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Rebekah practically bounced out of Matt's car and down their driveway toward the manor. She was beyond happy with the easy conversation they shared the rest of the drive home. The wide smile across her face, however, suddenly dropped when the front door opened and Katherine stepped out.
"My brother sick of you yet?" Rebekah asked in a snotty voice.
"Nope, but he's probably a bit sore so let him rest would you?" Katherine remarked, earning a revolted look on the blonde's face.
Rebekah shook the whole house when she slammed the door shut and stormed through the house until she came across her eldest brother. Elijah was cleaning up the blood from the wooden floors after moving the hunter to the basement where no one could hear him.
"Elijah!" Rebekah yelled. "Have you lost your mind? Katherine Pierce is the biggest trollop of them all. And here I thought you were the smart brother."
The older man stood and simply watched his sister as she continued to rant and didn't stop until she ran out of breath. "Are you done?"
Rebekah let out an exaggerated sigh and looked around the formerly bloody living room. The thoughts of the hunter finally came back to her. "What are we going to do about the hunter? We can't let Nik kill him Elijah, we can't."
"Why do you want the cure Rebekah?" Elijah gave a sigh and looked at his little sister sadly. "We are finally a family again, what could possibly be your reason?"
"I want to be human again." The girl raised her chin to portray to her big brother her confidence and certainty of her decision.
Elijah narrowed his eyes. "How do you know that being human is the answer you're looking for? The grass won't necessarily be greener, Rebekah."
"You're probably right. But I don't care," Rebekah said in a steady voice. "It's time for me to live and die the way that I choose, not the way you and Nik want me to." Rebekah's tears brimmed her eyes as she continued. "I want to grow old and have a family and fill my days with meaning, knowing that each one matters."
"Well, wasn't that poetic." Klaus' voice came from the door, the built up anger expressed on his face. He walked slowly toward Rebekah and with a low whisper said, "Don't even think about it, sister, I will kill the hunter and the map will be gone forever along with the cure. Mark my words."
"Why can't you ever let me be happy? We've had 20 lifetimes together of you controlling me, isn't that enough?" Rebekah yelled and her tears finally fell down her cheeks.
"No," Klaus said lowly. "I'd much like another 20 lifetimes to 'control' you, sister."
With that Rebekah ran out the front door, leaving her two brothers in the tension filled room. The two men stood in silence, Elijah glared at his brother for his stubborn and rather cruel ways but the blonde simply ignored him and walked out of the room.
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Kol held the door of the Grill open for the witch to walk out, a small smile on her face as she passed him. He had tried to convince Bonnie the rest of the night that he let her win the first three games of pool, being the "gentleman" that he was.
"And then Rebekah said we wouldn't last a week without using compulsion or any other vampire benefits," Kol continued his story, laughing along with the little witch. "So of course Nik and I saw that as a challenge, so we spent an entire week without compulsion or strength or speed – I think it was the most relaxing week of Elijah's entire existence."
The brunette vampire felt proud when Bonnie let out a loud laugh.
"Then on our very last night – we were doing very well I might add – Nik and I went out for early victory drinks, and we got so sloshed almost blinded that we ended up getting arrested. And in our attempt to escape we apparently – according to Rebekah, which I still think she's lying – used our vampire speed, but because we were so drunk we had run straight through a brick building…"
"What?" Bonnie was covering her mouth, desperately trying to calm her laughter.
"It came tumbling down and before we knew it the whole town knew what we were… fair to say Elijah's relaxing week was over and he had to clean up our mess. He band us from challenging such dares."
The two shared a laugh.
"That was probably my funniest drunk story."
"It was a really good one," Bonnie encouraged with another laugh.
"So," Kol began and skipped beside the girl to catch up with her stride. "If you hadn't noticed I kept my smart-ass comments to a minimum and I didn't threaten to kill anyone, all night."
The girl cocked a brow with an amused grin, "I guess."
"And I've made you laugh on a pretty regular basis." Bonnie playfully glared at the vampire but the smile on her face gave her away. "I'd suffice to say, you've had a pretty good time tonight."
"It was okay," Bonnie teased, earning herself a playful glare from the vampire.
"I don't suppose I've charmed you enough to ask you on a real date," Kol said with a small smile, the usually confident and rather obnoxious vampire seemed genuinely nervous as he waited.
The girl had a straight face and she kept her eyes on her car as she walked. They had reached the car by the time Bonnie had said something.
"You killed those witches…" Bonnie had whispered.
Kol's shoulders dropped, already knowing she'd never be able to look passed his own horrific past. "They wanted to bring the end of the world Bonnie… I had never wanted to hurt them, I actually hold witches to high esteem."
There was silence between the two, a silence that Kol did not want to break.
"You can't kill anyone or even attempt to anymore Kol," the girl had abruptly said, turning to give Kol a hard glare. "You can't even threaten them."
"Okay, okay, I promise, darling." Kol gave her his puppy eyes and watched as the girl thought for a moment. The ends of his lips twitched to a smile when she released a long breath with a nod. "Did you just agree little witch?"
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Rebekah ran as fast as she could, the tears in her eyes made it almost impossible for her to see where was she going. Her hate for Klaus burned through her entire body, sick of his selfish and controlling ways. She stopped running after what seemed like hours and took long jagged breaths, not from tiresome but from the tears that cascaded down her cheeks.
She found herself in the last place she thought she'd be, but nonetheless happy to have gone. The girl was hesitant before walking toward the small house, she wiped away her tears before she gave a soft knock on the door and waited.
"Rebekah? What're you doing here? Are you okay?" Matt asked, the concern on his face made the vampire finally smile. He stepped from the door and looked at her closely, her puffy eyes and red nose was evidence enough for the boy to know she'd been crying. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," she wiped her tears and gave the boy a soft smile. "I'm having a horrible night and found myself here."
Matt's strong arms wrapped around Rebekah shoulders, and the girl broke down into Matt's chest. His shirt soon soaked with the vampire's tears but he couldn't care less. "You know I'm here for you if you need someone… Did you want to come inside?"
Her lips gaped and her tears abruptly stopped from shock, "You'd really invite me inside?"
The boy just gave a laugh before holding the door open for her, "Come in."
With a shy smile the vampire walked into the small house, it was much smaller than the manor in which her family lived but she found herself liking more. It was rather clean, considering a teenage boy lived here by himself. She made her way through the living room and sat on the old tattered couch.
"Sorry, uhh… about the place…" a hint of embarrassment in his voice.
"You don't need to apologize. I like this better," Rebekah said and gave him a smile. "Thank you Matt, for letting me in your home. I know what it means for you to invite a vampire inside."
"You're actually the only vampire I've invited inside," Matt said and sat on the lounge beside the girl, who looked at him surprised but the boy remained unfazed. "So, please don't let this be a trick."
Rebekah giggled. "No trick."
"What's wrong then Rebekah?" Matt asked seriously. He placed his arm on the back of the couch with a hand lingered around Rebekah's shoulder.
"Just that famous Mikaelson family drama," she said with a dry chuckle. "It's complicated."
"But you want to talk about it, you wouldn't be here otherwise." It surprised the vampire how confident and straightforward Matt could be. "Come on, you know you can talk to me."
"I just had a fight with my brother," she began. "He thinks he can control me but he can't, I can make my own decisions!"
"I'm sorry but I'm really lost right now…"
Rebekah took a deep breath and continued, "I told my brothers that… I wanted to be human." She watched Matt closely, he had his brows together as he processed her words. "You don't realize how lucky you are Matt. You get to live a normal life, and wake up every morning with a purpose. I want that, I want that so badly."
A tear fell from Rebekah's eye, her words getting the better of her, and with that Matt wrapped an arm around the vampire's shoulders.
"Rebekah…" Matt began, his words gentle. "I'm sorry, I wish there was a way for you get all those things..." The boy's words stopped when the girl's body became rigid and her eyes shot up at him. "Wait… is there? Rebekah is there a way for you to be human?"
More tears escaped her now as she looked at Matt. A lie immediately sat at the tip of her tongue but it wouldn't come out. Then after a moment Matt's eyes bulged from its sockets at his realization.
"Matt you can't tell anyone."
"What is it?" Matt pressed but Rebekah remained silent. "Rebekah?"
"There's a cure," Rebekah finally confessed. "Please Matt, you can't tell anyone. My brother will kill you if he finds out you know."
"Okay, I won't tell anyone."
"Not even Elena." Rebekah watched the boy closely, he seemed hesitant which caused the vampire to shift under his arm, and then he looked at her in the eye and with all confidence gave Rebekah the reassurance she needed.
"Are you going to take it?" Matt asked after a silence, he couldn't help the hint of hope in his voice.
"No," she whispered. "Klaus is going to destroy it."
Matt pressed his lips, anger built up in his eyes. "You can't let him."
"There's nothing I can do, he'd never let me have it." The vampire bowed her head, wiping the tears that continued to fall. "I hate him. I hate how he always wants the last word of my life."
The boy was silent for a minute before his strong words forced Rebekah to look at him, "You will get all the things you want, I believe that. I'll help you get that cure Rebekah."
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Klaus sat in his drunken despair, his eyes distant as he took another drink of the Bourbon in his hand. The thought of Rebekah and Elijah brought back the argument between them, it built back up all the anger of how stubborn and stupid his siblings can be, and with a gut wrenching yell the man threw the bottle of Bourbon against the wall.
"Niklaus!" The voice came from his doorway.
"Don't," Klaus hissed, turning away from the eldest Mikaelson.
"What is the matter with you?"
Klaus whipped around, his entire body heated from rage. "Perhaps it's you! You and your incapability to deny a thing from our spoilt little sister."
"I see we're back to this again." With that the man stood from the doorframe, his eyes narrow. "How can you deny this from her? If it makes her happy-"
"Don't be a fool Elijah!" Klaus roared. "She's just being a spoilt brat."
"Why is it so hard for you to just let Rebekah be happy?"
Klaus pressed his lips and glared at Elijah. "If Rebekah searches for that cure, word is going to get out and they're going to use it against us. I am trying to protect this family!"
"You're trying to protect yourself!" Elijah countered. "They don't want us dead, they want you dead. Everything always come back to you, Niklaus, doesn't it?"
Klaus took a heavy sigh. "I'm going to kill the hunter, that is the end of it."