Kol Mikaelson and The Unexpected

Chapter Twenty-One

Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries or its characters. I only own my OC's.

"What does Aldernant Uniherse mean?" I wonder as Klausy ran his hands in my curls to detangle them.

"Alternate Universe." Klausy corrected with a chuckle. It felt like he was braiding my hair now. "It means that we're in a different world. Sort of like ours but with changes."

"What changes?" I found it just as scary as I did cool. Klausy tugged a little too hard and I flinched.

"Sorry, best friend." He apologized. I giggled. It seems to just tickle Klausy pink that he can call me that. "And I don't know what changes. How would I know that?"

My temper flared to life suddenly.

"How would I know that?" I mocked him, making my voice funny. He tugged hard on my hair and I got angrier. "You did that on purpose!"

"Did not!" He snapped. "I should have though because you were being mean!"

"You were mean first!" I tried to look at him but he forced my face straight. "Hey!"

"No looking. I'm not done." Klausy whined. I put my knees to my chin and wrapped my arms around them. A deep pout tugged on my lips and my eyebrows furrowed.

"Now I'm done." Klausy said and marched himself over to the big pond. He sat crisscross applesauce facing it.

I reached to pull the thick, long braid over my shoulder so I could see it. Wow! It was so pretty! He even put purple and white flowers all in it! Biting my lip, I tossed it back.

Guiltily, I shuffle towards my upset friend. When I sit next to him, I tug at my PJ's before looking at Klausy. He turned his face away. So I put a hand on his shoulder.

"I don't wanna fight." I whisper, no longer angry. "We're all we have in the Aldernant Uniherse."

"Alternant Universe." He muttered, turning to face me.

"That's what I said." My light purple eyes searched his face. Are we good now? Is he still mad?

I squeezed his shoulder.

"I don't want to fight either." He smiled a little. A wide grin stretched across my face in response. He isn't mad anymore! Yay!

I dropped my hands back to my knees. "I love my hair. It makes me look like a fairy princess."

He shrugged with a bashfully look. "I don't know how I remember how to do that."

"Maybe you did it to Ms. Rebekah?" I suggest.

"Maybe." Klausy sighs, lifting me up into his arms. "Let's get going."

"Not too fast!" I blurt out. "I don't want to mess up my pretty braid."

Klausy started going fast, but not vampire fast. It was regular running. I looked around this time. So many trees and bushes and flowers. Tall trees, small trees, and weird looking trees. The flowers I saw were mostly white or yellow. How did he find these purple ones?

My face lit up when something caught my eye.

"Look! A bunny!" I called loudly, pointing at it. Klausy stopped and turned. It was staring at me and hopping in place. I waved happily at it. Klausy did too. After a second of looking at the pretty bunny, Klausy started running again.

"It was fat." Klausy giggled.

''It was not! It was beautiful." I frown, insulted.

"Yes but it was also fat."

Before I could scold him some more, Klausy froze and took a few quick steps backwards. He looked like he didn't know whether to run or not. His face changed and my jaw dropped. His eyes looked similar to Uncle Kol's, but instead of turning red and black, they were bright gold and black.

It was awesome.

I twist to see whose coming and couldn't believe my eyes. A man appeared in a blink and he looked JUST like Uncle Kol. The only difference was his eyes were blue instead of brown. He was wearing tight red pants, a white short-sleeved shirt, a long red and black scarf, and knee high black boots.

"Hello there. It's alright, I mean no harm." He raised his hands up and looked at Klausy with a weird, wide-eyed expression. I look at Klausy to see him make his face go back normal. He watched me with a question in his eyes. I think he was asking if we should trust him and talk, or run. I shrugged a shoulder and he rolled his eyes.

"I'm Kael." The Uncle Kol look-a-like said with a smile. He couldn't seem to take his eyes off Klausy. My hybrid squinted at him distrustfully and didn't say anything. "I really won't hurt you. Come on, what's your name?"

"Niklaus." He muttered, eyes staying squinty. Mr. Kael looked taken by surprise.

"I'm Melissa." I give a small smile. He smiles back at me, finally moving his eyes from Klausy's face.

"Hello, Melissa. You're such an adorable little tot." His tone stayed friendly. I could tell my hybrid was warming up to it.

"She's my best friend." Klausy stated proudly.

Mr. Kael put his hands on his hips, long fingers went through the belt loops of those red pants. "How would you and your best friend like to come home with me?"

"Why do you want us to do that?" Klausy returned cautiously.

Mr. Kael continued to smile warmly. "If you don't have anything else to do, I'd love to get to know you both. A warm meal and maybe some blood. How does that sound?"

"Sounds great. Well, the food part." I put a hand on my hungry tummy. Klausy glances at me before looking back at Mr. Kael. He thought for a long minute.

"Alright, I guess." He finally agreed with a shy smile.

"Fantastic!" Mr. Kael smiled wider and gave a single clap of his hands. Which I just now noticed had nails painted black.