DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything besides Valise Times.

SPOLIERS: Post-Chosen for Buffy. Vampire Diaries- up until the scene Jeremy kills Kol.

CHAPTER 4

The sounds of birds chirping reached my ears as I slowly did a full body stretch. I squinted my eyes for a moment as they adjusted to the light streaming in from the large windows in the room. After our run in with the Salvatores, Nik graciously showed me to a room that would be mine for the remainder of my stay as well as supplying me with one of his sister's night shirts to sleep in. I had mumbled a quick thank you after shooting down Kol's proposal of me sleeping in his room before going to bed.

Sitting up in the bed I ran my fingers through my unruly curls. A second later the door to my room flew open hitting the wall with a bang. I raised an eyebrow at the new arrival and what he held in his hand.

"Good morning sunshine!"

I groaned at his cheery tone. All I wanted to do was sleep. It was a luxury in my time. My friends and I were always on the lookout and with war looming over head, sleep was almost nonexistent.

"Nooo. Go away. Kol."

The original tisked me as he moved forward toward the bed, careful with his cargo.

"I've made you breakfast. You do need food to survive correct? Although you have abilities I gathered from the breathing that you're human in some ways."

I ran my hand over my face, wiping the last residues of sleep away.

"Fine. I'm up…yes I eat food. Now bring it over here before I jump you for it," I joked as I took the tray of food from him. He sat at the foot of the bed and watched as I began to devour the scrambled cheese and eggs, bacon, and toast. I was in the midst of washing it down with the glass of orange juice when another person walked in.

"Oh good you're awake, morning love. Brother I see you've brought our guest breakfast already. Good. We have a long day ahead of us."

Kol laughed before pointing to me.

"Sure did and she put it away quite fast. I admire a woman that can eat."

Finishing off my juice, I roll my eyes at him before turning to his brother.

"Good morning Nik. Long day? What is it we have planned specifically? Because as of this moment I don't have to worry about them going after Silas. The hunter's mark on Jeremy's arm is incomplete."

The original hybrid moved over to the bed, sitting on the opposite side as Kol. He gave me a smile.

"Well of course I will need to hear the whole story of why you are here and then I thought I would take you out to buy some clothes. I imagine you would like your own, unless you and my sister are BFF's in the future."

I let out a snicker at that. Kol smirked in response.

"Not so friendly with our little strumpet of a sister?"

"We don't hate each other or anything. We just have a mutual understanding to be civil when we're around one another. So to answer your question Nik, I would love to go shopping, thank you."

"Good. Now that is settled, come along Kol. Let Valise get ready. We'll be down stairs," he instructed his brother. The two rose off the bed, Kol taking the tray with him.

"Holler if you need me to wash your back," Kol threw at me over his shoulder as he exited the room. Nik right behind him shaking his head.

"Yeah yeah, if I need help you'll be the first to know," I laughed.

"Come find us downstairs once you're ready."

I nodded to Nik just before he left the room, closing the door behind him. They weren't quite the Mikaelson's I knew, but I could see the potential. Right now they were both just a little more rough around the edges. Hopefully I could do something about that before I went back. Climbing out of bed, I padded over to the on suite bathroom to get ready for the day.