Natali was sleeping on her stomach, her hands folded under the pillow. Kol was laying with almost whole body over her, his head was resting against her back near her neck and one of his hands was wrapped around one side of her body and it was under her stomach. Sound of someone slamming their fist against the front door over and over again, woke up Natali. She groaned in frustration and tried to move herself, but Kol was pressed against her.
- "Move." Natali murmured into the pillow. When Kol didn't reacted she said a little louder in a sleepy voice, "Move Kol!"
- She could feel Kol's breath against her neck as he muttered, "No. It's comfy like this."
- "It's comfy for you." Natali told him, "Someone is knocking at the door." she informed him, trying again to raise her body, but failing.
- "So let them knock." Kol whispered.
- "Yeah, I would. But as you can hear, they won't stop." Natali said frustrated that someone wake her up.
- "Open the door. I know you two are here, I can hear how Kol snores." Rebekah yelled, standing in front of their apartment, while she knocked hard against the door.
- "It's Rebekah." Natali spoke when she heard her yelling.
- Kol signs, "Unlock the door from here."
- "We're naked, I don't want your sister to see us like this." Natali told him.
- Kol rolls his eyes, "Fine." he says sounding a bit annoyed and he moved himself off of her body.
Natali rolls herself on her back and lifts herself out of the bed. She took Kol's t-shirt from the floor and put it on. Then she slowly walked toward the front door and unlocked them. For the real miracle Kol locked them last night.
Rebekah was standing in front of the door with pursed lips and annoyed look on her face. Before Natali opened her mouth to speak, Rebekah stormed besides her into their apartment.
- "I want to speak with Kol too." Rebekah demanded.
- Natali massaged her neck, from not so comfortable position for sleeping as she told Rebekah, "He is sleeping."
- "I don't care." Rebekah said quickly, "Kol! Come here, right now."
- "Is there something wrong?" Natali asked, curious about why Rebekah is so angry, when they didn't do anything wrong to someone she cares about.
- "Yes, there is. So Kol better comes here or I will-" Rebekah spoke, but stopped herself as Kol opened door of the room he was in.
- "What, Rebekah? What is so important to wake me up in a middle of the afternoon?" Kol asked, shooting her annoyed look.
- "If Damon kills the hunter, Nik will not be pleased." Rebekah hissed, as she looked at him.
- Kol roll his eyes and signs, "I don't care if Nik won't be pleased." he smiled cunningly, "And I told him I wouldn't touch the kid. I didn't."
- "Oh. Well, that was clever. I'm sure he'll really appreciate it." Rebekah replied sarcastically.
- "Wait! Does that mean that Damon didn't killed him?" Natali asked.
- Rebekah turned towards her, "No. They locked Damon up." she informed them.
- "Well that didn't go as we planned." Natali remarked.
- "Look you two really need to stop." Rebekah shouted.
- "To stop you and everyone else from finding the cure? Yeah, don't worry we will." Natali assured her.
- "Rebekah, look at what this family has become. I mean, Elijah won't even show his face, he's so disgusted by our bickering." he paused for a moment and continued, "This cure has ruined us, and it hasn't even been found yet. Just imagine what would happen if it is."
Rebekah was overwhelmed by her brother's reaction, she never saw Kol like this before. He was the fun brother, never too worried about anything. She knew that something bad was going on with her family because of the cure, but she didn't wanted to admit that to Kol, so she told him, "This family was ruined long before we knew about the cure." tears formed in her eyes, but quickly disappeared so that they wouldn't see them.
- "I won't let you raise Silas." Kol demanded strictly, darkness was filling his eyes while he was glaring down at his sister angrily.
- "I really can't believe that none of you understands the consequences that comes with that cure you all want to have." Natali spoke in disbelief, "Silas is not a fairy tale, he is not a myth, he is a real thing. An immortal who is a thousand years older than us. A thousand years." She repeated slowly, "Maybe you don't care about that Rebekah since you can't be killed, but I can. And Silas will try to kill us all, and he will bring down hell on earth. Every enemy that we ever killed over the centuries will be back, I don't want to see that happening." she finished everything she wanted to say, while Rebekah listened to her carefully, but that still didn't changed her mind. She just exchanged a few looks with the two of them and flashed out of their apartment.
It's a night-time and Kol and Natali were walking down the street, listening music on his phone and talking.
- "So since Damon didn't killed the hunter that means your plan didn't worked." Kol said, making Natali feel guilty.
- "What do you want me to say? You were right?" Natali asked him, rolling her eyes.
- "That's exactly what I want you to say." Kol replied.
- "Well I won't say it." Natali simply told him.
- Kol smiles, "You just did."
- "That was just a question." Natali corrected him, adding, "And we'll make another plan."
- "We don't need another one, we're just going to do what I wanted from the start." Kol spoke, "I'm going to rip of Jeremy's arms." he finished.
- Natali sighed, "Fine." she agreed with him, "Let's hope that will work."
- "Since it's my plan, it will." Kol assured her.
Suddenly Kol's phone rang and they looked down just to see it was a person they were talking about, Jeremy Gilbert.
- "You still have his number." Natali commented surprised.
- "It's a surprise that he still has mine." Kol replied and then answered Jeremy's call, "Jeremy Gilbert." he smiled, "Nice to see I'm still on your speed dial, mate. Hey, you want to meet up at the batting cages in Denver?"
- "Actually. It's Elena Gilbert." She corrected him.
- Kol looked at Natali and raised his eyebrows, wondering what does Elena wants. There was a pause, before he spoke, "What a treat." he says and he was sure Elena could tell he was smirking, "Yeah, I was just thinking of all the clever ways I could have your brother killed, but I'd settle for ripping off his illustrated arm instead."
- Elena cringed at the trough, "I need to talk to you – in person." she told him, deciding to ignore his comment, "I wanna call a truce, in the name of Silas."
Two of them were shocked, they didn't answered right away, instead Kol stopped walking in a middle of a sidewalk, as well as Natali.
- Kol raised an eyebrow intrigued, "You want to talk about Silas?" he asked after few seconds, obviously not expecting that.
- Elena nodded to herself, "I'll meet you wherever you want. I'll come to you." she told him.
In the distance they could see Gilbet's resistance.
- "I'll tell you what." Kol said his tone suddenly upbeat, "How about I come to you?" he suggested and in less than a second later Natali rang the doorbell, causing everyone inside to look towards the front door. They weren't expecting that. Jeremy cocks his gun and points in at the door.
- "If you want a truce, open the door and invite us in." Kol instructed.
Elena was slightly flustered by the unexpected turn of events and she looks around for her next move. She really hoped Natali wasn't with him, but apparently she is.
- "We're waiting. Let us in and let's talk truce." Kol snapped. They already suspected that Elena is going to change her plan.
- "Hello?" Kol called out impatiently. They could hear that his voice is irritated through the phone.
- "Wouldn't that be kind of stupid to invite you in?" Elena asked, stalling him so she could write a message for Jeremy on a board.
- "On the contrary, I can't kill your brother with my own two hands, or I'll suffer the hunter's curse and spend the next 20 years trying to kill off myself in gruesome ways." Kol explained, adding, "And I've heard that vervain's back in town, so I can't compel you to kill him either. So I think it's fair to say you're semi-safe, for now."
Kol rolled his eyes and looked over at Natali, who was looking around impatient and crossed her arms over her chest.
While Kol was talking Elena showed message that she wrote on the board to Jeremy.
- "I'm the only one that can invite him inside." Jeremy whispered.
- "He's right." Kol replied hearing their entire conversation and Natali growled lowley, annoyed, "Obviously."
Then the doppelganger slowly opens the door, her eyes darted Natali as she faked a smile directed to Elena.
- A smile crept over Kol's face, "You'd think being alive for over a thousand years would teach us some manners, but we couldn't resist stopping by." he told her, putting his phone back into the pocket of his jacket, "You know the thing I love about the modern age is..music, anytime you like."
- "I thought you're coming alone." Elena stated.
- Natali sings, "Ah, Elena, I couldn't let him come alone, I never know when are you going to try to seduce another vampire. Like you did with Salvatore's." she mocked.
- Elena raises her eyebrows at Natali's comment, but ignores her and she turned her attention towards Kol, "If I let you in, my brother goes. You're not getting near him." she negotiated.
- Kol eyed Jeremy who was aiming a rifle directly at him, "Fair enough." he replied.
Elena looks back at Jeremy and nods. Jeremy nods and quickly says, "Kol, you can come in."
Natali clenched her jaw, angry that he invited only Kol in. Kol narrowed his eyes at Jeremy and Elena. As Jeremy turned around to leave through the back door he was faced with Kol in front of him.
- "Hey." Elena yelled, "You said he can go if he invites you in."
- "He forgot to invite Natali in." Kol says and grabs Jeremy by his shoulders, he turned him towards Elena and Natali, then continues, "Invite her in and you can go."
Jeremy and Elena exchange a few looks, before Jeremy finally invited Natali as well. Natali smiles as she takes a step into Gilbert's little house.
- Kol let Jeremy go as promised, "No gold medals for bravery, I see." Natali says sarcastically, looking towards Kol and Jeremy who walked out of the house as fast as he could.
- "So…" Kol comes closer to Natali and wraps his arm around her shoulder while looking at Elena, "This is the part where you offer us a drink so we can have a proper chat."
Elena takes a deep breath and nods, then closes the door. When she turned around Kol and Natali were already in the living room. So she decided to go into the alcohol closet under the stairs and grabs a bottle of some alcohol.
In the living room Kol was playing a video game, while Natali was sitting on the couch and talking with him.
- "Do I need to break this TV as well?" Natali questions, looking up at Kol who was standing beside the couch.
- "You've already broke three TV's." Kol told her not taking his eyes off of the game.
- "I know." Natali replied, "That's because you're paying more attention to the games than me." she says sadly.
- Kol chuckles as he looks towards her for a moment, "Come on darling. You know that's a lie."
- Their conversation was interrupted when Elena reentered the room, holding a bottle in her hands and saying, "Sorry, I had to dig up the old people alcohol."
Kol turns around and pauses the game he was playing. Then he held his hand out for Natali to take so they can walk over to the kitchen.
- "Yeah, that's the problem with people today. They have no drinking imagination. Turn-of-the-century New Orleans – now, they knew how to make a drink." Kol says, smiling at the memory, as the two of them sat across from Elena.
- Natali smiles, "Oh yeah, I miss those days.. sometimes." she stated.
- "You two lived in New Orleans?" Elena asked, genuinely surprised.
- Kol nodded in answer, "We all did, till Niklaus shoved a dagger in my heart."
- "So you two spent a lot of time there?" Elena asked, looking at the two of them.
- "12 years, to be exact. But we weren't in New Orleans all the time." Natali replied.
- "Why not?" Elena asked.
- "Well let's see - Klaus could dagger Kol whenever he pleases, so we wanted to spend some time alone." Natali told her.
- "Why didn't you stop Klaus from daggering him?" Elena asked.
- Natali lets out an annoyed breath, "Believe me I almost did." she looked towards Kol, adding, "But then Klaus' little protege broke my neck and Rebekah didn't even blink."
- Elena looked at Kol, "Why did he daggered you? What did you do?" she asked, trying to stall them as much as she can.
- "What makes you think I did anything?" Kol asked in a tone that suggested he was pissed that she just assumed he had done something wrong, "Has your alliance with my brother softened you to his horrors?"
- "I don't have an alliance with Klaus." Elena snapped, "We had a mutual interest in finding the cure – that's all." she explained.
- "Had?" Kol frowned.
- "Yes. And I'm willing to give up looking for it if you promise to leave my brother alone." Elena replied, lying through her teeth. When they didn't replied, but kept staring at her she noticed that there seems to be some tension in the room so she held a bottle of alcohol like she has no idea what to do with it and picks up the mixer saying, "Now, can you teach me how to make this?" she asked breaking the uncomfortable silence and slightly smiles as Kol takes the mixer from her.
- "I'll get some ice." Elena says, while she watches as Kol pours liquor into a glass. Then she opens the refrigerator and pulls out her phone to read the message from Jeremy, it read "Trying to find her. Keep Kol and Natali there". She answers the message and gets something from the fridge, then closes the door and jumps backwards as she sees Natali standing right next to her, startling her. Natali still didn't believed that Elena would give up on finding the cure, something didn't add up, she just didn't know what.
- "You scared me." Elena laughs quietly.
- "You must think we're stupid." Natali's voice wasn't pleasant.
- "I, I don't know what you're talking about." Elena says and starts walking backwards, "I was just getting ice." she holds a bowl of ice and offers it to Natali.
- "Do I look like a servant?" Natali asked, she looked offended by Elena's idea that she should hand an ice to Kol.
- Elena shook her head quickly, "No." and walks back to the kitchen counter where Kol was making drinks, "Here you go." She says, handing him bowl of ice.
- "Would you like one?" Kol offered.
- Elena hesitates, before answering, "Sure, why not?"
Kol puts the ice in the drinks and Natali sat back next to him, observing Elena and making her more uncomfortable.
- Elena tried to ignore Natali's glaring at her, "You're really good at that game. Definitely considering you've been locked up in a coffin for a hundred years." she commented, gesturing towards the Xbox.
- "I'm a quick learner. Speedy reflexes." Kol smiles cheekily, "It's not much like the real thing, though, is it?" Elena looks up at him as he continued, "You've killed, haven't you? Or are you one of those Mary Sue vampires?"
- "I've killed. Once." Elena answered, thinking back to the time when she killed the hunter.
- "Didn't you heard when she told me that she killed the hunter?" Natali asked Kol, taking a sip of her drink.
- "Rebekah and I left the room while you were talking with them, darling." Kol answered.
- "Oh, right." Natali said quickly.
- "I'm guessing your number's a lot higher than mine." Elena stated.
- "You lose track over the years." Kol replied simply, "So, are we going to talk about Silas, or just jibber-jabber?" he asked, quickly switching back to his usual impatient self.
Elena waved the hand towards the living room, Kol and Natali jump off of the chairs and walk over there, as Elena stayed behind them.
When she walked into the living room, they were leaning against the back of the couch, drinks in their hands while they waited for Elena to start talking.
- "Nobody else seems to think Silas exists, so why do you?" Elena asked curiosly.
- "We used to run with some witches." Kol began to explain, "Africa in the fourteenth century, Haiti in the seventeenth century, New Orleans in the nineteen hundreds. They all knew about Silas; that he needed to stay buried." he downed the rest of his drink before continuing, "I actually hold witches in high esteem."
- "Yeah I can see that." Elena said glancing at Natali, who was a distance away from. Natali took a sip of her drink and looks at Elena under her eyes.
- Kol slightly smiles, "Oh, I don't hold her in high esteem, I worship her." he joked. But in every joke there is a little bit of truth.
- Natali laughs, "Oh, please.. Now when we're already talking about worshiping, Kol and I actually killed a cult that wanted to raise Silas." she says and gives Elena a death glare, "I wonder how your little cult is going to end up."
[HAITI: NOVEMBER, 1684.]
As they walked inside of the tavern, they could hear witches chanting under their breath in the circle. Kol frowned as he watched them, stepping closer in interest. Natali chuckled as she watched them chant, but her smile soon disappeared from her face as they heard young woman say, "Silas will rise once-"
Kol's eyes filled with terror, when they realized it was a cult that worshiped Silas. They heard about him, but they never saw anything like this.
- "Silas?" Kol exclaimed, turning everyone's attention towards him.
- The woman nodded, smiling, "He will rise again. He will brin-"
- "No!" Kol let out a growl, flashing towards the woman and ripping her head right off of her shoulders.
Everyone in the cult started screaming and running for their lives, but two of them were faster. They slaughtered the rest of the cult, their ears filling with horrified screams, while they tore them limb from limb.
- "There will be no Silas!" Kol yelled, while Natali grabbed the last living member of the cult and lifted him off of the ground with ease. Men stared down at her begging her not to kill him, while she choked him tightly. At the end his body fell to the ground, while his head remained in her hands.
She looked towards Kol seeing him covered in blood as she dropped men's head down besides his body.
- Natali rolled her eyes, stepping across dead bodies, "Ugh. I just washed my hair from blood, now I need to do it again." she spoke, annoyance in her voice as she headed towards the exit.
- Kol chuckles, "I'll help you with that, darling." he told her with a smile, and followed her.
[THE PRESENT DAY:]
- "But why Silas? Why are you two so afraid of him?" Elena continued to press, trying to get more informations about Silas.
- "They said if Silas rises, he'll unleash hell on Earth." Kol replied simply, but seriously, "I happen to like Earth just the way it is."
- "That's pretty biblical." Elena commented.
Natali could see that Elena wasn't believing them and that she found them and their story merely entertaining.
- "Well, that's the other problem with people today – they've lost faith. And in that loss, they no longer know who they should fear." Kol remarked, his eyes narrowing at Elena.
Elena noticed that Natali was still staring at her, like she did the whole time they were at her house and she couldn't ignore it anymore, she turned her attention towards Natali and asked slightly rude, "When are you going to stop looking at me like that?"
- "He talks, I listen." Natali simply answered, "Your lies." She added.
- Elena frowned, "I'm not lying." She said in defence.
- Natali laughs, "Yeah, and I'm not going to kill your friends." then she stood up and took a step closer to Elena, she was a little higher than her and they were inches away from each other, as Natali stared down at her and spoke carefully for Elena to understand her every word, "If you cross us, you and your friend will meet fate worse than death."
Then she finishes her drink and hands an empty glass. Elena faked smile and took her glass, then walked back into the kitchen to pour them more alcohol.
Kol starts walking around and picks up a framed photograph of Elena and Jeremy joking around. He stares at it as Elena walks back into the room, carrying a bottle of wine.
- "So we're out of gin, but I think this is a good year." she says looking up at the two of them.
- Kol puts a photograph down and turns to her with accusing look, "What if I said I don't believe you?"
- "Okay, you caught me." Elena started, hoping she could keep up the ruse for a little bit longer, "I don't know anything about wine."
Natali burst out in laugh at her answer and Elena knew that everything is going to go downhill from here.
- "It just seems odd that you'd be so willing to give up something you want so much." Kol interrogate her.
- "I would do anything for my brother." Elena told them, "And if what you're saying about Silas is true, what does it matter what I want if it puts everyone else in danger?"
Kol stared at her for a few moments trying to decide whether or not she was being sincere.
- Suddenly Natali asked the question that Elena didn't wanted to hear, "Who were you texting earlier?"
- Elena started panicking a little at the thought of being caught, "No one." she replied quickly.
- "Give me your phone." Natali demanded.
- "What?" Elena burst out.
- "Darling, let's go." Kol suggested, knowing that Natali was close to the edge of becoming murderous.
- "No." Natali protested.
Kol give her a look "don't make me break your neck and pull you out of this house", she rolled her eyes and let out annoyed breath, "Fine."
- "Well, this has been enlightening. Thanks for the drinks." Kol spoke as they headed towards the front door, "We'll take your request for a truce under advisement."
Elena takes a step towards them as Kol opens the door. She tries to come up with a way to stall them further, "Is there any chance that you could be wrong about Silas?" she asked in final attempt to keep them from leaving.
- But her plan to ask more questions didn't work, "Trust me, Elena. Some things are better left buried." Kol says as they walk out of the house and Natali slams the door shut behind them.
A/N: I was looking forward in writing this little Haiti flashback,
I always thought that it would be really good if they did it in TVD.
