"Rebekah...What are you doing here?".
Roman was perplexed, he hadn't seen Rebekah in years, in fact not since they had broken up. Rebekah however seemed to be now in a state between irritated and worried, her previous fury fading along with her voice.
"What am I doing here?", Rebekah's voice started to raise again, "I SEE ON THE NEWS THAT YOUR HOUSE WAS BLOWN TO BITS AND THEN YOU DON'T ANSWER YOUR BLOODY PHONE FOR DAYS AND YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO ASK WHAT I'M DOING HERE".
Roman put his hands up to Rebekah showing submission, trying to calm her, "Woah...look I dropped the phone earlier and it's been frozen ever since. I couldn't answer it".
Rebekah's eyebrows rose in disbelief, her tone was sarcastic, "Earlier...as in earlier today?".
Roman nodded as if it was the most obvious thing in word. Rebekah grew irritated once again.
"ROMAN I HAVE BEEN CALLING YOU FOR A WEEK!".
Roman's eyebrows creased in confusion, his lips ducked out and his head ticked up slightly as he thought for a second.
"You know come to think of it I have been getting calls from a number I didn't recognize, that must have been you".
Rebekah's face softened as it set in that in all her worry that she had changed her phone number since she had last seen him, so obviously he wouldn't know it and of course he wouldn't answer an unknown number. Rebekah let out a calming sigh.
"I'm sorry I snapped at you, you just...you just scared the hell out of me!".
Roman nodded, but truth be told he didn't really understand, so he lightly scoffed, "I didn't think you really even cared Rebekah".
Rebekah's head tilted to the side, she was clearly bothered by his statement.
"Of course I care, what is wrong with you?".
Roman got irked, his tone dripping with defiance.
"Rebekah I haven't seen or heard from you since we broke up...excuse me if you aren't the main thing on my priority list".
Romans tone aggravated, in turn she spoke up bitterly.
"Oh yeah...then what is Roman?".
Roman's eyes almost unwillingly peered backwards, indicating the girl behind him. Rebekah's gaze followed, her eyes widened, she hadn't even noticed someone else in the room, but the shock was all because of the girls face. Rebekah stormed past Roman to get a better look. Elena, whom to that point had been watching Rebekah and Romans exchange silently, took a step back in defense, Rebekah stopped just short of reaching her, looking at her in awe.
"My god... how is this possible?".
Roman was taken back by Rebekah's reaction.
"How's what possible Rebekah?".
Rebekah flipped around to meet Roman's gaze, pointing back at Elena, her tone disbelieving.
"Roman...are you telling me you don't know what she is...how did you even find something like her?".
Roman stepped forward, suspicion written all over his face.
"Well first off, she's not something, she is a person. Now to answer your second question first, none of your damn business and finally...yeah I know what she is, but how do you?".
Rebekah's face scrunched, she was puzzled by the question, it only took her a moment before her eyes widened as she realized her mistake. Rebekah went to speak, but Roman cut her off.
"Because you see Rebekah. I know I told you a lot of things, but I never told you about the doppelganger, so that means that you must have been talking to someone who knew and", Roman's hand went up to stroke his chin as he feigned thought, "gee I wonder who?".
Rebekah swallowed the lump in her throat, she went to explain.
"Roman...listen".
Rebekah was cut off once again, but this time by Elena, who decided to finish telling Roman what she was going to before Rebekah showed up.
"She's Klaus's sister".
Rebekah froze, she was absolutely panicked, who this girl was she didn't know, but somehow this girl knew her. Roman's eyes met Elena's, searching for any hint of a lie, she nodded at him.
"That's how she knows".
Roman's head went back down to look at Rebekah, he didn't want to believe it, but as he looked into her eyes, he could see it written all over her face, his expression contorted in anger.
"NO...NO…..NONONONO".
Rebekah stepped forward, pleading with Roman.
"Roman, please let me explain".
Roman was having none of it, his teeth baring in fury.
"Explain!...Explain what Rebekah? That you've been lying to me this whole time. I mean you".
Roman cut himself off as realization dawned on him, his eyes bugged out, his breathing became labored.
"Y...you...you're the reason I'm like this in the first place...right after I first met you, that's when Klaus found my pack in the woods".
Rebekah tried desperately to explain herself.
"He found the doppelganger at the time and needed a pack to experiment on, so he sent me to find one...I didn't know you then, I'm sorry".
Roman about flipped.
"HE KILLED THEM ALL REBEKAH!".
Both Rebekah and Elena took a step back at Roman's outburst.
"My friends...MY MOM!".
Roman's eyes filled with sorrow.
"After he turned me. I went back and they were all dead Rebekah...and you knew!".
Elena gasped as she watched the scene unfold in front of her, helplessly.
Rebekah on the other hand lowered her eyes in guilt.
Roman stepped toward Rebekah, he was afraid of the answer to his next question.
"You told him how to find me when he killed Damon didn't you?".
Rebekah looked up at Roman, her eyes now streaming with tears.
"He told me to get close to you again to see if you had the blood, when I found it. I couldn't get away in the house long enough to take it without blowing my cover, when I told him that, he threatened to just kill you and I had to do something, so I told him about your family because I knew you would give it up and he wouldn't need to take you...I didn't want him to hurt you".
Roman stared at Rebekah in just...absolute disgust.
"Get out".
Rebekah pleading with him again, trying to get him to understand.
"Roman please".
Roman didn't want to hear it.
"GET OUT".
Rebekah saw the look of complete hurt and betrayal he gave her, her hand went up to touch his face to hopefully somehow comfort him, but her wrist was grabbed before she could.
"Don't touch him".
Elena spoke to Rebekah in disdain. Rebekah yanked her hand away, she did as commanded and went to leave, she was not afraid of the girl or even Roman, she knew neither could actually fight her if she decided not to listen, but good lord she was ashamed of herself and she left the beach house out of respect for Roman's feelings.
Once Rebekah had left Elena turned to Roman, who was now pacing the living room and seemingly having a conversation with himself.
"How could you let this happen. I mean she told you a different last name, but you should have been able to connect the dots, it all makes sense, she would have been the only one".
Elena's heart broke as she watched him, he was so broken.
"You trusted her, how could you be so damn stupid?".
Elena walked up to Roman in concern, she grabbed his arm to stop his pacing
"Roman, you're not stupid'.
Roman turned to look at her.
"I trusted her Elena and...and she".
Roman paused as pictures flashed through his mind, of him walking through a field of all his pack mates as they lay dead, including his mother, Damon all grey and lifeless, all because he was fooled.
Slowly but surely, Roman breathing began to hyperventilate and soon the breaths turned to sobs as he began to cry, tears flowing down his face.
"This is all my fault Elena...all my fault!".
Elena grabbed his face gently with both hands, making him look at her.
"Roman no it's not... please stop crying".
Oh how Roman wanted to stop. Elena probably didn't know how much, but he couldn't, his emotions just poured out of him, crushing him.
Despite herself, Elena felt of few of her own tears coming , she hated seeing him cry, it hurt her to see him hurting, she used her thumbs to try to wipe his tears away and then, something came over her, she didn't know what, but when her thumbs didn't work she began using her lips. Elena leaned up and kissed each of Roman's eye lids, then followed the trail down his cheeks, leading to finally kissing his lips. Elena pressed slow gentle kisses to his lips, but each one became more forceful, insisting, trying to get Roman to open up and sure enough he began to unsurely respond, little by little, until Elena grasped the back of his head and kissed him about as deeply as she could. Roman grasped her arms and began to recoil.
"Elena".
Elena stopped him by putting her finger to his lips, her voice soft as she spoke.
"Shhh...let me".
Elena then fused their lips back together, kissing deeper and deeper, not stopping as she began to lead him somewhere. A moment later Elena reached her intended destination and grasped Roman's shoulders, still not breaking the kissing as she pushed him down onto the couch.
Roman and Elena were both fast asleep on the couch, there clothes were strewn all over the floor, although they were wrapped up in a sheet to cover themselves, he was spooned up against her back with his left arm around her stomach, clutching her to him, she used his right forearm as a pillow. Suddenly Roman's eyes opened, he peered around quickly trying to take in his surroundings, his gaze settled on the back of Elena's head as the events of the night came back to him.
'Oh boy'.
Roman carefully, quietly untangled himself from Elena, luckily not waking her, he got up from the couch and slid his jeans on, making his way up the stairs and to the bathroom. Once in the bathroom Roman flipped the light on, gazing into the mirror, he took a minute to really let all that had just happened sink in, he then sighed and buried his hands in his hair, letting his head fall down to the edge of the sink.
"Ohhhh I am in big trouble".
Elena was still asleep, with the sun starting to now leak through the window, but she began to stir as something began to fiddle with the doorknob on the front door to the beach house. Elena awoke when the door flew open, popping up she clutched the sheet to herself. In the doorway stood Stefan and Bonnie.
Roman, who was now fully dressed and freshly showered, sped down the stairs, ready to fight, but he stopped when he saw it was his brother and sister in law.
Both Bonnie and Stefan looked from Roman to Elena, noticing Elena wrapped in only a sheet and clothes on the floor. Bonnie crossed her arms and raised her eyebrow in Roman's direction.
"Um, did we interrupt something".
"Roman answered, completely calm.
"No...but I guess since you're finally here you have some news for us".
Stefan spoke up, feeling a little awkward.
"Yeah..um let's go in here".
Stefan walked through the front door and went off into the kitchen, Roman followed him, but Bonnie stayed behind for a moment. Bonnie watched as Elena, collected her clothes from the floor, still holding the sheet around her, when Elena went to walk to the stairs, Bonnie noticed a slight limp, she smiled playfully.
"Umm..are you okay?".
Elena's head turned, she hesitated before answering, her cheeks turning red.
"Uhh...yeah".
Stefan and Roman were side by side in the kitchen. Roman had an annoyed look on his face from the grin Stefan was giving him and of course Stefan decided to tease him.
"So...what'd you do last night?".