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grapejuice101: Thanks. Elena knows how Chelsea feels when it comes to secrets. I'm thinking that they might stay friends...sort of.
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Chelsea's POV
I was laying on Stefan's bed, looking through pictures on my phone. I didn't want to go through Stefan's stuff like Rebekah was doing. She was going through one of Stefan's diaries while Elena sat at Stefan's table, watching us. There was a picture that made me stop and look at it. It was of me and Damon. Elena had taken at the last decade dance. I had to be persistent with Damon to get him to be in a picture with me. To my surprise, he actually smiled. It's not something you see often from him, even back before the whole Klaus ordeal.
"Did you get your fill of snooping yet?" Elena said, bringing me out of my thoughts. "Can we get on with the story?" I could tell that Rebekah looked at Elena from Stefan's diary and then got up from the end of Stefan's bed. I slid my phone into my pocket, hoping to hear more about Rebekah's family. Rebekah had stepped up to the table Elena was sitting at and picked up something.
"Honestly, I don't get you two as a couple." Rebekah said to Elena.
"Why would you? You don't know anything about who he really is." Rebekah bent closer to Elena.
"I know exactly who he is. He's a vampire. We're a predatory species." My thoughts momentarily went back to the summer. All the things that I saw, that I did, it wasn't me. But there was something, deep inside of me, something sick, that enjoyed it. "We don't have time to care about humans and their silly little lives." Rebekah said to Elena.
"Is that why you did that runway show earlier? Because you don't care about the Homecoming Dance?" Rebekah stood up still. Elena glanced back at me and then looked at Rebekah. "You know, I'm just gonna go." Elena stood up from the chair and started to walk out of Stefan's room. I got off of Stefan's bed and stood towards Rebekah and Elena.
"We haven't even heard half the story." I said to Elena.
"She's not going to tell it." Elena said, turning around to face us. "She's just bored and looking for someone to push around." Elena looked at Rebekah. "Find someone else to play with! Maybe you can hang out with Chelsea all day or you can compel yourself a friend." I watched Elena as she looked at me before turning to leave.
"The necklace wasn't Stefan's to give." Elena stopped in her tracks and I took a couple of steps closer to Rebekah. "It belonged to the original witch." Elena turned around after a second and faced Rebekah.
"The one who put the hybrid curse on Klaus?" I asked Rebekah.
"Not just the hybrid curse." Rebekah said turning her head to me and then she turned it back to Elena. "She's the one who turned us into vampires." Rebekah paused for a moment before she started walking towards Elena. "I'm thirsty. Do you want a drink?" Rebekah walked past Elena and exited Stefan's room. Elena looked at me and I shrugged before following after Rebekah.
Elena was walking down the stairs next to Rebekah and I was following.
"So, vampirism was a form of protection?" Elena asked Rebekah as we walked down the stairs.
"What else would it be?"
"A curse." I said, answering Rebekah's question. At time it does feel like a curse but at other times it feels like the best thing in the world.
"My parents only saw a way of keeping their children alive." Rebekah said to us.
"But why stay if they were so afraid of the werewolves? Why not... leave?" Elena asked as we got to the bottom of the stairs.
"Pride..." Rebekah turned around and faced me and Elena. "My father didn't want to run anymore. He wanted to fight and be superior to the wolves. Where they could bite we had to bite harder. Where they had speed we had to be faster." Rebekah looked over to me. "Agility, strength, senses... my father wanted everything heightened so we could protect ourselves. Ayanna wouldn't help my parents protect us because it would a crime against nature. The situation was left in my mother's hands." Rebekah told me and Elena as we walked down the hallway.
"In her hands? How could she do anything?" Elena asked Rebekah.
"Because my mother was also a witch."
"What?" I couldn't help but ask.
"The witch of the original family."
"The original witch." I couldn't help but whisper. Rebekah slightly nodded her head before walking into the Salvatore's library. I looked at Elena before we followed Rebekah.
"Where do they keep their best vintage?" Rebekah asked as she bent down, looking at the liquor.
"Damon hides the good stuff." I said when Rebekah pulled out a big bottle.
"If your mother was a witch, then..." Rebekah grabbed a glass and held it in her hand before turning to me and Elena.
"Am I? No, a witch is nature's servant and a vampire is an abomination of nature. You can either be one or the other, never both." Rebekah turned to me. "Which is why you are so interesting. Obviously you're the exception to the rule."
"Could it have to do with my bloodline?" I asked Rebekah. If I am an exception, I'd like to know why.
"It shouldn't come down to a witch's bloodline. Besides, it's something that we can leave for a different day." Rebekah looked to Elena. "My mother did this for us. She did not turn."
"How did you turn?" Elena asked Rebekah. Rebekah started walking around the table and towards the fireplace.
"She called upon the sun for life and the ancient white oak tree, one of nature's eternal objects, for immortality." Rebekah took a slight deep breath. "That night my father offered us wine laced with blood… and then he drove his sword through our hearts."
"He killed you?" I couldn't help but ask. I took a couple of steps towards Rebekah who turned around.
"And he wasn't delicate about it either." Rebekah broke the top off the glass bottle and threw it into the fire before pouring some of the liquor into her cup. "We had to drink human blood to complete the ritual. My first taste of human blood was euphoric," Rebekah looked at me, "the feeling of power was indescribable, but the witch Ayanna was right. Nature turned against us and fought back. For every strength, there would be a weakness. The sun had become our enemy and kept us indoors for weeks and although my mother found a solution there was still other problems. Our neighbors who had opened their homes to us could now keep us out. The flowers at the base of the white oak burned and prevented compulsion."
"Vervain?" I whispered. Rebekah nodded her head, started walking towards the living room and continued with her story.
"The spell decreed that the tree that gave us life could also take it away. So we burned it to the ground. But the darkest consequence was something my parents never anticipated, the hunger. Blood had made us reborn and it was blood that we craved above all else. We couldn't control it and with that the predatory species was born." There was quietness between us as we walked into the living room.
"So, why did Mikael start hunting Klaus?" Elena asked Rebekah as she walked away from us.
"When Nik made his first human kill, it triggered his werewolf gene. With that he became my father's greatest shame..."
"Yeah, Elijah told us this part of the story. Your mother had had an affair with one of the werewolf villagers. Klaus wasn't his son." Elena said to Rebekah.
"She tried to make it right." Rebekah turned around and faced me and Elena. "She put the hybrid curse on Nik to suppress his werewolf side and then she turned her back on him. But Mikael's greatest weakness as a human was his pride." Rebekah took a brief pause. "As a vampire that was magnified. He went on a rampage and killed half the village. Then he came home and killed her."
"Mikael killed your mother?" I couldn't help but ask Rebekah. I took a couple of steps closer to her.
"He said she broke his heart so he would break hers. He tore it from her chest as Nik watched. Afterwards my father took off in a rage and the rest of my family scattered. Nick stayed so he could help me bury her, he knew I had to say goodbye to my mother." I took a step closer to Rebekah, knowing how she felt. "Elijah also stayed. We promised we would never turn our backs on each other that we would be together 'always and forever'."
"Always and forever. Even though he locked you in a coffin for 90 years?" Elena asked Rebekah.
"We're vampires. Our emotions are heightened. I'm stubborn, Elijah moral, and Nik." Rebekah looked to me. "Nik has no tolerance for those who disappoint him." She looked back to Elena. "Over a thousand years as a family we've all made that mistake at least once. I've made it several times."
"But you still love him?"
"He's my brother. And I'm immortal. Should I spend an eternity alone instead?" 'Why would anyone want to be alone if they live forever?' I thought. We all stood in silence while Rebekah composed herself. "You've heard the story, it's time to go!" Rebekah walked past Elena towards the front door. Elena turned to her but didn't budge from her spot "I said 'Leave' Elena! I don't know what you're up to but I'm no longer playing along!"
"I'm just looking for one good reason why we shouldn't wake Mikael."
"And I've given you a thousand! But you will anyway. I know you want him to help you kill my brother, I'm not stupid." Rebekah said stepping close to Elena.
"It's no secret that I want Klaus dead. He has a hold over Stefan's life and over mine!"
"Do you always think about you and Stefan? What about Chelsea? It's clear she has feelings for him."
"Hey." I said to Rebekah, stepping up to her. "Don't bring me into this." I said, not wanting to really comment. Rebekah took a deep breath and then looked back at Elena.
"Do what you need!" She said after turning to Elena. "Wake Mikael at your own peril. But make no mistake! If you come after my brother I will rip you apart!" Rebekah threatened Elena to her face. "And I get my temper from my father!" Rebekah stepped back and gave room for Elena to leave. "Now leave!" Elena stood for a moment before walking out of the house. Rebekah turned around and faced me. "Need a drink?" I asked to her before pouring some drinks.
Rebekah went to pour herself a drink as I leaned against the edge of the fireplace taking a sip from mine. I looked at the front door as it opened, revealing Elena.
"I thought I told you to leave. Twice!" Rebekah said without turning to Elena. I stopped leaning and took a couple of steps closer to Rebekah.
"How do you know that Mikael killed your mother?" Elena asked Rebekah. Rebekah turned her head towards Elena.
"Nik was there. He told me."
"He lied to you." Elena told Rebekah before taking a few steps closer to her.
"And how do you know?" I asked Elena before taking a few steps closer to Rebekah and Elena.
Elena looked at me. "The cave where she carved her family's names," Elena looked at Rebekah, "it's covered in symbols. The story of your family: how your parents arrived," Elena put a picture onto the table, "how they made peace," Elena put another picture on the table, "the spell that turned them into vampires, and this." Elena showed a third picture. "This is the symbol of a hybrid. It's a combination of the werewolf and the vampire symbol." 'and a fourth picture' I thought," And this is the one for your mother."
"Her necklace." Rebekah whispered.
"And this is the story of her death." 'The hybrid symbol.' I thought when Elena put the picture on top of the others. "The hybrid killed the original witch. Not Mikael, Klaus."
"No!" Rebekah looked at Elena. "No, he wouldn't!"
"She put the curse on him." Elena started to say to Rebekah. "She made it, that he was the only one of his kind, and then she rejected him. With the werewolf gene comes aggression and violence. When he turned all of that was heightened. He killed her, Rebekah. And then he made up this entire lie about your father, so that he wouldn't lose you!" 'Maybe Damon didn't want to lose me, and that's why nobody told me. Maybe he thought I would go crazy or something, But I really don't know what he was thinking.' I took a deep breath and watched Rebekah grab the pictures off the table.
"These mean nothing!" She said angrily. "They're just stupid drawings, done by stupid people who had no idea how my family was!" I followed Rebekah with my eyes and watched her toss the pictures into the fire place.
"Then why are you so upset?" Elena asked Rebekah, taking a couple of steps towards us.
"Elena…" I said in an almost soft whisper.
"Why are you doing this to me?" I stepped a bit closer to Elena, the angrier Rebekah got. "I've done nothing to you!"
"Klaus killed your mother. He has a hold on you, on me, on Chelsea, on everyone he has for a thousand years." 'Bringing me into this again?' "We have to make it stop!"
"Shut up!" My eyes widened when I saw Rebekah take Elena by the neck and held her against the wall. "Shut up! Don't talk anymore. Nothing!"
"Rebekah." I said, trying to get her attention as I got over to her and Elena. "Let her go." I said putting my hands on Rebekah wrist and looking at her eyes. Rebekah slowly loosened her grip on Elena and I let go of her wrist. Rebekah fell to the ground with tears in her eyes. I looked at Elena. "Maybe you should leave." Elena slightly nodded her head before leaving the boarding house. I kneeled down next to Rebekah and tried to look at her. She moved towards me, putting her arms around my neck while she cried.
I walked out of my bathroom and into my room wearing a pink tank top and some pajama shorts.
"Seriously?" I asked Damon when I saw him laying on my bed.
"Nice pj's." Damon said with a small smile. I walked to my bed and just slipped right next to Damon, knowing that he wouldn't move anyway.
"How did your day with Stefan go?"
"So, you're not ignoring me then." I looked up to Damon, who had a smirk in his face. "I knew it wouldn't last." I rolled my eyes.
"It was not even a day." Damon put his hand on my head and gently pet my hair.
"We got Mikael."
"I thought that was a dead end."
"Well he is a vampire that hunts other vampires."
"Don't see that every day."
"Nope." Damon said popping the 'p'. "I guess Katherine came through. The plan's in motion!"
"What plan?" I turned my head up and looked at him.
"I'll tell you in the morning." I moved my head up against Damon's chest. I wasn't really in the mood to sleep with him but I couldn't deny how it felt.
"You know what? My brother is an even bigger dick than I thought. But now he's a dick that's on our side. I think Mikael's weapon is a stake, because he mentioned something about it."
"I think Rebekah is on our side."
"Really? What did you just learn from her?"
"She's just a girl who lost her mom too young." I looked up at Damon. "I'm not mad at you for not telling me about my parents. It's just….. I didn't think that I would have to deal with their death so soon. I thought maybe in fifty years, but not now."
"Death happens. When you're immortal you have to get used to people dying."
"I guess." I said before I snuggled against his chest. "I'm going to sleep." I told him.
"Good night Chelsea." 'What should I do?' I thought before Damon laid a gentle kiss on my head. I let the darkness fall over me to fall asleep.
~ Chelsea is pretending with her emotions for the most part. She has conflicting thoughts about things at the moment.
~ Like I said in the last chapter, I am planning chapters in advance. I have things written down, but if you think of something you would like to see Chelsea do, or something that could happen, then please leave your thoughts in the reviews. Everything is helpful.
*Spoiler Alert*
~In Chapter 30 (All My Children part 2), Chelsea is with Klaus when he takes out the dagger from Kol.
~The next chapter will come March 5th. (Please don't forget to check out my other stories while you are waiting for updates for this story)
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