It was evening, the group had already eaten the fresh fish Jeremy, Matt, and Alaric had caught and was scattered around the lake house's premises. Rebekah had turned on the music in the living room to max so that it could be heard outside. Katherine and Elijah were sitting on the balcony, Damon and Alaric played poker on the porch, Stefan and Elena were sitting next to them holding hands while enjoying watching Matt and Jeremy throw and catch a baseball a couple of feet in front of them, and Bonnie and Caroline were sitting on the grass chatting away.
Outside Klaus' car arrived at the lake house and Kol stepped outside the driver's seat. He walked toward the trunk, opened, and started unloading it. With his vampire strength he had no problem carrying the whole load in one go, though it looked ridiculous, because no human could carry so much at the same time, but no one was there, the lake house was very secluded, the vampires could act all natural there. He used the stone steps that were leading to the porch outside. Bonnie and Caroline were sitting next to the trail and he winked at Bonnie while he walked past them. Both of them gaped at him, but were too stunned to say anything. He arrived at the porch and set his load down, earning approving smirks from Damon, Alaric, and Stefan. Matt grimaced in disbelief and dreaded what was coming that night, Jeremy was surprised as well, but seemed to look forward to Kol's evening plans.
"If you were a woman, I'd marry you this instant," Damon said and stood up from his seat to inspect the goods Kol had brought. He had driven to the city and bought the necessary supplies for his plans for tonight. There were three big barrels and another five crates of beer.
"Fine German beer," Kol said grinning. "They know how to brew good beer."
"God bless them," Alaric said and helped himself to a bottle.
"Not yet, Ric," Kol grabbed the beer from Alaric's hand and put it back into the crate. "We need all of it for tonight."
Matt had to sigh, his bad premonition turned out to be right. He and Jeremy joined them on the porch and also Bonnie and Caroline's curiosity had been peaked when they saw Kol carry all that beer and had followed him.
"What's going on here?" Rebekah asked holding a wine glass in her left hand.
"Be a doll and get our brothers and the rest, would you? I would like to introduce everyone to tonight's activity plan," Kol spoke to his sister.
"Fine. But it better be good," Rebekah answered. She did not bother to get them all individually, instead she just shouted through the house. "CONNIVING, FAMILY BACKSTABBING ARSE, SLUTTY, CHEAP BITCH, MUSCLE BOY, AND NIK, GET TO THE PORCH! KOL IS UP TO SOMETHING AGAIN!"
"Thanks, I could have called them myself, but I wouldn't have been able to put so much love in it like you did," Kol said sarcastically.
"They deserve it," Rebekah said nonchalantly and just shrugged.
"And I was wondering where you've been all day," Bonnie started. "You went out to get beer?"
"Oh, missed me, darling?" Kol cocked one of his eyebrows.
"I didn't know you were going into the next town. Is this all you bought?" Caroline asked and Kol nodded once. "We don't have any food left and all you get is beer? I could have given you a list of what we needed!"
"Relax, until tomorrow the only things we'll need are these babies," he answered unaffectedly. Kol did not worry as much about logistics as Caroline and the latter had to shake her head in disbelief.
"You'd rather starve than go an evening without beer, don't you?" Caroline asked.
"That's about right, darling," Kol answered smug.
"So, when can we start drinking?" Damon asked impatiently.
"This beer is exclusively for tonight's drinking game. I have been working on one since this afternoon," Kol answered.
"Another drinking game," Elena grimaced at the memory of last night.
"Last night was kind of a rocky start. I analyzed the problem and my conclusion is that we, first, weren't drunk enough, second, were talking too much rather than being more active. So, I came up with a new game and trust me if I say this will make you drunk. I call it 'The Bloody Kol'," Kol explained enthusiastically.
"Not another drinking game, brother?" Klaus entered the porch. Tyler arrived shortly afterward.
"Where are Elijah and his concubine?" Kol asked, waiting to go into detail with his drinking game.
"They're not coming," Tyler answered. "They want to sit this one out."
Elijah thought it would be better not to test his brother's self-control any further and concluded it would be better for everyone if he and Katherine were to give him some space.
"The first decent thing he said in the last 24 hours," Rebekah commented acidly.
"Never mind them then," Kol said. "Let's get into the living room and start preparing the game."
They went inside and helped Kol set up everything for his drinking game. They formed a circle of chairs and emptied the inside, except for one empty bottle. Under every chair several bottles of beer were stored and outside the circle was the rest of the crates and barrels. A table was next to it on which two empty glasses, a bottle of vodka, a bottle of unknown liquid, and a deck of cards were seen. They turned the volume of the music a little bit down and Kol, who was holding several notes in his hands, started explaining 'The Bloody Kol'.
"Goal of this game is to get drunk as hell," Kol started and Damon smirked approvingly. "In the beginning of each round we spin the bottle in the middle twice to determine our couple which will play the game. We will exclude them in the next round when we look for our next pair so that everyone will have to play. After each of us played the game once, we will start a fresh new round with everyone allowed to participate again. Once we have established our lucky two players, they will stand in the middle surrounded by cards faced down. One of us will start picking a card and the two players will have to do a dare. Which dare is predetermined beforehand. Every card represents one dare, except the jokers, but I will come to that later. So, the couple has to do what the card says as long as the person, who picked the card, drinks and after successfully doing so, everyone else has to drink one as well. The next one picks a card and it starts again. Let me be clear on something, although they are called 'dares', you really don't have much of a choice to decline. This is a game, so don't act all chicken on me. In case there is someone who refuses to go along with a dare, he and his partner will have to share a drink of one full glass of either vodka or vodka mixed with vervain. Depends on whether you're a human or a vampire. You see, there is not really an option to back out here."
"That's why you wanted the vervain from me earlier," Alaric commented.
"You are insane," Elena stammered.
"Insanely good," Damon said, who was clearly looking forward to the game.
"The round ends when a joker is picked or someone calls 'Bloody Kol'. There is a total of six Jokers in the deck. A Joker means everyone sitting has to do the 'Waterfall'. I don't have to explain the 'Waterfall', do I?" He asked, but everyone was familiar with the process and so he continued. "Everyone is allowed to say 'Bloody Kol' once, it's like a veto, that ends the round, but it does not come for free. The person who called out 'Bloody Kol' is out of the game. You don't need to be one of the two in the middle to call out 'Bloody Kol', you can also help someone else out or you can stop them, if you can't tolerate it anymore."
"Wait, what do you mean with that?" Bonnie asked suspiciously. "What are those kind of dares?"
Kol just smirked suggestively at her. "You will find out soon."
"I'm not sure this is a good idea," Elena said, clearly scared of this extreme drinking game.
"Obviously you haven't drunk enough yet, shall we start off with some shots before we begin the game? It might help with the courage," Kol said and handed her a bottle of tequila. Elena did not bother getting a shot glass, she drank directly from the bottle. She took several long swigs of courage, as Kol had called it. She needed it to withstand what was coming.
After she had finished, she passed the bottle to the others and everyone drank a couple of sips. At the end the bottle was nearly empty and they sat down to start the game.
Kol spun the bottle and it pointed at Matt.
"Great," he muttered and stood up. Kol was about to spin the bottle again and Rebekah secretly hoped it would stop at her next. She gave Kol a hidden glance and he read her immediately. He tried to put enough force in the spin so that it would point at Rebekah, but, unfortunately, it missed her by one person. Damon stood up, clearly content he would start the game so soon. Rebekah bit her lip in disappointment.
"Okay, what do we do next?" Damon asked.
"One of us will pick a card and I will tell you which dare it represents," Kol answered. "Little sister, do you want to start?"
She sighed, still a little bit unhappy of the outcome, but bent down to pick a card in front of her nonetheless.
"Spade 9," Rebekah announced and everyone turned to Kol expectantly.
He went through his notes and started chuckling immediately. "Fondle your partner's ass."
"You got to be kidding me!" Damon shouted out annoyed. The others sitting started laughing and were eager to witness the coming scene.
"Rebekah will decide on who will fondle whose ass and will start drinking afterwards. As long as she drinks you will have to keep fondling your partner's ass, understood?" Kol explained.
"Awesome," Damon muttered sarcastically.
"Seeing how much you look forward to touching Matt's ass, I will be generous and allow you to do so," Rebekah said in a good mood again.
She started drinking and on cue Damon also began to fondle Matt's behind. Both of them were embarrassed and wished Rebekah would hurry up and stop drinking already, but to their dismay, she was a sturdy drinker. Everyone was extremely amused and laughed heavily. Stefan grabbed his cell phone and took a picture of the hilarious scene.
"Hey! No pictures allowed!" Damon hissed. "Burn your cell immediately!"
"Don't slack off, Damon. You have a job, concentrate," Stefan said while he and Elena inspected the digital photograph.
Rebekah finally stopped drinking and Damon immediately backed away from Matt.
"Everyone drink one," Kol commanded the ones sitting and they obliged. He himself followed suit as well. "Alaric your next. Pick a card."
Damon hoped there will be a better dare this time. Having Alaric set the time of the dare was unsafe. He could drink a lot and if it was something as embarrassing as before, that could drag on.
"Hearts 7," Alaric said and looked at Kol.
"Slow dance together," Kol read out from his notes.
"Seriously? What kind of dares do you have?" Damon complained.
"I must have real bad karma when it comes to you," Matt sighed.
Rebekah stood up to change the music to a slow paced song. Damon and Matt reluctantly closed the distance between them and hold onto each other.
"Closer, brother," Stefan shouted over the music while setting his cell phone's camera settings to video. "A slow dance is supposed to be romantic."
"Will you stop it with your camera, Stefan!" Damon yelled out and turned to Kol. "Isn't there a rule or something against lasting evidence?"
"No, there isn't," Kol replied mischievously.
"But he's right, Damon, get closer. Imagine Matt is a girl, you wouldn't be so reserved with a girl," Alaric said chuckling.
Damon and Matt got as close together as they could manage and avoided to look at each other at all costs. That was already embarrassing enough, no need to make it even more awkward, they thought.
"Why do I have to be in the girl's position?" Matt asked.
"I already had to fondle your ass, suck it up, Quarterback," Damon replied.
Alaric started drinking and Matt and Damon began dancing as well.
Everyone had to laugh so hard, they could hardly manage to stay seated. Alaric continued to drink leisurely his beer and was already reaching the bottom.
"Just take another bottle from under your seat, if you want to go on," Kol told Alaric.
But Alaric took pity on Matt and stopped after one beer, even though he could have easily drunk more. Again, Damon and Matt released each other the instant Alaric had signaled he was done.
Before Caroline was next, everyone drank their share. She picked a card and showed it around. It was clubs jack.
"Strip your partner," Kol announced.
"This would be so much better with a girl," Damon muttered slightly pissed. "I don't have a problem with stripping, but does he have to do it?"
"Get ready," Caroline said, ignoring Damon's complaints and started drinking her beer.
Damon grudgingly began to undress Matt. He took off his shirt, let Matt take off his jacket, continued to unbuckle Matt's belt and stripped him off his trousers. Matt pulled over Damon's t-shirt and loosened the buttons of his jeans to let them fall to his ankles. He was about to take off Damon's shoes, when Caroline could not hold her laughter anymore and spurted some of her drinks. Damon and Matt were allowed to stop and were relieved they were not completely naked yet.
"Well done, Caroline. They were almost finished," Rebekah huffed annoyed at Caroline.
"Sorry, but how am I supposed to not laugh at this?" Caroline tried to defend herself. Everybody, who was allowed to watch that scene, drank as stated by the rules.
Matt wanted to dress again, but was stopped by Kol. "No, no, you don't get to put your clothes back on. You have to stay like this for the rest of the game."
"No problem," Damon responded. "But can I take off my shoes as well? This looks kind of ridiculous and I can't get my jeans off like this."
"Go ahead. Everyone is always welcome to undress, especially the girls." Kol winked at Bonnie.
"My turn now," Tyler said. He picked clubs 2.
"Give your partner a sexy massage."
"The hell, Kol? What's with your dares?" Damon turned to Kol.
"They are awesome. You just have to be lucky and get the right partner," Kol responded grinning amused.
"This is a game, remember. You were quite eager to play in the beginning as well," Stefan stated, enjoying his brother's misery.
"Yeah, in the beginning, when I still didn't know what kind of dares Kol came up with. Whatever, let's just get this over with. Can I at least get the massage?"
It was Tyler's decision and he thought about it for a moment. Matt looked at him pitifully and Damon just glared at him.
"Matt, you get the massage," Tyler decided. Damon rolled his eyes and ordered Matt to lie down. He straddled his ass and prompted Tyler to start drinking.
It was an entertaining display. Two half naked guys in boxer shorts and socks getting unwillingly intimate with each other. Damon continued to knead Matt's back as Tyler was still drinking his beer.
"A little bit to the left, please," Matt ordered Damon.
"You are not supposed to enjoy this," Damon said.
"Why not get the best out of it while we're at it?" Matt asked rhetorically.
"You are so going to sleep on the couch tonight. I am not going to share a bed with you again, Quarterback. Not after this."
"As if you did yesterday. You sneaked out in the middle of the night."
"They're like an old married couple," Bonnie stated amused.
"Just make your jokes. It will be your turn soon," Damon reminded her.
"You can stop now, by the way," Jeremy said. Tyler had finished his beer and put the empty bottle behind his chair. He opened a new one to drink one more gulp along with the others.
Klaus was next in line.
"Please, pick a joker," Matt pleaded him. And surprisingly he did.
"Yes!" Damon shouted out.
"Well done guys," Kol complemented them. "Everyone else, we do the 'Waterfall' now. Get ready, Klaus is the start point. Remember, you are not allowed to stop drinking until the person to your right hasn't stopped drinking.
"This is impossible, Klaus and Stefan are the first two drinkers," Elena cried out.
"This is certainly a lucky arrangement," Kol realized smug. "Now start, brother."
Klaus began drinking and everyone, except Damon and Matt, copied him. Elena was right, when she implied that Klaus and Stefan could go on forever. Klaus was starting his second beer and especially Bonnie and Elena had problems keeping up with him. He stopped after one and a half bottles more out of pity than exhaustion. Stefan stopped right after him and Elena, Bonnie, and Jeremy did not drink longer than necessary. Kol was not as generous as his brother and Stefan. He kept on drinking and was at his third bottle of beer by now. Rebekah, Alaric, and Tyler seemed to be able to hold out a bit longer, but Caroline was about to reach her limit.
"Stop it already, Kol!" Bonnie chimed in and Kol listened reluctantly. Everyone stopped drinking as well and Caroline had to take a deep breath. She coughed a little bit and Tyler had to pat her back soothingly.
"Okay, everyone sit down, I'll spin the bottle," Kol yelled out. Damon and Matt were fun, but this game had been specifically designed to make a move on Bonnie, so it was time to play with her, he thought.
He spun the bottle skillfully that it stopped at Bonnie.
"Oh, God," Bonnie muttered and stood up.
Kol spun the bottle again, using enough force that it would stop in his direction.
"Yes!" He yelled out.
"No, no, no!" Bonnie cried out. "You cheated! Someone else should spin the bottle."
"I'm hurt," Kol faked a hurt expression. "Would I ever cheat?"
He held both hands to his heart and looked at her with wide eyes, trying to look innocent.
"You always play underhanded," Bonnie shot back.
"'They're like an old married couple'," Damon imitated Bonnie from before. "No complaints, witchy. In the middle with you."
She grudgingly complied and she and Kol went into the middle of the circle.
"Sis, you can be in charge of the dares this round." Kol handed her his notes. "Stefan, you're next with picking a card."
"Alright," Stefan said and chose a card from the newly shuffled deck on the ground. It was diamonds jack.
"Strip your partner. Wait we had that already," Rebekah read through Kol's notes.
"Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces are the same. They're just too good to have only once," Kol grinned mischievously while looking at Bonnie.
Jeremy was already slightly drunk and it surprisingly did not bother him much that his girlfriend was going to be stripped by another guy. But he was not the only one getting drunk. One round of 'The Bloody Kol' left already marks on almost everyone.
Stefan started to drink and Kol used his vampire speed to undress Bonnie. By the time she was only wearing her underwear only few seconds had passed. Kol stopped for a moment to enjoy the sight and Bonnie had a hard time realizing what just happened. After she noticed, she was already half naked, she gave him an aneurysm, forcing him to his knees.
"You, dirty, little bastard!"
Stefan could not continue drinking. He had to laugh together with the rest of the group and so only Bonnie got undressed in this round.
"Totally worth it," Kol said, standing up, after Bonnie released her hold over him.
"We have to drink now, right?" Rebekah asked.
"Yes and the next person in line is Elena. Pick a card," Kol answered.
"Please choose a good one," Bonnie begged her best friend.
"Yes, please choose a good one," Kol repeated her, but with a totally different intention in his words.
Elena picked hearts 6. Rebekah looked at the notes and started smirking.
"Drink from belly button," she said.
"Are there even any normal dares in your game?" Bonnie asked appalled.
"Well, define 'normal'." Kol grinned. "Since you're already wearing the perfect clothes for this dare, shall I drink from you? Or do you rather want to lick mine?"
He pulled up his shirt suggestively and showed her his well build upper body.
"Oh, please no," Bonnie cried out and turned to Elena, who had the last say in it.
"Kol you drink from Bonnie," Elena decided trying to help her childhood friend a little, even if not by much.
Bonnie lied down as instructed by Kol and Kol grabbed the vodka bottle from the table to pour some of it on her belly button.
"And don't you dare drink only a sip. That's against the rules," Kol warned Elena.
"Really? You never said anything about that rule before," Caroline interjected.
"My game, my rules," Kol simply stated. "Now start."
Elena began to drink her beer and Kol used the opportunity to do what he always wanted. He slurped, licked, and kissed her in the little time he had. Elena stopped drinking after a few gulps, not only because she wanted to end her friend's misery, but also because she started to become lightheaded already from all the alcohol.
"Man, I'm living the dream here," Kol smirked happily.
"A dream? Yes, a nightmare," Bonnie commented.
"Admit it, I'm not that bad." Kol cocked his eyebrow flirtingly, but Bonnie ignored him.
"Drink everyone," Rebekah said. And everyone did.
"It's my turn next," Jeremy said. "I'll try to pick the joker, Bon."
"Please, Jer, please," Bonnie pleaded him.
Jeremy did not pick the joker, but something almost as good. Diamonds 3.
"Slap your partner," Rebekah announced maliciously.
"No," Kol grimaced.
"That's a good one," Bonnie said, the first time happy about the type of dare. "Take your time, Jer."
"I will," Jeremy replied smirking. And he started drinking.
Bonnie put as much force in her first slap as she could. A harsh sound was heard by the impact. And not only Kol cried out, also Bonnie's hand hurt a lot from the slap. But she continued nonetheless. Soon both of Kol's cheeks were completely red and Bonnie was satisfied, signaling Jeremy that he could stop drinking now.
"I told you she could give you a hard time," Klaus reminded his brother.
"Still totally worth it," Kol said regaining his energy back quickly.
"I'm next," Rebekah announced cheerfully and prompted everyone to drink one, as it was their turn.
She picked a card and looked its meaning up in Kol's notes. "Hearts 5. Sing a duet."
Bonnie was relieved it was something nonsexual, even though she did not like singing, that seemed to be relatively appealing compared to the rest of the dares.
"I'll change the music." Rebekah stood up and altered the song to Adele's 'Rolling in the deep'. She sat back down and started drinking.
It was an understatement to say Kol couldn't sing. He was utterly horrible, but did not seem to care much and continued to torment everyone. Everyone was relieved when it was Bonnie's turn to sing, she might not be an extraordinary singer, but everyone next to Kol would sound heavenly. But, unfortunately, Kol chimed in again at the refrain. The high pitches were almost unbearable and Rebekah had to stop drinking to put everyone's ears out of misery.
"The next time you sing again, I'll dagger you," Klaus said appalled.
"I never understood how you could dagger your family, now I think I do." Matt looked at Klaus in sympathy.
"That was horrible." Elena rubbed her ears.
"Thank you, thank you. I'll sign everyone's autographs later. For now drink," Kol replied amused and unaffected by everyone's insults.
"It's my turn, witchy," Damon chimed cheerfully. He wanted to pick the worst dare Kol came up with. And he succeeded. Spades Ace.
"YES!" Kol yelled out. He already knew what dare it was, he had been hoping someone would pick it during the time Bonnie was his partner.
"Oh god, what is it?" Bonnie asked truly frightened.
"Kiss," Rebekah stated simply.
"I'm not going to do it," Bonnie responded immediately.
"Oh, come on, darling. It's just a kiss," Kol said perking his lips playfully.
"Don't be a chicken, witchy. This is a game, remember? And the alternative is a glass of vodka. It's impossible for you to drink," Damon said clearly amused by his lucky pick.
She looked at Jeremy, unsure of how he would feel about this and contemplated in her head whether she should just end the game by calling "Bloody Kol".
"Well, I don't like this, obviously. But it's a game, it doesn't mean anything, right? But I can call you know what, if you feel too uncomfortable to do it." Jeremy tried to make her feel less guilty and uneasy about the whole situation. If he had to be honest, he would had had to admit that he was already extremely drunk. Maybe that was why he seemed so accepting about all of that.
"Fine, I'll do it, but only if you end this round by refusing the next dare and drinking that glass of your special mix of vodka and vervain," Bonnie bargained.
Kol did not want to lose this opportunity and looked back and forth between Bonnie and the glass of vervain, considering his options.
"Alright, darling," he agreed. He looked at Damon and appealed to a universal bro code silently. Damon understood and just nodded once smirking. He had planned to drag it out anyway.
Kol started kissing Bonnie unreserved. He pressed his mouth on her beautiful full lips and put his hand through her hair. She did not respond in the beginning but was surprised by his skills. She answered him naturally by then and Kol dared to slip his tongue in. He was expecting resistance, but Bonnie let him and reciprocated his kiss.
Damon was at the end of his second beer and after he had finished it, he stopped altogether. But Bonnie did not notice and let Kol continue kissing her.
"You can stop now," Jeremy said.
"Oh, sorry." Bonnie instantly pushed Kol away and sat back down next to Jeremy.
Alaric stood up to get the glass of vodka/vervain and handed it Kol. "I'm not going to bother picking a card. It will just hurt you to see what you've missed on."
"Thanks," Kol said and sighed heavily. "You have to drink as well."
"Don't stall, we'll drink our share, but we're more interested in you drinking that glass of vervain right now," Stefan replied.
"The penalty shot was your rule. You get to live with it," Rebekah teased him in schadenfreude.
"Do I have to?" Kol made a face.
"Yes, you do. Kissing you was far worse than that," Bonnie responded.
"Fine." Kol gave up his resistance and started drinking.
The vervain burned his throat after the first gulps already. His mouth felt like thousand little razors cutting it. He could barely make out the vodka, all he could feel was the acid-like vervain. Kol bravely drank it all and for the first time since they started the game, he earnestly did not look that well. Luckily his original blood line allowed him to heal quickly.
"Still worth it?" Damon asked amused.
"Give me a second," Kol croaked out.
"Sit down and let it heal," Rebekah replied. "I'll take charge in the meantime."
Kol nodded thankfully and sat down.
"We start the 'Waterfall' with Alaric. Ready, set, go!"
Everyone started drinking and Caroline waited until Alaric stopped. He drank one beer, Caroline did not drink more than necessary, but Tyler had drunk one and a half by the time he stopped. Matt followed immediately. Klaus emptied his second bottle and no one drank more after him.
"I can't drink anymore beer," Elena complained.
"Get picked by the bottle next and you don't have to," Damon replied.
"That's even worse," she answered.
"I have finished shuffling the cards. I'll spin the bottle now. Matt, Damon, the witch, and my stupid brother are excluded," Rebekah said and did as she said.
The bottle pointed at Klaus and Stefan next.
"Let me return the favor, Stefan," Damon took out his cell phone, ready to take pictures. "This is going to be good."
"No hard feelings about this afterwards," Stefan told Klaus.
"Partnering up with my old mate, brings back memories," Klaus responded and turned to Caroline. "You can start, love."
"Right," Caroline said and bent down to get a card. It was clubs 5.
"Draw on partner's face," Kol said, who had recovered again and regained the charge of his game. "You decide on who will draw on who."
She looked at Stefan and Klaus alternately and was hesitant. She wanted to let Stefan draw on Klaus so badly, but was not sure how Klaus would react to it. She did not want to ruin the good mood by ticking Klaus off. Klaus noticed her indecision and smiled at her encouragingly.
"Don't worry, sweetheart. I can handle Stefan drawing on my face," he told her.
Caroline was positively surprised by his attitude and was excited about this round now.
"Okay then, Stefan you draw on his face." Caroline giggled.
"Here's a marker." Kol handed Stefan one.
"Thanks," Stefan said. "Ready, Caroline?"
She nodded and started drinking. Stefan decided to draw Harry Potter's characteristics on Klaus' face. He got round glasses and the famous scar on his forehead. Stefan continued to draw him a curved mustache and was about to give Klaus a unibrow, when Caroline stopped drinking.
Almost everyone was laughing terribly and enjoyed Klaus' new tattoos. He himself did not bother about it, the dare could have been far worse, he reasoned.
"Everyone drink, they finished their dare successfully," Kol said.
Tyler was next. He picked the spades 5 card.
"Kiss you partner's foot," Kol read out first enthusiastically, but soon noticed that this could become catastrophic and his voice became more hesitant toward the end.
Tyler smiled smugly. He was allowed to decide the distribution of roles in that dare and it was obvious he wanted to see Klaus on his knees.
Stefan tried to mediate beforehand. "I'll do it. You had your face drawn on. It's my turn now."
"No, Stefan. I decide," Tyler did not let up. "Klaus, you kiss his foot."
"Careful, mate," Klaus growled toward him.
"Tyler, don't make this personal," Caroline talked insistently to Tyler.
"I don't, this is a game, isn't it?"
"Just stop it, will you? Please," Caroline pleaded with him. But Tyler just kept staring at Klaus. The tension was palpable between the two hybrids and everyone expected Klaus to snap any second.
"I refuse the dare," Stefan said diffusing the bomb, so to say. "I'll drink the penalty shot."
"Have fun with that," Kol replied without any hint of amusement.
Stefan poured himself a glass and started drinking. It was worse than he expected. Kol had not let on how extremely painful it was. After several gulps he spilled some of his drink, not being able to continue right away. His mouth was completely bloodied and drops stained the floor. There was still a little bit more than half of it left and he earnestly did not know how he was supposed to drink the rest.
Klaus grabbed the glass from Stefan and drank the rest. It hurt, but his expression stayed composed during the whole process.
"You two are monsters, I couldn't even drink half of it," Stefan croaked out of breath.
Klaus finished the glass and tossed it to his brother.
"Thanks," Stefan told Klaus. "When I accepted I didn't plan to let you help me. You didn't have to."
"The rule said 'he and his partner will have to share a drink'," Klaus simply stated.
Caroline gave him a small smile. That was very human for him to do, she thought, even though he always denies having that side to him.
Matt picked the next card, diamonds queen.
"Bite," Kol named the card's dare.
Everyone looked at Matt to make his decision.
"Since Klaus' bite is lethal, Stefan is going to bite, of course," Matt said.
"I wouldn't have let him die, you know," Klaus said smirking.
He offered Stefan his hand and he took it, biting his palm while Matt was drinking his beer. Stefan had to admit Klaus' blood tasted incredible, he wondered if every Original's blood tasted like that. He noticed the blood accelerating his body's healing process already. Matt stopped soon after he started. He could not stand drinking so much anymore.
Everyone drank their share and Elena was allowed to pick the next card.
"Hearts 5."
"We had that one already earlier," Alaric said.
"Did we? What was it?" Elena asked.
"Sing a duet," Kol sang.
A round of groaning could be heard through the living room. They weren't too eager on this dare. Rebekah changed the music again and this time they had to sing to One Republic's "Apologize".
Elena started drinking and the boys started singing. To everyone's surprise they were not that bad. Not good enough to perform on stage, of course, but pleasantly enough to withstand the dare. Elena could only hold out until they started the first lyrics of the refrain. She stopped drinking and her boyfriend and Klaus also stopped singing.
Bonnie drank one with the rest, before she chose a card from the middle. Diamonds 8.
"Exchange clothing." Kol smirked.
"I always wanted to try your Henley," Stefan said to Klaus.
"You're so gay, brother," Damon interjected.
"It just bothers you that I don't have such problems with the dares like you had," Stefan shot back.
"Stop it guys. It's my turn, get ready," Bonnie interrupted. She started drinking and Stefan pulled over his t-shirt and handed it to Klaus. He did the same with his Henley. They had almost the same size, so everything fitted perfectly. Next were their pants, but before they could even pull off their shoes, Bonnie stopped drinking. She had choked on her beer and coughed heavily.
"After tonight, I don't want to see anymore beer," Bonnie brought out between two coughs.
"Drink, everyone," Matt said a little bit drunk.
Jeremy picked the next card and to everyone's surprise he held a joker in his hand.
"Oh no, not the 'Waterfall'," Elena groaned.
"I'm the last one, great," Bonnie grumbled displeased.
"I'll make it short," Jeremy said, less because he wanted to reduce her amount of drinking, rather he could not drink that much anymore. He was at his limit.
He started drinking and as he had announced before, he stopped soon after. But Kol did not. He dragged it on until he finished two beers. Rebekah drank half a bottle more and Damon overdid it and started a fourth bottle. Alaric showed him, he could still go on and he finished after he had drunk a total of four bottles. Caroline stopped immediately and the rest did not drag it out any longer as well.
"I can't drink anymore," Elena coughed out. "I don't think I can go on anymore."
"Come on, Elena," Kol said.
"No, really, I can't take anymore."
"How about, we let you play next. This way you can take a rest from drinking," Kol suggested. "Is everyone okay with that?"
Everyone accepted and Kol only spun the bottle once to determine her partner.
"Awesome," he said laughing excitedly.
Rebekah was Elena's partner. She stood up and joined Elena in the middle.
"Don't you dare puke on me," she warned Elena, examining her suspiciously.
"I'll try not to."
"Can vampires even puke?" Matt asked, slurring his words a little. Jeremy started laughing ridiculously. He was beyond drunk by now.
"I think they are the winners of this game. The goal was to get drunk as hell, right?" Damon commented.
"This game is impossible, how are you supposed to survive even one round?" Matt asked in disbelief.
"I have to admit you're not bad for humans, I didn't really care much about your alcohol tolerance when I designed this game. But you're not dead yet, I give you credit for that," Kol said amused.
"I'm surprised myself," Matt replied.
"Let's start," Rebekah said impatiently.
"I'm on it." Kol finished shuffling the cards and placed them face down on the ground. He arranged the cards wisely and chose a card he knew which it was. Nobody noticed, either because they were too drunk, or preoccupied with Rebekah's nagging.
"Diamonds jack. Strip, girls," Kol said.
"What a coincidence," Damon commented smirking and looked over to Kol knowingly, but did not say anything further.
"Start," Kol commanded and began drinking.
Rebekah forcefully pulled down Elena's shorts. She was kneeling in front of her and helped her out of her shoes. Elena pulled over Rebekah's tank top and gestured her to get up. They did not try to make it look hot. It just was. Rebekah pushed Elena around, so that she was standing with the back facing her. She took her shirt off from behind and was about to snap open her bra, when Elena vamp sped around her and pushed her on a chair. She pulled her pumps off forcefully and continued with her jeans. Kol kept on drinking, he was set on making them undress until the end, but Bonnie did not let him. She gave him a short powerful aneurysm, only so long that he would choke on his drink.
"What? No! No! No!" Kol cried out. "They weren't naked yet! That wasn't fair, Bonnie!"
"Would I ever cheat?" Bonnie faked an innocent expression.
"Stop pouting, brother. Drink everyone," Rebekah said.
"My turn," Damon said and picked the clubs 4 card.
Kol's expression lighted up immediately, after reading the dare. "Fondle each other's breasts."
"Of course," Rebekah muttered.
"Start." Damon began drinking and the girls in their underwear started fondling each other's breasts.
Rebekah looked bored touching Elena's breasts and Elena was so drunk, she had to concentrate hard on her task. Damon drank a whole bottle before he stopped drinking.
"You really could have made it look more sexy," Damon complained. "Where was the wildness from before?"
"You didn't put much effort in your performance earlier either," Rebekah shot back.
"Don't worry, there are plenty more such dares where that came from. Drink everyone," Kol said.
Alaric picked the next card. Spades 2.
Kol burst out into laughter and handed Jeremy his notes for him to read out.
"Fake an orgasm," Jeremy read out.
Damon, Kol, Stefan, and even Matt applauded approvingly.
"I'll start drinking," Alaric said to the girls and they started moaning. They started slowly, sensually and build up toward the end.
"Does that sound familiar, brother?" Damon teased Stefan.
Alaric stopped drinking after it sounded like the girls reached their fake orgasm. Everyone, except them, drank their share.
"You're next, Caroline," Rebekah said.
Caroline bent over to pick a card and had to hold onto her chair lightly, because she felt dizzy from all the alcohol.
"Clubs 6."
"Give a hickey to your partner," Kol announced.
"Isn't a hickey useless on vampires? Doesn't it heal right away?" Matt asked.
"It's not about the long term effect, Quarterback. It's about her doing it in front of us," Damon explained.
"Who gets the hickey?" Stefan asked.
"Elena," Caroline decided.
"Where?" Rebekah asked.
"I'm for her upper thigh," Damon smirked suggestively.
"Fine," Rebekah said.
"Hey, I didn't say yes," Elena complained.
"Don't be a prude. Sit," Rebekah pushed her on a chair, like Elena did before with her.
Caroline started drinking and Rebekah kneeled down between her legs and sucked on Elena's right upper thigh.
"Ah, ou, ah, Rebekah, uah, stop it," Elena stammered, trying not to fall off the chair. Rebekah was very aggressive and Elena was very sensitive, especially since she was extremely drunk at the moment.
"You can stop now," Klaus said. Caroline had finished drinking. Everyone drank another one for a completed dare.
The hickey healed rather fast, after Rebekah stopped. After several seconds nothing was left to see.
"Next one," Rebekah commanded.
"Spades King," Tyler announced after picking a card.
"That's a good one, I've been waiting for this. Fellow boys get your cameras," Kol said smirking. "This dare is called 'Imitate a random sex position'."
Damon whistled approvingly and followed Kol's advice in getting his cell phone camera.
"Which one do we do?" Elena asked.
"Let's do the 'Rodeo'," Rebekah suggested. "I'm on top."
"Fine, but try to not shake me so much, I feel sick already."
"Shut up and lie down," Rebekah said and straddled her.
Kol skipped the music to a more erotic song and gestured Tyler to start drinking. Rebekah did a sexy performance. It seemed nothing was too embarrassing for her. She knew she was hot and she knew she had the skills to back it up. No one could have made it look so seductive.
"Awesome!" Kol yelled out.
Tyler knew he had to keep drinking otherwise Kol and Damon would kill him after the game. And so he drank two bottles of beer before he stopped.
"That was hot." Damon smirked. "For that performance I'll drink an extra shot vodka."
"Make it two and I'll join you," Alaric said.
"How can you possibly drink even more than you actually have to? You're monsters," Bonnie said in disbelief.
"We're just warming up, right?" Damon replied complacently.
"I'd say so," Alaric agreed and drank the two shots of vodka with Damon.
Everyone else drank a normal one from their beers and waited for Matt to continue. He picked diamonds 5.
"Say nice things about your partner," Kol read out.
"That's an unusual tame dare," Stefan pointed out.
"I know. I'm ashamed of myself," Kol conceded. "Matt, you decide who talks."
"Okay, let's see. Rebekah, you say all the nice things about Elena you can come up with."
Rebekah huffed in annoyance. "Why me? There's nothing nice to say."
"I will keep drinking until you say at least five nice things," Matt said. "And I'm reaching my limit, so make it quick, please."
"Fine." Rebekah started after Matt began to drink. "I guess your hair is nice. And, I don't know, you have pretty legs?"
"Add something about her personality, Bekah," Kol chimed in.
She grunted. "Something nice about your personality? Something nice, huh? You feel strongly about your family, I like that. I guess you would sacrifice yourself anytime for your friends and family. That's also a noble trait. And, and, argh I don't know! You're not bad at cheerleading. That's five, alright!"
"Was that so bad?" Matt stopped drinking.
"That was the hardest dare until now." She scoffed.
"Everyone drink!" Kol yelled out and they followed his command. "You're next, brother."
Klaus picked a card.
"Another joker? How do you always get them?" Stefan asked.
"I guess that means we do the 'Waterfall' again, starting with me?"
"Yes, but this time, don't act so weak. I know you can drink more," Kol provoked him.
"Now, you said it," Matt cried out.
"Very well, brother. Get ready," Klaus said.
"The game's on!" Damon said cheerfully.
"No, what have you done?" Bonnie grimaced and looked at Kol.
"Am I happy I can sit this one out," Elena commented.
Klaus started drinking and the rest, that were sitting, followed his suit. He drank and drank and drank. After three bottles, Bonnie had to give up. She was not able to keep up with them. After another half a bottle Jeremy and Matt capitulated and after a total of four Caroline almost threw up. Stefan, Kol, Damon, Alaric, and Tyler were the only ones being able to keep up with Klaus. After five bottles, Stefan gave up and after six Kol, Damon, and Alaric quit as well. Only Tyler was left.
Caroline groaned innerly. Why did they always have to provoke each other, she asked herself. Klaus wanted to get an eighth bottle of beer, but there was nothing left under his chair. He had drunk all of it. Tyler finished his beer as well and finally averted his glare away from Klaus.
"I think I'll have to throw up," Matt said while trying to find a position to sit that put as little pressure on his stomach as possible.
Jeremy was also bend over holding his head between his knees. He groaned pitifully and Bonnie rubbed his back soothingly.
"I have to take a piss," Damon said.
"Me, too," Alaric responded.
"The same here," Stefan added.
"Yeah, I have to go to the bathroom as well," Caroline said. Most of the others nodded, signaling that they needed to go, too.
"Okay, let's have a short break," Kol announced. "We do have some logistic problems though, as we only have three bathrooms, I suggest we men take a piss outside."
"Good," Damon said and he and the rest of the males left the room. "See you in five minutes."
AN: Revised version.