I woke up sprawled across Rebekah on my livingroom floor and confused. I didn't even realize we had fell asleep last night. There were papers spread all around us of the pictures I had took at the cellar. All of a sudden, my phone began ringing obnoxiously.

"Eva, make the bloody thing stop." Rebekah moaned from under her cocoon of covers.

Checking the time, I saw that we slept a lot longer than we had intended. "Uhh, Rebekah it's almost time for your cheerleading practice."

"Stupid school." Groaning, she got up very zombie like. "Are you coming with?"

Shrugging, I agreed. "Sure. I have nothing else to do."

Rolling off of her, I went up to my room to grab some clothes and take a shower. While I was in the shower, I hadn't realized that I was taking long until Rebekah came into the bathroom and opened up the curtain.

"Rebekah!" She surprised me, which made me jump, which led to me slipping and falling. "Ow." With a raised eyebrow and a shake of the head, she left while trying not to laugh at me. Not wanting to risk her coming back and possibly giving me a heart attack, I got out and finished getting ready. When I got downstairs, I didn't see her anywhere, so I walked out to find her waiting for me in her car.

"You're very slow." As soon as I got into the car she had spoken.

I stuck out my tongue at her. "Well, you're just fast." I turned on the radio before she could respond, then we were off.


I was sitting a few ways away from Rebekah and the other cheerleaders when I saw Elena, Rebekah drilled everyone's names into my head last night, approach her.

Spotting her, Rebekah says, "You! Goody."

Elena ignored this. "I was hoping we could talk."

"About what? Stefan? Don't worry, I'm off him until he starts treating me better. In fact, you should probably take a page out of my book, if I'm being honest." I wanted to laugh for some reason. Maybe it has something to do with Elena? Honestly, for some reason her presence really annoyed and bothered me.

"Actually, I'd rather talk about this." She held up something, but I wasn't sure what. "I'm curious why you and Klaus have spent a thousand years running from your father." This is news to me.

"I should get back to the girls. Homecoming's right around the corner." Rebekah turned to leave, but not without sparing me a glance first.

"Well then, maybe I'll ask Mikael when we wake him." Yeah, it's official, I REALLY don't like Elena now. She's said it herself, Rebekah has been running from him, at least I assume that's her father that was mentioned, yet she is still trying to do something with him? That doesn't sound right. No matter what Rebekah and Klaus has done to her. Hearing that name made me remember that I forgot to ask Rebekah who he was, although I'm assuming he's the brother she mentioned.

Shocked at what she heard, Rebekah turned back around. "You're bluffing! You don't know where he is. No one does."

"So, then who's rotting in that old cemetery in Charlotte?" I feel like slapping Elena right now, and I don't even know her. For a slight moment, I felt guilty, but then I remembered what she was doing.

"If you wake Mikael, we are all doomed!" Rebekah actually sounded… scared? For some reason, this truly bothered me even though I didn't know her for all that long. It seems that she grew on me.

"So then, tell me." I closed my eyes.

"Why do you want to know?"

"Why don't you want me to wake him?"

"I need to get back to the girls." I could hear the hesitation as she said this.


After her cheerleading practice, Rebekah and I had went to a house she said belonged to Damon and Stefan, which also happens to be where she's staying. Taking advantage of this time, I asked her who Klaus was.

"Nik is my older brother. He's the Original Hybrid that I spoke about. He used Elena's blood to break a curse that our mother put on him, also killing Elena's aunt in the process. Of course, he also changed Stefan, so of course Elena and her little bodyguards don't like us. Well, we did also turn Tyler Lockwood into a werewolf, but he's fine."

I was going to ask more, but then a group of girls wearing dresses walked in with blank expressions. Rebekah was making them model for her, so I figured she compelled her own fashion show. Huh, seemed handy. Just then, I heard the door opened and in came Little Miss Sunshine, that's Elena of course. We went to meet her in the foyer, Rebekah with a glasses of champagne. I wonder where she got those from.

"Hey! What's up?" She asked cheerfully.

"You invited me over? To talk?" Her voice annoys me.

"Alright girls, have at it!" Rebekah just chooses to ignore her which causes me to laugh. This made Elena look at me confused, but I just ignored her.

The six girls in the homecoming dresses then walked in the room. Elena, of course, of scoffed in annoyance. Tired of her presence, I rolled my eyes and went to sit on the couch.

Rebekah continued commanding the girls. "Okay, now twirl please."

"You compelled your own private runway show?" She was in disbelief now.

"I need a Homecoming dress. So, what do you think? Pick one."

"I'm not here to help you shop. I'm here to talk about why you don't want me to wake up Mikael." Rebekah rushed to one of the girls, grabbed her neck and 'vamped out'.

"I said 'pick one', Elena."

"The... red one." I grinned. Oh, how I found pleasure in her fear. Ahh, maybe I should stop with the evil thoughts? I'm starting to weird myself out now.

"There. It wasn't so hard, was it?" She turned to the girls. "Go away. Remember nothing." After the girls left, Rebekah turned back to Elena. "You do not threaten me. You'll learn what I allow you to learn. Is that clear?"

Elena nodded at this. Rebekah just walked past her, while she turned and watched her. Of course I just bounced right off where I was sitting to follow her. It was awkward being alone with Elena since I didn't actually know her. When I found Rebekah, she was in a room that she introduced as Stefan's when she gave me a tour earlier. Elena entered shortly after.

"How fun is this...?" Rebekah starts to open drawers. I was half curious, but my other half that wanted to respect privacy won me over before I joined her.

"We shouldn't be here…" For once, I agreed with something I hear Elena say. Huh, I just realized we never introduced ourselves to each other.

"'Course we should! Come on, like you've never wanted to snoop." She just had to hold up Stefan's underwear at that moment. "Boxer briefs. A lot has changed since the twenties."

"Are you gonna root through his stuff all night or are you gonna start to tell me your story?" Someone is getting impatient. Then again, I'm a bit curious myself.

"Ah... you really are no fun. What do you want to know?"

"Well, Elijah said that your father was a landowner in Europe. How did you guys end up here?"

Rebekah was still going through Stefan's stuff as she spoke. "My parents had just started a family, when a plague struck their homeland. They lost a child to it. They wanted to escape and protect their future family from the same fate."

"So, how did you end up here? This part of the world hadn't even been discovered yet." I decided to sit on the bed and listen closely.

Rebekah laughed at her question, which made me pout. "Not by anyone in your history books. But my mother knew the witch Ayana, who heard from the spirits of a mystical land where everyone was healthy... blessed by the gifts of speed and strength; that lead my family here, where we lived amongst those people."

"The werewolves?"

"To us, they were just our neighbors. My family lived in peace with them for over 20 years, during which time my family had more children, including me." For some reason, I got really curious to know how her family looked as children.

"You make it sound so normal."

"It was." She paused. "Once a month our family retreated into the caves beneath our village. The wolves would howl through the night and by morning we'd return home. One full moon, Klaus and my youngest brother Henrik snuck out to watch the men turn into beasts. That was forbidden. Henrik payed the price. That was the beginning of the end of peace with our neighbors."

"That's so horrible." I couldn't help but interrupt. I couldn't understand how Rebekah didn't break down while telling this story. I even felt like I was going to cry.

"Wait, I'm sorry, but who are you again?" Elena decided to stop Rebekah as she was about to continue.

"I'm Eva. I'm sorta new to Mystic Falls, and we have a few classes together." I pursed my lips. "Now, can you not interrupt when you were the one nagging Rebekah to tell the story?"

"Anyway, that was one of the last moments my family had together as humans." Rebekah continued. But of course Elena's phone just had to ring. "You better get that. That'll be Damon checking up on you."

She answered her phone. "Hello?" There was a pause. "Damon, where are you?" I could distantly hear some music playing from the other end, but that was pretty much it. "Yes, I'm fine, but I can't talk right now." Elena seemed to listen closer as she seemed to hear something. "Is that Stefan?" Her faced changed to anger and shock. "Damon! How could you let him out?"

Rebekah and I got tired of waiting, so we started going through one of Stefan's diaries when Elena interrupted us. "Did you get your fill of snooping yet? Can we get on with the story?"

Ignoring her, Rebekah got up and she picked up a photo of Elena and Stefan from a table. "Honestly, I don't get you two as a couple."

"Why would you? You don't know anything about who he really is."

"I know exactly who he is. He's a vampire. We're a predatory species." She leaned closer to Elena, so I couldn't really hear what else she said, but I did see Elena glance at me twice.

"Is that why you did that runway show earlier? 'Cause you don't care about the Homecoming Dance." She waited for an answer. "You know what, I'm just gonna go."

"You haven't even heard half the story."

"And you are not going to tell it. You're just bored and looking for someone to push around. Find someone else to play with." She then looked at me. "You already compelled yourself a friend." She started to leave. I glared at her back. I was so not compelled.

"The necklace wasn't Stefan's to give. It belonged to the Original Witch." This is where Rebekah lost me a bit.

Elena looked shocked as she turned around. "The one who put the hybrid curse on Klaus?" Oh, that makes more sense.

"Not just the hybrid curse. She's the one who turned us into vampires." Contemplating for a moment, Rebekah said, "I'm thirsty. Do either of you want a drink?" She went down to the library with the two of us following behind her.

"So, vampirism was a form of protection?" Elena asked.

"What else would it be?"

"A curse?"

"My parents only saw a way of keeping their children alive." That's an interesting way to look at vampirism, but not exactly bad.

"Yeah, but why stay, if they were so afraid of the werewolves? Why not... leave?" Judging from his name, I guessed that her father was a viking, meaning: running went against what he believed in.

"Pride... My father didn't want to run anymore. He wanted to fight and be superior to the wolves. Where they could bite, we had to bite harder. Where they had speed, we had to be faster. Agility, strength, senses…" I was right. "Mother tried to get help from the witch Ayana, but she refused. It was left in her hands."

"n her hands? How could she do anything?"

"Because my mother was also a witch."

"What?" I was as shocked as she was.

"The witch of the Original Family. The Original Witch?" We ended up at the library.

Searching through shelves, Rebekah asked, "Where do they keep their best vintage?"

Ignoring her, Elena instead continued on with the previous subject. "But if your mother was a witch, then…"

"Am I? No, a witch is nature's servant; a vampire is an abomination of nature. You can either be one or the other, never both. My mother did this for us. She did not turn." Then why did she turn her own children if this was true?

"How did you turn?" Basically, how did she die?

"She called upon the sun for life, and the ancient white oak tree, one of nature's eternal objects, for immortality. That night, my father offered us wine laced with blood. And then he drove his sword through our hearts." I gasped in horror, but was ignored.

Elena was stunned as well. She whispered, "He killed you?"

"And he wasn't delicate about it either." I cringed as she took a bottle of wine, broke its neck off and threw it into the fireplace. "We had to drink more blood to complete the ritual."

Rebekah turned to the both of us, and suddenly looked as though she were lost in her memories. "It was euphoric! The feeling of power was indescribable... but the witch Ayana was right about the consequences. The spirits turned on us, and nature fought back. For every strength there would be a weakness. The sun became our enemy. It kept us indoors for weeks. And though my mother found a solution, there were other problems. Neighbors who had opened their homes to us could now keep us out. Flowers at the base of the white oak burned, and prevented compulsion. And the spell decreed that the tree that gave us life could also take it away, so we burned it to the ground. But the darkest consequence was something my parents never anticipated. The hunger. Blood had made us reborn, and it was blood that we craved above all else. We could not control it. And with that, the predatory species was born."

"Why did Mikael start hunting Klaus?" Elena had asked after a moment of silence.

"When Nik made his first human kill, it triggered his werewolf gene. With that, he became my father's greatest shame."

"Yeah... Elijah told me this part of the story. Your mother had had an affair with one of the werewolf villagers. Klaus wasn't his son." She mentioned him before, but who was Elijah?

"She tried to make it right. She put the hybrid curse on Nik to suppress his werewolf side, and then she turned her back on him. But Mikael's greatest weakness as a human was his pride. As a vampire, that was magnified. He went on a rampage and killed half the village. Then he came home and killed her."

Elena whispered again as she became stunned. "Mikael killed your mother?"

"He said she broke his heart so he would break hers. He tore it from her chest as Nik watched." I stared at Rebekah, and wondered how she could be so composed. "Afterwards, my father took off in a rage, and the rest of my family scattered. Nik stayed, so he could help me bury her. He knew I had to say goodbye to my mother. It was then that we made our promise. Elijah, Nik, and I vowed to stand by each others side, always and forever."

"Always and forever... even though he locked you in a coffin for 90 years?" This was news to me as well.

"We're vampires. Our emotions are heightened. I'm stubborn, Elijah moral, and Nik... Nik has no tolerance for those who disappoint him. Over a thousand years as a family we've all made that mistake at least once. I've made it several times."

"But you still love him?" The unconditional love of family.

"He's my brother. And I'm immortal. Should I spend an eternity alone instead?" Rebekah's demeanor suddenly changed. "You've heard the story, it's time to go. I said leave, Elena! I don't know what you're up to, but I'm no longer playing along."

"I'm just looking for one good reason why we shouldn't wake Mikael." Is she really serious?! Rebekah just told her so many!

"And I've given you a thousand! But you will anyway. I know you want him to help you kill my brother, I'm not stupid." Rebekah's anger grew.

"It's no secret that I want Klaus dead. He has a hold over Stefan's life, and over mine."

"Do what you need. Wake Mikael at your own peril. But make no mistake, if you come after my brother, I will rip you apart. And I get my temper from my father. Now leave!" As she yelled, I jumped from fright. While I wasn't scared of Rebekah, I was definitely scared of what she could do. This heightened that.

Rebekah was pouring herself a glass of scotch as I was reading some random book I found. I was laying on the couch with my legs hanging off the armrest when Elena entered with some photos.

Rebekah spoke first. "I thought I told you to leave. Twice."

Of course Elena ignored that. "How do you know that Michael killed your mother?"

"Nik was there. He told me." I rolled off the couch in an attempt to get up since the conversation started turning more serious, but of course I terrible failed and only landed on my ass.

"He lied to you." My eyes widened as I heard this. If it was true, it would kill Rebekah.

"And how do you know that?"

"The cave where you carved your family's names is covered in symbols." She showed us the photos she had in her hands. "The story of your family: how your parents arrived, how they made peace, the spell that turned them into vampires, and this. This is the symbol for hybrid. It's a combination of the werewolf and the vampire symbol. And this is the one for your mother."

"Her necklace." Rebekah was staring at them with no emotion. "We've already seen these Elena."

"This is the story of her death. The hybrid killed the Original Witch. Not Mikael. Klaus."

"No! No, he wouldn't." She was in denial now.

Elena, being the idiot she seems to be, only continued. "She put the curse on him, made it so that he would be the only one of his kind, and then she rejected him. With the werewolf gene comes aggression and violence... when he turned, all of that was heightened. He killed her, Rebekah. And then he made up this entire lie about your father, so that he wouldn't lose you."

"These mean nothing! They're just stupid drawings, done by stupid people who had no idea who my family was!" She took the photos, tore them to pieces, and threw them into the open fire.

"Then why are you so upset?"

I went up to Elena. "Elena stop! Just go already." She was pushing Rebekah too much.

Elena ignored me and stood her ground. Rebekah yelled again. "Why are you doing this to me? I've done nothing to you!"

"Klaus killed your mother. He has a hold on you, on me, on everyone. He has for a thousand years. We have to make it stop!" I looked at her in shock. She can't be using this to try and manipulate Rebekah; it isn't right.

Rebekah had enough, so she grabbed Elena by the throat and out came her fangs. "Shut up! Shut up! Don't talk anymore! Nothing!" After a few tense moments, she stopped. Calming down slightly, she let go of Elena. She began to gasp, falling onto her knees while sobbing. Elena lat least had the decency to looks guilty. Shoving Elena out of the way with a glare, I knelt next to Rebekah and held her. This was wrong. Yes her brother shouldn't have lied to her, but Elena can't possibly expect Rebekah to just kill her own brother that she's been with for 1000 years. Finally after some minutes, Elena left, leaving Rebekah broken with me trying to comfort her. I decided then, that no matter what, I will be by her side to help her.