Love & marriage

House of the rising son

Rebekah parks in front of the Mikaelson mansion, leaving a message on her phone as she gets out. Hayley, inside, hears something and walks warily down the stairs. "Elijah, if not answering your phone is part of your clever plan to get me back to this godforsaken city, then well done. I'm here, and I'm worried. Now pick up before I kick in your bloody door."

Rebekah walks up the front steps and opens the door. She walks in as Hayley comes down the stairs, wielding a fire iron. "Who the hell are you?" Hayley asks.

"Oh, you must be the maid. My bags are in the car – get them, will you?" Diana sees what's going on and walks out. "Hayley, this is my sister-in-law, Rebekah. Rebekah, meet my niece, Hayley."

"I was expecting to see some kind of supernatural, miracle baby bump. Guess you're not showing yet." Rebekah says to Diana as she looks at Diana's usual lean figure. "It doesn't work like that." Diana says.

"Well, I can't conceive, so I don't know anything about the pregnancy kind."

"You have your brother's manners." Hayley retorts, earning a glare from the original. "And his temper, too, so watch it. Where's Elijah?"

"Beats me. He's long gone."

"What do you mean, "long gone"?"

"Well, one minute he was here making epic promises about protecting me in this predicament that a bottle of scotch and some bad decisions got me into – he was all poetic about how we're family – and then Klaus told me he bailed. Guess that's what I get for trusting a vampire."

"Elijah is not just any vampire, and he doesn't break promises. Which means Niklaus has done something dastardly and Klaus-like. Klaus! Get out here and tell me what you've done with our brother, you narcissistic, back-stabbing wanker!"

Klaus opens a pair of doors and enters the room. "Enough with all the shouting. Little sister, I should have known. I assume the six dead vampires were your doing?"

"They were very rude." Diana looks at her warily, feeling as if this wasn't true. "You sound like you're lying."

"I'm very truthful."

"If anything, you probably violently impaled them with pool sticks." Diana retorts. 

"Yeah, that's totally a lie." Klaus adds.

"Trying to victimize a poor, innocent girl just trying to find her way to the Quarter. So sorry, were they friends of yours? Oh, that's right, you don't have any friends." Rebekah snaps.

"I do have friends. I have Marcel. You remember him, don't you? Yes, of course you do. He fancies himself the 'King of the Quarter' now, and he has these rules about killing vampires. It'll be fun to see what sort of punishment he comes up with for you."

"I don't care about Marcel or his rules. Elijah doesn't welch on deals. What did you do to him?"

"Perhaps he's on holiday... or taking a long autumn nap upstairs. Well, go on. Take a look around. You remember this house as well as I."

"I remember everything."

Flashback...

Rebekah walks through a doorway into a room filled with people dressed in their finery for some sort of party. They nod at Rebekah as she passes. 

I remember how the drunken fool of a governor hid away all of our vampire sins in exchange for gold. I remember the lavish parties the governor threw, as if to impress you.

Rebekah watches Klaus as she leaves the room with two ladies. She then turns her attention to a young man, whom she kisses chastely.

I remember finding a moment of affection with the governor's son, Emil. And I remember that even Elijah was happy.