The Flashback


Damon entered the living room and saw Elizabeth sitting on the couch as she read "Wuthering Heights." The burgundy room shined as the sunlight glazed through the windows and on to the carpeted floor. Damon frowned when he saw her and continued going. He just remembered that he was still compelled to do whatever she says – and that only pissed him off. "You've been reading all night?" He said, mocking her. She only looked up with a smile. Her skin glowed as the light reflected on her radiant skin. She was absolutely beautiful but Damon disregarded that fact because she irritated him since he couldn't get over the fact that this girl compelled him. He then noticed that there were stacks of books resting on the floor, beside the foot of the couch. And they were taken from his bookshelves. He then narrowed his eyes.

"It's been a long time since I've held a book." She said, smiling. "I do apologize for borrowing them without your permission. I got bored since all of you were asleep." She added with a shrug. Damon only rolled his eyes as he went by the fireplace. Elizabeth went back to reading and they heard the front door was closed shut. Elizabeth didn't budge and Damon looked by the archway to the living room. He saw Elena walking inside.

"Damon," He heard Elena call. Elizabeth looked up at Elena and smiled.

"You must be the Petrova doppelganger," She said and Elena only looked at her from head to toe.

"And you must be…"

Elizabeth then closed the book on her hands without looking at it and she stood up, laid the book on the seat where she sat and approached Elena with a stucked out hand. "I'm Elizabeth Rousseau, a friend of Rebekah's. You must be Elena Gilbert." Elena then shook her hand lightly and withdrew them immediately.

"What are you doing here?" Damon asked as he stood up. Elena went in and sat on the couch that was across from Elizabeth.

"I came to check up on you guys. Klaus hasn't been around, right?" Elena said and Elizabeth sat back down and opened the book again.

"Not since he visited the other day." Damon shrugged as he went to the liquor table.

"He won't come for a visit." Elizabeth suddenly chimed in. They both looked at her and she suddenly looked up at them. Elena only frowned. "Damon, could you please get me a glass of bubbly?" Damon exhaled and rolled his eyes at Elizabeth. And a after a few moments, Damon brought the champagne flute to her, and she took it from his hands. "Thank you," she said with a smile and Damon turned as he grumbled and walked back to the liquor table. Elena continued to frown at them.

"He does what you want him to do?" Elena asked in disbelief. Elizabeth smiled after she took a sip of her champagne. She then shrugged.

"I compelled him since he and his brother had been irritating me and were blocking my way to Rebekah." She replied. Damon then sat next to Elena with a scotch glass on his hand.

"Who are you?" Elena asked, continuing to frown since she couldn't puzzle pieces together. Who is this girl? Why is she here? And she's actually friends with Rebekah? Plus, she can compel other vampires. "Why are you here with Rebekah?" Elena finished and Elizabeth was about to answer before Rebekah interrupted her as she entered the living room.

"Well if you really must know." Rebekah said and they all looked at her. Her twisted smiled and bitchy attitude was visible enough to hide her true tenderness: humanity. Her deep love for her family, even though it consumes her and her stubbornness are all her weaknesses. Elena knew this since she saw it herself when Rebekah told her the story of how they turned into vampires, how Mikael – their father, brutally tried to turn them, viciously made them drink blood without hesitation. It was all too much, especially when she had been living for centuries in a lie with her half-brother, Klaus – who was the true culprit of killing their mother, Esther.

"Shall I tell them?" Elizabeth asked Rebekah, and she only exhaled as she sat next to her.

"If you want to, I shall not stop you." Rebekah replied with a knowing smile, and Elizabeth smiled back.

"I would love to," She replied and Rebekah nodded. "But you shall start." Rebekah shrugged and gave in. She drew in a few deep breaths and then she began.

"My family has a long history as I've told you before," Rebekah started. "After we were turned into vampires, my father hid a secret that none of us knew. And Nik, Elijah and I discovered that our family had extensions."

"Mikael has another family?" Elena asked. Rebekah then shook her head.

"No" She replied and she then stood up as she walked towards the window. Her blonde hair gleamed as the sunlight hit it. "My father had an older brother, and he was another witch. We discovered that Mikael wanted his brother and family to turn as well to protect our family… forever and always. But his brother Edmund, refused – which is what a normal would do."

"But Mikael disobeyed my father," Elizabeth suddenly chimed in. "And he turned me into a vampire as my mother helplessly watched…"


In the Middle Ages…

The wooden door burst open one night as Elizabeth's mother combed her hair. They saw Mikael, Elizabeth's uncle, approached them as Esther, his wide, followed him. Helen hugged Elizabeth tightly since she knew what was about to happen.

"Mikael," Helen breathed in fright. Esther crouched on the ground as she brought out a bottle and two glasses, and poured some kind of liquor onto the glasses.

"Drink this Helen, quickly before Edmund comes back." Mikael hastily said as Esther quickly handed him the two glasses. "They'll help you turn." Helen and Elizabeth stepped backwards, as Helen protested.

"But Edmund said that the spirits will turn against us. We cannot be nature's abomination." Helen quickly said, but Mikael continued to persist.

"This will protect our family forever! Don't you see Helen, our family will not die, will not be harmed in any other way." Mikael said with such intensity in his eyes. "We can't let the wolves dominate the world. We already live with them, they have harmed Henrick. It's already too much. We must survive!" Helen's eyes became soft as she can only beg for them to not do it. Her eyes drifted towards Esther, and they glistened with tears.

"Please Esther," Helen begged. "Don't do this to our family."

"This is the only way Helen," Esther replied firmly as she only stood behind her husband, Mikael. "This is the only way to be together, forever."

"But I thought you already burned the White Oak tree?" Helen asked as she nervously gulped.

"We have not, but we shall tomorrow night." Mikael replied. Helen then looked at Mikael and at the glasses on his hands. For a moment, she was about to consider and take the glass to drink, but then she couldn't. She couldn't break her promise to Edmund. If she gave in, Edmund would hate her forever.

"No!" She nearly shouted. Mikael then frowned and revealed his vampire features. His eyes turned deep red, and under them, his skin thinned as his veins were revealed, as if they were carved on his skin. He then opened his mouth and revealed his sharp and deadly knives. Esther quickly took the glass from his hands, and Elizabeth held onto her mother tightly, too frightened to move.

Helen and Elizabeth gasped as they back away from them. "Drink it!" Mikael shouted. Helen and Elizabeth's hearts raced but Helen still refused.

"No!" But then Mikael, with incredible speed, attacked her. He pushed her up against the wall.

"Mother!" Elizabeth shouted helplessly.

"If you won't turn then maybe your daughter will." Mikael viciously said, and Esther quickly approached Elizabeth and gave her the glass. "Drink it Elizabeth or your mother will die." Elizabeth's heart faced as she saw her mother being held up by a vampire, and is dying in fright.

"No Elizabeth, do not!" Helen said as struggled in Mikael's hold. Beads of sweat were on her forehead.

"Drink it or I shall snap her neck like a twig!" Elizabeth's eyes grew wild as she took the glass and tears filled her eyes. She looked at her mother and looked at her with warmth. She gulped a huge lump on her throat, as if trying to collect herself and collect all the strength she could muster.

"I'm sorry mother," She breathed almost inaudibly, and without another second thought, she took the glass from Esther, drank the glass of wine mixed with blood until the last drop. Mikael then smiled with great pride. His niece had done the right thing to do, and he couldn't be any happier. He then released Helen who fell on the floor helplessly as she cried. He then went to Elizabeth who could not believe what she has done, and dropped the glass on the ground. Mikael then hugged her with so much pride.

"Very good Elizabeth," He said softly as he let go and smiled at her. Elizabeth only glared at him with so much anger. Her cheeks were wet with tears, and they continued to trickle down her cheeks without her realizing it. She was very frightened that she shook and her palms were cold with sweat. She had no other choice, if she didn't drink it, her mother would die.

Mikael then pierced the dagger through her heart and she felt a stabbing pain in her chest. She held her breath and her eyes grew wild in shock and pain as she looked at Mikael and she heard her mother scream. "No!" Elizabeth then fell on her knees, and then collapsed on the ground.

And all went black.


"You mean he insisted by trying to kill your mother just for you to turn into a vampire?" Elena asked in a hushed tone. Elizabeth exhaled and pushed a smile. Rebekah turned and faced them.

"And he ended up killing my mother and father too." Elizabeth said. "Once I woke up, my mother was unconscious. Mikael went inside back inside with a woman and told me to drink her blood as he bit her wrist and her blood spewed out from the wounds where he dug his fangs. Just like what happened to Rebekah, Mikael insisted that I should drink it and shoved the blooded wrist. I drank it with no other choice, and once I did, it was pure ecstasy. It was pure power, it was unbelievable. And although I never wanted to be a vampire, I'll just have to deal with it." Elena then swallowed as she looked at Elizabeth's green sorrowful eyes with pity. She couldn't feel anything but be sorry for the original family of vampires. They might have lived through centuries, have amazing powers and supernatural abilities, but they also have suffered the most.

The greatest weakness is their inability to turn off humanity. No matter how hard they try to turn it off and be the predator species that they are, humanity still seeps into them. Everything is heightened that's why they're also the cause of their suffering. Elizabeth then drank on her champagne glass, and Rebekah went to the liquor table.

"My father hid this secret for a long time." Rebekah said as she put out some 1933 white wine on a glass. "We've never met Elizabeth until it was 1490 at the ball hosted by the Duke of Earls."


"Brothers" Rebekah interrupted Elijah and Niklaus from their conversation. She smiled at them and they turned to look at her.

"Now Rebekah," Nik said. "Didn't I tell you to mind your manners?" Rebekah only smirked as she rolled her eyes.

"Why is your conversation more important than your sister?" Rebekah stubbornly said with a frown. Elijah shook his head.

"Nothing, of course" He replied as he looked at Nik with a knowing smile. And Nik too, smiled back. "We apologize." Rebekah then smiled with her head held up high.

"I'd you like to meet someone." Rebekah said as she turned to her side and approached them wearing a red dress with ruffles on them. She had a beautiful complexion and face with her deep green eyes, curled brown golden locks. Nik and Elijah looked at her with a smile. "This is our cousin, Elizabeth Rousseau." Elizabeth then gave the two lords a graceful curtsy.

"Pleasure to meet you my lords," She said. Nik and Elijah then gave her a courtly nod as well.

"Pleasure to meet you too, cousin" Nik said with a smile. Elizabeth smiled at him as well.

"She told me all about her story. I met her yesterday at the royal court. And she told me that she was also turned by our father." Rebekah said.

"So you're one of us as well?" Nik asked. Elizabeth smiled.

"Why yes. I am one of you…" She replied. Elijah smiled greatly as he stretched his arms a little.

"Well then, welcome" Elijah said.

They then engaged themselves into a different conversation from the Dukes, the society, and lastly, their own kind of species.


"Were you there when Katherine arrived?" Damon suddenly asked. Rebekah sipped on her wine as she watched them across the room. Elizabeth smiled, and nodded.

"Katerina Petrova." She said as her thoughts began to wander back through her memories. "I do remember her. Nik was very focused on hunting her down for the sacrifice. And although he had failed since I heard Katerina turned into a vampire in 1492, he hadn't given up." Elena and Damon nodded as Elizabeth sipped on her champagne. "But what do I know? I have been asleep for hundreds of years already. Those are the things I can only remember." She said with a laugh.

"Wh… What do you mean?" Elena asked as she frowned.

"It means darling," Rebekah said walking to the couch once again. "Elizabeth has been dead for over two or three hundred years already."

"I'd prefer asleep than dead, because I am very much alive." Elizabeth said to Rebekah. "I'm here in the flesh." She then raised her eyebrows in amusement.

"But, who killed you?" Damon asked, narrowed his eyes as he twirled around the glass of scotch. Elizabeth closed her eyes as she smiled. "If you're one of the originals, and you can't die, who'd kill you?" She then opened them wide, revealing her deep green eyes. And she exhaled.

"Niklaus."