And again, Rebekah rolled her eyes. "Seriously? You're already scheming, in case you and Elijah fall out over women again? He's got Katherine, who isn't with him, and you've got Caroline, who isn't with you. Wouldn't it just be far more logical for you two to get drunk and brotherly bond over the whole thing? You've got more in common than you might think, prim and proper attitudes aside."
Though, of course, she had to grin and nod about Sage. "I hated that self righteous little bitch. Thinking that she was one of us, just because Finn loved her. And of course, Finn..." Her voice trailed off and a flash of pain entered her eyes. Their own brother, conspiring with their mother, the woman who was supposed to love and protect her children, to kill them all. The most painful betrayal of all the ones she had faced over the years, and when she looked up at Nik again, there was a sudden vulnerability in her eyes. She didn't grieve for Finn, not the way she did for Kol, but she was far from over that betrayal.
"Would you ever do that for someone? Stay and risk your own life for them?" Oh how she wanted him to say he would for her, for Elijah, but more than anything Rebekah wanted her brother to say he would do that for someone. Anyone. Just to show he could love like that. "And still, that might explain why she stays in Mystic Falls, but what about here? The Caroline here, that's not..." she trailed off with a faint frown, one of concentration as she tried to figure out exactly what it was. "I don't know, there's just something different about this one. Maybe it's because she's younger, I don't know. This one seems..." Even more intolerable than the one from home. Rebekah didn't phrase it quite like that. "Smaller. She seems smaller."
She sighed, and drained her glass again before making a gesture for the bottle. "Why do you always see mercy as a weakness? You could have torn her apart, and everyone knows it. She is alive because you chose to spare her, because you're capable of actual thinking. No one needs to know the reasons why, they just see you making a choice. That's not weak, that's strong. I don't think anyone could question what you're capable of."