Through the Centuries

1114 Italy Part 2

"What happened?" A woman asks.

The darkness haunts me, I feel frozen in this state and I cant move my body. My eyes feel heavy and the thought of moving my body exhausts me more than even attempting it. There was a pain but it was slowly dulling, it felt like it had been stitched together and was healing.

"Ask him." A man answers her, anger evident in his voice.

I hear him step aside and a gasp. I fight with myself and open my eyes. I was laid on a blood covered bed, Rebekah was next to me shaking. On the wall behind Nik was a man pinned up. Aleksander. He had a dagger stabbed through her heart and into the wall behind him, leaving him hanging a few inches from the floor. Blood was splattered all over the room. I turn slightly to look beside me expecting to find Kol and instead there was a tongue, ripped at the seams covered in blood a stray tongue was just lying next to me. I lean over and vomit.

"Only he cannot answer because I have ripped out his tongue, along with the rest of them" The man retorts. His tone was miserable, like he had won a battle but had a hefty price to pay.

"Nik, I had no idea" Rebekah tries to convince him. He was not forgiving today.

"But you should have!" "Your only family was nearly wiped out because of your stupidity!" Rebekah began muttering "What did he promise you?"

"Nothing. Nothing." She repeats, frightened of her brother.

"He would not have made a over unless he knew you were vulnerable" More sobs escaped her. "You trusted him..." He paced "Over me" Nik exploded at her and she started to shake more. "What did he promise you?!"

"Nothing Nik, I swear!" She continues to cry and shake.

"What did he promise you?!" He grabs her off of the bed and begins to shake her"Tell me, Rebekah!" I got up to try to grab him arms but instead I end up stumbling into them.

"Nik" I yell at the same time Rebekah yells. "A cure!"

We both stop.

"What?" We ask.

"A cure." She takes a shaky breath. "He said there was one cure, a cure that would end vampirism."

"Do you believe him?" He asks.

"Yes." Not missing her beat, she replies almost instantly.

"Could this be true?" Niklaus looks at me.

"I suppose it could be but I'm unsure how to do it or if it could be recreated." I say, as I sit on the bed and look down at the puddles of blood on the floor.

There was clearly a messy struggle for a death and it hadn't surprised me that Nik had won. I was shocked that Kol hadn't been able to fight him. It looked as if the hunter had vampire strength and it was a hard match for Kol. I hadn't seen his fists turn white since he was human, I hadn't seen his face turn bright red and sweat leak from his brow since we lived in Mystic falls. So how was he over powered so easily.

The only sounds for a few moments is Rebekah sobbing.

"Nik? Where is Kol?" I ask. He had said that Aleksander nearly wiped out our family, they had to be alive.

"Holly." The pain in his voice stops my heart.

"Please don't tel-

He interrupts me. "He's fine. Its the children."

"What?"

"Rebekah killed them." Not Rebekah Aleksander.

"Are they de-