WE WERE IN THE MYSTIC GRILL. We had taken Elena there and Kai had tied her up with ropes files with vervain. I guess payback is bitch since her boyfriend did the same thing to me merely hours ago. Kai had killed the manager in a rather gruesome way unable to control his powers. And I had drunk to death a server who has stayed late, and he was delicious. I immediately felt better after drinking blood from the vein.
Kai had made something to eat while I mixed some coffee with blood for me. This was honestly one of my greatest ideas, but I was picky it had to be black expresso and AB blood otherwise I wouldn't like it.
Elena slowly wakes up, Kai is talking in the background to me. "See, we never went out to dinner when I was a kid, so, I always had this fascination with chefs and fine dining. Dad actually let me cook... Taught me to measure by eye. Seasonings to taste, all that stuff, but it's different now in the restaurant world. Everything's on time. It's like, the fries go in, you push a button, it dings and you take 'em out. Literally no guesswork."
"Lucky you dad never allowed me to cook. I died like three times from food poisoning in the prison world" I complained telling the truth. At first, I don't know I actually died, I just thought I had passed out or something. But years later, when I found a gun and shot myself in the head, and came back to life hours later I understood I had already died several times.
"Oh yeah, because you burnt down the house doing an omelette. It's actually why we moved to Portland" remembered Kai.
"I was 10 and nobody was home to make me something to eat and I was freaking starving." she tried to defend herself. Her mom hadn't left her anything to eat, not that she liked her mom's food anyway. Her whole family was on vacation for a weekend and Kai was doing a project with school friends. He wrongly thought she could manage on her own.
"I remember dad's face, it was priceless" laughed Kai. They had never seen their dad so stunned, and it terrified the 10 years old because she knew she would be punished. He didn't even care that she was alive, unharmed he cared about his stupid grimoires.
Elena starts to move, but she can't since she is tied up by ropes laced with Vervain. "Why am I here?" she asks confused while I roll my eyes. We literally kidnapped her and she asks why, is this how she got out of kidnapping situations? By asking boring us with questions so that we would free her. I was sure she was going to say something like ' you don't have to do this' later.
"Uh, well I spent eighteen years in abandoned restaurants and now I'm showing off the fruits of my labor." responds my brother smartly.
"And your way better than before, I way much." I moan eating the dish my brother had made me "I am so happy I can still feel the delicious taste of a good Omelet, considering I am technically dead, it would be a shame if everything expects blood tasted like mud"
"Thanks, sissy" grins my brother at me. Kai starts eating eggs his eyes as well and Elena says "I don't mean the Mystic Grill"
"Oh, you mean like, here here, in Mystic Falls" Kai laughs " Sorry, I'm nervous. You're like, really pretty."
I roll my eyes "Oh come on not you too, please Kai doesn't tell me you're obsessed with the doppelganger. Otherwise, I will have to do a cleansing with holy water to free you from her bewitching" I finished a little too dramatic, even for me.
"A doppelwhat?"
"Oh right you don't know, Elara has doubles, or are you their doubles since you were born after them... You know what it's not important."
"You don't have your own face, that's depressing," declared Kai frowning his brows a light smile on his face.
"Their blood is super useful for spells, well now she is useless since she is a vampire. " I told kai who was listening interested in what I was telling. Her brother may act like a dumbass but he was really intelligent and loved learning new information. He loved it when he knew more than people, especially on witch stuff.
"Nick's mommy used her doppelganger blood to make them vampires and bond his werewolf's side. But he broke his curse by killing Elara. She survived obviously and they found out Nick needed her human blood to make hybrids... Well now my daughter's blood can sire hybrids, so she's not useful anymore. Oh and then she became a vampire, Bex killed her and there was all this business with Silas and the cure"
"The same cure you gave Rebekah?" asked Kai. I hadn't told Kai that I had found the cure for Rebekah, so that means she must have told him. Weird, I didn't know they talked that much. I mean I know he trained her and thought her some magic but Rebekah was constantly annoyed by my brother's idiotic filtration and jokes. I even thought she hated him sometimes.
"Rebekah is human?" Elena asked surprised.
"Yeah since I'm an awesome friend I found her the cure. How does it feel knowing you tried to take the cure from her and literally killed her brother to get it...but in the end your still a vampire" I said tauntingly.
Before Elena could respond Kai laughed "Naughty girl. She killed an original. I don't believe it. This girl is more crazy pants than I thought"
"I didn't kill him" hissed Elena irritated.
"Whatever." I dismissed her "Hey, how is kitty kat, my favorite doppelganger?"
Elena let out a sigh, she didn't want to tell anything to her kidnappers especially to Elizabeth who hated her but maybe if she was cooperative they would let her go. So she told them the truth "Katherine got killed by Damon a while ago but unfortunately she had vampire blood in her system. She left with her daughter"
"Hum maybe she can visit suits he's been heartbroken since he had to compel his girlfriend to leave town after Nick almost killed," I wondered. "And turned the other one into a beast"
"I thought we hated him since he compelled you," said Kai confused that I would care about the suited original since I had been acting like a bitch with him and had even slapped him when be had compelled me.
"Oh we do, I'm just not heartless you know" and Elijah was still a good friend of mine. I just needed some time to forgive him.
"Of course," muttered Elena sarcastically.
I ignore her and turn to my brother "Anyways you have no chance with her, doppelgangers like a set of brothers. That's their jam and luke's gay so there goes your chance. Like Tatiana had a thing for my nick and Eli, Kitty Kat loved Eli and was engaged to nick, then she played with Dams and Stefano. And innocent Elara was juggling between Stefano and Dams until she chose the annoying brother..."
"Oh, I get it now! You wanted to kidnap her because your jealous Kenneth slept with someone who had some face. Which is so weird, it's like their twins, but not at the same time. So confusing"
I scoff offended "I'm not jealous it's because she's used to be kidnapped and then getting saved by her boyfriends. Everyone runs to save her. She's the perfect damsel in distress" then I turned to Elena "Although without Bonnie, your witch slave I'm not sure you're really getting saved this time..."
Elena said gritting her teeth "Bonnie is not my slave. She's my best friend. And she's stuck in the prison world because of you" she spat looking at my brother disdainfully.
"You can't blame my brother for doing to her what she planned to do to him."
"Well I do, she had a good reason for not letting your brother out he's a sociopath!" Elena said outraged making both of us giggle loudly.
"Just...Why am I here?" asked Elena defeated.
"Well, I took the spell that was keeping supernaturals out of Mystic Falls and me, I like absorbed it...Like ate it, I guess." my brother says and takes another bite from his dish "It's cool, huh? First I eat magic, and then eventually, I lose it. But a huge spell like that? I mean, come on. Magic's oozing out of me, it's all over the place. You know, I didn't quite realize I was out of control until I met the manager of the Grill a few hours ago. And he was all like," he continued in a mocking voice "Hey, you can't come in here; we're closed. And you have an unconscious girl over your shoulder."
Elena laughs sarcastically, unamused "And then I was like, "Don't judge me." And then I gave him a heart-attack--tried to, but all I did was make him vomit uncontrollably, which was like, ugh, let's stop that. "Elena stares at him, disgusted, while I smirk at her face enjoying it "So then I tried again and I think I broke his spine? I mean, I'm not, I'm not really sure, because the third time I tried the spell, he kinda exploded in blood. Whoops." he finishes and takes a drink of coffee.
He spits it out on Elena's face and I realize it was my coffee with blood he drunk, I big my lip
Stopping me from laughing at his grimace. "that's disgusting"
I take the cup of coffee that was not finished thank God, otherwise, I would have slapped my brother. It takes time to make "That my special coffee dumbass."
He furrows his eyebrow and tells me "I thought blood would have a better taste"
"What the hell is wrong with you?" asks suddenly Elena still not over the fact that Kai killed the manager of the grill as if she had never killed someone herself. Maybe she hadn't directly since everybody was doing everything for her, she was one of those Mary sue vampires and they were so boring. I unlike her didn't hide behind people to do my battles.
I turn to my brother and tell him confused "I think she's deaf Kai didn't she heard what you just told her? She's not really bright I guess, she only has a pretty face"
Kai nodded and told Elena "I just told you, I have too much magic." Elena shakes her head "You know, it wasn't until after my test run with the manager that I realized, if I start to merge with Jo and my gushing fountains of magic turn her into that guy, then I'm not gonna have a twin for the merge. So, Elena, that is why you are here." Kai takes another bite.
"Because I need to get my magic under control." he continues making Elena glare at Kai "By practicing with you. Or rather, by practicing on you. "Elena looks horrified and sends me and hopeful glance hoping I would get her out of the situation, but her hope diminishes when Kai says pointing his fork towards his sister "hey don't blame me, Lizzie chose you. Oh, PS: Silver lining, after the manager finally stopped thrashing around, I finally managed a cloaking spell. Thank you." Kai takes a drink of orange juice, Elena is still glaring "It's easy to do and...undo. Phasmatos oculix."
The Dead manager appears on the table in front of Elena. Making her gasp and scoot back in her chair horrified. His body is quite gruesome making me grimace in disgust, it smelled horrible.
"Oh, and I also did a little cloaking spell, one of my favorite spells. Phasmatos oculix." I tell her grinning. Another dead body appears on top of the manager, Trevor a server that was quite tasty. Not my favorite blood type but he did well enough "It was a shame Mattie wasn't here he looks delicious, I would love to have him as a snack" I pout.
"Don't you dare go near Matt" Elena hissed protective of her friend.
"Ohhh I think you hit a nerve," said Kai smirking at me. "Table for five" he laughs "You had no idea."
Elena wakes up, hands bound to the ceiling in the hallway. Honestly, she passed out too quickly which was disappointing, and then I had to carry her to the high school because Kai wanted to torture her here. She didn't really fight back, there was literally no fire in her.
"We're in my high school?" she asked confused.
"Is there another high school in this pony town?" I asked her sarcastically. Elena narrows her eyes at me and doesn't respond.
"They have plenty of restrooms, no flammable surfaces, and everyone's on winter break...Still." informs her Kai "You know, it's no wonder America got dumb while I was locked up; they're never in school. "Looking at pictures in the trophy case of the cheerleading squad, grinning he asked "Is that you? Oh, and there's Bonnie. You guys look so innocent. Smiling, like nothing bad could ever happen to you."
I go look at the picture and notice a pretty blonde with whom I exchanged few texts after I left mystic falls last time. After I had to pretend to be dead we lost contact, but maybe I should call her again. She was quite funny, and I liked her gossip about mystic falls. "Damn Caroline looks so cute, I knew she was the cheerleading type "
Elena is trying to pull herself free while Kai and I are distracted. Kai straightens and looks back at Elena "Anyway, do you mind if I try to turn your blood into acid again?"
Elena asks surprised "Again?"
I tell her "Yes again," then I turned to my brother in fake concern, "I think we completely broke her Kai"
Kai takes off his jacket "Yeah, that's uh, that's kinda how you got here in the first place." he throws his jacket on the floor "I was trying the whole acid-blood thing and I think I burst a few important capillaries in your brain because you blacked out."
"Kai, you don't have to do this. Listen to me, you don't have to do this," begged Elena trying to get away but without success.
I laughed "Told you she was going to say something like no stop you don't have to do this. You owe me ten bucks"
"Crap" he muttered irritated. He put his hand in his pocket and managed to get the money out of his skinny jeans. Irritated he lost he gave me the money, not that I really needed it. I just knew it would annoy him.
"Phasmatos navaro pulsus sanguinox" my brother chanted hurting Elena with his magic.
"Ow!"
"Phasmatos navaro"
"Stop!" Elena begs making me roll my eyes. Why would he stop? Because she asked? Couldn't she throw insults at us instead, it could be more entertaining than the weak stop, please stop, you don't have to do this.
"Sanguinox"
Elena looks at her ring in horror as it melts "My ring. Kai, you're melting my ring."
I grin at her knowing why she was so panicked, this was her daylight ring without it she would burn on the sun. Now she definitely couldn't escape until sundown. I was lucky to be a heretic and doesn't need a daylight ring. I scoff at Elena and tell her "You say that like he should care"
"Phasmatos"
"Kai, stop it! Please Elizabeth make him stop!"
"Navaro pul--"
Elena finally pulls herself free, bringing the lights crashing down. She runs into the closest room, which is a chemistry classroom. Kai slowly follows, annoyed while I grin at him "Finally some fun"
"No, no, no, no. No, no, no. " cried out Elena as she reaches sink and rinses off her hand, her ring is gone "No. No"
"Take it that ring meant something to you? " asks my brother.
"It's her daylight ring, so little Elara can't walk in the sun. Who's going to make you another one now that Bonnie is not here? Maybe JoJo, but I think she may be a little rusty after so long as long..."
Elena looks around for something to use against Kai and Elizabeth. Kai and Elizabeth don't seem fazed by Elena's attempt to escape, because they knew she couldn't. They always win in the end.
"I never understood sentimental attachments to things, because then it's so upsetting when you lose them."
"I think it has something with never having our own toys, birthday or Christmas gift. Apparently, Santa thought we were naughty" I explained pouting. I had some toy before it was discovered I was a siphoner, but then my parents put me in another room and gave all of my toys to Amanda, my sister. They put me and Kai in the same bedroom, the two abominations together isolated. Put aside like some parasites.
Elena puts her hand in the sunlight until she catches on fire, then uses the gas from the chem lab with the fire and the fire hits Kai. I stop the fire before it could completely reach him, but it still burns his shirt a little. Elena takes the chance to run through another door in the classroom. Kai goes after her without me, I knew he could handle her alone. In the meantime, I found him a tee shirt to replace the destroyed one. When I hear kai breaking her neck I appear suddenly next to him, not surprising him anymore. It was a thing we did a lot trying to scare each other, cloaking ourselves so it was hard to surprise each other. We had magic powers why not use them to have some fun? It was our version of hiding and seek.
Elena wakes up tied to the table, with vervain-covered ropes. Kai is standing over her wearing a Mystic Falls Timberwolves shirt and drinking a soda. And I am sitting at a table, bored on my phone. I was watching with a smile a picture Rebekah had to send me of the twins. Klaus had fallen asleep with each of them, and it made my heart melt. The daddy look on him was so damn cute.
Kai grinned at Elena "Oh, hello."
"Sleeping beauty finally awakes, so dramatic" I huffed irritated.
"Nice shirt." compliments Elena. So now she understood that begging won't help she tries complimenting my brother. Well, she was in the wrong if she thought it could help her.
Kai smiled at her "Well, thanks. Yeah, somebody burned my other one. Which was awesome, by the way."
Elena smirks sarcastically. I didn't want to admit it but Kai was right this was crazy pants maybe she had some fire inside of her but it was faint, like really faint.
"I am starting to see why Damon digs you. You are crazy-pants. Oh, it sucks about that shirt, though." continues my brother.
"So you can care about an inanimate object, but not the people that you kill?" asked Elena as if her boyfriend cared about the person he killed. But I could see she was trying to do to my brother what she did to Damon. Take him to the light of morality and goodness, well not on my watch I liked my brother just as he was. She didn't know him as I did. Besides her constant efforts to change very one was annoying, who was she to judge what makes you a better person. Me and Kai are prefect the way we are, we don't need to get Elenaze and get freaking boring. Some people didn't want to be changed something Elena clearly didn't understand.
"Oh" Kai takes a drink of soda "Is this going to be like an episode of "Ricki Lake" where I come face-to-face with my demons and change for the better?"
"Have you really not cared about anyone? What about Elizabeth don't you care about her?"
"Of course I care about Lizzie," he said as if it was ridiculous otherwise. When he notices Elena's eyes soften he pretends to look nostalgic "I guess I also I liked my brother, Joe. We played Dr. Mario together and he'd always win. Actually, one of my favorite memories is when I finally beat him" Kai and Elena both are smiling slightly, while I grimace knowing the end of the story "Of course, my favorite memory is when I finally beat him to death." Elena stops smiling and looks disgusted.
"You don't have to waste your energy trying to change me. If Ricki taught me anything, it's that liking yourself is the most important thing. And I like me." says Kai.
"Were are not Damon or one of your project. When your own family hates you for what you are, you have to love yourself just to fuck with them" I continue smirking.
"You have babies, twins right? And you let him near them after he killed your little brother who was just a kid?" asked Elena not believing it.
"Kai would never hurt them" I stated simply and It was the truth. They were like us, different and he had no reason to hurt them on the contrary.
Kai laughed sarcastically "I love kids"
Elena shook her head confused "I don't understand...you have kids and-"
I cut her off " Oh I get, you think since I have kiddos each time I want to kill someone I'm like what is it was my kid? Or what about their mother? Well, guess what Elena I can be a bad guy, kill people, and be a perfect and wonderful and loving mother. I don't need to change..."
"because we love who we are" finished Kai grinning.
Elena is still tied up on the floor; Kai is sitting cross-legged across from her, watching her. He uses a finger to scratch a K on Elena's face making her wince while not touching her. I rolled my eyes, at this since I found it boring. I preferred the brain-melting we did earlier.
"If the spell that you're going for is to creep me out, it's working," says Elena making him laugh loudly.
"Ow. What are you doing?" Kai smiles as the scratches heal.
"Oh, nothing." said Kai, he leans forward, licks his thumb, and uses it to wipe away the remaining blood on Elena's face "Just working on my self-control."
Kai walks around the corner, having heard whispering. I go with him. He takes a drink of soda. Jo and Damon are standing right in front of them, but they can't see them because of Jo's cloaking spell.
When we go to the bin, I send him a look towards the recycle bin, he rolls his eyes."Come on Kai I'm gonna live forever, we gotta think of the planet"
"Right recycling, let's save the planet. After it will be the poor orphans" he mutters annoyed and throws the soda in the recycle bin.
I punch him in the chest making him laugh "Don't you dare. I'm not saving orphans okay! Oh God, this brings back awful memories from the church and-"
"-association on saving orphans. Yeah meeting a very week, because mom forced us... At least they had cookies"
"Please, the cookies were horrible... I loved it when you burned out the church... Unfortunately, they were no casualties..."
Kai laughed loudly. I frowned my eyebrow feeling something wrong "Do you smell that?"
"No? Wait what do you smell?"
"Gemini magic and bourbon"
"Odd," says Kai grinning realizing what I was telling him. We weren't alone here, someone was cloaked and I bet it was Damon and JoJo, or maybe one of the blonde twins but I doubt they were brave enough to face us.
Elena, Damon, and Jo are walking quickly down the hall toward the boiler room. Jo is coughing behind them weak from the spells. They walk not bothered by Jo's coughing but then Elena looks back at Josette whose nose is bleeding. "You okay?"
Josette nods weakly "Yeah. Three people are just a lot more to cloak than two." however Josette starts to feel dizzy, reaches Damon, and collapses into his arms.
"Woah. Why is your nose bleeding?" asks Damon.
Kai who is standing at the end of the hall, smirking says "I have a guess. Magic's hard. Isn't it, Jo?"
"Not surprised you were never that good," I said nonchalantly, actually lying. Josette was always good at what she did. Always the nicer sister, the perfect daughter, the great student, and the good little witch. It was so annoying. I kinda enjoyed seeing her messing up.
Jo wipes the blood from her nose, crying "I'm so sorry."
"Don't sweat it. I want him to see me while I kick his ass. Now, get out of here, okay?" reassures her Damon. Josette staggers through a door into the next hallway.
Damon rolls his shoulders and grins at Kai, clearly eager to fight him, Kai makes Elena invisible. Damon looks around and sees that she's gone.
"Where's Elena?"
Kai answers sarcastically "Oh, are we not cloaking people anymore? I thought that's what this was."
"It's actually our favorite game, our hide and seek with a little witchy twist, it's called cloak and seek" I say grinning at Damon.
Damon speeds over to Kai, but Kai disappears and reappears behind Damon, down the hall. Kai whistles, Damon turns and Kai waves at him, grinning. Damon speeds over, breaks the handle of a mop, and throws it at Kai, spearing him through the abdomen, while I watch the scene smirking knowing it was another illusion.
"Ouch"
Kai appears beside his illusion of himself "That's gotta hurt. I am definitely getting the hang of this. Cloaking spells, illusions. You know, it's all the same wheelhouse."
Kai removes his illusion to reveal that Damon actually staked Elena in the chest, Elena staggers and leans against a locker. When Damon moves to go to her, I use my magic to hurt Damon's head, incapacitating him for the moment. Kai turns and heads after Jo, while Damon stills affect by my spell crawls over to Elena, who has slid down to the floor.
Jo is crawling on the floor and Kai runs up, grabs her arm, and hoists her to her feet, dragging her along with him "Now that I've got the kinks worked out, we can actually do this. Is there an upcoming celestial event that interests you? I'm partial to--" Kai starts to say but an arrow shoots through his shoulder "Ugh!" Kai falls to his knees, Jo collapsing on the ground beside him.
Alaric runs over and injects Kai with something, to knock him out and I speed out to stop him but I am hit with an arrow filled with vervain. I remove the arrow wincing but not with much difficulty. I was used to the pain after killing myself so many times, however, I was distracted and my neck is snapped. I fall dead on the floor next to my brother.