Hello everyone! Here is the next installment of Holding On To You...just in time for Christmas! Thanks for everyone wonderful words. Tessa! I enjoy talking to you thank you so much!
Here we go!
"Nik's dead."
"What?" Kol gasped as the word registered in his mind. "What do you mean Nik is dead?" He asked as Davina cupped her mouth her hands backing away from him and he placed an arm around her shoulders pulling her back to him. "How?" He asked his voice thickening.
"The hunter stabbed him with the white oak stake," Rebekah wept. "Elena agreed to Elijah's deal and I went to retrieve his body, but the hunter had followed me. I tried to stop it, but Damon made me leave before he could get a hold of me."
"At least they did one thing right," Kol scoffed. "So what now?"
"I have no idea," Rebekah sighed into the phone. "I am heading back to Mystic Falls, I still have to tell Elijah the news, I just need to find him."
"I am on my way, Bekah," He promised. "We will rip through that entire town."
"No! Alaric is still out there at large. You are safe were you are," Rebekah told him. "I don't want to lose anyone else."
"I am getting tired of people telling me to stay," Kol snapped coldly. "I am a part of this family too remember, Bekah? And just as able as the rest."
"Just stay where you are," Rebekah said forcefully. "I will call you if anything chances if we need to come, I promise you that I will."
"Whatever," Kol scoffed and ended the phone call looking at Davina who began stepping away from him. "Davina."
"This is all my fault," She whispered as she continued backing away from him. "Your family was in danger and I could have done something about it and what did I do?" She muttered but he couldn't stand hearing her talk down to herself.
"Davina," Kol said again as he made his way over to her. "This not your fault," He said as he placed his hands on her shoulders. "We only found the spell a couple of hours ago, and even if Elijah did call us we wouldn't have gotten there in time so don't beat yourself up about this, Darling," He said looking into her eyes. "Why did you bring me here?" he asked.
"Because, I knew you would drive yourself crazy waiting for Elijah to call, so I thought if I got you out of the house for a bit, that it would shorten the wait a little and help you relax," Davina answered. "But I should have been prepared."
"None of us were," Kol said leaning his forehead against hers. "Do you regret it?" He asked.
"Regret what?" She asked looking into his brown gaze.
"Today," He answered. "What happened here today." He added talking about the kiss because he sure in hell didn't.
"No," Davina responded shaking her head adamantly. "Not for a second." She cupped his face with her hands. "Nothing will ever take this day from me or that moment." She studied him for a moment. "How are you even standing right now?"
"I don't know if I believe it," Kol said looking to the iced covered ground. "It is hard to believe to be honest, because I always thought that he was the one that would never be..." He swallowed as he didn't want to say the word as he remembered the conversation he had shared with Nik shortly after Finn's death. "I.." Kol closed his eyes as he could feel himself getting choked up as he felt Davina place a hand on the back of his head pulling him into her shoulder as he wrapped his arms around her hiding his face in the crook of her neck.
"I am so sorry, Kol," She whispered into his ear as she could feel the wetness of his tears on her skin and felt his shoulders begin to under her fingers. Davina wished that she could take his grief as her heart broke for him. She tightened her hold on him delving her fingers in to his brown locks. They stood like that for several minutes before Kol pulled back his eyes wet.
"Sorry," He said embarrassed as he wiped his eyes not looking at her. He felt foolish for becoming so emotional in front of her.
"It's okay," She touched his cheek gently as he looked from the ground into her eyes. "Do you want do go?" She asked and he nodded. "Why don't we go back to the cabin and toast a drink to your brother's memory?"
"That sounds like a fantastic idea," Kol nodded taking her hand in his and helped her off the ice where the took off their skates for their shoes and made their way to the car where Kol got in the driver's seat for the welcoming distraction.
Kol drove through town deep in his thoughts as his eyes remained on the road in front of him. He glanced over to the girl beside him who was silently staring out her window her eyes slowly blinking as she watched the scenery of the mountains pass her by and he knew she was still blaming herself for had happened. He promised himself that he would find a way to make it up to her and to assure her that this was not her fault in anyway. No one could see into the future to see how things turn out. Kol pulled one of his hand from the steering wheel reaching over to take one of her hands in his pulling her hand to his lips. She turned her head to look at him and in that moment he allowed himself to admit that he had fallen head over heels for this very girl beside him and she was the reason that he had been able to make it through that dreadful moment after Rebekah's call. He made it his life mission that he would do what ever it took to make sure that she was happy because she made him happy for the first time in his life.
Soon, Kol was pulling into the driveway of the Cabin and they got out of the car to go inside. Kol turned to her and smiled. "I just need a moment," He said.
"Sure," She nodded and he leaned to kiss her on the forehead before turning to go up the stairs. She sighed and followed up him up the stairs to go into her room where her bag from earlier was still sitting on the bed with still opened. She didn't know if she wanted to unpack or not, but she moved to sit on the bed burying her face into her hands. She didn't know how she could be so careless or how he could even look at her because she was the reason her brother was dead. She should have gone ahead and did the spell and maybe something could have prevented it. Davina sat up reaching to her beside table where her books were. Maybe there was a way she could bring him back and as she flipped through the pages before moving to the next and the next but there was nothing. She ran a hand through her hair before going back downstairs to the room under the stairs. She moved along the rows trying checking the spines of the books until she saw one with in french that she recognized. She pulled it out of its place finding that it was all in french and flipped through it until she found something on resurrection spells. It was a brief paragraph about how they could be tricky and needed a bit of power, but nothing to really suit her need. She flipped through it until she hit the last page and there was nothing, so she put it back in her place. Davina continued on down the row until another book stood out to her so she pulled it out and got the hit the same roadblock as she had in the other books. There had to be something as there is always something as Marcel would always say….Marcel. Davina's eyes widen at his name ran through her mind.
"Oh my god!" She cried reaching into her back pocket for her phone to find it not there. She hurriedly put the book back and hurried out of the room. She whipped around to the staircase running up it, half way up, she missed a step making her foot to slip painfully causing her to crash into the stairs with a thud knocking the air from her lungs.
"Arghh!" She groaned wincing as her ankle was now throbbing angrily. She closed her eyes as the air slowly made its way back to her. Biting her lip, she grabbed on to the stair rail using it to pull herself up and looked down to the landing where it was about seven steps away from her. She let out a breath as she lifted her aching ankle testing it on the stair above her. She winced as she put pressure on it, it hurt but it was tolerable. She would probably need to put ice on it, but she needed her phone. She bit her lip as she slowly made her way up the rest of the stairs and sighed in relief when she made it to the top. She wince as her ankle protested her weight as she limped her way to her room. Walking over to the dresser, where her phone was laying on dresser where she had left it to charge pulling it off. She typed in her password to her home page hitting the contacts button and scrolled down coming to Josh's number first. She pressed on his number and put to her ear. It rang and rang until she heard Josh's voicemail message. She ended the call and went back to her contact scrolling all the way down until she got to Marcel's wasting no time in pressing his name. It too rang until she got to his voicemail. Davina went back into her contacts and found Cami's number and pressed. Cami picked up after three rings.
"Hey Davina."
"Cami," She smiled at Cami's familiar voice. She had missed the blonde bartender. "I hope I am not interrupting anything."
"Of course not sweetie," Cami's motherly voice came. "How are you?"
"I am good," Davina answered. "Have you seen Marcel or Josh today?"
"No I haven't. I just got to the bar about an hour ago and before that I had class," Cami replied. "Is everything okay?"
"Everything is fine," Davina lied. "I was just trying to give them a call, but I could get either of them to answer."
"I did see Marcel last night on our date," Cami added.
"Your date?" Davina smiled as she heard the words as it sounded as if Marcel actually had made a move.
"Yep," Cami laughed and Davina could hear her smiling through the phone. "I said date. He asked me a couple of days ago, in fact. Took me off my a totally surprise though."
"Well it is about time," Davina snorted.
"You knew?" Cami accused playfully.
"It was so obvious," Davina laughed. "Marcel has been wrapped around your finger for a while now."
"That totally goes against girl code," Cami tutted. "It would have been nice with some warning."
"I was sworn to secrecy," She defended before sighing. "]If you see either of them can you tell them to give me a call."
"Are you sure everything is okay, Davina?" Cami asked sounding concerned.
"I just miss them is all," Davina said which was true, but not what she was truly feeling which was fear and worry of their well being.
"They miss you too," Cami smiled. "Hey I gotta get off of here and go serve people that I don't like."
"That sucks," Davina said.
"Yeah, but it pays the bills."
"True. Bye Cami," Davina smiled then ended the call. She sank down on her bed as thoughts rushed in to her mind what if...She shook her head and pressed Josh's number again but this time it went straight to voice mail and Marcel's did the same. She wiped away the tear that escaped her eyes as she tried to think of what else she could do. She heard a knock on her door Davina looked up to see Kol standing at the door.
"Are you ready to have that drink?"
"Yeah," She nodded forcing her smile throwing her phone on the bed as she got up and walking over to Kol. She ignored the aching pain in her ankle
"What's the matter?" Kol frowned at her.
"It's nothing, I'm fine." She smiled a little brightly at him. Davina knew that he was going through a loss as well and she didn't want to be selfish.
"Don't lie to me," Kol said firmly his eyes piercing into hers and she could feel more tears coming. "What is it?" He asked gently. "You don't still feeling guilty do you?" He frowned at her.
"I do," She sniffed but shook her head. "That's not it," She gulped as she really didn't want to put any more pressure on him and bit her lip. Kol reached lifting up her chin.
"Davina?" He said as he was now starting to worry as a tear fell down her pristine cheek.
"I can't get through to Marcel or Josh," She answered and Kol's eyes widen at this.
"Shit," He cursed looking away as he remembered what Nik had said about their sirelines when an Original dies. Josh and Marcel was a part of that line. "I had forgotten all about that."
"I called their phones several time," Davina said but shook her head. "I got only got their voicemail and they don't know what is about to happen if it hasn't already and Cami hasn't seen them today. I'm sorry," She scoffed at herself shaking her head as she pulled away from him.
"Hey hey," He said flashing forward in front of her to stop her from walking away from him. "You don't have to pull away from me," Kol blinked at her placing his hands on to her shoulders. "If we want this to work, we have to be able to tell each other anything no matter how little or small the problem is."
"What is this?" Davina asked him. "Is this even the right time to be discussing it...I mean your brother just-"
"Just because my brother has passed, doesn't mean our worlds have to stop turning," Kol piped in looking into her eyes. "And I would like to see what this goes because to be honest, I have grown quite a fancy for you." He finished smiling warmly at her.
Hearing those words, Davina smiled back at him though it didn't reach her eyes. She gazed at him softly filled with wonder at the man before her. He was amazing in all aspects. "So did I," She said warmly. "But-"
"There is no buts." Kol cut in before continuing. We no longer have to face this cruel world alone because we now have each other and I promise you that you will never have to face the world alone as long as I am on this earth, Davina Claire," He promised heartily.
Davina blinked back more tears that she felt welling up in her eyes as her heart completely turned to mush and she didn't know if her heart would ever be the same. She never had anyone in her life make such a promise to her. She took in an unsteady breath as she cupped his cheeks with her hands as she leaned up pressing her lips against his. Kol responded by sliding his lips over to lock his lips over her bottom lip. She pulled back smiling with a warmth in her eyes that warmed his cold soul. "I promise too and you will always have me by your side because there is no where else I rather be." She vowed.
Kol wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her closer to him and his eye somehow landed on the bed. "Let's go," He said suddenly.
"What do you mean? Go where?" She asked pulling back looking confused.
"Back," Kol answered looking down at her. "To New Orleans."
"Go back? Are you serious?" Davina questioned. "Kol, we are over a thousand miles away...We are not going to make it time," She reasoned.
"It doesn't mean you shouldn't try," Kol stated. "I didn't get a goodbye with my brother, but it doesn't mean you won't and you can warn them of what is happening. I think it took some time with Finn's line from what I heard."
"We wouldn't get there until tomorrow and tomorrow is Thanksgiving so flying is out of the question because the airports are packed full of lines and people. So we would have to drive." Davina said as she thought out loud.
"We can drive as fast as we want," Kol pointed out.
"What about the police? If we go too fast we are going to get pulled over Kol," Davina pointed out.
"Police officers can be compelled, Darling," Kol smirked before adding. "And make some fine meals." Which made her roll her eyes at him. "Besides, we packed everything this morning, so we can leave now."
"Just no killing the cops," She sighed dropping her hands to his chest.
"Only if they don't shoot."
Twenty minutes later, Davina picked the bags up off her bed and looked around the room to make sure she had forgotten anything. She turned to walk out of the room and came to the stairs which she eyed as she took the rail with her right hand and started her descent. Her ankle was throbbing as it was, but it still hurt as she gingerly placed her foot on the step and the next until she made it to the bottom.
"Are you all set?" Kol asked as he entered the cabin.
"I believe so," Davina bit her lip a second. "Maybe we should take your mother's spell book with us."
"Why?" He asked.
"That vampire hunter is still on the loose and I want to study that spell some more. You never know when we are going to need it," Davina reasoned.
"Good idea," He nodded as he turned to the left to go into the room as she went out to the car to put her bags in the trunk. Davina winced as pain radiated up her leg as she moved her ankle the wrong way and heard the door of the cabin close and footsteps heading towards the car.
"Got it," He said walking around the side of the car holding up the book handing it to her.
"Thanks," She said opening the bag that had her book which was very full making her wish she had a bigger bag. "Do you have all of your things?" Davina asked as she reached up to pull the trunk down to shut it.
"I did, but if not I can always get other," Kol shrugged as watched her looking around and smiled. "You're going to miss this place aren't you?"
"I am missing it already," Davina sighed as she looked behind her at the mountains. "I am going to miss the snow more."
"We can come back you know," Kol suggested. "Any time you want or I'll take you somewhere where it snows all the time."
"That is an offer that I can't give up," She smiled dreamily.
"Let's get going before it gets any later," Kol said pulling the keys out of his pocket. "You want to drive first or should I?"
"You," She answered as she wanted to relax her foot for a little while. "Just no crazy driving."
"I don't drive crazy," Kol denied as Davina walked to the passenger side door and turn around to look at him.
"Grandma." She simply said before getting into the car. Kol burst out laughing as he rolled his eyes going to to the driver's side.
"I am never going to live that down am I?" He asked as he pulled his seat belt on and looked to his witch.
"Nope."
"You are lucky I like you," He said teasingly as he started car and pulled out of the drive way beginning the long drive back to New Orleans.
Twelve hours later, Davina sipped on her coffee with another cup in the opposite hand for Kol as she walked out from the store to where Kol was putting gas into the car. She walked around to the driver's side where Kol was waiting for the pump to catch up. "I'll take over from here," She said causing Kol to look at her and nod. She could tell by his eyes that he was tired and needed a break from the road. The had just managed to get out of the city of Dallas before needing to stop for fuel.
She opened the driver's side door and climbed inside setting the coffees into the cup holders and waited for Kol to finish up. She reached over to get her phone which was in the door handle and checked to see if she had missed anything. There were no missed calls or answered texts message as she had sent many during their drive. She hit Marcel's name and it went straight to voice mail as well as Josh's and she was very worried now.
"Still no answer?"
Davina looked up from her phone to Kol standing outside the opened window looking in with an apologetic look on his face. "No," She said shaking her head putting her phone down. "Something must have happened because this is the first time I couldn't get in touch with them."
"I am sure they are fine, Love," Kol said touching her cheek with the back of his finger.
"I sure hope so," Davina sighed as Kol went back to the pump and soon he was climbing into the passenger seat and faced her.
"Are you sure that you are okay driving?" He questioned.
"I'll be fine. You need to take some time and rest." Davina noted softly as she pulled her seat belt on and drove out of the lot on the road in the direction of the interstate where she needed to be.
"Thanks, Darling," He smiled before reaching into the back seat where the was a cooler lifted up the lip and pulled out a blood bag from the stash that Kol had managed to snatch from a hospital in a small town in New Mexico when his throat began to burn for his need of blood. She waited out in the car while he went up stairs to the pretending be someone from another hospital needing more blood because their stash had become low of a certain type and managed to get few of the O negative his personal favorite. Soon after he emptied the bag he nodded off into a deep sleep leaving a complete silence in the car, so Davina reached over to turn the radio so she could have some music to help with her concentration on the road.
Several hours and one state line later, Davina was driving down interstate 49 deep in the state of Louisiana, she didn't realize that would miss a name so much. It was a few hours before daybreak and it was pouring down rain with streaks of lightning firing up in the sky. She groaned as she let up on the gas, as it was getting harder and harder to see due to temperance of the rain. Davina turned the windshield wipers on to their highest level and it helped her line of sight, but not by much. A flashing in the rear-view mirror caught her eye causing them to narrow from the glare of the bright headlights as she realized that were lights and hastily approaching from behind until they were directly behind her and blinked their lights and her eyes widen as she realized that is a was a cop and that she was being pulled over…. She had been going a little bit over the speed limit and cursed at herself.
"Just pull over, there."
"Waaa!" Davina cried out as she jumped in her seat, her heart pounding in her chest, turning to see Kol sitting up in his seat snickering at her sudden fright. "Holy shit Kol…." She glared at him causing the snicker to change to a rolling chuckle she ignored him for a second as she pulled over in the shoulder of the road.
"I didn't know that Davina Claire could scare so easily," Kol teased in his chuckling state as he sat up further in his seat.
"I thought you were asleep," She accused as she placed her hand on her still fast beating heart.
"I was until this fool and his bright light," He grumbled and Davina caught the scruffiness of sleep in his voice making it sound even more sexier than usual.
"What do I do?" Davina asked slightly panicked. "I have never been pulled over before." She said watching the cop exit their vehicle and rolled down her window only slightly due to the rain not wanting to get her or the car wet.
"Just relax, Love," Kol said softly and nodded as the cop reached her window. Davina gulped as she turned to the older gentleman.
"Good morning," The man greeted in a gruff voice making him sound like a warm loving grandfather, that happened to be halting her need to get home, but he cut to the chase. "Young lady, do you realize that were going 87 in 75 mile an hour speed zone and in the pouring rain for matter?"
"Really?" Davina gasped as she shook her head. "I am sure that I going at least 70. That was what my car said."
"No, ma'am," The cop shook his head. "When I pulled off that ramp back there, I clocked you going 87 that is 12 miles over the posted and legal speed limit and with the road way very wet very dangerous and this stretch of the interstate is very prone to hydroplaning."
"I honestly didn't realize I was going that speed. My speedometer must have went again. I just had it repaired last week." She sighed shaking her head.
"And I hear that story one too many times. You could have killed someone or yourself if you went skidding of the roadway. The office reprimanded her causing her want to roll her eyes, but wanted this over so she could get going. "Have you been drinking tonight?" He asked suddenly/
"What? No." Davina answered caught off guard by the question. "I am only seventeen and underage so no I have not been drinking." She scoffed.
"Seventeen? Then what are you doing out here so late?" The cop questioned. "You should be home in bed with your parents. You wouldn't haven't-"
"Excuse me Officer," Kol cleared his throat cutting the cop off leaning over Davina to get a good look at the man's eyes. He connected his eyes with the cop's green eyes as he felt his eye constrict as the cop's pupil doubled in size. "You are going to stop with the questions and go back into your car and go a get yourself a coffee and enjoy it. You are also going to forget my face and well as this lovely lady beside me and let us get on our way." Kol blinked breaking the connection and sat back in his seat
"Well you folks have a nice rest of your morning," The cop smiled turning around to walk back to his car and Davina let out a sigh of relief.
"Let him leave first," Kol instructed as the cop turned his lights off and drove passed them down the street.
"That definitely has some perks," Davina sighed looking to Kol.
"I don't really like using it, but I will if I have too. There is nothing like free will." Kol said wisely and looked out the window. "You were really driving that fast in this weather?"
"I was doing just fine until now," Davina said defensively. "Rain is no big deal for me as I live in a state that gets a lot of rain throughout the years."
"At this rate, we will be needing Noah's Ark to take us the rest of the way," Kol noted as thunder sounded causing the car to shake. "It is nasty out here. Maybe we should stop for a bit."
"We don't have time," Davina said as she shifted the car in to drive waiting for a car to pass before pulling back on to the road.
"Well watch your speed, Jumpy," Kol said as a flash of lightning illuminated the car.
"Jumpy?"
"Yeah, that is your new nickname," Kol teased as she rolled her eyes as she pressed down on the gas pedal.
The light of the sun began to highlight the sky as it slowly began to rise into sky rewarding Davina with a mixture of colors on the fading clouds and the signs signaling for New Orleans grew in numbers and soon she was at her exit. So she took the exit ramp that would lead her to New Orleans. She could feel her heart sigh with relief as they were finally at the end of their very fast and long drive. She wouldn't care if she never drove in a car again for a good while.
"Ah...Home sweet Home," Kol smiled as she nodded.
"It is good to see that name," Davina agreed leaning her head back against the headrest as the skyline of the city entered her sight.
"So what are you going to do when we get there?"
"I am going to all of his favorite hideouts and if I can't find them there I will ask his vampire crew..." She explained. "If they haven''t all died yet."
"Don't think like that Davina," Kol said taking her hand in his. "We will find them."
"I know. I am just worried because I haven't heard from them," Davina sighed as she took another exit ramp and soon they were driving along the streets of the French Quarter. She rolled down the window and took in a deep breath smelling the spicy scent of spicy food. It made her mouth water as grabbing a rare free parking space on the street that was crowded with people. "That will won't ever happen again," She said as turned off the engine.
"What?" Kol asked as he took of his seat belt and climbed out of the car loving the feeling of finally being able to stretch his limbs out as Davina walked around car joining him on the sidewalk.
"Finding a parking space that fast," She answered turning off in the direction of Rousseau's. There was a group of musicians standing on the corner sounding off some classical sounding jazzy which made Davina move her head to the beat as she nodded at them as she past them turning the corner.
"You love jazz," Kol noted as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"It is the sound of my home," She smiling as he pressed a kiss to the side of her forehead and soon they reached the entrance of Rousseau's which had it's normal closed sign flashing as it always did during the day.
"Looks like their closed, Love," Kol noted and Davina raised an eyebrow at him before moving out from his arm.
"Are you doubting me already?" She teased as she cast a careful look around them before reaching up to the side of the mailbox where there was a compartment. She pulled on the little knob and picked up the key and slid the key into the lock and twisting it around until she was able to open the door inside and held it open for him with a sneaky grin on her face.
*claps excitedly* Not a lot of excitement in this chapter, but we are back in New Orleans, but for how long? And what has happened to Josh and Marcel? Want to find out stay tuned!
And if I don't get to post the next chapter before then! I hope everyone has a wonderful holidays with lots of love and memories to share! Until then everyone be good...Santa is still checking his list!
RJ!