Red Thread ▹ Rebekah Mikaelson

05.

red thread.

05. naught broken save this body, lost but breath

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Elena Gilbert walked down the hallway, on her way to superglue her favorite teacher's desk. It was supposed to be a fun, worry free, normal night spent with friends. She laughed when she overheard Tyler telling some people to prank the faculty toilets, though her attention is brought back to the world when her phone beeps.

She furrowed her eyebrows at the unknown number, but listened to the voicemail nonetheless. "Elena, you need to leave town. Now," the whispering voice said over the line.

Just as she was about to redial the number, she ran into a hard body.

"There's my girl," Klaus said, smirking. Elena feels the fear run through her at full speed and tries to run away, but without vampire speed, it's no use. "You're supposed to be dead. What are we going to do about that?"

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      Foster awakened with a groan, her hand immediately went to her unusually sore neck. Though that's what happens when a psychotic douche breaks it constantly for hours.

"So she lives," someone said from above her.

Foster let out another groan and rolled over onto her back. "What's going on?"

"You and your brother have taken a rather nasty beating. My brother's been breaking your necks all afternoon. Quite the temper," Rebekah told her, leaning against the side of the truck.

"So he knows." Foster sighed and leaned up, trying to stand.

"You're not going to try and deny it?" Rebekah questioned.

"Is there any reason too?" Foster plopped down onto a crate. "Look, she's my best friend, my family. I'd do anything to protect the people I love and that includes her. Even if that means lying to you or your brother."

Rebekah tilted her head to the side, analyzing the brunette. "You really mean that don't you?" Foster nodded, still trying regain all of her energy. "Well, consider me jealous."

Foster already anticipated this, so when Rebekah tried to break her neck again, she was already out of sight and headed into the school.

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     "You've put a rather large kink in my plans, sweetheart," Klaus said as he dragged Elena down the hall, gripping her arm tight. "The whole point of breaking the curse and becoming a hybrid was to make more hybrids. I haven't been able to do that. Now, I bet is has something to do with that fact that you're still breathing."

"If you're going to kill me, just do it," Elena rasped.

Klaus smirked just a little and continued to pull her along. "Not until I know I'm right. But I do have ways of making you suffer."

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     Foster walked through the hallway, looking for any sign of her friends when she saw a group of teenagers walking out of a set of double doors.

"Hey, what's going on?" she asked one of the guys.

"Senior prank night got busted." Foster nodded and passed by them quickly and turned the corner, freezing at what she saw.

"Tyler?" she breathed out in shock. Tyler pulled his lips away from Caroline's. Both of them opened their mouths, ready to defend themselves, but Foster held up a hand, cutting them off. "I honestly don't give two shits right now. Where is Elena?"