Rebekah took a shower and was deciding what to wear, she settled on a pair of black skinny jeans and a simple white V-neck t-shirt and put her up in a high ponytail. Soon after she got dressed she came downstairs and walked over to the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator and decided she was going to make some scrambled eggs and accompany it with a glass of orange juice. She was grabbing a glass when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She spun around quickly and dropped the glass.

"Elijah!" she said out of breath. She had a hand over her heart as if to slow down her breathing.

"Sorry sister. I didn't mean to startle you. My apologies" said Elijah with the glass his sister dropped in his hand.

"It's alright. I know you didn't mean any harm."

She continued making herself breakfast and sat down at her place at the table. Elijah accompanied her by sitting at his place at the table with a book in hand. He didn't know how to most appropriately begin the conversation he knew he must have about the events that occurred over the last couple of days. He cleared his throat to catch his sister's attention.

"Rebekah, do you want to tell me what happened?" said Elijah monotonously.

"Umm. Well. I wanted to go out and have a drink. And I knew you wouldn't allow it. So I decided to sneak out. And um the rest I think you already know" said Rebekah not wanting to go into detail too much. This experience was a recent wound that hadn't even started to heal; she couldn't talk about it much at this point without her chest feeling tight.

"Alright" he said in acknowledgement.

After a moment of silence he spoke up, "Rebekah, you know why we set up these rules don't you?"

"I do, to protect me"

"That's right, so when you break those rules, we can't protect you."

She looked at him with a straight face and nodded. She continued to eat her breakfast and felt like a child being scolded. But Elijah was right, she shouldn't have snuck out, she wouldn't be doing that anytime soon she thought. After some moment of silence she asked "Where is Nik and Kol?"

"Business" answered her brother.

She made an "O" with her mouth in response. "Business" as her brother liked to call it signified nothing pleasant.

… … … … …

When Niklaus and Kol arrived at the house Elijah called them to the office while their sister was in her bedroom.

"Is it settled then" asked Elijah

"Yes. We have a security company coming later today to install the cameras" said Kol.

"And I took care of the armed guards; a couple of them have guard dogs they are going to bring with them. They should be here later today as well to map out their positions by the mansion and grounds as well as" said Nik.

"Good" said Elijah simply "Kol why don't you take Rebekah out to eat and take her shopping and distract her for a couple of hours this afternoon while Niklaus and I have these modifications done to the house."

"Sure thing" said Kol.

…. …. …. …. ….

Rebekah was taking a nap when knocking on her bedroom door woke her up.

"Come in" she said while getting up.

"Come on sister you are burning day light. Let's go out for lunch and I'll take you shopping afterwards"

"Really! Okay, let's go." Kol never offered to take her shopping, even though he was the one who usually accompanied her he was never the one to offer to take her out.

… … … … …

Elijah saw his siblings leaving for the afternoon and got Rebekah's attention before she walked out. "Here, Kol said you wanted to go shopping" he said handing her his credit card.

"Thanks" she said with a smile on her face.

… … … … …

"You picked up my car?" Rebekah asked Kol when she was her car sitting in their driveway.

"Nik did"

"Oh"

"I'll have to thank him when we get back then"

"Come on well take my SUV"

"Alright"

Kol held the door open for her while she got in and closed it, then speed over to the driver's side and got in and drove off. Once off of the driveway Kol asked "Would you like eat first or shop."

"Let's eat"

"Alright"

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