A/N: So, it's 3:52am where I live, and I can't sleep, and this idea popped into my head while eating a bowl of cornflakes so, yeah.

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Disclaimer: I do not own The Originals or Twilight. Those amazing work of arts belong to Julie Plec/L. J. Smith/The CW and Stephenie Meyer.

Thank you to Louisaxo for Beta-ing this.

Bella Swan walked down the street on her way home from college at dusk. When the Cullens left her a year ago, she'd taken the money they'd gifted her and used it to go to college in New Orleans, a sunny place where vampires were sure to avoid. She was studying to be a publisher and had a part time job as a waitress in Rousseau's to earn some money. She'd managed to find an apartment across from a compound where a man named Marcel lived.

Bella had just come out of an alley leading on to the street when she was grabbed and thrown against the brick wall of the alley. Gasping, she looked up to see Victoria leaning over her.

"Hello again Bella. Long time no see. Where's your little family?" She sneered.

"Hi Victoria. Nice to see you again. Is this about the whole 'Edward killing James' thing?" At Victoria's snarl, Bella continued. "Ah, so it is. You do realise that it wasn't my fault, right? James attacked me, and Edward killed him. I did nothing except lie on the floor bleeding."

"You think that makes any difference with me? It's your fault that James is dead."

"Oh, you wanna place the blame on someone?" Bella interrupted. "Then fine, let's talk about whose fault it is. If you really want to blame someone for James' death, then blame yourself. You're his mate and yet you weren't there when he needed you to help him. He died alone because instead of being there to help and protect him, you were off stalking my family -"

Victoria cut her off with a roar as she pulled her leg back and stomped on Bella's leg, breaking it. Ironically, it was the same leg that James broke. "Don't you dare talk like this is my fault! It's yours and you are going to pay for it." She shrieked.

Wincing in pain, but managing a weak laugh, Bella told her "If you're going to kill me Victoria then do it."

Grabbing Bella's hair, Victoria smashed her head into the brick wall hard enough to make her bleed but not kill her. Crouching down, she ran her hands through Bella's hair, getting blood on them. Lifting her hand to her nose, Victoria took a sniff and her eyes turned black. Growling, Victoria told her "Oh no, sweetheart. I'm not going to kill you … yet."

Pulling back, Victoria focused her gaze on Bella's neck. By this time Bella was fading into unconsciousness, but she was able to make out Victoria's red hair suddenly detaching from her body along with the sound of metal tearing. Bella thought she saw the faint glow of fire and a shadow standing over her before the black spots in her vision turned into one solid mass.

Bella slowly came around to hushed voices above her.

"What did you do to her?" A British, female voice hissed.

"I didn't do anything! I saved her from that cold stone, red haired bitch." An offended male British voice whisper-yelled back.

"You know, you two fight a lot more often since Kol came back from the dead." Another, amused British male voice observed.

"Be quiet. Listen to her heartbeat." A different voice hushed them. "She's waking up."

Bella felt her heart quicken as their words registered. They could hear her heartbeat? Vampires. A voice whispered in her mind.

Before she could go into a full-blown panic attack, someone grasped on to her hand. It wasn't overly warm like Jake's, nor was it cold like Edward's. So, the person wasn't a wolf or vampire. But they were definitely supernatural.

"It's alright darling. You're safe now, no one's going to hurt you." The first male voice, Kol, murmured.

"Yeah, like she's going to believe that Kol. She was being chased by a cold one and then she wakes up in a strange place." The female said sarcastically.

"Shut up Bekah." The last male voice told them. "Kol, see if you can get her to open her eyes."

The hand holding Bella's squeezed slightly. "Darling, can you open your eyes for me?"

Blinking slightly, Bella slowly opened her eyes to see a dark haired, young man of about 19 years leaning over her. He gave her a bright smile when he saw she was awake.

"Hello darling. It's good to see your eyes open." Helping her sit up, Kol leaned her back against the pillows as Bella surveyed her surroundings. She was in a room with bronze walls and a light brown carpet. There was a matching oak desk, wardrobe and chest of drawers. To the left of the room was a door leading to what looked like and en-suite. Bella was laying on a king size bed with cream sheets, but Bella's attention was focused on the people crowding around the bed.

There was a blonde girl who looked to be around 17 with blue eyes wearing a black dress and high heels standing on the left side of the bed. Behind her, leaning against the wall stood a tall, blonde haired man in dark jeans and a grey shirt. He had high cheekbones and a square jaw with stubble. He was smirking, but there was an aura of darkness around him. Standing at the foot of the bed, was an older man, probably the eldest. He had dark brown hair parted to the left side and dark brown eyes, which were regarding her intently.

Finally, Bella turned her attention to the young man sitting to her right. He was sitting next to her, holding her hand. He had brown hair too, like the older man and brown eyes, but they somehow managed to look warm and cold at the same time. Almost as if he wanted to embrace her, but also send her away simultaneously.

"Where am I?" She asked, looking around at all four of the strangers.

The blonde man answered her, smirking. "You're in the Mikaelson residence, love. I'm Klaus."

He goes to say more but the blonde female cuts in, giving him a warning glare. "I'm Rebekah. Nice to meet you. What's your name?"

Bella was wary of telling them, especially as she hadn't forgotten the fact that they were some kind of supernatural creatures. They seemed to sense her hesitation, for the man next to her assured, "We won't hurt you. You don't need to worry."

Sighing, Bella answered the blonde's question. "My name is Isabella Swan. But I prefer Bella."

She was rewarded with a smile from both the young woman and the young man while the other two just stared warily at her.

The man at the end of her bed introduced himself next. "My name is Elijah. It is a pleasure to meet you, Bella." Bella nodded at him, turning to look at the one they had called 'Kol'.

"You already know my name, darling." He gave her a charming smile and Bella felt her heart speed up at the sight of it.

"Yes, I believe I do, Kol." Bella replied, nodding. His smile grew even wider, if that was possible when he heard his name come out of her mouth, liking the way it sounded.

Their moment was interrupted though, by Klaus suddenly springing away from the wall, the tension that Bella sensed he leashed inside him springing free as he demanded, "Yes, yes all these pleasantries are very nice but isn't anyone else wondering what a cold one was doing attacking her?" He asked his siblings rhetorically.

Bella heard Kol beside her growl at his brother warningly. "Nik …"

Ignoring his brother and turning to Bella, he compelled her, "You are going to tell us everything about why that red headed cold bitch wanted you." He stepped back, expecting her to start spilling her guts to him, but to his surprise she did no such thing.

Pulling her hand from Kol's, Bella sprang out of the bed and made to run for the door, wanting to get away from those freaks no matter how charming some of them seemed to be. She made it hallway across the room before Klaus suddenly appeared in front of her, grabbing her arms and snarling. "She's on vervain!"

His grip on her tightened to the point where bruises started to form. Suddenly, he was gone from in front of her and crashing into the wall, Kol standing in front of him, growling. "Get your hands off her Nik! I won't tell you again."

Elijah held Klaus back as he went to attack Kol and Rebekah came up to stand beside Bella. "Stop! You're scaring Bella. We are never going to find out the truth if you two keep fighting. Nik, don't touch Bella or I can't guarantee that Kol won't kill you. Kol be patient with Nik, he is just worried about whether our family is in danger. Now, how about we take this down to the living room."

The two brothers glared at each other before Elijah pulled Nik put of the room with Rebekah following as Kol went over to Bella. "After you."

Bella walked out of the room and down the hall to the same room as the others and sat on a couch with Kol on one side of her, Rebekah on the other and Elijah and Klaus opposite them.

Elijah was the first one to speak. "Explanations are in order for all of us I believe. Bella we'll tell you ours first. We are the Mikaelsons, the Original family. The very first vampires."

"You're not vampires. Vampires are cold, and hard as stone and nothing can kill them apart from fire or others of their kind – or a Quileute shapeshifter." Bella interrupted.

Elijah sighed. "I see that you are familiar with Cold Ones and Shapeshifters. I am afraid however, that you are wrong. I can assure you that we are vampires, and that vampires are as much flesh and blood as you, can be killed by sunlight unless they have an enchanted ring, and a stake to the heart, or by having their heart ripped out or being beheaded. Apart from us, we can only be killed by a white oak stake." He continued to tell her the family's history, of how their younger brother, Henrick, died in a werewolf attack and so their mother made them immortal to protect the rest of her offspring.

When he finished, Bella sat in a stunned silence as once more everything she thought she knew about the world got turned upside down again. She felt a pressure on her hand and looked down to see Kol holding her hand again. When she looked up at his face, he gave her a reassuring smile.

"I know that it's a lot to process. But do you think that you could explain some things now?"

Nodding, Bella told them her story. Of how she'd moved to Forks to live with Charlie, leading her to meet the Cullens and how they welcomed her into the family before James attacked her, which explained why Victoria was after her. How Alice threw her a birthday party that she didn't want, getting a paper cut and making Jasper attack her, which set the chain of events off that led to Edward leaving her in the middle of the forest alone.

When she got to that part, Kol stood up and stormed from the room, Elijah following him. In the room next to theirs, Bella could hear furniture being destroyed and snarling. Confused, she turned to the other two siblings. Klaus looked amused and Rebekah looked uncomfortable. They sat in silence for two minutes, listening into the destruction next door until it all went silent suddenly.

There was a breeze and suddenly, Kol was sat next to her again, a tight grip on her hand. Elijah followed behind and continued as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

"Tell me Bella, you didn't know about our kind of vampires. How come you are on vervain then?" He asked, truly curious.

"I'm not on vervain. I don't even know what it is." Bella told him exasperated.

"If I may make a suggestion." Klaus spoke up. "We could always test her blood. She isn't wearing any vervain as I can't smell it on her, but it could be in her bloodstream. If her blood hurts us, we know that she's on vervain."

Kol stiffened almost imperceptibly next to her. "None of you are biting her." He stated, like that settled everything.

"By all means brother, you can do it." Klaus told him. "But make no mistake that if you do not I will. We are going to find out the truth about this," He paused to look over Bella. "Stranger." He finished.

Kol growled but before he could say anything, Bella interrupted. "If it's any help, Edward couldn't read my mind."

Everyone turned to stare at her, Elijah with his head cocked as though trying to work something out; Rebekah with narrowed eyes and a furrowed forehead; Klaus with suspicious eyes and Kol with a strange gleam in his eye that Bella couldn't identify. It seemed to be a strange mixture of lust, admiration and something else.

"She's a shield." Elijah's voice broke the silence, an awed tone to his voice.

Everyone in the room seemed to know what that meant as they all had a look of realization on their face.

"I'm sorry, I'm a what now?" Bella's confused voice rang out as it seemed that everyone had forgotten her.

Kol was the one who answered, although it looked like Elijah had opened his mouth first. "Your mind can't be manipulated or tricked into believing something that isn't true. It's almost like a protective blanket is wrapped around your brain, preventing foreign 'objects' – like compulsion, people reading your thoughts and other stuff – out of your head." He explained.

"Oh."

They all sat in silence for a moment, no one sure what to say next until Elijah spoke up. "Which room would you like, Bella?"

"I'm sorry?" She stuttered out.

"Which room would you like?" He repeated.

"Oh, no, I can't stay here -"

Before she could finish Kol interrupted, quite harshly, "Darling if you don't want me to kidnap you and lock you up somewhere then I suggest you shut up and accept the fact that you now live here. We shall have some men collect your stuff tomorrow."

There was something about the way that he said it that told Bella she really shouldn't argue. So, she meekly nodded her head and breathed a sigh of relief when everyone in the room became a lot less tense.

The sound of something breaking came from the room in which Bella and Kol were.

Not long after, the Mikaelsons could hear shouting. "Why must you always lecture me?"

"Lecture you? Lecture you?!" Came Bella's shrill voice. "I'm not lecturing you, I am trying to help you! What do you think the people of New Orleans will do if bodies keep turning up? They'll leave. Is that what you want? To turn this beautiful city into a ghost town?"

"Oh, don't pretend that you care about that!" Kol's enraged yell sounded out. "You want me to become a bunny eater – don't you? The truth is that my eating habits disturb you and you want me to switch to chowing down on animal blood."

"That is not true!" Bella denied, insulted that he would think that of her. "I don't care what your food source is – it's nothing to do with me. Yes, I will admit that I don't like how you kill all the girls you drink from but I'm not going to try to turn you into another 'vegetarian'. I'm simply trying to look out for you."

"Well don't!" Kol roared. "I don't care what the people of New Orleans think. I don't care what you think, I don't care what anybody thinks! You mean nothing more to me than a stranger I pass on the streets. Why are you even still here? Isn't it time you left and went back to your own home?!"

And before Bella could respond he turned and jumped out of the window, unable to see the tears in Bella's eyes – tears that he had caused, leaving all of the other Mikaelsons to listen in as Bella tore from the room crying.

Rebekah knocked on Bella's door once she had given the dark-haired girl time to calm down.

"Bella? It's Bekah, can I come in?" She called.

At Bella's small 'yes', she pushed open the door to find Bella sitting on her bed with dried tear tracks on her cheeks, trying to act as if nothing had happened.

"Rebekah, what do you want? Is everything ok?" She asked.

"Don't lie to me, Bella. I heard – we all heard what happened with Kol." Rebekah told her, sitting next to her.

Sniffling, Bella asked "I don't understand. What have I done to make him hate me so much? When I first came here, he was so nice and caring. Now he hates me, and I don't know why."

Rebekah wished that she had been the one to go after Kol instead of Elijah and Klaus. She would have knocked some sense into him one way or the other. She couldn't believe that he was stupid enough to try and push Bella away; especially as he knew what she was to him.

Screw it. I know Kol didn't want us to tell her, but he never will, and she deserves to know. It involves her just as much as him.

"Bella, there's something you need to know about you and Kol." She started. When the young girl turned to her, Rebekah took a breath to steel her nerves before continuing. "Have you ever heard of soulmates?"

Bella snorted. "What, you mean like all the crap in romance books where two people's souls are connected?"

"It's not just myth, Bella. Our kind of vampire have soulmates, one special person out there just for them and no one else. Some of us wait hundreds of years, or thousands in my family's case, to find them. When we find our soulmates, most of us become very … possessive of them. But some … some push them away, try to keep them at arm's length. It never works, of course. It always ends up backfiring with the two people being together anyway, it just means that they both get hurt beforehand."

"I'm sorry Bekah, but what does any of this have to do with Kol and me?" Bella interrupted.

"You're Kol's soulmate, Bella." Bekah told her. She just managed to jump up off the bed and grab Bella as she fainted.

Klaus and Elijah returned with a frantic Kol. He had felt Bella faint and thought that something was wrong with her, making his elder brothers' job much easier.

Bursting into the room, he saw Bella nestled in her bed, propped up by pillows with Rebekah hovering at her side.

"Bekah! What did you do?!" Kol exclaimed, outraged.

"I didn't do anything, brother." Rebekah stated, before a guilty look came across her face. "Well, actually, that isn't strictly true. I …" She faltered at the look Kol gave her.

"You what, Bekah? What did you do?" Kol asked, dangerously calm. When his sister didn't answer, he exploded. "TELL ME, BEKAH. WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"Itoldherthatyoutwoaresoulmates." She blurted out.

Kol froze, as did the other brothers. While Elijah and Klaus did not agree with Kol not telling Bella of the connection they had, they could clearly see that Rebekah's attempt to help just made things worse.

"You did what?" Kol asked, deadly calm.

"I … told Bella that you and she are … soulmates." She mumbled.

With an enraged roar, Kol flew at his sister, completely prepared to stick a dagger in her heart. A groan from the bed stopped him though.

Turning, they all saw Bella stirring. Kol flashed over to her side, holding her hand again as everyone else left the room.

Opening her eyes, Kol's face was the first thing that Bella saw. For a moment she was confused – did she fall asleep? – before she remembered their fight and the information Bekah had told her prior to her fainting.

"Hello, darling." Kol murmured, helping her sit up.

"What are you doing here?" She asked.

"I came back when I felt you faint." He replied simply.

"Wait, when you felt me faint?" Her eyes bugged wide as she stared at him.

Nodding, Kol reminded her, "Yes. Remember, Rebekah told you … about … you and me …"

"Yes." She nodded as well, and they lapsed into silence. "Why didn't you tell me, Kol?"

He sighed and hesitated. "I thought that you deserved better. Someone who wasn't a killer. I thought that if I could make you think that I was a monster and didn't know about our connection then you'd have no problem leaving."

"But what would have happened to you?" She furrowed her brows.

"I would have … Well, I'm not sure. But from the research I would guess that I would turn into a shell of who I used to be." Kol frowned.

"Do you want me to leave?" She questioned fearfully.

He snapped his head up to face her. "No! Of course, I don't want you to leave. I thought it would be best for you, but …"

"But?" Bella prompted.

"I don't want you to leave me." He admitted, looking down.

Smiling, Bella leaned forward. She waited until he looked up at her before leaning forward and kissing him lightly.

Kol froze for a moment before he wrapped his arms around her and responded eagerly. Smiling, Bella let him deepen the kiss before pulling away to breath, resting her forehead against his.

"I don't want to leave you either." She whispered.

Kol gave her the most brilliant smile and nuzzled his face into her neck, where he started biting her lightly.

"Kol stop! That tickles!" Bella laughed and felt him laugh against her neck as well.

For a moment they just held each other before Kol pulled back and looked at her mock seriously. "Isabella Swan," He paused as she growled. "Will you do me the great honour of going out with me?"

Bella arched her brow and replied just as teasingly, "Do you really have to ask?"

Kol grinned at her and kissed her again, feeling like he would never be able to get enough of her, no matter how long they lived.

A year later found Kol and Bella in the same restaurant they went to for their first date.

They were sitting across from each other, laughing at the look on Klaus' face the day before when he learned that Camille was on her period (the reason why she had been so snappy with him recently). He thought she was pregnant and told her that he would look after her and the baby, being all kind and gentle. At least until Camille slapped him and gave him a long lecture about how 'just because a woman is a bit hormonal does not mean she's pregnant' and continued to tell him 'if you really must know, I'm on my period', before flouncing out and leaving a very relieved Klaus.

They'd just finished their sticky toffee pudding when Kol got down on one knee and pulled a box out of his pocket.

"Bella, I know we've only been going out for a year, but we share a connection that no one else does. I understand if you want to wait a while longer, but I want to spend the rest of my life with you, however long that is. So, Bella Swan, will you do me the honour of marrying me?"

He opened the box to reveal a rose gold circlet with small diamonds and rubies clustered around a larger square diamond in golden brackets. Bella felt tears come to her eyes as she looked at the man she loved.

Just as she was about to answer, she heard a voice behind her that made her blood freeze over.

"Bella?"

Bella paced hers and Kol's shared bedroom, worrying. After Edward and the rest of the Cullens had turned up, Kol had quickly ushered her out of the restaurant and back to the plantation. He had led her up to their room and told her to wait there before disappearing out of the window. That was over two hours ago.

Finally, when she was just about to go mad with worry, she turned around to pace the opposite way and smacked into a man's chest.

"Kol!" She exclaimed when she looked up and saw his face. Then she frowned and sniffed his clothes. "Why do you smell like you've been at a bonfire?" When Kol looked guilty, she immediately became suspicious. "What did you do?"

Kol sighed before admitting, "I may have gone after the copper haired statue and torn him up slightly."

"How much did you 'tear him up'?"

"Well, let's just say that he won't ever be losing his v card." He smirked.

Bella gasped, "You didn't?" At his nod, she exclaimed, "You did! Oh, Kol, why?"

"He left you to die in the forest." He growled before pulling her into his arms and burying his face in her hair.

As nice as being held by him was, she had to ask about what happened before Edward turned up. Pulling away, she hesitantly met his eyes. "Kol, you know what happened before he turned up? When you … proposed to me …"

"I meant it." Kol told her, already knowing what she was going to ask. "And as I recall, you didn't give me an answer."

Bella gave him a look. "Can you really not guess what my answer is going to be?" When Kol's only reply was a cheeky grin, she sighed. "Yes. The answer is yes, of course I'll marry you!" Her voice rose in surprise when he picked her up suddenly and spun her around.

Putting her back on her feet, he kissed her until they both ran out of breath. "I love you." He whispered, placing his forehead against hers.

"As I love you." Bella replied.

Kol stood at the end of the aisle, nervously awaiting his bride. His brothers stood next to him, Klaus cracking jokes about how she'd probably run away and Elijah trying to reassure a frantic Kol that he was sure she hadn't left him in the lurch.

It was only when the band begun, and all the guests stood did his heart beat regularly again. At least that was until he saw Bella walking down the aisle …

Bella stood in front of the mirror, looking at the beautiful young woman staring back at her. She couldn't believe the person in the mirror was her. Her silky chestnut hair was styled in a side braid leading into a bun with white flowers entwined in her hair, while her white, ballgown dress hinted at her curves while still keeping her modesty.

Rebekah stepped into her line of sight with a bouquet of dark purple and light purple flowers for Bella and a smile on her face. She was Bella's bridesmaid, along with Camille and Hayley. They were all wearing matching strapless, floor length, light aqua blue dresses with their hair styled in a half up half down plait with slicked back sides. They looked beautiful.

"It's time Bella." Bekah's soft voice jolted Bella out of her thoughts.

Turning to look at the blonde girl, Bella admitted, "I'm nervous."

The other three women in the room smirked. "So's Kol. Klaus is making jokes about how you've ran away." Camille, who had turned into vampire shortly after Kol and Bella announced their engagement, informed her.

"And Elijah's trying to comfort him by saying you wouldn't leave him because you love him." Hayley had a wistful smile on her face as she mentioned her soon-to-be husband.

Bekah snorted. "Of course she loves him, she's asked him to turn her into one of us after their honeymoon."

Bella blushed. She remembered that conversation well. Her and Kol had just finished some very passionate love making and were spooning when Kol had asked her if she ever planned on leaving him.

Her reply had been "I'm afraid you're stuck with me forever."

"Well, not really forever." Kol murmured, holding her tighter to him, as if talking of her dying would kill her there and then and he could protect her from that fate by holding her.

"Yes forever, Kol." Bella answered, leaning up on her elbow to get a better look at his face. "If you'll have me, that is."

Kol's face lit up as the meaning of her words sunk in. "You really mean it?" He looked like a kid who had just gotten everything he could ever want for Christmas.

Bella nodded and Kol pulled her down to him, kissing her, resulting in another round of extremely energetic activities.

Shaking those thoughts out of her head, she smiled at the girls and left the room, meeting her father outside.

When Charlie noticed his daughter, tears came to his eyes as the realisation that she really was grown-up set in. Offering her his arm, he told her gruffly, "You look beautiful, Bells."

"Thank you, dad."

Reaching the path leading to Kol, Bella and her father hung back, letting the bridesmaids go first. When the last, Rebekah, was ten paces ahead of her, Charlie led Bella down the aisle.

Scanning the rows as she walked past them, Bella noticed her mother and Phil, as well as her high school friends, Angela, Ben, Jessica and Mike. She smiled at them as she passed, and at Sue Clearwater, her dad's new girlfriend.

All thought of the guests left her mind though, once she saw Kol. He was wearing a black suit with a matching bow tie and looked rather dashing. How did he manage to look drool worthy in everything he wore?

When she reached him and took his hands, she smiled as she felt that they were slightly clammy.

Kol got lost in her eyes and her in his until the priest turned to Kol and told him it was time to say his vows.

"Right, erm …" Turning to Bella, he gripped her hands tighter and stared into her eyes as he recalled the vows he wrote a few days previous. "Bella, I have known you for a year and a half, though it feels like I've known you all my life. I know to some that it would seem absolutely crazy we are getting married so soon after meeting, but I love you. I'm always going to love you, so why wait when we can enjoy more time together as husband and wife? I may not be the most kindest person out there, but I do know that I will look after you in sickness and health, for as long as we both shall live."

By the time he finished, his breathing was laboured, and Bella had tears in her eyes.

"Kol, how am I supposed to top that?" She paused as everyone in the audience laughed. "When I first met you, I was passed out in an alleyway entrance because I'd tripped and hit my head." This she said because that was the story they had told her parents. "Most guys would have completely ignored me and carried on or dumped me in a hospital all by myself. Instead, you picked me up, drove me to the hospital and stayed with me all night – even taking me back to your family's house the next morning to make sure I didn't have a concussion. A complete stranger. You say you're not kind, but why would someone who wasn't kind have done that for someone they didn't know? No matter how much you may deny it, there's a goodness in you that you let very few people see, and I am honoured to be one of them. I love you."

Kol smiled as she finished and pulled her in for a kiss as the priest announced them man and wife.

Later that night, after they'd had the after party, Rebekah led her upstairs to change out of her wedding dress and into a red halter neck dress for the journey.

"Do you know where he's taking you?" Rebekah asked Bella as she helped the girl by undoing the fastenings at the back of her dress.

Bella nodded as she smiled. "He said he's rented an entire island off the coast of Australia, I think it's called Rayder Island."

"The entire island?" Bekah questioned incredulously.

She nodded. "He said he wants us to be able to go anywhere I want for the entire four weeks."

"He really does love you." Bekah mused.

Bella pulled a face. "I hope you haven't just realised that, Bekah. We did just get married, you know."

Bekah laughed as Bella pulled the pins out of her hair and shook it loose, before stepping out of her high heels and into some flats.

"Now come on, I've got a honeymoon to get to." Bella grinned and left the room, meeting Kol downstairs.

The plane ride to Australia was rather uneventful, with both of them sleeping for most of it. When they reached the airport, Kol got in a pre-ordered taxi which took them to the docks, where a man with a boat was waiting for them. Kol put all the luggage down below before helping Bella into a seat and sitting down himself as the boat roared to life beneath them and the man steered it out onto the dark water.

They rode on the boat for about 40 minutes before the outline of an island came into view. Reaching the dock there, Kol helped Bella up and put her and their luggage into a car already there. When he had paid the man, he got into the driver's seat and turned the key, starting the ignition.

"How did you manage to 'hire' this island, Kol?" Bella broke the peaceful silence.

"I did a little bit of digging. Heard about the man who owns this island and contacted him, asking if I could use this place for a month." Kol replied. "Do you like it?" He asked as they pulled up to a two-storey house made from mostly glass.

"It's beautiful." She breathed. She went to get out of the car, when Kol placed a hand on her arm, stopping her from leaving.

"Wait here." He told her, before he disappeared, along with the luggage. The lights in the house turned on and suddenly Kol was opening her door for her and helping her step out. When she was firmly on her feet and the door shut behind her, Kol swung her up into his arms bridal style and started towards the house.

"Do you think this is really necessary?" She asked as they passed the threshold. Bella realised that it must not be anyone's permanent home, for there was no barrier preventing him from entering.

"Yes." He replied simply, stopping in the hallway. "Do you wish to see the rest of the house or shall we go straight upstairs to our room?"

"Mm, I think I can look around tomorrow morning." Kol grinned cheekily at her as he started up the stairs.

"I love you, Mrs Bella Mikaelson."

"And I love you, Mr Kol Mikaelson."

A/N: I made the island name up, if you couldn't already tell. Also, so sorry for the crappy vows, I'm not very good at writing stuff like that.

I have links for Bella's engagement ring, wedding dress, hair, bouquet and the bridesmaid dresses on my Quotev version of this story if you want to see them (I use the same name there as I do here).

Let me know what you thought of this chapter, reviews are always welcome.