to, the Martel's and the strix could do all the work while I relaxed and stopped looking over my shoulder.

Although I was suspicious at first, I mean after what my family and I had done to their family who wouldn't be, but to my surprise everything so far was running smoothly.

"Right boys you are dismissed" I sighed shooing my bodyguards away as I walked into my penthouse apartment that overlooked the ocean.

I know the guards were meant to follow me everywhere to protect me but it was becoming irritating now, I mean I'm an original vampire for Christ's sake I think I could protect myself.

I slammed the door in their faces dropping my shopping bags to the floor with a huff.

"That wasn't very nice" a masculine voice chuckled.

"Tristan, I didn't expect you" I smirked walking past him to get myself a glass of whiskey.

"Edith has been going on and on about how beautiful it is here so I thought I'd see the place for myself, and I was in the area".

"You're alone?" I questioned.

"I am" he assured me.

Usually, everywhere Tristan went his sister Aurora followed, even after all these centuries I couldn't stand the crazy redhead, she had after all tried to steal my husband, then started a relationship with Kol, only to break his heart.

I was always sure Aurora used Kol because she couldn't have Nik.

Tristan and Edith knew my feelings toward Aurora and did their best to keep us apart.

Therefore, I avoided Aurora like the plague if I didn't I'd rip her head off and that would be unfortunate as I had a good thing going.

"What do you think of Rio?"

"The scenery is spectacular" he smirked staring directly at me.

I knew he had a crush on me, he flirted every opportunity he got sometimes I'd flirt back it was in my nature, but that's as far as it went.

Tristan was handsome, he dressed well and treated me like a princess, which was suspicious at first, it was only when Edith informed me that he had fancied me since he was human that I let my guard down and got to know him a little better.

"So are you here for business or pleasure" I flirted.

"Pleasure I hope" he replied taking my half-drank whiskey from my hands and sipping it himself.

"Cute" I scoffed pouring a new glass for myself.

"I have reservations at a restaurant in the city tonight at seven, will you join me?"

"Well I was going to wash my hair but I can cancel" I joked.

"It's a date princess" he smiled kissing my cheek sending warm tingles throughout my body.

It was 2 AM by the time we got back to my apartment, we had eaten, danced, drank a ton of fine whiskey and a few tourists, it was the perfect evening, I couldn't remember that last time I had this much fun with someone.

"Who would have thought prim and proper Tristan had a fun side" I teased unlocking my door, my companion following behind me.

"What can I say you bring out a different side to me" he shrugged helping he out of his suit jacket he had given me on the way home.

"Well I quite like this Tristan" I mused.

"I mean it Thyra, you bring out this carefree, lovable sap" he spoke stepping closer to me.

"Tristan..."

"I like spending time with you Thyra, in fact, I find myself wanting to spend all of my time with you" he whispered just inches from me.

I felt my face grow hot and my breathing become uneven, and before I knew it, we were kissing.

His left hand caressed my face while his right gripped my hip pulling me closer, his lips tasted like red wine and blood, his tongue flicked across my lips asking for entrance, which pulled me back to reality and away from him.

"We shouldn't do this" I breathed.

"Why not?" he questioned invading my space again.

"Because well," my mind was a jumbled mess, therefore I couldn't think of one sane reason for him, not to be kissing me.

"The first time I saw you I wanted you Thyra, but you belonged to Niklaus, and unlike Aurora who went after him I stayed away because I could see you were happy, but times have changed and Klaus has broken your heart and put you down over and over and for that alone I would kill him. You deserve to be treated like a queen, not a doormat, now let me show you how one treats a queen".

I didn't know if it was the look in his eyes when he promised violence against Nik or his pretty promises, but whatever it had made me not want to hold back anymore, so I kissed him with all the passion I could muster.

Things soon became R-rated as we pulled at each other's clothes and I led him to my bedroom.

And that was the start of our thirty-two-year affair.

Tristan and I traveled the world together from Rio in the sixties, Shanghai in the seventies, Tokyo and Sydney in the eighties and South Africa in the nineties, although we did venture off on our own every now and then, we did spend most of the time together.

Pictures of us together in all the different destinations we had been littered the box, some of us kissing, hugging, arms wrapped around each other, it obvious that we were a couple.

I had never told Nik or Elijah about my relationship with Tristan, as I knew it would only cause harm yet Rebekah and Kol knew all the details and promised to keep it a secret, but that had been when we were all on good terms.

Still, to this day I didn't know if I had been in love with Tristan, it was a confusing time as I had still been hung up on my now ex-husband.

I also didn't know if Tristan had been in love with me, and although I had my suspicions, he never told me he was in love with me, which I was glad for.

What I did know was Tristan was great in bed, treated me like a queen, there was also no expectations or labels in our relationship, it was simple.

I sighed closing my ex-box, although I had left everything in the past, I knew Tristan hadn't that was clear from how he acted the night of the ball.

I knew it was only a matter of time before Nik found out and although I didn't care about his opinion, I really didn't want or need the drama he would make of the whole thing. 

Maybe he wouldn't care we were now divorced after all, oh who was I kidding Niklaus would make a meal of this!

And on top of that, I had that dammed prophecy and sire line war to worry about.

Why did all my relationships bring constant drama and complications?

With everything going on I knew what I had to do, my new happy, simple life I had worked so hard to get was crumbling around me, a storm was coming and I knew sooner or later I would have to get my hands dirty.

I didn't want to do this but I had to, so I picked up my phone and dialed his number only for it to go straight to voicemail.

"Hey Will it's Thyra, please call me, we need to talk".

***

"She told you about what I did then" Elijah spoke sipping his glass of bourbon as Nik came storming into the compound a fist full of photographs in his hand that Aurora had given him.

"How convenient to voice this ancient grievance in the very moment we need to stand united against our enemies" Elijah sighed.

"You speak to me of enemies when the greatest traitor of my life stands before me" Klaus shouted as a confused Elijah turned to face his brother.

"I did it for Kol, Thyra was right all along Aurora was using our brother to get to you" Elijah explained.

Elijah was of course talking about how he compelled Aurora to break Kol's heart.

All those years ago when Mikael had found them in southern France and they had to flee, Aurora had begged to come with them because she loved Kol, it was only in her desperation did she slip up.

"I love Klau... Kol"

"Thyra was right you were using Kol" Elijah spat throwing her against the stone wall behind them.

"She doesn't deserve him, Niklaus and I are one and the same we both have done terrible things and I, except the thing's he has done and I would allow him to embrace his inner darkness, unlike Thyra who is clinging on to the sorrow of her human life" Aurora shouted.

"What terrible thing's has Niklaus done" Elijah demanded to know, using a power yet unknown to him or his family.

"I went to see Niklaus only he and Thyra were fighting, earlier that day Niklaus had almost let a secret slip to Lucian one only he and Thyra know one that would destroy your family" she spoke in almost a daze.

"What secret?" Elijah pressed.

"Niklaus killed your mother".

After that, he compelled Aurora to break Kol's heart and forget about her love for Niklaus.

"I am not talking about your compulsion to protect Kol I am talking about these" Klaus spat throwing the photographs onto the free-standing bar his brother sat at.

"DID YOU KNOW?" Klaus shouted with tears in his eyes as his older brother looked at the old photo's speechless.

They ranged from the late sixties to the late nineties, the images depicted that of a couple, in different poses and states of happiness, some they were kissing, others hugging and some simply standing side by side all in different parts of the world, the couple looked carefree and happy, but this couple wasn't just any ordinary couple.

The couple together in the photos were Tristan and Thyra.

"Well speak brother!"

"I had my suspicions about there closeness at the strix annual ball but I never envisioned something like this".

"Well it seems we know which family member shall betray us, or more like foe" Klaus spat.

He couldn't believe it his wife, his angel had been with that half-wit, Thyra had not only had an ongoing relationship with their enemy but she had kept it a secret for years, she had betrayed him and their family and he hadn't even known it.

Niklaus Mikealson now knew what it felt like to have his heartbroken just as he had done so many times to Thyra himself. 

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A/N 

Here is your inside to the relationship between Thyra and Tristan thoughts?

do we ship Thyra and Tristan aka Trya??

Also the cat is out of the bag what are your predictions for the next chapter??

Gif of Rio de Janeiro above ^^

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On a side note sorry for the lack of updates since Christmas I have been going through some personal struggles but I'm back to myself thank your for your patience. I love you all my lovlies.

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