A/N: Ehmm... First off, I'm sorry about the shortness of the late chap, but it was the best I could do while being temporarily blind in my right eye (my cornea is apparently irritated) but I will update faster once my eye has healed up :D

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Chapter 25:

"So Klaus is still alive, Elena is a vampire, you are a vampire and you just got engaged to the psychotic brother of the guy you hate more than anything?" Damon asked.

Kenzie grinned and instinctively turned her gaze to Kol, who lied in their bed, looking immensely bored because he had to wait until she was done with her phone call.

"Yes, yes, yes and definitely yes, but right now we need to focus on the first two things," she said, closing the glass door to their balcony even though she knew Kol could easily eavesdrop on her. "How is Elena?"

"She's… doing her best to adapt to her new lifestyle. What about you? I'm guessing Kol isn't the teaching kind of vampire."

"Oh, well… I'm doing my best too but he has taught me a few things. I'll tell you more once I return to Mystic Falls."

Kol quickly ran out to the balcony upon hearing that Kenzie wanted to return to Mystic Falls and took the phone from her, hanging up on Damon.

"You're going back to Mystic Falls? Are you completely insane?" he asked like an angry parent.

"Um… I'm pretty sure I can decide whether or not I want to go somewhere else," Kenzie answered calmly. "Why are you so annoyed about it? It can't more of a trial than being here around so many beating hearts."

"That's not the point! I don't want you to go because Klaus is there. If you see him you're gonna snap and even though he's stuck in someone else's body he still has better self-control than you."

Kenzie rolled her eyes and leaned against the railing. "Kol, I won't snap. I can behave around your brother even though I still prefer to see him dead."

"Well, just know that if you kill him you kill the Salvatores, Caroline, Elena and a bunch of other friends too in the process. Nik did start their bloodline after all."

Kenzie sighed and looked up at his brown eyes. "Fine. I guess… we can wait, but if I'm not leaving then you won't either. I don't want you to get in the middle of everything again."

Kol clenched his teeth but nodded and stepped closer to her. "I hate compromising with you, but I know you'll give me a hard time if I don't. And that's one of the reasons why I fell for you – well, that and because of your sexy ass."

He winked, making Kenzie blush a little, but she was used to his flirty comments by now and just grabbed him by his shirt, flashing towards the bed and throwing him on it.

"I guess I do owe you something now," she said reluctantly, raising a brow as he started pulling his clothes off. "But since you did hung up on Damon then you're only getting half of what I owe you."

Kol pouted. "Aww, c'mon!"

"Nope, you didn't let me finish my phone call properly!"

"Oh no, I'm not letting you do this to me!"

Kol pulled her down on the bed and crawled on top of her, pinning her arms above her head so she couldn't escape his passionate kisses.

"I love you, Kenzie Forbes. I–"

He suddenly fell silent and Kenzie saw a look of fear in his eyes just before the door to their home was burst open and a bunch of vampire hunters entered the apartment.

Kol had been quick to move Kenzie from the bedroom to the bathroom and made her lock the door before he hurried back out to the attackers.

She wanted to go out and help him, but she knew that if these vampire hunters had managed to find them here then they were too skilled for her to take down.

So she waited and listened as Kol fought them bravely, trying his best to keep them distracted and away from the bathroom.

She did arm herself with whatever she could find in the bathroom and sat waiting in the bathtub, ready to strike the enemy if they knocked the door down.

But after a few minutes the room suddenly turned eerily silent and she heard the faint sound of someone being dragged out of the apartment.

Kenzie didn't dare going outside yet and waited for a least half an hour before she went outside, finding dead vampire hunters lying on the floor, armed from head to toe like professional hitmen.

After taking a look around in the entire apartment and making sure that she was completely alone, she found Kol's cell phone lying under the bed, which meant that the men had succeeded in taking him captive as they planned to do.

She wasn't the target but he was and whoever had taken him knew that he was staying in this exact penthouse apartment.

Sighing heavily she picked the cell phone up and held it close to her chest, hoping badly that Kol was all right and that these hunters weren't in possession of a white oak stake.

If they were…

She shook her head, not wanting to think about it, but what was she supposed to do now?

She didn't know where Kol was, she couldn't possibly save him on her own and the only people who were powerful enough to help her were… his siblings.

Kenzie looked down at the cell phone and bit her lip. Should she try calling them? What if Klaus was the only one who was available?

She heaved a sigh of frustration and decided to try calling Elijah at first, remembering that he was the sweetest of the Originals and the one who seemed to care the most about his family.

Minutes passed but the oldest Original didn't pick up his phone, so she tried calling Rebekah instead, wondering what she was up to lately.

"What the hell do you want now, brother?" Rebekah answered grumpily.

"It's not Kol. It's me, Kenzie," she said and gulped nervously. "I need your help. A group of professional vampire hunters just kidnapped Kol and I don't know where they took him!"

"What? You're saying you let my brother get kidnapped?"

"No! Kol made me hide while he fought them off, but they must have overpowered him. I know you dislike me, but we both love Kol and I want to get him back before they hurt him."

Rebekah groaned. "Fine, I'll come save your sorry ass. Where are you right now?"

"At Kol's penthouse apartment in New York. I'll send you the address."

"Whatever!" Rebekah hung up and Kenzie heaved a sigh of relief.

Help was coming. It sucked that the help happened to be Rebekah, but she'd always prefer Rebekah over Klaus.

While Kenzie waited for Rebekah to arrive she took a look around in the mess of a bedroom and looked for any ID in the dead hunters pockets, but it seemed that whoever had survived Kol's rage had made sure to leave the place almost clean of evidence.

It was very clear to her that they didn't want anyone to know who they worked for or who they even were, probably because the person they worked for had paid a lot of money to get Kol.

There was one interesting thing Kenzie did find, though, and that was a broken stake used by the hunters that bore a strange, but familiar symbol she remembered seeing before a long time ago.

It was a symbol that belonged to a group of vampire hunters that specialized in killing centuries old vampires for money and her father had once worked for them.

That was until he got married and had a family and decided that it was too dangerous for him to go after such old vampires…

"Urgh, it reeks of vervain in here!" Rebekah grumbled as she finally arrived.

Kenzie was surprised of how quickly Rebekah had gotten to New York, but she was mostly relieved, because now she had someone to help her finding Kol.

"Well that definitely confirms that vampire hunters were here…" another voice said.

Kenzie frowned at first but then she saw the person who'd spoken and realization struck her hard. It was Tyler but it wasn't Tyler's soul that was in the body.

She felt rage boiling inside her and it took all her strength to not jump on him immediately. It was his fault that she'd ended up becoming a vampire and she hated him for making Kol become just as bad as he was.

"What are you doing here?" she asked through clenched teeth.

Klaus raised a brow as he noticed her in the room and flashed a smirk. "Ah, so it is true that you became a vampire… how unfortunate for you. I'm surprised you finished the transition. Or did Kol make you do that?" he asked tauntingly.

Rebekah rolled her eyes. "We don't have time for you two to banter! Now tell us what happened so we can find Kol." she said.

Kenzie kept glaring at Klaus, though, for a few minutes before she finally told Rebekah the full story of what had happened.

"And you say that you know who these hunters are?" Klaus asked.

"Perhaps, yes. If it truly is them, then… then we have to go to Brooklyn. That's where they usually are."

"And you know this… how?" Rebekah asked suspiciously.

"I just do, ok? Now let's go save him." Kenzie said, walking towards the entrance, but Klaus blocked her path.

"Oh no, you're not going anywhere. We'll save our brother and in the meantime you can sit here and wait. I don't need to look after you but I know that Kol will be rather annoyed if I let you get killed and you will get killed now that you're a vampire."

Kenzie growled and flashed her fangs in rage. "I'm going and I don't fucking care if you're going to stop me or not!"

She knew that this was her enhanced emotions that were speaking, but she still preferred to go with them instead of doing nothing.

"Can't we just compel her or something? We don't have time for this…" Rebekah muttered.

Kenzie shook her head and ran as fast as she could out of the apartment without looking back. If they weren't going to help her then she was going to save Kol on her own.

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