Romans eyes widened as he started to see images in his head, he saw flashbacks to the day he was turned into a hybrid, but things were getting jumbled, distorting and blurring, first he was seeing things as he remembered them, waking up in the woods, Alanna finding him, feeding on her as he almost lost control, but then things shifted. Roman waking to find Klaus looking over him in a panic, looking over to see Rebekah holding a crying child as she tried to comfort him and then Roman began to remember what he was feeling.

'Pain...I was in pain! I couldn't move!'.

Roman clutched his head and fell to a knee as the memory began to focus, then it all came back to him, in crystal clear hi definition.

Flashback
Loveland,Ohio 1886

Roman could hear a voice above him as he regained consciousness.

"Come on...come on mate wake up!". Roman managed to open his eyes, he saw the voice belonged to Klaus, who hovered above him with a panicked expression on his face, the first thing Roman noticed, was a slight painful feeling, which then began to become more intense and spread slowly throughout him, it got to the point of severe agony as his nerves awakened, he tried to speak, but found it to difficult, but managed a painful squeak. Klaus looked very slightly relieved as he peered to his right to speak with someone.

"He's awake but he's not healing!", Roman heard another voice retort, "Why not? I fed him my blood", Klaus replied back, "I don't know Rebekah, but he's hurt, really bad!".

Really bad might have been an understatement. Roman was covered in wounds and his own blood, broken bones,severed ligaments and torn muscles in just about every part of his body, the pain was horrible, but through it he managed to turn his head to Rebekah, who was holding a child in her arms, bouncing him, rubbing soothing circles on his back as the boys weeping face was buried in her neck.

"Shhh...shhh, it's okay Zachariah he'll be fine I promise!".

At the moment Rebekah uttered his son's name, Romans pain ceased to matter, because his son was all right. However as Roman was focused on Zach, Klaus and Rebekah were still exchanging words.

"Nik we have to do something!", Klaus's lips pursed, "Rebekah if vampire blood isn't then there's only one other thing I know to try!", Rebekah's face fell as she understood what Klaus was referring and she knew that Roman did not want to become what she was, but as she thought about the boy in her arms, she realized that know matter what, there could only be one decision to made, so nodded at Klaus, "Do it, he has to live...for his son!". Klaus turned his attention back to Roman, he hesitated for a moment before biting into his wrist, he grabbed Roman by the back of his neck and brought Romans mouth to his wrist. Roman was powerless to stop it as the blood seeped down his throat. When Klaus felt Roman had enough he took his wrist away and gripped both sides of Romans neck.

"I'm sorry!".

Klaus then proceeded to twist as hard as he could, effectively breaking Romans neck and all Roman could do was fall back into darkness.

Next thing Roman remembers is waking up with a gasp, he feels different, everything he feels is sharper. Roman peers around at his surroundings, he's in the Mikaelson house, he spots Elijah starting at him with a calm demeanor.

"Well...it is good to see you have finally awoken".

Roman gets to his feet, very disoriented, "Elijah! What did they do to me?".

"I believe you already know...speaking of which. Alanna dear". Alanna appeared out of the shadows. Roman remembered now, she was Elijah's girlfriend, at least at the time she was, "Would you mind giving Mr. Salvatore some of your blood?".

"Of course", she replied, taking a flask and blade Elijah presented her with, she sliced her wrist, letting the blood flow into the flask. Romans veins came forth at the sight. Elijah held a warning out to him, "Easy...control yourself!".

Roman thankfully managed to do so. Elijah took the flask away when he was sure Alanna had given enough blood, she muttered something about having Rebekah help heal her wound as she walked away. Elijah presented Roman with the flask,he hesitated to take it.

"Do not be stubborn. I know you did not wish this, however I am sure you wish your son orphaned even less!".

At that Roman took the flask, though he did not move to drink it right away. Elijah took the moment to ask a question, "Do you Remember what happened before Niklaus and Rebekah found you? They said you were beaten horribly!".

Roman sadly did remember, he remembered it all. Roman nodded his head, "Elias...my pack, they all just watched!".

Elijah stepped forward, his calm demeanor breaking with slight concern, "That is strangely lacking detail!".

"Doesn't matter", Roman finally brought the flask to his lips and downed the blood, an electric feeling came over him, the flask dropped to the ground, he closed his eyes for just a moment, when he opened them again, his eyes flashed gold, fangs and veins protruding. Roman an animalistic growl, "Because I'm going to kill them all!".

Present Day

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Romans eyes popped open, he was still crouched on one knee, in front of him, he saw Elena, looking at him in deep concern, behind her was Stefan and Bonnie with also worried looks on their faces. Roman got to his feet and noticed they were still on the beach with Klaus and his whole extended family plus Alanna and Rebekah still surrounding them. When Elena, Stefan and Bonnie had come down from the deck Roman didn't know, he supposed it didn't matter anyway. Elena grabbed his shoulder and looked in the eyes.

"Roman are you all right?".

Roman took a moment to think of his response, trying to comprehend that the whole game just changed, plus he had a hell of a headache.

"Honestly I think I'm fine, but we're all gonna need some aspirin!".