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The next morning, Davina walked around her attic room picking up various clothes sticking them in to her bag then zipped it shut. She fought back a yawn as she was tired due to not getting much sleep the night before because she was so freaking excited and a little nervous. But not as nervous as Marcel who spent the better part of the night convincing her not go, however, she wouldn't hear of it. Honestly, Davina didn't mind if she never saw New Orleans again, if it wasn't for the few that she loved, she didn't know if she would even returned.
"Are you ready to go?"
Davina didn't even have to turn to know who it is as she felt small little butterflies in the pit of her stomach. "More than anything," She answered turning around to look at Kol who made her breath catch. He looked as if he stepped out of a fashion magazine, his face relaxed as he looked at her wearing nothing but a light grayish blue shirt that molded to his torso and jeans that seemed to fit in the right places.
"I would have been here sooner, but I was getting the third degree from Marcel," Kol said walking into the room. "Again."
"He is just protective of me," Davina said defending Marcel then turned around to pick up one of her bag placing the strap over her shoulder.
"As he should be," Kol commented as he walked up her. "Allow me," He said taking the other bag and pulled it over his shoulder as if it weighed nothing. "Do you have everything?"
"I think so," Davina answered glancing around the room one more time.
"Don't worry, if you forget something I can always buy you it," Kol said and Davina looked at him shaking her head.
"You don't have to buy me anything," She protested.
"If you say so," Kol said before smirking. "We better go before Marcel goes all general mode and sends the troops up." He went out the door to take the stuff to the car and Davina could hear the creeks as he walked down the stairs as she followed him.
"I heard that!"
Davina snickered rolling her eyes as she walked down the aisle to the front doors where Marcel and Josh were waiting for her. She smiled at them as she came to a stop. "Stop worrying Marcel." She said.
"Kind of hard not to D," He said shaking his head. "Just promise me that you will be careful?"
"I promise," Davina smiled nodding turning to Josh.
"Have fun," Josh said as he wrapped his arms around the girl. "Don't forget about me."
"I am not going to be gone forever," Davina laughed as she returned the embrace. "So that is not likely and you can call me anytime you want."
"Good," Josh said smiling as he stepping back. "I hope you have a lot of fun while you are way with your prince charming."
"Kol-"
"He is not her prince," Marcel said protectively glaring at Josh crossing his arms. "Maybe you should cancel the trip."
"Way to go," Davina said looking to Josh rolled his eyes, but she was not mad at him and turned to Marcel again. "I'll be back." She grinned.
"You better be and in one piece,"Marcel said seriously. "You can come home whenever you want."
"I know," Davina nodded. "Thank you for everything Marcel." She moved closer to him wrapping her arms around him tightly. She was going to miss his warm hugs. "I'm gonna miss you.
"Me too."
Together they walked out of the church where Kol was at the trunk of the car moving stuff around when she came to his side. He smiled when he saw her and held his hand out for the bag which she gave it to him. "All set?" He asked his eyes sparkling with excitement.
"Yep," She nodded as she turned to her friends once last time. Marcel was watching like a hawk stern ready to strike if he needed to. "I guess this is good bye," She smiled.
"Marcel," Kol stepped forward his arm stretched out. "It was good to see you again after all this time."
"It wasn't so bad this time," Marcel agreed accepting the hand shake. "Take care of her."
"I will," He nodded stepping back to walk around to the drive side getting in and starting the car up.
Davina smiled as she gave them both one last quick hug before walking to the passenger door and got in snapping her seat belt into the place. Kol turned to her smiling.
"I suggest you get comfortable, Darling," He smiled. "We are in for quite a drive. Coffee?" He asked holding up a cup. "I wasn't sure how you like it, but it has two creams and two sugars."
"Mmm," Davina said gratefully accepting the cup of joy. "I will have coffee anyway I can. It is the best thing in life." She ran her nose over the opening enjoying the smell.
"If that is the best thing in life," Kol said as looking in to his side mirror waiting for another car the pass before pulling away from the curve. "Then let me allow you to show you a few things. What do you want to see when we get there?"
"Snow," Davina said taking a sip of her drink.
"Why do you want to see snow?" Kol looked at her as he came to a red traffic light.
"Because I have never seen it," She answered.
"Never?" Kol's eyes widen at this as he started driving again.
"It doesn't snow here," Davina explained. "The last time it snowed here was back in 2004, but I was sick and my mother wouldn't let me outside to see it."
"Well, if you want to see snow," said Kol smiling his eyes not leaving the road. "Then you will see it. What else do you want to see?"
"I don't know," Davina said truthfully. "The farthest I have ever gotten from New Orleans was Baton Rouge."
"Well that is about to change," Kol said as he switched lanes because another drive couldn't wait for him to pass and pulled right out in front of him.
"About time." Davina said as her eyes turned to the window as she watched the building as the french quarter flew behind them.
They had been driving for several hours, and were nearing closer to a city of Shreveport. Davina opened her eyes to see that sun was getting lower in the west as she sat up wincing at the as neck protested the move. She looked over to Kol to glance over at her.
"She's awake," He teased lightly that smirk on his face.
"Sorry," Davina blushed. "I didn't mean to fall asleep." She felt a little guilty since he had been driving for almost several hours.
"Don't be," Kol shook his head.
"Do you need a break?" Davina asked concerned. "I can drive if you want to rest for a bit."
"I'm fine at the moment, Love," Kol turned to her for a moment. "Thanks for the offer. What about you? Are you hungry or anything?"
"Not at the moment." She answered as she moved around in her seat to get more comfortable. "What are you going to Denver for anyway?"
"My brother wants me to watch someone for him," Kol answered. "His sister and her friends were the one who killed my brother."
"Your brother was killed?" Davina gaped. "How?"
"An Original vampire, can only be killed my white oak," Kol answered. "And my brother was staked with on in the heart."
"I'm so sorry Kol," Davina shook her head.
"Finn and I never really got along," Kol said bitterly. "He was our mother's favorite child. After we were undaggered, Finn paired up with our mother who wanted to kill us all."
"That is awful," Davina said in a low voice
"I never really got along with my family," Kol swallowed quietly. "Nik, Elijah, and Rebekah has each other and Finn had our mother. The only thing that I had was my magic. Out of all my siblings, I was the only one who tapped into our power, which got taken away when our mother turned as all in to vampires. Because of that loss, I lost my way trying to take back what my mother stole from me. I never really forgave her for taking it away."
Davina didn't know what to say, but she could hear the pain in his voice. "Why did you mother turn you into vampires."
"She didn't want to lose another child," Kol answered. "My younger brother Henrik was died in an accident. So one night, our mother prepared this giant feast in the honor of our brother or so she said and were even allowed to drink wine. The wine had the blood of a doppelganger in which we drank. After dinner, one by one our father stabbed us in the heart with his sword and when we woke up we were in transition. He then forced us to drink fresh blood which completed it. Mother was only trying to make us immortal and doing so went against nature. Nature saw us all as abominations which came with prices as consequences of my mother's magic. These prices were, blood lust, being burned in the sun, and unable to enter the dwelling unless we were invited in."
"Boy..." Davina chuckled flatly making Kol turn to look at her for a moment. "We really lucked out in the parents department huh? Your parents made you turn in to vampires and my father wanted nothing to with me and my mother wanted to trade me for more power."
"Our parents sucked," Kol commented making her chuckle but this time it was much warmer.
"You got that right," Davina nodded as she watched out the window leaning her head back and Kol studied her figure for a moment.
"What do you say about getting out of the car for a bit?" Kol asked as he turned to look at the dash board before moving over a few lanes of the intersection to an exit ramp. "I need to stop to get gas anyway."
"I could use something to drink," Davina admitted and the sound of being able to stretch was wonderful.
Ten minutes later, Davina stepped out of the store making her way back to the car. She noticed that Kol was no where in sight, so she got back into her seat taking out her phone to play on as she waited for him. Davina was several rounds into her word game when he returned.
"Ready?" He asked as he slid into his seat making her look up from her screen and she noticed something on the corner of his lip.
"You got," Davina pointed to her lip and his hand shot up to his mouth wiping it away quickly.
"Sorry," He said as he turned away from her starting up at car and Davina realized what he had been doing.
"It's okay." Davina said laying a hand on his arm. "You don't have to hide it."
"Hide what?" Kol asked as he kept staring out the windshield.
"I know that you are a vampire Kol," She said softly. "I know you have to feed so don't feel as if you have to hide it or feel ashamed. I know you need blood in order to survive I don't expect anything less."
Kol couldn't believe the words that were coming out her mouth and wonder if she was actually real or if he had just been dreaming of her the last several days. She was perfect in every way and he could read her eyes and saw that she was serious. "You don't mind it?" He asked because he needed to know for sure.
"Hellooo,"She said rolling her eyes. "My current father figure is a vampire, and so is my best friend. They have all drank from blood bags in front of me before, so I am used to it. So no I do not mind it. I would be worried if you weren't feeding. I mean I can't have you starving while you are on the road."
"You are an incredible person, Davina Claire," He said as he could only wish that she knew how much he admired her. Those blue eyes lit up his world and he looked forward to seeing them everyday, maybe that was why he had asked her to come with. Her soft laugh was like a delightful wind chime that dangled lightly in the breeze and he knew that he would never get tired of hearing it.
"I know," She said simply laying her head against the head rest of her seat making her look even more gorgeous than she already was. "Let's go already before its get any later."
"Yes, Ma'am."
"So what to your brothers and sister look like?"
Kol pulled out his phone out of his pocket handing it to her. Since he had been out of the coffin, he had been introduced to modern technology and one afternoon he was bored so he went around the mansion taking pictures of them so much that they had threaten to crush his phone if he took another shot. "Here look for yourself, but I must warn you that none of them are as good looking as I am."
"You wish," Davina giggled as she pressed the home button making the phone light up before hitting menu then the gallery button. "I'm guessing this is Rebekah?" She held up the phone and he glanced over real quick,
"Yep, that is my baby sister bekah,"He nodded.
She slid her finger over the screen flipping through several picture of her. She laughed quietly as had taken a few shot of her when she wasn't looking and then stopped when an older man with dark hair came on the screen. "Who is this?"
"Elijah," Kol answered. "He is the my second oldest brother and was born a few years before Nik was."
"This would be Nik?" asked Davina as she landed on a handsome man with dark blue green eyes and dirty blond hair. He didn't smile as he looked annoyed in the picture. Both of his brothers were handsome, but neither of them could hold a candle to Kol. Kol was more like perfection in her opinion if there was ever such a thing.
"Yeah," He answered before a big yawn took over him and she gave him a pointed looked.
"That is the tenth time you have yawned in the last fifteen minutes," She said raising her eyebrow.
"So?"
"You have been driving for over twelve hours straight. Kol you are exhausted," Davina said as she looked over him. She knew that he would deny it, but his eyes looked so sleepy and if he didn't get sleep soon that he would end up falling asleep at the wheel.
"I'm fine," He said just as she expected.
"You looked like you were about to pass out around Dallas, and now its even worse," Davina said shaking her head. "If you don't pull over in the next town and get some rest then I will have to make you."
"Like you could," Kol teased looking over to the little witch whose eyes were lit with fire.
"Don't underestimate me," She said before sighing. "Please?" Davina asked in a gentle voice.
Kol looked to his female companion as he was not used to anyone caring about his well being before as he always tried to be what others expected him and yet somehow always falling short. He knew if his siblings saw him tired like this that would view him as weak or not up to their standards, but he was seeing something completely different in Davina Claire. She treated him as an equal and never made him feel less about himself, yet she could call him out on his bluff if she saw through his bluster and to be honest he was bloody exhausted. "Look us up a place to stay," He said noting as her face relaxed as she turned back to his phone.
Davina quickly went to the map app typing in the word hotel waiting for them to pop up. "There are several at the next exit."
"And that's where we will stay for the night, as long it's not a rinky dink one," Kol said.
"Rinky Dink?"
After battling the traffic and one old lady who seemed to hog the road, they finally pulled into a place. Kol ran a hand through his hand as he turned off the engine after pulling into a parking space. "Why couldn't I have killed her?" He turned to Davina who was shaking her head, but trying not to laughed.
"Because she was a little old lady who could barely see over the steering wheel," Davina laughed getting out of car.
"Old people like that shouldn't be driving," Kol grumbled.
"Does that include you?" Davina teased, "because you are even older than she was." She tossed as they grabbed their bags to to take in with them.
"Touche," Kol snickered as they walked in to hotel going up to the front desk.
"Hello," said the young girl with bright red hair stood behind the desk running an appreciative eye over Kol, making Davina scowl as the girl's smile broaden.
"We need a room with a double please?" Kol said smiling casually making the girl blush as she nodded as she turned to the computer in front of her typing away. Davina rolled her eyes as the girl kept skirting her eyes back and forth between Kol and the screen.
"How many nights?" The girl purred.
"Just for tonight," Kol answered.
"That is too bad," The girl sighed. "There are a lot of fun things going on around here." She turned her attention back to the computer for a moment.
"I am sure they are," Kol smiled as the girl reached into a drawer and he turned to Davina rolling his eyes not appearing to be effected by the red head. Davina snickered as the hostess placed a card key in front of him her smile bright.
"Your room is 309," She said. "I hope you find enjoy your stay and if you need anything please don't be hesitant to ask." she batted her eyes one more time in Kol's direction.
"Ugh," Davina sighed as she snatched up the key walking in the direction of the elevator not wanting to spend another moment watching that girl openly flirt with Kol. It made her want to barf up her dinner and no she was not jealous in anyway she had no right to be as she had no claim over Kol and Kol was only her friend nothing more. She pressed the button angrily as she wait for it to arrive.
"Wait up," Kol said appearing by her side.
"Oh, I thought you wanted a moment alone with your new friend," Davina said evenly not looking at cool.
"Please," Kol scoffed. "As I would go after someone that easy. She is not my type anyway and it was rater annoying to be honest." The elevator dinged as the doors sprang opened.
"It looked as if she wanted to jump you," Davina said as they entered the lift and Davina pressed the button for their floor.
"The last time I was in an elevator," Kol said looking at the panel. "You needed a someone to handle the controls."
"A lot of things have changed since then," Davina said.
"Yeah the world got lazier," Kol commented making Davina roll her eyes as the door opened and they got out following the room numbers until they found 309. Davina slid the key in to the lock and pushed the door opened and walked inside and laughed out loud.
"What's so funny?" Kol asked as he closed the door behind him.
"That," Davina said pointing in the room and Kol saw what she was talking about his he let out a sigh.
"I thought I said a double," He grumbled shaking his head.
"She probably did it on purpose so you would have to go down and fix it," Davina said looking to Kol.
"Fuck that. I will take the floor," Kol said as he wouldn't have Davina uncomfortable in anyway.
"You will not be sleeping on the floor," Davina protested. "I am cool with sharing the bed with the exception of one thing."
"What's that?"
"As long as you don't hog the covers," She stated.
"The same goes for you," Kol tossed back. "I call dibs on the shower."
"Go ahead," Davina placed her bag on the table and sitting down in an over stuffed chair as she picked up a magazine to flip through as she relaxed reading about different things in the surrounding town of Armadillo. She took a minute to peek over the page watching as Kol moved around the room doing various things. She didn't know what it was but he fascinated her in the way he moved with such grace and his for knowledge of things surprised her. During their drive, he told her stories about things that happened in history and what he had witnessed. Davina would listen to him all day if she could watching how he smiled when he talked of things that he loved and how his voiced changed he despised something. He placed a few things on the sink then going back to his bag before disappearing into the bathroom.
Davina took this time to trade her jeans in shorts and a shirt to sleep in. She took her hair our of the ponytail she had it in and brushed it out free of any knot. Then she went over to the sink quickly washing her face. Once she was finished with that, she began to brush her teeth. While she was scrubbing her pearly whites, she could hear the water hitting the floor of the shower and it made her think of the man who was standing under that spray which made her mind wondering what the sight must be like to see the water sliding down his body. The thoughts made her choke on her toothpaste causing her to come down from those dream clouds and back to her focus of finishing her task. She spat out the paste, rinsed and wiped her mouth before going back to the chair and her magazine. She laid her head on the arm of the chair to close her eyes for a moment as the day of travel caught up with her body.
Kol finished with his shower and dressed for bed feeling refreshed. When he went back into the room he found Davina curled up in the chair fast asleep with the magazine in the floor. Shaking his head, he walked over to the bed to pull back the covers then walked to the chair gently picking her up placing her in the bed and then climbed in himself. Turning on his side he stared at the beauty next to him for a moment before pushing some of her hair that had fallen in face back behind her ear. For the first time in a thousand years, Kol Mikaelson fell asleep with a smile on his face.
Sorry that it has been a few days since I have posted! Did anyone see that Iron Bowl? War Eagle!
For those that you don't know, the Iron Bowl is a big game between the state football (USA Football) rivals and my team won this year!
As for the fic, not a lot happened in this chapter, mainly just a few conversations between the two, but I want them to get to know each other more before I get them together. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and stay tuned for more!
RJ