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                     HIS LONG LOST sister brought more than her own bad attitude to their doorstep. No: Dahlia’s death had revealed a prodigal, thought-dead son. Kol hadn’t been at Dahlia’s death and Matthias’ subsequent reveal — he’d been laid out and recovering from Finn’s curse. Had he been a better, more studied witch, Vincent Griffith’s power would have done Kol in; lucky for Kol, his brother had relied on Esther’s reassurance that the raw talent of a witch can make up for any lack of study. Even still, the curse had ravaged him, bringing him just to death’s door before letting him go. Making him remember that he was well and truly mortal.

Being invited to a family dinner had been a surprise, then, just a few short weeks into his convalescence. 

               LATE MORNINGS ALWAYS felt good. Tom had never been much of an EARLY BIRD anyway; getting to take his time to wake up was just about the only way for him to start off the day in whatever counted as a good mood. 

Hello, everybody!

It's my birthday! Jubilee!!!

                      IT WASN’T THAT he was particularly good with kids more than his family being particularly bad. That was what he told himself, at least, when his nephew showed up with tear tracks cutting through his dirty cheeks and bright eyes looking straight up at him. In the end, it hadn’t matter much what Esther had done to her kids, ostensibly for her children: they’d managed to ruin another generation even still.

He wasn’t sure what to do with a kid. For his most part, Kol had stayed away from them, or had at the very least not gone seeking them out. But despite Bekah’s baby fever and Nik’s own history with trying to mold children into his own image, their little nephew had decided that it was Uncle Kol, despite Kol’s brusque demeanor and insensitive jokes, that he wanted to be around. 

Matthias had found him in the library he’d staked out as his own, waiting in the doorway like something would come out to bite him. Kol glanced over, blinking, and waved him in.