Above All Else

Chapter 21

Rebekah's face paled as she slumped into a chair in the parlor, "What?" she breathed out, if it wasn't for her two brother's vampire hearing they would have never picked up on it. "So if I would have taken the cure..." She trailed off in devastation over the fact that it would not have turned her back into a human, granting her wish to lead the life she had always wanted. All she wanted was to be happy, to have her life hold meaning instead of the endless years of fights and daggers, death and heartbreak. She wanted a husband to love her, children to grow within her womb and watch them grow into amazing adults. To have the chance to hold her grandchildren in her arms, to see them grow some as well before she was laid to rest for the final time. All the while knowing that her existence held meaning and a true purpose.

"If you had taken the cure dear sister you would have destroyed any chance of Caroline and Kol's survival thus forcing me to do away with you, granting you that everlasting sleep you seem so fond of having." Klaus's voice was hard and cold as his eyes penetrated her down to her soul. He wanted to hurt her as she had hurt him. He was still angry with her over the fact that she would give up the life they had built as the most powerful family to ever roam the Earth for only a few measly years to live a paltry existence as a human.

Rebekah stood quickly from her chair, stalking her way to her brothers, whom neither of were moved by her show of emotions as the tears glistened in her eyes, "Why is it so hard for you to imagine that I want a life for myself? Why is it Nik that you take me wanting that life as me abandoning you?!"

Klaus sneered at her as his eyes lessened, "Because that is exactly what you would be doing Rebekah. Leaving us all and for what?" He laughed cruelly, "Thirty or so more years of being weak? Of being a weakness to me!" Klaus bent so he was directly in her face as he harshly spat, "I would have just killed you myself the instant I found you, better that then watching you die the slow and pointless death you would have received as a human. Better still than any of our countless enemies we have incurred over the centuries finding you first." His smirk was that of the one the Devil himself would wear as he led a soul into sin, "Did you not think of those things sister? Did you think that you could hide from me? More so did you really think I would allow such a thing to ever happen?"

Rebekah shoved him with all her might across the room, "I hate you! I hate all of you!" She spat as tears rolled down her cheeks. Klaus pushed the broken pieces of the bookshelf off him before he started to rise from the floor with a growl.

"What do you think your little baby vampire would truly think of you, if she knew who you really are Nik? You think she will ever come to love you?" She laughed mockingly at him as she swiped a tear harshly off her cheek, "She might spread her thighs for you Nik, maybe even grow to care for you. But in the end she will discover what we all know about you." She spun on her heels only stopping once she reached the door, "You cannot be loved Nik. You destroy everything that you love."

Klaus growled his eyes flashing yellow as his fangs began to drop. Rebekah didn't give him the chance to catch her, she flashed from the house slamming the door behind her, the tears still falling from her eyes.

Klaus made it to the front door, nearly ripping it off its hinges before he shot a rage filled glare to the person attempting to stop him.

"Let her go Nik." Klaus narrowed his eyes at Kol as he shook his hand off his arm.

"No. She needs to learn that I will not accept her failure. That I will not stand for her impertinence." Klaus sneered as he was about to race off after her only to stop as Kol began to speak once more.

Kol shook his head slowly, "Trust me brother she already knows all that." He released a sigh before begrudgingly admitting, "What she needs is time to come to grips with what she has just learned." At his brother's incredulous look he continued, "I am not saying I agree with what she was trying to do Nik. I am only saying she needs time to mourn what she feels she has lost. She'll be back eventually."