Disclaimer: I do not own The Vampire Diaries or its characters. If I did, The Originals would never have happened, Kol would be alive and happily causing mayhem somewhere, and Klaus and Caroline would be travelling the world and sexing it up.
From: Dimitri Kruschev
To: Thomas Sanders
Original Vampires
5 July 2015 9:24am
Thomas,
Ellis mentioned that you were our foremost authority on the vampires that they call Originals. Ahead of our meeting on Friday, would appreciate a quick briefing on the threat level and any information you can give me about this family.
Thanks,
Dimitri
From: Thomas Sanders
To: Dimitri Kruschev
Original Vampires
5 July 9:37am
Dimitri,
With all respect to Ellis, he's talking out of his arse. There's not a lot of info on the Original family, and there's probably a reason for it. I've attached some pictures of the four siblings and I'll include a quick blurb on each one below based on rumours I've heard.
Elijah Mikaelson: Believed to be the eldest Mikaelson. Had some rumoured activity in Mystic Falls, Virginia, and New Orleans before fading off the radar. Despite the otherwise calm demeanour, believed to be highly dangerous and would advise against approaching. Current location unknown.
Kol Mikaelson: Twin to Rebekah Mikaelson, and from all accounts is certifiably psychotic and incredibly violent. Not much known about him except that he has very little regard for human lives and fully embraces his vampire nature. Current location unknown.
Rebekah Mikaelson: Youngest of the currently living Mikaelsons. Her brothers are very protective of her, Elijah and Niklaus especially. Vicious and deadly, do not approach. Current location unknown.
Niklaus Mikaelson: Erratic, unstable, sadistic, impulsive, and driven by his emotions. Believed to be a hybrid (whatever that is) and like his brother Kol, has little to no regard for human life. Do not approach under any circumstances. Current location unknown.
There's also two associates attached. I'm not sure of the identity of the first, but the second is Caroline Forbes. A young vampire, but if the timing is right she may have crossed paths with the Original family while they were in Mystic Falls- she was born and raised there before she was turned.
Thanks,
Thomas
P.S- How are the quads coming along?
From: Dimitri Kruschev
To: Thomas Sanders
Original Vampires
5 July 2015 9:59am
Thomas,
Thanks for the info, this is a good starting point. They were apparently responsible for starting the vampiric disease, maybe they can shed some light on the best way to extinguish their species.
Quads are coming along well, they'll be ready in time for the big announcement to the rest of the world- they're the perfect way to show the population that we've got everything under control despite the revelation of vampires and werewolves.
We're just trialling some specialised weaponry now that will make their job easier when they're out hunting vampires.
FYI, the first woman that you mentioned as a possible associate is Katherine Pierce. I have someone trying to track her down as we speak, but reportedly she evaded Niklaus Mikaelson for 500 years, so I doubt that I'll have any luck.
And send someone out to find Caroline Forbes. If they left her alive, I have a feeling her link to the Original family is more significant than we think.
We'll take care of the rest.
Dimitri
P.S- Hybrids are part vampire, part werewolf, and about ten times harder to kill.
She's on a date when humans find out about vampires and werewolves. And really, it's just her luck because the man she's with is a human. And he's tall, dark, and handsome, a brooding artist type that most definitely does not remind her of anyone she knows.
Except he totally does.
His name is Jamie, and he's like Klaus with the sinful smile and the skilful fingers, but with none of the darkness that cloaks him like a second skin, and none of the mercurial change in temperament that alarms and exhilarates.
This is their third date, and she's considering letting him take her home and fuck her into the mattress, because that's what humans apparently do.
He'll bore her, they all do eventually. But he's right for right now, and she'll take her fill while she can, she might even drink from him and compel him to forget she'd ever existed.
As much as she'd loathe to admit it, she had actually learnt something useful from Damon Salvatore, and that was to not leave any loose ends that might come back to bite her later.
Pun not intended.
She sits back in her chair as Jamie takes his leave of her to go to the men's room, and to at least keep up appearances she turns her body towards the news broadcast from the TV on the wall, where a serious looking news anchor is relaying the news overlaid by footage of what looks like some sort of military branch hunting down and staking vampires.
The anchor urges people to stay calm and to not panic, that a new organisation known as the Supernatural Resistance Agency has been formed to counter this threat. She scoffs under her breath as the footage continues.
It's the displacement of air that clues her in to the fact that she's not alone, and it's with a resigned sigh that she turns back to the table.
It's a sight she'd hoped to never see again for probably the entirety of her vampiric existence given how psychotic he was. Fate however, always did like to screw her around.
"Hello darling." Kol Mikaelson grins smugly from the seat across from her, one ankle hooking around hers playfully. She suppresses the urge stab something or to set something on fire. Stefan would be proud of her control.
"You have got to be kidding me." She mutters under her breath. Kol seems to grin wider if possible, and her fingers twitch towards the fork beneath her fingers.
She's not sure of his intentions, his face giving away nothing. And she's not going to pretend that doesn't terrify her a little. An Original appearing at her dinner table can't mean anything good after all.
It would be so easy to just stab Kol in the hand, anything to actually get the younger Mikaelson away from her. Even a ten second head start is better than nothing. But running would also mean revealing her vampiric speed, and if humans were now aware of her kind…
"You look ravishing. I can see why my brother is so attracted to you-" Kol yelps as she drives her stiletto into his foot with a sweet smile.
"You were saying?" She asks dangerously as Kol extricates his foot from her heel.
"You have spirit." He replies instead, twirling a dinner knife between long, slender, piano player fingers. He makes the action look effortless and wonders if he's going to stab her with it. She tries to focus on his face instead of the winking metal, and she has to wonder when this became her life.
"Did you kill my date?" She asks dully, because she honestly wouldn't put it past Kol, knowing what she knows about him. Although she sort of already likes him, if the rumour that he bashed Damon's kneecap in with a baseball bat is anything to go by.
"Surprisingly no." Kol answers immediately with a winning smile, and okay she can sort of see why people would fall for his charm. If she'd been human and more foolish she probably would have been one of those girls.
Of course with Damon Salvatore, she had been one of those girls.
Kol is dressed quite casually considering the restaurant that they're in, just jeans and boots and a Henley, expensive looking wool coat open at the collar. It seemed to be a look favoured by the Mikaelson brothers in their downtime, Elijah excepted because she has yet to see him in anything less than a suit.
"So why are you here exactly?" She asks as she spears some asparagus with her fork and pops it into her mouth.
Kol's eyes flick towards the TV before returning to hers.
"We had it on good authority that vampires would be exposed to the world very soon. My brother-" He says this with the slightest hint of disdain. "Wanted to keep you safe, and ordered that I come and fetch you to him."
She sits back in her chair, absolutely floored by his words.
"I never thought I'd see the day that Kol Mikaelson becomes an errand boy." She remarks, continuing to eye the other man off carefully as he continues to twirl the dinner knife in his hand.
They're drawing the attention of more than a few curious onlookers, although she suspects that it's more to do with Kol's good looks than anything else, given most of the attention is coming from females.
Kol smiles faintly as if her words are amusing, although there's a flash of something in his eyes that sends shivers down her spine. She immediately straightens, remembering that although yeah, Klaus sort of has a thing for her, Kol is nothing like his brother and probably wouldn't hesitate to stab her if she pissed him off.
And right now she got the sense that she was pissing him off.
"You'd be surprised what you'll do to avoid a dagger through the heart." Kol replies, tucking the knife into the sleeve of his coat. "We should probably get going before the SRA arrive." He adds in bored tones, just as the door is kicked in and the screams begin.
Kol moves faster than she even would have thought possible, another dinner knife in hand as he flings it at the nearest black clad man holding a semi automatic weapon. The man goes down like a tonne of bricks and Klaus scoops up another piece of cutlery.
"Get down!" He calls to her as another man points begins to shoot his own weapon, trying to get a bead on Kol long enough to be able to take him down. The hiss of pain from Kol tells her that these aren't conventional bullets, but probably wooden ones designed to slow down a vampire at the very least.
Kol moves with a ruthless efficiency, every action designed to inflict the most possible damage as he darts from one spot to another, looking for that opening to take down the next uniformed man.
And the thing that strikes her the most about the quartet of armed men is that they work far too well together, and they're actually making this difficult for Kol. And that is alarming in and of itself, because if these men are humans, they shouldn't be able to react as quickly as they do.
Kol very quickly takes down the last two men, and it's the troubled expression on his face as he grabs her by the arm with a bloodied hand that has her going willingly rather than struggling against him.
"What the hell was that?" She gasps out as Kol steers her out into the cool night air and towards a black SUV.
He pushes her roughly towards the car.
"Get in. I'll explain on the way."
Kol's grip on the steering wheel is white knuckled, blood from the restaurant drying on his hands as he takes the SUV out onto the back roads.
She keeps an eye on the rear view mirror, checking to make sure they hadn't been followed.
She's sort of used to large scale carnage, it comes with the territory of being a blood sucking creature of the night. But she's never witnessed Kol being this silent for this long, and she can practically hear him thinking, sorting through what he'd just witnessed.
She gives him about ten minutes grace before she starts bombarding him with questions.
"What the hell happened back there?" She asks softly as his grip tightens on the steering wheel for a moment.
"That was a quad." He replies dully, eyes flicking all around them as they wind through the pitch black.
She has no idea where they are anymore, or where he's even planning on taking them. But becoming a fugitive on the run was so not a part of her plans, especially since she's still dressed in her tight dress and heels from her date.
"Would you mind elaborating a little on that?"
Kol lets out a long suffering sigh, as if it's actually killing him to be here in the car with her and playing babysitter.
"From what we've heard, quads are enhanced humans specifically designed to hunt and take down vampires. They inject them with some sort of serum. It makes them faster and quicker to react to situations than humans."
"So like vampire hunters but on crack?" She asks uncertainly as Kol chuckles.
"Something like that yeah. They've obviously got specialised weaponry, one of them managed to nick me with a wooden bullet. Hurt like a bitch despite the adrenaline."
She falls silent, thinking of a way out of this situation. As nice as Kol had been to her, she still didn't want anything to do with any Originals for a very long time, if ever.
And if Kol was a target back there, she figures that not being associated with him would be safer for her in the long run.
It only takes her a few seconds to piece together a plan in her mind before she takes action, praying that Kol's reaction times had slowed somewhat since his fight in the restaurant.
She pushes the passenger door open suddenly, ripping through her seatbelt and tucking and rolling out of the car. She can feel the asphalt scratch against her shoulder and winces as she gets to her feet. Kol almost immediately slams on the brakes behind her, but she doesn't look back, popping her shoulder back into place as she starts to run.
She figures that she probably has about a ten second window to get away from Kol before he can catch up to her. It would have to be enough.
Unfortunately, Kol's reaction times are faster than she gives him credit for, and she winces as he slams her into the nearest tree, pinning her to the trunk with his body.
"Did you seriously think you could outrun an Original?" Kol asks her delightedly, as if it's amusing that she even tried to escape from him.
"Son of a bitch." She hisses through her teeth.
Kol just shrugs, an apologetic look on his face.
"Well I have been called worse." He mutters under his breath before turning his gaze on her. He's not trying to compel her, she's on enough vervain that he wouldn't be able to break past it.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way Forbes. The easy way involves us going back to the car and driving off into the night, no hard feelings. The hard way involves me snapping your neck and throwing you in the trunk until we can get to our destination. But one way or another, you are coming with me." Kol grins at her, fangs flashing in the moonlight as she swallows audibly.
"Your choice." Kol allows as she scoffs before kneeing him in the groin.
To his credit, Kol takes the hit like a champ, and he looks more annoyed than anything else at her attempts to escape from his grasp.
"Hard way it is then." Is all she hears before his hands close around her neck.
The darkness welcomes her with open arms.
When she next regains consciousness, she's not in the trunk of Kol's SUV like she'd expected. Instead, she's lying in a sumptuous four poster canopy bed.
Someone's also changed her into more comfortable clothes; jeans and a shirt and a jacket, which is embarrassing enough as is.
She sits up slowly, taking in her surroundings. She's clearly in a mansion of sorts, if the decoration is anything to go by, ancient clashing with modern in the oddest of ways.
She swings herself out of the bed, rubbing at the stiffness of her neck and making a mental note to hunt down Kol and murder him when she can figure out just where the hell he is.
Having your neck snapped sucked.
A quick look out the window reveals that the sun is just starting to rise over the horizon, casting light across the wide open space that surrounds the mansion. There's no cover to be seen anywhere, and that alarms her.
It's the footsteps in the hallway outside of her room that cause her to freeze, eyes darting around the room for anything that she can use as a weapon. She settles for a decorated vase, probably worth a fortune but if it's her or them she's willing to sacrifice the damn vase.
The doorknob twists, and her breath catches in her throat as Klaus steps into the room. He looks surprised to see her pressed up against the window, but says nothing as he crosses to the chair by her bed and drops down into it, fingers tented as he gazes at her with a smirk on his face.
He's haunted her nightmares (and her dreams) for almost 3 years now, and seeing him in the flesh so unchanged is surreal in the best and worst possible way.
"Hello Caroline." His voice is rough, the slightest hint of a British accent bleeding into his tone as he gives her a languid onceover, eyes settling on hers, staring her down. Challenging
She swallows, throat suddenly dry as she stares back at the man in front of her, the reason for all of her self doubt and turmoil for the past couple of years, the one who she considered giving up everything she's ever known for.
Her tongue darts out, wetting her lips as she slowly lowers the vase to her side.
"Klaus."
AN:
Hello all. This officially marks the start of my next multi chapter story, coincidentally the first one that isn't an AH story.
Since Plec seems to think that she can play around with the TVD universe and erase past storylines, I'll be doing the same.
This is a universe in which humans have become aware of the existence of vampires, and the government has set up an agency known as the Supernatural Resistance Agency (SRA) to hunt down vampires and werewolves and drive them into extinction.
They're aware of the Original Vampires, but not the whole, if they kill one then an entire line of vampires dies. Caroline is recognised as an 'associate' of the Originals, but the extent of her relationship with the family is not known to the SRA.
Quads, or the four men that try and take down Kol, are genetically enhanced humans who are given vampire speed and strength and specialised weaponry, with their sole purpose being to hunt down the supernatural.
Let me know if you have any questions! Next chapter is going to be a big information dump.