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This is for Kol. Remember him? Brother, whom you swore to save.

 The brother - sister relationship between Kol Mikaelson and Rebekah Mikaelson.

Kol is the elder brother of Rebekah. He seems to be a year or two older than her. Since Henrik died, they are the youngest Mikaelson siblings. It is seen that Kol and Rebekah are partners in crime whenever they have been on screen together. Mostly it is Rebekah who in charge and Kol who does the dirty work for her. He could be considered her 'henchman' and doesn't seem to mind whenever she calls him to help her. He is always there for his sister, despite their differences. Kol is protective of Rebekah as it is seen that he even stands up against Klaus to defend her, though he never says that out loud.

Rebekah seems to know Kol better than anyone. She can tell when he is being sincere and knows what he enjoyed as a human, such as his favorite holidays.

Like Klaus, Kol does not like any of Rebekah's lovers and seems to dismiss them whenever he comes into contact with them, especially Damon, Marcel and Matt. He shows this by acting hostile towards them. Matt because his sister stopped her plan to kill Matt, which upset Kol. Damon because Rebekah got with him after he snapped Kol's neck. Marcel because Kol feels like he took Kol's place in the family.

Rebekah and Kol bicker constantly, mostly because they are the closest in age, and Kol has made fun of her love life, but despite that, it is shown that they do love eachother and are protective of one another. Rebekah mourned Kol after he died but didn't avenge him, which upset Kol greatly and he did resent her, especially when she betrayed him 100 years before. He punished her for these sins by attacking Matt, putting Rebekah in another body and imprisoning her in the Dowager Fauline Cottage

But they have seemed to make up after saving their niece, Hope, from harm. Rebekah was deeply saddened by Kol's second death and has vowed not to leave the body she has taken over until she brings him back home.

They are known as "Rebekol" by fans.

History

Rebekah and Kol were born to Mikael and Esther. Rebekah is younger than Kol. Both were raised in the New World with their family and eventually were turned into the world's first vampires along with their siblings and father. As vampires, both were rather impulsive and unpredictable. Rebekah and Kol were both daggered repeatedly on separate occasions by their brother Klaus, almost always for disobeying him. Both conspired against their half-brother in the early part of the 1900s, Kol secretly with the witches and Rebekah with Marcel.

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Rebekah and Kol in Christmas 1914.

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In 1914, at the family's Christmas party, Rebekah found Kol rummaging through Klaus's things. He explained that he was looking for something Klaus had taken from him, a paragon diamond that he needed. When Rebekah pressed him, he tried to entice her to join in on his scheme, telling her that he planned to work with the witches to create a dagger that would work on Klaus. He assured her that Klaus wouldn't die permanently and that it would finally give her and Marcel alone time, appeasing to her desire to be with him. Rebekah agreed to be help, keeping his secret and telling him to get back to the party. During the party, Rebekah found Kol's date, a witch, who she told that Kol was not a good person to be around right now. When Klaus gave his speech to the party-goers, he revealed that Rebekah had told him about Kol's plan, much to Kol's horror. Kol tried to flee but was daggered by Klaus as Rebekah watched, satisfied that her wild brother was under control.

Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

Season Three

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" Rebekah, tell me how handsome i am."

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Kol and Rebekah plot

Kol is undaggered byElijah in Bringing Out the Dead. He is seen by Rebekah when the two of them, along with Finn, attack Klaus. Kol, Rebekah, Finn and Elijah decide to leave Klaus forever until Esther arrives and says that she wants them to be a family again. Rebekah and Kol are both shocked because they had believed their mother was dead.

In Dangerous Liaisons,The house Mikaelson, is preparing for a ball in honor of family

reunification. Kol straightens his suit and asks Rebekah that, she said as far as he is handsome. However, Rebekah smirks and responds that he now is not compelled her. Later Klaus returns home and blames Rebekah that she almost killed Elena, Klaus threatens Rebekah again dagger her , and then Kol pleadeth for his sister, ridiculing habit Klaus dagger them. Kol also offers Klaus go out and "talk." At the ball Rebekah wants Kol to kill Matt to have her revenge on Elena. She later changed her mind about Matt and stopped him from being killed, leaving Kol standing outside, disappointed by the turn of events.

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Kol welcomes Rebekah.

In All My Children, after spending the night at Damon's, Rebekah comes home to Kol confronting her about where she has been. When Kol and Klaus leave, she throws one of her shoes at them, angry at Kol's remarks about her.

In The Departed, Elijah explained to Elena that both Rebekah and Kol wanted Klaus' desiccated body to be given back to the family and that both had agreed to leave the residents of Mystic Falls alone once they got their brother's remains back.

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Kol and Rebekah question Shane.

Season 4

In After School Special, Rebekah called on Kol once again after she discovered that Professor Shane knew the location of the cure. Kol abducted Shane from his office and brought the professor to his younger sister happily. The two of them then questioned him but they discovered he couldn't be compelled due to his mental training so Rebekah had Kol torture Shane by dunking his head in water. Kol did so and finally Shane revealed that he wasn't interested in the cure, just Silas which spooked Kol who knew of Silas' great power but Rebekah assured her brother that Silas was just a bed time story. Kol, determined to not make that nightmare a reality, impaled Shane in hopes of killing him which upset his sister greatly since that was her last source for finding the cure. Kol showed no remorse though and even had taken the white oak stake from Rebekah and then left.

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Kol smirks and leaves Rebekah.

In Catch Me If You Can, after Kol had compelled Damon Salvatore to kill Jeremy Gilbert, to further prevent Silas' release and the search for the cure, he went home only to be confronted by Rebekah. She threatened Kol with a White Oak Ash Dagger which visibly upset both of them, Kol even more so, who said how if she could really dagger him, she was no better than Klaus. He then said how the cure was ripping their family apart, to the point where Elijah was disgusted by them.

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Rebekah threatens Kol.

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Kol threatened on Rebekah white oak stake.

Rebekah retorted by saying it had been a fractured family for far longer. Kol then retaliated by drawing the white oak stake he had taken from her and pointed it in her face, threatening to permanently destroy her. Rebekah was stunned by this and saved by Klaus before Kol fled, everyone seeming shaken up by the notion that Kol would be willing to kill his own sister.

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In A View To A Kill, Klaus told Rebekah that Kol had run off with his daggers and wanted the last dagger, that was in her possession, to bring Kol down. Rebekah refused, not wanting to help Klaus hurt Kol despite Kol nearly killing her the night before. Later, Stefan managed to convince her to turn over her dagger so he could neutralize Kol after she explained that she wanted the cure so she could be human again. However, they were too late as Kol had been killed by Elena and Jeremy using the white oak stake. Rebekah was visibly shaken, tears rolling down her eyes and furious with Stefan for the part he played but Stefan reminded her that Kol was in the way of finding the cure and that without it, she could never fulfill her dream of becoming human again.

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Kol's ghost came to Rebekah, but she asks him to leave.

In The Walking Dead, when the veil to The Other Side had been dropped, Kol crossed over to the living world, in hopes of killing Elena to avenge his own death. He confronted Rebekah, who was with Matt, at the Mystic Grill and though she was visibly stunned to see her brother return, he ignored her seemingly gleeful surprise. He brushed off her reaction, reminding her of how quickly she seemed to get over his death. He questioned her on Elena's location and when Rebekah explained that she didn't know and told him to leave, Kol became hostile. He chastised her once again for her feelings for Matt before throwing a piece of a broken bottle into Matt's shoulder, departing and leaving Rebekah to attend to Matt's wounds. Their relationship has been strained due to Rebekah not getting revenge for Kol's death.

Throughout The Originals Series

Season Two

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Kol happy to finally see Rebekah.

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Rebekah happy to see Kol alive.

In The Map of Moments, when Esther was attempting to put Rebekah into Camille's body, Kol helped Klaus and Elijah try to stop the spell. Coming up with a plan to finally bring down Esther, Kol gave Esther the white oak stake as Rebekah arrived, pretending to give herself over willingly. Rebekah was happy to see Kol alive, recognizing his smirk despite his new body. As the spell was being prepared, Esther revealed that she planned to destroy Rebekah's vampire body with the white oak stake after the transfer so all the vampires in her bloodline would die, much to Kol and Rebekah's shock. Klaus arrived and killed Esther while the spell happened, with Kol supposed to have rigged the spell so Rebekah could go into a temporary body that wasn't Cami. However, he revealed to Davina, that he was still rather bitter with her about her ratting him out to Klaus in 1914. Unknown to everyone else, he had put Rebekah's spirit into the body of a witch who was trapped in a mansion that Klaus had trapped his allies in years before.

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Rebekah and Kol hugs

In The Devil is Damned, after Rebekah had made it out of the house and Kol was cursed to die by Finn, he went to the compound to ask his siblings for help. Rebekah was initially still upset about the trick he pulled on her, wanting to slap him, but Kol brushed her off, telling her and Klaus about his current situation, though he was upset to find that they weren't jumping to his aid. However, when Klaus forced his way inside Kol's mind in search of the spell Finn used, he saw that Kol was plotting against him secretly. Kol defended his actions, even what he did to Rebekah, telling her she deserved it. Kol left, upset about being the odd man out. He returned shortly after and knocked out Rebekah with magic powder before attacking Klaus. Once the fight was resolved, Klaus had convinced Kol to help them against Finn. Kol plotted with Klaus and Rebekah to overload Finn's magic by channeling power of their own. Using his vast knowledge of witchcraft, Kol told Rebekah that he was going to channel her power to help overload Finn. Seeing his helpfulness and cunning, Rebekah told her brother that this was the side of him that she liked. Kol, in a rare moment of apology, promised Rebekah that he'd find a way to put her back in her own body. After their plan was successful, Rebekah called Kol a genius and embraced him.

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Kol and Rebekah are trying to create a spell to help Kol survive.

In I Love You, Goodbye, experiencing severe effects of Finn's hex after practicing magic, Kol calls Rebekah asking her for a favor. Later that day, we see Kol and Rebekah chanting inside the Claire tomb, attempting to find a way to break the hex. After the spell fails, Kol begins to lose hope, believing that nothing will work. Rebekah is shocked at his behavior, a dramatic change to the "boy who laughed death in the face", and Kol says he changed after his first death. He bitterly reveals he hated his first death, and that he preferred life as a witch, with no blood lust or heightened emotions, much to Rebekah's surprise as she is left speechless.

Not long afterwards, Rebekah is rifling through several spells with Davina in a feeble attempt to find one to heal Kol or jump him into another body, although obeys Kol's request for him to have a moment alone with Davina. Once she leaves, she returns home to inform Elijah and Klaus that she cannot help Kol, and that he will not last the night.

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Kol and Rebekah final moment. He dies in her arms.

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She returns to the cemetery with Klaus and Elijah in tow, just before Kol is heading into one of the tombs, not allowing him to die alone. Inside the tomb, Kol is gasping in pain on the floor, and begins to cough, managing to reveal to his siblings "all I wanted, all my life, was for you to care about me". His condition quickly worsens, and Rebekah moves closer to hold him and promises that she will not return to her body until she finds a way to bring Kol home. Klaus, Elijah and Davina watch on in tears as Kol dies in her arms.

Quotes

The Vampire Diaries

Kol: "Rebekah, tell me how handsome I am."
Rebekah: "Oh Kol, you know I can't be compelled."
Kol: "Where's your date?"
Rebekah: "Flirting with his ex."
Kol: "You've changed Bekah, settling for mortals is the first sign of weakness."
Rebekah: "I'm not settling, I brought him here to kill him. I am hoping you will help your baby sister out."
Kol: "And spit right in the face of Mother's rules...? (smirks) I'm in."
Kol: "Outside? What's wrong with right here on the stairs? Make a spectacle of it..."
Rebekah: "You sound like an idiot, Kol."
-- Dangerous Liaisons
Kol: "Well, well, well, there’s our girl."
Rebekah: "Get out of my way, Kol."
Kol: "Out all night. What a scandal! I trust you did better than that commoner? Matt, was it?"
Rebekah: "If you don’t shut your mouth, the next thing to come out of it will be your teeth."
Kol: (about Rebekah)" I’m bored. Our sister is a strumpet, but at least she’s having fun. I need entertainment."
Rebekah:" Yes, please go, this house has enough men rolling around it in."
Kol: "Just like you, Bekah." (Kol smirks; Rebekah throws her shoe at him)
-- All My Children.
Kol: "Sister. Look at this. You're even worse than Klaus."
Rebekah: "Kol, finally. Did you bring what i asked for?"
Atticus Shane:( to Kol and Rebekah) " Kol and Rebekah Mikaelson. Two members of the Original vampire family. It must to be and honor for me."
Rebekah:" Have the old-fashioned. Beat until will say where it is."
Rebekah: "He's of no use dead."
Kol: "Did you not hear what he said!? Silas will kill us all, sister."
Rebekah: "Silas does not exist. He is a fairy tale made up to scare children into eating their vegetables."
Kol: "You should thanking me."
Rebekah: "You killed my only chance to find the cure."
Kol: "Silas will transform life in earth to hell. And to be honest sister ,you can hardly cope."
Rebekah: " How did you get it?"
Kol: " Way too easy."
-- After School Special.
Kol: "You'd really dagger me?"
Rebekah: "If I do, Damon's compulsion ends and this is all over."
Kol: "And then you're no better than Niklaus. Daggering siblings when you disagree with them. Look at what this family has become. I mean, Elijah won't even show his face, he's so disgusted by our bickering. This cure has ruined us, and it hasn't even been found yet. Just imagine what would happen if it is."               
Rebekah: "This family was ruined long before we knew about the cure."
-- Catch Me If You Can
Rebekah: (Looks behind Matt in shock as Kol walks in): "Oh my god! Kol!"
Kol: "Greetings from the dead. So, who fancies a drink?"
Rebekah: (Turns toward him in shock and happiness as Kol walks past her) "I thought I'd never see you again." 
Kol: (Not amused as he pours a drink) "Spare me the waterworks, sister. I've already watched you grieve. It lasted a full 24 hours, remember?"
-- The Walking Dead

The Originals

Kol:" ( smirk) Speak the devil and devil will come. Hello sister."
Rebekah: "Kol, it's really it you. I recognize that smirk anywhere."
--The Map of Moments.
Kol:"I'm gonna get you back in your body Bex, if its the last thing I'll do, I promise."
Rebekah: " Kol, listen. I not going to let you die. You hear me? Whatever it takes."
- The Devil is Damned.
Rebekah: "What happened to the brother I used to know? The one who laughed death in the face?"
Kol: "That's a lot easier to do when you haven't died already once. I hated it the first time. The ironic thing is I actually preferred this go round, being a witch. No heightened emotion. No bloodlust. I was just me. For a while anyway."
Rebekah: (cries) " Kol listen to me. You don't have long. You're going to die. But you will die a witch, and we will consecrate your body. You will join the Ancestors of the French Quarter and those spirits can be brought back. And i promise you, brother, i will not leave this body until i find a way to bring you home." ( He died on her arms)
-- I Love You, Goodbye.

Trivia

  • Rebekah seems to be the favorite of Kol, among all the members of his family.
  • It is interesting that only Kol and Rebekah called their half-brother Klaus- "Nik". They are also the only ones who call him "Niklaus", "Klaus" and "Nik", while others call him Klaus or Niklaus.
  • Rebekah seems to get Kol to help her numerously; as shown when she asked him to do her the favor of killing Matt in Dangerous Liaisons and abducting Shane in After School Special.
  • It seems that deep down, despite being Originals, Rebekah acknowledges Kol to be stronger than her, having asked for his assistance on more than one occassion and was also hesitant about coming into a direct confrontation with Kol when the latter threatened Matt, only pleading for him to leave.
  • Kol would often tease Rebekah for her desire to be more mundane but even so, the two seemed to get along quite well until his quest to stop her from finding the cure shoved a wedge in their relationship.
  • Kol was seen in more scenes with Rebekah than any of his other siblings.
    • They have both been neutralized by their brother, Niklaus.
  • In flashbacks, it was shown that Kol was about a year or two older than Rebekah.
  • Kol more often than others calls his sister "Bekah" and "Bex".
  • Both Kol and Rebekah have a habit of addressing people 'Darling'.
  • He has tried to kill Rebekah once and she tried dagger Kol once.
  • Rebekah believes that Kol is a "bad boy" she said this about him to Genevieve in 1919.
  • Kol seems jealous of the close relationship between Rebekah, Klaus and Elijah.
  • Kol, in his own way, has took Rebekah's side in arguments with Klaus or has defended her from threats from Klaus.
  • Kol secretly harbored resentment towards Rebekah for betraying him in 1914.
  • Despite the fact that Rebekah betrayed Kol, he does not want Esther to hurt her.
  • They are the two younger siblings, so they enjoy doing mischief together.
  • Kol has vowed to return Rebekah to her body if it's the last thing he does while she has promised to help him do whatever it takes to save his life.
  • They both helped Klaus save Hope from Finn, and took him down.
  • Kol is still very much attached to his younger sister and can't truly hurt her because he loves her.
  • Rebekah said she would not leave the body of the witch, until it finds a way to bring Kol home.
  • When Kol died second time, he took Rebekah's hand, and he smiled at her, because he was glad that she stayed with him.
  • He died in her arms.
  • Rebekah considers that Kol lunatic.
  • Kol is the 'henchman' of Rebekah.
  • Nobody knows Kol better than Rebekah does. She knows when he is lying, like she does most people she talks to, and knows when he is being sincere.
  • Kol seems closer to Rebekah than he is his other siblings but he feels left out and betrayed by her. But they seemed to make up when they saved their niece and when he died she swore to bring him back.

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