Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Teaching

As the sword came at me, I slightly leaned to the side, bringing up my own to bat it aside before delivering several of my own attacks. Forcing my opponent back onto the defensive, just as I wanted, with her being a more aggressive fighter, she would be less comfortable on defence. Seeing an opening I brought my sword down onto her shoulder with a resounding crack. "Did you have to use so much ****? They may only be wooden, but they still hurt", Alexandria said jokingly, a smile on her face. "If you have such an issue with a wooden sword, you will really dislike proper steel," I responded.

Truthfully, she was very skilled with a sword, having the potential to be only slightly less skilled than I or Mikael. Still, that put her as one of the best sword fighters I had ever met, but there was still a way to go, hence why I had been training her for an hour a day every day since we met.

"Are you ready for today"? I asked her, knowing that she was nervous about starting at Mystic Falls High, as she did not want to let me down. "Of course I am, are you? You have not even been a teacher before, have you?" she asked back. "I have, I taught the heretics magic, and I am currently teaching you swordsman Ship," I continued. With a nod, she started speaking again, "You can not really use me as an example in that I am, after all, the best student anyone could ask for". I answered her statement with a laugh, which seemed to spur her on.

Raising her training sword, I could tell she wanted to prove herself the best student. She was, of course, extremely talented with a blade, but a few things were holding her back; her pure focus on offence meant that if someone could push her onto the defensive, she was at a major disadvantage. I would try to get her past that little fault, but no, I needed to continue the current spar.

Finishing up our training I went to shower and change, while thinking about the day ahead. My first day teaching at Mystic Falls High, once I did this, there would be no going back. I would have put myself directly into all the chaos to come. So I finished up and went down to get in my car and start the journey to Mystic Falls

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](http://High.My) car is a beautiful sixty-seven Chevy Impala. I may have gotten the idea of buying it from a TV show in my previous life, but it's definitely a good idea. Buying it straight out of the factory it had not failed me since, I had replaced so much on it due to its age. But I still would prefer a good horse, unfortunately, in this day and age, travelling on a war horse would be seen as odd, and I did wish to avoid attention. I was knocked out of my thoughts by Alexandria opening the door and sitting in the passenger seat, "Are we going then?" I answered with a nod and started to drive.

I pulled into the car park of the school. It was still about an hour before classes started, but I wanted to get to know the place before I began teaching here. Stepping out of the car, I started walking towards the main entrance with Alexandria by my side. I walked up to the reception desk and was greeted by a member of staff, who showed us round the school before leading me to my classroom and wishing me luck on my first day.

Alexandria left not long after leaving me alone to start planning my day, I had five classes each day and had to teach them a variety of subjects. Luckily, with my impressive memory, having lived through a thousand years of history and studied far more, I would have no trouble teaching it.

That is how my day went, covering many different periods and the main events in them, World War One, the rise and fall of Rome, ancient Sparta, ancient Greece and now with my last class, the history of Mystic Falls. Although the fact that a Viking settlement was once in Mystic Falls seemed unknown, I would have to start at the founding of the town.

Waiting for the class, I watched as a trickle of students made their way through the doors. Until familiar faces started ducking through them, Alexandria, Caroline Forbes, Bonnie Bennett, Tyler Lockwood, Elena Gilbert, Matt Donovan and finally Stefan Salvatore. That last one in particular confirmed my suspicions, not only did the Salvatore brothers exist in this world, but Stefan was definitely at the bridge a week ago. That also meant that his brother would soon start causing trouble in town.

It was not only Stefan who would make an effort here, though every one of them would. Tyler would be the first of Klaus's hybrids and make an attempt on my future niece's life. Caroline would bring into the world two syphons of great power, and Bonnie would directly help with the resurrection of Silas. Elena would help kill Kol and help bring the cure into the world, and Matt would directly kill Finn. That was not all, of course, each of them would affect the world in far more ways than that. Well, they were supposed to do all that, I would prevent the deaths of my two brothers by any means necessary and would probably stand against them in other aspects.

"Good afternoon to all of you, I am Mr Mikaelson your new history teacher" I introduced myself for the fifth and final time today. I saw some confused looks cross their faces before one of the students raised a hand to ask, "What happened to Mr Tanner? Was he fired?". "He was not, he has taken on teaching sports full time, leaving me to fill in as the history teacher" I answered. As they heard my answer, most of the students seemed relieved, probably because Mr Tanner had a bad reputation among the students.

"Well then, for the next few weeks I will he teaching you about this very town's history, although I am sure some of you are already quite knowledgeable about it". For the next hour, I dive deep into the founding of Mystic Falls, explaining everything with as much clarity as possible. I found myself enjoying sharing my knowledge more than I assumed I would, perhaps teaching was for me after

[all.

As

](http://all.As) the bell rang, signalling the end of the day, I stood talking to some of the students as they filed out of the class. Once Msit had left, I noticed three in particular had stayed behind, Miss Gilbert, Miss Forbes and Miss Bennet..You are aware the class had ended," I asked jokingly. "We are, we just wanted to thank you for saving Elena last week" answered Bonnie. Noddin, I assured them it was nothing, before Caroline and Bonnie started to leave. "I will catch you both up in a bit, I just need to talk to Mr Mikaelso," Elena said to them both.

"Miss Gilbert, I must say I was surprised to see you in class this week. I thought you might have taken some time off",, I said to the doppelganger. "I did not want to fall behind on my studies", she answered with a solemn look on her face. "I am sorry for your loss, Miss Gilbert. I also thought the broken ribs may have made you unable to attend for a few weeks at least" I spoke again. She just nodded at that, before turning to leave "Thanks, Mr Mikaelson", she said as I watched her disappear through the door.

As I walked down the halls, I looked back on the day. It had been quite successful; I had met the main people who would cause me problems. I had even made decent progress with the other teachers, even Tanner, who had a bad reputation among students and staff, was perhaps not as bad as his reputation alluded to. He was an ass don't get me wrong, but he genuinely seemed to want his students to succeed.