( His sarcastic edge is more of a defense mechanism at this point, but if anyone can steer the conversation into a productive direction, it's his almost sort of sister-in law-in law. )
Right outside a suburb of Chicago. What about your family? Reports are conflicted. Some say you're from Viking country, others say Mystic Falls, and then others say New Orleans. But, New Orleans and Mystic Falls weren't places when you and your siblings were -- when you became immortal.
Oh, I love Chicago. I spent some time there in the 1920s.
[But she won't saunter too far down memory lane because Julian did ask her a question.]
Technically I was born in what is now Mystic Falls, but it wasn't then. Freya and my brothers Finn and Elijah were born in Norway, though, and as a family we did live in New Orleans for some time.
Some of it was tedious, but most of it I didn't mind.
[They got to take their time, back then.]
Don't get me wrong, I still appreciate the airplane, especially for overseas travel. But when we were moving from place to place within the same continent, it was nice to see the land. Take everything in. At least until one of us picked a fight with the other and being in close quarters lost it's charm.
I wanted to have a family. I wanted to be with someone and grow old with them instead of waiting for the day where they either decide to be turned, or leave because I'm not aging with them. And I've been alive for a thousand years. I was ready to be done.
[Fortunately, Elena Gilbert was happy to oblige her by passing off the cure.]
Oh, no. Marcel and I ... I don't think we were ever going to work. We wanted different things.
[Their history is too long and too sordid. But that's neither here nor there. Maybe it's for the best if people think Rebekah's husband is unkillable.]
Oh, Kol's certainly got plenty of surprises. I think the biggest one is that he has a heart. And he very much cares for your sister.
As long as he does. And, through all this, if his family has her back when I'm not there. I think she knows, but I'm not spending forward in your penthouse.
( He wants it on record. But he knows his sister is aware. )
You know I basically ejected myself from my own life.
( He doesn't know what's traveled among the Original gossip, if anything, but he and his sister barely talked about it. He got yelled at, but he never addressed it himself. To himself.
Or to anyone. )
Besides a team that might not welcome me back with open arms, I don't have much to get back to. Maybe tracking down my useless mother. But, that doesn't sound like a life.
[Freya did fill in some of the blanks (19). She wasn't going to bring it up if he didn't, but she will comment now:]
I think I would be a hypocrite if I told you I wouldn't have done the same for my family if needed. In fact, I have. I made Elijah dagger me once so I wouldn't be a threat to them.
[But that's not what he's saying, really.]
But if there's one thing I have learned in my very long life, it's that life doesn't come to you. If you want it, you need to go out and seek it. But the hardest part, I've found, is actually deciding what you want and if it's worth going after.
Our father had Huntingtons. I watched him decline right in front of me. I told myself, I couldn't let that happen to my sister, not if I could help it. And then I got duped. And almost threw my life away. She never would've forgiven me.
I think it's clear that whatever life she has, she wants you in it. But she can't be your entire life either.
[She pauses as she considers what to stay next.]
And it's alright to take your time with figuring out the rest. I mean, it took me five hundred years to realize that I really did want a family. Granted, you shouldn't take that long, but consider it on a human scale.
[Because you can never let family go completely. There's always the invisible tether that holds you together, always and forever, as much as that could be twisted to use against her family at times.]
Every synapse is firing with 'Save my sister.' All day. Every day. Ever since she was diagnosed. But, I can't. I can't... be the one. And I have to accept that.
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( His sarcastic edge is more of a defense mechanism at this point, but if anyone can steer the conversation into a productive direction, it's his almost sort of sister-in law-in law. )
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We could get to know each other better.
[She flashes him a bright smile.]
Or we could play I Spy.
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( 'Ask me anything,' is a crude translation and after a second he of course -- defines it. )
Ask me anything.
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[They haven't gotten to do those pointless getting to know you questions, so now might as well be a good time.]
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( AMA can go both ways, right? )
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[But she won't saunter too far down memory lane because Julian did ask her a question.]
Technically I was born in what is now Mystic Falls, but it wasn't then. Freya and my brothers Finn and Elijah were born in Norway, though, and as a family we did live in New Orleans for some time.
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So, it's all true. What was that like, moving around at a time when travel was much more of an undertaking?
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[They got to take their time, back then.]
Don't get me wrong, I still appreciate the airplane, especially for overseas travel. But when we were moving from place to place within the same continent, it was nice to see the land. Take everything in. At least until one of us picked a fight with the other and being in close quarters lost it's charm.
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Wish I could tell you brothers and sisters stopped picking fights like that. I do like road trip terrain. I was made for the scenic route.
( His sister's much more about getting to her destination. )
How do you go from being a thousand year old vampire to a thousand year old cured witch. Knowing your days are numbered.
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[Fortunately, Elena Gilbert was happy to oblige her by passing off the cure.]
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( He may have his facts mixed up, but all sources pointed to Marcel and Rebekah living a life happily ever after. )
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[And his name is not Marcel.]
John Henry was cured by other means.
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( What is he missing? She chose her dream, humanity and married a cowboy. )
You are not what I expected, Rebekah Mikaelson. Is your brother just as full of surprises? Good ones, I hope.
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Oh, no. Marcel and I ... I don't think we were ever going to work. We wanted different things.
[Their history is too long and too sordid. But that's neither here nor there. Maybe it's for the best if people think Rebekah's husband is unkillable.]
Oh, Kol's certainly got plenty of surprises. I think the biggest one is that he has a heart. And he very much cares for your sister.
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( He wants it on record. But he knows his sister is aware. )
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[And Henry, but Henry goes without saying.]
But I'm sure you have a life you want to get back to.
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( He doesn't know what's traveled among the Original gossip, if anything, but he and his sister barely talked about it. He got yelled at, but he never addressed it himself. To himself.
Or to anyone. )
Besides a team that might not welcome me back with open arms, I don't have much to get back to. Maybe tracking down my useless mother. But, that doesn't sound like a life.
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I think I would be a hypocrite if I told you I wouldn't have done the same for my family if needed. In fact, I have. I made Elijah dagger me once so I wouldn't be a threat to them.
[But that's not what he's saying, really.]
But if there's one thing I have learned in my very long life, it's that life doesn't come to you. If you want it, you need to go out and seek it. But the hardest part, I've found, is actually deciding what you want and if it's worth going after.
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( But, it's not his to want, is it? )
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[Her health is going to do what it does, because the disease isn't something they can control.]
But eventually she is going to make a decision - witch or vampire, life or death, and what's that done, where will that leave you?
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( And that has to be okay. )
Our father had Huntingtons. I watched him decline right in front of me. I told myself, I couldn't let that happen to my sister, not if I could help it. And then I got duped. And almost threw my life away. She never would've forgiven me.
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[She pauses as she considers what to stay next.]
And it's alright to take your time with figuring out the rest. I mean, it took me five hundred years to realize that I really did want a family. Granted, you shouldn't take that long, but consider it on a human scale.
[She's teasing, mostly.]
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( And if not five, maybe a hundred or two. )
I have to let her go.
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[Because you can never let family go completely. There's always the invisible tether that holds you together, always and forever, as much as that could be twisted to use against her family at times.]
But enough to give you both room to grow.
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( Difficult is what it is. )
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