CHICAGO 1920
[Stefan is drinking blood from a woman. Rebekah joins in on the other side of her neck. Rebekah and Stefan kiss. He sees her necklace. It's the one he offered to Elena.]
Stefan: It's beautiful.
Rebekah: A witch gave it to me. Supposedly it's magical.
Stefan: And is it?
Rebekah: It brought me love, didn't it?
[Ash and Klaus arrive and catch her.]
Klaus: It's late, Rebekah, we're leaving. [He tugs her arm.]
Ash: Aw, must we?
Rebekah: Get off of me!
[Stefan gets up.]
Stefan: Who is this guy?
Rebekah: Stefan, don't. He'll kill you. He's a lot stronger than he looks.
[Stefan is standing behind Rebekah, and has his left hand protectively on her shoulder.]
Klaus: So this is the famous Stefan Salvatore. I've been hearing so much about. You're right, he does have funny hair. I'm bored. I want to go.
[Ash chuckles]
Rebekah: Then go without me, I'm not your girlfriend.
Klaus: No, you're my sister, which means...You have to do as I say.
[He pulls her over to him so they're both facing Stefan.]
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[Ash and Klaus are sitting in the bar on one side of a table with Stefan and Rebekah on the other.]
Klaus: So Stefan, enlighten me. What makes you worthy of an Original like my sister? She's a pure vampire and you're no more than a diluted bloodline.
Rebekah: Don't listen to him, Stefan. Nik's an elitist.
Stefan: Hmm. And where's the rest of your family?
Klaus: Well, let's see. Um...I killed most of them. [Ash glares at him]
Rebekah: But not all.
Stefan: And you're okay with that?
Rebekah: Well, we all had the chance to choose a side. I chose the right one, eventually.
[She touches Klaus' hand. A man stops by their table.]
Man: Where the hell's my wife?
Stefan: I don't know. I give up.
Man: You think you're so tough? Hiding in your bar, drinking your liquor? A telephone call to Chicago P.D. might set you straight.
Ash: Ooh!
[Ash, Klaus and Rebekah laugh. Stefan calls a woman.]
Stefan: Lila? Lila, please. Come here for a second.
Man: Oh, thank God. Come on, we're leaving.
[The man starts to leave with her but Stefan reaches his arm out to stop him and compels him.]
Stefan: Oh, no, no, no, no. No. You're sitting.
[The man sits down next to Ash and Lila next to Stefan. He takes off her glove and takes a pen knife from his jacket pocket.]
Rebekah: Stefan, don't be mean.
Man: What the hell are you doing?
[Klaus seems intrigued. Stefan cuts Lila's wrist and the blood pours into a champagne glass. Ash, Klaus and Rebekah smile.]
Ash: I like him.
Stefan: Thank you so much, Lila. Why don't you go and bandage that up?
[She gets up and leaves. Stefan compels the man.]
Stefan: I'd like you to join me for a drink.
[He gives him the glass containing the blood of his wife.]
Man: What kind of sick freaks are you?
Stefan: I said, drink!
[He shakily raises the glass to his lips and takes a sip of his wife's blood. He coughs.]
Stefan: I didn't catch your name.
Man: Go to hell.
[Klaus laughs.]
Stefan: Do you want another sip?
Man: Liam. Liam Grant.
Stefan: Liam Grant! Have another sip, Liam.
[Klaus clinks his champagne glass on Liam's glass. Liam shakily raises the glass.]
Stefan: Finish it.
[Liam swallows all the blood in one gulp. Klaus laughs.]
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[Klaus and Stefan are at the counter drinking.]
Stefan: They're jealous. Your family wants you dead because they can never be what you are.
Klaus: What? An abomination?
Stefan: No. A king.
[Klaus smiles. Stefan laughs.]
Klaus: Look at us. Two sad orphans.
[They look over and see Ash and Rebekah staring at them from a distance.]
Klaus: My sister fancies you, you know.
Stefan: Mmm! Is Ash your wife?
Klaus: Yes, we've been married 900 years.
Stefan: Wow. You can not get bored of her?
Klaus: Look at her. How could you get bored of that? [He points over at Ash while she is laughing with Rebekah.] But...I should warn you, Rebekah doesn't do anything half-speed, and that includes falling in love. So just be careful. She's mad.
[They laugh.]
Stefan: I appreciate the advice.
Klaus: And when the point comes where she inevitably leaves you...She can't help it, it's just who she is. Don't let your heart do anything stupid.
Stefan: You know what, you're a good friend, Nik. I'm glad I met you.
[He holds up his shot glass in cheers.]
[Stefan and Rebekah are dancing. Klau and Ash are dancing nearby. Suddenly Klaus senses something and looks around. A moment later bullets start flying all through the room. Rebekah and Stefan crouch down and hide behind the bar. Stefan takes one of the bullets from the ground.]
Stefan: They're using wooden bullets. They know.
Rebekah: That means he's here.
Stefan: Who? Who's here?
[Ash and Klaus walk briskly over to the counter.]
Klaus: Rebekah! Come on, we've got to go, sweetheart.
[She gets up and Klaus grabs her. Ash screams as she is shot in the shoulder by a wooden bullet. Klaus turns to her and helps her out of the way of the bullets.]
Stefan: What the hell is going on?
Rebekah: Stefan!
Klaus: Go!
[Stefan notices Rebekah's necklace lying on the floor. Stefan is about to crouch down and take it when Klaus interrupts him to talk with him.]
Klaus: Stefan. I'm sorry, but the fun has to end here.
Stefan: What are you talking about?
[Klaus compels him.]
Klaus: You must forget Ash, Rebekah and me. Until I say otherwise, you never knew us, Stefan. Thank you. I had forgotten what it was like to have a brother.
[He disappears.]
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[Ash, Klaus and Rebekah are next to a car in a warehouse.]
Klaus: Hurry up, Rebekah. Let's go!
[She doesn't move and continues looking towards the other end of the warehouse.]
Rebekah: He'll be here any second.
Klaus: Do you want to die? We've been found. We need to move.
Rebekah: Not without Stefan.
Klaus: Stefan's not coming. We have to disappear. He'll draw too much attention. Let him go.
Rebekah: What did you do?
[Klaus takes her arm.]
Klaus: Come on. We don't have time for one of your tantrums.
[Rebekah shakes his hand off her.]
Rebekah: I don't want to run anymore, Nik! All we do is run. I want to be with Stefan.
Klaus: Fine. Then choose. Him or me.
[She doesn't answer.]
Klaus: That's what I thought. Get in the truck. Let's go.
[He starts walking to the truck.]
Ash: Nik, please
Rebekah: Goodbye, Nik.
[He stops walking. She turns away from him but he rushes over and drives a dagger through her heart.]
Ash: NOO! No, no, no, no
Klaus: Come on love,
Ash: You can't do this to me again. You said you wouldn't dagger her again. You promised!
Klaus: And she said she wouldn't leave me.
Ash: Undagger her now.
Klaus: No.
Ash: I can't do this, Klaus you promised.
[She starts to slowly back away from Klaus. He suddenly speeds towards her holding a second dagger. She attempts to fight him but he is too strong and he manages to dagger her.]
Ash: No, you promised.
Klaus: I'm so sorry love. But I can't lose you.
[Ash slowly desiccates.]
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[The 900s; shortly after Mikael turned the children into vampires; Ash, Rebekah and Klaus awaken on the floor with blood on their clothes.]
Klaus: [waking] Ash...
Rebekah (gasping): Blood! What happened? [touches her nightgown where she had been stabbed.]
Klaus: You will be alright! We will all be alright.
[Mikael enters with a girl.]
Klaus: [confused and scared] What are you doing?
Mikael: We must finish what we started! [pushes the village girl onto her knees in front of them] You have to drink if you want to live. [he cuts the girl's wrist open.]
Rebekah (voiceover): We had to drink more blood to complete the ritual.
Mikael (to Rebekah): Drink! [she hesitates] Drink! [Klaus tries to stop him, but Mikael pushes him aside; Rebekah starts to drink the girl's blood] Drink!!! [she drinks deeply, and dark veins appear around her eyes. Mikael turns to Ash and grabs her hair forcing her lips on the girl's wrist.]
Klaus: No father don't touch her!
Mikael: Silence boy!
[After she is finished she looks down at her stomach.]
Ash: N-Nik. Our baby...
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[Flashback to just after they were turned. Klaus buries their mother as Rebekah watches.]
Rebekah: Afterwards, my father took off in a rage, and the rest of my family scattered. Nik stayed, so he could help me bury her. He knew I had to say goodbye to my mother.
[Rebekah and Klaus stand side by side at the grave.]
Rebekah: I know you think she hated you, Niklaus, but she did not. She was just afraid. I'm sorry she turned her back on you. I will never do that.
Elijah: [walks toward them and joins them] Nor will I.
Ash: Or I.
Rebekah: We stick together as one. Always and forever.
[Ash, Rebekah, Klaus, and Elijah all hold hands in a circle around the grave.]
Ash: Always and forever.