Embrace Your Life, My Son ( Jordan | Alexander )

With his son now back in his grasp, and his past revealed - Jordan felt great. New found knowledge of the past and a strength that rivaled the Originals, he was prepared to embrace his 'new' life, with Alexander at his side. Upon request by Niklaus, his son was needed to infiltrate the school and gather knowledge for Klaus - and Jordan stood by and accepted this. It was a bargain, his unfathomably power in return for the help of his son for his maker, that was easy enough. As he drove his Bugatti Veyron with his son in the passenger side, he turned to him and spoke.

"So, Alex... are you looking forward to school? Seeing as I haven't had you around in the past four-hundred years, I haven't known if you have ever attended. So would you enlighten me, son?"

Alex had been staring out the window for most of the car journey. He'd been out of the human world for too long now and he was worried about messing up somewhere. He knew Jordan would never forgive him for messing this up, not if it meant him losing his new 'brother'.

"I'm sorry." He frowned looking Jordan from the corner of his eye. He couldn't bring himself to look at him properly. If he'd known he'd react like this about him leaving, he never would. "I tried school, you know to try and fit in. I got bored." He shrugged.

"Do i have to go? Can't i stay with you?" He asked, already knowing the answer but he had to ask.

The sadness and pain in Alex's voice gave Jordan shivers, he couldn't do this to his son. But he had to, his brother was just as good to him as his son, and he had craved a large family - since he was human. Jordan playfully reached over and ruffled his son's hair, trying to at least be somewhat fatherly. When he spoke though, his voice was full of pain and despair, something he had never let Alexander hear.

"Please... don't act this way, Alex. Really... please. I wanted a big family, since I was turned - and now that I have it, I can't simply let it go away. You are a part of my life now, and that is all that matters to me - trust me."

It was interesting that Alex never really attended school, well at least it was to Jordan. In that moment he felt horrible for everything he put that boy through, if only he had never visited that village and turned Alex - his life would have played our normally. With a tear rolling down his cheek, in an attempt to control his emotions, he looked over to his son and spoke.

"You have to go.... This is all my fault though, Alexander. If... If I had simply never visited your village, you would have had a normal life... But my stupid, impulsive actions are the reason that you are the way you are - I have still never forgiven myself for that..... Your pain is all my fault, and whatever loneliness you feel has been inflicted by me... I am sorry."

Jordan was barely keeping his emotions in tact, he didn't want to totally devastate his child. He simply kept driving, just letting that single tear flow down his face, before it dropped onto his jeans.

"Hey!" He complained as he messed up his hair but he couldn't help the smile was hit his mouth as he straightened it back up. "Don't touch the hair."

He frowned and looked out the window. Jordan was all the family he ever needed in life and he couldn't understand why he wasn't enough for him. They were a family and they didn't need anyone else. He simply nodded, in acceptence not happy about having to do this. School bored him and nothing good happened when he got bored.

He turned to look at Jordan his mouth open to speak but he froze. "Don't say that! I'll go to school, i'll do anything you want just don't say that. Please." He said turning to look at the man he considered his father. "You don't like the way i am?" He asked. "I can change! Just don't regret changing me please. I'll never leave again." He cried, wiping away a tear. He didn't want to cry, he had to go to school.

His emotional barrier had totally dissipated now - there was nothing that could hurt him more than his son when he was upset. He listened to Alexander, almost ready to cry - he didn't mean it like that, he loved his son, very dearly. Jordan fixed his head on the road, not sure now how to react - but he was going to give it his best shot, for himself, and for his son. Trying to stop the internal sorrow, he turned to Alexander and spoke.

"Not like that! I love you son, I do - I just can't help but think that you may have had a happier life, if you hadn't died. I love everything about you, and the fact that you even wanted to be with me forever, when you were dying - still makes me happy. But you are perfect, nothing is the matter with you - I just simply thought you may have enjoyed humanity...."

He looked down, ignoring the road - if anything was coming, he would be able to sense it. He couldn't bring himself to even look at Alexander, he felt like he had hurt his son deeply. A few more tears dropped down Jordan's face and he simply ignored them as well, as he gripped the steering wheel - nearly destroying it.

He shook his head. "Have you never wondered why i was never afraid to follow you when you showed up?" He asked turning in his seat so he was facing Jordan. "I saw it all you know. I sat there and watched you kill my father and i didn't cry. I cried only because i thought i was next." He explained toying with the wrist band he was wearing. "The man that called himself my father was a monster. He caused me nothing but misery, more than you even know. My mother was no different, she stood by and watched it all happen. Not once did she try to stop it. Point is you saved my life!" He said pulling his sleeve over the wrist band.

"You've saved me twice and you didn't even know it. You're the father i dreamt of and i want people to know that now... Of course i wanted to be with you. What's batman without Robin ay?" He asked with a small smile. "It's great to have my robin back." He said playfully punching Jordan in the arm.

Jordan couldn't recall the things Alexander told him, had he actually told him this previously? As he tried to recall everything, from his vast pool of memories - that was the only one that was totally absent. He simply smiled at his son now, knowing not to regret his decision - and even the punch in the arm was okay. The analogy of them being Batman and Robin was funny, he had never really thought of it that way. Jordan didn't want to punch him back, even slightly in fear of hurting him - so he patted Alex's shoulder gently.

"Why have you never told me this, Alexander? I love you, you know you can tell me anything - right? And I am glad that I don't disappoint you, it's great to have my son back - in general."

He said playfully back at his son, as his tears were gone now - and all that remained was a giant smile. He eased up the grip on the steering wheel, so it wouldn't break, and he drove calmly to the school.

He shrugged. "It's just never come up, we were happy and i didn't want to ruin that." He said looking at his father. It felt good to back. He'd missed him over the years he'd been away but he didn't know how to bring himself back. At least he had one thing to thank Klaus for.

"I know, sorry i didn't tell you before. Life had just gotten perfect and i didn't want to bring it back down."

His eyes turned back to the road ahead. "Im not doing the homework though. That's going too far. Maybe ill compel someone to do it for me." He said absentmindedly.

I nodded as he spoke to me about this, trying to keep my cool. I didn't like my son to keep things from me, it sort of hurt - but it was understandable, so I dismissed it. Denying Alexander of this would be a cruel crime, and I wasn't going to do that - their life was perfect, more so now then ever, because they had been reunited. I really had no idea how Alex felt about my true past though, because I was nearly double what he believed me to be, in age. With a smirk on my face, I gave a slight laugh at the homework comment, I didn't blame him either - it was mundane bullshit they had us do, just to stay 'smart.'

"Don't worry son, everything is fine. No need to apologize, I am your father - no one else. And homework is mundane, I don't blame you for doing it. Also, I will be erasing my name out of the database, I can't be attending high school with my son, that would be - obvious that we were not normal."

I smiled as I said this, even though I would miss this school. I didn't need to be there though, so long as my senior or junior, whichever he chose, son was there. That would be a dead giveaway that we were inhuman, not vampires exactly - but inhuman, because people were not that stupid. My hand squeezed his shoulder, as I was trying to show him affection without crashing my car.

"How do you feel about me... now, I mean the fact that I am over 1,000 years of age - instead of 600?"

"I would have come back... i just didn't want to get in the way." He admitted. It was the reason he'd left in the first place. He was just holding Jordan back from the many things he was capable of doing without him there to stop him.

Now it was his turn to laugh. "You enrolled at school? Why?" He asked. It was hard to imagine his father walking into the school like he belonged there. "My mother would have had to have slept with an infant if you were still to be my father and attend school. Either that or your get held back a year or 10." He smirked.

The smile dropped from his face at his next question. He hadn't really thought about it, he was more annoyed at Klaus for making him do this that he'd forgotten about that. "I don't know." He shrugged he was just scared that he'd be pushed out in favour of his new brother since Klaus had been around long before Alex was born.