{"id":9494,"date":"2014-06-06T22:54:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/06\/theoriginalniklausmikaelson-arranged-marriage\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T09:56:09","slug":"theoriginalniklausmikaelson-arranged-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/06\/theoriginalniklausmikaelson-arranged-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9494 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/06\/theoriginalniklausmikaelson-arranged-marriage\/attachment\/9495\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n61x44wglZ1tcz043o1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theoriginalniklausmikaelson.tumblr.com\/post\/86640355703\/arranged-marriage-au-muse-a-is-part-of-a-high\">theoriginalniklausmikaelson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>Arranged Marriage AU<\/pre>\n<p><small><strong>Muse A<\/strong>\u00a0 is\u00a0part of a high class society\u2014 where money, names, and marrying within your status means everything.\u00a0<strong>Muse B\u00a0<\/strong>works for a rich man\u2014 a man who for reasons unbenowst to Muse B,\u00a0took interest in him since he was a boy.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>After<strong> Muse A\u2019s <\/strong>father dies, her family is overwhelmed with debts that he had been hiding from his family. At the same time,\u00a0<strong>Muse B\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>boss is dying\u2026on his deathbed, and with Muse B by his side, he makes one final confession.\u00a0<strong>Muse B\u00a0<\/strong>is his bastard son\u2026and the one true heir to all that he was leaving behind.\u00a0Muse B is devastated and at first denies this\u2014 that his own father would deny him the love he deserved for so long and have him work on his ranch\u2014 but soon accepts the reality, when the final testament confirms his true lineage.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Meanwhile, <strong>Muse A\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>mother hears of <strong>Muse B<\/strong><strong>&#8216;s<\/strong>\u00a0newfound status and inheritance, so she comes up with a plan. She introduced both Muse A to Muse B, with hopes that Muse B would fall for her daughter. Muse A\u2019s mother encourages her to do whatever it took to make him fall in love\u2026she needed to make the sacrifice for her family.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Much wooing later, <strong>Muse B\u00a0<\/strong>comes to an agreement with <strong>Muse A\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>mother\u2014 an agreement that Muse A does not know of. He\u2019d take her daughter\u2019s hand in marriage and in return would save the family from bankruptcy and ultimately, their family name.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Muse B\u00a0<\/strong>proposes and <strong>Muse<\/strong><strong> A<\/strong> has no choice but to accept because she doesn\u2019t want to go against her mother\u2019s wishes. They go ahead with the wedding\u2014 nothing big since Muse A isn\u2019t really in love with him.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Muse B<\/strong>\u00a0keeps his end of the deal and vows to keep the arrangement a secret since he cared very much about <strong>Muse A<\/strong>. She reluctantly moves into his new house and learns of the arrangement\u2014 she sees him as a monster for forcing her to marry him without love. Muse B fights to win her true affection over and to prove to her that he is not the monster she makes him out to be. Some time together and Muse A starts to develop feelings for him.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Can <em>true love<\/em> be born from bought love?<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theoriginalniklausmikaelson: Arranged Marriage AU Muse A\u00a0 is\u00a0part of a high class society\u2014 where money, names, and marrying within your status means everything.\u00a0Muse B\u00a0works for a rich man\u2014 a man who for reasons unbenowst to Muse B,\u00a0took interest in him since he was a boy. After Muse A\u2019s father dies, her family is overwhelmed with debts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/06\/theoriginalniklausmikaelson-arranged-marriage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions\/9496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}