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I smile at the sun leaking through the window. I'm curled up comfortably in a window seat of a small foreclosure reading Romeo and Juliet again. Honestly it gets better every time I read it, or it gets stupider. It depends on my mood. I smile seeing Kol walking happily towards the house a triumphant grin spread across his face. I place my bookmark and snap the book shut and watch him. The confidence hasn't left him, that's for sure. It's weird but he has more life in him. He's always had that sparkle in his eyes but it's been amplified since he got out of that coffin.
"What you looking at Tia," Kol said traveling inside via vampire speed and flopping down on the window seat ungracefully. I smile and push him off me.
"How was the walk?" I ask raising an eyebrow at his smile as he got up.
"Absolutely great. The day is as beautiful as the girl I'm looking at right now."
"Be careful there are two other girls out there with my face. There's some big festival tonight and you are coming with me tonight. There will be dancing and I don't really want to compel myself a date."
"Of course we need to celebrate. But why not start dancing now?" He said picking me up and swinging me over his shoulder spinning me in circles.
"Stop it! Put me down!" I say between laughs he finally does and we dance in a loose formation dancing in untidy circle nowhere near as rehearsed as the dance we did in the empty intersection. "so why are we celebrating?"
"Nik got a witch to unbind us." He said cheerfully spinning me again so we're both facing the wall.
"So if you annoy me I can shove a silver dagger in you and not feel guilty about making your siblings drop dead," I tease. He raises an eyebrow and spins me back into dance formation.
"Annoying? People usually use other words to describe me."
"That's because they don't know you like I do."
"And thank god for that," he said smiling swinging me parallel to the floor and catching me before I hit the ground. I realize what he's going to do before he does it. But I don't protest. I kiss him back for a second. Light and sweet, only a peck really, but that's all that matters because my mind is already spinning. Only a few days ago I kissed Elijah opening up a story that I thought was best left a tragedy, and not even a month ago I thought that I found the guy I could spend an eternity with. Yeah I don't have to worry about not getting guys, I have to worry about not getting the crappy ones. "I am going to meet Jeremy at the batting cages. Want to come?"
"Kol I thought age was supposed to make you wiser, I mean, Jeremy's sister is my doppelganger so if he sees me he will know something is up and start asking questions we don't want to answer."
"I know, I know," he said swinging me back up so I was standing normally closer to him than I should be. "I'll see you later then?"
"Pick me up at 5:00 we'll eat dinner somewhere before we go."
"You were supposed to be back an hour ago." I say when Kol walks through the door a baseball bat over his shoulder.
"Finn is dead," he says unemotionally stopping just inside the door.
"What?" I ask surprised. Finn couldn't be dead, he was all happy with Sage, according to Rebekah. He wouldn't still be on a suicide mission, at least not so soon. "Oh my god," I say letting the news sink in before I walk over to Kol and take him in my arms. "How are you taking it?"
"He wanted to die, so be it."
"But he was your brother. Even though he was in a coffin for 900 years, he was your brother. You're allowed to mourn him."
"I don't see the point he's dead."
"If I dropped dead right now would you be sad to see me go?" I ask trying to make him see reason.
"No," he said and I step out of his arms even though my question was answered without a meaning. But he caught my arm and pulled me back to him. "I'd be devastated." Then almost without hesitation he tilted my chin up and kissed me. He kissed me long and hard biting my lip before exploring my mouth with his tongue. We pulled away reluctantly, my thoughts spinning stopping at what he says next. "And I'd spend every small second I had left to live missing you," he said clutching me to him. I pull away a thought coming up.
"Finn's bloodline. Are they dead? We know that if I die all vampires will be eliminated, but if one of you die what will happen?" I asked my voice raising. Kol dropped his bat and kicked the door that I hadn't even noticed was left open closed pulling out his phone and calling Rebekah.
"Bekah where's Sage? Is she alive?"
"I don't know I never watched that bloody tramp. I'm not a babysitter." I rolled my eyes and took the phone from Kol.
"Rebekah, if she's dead then that means so is Finn's bloodline. Don't you want to know what will happen if you die? Check it out and get back to me. How'd Finn die anyway?"
"Salvatore brothers."
"They really aren't that smart. What are you doing now?"
"Might leave, might stay. Waiting for the Salvatore's to cough up two white oak stakes. Nik is leaving. What do you think you will do?"
"Probably stay with your brother, try to pretend my life isn't fucked up with supernatural shit. I'll talk to you later," I said hanging up and tossing the phone back to Kol who caught it and put an arm around me and led me out of the house.
We strolled through the normally car infested streets of the city that was lined with booths selling food, jewelry, and other assorted goods drawn to a band playing on a small stage in a small park. They were good we decided. A small city band that no one knew about. But they had enough talent to make it in the big leagues if people knew their name.
"Jeremy Gilbert three o'clock." I said under my breath and disappearing into the crowd when he went over to greet Kol. I rolled my eyes at their bro hug and started looking at some of the stuff in a booth nearby me.
"Beautiful isn't it?" A voice asked when I picked up a small dream catcher that was a light brown with small turquoise stone woven in the threading of it. I glanced at the speaker and smiled.
"Peter! What are you doing here? Where's Charlotte?" I say greeting the cold one with a hug. He and his mate were one of the first cold ones that I didn't find absolutely stupid in the first second I met them.
"Oh she's around somewhere. And you? You here by yourself?" His voice betraying hints of a southern accent that's faded over the course of a few decades maybe a few centuries.
"No my date's somewhere. I should probably find him." I said absently looking for him as I listened in to the sounds of the festival. I pulled my phone out and answered on the first ring.
"Sage is dead, I believe Damon Salvatore and Elena are coming for Jeremy, be careful." Rebekah said quickly before hanging up. I sighed rolling my eyes and focused back into the sounds of the festival.
"Who's your friend Tia?" Kol asked appearing behind me.
"Peter, Kol where's Jeremy? We've been elected as babysitters."
"Over there looking at some girl." Then I heard the cut off scream. I looked at Peter having one solid guess at what was happening. Then all in unison we took off to where Charlotte's pale form was drinking from Jeremy's neck. Without hesitating I pulled her off him and threw her into a brick wall. I sighed not hearing a pulse. Just my luck. I grabbed his hand and brightened he had a Gilbert ring.
"Come on Charlotte I needed this guy alive," I whined.
"Sorry Is," she says dusting herself off before hugging me. "Hope he wasn't too important."
"It's fine he'll be back in an hour. But seriously, why do you always target my friends?" I ask jokingly.
"I don't, my targets just turn out to be your friends."
"Okay, I'll bring him back home. You can, catch up." Kol said eyeing the two cold ones with distrust.
"Actually I should go with you. It was nice seeing you two. Next time we meet I hope it's not because you are killing someone important. See ya," I called out disappearing with Kol.
"Rise and shine m'lady," Kol called out giddy with excitement as he yanked open the curtains letting light stream in. "We are going to go play some base ball with our good friend Jeremy Gilbert. Well I will you won't. You will get to watch though."
"Yay," I said unexcitedly walking into my bathroom after a short trip to my small closet. I was dressed and ready in five minutes the white oak stake in my boot. "Let's go," I said walking out the door leaving him no choice but to follow with his wooden bat swung over his shoulder. I dropped him off at the cages warning him that they were already there. Five minutes later when they were walking out with Jeremy I sighed and disappeared inside freezing at Kol's staked body shaking my head in disappointment. He always was too cocky.
I threw his body in the car and started driving following Damon Salvatore and the Gilbert's. After an hour of driving I smiled at the signs of life from Kol. When he finally woke up I smacked him.
"Hey remind me again why I let you go in by yourself. One vampire, Kol, one vampire. Not even an old one at that." I half teased him. I turned my attention back to the road and turned off following the Gilbert car I had caught up to a while back. It's not my fault they're stupid enough to not notice me following them. We pulled into a motel. We stayed in the car rolling the windows down.
"Where are we," Jeremy asked.
"The corner of somewhere and nowhere where Kol can't find us," Damon answered in his arrogant voice while I tried to keep from laughing at Kol's expression.
"I can't believe Kol was a vampire," Jeremy said an aura of self disappointment surrounding him.
"Didn't you find it weird you made a friend so fast? Have you met you?"
"Not helping," Elena scolded. I zoned out when they entered their motel room.
"What are they looking for? Did they say anything?" I asked tiredly slumping against the seat.
"Of course I thought you knew. They're looking for who sired their bloodline." Kol said running a hand through his hair.
"Oh that's easy. Nik did. I looked it up after my dear doppelganger became a vampire."
"Well they can't know that."
"Then I guess we have to visit an old friend." I pulled out my phone and called Nik he answered on the second ring.
"Hello love miss me already?" He asked in his cheery accent.
"You wouldn't happen to know where Scary Mary is would you? I'm working on saving your family's lives."
"What makes you think I'd tell you?"
"You will to save your family."
"They aren't my family."
"Don't live in denial you were my best friend before you ruined my life. You love them no matter what you say. Get me the information Nik."
"Okay, okay. I will for a kiss."
"Not this time." I said hanging up. This wasn't five hundred years ago. I knew he wouldn't doom his siblings to death. It's something I wish I would've known years ago. But I didn't and it screwed up my life once. It won't happen again.