𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒚 | Elijah Mikaelson [1]

XLVI

THE first time Morrigan saw blood on her father's hands was when she was 14. Of course, when he told her that it was goat's blood that he used for a spell, she believed him wholeheartedly, because how could her father ever hurt anyone?

He had come home, a sinister glint coated his eyes, but what really tipped her off was his sudden change in mood.

For the first day, he was gleeful. He was so happy that he was able to do what he set out to, that he stayed with Morrigan and taught her quite complicated spells and stayed extremely patient the whole time.

This meant a lot to the young witch because this was around a month after the coven elders had murdered her mother, and Morrigan, despite her strained relationship with the older witch, was feeling lonely and isolated.

Rumours of her family were flying and while Morrigan's father talked the elders out of the Brooks'  expulsion of the coven, the two of them became taboo for a few months.

The second time he came home with blood on his hands, Morrigan could smell it because his shirt and boots were soaked in the thick red liquid, but again, Morrigan didn't think to question it.

At this point, she was seventeen. Before she was pregnant, but after she had pledged herself to her father's cause of destroying the people who plotted against her family.

It started with just the coven, but Theodore insisted that there were always more enemies, always more adversaries.

Morrigan was infatuated with him, as all young girls idolised their fathers, or that's what she told herself and never ever questioned his actions.

It wasn't often that Theodore would come home, looking as if he murdered an entire family, but there were other little things that would have tipped anyone else off that they should run immediately and as fast and far as possible.

Things he often did was come home, muttering ineligible things to himself but the one common denominator that Morrigan could make out was that it was about grave robbing or desecrating a sacred piece of land.

He would have intense headaches and Theodore told Morrigan the truth about their origin, or at least the semi-truth: he said that he had to get used to the sheer amount of power that he was consuming.

In actual fact, the reality of these headaches was that he had cast a partial immortality spell onto himself so that he could cope with the pure power he withdrew from consecrated land for himself.

Even before he chose a darker path, Theodore was extremely powerful by general magic standards, but it was not enough for him. It was never enough.

He could always be more powerful, there was always someone that he could be better than.

When Morrigan discovered she was pregnant, it was like reality slapped her in the face. Her father was a bad person.

This revelation that her father was worsening in his ways and had been since she was fourteen, probably even before that, was a hard pill to swallow.

It wasn't just as easy as running away with the Mikaelsons and her baby, because her father was not only powerful but also extremely skilled in the art of magic and would most likely be able to deplete all of her defences and undoubtedly punish her for trying to escape him.