revised 6/27/14

Zach's POV

I sat on the roof right above the doppelganger's room.

She looked like Katherine.

I missed Katherine.

This Elena girl would be fun to bother. My phone rang with Uncle Jack's special ring tone and I glanced down at my Trac-phone reading the text.

'Keep an eye on the girl, but don't hurt her, not yet at least. If you hurt her, it would give Klaus even more a reason to hurt our family. –Unc J.'

I scoffed at his warning and shut my phone, sliding it back into my pocket. I trained my hearing back on the girl and heard her slow breathing. She must be asleep.

I swept my hearing across the house, and heard Kol and Sam talking. About me. It was time for a proper introduction.

I dropped down off the roof, and landed quietly on the grass. I made my way to the side door, and let myself in. The Kol boy's head snapped over at me and snarled.

"Hello Kol, father." I said nodding at both of them.

Kol darted over and slammed me against the wall, fangs sliding out.

"Stay away from Elena," he snarled at me.

"Awww it looks like Kol actually cares about someone other than himself!" I said with a smirk.

Kol's eyes flashed and he slammed me backwards again, making the house shake.

I grunted at the pain but let the amusement stay in my eyes, just to tick him off.

"Kol, back off and let my….son…explain himself," Sam commanded gently.

Kol slowly let me go and backed away, an irritated look on his face.

"Well son?" Sam said expectantly.

"She looks like Katherine, and with Kol watching over her, it's fun to bother her and hear her pretty little heart race." I informed them with a smirk, laughing when Kol snarled and almost sprang at me again.

"Stay away from her Zach. I know you liked Katherine when she was in England, but Elena isn't Katherine. And from what I've heard, she's selfless unlike Ms. Petrova," Sam warned me.

My mother walked down the stairs and gaped as she saw me standing there.

"Hello son," her voice was stiff.

And with that, she awkwardly turned around and went back up the stairs, not wanting to be in my presence.

I used that small distraction to speed off, back to my seat on the roof.

Kol's POV

Stupid, arrogant Zach! Thinks he can mess with my Elena – er - hostage and not get away with it. I thought angrily as I stalked my way up to my room.

I paused at Elena's door, wondering if she was sleeping.

I heard her heart beat normally, and decided to go inside.

I knocked once on the door, and then opened it slowly. She was sitting on her bed with the bedside light on staring at her hands, deep in thought. I cleared my throat and she jumped glancing up at me. I bit back a smirk and walked over to her, sitting on the bed next to her.

"How's your wrist?" I asked quietly.

She looked up at me with a blank expression on her face.

"It finally scabbed up," she told me, flipping over her hand and showing me her wrist, which had a small crescent scab on her pulse point.

Dang, this vampire must have had practice.

I dragged my fingertips over the scab as gently as I could.

"I'm sorry Sam's son did this to you," I apologized.

"His son?" she gaped.

I just nodded.

"Its not your fault," she murmured.

Elena's POV

I was shocked when Kol apologized to me. He seemed like he actually meant it!

Robin walked in, interrupting our 'moment' if you want to call it that.

"I will be ready for the spell in the morning," she announced.

"Spell…?" I almost shrieked.

Why am I surprised? It's so like Kol to do something like that… I thought gloomily.

Robin just nodded and walked out.

I glared over at Kol.

"Get. Out." I hissed.

"Elena…" he protested.

"No Kol, just go away!"

"Please…I can't have the Bennett witch or one of Klaus's witches finding you!"

"I wish you'd just let me go!" I whispered back, staring into space.

"You know I can't do that, doll," he said, the smirk evident in his voice.

I got up and turned around towards the far wall, showing him that I had no interest in talking to him anytime soon.

I heard a sigh, a whoosh, and then he was gone.

~0~

The next morning, I was awoken to the smell of food, and discovered a plate of breakfast outside my door. I looked down the hall at Kol's room and saw a mug-most likely full of blood outside his door. I quietly tiptoed down the hall to Kol's door and peered into the mug, wondering if he was awake. The mug was full of blood and I heard a quiet snore. I bit back a laugh. I suddenly had an idea. Grabbing the mug, I poured the tiniest amount of blood under the door, knowing it would awaken Kol's highly trained nose. I then silently ran back to my room and pressed my ear to the door, waiting to hear him.

A few moments later, I heard his door creek open and shut. I picked my food off the floor, and went to sit on my bed to eat.

Opening the cover over it, the warm scent of eggs and bacon wafted up to my nose. I ate the food and waited to be summoned for this spell.

Robin's POV

At nine thirteen sharp I went and got Elena and Kol. We went to the spell room-my special room full of Grimoires and other magical things. I had Elena sit in a mahogany chair. She didn't struggle surprisingly, just sat there, casting the occasional angry glare at Kol, who just smirked back at her.

God, that boy was a cocky thing.

I flipped through an old Grimoire-the Original witch's Grimoire, until I stopped at a page with a clock and a map with a question mark on it. I scanned the page briefly, memorizing the spell.

I walked over and placed my hands on the sides of Elena's head, near her temples.

"Phesmatos tribum nas ex viras, non sequitas saguines, Ementas mihan ega petous-ous!" I chanted, the candles flames flaring up around us.

The clock's hands spun around quickly, and stopped at the time; 9:17 a.m.

Kol had me make it so the other witches had from 9:10-9:25 a.m. to get the right location, if they did the spell any other time, they would get some random location. I noticed Elena trembling after I chanted the spell, and her eyes closed slumping to the floor.

Kol nodded at me before picking her up off the floor, taking her to her room. I noticed the girl had glanced at my notes about the time. Kol better have compelled her to not be able to contact anyone, or they would know as soon as she got a hold of a phone where she was and about the messed up locator spell-along with the special time.

I shrugged. It wasn't my problem.

Klaus's Hybrid; Chase POV:

I sneaked through the woods near this Sam person's home. I inhaled the breeze, smelling vampires, witches and…a human. She must be there. I wonder why everyone is so hyped up about this one girl? Even Elijah, who seemed to be the most noble and composed person out of all of us seems to be a bit disturbed with the fact that this Elena girl was in his brother's possession.

Must be one special girl…

I crept up to the house and scaled the ivy on the far wall, peering in the windows. I passed by one, two, three windows. On the fourth window, on the…third floor, I saw a human passed out in Kol's arms. Kol was carrying the brunette to a bed.

What had he done to her?

Was that girl Elena?

I took note of the girl's skin and hair, and made my way back to the group to report.

Damon's POV

We sat in the hotel room, waiting for the hybrids to get back-well they sat, I paced back in forth, like a lion trapped in a cage. I finally gave up and sat down, taking a swig of bourbon. Mid-swig, I noticed Elijah and Klaus glance at each other and then the door. A second later I realized why. I heard a few people walking down the hall. I jumped up and sprinted to the curtains, peering out. There came hybrids one, two, and three. I knew they had names, but my mind didn't want to think of them now, I was too anxious to hear if they had any news on Elena and Kol. They reached the door, and I made my way to the door, but I was beat by Klaus and Elijah, who both tried to whip open the door at the same time.

I bit back a snort.

"Well boys?" Klaus demanded, raising an eyebrow.

The first two started to talk at the same time but the third-what was his name? - oh right, Chase - his strong voice overpowered them, and with his words, the two shut up.

"I think I found them!" He announced with a smug grin.

"Where?" Klaus asked quickly.

"I went to where you told me to, and climbed up the side of the house on some ivy- and on the third floor, I saw the same boy that was in the picture – Kol – and an olive skinned girl with long brown hair – Elena – right?" He explained.

My eyes widened, but I stopped myself from getting my hopes up.

"Did you smell anything peculiar or see anything odd?" Elijah asked.

"I smelt candle wax, very faintly. And-oh- Kol was carrying Elena in his arms. She was rather asleep or passed out." He informed us again.

I growled at the thought of Elena - my Elena - in Kol's arms. He better not have hurt her, or he'd pay. My growl earned me weird looks from the hybrids, a look that said, 'obsessive much?' from Klaus and a knowing look from Elijah.

"The candle wax scent is from a spell, probably one Robin just cast on Elena," Elijah suddenly said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Good job Chase, now why don't you go and get yourself a drink…a real drink," Klaus told him.

I knew he was most likely talking about a tall blonde one and I saw Elijah scowl at Klaus's words, but he didn't say anything. He seemed to know that his chiding wouldn't have any effect.

We all gathered around the table and planned for the rest of the night.

Elena's POV

I opened my eyes just to have to close them right again.

Geez, light was blinding after you've been asleep for-wait…why was I asleep?

I thought back to earlier, I remembered Robin chanting, but after that, it was blank.

I must have passed out after she cast the spell… I realized.

I cracked my eyes open again, not wanting to dwell on the fact that I was even harder for my friends to find.

All I knew was the time, 9:10-9:25 a.m. and that it had to do with this spell that had to do with my location…I seared that memory into my mind, knowing it could be important if I could get that information to my friends.

If I could get it to my friends…

I opened my eyes a bit more, letting them adjust to the bright mid-day sun.

I sighed, really wishing I could go outside and roam the property. I imagined that they had gardens, since witches were servants of nature.

I rubbed my eyes and slowly got up. The scent of rose wafted faintly off my wrists.

The soap, my mind reminded me.

I wonder if Kol smelled it. If he did, he did a good job of hiding it.

I stretched and cleared my mind, intent on going outside to enjoy the fresh air.

I wandered downstairs fifteen minutes later, finally finding an exit door.

I opened it, and if I wasn't a human, I would have known it set an alarm off in Sam's room and office.

I slowly wandered my way around the side of the house, gasping when I saw a beautiful garden, just like I expected.

The garden's entrance was a pretty white trellis arch, which had ivy growing all over it. There was a stone path that started where I was and led through the garden. I stepped onto the path and made my way through the garden.

After I walked through the arch, there was a magnificent fountain with green bushes, flowers, and benches about ten feet away. I walked around the fountain and followed the stone path past hundreds of different flowers of every color, many different kinds of herbs and finally, reached a beautiful wooden gazebo that over looked a humungous koi pond surrounded by roses of every color imaginable. I stood under the gazebo when I heard a whoosh, which caused me to whirl around.

There stood Kol, looking very pissed off.

"Is there a problem?" I asked innocently. I should have known he'd be pissed off if I wondered off.

"What are you doing out here?" he demanded.

"Admiring Robin's beautiful garden, and getting some fresh air," I told him honestly.

He rushed forward and stood so close to me, our noses almost touched.

"Did you honestly think you could get away? How did you get rid of my compulsion?" he angrily asked.

"I-what are you taking about?" I narrowed my eyes. Did he really think I was trying to escape?

"Oh," he dropped his eyes, and guiltily rubbed the back of his neck. "I'm sorry Elena, it's just…"

I took a step back. "Its alright, Kol, I guess," I mumbled. But truthfully, it wasn't all right. I was tired of him not trusting me. I turned to face the pretty view before I snapped.

I whirled around. "Why won't you trust me? You've already compelled me not to run off, and exploring the garden is NOT running off, thank you very much!"

I was seething.

He stared at me, surprised at my outburst. "I'm sorry, again. I've been betrayed so much, it's hard for me to trust. I know now that you can't go anywhere," he smirked, but the smirk was gone as soon as it arrived. "Do you mind if I join you?"

I sighed and stepped to the side, making room for him. He walked next to me and we stood there for a while, just admiring the pond and roses until he bent down and broke off a red rose, tucking it in my hair. I glanced up at him shyly. He looked back down at me, the emotion breaking through his hard eyes once again.

"Careful Kol, your humanity is showing," I murmured with a slight smile.

He grinned, and for once, the shield didn't go up. "I think I can finally be more myself around you, Elena."

I blushed and looked away, chanting Stefan, Stefan, Stefan in my mind.

And once, just once, I even chanted Damon reminding myself of his intense love he had for me.

He gently grabbed my chin, forcing me to look at him.

"Why do you do that?" he asked quietly.

"Do what?" I said, pretending to not understand.

"Why do you pretend that you don't have the slightest of feelings for me? That the only person who you feel that way about is Stefan?" he said even quieter.

I bit my lip and shrugged, "Do you expect me to have feelings for you? You kidnapped me, Kol. Took me from my friends and family. I feel nothing…" I said, and that was partially the truth.

"You do the same thing with Damon." He murmured, ignoring my statement entirely.

He slowly leaned in, but at the last second, I pulled my face gently out of his grasp.

"I'm sorry Kol, but I-I can't," I whispered. I stared at my feet and slowly walked to the other side of the gazebo, feeling like I was having one of those Damon moments.

Let's just hope Kol doesn't lash out like Damon does... I thought sadly to myself.

I thought of Kol and Damon.

Kol was like Damon, in a way.

Damon had been hurt by Katherine, and he lashes out whenever I hurt his feelings, on accident or not.

Kol seemed to use his arrogance and ego to cover up his feelings, and he had been hurt by Serena, even though Serena had no intention of hurting him willingly.

I heard Kol's feet walk over to me, and he laid a hand on my shoulder.

"I'm sorry, doll, that I'm like your Salvatore boys," he said, the hurt clear in his voice. "I shouldn't of tried that." He wouldn't even say the word. "I'll be going now." His voice was stiff on the last part, and it was the hurt that made me turn around.

"Kol, I-" I started to say, feeling bad for the guy. He was probably feeling really conflicted with himself and me. That would explain his mood swings.

Kol bolted forward and tenderly kissed my cheek, staring into my eyes like one staring into a soul.

He dropped his eyes and stood there awkwardly.

I couldn't help but to hug him tightly. He hugged me back and as I pulled away, he disappeared.