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I do not own the vampire diaries, anything from the show, any music, gifs, or other aspects. I only own Corey, my other OC's, and AU! storylines. All rights go to the creators and owners of all of that stuff.
INTRODUCTION/BACKSTORY:
WHEN ESTHER turned her children into creatures of the night, she took away their right and choice to have children. Rebekah, her daughter, was especially damaged by this due to her maternal instincts that were more intense than her own mother. Esther turned them into creatures of the night, never having a chance to be normal ever again.
The universe, upset with what Esther did using unnatural magic, had to create a few loopholes for her children to have their own kids, all in which fell solely on her son Niklaus.
The boy was an untriggered werewolf when Esther turned him into a vampire, making him a hybrid of the two. Because he was born a werewolf before becoming a vampire by magic, he was able to produce children. When Esther and Mikael bound his werewolf side away, the universe had one last loophole in the form of the doppelgänger. It was the Petrova doppelgängers blood that helped bind his curse, so the Petrova doppelgänger was the only one able to give him a child with his werewolf side still bound.
This was unknown even to Mikael and Esther. Nobody found this out until the late 15th century when Niklaus, going by Klaus, met the newest Petrova doppelgänger. This was a seventeen-year-old girl named Katerina Petrova, an exact replica physically of Elijah and Klaus' former love Tatia, a doppelgänger they fought over while they were still human and whose blood was used to bind his curse.
Katerina Petrova, born in Bulgaria, was banished from her home country in 1492 by her father after giving birth to a baby girl out of wedlock. The girl was traumatized extremely from having the baby ripped away from her that she had no problem leaving that life behind to start a new one.
Katerina was introduced to the Mikaelson brothers when she was a mere human. She captured Klaus' attention due to the catch that she was the key to breaking his curse, he would finally be powerful and able to defeat Mikael. Elijah, on the other hand, fell for her the moment he saw her.
After being seduced by the younger of the two brothers for weeks, she discovered the truth on why Klaus was so fixated on her, she was meant to be sacrificed. She grabbed the moonstone, a vital piece of the sacrifice like herself, and ran like hell. Another vampire named Trevor betrayed the Mikaelson's and helped her escape after he too fell in love with the Petrova girl. He directed her to go to his cabin where his platonic companion Rose had been staying at with him.
Rose was clearly upset when she realized that the girl Trevor sent to her was a doppelgänger that was on the run from the original family, making herself and Trevor accomplices in her betrayal.
Not wanting to die at the hands of the insane hybrid, she decided to take her own life in a last attempt to have control. Rose found her right before it got too damaging and healed the girl with her blood.
When Rose has been talking with Trevor, Katerina hung herself. With the blood of Rose in her system, she knew this would mean that she wouldn't have to die, she would be a vampire.
Nobody, not even the woman herself, knew what laid in Katerina's womb. She had been impregnated by the Original Hybrid, creating a new species entirely.
When Katerina killed herself, the baby died momentarily but then became a vampire due to the blood of Niklaus Mikaelson running through its veins. It was a tribrid; part witch, part vampire, and part untriggered werewolf.
The baby boy was born less than a day later, she named him Cornelius Dimitar Petrov, born with a tuff of blonde hair and shocking bright blue eyes that weren't common for a newborn baby to have.
Klaus found out less than a few days after Katerina had given birth, he didn't believe it. Nobody knew the truth on how it was possible, the witches that were working for the Mikaelson's told him that it seemed to be a loophole. He still didn't believe it until he had a long talk with his younger sister Rebekah, the girl who wished she had that opportunity, and realized he had to be the father he wished he had growing up. He started his search for the boy and his mother that would last over five hundred years.
As time went on, the baby boy was growing up at an oddly rapid rate, only taking a few years max to finally stop aging when he appeared to be seventeen, the same age his mother was when she turned. He was also a spinning image of the Mikaelson family, light brown hair and now hazel eyes, you could put him next to his father and tell that they were related.
The mother-son duo rarely were able to settle in one place until 1864 when they arrived in a town called Mystic Falls in the state of Virginia. Cornelius, going as Corey Pierce, ended up meeting two-lifetime companions named Damon and Stefan Salvatore. The two human brothers were dragged into the supernatural world by his mother who couldn't help herself but seduce and mess with them.
Despite his mother's mischievousness, Corey was genuinely happy in the small town. He had made friends with a lot of the townies and played a good role in their society. It all came crumbling down when his mother's selfish actions got herself and the rest of the vampires residing in the town caught and either killed or locked away in a tomb.
Katherine Pierce escaped the tomb, her real reason for faking her death was because she heard rumors that the Mikaelson's were coming this way after hearing she was possibly in the area. Katherine never went back for her son, she knew he was safer away from her. She knew one day she would be caught, she wanted Corey away from her when it eventually happened.
Emily Bennett promised Katherine that she would look after Corey until she died. The boy had been a surprisingly good companion of hers which made her hide him during the crazy night.
In the crossfire of that crazy night, Stefan and Damon Salvatore became vampires and later on completed the transition.
Corey stuck by Stefan's side for a long time. He enlisted the help of one of his only friends named Lexi Branson to help him deal with the newly turned ripper Stefan. He visited Damon as much as he could, but his deep connection with Stefan made him always drift over to the younger brothers side.
Damon ended up switching roles with his brother and becoming the dark, twisted vampire. Corey tried and tried to help Damon, but the elder Salvatore pushed him away unlike in the way Stefan had. Corey didn't know how to help him, so he focused on keeping Stefan clean of human blood.
Decades and decades later, Stefan revealed to him that, in Mystic Falls, there was a teen girl named Elena Gilbert who was an exact replica of his mother. The two ended up moving in with Stefan's 'Uncle Zach' who let them live with him in the boarding house as long as they didn't kill anyone. Both boys promised.
The two eventually joined the next school year, Junior year of High School. Both boys caught the entire school's interest. It wasn't as if they didn't get new students, they sometimes did, but there was something about these two boys that captured everyone's attention.
Stefan met and fell in love with Elena Gilbert. Corey was skeptical at first considering that she looked exactly like his mom, but the two became friends. Corey also ended up befriending the other students of Mystic Falls.
Things wouldn't have gotten messy if Damon Salvatore didn't come back. The man promised Stefan that he would never let him be happy, and that's what the raven-haired vampire attempted to do until he fell in love with his brother's girl.
The group went through a lot of shit together. The worst part for Corey was when he found out his mother was still alive, that she faked her own death and left him to survive on his own. He loved the woman she used to be, he hated the woman she had become with a passion.
This is also when Corey learned the truth. The tribrid never knew why they were on the run, at least not the real reason. Now, he knew. His biological father was hunting them down to kill his mother and to meet his son.
He never thought he'd actually meet his father nor his paternal family that he knew nothing about. But the world seems to love throwing curveballs at the Original Tribrid.