Tori tried to go to sleep that night, but she couldn't stop thinking about Kol. Tori hoped that Kol would come see her first, instead of going home. Tori knew that Rebekah would exaggerate the situation with her and Beck.

Tori was laying in bed, wide awake, when she heard her window open. It happened so fast that she didn't even see Kol come through her window. Tori stood up from her bed and to close the window. She noticed from the corner of her eye, Kol laying on her bed. Tori smiled before turning around to see Kol.

"Why did you have to close the window, when I'm going to have to open it again to get out." Kol said.

Tori sat on her bed, next to Kol. "Or you could use the front door." Tori said still smiling at him.

Kol sat there for a moment in thought. "No way, too boring. I have better idea. How about I just stay here?"

Tori missed him, and it's only been a day. "And that's not boring for you, staying in one place for too long?"

"Well if we get bored we could always find a way to entertain ourselves." Kol said seductively.

Tori completely forgot about Beck. Kol and Tori spent the whole night talking. Although Kol had a different night in mind, he had a good time with her.

...

The next morning Kol left. He told Tori that he had to take care of some things, then they could spend the day together.

When Kol arrived home, he went straight upstairs. When Kol got to his room Rebekah appeared in his doorway.

"So, you've been with your playmate?" Rebekah asked.

"She's not a playmate Rebekah." Kol said grabbing a few things and throwing them into a bag.

"You have spent all night with her?" Rebekah asked.

Kol turned around annoyed with her. "What do you want Rebekah?"

"Did she tell you about Beck?" Rebekah went out with it. She wanted Kol to know that his little girlfriend isn't perfect after all.

"Who?" Kol asked not caring. He knew Rebekah was probably trying to stir up trouble.

"The man that she attacked yesterday." That got Kol's attention. Tori didn't know who she attacked. Kol thought. "I heard them talking in The Grill before you called. They were having a very private conversation. Maybe you should ask her about it." Rebekah said very pleased. She walked away with a devilish smile on her face.

Kol didn't know what to think. He trusted Tori, but who was this Beck guy?

...

Tori received a text message from Kol, right after he left, telling her to pack up a few things, and something nice to wear.

Tori got so excited that she that she used her vampire speed to go up the stairs and start packing. Tori was trying on dresses to decide which dress to pack. She tried on a white layered dress. the dress went to her mid-thigh and had spaghetti straps. She didn't think it would be right for something Kol was planning.

Tori, then tried on a tight denim blue dress. The dress went to her mid-thigh, and had green sparkles all over it. Tori thought it was perfect. Then she heard the doorbell ring.

Tori was surprised that Kol was using the door, but he did have his moments. Tori ran downstairs in her dress and opened the door.

"I'm surprised you used the..."

When she opened the door, she stopped in the middle of her sentence. It was Beck at the door.

"I thought you left." Tori said, still shocked to see him.

"I tried, but I just couldn't leave." Beck said. Then he noticed her dress. He looked at her up and down, she looked beautiful. "Wow, you look amazing. Is this new vampire wear or something?" Beck asked happy to see her.

"Beck, you can't be here." Tori told him. Kol was going to be here at any moment.

"Why? Why can't I just stay, and we could still be-"

"Beck, you can't just pick up and leave L.A. You're still in school, you're in our Junior year, how could you even be here now?" Tori asked.

"My parents think they put me on a plan to Canada for the weekend. I told them I wanted to go for the weekend." Beck explained.

"You would not be able to stay here, Beck. You can't and you know that, so why are you putting yourself through this?" Tori asked.

"I don't know, is it a crime to worry about you? It feels wrong leaving you here. I feel like I need to be here for you." Beck said.

"Kol is here for me right now. You don't need to worry about me. I'm the vampire who can live for eternity, who is needs to get ready for a trip with Kol. So, you need to worry about yourself, and go home. Get your education and live your long human life." Tori tried to convince him. Beck didn't look like he changing his mind.

He stood there, in thought for a moment. "If I find a way to stay, would you give me a chance?" Beck asked.

Tori stood there looking at him. Then something caught her eye behind him. It was Kol. Tori stopped all thinking and went into panic mode.

"Kol." Tori said. Beck turned around, looking at his competition.

Kol walked up to the door and stood next to Beck. "So, you must be Beck." Kol said calmly holding out his hand. Beck shook his hand politely, even though they both knew who each other were.

"Kol, I can explain everything." Tori realized that she forgot to tell Kol about Beck, and he just went home to Rebekah. Rebekah told him, and she knew it.

"You know what, I'll call you. Think about what I said Tori." Beck said backing up to leave. He turned around and left. Kol wasn't looking at Tori, he just walked in the house without a word. He walked upstairs to her room. Tori followed him, and she afraid Kol was going to over react and get angry.

When she walked in her room Kol was standing over her packed bag. "Are you done packing, because we have to leave in 20 minutes ago." Kol said cheerfully.

Tori was surprised. "That's it?" Tori said.

"No, well, as much as I like that dress on you, this beaded gray one, would look so much sexier on you." Kol said holding up the gray dress laying on the bed.

Tori walked up to him with a small smile on her face. "You're not mad? Kol, do not hold back on me." Tori said.

Kol stood there for a moment, thinking. He wasn't sure what to say about Beck. "Why was it a secret? What was the point in keeping it from me?" Kol asked her.

"I don't know. I wasn't sure what to say. He's a friend from home, we used to be close, until all of this happened." Tori explained.

"Very close apparently, because he likes you." Kol told her.

"Yeah, I know. Beck and I were before." Tori tried to tell him.

Kol thought, that maybe she had a hard time letting go of her old life, and it didn't help that it was chasing her. "Well, then let's look at later. We have a lot of driving to do." Kol said grabbing her bag.

Tori felt a little relieved. "It's not going to be a long drive, is it?" Tori asked.

"Only about 7 hours or so."

Tori's jaw dropped. "7 hours, is a lot."

"You're a vampire, you have an eternity to live, so a few hours, aren't going to kill you."

Tori phone began to ring. "It's Elena." Tori answered. "Hello."

"Hey, how are you?" Elena asked.

"I'm fine. How's everything over... where ever you are?"

"Everything's going as planned so far. Do you know when Kol's coming back here? The plan won't work without him." Elena revealed.

Kol began to freak. "Kol's going back?" Tori knew what he was doing. Kol took the phone from her and hung up on Elena. "Is that where were going?"

"What do you mean?" Kol asked playing innocent.

"This trip. We're going over there aren't we?" Tori said disappointed.

"Well, yes, but this isn't a big deal."

"I don't want to be anywhere near her." Tori said. "And, why do you have to go back there? How hard could it possibly be to get rid of one vampire. Especially since they have Klaus on their side."

"Katherine is very complicated. She will definitely put up a fight. She will also try to run when things go down, so we will need back-up." Kol explained.

"Elena has Damon, Stefan, Bonnie, Elijah, Caroline, and Klaus. They don't need you there too." Tori pleaded.

"It's a very complicated situation. Why are you so opposed to this? I'm doing this for you."

"I never asked for this, and I don't care whether she's dead or alive. I just want everything to get back to normal." Tori said.

"That bitch deserves it." Kol argued.

Katherine was a sensitive subject for Tori. "No one deserves to have their life taken from them. Even though I don't approve of how she lives her life, I do not want to be the reason she dies." Tori confessed.

"From what I have heard, she's done a lot more than kill you." Kol said trying to convince her that she wasn't the only reason everyone wanted Katherine dead.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think this is a good idea. I want to forget, and move on." Tori said walking out of her room.

Kol followed her. "Hey, what's wrong? I don't understand why this a big deal You haven't explained that part to me yet." Kol said. Tori stopped walking away from him, and turned to him. They were at the staircase.

"I'm mad." Tori said sounding like she was about to cry. "I'm mad that my life is over. I feel like I am just letting go of my life. I get watch my friends grow up, graduate, make something of themselves. André will become a huge music artist, Beck will become an actor, and I will just be stuck at seventeen forever, and Katherine took that from me." Tori said, crying.

Kol didn't know what to do. He wasn't the most sensitive guy. "What can I do to make it better?" Kol asked.

"I don't know what you can do." Tori looked up at him. "Maybe I should be alone, for right now."

Kol knew what that meant. "No way! That is not an option. We should work this out together." Kol pleaded.

"Kol, you should be thrilled. You can go back to your partying without a girlfriend in the way. This way, we all get what we want. I get to figure things out, and you can do whatever you want." Tori said.

Kol thought his ears were bleeding. "You have no idea what I want." Kol said outraged. He grabbed her face and smashed his lips to hers. Tori melted in the kiss, until she realized that she had to let him go, for now.

She pulled away after a moment. "You need to go." Tori said looking straight into his eyes. She felt like this would be the last time she would see him. He finally retreated and left, but Kol was definitely coming back. He wasn't going to let her go without a fight.

...

Tori needed to go do something. She was pacing around in the house wondering if she had made a huge mistake, sort of, breaking it off with Kol.

Tori, stop pacing, get out of the house, and relax. Tori thought to herself. She walked out of the with Elena's car keys, since Elena left her car at home, took her car, and started driving.

She ended up at the grill. Matt and Jeremy were both working.

She walked in and saw Beck sitting at the bar. Tori walked up and sat next to him. "I hope that's water you're drinking." Tori said as she approached Beck.

Beck looked over his shoulder and saw her. He couldn't help but smile. "It's a soda." Beck said. He was wondering what she was doing there, but he wasn't going to ask, he was just going enjoy her company.

"Jeremy!" Tori called out to him from behind the counter. He walked over to them "Hey, do you think you could get me some food?" Tori asked leaning over the counter.

"We don't sell that kind of food here, Tori." Jeremy joked. Beck laughed a little next to her.

"I meant real food, like a hamburger, with french fries."

"Okay, coming right up." Jeremy said.

"So, explain this vampire thing to me." Beck said trying to make conversation.

"I'll let you know when it's explained to me." Tori said.

"But, you can eat real food?"

"Well, yeah, as long as I have a healthy amount of blood in my system then I function normally."

"That's good, because how could you live an eternity without pizza." Beck joked.

Tori laughed. Matt saw Tori and came up to her. "Hey, Tori."

"Hey Matt." Tori said laughing. "Beck this is Matt, Matt this is my friend Beck from L.A." Tori introduced them.

"Hey." Beck said politely.

"Hey man. So how's everything, Tori?" Matt asked.

"Getting better. I have enough friends around to help me out."

"Well, with just about every gone except for me and Jeremy. Oh, and didn't Kol come back?" Matt said.

Tori felt awkward for a moment talking about Kol in front of Beck. "Well, he did, but he left again. Elena and everyone else, needed him back there."

"Oh, is that why you didn't get to go on your trip?" Beck asked.

"Trip?" Matt asked.

"Kol and I were going to go on a trip., but we broke up, so he went back to help with Katherine." Tori quickly said.

Beck's eyebrows raised. He thought, maybe, he had something to do with the break-up.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Matt said.

"It's fine." Tori looked down at her hands expecting questions.

"Well, I have to get back to work, but if you need to talk, you know I'm here." Matt said. Then he went back to work.

"So, don't you want to ask what happened?" Tori asked Beck.

"Not if you don't want to talk about it. Do you want to talk about it?"

She did. "I jumped into a relationship during a time in my life, when I was going through a huge life transition. I can't handle a relationship right now, especially one with Kol." Tori confessed.

"Well, you'll be okay. You can call me any time you want if you need to talk." Beck said sincerely.

"Thanks. So, you're going home?" Tori asked.

"Yeah, I called my parents, and they said that I've missed too much already, being away, so they expect me back Sunday night." Beck explained.

"Oh, well, I'm glad you came. It was nice to see someone from home." Tori said with disappointment in her voice.

"It was nice to see you too. I'm to know you're going to be okay. Don't change who you are because of this. In a hundred years, I still want you to be the funny, stubborn, sweet, musical person you are." Beck said sincerely. This reminded Tori of why she liked him in the first place.

"I wish you didn't have to go." Tori said without thinking. She knew that he wanted to stay, but Tori didn't want Beck to mess up his life because of her.

"It's not going to be forever." Beck said surprising Tori. She was shocked that Beck was so sure about her. "I'll see you soon." Beck said, then he got up from his stool and left.

Tori felt confused. She didn't want to admit to herself, but she wanted to be human again. Tori thought she would be okay with being a vampire, but she was wrong.

...

Kol didn't go anywhere. He called Damon and told him that he wasn't coming back to help kill Katherine. He now knew that he wanted Tori, and that he was okay with being the boyfriend. Kol had to leave a voice-mail because no one would answer their phones. He figured they would be home soon, and he could resolve everything with Tori, but she needs to let go of her old life and move on. Kol needed to make sure that Beck would be leaving. If Beck kept giving her hope that things could go back to the way they were, then she would never move on, and she would never be happy.

Kol decided that he would find this Beck guy and have a little talk with him. He walked up to the hotel door late that night. He told himself that he would show some curtiousy, since he was about to scare him back to L.A.

He pounded on the door to make sure that Beck heard him knocking on the door. Beck opened the door with anger. You looked like he had just rolled out of bed. "What!" Then Beck actually opened his eyes to see who was knocking on his door.
Oh, what are you doing here?" Beck asked confused.

"I am here to discuss Victoria." Kol said.

"Dude, her name is Tori. Why do have the need to change it?" Beck asked. Clearly Beck didn't like Kol.

"If you saw her birth certificate, her name is Victoria. Her parents probably pushed the name Tori so hard because of some stupid adoption thing." Kol told Beck.

"She is, and will always be, Tori. Stop trying to change her!" Beck argued.

"Stop holding her back! You need to allow her to find herself. Her life is different now, whether you like it or not. I will do my best to keep her under control, but you need to let her go." Kol looked at Beck up and down to see what Tori saw in him. "I would compel you, but she would probably be angry at me for dong so. Just, leave, and maybe when she gets herself under control, then you may speak to her, but you will never have her. Things are different now." Kol concluded with his speech. He was quite proud of himself. Kol thought he sounded dignified. He felt like he stood up for his girl, and maybe he could be worthy of her one day.

"Are you done now? I have a plane to L.A leaving in the morning." Beck said.

Kol smiled. "Exactly what I wanted to hear. You know, I thought I would have to threaten you to leave." Kol said. He left a happy vampire.

...

Tori was sick of it.

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She felt confused

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Sorrow

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and Anger.

...

Tori sat at the bar in the grill until closing after Beck had left earlier that night. Matt took her home. Tori approached the front door. She didn't want to go back. Tori wanted everything to go away. She wanted to be free. Then the thought came into her head.

Turn it off.

The confusion, the sorrow, the anger, the pain.

The emotions were all too much for Tori.

So her body turned it off.

She felt her emotions turn off.

She felt nothing, no pain, no sorrow, no anger.

Feeling nothing felt great.

Now, Tori wanted to go somewhere, and be free. She didn't go inside the house. Tori went out looking for food.

It was time for Tori to be a vampire...

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