The air came with a razor-sharp pain that spread all through his chest, he didn't need the air but his human instincts always took over in times like this. Someone had stabbed him in the heart and he lost awareness of everything around him. Now that the dagger was out he tried to touch his chest but found himself with ropes around his neck and wrists; he glanced over to the man holding it, evidently someone with a very big death wish.

The Vervain used in the ropes holding him down were no real threat though and he would soon get free to kill the ones responsible for this.
The man threw the girl on the ground in front of him, she was crying and he felt his wrath build slowly inside of him.

"Leave her alone." he said trying to choose in what way he would kill him.
"Maybe that's what you should have considered Viking monster." the man hissed at him.

He frowned wondering who knew this much about him. The other man knelt grabbing the girl's long black hair and pulled her head back, she sobbed knowing her fate and reached for his hand but he was tied up and he couldn't help her. He looked around, the entire village was destroyed, everyone was dead and Mirela was next. He fought his restrains and almost broke free but his day light ring was gone and the day was beginning, the sun rose majestically in the sky and his flesh began to slowly burn.

"I haven't done anything… please let me go." Mirela pleaded for her life.
"You have been sharing your affections with that one." The man said and cruelly executed her because of her sin.

"MIRELA!" Kol shouted as the hunter slit her throat coldly.
The man showed no signs of regret or even feelings and looked at the sky, the sun was setting in fast, maybe this could kill the Original.

But he didn't last long to answer his pray.
A blur came from behind Kol and stopped in front of him, his heart was gone in a blink of an eye.

Klaus dropped the bloodied organ on the ground furious that they were hurting his baby brother. Kol was keeping his screams to himself, his skin was burning but his eyes were on the girl dead on the ground.
Klaus freed him and held him as he fell forward into his arms.

"They killed her Nik..." he whispered.
Klaus didn't say anything, instead he took his brother away to safety.

Kol woke up with a gasp from his nightmare, his very vivid memory of what happened that day. Like all other times he woke up panting and sweating, he sat on the bed resting his feet on the cold floor and rubbed the back of his neck, it had been so long but he could still see Mirela's scared eyes as she died in front of him.
Because of him.

He closed his eyes, the images would haunt him for days now, these phases came when he least expected them and the nightmares lasted sometimes for months before leaving him.
Sleeping was of no use or point so he picked a shirt and covered his naked chest, his leather jacket was next before he left his bedroom.

The house was buried in silence and he grabbed the keys, got inside his car in need to clear his head, to find distraction. The Grill was probably closing or opening, he had no idea actually what time it was. But he found himself in a very different place as he parked in front of Bonnie's house.

He killed the engine and rested his head against the seat, now this was a mistake. Not only he was letting his silly feelings get in the way of carelessly being with a woman like Bonnie who was just stunning, he was growing… attached to her. He could be engaged in other very distracting activities right this instant and instead he was parked outside the witch' house wondering if she was sleeping and what dreams lived inside her mind.

He clasped his lips sad, he sure hoped she was having better dreams than him.
Kol realized the day was beginning when the sun shyly hit his fingers, he danced with the warm light. When a small noise called his attention he turned to the door, she was coming out and stopped before sliding her left arm through the sleeve of the long cardigan.

Kol smiled watching the way the small skirt and the top looked so good on her, she gave him a look and he was conscious that he was lusting after the sexy woman and showing it in his face.
She pulled the sleeve of her cardigan up and came to the car, stopping at his window. "What are you doing outside my house so early?"

He pulled his eyebrows together. "Saying that I'm stalking you would sound terribly stalking of me." She laughed and he liked that, she had an amazing laughter.
"Are you here because of Elijah?" she asked with a sigh.

Kol smiled, he actually didn't remember she was going to meet his brother today. "Not a chance but I could give you a ride if you like."

"A bit early to go down to The Grill and hit on women isn't it?"
Kol shrugged. "I wouldn't know… is it?"

Bonnie smiled. "You are impossible, do you know that?"
"I have been told…" he said smiling when she came around and got inside the car.

"Well since you are here…"
"Since I am…" he drove away forgetting already how awful his day had started.

Elijah stood up from his table when he saw Bonnie walk in, he smiled at her but gave Kol a very annoyed look when he noticed that they arrived together.
"Good morning Elijah." Bonnie said cheerfully and sat down.

Elijah uneasily ran his hand over his shirt, Kol was joining them at the table. Bonnie gave the rebel Original a questioning look as well.
He ignored the heavy stares on him and picked the menu. "I have a lot of questions that need answers, so please…" he looked at the other two. "Pretend that I'm not here."

"That might prove difficult." Elijah said with a hint to how upset he really was.
Kol gave him his best smile. "Try hard."

Bonnie sat in the middle of two bickering Originals, she smiled at the girl who served them. "Black coffee… strong."
The girl nodded and waited for the remaining orders but neither of the men spoke, they just looked at each other.

"Don't you have some more vases to destroy?" Elijah quietly asked dismissing the girl.
"Although I love redoing Nik's house, I'm very interested in your knowledge about the Five."

Bonnie looked slowly at Elijah; unlike Kol, he kept his posture and emotions kept to himself.
"Why is there a picture of you with my Gran?"
Elijah turned his attention to the beautiful girl instead of his annoying sibling. "I met her a very long time ago, when she was still a young woman."

"And?" Bonnie asked wishing he would be more eloquent.
"And she was very beautiful."

Bonnie sighed upset and took her coffee, this was going to be a very long conversation. "What do you know about Shane and her?"
"Shane was her teacher and he found out about her unique gift. He was quite smitten by her which was something I could use."

"Why were you after my Gran?"
"I wasn't. I was after Shane."

"Shane?" Bonnie was surprised.
"If I was after Sheila, I would have known about the lovely Elena earlier." Elijah said with a smile and took his cup.

"Why were you after Shane?" she asked him quietly, with luck he wouldn't shut her down now.
"Shane is a tracker and he has been after us for a very long time. He found us in Italy and found Kol in Romania…" Elijah looked at Kol.

The hazel-eyed vampire looked away, he wasn't going to show Elijah his haunting thoughts.
"… and then the Five were sleeping and he vanished from the face of the Earth, until I tracked him back here."
Bonnie played with the napkin in the table. "How did you get rid of the Five back then?"

"I killed a hunter that was after Rebekah in Italy, before the hunter perished at my hands he told me that two other were awake and headed to Romania." Klaus said taking a sit with the rest of them.

Bonnie felt her heart give her away, she was sharing a table at The Grill with three Originals, this was surreal and nerve-racking.
"So you came to Romania for the rescue like the amazing brother that you are." Kol said with an acid smile.

"I couldn't allow my kid brother to get tortured and killed at the hands of powerful hunters." Klaus returned the smile.
"How thoughtful of you… I can't remember if I have ever taken the time to properly thank you."

Klaus smiled with Kol's disdain. "Well truth be told, you became a tad detached from everything after Mirela's death."
Kol clenched his jaw but knew Klaus was doing it on purpose, he wasn't going to lose it now. "Something that you fixed by stabbing me in the heart and locking me inside a box."

"Details…" Klaus shrugged slowly raising his hands.
Bonnie grimaced into her coffee, the mood had just changed and she knew her questions wouldn't have easy answers with Klaus joining the party as well.

Stefan looked at Damon, his brother looked as suspicious as he was.
"I have no reason to believe you…" Damon told Hayley.

The girl tilted her head smiling. "True."
"How do we know that you are one of the Five?" Stefan asked her and looked at Elena that was watching everything in silence.

"Only the other hunters can see our mark or the person that kills us."
Damon looked at Stefan. "Alaric told me about you but he said you were part of mythology now, that none of you were around anymore because there weren't five Originals awake at the same time…"

"I suppose that all changed when you decided to pull those daggers and free everyone and wake Esther on the way."
"Aren't you the knowledge little bee…" Damon paced around the wolf.

She smiled lazily. "It's my job to know all this and all I can say is that I woke up one day with this huge will to kill an Original, Rebekah to all of you curious minds."
"So you are here to kill her and the rest of us?"

Hayley shrugged. "You aren't helping them; you already killed one of them. In my book, that strategically places you all away from the enemy line."
"I'm having a hard time believing you." Damon sat down on the couch.

Hayley faced him determined. "I need someone to distract Klaus long enough for me to go in there and get Connor out, this entire Five circle doesn't work unless we are all linked, and by linked I also mean alive."
Damon pursed his lips and frowned. "Alaric mentioned hallucinations."

Hayley nodded looking around the house. "When someone dares to kill one of us, we make sure to leave them a sweet farewell present. We are fighting Originals here, this isn't exactly your average vampire that we are trying to eradicate, so we've been blessed with a lot of tricks."

"You haven't killed any of them yet, but we have. So maybe our tricks are better than yours." Damon said smiling.
Hayley looked at the sexy vampire. "The ones before us weren't set on killing them, they just wanted to hurt them because they didn't know better. Their main goal was to lock them away and they got lucky with Klaus' bad temper that made their job for them. But everything changed now, Klaus doesn't seem interested in putting his siblings away so the stakes just got slightly higher. He is going around making hybrids and all the others are free therefore we need to put an end to all of this. And this time around we have something the others didn't have…"

Damon smiled and winked at her playfully. "So that's what you really want…"
Hayley gave a lazy movement to her shoulders. "I'll scratch your itch if you scratch mine."

"I'm not giving you the only weapon I have to kill one of the Originals."
"Besides Klaus doesn't want to hurt Elena anymore." Stefan finally intervened.

"What about Rebekah?"
Stefan looked at Elena that smiled at him.

"What do you want exactly Hayley?" he asked the girl watching the couple with a smile.
"Distraction… Tyler was very talkative in the Appalachians while I was chaining him up and bonding with him over his desire to break his sire bond. It was very interesting to learn that you found a way to distract the mighty Klaus…"

Elena finally stepped in. "We will not use Caroline for this, he might hurt her."
Hayley took a deep breath. "Ok, I tried to do this the flirty way but I'm getting tired of all this resistance. You will convince Caroline to do this because Klaus is torturing Connor for the names of the other Five and he will break."

"So?" Damon asked standing up.
Hayley looked at Elena. "Right now in Mystic Falls, there are three awake hunters; me, Connor and your baby brother Jeremy."

Elena opened her mouth shocked and looked at Damon, then at Stefan.

Bonnie thanked Matt for another coffee and sat by the counter, she was done with the back and forth going on at the table among the Mikaelson family.
Elijah joined her with a warm smile after a few minutes. "Maybe we can finish our conversation."

"Is it safe to leave them alone in that table?"
Elijah looked behind him. "I'm choosing to ignore them for now. I'll bury the bodies later."

She laughed softly and rested her head over her hand, her elbow strongly on the counter. "What is this Shane? Vampire? He can't be human."
"He's a supernatural creature bound to walk the Earth while we exist."

Bonnie frowned, not the answer she wanted but she was getting used to Elijah and his dances around her pertinent questions. "Why were you tracking him? Wasn't he supposed to track you instead?"
Elijah cleaned the top of the marble with his palm. "Shane doesn't track only Originals Bonnie… he tracks possible hunters. He marks them and seals their fate, a hunter never finds peace or rest until he kills the Original that he is assigned to."

Bonnie was surprised with his words but she wasn't the only one.
Kol was just standing next to them. "All this time and you never thought of mentioning that?"

Elijah glanced over to Klaus that looked away in his own world uninterested with Kol's drama. "When I tracked him down, he told me the entire Five history and in exchange I left him alone, I gave him my word I would not search for him again as long as he did the same. And I left Sheila unharmed as a sign of good will."

"He came looking now…" Bonnie added quietly.
"Indeed but I don't know why… we aren't five anymore and this is mostly intriguing."

"That's why you kept me out of circulation?" Kol asked finally putting all the pieces together.
Elijah looked at Klaus that moved to the counter next to his siblings.

Kol shook his head mad. "It would have been nice if anyone had told me why I was being sacrificed."
"Family above all and it kept us safe." Klaus coldly said.

Kol left upset, he was done making sacrifices for the greater good of a family that didn't care for him.
Bonnie gave Elijah a small smile. "Thanks for talk…" She quickly said and left.

Elijah narrowed his strong features. "Bonnie and…"
Klaus smiled. "Stick to the Elena ship, that one has sailed a long time ago."

Elijah faced his brother. "You should tell Kol the truth, he believes that nothing lives inside of you except cold and indifference towards him."

"Well he is half right." Klaus smiled.
Elijah left to a table leaving Klaus and his stubborn ways behind.

"She can't be right…" Caroline said.
Elena played with her long sleeve. "I can't risk it; if Jeremy is one of them, Klaus will come after him."

"You don't know that." Caroline didn't take her eyes from the ground.
But Elena didn't expect the comment. "It's Klaus…"

Caroline still had her doubts. "He hasn't killed anyone lately."
"It's Jeremy, I'm not willing to gamble with his life on a chance that Klaus may have left his killing days behind." Elena was determined.

"I'm getting tired of doing this Elena." Caroline stormed away upset.
She came inside The Grill without the same will as the previous times when she was asked to do this. But it was Elena and Jeremy so she searched for her best smile and sat next to Klaus. "Hi."

Klaus smiled without looking at her. "Always a pleasure sweetheart."
She rolled her eyes. "Why can't you talk like normal people?"

He chuckled. "How do normal people talk?"
She wasn't forcing a smile now, it came out naturally. "With simple words and answers, like when I say Hi, you say… hi back."

Klaus twirled the ice inside his glass. "Why be normal when you can be extraordinary?"
She held back a huge smile when he looked at her. "Why buy me a drink when you can just take me away to some country?"

"If only I was given that chance more often Caroline." he finished his drink looking away again.
She licked her bottom lip, trapping it between her teeth. "You can start by buying me a drink."

Klaus looked at her slowly. "What are they trying to do?"
Caroline gulped down. "What?"

"They sent you here to flirt with me, to keep me distracted so that means your friends are planning something."
Caroline looked down from his intense stare, she didn't want to lie to him. Klaus stood up mad and in that second she decided to follow him. "Klaus, wait…"

But he wasn't stopping for her, he paced quickly to his car so Caroline flashed stepping in front of him. "Can you just… listen to me?"
"You are a beautiful woman Caroline but if you don't get out of my way, I will hurt you."

"You wouldn't…" she whispered.
Klaus closed the gap between them. "I'm about to go kill your friends slowly, I might as well start with you sweetheart."

Caroline didn't say anything to that, her big eyes looked at him with something he didn't want.
A sparkle of hope. He turned around fast, away from her before he did something he would regret.
"I didn't want to do it this time." she said before he went away.

Klaus stopped on his fast pace, he didn't look back at her.
Caroline was off the rails now, not only she had done a terrible job distracting him, she was slowly giving in to the real reason she didn't want to do this anymore, because it forced her to spend time with him and that was slowly chipping away her resistance.

"I don't want to distract you anymore." she slowly said. Fighting to tell him that she didn't want to be a distraction anymore.
Klaus turned fast and came near her, she hesitated not sure what he was going to do or worst, what she wanted him to do. He stopped inches away from her face again, serious. "Are you lying to me Caroline?"

She hated the way he was confronting her, she hated the way he was looking at her, the way his smell left her dizzy and the way his honesty was just screaming at her, his humanity at her reach. "I'm not." she barely managed to say.
Klaus smiled and for that one moment, he wasn't the bad guy everyone wanted dead or the human she met in the past. He was the moron that made her smile even when she fought hard against it. He was fascinating and intriguing and she wanted to know more about him.

Klaus fought with himself and with everything that happened so far, she wasn't suppose to get behind that wall he built based on all the pain and anger he felt towards the entire world that never shielded him from anything.
Klaus slowly moved and she clicked her teeth together when he gently touched her cheek, she looked at his amazing lips and then shook her head, she couldn't do this, what was wrong with her?

She pulled away from him but Klaus' stern hand on her cheek pulled her back to him and Caroline gasped hitting his chest. Her hand found support on the hardness of it and it only left her unbalanced; she kept her eyes on his necklaces, they were giving her impure thoughts but at least she was avoiding his eyes.
His hand moved to the back of her head, while the other found the niche in the small of her back sending waves of heat and pure lust through her, no man ever touched her the way he did. "Look at me Caroline…" he whispered and she loathed him for it.

"Stop saying my name like that…" she said between clenched teeth.
"Caroline..." he said lingering on each letter with his thick deep accent.

Caroline was shivering and she couldn't understand why, she slowly looked up and met his deep blue eyes. She was breathing hard. "Why do you do that?"
"Do what love?" he asked and his thumb stroked the perfect chin of the Goddess so close to him.

"Make me feel so different… and wishing that you were different as well?" she asked without stopping her hand that moved closer to his necklaces calling her.
Klaus licked his dry lips slowly and she wanted irrationally to catch his tongue with her own. He leaned over an inch, she felt his hot breath tickling her burning lips. "I can't answer that because I haven't met anyone like you Caroline and it is that difference in you that appeals to me so much."

"The one that only you see?" she whispered.
Klaus smiled; she was different when they were alone, when she didn't worry about what everyone else around them thought. His thumb came dangerously near her lips and it was the worst thing she ever felt with him. It felt right.

"What the hell is going on in here?"
The voice hit both, because Klaus wasn't expecting him either.

Caroline closed her eyes and pulled away at once from Klaus. She couldn't face her boyfriend, she knew how angry he would be at her.
And he was raging.

"Is any of you going to explain to me why you were about to kiss?"
Klaus knew the moment was gone, ruined because of the insolent boy that was becoming a huge thorn inside his shoe. He faced Tyler disturbed. "I don't explain myself to anyone, not bloody likely to start with you, it's actually the other way around if you please."

"I don't have a duty to you anymore, I broke my sire bond… while you were making a move on my girl."
The two men faced each other with deep anger for one another but this wasn't a battle Klaus was ready to lose. Not when he finally had Caroline so close to give in.

"Your one true purpose as a hybrid is to serve me… without your sire bond you are of no use to me anymore mate." Klaus said with a dark smile.
Tyler laughed at his words. "Stay away from Caroline… she's mine."

Klaus looked at him with spite but then he frowned. "Why are you here and not helping the Salvatores?"
"They don't need my help; Hayley and I have been helping other hybrids that you hold hostage, sired to you. By now they have set Connor free, I'm sure he's busy planning your death… here's a tiny plot twist for you, he wasn't after Elijah, he is your hunter." Tyler said happy.

Klaus quickly looked at Caroline but she wasn't there. "We need to find Caroline…" he said worried, he needed to get her out of Mystic Falls. He was right the first time around, they should have stayed in Portugal like he first planned.

Bonnie had missed him in the parking lot, he left in a hurry but she still found him.
"How did you know where I was?"

Bonnie smiled; it had been too easy, this was the same place she had found him with Henrik in the past. "I used my awesome powers of deduction"
He smiled throwing a rock at the river. "Better those than the ones that make me feel like you are pulling my brain out of my skull."

"Well I always wanted to try one of those things where I make a cute doll with your hair and then stick a needle to watch you cringe and scream in pain. Maybe I should try that one later for fun."
Kol stopped his next rock in the air and looked at her, she gave him an amazing smile. "Suddenly I'm very uncomfortable around you."

She came near him and took the rock from his hand. "Suddenly?"
Kol watched her play with that rock, which could easily stand for his heart. She knew the hold she had over him, she wasn't as confident as she looked but she loved that someone like Kol was willing to chase her if she made him chase her.

Bonnie faced the river and threw that rock as far as she could, by the time her arm came down, he caught it with his hand. He was standing behind her and his hand traced her arm, came to her side and slowly felt the curves of the woman in front of him. Bonnie felt her entire body react to his touch, to his fingers that gently moved her hair to the side and took her scent by running his nose along her neck.

She closed her eyes, his hands were caressing her body, his lips began to cover her neck slowly and reached her ear. He nibbled on it until he pulled a soft moan from her, he smiled and gently turned her to face him.
Bonnie stroked his neck and looked at him serious.

"This is such a mistake that I can't even begin to describe how dangerous it will be..." he said serious.
"I'm a big girl Kol... I can handle whatever comes out of this."

"That girl Nik mentioned, I got her killed..."
Bonnie smiled. "I live in Mystic Falls, everyone has died at least once, me included so... I'm done living like this, like I'm not alive... at least with you I feel something."

Kol stopped inches away from her lips, she made him feel a lot of things he shut down a long time ago. He placed his hand on her cheek and pulled her closer, melted her body against his and kissed her thoroughly. Bonnie answered him and tugged at his wild hair, kept his tongue busy and stroked his back, loved that his arms held her so close and safe in them.
She didn't care about anything else, just that he was kissing her and that she loved how he did it.

Caroline rushed home, she was fighting tears, remorse for what just happened between her and Klaus. Tyler would never forgive her and he shouldn't because even if things were shaky between them she was not the cheating type. She couldn't explain what just happened but that wasn't a good excuse.
Caroline turned a corner that led to her house and bumped into a tall, broad black man.

She tried to apologize but everything happened almost too quickly. He launched at her with a knife in his hand, she barely had a decent reaction but caught his hand. When she tried to push him, he fiercely closed the gap between them and twisted her hand towards his chest digging the knife deep into his heart.
He was strong and when she tried to take her hand and that knife away from his heart he took a step closer to her, signing his death.

Caroline gasped in shock and truly lost but the man died in her arms before she could even do anything. There was an ancient knife covered in symbols buried deep in his chest.
Connor died with a smile, his last mission before allowing another hunter to be awakened was leaving a nice goodbye gift, Hayley would be pleased.

"Oh my God…" Caroline said in panic, maybe she could give him blood. She tried feeding him blood and took the knife out from his chest pressing her hand hard on the wound to stop the bleeding but there was no reaction from the man, instead she felt strange.

Caroline pressed her eyebrows together and pulled her hand covered in blood, there was a strange symbol on her skin. She tried cleaning it but the blood only made the symbol stand out, she sat roughly on the ground confused.

"It's ok hunnie, it will be over soon."

She slowly searched the warm voice. "Daddy?"
Bill smiled warmly at her. "Don't worry hunnie, it will all be over soon."

Soundtrack:

Silent Lucidity – Queensryche