Chapter 27 – Staked
The Salvatore brothers and Alaric grinned as they examined their handy work. They had fashioned 12 stakes out of the Wickery Bridge sign, and were now eager to use them.
"We'll have to leave the girls out of it," Stefan said coldly. "They're a liability, too close to the Originals."
Damon and Alaric reluctantly agreed, having seen it for themselves. Alaric was the most unsure of all of it, because he thought the Originals might genuinely care for Elena.
"Now where would be the perfect place to kill an Original?" Stefan mused out loud.
"Well you want some place out of the way. A place the others won't be." Damon replied.
"The falls," Alaric suggested.
Damon and Stefan approved of the idea and made plans to meet there the next morning. They would try and lure one of the Mikaelsons out there then. Alaric told them they might not have to lure anyone out since he and Meredith had come across Niklaus and Elijah out there a few days before.
Early the next morning Damon, Stefan, and Alaric set up their stakeout at the falls. They found a couple deer blinds that hunters had set up and hid there and waited. The plan was to wait a few hours and if no one showed up to call and lure someone to them.
Kol and Sabrina woke up intertwined in each other's arms. Kol smirked at his witch that he held in his arm and kissed her forehead.
"Beautiful," he murmured.
Sabrina blushed and avoided his gaze. Kol laughed as he untangled himself from her grasp. Sabrina felt the loss immediately, as did Kol, but neither did anything about it.
"I don't feel quite like dealing with my...I mean...our family just yet," Kol informed her as he pulled on some jeans. "Why don't we go to the falls for some time alone?"
Sabrina was quick to agree, not that she would have argued with him to begin with. So the two found their way to the falls, not knowing they were walking into a trap. The two used the trip to the falls to test out some of Sabrina's new abilities. They both were aware that her being bonded and mated with Kol meant she now had some of the same abilities he had -specifically super strength and vampire speed.
With Sabrina's new speed they reached the falls in record time. Sabrina wasn't quite as fast as an Original but she was as fast as a very old vampire. Her strength was also that of a vampire that was centuries old. Kol was satisfied that with some training, Sabrina would be able to defend herself without the use of magic. He made a note to talk to his brothers about training the girls, they all minus Rebekah and Sage, who already knew how, needed to be able to defend themselves if need be.
"I had fun out here the other day with 'Lena," Kol told his witch.
"Did you?" Sabrina murmured as they walked along the shore. "What did you do?"
"I threw her in the water. Should I show you how I did it?" Kol replied with a mischievous smirk in his eyes.
"Um. No, that alright," Sabrina said edging away from him slowly.
"Where's your sense of adventure, love?" Kol stalked Sabrina step for step.
Sabrina turned tail and fled, knowing that Kol was coming after her. Kol caught her easily and dragged her towards the water.
"No, Kol!" She screeched. "Please don't!"
Kol ignored her and he took another step closer to the water, a smirk plastered on his face. Sabrina screamed and giggled as Kol prepared to toss her in. Suddenly Sabrina was pulled away from Kol and into the arms of Damon.
"I believe the lady said no," Alaric stated.
"I'm pretty sure I don't care," Kol angrily growled at them. "This doesn't concern you."
He turned to faces Alaric, and Alaric stabbed him with the white oak stake.
"Next time, take a hint," Alaric mumbled.
"Kol!" Sabrina shrieked, tears running down her face as a pain started blooming in her chest. She sagged in Damon's arms as the pain started to overtake her senses.
"What the heck?" Stefan asked in shock, staring at the sight before him.
Kol's body looked like he has been stabbed with a white oak ash dagger not the White Oak stake, he was desiccated but still alive. Sabrina was screaming and crying, as if she was the one in pain. Suddenly Damon felt a burning pain in his hands and arms and dropped Sabrina. The pain stopped, but he didn't move to grab her again.
"She burned me!" Damon growled.
"Leave her," Stefan told him. "We accomplished what we wanted to."
Alaric, Stefan, and Damon walked off leaving a dedicated Kol And a distraught Sabrina by the water. Sabrina fought through the pain and crawled to Kol, she tried to pull the stake out but she wasn't strong enough. With the last bit of energy she had she sent her first mental message out to the others.
"Kol...by the falls...stabbed...help." She managed to send out before she succumbed to the darkness.