Jeremy Gilbert had never been a buff kid. He'd always been lanky and sort of awkward around others. He was the stoner kid who always had drugs and trailed after Vicki Donavan like a lost puppy. She was dead and apparently had been undead. His second girlfriend Anna had also been a vampire and was now dead. His third girlfriend Bonnie was a witch but they just drifted apart over the summer. Now he was a supernatural hunter who wanted to kill every vampire in the house.
Except strangely Kol. Whenever he was around the original his instincts to kill almost stopped completely. He didn't know why until it was Kol's turn to train him. He was attracted big time to original and fighting with him just turned him on. He had no doubt in his mind that Kol could smell his arousal and was confused as to why he hadn't teased him on the matter.
They had all been training for the past week. Tyler and Klaus had been practicing turning. Damon had been arranging a trip to Italy for Stefan, Bonnie, Klaus, and him to speak with Pelagia, Silas's little sister. Klaus didn't really need to go but trying to separate Klaus and Damon, lets just say you'd have an easier time taking apart the Great Wall of China with a spoon.
It was almost sad how short a period they could go without each other. Not they ever tested because they were always together. It was actually starting to worry Stefan and the other Mikaelson's. Elijah for one had never seen his brother so attached or dependent on anything.
Damon was in a blissed out state. He would sometimes just sit on listen to his baby's heart beat. Klaus was always by his side and he found himself working into a panic when he didn't wake up besides Klaus. He would have to remind himself to listen and usually Klaus was just downstairs.
Just yesterday they'd had a huge bonfire where the wood was the hundred vampires Jeremy killed. Kol had reached out to his most loyal and ancient site children before compelling them to stand still and silent while they were massarcered. Kol stood besides Jeremy the entire time while everyone else remained in the house.
Jeremy had started sobbing on Kol's shoulder after it was done. The sight of a hundred dead vampires made him sick. Kol assured him all of them had it coming. Jeremy's mark grew all the way and it was a good thing.
The bonfire happened to get rid of the bodies but Damon and Stefan insisted it happen away from the house so they didn't ruin their lawn.
Jeremy had curled up into Kol's arms and fallen asleep. The fumes bothered the hunter so Kol carried him back to the boarding house.
Anyone who didn't know what Kol was would have been very confused. He was muscular but had more of a runners physique. So him carrying the buffed out hunter like he weighed nothing more than a feather was an interesting sight.
Jeremy had gripped Kol and not let him go. There was nothing Jeremy could have done wide awake to force Kol to stay but he did anyways. He curled up against Jeremy.
In fact Kol fell asleep cuddling with Jeremy and there were no nightmares. He didn't kick or fidget in his sleep. No he just pulled Jeremy closer and pressed a kiss to the hunters temple.
But today Katherine had arrived. They went out to train and left Damon asleep.
Damon hates waking up alone he hated it everyday after he had lost Kol and now he hated it more. He blamed it on the hormones and listens harder and hears them all outside training. He frowns and gets himself dressed before going to see what they were doing.
He sees all of them in workout clothes. Shorts or jogging pants with no shirts for the boys. Sports bras and yoga pants or shirts for the girls. In fact Katherine was there, Damon could smell the difference between them.
"Wow it really is true listen to that heart beat"Katherine smirks and he smiles back drawing her into a hug. He sits watching them train and has to make sure not to watch Klaus. His boyfriend needed to practice and train not have sex with him.
But then again sex sounded really good and Klaus covered in sweat fighting against Katherine was really doing it for him. Klaus seemed to just know what he needed always because the hybrid was speeding them upstairs right after that thought process.
When the door slams everyone stops their training and looks at each other.
"I see what you mean what is that, Klaus was distracted and I knocked him over because he was tuning into Damon's emotions I could feel it"Katherine says and the other older vampires nod.
"Damon does it too when they're not next to each other he's reaching out to see how Nik is feeling"Stefan tells the group. He knew his brother better than anyone but Klaus was a pretty close second as a of late.
"Its dangerous I know how torn up Damon was when he lost Kol. I don't think it'll be as bad because their hearts aren't linked. I actually still think Damon would fall apart if something happened to Kol"Rebekah sighs.
"They love each other and they'll do anything to stay together is that really so bad?"Elena asks and no one says anything. They go back to training and try to forget about it when Liz pulls up.
"Hey mom"Caroline greets tightening her ponytail. Liz looks at the sweaty group of vampires, a hunter, and a witch.
"There is a memorial service for pastor young and all the guards that you killed for kidnapping you"Liz says and they sigh. "Sorry to break up your boot camp. Speaking up breaking people up, they at it again?"Liz asks with a raised eyebrow and Caroline lets out a high pitched, mom. "What, I know where babies come from honey"Liz chuckles and Caroline makes a disgusted noise.
"Sounds like fun as long as no one is gossiping about us"Damon says from his window smirking down at them. "The spell keeps us in it doesn't keep you guys out FYI"Damon smirks and they hear Klaus's small chuckle in the background.
Connor didn't understand the ritual didn't happen. The vampires weren't disposed of. Pastor Young was dead, where the hell were the vampires.
He knocks on the Salvatore Boarding house door. They were high level council members and should have been helping round up the vampires but only lower level members had been.
It was clear the high level ones were protecting the vampires. A man with dark blue eyes and black hair opens the door.
"Hi my name is Connor Jordan I'm looking into the deaths of Pastor Young and the the others"he introduces and extends his hand.
"Damon Salvatore"he says and shakes his hand. When he screams out in pain Connor pulls his gun. Another teenager speeds into view and cuts off his vision and gets shot a few times.
"Damon run"the kid screams and the vampire speeds farther into the house when multiple people rush forward and extend their fangs.
"it's worse than I thought a whole Connor growls. He sees the two hybrids and flinches they were rumors.
"Damon come on"a tanned woman with curled brown haired says.
"Kat he's a hunter look at the bullets"Damon growls out and a teenage boy moves forward. Connor sees the tattoo go all the way up the boys arm. He was wearing a tank top so it was easy to see the mark was finished.
"How did you finish the mark?"Connor demands.
"We may have cheated. I compelled a hundred of my oldest nastiest sire children to stand still and he killed them all"Kol answers grinning as places a kiss to Jeremy's cheek.
"You're fucking it?"Connor asks pointing to Kol.
"Not yet"Jeremy smiles at Kol who grins back.
"We can't kill him so Jer"Elena says and Jeremy gulps. This was a human and they wanted him to kill him.
"It's okay darling"Kol says and Elijah hands him a knife. Rebekah restrains the hunter while Klaus starts pulling bullets out of Tyler. He hisses when he touches them and drops the them onto the ground.
Kol presses the knife into Jeremy's hand and Elena gets an idea. She takes it back and jams it into the hunters leg.
"He's going to die Jeremy. Slowly of blood loss. Unless you want Elena to be a raving lunatic, you need to finish this"Elijah says and Jeremy pulls the knife out. He looks Connor dead in the eyes as he drives it through the hunters heart.