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CHAPTER ELEVEN-The Ties That Bind Us-

Stefan's P.O.V.

I watch as Kol takes a step back, placing his hands in his pockets and looking up from Elena and then back to me. "I'm sorry. I have no idea who you are...But, he looks familiar." Kol says nodding his head towards me.

I don't say a word, instead I close the driver's side door and make my way to stand next to my furious wife. Elena looks like she's going to kill with him the deadly glare that's radiating off of her eyes. Her body is tense and her smile's faded long ago. I've never seen her like this, so fueled by rage, by hurt and hatred for this one man that changed her life so much. That she's almost unrecognizable to my own eyes.

"Sweetie, maybe we should go." I tell her, grabbing her arm gently as Elena looks up at me, nearly foaming at the mouth with hatred as she pushes my hand off her arm and she comments with a sharp tone. "No. I'm not going anywhere. Until he gives me some answers. Now, If you want to wait in the car. You can. But, I'm not leaving until I get what I came for!"

I don't say anything, just watch Kol smile at my wife with that same disgusting smile that I had seen some many years ago, after Katherine had spent the night with him, showing up on my door step in the cold pouring rain and somehow we ended up back at the bar that night. Me seething from the blood on her face and her scared to death that one of us would end up dead.

"What did you do to her!" I screamed, wanting nothing more than to jump over the damn bar table and strangle him.

Katherine and I had shown up back at the bar where they had been dancing and drinking with each other. But, it didn't take long for him to start harassing her, to once again pull her in the back and punch her with his knuckles in the face. She came to my apartment, freezing cold from her altercation and with nowhere else to go when I got pissed and told her that I was going back to the bar. But of course, being the stubborn girl that she was...she didn't listen and followed me inside to witness me beat the living shit out of Kol.

"Oh, so now you two are shagging each other." Kol smirked, placing his drink down as I stepped behind him, pulling him off of his bar stool and onto the floor with all the strength I had and watching as he fell back on the cold concrete ground.

"Come on, Stefan! I'm just messing you with." He replied, as I pulled him up by the collar of his dark blue colored polo shirt and spoke with anger hitting every single syllable.

"If you're just screwing around then why does she have a busted up lip. Huh? You gave her a black eye and almost busted her nose! She doesn't deserve this you sick son of a bitch! She deserves someone better, that won't beat her..that won't fuel her addiction! I'm helping her and I swear to God that if I ever see you again...anywhere near her! You're going to wish you died. Do you understand me." I told him in a threatening tone, watching as Kol lifted himself up with his elbows and laughed.

"Oh come on! You wouldn't do that. You don't have it in you." He told me, taunting me as I turned around, pushing him back onto the ground and hovering over him. Then without hesitation, I pulled my arm back and punched him hard in the face, watching as the blood splattered onto the floor beneath us.

I could hear Katherine scream as she stepped behind me, pulling my arm and urging us to leave. "Stefan! Don't hurt him." She cried, trying to pull me off of him as I turned towards her, glaring at her.

"Let's go..Please." Katherine begged again when I looked over at her and let go of my tight grip around Kol's shirt that was fisted in my hands.

"You're wrong...I do have it in me to kill you and next time I see you. That is exactly what I'm going to do." I threatened him, watching as Kol looked up at me with fear in his eyes stuttering out a bunch of rambling words as I stepped away from him, swinging my arm around Katherine and walking out of the bar without another word.

"I know you...You were with Katherine that night at the bar in college...you nearly killed me." He comments, stepping back in a nervous way as he locks his eyes on me and just when I'm about to reply. I hear Elena huff out a breath.

"Well, since my husband doesn't need an introduction. I guess I should introduce myself to you then..I'm not Katherine. I'm Elena Gilbert and you killed my sister."


Elena's P.O.V.

Once I tell him, my mind is flooded with memories of Katherine and I. One in particular that stands out as I watch Kol let out a laugh and try to deny the facts..It's too reminiscent to a time in Katherine's apartment when I had came for a three day weekend from college and she blatantly denied that he wasn't beating her, that it was just a misunderstanding...

"Katherine! Tell me where you got that black eye from!" I shout at her, watching as Katherine brushes past me and almost barricades herself in her small bathroom.

"It's nothing, Elena. I swear it was an accident." She says. I get up from the couch, watching as she's about to close the door and shut me out. But instead I jump over the little love seat in her living room, making sure to not knock anything over as my hands stop her from closing the door, by placing them on the door with force.

"Was it him? Was it the guy that you're seeing. Because if it was I can call dad right now and tell him everything, we can help you Katherine!" I tell her, my voice begging for her to understand, for my sister to just agree and stop this nonsense.

But I'm quickly cut off when she opens the door wider with a sarcastic laugh. "Oh, you'd call dad! That's funny. Because the last time I checked they didn't give a damn about me or you or that sweet little girl that I gave birth too! So, Elena...just in case if I die tomorrow..I'll sign her over to you!" Katherine says suddenly as I feel the lump in my throat catch and shake my head.

"What the hell are you talking about? Katherine, if you're afraid for your life from this guy. There are ways of making you safe. You and Lillian!" I inform her, watching as she locks her eyes on me and speaks with a laugh.

"It's not that easy! He'll find me and make me regret it. Plus, I can't live without him." She says, her voice almost sounding robotic in a way as I look at her and watch her eyes well up with unshed tears.

"Katherine he's abusing you! You don't deserve that. Please, let me help." I plead with her and watch as she scuffs at me words, running her hands through her hair as she says "Leave it alone, Elena. You'd never understand, the relationship that he and I have."

"Oh, I may not. But, If I ever met this guy. I would tell him to leave you the fuck alone!" I comment, watching as she shakes her head and laughs."My little sister, always the brave one, always the protector."

"That's impossible...She didn't have a sister." He tells me, watching as I push myself off of the car door and take a step towards him. The memory of Katherine flowing away when I speak directly to him.

"Wrong! She had a sister, a family, a daughter and a boyfriend that you ripped her away from because you got her hooked on prescription drugs that she was never supposed to be addicted too!" I yell, my voice high pitched and sounding like it's being doused with fire, the more I speak the more it rises, the more hatred I feel for him and before I know it. My feet have brought me far from the car, pushing Kol against the wired fenced, the empty basketball court behind him as he grips his hands against the holes in the silver colored chains.

"I didn't know!" He says, trying to sound innocent. But, I can tell that he's lying. I can see it in his eyes that over the years he's perfected the whole 'innocent con-artist' act and that right now, he's trying to play me.

"You're full of shit! I know that you knew because..I found pictures of the two of you in her apartment! How did you not know that she had a baby, she had a family that loved her and you ruined it with making her think that she loved you. But, funny thing is Kol. Katherine never did love you because you made her believe that she did...with all the drugs that you would get to addicted too and the manipulation that you cast upon her, planted in her head. My sister didn't love you, she loved that you fueled her addiction!" I'm screaming at this point, tears streaming down my face as I watch Stefan pull me towards him, whispering into my ear that I should go and sit in the car.

"Fine! I'm done with him. He's going to deny any wrong doing. So, I'm done!" I shout over my shoulder, feeling Stefan's firm grip on my arms as he pulls me against him, our backs turned towards Kol briefly.

"Go in the car, lock the doors and close your eyes. If anything happens I want you to call the cops. It's going to be fine, I promise. I'll take care of him, I'll handle it." He tells me, leaving a quick kiss against my cheek as I nod at him, knowing what my husband's about to do and silently praying that there are no witnesses around to see him brutally beating the shit out of Kol Mikealson.


Stefan's P.O.V.

I watch as Elena tenses up at my touch, her muscles stiffen as she steps into the car and does what I told her. Then, I inhale deeply. Waiting a few minutes to focus until I bring my attention back to Kol. I pivot on my heels and clear my throat before I speak.

"So, you have no idea who the hell I am...are you sure about that?" I ask him, watching as I step closer towards him. We're just inches away from each other. I say nothing as I watch him almost puff out his chest at me, I personally want to laugh at this guy's lame ass attempt of trying to be tough. But, I bite my tongue as I give him a smirk and push him against the fence, hard!

"Woah! What the fuck man! You bring that crazy ass girl here to harass me for something I barely remember and now you're trying to attack me!" Kol says, giving me a blank stare as I push him into the fence further and place my arm tightly against his windpipe, watching as his eyes broaden and he gasps for air. But, I ignore his requests as he tries to push me off of him and begs for me to let him go.

I just turn around, distancing myself a bit and smirking to as Kol really hits a nerves within me when he says "That fucking chick needs a tighter leash!" And then I hit him, square in the face with every ounce of strength I've got left. I stand there for a minute, smiling, watching as he lets out a loud scream and holds his face with his hands, trying to nurse his wounds and possibly broken jaw.

"What the fuck was that for!" He shouts, spitting out blood onto the grass beneath us and taking his sleeve up to his face. Trying to stop the rapid now gushing red and warm flowing blood out of his broken nose.

"That was for you calling my wife a 'fucking crazy chick' and telling me that she needs to be put on a leash! My wife in that car, is not a dog! But, since you seem too far gone in the head to tell the difference, I punched you to make you remember that you should have some respect!" I tell him, tightening my own fists as I hear him laugh.

"You were Katherine's boyfriend! I remember you now! You're the guy who took her away from me. Tried to get her clean...I guess that didn't work out very well for you since after she had that poor excuse of a kid..She came running back to me, telling me that she missed the sex we had!" Kol says, his speech a bit muffled from the fact that he's still holding his nose with his fingertips, trying to stop the continued bleeding that's now dripping down his shirt.

"I was her boyfriend and I was trying to save her life. But, you came in and fucked it all up! And as far as that kid she had goes..I thank god every single day that she isn't yours, she's better off with me, Kol..at least I know how to treat women the right way! Oh and like my wife said-" I begin to say as he shakes his head.

"She's your wife. But, she looks just like Katherine and she's crazy!" He comments, pushing himself away from the fence that he's leaning on as he stares into the car at Elena who's got her eyes closed shut and her hands on top of her head.

"Yeah, she may look like Katherine. But, she's nothing like what you created her to be in the last months of her life. And, for the record...My wife's not crazy..She just wanted answers for our daughter. So that she can move on with her life. So, that we can both move on with our lives. Because you ruined them, you made my wife a mess and she blamed herself for a long time for her sister's death. But, now I know that it's really you that she should blame. It's because of you that Katherine is dead and that our daughter will never know the great person Katherine was." I tell him, watching as a quick glimmer of remorse passes across his face and then vanishes.

"You know mate. That bitch deserved it. Katherine was a no good low life and she deserved the fate that she got. I'm just sad to say that it wasn't a prescription pill or a needle in the arm that killed her. Because that night before the accident, she was nearly begging to get hooked again." He tells me, his voice loud and distant as I lock my eyes on him, charging at him at full speed when I once again push him against the fence, this time both of my hands are around his neck as he tries to fight me.

I tighten my grip around his now blooded neck and dig my short nails into his skin until he finally stops his movements and breathes out a breath that smells like boozes into my face. "And you, being the dick that you are! You, gave them to her. So, Kol. I guess that you and I had read a totally different article or police report for that matter. Because, Katherine died with a lethal dose of prescription pills and other drugs in her system...that you gave her. The night of the accident!" I tell him, watching him nod and gasp for air.

Finally after watching my finger tips draw blood against his skin, I let him go. I take careful note when he bends down, his hands are on his knees as he steps away from the fence that's become his safety zone. And before he can even think twice or comprehend what I'm doing. My arm flies up into the air, straight for the left side of his face again and the quick blow makes him keel over in pain. Kol ends up flying backwards onto the ground. I can hear him groaning in agony as I kick him in the stomach and place the sole of my shoe onto his windpipe gently as I speak to him, staring directly into his cold and evil eyes.

"I pray that you will burn in hell for everything you did and that maybe deep down in that pea sized brain of yours that you feel a bit of remorse for the things you've done." I tell him, turning my back towards him and making my way to the car without another word, hearing him clutching his stomach in pain. But, once I've reached the car and am about to open the door, I take a quick glance to see him in the fetal position on the cold, wet ground...crying and saying over and over again that he's sorry for what he did.


Elena's P.O.V.

I'm lost in my own world as I hear the car door open and Stefan slides into the driver's seat. Wincing and exhaling deeply as he tries to act like nothing's wrong. But, I'm concerned when I notice the crimson color of his hand.

"Baby! Are you okay?" I ask him, worry in my brown eyes as I quickly grab his bloodied hand, watching as Stefan inhales a sharp breath when I bend each of his fingers and move his wrist around. "Does it hurt?" I ask him.

He nods at me, taking it away from my grasp as he lifts it to my cheek and gives me a weary smile. "I think it might be broken actually. I'm realizing that I'm getting to old for this shit! But, it'll heal. Are you okay?" He asks, lifting his broken hand to my face and stroking my cheek with his fingers.

It's an automatic reaction to whenever he touches my skin that I close my eyes and lean into him. But this time, I'm crying out of nowhere and the tears don't seem to be shutting off as I ramble on about how much I love him and how much I'm thankful for him. I watch as Stefan leans towards me, feeling his hot breath on my face when he kisses me, running his hands through my hair like he always does.

The kiss is short and quick. But when I feel his thumbs wipe away my tears, I feel a rush of peace with him. "Thank you. For helping me. Thank you for being here. I'll be okay, because I have you with me. And we got what we needed, we got the truth." I tell him, watching as he kisses my forehead, and exhales deeply.

"I love you, Elena and I'll always protect you...even if I get a broken hand out of the deal. Kicking his ass was worth it." He says, leaning away from me to start the car.

I sniffle and rub my eyes, my dark makeup smearing across my face as I look up at him and smile in a way that almost seems foreign to me. I'm smiling widely when I turn in my seat to face the front of the car as I let out a small laugh and say "Yeah. But, babe..that was really fucking hot..I like when you get all mad." I tell him in a teasing tone. Hearing a loud laugh escape his throat.

"Oh, you do. huh?" Stefan asks with a laugh, placing the car in drive as we start to drive down the street.

"Yeah, I like it when you play rough. All badass!" I comment as he smiles widely, licking his lips as he takes his eyes away from me for a second when he says. "Somehow, I think you play a lot rougher."


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