No One's POV
"Daddy…" Zachary tugs on his father's shirt.
"What is it, buddy?" Kol asks, leaning in to finishing tucking his youngest twin into his toddler-size bed, giving him his teddy bear, playfully bopping Zachary on the nose with it before tucking the bear in next to Zachary under the covers.
"Daddy, dwo you hear that?" Zachary asks.
"Hear what?" Kol questions, not hearing any noise; it was night, therefore the mansion was silent other than the chirping of crickets and hum of cicadas outside in the trees and bushes and his siblings and mate moving downstairs.
"Hwear that muwsic." Zachary questions softly. "It's kind of pweety."
"I-" Kol pauses, a sort of dread coming over him. "What does it sound like, bud? Can you describe it to me? You know daddy, he's getting old. He's as old as a dinosaur. So sometimes I can't hear things." At that, Kol playfully cleans out his ears.
"Sort of- like a lullwaby. Like mommy hums. But- mommy's is bwetter." Zachary affirms, giggling at his father's playful joke.
"Oh. That's nice buddy. Do you still hear it?" Kol asks for clarification.
"No. It's gwone now." Zachary shakes his head, snuggling under his covers and holding his stuffed bear to his chest.
"Alright. It's bedtime, buddy. Daddy loves you. Good night." Kol whispers, placing a kiss on Zachary's forehead, double checking Andrew before walking out.
"Everything alright?" Alexis' asks as Kol flashes downstairs, sitting with Rebekah and Davina talking about some magazine or movie, Kol didn't really hear or check.
"Hmm?" Kol hums distracted.
"I asked, if everything was okay?" Alexis repeats, now concerned about Kol's distracted nature.
"Yeah. Fine. Fine." Kol waves off, turning towards the basement.
"Kol?" Alexis repeats a little confused, watching Kol disappear downstairs.
"Is this funny to you?" Kol snarls, nearly slamming his body against the cell door, startling Freya from where she sat on the cot inside and making her jump up. "Do you take some sick satisfaction from taunting and scaring my children?"
"If it weren't for the fact you're inside that barrier… And frankly, dear sister, you shouldn't be able to do any magic from inside, I'd get in there and rip your throat out myself with my teeth." Kol hisses, his eyes flashing darkly.
"Brother…" Freya addresses, gripping at her necklace, frightened by Kol's threats and maniac sort of look in his eyes.
"You don't get the privilege of calling me that!" Kol roars, fist slamming against the wall, punching through plaster.
"Kol, then…" Freya amends. "What- what are you- I don't understand what you are talking about?"
"Don't play dumb, it doesn't suit you, Freya. Despite your looks." Kol rolls his eyes, tone full of distain, and his words cutting, barbed, and sharp, and meant to inflict hurt. "But if you insist, I'm talking about a few moments ago… Zachary heard a lullaby. But there wasn't any music. The Gemini Coven wouldn't play some petty little trick. So, it's down to you."
Freya goes a little pale, falling back onto her cot.
"So?" Kol demands harshly, his inner animal stalking within him, nearly spitting fire.
"No, no, no." Freya mutters, hands shaking.
"No, what?" Kol growls.
"You- you have to believe me! I wasn't me, brother." Freya pleads, looking up at Kol.
"I told you not to call me brother." Kol hisses back instead; clearly pissed seven ways to Sunday and his protective rage through the roof.
"It wasn't me, Kol! You have to believe me! It was her, Dahlia! She's found them! I warned you! Their magic is a beacon! Calling her to them." Freya pleads.
"And you wanted to kill them! I don't have to believe anything!" Kol growls out, glaring heatedly.
"What's going on here?" Elijah asks, appearing at the foot of the stairs.
"Nothing, Elijah." Kol stalks past his brother. "Just having a small little chat."
"You have to believe me! It's her! She's coming!" Freya calls out.
"Then, let her come. She wants my children, she'll have to fight me for them. And you haven't seen me at my worst. I am the monster in the darkness. The leviathan in the deep. The very devil in disguise. And I'll send her to the depths of Hell itself if she comes near my children or my mate." Kol snarls, finally stalking upstairs.
"I believe you've been warned, Freya." Elijah speaks evenly, gaze unfathomably dark.
"I'm telling the truth, Elijah." Freya pleads. "I'm trapped here. I cannot do anything."
"Perhaps." Elijah tilts his head, evaluating his older sister.
"It's her. Our aunt. She's coming."
"If it is, perhaps you can prove yourself useful sooner rather than later. Until then…" Elijah trails off. "Remember what I told you."
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