i'm not me || tvd [1]

•i'm not scared of mikael•

"How did you turn?" Elena asked.

"She called upon the sun for life, and the ancient white oak tree, one of nature's eternal objects for immortality. That night, my father offered us wine laced with blood. And then he drove his sword through our hearts."

Elena was stunned. "He killed you?"

"And he wasn't delicate about it either. He even used Imogen to finish the ritual." Rebekah said nonchalantly as she breaks the neck of the bottle of wine with one motion of her hand and threw it into the fireplace.

"My father was proud what Imogen had become. My mother turned her to one of the most powerful supernatural, an Immortal Being. Imogen was scared and confused when she first compelled someone, a village girl."

"Why did Mikael made her compel a girl for?" Elena asked.

Rebekah smirked mockingly. "For us."

~•~•~

After Esther turned Imogen into an Immortal Being and Mikael turning his children into vampires, Rebekah and Klaus awaken on the floor with blood on their clothes.

"Rebekah."

Rebekah gasped. "Blood! What happened?" she touched her nightgown where she had been stabbed.

Klaus quickly went to his sister's side. "You will be alright! We will all be alright."

Just then Mikael entered the house with a villager girl, who Imogen compelled.

Imogen, who was quiet yet terrified, followed Mikael inside the house. Klaus looked at her worriedly.

"Imogen!" Klaus called for the noirette.

Imogen, who has her head down looked up. Her face was wet with tears. Klaus tried to go to her but Mikael stopped him by shoving the compelled village girl on her knees.

Klaus looked at his father confused and scared. "What are you doing?"

"We must finish what we started! You have to drink if you want to live." Mikael cuts the village girl's wrist open.

~•~•~

"We had to drink more blood to complete the ritual."

~•~•~

"Drink!" Mikael ordered Rebekah but she hesitated. "Drink!"

"No!" Imogen yelled as Klaus tried to stop his father, but Mikael pushed him aside.

Imogen quickly went to Klaus' side as they watch in horror as Rebekah started to drink the girl's blood. The blonde drank deeply, and dark veins started to appear around her eyes.

~•~•~

"It was euphoric! The feeling of power was indescribable but the witch Ayana was right about the consequences. The spirits turned on us, and nature fought back. For every strength there would be a weakness."

~•~•~

Imogen played with the necklaces Esther gave her as she walked beside Rebekah inside their house. Rebekah suddenly flinched and jumped away from Imogen, who stopped walking and turned to Rebekah worriedly.

"Rebekah! Are you alright?" she asked in concern.

Imogen watched as Rebekah's burnt face healed quickly. "What happened?"

"The sun." Rebekah muttered.

Imogen looked at the sunlight pouring inside the house and reached her hand out to the sun but nothing happened.

"You didn't burn?" Rebekah asked puzzled.

"I am not like you, Rebekah. I an not a vampire, I am an Immortal Being. I am still human." Imogen told her and took off her cloak and placed it over Rebekah.

With the noirette's cloak, Rebekah walked freely, protected from the sunlight.

~•~•~

"The sun became our enemy but not Imogen's. With her help we were protected from the sun. But the sun kept us indoors for weeks. And though my mother found a solution, there were other problems. Neighbors who had opened their homes to us could now keep us out. Flowers at the base of the white oak burned, and prevented compulsion. And the spell decreed that the tree that gave us life could also take it away. So we burned it to the ground."

~•~•~

Imogen stood in front of the White Oak Tree.

"Burn it, child." Mikael ordered.

Imogen sighed softly. She took a deep breath before closing her eyes. As she opened her eyes and looked at the tree, the huge tree was enveloped in flames in an instant. She, Mikael, Elijah, Rebekah and Klaus watched.

~•~•~

"But the darkest consequence was something my parents never anticipated. The hunger."

Rebekah turned away from Elena. "Blood had made me and my family reborn and it was blood that we craved above all else. We could not control it, with that, the predatory species was born."

~•~•~

"Mikael."

Mikael smiled at the Immortal Being. "Don't worry, child. Like I promised, I won't hurt you."

"And make me tell where Nik is." Imogen added.

"Ah yes. Of course." Mikael chuckled. "Now, why don't you introduce me to your friends?"

Mikael turned to the bar as Imogen followed his gaze with a troubled look.

"I'm so conflicted here." she mumbled to herself.

Mikael chuckled, hearing the noirette. "Yes, child, you are. You wanted to protect the bastard boy--"

Imogen glared at Mikael, who quickly shut his mouth and raised his hands up in mock surrender.

"Yet you want to bring a certain Salvatore back from being a Ripper." Mikael continued. "How sweet and nice of you, Farien."

Imogen looked away. What Mikael said was true. She wanted to protect Nik from Mikael, himself but she also wanted to help Stefan.

"Don't call me Farien. Elijah's the only one to call me that."