So here's Chapter 3, I like were this is going. I've always loved Kol and thought they could do more with his character and was very upset when he died, and i died when he showed up talking to matt in the other side. I've heard he will be in flashbacks on The Originals though so that's a plus. I hope you like it and please review! :)

Disclaimer: I do not own the Vampire Diaries or its characters.

Chapter 3

Lauren POV

I stand in my cell with my arms crossed and watch Kol hunched over in his seat. I study him closely. He's sweating profusely and looks deathly pale. I know he won't die from my bite but I feel bad for making him suffer, I guess that's why I suggested him trying Klaus' blood, damn my bleeding heart. To be honest, I have no idea if it would work on Peter's bite, we've never tried it because we don't have his blood and Peter doesn't bite people too often for obvious reasons.

We both look up as we hear shouting above us and a crash that sounded like glass shattering.

"I'm guessing Klaus doesn't want to slit his wrist for you so quickly, huh?" I comment dryly. He looks at me tiredly and shrugs, "He'll come around, he's probably upset because I'm dying and doesn't believe his blood will help and doesn't want to waste time trying. Once he sets his mind, almost no one can change it."

I cock my head to the side, "almost no one?" I ask. He looks up at me and narrows his eyes, "What are you thinking, wolf?"

I smirk, "My name's Lauren, and I was thinking that I know someone who may be able to sway his decision. How well do you know Caroline Forbes?"

He tips his head to the side and ponders on it, "Okay, Lauren; I don't know much about her except that my brother fancies her and she keeps rejecting him."

"Exactly, despite being rejected numerous times he still is infatuated with her and she has used that to our advantage many times, although I think she secretly liked being with him sometimes…" I frown, trailing off.

He furrows his brow, "to our advantage? How well do you know the Mystic Falls gang?" he questions.

I blanch for a moment, knowing I've slipped up. "Well, I don't really know them…"

"Cut the crap, you clearly know them well, from what I saw in the parking lot. How about you tell me about you and them, and who the kid is that's with them?"

I snort, "Why should I tell you anything?"

He cracks a grim smile, "Because if you don't tell me now, my brothers and sister will torture it out of you later."

I glare at him, "I can handle it if need be."

He shrugs, "fine."

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I look at him, leaning back in his chair, he looks terrible, it will get worse soon, it's already been half a day; hallucinations may start soon. My stomach growls audibly and he glances in my direction.

I sigh, "How about this, if I call Caroline and convince her to talk to Klaus about giving you his blood, will you get me some food? I'm starving in here."

"We've only been down here for about four hours…"

I shrug and he sighs, "Fine; deal."

He gets up to go upstairs when his sister bursts through the door in a rage.

"That ass! He's so stubborn! Even when his brother's dying he won't even try!" She stops and looks at Kol, seeing his stony face. "Oh, Kol, I'm sorry, but Nik won't do it! He's just being stubborn."

"Don't worry about it, Bekah" he glances at me, "I may have a solution for that after all…" He trails off, seeing me shake my head slightly at him, "or not…" Rebekah looks skeptically at him then me and shakes her head, "I'll get you some more blood bags, stay here."

She leaves the room and heads upstairs. Kol turns to look at me and cocks his head, "What was that about?"

I scoff, "You can't just tell her we're going to call Caroline to change his mind, plus Rebekah hates her. We have to be smart about this, I can't just call her up to help you; she'll think your making me do it."

He sighs and sits back down, "Alright, then what do you suggest, Red?"

The corner of my mouth twitches at my new nickname, "I'll call her and pretend no one's around and ask her to come save me, but alone, she'll try to sneak me out but she'll get caught and brought down here. Klaus won't let her get hurt, and she'll shame him into helping you, she's very good at that." I explain simply.

He smirks at me, "You've got a devious little mind don't you, sweetheart?"

I shoot him a grin and reply, "I guess you'll see, won't you?"

He chuckles, but it runs into a cough and it doesn't stop. He drops to his knees and coughs up blood onto the cement and in his hand.

"Kol?" I ask hesitantly and crouch, gripping the bars.

He wipes the blood from his mouth with his sleeve, "I'm fine" he says and lifts his head to look at me questioningly as if he were asking why do you care so much?

I blink and stand up again not looking at him. I curse myself wondering why I do seem to care, at least a little bit. It's not because I like him, or how he's funny, and interesting, and hot…

Oh shit.

I do like him! Uh, why couldn't I like someone who isn't dangerous and could kill me? Whatever, it's not like I'm going to act on these…feelings.

I turn back around to find him standing right in front of the bars; I guess he was watching my mental rant wondering what the hell I was doing pacing back and forth angrily. I drop my arms to my sides and look at him. His features are sharp but elegant at the same time; defined cheekbones and a strong jaw, perfect pink bow lips, and dark brows over his mocha eyes. I blink and see he's staring at me too. Nervous now, I clear my throat. He startles and focuses.

"Um, you've got some blood on your face still," I say as I walk toward him. I stops a few inches in front of the bars, a foot of space between me and Kol.

"Huh?" he mutters and wipes at his face with his hand, looking to see if he got it.

"No, here" I say pointing to my face. He tries to mirror me but does the wrong side.

I sigh, and reach for him through the bars, "here, let me." He freezes as I hold his face in my hand and wipe a smear of blood off his chin with my thumb. We stare at each other, paralyzed momentarily.

Then the door to the room swings open and Rebekah comes in with a couple blood bags and a glass. "Here you go, Kol. I thought you'd want more 'cause of the bite-"she stopped in her tracks when she saw us standing a foot apart, my hand gently holding his face.

She dropped the blood bags and glass on the chair and flashed beside Kol, gripping my wrist with severe force, twisting it to the side until it snapped. I screamed and wrenched my arm back and sank to the floor, holding my hand to my chest.

"Rebekah! There was no need for that!" Kol yelled at his sister as I struggled to keep tears from falling down my face.

Rebekah scowled, "She needs to learn to keep her hands to herself. What were you doing?" She looked at him accusingly.

"I had blood on my face from…um, that" he said pointing to the small puddle on the floor he had coughed up earlier. She looked to where he was pointing and her eyes widened. She looked at him again, "That's from you?"

He nodded, wiping at his chin to make sure it's all gone. She stared at him sadly, "It's getting worse." He just nodded again and knelt down in front of me where I was leaning against the bars still holding my wrist, I couldn't keep a few tears from escaping.

He held out a hand to me, "Let me see, I won't hurt you," he said gently. I hesitantly gave him my arm which was twisted sideways. He studied it and touched it in places, testing. He sighed, "It's started healing already, but in the wrong position, I need to rebreak it so it heals correctly, okay?" I nodded and took a deep breath. He steadied himself and positioned his hands, then without warning snapped my wrist the other way. I wailed again and pushed my forehead against the bars from the pain, but it started to feel better. The color returned and the bone started to heal in the right place.

I let a breath out and looked up at him with watery eyes, "Thanks."

He smiled softly and nodded, "You're welcome."

Rebekah watched the whole scene with a frown on her face that progressively turned into a scowl as she noticed how gently he treated me. She cleared her throat and we both looked up, forgetting she was there. Kol stood up and I stayed slumped against the bars, the pain dimming.

"Well, here's your blood, try not to cough it up this time" she said briskly and turned to leave the room.

"Bekah, wait. Can I have some food? Real food, not blood." He asked innocently. Her face softened and said, "Sure, I'll be back in a few minutes. She shot me a glare before returning upstairs.

He turned to me once she was gone and asked, "So how about that phone call?"

I give him a small smile and pull out my phone from my back pocket and dial Caroline's cell. It rings once before picking up.

"Hello? Lauren? Is that you?" she asked anxiously.

"Yes, it's me. Listen, Caroline, I'm in the Mikaelson Mansion in a cell in their basement." I glance at Kol as I continue, "Be careful what you say, they could be listening."

"Wait, you're still in Mystic Falls? We're already out of state heading for a safe house, we're at a rest stop on the highway right now. Stefan and Damon stayed in town after they woke up to keep an eye out. Are you okay?"

I sigh, "I'm alright, for now. I need you to come get me, try and sneak me out. Can you do that?"

"Yeah, but I'll need to leave Bonnie and Elena here with-"

"Yeah, that's fine," I cut her off quickly before she could say anything about my brother. Kol narrows his eyes but doesn't say anything.

"You need to come alone, so there's less chance of them catching you, don't tell the others about it, just come and get me, please, before they do something. I think they are all upstairs so maybe try to come in through a window leading to the basement or away from the main area of the house, okay?" I prompt her.

"Alright, I'm coming, I should be there in about 20 minutes, and I'll spin a story for the others so they go on, see you soon" and she hung up.

I looked down at my phone, slightly worried. If it will only take her that long to get here on foot even with vampire speed, they are not that far away, probably just past the state border. Kol could hear the whole conversation so he probably knows this by now and grew suspicious from some of the other things said. I look up at him as I stuff my phone back in my pocket.

"She's coming, you happy?" I ask dryly.

"I'll be happy when I'm not dying and feel sane again" he replies.

I huff and slump down again. Kol returns to his seat and pours himself a glass of blood and gulps it down.

"Thirsty much?" I ask. He glares at me as he replies, "That's part of the werewolf bite's effects, as I'm sure you know. It starts to blister and rot, the venom spreads, you crave blood and cough it up, hallucinations, then death. Guess I'll be seeing things soon enough."

I frown a little at that, unsure of how to react.

"Well, hopefully Caroline will be here and convincing Klaus to give you his blood before that; I don't want to see you go all killer crazy" I say mildly. Kol opens his mouth to say something but stops when we hear Rebekah's heels on the stairs but along with another pair of footsteps. Rebekah enters the room with a plate in her hand and Elijah enters behind her.

Before they can do anything, Kol snatches the plate from Rebekah and bends the paper so it fits through the bar to give to me. I take it and shuffle backwards so my back is against the far wall where they can't reach me or my food. It's a simple turkey sandwich with lettuce, cheese, and tomato. I don't really like cheese and tomatoes on my sandwiches but I can't afford to be picky and take a bite.

I calmly chew as Rebekah gapes at me then turns angrily to Kol.

"What the hell's wrong with you!?" she screams. All Elijah does is raise an eyebrow at him and glance at me as I take another bite.

Kol shrugs but says nothing as he pours himself another glass of blood.

"I was hungry" I say and they all look at me. "We made a little bargain and this was part of it."

Elijah sighs tiredly, "Kol, what did you do? What kind of bargain did you make with her?"

He smirked at them, "my lips are sealed; that's between the two of us." He gulped down more blood only to start coughing and dropped the glass. It shattered; blood and glass shards going everywhere. He continued to cough and dropped to his knees in the pool of blood, his chest heaving. More of the dark red liquid came from between his lips hitting the floor and spilling down his chin. I stopped eating, concerned, and leaned forward as Rebekah leaned over, rubbing a hand on his back, anger gone for the moment.

Cautiously, I put the sandwich down and went to kneel in front of him, clutching the bars anxiously. Now I definitely regretted biting him. He finally stopped and calmed down, but was still breathing heavily. He lifted his head up and met my gaze. My heart hurt a little, seeing him like this; kneeling in a pool of his own blood, the stuff covering his mouth and chin, his eyes becoming scared.

Rebekah pat his back with Elijah looking on, concerned, behind her. His gaze became analytical though when his eyes went from Kol to me and he frowned. "Kol, perhaps you should go take a shower; you'll feel a little better. I'll watch the wolf."

I frowned at this and so did Kol, but he sighed and looked at me before heading upstairs. I returned to the wall and picked up my sandwich, finishing it as Rebekah and Elijah cleaned up the mess.

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