I'm sooo sorry guys that I haven't been able to update this sooner! I've been having some rough things happen lately and it's led to not having time to write nor feeling very inspirational. I hope that this was worth the wait! Enjoy ;)

Elijah watched Klaus for a moment as he tried to grasp his sister's sudden departure. He wasn't sure what to think, but could definitely depict his brother's bewilderment.

"Elijah…" Klaus's voice trailed off.

"Stay here, Niklaus." He told him and left the room. He found Rebekah still in the bathroom staring at the sink. He waited for her to gather herself and look at him. "What is it, Rebekah?"

She looked her brother directly in the eyes. "It's a virus, Elijah. I've seen it before." Her gaze fell to the ground.

Elijah watched his sister closely. He walked close to her and raised her chin up with his hand. "What kind of virus, Rebekah?"

Tears slowly slid down her face. "The kind that can kill Vampires, Elijah."

Elijah dropped his hand. His gaze fell to the ground. He felt movement behind him and turned to see Klaus not to very far from them.

Klaus's face was paler than usual. "What are you saying, Rebekah? Is she going to die?" His expression was solid and serious.

Elijah could see worry filling his brother's face. It was not an emotion that he could say that he saw often. Worry, fear, and sadness never were upon Klaus's face. Joy was rarely seen either. Klaus was always serious and down to business. It was the way that he protected himself.

"Not only her, Nik." Rebekah watched her brother, realizing that there was possibly not much time left with him.

Elijah looked from one sibling to the other. "Rebekah, you need to tell us everything that you know." He said calmly, which masked the panic welling up in him.

"There's so much to say about it, Elijah. I don't know where to begin." She tried to recall everything about the vicious illness.

"If there is a cure to be found for this we need to know everything NOW, Rebekah!" Klaus's voice reflected his agitation. He wasn't going to allow himself to get this virus, but if he already had it then he sure as hell wasn't going down without a fight. He had more to think about than just himself this time.

Rebekah dropped her gaze then pulled it back up to look at Klaus. She gathered her thoughts together before she spoke.

"The last time I saw this was back in 1869. Vampires were trying to blend in and live a non-threatening life. In many ways it was working, yet there were humans that were destined to find and kill us."

"I know that Rebekah! Get to the point!" Klaus growled. He didn't have time to waste.

"Calm down, Nik!" She snapped at him. A glare radiated from her eyes.

"That woman in the other room is dying. Yes, she views me as a monster, but I'm in love with her regardless of that." His eyes radiated his determination and power. "If she doesn't live, I will make the world pay! There will be a bloodbath, Rebekah! One that no human has ever seen before."

"But there isn't a cure, Nik! Don't you understand? There isn't a cure!" Rebekah cried out to him. The pain in her answer radiated in her voice.

"Well you find one, lil sister!" Klaus's nostrils flared out. Anger and desperation filled his voice. He had pointed his index finger at Rebekah as he spoken. He stalked away from his siblings with no more words left to say.

Elijah could feel his brother's pain. He watched him walk away from them, knowing that now wasn't the time to follow after him. He turned his attention back to Rebekah. "Please continue."

Rebekah wiped away the tears on her already damp face. She nodded her head. "That was the year that you were chasing after Katerina and trying to keep her safe. Nik had gone back home to England. He wanted to either be away from us or wanted to be rid of us."

"I remember that year. You were in Canada with someone while you were interning at the hospital. You were fresh out of nursing school. That was quite some time ago." Elijah caught himself reminiscing about their past.

Rebekah pinched her eyes shut at the memory. "David. I was interning with David." Her mind wondered back to the time. Her heart ached at the memories. "I was so in love with that man. He meant the world to me…" Her voice trailed off, but the pain was evident.

"What happened to him?" Elijah's voice was filled with compassion.

Her eyes opened up slowly as tears dripped slowly down her face. "He was one of the hundreds of Vampires that didn't survive the viral attack against us. He died a very slow, very painful death. They didn't even give a proper burial, Elijah. He was burned alive when they found him." Her body was shaking at this point as the memory nearly overtook her present.

Elijah pulled his sister into a hug. They had all lost people they loved. It never got any easier, but he knew how much more Rebekah felt loss. His heart ached for her.

"The last memories I have of him alive was his suffering before the humans found him. And his screaming…" She cried into Elijah's shoulder. "I remember him screaming in agony as the fire consumed his body. They kept him alive for it! Why Elijah? Why couldn't they kill him first?" She painfully asked him.

"I don't know, Rebekah." He rubbed the back of her head. "I wish that I had an answer for you. I wish that I could take away all of your pain."

She pulled away from her brother. "He was weak like a human, but there were still traces of Vampire in him. He could feel everything done to him – worse than if he would have been all human." She rubbed the back of her hand across her eyes. "Elijah, I don't know how to cure Caroline. I don't know how long it'll be before Nik starts feeling the symptoms. He'll progressively get weaker. Assuming the transition doesn't kill either of them, they'll temporarily be human. It makes them easy marks for any of their enemies. That's just one way that it can spread. It can spread through humans carrying it, as well as through any source of provision – whether it be through water or a food source. Assuming they survive not being killed as humans, their bodies will try to turn back into Vampires. It's an extremely painful process that usually kills off the rest of its victims." Rebekah shuddered as she looked into Elijah's blank, dark brown eyes. She could see panic start in his unusually calm demeanor.

"How will it affect our brother?" He stumbled over his words. His mind was going in a million different directions, but with a lot of will-power he focused on Klaus and his hybrid nature. All he heard was how the virus affected Vampires, but what did it do to Werewolves and Hybrids?

Rebekah's chin quivered as she spoke. "I don't know, Elijah. I'm scared." Her big blue eyes were wide as she watched Elijah closely. "I don't know what to do. I don't know how to stop it. I don't know how to save them."

Listening to Rebekah reminded Elijah of how unguarded she could truly be. It was the raw, real, little sister he grew up knowing. She was reminding him of how open and trusting she used to be. She had been so betrayed by their family; to the point that the true Rebekah rarely came out anymore. They all were so scarred by people close to them betraying them. It wasn't fair, but it was the cold, hard life they were forced into living.

It was hard to keep his voice from cracking, but he tried to steady it as he spoke. "How did the virus start? There must be a source!"

"There is." Rebekah said slowly. "It was started by humans. My best guess is a scientist."

"Who though?" Elijah pried; he wanted an answer. Their brother's life depended on it.

"We tracked down many different leads and talked to many different humans and Vampires alike, but we couldn't find the source. Nearly every Vampire in over a hundred-mile radius died within a year because of how fast it spread. Elijah, it could be happening all over again." Fear and panic came with each world Rebekah spoke.