Kol opened his eyes and looked around him. For a moment he couldn't understand a thing. Then it all came to him. He slowly sat up, his eyes unseeing as the memories came back to him.

He was killed by the Gilberts for the stupid cure. Then he was in the Other side, unable to move from the Gilbert house, since a strong emotion was trapping him there. And that was Nik. His grief, his tears were what kept Kol rooted in the house while he witnessed his body burning with his brother. Then meeting Ayanna. Learning about his elder half-sister, who was hidden away by Nik in order save her from Mikael. Joy he felt for Nik when he found about the little angel. And then falling slowly for the Bennett chit, from afar. Up until, he was brought back by Erika.

"Kol?" he heard a feminine voice say from his right.

Kol forced himself out of daze and turned to look at his elder half-sister, "Sister" he said.

Erika nodded and handed him a bag full of blood bags, "You need it" she said simply.

Kol took the bag from her hand and started draining the blood bags. He drained twenty blood bags in ten minutes. Slowly his burnt flesh started to heal and within minutes, Kol stood in his own glory. He looked down at himself and saw that the clothes were tattered. "First, I need clothes. Then, my daylight ring"

Erika chuckled and gestured one of the werewolves. The werewolf, Oliver handed him the clothes.

"Alright" Kol said, "What about my daylight ring?"

Erika looked at him and said, "You won't need it, Brother"

Kol just frowned.

Erika sighed and asked, "How do you feel, Kol?"

"Like I am alive" Kol replied and added as an afterthought, "And..."

Erika raised her eyebrow, in an annoying Nik way. "And?" she prodded.

Kol frowned and said, "Whole. I feel whole"

Erika smiled and nodded, "there you go, brother. That is the reason"

Only then did he saw the little gang standing behind Erika. Kol's first instinct was to rip all their hearts out, well all except for the little witch. But he had to restrain himself, for Ayanna would kill him if he did that. So he just growled and stood up.

Someone cleared their throat. They looked at the little gang and Caroline spoke up, "Since the Original was brought back, could we all go back?"

Erika just looked straight at her and said, "There's still some work that has to be done". She then looked to Bonnie and said, "Bonnie, since you are an Anchor, you could feel every supernatural death, right?"

The tired looking ex-witch just nodded.

"Well" Erika started, "We can change that. Step forward Bonnie"

The Bennett witch hesitated, "Why?" she asked in her tired voice.

"Your ancestors want you to live without the pain, Bonnie. They gave me a spell, to make you an Immortal Anchor/Witch and another spell to take away the pain" Erika said.

The girl hesitated and looked over at her blonde friend. She then looked at Erika and nodded, "Okay"

The ritual was completed in the next few minutes and Bonnie fainted. Erika asked Jackson to take Bonnie back to the camp. Once they left the clearing, Erika turned to Katerina.

The girl widened her eyes as if comprehending what was to come.

Erika just stepped forward and handed her a vial, which contained red thick liquid and said, "That's the cure. Once you take it, you will stop aging but you will remain human. You will become an Immortal human"

Katerina smiled and nodded.

Then they all left the clearing to the tents.

Erika knew that Kol was undergoing mental trouble. Coming back from dead, only to see four people involved in your death around you, would do that to you. And to add that he was also surrounded by the very creature he hated all his existence was not helping either. So she decided that she must keep her brother near her.

"Kol" Erika said as they started as they started walking toward the camp. Since they were walking a convenient distance from the others, she tried to get her brother to talk, "I am sorry I couldn't bring you back sooner"

Kol looked at her smiled, "It's alright, sister. I know you wanted and I know that our brothers wanted to as well. I am just glad to be back. And also thank you for bringing back my other half"

Erika smiled at him and nodded.

"What do we do now, sister? We can't just barge in and demand our dear sister and that ungrateful peasant to hand over Elijah and Niklaus" Kol said, his voice was the one of the worried.

"We can't" Erika said, "That was why we need the help of the little gang and some strategy. Not only to get our brother's back but also to put an end to the war here."

Kol nodded and said, "You're right sister"

"We'll discuss this tomorrow." Erika said.

"What is it like?" Kol asked, "Growing up with your father?"

Erika smiled at the distant memory, "It was nice. I always knew I had a twin. I always knew I had other siblings. But I also knew I could never see them. Father was" Erika searched for the right word, "very wonderful person. Always looking out for them. You know we had your old clothes. Father made sure every active wolf sniffed all your scents so that they never hurt you all"

Kol looked at her surprised.

"Yes, he did" Erika said with a smile, "He would always say, he saw you all as his own and wanted to give you the love that Mikael never gave." Erika sighed, "The night that Henrik died was the most regrettable day of our pack. That night after the active wolves changed, some teenagers went out. A boy, his name was Ansel, he killed someone accidently and started to change. It was he who attacked Henrik. He was very aggressive that when others tried to stop him, he attacked them as well. The next day, in a fit of rage, Father killed him. He was very furious, that in all my years I never saw, he said that anyone who hurt his children would pay with their life and drove his sword straight through his heart"

Kol sighed, "I wonder what would have happened to Niklaus if he lived with your father"

Erika smiled and said, "Maybe he would have been less of a pain in the ass than he is now. Whenever I asked him to let me meet you all, he would say, he would let us meet only when he was sure that they won't hurt me. He would also have been more trusting than he is now"

Kol chuckled, "Yes"

"And less temper tantrums" Erika chuckled.

Kol raised his eyebrows at her.

Erika rolled her eyes and said, "Let's just say Rebekah was not the only one who had her suitors killed"

Kol chuckled. "So what do we do?"

Erika looked at Kol, exasperated. "You need your rest, Kol. We shall discuss it tomorrow with the others."

Kol sighed and nodded. From what he observed from the Other side and from what Ayanna said, Erika could be as stubborn as Nik when she wanted to be.

The rest of the walk to the camp was relatively silent. Once they reached the tents, Erika bit goodnight to her brother and entered the tent which now housed Caroline, Bonnie and Katerina. The girls were fast asleep and she made sure that she was silent as she walked to her makeshift bed. Lying down she prayed that tomorrow would be as normal a day as they want.