Foolish by fireworks8725
Annie strolled along the semi-familiar streets of New Orleans with Rebekah. She felt out of place and out of time, wanting urgently to return to Beth or at the very least find Kol. She was plotting how she could find Kol along with trying to decide how bad the consequences would be if she chose saving her love as her first act back in Klaus' semi-good graces.
She wasn't paying attention to where she was walking, just letting Rebekah pull her along.
"I know you have no will to walk with me. Klaus surely just wanted Beth to himself. That's fine, I don't need a babysitter." Annie said to Rebekah.
Rebekah scoffed and wandered off leaving Annie to finally fend for herself. Annie smelled the sweet air, the scent of fresh apples nearby, she smiled to herself, finally free from her tomb. She never wanted to be caged again.
She got distracted by a familiar smell but could not quite place it, the apples and the scent mingling with each other; it was too hard to separate. Then she fell over.
She looked up into the eyes of a tall, pale boy. She had never seen his face before and yet he felt familiar to her. His expression also looked shocked and surprised to see her face. He offered a hand to help her up from the cement but she got up in her own, her eyes staring hard into his, as if trying to decode something.
"Watch where you're going, luv. These aren't the kindest streets to be day dreaming on." His accent was smooth and familiar, "I'm Kaleb." He declared without being prompted.
"I'm Annie, and you're right, I probably shouldn't be talking to strangers." Annie was no stranger to dangerous places or taking care of herself, but something about this boy made her want to get as far away as possible from him. It was something unnatural about him that she just couldn't place.
"In a rush dear?" Kaleb followed her, almost matching pace, gliding down the suddenly empty street.
"Yes, I'm looking for someone. They are expecting me, so I'd thank you to be on your way, Kaleb."
She realized that the scent of apples and frustration with this man, reminded her again of Kol and she felt an unbridled urge to find him immediately and save him from the dagger.
She immediately what to do, so she sprinted with her vampire speed to the one place she thought she could be closer to Kol, and to shake Kaleb; Kol's old New Orleans lab that he used when he was working with the witches.
She left Kaleb in her dust as he stood there defeated; he sighed and started jogging along at a human speed to chase after her.
Annie found the place within minutes and slipped in the way she had on many occasions. She expected it at the very least to be empty, however she was very mistaken. There was a petite brunette girl with her hands all over the equipment.
I tried to remain calm, but a quick scan of the room showed that it was in fact still Kol's belongings that lingered here after all this time. The girl was using Kol's space.
"I am looking for Kol Mikaelson. This place belongs to him; do you know where he is?" Perhaps this girl knew where he lay daggered….
The little girl placed her hands on her hips defensively.
"Who the Hell are you? How did you find this place?" She began aggressive very quickly. "Kol isn't here, now get OUT." Her eyes flashed.
Annie felt a rage growing inside her as she had spent years being denied the location of her beloved Kol for too many years from too many people.
She rushed forward with her fastest speed and tried to choke the girl. But before her hands could make contact around the girls neck, she was thrown against the opposite wall. A witch; of course. That explained why she had access to Kol's room, probably a descendant of the Clare witches. Regardless, Annie had more right to know Kol's whereabouts than this little witch.
"Where is Kol Mikaelson! I will slaughter all the Clare witches to find him, you cannot keep him from me!" Annie struggled against the magic pinning her.
"I'm the only one, sweetheart so it's just you and me! Come and get me!" The witch challenged.
Annie pulled free of the magic and leapt onto the witch, not wanting to kill a small girl, but the rage and the bloodlust was taking over. She didn't know if she would be strong enough to hold back. She just wanted to know where Kol was! Annie began to cry as she let her nails tear into the skin on the girls face, blood pouring down her cheeks.
"Stop!" They both heard suddenly as they were thrown away from each other, hitting walls on opposite sides and sliding down, defeated.
The man from the street, Kaleb stood between them, pain written across his face.
Annie's face was drenched from tears but she could clearly see Kaleb was torn between which woman to help.
"Kol! Help!" The witch finally yelled. She assumed this boy was here to help her! Then why did he follow Annie there?! But wait, what did she say? KOL? That's not possible.
"That is NOT Kol Mikaelson! Kol is long daggered in a box and he looks nothing like you!" Annie growled, feeling played.
Kaleb's eyes softened and he went to Annie's side. She flinched as he reached for her face.
His eyes glowed in a familiar way and he smelled of apples. No, this was not possible.
"My Kol is daggered, or else he would have come searching for me, buried these 3 years in a tomb of his brothers making! Do not try to fool me boy!"
The Clare witch stood up, confused and threatened, Kaleb put his hand up to keep her back. "Davina please, give us a moment."
The girl Davina softly touched his hand and swept out, leering dangerously at Annie the whole way. Annie would have loved nothing more in that moment to rip both of their throats out for trying to make a fool of her.
"I am Kol, my Annie. The one you have always known, it is me, can you not see that?"
"Kol would have waited for me. You are NOT KOL MIKAELSON. You are a STRANGER TO ME!" Annie did not give Kaleb a moment to respond before she fled at the speed of light, as far away from that room as possible. Having nowhere else to return to, she fled sobbing to Klaus' home compound.
Back at the compound, Beth found Annie sobbing in the middle of the marble court.
"Annie! What has happened to you?" Beth exclaimed.
"Nothing, Beth. It is nothing that you must worry yourself with. How was your day with Niklaus? Has he truly changed?'
"He has told me some very exciting news for you my dear! Kol lives! He is alive and well, walking around right now! You must find him and at last be reunited! There is but one downfall, during our entrapment Kol was killed by the Gilberts in Mystic Falls…"
"WHAT! I shall kill them!" Annie interrupted, her eyes blazing red as she stood up, ready to fight the whole world.
"Wait wait! He lives! He was brought back to life, however he inhabits another's body! "
"Excuse me?" Annie couldn't believe her ears. If Beth believed this to be true, then maybe Kaleb was telling the truth. If that was true, then he really had moved on. He did not search for her and he found another. And he held the face of an imposter.
Annie's heard felt as if it were desiccating all over again.
"Annie!" Kaleb's voice panted, out of breath behind her. "It is true, it's me, the one and only! Your Kol!"
"I thought that when I finally saw you again that I would run into your arms. But I don't know who you are anymore. You are lost to me, Kol Mikaelson. After all this time, you were never truly mine, and we knew this would never last. Your face is a stranger to me, and you belong to the Clare witch now." She spat her final words in disgust.
Kol's face was horrified, and he did not know what would happen next. He was a mortal witch now and incurring the wrath of a much stronger vampire was not on his list of things to do today.
"I had no idea that you were trapped my love, I am sorry. I should have been honest when I found you in the road, but I was angry, I thought that you had fled and left me, abandoned me these past 3 years! I never thought I would see you again!"
'Shut your useless mouth, I was foolish to love you and foolish to believe you would always be mine. But rest assured, I will not make that mistake again I will hold back my bloodlust no longer. It would have been better for us all if you had stayed dead. You made me weak but that Annie is dead now."
"What? NO, Annie DON'T!" Beth pleaded, but realized too late. Annie's eyes went dark, he emotions turned off, she fled from the compound with one thought in mind; destroy Davina Clare.