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[deathlessness]

	✔ Cʀᴏssᴏᴠᴇʀs/AU ✔ Aᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ✔ Pʀᴏsᴇ	✔ Pɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ✔ Oᴛʜᴇʀᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ✔ Sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇʀs	♥ F/M, F/F ⏰ Lᴇɢᴀᴄɪᴇs-ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟɪᴀɴᴛ

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[easily]

Rebekah's eyes widen at that. This is a Rebekah who has never had to deal with the true treachery of Esther.

"She wouldn't do that. She loved us, she loved her children."

[deathlessness]

Freya's lips purse for a moment, before she shakes her head. "Yes. She loved us so much that she gave one of us away and turned the rest into monsters." It's a hard truth, to see their parents for who they really are.

Then again, Freya never saw Mikael turn against his children either.

[easily]

"And her husband, who spent the next thousand years hunting his own children."

While she understands now why he had went after Klaus it still stings and makes Rebekah bitter all the same. If anyone was a monster, it was their father.

[deathlessness]

Freya flinches at that interpretation of her father, after using him as her anchor and her hope for so long. She doesn't understand why the Mikael she knew would do the things that he did, but that's something she's never meant to understand. Not until she talks to Mikael herself.

"I can't speak to that. I haven't seen my father in a thousand years." But she had been the apple of her father's eye while her mother couldn't even fight for her.

[easily]

"You're not missing much." Rebekah has never seen the bad parts of Esther, her treachery is mostly unknown to her. But she knows what Mikael is capable of. Once she even called upon him herself, she was so desperate to be free of Klaus and his control.

[deathlessness]

There's part of her that flinches at that, wanting to roar back in her father's defense, but she doesn't know enough of the story yet. She reveres Mikael the way Rebekah reveres Esther - they've held onto the memory so tightly that they can only remember them when they were at their best, and for the moment are refusing to accept the worst.

"I suppose we will have to agree to disagree." She pauses, before getting to her feet and face her. "They are both dead and we are not, and I do not wish to sour our relationship before we can even begin."

[easily]

Rebekah smiles at the concession, nodding in agreement. "I think that is a wise choice. I've always wanted a sister, I would be loathe to lose one so quickly."

Not if she doesn't have to.

[deathlessness]

"As did I." Not that she didn't love Finn and Elijah with all her heart when she was young, but she always desperately wished for a sister, to feel that bond she's seen between the other girls in the village, and that desperation hadn't changed as she moved through the years. A sister would have been welcome company in the loneliness of traveling with Dahlia.

She smiles before reaching forward for Rebekah's hands with a soft squeeze. "You must tell me everything of our brothers. There is so much I have missed."

[easily]

"There is." Not all of it good, a lot of it bad actually. She's not sure if she should tell Freya about what a monster Niklaus became over the years -- she seems so excited to hear about her family. Perhaps she'll focus more on Elijah.

"What do you want to know?" In a thousand years of history it can be hard to know where to start.

[deathlessness]

It can be, but she's willing to take it brother by brother. And the ones she cares about more are the older ones anyway. "Let's ... start with Finn? Is he well?" Finn, unfortunately for Freya, was her favorite brother, and she would be most concerned with his well-being.

[easily]

Rebekah frowns, as that is one of the nastier answers. "Incapacitated, last I knew. Niklaus has these daggers he can use on the rest of us. Finn has been in his coffin for a long time."

Something she sometimes felt guilty about but didn't dare act on in case Klaus turned the dagger on her.

[deathlessness]

Her brow furrows for a moment. She hadn't spent enough time around her family in the early 1910s to really get a sense of things. She knew that Kol was messing around with alchemy, but she never had the chance to learn the specifics of what for before she was trapped as well, by her brother's conniving hand.

"Why would he do that to his own family?"

[easily]

"Because Niklaus has become consistently more paranoid and hateful over time. He is the most mosterous of all of us." The worst of it Rebekah had not even been aware of until recently.

[deathlessness]

Freya frowns, before shaking his head. "Time isn't kind to all of us. It can be hard to hold on to your humanity when you don't live by human rules."

[easily]

"It can be. It isn't easy for him, having both natures to wrestle with either." And Esther suppressing his wolf for so long hadn't helped either.

[deathlessness]

She pauses for a moment tipping her head to the side as she reconciles the information she already knows about her family beyond their existence. "Because he is both a werewolf and a vampire, yes?"

[easily]

"Correct. And apparently he manages to break our mother's curse on him." She had yet to experience that for herself, but why would Stefan lie to her?

[deathlessness]

"That I heard about," she says with a slow nod. "My memories of shortly before I arrived here are a bit ... fuzzy, but I heard something about a curse being broken. It seemed to cause ... quite a few ripples."

[easily]

"I imagine it would. I have yet to experience it myself, but my boyfriend." She indicates back down to deer!Stefan. "Told me about it."

[deathlessness]

She nods slowly. "I believe things only got more complicated from there for our family. But I do know that you've returned to New Orleans."

[easily]

"Did we?" There's a pang of guilt at that. "I was the reason we left, you know."

[deathlessness]

"I didn't," she says, shaking her head. "I only know that that is where our family had settled, and Klaus is currently picking a fight with the French Quarter witches."

[easily]

She snorts a little. "That's not surprising. Nik picks a fight with anyone and everyone, given the chance to do so."

[deathlessness]

She smirks slightly at that. "Not that I can blame him, really. They're currently being led by a witch possessed by the spirit of our mother."

[easily]

"You make that sound like a bad thing." This Rebekah has never experienced the atrocities Esther put on her children. To her, it's just her mother.