Chapter Four; An Olive Branch, A Sibling's Bond.

Considering the two facts; Her family was currently in a war with the Salvatore's [she was yet to get the entire story but she assumed it had something to do with the doubleganger] and that she would have to wait a week until the next full moon and find out where the pack that Alice was running with, she decided to stick around in town and that meant getting her own place because she really didn't fancy moving in with her siblings; it was their fault she was in this mess in the first place.

She found herself a nice cottage on the edge of town, of course, a human owned it; A lovely old women named Mary who didn't have any family and of course, Charlotte Ash had violently killed the old lady and buried her in the backyard, in an unmarked grave right next to her husband's and son's gravestones. It was a decent enough sized backyard and it had been well kept two and for the house, it was way too big for just one old lady to live in by herself.

The first thing Charlotte Ash had done once she declared the house hers by killing the original owner, she but a boundary spell on the entire property and that including the backyard. The last thing she wanted was one of her siblings to come and snoop through her belonging. Charlotte Ash sat opposite Katherine in the large living room.

"This entire place needs redecorating," The five-hundred-year-old vampire said. "It look's like it belongs to some old granny"

"It does or has you forgotten I'm over a hundred years old?" The Syphoner-Vampire said. Katherine was looking around the place, she just smiled and shrugged at Charlotte Ash's statement. "So what the hell is going on between my family and the Salvatore's?"

"You mean why Damon wants to murder your entire family?" Katherine asked.

Charlotte's shoulder's dropped and she leaned back against the two-seater couch, "Yeah."

"Hate to break it to you but he's in love with my doubleganger," Katherine said.

"I met her. She's an idiot; who walks right up to a vampire that just threatened to kill her if she got to close?" Charlotte said, choosing to ignore Katherine's statement about Elena and Damon.

Katherine laughed. "Yeah. She's a bit Navie but she's got Stephan and Damon wrapped around her finger. Elena's dating Stephan at the moment but Damon's completely in love with her" Katherine said. "and Niklaus needs human-doubleganger blood to create hybrids, so it gets me off the hook"

"Stephan and Damon want to kill my family because we want their girlfriend's blood?"

"Basically,"

Charlotte Ash leaned forward. "I think I get it but why haven't you left already? Once they're done here they will kill you, they haven't forgotten what you've done"

"You hear," Katherine said. "You're not going to let me die until our business is concluded, are you?"

"You are the only that can get in contact with them," Charlotte said. Both vampires heard a car pull up. Katherine stood.

"I'll take that as my cue to leave," she said. Charlotte nodded but didn't say anything as she made her way to the door, she could already tell who it was just by the sound of their footsteps. If he hadn't been a vampire, she just would've pretended she wasn't home but he was. She yanked the door front door open and glared.

"Look who decided to stick around," Kol greeted with his signature lob-sided grin.

"I don't have time for our family bullshit, just stay away from Damon and we're good," Charlotte Ash said.

"That's not why I'm here," Kol admitted. " I don't have anything to do with Klaus's plans and I don't care if he succeeds or not but I do care about Noah," Kol said. "Let me help you" His eyes darkened. "I want to make those witches pay for thinking they can get away with kidnapping and tortureing our brother"

A ghost of a smile crossed Charlotte's face and turned into a smirk. " I must apologise for the way I acted the other day. I was high on blood and worked up about the entire situation"

"I know"

"Have you told Nik where I live? wait - how did you know where I was living?" She asked.

"That car sticks out like a sore-thumb in this small village" Kol shrugged. "Are you going to invite me in, Sister?"

Charlotte moved so he could enter the house. "You may enter, Kol Mikaelson"

Kol grinned at her. "Still A Ripper? I heard about the bar; it made news"

Charlotte Ash shrugged. "I have my moments"

"Constantly" He mutters under his breath but Charlotte heard it. "You know, Nik was convinced you were dead"

"I can imagine why," Charlotte said as they came into the living room.

"What happened?"

"What time?" Charlotte asked. "The time he handed me and Noah to the witches - they still have Noah by the way - or the time I took out Mikael - or the time I killed his girlfriend?" Charlotte asked. "But yeah, He thought I was dead, a wicked little spell I cast on him. I couldn't have him locking me up again, could I?"

"Rewind a little bit. You killed his girlfriend?" He asked slightly impressed. Niklaus had killed their significant others more times than he could count but none of them had dared do the same to him.

"I needed to weaken his mind so I could cast the memory altering spell. Killing her did just that" Charlotte Ash said. "Anyway, If you want to help me so bad, we need to find this Alice Rosewater"


A week had passed and gone. Charlotte Ash Mikaelson and Kol Mikaelson had finally found out where the werewolves were meeting. It was a forest not too far from Chicago. They were walking through the woods. The sun was still high in the sky beating down on them.

"Maybe we should bring one back for, Nik" Charlotte Ash said absentmindedly as they walked deeper into the woods. "One of the wolves, I mean"

Kol glanced at her. "You want to bride Nik's forgiveness?"

"I feel sorta guilty. It's not often people fall in love with Nik and I killed her to fake my own death" Charlotte Ash said.

"Yeah but he doesn't know it was you," Kol said.

"He knows someone killed his Girlfriend and he believes he saw me and Noah die," Charlotte said in a duh-tone. "Nik is no idiot. Once he realizes I am alive, the spell will fade and he will know and I don't want to deal with a rapid half-wolf and a coven of witches at the same time"

Kol laughed at her use of 'Rapid Half-Wolf' "Careful, if he finds out you called him that"

Charlotte shrugged. "I can hear voices, heartbeats. There's a witch of the" Charlotte said as they drew closer to a busy clearing. At least fifty werewolves were camping out. Tents and fire are already started, music playing.

They continued to talk until they reached the clearing, talking about what had happened so far. Kol went into detail about Niklaus's situation. All their siblings were awake and Esther was alive. Charlotte hadn't liked the sound of that.

"I didn't sense her magic" Charlotte Ash commented. "She's hiding something"

"We're all playing house at the moment" Kol sighed. "Except you"

"What can I say? I like to rebel"

"Rebelling is one word for it" Kol scoffed.

They came out into the clearing and all the werewolves and assumedly the witch all formed a small crowd opposing the two Originals. Kol and Charlotte both wore an unnerving grin. They were powerful and they knew their presence scared them, they enjoyed the power and had fun in messing with weaker creatures. A result of living a thousand years; If you didn't enjoy the pain, the drama or the negatives in life they would've ended up like Finn, probably worse. They'd hate their lives and that wasn't really in the cards for an immortal so it made sense to them, if they had fun in both the bad and the good of their endless years.

"Look-y here" Kol motioned to the crowd. "I think we found ourselves some half-wolves"

Charlotte smirked and started forward towards the crowd watching with a grin as they backed off slightly, tensed and got ready to fight. She enjoyed the feeling of them being afraid of her. She wasn't the weak girl she used to be. "Alice" Charlotte said in a sing-song voice. "Alice, Darling, come out, come out where ever you are."

"We know you hear, Alice" Kol said. "You can thank Jamie for that information"

Charlotte and Kol's eyes flickered across the crowd. Charlotte Ash was a syphon, it gave her the ability to sense magic and she could. It just took her a few seconds to pinpoint it. A girl at the back, hiding behind a much larger werewolf. Charlotte Ash's smirk widened into a grin.

"Kol," Charlotte said nodding to a female at the back of the crowd. A middle-aged woman with curly brown hair. Kol eyes caught that of the witch and he grinned; an evil grin. The witch whirled around to run but it was too late.

Kol was in front of her in seconds, and Charlotte stayed where she was letting her brother handle this. She knew he wouldn't mess up, there was too much on the line for mistakes.
"Now, Now, That wasn't very polite now, was it?" Kol asked. The witch started to back off again and her werewolf boyfriend grabbed Alice's wrist and pulled her behind him. It was then when Charlotte made her move. She grabbed Alice from behind her and pulled her away from her boyfriend. The witch struggled as the vampire's arms snaked around her, constricting more and more when the witch struggled.

"Let her go!" The boyfriend demanded.

"Calm down, Mate," Kol said. "We just want to ask her a few questions"

"She's had vervain" Charlotte Ash stated. "I can't compel her"

"The old fashion way then," Kol said.

"I prefer that way - it's more bloody" Charlotte threatened. Her eyes flashing into that of her demon's self. Glowing blue crisis, the whites morphing black and she grinned to show two sets of fangs.

"If you haven't guessed already, I'm Kol and that's my sister Charlotte Ash Mikaelson"

The witch froze. "One - One of the terror twins?"

Kol looked up to Charlotte. "People still call you guys that?"

"I've decapitated a lot of people, Kol. That kinda thing sticks"

Whispers between the wolves ran out. Mostly scared nonsense and rumours of what they've done but it was mainly about who they were related to, The Original Hybrid. Their family was famous, the two siblings found humour in their reactions.

"Hey!" A man said walking through the crowd. It seemed as if he's just arrived. "Why are Original's messing with our pack?"

"He seems reasonable, don't you think, Sister?"

"Maybe. Are you the Alpha? We just want to talk to the witch."

"Nobody has to get hurt if she cooperates" Kol added.

The Alpha didn't look convinced. "What do you need to know?"

Charlotte Ash was just now realising that the group of werewolves had circled them. Of course, she wasn't bothered by that. To her, To an Original, they were just mere flys getting in the way and a fly needed swatting.

"You lot should know, my sister's a ripper and I wouldn't want her being that close to her for much longer" Kol informed. "So you better start talking before she rips you limb-from-limb"

The witch's boyfriend stepped forward but the Alpha put up his arm and stopped him, sending the werewolf a glare. "Answer their questions, Alice. We can beat them"

"Where's Noah?" Charlotte asked.

Alice didn't say anything. "Shall I kill him or just tear his arm off?" Kol asked as he appeared next to the witch's boyfriend and grab his wrist and shoulder and kicked his legs. The werewolf helpless dropped to his knees and his struggle was useless.

"Let him go!" Alice jerked forward but Charlotte just tightened her grip and she cried out in pain.

"Just answer them!" The Alpha yelled. There were a few wereolves agreeing with them.

"Did you hear what they did to that other pack? They could bring Klaus here!"

"Ugh. Why are they more scared of Nik, then me?" Charlotte asked. She seemed rather annoyed. "I'm done playing games, tell me where my brother is or I'll kill your boyfriend and anyone that tries to stop me"

She gritted her teeth.

"Right, Kol" She nodded to her brother. Who quickly snapped the neck of the werewolf. Thre werewolves went to attack Kol but Charlotte's eyes flared a bright blue.

"Incendia!" She hissed. The three werewolves went up in flames. They screamed out as their flesh melted from their bones and eventually, they fell to the floor as nothing more than burnt carcasses and ash.

"Stop! Stop!" Alice yelled. "You didn't have to do that!"

"Yes, Yes I did. Now tell me where my brother is" Charlotte said. She leaned down and whispered something in the witch's ear. Her eyes widened in fear. "The - The Luna witch's they-they have your brother. I don't know where!" She cried. "Please! Please! I swear to you! That's all I know!"

Charlotte Ash bit into the witch's neck. It took the werewolves exactly fifteen seconds for them to react. As she drained the blood of the witch and the witch's magic, Kol stopped any werewolves that attacked. He'd block their attacks and kick them away. He was careful not get bit. But a werewolf came up behind him and jumped on him, biting into his neck. Kol roared in anger and threw the wolf over his head onto the floor in front of him and pulled out his heart.

"Charlotte!" Kol yelled as he backed off slightly holding the wound.

Charlotte dropped the body. "Right, A present for Nik. Well, we best fight these guys and whoever is the last one standing is worthy of joining Nik's pack" She declared. "That's fair right?"

"Sure" Kol said.


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