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A loud ringing noise broke me out of my stupor.

"Elena!" I barely registered the voice. "Elena!"

I blinked and glanced up. It was Caroline.

"Yes?" I murmured, finally realizing Friday was over.

"Are you coming?" she asked, looking slightly worried.

"Of course!" I smiled wide and gathered up my stuff.

It was Friday, and I hadn't experienced any Original vampire drama all week. We walked out of my English teacher's classroom, and ran into Bonnie.

"Hey 'Lena! Hey Care!" she greeted us. "Ready for our girls' night?"

Thoughts of chick flicks, popcorn, and friendship floated in my head and I grinned.

Caroline cheerfully said hello back, and I simply laughed and smiled.

"Beyond ready! I need some more of this normal stuff I'm having!" I joked.

We continued walking to our cars. Once we arrived at mine, Bonnie spoke up.

"Your place at six, right 'Lena?" both girls looked at me expectantly and I nodded.

"Do you mind if I go over to your house now?" Care asked.

I sighed, I'd had a vampire at my house every day since Tuesday evening, and I'd kind of been wanting to spend some time with Jer, but since Care was my friend, I knew I had to be nice and say, "Sure! You can help me do something about my toes!" I said with a slightly fake smile, wiggling my unpainted toes.

Caroline grinned at me.

"So, see you guys at six?" Bonnie confirmed once more.

We nodded and Caroline climbed into my car.

"Bye Bon!" we called as I climbed into the driver's seat and started the car.

Elijah's POV

"Brother, could you go over to dear Elena's and check on her?" Klaus asked me as he strode into the living room.

I bit back a sigh and stared at my younger sibling.

"I do believe we would have received a call from one of the Salvatore brothers if something had happened to her." I said as a matter of factly, turning the page of my book.

"Agreed, Elijah, but still, could you?" He asked again.

I slightly glared at him over the top of my book. "Don't you have an 'army' of sired hybrids at your disposal? Couldn't you use one of them?" I was in a somewhat foul mood and my brother wasn't helping one bit.

"Ouch, brother, you're sounding like Kol." Klaus' lips turned into a smirk. "Yes, I'll send a hybrid to go inquire on her." He sighed loudly and walked away.

As soon as I knew he was out of hearing, I picked up my phone and called Damon.

"Hello?" Damon's voice answered.

"Damon, it's me. Any sign of my revengeful brother?" I inquired.

"Hmm, I'm sorry I don't know who 'me' is." He replied, the smirk evident in his voice.

I bit back an agitated sigh. "Do we really have time for games, with my brother on the loose? Who knows what resources he has brought in by now." I stated.

"I guess not. Huh. It has been strangely quiet this week. Maybe I should go invade Elena's girls night tonight!" he chuckled.

I placed the bookmark into my book and slipped it back into its place on the shelf.

"I bet Caroline will be with her, not to mention the Bennett witch. She should be fine. Klaus is having one of his hybrids check up on her too, by the way." I informed him.

I heard the clink of glass and the sound of something being poured. Probably bourbon.

"Cool, cya later Eli!" Damon called into the phone before promptly hanging up.

I shut my phone as well and slid it into my pocket.

Elena's POV

I laughed as Caroline grabbed my pinky toe and painted the nail, her bracelet rubbing against the bottom of my foot.

"You better stop fidgeting or you're going to have one crappy pedicure!" Caroline chided playfully.

I smiled and tried to keep a straight face as she put the clear over my pretty dark blue toes. She finished off and smiled.

My doorbell rang and I yelled to Jeremy, "I GOT IT!" as I hopped down the stairs, trying to keep my toes away from the ground so they wouldn't get smudged.

I opened the door and looked outside, surprised to see a guy who looked vaguely familiar staring back at me.

"May I help you?" I asked, staying not stepping past the threshold.

The boy smiled warmly. "I'm one of Klaus' hybrids, I was sent here to check on you."

I sighed, and Caroline appeared. "Tell Klaus to f-"

"Tell Klaus thank you for his concern, but I'm fine." I cut Caroline off.

The boy looked startled by Care's blunt approach, but didn't comment.

"Alright." He nodded and disappeared about as quickly as he arrived.

I sighed and went over and slumped into my couch, sighing.

"I wish I'd never moved to Mystic Falls." I grumbled.

She nodded solemnly.

Suddenly, the door burst open and we both jumped.

"Hey! Are you guys ready?!" Bonnie exclaimed as she walked in and shut the door behind her. Caroline and I laughed at each other and nodded.

"I brought the Notebook!" Care exclaimed, whipping it out of her bag.

Bonnie and I groaned in unison. "Again?! This would be the…" Bonnie started to count on her fingers.

"The twelfth time!" I finished for her.

Caroline grinned cheekily and popped it into the DVD player.

~~~~~One A.M.~~~~~~~~

Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, waking me out of my sleep. I got up off the couch where I had just been squished between Bonnie and Caroline, who were still passed out, looking slightly wasted. The wind howled harshly and my front door blew open, causing leaves to blow inside. I grumbled and shuffled over to the open door, shuddering as the cold air hit my bare arms.

"Cold, kitten?" a sickenly familiar voice asked.

I jumped back away from the door.

"Kol." I breathed, staring at his handsome figure as he stood on my porch in his leather jacket with his sexy wind tousled hair.

"Hello Elena. Can we talk?" he asked, a smirk dancing faintly on his lips.

I glanced over at Caroline and Bonnie, wondering what I should do. Kol and I's last kiss danced in my mind, and how he held me when I was scared. Then my conscious slapped me with the blunt memory of how Zach informed me that he was using me to get to Serena.

"No," I said flatly. "Why don't you go back to your Serena?" I smirked as his face stiffened.

"Oh, that's right. You can't. You need me to get back to her. And I'm. Not. HELPING." I snarled and shut the door in his face at the last word.

His face appeared in the window next to me and I watched as his forehead pressed against the pane.

"'Lena" he mouthed.

I stared into his eyes and shook my head, allowing all my emotions that I'd kept buried about him to come to the surface. I let him watch a tear drip down my face and fall into my lap. My body shuddered and I turned away from him.

"I trusted you." I whispered. "And you betrayed me. Zach told me how Serena is still alive, and that you need me to lure her out. You should have told me that she was still alive. I would have understood. Get out of my life Kol. All you do is bring me stress."

I heard his fist bang against the window, causing it to crack.

I turned back around, shocked to see a tear slip down his cheek, contaminating the raindrops on his face.

"You'll be mine," he mouthed. "You'll understand sooner or later."

Lighting flashed and thunder rumbled, and he was gone.

I pulled the curtains shut to cover the crack, and went back over to the couch, to curl up with my best friends.

I dozed back off.

Kol's POV

My whole body shook as I walked away from her house. She didn't understand. Maybe being gentle wasn't the answer. Maybe I had to be harsh with her to get her to understand.

Maybe I'd have to take her again.

I felt tears drip down my face as I climbed into my Charger, slamming the door. I sat in my car, my head in my hands as I formed a plan.

Let's just hope this plan is better than the last one.

Elena's POV

I woke up the next morning feeling as gloomy as the stormy clouds outside. I hated this kind of weather.

Caroline, Bonnie and I stood in the kitchen making pancakes when I suddenly spoke.

"Kol visited last night." I whispered, just loud enough for them to hear.

"WHAT?!" Caroline and Bonnie exclaimed at the same time.

"Elena! He's not good for you! You need to stay away from him!" Bonnie told me.

"Yeah girl! He's bad news." Caroline agreed as she stared at me, studying my face.

"H-he told me, that'd I'd be his and that I'm going to understand sooner or later. He wanted t-to talk." I mumbled, staring down at my pancake.

Caroline scoffed. "I should track that nut down and beat some sense into his stalky original ass!"

Bonnie snickered and I pretended to glare at her.

"You'd probably get your own ass beat, Care. But thanks for offering!" I said with a chuckle.

Caroline shrugged and started to do the dishes.

I went to the bathroom to take a quick shower and when I came back down the stairs, the doorbell rang.

Caroline immediately appeared in front of me, and swung the door open slowly.

"I heard my brother visited you," a British voice drifted through the open door. Caroline took a step back and Elijah stepped in.

I nodded. "Late last night, during the storm. He said he wanted to 'talk'."

Elijah set his jaw and stared thoughtfully at the kitchen, where Bonnie was eating her pancakes, watching us.

"I doubt he wanted to just talk like he said." He mused aloud.

"Zach said something about he needed me to get to Serena." I looked at Elijah, letting worry seep into my words.

"Klaus must have turned her then, that confirms my long suspicion. I do believe maybe you should keep a vampire with you more." He advised.

I sighed, getting extremely irritated, and nodded.

"I suppose."

"He's right 'Lena," Bonnie spoke up.

"Yeah," Caroline agreed. "You'd be safest with protection."

"Couldn't I just keep a stake and continue taking vervain?" I asked.

"Still, he could just wait until the vervain leaves your system, and you probably don't have a good chance of stabbing him." He stared at me as he spoke.

"I was able to stab you once, Elijah." I said, staring right back at him.

His eyes flashed with some sort of emotion, rather embarrassment or sadness, but it quickly vanished.

Darn vampires. Can't even show the slightest bit of humanity.

"That was a lucky shot," he simply said, and with that he turned on his heel and walked out the door.

I shook my head and went back upstairs to finish getting dressed.

As I pulled my shirt down, I saw just faint traces of the bruises that were there. It was nice to see them almost gone.

"Hey 'Lena! We're going to go home, okay?" Bonnie called up the stairs.

"Alright! I'm going to head over to Damon's in a minute." I yelled back.

I heard the door slam, and I was greeted with silence. Jeremy was at work, and it was just me. It was kind of nice. I walked over and sat on my window seat, staring out the window.

Kol's black Charger pulled up, and he got out. I quickly jumped away from the window.

Should I call Elijah or should I actually talk to him?

I was torn. I walked down the stairs to the door, my phone in hand.

I opened the door before he even made it up the stairs.

"What? I thought I told you to leave me alone." I said dully.

"Please, Elena. Hear me out?" he begged me.

"Alright, fine. I'm staying right here and you can stay there." I said and sat down on the floor, leaving the door open. I nodded at the floor. "You can sit, it's not going to ruin your jeans."

He smirked and muttered something that sounded like Petrova fire and sat down, folding his legs under him.

"It turns out that Klaus turned Serena all those years ago." He started, looking sincere.

I opened my mouth to speak, but he cut me off.

"She wasn't just my girlfriend. We were engaged."

I almost gaped at him, but I managed to keep my expression neutral.

"It was about a hundred years ago. I was still on the run from Nick, and I wound up in this little town right outside of Atlanta. I stayed in this inn close to her home. She was the mayor's daughter." He paused, almost as if he was trying to remember…or get his story straight.

"I was at the local bar, drowning my sorrows in vodka, like usual, when she walked in. At first, I didn't notice her. She was just one heartbeat, amongst a sea of hundred or so other heartbeats. She walked right up to the bar and slammed her hand down. That's what got me to notice her, she had fire…kind of like you." He smirked. "She demanded a drink and…."

"Bartender! Give me a shot of your strongest vodka!" her voice rang over the laughs and chatter of the men.

I turned my head to stare at this…this girl. She was breathtaking. Her strawberry blonde hair fell down past her shoulders in waterfalls and she looked impatient.

The bartender, a chubby older man, walked up.

"Ah, miss King. I'm afraid I can't serve you. You know what your father says."

She scowled. "I don't give a damn what he says! I've had a terrible day, and I really just need to forget."

I found myself chuckling and she turned to me. "What are you laughing at cocky?"

"The mayor's daughter, no?" I asked, pouring myself another shot.

She nodded once and darted her hand out, grabbed my shot, and downed it in one gulp.

"Thanks," she murmured, and walked out.

I turned around in my seat and stared after her.

"That was the mayor's daughter? What's her name?" I asked the bartender.

He glanced at me, "Serena. Serena King. She's one rebellious spirit, that's for sure."

"Serena King," I mused to myself quietly. It suited her well.

After that we would run into each other here and there; in the bar again, and even in the markets. We grew close and dated for a few years, which is probably the longest I'd ever been in one place. Once I proposed to her, I found out she'd been cheating on me. She even went so far as to get pregnant by him. I forgave her, and killed the lover. I loved her so much, that I took her back. We were going to get married in the spring, but Klaus came in the winter and found me. He staked me and turned her, although he said he killed her.

Kol stared into space, not saying anything.

"So what do I have to do with this?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"She's another doppelganger, or so we think. She had a twin sister named Chloe, whose great grandmother was the spitting image of them. I can't find any of Chloe's descendants, so my theory is just a theory."

"That still doesn't tell me why you need me." I said again, getting frustrated.

"You might be able to break their blood bond with your blood. They have a curse on them, each sibling only lives until their thirties, and they kill their true love if they kiss them. But me of course, well I'm already dead, so…"

"So you want to sacrifice me to save their descendants? Let me guess, you promised her, and then she goes and cheats on you." I exclaimed.

"No, Elena, all they need is your blood. Just a drop." Kol said simply.

"Are you sure? Do you promise me? Swear to me?" I asked, staring into his chocolate brown orbs.

He nodded. "That's what she told me. Will you come with me? Please? I've almost found Serena; she won't meet with me unless I have you. She wants to save her descendants. Please 'Lena."

He seemed so different from last night, no 'you're going to be mine' or anything of the sort. I was confused with what to do. I thought about calling Elijah and asking for advice, but he'd probably just take me away to some random place to keep me from Kol.

Would it really be that reckless if I went with Kol? Part of me wondered.

"How do I know that I can trust you?" I demanded. "You've betrayed me before. You're a vampire."

Part of me knew that he was telling the truth, almost like a sixth sense.

"I can tell that you know I'm telling the truth Elena. I can see it in your eyes and you can see it in mine." He said, standing up and placing his hand against the threshold barrier. "Invite me in? Please."

I got up slowly and held up one finger in a 'one moment' motion. I walked into my kitchen and grabbed my liquid vervain, and poured enough in a glass of soda for about three days and chugged it all down. I walked back and took a deep breath.

"Please come in, Kol," I whispered, my lips barely moving.

He cautiously took a step in and stepped up to me. I was leaning against the hallway corner leading up the stairs. He stared down at me.

"Thank you Elena," the sincerity left his eyes and he grabbed me and we whooshed away.