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"I'm back," Kol said as he entered the lake house with two sacks of old books carrying them into the dining room where Elijah and Davina sat with their each of their noses in two different old texts.
"Good," Elijah said getting up from his spot. "I was beginning to think that you have gotten lost," He said taking a sack from his brother. "Are you sure this is all?"
"Of what I could find," Kol answered as he went to pour himself a scotch and one for Elijah handing it to him. "Here it sounds like you need one more than I do."
"I am just frustrated," Elijah said opening one of the books. "We have been trying to research this so-called map for weeks trying to decipher what it means and where the cure is, but we just keep coming up empty."
"Maybe we are looking in the right place," Davina spoke up for the first time since Kol entered the house. She sent him a warm look before turning to Elijah. "Maybe we are just overlooking it."
"We could very well be doing so," Elijah said and Kol could hear the frustration in his voice which had been increasing over the last several weeks since the night of the bonfire when Niklaus called demanding answers of this map. "I just hate that we keep getting dead ends."
"There are just so many different legends about this vampire cure and we don't know if it exactly what is true and what is not. We'll hit something somewhere. Nothing this valuable is ever easy to find." Davina said getting out of her seat to go into the kitchen.
Davina was pouring coffee into her smug when she felt a presence behind biting back a smile as two familiar strong arms wrapped themselves around her middle. "Hello to you too," She smiled as she was greeted by a sweet kiss to her forehead as she leaned her chest back into his chest. Davina loved his kisses but she was beginning to favor the ones on her head.
"I missed you," He whispered into her ear and she stopped what she was doing to turn around in his hold on her placing her hands on his arms.
"You were gone for four hours Kol," Davina chuckled shaking her head at him.
"Those fours hours without you were hell Davina Claire," Kol sighed dramatically causing Davina to laughed.
"You made it without me for a thousand years. I think you can manage four hours without me," Davina said.
"Don't remind me," Kol said shaking his head before looking back to the dining room. "I am sorry for dragging you into all this. I know I said we would be gone before now."
"Kol," Davina said as she fumbled with the buttons on his shirt itching to undo them in her fingers. "I told you last night that I don't mind help you out and I can use the distraction."
Kol cupped her cheek as a worried look crossed his face. "You had another nightmare last night," He said as he remembered waking up to her whimpering as she was tossing and turning also how cold she was and he could not get the look of utter fear in her eyes as he pulled her from her sleep.
"Yeah," Davina sighed as she dropped her eyes from his and he could the wariness in her blue depths.
"They are becoming more frequent. This is the third one you had since we returned from Denver," Kol said and Davina looked up in surprise. "I know about the dream you had that night Love," He confirmed.
"You really know?" Davina asked stepping back but he tightened his hold around her waist with no intention of letting her pull away. "But how? You were asleep." She pointed out as confusion was present on her face
"I was faking," Kol admitted taking a breath before he continued. "You elbowed me in the back and it woke me." Davina sighed as she closed her eyes.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Davina asked as her eyebrows furrowed together.
"I wanted you to tell me when you were ready to, not force it out of you," Kol told her honestly and he didn't want to as he could actually feel her fear when she jumped up. "Do you want to tell me about them?" He asked his brown eyes earnest.
"They're just about the Harvest is all," Davina said honestly as Kol starred deeply into her eyes as if he was searching her soul.
"If there is more to it you need to tell me," Kol told her his voice was firm as Davina nodded her head. "I mean it, Davina." He said seriously.
"I will," She promised. Kol let himself relax as he pulled her deeper into his arms holding him to her as he promised himself that he would protect her from anything that wished to harm as she reached up to kiss him. Kol groaned against her lips when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket but nonetheless pulled out so he could bite the person's head off who chosen to call him at the wrong time. He couldn't stop the surprise ringing through him when he saw his sister's name flashing on the screen swiping the answer button he put the phone to his ear.
"Nice to see you out of your box, Sister though you do have impeccable timing to disrupt pure contentment," He said as he greeted his sister.
"Please Kol, you will never know such a thing," Rebekah tossed and Kol just rolled his eyes. "I need you to do something for me."
"I figured you did. It would be the only reason you would call me," Kol said into the phone. "So what do you need my help with Sister? The last time I asked for your help I ended up daggered for a century." Davina narrowed her eyes as she saw the hurt that flashed through his eyes.
"Kol," Rebekah said regret lacing her tone. "I know what I did and I am sorry." She said softly and Kol felt his resolve shift. "Now will you please help me?"
"Are you okay? What do you need?" Kol asked concerned as Davina pulled away returning her attention to her coffee.
"I need you to go to Whitmore College and bring me, Atticus Shane," She told him.
"So you want me to deliver your flavor of the month?" Kol asked teasingly.
"Must you Kol?" Rebekah snapped annoyed. " For your information, he is not. He is a professor there who knows about the cure. I need him to come so I can ask him some questions about the cure."
"The cure?" Kol asked as she now had his attention maybe this could benefit them both as he shared a look with Davina who nodded.
"You know the cure that cures vampirism," She said simply. "Have you not heard of the latest buzz of this rotten town?"
"I have. Where shall I bring him to?" Kol asked.
"To the Mystic Falls High School library," Rebekah said simply and Kol could tell that she was in a conniving mood which made her grin.
"Will do," Kol said as he ended the call. "My family is utterly nuts," Kol said to Davina who had been listening to the entire conversation while she was sipping her coffee. "I'm sorry Love," He said apologetically.
"No it's fine," Davina said laying a hand on his arm. "Go. This may be the breakthrough that we have been searching for." He nodded as he walked into the dining room.
"You know there is one thing that I keep seeing when I turn to these pages about the cure," Elijah said looking up from the book pointing to something. "And it is this name here." Kol and Davina walked around to look at what he was pointing to. "Even this in this Roman text Silvanus."
"Silvanus," Davina as the name sound very familiar to her as well. She looked at the text as she leafed through the thousands of pages looking for the copy of the map though it was incomplete pulling it out looking at it as she noticed letters spread out S-I-L-A-S.
"Davina?" Kol called as she froze as if she was in deep thought. "What is it?"
"I think it means Silas." She said looking up from the map as her eyes met with Kol. "In fact, I have seen his name everywhere we have looked in these books trying to find more out about the cure."
"Silas? You said something about him a couple of weeks ago," Kol noted as he recalled his own findings of Silas that he learned in times with witches. "Silas will end all time."
"Silas is not true Kol. He is only a fable we have heard as we were young children," Elijah said cupping his chin looking to his baby brother.
"Silas is very real Elijah," Kol said shaking his head. "I have met many witches who have shared stories with me about him. It was never anything good. I killed a group of them centuries ago," Kol told them.
"Kol's right," Davina agreed. "It is said that he was one of the most powerful witches this world has ever seen."
"You have heard of him?" Elijah turned to Davina looking surprised. "What do you know?"
"The group you killed didn't get the message and found a way to keep the word going," Davina said as she put the pages back on the table. "Because the word of Silas made its way down to New Orleans because all nine covens have some story about him and every story differs from the other and I am sure the stories have spread to others across the globe. But they all said one thing: That some of the things he could do went against nature and often were described as apocalyptic," Davina explained.
"That is the exactly the same thing I have heard and the things that are needed for Silas calls for a whole lot of bloodshed." Kol nodded before remembering that Rebekah was waiting on him. "We will talk more about Silas when I get back. Our dear sister needs me."
"Rebekah?" Elijah looked up at the sound of her name. "You have spoken with her? Is she in any danger?"
"I just did moments ago and no I don't think so," Kol shook his head. "She needs me to run a small errand for her." He explained as he turned to Davina. "I will be back in a few hours." He said to her with a small smile.
"I will stay here and see what I can find out about Silas and try and pinpoint what true and what isn't true," Davina said as she sat down. "Be careful?" She asked him and he smiled as he touched her cheek.
"You have my word," Kol said fondly and looked to Elijah. "Can I have a word with you outside?" He asked and Elijah nodded. "See you in a bit." He said to Davina as he walked out the door grabbing his jacket as he went.
As he reached the car he pulled his jacket on as he turned around to face Elijah. "I know it is killing you to go with me and help our sister, but will you stay here and keep an eye on Davina?" He asked seriously.
"Davina is very capable of taking care of herself," Elijah pointed out. "It is one of the things I like admire about that girl."
"She's been having nightmares about that Harvest," Kol said as he leaned against the car looking to the ground.
"It was a very traumatic event that she went through," Elijah said before pressing on. "What's on your mind Brother?"
"I think those witches are still after her," Kol said as he looked up and saw Davina through the window walking around the table and looked to his older brother. "I know witches better than I do vampires Elijah and when witches want something they will stop at nothing to get what they want and I think they want to finish what they started."
"You mean they want to complete Harvest?" Elijah said sounding surprised. "Even after you killed half the coven?"
"You would be surprised what people will do when they are desperate," Kol said coldly running a hand through his hair. "I need to get going as our sister is waiting on me and you know she hates to wait." He said suddenly changing the subject as he climbed into the car.
"Brother," Elijah reached out placing a hand on Kol's shoulder like he had done to Niklaus many times in his life. "Nothing will happen to Davina," He told his younger brother as he saw the worry in his eyes. He could see how much Kol had changed since the night their mother tried to kill them all. He was totally different and he knew it was because of Davina and Elijah knew that she meant a lot to him because his face lit up every time she walked into the room or even spoke. The shared a silent agreement before Kol shut the door as he drove off in the direction of Whitmore College.
"You're Kol Mikaelson," the creepy professor Shane said as Kol pulled him out the car and across the parking lot of Mystic Falls High School.
"If you say that one more time," Kol said annoyed dragging him by the arm stepping inside the building. "I will literally kill you mate." He actually felt as if he had picked up an annoying fan from his own personal fan club.
"I have read a lot about you," Shane said as they rounded a corner. Kol stopped to listen as he heard a noise checking behind him to make sure he was not walking into an attack unprepared. "Is it true?" Shane asked.
"Is what true?" Kol asked calmly as he continued to look for the location of his sister. "What are you talking about?" He scanned his eyes along the walls wondering where the hell he was going.
"I need a witch," Shane admitted and Kol could tell there was something morbid to this man and it stirred him the wrong way and Kol stopped walking at the arrived outside the library the place Rebekah told him to come to after he had very easily apprehended him.
"Finally," Kol sighed before looking to Shane narrowing his eyes "Stay right here and if you try to run for it I will break both of your legs," He said lowly to show him that he was not playing though, the Professor had so willingly cooperated with every one of his demands. Kol bit back a laugh as he pushed through the doors to see his baby sister standing in front of a table full of people who looked so eager to be there.
"Sister! Look at this, you are even worse than Klaus," Kol smiled shaking his head at his sister's work that girl sure did make him proud sometimes.
"Kol. Finally!" Rebekah said sending him a warm smile. "Did you bring me what I ask for?" She asked expectantly and Kol sent her a smirk before yanking Shane through the door pushing him into the room.
"You must be Shane," Rebekah smiled as Shane looked at her as if he was shocked at what he was seeing. Rebekah looked up at Kol with a questioning look in her blue eyes and he nodded to her. She then turned to her table of prisoners. Kol glanced down noticing the white oak stake laying on the ground. He wondered how it had gotten there as he reached down snatching it up before it got into the wrong hands. "The four of you stay seated while I take this nice man for a chat. The rules main in place." She grinned evilly as she turned to Shane.
"You two," She said nodding to Kol as well. "Come along," Rebekah said in a sweet voice as she walked around them walking out of the room. Kol sighed as he grabbed Shane yanking him along as he followed his sister down the hall as it seemed she knew where she was going. "In here," Rebekah said pointing to a door and Kol forced it open shoving his captive inside so hard that he could barely stop himself from crashing into the shelves that line the wall. He turned around and Kol rolled his eyes as the sick excited looked returned to his face.
"Kol," Shane said shocked pointing to him and then turned to his sister. "And Rebekah Mikaelson! Two members of the Original Vampire family. This is such a trip."
"C'mon mate," Kol growled. "If you are about to have a wet dream do it in your own time and not with me present."
"Really Kol?" Rebekah scoffed at his choice of words. She then turned to Shane looking into his eyes. "Where is the cure?" She asked in a low calming voice.
Shane looked at Rebekah as a secretive smirk appeared on his face. "Compulsion won't work," He said as the smirk continued to spread as he looked over to Kol. "A little trick I picked up in Tibet."
Kol laughed to himself as he watched Rebekah become flustered in front of the younger man and her lips formed a pout. "Right," She sighed with an inkling of surprise present in her voice but it wasn't for long as Rebekah was always quick to think on her feet. "Well, I guess we have to do this the old fashion way," She said as she turned to Kol who turned his cold eyes on to Shane. "Beat him until you get it out of him," She snipped as she turned on her foot leaving the room. Kol waited until he could no longer hear her stomping away.
Kol swept his eyes over Shane as he tried to decide what to do with him as he moved to close the door so he wouldn't draw any unnecessary attention as a question of his own popped up. "What to do with you?" He asked as he looked around trying to find anything that could help him. "So where is the cure?" He started and when Shane said nothing. "We can do this the easy way or the hardest."
"You can try your hardest," Shane dared and Kol smirked coldly.
"You should be very careful," Kol said walking around the room stopping at the sink. "I invented the word torture. In fact, I know kinds of torture that would make the hardest man on this earth blush." He said as he turned. "Where is the cure?" Kol asked and seeing that he wasn't going to talk he turned around turning the water on as he plugged the sink.
"Where is the cure?" Kol asked again as he waited for the sink to fill up with water but it was clear that Shane was planning on being a zipper lip so he walked over grabbing the man by his neck pushing him over to the side of the sink. "Where is the cure?" Kol asked as he plunged his face into the water holding it there for a moment as water sloshed all around some spilling down the sides. When he felt it was long enough, Kol pulled his head out of his water. "Where is the cure?" Kol asked calmly as Shane gasped for breath with water dripping everywhere. "Just tell me where it is. Make it easy for yourself."
"If you want the cure," Shane heaved as he struggled to breath. "I need a witch," Shane looked to him as Kol remembered that he had said the same thing bit earlier and he also recalled another fact.
"You already have a witch," Kol pointed out as he remembered passing the girl in the hall. "The Bennett Witch. I saw her leaving your office this morning and don't try to deny the fact you know her because I heard the two of you talking why I waited for to her to leave."
"I need two," Shane told him looking up through his wet lashes. "I need the blood of two witches."
"Stop stalling. Where is the cure?" Kol asked him and not waiting for a response shoved Shane's face into the water than yanked it back out. "Where is the cure?"
"I told you. I need two witches," Shane coughed looking to Kol desperately.
"You don't! You are just trying to avoid the answer that you can give me," Kol said lowering his mouth letting his cold breath hit his ear.
"I need two witches," Shane yelled as Kol forced his face into the water quickly trying to get him to get off this witch subject and pulled him out again. Shane was violently gasping for breath and Kol was beginning to get annoyed. "I'm telling you the truth."
"Well I don't know what to tell you because I don't know where you are going to get another witch," Kol said him before asking the question for the answer he had been pushing this entire time but Shane stopped.
"I do," Shane breathed and looked to Kol grasping the sides of the sink. "You," He said and Kol furrowed his eyes brows at this.
"Me?"Kol questioned and shook his head. "I don't have a witch for you. Why would I help you acquire another witch whose blood you wish to spill for whatever madman reason you so have."
"Because you have one," Shane said and Kol tightened his hand around the base of Shane's skill yet kept his composure steady and this man was not begging to make Kol feel uneasy from his crazy man nature.
"The location of the cure should be the only thing you say," Kol told him. "And I told you once already. I don't have a witch." Kol plunged Shane's face back into the water again holding it under a little longer this time. As he lifted the man's drowned rat face out of the cold water and Kol looked at him with hardened eyes. "The cure."
"Sure you do," Shane gasped as his face a beginning to take on a light blue color from the lack of oxygen he was getting.
"I don't have a witch. Now tell me where the damn cure is," Kol snapped with a deadly tone but nothing was phasing the man.
"The grimoire in your car says otherwise," Shane said in between heavy breaths as Kol lowered his head again preparing to push again.
"Grimoire?" Kol asked him as his brows furrowed again. "What grimoire?"
"The one in the backseat of your car," Shane looked at Kol, his face had lost some of the blue color.
"You say you know about me," Kol said in a voice like thin ice. "And if you were actually telling the truth than you would know that my mother was a witch."
Shane yelled out as Kol forced his head under the water again. Kol pulled him out again and Shane choked as he coughed the water out of his lungs. "It's not your mothers," Shane said hurriedly. "Your mother is dead which means her grimoires can be opened without her. The one in the backseat of your car could not be opened because I tried and I know it can't be your seeing that you are a vampire and vampires can't do magic which means the witch that is in possession of that Grimoire is still alive."
"I think you have clearly landed in the section of Occult teachers gone insane," Kol said as he submerged Shane's face once again as ice filled his own veins as he tried to think of what grimoire he was talking about and then remembered that Davina had been looking for a book the other night after their first run to get books they needed on the cure which turned ended into a nice makeout session in the car. It must have fallen into the floor before the arrived back at the house. He pulled him out of the water again. "The cure," He said trying to get Shane off the subject.
"I could tell by the feel of that book that this witch is very powerful," Shane breathed not looking to Kol. "I will find that witch and I have the means to do so."
Kol felt his last straw break as he gripped Shane's hair harshly as he yanked his head back and he felt his veins threatening to pop through. "If you think you are going to touch that supposed witch as you say I have. I will kill you and not in an easy way," Kol threatened through his teeth. "Now that we got that settled," Kol said. "Where is the cure?" Kol said plunging Shane's face in the water as he could hear the sound of clicking heels on the floor and lifted his head. "Where is the cure?" He asked as Rebekah appeared in the corner of his eye. He turned to look at her before dunking the man again and pulled his face up again.
"I don't get it you're human," Rebekah pointed to him her eyes on a very wet Shane. "Why do you want it anyway?"
"That's the whole beauty of this," Shane laughed through his gasps for air. "You can have it! I just want Silas." He cried. Kol looked up at Rebekah who wore a confused look on her face.
"No!" Kol cried as he jerked Shane up off the sink. Rebekah stood shocked at Kol's response as her brother turned the man around to look him in the eyes. "What do you know about Silas?" Kol questioned sharply.
"He's the world first immortal being who just happens to be imprisoned with the cure," Shane answered as a seriously mad look come over his face. "And I want to free him." He whispered slowly.
"No!" Kol said as he grabbed the back of Shane's head quickly plunging his face into the water using his vamp speed. Rebekah took the moment to look at her brother as she could see a trace of fear something she had never seen before in Kol before. She waited a minuted for him to let up when she realized he had no intention of letting go.
"Stop!" Rebekah said pulling Kol back which caused him to lose his grip which pulled Shane's head out of the water. Kol looked at the man before jerking his hand away. "He is of no use dead," She told him and Kol turned to her.
"Did you not hear what he just said?" Kol yelled at Rebekah. "Silas will kill us all Sister." He said as he walked around her to get away from Shane rubbing a hand over his face.
"Silas does not exist," Rebekah said with disbelief as her eyes on the professor before turning to look at Kol. "He is a fairy tale made up to scare children into eating their vegetables."
"Silas is very real," Shane said with a hoarse voice from the water forced down his throat gaining a look from both the Mikaelson siblings. "I know where he is buried," He looked between the two. "And soon I will have what I need to wake him."
"Wait a second!" Kol said shaking his head at the man. "You're lying. You can't get to him." He told Professor Creepy Pants.
"Without his tombstone," Shane said as he listing things and Rebekah saw Kol's eye widen. "Without dozens having to die in a blood sacrifice? Believe me, I know because I have done it. Those massacres were of my engineering." Rebekah's eyes widen as she realized what he meant.
"You are the one who got the Council blown up," She looked at watching him in disgust as he nodded his head.
"They were noble sacrifices," Shane said to her. "I just need to find the right blood to spill to do it when I have completed the triangle," He said as he looked Kol. Kol then knew why he wanted to know about his witch because he needed two different witches from two different bloodlines. And there was no way in hell he was going to let Davina become a pawn in his evil plan to raise Silas.
"What is he talking about?" Rebekah looked at Kol sounding confused.
"The sacrifices are only temporary," Shane said causing Rebekah to turn back to him. Kol took a step back seeing that Rebekah's was hanging on to every word. He looked down noticing spare pieces of piping. "Once I raise Silas. Silas will raise the dead. He will bring back every last soul who died on his behalf." Kol picked up a brown shiny pipe running his fingers over it before vamping over.
"No!" Shane cried out as Kol impaled his midsection with the pipe. Kol could feel the warm blood meet his fingertips as he watched the life slip out of the man eyes before letting him sink to the floor. Not looking at Rebekah he walked over to the sink dipping his hands into the water to wash the blood off his fingers.
"What did you do that for?" Rebekah cried as he could feel her icy blue eyes glaring into his back as he dried his hands before turning around. Rebekah looked at him very closely and could tell that there was something off about him something she could not put a name on, but then again she knew Kol could be kind and then turn into a cold-blooded killer in a blink of an eye. Yet, she couldn't shake the feeling that Kol was hiding something from her because there was something totally different about him.
"You should be thanking me," Kol told her simply avoiding the answer. 'Yeah, there is something he was not telling her," She thought to herself and if he had a secret she knew he would not tell her anything after she shared his secret until he was ready to and if he would after what she did with the last secret he told her which involved him being daggered. So, she pushed it aside for now.
"You killed my only chance of finding the cure," Rebekah said through her teeth. "Is this your way of payback for what I did you at that party?" She asked him.
"No," Kol said shaking his head. "Silas on the lose would be hell on Earth and frankly Sister," Kol reached back pulling the White oak stake out of his pocket tossing it up in the air loving the way her eyes watched before catching it holding it up. "I don't think you could handle it." He smiled as she eyed the item while he twisted it around with his fingers.
"How did you get that?" Rebekah asked him carefully her eyes skating back and forth between the item and his eyes.
"Way too easily," He said smugly as he walked around her through the door ready to leave this place. "You're welcome," Kol tossed back at her earning himself another glare. He smiled to himself when he heard the pounding of her heels as she walked away from him as he made his way to his car.
Kol placed his phone into the cup holder as he pulled his bloodstained jacket off to throw it in the back seat and climbed inside. He looked up at the dark sky wondering how the hell it could be so late already. It felt as if he had just left the house but that was several hours ago. Kol should have known this would have turned into an all day event. He groaned as he heard his phone vibrate against and picked it up hitting the answer button not even checking to see who it is.
"What?" Kol said into the phone tiredly as he leaned his head back on the head rest.
"Are you with Davina?"
"Marcel?" Kol's head jerked up at the sound of Marcel's unexpected voice.
"Are you with Davina?" Marcel asked and Kol did not like the sound of urgency in his voice as he started the car pulling out of the parking lot.
"Not at the moment I'm not," Kol said into the phone as he turned on to the road in the direction of the house. "I stepped out to get us a bite to eat. Why what's wrong?"
"Damn it. I can't get her on her cellphone," Marcel said and Kol could tell there was something wrong.
"What happened Marcel?" He said punched down on the gas not even bothering to stop at the red traffic light sine there was no one sitting there.
"A few moments ago, we got attacked here by a group of witches here at the compound looking for Davina," Marcel explained as Kol turned off of the main road of Mystic Falls. "They were demanding that we turn her over to them. I want to make sure she is alright."
"I assume these witches are no longer living?" Kol asked as he slowed down so he could take the sharp turn in the driveway.
"They aren't," Marcel answered. "But they weren't killed by us."
"That's interesting," Kol said as he pulled up to the house. "Look I just got back to the house," Kol told him. "Let me go see to her and I will call you right back."
"Fine," Marcel said and Kol ended the call as he got out of the car and he looked around the area and everything seemed fine as he went to go up the stairs. He was only halfway up the stairs when he noticed the front door standing wide open. Kol didn't hesitate to vamp speed up the rest of the stairs into the house and he was greeted by the sight of Davina on the floor holding the face of a gray-skinned Elijah in her hands and they were surrounded by four dead bodies.
"Davina! What in the hell is going on?"
Davina jerked around with her hand in the air ready to attack. She had tear tracks down both her cheeks and even though her eyes were puffy red they were hard and ready to fight.
Hehehe I am evil! I decided to end the chapter here because if I continued the chapter probably would be over 10,000 words and alot happened in this one So I decided to break it up.
I hope you enjoy! The next chapter will be along soon! Until then happy reading!