For you my Love – Chapter 13
"What are you doing here, Dalia?"
The Goddess took her eyes from the silent lake and turned around slightly, the corners of her lips only inching towards a smile at the blonde vampire walking towards her. She knew she hadn't forgiven her for making Niklaus dagger her in the 20's.
"I thought you'd be gone as soon as you'd gotten your revenge." Rebekah bit out with venom in her voice.
"Not yet. I still have one more thing to do before I leave." She said, standing up from the cliff she'd been sitting on for the past hour, contemplating what she was about to do.
"Like what? Should I be looking for any daggers?"
Dalia sighed and allowed the sadness to show on her face, going against everything she'd learned as a Goddess.
"I came to make peace with you, Rebekah." The vampire snorted. "I know I have no right to ask for your forgiveness, not after what I did to you. And not after I allowed your brother to be killed because of a promise to me."
"You're right, you don't!" Rebekah raised her voice, the tears forming in her eyes. "I lost my brother because of you. He wouldn't have even known about Silas if it hadn't been for you, you killed him!"
Dalia didn't say anything, she wasn't stupid.
She knew there was nothing she could say to make the girl's loss any less difficult. Surely she had never meant for Kol to get hurt but he was gone. He was gone because of her and she wasn't going to deny that.
"Rebekah, I want to ask you something... And I need you to listen to me because I will only ask you once."
Dalia caught her breath, feeling her heart struggling to keep the dark and the sadness at bay.
"What?" The vampire looked down at the Goddess, her extra height creating an even bigger sense of superiority.
"Do you want to be human?"
Rebekah gaped at the question.
"What kind of sick joke is?" She asked, her voice cracking.
"No joke." Dalia looked at vampire squarely in the eye, just now feeling how tired she really was. Her body was giving up on her, it had started the night she had lost her true love.
"I have a cure and I want to give it to you." The Goddess cracked a small smile, feeling her body starting to ache.
"Are you serious?" Rebekah breathed, not believing what she hearing. The cure had been lost, there was no way for her dream to come true...
"I am. Are you willing to take it?"
"What would I have to do? There is always some sort of sacrifice to be made."
"I would be the only one sacrificing something. All you have to be willing to do is take it."
"And why would you do that for me?"
"Think of it as a poor way to try and apologize if you will." Dalia had to sit back down again, her legs too tired to stand up.
"I don't understand. How can another cure exist?"
"It exists because we Gods exist. Our blood, once drained completely and willingly from our bodies has the divine power to cure vampyrism." Dalia explained but that just seemed to make Rebekah even more confused.
"So what is this 'sacrifice' you have to make?" She asked, feeling like there was something not right.
"I have to give up my life for it to work. One life for another so to speak." She chuckled a little but Rebekah seemed to find no amusement in her revelation.
"Then I won't take it. I will not anger the Gods by taking your life, Dalia."
"Rebekah, I'm already dying inside. My soul started deteriorating the minute the Gilberts shoved that stake through Kol's heart. It is my wish to give you this gift, to give you the life you have always dreamed of."
"...And what about Stefan?" The blonde asked cautiously. "And my blood-line?"
"Your blood-line will remain unchanged, what happens to them will not happen to you. And as for Stefan... He can be cured as well. Once you are human again, if you feed him your blood, willingly I might add as it is the basics of this, he will become human too."
"Does he have to drain me like I... have to do you?" Rebekah swallowed at the idea.
"No, that requirement ends with the God or Goddess whose blood you consume. You can cure any vampire you'd like but I would suggest not letting too many people know about it. Things like these tend to create rumors and soon you will have vampires banging on your door."
Dalia smiled slightly, thinking about how they had all had to work very hard the last time that word got out about their blood being a cure.
"I have lived for nearly 5000 years, Rebekah, I have lived my life. Now allow me to give you a chance to live yours."
Rebekah walked closer to the Goddess sitting on the cliff on slightly trembling steps. Despite she might never be able to forgive the woman for what she had done to her and her family, she still couldn't help but hold a love for her.
When she and Kol first got together the Goddess had spent a lot of time with them and Rebekah had come to consider her a great friend and knowing that it would be her to drain the life out of her just made her heart feel heavier than it already was.
"Are you sure about this, Dalia?" Rebekah asked as she knelt to the ground beside the exhausted Goddess.
"You deserve everything you've ever wanted out of life, Rebekah. You deserve to live a happy human life with a man who loves you and who can be a great husband to you and an even better father to your children."
Rebekah drew a short breath, the pieces suddenly falling together in her mind.
"You have seen it?" She gasped as the woman smiled softly, her eyelids fluttering slightly as if sleep was trying to claim her.
"You should hurry, Bekah..." She mumbled. "Time is running out..."
"Have you?" The vampire shook her roughly, needing to hear the words from her lips before she could do anything.
"I have..." Dalia smiled wider this time. "Your firstborn is a beautiful boy..."
Rebekah felt the tears burn in her eyes.
"What is his name?" She asked, the lump in her throat making it difficult to speak.
"Kol..." The tears ran down the vampire's face. "His name is Kol..."
Without a word, the tears flowing freely down her face, Rebekah sank her teeth into the Goddess' neck, the golden liquid of life filling her cold body with hope of the future she had always dreamed of.
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Dalia had always wondered what death would feel like. Would it be dark and cold, like the real world had been before she found him, or would it be like the Heaven humans always spoke of?
Feeling the life leaving her the Goddess just couldn't help but feel a little excited, not knowing where she was heading but something deep inside of her telling her that everything was going to be alright.
Traveling through a dark passage she reached a hand in front of her, trying to feel her way when suddenly a hand gently grabbed a hold of it, leading her through the darkness until she could see light shining in front of her.
Smiling to herself she quickened her steps and soon enough she was running. The closer she got to the light she could hear footsteps beside her, getting stronger until they matched hers. She could hear breathing, as if from another person, but looking to her side she saw no one.
Finally reaching the light the passage behind her suddenly disappeared but she didn't have the time to acknowledge that.
In front of her stood the most beautiful man she had ever seen, with a smile that never failed to make her heart flutter.
Grinning widely she threw herself in his arms, breathing in his scent as she held onto him for dear life.
"I see you finally found your way here." He whispered in her ear as he stroked her hair.
"I did have some help along the way." Dalia laughed with tears of happiness running down her face as she hugged him closer to her.
"Well, I wouldn't want you to get lost, now would I?" Kol pulled back to rest his forehead against hers, looking into those gorgeous eyes he knew and loved so much.
"No." She chuckled and kissed his lips. "You wouldn't, would you?"
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A/N: My fine people! This is the end of this story! They found each other in the end, just like I always planned ^^ I have to tell you I have been surprised at the amount of viewings this has gotten and I am so grateful for all the love and support you have showed me!
I truly, truly hope you have liked this ^^ Thank you so much for everything!