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Chapter 12:
Dev didn't seem to suspect anything when they arrived in Kenzie's motel room, but that was partly because they were both drunk – mostly Dev. They held onto each other as they entered the room and once they were inside, he pushed her against the wall, kissing her passionately.
Kenzie flinched a little because there was something about the kiss that reminded her of someone else, but she couldn't remember who it was.
Dev pulled away and looked at her, a smile forming on his lips. "I've missed you so much, Kenzie… so much…"
He kissed her again and this time she kissed him back, jumping up on him and locking her legs around his waist, letting him carry her to the bed. He ripped her shirt off easily and then pulled the rest of it off before quickly undressing himself.
But while he undressed himself, Kenzie quickly grabbed a hidden stake she had under the mattress and jammed it right into his chest when he went to kiss her again, aiming for his heart.
She hit his chest and his heart too, but the stake didn't get to go all the way through. Dev instinctively attacked her and threw her into the other side of the room before the tip hit his heart, then yanked it out of his chest, growling like any other vampire would do.
Kenzie tried getting up, but she winced when she felt that her arm was either broken or badly injured.
"You… you attacked me?" Dev asked incredulously.
"Yes and I will gladly do it again, you bloody vampire! You're just trying to take advantage of me anyway and you can forget about me helping you find that tree!" she snarled.
He frowned and his gaze finally moved down to her injured arm. "Let me heal–"
"No. Leave or die."
Dev sighed heavily. "I'm sorry, Kenz. I didn't mean to–"
"Of course you did. I attacked you and if it wasn't because you need my blood then you would've killed me now."
He groaned, but new it might be true. "At least let me take you to the hospital. Your arm might be broken."
She shook her head and tried getting up again without putting too much weight on her injured arm. "Get out of my room right now!"
He frowned again, but then suddenly realized something. "That bastard compelled you, didn't he? Oh, he is so dead then I find him! Kenzie, stay away from Kol! You hear me?"
He left the motel room, slamming the door so hard that the walls shook a little, but Kenzie ignored it and went to call an ambulance instead. She managed to get one of her shirts on despite the pain in her arm and was eventually taken to the hospital to get her arm checked.
Caroline arrived only a few minutes after much against Kenzie's wish, but even though Kenzie didn't want Caroline to worry about her, then she was still happy to see her.
"Oh, God! What happened to you? I–" She lowered her voice. "Did Kol attack you?"
Kenzie shook her head. "My ex-fiancé Dev did after I tried staking him. The doctor said it's broken, but… I'll be fine in a couple of weeks or so. I heal fast." she said calmly.
Caroline raised an eyebrow. "You're awfully calm for someone who just broke her arm? Are you okay?"
She wasn't okay. At all. She couldn't put a word on it, but she just knew that something was terribly wrong inside her and she wondered if Dev had been right – did Kol compel her?
"I understand you're worried about me, but I'm fine, Caroline. I am. Go home and be with your mother. I can take care of myself."
Caroline opened her mouth to object, but Kenzie quickly shushed her. "Go home or I'll spray vervain on you. Please."
The young vampire sighed heavily, but reluctantly left and Kenzie sat on the bed with her left arm all wrapped up in gaze, trying to figure out what do to now.
Her arm was broken, Dev was still alive and she still needed to figure out how to find that tree, so she could kill the Originals.
Kenzie looked at her watch and groaned when she saw that it was broken, but she suddenly felt a breeze of air and sensed that a vampire was in the room.
She looked confusedly around and her eyes widened a little when she saw none other than Klaus standing at the foot of her bed.
"My, my, what happened to your arm? Had an accident?" he asked teasingly.
Kenzie said nothing.
She didn't have anything to say to that man or any of his siblings as long as they were still alive and hurting people as they pleased.
"It would be very easy of me to just kill, you know. I compelled the attending nurse to stay out of the room and…" He went to touch her foot, but she quickly yanked them to herself. "No one will come here anyway after you sent Caroline away. She is the only family you have here."
"So? What's keeping you from killing me then?" Kenzie asked daringly.
Klaus flashed his hybrid fangs at her, making her flinch a little. "Your blood of course, sweetheart. Why do you think I let you live that night I killed your mom?"
Kenzie snorted. "I knew it… But you know what? Now that I know this I can ruin your plan and keep you from finding the tree and then you'll have to hide until you're sure that your own mom won't come and kill you!"
Klaus chuckled and walked closer to her, but she remained calm the entire time. She didn't have anything to lose except for her life and had made sure to drink vervain in case someone removed her necklace.
"I won't let that happen and I know that my brother won't let that happen either. He does love you after all."
She snorted. "Kol loves me? You gotta be kidding me! That guy isn't capable of loving anyone just like you and he's definitely not interested in me!"
He frowned a little, but didn't say anything and merely looked to her broken arm. ""I'm starting to understand why Kol fancies you so much… it's your spirit."
Kenzie rolled her eyes. "Good for you, but I don't really care what you think of me."
He chuckled and brushed a lock of her hair behind her ear. "Kenzie, you may be able to trick everyone else into thinking that you're okay, but I know that you do care about what people think of you and I bet you made Kol take your memory away because you were scared of getting your heart broken – not because it would make it easier for you to kill him."
She said nothing, but she didn't need to say anything to make Klaus leave. He left the hospital without a sound or trace and for a long while Kenzie just sat in the bed.
She turned her gaze to the doorway as she sensed someone's presence and caught Kol walking away from the room. She quickly jumped out of the bed and ran after him even though she was only wearing a hospital gown.
"Is it true? Do you… love me?" she asked worriedly.
Kol stopped in the middle of the hallway and turned around slowly, looking nothing like she remembered. He wasn't smirking or had that dangerous air about him, but just looked like any other worried young man.
"No, I… don't," he said, but it sounded more like a lie. "You mean nothing to me."
She shrugged. "Then why are you here?"
Kol sighed heavily and looked away. "Fine! I do love you, but it won't change anything. You said it yourself – you can't kill me if you have feelings for me – and that's why I took your memory away… but that plan didn't work so well. Neither did our plan of keeping us a secret."
Kenzie sighed too. "What do we do then?"
He looked up at her and thought about it for a moment. "The only thing we can do is break the spell my mother put on my siblings and I and that is not an easy task. Not for a hunter or a vampire anyway, but another strong witch…"
"Kol, I'm not going to help you break the spell. Not if it means that Klaus will once again be invincible."
He groaned and walked up to her, going to place his hands on her arms, but he remembered that her left arm was broken and decided not to.
"Then we'll make the witch remove the spell from me and the others… well except for Klaus and Finn of course. One deserves to die and one wants to die anyway."
Kenzie didn't have a problem with that and even though she still didn't remember everything from their time together, then she trusted that he wouldn't trick her.
"I think I know someone who can help us then. Follow me."
Kol followed her out to the parking lot and after going for a quick trip to her home to get her clothes and things, they left Mystic Falls.
It was a little difficult for Kol to drive at first since he was still not used to driving a modern car, but he managed to drive somewhat properly and was only about to hit another car about 3 times that night as they drove on the highway.
"God, I've never seen anyone drive as badly as you do," Kenzie said teasingly. "I think a blind man could drive better than you."
Kol rolled his eyes. "Well, excuse me, but I was daggered throughout the entire 20th century and still have to get used to this modern world." he said.
She giggled and took a look at the clock. In a few hours they would be in Ohio where a friend of Kenzie's lived with none other than her oldest brother.
It was going to be awkward going there and then with a vampire, but she needed her friend's help.
Even though her brother might try killing Kol first.
"Dev did that to you, didn't he?" Kol asked after a while.
Kenzie looked at her arm and sighed. "Kol, I–"
He slammed his hand down on the dashboard, making a dent in his car. "I knew it! Oh, I'm going to rip that bastard's head off when we get back. No! I'll start with ripping his other limbs off and–"
Kenzie quickly leaned in and kissed him on his lips, making him relax and loosen his grip on the steering wheel. She didn't know why she did it, but it felt familiar and she'd missed the feeling even though she had only forgotten about him for not even a day.
Maybe she really did love him too…
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