[MARSEILLES, FRANCE; MAY, 1002]

Natali took a few days to decide if she should be afraid of Kol or not. When she decided that she wants to see him the only thing left is to figure out how to meet him, without anyone knowing.

De Roux family and de Martel family had a dinner this evening. So after a dinner Natali manage to sneak towards Kol's bedroom. She knocked at his door and as soon as he opened them she came in.

- "What are you doing here, darling?" Kol asked, closing the door.

- "I don't know how much time I have until they find out I'm not in my room, but you were right." Natali told him quickly.

- "Does this mean you forgive me and you're not afraid of me?" Kol asked ignoring everything she told him. He wanted to know if it does mean that.

- "Yes, Kol." Natali told him firmly, "And you are the only one who can help me-"

- She was cut off when Kol asked, "With what?"

- "You were right. I'm a witch." Natali finally told him what she wanted to say from the beginning, "But not an ordinary witch."

- Kol was slightly confused, "So what kind of witch are you?"

- "My parents say I'm a siphoner.' Natali paused for a moment so she can look at Kol, before continuing, "I can have magic only when I siphon it from someone or something." she explained.

- "This is the first time I hear someone like you exists." Kol stated, slightly narrowing his eyes at her, "And your family, are they like you?" he asked.

- "No. They are just humans." Natali told him and shook her head down with pleading sadness.

- "Soo how are you a witch if they aren't?" Kol asked, as he say down on the bed.

- "I was adopted, my real family didn't want me." Natali told him almost crying.

- "I'm sorry." Kol said quietly.

- Natali wiped a tear that came down her cheek and sat next to Kol, "I was lucky. If they didn't gave me up, I would be dead."

- "Why would you be dead?" Kol asked.

When she remained silent for the next couple of seconds Kol placed his index finger under her chin and made her to look up at him, "You can tell me anything."

- Natali slightly nodded and moved her head away, she looked at the floor again and spoke, "My real parents are the leaders of the coven and there is this rule about people like me." he paused swallowing a lump in her throat, "They kill people like me, probably the moment they are born or when they figure out that they are different."

Kol had killed many people and children since he became a vampire, he didn't felt sorry for them, not even a little bit, but hearing her story made him feel sorry for her. He felt anger as well. It was a feeling he couldn't explain. Just thinking about the fact the he could never laid his eyes on her, made him feel like it. He saw how much she was upset because of it, so he decided to change the subject, "I can teach you to do magic."

- Natali smiled, but her beautiful smile fell off moment after, "My parents say I'm dangerous and I can't use my powers." she told him with sadness in her voice.

- Kol smirked at her, "Well it's a good thing that I like dangerous things."

- Natali looked at and smiled again, "But don't you dare to bite me again."

- "I promise I won't." Kol assured her.

- "Why did you even bite me that night?" Natali asked.

- "I don't know how to control my hunger." Kol told her honestly.

- "Well learn how to control it, at least around me and don't tell anyone that I'm what I'm." Natali told him as she stood up.

- "Your secret is safe with me." Kol smiled at her, before asking, "Where are you going?"

- "I can't be here any longer." Natali told him, wanting to open the door.

- "But how Am I suppose to teach you magic?" Kol asked her, not wanting her to leave.

- "I'll send you a letter where to meet me." Natali told him and left his room.

While Natali was going towards her room, she was softly smiling and as soon as she opened the doors of her room, she heard voice of her sister saying, "Where have you been?"

- "You don't have to know everything." Natali said firmly.

- "You went to see him, didn't you?" Renée asked.

- "Who?" Natali asked like she doesn't know about who Renée is talking.

- "That monster." Renée hissed.

- "He is not a monster. He has a name." Natali told her, slightly angry.

- "He is a monster." Renée confirmed her statement.

- Natali clenched her jaw, "And Tristian? He is arrogant, spoiled brat." she shot back.

- Renée looked surprised at her, she didn't thought her sister would say something like that, especially not about her fiance, "That monster is doing something to you, he is changing you." she spoke few seconds later.

- "Oh my God!" Natali burst out in disbelief, "It's not because of him, it's because I was lied to my whole life, everything I know is a lie." she exclaimed.

- "No it's not. We were just keeping that one secret from you." Renée said calmly.

- "Two secrets, Renée. Just two very big secrets." Natali told her, angrily.

- "I'm sorry, but it's for the best." Renée said briefly.

- "No it's not." Natali told her, "Actually I going to discover my powers."

- Renée became alarmed, "You're not suppose to do that."

- "Well guess what, I'm going to decide whether I'll do it or not." Natali trailed off.

- "Mother and father won't like to hear this." Renée says as she wanted to walk out of Natali's bedroom.

- Natali stopped her, saying, "If you tell them, I'm going to run away and none of you will ever see me again."

- Renée turned to look at her, "I don't believe you."

- "You better believe me." Natali told her and then Renée walked out and slammed the door closed.

After that Natali took a paper so she can write a letter to Kol and tell him where to meet her tomorrow at dusk. When she did that, she give the letter to one of her loyal servants.

[MARSEILLES, FRANCE; JUNE, 1002]

The next day it was nightfall when Natali came to a place where she told Kol to meet her, but he still wasn't there. A lot of scenes went going through her mind in those few minutes she was waiting. Then she heard that someone opened the door and she was hoping it wasn't her sister or her parents. When she turned around to see who it is, she saw Kol and she was revealed when she saw it was him.

- Natali sighed, "I thought the letter went to wrong hands and that wouldn't end well." she told him.

- "Well it didn't, I guess you can trust that servant." Kol told her, slightly smiling.

- "At least someone I can trust." Natali muttered.

- "You don't trust me?" Kol asked.

- "Maybe a little." Natali told him uncertain.

- Kol smiled, "So we should start."

- "Yeah. I hope my sister won't find us here." Natali told him quietly, "She thinks you're monster."

- "So you don't think I'm a monster?" Kol asked, glaring at her and waiting for an answer.

- Few seconds later Natali looked at the floor, saying, "Oh, I shouldn't have mentioned that."

- "Why not?" Kol asked.

- "I don't know. Anyway, let's do what we came here to do." Natali suggested, quickly changing the subject.

- "As you wish, darling." Kol told her and smiled softly.

- "So what should I do first?" Natali asked, not knowing anything that she needed to do or how to use her powers.

- "Well since you don't have magic you should siphon a little bit from me like you did that night." Kol told her and held his hands towards her, "And you need to start easy, since you don't know how to use your power."

- "What if I hurt you?" Natali asked.

- "Don't worry. You can't hurt me."Kol assured her.

- "Okay." Natali muttered as she placed her hands on top of his, but nothing was happening so after few seconds she took them off and said, "This isn't working."

- "It has to." Kol said and grabbed her hands placing them on his again.

- "Maybe I need to be afraid or angry." Natali said.

- "No, I think you need to know how to control it." Kol said and added, "When you're afraid or angry, you don't think about it and it comes naturally, but now you need to unlock it without having those emotions."

Natali tried to concentrate on siphoning magic from him. Few minutes nothing was happening, she was just getting more and more nervous and impatient.

- "Darling, I think you need to slow down your heart race." Kol says.

- "You can hear my heartbeat?" Natali asked.

- "Yes." Kol nodded.

- "I'm just..I don't know why I can do it now." Natali said a little disappointment.

- "You'll do it eventually." Kol told her.

- "It's not like we have whole night." Natali said.

- "Why not? I have the whole time in the world." Kol told her.

- "What do you mean by that?" Natali questioned.

- "Vampires are immortal, I can't die." Kol informed her.

- "Oh, so how long have you been a vampire?" Natali asked.

- "About a year." Kol says.

- "And you don't have your powers anymore?" Natali asked.

- "Well I can't be a witch and a vampire." Kol said.

- "Is that why you're helping me?" Natali asked.

- "I love magic and I loved being a witch, so if I can help someone to learn why not." Kol said and added, "Although that's not the only reason." then he smiled at her.

- Natali smiles softly barely noticeable and asks, "What's another reason?"

- "Well I enjoy to be in the company of such a beautiful lady." Kol told her.

- "Well I'm flattered." Natali said and smiled.

- "But don't tell me you're using me just so I can show you magic." Kol said.

- "I'm not using you." Natali quickly says.

- "Then is there some other reason besides magic?" Kol questioned looking intently at her and waiting an answer.

- "Okay, maybe I like your company too." Natali told him.

- "Really?" Kol asked with a smile.

- "Yeah." Natali said and then she felt magic entering her body, realizing that she and Kol were still holding hands.

- "Oh, you're doing it, don't stop." Kol remarked, felling a little bit of pain.

Few seconds later she moved her hands away from his and she watched Kol as he took a candle that was on a wall and blow it away. He did the same with other ones and they were in a dark. Natali could hear that he sat next to her again and then he said, "If you don't light up this candle, we're going to be sitting in the dark."

- "So tell me how to do it." Natali told him.

- "Focus on the candle and say "Incendia."

Natali nodded and looked down at the candle. She did as he said and started at it for a few moments, but even if she put her hands in front of it nothing happened.

- "This isn't working."Natali sighed.

- "Just keep trying. It will work." Kol urged.

She tried it a few more times, when finally she managed to light up a candle.

- "Oh my God. This is so cool." Natali said and looked at Kol who was smiling at her.

- "Yeah, it is." Kol said, "I told you it will work."

- "But I can't get too attached." Natali said a bit sad.

- "Why not?" Kol asked.

- "Because I don't have magic all the time." Natali told him.

- "At least you can have it." Kol said.

- "Yeah, you're right." Natali said.

- There were a few seconds of silence before Kol spoke, "I'm sorry." when she looked confused at him he added, "For hurting you."

- "You already apologize for that." Natali told him.

- "I know, but I feel like that's not enough. You're the only person I feel sorry for hurting." Kol told her.

- "Can you show me?" Natali asked.

- "What?" Kol asked.

- "How you look when you're a vampire, I didn't see it good that night." Natali told him.

- "Are you sure?" Kol asked.

- "I wouldn't ask if I'm not." Natali said.

Then Kol showed her his vampire face, despite just one candle being lit up next to them Natali could see dark veins under his eyes and his fangs. She lifted her hand wanting to touch his face, but when her hand was an inch from him he grabbed her wrist and for a few second they were just looking into each other like they were about to kiss. Then he placed her hand on his cheek and she touched dark veins gently with her fingertips. Kol closed his eyes and she could see how they are disappearing.

- "Still not afraid?" Kol asked.

- Natali smiles, "Not even a little bit."

"She looked his demons in the eye and smiled. She fell for the very thing he thought she'd fear."

Suddenly someone came into room, they quickly blow off the candle and few moments later Natali heard her sister's voice saying, "Natali, I know you're here."

Renée was holding her own candle in her hands and as she walked through the room she saw Natali and Kol sitting very close next to each other. She shakes her head, clearly angry at her and Natali asked, "How did you find me?"

- "Someone saw you and told me." Renée says and grabs her hand.

- "Let go of me." Natali protested.

- "I told you, you can't hangout with him." Renée tells her.

- "I'm going to hangout with whoever I want." Natali told her firmly.

- "Oh God, you're so stubborn." Renée remarked.

- "I think you should listen to her." Kol says to Renée, not wanting her to drag Natali away from him.

- "You shut up." Renée yells at him.

- "You don't get to shut me up." Kol says angrily stepping closer to them, Natali could see that Renée is becoming a little afraid and she loosened her grip on Natali's hand so she manage to rip her hand out of hers.

- "Kol, don't do anything, please." Natali said stepping between them and lightly placing the palm of her hand over Kol's chest.

- Kol looked at her saying, "Okay, if you don't want me to."

- "Let's go." Renée told her strictly.

- "Stop acting like you are the older sister." Natali hissed, she was pissed off by Renee's behaviour.

- "Maybe I'm not the older one, but I'm the smarter one." Renée told her.

- Natali frowned, "I agree to disagree."

- "I'm serious, let's go. This won't end well if our parents come here." Renée says, trying to be nice.

Natali hesitated for a few seconds and glanced between her sister and Kol before finally agreeing with Renee and left back to her bedroom.

- As soon as they've entered the room Renée growled, "Stop seeing that monster."

- "Why do you call him a monster? Just because he is different than you? If so I'm a monster too." Natali shot back.

- "No, he is a monster because he kills people." Renée corrected her.

After Renée leaved Natali in the room, she locked her up so she couldn't leave anywhere. Natali was so angry at Renée and she saw that a glass that was on the table started to shake, she tried to calm herself down, but it wasn't working she was just getting more upset. Then suddenly her mother stormed into her room saying, "We told you that you can't use magic, you don't know how to control it."

- "I don't know how to stop this." Natali says.

Her mother somehow manage to calm her down and the shaking stopped and after that Natali just feel asleep.

When she woke up she realized that she wasn't in her room. She was in a carriages, two of her servants and her mother were with her. She lifted herself up, so she can sit and asked, "Where are we going?"

- "Back home." Her mother replied.

- "What? I don't wan-" Natali said, but her mother cut her off saying, "I know you don't want to go back, but it's for the best."

- "So you can leave Renée there, but not me." Natali said.

- "She is not dangerous like you and she knows how to defend herself." Her mother said.

- "I wouldn't be dangerous if you let me use magic from the beginning." Natali said.

- "You would." Her mother said.

- "Why? Just because I'm different than any of you?" Natali asked, but her mother didn't answered anything so she knew the answer is, yes.

While Natali was back in her castle she couldn't even trust her loyal servants anymore and no one wanted to help her to get in contact with Kol or to help her with magic.

[THE PRESENT DAY:]

KUALA LUMPUR

Summer was over, Rebekah and Kol somehow worked on their issues as well as Natali and her, but she still didn't forgive him for hurting Matt again. They've heard that she left to New Orleans to see how the things are going there at taking Marcel down and maybe helping in doing so. But they knew better than that, that was just an excuse, she went there to see Marcel again. She just couldn't resist. No matter how much she told them that she doesn't care about him, they knew she does. She always did.

After partying literally all day and all night Kol and Natali feel asleep soon after they got back to their hotel room.

After sleeping for what it seemed like days, Natali woke up with the dull groan. She opened her eyes, struggling against her weighted eyelids to find nothing before her but a big window with the sun glowing through it. That was the worst way of waking up, they forgot to close the curtains before falling asleep. The trumping in her head encouraged her to quickly close her eyes again. For some time she simply laid still, before gathering her strength, she forced her eyes open again. Luckily this time she was laying on her side, so the brightness wasn't so difficult to bear.

When she accustomed her eyes on the sun, she sat up and looked at the other side of the bed, finding Kol completely naked and still sleeping. He was on his stomach and his hands were folded under the pillow.

Natali took her phone from the nightstand and taking a look at the clock she saw that it was around 5 PM, which meant good news. Sun will soon go down and she can function normal again and they can devote themselves to their nightlife.

Then she went to the bathroom to take a shower. She stood in the shower and let the hot water run over her body. The dry blood on her skin from the last's night feeding washed off easy.

While she was still under the warm stream of water she heard the doors of the shower slid open. She didn't need to turn around to know that it was Kol.

He moved closer and slipped his arms around her waist, pulling her back into him. Her hips ground into his as a slight moan escaped her lips. With her eyes closed, she leaned her head back on his shoulder, arching her back. The water run down over her full breasts and stomach.

Kol's hand moved to her breasts and lower washing the rest of the soap that was on her body away.

Opening her eyes she turned around as to face him and wrapped her arms around his neck. Then she leaned closer and kissed him, while water splashed over their heads and down their bodies.

Kol smirked and hoisted her and she wrapped her legs around his waist, locking them in place. She reached down and grabbed his cock, then put it at her entrance and he slowly pushed his way in until he was all the way in.

He started moving in and out of her a slow pace until she didn't tell him to move faster and he happily obliged. They were both moaning and grunting. Sliding her tongue into his mouth to mingle with his, Natali moved her hand, placing it on the shower glass to hold herself.

Kol reached one hand down in between their bodies and put his thumb on her clit. He rubbed her and thrust deep inside her, he could feels her pulsing around him. Finally, she cried out, digging her nails deep into his flesh she drew blood. He pumped again. Once. Twice. That was all it took. He exploded.

After catching their breaths, Natali loosened her grip on his shoulder sliding her legs down until her feet hit the floor of the shower.

After the shower they both ended up longing on the bed, wearing towels.

- "Are we going to go somewhere?" Kol asked, looking at her beautiful face.

- "Like hell we're." Natali replied quickly, "I need an entertainment."

- "I'm not enough of entertainment for you?" Kol asked as the playful smirk appeared across his face.

- "I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're not." Natali mocked with no expression on her face.

- "Don't make me prove you wrong." Kol said, his voice was deep and rough.

- Natali chuckled, "You wish." she simply said, and lifted herself off of the bed, then went to change into some clothes for tonight.

The bar that they went into was packed up and they were huddled against the bar, ordering their drinks one after another.

Sometime later, two humans came and sat next to them. They were so persistent to talk with them, so Natali and Kol started talking with them in the end.

The girl and the guy were obviously drunk, since they were talking just some nonsense. Natali got bored so she asked them "Do you guys believe in vampires?"

- "Are you crazy?" The guy asked.

- Girl laughs, ignoring Natali's question, "She drinks too much." she stated.

- Natali smiled at their ignorance, "Would you believe me if I tell you that Kol and I are vampires?"

They seemed to sober up in a moment. The looks on their faces were precious, their skin turned paler for a brief moment and their hearts skip a beat, but they burst out in laugh, trying to hide that they are a little afraid.

- "We're flesh and blood, but not human. We haven't been human for a thousand years." Kol told them in a serious tone.

Then they looked towards Natali and Kol who looked dead serious and stopped laughing as Natali let dark veins under her eyes to come forward for a moment, but enough for them to see.

- "What the hell was that?" The girl exclaimed, trying to clear her sight, thinking that alcohol was playing with her mind.

- "Oh, this?" Natali asked and moved her tongue along her white and sharp fangs.

The two of them swallowed a lump in their throats and jumped off of the chairs, but before they managed to run away Kol suddenly appeared in front of them.

- "Sit back and don't move." Kol compelled them.

When they did Natali leaned closer to them. Still having her fangs visible, they stared at them without blinking.

- "And do you believe in witches?" Natali whispered to them, when they remained silent, not wanting to make fun of that too, she continued, "Because I'm also a witch." she looked towards the shoots of tequila, "Luce igni." she whispered and all the glasses with some liquid on the bar lightened up on fire. Their eyes grow wide looking at the fire.

- Kol laughs, "Stupid humans, they have no idea what's lurking in the shadows." he remarked.

- "Shall we show them?" she asked, an devilish grin appearing across her face.

- "Do you even have to ask me that question, darling?" Kol smiled back at her and she knew what was he going to do next.

Using vampire speed he quickly sank his fangs into girls throat and everyone around her heard her scream.

All the people at the bar turned to look towards them, the seconds later Kol tore his fangs out of her throat and as her lifeless body fell onto the floor he turned towards the crowd of people. With his fangs still extended and blood dripping down his chin he grinned, "Who's next?"

At the sound of the words people started running in different directions and stumbling over each other.

Natali closed her eyes and reaching her hands out to the side she spoke, "Ostium Clausum." and with those words all the entrances and exits sealed closed. Maybe only few fastest humans got a chance to run out of the bar. The rest of them began pounding against the door repeatedly and screaming.

- "Mmm, how I love them afraid." Natali spoke and they both zoomed towards the first human they laid their eyes on.

"No one is safe from their savagery, not even the innocent."