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tetheredtoelena asked: shield !

mikaelsonsister:

THEY FOUND THEM AGAIN. this time, there were more, they were ruthless. but they didn’t expect the new-found advantage team hope had: a new vampire. and his hunter of the five past definitely gave them an edge. the pair tore through the pack with only one thing on their mind. don’t let them get upstairs. don’t let them get to hope. and rebekah was so completely focused on the baby that she didn’t notice the one that came up behind her. her status as an original kept her immune from normal wooden stakes for the most part. 

but he wasn’t. 

her ears, tuned in not only to hope, but to every little breath, every little sound he made caught the groan that slipped past her lips. she turns so fast, and seeing him with a wooden stake sticking out of the centre of his chest made everything else going on around them blur and silent. her true face emerged, fangs longer, sharper than those of a normal vampire, veins stretching all the way down her cheeks. one sweep of her arms beheads three of them at once. and she does not stop until they’re nothing then a pile of bodies at her feet. 

and then she turns to him, on the floor, and the situation is too familiar. 

she falls to her knees, pulling his torso into her lap.   you’re still alive,   she says, amazement coating her tone as her brows furrow together. rebekah smooths back his hair with a weak smile. and then, a realization.   you were trying to save me. ’  her heart cries out for him as she feels her eyes wet with tears.   you know this wouldn’t have killed me, right?  now, she turns her eyes to the stake that sticks out from his chest, and she notices. it’s off. just slightly, but slightly enough that the wood didn’t puncture his heart. 

i can’t pull it out.   she’s too scared. if even a sliver of the wood splinters off and pierces his heart… well, she won’t even think about that. she doesn’t want to even imagine a world that jeremy gilbert isn’t a part of.   but, as your body heals, it’ll force it out on its own.  it may be safer, it may not. if she pulls it out, if his body pushes it out — they both come with the risks. rebekah steadies her breath, trying to seem confident in her decision.  ‘ if you drink my blood you’ll heal faster,   she says, offering him her wrist to feed from. and then, shakily she says,  please. ’  tears overspill her eyes.   the faster you heal, the faster we can get out of here.

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