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Chapter 22: The Horse's Opinions
June 18, 2010
Rebekah agrees to head back into the bayou to check up on her siblings for Nik's peace of mind more than anything as she knew that he would feel better if they were all checked on more than once. She had checked on them yesterday after her confrontation with Marcel and they had all been fine. Although she had been stunned to see that Elijah was among the daggered. Rebekah could count the number of times Elijah has been daggered on one hand. She had wondered what did he did to earn that punishment from Nik. She assumed Sasha would have the answer to that.
After bypassing the hybrids guarding the moving truck. They went inside and Sasha immediately went to Elijah's coffin. Rebekah eyed Sasha curiously as the girl opened the coffin and her green eyes scanned Elijah form presumably for any kind of harm. She noticeably relaxed when she found nothing.
"Well someone has a favorite." Rebekah comments sounding slightly annoyed.
"I don't have favorites," Sasha insists, "I just was worried because I was the one who daggered him and if anything happened to him it'd be my fault that he was unable to protect himself."
"You daggered him?!" Rebekah exclaims in surprise.
"I didn't want to," Sasha sighed as she closed his coffin with one last lingering look before saying, "Klaus compelled me."
"What exactly did Elijah do that caused Nik to want him daggered? He almost never daggers Elijah." Rebekah asked sounding mystified.
"He plotted to kill Klaus because Klaus had the bright idea to lie and say he threw all of you," Sasha answered while she gestures to all the coffins, "In the ocean so Elijah had wanted revenge."
"Why did Nik decide to tell him that for?!" Rebekah asked angry her brother would say such a thing to Elijah of all people.
"Cause he's a paranoid idiot," Sasha deadpanned, "But really he hadn't heard anything on the whereabouts of Mikael for a while and that made him nervous. So in typical Klaus fashion he lashed out."
"Elijah genuinely tried to kill Nik?" Rebekah asks doubtful that her older brother could ever go through such an act no matter how upset he was.
"He gave up that plan quickly when I told him that Nik did not, in fact, throw you all in the ocean. But of course Klaus was so peeved that he even thought of it so he was daggered and he decided to make me do it." Sasha explained with a sigh.
"If you have the power of a Guardian on your side then why can you be compelled?" Rebekah asks then in utter disbelief.
"Ake is an asshole that's why. But I've been chugging vervain like no body's business since then. I learned my lesson." Sasha explains as she moved on to Kol's coffin next and glanced inside and she seemed satisfied with what she found inside and closed it. She opened Finn's coffin next and again she scanned him with her eyes briefly before closing that too, "There all fine." She remarks.
"I know they were fine yesterday too." Rebekah retorts.
Sasha took out her phone and presumably texted Nik to updated him. She pocketed it immediately after and then looked at Rebekah and said, "Okay, let's go raid Klaus's liquor!"
"You're not going to see what Klaus response is to your message?" Rebekah asks in surprise.
"He can wait, my attention is fully yours right now. Now let's go get smashed!" Sasha urged again as she headed out of the truck.
Rebekah hurriedly followed after her feeling pleased at being chosen over Nik.
June 19, 2010
Rebekah woke up with a groan and ran a hand through her hair as she took in her surroundings and saw that she was in her old room at the Abattoir.
Last night had been...wild.
She didn't usually drink as much as she did last night but so many things were changing so fast in a short period of time and she need some kind of reprieve from it all so she ended up almost completely going through her brother's stash of liquor. Not her best decision because now she had a terrible hangover to deal with and she cursed her enhanced healing for taking forever to make it go away.
As she crawled out of her bed and made her way to her bathroom to go take a shower, she heard a noise downstairs and realized it was Sasha who was waking up from their crazy night as well.
Rebekah pursed her lips as she thought of Sasha Osborn. She'd met her only yesterday and she made a grand declaration about wanting Rebekah to be happy. It was like her romance books come alive! A beautiful stranger appearing and sweeping the protagonist off her feet with sweet promises and then they live happily ever after.
Time and time again, Rebekah has fallen for someone and it almost always ended with Nik coming in and ruining it for her. But this time, Nik liked her too. It almost made her laugh as usually it was Nik and Elijah competing for a girl's affection. Although it was no laughing matter the whole Tatia/Katherine debacle nearly ruined her brothers bond. She may want to strangle Nik half the time for being such a controlling ponce but he was her brother and she didn't want to lose him over a girl.
Although Rebekah was getting ahead of herself while she can admit to herself that she may fall for people quite fast but a day is especially fast even for her. Right now she likes Sasha. In an admittedly romantic way but it's just a crush. She's not going to degrade herself to fighting with her brother for a girl she only has a crush on!
She stepped into her bathroom and laughed aloud when she saw her reflection. She had golden glitter on her cheeks and she grinned when she remember how exactly that happened...
Last night in the Abattoir living room...
"Rebekah!" Sasha exclaimed with a wide grin as she laid half-hazardously on the Abattoir's couch and looked over at the blonde, "Rebbie!~"
"Rebbie?!" Rebekah exclaimed in utter revulsion as she walked back into the room from getting more liquor, "Darling, no."
Sasha winces at herself and sits up and then in a moment of self-awareness she says, "I'm sorry drunk me has the bad habit of giving everything absolutely terrible nicknames."
Suddenly her expression brightens and she claps her hands together and then flings herself at Rebekah which makes the Mikaelson nearly fall over but her enhanced senses prevent that as she regains her footing and grabs Sasha's waist to steady her. Sasha reaches over and proceeds to cradle Rebekah's face in her palms. Rebekah eyes widened in shock and they just stare into each other eyes for a moment with Rebekah looking confused and Sasha looking intense before Sasha giggles and then lets her face go and exclaims, "There I bestow you with Goldie cheeks as an apology!"
Rebekah blinks and touches her cheeks absentmindedly and then brings her hand into her line of vision and sees golden glitter staining her fingers. She smiles slightly and quips, "I'm honored."
Rebekah shakes her head wryly, Sasha had really caught her off guard with that particular trick. But then again, Sasha caught her off guard multiple times throughout the night. They had some surprisingly deep conversations in between the drunkenness.
A few incidents come to mind...
Last night in the Abattoir's kitchen...
"...And so Chelsea jumped over his fence like a goddamn gymnast and I'm freaking out because I'm trying to distract his mom who always hated me by the way. I'm going on and on about how much I love her poetry which I never actually read by the way. But she smiling, nodding her head. Looking so fucking flattered and smug that her work was appreciated. Finally after like 15 torturous minutes of me bullshitting Chelsea calls me. So I bow out of there so fast and answer and Chelsea tells me that she did it. Brian that cheating asshole no longer had anything I ever gave him." Sasha narrated exuberantly as she walked around the kitchen as she had decided to bake cookies of all things and they were waiting for them to be done in the oven.
"That's it?!" Rebekah scoffed from her seat at the counter sitting on one of the stools with a whisky glass in her hand, "I would have destroyed everything he loved if he cheated on me!"
"The best revenge is living life well while he ended up getting an STD from the girl he cheated on me with. I starting dating my best friend and we were happy together for three years!" Sasha exclaimed.
"Who's your best friend?" Rebekah asked confused.
"Chelsea!" Sasha laughed before quieting and saying, "Well she was...we drifted apart after a while...different interests and goals in life...though I did see her recently...she's dating my ex-boyfriend, ya know?"
"The cheater!?" Rebekah asked in disgust.
"Ha no, she's dating Ethan," Sasha corrected, "He's a really nice guy."
"Is there such a thing?" Rebekah asked moodily.
"Yeah course there are," Sasha confirmed, "Some people regardless of gender are real assholes but if you look around you, you will find a nice person!"
"All I seemed to find are arseholes...did you realize that both my ex's are in the same city and I have to see them regularly?!" Rebekah complained.
"That's more common than you think Bekah." Sasha pointed out.
"I hate it!" Rebekah shouted, "First it was Stefan who does not remember me (thanks a lot Nik, you wanker!) and he with the newest bloody doppelganger! Why do men love her stupid bitchy face?! And then Marcel...acting like such a cock! He thinks he's sooooo amazing because he's the new king of this city. Please, my family made him. Without us he'd be dead and forgotten! And he dares threaten my family?! Dares to threaten me!"
"Go off!" Sasha cheers looking delighted at Rebekah's fire.
But Rebekah quietens and she stares down at her whisky and she quietly asks, "Did Marcel even love me at all?"
"...What?" Sasha asks softly, "Course he did...he'd be stupid not too."
"He said he'd said soon Nik won't be a problem anymore...my brother isn't an easy person to kill and I assume now that's he is a hybrid it'll be even harder but Marcel looked so confident...what if...what if...he called Mikael like we did all those years ago?" Rebekah asks worriedly.
"Wait," Sasha stated sternly and seemed like she was trying to clear her foggy thoughts, "Marcel threatened Klaus...in front of you?"
"Yes!" Rebekah confirmed heatedly, "He's renounced the family, renounced me."
"I didn't think he'd be so publicly against Klaus..." Sasha mumbled, "I'd thought he be more sneaky about it like how he lied about undaggering you."
"Lied?" Rebekah repeated, "What do you mean?"
"He said he had no idea who daggered you but it was obviously him...I mean who else could it be?" Sasha asked rhetorically, "I didn't tell Klaus cause I didn't think killing him for the betrayal would be good for Klaus or you."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Rebekah scoffed, "Good for us."
"Killing someone you care about or in your case love because they betrayed you. No one should have to do that. It'll cause a deep wound to your psyche that you may never fully recover from." Sasha stated gravely.
Just then the oven beeped announcing that the cookies were done.
"Where is everyone?" Rebekah asks as she roamed the house with chocolate chip cookies in one hand and her whisky in the other.
"I asks them all to go down the bayou...for a bit." Sasha answered from ahead of her as she spun on her heel and munched on her cookies.
Rebekah shakes her head and declares, "This house is too quiet...too many memories. Let's go down to the bayou too!"
"Sure," Sasha agrees easily and she leans against the wall briefly but before she could register what was happening Rebekah grabbed her around the waist and whisked them away.
Rebekah releases her as soon as they arrive at their destination and Sasha dry heaves when they stopped as going so fast was mostly likely not good for her stomach, not when it was so full. Thankfully she did not vomit but it was close. Rebekah sauntered over to Danny, a crescent wolf who frequently visited the swamps and she loudly said, "Hey swamp man, show me how the wolves party!"
Danny blinked at her with a quizzical frown before he slowly smirked and asked, "Mindy, can we?"
Mindy the hybrid in charge just glanced at Sasha who grinned brightly back at her before she smiled and said, "Oh, why not?"
Rebekah laugh joyously and freely as she danced around the bonfire alongside many of the hybrids and she saw Sasha was...attempting to dance?
The human could not dance but she didn't seem to care and was grinning brightly and twirling and waving her limbs around like a mad woman. It was so ridiculous and Rebekah kind of loved it and decided to join her.
Though she did end up accidentally hitting Stefan in the face who had been walking past with Elena. He was knocked of his feet and grumbled about it but Elena helped him back up.
"Apologies, darling," Rebekah called out to him absentmindedly as she kept dancing not noticing that he and Elena had left the bayou.
Rebekah stumbled down the street with Sasha. They had linked their arms and were they headed back to the Abattoir after the deciding to ditch the hybrids, they were also starting to slowly starting lose their buzz. Ahead of them was Marcel and seemed to speaking with one of his men the one with the hat. Rebekah thought his name was Terry or something similar.
"Oh, Marcellus!" Sasha yells suddenly.
He looks over at them both and his face immediately sours slightly, "You two reek of whisky. Have you really been reduced to this Rebekah?"
"Shut up, you rude idiot!" Sasha huffs.
"Excuse me?" Marcel asks in shock that Sasha was speaking to him this way.
"You. are. an. idiot." Sasha enunciates pointedly, "The Mikaelsons are your family. Klaus sees you as a kindred spirit, a son. Elijah saw you as a protegee, a ward. Rebekah loves you, you dumbass! And you choose a stupid title over them?! Oh they never looked back for you? Tough shit! They almost never go back to places that Mikael finds them at! It's not like you reached out either! All you seemed to care about was having a status, having power. Way to challenge your inner Klaus when he's at his worst. Get your head out of your ass! Do you really want to become an enemy? Do you really? Because you may not be under Ake's jurisdiction but I had planned to help you too! I don't want to see you as the bad guy, Marcel. Please stop before it's too late."
Marcel just looked stunned that she dropped that on him and didn't say a word. While Rebekah just looked at Sasha, surprised she was trying to give Marcel a chance to back down from his threats.
"Nothing?" Sasha asked in disappointment at Marcel's silence, "Whatever I'm tired now. I'll see you and hopefully you'll be making better choices then."
Sasha starts walking away and Rebekah allows herself to be lead away by her. Although Rebekah looks back at Marcel and they lock eyes for a moment. She thinks she sees sorrow and maybe even regret in his eyes before he closes his expression off and turns away from her and flashes away.
Rebekah watches in amusement as Sasha kicks of her shoes and lands face first on the couch in the living room.
"Nik didn't give you a room?" Rebekah asks in teasing tone.
"Too far, sleep here." Sasha mumbled.
"Goodnight Sasha," Rebekah laughs before hesitantly saying, "Tonight...it was fun."
"It was. I look forward to hanging out with you more," Sasha agrees around a yawn, "Goodnight Bekah, see you in the morning."
"Me too," Rebekah whispers and then heads up stairs and goes into her old room and sleeps.
Rebekah smiles in amusement when she hears Sasha cursing as it sounded like she run into something downstairs.
She liked Sasha Osborn. She really did. She remember what exactly Nik had said to her yesterday.
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the coffin," Nik scoffed after Rebekah finished her rant, "90 years is not long you're being dramatic. Kol has suffered fair worse. And yes my curse has been broken. My wolf is free. And thanks to that "nutter" as you call her. I am able to create others like me. You see the doppelganger is necessary for the creation of hybrids. Stefan is along for the ride because he and I have an accord that's none of your business. Marcel does live and I had no idea until recently. Sasha told me actually. She knows a lot about our family I'm sure you've noticed."
"Do I trust her?" Nik repeated thoughtfully, "I...she's proven to me that she does want me to achieve my goals. Her abilities are immensely powerful and she has consistently used them to help me. She...she understands me. So I suppose I trust her as much as I am capable."
"She'll understand you too, Bekah. More than I ever have. Give her a chance." Nik advised her.
He had been so right.
