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Rebekah Salvatore finally found love (hasherwhims) wrote in wariscoming,

There was such an irony to the two of them. He had said it once himself 'well, aren't we a pair?' And they were. Elijah was the eldest, in so many ways more of a father to them than Mikael had ever been, and Kol was her twin, the one who understood her so well even without words. But Nik? Nik was her constant. All the others, even Elijah, even Kol, had left at various points in time, sometimes because they were bored and wanting to explore somewhere else, sometimes because of fights that needed a few decades to cool down. But never Nik. A thousand years, she had been by his side. And not for a moment had she hesitated to save him.

"I was wrong. When I said that. You can love, I see it with Caroline every day. I used to believe you were incapable of it, but you can do it." Of course her words would stick with him, just as his stuck with her, even over centuries.

"The Cage was different for all of us. Made us see and feel the worst possible things. Hal said his was..." She paused, before shaking her head. "No, his was for him to share with who he wants, but I will say his was different from mine." Her voice was firmer than it had been on that issue. Oh, it was still a shadow of her normal levels of sass and stubbornness, but it was still clear she would not reveal about anyone elses experiences. Hell, the Cage, it was too personal, too deep. It wasn't her place or right to tell another's tale. "The Cage knew what would hurt me the most. And the others were there, they mocked me for my hope, laughed while it all happened, but for you to break that final rule, to kill a member of your family, to disown me and mean it, those words, the look in your eyes. It hurt more than the deaths." Because it was him, because she loved him so much, and even through fights and daggers and insults, they had never truly left each other. The finality of him killing her. It was the worst pain the Cage could inflict.

When he pulled her close, she didn't resist. For a moment she did tense, an instinctive fear taking over, before she just gave in, practically curling into his side and she finally, finally cried, not just the odd tears that had escaped her every now and then since her emotions had turned back on, but wracking sobs that made her whole body shake, soaking into Nik's shirt as she turned and just clung to him. Her big brother. Finally telling her the words she had so wanted to hear for so long.