Chapter 10 : Where Home is
Mikaelson's Mansion, Mystic Falls
-''Uncle Kol ?'' Hope called from the door. After the mess she had caused in New Orleans, Kol and Davina escorted Klaus' daughter to Mystic Falls. They had intended to stay until she found her balance again.
-''In here darling.'' He shouts from the living room. Finally, his niece finds him slouched on the couch, shoes on the table and a tabloid between his hands. 'Uncle Elijah would have been mad' Hope thought sadly.
-"Hey, this is Josie and Lizzy Saltzman Forbes..." She introduces the twins to her uncle. Indeed, for Hope's sake Caroline agreed to let her daughters conduct this little investigation after there homework. She knew the wolf girl needed to do something, anything to keep her mind off things but she wasn't stupid enough to trust Kol. Therefore she only gave to the girls pictures of a few pages –just enough to know what it was about- and remained nearby the house.
-"Forbes...Wait. You are the daughters of Nick's obsession aren't you?" Kol asks the young witches. The girls looked at each other's in surprise.
Minutes later
-"Can I record this for my mom?" Josie demands shyly;
-"I'm sure Caroline will love to have my sexy voice on tape." Kol answers, wiggling his eyebrows;
-"Don't mind him." Hope says tiredly, "Uncle Kol they are her daughters for Christ's sake." She adds for good measure;
-"You no fun sometimes. So, back to your extra-curricular activity. It is Japanese by the way, not Chinese!" he replies rolling his eyes. Focusing on the pictures on Lizzy's smart phone, he finally translates: "I don't know where I am supposed to start, where people who write a journal start. Perhaps why I feel the need to do such thing..." Kol stops and comments "Oh joy! Another one who feels the need to pour his soul out onto paper''. His niece sight, crossing her arms:
-"Kol, continue";
-"If you insist darling." He answers then goes on: "When war is over, when you have no one left to fight, your only option is to run. You call it travelling but deep down you know it is the same. You run to keep the ghosts at bay, the loss, the guilt, the anger all those things that you can afford to think of in a battle. But at some point I was tired of travelling, it didn't work for me anymore. I wanted something else, anything else truly, a normal life...[Kol rolled his eyes] When I told my comrade in arms my decision to leave them, Miria looked like I had rip her heart out and Helen was beyond angry. They did not understand, they believed they could still live like soldiers. Saying goodbye was the hardest thing I had to do in my life. Now that I have left them, I don't know where to go, what to do. 'born human, live like one, die like one 'My kind recites this like a mantra in time of despair, [Kol arched a eyebrow, intrigued] but truth is, we are not human, not since a long time and I don't know what a normal life is anymore." Lizzy took back her smart phone and selected the first picture that her mother took: it was the cover sheet of the manuscript where only four symbols had been drawn.
-"And what about that?" Lizzy asks pointing at the photo;
-"It's a first name darling but that [he put his finger under a character which looked like a trident] is not Japanese, some kind of symbol I suppose." Kol explains, now very much interested and Lizzy blush;
-"What is the first name?" Hope demands;
-"Claire." His uncle answers;
-"It doesn't sound very Japanese, does it?" Josie says, hesitantly.
Mystic Falls' street, the Other Side
Nicklaus was wandering in the street of Mystic Falls. He could not stand Elijah's moping about the little wolf anymore or taunting him about Cami to make him understood. His brother always thought that she was the one for him, that apart from his daughter, Cami had changed him like no one had before. 'The fool!' he thought, irritable. The change in him could not have been made if he had not hope that he could be loved and understood by someone like her in the first place. By Caroline. She was the first woman all side of him desired with the same fire. He had loved Cami at some point but it was different, his wolf did not respond to her like he responds to Caroline for starters. Closing his eyes, he could still see her face and remember her particular smell. He soothed him as much as it hurt. When, this year, Caroline had came to him to make her opinion know about his recent behaviour, he had been thrilled but also upset to see her surrounded by so much sadness, her light flickering. He had vowed at the time to remedy that after he had dealt with the Hollow but he seemed that he had been running out of time. 'Perhaps it was for the better, I have the habit of bringing death and darkness to the one I love after all' he reflected. His gloomy thoughts were interrupted by a singing voice and his supernatural earring found soon enough the source of it. Fulminating, he vamped to Caroline's place where the two demons had settled.
-"Get out of this house now!" he screams outraged after he went through the door;
-"And why that? Because you say so? I will not, this is my house." Claire responds without faltering.
Ending song: Dorothy – Medecine man
AN: I am very stressed about this piece (the Klaus' piece), what do you think guys? Not enough? Too whiny ?
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