Bonus Kol Chapter

Kol gazed out at the city which lay below him. Upon Eve telling him of the vision she had seen, he had not at first believed her. It wasn't until the others began ringing from places across the world did he begin to hope, that maybe she had come back.

He set out with Eve, meeting up with Nat, Charlie and Annie, who happened to be nearer to Caroline's location then anyone else. They had all agreed that they would not wait around for Jesha and Victor to catch up with them, because already the had wasted enough time. There was a moment where Kol thought to contact Klaus, but he decided against it.

Together, they had all travelled to the island by boat, Jesha and Victor choosing to fly in by plane at a later time. It was when the island came into view, did he begin to hope. Would she be there? Was waiting for them? Or had all this been some magic trick?

Upon setting foot onto the island he flashed to the cave where he knew Caroline had laid, he stopped just outside. His eye's trying to see into the darkness. Of course it was useless, for Caroline was some distance within, and he'd never see her from the entrance.

He heard the others come to a stop behind him, and it was only then did he venture forward. Into the darkness he went, his heart leading him to where he had laid her and where it is the others had visions of her awaking.

Outside, Eve held onto Annie's hand. It had been some time since the two had been together, Annie came and went with the wind. Right now, Annie was the one she drew strength from, because she did not think she could go through losing Caroline all over again.

Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of a phone ringing. Nat looked at the caller id on his phone to see that it was Jesha phoning.

"Of course you'd pick now of all time to ring." He answered, not giving her a moment to speak.

"It's Caroline!" She shouted, catching all of their attention, it was also at this moment that Kol emerged from the Cave.

"What!" Nat whispered, in return his eye's focusing solely on Kol.

"I meet up with a witch who did a locator spell, Caroline's alive and she's on the move." Victors awestruck voice echoed from the phone.

"I want coordinates and I want them now." Kol said, grabbing the phone and heading back towards the boat. Caroline was alive, somehow she had come back. This was there second chance, and he would not let it go to waste.

For years he had tracked her across the world until one day, she vanished and no witch could locate her. No trace of her remain, it was as if she had never existed. Caroline had many witch friends all of which Kol contacted in hopes of them finding her, but not even the oldest of witches could see where Caroline had gone. The seer which had helped save kol's life years ago, could not even see Caroline in any of her visions.

Almost 20 years had passed him by, and still no sign of Caroline. He felt Eve come to stand behind him,they were in Greece, standing on a private owned beach, a place Caroline and him had spent some very enjoyable summers.

"Maybe she's not ready to be found yet." Eve offered, wiggling her toes at the feel of the cold water against her. She was Kol's constant companion and thou she would not have known him well before, she knew him better then most now. Although Eve was sure that no one other then Caroline could truly understand the enigma that was Kol Mikaelson.

Kol, who is silent doesn't take his gaze from the setting sun as he answers Eve. "I think it's time to stop, Eve."

Eve tilts her head, she is confused as to what he is speaking about so she voices her concern. "I don't understand what you mean?"

Kol turns to face the girl who has followed him since Caroline died on the island. "It's time to stop searching, Eve."

Her brows pull down into a frown as her hair blows with the salty breeze from the sea, her white dress billows out around her. "We can't stop searching, Kol. It's Caroline were talking about."

"Caroline doesn't want to be found Eve. I love Caroline and if the reason she's hiding is because she doesn't love me back, then I have to accept that and let her go." It broke his heart to say, but he loved enough that he would set her free if that was what she wanted, and that seemed to be the case. She not shown herself to any of her sire line, and all the witches she'd known no longer wished to help in finding her.

"Your wrong!" Eve cried, clenching her tiny hands at her side. "Caroline loves you, I know it." She cried. " She loves me, Annie, Nat, Charlie, Jesha and Victor. It's not just you Kol, Caroline loves all of us and she's going to come back some day."

"I think its time that I went it alone." Eve froze, and had she been able to see, she would have looked at Kol in utter horror at what he was suggesting. "It's not fair on you Eve, the others are off exploring the world and you've been stuck living in a temple these last few years."

"I don't care, Caroline told me to stay with you." Eve cried in defiance.

Kol was holding her face in his hand then and Eve could only stand still in shock. Kol was never the type to offer comfort, even when Caroline had died, he'd shut her out and had stored all his pain away to be shown to no one. "I'm telling you your free Eve." Kol said, his voice carrying a softness Eve had never heard him use before. "This is the way its going to be, I've already contacted Annie. She's waiting back at the house for you."

"No!" Tiny hands reached forward to cling to Kol much like a child would do to their parent, but Kol wasn't her father., he'd never tried to be. It was clear to them all that Kol only stayed around because they meant something to Caroline, but now with Caroline in hiding, they all were just a painful reminding that the woman he loved didn't want him back.

Kol had explained this to the others, they had understood of course. Yet Eve, he knew would not likely want to part. Eve was the hardest to be around, for she was Caroline first and for many years had never left Caroline's side. Eve was a constant reminder, and Kol thought that it best to leave now. The only way for Eve to understand was to be completely honest with her and that was going to be the hardest part of their goodbye.

"You can't understand how much pain I'm in when I'm with you." Eve's breath hitched. "Your a reminder of everything I had and everything I've lost." Kol moved away and Eve's hands fell lifelessly to her side. "Every time we laugh I hear an echo of Caroline laugh along side us and that hurts, more then I thought it would. Eve, please it's not goodbye forever, its just I need to start living life alone again."

"I hear her laugh too." Eve revealed. "I know that everything happens for a reason, but sometimes I wish I knew what that reason was!"

Kol sighed. "I wish I had an answer for you Kid, but I don't."

"We'll meet again?" She questioned, knowing that this would be were they parted ways.

"Promise." Was Kol's answer, before he flashed away leaving Eve stood on the beach alone.

"Caroline," Eve spoke hoping the wind somehow carried her words to person her words belong too. "I do not mind if I do not see you for another 100 years, but Kol can't last that long. Please, before he does something stupid."

Being on his own wasn't what he had been expecting. For one, he'd never been truly alone before, he always had Caroline or been with his family. His family were all separated now, Klaus god knows where, Rebekah was off with Enzo living life on the go and Elijah had been not seen or heard of since he'd taken his leave on the island.

Alone and without Caroline to keep him in check, he soon fell back into his old way of life. He had once been know as the worst being to walk the earth, far worse then Klaus had ever been. People to this day still feared him, and they were right to do. He was once more a monster, who carved nothing but blood and mayhem.

All the goodness that Caroline had once seen in him was no more, he given up, lost the battle. For had there really been any chance for him? He didn't know. He knew that Caroline loved him, different to how she loved Henrik, yet he believed the love they had shared had meant something, that didn't seem to be the case now.

Caroline had disappeared into the wind, had severed all connections to her old life and those she had chosen to stay in contact with, would not reveal where she was, or why she was hiding.

Caroline haunted his every second, everything reminded him of her, and Kol knew of only one escape.

"Your kind is not welcome here!" The witch before him hissed as he stood on her pouch. Clever little thing knew not to venture outside, but that would not stop Kol from getting what he wanted.

"Where is the old one?"

The girl tensed, her dark eye's narrowing in distrust. "She is not here, so if that's all you came for, I'm afraid we are of no help to you."

Kol ignored her. Witches, while they may be fun sometimes, this was not one of those times. "I know your in there, and if you don't give me what I want, I'll burn this house and everyone inside it down." No sooner had he spoke, did a fragile old lady appear, but Kol knew this was just a disguise. "Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?"

Lionella was a witch well known to kol, for they had met a number of times throughout her life. It came as no surprise to Kol, that she would not want to meet with him, but she didn't have a choice, it was her power that Kol would need if he was to obtain what he wanted.

"I have already told the others who have come to me door, that my powers are not in finding people, so I suggest you look else were." Lionella advised, as she motioned for the younger witch to retreat back into the house.

Kol grinned, taking her by surprise, as she shifted slightly away from him. "I don't need you find anyone for me, what I do need of you, is to find a object for me, one I'm not sure even you will be able to find."

"Caroline hid this object!" She stated, knowing that if Caroline hid it, that there was a good chance that not even she, who had the power to find all objects, would be able to locate the object that Kol sought. After a few seconds of thinking she finally decided that Kol would not leave unless she tried at least to find what he was looking for, yet in a way she felt as if she were betraying Caroline by finding what she had hid. "I will try to find what you seek, but not inside the house, we shall use the table in the back garden." She informed him, and before she could even turn away to go back inside to gather the maps, he'd gone in flash leaving no sign that he'd been standing there at all.

After having gathered all the maps she owned, for one could never know where it was the would find what they were looking for, she preceded into the back garden, where Kol had made himself comfortable by sitting one of the chair, while placing his feet on the table, with his hands behind his head, he looked very much like a modern day boy, yet she knew other wise. Lionella knew that without Caroline, Kol was someone to be feared.

She waited for him to move his feet from the table, yet he just continued to look at her, clearly waiting for something. She sighed, she never did like dealing with Kol, at least not when he was apart from Caroline. "I can't find what your looking for unless I spread the map." Her tone made it perfectly clear that she wanted him gone, sooner, rather the later.

With click of his tongue he removed his feet and stood, watching her closely as she spread the world map across the table. "It's somewhere in America." He supplied, opening up the map with the label USA on it. He opened the map and spread it across the table much quicker then she could ever do, and now the hard bit began.

Finding objects was not at all like finding people, she did not need blood or a link to the person, no, what she need was to be able to visualise the object that was lost and from there it was much like finding a person.

She looked at him, the boy whom at one time as a young girl she had fawned over, he was still as handsome as ever, but he was no longer the boy she'd seen laugh in this very garden almost 70 years ago. It went against her nature to help vampires, but Caroline had been good to her coven and Kol had come with Caroline, though she may not have liked him, she would do him this favour.

"Show me." She said, turning so that her body faced him, Kol then stepped forward and grasped her face in his hands, it was then that the image appeared in her mind. She had not flinched before, but when the image became clear she flinched away from his touch. She knew something had looked off about him, and now she knew.

"You seek death." Never before had she ever pitied a vampire, but with him standing here before her, she could feel nothing else but pity for Kol. Taking a dagger from her belt, she cut across her hand and allowed her blood to drop onto the map, then closing her eye's she let her magic take affect.

Flashing of many different places flashed in her mind, and until finally she saw the place. "There is forest, there stands a lone cabin, a pile of rocks, it is there that you shall find what you seek." Lionella told, and when she opened her eye's she found that she was alone.

"I'm gonna miss you." Caroline said, smiling sadly knowing that they would be parting ways for some time. "And you call me if Klaus gives you any kind of trouble."

Henrik laughed. "Caroline, I'll be fine. I know I don't remember my past life, but I this is something I need to do." He reassured her. "Besides, I'm sure I don't want to be anywhere near where you and Kol are when you reunite." He said, causing Caroline to blush red.

"Your a thousand years to young to be talking about that kind of thing." She said, turning to see the plane was now ready and waiting to go at any time. "Besides, I'm not sure what will happen when we meet up."

Hand on her chin he turned her face back towards him. "You don't know that, you love him Caroline and I've never known you to give up on love before, I'm proof." Caroline looked into the face that was much like Kol's, the two had always looked alike, but Henrik was right, she had loved Henrik enough to die for him and that love had never been the romantic kind.

She had loved Henrik from the very beginning, he was everything she wasn't, the other part of her soul, but Kol, Kol had been something else. She loved Henrik, but it was Kol she was in love with and they were two very different things.

"Your okay with this?" She asked.

"Would I be sending you off if I wasn't? I could never stand in your way knowing that you love him, and me going to Nik, might lessen the blow of you choosing Kol over him." Henrik grinned once more.

Caroline took in his appearance, at 20, he looked more like Kol then he did any of his other siblings and she couldn't help but smile. Henrik was a man now, he'd never again be the boy she'd once known all those life times ago. He asked for her to share his past with him, and had then chosen to turn so as to spend the rest of eternity with them.

Th sound of her phone ringing pulled her attention back, and checking to see who could be calling, she was shocked to find a number not listed in her phone, but it was a number she would never forget.

"Dora, to what to do I owe this honour?" Caroline answered, a smile appearing on her face as she spoke to her old friend.

"Caroline, It's Kol." At once Caroline felt her mind race, there could be only one reason Dora would contact, the reason beginning that she had once more seen Kol's death.

"Where?" She whispered, her eye's looking into deep browns, as Henrik stared back in confusion.

There could only be one place that she could have hidden it, the place where they had spent their last days together, before everything had gone wrong, before he had lost the one person who truly mattered to him. The place where they had lived and been most happy, were they had been alone with their dog, without worry of the outside world.

Kol was walking slowly threw the woods, he wasn't in a rush, wishing to remember some of the good times he had experienced in his life, before it would end. He knew the other side would be lonely life, but at least he could watch over Caroline and see her living out her life, or at least he hoped he would.

The rocks the witch had spoke of were the grave marker of Red, the Dog he had given Caroline. How incredibly stupid he felt, not having thought to look there himself.

As he got nearer and nearer, the fear of death clawed at the edges of his mind, but there was nothing worse then loving someone, that you couldn't have, but he shouldn't, after all he'd been the one to let her go. It wasn't right for him to chase her, but his heart did nothing but call out for her, and the only way for him to let her be free was for him to end his life.

The cabin was in view now, just beyond the trees. Beams of light streamed threw the trees, it reminded him of the time they had found this place. Caroline had looked and seen how the light shone and had wanted to build a cabin here, somewhere they could escape too. She called it there fairytale home, and it had been.

Walking into the clearing he let himself gaze at the cabin, he couldn't bring himself to go inside, no, not when the last time he'd been inside had been such a happy memory. The last time he'd been happy had been inside that cabin, he danced with Caroline in his arms and if he was to die, here was the place to end his life.

Kneeling before the pile of rock he began to move them one by one, until finally, the stake was laid out before him. Placing it on the grass he put the rocks back just as they had been, a little bit of Caroline that had rubbed off on him.

Once he had fixed it make to how it had been, he stood taking the stake with him and walked the short distance so that he stood directly under the sun light. He looked at the stake in his hands, in line with his heart to end his life in a matter of seconds. Closing his eye's he thought of Caroline as he pulled the stake towards him.

He was suddenly thrown across the clearing, the stake sent soaring from his hand. He was back on his feet within a second of landing, but froze upon sight of what had thrown him. "Caroline!" Caroline was standing before him and she looked enraged. Her hair was completely out of place and there was mud splattered across her clothes, it seemed she been running at quite a speed to have thrown him so far. "Why have you come?"

"I've come home." She answered, staring at him intently, her eye's flickered off somewhere behind him, mostly likely where the stake had landed.

"So you've come home, have you?" Kol asked, unable to hid the hurt in his voice. She come back for the cabin, and here he had thought that maybe it was him. "Well then, I'll just take the stake and be off."

"And where do you think your going?" She questioned, shouting the words at him as he turned his back on her.

"I'm leaving, after all, you've made it clear that you no longer want me." He stated, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I said, I'd come home." She called and at this he turned to face her. She was beautiful, still the only woman that could make his heart race, still the only person he could say he had ever truly loved. "This is home." She said, yet he was still unsure of what she meant.

"I don't understand." Kol said, shaking his head.

She smiled and began walking toward him. "This is home, right here," She stopped in front of him and lifted her hand the place it upon his chest, right over his heart. "Where I am with you." He couldn't move, this was not what he had imagined this going and yet it was so much more. "I left you once, but I shall never leave you again." Caroline promised.

Kol couldn't believe it, he thought that maybe she was there at all, maybe a dream? But the hand against his chest told his otherwise. Caroline, had come back for him.

"No," He suddenly moved away from her. "You'd never come back for me, you'd never leave Henrik, so why are you really here?"

"Henrik came back, it's why I've been hiding," She smiled slightly, just the tiny lift at the corner of her mouth. "He doesn't remember anything about his past, but he's back."

"Where is he?"

"With Nik, he knows about us, he wants me to be happy and he knows that I need you for that."

"With Nik?"

"To try lessen the blow that it wasn't him I chose, because its you," She took a step towards him. "Its been you since the moment you came for me all those years ago. I love you Kol, and this time around I swear to you, nothing will come between us." She placed her hand over her own heart.

"Forever?"

"Forever." She promised taking another step towards him.

This was it, wanted he'd wanted of her all along, she was now giving him and he would be a mad man to turn her away. "No more going are separate ways when Nik gets to close, no more hiding in the shadows, this time around, its you and me." He said closing the gap between them.

"You and me." She smiled.

He stood there looking at her, Caroline, the girl who'd always held his heart. He loved her, more then anything. "I believe you owe me an adventure." He leaned in close, their lips brushing.

"I've never broken a promise." With those words he kissed her, knowing that this time around, nothing would stand in their way and that nothing would ever take her from him again. Finally, the girl he loved was back at is side and he would never allow them to part again.

Veronica this one was for you, but alas my friend our tale has come to a end.