Chapter 13:
His snapped it up when he heard several people draw guns. He had frozen for a second to take in Jordan, Malia, and Scott's eyes before he realized he needed to interfere.
"What are you doing here?" He snapped at the moronic vampire. Jordan and Stiles both looked at him. Stiles's eyebrow raised in question. Jeremy tried to give him a look that said, 'it's okay'.
"Eavesdropping, darling." Kol sounded smug as he stepped out from behind a pillar towards the back of the room.
"I meant California." Jeremy replied annoyed. Stiles whispered something to his friends. Jeremy could tell Scott and Malia weren't happy about whatever was said, but their blue and red eyes faded back to normal. The gesture did nothing to stop the hunters and Sheriff from keeping their guns raised and pointed at the Original.
"Got bored." Kol said clearly ignoring them gun as he leaned relaxed against the pillar he had been hiding behind, "Nik's out of town and Elijah's being dull."
Jeremy groaned, "Than couldn't you have stayed and bugged Matt? Or Damon?" He asked knowing Kol enjoyed messing with his sister's boyfriend and hated Damon.
Kol frowen, "Beks threatened to disembowel me I didn't leave Matthew alone. And Damon stopped being fun to torture ages ago." Jeremy actually saw fingers move to triggers at Kol's comment. He went to step towards Kol, but a very warm hand caught his arm holding him in place. He looked up at Jordan eyes still glowing though not fire appeared.
"He's a friend." He said and Kol snorted. Jeremy turned to glare at him and noticed the dark look Kol was giving the Hellhound.
"Okay," He said loudly to the room, "Let's all just relax. You," he turned to the two hunters nearest him, "your bullets will do one of two things, amuse him or piss him off, trust me you don't want either of those."
He looked at Scott, "I promise he isn't here to hurt you or your pack, he's an idiot that followed me here out of boredom." He couldn't promise the vampire wouldn't cause issues to the humans of the town though. That was a conversation they needed to have in private. He looked at the other hunter in the room, the one that seemed to know more than the others.
"He's an Original." He said with a pointed look. The hunter paled a little and lowered his gun. The others in the room didn't seem sure what to do with that reaction. Jeremy could see Stiles and Scott looking at each and the Sheriff looking at Chris, though he lowered his gun when his friend did. The other two still held their though they seemed to have relaxed a little.
"Can you assure us he wont kill anyone?" Chris asked looking at him and then at Kol, who chuckled.
Jeremy looked at Kol, "Will you behave?" He asked.
Kol rolled his eyes, "Only if you tell me what he is?" He looked behind Jeremy at Jordan. Jeremy turned his head around, still no fire, though heat was coming off him in waves and his eyes still burned orange.
"A Hellhound." Jeremy said looking back at Kol. The vampires face light up and in an instant he was in front of Jordan. The deputy took a started step back and there was a couple surprised curses for the others.
"I've heard stories about you before." Kol said sounded excited.
To excited. Jeremy sighed and put a hand on his friend's chest. "Not now." He mumbled pushing Kol back and away from Jordan.
"The hell did you move that fast!?" one of the hunters shouted. Jeremy groaned. Kol smirked and appeared in front of the shorter hunter, who thankfully didn't fire his gun.
"Vampire." Kol said with a smirk.
"Bullshit, I've fought vampires before. They don't move like that." Kol growled and his eyes darkened.
"Kol." Jeremy warned.
"You've fought parasites." The Original snapped, "A cursed branch that should have died out centuries ago." The tension in the air built again and Jeremy wasn't sure what to do. He hadn't known there was another kind of vampire. But it seemed Kol deteasted them. The hunter was pressing his gun at the bottom of Kol's chin, looking ready to pull the trigger. It wouldn't kill Kol, though it would piss him off. Jeremy would have to step in to stop Kol for killing the man.
"Kol? Like wants in your pants, Kol?" Stiles asked suddenly sounding amused. It was like a bubble burst and the tension disappeared.
Kol stepped away from the hunter and looked towards Stiles, huge smirk on his face. "He talks about me?"
Jeremy and Scott groaned together.
"Oh yeah." Stiles said grinning as he moved towards the vampire. Malia reached out to stop him, but the human just shrugged her off.
"Think I've got a chance?" Kol asked, stopping in front of Stiles.
"Is this really happening?" Jeremy heard the tall hunter whispered to the other.
Jeremy was wondering how fast the elevator could get up to this floor. Because he was sure he was blushing. Because he was looking away he didn't see the look Stiles gave him before he heard, "I think so."
"Now that that is settled." Stiles's dad said sounding tired, "Maybe we can get back to the feral wolves." Jeremy looked up at him, notice Kol and Stiles had shifted to standing side by side. Malia moving to join them. He really didn't like the happy looks on their faces as the two whispered. He was tempted to lean back ask Jordan what they were saying.
Instead he focused on the important things. "I've been told there is more than one kind?" He asked. It seemed having the conversation back on point settled the rest of the room. Scott and Chris looked more relaxed and the two other hunters put away their guns.
"We've learned that too." The taller one said.
"Three actually." Kol said not looking away from Stiles.
"Why haven't you mentioned it before?" Jeremy demanded.
"They other two don't come to Mystic Falls." Kol said. "Nik would kill them if they did." As if that was the only reason Jeremy would want to know about them.
Annoyed he glared at the vampire, "I still would have liked to know about them. Ric would too."
Kol exhaled and looked at him, "Your hunter knows." Frustrated Jeremy looked away from him and towards Chris.
"Do you know the difference?"
"I only know of two." He said. He was watching Kol. Jeremy wasn't sure if it was because the vampire had more information or because of how close he was standing to Stiles.
Jeremy heard Kol huff. "Hunters." The Original said it like a curse, "you never have all the information." Chris shot a glare at the vampire.
"Kol." Jeremy said, starting to run out of patience, "Ignore them and tell me." Kol stepped away from Stiles and appeared in front of Jeremy. He was pretty sure he was the only one not to be surprised by it.
"The origin of werewolves, even I don't know. Some legends say magic created them, some say it was natural. An evolution or sorts. I've always leaned towards magic. Seems to be a theme. A witch playing around with what they don't understand and creating monsters." There was an anger in his voice that Jeremy understood was aimed at his mother.
"Anyways, the very first wolves, were like your new friend," Kol shot a quick look at Scott, before he turned back to Jeremy, "They are a perfect combination of wolf and man. Intertwined to work together to be the best protector and predator. The second kind is Nik's. The legend said a pack and a witch fought over a village. By the end of their war, the village was whipped out. The witch blamed to wolves and cursed them. Myth says she blamed their tempers and murderous impulses. The curse she laid on them, is why they only active their werewolf gene after they kill. The short temper and rage are her petty way of insuring they lose control and do so."
The vampire looked around the room, "The third kind was a twisted attempt at removing that curse. A witch and her lover. Something backfired it bent and warped the curse into something darker, bloodier. Those wolves lost the ability to fully shift and they started to crave human flesh instead of animals. They only turn on the full moon and their bite will infect most humans." Kol looked back at Jeremy a cold serious look in his eyes, "If you meet one, Jer, Kill it. Before it kills you."
"Any other questions?" Kol asked turning back the room with his usual smug smirk.
"You called the vampires we fought parasites?" The shorter hunter asked.
Kol turned and looked at Jeremy, "I don't like him." He said before turning back towards the hunter, "Like the wolves, someone played with something they didn't understand and took dangerous creature and turned it into something else. Something, slower, messier, and bloody pathetic." Kol sneered the last word.
"How did vampires come to be?" Stiles asked. Jeremy wanted to sigh, how had this become a history lesson.
"A witch." Jeremy said before Kol could get into his own family history. Jeremy moved around him and looked at the room. "One of her children was killed by a wolf. She wanted to protect her remaining children. The magic she performed was powerful and had consequences. Nature doesn't like when people try to change it." He gave a pleading look to Stiles, "Can we get back to the wolves attacking kids now?" his friend most have understood this wasn't a conversation Jeremy wanted because he nodded.
"Well they attacked without the moon and had full wolf forms so not the third kind." He said helpfully.
"Not the second either," Kol said, "Those wolves also only turn under the moon."
"So my kind." Scott said.
"You can't track them?" Kol asked. Scott shook his head and Malia let out a frustrated sound, "We tried checking the town and the woods that surround it. There are too many smells and sounds." She said.
"And woods?" The dirty blonde hunter asked.
"Has a history." Chris Argent said, "Death and blood. It's hard to track there, unless you know the scent you are looking for. We have to search it carefully, it's taking more time than we have."
"So where do we start?" The other hunter said.