A bit sappy but anyway, read and review even if you don't like the story
Call all your friends
It was a habit they both developed back since mile high city, since before Kol dropped the act.
They both seemed to be unable to drop it, however.
Yes, it happens over a larger pace now, but still it occurs.
The Time out as they call it.
He'd call Kol and ask him to join him at baseball.
Or sometimes Kol would call him and ask him to join him at the grill where they'd spend the night messing around and hitting on girls.
They developed this unorthodox thing called 'frenemy'.
That time, it was Jeremy who called him, he asked him to meet out at the forest.
It was dark, real dark, yet Kol managed to find him in the depth of the forest at the edge of the clearing, thanks to his vampiric strengthened senses.
In the light of the fire previously started by Jeremy, He could see the distraught so obvious drawn over Jeremy's face.
He could see his rather very sombre mood.
Jeremy took a long swig from the beer bottle beside him.
"Aren't you gonna hand me one?" Kol looked at him suggestively
"You are a thousand years over me, right? Tell me, Kol what does a guy who lost everything do?"
"Jer, what's up with you?"
"TELL ME" he lashed out at him, pushing him hard and rough against some tree bark.
Kol fought the urge to snap his neck, he just pushed him away rather gently for a 1000 year old vampire.
"You'd better have a good reason for this, otherwise I swear you are dead"
"Come on, show me you best"
Kol headed the exit direction before he did something stupid.
"She is leaving me, Kol"
He froze his spot.
He turned back.
"She just came off to me, told me that under her current status as a vampire she poses a danger for me, she said she is leaving, just leaving with one of the goddamn Salvatores"
Kol didn't know what to tell the poor kid. There were simply no consolation words to make him feel better.
"Drink" was all he could say as he handed him yet another bottle.
"And had she fallen in love with me, I would have let her stay"
"Shut up, you're drunk" jeremy stuttered
"What, look at you, you are all slury and boozy"
"AM not"
"Are too"
"AM not"
"Are too"
"AM not"
"Who cares buddy?"
"Yeah, who does? Maybe I should date yours as well"
"Nah"
"W…w…hy? you wanna date my sister it is fair I date yours" whined Jeremy
"She is too annnoying, and she would probably kill you if you ever piss her off"
He woke up at a shoe kicking at his face.
He peered over to the Owner.
"Jeremy" he muttered under his breath, the effect of the hangover picking up on him.
No wonder, he thought as he looked over at the pile of empty bottles on the ground.
He glanced at his watch.
"Jeremy, wake up, Jeremy" he shouted as he stood up
He kicked him gently in the arm
"Jeremy"
"What?" he said in an agonized voice
"Get up, sleepy head, it is almost noon"
He drove him to his house
"Call me, Jeremy, Let me know how are holding up?"
It has been 3 days, no phone call from Jeremy, he decided to do the most humiliating thing ever in his life, he will go check up on him.
He rang thrice, no reply.
He banged at the door, still the same.
Something told him he isn't just ignoring him, he broke in with ease.
The sight of Jeremy sprawled over the floor; blade beside him and a blood pool around his wrist was devastating
"Please, don't be dead"
He bite into his wrist, he shoved blood into his mouth.
He woke up in an unfamiliar place.
"Finally up"
He knew the voice.
"Where am I?"
"My place"
"What?"
"I assume your suicide attempt hasn't killed off your hearing sense, YES, my family's house, why do you seem so thunderstruck?"
"I….."
"You will stay here for a while till you are mentally stable"
"But…"
"It isn't optional; Mate, now there is food right beside you so go on, help yourself"
It has been a month.
He had to admit to himself, staying at the original's mansion wasn't at all the nightmare he expected.
For a starter, they didn't slay people off in their house and drain them dry.
They sure fed, but rather civilly, from a blood bag.
When they wanted fresh snacks, well they would…. take it out.
They didn't hurt him in anyway; Truth to be told, he'd grown to enjoy their company.
It was sure as hell funny to piss Rebekah off, and he and Kol seemed to do that quite well.
He walked in on him, that day.
He was furious least to be told when he saw him sniffling the white powder.
"What the heck you are doing?"
A shadow of guilt seemed to fly over Jeremy's face only to be replaced by a defensive façade.
"What do you think I am doing?"
"Sniffling like a stray dog"
"Don't call me a dog"
"Then don't act like one"
"You don't tell me what to do"
"No, I do"
"Really, by what authority?"
"I am your friend"
"You aren't my friend; you are a bloody bloodsucker who ruined my life along with his clan."
Kol looked as if stabbed in the back, utter shock, pain and hurt dispersed on his face.
It stung Jeremy, it really did.
He didn't fully estimate the effect of the words he said, he didn't think it would leave such an impact on Kol.
"You think your life is so screwed up, huh? You think you are the most misfortunate guy ever trod this earth huh? I'll let you in on something you are a whining pathetic who is so self absorbed and so weak that you drown in your own Drama.
You lost your parents; I was killed by my parents, turned into a bloody bloodsucker without even a choice. All my bloody human friends turned their backs on me, I am a parasite who lives in the shadow and feed of killing, I was chased off a thousand yearsby my own father, as well, may I add.
You died like twice. I was daggered by my own psychotic brother like numerous.
Your sister was turned into a vampire, my brothers Finn and Henrik were killed off for good.
Your sister left you, I was always the left out in my family: Klaus unstable, Elijah cares for the whole world yet least for us, Bekah well her emotions are too raw to be dealt with ,yet I am stronger than you.
You know how many people out there who are in worse shit than you? Guess, many but they just don't go off showing them. You like self destroy, go on self destroy, no one is holding you back"
Kol reached for the door,yet in a flash he spun back, pushed Jeremy against the wall and stared him right in the eye.
"You will not approach such stuff again, you won't buy drugs, you won't take drugs, you won't have anything to do with them or weed and anything associated"
He finished the compulsion and sped out of the room.
He left Jeremy stunned.
It was time to leave, Jeremy felt
"Kol"
"Not now, Rebekah"
He was so angry at himself, so angry at lashing out like this, at being that vulnerable, yet when he lost, he just….All things came out, all emotions bottled up just blasted and he couldn't stop.
He was hurt, very hurt at Jeremy's rejection of him. He tried to be on his best behaviour, he was so tired from being alone.
Well, not precisely alone but he needed something more than pissing off his siblings in his life, he needed an addition, he needed someone who could relate, someone to grow up with, to catch up with from where he left off when he was turned vampire.
He saw that in Jeremy.
Anyways, He found his 3 siblings standing, lined up in front of him
"Honestly, were we that Bad?" started Rebekah
"Not that bad, it is just we are so different from each other, so screwed up each one of us and everyone thinks alone and acts alone like the others don't exist then says he did it for family and…"
"Listen, Kol" cut Nik "we love each other, yes we mayn't be the perfect pack , we mayn't be the all cooperative, counselling type, but trust me, I didn't feel happy while daggering you and I didn't feel happy while lying to you, I am really psychotic as you say"
"We never intended to leave you off, it is just you were the youngest and you didn't seem to appreciate our company and I care for all of you, maybe I couldn't just show it off properly, yet I do" Elijah added
He was struck by thunder, least to be told.
"We stick all stick together Kol, Always and Forever" Rebekah added.
He heard he left Mystic Falls, and went back to mile high city.
He was sad, because this little hope in his head that Jeremy's words were just defensive reaction, that his words were false was down.
A week later, Jeremy turned out at the grill.
"Hey, pal, how is your luck? Any girls so far"
"Not yet, what do you want, Jeremy?"
"You know, Kol, why did I call you that night, when Elena left?"
Jeremy resumed"Cause excluding Matt who fled to College and Tyler who left with Caroline and Bonnie who is god knows where, you are all the friends I have, and even when they were around, you were the best most normal thing that happened to me in the last few years, you are a good friend Kol, a very good friend"
"That is so... Whatever"
"Yep, but that isn't" he raised his hands up so Kol could see
"What is that?"
"Pink hair dye; see Rebekah still owes us one"
"Yeah since she dyed our underwear" Kol said venomously
"So?"
"So what, I am all in mate"
