Kol stared at Jeremy helplessly, the townspeople surrounding him. If he fed Jeremy his blood, then people would see, they would talk. He could kill them, but while he was doing that Jeremy might…no he refused to even think it. He could save Jeremy first, but then some might run.

"Kol," Kol looked to see Dr. Fell beside him, "Let him go Kol, let me help him."

Kol growled before realizing;

'She uses vampire blood, she can save him,' Kol nodded desperately.

Paramedics arrived and Dr. Fell went with them.

Kol stalked into the church, where only the other members of the wannabe Scooby-Gang were.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" Kol raged, grabbing the alter and throwing it against the wall in frustration.

"A, a new hunter, but one like we've never seen before, this guy is strong, dangerous, and doesn't seem to care about hurting humans." Elena said, tears forming in her eyes, and for the first time since he met her, Kol felt some sympathy for her, though he was still very angry with her. She was supposed to look after him.

"A hunter, that's what has you all in a fuss? A hunter, why didn't you grind it under your foot? Oh that's right Elena, because that's not how you operate, you have people go in and fight for you!"

"That's it!" Damon yelled, running at Kol.

Kol dodged Damon's punches with ease, before grabbing Damon by the neck, and ripping out Damon's left lung without even blinking.

Kol dropped Damon's body to the ground while everyone just stared in shock.

"What? He deserved it," Kol said, dropping his lung on his chest, "If you stuff the lung back in, he'll heal in about, oh, a day or so, provided he drinks some blood. Now then, I'm going to go check on Jeremy, and then I'm going to find this hunter, rip him apart, and then give the pieces to you so you know how to deal with these…things."

As Kol prepared to walk out of the church, Matt got his attention.

"What?"

"Before you kill the hunter, there's something you should know. I don't know if it's important at all, but," Matt swallowed, nervous at the glare Kol was giving him, "Jer and I saw that guy in the bar, Jeremy mentioned something about a nice tattoo, but I didn't see one. I thought maybe that I just didn't notice it, but Jer said it was a pretty big tat, yet it was almost like he was the only one who could see."

'No', Kol thought to himself.

Kol turned again, and continued walking.

"What does it mean?" Elena asked.

"Nothing and everything," Kol replied without turning.

Jeremy groaned as he woke up, feeling extremely disoriented. He opened his eyes to find himself in a hospital bed, wearing a hospital gown. Kol was sitting on the end of the bed, glaring at his boyfriend, while holding up Jeremy's Gilbert ring.

"Put your hand out Gilbert, I am going to hot-glue gun this thing to your hand. Seriously love, what were you thinking?"

"It wouldn't have mattered, the guy was human."

"Jeremy, just because he was human, doesn't mean he wasn't supernatural." A pained look entered Kol's eyes, a look Jeremy had never seen before.

"Kol, are you okay?"

It was a moment before Kol answered.

"Jeremy, I saw you get shot, you could have died. This ring is designed to save your life, why don't you wear it?"

"After what it did to Alaric? And again, he was human, so it wouldn't have helped."

"Jeremy, just because he was human, doesn't mean he wasn't supernatural."

Kol slid forward on the bed, close enough to hug his boyfriend.

"What do you mean?" Jeremy asked, as he returned the hug.

Kol sighed, not letting go of Jeremy, answered.

"Matt said that you saw a tattoo on the hunter's arm, can you describe it to me please?"

Jeremy looked confused.

"The thing I first saw was a cloaked figure near a woman, it looked like the figure was attacking her. And there was this big symbol on his hand, it was eight-sided, it looked like a symbol I saw in history once, it was called…"

"Vegvísir, it is called Vegvísir," Kol said, fighting to maintain his composure, "It's a symbol of my people, it means guidepost. It represents the start of the map."

"Map, what map?"

Suddenly, Kol perked up.

"Hey, how about I get you out of here, let's go spend the day together, just the two of us?"

"I'm afraid I can't allow that." Dr. Fell said, walking into the room.

Once the door was closed, she continued.

"Twice I have released patients who have vampire blood in their system early, and both times they died. Also, the entire town saw Jeremy and Tyler get shot, it will look a little odd if they're walking around fine a few moments later."

"I'll take him somewhere were no-one will find him, and are you insinuating that I would let the most important person in the world to me die?" A very implicit threat was in those words, but everyone in the room understood it.

"Fine," Dr. Fell said nervously, "But try and keep him out of the public eye, and if anyone asks, he is still in the hospital and not ready to receive visitors."

"Fine, go get dressed, I've got to check up on my sister, she's in a bit of a state."

Kol excused himself and went into an empty room before using Ayana's stone to send a message that there was going to be a bit of a delay, before dialing Rebekah.

"Kol, what is it?" Rebekah's voice came on the line.

"Sister, I'm afraid we have a serious problem. The hunter that shot Jeremy, he's one of the Five."

"That's impossible," Rebekah said, anger entering her voice, not surprising, given her history with them.

"Apparently not, the spell seems to jump from person to person, which would explain why Niklaus stopped trying to off himself, the mark passed on to someone else."

"Why do you sound so upset?" Rebekah asked curiously, it was unlik Kol to be disturbed by the presence of a hunter, even if he was one of the Five.

"The mark can't be seen by anyone, my guess is because it's not complete yet, it still needs to grow. Jeremy saw it though,"

"What does that mean?"

"I have a suspicion, but I am praying I'm wrong." Kol said, looking down at his own tattoo.

"The hunter is a black male, bald with a mustache, and a muscular build, if you see him Rebekah, do not confront him, just watch him. Do not let him know who you are."

"Relax, I found a house and I'm inviting everyone over for a party in protest of this stupid curfew thing the unelected mayor put in place, can you think of a more human teenager things to do?"

Kol chuckled, "No, have fun sister."

"See you later Kol,"

"See you," Kol replied before hanging up.

Kol walked back into Jeremy's hospital room, where Jeremy was fully dressed and waiting.

"Let's make a stop by your place so you can pick up some things," Kol said, walking over to grab Jeremy

"Pick up some things for what?" Jer asked, yanking his hand away form Kol.

Kol rolled his eyes, "Didn't you hear the good doctor love? You're not supposed to be seen by anyone for the next few days, so you are going to be staying at my place. Unless you want to only have what you are currently wearing. I personally would not be against you having to walk around naked due to a lack of clean clothing, you humans due tend to wind up getting bad breath without regular brushing."

"Okay, okay, let's go," Jeremy said, blushing slightly at the mention of him being naked. They had seen each other naked before, but he was definitely not as relaxed as his boyfriend was about talking about that out loud.

Kol sped Jeremy to his house, where they got enough of everything for a few days.

Just as they were leaving, Elena came by.

"Where are you going? You're supposed to be in the hospital!" She exclaimed, glaring at Kol the whole while.

"I'm completely fine though, I just need to stay out of town for a few days, so I'm staying over at Kol's."

"Um, no you're not. If you need to stay out of the public eye, than you can just stay here."

"But Elena-"

"There's no point in arguing Jeremy, can't you see she doesn't trust me. She probably thinks I'm going to drain you half-dry and compel you to do very…dirty, things," Kol said, smirking at Elena, but in a way that was menacing.

"That's not what I think," Elena said quietly

"You're lying," Kol said, grabbing Jeremy and preparing to take him over to his place, but Jeremy stopped him, and walked up to Elena.

"Look Elena, I know you're trying to look out for me, but you've got to stop being so overprotective all the time. I know you don't trust Kol, well guess what, I don't trust Damon. However, you do. I'm in love with Kol, so I ask that you put up with him the same way I put up with Damon, is that fair?"

Elena nodded, "Just be careful okay, I, I don't know what I'd do it…" She didn't finish the statement, but she didn't really need to.

"Nothing will happen to him Elena, on that you have my word," Kol said, no emotion showing on his face, a true oddity.

Elena just nodded before stepping out of their way.

Kol picked up Jeremy before speeding him all the way to his place, just outside of town.

"So does this place actually belong to someone?" Jeremy asked after Kol set him down, Jeremy had never actually been inside Kol's house before

"A nice old guy that works at the blood bank, though he decided to take an extended vacation." Kol smirked

Jeremy stared at a big painting on one of the walls. It was Kol, wearing medieval knight armor, surrounded by some other men in what appeared to be a battle camp.

"What is this?" Jeremy asked, Kol couldn't have a painting from all the way back then, not is such a good quality.

"It's a fairth," Kol said, an odd emotion in his eyes, "It's a spell, it's sort of like a memory given form. A witch casts a spell on a slick slab of rock, a person puts their hand on it, concentrates on a memory, then viola, you have a fairth."

"What's this a memory of?"

"My conquering Bludhall fortress. My siblings enjoyed the fine life, but I liked the military one. I led many armies to many victories. That one," Kol said, pointing to the soldier on Kol's immediate right, with wavy brown hair that fell down to his shoulders, "was my second in command, Lucciano. He's one of the few people that I truly call friend."

"He is?" Jeremy asked.

"Yes, he knew what I was, exactly what I was. The others knew I had made some stange deal with the supernatural, they saw me throw boulders through the walls. But he alone knew what I truly was, and he asked me to become one, I granted him his request."

Jeremy shuffled nervously, "Was a friend all he was?"

Kol looked at Jeremy incredulously, "You're not still jealous, haven't I already made it clear that I belong to you?" Kol asked hugging Jeremy and kissing him.

"You didn't answer the question," Jeremy noted quietly, he couldn't help it. Kol hadn't hidden anything about his past, and while Jeremy was completely confident that Kol was loyal to him, he didn't like thinking about how many potential rivals he had out there.

"Alright fine," Kol huffed, rolling his eyes, "Yes he and I did a few things together that would hardly fall under regular military conduct, but you don't have anything to worry about Jeremy, I'm yours."

Jeremy smiled as he buried his head into Kol's chest. Jeremy liked it when he and Kol were alone. Not just because there weren't any prying eyes, but because when they were alone, Kol lost all of his sarcastic arrogance. Jeremy liked Kol's sarcasm, and it was cool to see him talk down to people like Damon, who really deserved it, but Jeremy liked it when Kol showed his softer side, especially since Jeremy was the only one Kol showed it to.

"Want to watch a movie?" Kol asked

Jeremy nodded and Kol led him to a family room area, with the biggest television Jeremy had ever seen.

"What do you want to watch?" Kol asked as we walked over to the giant stack of DVD's

"Twilight," Jeremy said, just because he wanted to see Kol's reaction, and his boyfriend did not disappoint/

Kol immediately spun around and playfully glared at Jeremy,

"Watch it, or you will spend the rest of your life convinced that you are a twenty-six year old belly dancer named Melina."

Jeremy started laughing so hard his stomach actually hurt, and that got Kol laughing.

"What do you seriously want to watch?" Kol asked, still chuckling

"Lord of the Rings?"

"Sure thing."

A few hours late, Kol led Jeremy up to his bedroom.

Kol's bedroom had more fairths, and Jeremy was shocked and delighted to find that he featured in more than one of them.

Kol took a shower, before walking back out into the bedroom. Jeremy was stripping down to his boxers, and walking towards the bed.

"You know love, it is just us here," Kol said quietly

Jeremy looked at Kol tensely for a moment, before relaxing, smiling, and nodding. Jeremy removed the last piece of clothing he was wearing, and Kol removed the towl he had around his waste.

As the two of them got into bed together, Kol tackled Jeremy, so he was laying on top of him.

"I love you," Kol said, "I love you so much." He went and kissed Jeremy then, hard.

"I love you too," Jeremy replied once he had a chance, smiling with only love in his eyes.

Aw, a little more on the sappy side, but hey, there in love, there's going to be moments like that, so what do you think? Plot will probably start back up next chapter. Finally, Jeremy better not be dead for good! Jeremy gone, Tyler gone, the Originals leaving, they are running out of cast characters