[MARSEILLES, FRANCE: AUGUST, 1002.]
It was time for Renée's and Tristan's wedding, so Natali was going back to the Marseilles with her father and her mother. She didn't know if Kol was still there, but she was hoping he was because she has to tell him something that she thinks she figured out. She was sure her parents think she forgot him already, that's why they're letting her to go back there again.
When they came into the castle Natali was back in the bedroom where she was staying before and she needed to get ready for the wedding. While she was with her servants that helped her to get ready, Tristan's sister Aurora, came into her room.
- "Hi, can I keep you some company?" Aurora asked as she stepped into the room.
- Natali nodded, but asked curiously, "Did my sister sent you?"
- "To be honest, she did." Aurora says honestly.
- "I knew it." Natali said knowingly, "So did you two became a good friends?"
- "Yes, we did. And I would like to have a chance to meet you too." Aurora told her softly, with a small smile.
- "Why? I won't be here for much longer." Natali questioned. It was a little odd that Aurora all of sudden wants to get to know her more.
- "Why did they even sent you back to your castle?" Aurora asked, not answering to Natali's question.
- Natali sighed, she hoped no one would ask her that, "Because I was hanging out with Kol." he replied, "I don't know if you know who he is."
- "I do know. I know all of his siblings." Aurora told her briefly.
- Natali fixed her gaze on Aurora's when she heard her answer, "Is he still here?" she asked without hesitation, if anyone knew if Kol was still living here that would be Aurora.
- "Yes." Aurora simply replied, watching as Natali slightly smiled and moved her gaze to the ground, "I can arrange you to meet him, if you want." she suggested, realizing that Natali was interested in him.
- "Really?" Natali's eyes widened as she looked back up, "And you wouldn't tell my sister?"
- "No one has to know." Aurora gave her a smile, "It will be our little secret."
- Natali quickly nodded, as her smile flashed bright, "Yes, please. I need to see him."
- "You like him, don't you?" Aurora questioned, glaring at obviously happy girl in front of her, too happy if she didn't liked him.
- Natali felt her cheeks blushing, she never really thought about that, until now, "Uh.. I don't know." she replied, uncertain of her answer, because she really wasn't sure if she likes him and she couldn't tell Aurora why she really wants to see him.
- "Well you can find out when you see him." Aurora tells her, moving herself closer to the door and continuing, "We should probably get going now and I'll tell you later where to meet him."
Natali nodded smiling and then the two of them went to the wedding ceremony. As Natali expected Kol or any of his siblings weren't at the wedding, she was sure her parents and her sister said how they can't come.
After the wedding ceremony was over Aurora found her standing alone in the ballroom and she told her how Kol is going to wait for her in Aurora's room. It would look like the two of them are going there and hopefully no one will suspect anything.
When they were coming closer to her room Natali felt a nervous feeling washing over her, she never felt like this before.
- When they've were in front of Aurora's bedroom, she turned towards Natali, saying, "I need to go now and meet someone else, but you two can talk in here until I come back."
Natali just gave her a smile and when Aurora walked away she grabbed the door handle and slowly opened the door. When she entered the room and quickly closed the door she saw Kol sitting on the bed. He stood up at the same moment when his eyes landed on her.
- "I'm sorry I disappeared like that. My paren-" Natali began saying in attempt to explain herself, but Kol interrupted her before she said anything else, "I know everything, darling."
- "Good. Then should I get straight to the point?" Natali said and Kol nodded for her to continue, "While I was in my castle I was thinking that If I'm like yo-" she was cut off by Kol before she could finish, "You'll lose your ability to do magic."
- "No." Natali shakes her head in disagreement, "What if I don't? I'm different and since I need to siphon magic and vampires are made if it, if I could become one I would have an endless source of power."
- "I don't know if you can become a vampire." Kol told her, thinking that her idea maybe actually made sense, but there wasn't a way for her to be a vampire.
- "How did you become?" Natali asked.
- "My mother was a powerful witch and she turned us." Kol informed her.
- "Well where is she now?" Natali asked, hoping his mother could turn her into a vampire as well.
- "She is dead." Kol told her.
- "Oh, I'm sorry." Natali said in a sad voice and she was a little disappointed.
- Kol placed his hand on hers and said, "Darling, maybe you'll find some other way."
- "I don't know if I will remember some other way." Natali said looking down at her feet.
- "So you came up with that idea on your own?" Kol asked.
- "Yes. It that too hard to believe in?" Natali asked.
- "It's not." Kol shakes his head.
- "Well if you don't know how I can be a vampire, maybe I should go until someone suspects something." Natali told him.
- "I've heard Aurora said how we can be here until she comes back." Kol said stopping her from leaving.
- Natali softly smiled, asking, "Did you learn to control your hunger?"
- Kol shakes his head, "No. Don't worry I eat before I came here."
- "Oh good, you won't eat me." Natali laughs.
- "Only if you want me to." Kol says with his well known smirk.
- "You're being inappropriate now." Natali told him, trying to hide that her cheeks were blushing.
- "My apologize." Kol tells her, still smirking.
After few minutes of silence they heard some screams out side of the room. With his vampire hearing Kol heard what was going on and apparently Tristan saw how Aurora and their servant Lucian are together and they took Lucian. Aurora came storming into her room, like she forgot that they are there. When Natali saw how upset she was she tried to calm her down, but Aurora yelled at her and threw them out of the room.
- "I better go, before someone sees me." Natali said.
- "I'll go first." Kol said and vamp speed.
[THE PRESENT DAY:]
Natali heard her good friend and allie Sonia screaming out for her, her voice was echoing through her brain. In a dream she found herself on the other side where she could see Sonia who was walking towards her. With a help of some witches and due to the weakened state of the other side she managed to contact Natali through her dreams and seek out for help. She told her that something bad was happening to the other side, it was collapsing and everyone got pulled into oblivion by an invisible force. Natali could see it with her own eyes, it was happening in her dream. Sonia didn't know how much time she has left, but the witches from Natali's coven that were dead were doing everything in their power to keep her on the other side until Natali doesn't bring her back.
She sat up with a jerk, alarmed about situation that was happening on the other side. Not wasting anymore seconds she pulled the covers off of her and got out of the bed. She took the clothes that was scratched across the room and just as she was about to open the door she heard that Koo woke up as well.
- "Where do you think you're going?" Kol questioned, looking directly at her.
- "I don't have time to talk right now." Natali replied briefly and without saying another word she walked out of the room, closing the door behind her and leaving confused Kol alone.
- "Anna!" Natali yelled as she quickly walked down the stairs.
She heard that Anna was downstairs in the foyer and without giving an explanation why she immediately gave her an order to bring Sonia's ashes into the living room, while Natali prepare everything for the spell she is about to do.
When Anna came back into the living room holding an urn with their friend ashes she saw that Natali already drew a circle with a chalk and poured the salt along the chalk line. Anna knew exactly what Natali is about to do and she seemed like she was in the rush, so she didn't wanted to ask any questions. Natali took the urn from Anna's hands and created another circle within the white chalk circle, by scattering Sonia's ashes. Once everything was in the correct position she moved to stay opposite of where Sonia's ashes were. She closed her eyes, slowly expanding her hands out to her sides with her palms facing upwards, and she lit up a few candles before she started chanting, "Os, caro, spiritum. Ex mors ut vitam aeternam haec anima et revertetur. Os, caro, spiritum. "
Natali chanted confidently, as she lost herself in the magic that was coursing through her veins. Wind began to swell around her as Sonia's ashes began to return into flesh and her chanting became more stronger.
Once Sonia was completely returned to flesh, Natali opened her eyes. Sonia panted for breath on her hands and knees, before she looked up, a wide smile forking on her lips. She was glad that she was finally back in the world of the living. The other side is an awful place and she didn't wanted to spend an eternity there or maybe even somewhere worse since it looked like the other side was collapsing.
It didn't took long for Sonia to recover from being resurrected. She feed, she rested and now she was feeling like she was never even dead. Natali and Anna were mostly with her for the past few hours and when the three of them came back into the living room Kol was already there, awaiting them.
He was feeding on some girl, sharing her with another vampire and when he heard that Natali, Anna and Sonia entered the room he withdrawn his fangs and looked up at them.
- Kol smiled in amusement pointing at Sonia, "Ah Sonia, I didn't know you were dead."
- "He remembers my name." Sonia remarked, smiling bitterly at him.
- Kol narrowed his eyes, "Why wouldn't I remember your name?" he asked, pretending like he doesn't know what was she talking about.
- "Oh well.. I don't know. Maybe because you always called me Sofya, Seona.." Sonia reminded him as she took a few more steps closer.
- Kol tried to sustain his chuckle, "I did, didn't I?"
- Natali sighed, propping next to Kol on the couch, "Oh, he was just joking because you hate when someone mistakes your name."
- "Well I just think that I leave a more than good first impression on someone, so that someone shouldn't get my name wrong." Sonia purred smugly.
- "Don't flatter yourself Sonia." Anna joked slightly and Sonia shot her a look, not pleased by her comment.
- "How did you die anyway?" Kol questioned looking at Sonia.
- Before Sonia could answer him Natali began speaking, "Well you know she has a tendency to fall in love with a pathetic humans." she paused for a moment to take a look at her friend, "And so that human happened to be a vampire hunter and he killed her while she slept in his bed." Natali flashed them a smile before saying, "I enjoyed ripping his head off."
- Kol nodded his head in understatement, "Oh, I'm sure you did."
- "I guess I've served my punishment for that. The other side is an awful place." Sonia told them, expecting for Natali to tell her that her punishment is over. She knew that Natali could bring her back years ago, but she didn't do it on purpose.
- "And it taught you something, hopefully." Natali tells her, taking a glass of whiskey that was on the table in front of her and she gulped it's contents down in one go.
- "Humans are just a food and nothing else." Sonia repeated the sentence which Natali was telling her ever since she fell in love with the first human. She needed to be killed by one of her human lovers to realize she should have listened to Natali.
- "Exactly." Kol exclaimed cheerfully, grabbing a wrist of the girl he was feeding on few minutes ago, "Serve yourself then."
- "I think she is quite dead." Sonia told him, looking at the girl who wasn't moving even for a little bit.
- Kol took a brief look at her, "Oh well then." he waved his hand to the servant that brought another girl from the next room into the living room, "There are plenty more of them to go." he says, an infamous smirk appearing on his face.
While Kol and Natali were in her famous nightclub "Eternal night" with some of their friends, the guards showed up in their booth saying how a girl that claims she is Rebekah Mikaelson want to see them. They were compelled to not let anyone in who requests to talk with Kol or Natali, so Rebekah was left hanging outside until it wasn't confirmed that was really her. And she wasn't happy even a bit that they weren't informed of who she is.
- "Is this a bloody joke, who doesn't know I'm a Rebekah Mikaelson." Rebekah exclaimed, walking towards their booth, escorted by two handsome looking servants.
- "Well I certain didn't know. I've never met you." Sonia stated as she eyed Rebekah.
- Rebekah turned her gaze towards her, "Good for you that you have a pleasure in meeting me now." she says in a smug voice.
Sonia smiled at her self-confidence and she already knew the two of them will get along.
- "What are you doing here sister?" Kol asked.
- "Make a little room for me, will you?" Rebekah questioned, wanting to sit and when she did her eyes glanced between her brother and Natali, "Klaus wanted to kill me."
- "What?!" Kol and Natali exclaimed in unison, already thinking about all the ways they could make him suffer and dagger him again.
- "It's a long story actually." Rebekah pointed out and paused her self.
- "Do tell." Natali told her, ready to listen closely.
- "After the two of you left Davina was sacrificed at the Harvest and instead of her and the other three girl to come back some of the witches came back, including Genevieve." Rebekah began explaining.
- "Genevieve. I didn't heard that name in a century." Natali stated, she and Kol knew Genevieve while they were making dark objects back in good old days, but she never did work for them.
- "Yeah well, she was dead after I killed her." Rebekah told them and Kol's lips curved into a smirk.
- "You did? Why?" Kol questioned his sister, becoming more curious, "Did she hit on that twat of yours?"
- Rebekah rolled her eyes at his words, "Marcel is another story, but no she did not." she told him, pausing for a moment and taking a deep breath before speaking again, "Marcel and I had her to summon Mikael into town in 1919, then I realized it was a mistake and I wanted her to undo the spell but she told me that it isn't possible and she wanted to tell Klaus everything so I infected her with virus."
- "And now she came back to have a revenge on you?" Natali asked.
- Rebekah nodded in response, "Yes. And she did. She had some werewolves to bite me and weaken me so she could do a spell and show to Nik what Marcel and I did."
- "Tell me Klaus killed Marcel instead of you." Kol said in amusement, taking a sip of his drink.
- "Well I will have to disappoint you, he didn't killed him, but he did banished him from the Quarter." Rebekah told him.
Kol sighed in frustration, tightening his grip on the glass.
- "And may I ask why you and Marcel didn't leaved together now when you had a chance?" Natali questioned, knowing how to hit Rebekah at the right spot.
- Rebekah pressed her lips together before looking at her, "He choose New Orleans over me.. again."
- Natali and Kol weren't surprised to hear that, "I hope you finally realized he is not worth your love." Natali says to her.
- "Maybe." Rebekah muttered under her breath, it was barely hearable over the music that was playing in the background.
- Natali smiled, "Well you are more than welcome to stay here with us."
