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Elijah, Niklaus, and Kol were all in the living room gathered around the fire.
"It's nearly two in the morning, I'm going to murder her when she gets home" yelled Nik.
"Im going to call her Elijah" said Kol. He insisted on calling her but Elijah wouldn't have it. He kept saying, "they are probably on their way home as we speak" but two hours after her curfew and no Rebekah, they were all becoming worried.
"Maybe it was a bad idea letting her go out tonight" said Elijah to no one in particular.
"She will never leave this house again" said Nik out loud.
"I think it's time you phone her Kol" said Elijah calmly. He was angry his sister had betrayed their trust. He had allowed her to go out, but with the condition that she would return by midnight. He was angry but also disappointed, and he was starting to worry his sister was hurt.
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Rebekah was half asleep when she heard her phone ring once but ignored it. The second time it rang she got up from her bed with a jolt. "Dammit. What time is it? They are going to kill me" she said with hands shaking realizing she should have been home while ago. She found her phone across the room. She noticed it was Kol calling her, she decided to ignore it.
'Kallum!" she yelled out while she got dressed "Get up! You have to take me home right now! My brothers are going to kill me."
He grunted and rolled over onto his back, "What?" he said half asleep.
"Get up, now! You have to take me home right now" she said desperately while looking for her heels.
He looked at the clock and noticed it was fifteen minutes till two. "Shit" he said and jumped up from the bed. He quickly put sweat pants on and a shirt. He grabbed his keys and ran downstairs with Rebekah by his side.
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He had never driven as quickly as he had driven to Rebekah's home that night. He came to a screeching halt when he arrived at Rebekahs's home metal gates.
"I'll get out here. You need to go home now, my brothers are going to be very angry and I don't know what they'll do to you" she said nervously.
"But"
"No, you don't understand, you need to go home right now, please! I'll call you, I promise" she gave him a quick kiss and jumped out of the car and made a mad dash to her front door.
She looked a complete mess. She was showing obvious signs of sex hair, and her dress was wrinkled and her makeup was smeared, and her legs were wobbly still recuperating from the night's events. She braced herself for what was about to come.
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She walked in and closed the door behind her, and before she had a chance to announce her presence her brothers appeared in front of her.
"I" she stated to explain herself.
"Where is he" Nik yelled between his teeth "I am going to kill him."
Rebekah took a step back and leaned against the door for support after Nik's outburst.
Elijah took a step forward and sniffed her and dryly said "You reek of him and his… fluids."
"Bekah you had me – us - worried sick, you should have called" said Kol with pleading eyes.
"I'm sorry" she half yelled half cried out "I didn't mean to. I just. We feel asleep."
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Her brothers then all feel silent for a moment, and Nik turned his head slight as to better listen.
"Oh no" she thought Kallum hadn't listened to her. He was probably still at the end of her driveway.
In a flash she saw Nik disappear into the night.
"Nik" she yelled and ran after him. "Nik! Don't hurt him!" she sobbed trying desperately to run faster, her legs still sore after the night's events. All she saw through tear filled eyes was Nik holding Kallum in the air by his neck. He was strangling him.
She reached her brother and desperately tried to make him let go to no avail. "Nik please, stop! You are killing him!" she cried out.
Kallum's face was turning a shade of white with lack of oxygen able to enter his system. Rebekah was then yanked off of Nik. She felt arms around her waist. They were pulling her back a couple of feet from where Nik was standing.
"Let go of me" she yelled out.
"Bekah, if you get near Nik right now he will hurt you without meaning to" Kol said sternly while spinning her around so she faced him. Kol knew better than to interfere when Nik was this angry.
"Kol" she said and cried to him "Don't let Nik kill him, please Kol."
"Elijah will take care of it, he won't let Nik kill Kallum, I promise" he said holding her tight against him, trying his best to comfort her.
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"Niklaus, you will not kill this boy" said Elijah when he came to stand next to his brother.
"And why not" said Nik defiantly.
"Because our sister would hate you" he said with a straight face.
"I couldn't care less" he said bitterly, letting his emotions cloud his judgment.
Nik looked at his brothers eyes and then at Kallum's. He slowly brought him to his feet. "It seems like you will live to see another sunrise" said Nik to Kallum indignantly.
Elijah then kneeled down and looked at Kallum who had fallen to his knees and was struggling for breath. Elijah's eyes started to dilate and said, "you will forget about tonight, you will forget about my family, you will forget meeting Rebekah and you will never think of her again."
"Never again" responded Kallum monotonously.
"Good. Now get in your car, drive home, and never look back" he said.
And with that Kallum came to stand on his feet, got in his car, and drove without a hint of stopping.
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