Another chapter for you guys! Exciting news Uncle Mason is back next chapter! Look forward to it, have a nice flashback at the end of Katherine, Kol and Brenna. Please don't forget to review, let me know what you liked, disliked, want to see etc. xx
wildman9002: Next chapter I'll use that as my flashback! Good idea
Oz: There will be a moment where Katherine switches from team Kol! Might be my flashback next chapter.
RiRi: I know! I'm sorry
HunterGirl53: I know exactly I want to do with that! I've known since I started this story, so look forward to it.
Coco11: I do have some plans for them! Katherine and Elijah, in particular, will pop up sporadically in Brea's life.
It was 5.15 am when Brea's bedroom door opened and Elena came in, "hey," Brea mumbled sitting up. "Couldn't you sleep either?"
"No," Elena said sitting down at the end of Brea's bed. "Let's go."
"Go where?"
"We're starting our training," Elena said.
"What training?"
"So we're not defenceless. Ric is going to train us."
"Yeah, hard pass," Brea said sliding back down.
"We're doing this," Elena said, standing up and throwing the covers off of Brea. "We cannot get attacked like this again Brea."
"Fine!" Brea groaned. "Get out, I'll change," she said getting out of bed and shoving her sister out of her room.
"5 minutes," Elena said from the other side of the door.
"5 minutes," Brea said in a mocking high pitched voice.
"I heard that!" Elena yelled back.
After 5 minutes, Brea exited her room grumpily, "ok, I'm ready," she groaned before looking up to see Ric coming out of his room, a hand holding his head.
"Good morning," Elena greeted happily and Ric held his hand up to silence her, clearly unhappy to be up so early.
"Ric," Brea said leaning on the bannister.
"Hmm?" he asked looking up at her.
"If I push her down the stairs you won't tell right?" Brea asked.
Elena laughed at her sister before going silent when she saw Brea's serious face, "oh come on Brea," she sighed.
"Yeah I'll keep your secret," Ric said and Elena snapped her head around to him. "You just got to push hard enough to knock the memory out of her, but not hard enough to hurt her too badly."
"Right, one good push. Count of three?"
"I'll meet you guys in the car," Elena said quickly before she ran down the stairs.
"Well at least that was sort of fun," Brea said as she began trudging down the stairs.
"Hey, Brea," Ric said. "Are you ok?" he asked and she just nodded her head quickly before continuing down the stairs.
Brea was sitting on the ground in the woods, leaning against a tree while Ric punched a dummy, releasing stakes into its chest. "So the pressure of your punch ejects the stakes," Ric said demonstrating to the girls.
"Easy enough," Elena said. She then pulled back and punched the dummy, but no stakes where ejected. "That's weird," she said looking at the stakes strapped onto her wrist, she took a deep breath and punched again, but no stakes came out so she started hitting it, "must be jammed or something."
"You're not strong enough," Ric said.
"Haha loser," Brea laughed.
"Well you try then," Elena snapped.
"Fine," Brea said lifting herself off the ground and she stared the dummy down, before pulling back and punching, "ow," she whined grabbing her hand.
"Not so easy is it," Elena sighed.
"You two better start lifting some weights. Put some meat on your bones," he said as he began packing things up.
"Thanks for not sugarcoating it," Elena said following Ric.
"Lena we never work out, you know we're weak," Brea said as she walked after them.
"You two know what this is?" Ric said holding something up.
"A vervain grenade, I've used one before," Elena said.
"Brea? You listening?" Ric asked.
"Yeah, um, vervain grenade," Brea said yawning.
"Then you know the element of surprise is your only advantage when it comes to a vampire," Ric said as he stopped walking and turned to face the twins. He then pulled the pin on the grenade and threw it to Brea, "surprise," he said glumly.
"Oh my god, ahh!" Brea yelled throwing the grenade to Elena.
"Oh my god!" Elena yelled. "Brea!" she yelled before turning and throwing it away from the group.
"I'm sorry!" Brea said quickly. "I panicked."
"I'm not mad at you," Elena said glaring at Ric, "this isn't a joke to us, Ric," she snapped ripping off her wrist strap.
"You think I'm joking?" Ric asked. "Vampires will take whatever they want. They will hurt whoever they want and they'll do it without remorse. It's their nature."
"You don't have to use pronouns, you can say, Stefan," Elena said.
"Look, I get why you're here. And I get why you got her to come here. Stefan hurt you. You don't want it to happen to you or Brea again."
"But you think that I'm crazy, to believe we can protect ourselves from a vampire who's flipped the switch on his humanity," Elena said.
"I think you found a way to get out of bed this morning. So did you," he said looking at Brea. "And that makes you both the strongest people I know. I think you both can do pretty much anything," he said putting his hands on the twin's shoulders before walking off. Elena and Brea looked at each other and nodded, with newfound courage and followed him to the car.
"Here we are. Senior year," Caroline said as she, Bonnie, Elena and Brea stood out the front of the school.
"Joy," Brea said sarcastically.
"Anyone else thinks this should feel slightly more empowering?" Bonnie asked.
"Ok, prank night was a bust. But we are accepting it and we're moving on," Caroline said.
Brea snorted, "a bust?" she asked. "Seriously, Caroline?"
"You're right," Bonnie interrupted before the girls could start fighting. "I mean, why should I let the fact that my boyfriend is seeing the ghosts of his girlfriends hinder this experience?"
"Yes!" Caroline said enthusiastically, "and why should I let the fact my boyfriend was turned into a hybrid put a damper on an otherwise fabulous day?"
"Yes," Brea said rudely, "it's all well and merry, aside from all of that, and the fact that Klaus killed two of our friends last night, hurt Elena, hurt Tyler, caused Matt to hurt himself, destroyed Stefan and brought Rebekah to town. Brilliant day."
"Today's our anniversary," Elena said falling behind the girls, causing the three girls to stop walking and turn around and look at her. "Technically, Stefan and I met on the first day of school last year."
"Yeah you two win," Caroline said to the twins.
"Are you sure you both want to be here?" Bonnie asked.
"I have to be here," Elena said. "I have to put it behind me. New year, new life," Elena said walking off.
"And you, are you going to be ok?" Caroline asked as she and Bonnie stayed with Brea.
Brea nodded, her eyes filling with tears, "no one who got hurt over summer would want my life to stop. I don't know about putting it behind me, but, I just got to work through it," she said with a small smile before she followed after her sister.
Brea was at her locker putting books away when someone came up behind her and said "want to see something funny?" making her jump in the air and spin around.
"Oh my god, Stefan," Brea said wide-eyed.
"Want to see?" he said.
"No," Brea said bluntly.
"Too bad," he said and he reached under her arms and picked her up off the ground and began walking.
"Put me down, put me down," she hissed, so that they didn't attract too much attention. "Why does this always happen to me? I need to put on some weight, I am just too easy to carry," she said as she wiggled in his grip.
"Here we go," Stefan said putting her down so she was leaning up against some lockers and he moved forward so that he walked straight into Elena as she came out of the boy's bathrooms.
"Oh my god," Brea cringed, she knew this was how the two of them first met.
"Hello, Elena," Stefan greeted.
"What are you doing here?" Elena asked and Brea moved to her sisters side.
"What do you mean?" Stefan asked. "I'm going back to school," he said as though it were obvious. "Go Timberwolves."
"What? Why?" Elena asked.
"Klaus wants me to keep an eye on you two. I'm just doing what I'm told," Stefan shrugged.
"I'm going to be late for class," Elena said trying to walk around him.
"Oh, uh, class is this way," Stefan said grabbing Elena's arm.
"Schedule's changed," Brea said, trying to yank her sisters arm out of Stefan's grip.
"Let go of me, Stefan," Elena pleaded.
"Elena, do you think I want to be a senior for the hundredth time?" he asked. "No. But if I don't have a choice in the matter, neither do you."
"I said let go of me!" Elena snapped.
"Let her go," Ric ordered as he came up to the three of them.
"Oh thank god, here's our muscle Stefan, be scared, be very scared," Brea taunted and Stefan just tilted his head at her and let go of Elena's arm, "oh yeah, that's right." Stefan then reached over and slammed Ric right against the lockers, "oh no," Brea said shocked.
"Stefan, stop it," Elena growled.
"You're not going to want to get in my way, ok, Ric?" Stefan said before he released him and started walking off, "see you guys in history."
"My classroom, now," Ric said angrily and the girls nodded and followed after him quickly, "what the hell is he doing here?" he asked as soon as they all entered the classroom.
"Klaus compelled him to keep watch over us," Elena said. "Apparently I'm one of Klaus' assets now that my blood is the only way to create a hybrid and Brea…" Elena said looking at her sister.
"Well, I think it's fair to say that Klaus and I's fondness of each other is now no longer mutual and more of a one-sided affection," Brea scowled.
"So now he's your bodyguard?" Ric asked the girls.
Brea shrugged and Elena said, "I don't know what he is, but he's definitely not Stefan."
"He knew that walking into you outside the bathroom would hurt you and he dragged me along to watch, it's despicable," Brea said as the school bell rang and people started walking into class.
"Look, his being here is not good for us. We have to do something," Elena said.
"It's not good for anyone walking these halls with a heartbeat," Brea said before she and Elena walked over to their seats and sat down.
"You're in my seat," they heard Stefan say to the guy who was in the seat next to Elena's, which caused the guy to get up to find another seat and Stefan greeted Elena with a, "hey, you."
"Hey," Tyler whispered from next to Brea and she leant over, "from my mom," he said handing her a bottle. "Pear, apple and celery," he said.
"Yes!" Brea cheered loudly.
"Brea," Ric warned, he'd already started his introduction to the class.
"Sorry," she apologised before turning back to Tyler, "tell your mum thanks for the juice! That's my favourite one she makes."
"Will do. But Brea, watch the accent," he suggested.
"Oh bugger," she muttered to herself as she took a sip, she'd been letting her English accent creep in a bit at school.
"Let's turn our brains back on, starting with this country's original founders. The Native Americans."
"What about the Vikings?" Rebekah asked walking into the classroom and Brea coughed in shock and choked on her drink.
"Well there's no evidence that Viking explorers actually settled in the United States," Ric said while Tyler leant over and patted Brea on the back.
"You ok?" he whispered and Brea nodded.
"Who are you?" Ric asked Rebekah.
"My name's Rebekah. I'm new and history is my favourite subject," she said and Ric looked at the twins nervously.
"Look just sit on the bleachers and stop whining," Caroline said pushing Brea to sit down.
"But I have so much to do," Brea said.
"You don't. Your brother is your best friend. You have nothing to do but sit here and wait for me to finish practise," Caroline said.
"Dammit," Brea sighed slumping into her seat as Caroline ran off to cheerleading practice. While they were warming up, Brea saw Rebekah waltz up to Caroline and she sat straight up in her seat, watching them interact. When it looked like it was getting tense she stood up and ran down the bleachers to Caroline, "hey you guys ok?" she asked Caroline.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Woah, oh my god, come with me," Caroline said grabbing Brea's hand and racing over to Tyler.
"Hey!" she hissed, "got to be a little more subtle, Tyler," she whispered.
"About what?" Brea asked.
"Coming from the queen of subtlety?" Tyler asked.
"He's right," Brea said, "you are not subtle," she pointed out, which caused Caroline to glare at her, "shutting up now," Brea said grimacing at Tyler.
"Relax," Tyler said, taking the heat off of Brea, "I'm in total control."
"Then why are you acting like this?" she asked.
"Drop it, Caroline," he asked. "I'm fine. I've never been better," he said, which caused Brea to frown in confusion. "Klaus has given me this gift."
"Wait. What?" both girls asked in unison.
"Hey, check out the new girl," they all heard someone yelled and they turned to see Rebekah doing multiple flips, impressing the cheerleading squad.
"Oh my god," Caroline said disgustedly.
"Damn, girls got moves," Tyler admired.
"That was pretty cool," Brea said.
"Shut up," Caroline said, "go sit back down.
"Fine," Brea said as she trudged back to her seat.
"So I made her jealous?" Rebekah asked bouncing up to Brea.
"Why are you trying to make her jealous?" Brea asked putting her hands on her hips.
"I admire her life, I'll see you at the bonfire," Rebekah smirked before she turned and ran back to practise and Brea dropped her hands from her hips and looked at her sadly. She knew underneath the facade, Rebekah really meant that. Caroline's life was the life she always dreamt off, a normal life, not one of fear and destruction.
"I'll lure Stefan away from the bonfire. Then, when he's distracted..." Elena said as they all stood in Ric's classroom discussing their plan.
"I'll shoot him," Ric finished.
"Can't Bonnie just juju him or something?" Damon asked.
"Juju," Brea giggled quietly to herself and Damon shot her a smirk.
"I'm trying to keep Bonnie out of this," Elena told Damon. "I don't trust that Stefan won't hurt her."
"Stefan's an ass," Brea said.
"Caroline," Elena said turning to her, "are you covered?"
"Yes, I will make sure the old Forbes jail cell is prepped and ready."
"You're forgetting a key player here," Damon said. "Rebekah. Wherever Stefan goes a blonde ponytail tends to follow."
"Which is why it's the both of you's job to keep her away," Elena said.
"I'm sorry, what?" Brea asked.
"The only person she's followed more than Stefan is you. She lined up all her classes so you have them together, you are our best hope of distracting her. But you're also angry and flaky, so if you run off, Damon comes in," Elena said.
"I am not flaky," Brea defended.
"How?" Damon asked, "she's an original. Last time I checked, we're out of daggers."
"Wish I had a dagger for her," Brea scowled.
"So then preoccupy her with your charm," Elena said.
"Might have better luck finding the dagger," Ric muttered.
Brea laughed, "brilliant. Seriously though Elena, we need a slightly better plan than that."
"You ever not going to be mad at me, Ric?" Damon asked.
"Doubtful," Ric retorted.
"Don't worry Ric, when you bulk me up, I'll kick his ass for you," Brea smirked.
"In order to bulk up you have to show up for the weight sessions," Ric said to her.
"I told Elena, I never got the message. I was hanging out with Matt, my phone was turned off so I wasn't getting her calls at the time and Tyler never told me that you guys were weight training, even though you told him to tell me," she lied as Tyler walked through the door.
"I did tell you the message, you told me you were going to hide until it was over, you weren't with Matt, you were at home watching a movie with Jeremy on the couch," Tyler said disputing every single one of her lies.
"Dammit," Brea hissed.
"Sorry I'm late, what's going on?" he asked everyone.
"We were talking about kicking you out of the group, no traitors allowed here," Brea said.
"Shh," Elena hushed her sister before turning to Tyler, "we need you to raid your mom's vervain supply. Enough to keep Stefan down for a while," she explained.
"You can't do that to Stefan," Tyler said.
"I know right," Brea said, "she is so not strong enough, she didn't join in Jeremy and I's secret training session because she was too busy at amateur hour with Ric."
"Brea!" Elena scolded.
"Sorry," Brea apologised.
"Why not?" Caroline said turning to Tyler.
"Trust me, Tyler, it's in his best interest," Elena said.
"Yeah," Caroline smiled.
"But it's not in Klaus'," Tyler said and Brea frowned.
"But Klaus is the bad guy, Tyler," Caroline said confused. "Why are you acting like some freaky hybrid slave-minion?" she asked.
"Oh no," Brea said in realisation.
"Uh-oh," Damon also said as he stood up.
Brea stood up with him, "you thinking what I'm thinking?" Brea asked him.
"What?" Ric asked them.
"Klaus made me who I am, Caroline," Tyler said. "I owe him everything."
Damon and Brea started walking towards him, "oh boy," Damon said before looking at Brea, "definitely."
"Dammit," Brea muttered and she walked over to Caroline and grabbed her friend's hand and slowly walked her away from Tyler.
"Ok, can we cool it on the commentary, please?" Caroline snapped at Brea and Damon.
"What is going on?" Elena asked.
Brea looked at Damon and saw him pick up one of Ric's vervain syringes and she nodded at him. Tyler noticed how tense the room was and said, "I'm just going to go," and he made to leave but Damon ran up behind him and shot him up with vervain.
"What are you doing?" Caroline yelled ripping her hand out of Brea's and ran towards her unconscious boyfriend.
"He's been sired," Damon answered.
"What?" Ric asked.
"Sired," Brea said slowly for Ric.
"I know what he said, what is it?" Ric asked.
"Oh," Brea said and shrugged at Damon for him to continue.
"He feels loyal to Klaus because Klaus' blood created him."
"Loyal how?" Elena asked.
"In the really bad way," Brea said.
"He'll seek acceptance from his master. It's rare. Maybe not so much in hybrids," Damon only.
"I've been around for a thousand years hanging out with vampires and I've only ever seen a handful," Brea said.
"So how do I fix him?" Caroline asked.
"Get a new boyfriend," Damon asked.
"Damon," Brea scolded.
"Brea, what do we do?" Caroline asked.
"Umm, I… I've never seen a fix," she answered her friend sadly.
Brea was circling the bonfire and saw Elena approach Stefan and Rebekah and she knew this was her time to move, "beer me!" she cheered as she came up to the three of them, holding out her cup for Stefan to fill him.
"Case in point," Stefan to Elena, before taking her cup and filling it. "Both lightweights."
"Oh," she said taking her cup back, "so not true. Did you skull yours?" she asked Elena.
"Yup," she popped.
"Oh I like you," Brea smiled lightly shoving her sister's shoulder.
"You both should take it easy," Stefan said.
"Oh really? You think I'm going to let a blood addict tell me how to drink?" Elena snarked before storming off.
"Burn!" Brea laughed. "Where the hell is Matt?" she asked walking off.
"Wait up!" Rebekah called after her.
"Urgh," Brea whined turning back around. "I know you're blonde, but you're not Matt," she said taking out her phone only to drop it, "dammit," she whined and Rebekah bent down to pick it up."
"Here," she said handing it back, "are you ok?"
"Are you ok?" Brea mocked in a high pitched voice and Rebekah smiled, "urgh that pisses Elena off, not you, note to self. Bye."
"Wait, where are you going?"
"Just leave me alone, Rebekah, please."
"I think we need to talk," Rebekah said grabbing Brea's hand, "I don't want you to hate me."
"I don't hate you," Brea said.
"Oh thank god."
"I just wish you weren't in my eyesight, or in my life," Brea smiled. "Ok, bye," she said walking off again. Rebekah didn't follow this time, but Brea knew her eyes were on her.
"Twin!" Brea said running up to Elena. "Hey, you know how they're all chanting 'drink' over there? I know it looks like they're talking to the guy on the keg, but actually, they're talking to you. So… drink," she smiled at her sister.
Elena's eyes darkened as she caught sight of Stefan, "fine," she said and held her cup up to him and drank it. "Are you actually drinking?" she whispered to Brea.
"Yeah! I've had a lot," she said. "And Tyler and Matt aren't even here to encourage me, well I don't know where Matt is but we know that Tyler is um…" she said realising vampires may be listening, "gone for a hike," she said so they didn't blow the plan. Elena tilted her head and Brea followed her gaze and noticed Damon and Rebekah flirting by the fire, "oh yeah, I forgot that was my job."
"See, you're flakey," Elena said.
"Yeah, maybe I am," Brea admitted.
"What's that look?" Stefan said coming up behind Elena.
"What look?" Elena asked.
"The look of pure awesome, cause that's what we are," Brea said holding her hand up for a high five from her sister which was not returned, "ok," she said lowering her hand.
"My brother's got his flirt on. And you're jealous," Stefan said.
"I am so not," Brea said.
"Not you," Stefan said.
"I'm not jealous," Elena said.
"It's all right, be jealous. By all means. I'm sure Damon will be thrilled."
"I'm not jealous, Stefan," Elena said turning around, but deliberately stumbling a bit so it looked as though she was drunk and Brea nodded her head in appreciation of her sisters acting skills.
"All right. It's my mistake," Stefan smirked as Elena took another drink.
"Whatever. I'm out of here," Elena said storming off.
"Now, I'm meant to be looking after both of you," Stefan said to Brea. "Come with me."
"No way. I'm staying with the booze, you don't have the booze, so I'm not going with you," Brea smirked poking out her tongue. "Chase her yourself, she's a jealous party pooper," she said and then laughed.
"Ok, stay near Rebekah."
"Urgh," Brea groaned.
"Stay with Rebekah, and I'll know you're safe like Klaus wants me to do. If you don't stay near Rebekah, I'll take you with me after her," he said gesturing to Elena's retreating figure.
"Fine, I'll stay near the blonde," Brea said throwing her hands up and Stefan nodded and walked. "Piece of cake," Brea said doing a little dance to herself only to look up and see Damon and Rebekah staring at her, "oh no," she said realising they saw her do that. "Where the hell are my friends?" she mumbled as she stumbled off to find them. "Bon bon!" she cheered as she saw Bonnie on the phone.
"Brea! Thank god," Bonnie called as she hung up.
"Have you seen Matthew? He promised me he'd be here, but alas, nowhere in sight," Brea said.
"I just got off the phone with him," Bonnie said, "have you been drinking?" she asked.
"Oh yeah," Brea laughed.
"Oh god, ok, have you seen Elena?"
"She ran off in a huff, you know Lena. Grumpy creature," Brea laughed.
"Ok, I need to find Elena, you stay here, don't move, are you going to be ok?" Bonnie asked.
"Yeah, I'll go find Bekah," Brea said and Bonnie froze.
"Who?" Bonnie asked.
"Damon," Brea said quickly, "who'd you think I said?"
"Never mind, stay here," Bonnie said running off.
Brea stumbled through the crowds until she saw Damon and Rebekah, "Bekah! Damon!" she called as she made her way towards them. Rebekah smirked and leaned into Damon before subtly stabbing him through the stomach with a stick as Brea came in front of them. "Cool," Brea said unsure how to react as she looked between them. "You right?" she asked Damon and he nodded, pulling the stick out.
"Brenna?" Rebekah asked and Brea looked up, "you coming?"
"No," Brea said sobering up a bit, "no way," she said turning back to Damon, "are you ok, are you healing?" she asked.
"Yeah, urgh, that'll heal up," Damon groaned holding his stomach and Brea turned her head back to see that Rebekah had left. "Hey Ric," Damon said answering his phone. "What?" he asked in shock. "Ok, ok, go to mine," he said hanging up. "We gotta go," he said to Brea.
"Why? What happened?" she asked standing up.
"Elena got attacked by Vicki Donovan's ghost."
"What!"
"Give it to me. I can do it," Elena said trying to snatch the disinfectant from Damon as he cleaned her cut cheek.
"No, let me," Damon said.
"Damon, come on," Elena pleaded.
"Elena," Damon said sternly, shutting her up. "You almost got barbecued. Least I can do is apply first aid."
Brea let out a small giggle, "you got in trouble," she sung as she hopped up on the benchtop to sit next her sister.
"There," Damon said as he cleaned her cheek.
"You played your part of the plan really well tonight," Elena said to Damon.
"Oh yeah?" Damon asked.
"Yeah, you had Rebekah drooling all over you and your marshmallows."
"Yeah, before she skewered me," Damon snorted.
"Yeah, that was so funny," Brea said laughing.
"I thought you were too drunk to notice," Damon said to Elena.
"I was faking most of it," she said.
"So was I," Damon agreed.
"I wasn't. I am so drunk and Matt and Tyler weren't even there to witness it. Oh my god, they've officially corrupted me. I am off the rails," Brea cheered.
"You're still drunk," Elena said to her sister.
"Yeah," Brea agreed.
"You guys ready to get going?" Ric asked, coming into the room.
"Great work tonight, Ric," Damon said. "Sorry about the car, man. Bummer," he said sincerely as Elena and Brea hopped down and walked towards their guardian.
"Don't worry Ric," Brea said. "Damon will buy you a new car," she said with a smirk as she and her sister left the room.
The three of them started making their way out of the boarding house when Elena said to Ric, "it's ok if you want to be friends with Damon again."
"I don't," Ric assured.
"I think he kind of misses you," Elena said.
"Kind of," Brea snorted. "He's desperately lonely," she said when the other two came to a halt and she walked into Ric, and would have fallen if he hadn't caught her. "Oh it's Stefan," she said as she saw the reason they froze.
"Well, you got me tonight," he said.
Brea stood up, "yeah, we beat your ass," she smirked.
"I definitely wasn't expecting that."
"Well, that was the point," Ric said and Brea held her hand up for a high five but he gently grabbed her wrist and lowered it.
"Yeah. You can hate it all you want," Stefan said to Ric, "but Elena and Brea need me."
"I'll always protect them. I think you're all better off having me around."
"You're only protecting us because you're under all the mind control," Brea said tapping the side of her head. Elena sighed and put her hand on Brea's arm and started to lead her out of the house.
"Elena, wait," Stefan asked and Elena turned back around while Brea moved to stand a little further back with Ric. "You could have let me die in that fire tonight. Why didn't you?"
"Because I still have hope," she answered sadly.
"After everything I've done?" he asked. "You still think I'll be able to find my humanity again?"
"Yes, I do. I know who you really are. Better than anyone, Stefan," she said stepping toward him. "And I'm not giving up."
"Elena, do you have any idea how pathetic that makes you?" Stefan whispered.
"No, Stefan," Elena countered. "It makes me strong," she said before she punched him in the stomach witch one of Ric's contraptions strapped to her wrist, allowing three stakes to go into Stefan's stomach.
"Yes, twin!" Brea cheered jumping up and down. Elena unstrapped it from her wrist and began storming out. "Wait you got that strength in one day? You couldn't do anything this morning?" Brea said running out after her.
England, 1492
"Come on, Brenna," Katerina said pulling her sister's hand.
"Katerina, stop," Brenna whined.
"Come on, I promised him I'd get you there."
"Brenna!" Niklaus called and Brenna froze and turned around.
"Nik!" she said with a smile, "thank goodness."
"Lord Niklaus," Katerina hissed.
"Lord Niklaus," Brenna corrected with an eye roll.
"Are you two ladies ready for our ride?" he asked.
"Yes," Brenna said quickly.
"Well…" Katerina said at the same time.
"Brenna," Kol said as he raced down the hall toward.
"Kol," she breathed as she saw him and all her feelings came rushing back, and the nerves of seeing him faded.
"Brother," Nik scowled. "I was just about to take these two ladies out riding."
"Oh, really brother?" Kol smirked, "maybe you can just take the lovely Katerina then because I have plans to show Brenna the grounds."
Nik went to protest but Katerina cut him off, "yes, so perhaps just you and I can go riding Lord Niklaus."
Nik sighed and said, "of course," before holding out his arm for her to hold, which she took before smiling at Brenna and walking away.
"You ignored me last night darling," Kol said holding out his arm.
Brenna smiled and held her hands behind her back, refusing his arm, and began walking forward, "you had company, I did not wish to be rude."
"Darling… I didn't know you were here."
"I know. But it still hurt to see. It was more that you knew I would be alive, and you weren't looking for me. You were with them," Brea said, her smile dropping as she turned to him.
"Darling," Kol said, "there are too many ears here," he whispered in her ear, before pulling her into his body, and wrapping his arms around her before running off with her as she let out a yelp of shock.
"Kol!" she breathed in shock pulling away to look where he'd taken her. "Really?" she asked annoyed.
"Darling," he said, placing his hands on her face, "I'm sorry," he whispered. "I went off the rails bad this time. After you were taken from me. I only came back to reality when I saw your face last night," he said desperately and her eyes soften. "Sweetheart, I love you," he said placing a kiss on her nose. "I'm so sorry I hurt you," he said and she looking into his eyes and she leaned into him with a smile and nodded softly before tilting her head in to kiss him. He kissed her back and the two of them slowly stepped back until Brenna was against a tree. Brenna slowly moved her hands from his arm and wrapped them around his neck, holding onto the collar of his shirt and she felt him smile into the kiss. He dropped his hands from her face, down to her waist and lower back, hugging her to him.
"Kol," she said pulling away slightly looking into his eyes, "I love you," she smiled and he smiled back at her before he lunged at her lips.