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Chapter 23: The Horse's Reassurance
June 19, 2010
"Good morning Lovely," Rebekah greets as she walks into the kitchen to see Sasha nursing a cup of chamomile tea and eating some kind of sugary breakfast cereal.
"Mornin' Bekah," Sasha yawns and moves toward the teapot and asks, "Want some tea?"
"Yes thank you," Rebekah responds with a smile and accepts the cup Sasha pours for her.
"I don't know if you'd like it but do you want some Fruit Loops too?" Sasha offers and holds up the box.
Rebekah stares at the box of cereal that had an animated toucan smiling at her with judging eyes before decided why not, she'd try anything once. She nods and asks, "Is this a common breakfast of this century?"
Sasha huffs out a laugh as she grabs a bowl from the counter and says, "I mean it's advertised for children but anyone can eat it if they like sugar," she pours milk in the bowl and then the cereal and continues, "and this kind has the marshmallows which I love. It's really not very healthy though."
"It doesn't taste like fruit?" Rebekah questions slightly confused as she accepts the bowl offered to her.
"Very vaguely I suppose, like the artificial flavor." Sasha answers with a shrug.
"...It's odd," Rebekah remarks after tasting it, "Makes my tongue feel like cotton."
"If you don't like it, I can get you something else?" Sasha suggests.
Rebekah shakes her head, "It's fine, you don't have to serve me, we're..." She pauses briefly before saying, "We're friends aren't we?"
"Of course," Sasha responds immediately looking earnest.
"Then you don't have to serve me," Rebekah repeats simply.
"I don't-" Sasha starts before stopping and instead says, "I just want to help."
Rebekah just frowns slightly and changes the subject, "What are your plans for the day?"
"...I want to find out what exactly Marcel is up to," Sasha answers hesitantly, "I know that's not very fun but we need to deal with it before it blows up in our faces."
"You're not wrong," Rebekah acknowledges but she looks annoyed and vaguely sad, "I wish it didn't have to be this way."
"Yeah..." Sasha sighs before she perks up and says, "I checked my phone this morning and Klaus should be arriving back home sometime this morning. You should spend time with him while I deal with finding out what Marcel is up to."
Rebekah makes a face, "Spending the day with my overly controlling moody brother or investigating my ex-boyfriend with a vendetta against my family? My whatever option should I choose?"
Sasha smiled at Rebekah's sass and said, "I really think spending some time with Nik will do you some good. But you're free to come with me if you really want."
Rebekah sighs dramatically and says, "I suppose someone has to distract Nik from finding out about these threats too soon. We wouldn't want him to do something drastic, would we?"
"Great!" Sasha beams.
Rebekah tilts her head to the side and says, "I do believe I hear Nik pulling up into the driveway."
"Wanna mess with him a little first?" Sasha asks immediately with a mischievous glint in her eye.
"Yes." Rebekah grins devilishly.
"Oh, hello Nik," Rebekah greets her brother casually when he vamp-sped from the driveway into the kitchen after ordering Jackson to head over to the Bayou.
"Rebekah," Nik responds looking vaguely suspicious, "You seem to be in good spirits."
"I had a good night," Rebekah grins as sends a conspiring look towards Sasha who winks at her cheekily.
Klaus's eyes dart between them and he frowns, "Oh, what did I miss?"
Rebekah and Sasha just grin at him and snicker to themselves. Which makes Klaus frown deeper, "What?"
They laugh harder and Klaus is now scowling and he snaps, "What?!"
Sasha gets up from her seat with her tea in one hand and her bowl in the other. She places her dishes in the sink and then heads over to Klaus and pats his arm and nonchalantly says, "Oh you know how meeting me goes Klaus...I'm sure you can infer."
She starts to walk out of the kitchen and his eyes follow her before he looks back at Rebekah who was looking at him with a smug look and she says, "Except I didn't try to kill her, we did something much more fun."
His eyes narrow but before he can say anything, he is interrupted by Sasha from the other room who yells, "I'd be delighted to show you just what Rebekah and I did last night."
Klaus immediately darts out of the kitchen to her side. She gives him an intense look when he reaches her before reaching towards him and carefully cradling his face between her palms. She is startled, however, when he reaches up and grasps her left wrist and pulls it away from his cheek and kisses her pulse point while murmuring, "Careful love, you shouldn't provoke the wolf unless you want to be bit."
Sasha cheeks redden but she squares her jaw and murmurs back, "Goldie cheeks."
Klaus eyebrows furrow when he feels the cheek under her hand glow and when she pulls her hand away, he immediately feels the cheek and finds golden glitter come off on his fingertips.
"What is this?" He questions.
"A glimpse at what I did with Rebekah last night," Sasha responds seemingly ignoring his heated words from earlier.
"Sasha-" Klaus starts but she interrupts him.
"I'm glad you're back Klaus," Sasha states with a genuine smile, "But I have things to do today so I'm going to leave you to catch up with your sister, okay?" She then turns to Rebekah who was loitering by the hallway and says, "See you later Bekah and good luck!"
She teleports away.
Klaus blinks at where Sasha stood before turning away and looking at Rebekah. She raises an eyebrow at him and asks, "Does she do that often?"
"Very often," Klaus quips with a slightly exasperated look before smoothing his expression and commenting, "I assume you two had a nice night of bonding last night? I did smell the whiskey wafting off the both of you. You better not have trashed the house."
"Does it look trashed to you?" Rebekah responds with snark.
"I'll have to investigate, won't I?" Klaus retorts and heads up the stairs.
Rebekah waits with a smirk on her face for Klaus to discover what she did. She only had to wait a few minutes before she heard, "REBEKAH!"
"Yes Nik?" She calls back in a pleasant voice.
"Did you rob my safe?!" He shouts as he dashes back downstairs and glares at her with an irritated expression.
"What's yours is mine," She states with a superior smirk, "Isn't that right brother?"
Klaus pauses briefly at her response before narrowing his eyes, "What exactly are you insinuating sister?" He asks deceptively quiet.
"Am I insinuating something?" She asks with tilt of her head.
Klaus sighs and glazes back at her with a pitying expression, "Oh Rebekah it's barely even been a day."
"Excuse me?" Rebekah asks stiffly as she crosses her arms.
"After all these years I think I can recognize when you fancy someone," Klaus drawls, "You have a crush!~"
"I do not!" She protests mulishly before thinking her response through.
Klaus raises an eyebrow in response and looks at her condescendingly, "Rebekah, don't think you can just swoop in-"
"Do not make assumptions, Niklaus!" Rebekah snaps.
Klaus just raises an eyebrow and questions, "Oh, I am wrong then that you two did not conspire together this morning to try and provoke me?"
"So what if we did?" Rebekah retorts aggressively.
"You will not turn her against me!" Klaus growls with flashing eyes.
"W-what!?" Rebekah sputters in disbelief, "Turn her against you- are you crazy?! She already knows how much of an utter prick you are! How could I possibly turn her against you?"
"She's not yours-" He starts but Rebekah interrupts him.
"She's not yours either!" Rebekah retorts, "Gods, can I not have a friend!?"
"You don't want friendship!" Klaus shouts.
"What do you know!?" Rebekah screams furiously, "You-you don't know anything!"
"You're my sister-" Klaus says but is interrupted once more.
"Exactly I am your sister," Rebekah enunciates pointedly, "The one sibling who has always stayed by your side who has never-," She pauses briefly, "never betrayed you and you think I go out of my way to ruin your relationship with Sasha?!"
"You are a petty creature." Klaus says cuttingly.
Rebekah recoils slightly from his words with hurt filling her heart but she raises her chin while squaring her jaw and then lunges.
Sasha releases a deep breath after escaping Klaus's flirtations. He makes it so hard to keep things uncomplicated. She shakes her head and focuses on the task at hand which is finding out what the hell Marcel is up to.
She stood in an alleyway and peeked out to see Thierry one of Marcel's men and her chosen target. She'd follow him and hopefully find out what is going on from him. She sees him go inside a store called Jardin Gris Voodoo Shop. A witch's store, how interesting.
How will she hear what's going on...hmm. She touches her ear with a glowing gold hand creates a copy of her own ear and then carefully sends it towards the shop and it slips in before the door closes. She grins victoriously when she finds she can now hear what was happening inside. She is getting so good at using her powers!
"Thierry!" A female voice says sounding happy, "You had time to visit me?"
"I always make time for you," Thierry states smoothly and it sounds like they were kissing and oh no Sasha did not want to hear this. She scrambles to disengage the ear with a red face mortified that she heard what sounds like them getting busy.
So not what she came her for. She didn't need to hear this after Klaus had made that suggestive innuendo earlier. She shook her head violently and thought that she needed to leave right now.
She teleported away.
"You're such a bloody wanker, Nik." Rebekah huffs as she tried in vain to straighten her outfit that got torn from fighting her brother.
"I know." Klaus acknowledges with a tilt of his head as he pushes his dislocated shoulder back into place.
"You always blow things way out of proportion," Rebekah complains with a scowl.
"Oh so I really am wrong then?" He demands, "You do not fancy her?"
"...So I do," Rebekah admits but then challenges, "That automatically means that I'm going to turn her against you?"
"...No," Klaus admits begrudgingly, "it doesn't."
"You always expect the worst," Rebekah remarks with a frown, "This isn't going to turn into a Tatia situation, Nik."
"It isn't?" Klaus questions sardonically.
"No because you're my brother and I'd never want to lose you over a girl." Rebekah states simply.
Klaus eyes her approvingly and remarks, "You're more mature than I give you credit for."
"I've only been proving that for the past thousand years," Rebekah deadpanned, "But thank you for finally noticing."
Klaus laughs and says, "Please Rebekah, you once had a the biggest fit because no one would let you buy those ugly red heeled shoes."
Rebekah sniffs and looks away from him while sticking her nose in the air imperiously and she says, "Excuse you, I was completely justified."
Klaus smiles in amusement and says, "Oh were you now?"
"Yes I was it was the latest trend of the time, Nik." Rebekah states with a teasing smile.
"I suppose you've gone out of your way to learn the latest trends of this year then?" Klaus asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course Mindy actually-" Rebekah starts.
"My hybrid!?" Klaus exclaims with surprise.
"Yes, Sasha and I partied with them last night and I vaguely recall talking about trends with her," Rebekah explains and then muses, "I really should ask her again now that I'm sober."
"...You could go ask her now," Klaus offers slowly, "I need to go speak with them anyway and see if anything of note has happened since I've been gone."
"Really?" Rebekah asks excitedly, "Let's go!"
Rebekah darted out of the house and Klaus followed behind her with a slight shake of his head at his sister's enthusiasm.
"Klaus welcome back!" Mindy greets Klaus when he arrives in the bayou with his sister, Mindy then turns to Rebekah and says, "Nice to see you again, Bekah."
"Mindy," Klaus acknowledges, "I heard there was a party last night?"
"Ah yes," Mindy admits sheepishly, "We were surprised to see Sasha had returned without you and with your sister instead. They wanted a party and we obliged, it was a way to welcome your sister into the pack."
"I'm not a werewolf." Rebekah states with confusion.
"That doesn't matter," Mindy tell her with a smile, "You're our alpha's sister and we like you. That makes you an honorary member!"
"How kind of you," Klaus drawls, "but I want a report on everything that happened while I was gone."
"Of course, Klaus." Mindy agrees immediately.
"Good," Klaus nods and starts to head over to Jackson, "Now I believe Rebekah wanted to ask you something."
"Oh," Mindy blinks and looks at Rebekah, "Yes, ma'am?"
Rebekah looked at her seriously before asking, "I need you to fill be in on the latest fashion trends."
"I'd be happy to!" Mindy exclaims and then launches into it.
Elsewhere Sasha arrived a little ways from where Marcel stood seeming to be speaking with Diego. She moved to create another ear to eavesdrop but started when her phone suddenly rang. She quickly fumbled to hit the hang-up button but accidentally answered.
"Hello?" A familiar voice from her phone asks.
"Shit," Sasha mumbles and brought her phone to her ear and says, "Hey, Vanessa!"
"Hey Sasha," Vanessa responds, "Sorry for calling you randomly but Chelsea said I should, that you had something important you wanted my advice on or something?"
"Did she?" Sasha asks tightly as she mentally cursed Chelsea and her damn nosiness, "It's not that important and I'm kind of busy right now."
"Ah is Chelsea meddling again?" Vanessa asks in amusement.
"Yes she is." Sasha muttered petulantly.
"She always means well." Vanessa states comfortingly.
"I know," Sasha sighs as she runs a hand through her hair.
"Well if you're busy then I'll let you go," Vanessa started before gently asking, "Unless the thing you wanted to ask me is important after all?"
"It's just..." Sasha starts before sighing and rubbing her face. She looks over at Marcel and she knows finding out what he was up to is important but when else would she have this opportunity to ask Vanessa her questions? Chelsea may be a meddler but her friend knows her well and knew that Sasha never would have called Vanessa herself. She needed Vanessa to call her first. So she had to take this chance!
Sasha teleports away so not to be overheard and lands back in Elijah's old apartment in Mystic Falls the perfect place to have a private conversation as no one would expect her to go back there.
She takes a deep breath before asking, "Do you think...and I mean no offense Vanessa...but is it innately selfish to want to be with more than one person?"
There is a small pause but Vanessa eventually answers, "Everyone wants love Sasha. Just many people think that means with one person. It's easier, simpler than being with multiple people at a time they think. As you know I am currently in relationships with four other people and I think that they're the best relationships I've ever had. Of course we have our ups and downs. But they all make me happy. Could I chose just one of them to be with? I could but I don't want to. I'm polyamorous because I feel like I can be more...fully rounded by being with multiple people. Like each facet of myself is satisfied by being intimate with more than one person. If that makes sense at all. I don't think its selfish, it's giving me self-care because I'd feel restricted and contained otherwise. I like being able to be open with my love. That I can have these close and trusting relationships."
"So you think society should stop shaming people for having feelings?" Sasha asks quietly.
"Yes!" Vanessa states earnestly, "You're feelings can be complicated and messy but they're yours and you have the right to feel. Just as long as you don't become toxic."
"Vanessa, how do you start polyamorous relationship?" Sasha asks next with confidence.
"Communication," Vanessa enunciates pointedly, "for polyamory relationships to work you have to be good at communication. Honestly communication is important for any kind of relationship."
"That's very true," Sasha remarks with a nod.
"Let me give you some basics Sasha," Vanessa starts before launching into her explanation, "So like I said communication is key. Another thing it's not all about sex. It more about having intimacy with people which could be through sex but it could also be about forming a deep emotional connections with people."
"Like through romance?" Sasha questions.
"Yeah instead of having multiple sexual relationships, you could have multiple romantic relationships, or some sexual and other romantic. Or both sexual and romantic. It doesn't even have to be romantic or sexual. There are many kinds of relationships you can share with people. You just have to decide with each specific person what kind of relationship would be the most comfortable for you both." Vanessa explains.
"Have...you ever been in polyamorous relationships with siblings?" Sasha asks next.
"Wow Sasha," Vanessa states sounding impressed, "You really go all out don't you?"
"Vanessa, please?" Sasha implores seriously.
"Currently none of the people I'm dating are related. You know I don't think I ever dated people that have been related actually." Vanessa responds thoughtfully.
"Is it weird?" Sasha asks anxiously.
"No..." Vanessa assures her, "I mean it's not like there dating each other!"
"Would they date others beside me?" Sasha wonders.
"I mean I am dating four people but the four people I am dating are dating people other than me," Vanessa responds, "Do think these siblings would date others beside you and would that bother you?"
"I..." Sasha trails off, "I don't...I want them to be happy that's all I ever wanted."
"So say Klaus and I assume he is one of these siblings, say he has a relationship with a women other than you while dating you, it would not bother you?" Vanessa questions seriously.
"No, he deserves love," Sasha states decidedly, "They all do."
"Good because polyamorous relationships are most likely open both ways," Vanessa states, "Not always but in my experience it works better when its open both ways. But there really isn't like a perfect way to do polyamory. I'm just telling you my experience others would most likely be different."
"The thing I'm worried the most about is the Mikaelson siblings...they are jealous possessive people." Sasha reveals, "I'm not sure how to convinces them to give the polyamory lifestyle a try."
"Tell me Sasha," Vanessa urges, "What is your relationship with them like now?"
"Well Klaus and I are friends and I guess you could say business partners in a way. He flirts with me but honestly he'd flirt with any girl that catches his fancy-"
"Do you think he trusts you?" Vanessa interrupts.
Sasha frowns to herself as she wasn't sure how to answer. Klaus did not trust easily...she supposed he trusted her to help Rebekah and to check on his daggered siblings. But he...he's never removed the compulsion that prevents her from talking about his past to anyone. He did not trust her to keep silent about his deepest darkest secrets not without the compulsion.
"Sasha," Vanessa interrupts once more, "Are you okay?"
"Hmm, yeah." Sasha answers absentmindedly, "Just deep in thought."
"Is the question that hard to answer?" Vanessa questions sounding confused.
"Klaus has...trust issues." Sasha explains simply.
"Polyamory doesn't work without trust." Vanessa states carefully.
"I hope he trust me more than I think," Sasha murmurs, "I like to think I understand Klaus well. But when it comes to his feelings about me I don't like to read too deeply into it especially after all this time because I'm afraid of what I'll find."
"You've lost me." Vanessa admits.
"I have a bit of special perspective when it comes to Klaus and his siblings." Sasha explains vaguely.
"What do you mean?" Vanessa puzzles.
"It's a long story that I don't really want to get into." Sasha sighs.
"That's fine," Vanessa assures her, "But regardless you shouldn't be afraid of his feelings for you."
"Yeah, yeah," Sasha acknowledges, "Well besides Klaus there is Elijah. I think we got on really well. He...I'm pretty sure he trusted me in the end."
"In the end?" Vanessa repeated, "You make it sound like he died!"
Sasha laughs nervously, "Anyway something important to mention is the fact that Elijah and Klaus dated the same girl once. Unknowingly at first but they found out about it and it strained their relationship. They very much did not want to, well for the lack of a better word, share her."
"Well this girl straight up cheated," Vanessa condemns bluntly, "She was what dating Elijah first and then starting dating Klaus behind Elijah's back? Klaus having no idea he and his brother were dating the same girl?"
"Yes they had no idea at first," Sasha confirms again, "It ended with Tatia choosing Elijah and Klaus kind of begrudgingly accepted it after a time but was still kind of bitter. Tatia not around anymore though, she died a long time ago."
"Well again communication is vital and Tatia did not share her feelings with Elijah so sleeping with Klaus was cheating as simple as that. I don't blame Klaus and Elijah for not wanting to share her. The girl wasn't trustworthy." Vanessa says harshly.
"I just have to be trustworthy?" Sasha questions.
"You don't have to be anything," Vanessa contradicts, "You just have to be you and if they like you and trust you on their own, great. If they'd don't well their loss."
"It's not just them...they have other siblings." Sasha mentions.
"How many?" Vanessa asks curiously.
"Three others." Sasha admits.
"Good for you, girl," Vanessa praises with a laugh, "Tell me about them?"
"Rebekah I've technically met recently but I've known her for sixteen years-" Sasha begins.
"What do you mean technically met?" Vanessa questions.
"That's part of the long story." Sasha grimaces.
"I'll ignore it then, continue." Vanessa urges.
"Rebekah unlike her brothers trust too easily," Sasha reveals, "I think she trust me already."
"She gets her heartbroken a lot?" Vanessa asks knowingly.
"Yes she does," Sasha agrees grimly, "She doesn't deserve it."
"Not many people do." Vanessa sighs.
"The last two siblings, Kol and Finn I haven't technically met yet so of course they don't trust me they don't know me." Sasha says.
"You should probably meet them first before thinking about having a poly relationship with them." Vanessa advised.
"True," Sasha acknowledges with a tilt of her head, "But I know myself and I'm pretty sure I will end up falling in love with them too."
"You should start simple," Vanessa suggested, "You say you're strictly friends with Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah right now?"
"Yeah." Sasha confirms.
"Why don't you start showing your more than friendly feelings for them and see just how they react and then you can truly start contemplating having relationships with them. Because you don't really know for certain if they like you back until the tell you." Vanessa advised.
"Okay I will thank you Vanessa," Sasha says with a smile, "I really appreciate your advice!"
"Of course," Vanessa replies earnestly, "Happy to help a friend out. If you ever need any other advice you can always call me."
"Thank you," Sasha repeats, "Goodbye Vanessa."
"Bye Sasha and good luck." Vanessa replies.
Sasha hangs up her phone and lets out a deep breath as she was slightly emotional spent after that long insightful conversation. She looks at the time and her eyes widen to see it was almost 5:00 pm. Time really got away from her.
She debates going back to tailing Marcel but she really didn't feel up to it now. She looked around the old apartment and thought that she really, really wanted to see Elijah.
She hadn't visited him in a couple days, so she teleports away.
She arrives inside the moving truck and briskly walks over to Elijah's coffin. She opens it and looks down at his desiccated face and sighs, "Hey Elijah, it's been a while. You won't believe the conversation I just had."
She gives him a replay of what she and Vanessa talked about while being fully aware that he could not reply in anyway but it made her feel better.
"...and so Vanessa basically says I should try showing my affection more openly to start things off...so here it is Elijah I love you," Sasha says honestly and her mouth twitches into a self-deprecating smile, "She definitely didn't mean for me to be that blunt but it's not like you can really hear me. But well I really, really do. I want so badly to wake you up. I'd intended to wait for Klaus to be ready to wake you up himself but it's been over two months! Not that spending those two months with Klaus were bad. They weren't, they were fun! Sure Klaus tried to kill me in the beginning but honestly that's pretty much the norm for most of Klaus's relationships. But other than that it was fun, traveling around the states, sassing Klaus, and well falling in love with him. Yeah I love him too."
Sasha laughs bitterly and continues, "Then there's Rebekah whose woken up only recently but I'm already falling for her too. Elijah, would you hate me for falling in love with you and your siblings? You only knew me for nine days...you'd probably think I'm crazy...no way you'd be willing to give a polyamorous relationship a try. You'd want to know me better. We could have another outing at Tate's. That'd be fun right?"
She pauses expectantly and then berates herself, Elijah was daggered he couldn't respond! Sasha frowns and says, "I won't really know the answer until you're awake and I actually ask..."
She looks at the dagger in his chest and considers. Should she wake him now regardless of Klaus's wishes? Her hand reaches toward the dagger and she grasps the handle and then she pulls.
Rebekah nods understandingly when Mindy is called away from their conversation by one of the hybrids. It gives Rebekah the chance to wonder how Sasha is doing with finding out what Marcel is up to. Rebekah was doing her part to distract her brother as he was away from the city and in the bayou busy training with his hybrids. She was sure that Sasha must have found out something. Rebekah hoped that her worries were wrong and that Mikael wasn't involved at all.
She didn't want to have to deal with her father terrorizing them all again. Always ruining any kind of happiness they'd find. Last time he had forced them out of New Orleans which had been their home for two hundred years. Rebekah and Marcel had made a huge mistaken by summoning him to the city...they had single handed destroyed everything the family had built there.
Rebekah looked over at her brother who was actually being somewhat amiable with the hybrids. Nik was smiling and ribbing them. A stark contrast from earlier when he had accused her of trying to steal Sasha away from him. It proves her brother still has his insecurities but he calms down much faster than she's ever seen. Usually he stays in a bad mood much longer. Mikael return would ruin it all.
And if he ever found out what Rebekah did all those years ago...she hoped Marcel had the decently to not bring that up and that he has the intelligence not to involve their father not after what happened last time.
Suddenly the distant muffled sound of Sasha's voice distracts her from her thoughts and she frowns when she thinks it comes from the direction of the moving truck. She looks over at Klaus who didn't seem like he had heard anything. She thinks it's her imagination when she hears it again...what?
She heads toward the moving truck which was a bit of a way from Klaus but she crosses the distance easily and sees different guards from last time. She ignores their greetings and just pulls the door open and her eyes widen when she sees...Sasha standing over one of the coffins that had been opened. What was she doing?
Sasha startles when she hears the door pull open and she wipes around to see Rebekah staring at her with wide confused eyes.
"Sasha...aren't you supposed to be spying on Marcel?" Rebekah questions but her eyes are drawn to a dagger in Sasha's hand and she gasps, "Who's dagger is that!?"
"Um...Elijah's." Sasha admits softly, "I'm waking him up?"
"WHAT!" Rebekah hisses lowly, "Are you crazy, Nik didn't say you could do this did he?!"
"No-" Sasha starts but that's all it takes for Rebekah to zoom over to her and grab her wrist and force Sasha to re-dagger him again.
"Rebekah!" Sasha exclaims.
"Sasha!" Rebekah retorts angrily, "You know my brother, he'd be livid that you tried to go behind his back and do this! What's gotten into you?"
"I missed him!" Sasha states defensively.
"You think I do not?" Rebekah growls, "I haven't seen him in ninety-two years! But we can't wake him without Nik's permission!"
"Nik needs stop being such a controlling jackass!" Sasha snaps.
"Whoa!" Rebekah exclaims looking taken aback, "Are you mad at him? You didn't seem mad this morning?"
"I...not...I'm not mad," Sasha huffs and unconsciously says, "I love him but I wished he trust me more!"
"Wait what?" Rebekah gasps.
Sasha's eyes widen when she realize what she just did, "Oh fuck! I didn't mean to say that out loud! Goddamn it I've been too emotionally open today and now I can't shut it off! Fuck!"
"Sasha-" Rebekah tries to say but she is interrupted.
"I'm such an idiot!" Sasha exclaims as she pulls at her hair and says, "I'm leaving!"
"Wait!" Rebekah shouts and quickly grabs Sasha's wrist but she had already activated her powers.
Sasha lands somewhere else with a horribly burned Rebekah in tow and is immediately extremely horrified, "Rebekah I'm so sorry!" Sasha apologizes anxiously.
Sasha crouches down to Rebekah's fallen form and places a hand on her back and tries to reverse the damage. She knows she can wait for Rebekah to heal on her own but she doesn't want to. It was her fault she got hurt in the first place and she needed to fix it!
But her powers aren't really meant for healing at least not others so it does not work. So she's forced to wait for the vampire healing to kick in on its own. She had meant to run from Rebekah but she couldn't leave her like this so she waits.
She looks at her surroundings and is confused to see that she had landed outside the Dowager Fauline Cottage. That was weird she had meant to go back to Elijah's old apartment but had landed here instead. She hadn't thought of this place in weeks...so why was she here?
She looks over at the cottage and frowns when she sees some unfamiliar girl staring at her from the downstairs window. The girl face was expressionless and cold. Sasha felt kind of unnerved and remembered Ake's warnings of this place and wondered if it was that girl he'd meant. She looks away quickly and picks up Rebekah by the waist and moves them both away from this creepy place. She swears she feels the strange girl's eye on her back and it makes her walk away faster.
Rebekah sits up with a gasp as she comes to completely healed from her burns and she searches for Sasha. Sasha was leaning against an alleyway wall with a guilty frown and she says, "I'm sorry for burning you Bekah."
"I'm fine," Rebekah states dismissively and the demands, "But you better not try to run away again."
"Rebekah-" Sasha starts to protest but she is interrupted.
"So you love Nik, huh?" Rebekah questions with a sardonic eyebrow raise.
"Bekah I...I didn't..." Sasha trails off.
"Do not try and lie to me." Rebekah orders with a narrowed gaze.
"I do." Sasha admits then.
"Great, wonderful," Rebekah smiles tightly, "Nik will be so...thrilled."
"No he won't!" Sasha disagrees slightly hysterical.
"Oh and why not?" Rebekah questions immediately.
"Because I don't just love him..." Sasha starts hesitantly, "I love Elijah too-"
"Sasha-" Rebekah tries to interrupt with a scowl.
"And I love you too!" Sasha exclaims recklessly.
"Wait, what?!" Rebekah screams in shock.
"Oh good god, I should not be telling you this. It is way too soon but goddamn if it isn't the truth!" Sasha rambles nervously.
Rebekah just stares at her looking gobsmacked.
"Okay here it goes. Vanessa advice to keep things simple is going out the freaking window. Because I've seemed to have lost my fucking mind. But anyway, Rebekah," Sasha says before taking a deep breath and continuing, "I'm in love you and I am very aware that it is way too early and I am coming on way too strong way too soon. You don't know me that well yet. I had wanted to try and become really good friends before saying anything but my mouth had other ideas-"
"You love me?" Rebekah asks urgently.
"Yes." Sasha states honestly.
"You love me," Rebekah repeats softly to herself and she shakes her head slightly in disbelief and confusion and she asks intently, "Is this real?"
"Yes beautiful Bekah," Sasha assures and then finds herself with an armful of Rebekah who hugs her in a crushing embrace and starts to cry.
"Sasha...why do you do this to me!?" Rebekah cries.
"W-what?" Sasha sputters as she rubs Rebekah back comfortingly.
"You come in a swept me right off my feet!" Rebekah exclaims as she tries to wipe her tears away, "Saying all this nice and wonderful things. Everything I ever wanted to hear, how can this be real?"
"Are you only focusing on what I said about you?" Sasha questions in distress.
"You...Sasha I have a huge crush on you," Rebekah admits brazenly as she releases Sasha from her embrace and looks her in the eye, "You're gorgeous and so lovely. You listen to me and respect me! I had so much fun with you last night! I want get to know you...intimately."
"Oh Rebekah." Sasha whispers.
"But today I told Nik that this would not become a Tatia situation and I meant it," Rebekah states determinedly, "I never thought I'd be able to gain a place in your heart when you've known my brothers longer...I planned to be content with your friendship."
"What are you saying?" Sasha questions softly.
"You've told me that you love me, that you love my brothers," Rebekah states, "But I don't want to complete with them for your affections...so think we should just be friends."
"It doesn't have to be a competition." Sasha whispers to herself but she stares at Rebekah's reddened eyes and her throat closed and she couldn't continue to try explain the polyamory idea not right now. Because Rebekah was upset and it would just upset her more, wouldn't? Sasha realizes with a flash of clarity just how Rebekah was feeling right now. Rebekah loves her family. She absolute hates when her family is divided and fighting. She fears losing Nik, the brother she is closest to because of her feelings for Sasha. So Rebekah wants to suppress her feelings for Nik's sake. Rebekah wants happiness and true love so, so badly but she wants that for all those she loves doesn't she? Especially Nik for who she's sacrificed so much for him more than he will ever know. She's forgiven him time and again. Stayed by his side always. And the one time Rebekah truly considered being fully selfish for once and leaving him behind to find her happy after. It all went to hell with Mikael burning their home down and Marcel's presumed death. Rebekah never truly forgave herself for that. She's taking a step back because she doesn't want her selfish desire to ruin things again. If Sasha mentions the polyamory idea then Rebekah would just become all torn about what choice she should make.
So Sasha simply says, "If that's what you want I'll respect it."
Rebekah only nods so Sasha tries to smile reassuringly in response.
"I better get back to Nik." Rebekah states quietly.
"Yeah..." Sasha agrees just as quiet.
Rebekah looks her in the eye and earnestly says, "I'll always be your friend no matter what."
"Same to you." Sasha smiles slightly more genuine.
"Of course you will," Rebekah responds cheekily, "You think I'm bangin'!"
Sasha snorts loudly and then smiles wider and says, "You are looking fly doll-face!"
"And you're looking absolutely scrumptious babe!~" Rebekah purrs with a wink and then she vamp-speeds away.
A/N: Don't worry Rebekah and Sasha will get together romantically eventually! They're both just being stubborn right now. So this was an emotional roller-coaster of a chapter, huh? And I've noticed that I have the habit of breaking tension with humor in my scenes and it's probably really jarring but I also really like doing that? Anyways, this chapter kind of really got away from me but I do like how it turned out. I hope this chapter was enjoyable for you guys!