Rebekah Mikaelson

## Early Life

### Mystic Falls, The Middle Ages, 10th Century

Rebekah is the second daughter of Mikael and Esther, wealthy land owners from Eastern Europe in the 10th century. She is the sixth of seven children: Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, Henrik and Freya *"who died while the couple still lived in the Old World".* They then move to the New World.

In *Farewell to Storyville*,a flashback of a young Rebekah is shown with all her siblings, happily playing in the woods. Niklaus once stayed awake with her during a stormy night and gave her a wooden carved knight, as she was scared. He comforts her and stays beside her stating that he will always protect
her.

Niklaus was once beaten half to death by Mikael, unaware of the
fact that it was Rebekah who had taken his blade. She told him the truth
 weeks later to her brother because she could never confess it to their
father.

In her teenage years, Rebekah once threatened Mikael with a sword,
when he wouldn't stop beating Niklaus with a "whip". She even tried to
kill her father in his sleep for mistreating Niklaus, and would have
done it had Elijah not stopped her. Rebekah, like the rest of her
siblings, seemed equally afraid of Mikael, though she never was a victim
 of his abuse.

While living in the New World, they lived in peace with the werewolves.
 However, during a full moon, when the wolves were transforming, Niklaus
 and Henrik left to watch the villagers transforming from men to beasts.
 As the sun began to rise, Rebekah saw Niklaus carrying Henrik's
lifeless body back into the village. He stated that one of the wolves
had mauled Henrik to death.

Not wanting to lose another child, their mother Esther decided to cast a spell (The Immortality Spell), calling upon the sun for life and the White Oak Tree
 for immortality. However, the spell lead to some untimely acts.
Unbeknownst to Rebekah and her siblings, they drank wine laced with the
blood of Tatia
 for dinner and afterwards, Mikael drove his sword through their hearts.
 After their awakening, Mikael forced his children to feed on a local
villager, completing their transition into vampires.

Later, they began to realize that their new gift had its weaknesses. The flowers that grew at the base of the White Oak Tree, vervain,
 burned them and prevented compulsion. The sun burned their skin, making
 it impossible to walk in the daylight for them. They were unable to
enter the homes of their neighbors without an invitation. Also their
thirst was uncontrollable.

Realizing that wood carved from the White Oak Tree
 would be fatal to them, they burned the tree to the ground. After their
 mother's death, Rebekah, Niklaus and Elijah swore to each other that
they would never turn on each other and stick together as one, always
and forever.

### Italy, 1114

Rebekah was residing in Italy with her brothers Klaus and Elijah when they met a vampire hunter named Alexander, a member of a group called The Five.
 Rebekah soon fell in love with him and this allowed Klaus and Elijah to
 get closer to him and question him about The Five. During this time,
Alexander and Rebekah planned to get married. They even picked out a
church and he shared a lot of information with her about his plans for
hunting vampires. However, unbeknownst to her, Alexander had found out
she was a vampire and while she and all of her siblings were his guests,
 overnight The Five daggered them all with white oak ash daggers.
 Klaus, unaffected by the dagger thanks to his werewolf lineage,
undaggered her after killing Alexander and the rest of The Five. Klaus
then viciously interrogated her until she revealed that Alexander's
supposed ultimate weapon was a "cure." Despite everything that had happened, she buried Alexander with his sword at the church where they had planned to marry.

### 1359

According to Elijah, Rebekah had lost much of her humanity, becoming quite indifferent to brutality.

### England,1492

Rebekah was in England along with Elijah and Klaus. She met Katerina Petrova, the next Petrova Doppelgänger
 after Tatia , who was going to be sacrificed soon to activate Klaus'
werewolf side. However, after Katerina's escape, which subsequently
destroyed Klaus and Elijah's bond, Rebekah has held a grudge against her
 ever since.

### Cadiz, Spain, 1702

In 1702, Kol's antics in Spain drew too much attention and brought
Mikael, straight to the family, destroying the country upon his arrival.
 As Klaus and Elijah searched for Kol, Rebekah boarded a ship bound to leave Europe along with a daggered Finn.

### New Orleans, 18th Century-Early 20th Century

#### 1700's

Having fled the Old World (Spain Probably) from Mikael, Rebekah, along with Klaus and Elijah, sailed across the world, through the Mississippi River and arrived in New Orleans,
 300 years from the present. Upon arriving off the coast of New Orleans,
 they slaughtered all the men who boarded their ship, but left one alive
 to question and carry their luggage.

Another flashback of Rebekah from 18th century is shown in *The Casket Girls*,

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where she protects the girls who arrived to New Orleans in hope to

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marry fine husband, but would have ended up with men not so noble at
all. She saves them by killing the men waiting for them and takes the
girls under her protection.

#### 1800's

In 1820, Rebekah, Niklaus and Elijah were living in New Orleans and
 paying gold to the governor for the existence of vampire's to be kept a
 secret. Rebekah fell in love with the Governor's son Emil
 and wanted to turn him into a vampire, however whilst asking for her
brother's permission, Klaus snorted and told her if she wanted to turn
every human she fell in love with, humans would cease to exist before
proceeding to kill him, claiming nobody was good enough for her. Some
days later, the three Originals were attending Emil's funeral when they
noticed a boy throwing an apple at the man whipping him. As Klaus began to talk to the boy, even naming him Marcellus, Elijah whispered to Rebekah *"Perhaps there is hope for our brother after all."*
 Marcel was soon taken into the family, quickly developing a crush for
Rebekah at an early age because of all the time they spent fencing with
each other (though he would not win).

By 1835, Marcel was finally an adult, actually could best her in a duel he attempted to make his move on her

only to be stopped by Klaus. Despite pleading with Klaus
 to let him be with Rebekah, Klaus still shot him down and forbid him
from pursuing her. However this did not stop Marcel from trying again
and making out with Rebekah. They were abruptly torn apart physically by
 Klaus who decided to punish them by daggering Rebekah.

In 1887, Klaus undaggered Rebekah revealing he had left her daggered
for 52 years. When she had asked to see Marcel, Klaus sadistically
revealed that he gave Marcel an ultimatum. Either live a long human life
 with Rebekah and die or become a vampire, but stay away from Rebekah.
He chose the latter, even walking into the room as proof, devastating
Rebekah. Elijah helped Rebekah reintegrate herself into New Orleans' society.

#### 1900's

Elijah Niklaus, Kol
 and Rebekah all lived in New Orleans. In 1914, Rebekah celebrated
Christmas along with her brothers. She is seen entering Nik's room,
where she finds Kol, looking for something desperately. He tells her his
 plans for Klaus. Rebekah is stunned at first, but pretends to agree
with him. Later, she approaches a witch, telling her that she deserves
better than to date Kol. Klaus gathers everyone and makes a toast to
Rebekah. Later, Kol is daggered, while Rebekah watches, broadly smiling.
 Which leads us to assume that Rebekah indeed betrayed him to Klaus.

In 1919, Rebekah worked as nurse in New Orleans sanatorium during
 the period of influenza. Marcel soon returned from World War I. At
first they were distant, but eventually grew closer. Together, they
desperately started to search for freedom, to do as they wished without
Klaus constantly controlling them. Rebekah befriended Genevieve, a
fellow nurse and found out that she was a witch. Soon, they became
friends. She asked Genevieve to summon her father, Mikael to New
Orleans. Eventually, Klaus accepted and supported her relationship with
Marcel, which made the pair very happy. When Genevieve learned that
Rebekah used her, she wanted to reveal her secret to Klaus. However,
Rebekah quickly infected her and her friend Clara Summerlin with
influenza, leaving them to die, so she and Marcel would be protected
from Klaus' wrath.

Elijah mentioned that he and his siblings had many fun times in
New Orleans and didn't want to leave, however in the year 1919 after Mikael
 arrived, leaving countless bodies in his wake, they had no choice but
to flee and were driven away. However, Elijah broke apart from Klaus and
 Rebekah to stall Mikael so his siblings could get away.

#### Chicago,1920's

Moving from town to town and wreaking havoc, Rebekah and Klaus found
themselves in Chicago during the roaring 20s. After her introduction to Stefan Salvatore, Rebekah immediately fell in love with him. Not long after, Mikael arrived in the city searching for Klaus with the intention to kill him.

Mikael and the police fired wooden bullets into the building.
Rebekah, Stefan and Klaus ducked to avoid the bullets and in the
commotion, Rebekah lost her mother's necklace. Klaus met up with Stefan and compelled him to forget ever meeting him and Rebekah.

Later, Rebekah and Klaus
 are shown to be packing and moving elsewhere. Klaus tells Rebekah to
hurry up, but she says that she is not going anywhere without Stefan.
Klaus tells her to let Stefan go, but Rebekah refuses, intent on staying
 with him. Klaus forces her to choose between him and Stefan, and as she
 opted for the latter, he neutralizes her with the White Oak Ash Dagger. This is the only weapon that can be used to neutralize an Original Vampire like Klaus and herself.

Rebekah remained neutralized for 90 years and was stored in a
coffin which was carried around with Klaus wherever he went. The coffins
 also contained her other brothers, Finn and Kol.