Summary: In order to protect the humans from the werewolves the Petrova family make a marriage between the handsome but feared Kol Mikaelson and the beautiful but human Katherine Petrova. Who said love was easy.
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Our Love Lies Bleeding
Chapter One
Song - No Light No Light - By Florence And The Machine
You are holding my hand
You are the space in my bed
You are the silence in between what I thought
And what I said
You are the night time fear
You are the morning
When it's clear
But, it's over your start
You're my head
You're my heart
No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revolition in the light of day
You can chose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Kol was silent he couldn't believe that his parents had arranged for him to marry Katherine Petrova it wasn't fair.
"Kol please be kind to Katherine her life hasn't been easy" his mother said softly touching his arm.
"I promise mother" Kol said sincerely.
Katherine was silent as she packed the last of her belongings away she would live with her vampire husband and his family.
Katherine smoothed down her dark blue and white striped dress it had no sleeves and it was on the shoulders showing off her swan like neck the only jewellery she wore was her locket.
Picking up a grey shawl she gave her room one last look before leaving.
Kol looked around the room, still wondering how this had happened. Katherine was going to be at their home soon, and he had no idea what to say to the girl that was taking his freedom away.
His family had been supportive of it all, telling him it wouldn't be so bad. But it was. Extremely bad. End of the world bad. Bad like a werewolf marrying Rebekah. Of course, they didn't see it that way.
Katherine looked at her home, knowing it would be the last time she ever saw it.
"Why me?" she whispered to the empty house, bewildered at how fast it had all gone. Just two months before, she had been as carefree as a child.
Katherine was lead into the carriage and sat on the left side while her parents sat on the right.
Kol waited patiently in the parlour room with his mother and father their family was at war with the Lockwood werewolf family.
Kol heard the hooves of horses outside the manor and was about to meet his seventeen year old wife.
He stepped outside and was met with the most beautiful sight.
Katherine stepped out of the carriage nervously taking in her surroundings and then she saw him … her future husband.
He was pale and had short dark brown hair with a heart shaped face and dark oak brown eyes with full red devilish lips and high cheekbones he was really handsome.
Kol stared at Katherine with a stunned expression.
He knew that Gypsies were pretty but this woman was breathtaking.
She had waist length brown curly hair with a pearl headband keeping her hair off her face and with her olive skin and the dress she wore complimented her body.
Katherine's mother firmly took her right arm and the Petrova family walked towards him and Kol's eyes narrowed in amusement
She inhaled heavy and her reverberating breath is heard like an echo through these immortal being's ears. She took the first step and extended her hand out to Kol before he grabbed and imbedded a small kiss on her hand, gazing up at her with his eerie brown eyes.
"It is nice to meet you Katherine." He said with his velvet voice that sent shivers down Katherine's back. She immediately retracted her hand out of Kol's and faked a smile to cover her disgust of the situation before executing a curtsey.
"My Lord." She said softly.
"Now, now sweet girl," Esther interjected lifting Katherine up from her previous stance, "He is to be your future husband, no need for such formality." She stated.
Husband.
The words hung in Katherine's mind as she observed the man smirking at her amusingly, she knew the moment she step foot in their obnoxiously massive castle that she had made a deal with the devil and this – this – is what she thought of the arrangement.
Her mother pulled her aside before tucking her chocolate curls behind her ear, "Now darling, listen to me carefully, this marriage is important to your father and I. The unity between our two families can assure safety to our people from the savage wolves, we need that. I love you and be safe sweet girl." Her mother said endearingly placing a kiss on Katherine's forehead before letting her daughter go.
Katherine jumped at the sound of the thick wooden door slamming shut and she could feel the gust of window around her ankles. Imprisonment. This was what it was called.
"She will guide you to your chambers and you will prepare for tonight's feast to meet the rest of my family." Kol said calling upon a maid with just a snap from his fingers. It was obvious with the way the servants bow their heads low and mutter their obedience that they feared the family; they feared them with their lives.
They pulled at her hair, suffocated her with their inhumanely tight corset and drowned her in luxury she did not comprehend as to why they were necessary just for a dinner. His family was everything she had heard about but words failed to describe to flawless majesty. She felt fear, she felt insecure and she felt worthless comparing to them because in all honesty, one wrong word that would slip out of her mouth could result to her death.
"Katherine, I'd like you to meet my eldest son, Elijah and his brothers Finn and Klaus and of course my youngest and only daughter, Rebekah." Esther said.
"Let dinner commence I am rather hungry." Kol interjected dragging Katherine to the dining table. Dinner was odd. They spoke little and when they did, they spoke about their conquests or their times through history. Through it all she could feel Kol's heavy gaze boring through her skin. He would smile a devilish smirk at her and she would give anything to just smack that condescending smirk of his off his face.
When dinner ended, Kol whispered into Katherine's ear, "Wait for me in my chambers." His voice (his order) sent an eerie sensation through Katherine and he heard the hitch in her breath, obtaining pleasure from how easily hazed she could get.
"And if I were to say no?" She said softly and Kol's eyebrow rose.
"I would ask where you would want to be buried." Kol simply said before leaving the table.
Katherine cautiously made her way towards the chamber, feeling her heart beat excruciatingly fast – right out of her chest. She was sure they all can hear her heart race. She stood in front of the mahogany door looking at it with intimidation. She despised her situation. She despised him.
Abruptly, she felt a cold hand placed on her shoulder before a soft, graceful voice whispers in her ear, "Calm yourself." She said. Turning around, Katherine met with a pair of bright blue eyes, a person with flawless porcelain skin and golden locks, ultimately looking like an angel.
"Who are you?" Katherine asked, ruder than anticipated.
"My name is Caroline Forbes…well recently Caroline Michelson." She said.
"You're the woman sat next to Lord Niklaus, is he your husband?" Caroline nodded at the statement.
"Your heart is racing. I can hear it from the other wing. You must be calm." Caroline said.
"Calm? I'm about to go to bed with a man I barely know nor love. People feared this family and how do expect me to be calm about?" Katherine said incredulously.
"You must understand the rules here Katherine. You are to obey their every command to stay alive. Most importantly, you must be the best actress you can ever be to pretend to be content and strong even when you feel like it's all about to fall apart." Caroline said.
"Are you pretending then?" Katherine asked.
"I was. You learn to love them." Caroline said with a small shadow of a smile playing her face.
"I will never learn to love a man like Kol." Katherine sneered and Caroline scoffed at her, leaving Katherine baffled.
"That's what I said when I was to wed Klaus."
"Caroline. What are you doing here? My brother would not be pleased to his lovely wife in a different wing in front of a different man's chamber, especially when that door belonged to his younger brother. Bored already?" Kol interjected.
"I was just simply speaking to Katherine here. I bid you two good night." Caroline said.
"It certainly will be." Kol said devilishly with a smile that split his face as he eyed Katherine who was now glaring at him with much fiery her petite body can hold, "Shall we love?" Kol said opening the door.
This was her hell now.
Tell me what you want me to say
You are the crowded islands, crying out at me
In your place there were a thousand other places
I will dissapear in plain sight
Heaven help me, I need to make it right
You are the revolition,
You are to get it right
But, it's a conversation,
I just can't help tonight
You are the revolition, some kind of revolution
You are the revolition
No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revolition in the light of day,
You can chose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say
But would you leave me,
And after all I've done?
And would you need me,
If I've found what I've become?
But it's so easy,
To sing it so cold
But it's so hard, my love,
To say it to you, all alone
No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revolition in the light of day,
You can chose what stays and what fades away
And I'd do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say
You are the revolition
You are to get it right
But, it's a conversation,
I just can't help tonight
You are the revolition, some kind of revolution.
You are the re-volition.
You are the re-volition,
You are to get it right.
But, it's a conversation,
I just can't help tonight.
You are the re-volition, some kind of revolution
Tell me what you want me to say.