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"Well good morning, darling" She heard a familiar voice say as she started waking up, the pain through her whole body making her gasp out breath, her eyes opening and searching for the voice in hopes of some relief. She gave Kol a small smile once she met his eyes, feeling it increase as his hard brown eyes softened.
"Kol? What happened? Where are we?" She strained, her voice slightly hoarse as she looked around the unfamiliar cargo truck.
"Mystic Falls, Virginia" he answered, making her sand abruptly and sway on her feet, with him speeding over and catching her before she fell.
"Easy, darling. Nik has been killing you all day, you just kept coming back" he said, holding onto her small frame almost as if protectively.
"Why are we home?" She asked, looking up at him as she did her best to stand up properly.
"Turns out that the doppelganger is alive" Kol chuckled, shaking his head, his voice expressing the clear disdain he had for the creatures.
"What? Elena? How?" She asked, nearly falling only to have him hold her again, biting into his wrist and offering it to her. "No I can't, Klaus said I can only drink his blood" she answered, watching the wound heal and Kol's face suddenly be overtaken with interest, a small smirk plastered on it to hide the annoyance at his brother.
"He created a blood bond. Oh well, too bad" He said, biting again and now forcing her to drink it, feeling her stop struggling after a while. He took his wrist away gently once he felt as if she had had enough, wiping some of it that dripped down her bottom lip and staring at it way too long before shaking the thoughts out of his head, noticing that she did look better. "You know, it's quite convenient how vampire blood can be a strong supplement for succubi, you look much better than before, love"
"You mean we can feed on vampire blood?"
"Temporarily, yes. It's the same as animal blood for vampires. It doesn't satisfy the cravings, but it can keep you alive"
She nodded in understanding, feeling better already and thanking him before her mind travelled back to the pressing matter. "I mourned her before I left with Klaus, and I didn't even like her that much. Stefan saw how guilty I felt for not trying harder to save her like they did, but he didn't even say anything"
"Well, your mourning might not be wasted after all" Kol countered, failing to make her feel better by the judgy look in her eyes. "Too soon?" He questioned, giving her a sweet smile and being met with a nod.
"Come on, we have to go" She said, pulling away from his hold and going straight for the roll up door of the truck, lifting it back up without much difficulty and being stopped by Kol's call of her name from running from the town square to the Mystic Falls high school, where the seniors were doing their prank night. She turned to him to notice the hesitance in his gaze before he told her.
"He daggered Finn and Elijah" He saw her eyes widen before filling with anger at the hybrid. "I managed to escape once I noticed what was happening, Bekah doesn't know and I am really not supposed to be in this wretched town, but I… " He stopped mid sentence, making her cock her head in confusion. He was caught off guard by the words that had wanted to leave his lips, and instead opted for the safer course, finishing smugly. "Let's just say, I love to watch Nik get screwed over, I had to come for myself". She rolled her eyes, but nodded and gave him a small smile, walking back and hugging him tightly.
"Thanks, Kol. Now go, I don't want you getting hurt. We'll keep in touch if everything goes well" She said, looking up and smiling at him before dashing away like she had originally planned to do, leaving him on his own to figure out what to do, only knowing that he needed to keep her safe. He was walking down the center of the town, amazed at how much had changed before he remembered something, going into an establishment he didn't bother ask the name of.
"Hello, could you please tell me how to get to the Salvatore boarding house?"
...
Gia was inside the building for a moment before she heard a door slam and running footsteps, followed by the sound of someone crashing into lockers, loud gasping and then Klaus' voice, along a gasp from Elena.
"We've gotta stop meeting like this".
At those words, she started following the sounds, running as fast as she could even though she only had human speed and short legs, cursing whoever had built the building to make everything so far away from the entrance. She got to the cafeteria in time to meet Elena with a bloody neck, a still recovering Stefan and Klaus pushing him into the hard concrete wall, his words echoing in her head as she froze.
"Turn it off!" She heard him roar, her eyes widening as she stepped back, noticing Stefan's change even before he closed his eyes, the struggle against Klaus' compulsion being evident.
"What did you do?" She heard Elena whisper sadly, her own breathing starting to get heavier at the emotionless look that Stefan now gave her.
"I fixed him" Klaus said, turning around and startling as he saw Gia, his face turning sad before he masked it underneath indifference. He wouldn't let the girl weaken his resolve, no matter how much he wanted to go back in time and undo his compulsion on Stefan, knowing that after this, she would hate him forever. "But I think a test is in order, don't you? Ripper, perhaps you would like a drink from the doppelganger's neck" He stated, Gia still frozen looking at Stefan, tears welling up in her eyes as his became bloodshot, the dark veins creeping underneath and Klaus pulling her away from the room as Elena screamed. The moment he touched her, the shock seemed to have dissipated and turned into a mixture of sadness and anger.
"Let me go, let me go!" She struggled against his hold, starting to sob and punching his chest hard as he tried pulling her close, her fist hitting it repeatedly before she looked up at him with so much rage and hate in his eyes that he nearly had to take a step back. "Get. Out. I don't ever want to see you again" she said, the anger beneath her calm, cold tone making his chest tighten before he sped back into the room to keep the doppelganger from dying, hearing the sound of her bare feet against the linoleum floor.
…
Rebekah sat on the hood of a random car in the hospital parking lot talking to her brother as they drained the doppelganger of enough blood to create a small army of hybrids. "So the doppelganger isn't the problem, her blood is the solution".
"Seems so" Klaus said, interrupting his pacing to face his sister.
"How did you know?"
"Well you know how much the original witch hated me. Do you honestly think I would do anything other than the opposite of what she says?"
"A thousand years in the grave and she's still screwing with you" Rebekah stated, looking at her brother with a small smile that did not reach her eyes.
"Well, it makes sense if you think about it from her perspective. It was her failsafe in case I ever broke the hybrid curse. The doppelganger had to die in order for me to become a hybrid, but if she was dead…"
"Then you couldn't use her blood to sire yourself a new species"
"Leaving me alone for all eternity" He stated, Rebekah suddenly being hit with waves of realization and sadness, quickly turning to anger.
"Is that what this is about? Your obsession with hybrids? You just don't want to be alone?" She said, making him turn his head scoldingly at her tone, his jaw clenching as he noticed the tears brimming in her eyes.
"What I want is to take my girl, take my hybrid and get the hell out of this one pony town" He finished, turning his back to her and resuming his pacing until he heard her next words.
"And what girl would that be? Elena or Gia?" She pressed, making him stop and take a breath before turning back to his sister.
"Why don't you, uh, why don't you get the truck? I'll get Elena" He said, making her raise her head slightly before looking down with a sigh.
"You're picking the wrong girl, Nik. I saw how you were with her. You were happy. Don't shut her out" Rebekah jumped off of the hood of the car, walking away sadly and hearing her brother's final words.
"I wasn't raised to be happy, dear sister". It wasn't long and he was trying to block the thoughts of her out before he sensed another vampire, the smell of cologne and blood present around him to signal who it was. "Well look who decided to finally join the party".
"Where is she?" He heard Damon ask, turning to face him and pushing down all the feelings that had resurfaced.
"Elena? She's making a donation to a greater cause" he said as Damon walked forward straight into Klaus, who blocked his path. "I can't let you interfere, mate"
"You'd have to kill me" Damon grunted, trying again to walk forward, again to no avail as Klaus continued to block his path, now pushing the younger vampire's chest.
"Oh I would love to kill you, but I made a pledge to your brother and unlike him, I keep my word. Although you know what? Thinking about it now, he probably doesn't care that much anymore" Klaus taunted, pushing Damon with his vampire speed on the hood of a car, preparing to rip his heart out before his words made him freeze with fear.
"Don't you wanna know about your friend, Mikael?"
"What do you know about Mikael?" Klaus asked, wide eyed.
"Just that he knows you're here" Damon taunted, Klaus taking the bait.
"You're bluffing"
"Katherine and I found him, consider it our leverage" Damon answered, making Klaus grip his throat and shove him into another car, the vampire letting out a small yelp of pain before falling to the floor with a groan, to see that the original hybrid had disappeared.
…
As soon as she had shut the door to the boarding house on her way in, she allowed herself to let out a sob. Her feet were hurting due to walking barefoot in the hard concrete and she felt more betrayed than ever by Klaus' and Stefan's actions. Slowly, another sob came and before she knew, she had slid off of the door and was now sitting on the floor hugging her knees, she was too distracted to notice Kol's presence in the adjoining room until he made himself known by walking to her and kneeling, lifting his hand to pat her shoulder before he realized that he didn't know how to help, deciding to pick her up bridal style and take her to her room. She managed to recognize his scent as he walked upstairs, getting into Damon's room at first and noticing the men's clothing, letting out a small curse and walking out, making her let out a small laugh.
"Second to your left" she spoke up, sniffling and holding onto him tighter, with him nodding even though he couldn't see and sitting her down on the fluffy bed that she had missed dearly.
"I'm not um... very good at this, so you'll need to help me out a little, yes? What do I do?" He asked awkwardly, being met with a small laugh. "Act like a buffoon, got it".
"Just sit here and hug me, but you can keep acting like a 'buffoon' if you want, I won't stop you" She answered between sniffles, curling up to him as he obliged, keeping quiet and stroking her hair as she lay her head on his chest, feeling himself relax considerably, enjoying their proximity more than he should.
"Am I supposed to ask why?" He questioned after a few minutes, making her giggle but shake her head, sighing.
"Please don't. How did you find me?" She seemed better, her violent sobs having subdued to soft, occasional sniffles as she now looked up at him, her eyes reddened by the crying.
"It's a small town, I asked around. The house apparently had no living owner, so I invited myself in and found this amazing bottle of scotch" He started, his tone suggesting a dreamy scenario, accompanied by a loud, dramatic sigh that made her laugh and whack him on the head with a stuffed 'toothless' doll that she had acquired earlier that year, making him laugh and grip it, lifting it to eye level. She smiled as she saw his brows furrow in confusion, his chocolate brown eyes staring into the stuffed animal's wide, green ones.
"What is this animal?"
"It's a stuffie. He's toothless, from How To Train Your Dragon" she explained, no clarity being made for him.
"I haven't been this confused since Elijah explained the 'internet'"
"So like last week?" She joked, making him laugh.
"Yes, pretty much. So it's not alive?"
"Shhhhh don't say that, you'll hurt his feelings" She hushed him, covering his mouth and whacking him in the head when he licked her hand, not removing it. "Really? You think that would scare me away? You don't know where my hand has been and you just lick it?" She raised an eyebrow, her statement making him gag jokingly, finally feeling her let go as she wiped his spit on his own shirt, mumbling something about 'giving it back to the owner', making him laugh loudly and causing a wide grin to spread over her face. "You have a nice laugh" She said, her voice softer this time and making his heart race at the way she was looking at him; not with any sort of compelled feelings, but real ones that he hadn't seen in anyone's eyes in centuries. He almost leaned in, but thought better of it, deciding to smile slightly and close his eyes to avoid her piercing gaze.
"Yours is much better, I can assure you". He could nearly feel her radiating smile before she got up and walked to the bathroom. "Wait where are you going?" He asked, making a small sound of disgust as she pointed to her feet, which he noticed were as dirty as it could get, probably from walking around barefoot.
"Well thanks, Klaus didn't really give me time to get shoes before cracking my spine and abducting me, you know. I need a shower or three, but feel free to stay for as long as you want.
"Could I join?" He asked charmingly, without her knowing he was only half joking. In response, she just lifted her right foot and was met with the same disgusted sound, laughing as she got into the bathroom.
Kol had been lying comfortably on her bed when he heard the front door open, followed by male footsteps, the sound of liquor pouring and an unfamiliar male voice, followed by that of the doppelganger.
"He's really gone this time. I watched it happen, Gia and I. After everything we went through to get… to help him, now he's just… Gone" Kol closed his eyes and cursed silently at the realization; 'Stefan had turned his humanity off, no wonder Gia had been upset' He thought, listening in to a long pause before the crying voice of the doppelganger continued. "Where were you, Damon?". Kol remembered that to be the name of the other Salvatore brother, the one Gia was the fondest of. He remembered her words clearly, saying that they would either be really great friends or hate each other, depending on the circumstances.
"I never should've left. I promise you, I will never leave you again" He heard the vampire say, the remorse and affection in his voice clear. So the two Salvatores were in love with the doppelganger; nothing new there.
He turned them out soon after he heard Stefan's voice, Gia's head peaking out of the bathroom and smiling at Kol, who just looked amused at the sight. "Hi, can you close your eyes for about a minute while I get clothes?"
"It's nothing I haven't seen before" He taunted, making her roll her eyes before stepping into the bedroom with only a towel wrapped around her, feeling the way that his eyes bore over her body when she wasn't looking and being on her the entire time as she searched for one of Damon's shirts in her bottom drawer, making sure not to lean down in front of him, getting her boyshorts and walking back into the bathroom to change.
At the sound of her voice, Damon rushed upstairs and opened the door to her room, walking into it just as she was returning from the bathroom and hugging her tight, hearing the wind get knocked out of her even as she hugged back, patting his back and gasping out a small "Can't breathe" Before he let go slightly, still hugging her tight.
"Not to be a dick or anything, but-"
"Well it's a hundred and seventy years too late but go on" she interrupted, smiling widely at him and watching him roll his eves at the interruption.
"But I'm glad Klaus left you here" He said, her smile vanishing before she quickly recovered it, turning it into a fake one and breathing out a "Yeah, me too", hugging him tighter. "So about getting my deed to the house back…" she trailed off, pulling away and looking up at him with a charming smile.
"I just need your signature and it's yours" He answered, making her grin and do a small happy dance, making the young vampire smile. "I missed you so much, demon seed"
"I missed you too, leech" she answered affectionately. "Oh, I almost forgot. I want you to- Wait where did he go?" She asked herself, looking at the vacant spot on the bed and furrowing her brows.
"Seeing things, huh? You need sleep"
"Yeah I'll be ok, go to sleep too, it's been a long day, we can catch up tomorrow" She answered, the confusion still imminent in her voice.
She had gone to sleep easily, unaware of the presence watching over her. Klaus had whispered a final goodbye before he left, not being able to risk being caught by Mikael.
Thoughts pleeease? I don't know if you guys are liking the interactions - I hope that you are - and a lot will change from what happened in the TV Show since Gia is in on the mix.