Isabel arrived at her house and ran inside, she was breathless after running from the Mikaelson house, afraid of one of them would catch her. She had no idea that she could ever be terrified of someone, she thought she was the scariest you could get, but that was before she knew they could kill her, if they couldn't that would be different. She slammed the door behind her and leaned against it for a few moments, catching her breath.
"Well, well, well." She heard a voice say from her kitchen and watching in disgust at the person who came out.
"What do you want Katherine?" Isabel growled, Katherine's sickly happy grin stayed in place as she took slow steps towards Isabel.
"Oh just some small talk, a little girly time and maybe ask you a few questions." She gestured to the sofa and Isabel scowled slightly as she walked over to it and sat.
"I suppose this has something to do with the damn cure too." Isabel guessed and Katherine clapped her hands with false enthusiasm.
"My, my, aren't you smart." She teased, Isabel gave a sarcastic smile. "Where is it gone?" She asked suddenly, her face getting very serious. Isabel raised an eyebrow in confusion, isn't Katherine the one who took it from the safe and enchanted it.
"Hold on! You're the one that took it from us!? Not that I care about that, I don't really care where the cure ends up." Isabel admitted, Katherine gripped her arm hard, it didn't hurt her though, Isabel just elbowed Katherine in the stomach causing the Doppelganger to jolt forward. "Never do anything like that again." Warned Isabel with a sweet smile.
"How would you feel if that cure ended up with Silas?" Katherine asked with a frown, Silas, Silas... Where had Isabel heard that before.
"Kol, seriously, Silas is not coming back anytime soon, relax, brother." Rebekah said in attempts to calm, her panicking brother who sounded as though he was pacing.
"You don't know that! You don't know where that cure could end up, if he comes back to life, we're all done with! Do you understand that, Bekah!?" Kol shouted at her, Isabel couldn't believe Kol, of all people, was worried about Silas, an imaginary monster, coming back to life.
"Just as long as none of our enemies find it we'll be okay, don't worry brother, we'll find it." Rebekah promised.
"Silas." Isabel whispered in realization, she looked at Katherine who was nodding slowly. "He's real isn't he?" Katherine nodded once again.
"Which is why you have to tell me everything you know about the cure." Katherine told her, Isabel groaned and shook her head.
"I have no idea what the big deal about the cure even is, and I thought you had it?" Isabel questioned once again, Katherine shook her head.
"Someone took it, I stole it from you, I managed to get a witch to put a spell on the safe so that nobody would steal your... secret weapon." Katherine smirked at the end, obviously meaning the stake.
"Wow, so generous."
"I know right!" Katherine giggled but then coughed and but a straight face back on again. "Now, do you have any idea who might have the cure?"
"I actuall-" Isabel was caught off by the sound of her door opening, she grabbed Katherine's arm and quickly ran with her to the wall where the people couldn't see them. She heard a voice, no wait! Two voices? Cara and... Elijah?
"I'm so sorry again for what happened, I just wanted to protect you, I promise." She heard Elijah say, Isabel sneaked a peek around the corner, careful not to be caught, she almost gasped at the sight. Cara was standing outside the front door, both her hands intertwined with Elijah's and her back was to Isabel, she could see Elijah looking down with guilt written all over his face.
"I know you are, it's going to take me some time to get over this, but when I do I promise I'll talk to you about this, about... us." Cara hesitated, Isabel looked at Katherine who's mouth was dropped so low she thought it would literally hit the floor, she looked back at the couple at the door.
"I understand, and I really meant every word I said to you." Elijah promised, Isabel was curious as to what on earth was going on with the two, last time she checked they hated each other.
"Look," Cara began, she took away one of her hands and pressed it to his cheek, he was a lot taller than her so she had to go up on her toes to look him in the eyes properly. "I feel the same way, I always have, I just never wanted to admit it to anyone, not even myself. We'll make this work, but we have to promise not to tell anyone for a while, Isabel would go crazy," No shit, Isabel thought. "and your brothers and sister would hate us both." Cara explained, Elijah nodded with a faint smile.
"At this rate I'm just glad I'll get the chance to kiss you whenever I please." He joked, Isabel heard Cara chuckle, she sounded so happy, something she hasn't sounded like in years. Cara leaned forward and connected their lips, Isabel gaped at the sight, what was her sister thinking? When Cara pulled away she took a while to open her eyes, and Elijah pressed their foreheads together.
"You should go in before Isabel comes home, she'll kill you." Elijah suggested, Cara nodded, but just as Elijah was about to leave Katherine came out of hiding.
"What the hell are you doing, Reilly?" She asked with a slight growl, Cara turned around in shock with a hand on her heart.
"What are you doing here!?"
"No, what are you doing kissing Elijah, the man I love." Katherine stepped forward a bit, Isabel stayed hiding, waiting for the right moment to come out. "First Damon now Elijah, why do you always go for the men who love me?" Katherine asked icily, Isabel chose then to come out.
"You liked Slutty Salvatore!?" Isabel exclaimed, Katherine looked at Isabel with a raised eyebrow.
"Slutty Salvatore?" She questioned and Isabel gave her a weird look, shrugging her shoulders like it was nothing.
"Just a nickname I came up with for him a while back," She explained but then shook her head, "But what!? Why Damon? I thought you hated them Salvatore's, in fact, I thought you hated Katherine too, I thought you hated Elijah but apparently I was wrong on that too. You more than like him, that much is obvious." Isabel half teased and was half serious, she saw a smirk grow on Katherine's face, directed at Cara.
"Aw, Car, you didn't tell her did you?" Katherine asked as she took slow steps towards Cara who was edging close to Elijah.
"Katherine, don't or I swear I-"
"You'll what, Cara? What will you do?" Katherine smirked once more, she was asking for a fight, that's all she wants.
"Or I'll tell Klaus where to find you, he's so engrossed in finding the cure right now, I'm sure he's forgotten all about you, I think a friendly reminder is in hand." Elijah threatened, Katherine just scoffed.
"Yeah, you can't even come in here, Elijah, Isabel's not stupid enough to trust you and your girlfriend here isn't either." Katherine teased, Cara glared.
"Hey! I trust Elijah with my life!" She admitted, Isabel actually did gasp this time, drawing everyone's attention.
"You traitor." Isabel mumbled and stormed out the front door, before she walked out the gate she turned to them, "If a fight breaks out, clean up after yourselves." And with that she disappeared down the now dark streets into the night. Cara and Elijah returned their attention back to Katherine who just stood there looking at her nails.
"You know Cara, if I were you I'd let me go, do you know how easy it is for me to get that stake from the safe and give it to someone like say... Rebekah or Kol?" Katherine threatened, Cara's eyes widened, as did Katherine's. "Oops! Was I not supposed to say that around your boyfriend, well, it's not like he wants to kill you or anything, so you should be okay." Katherine chuckled and shoved Cara with her shoulder so she could walk out the front door.
"What happened to the old Katherine?" Cara asked before Katherine left completely, the brunette stopped and looked at her.
"She disappeared when he best friend abandoned her." Was the last thing Katherine said before she ran away, Cara stood in awe and looked at Elijah.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Cara." Elijah told her, the only going through Cara's head was that she thought Elijah was sad about her not inviting him in. She was still afraid to trust him, she was afraid to trust anyone at this stage, but she didn't want him to hate her for it.
"Would you, err, would you like to come in for a while, I don't want to be alone?" Cara asked, Elijah smiled widely, the look of happiness on his face made Cara smile too, as corny as that sounds.
"I would love to." He accepted the offer and walked into the house, closing the door on his way in.
Isabel sat on a wall a few block up from her house, it was a big circular green surrounded by a large red bricked wall. The green was often used as a football pitch for teenagers but Isabel rarely ever came when they were here. She sighed as she jumped down from the wall and spotted a foot ball on the edge of the green, she sauntered over to it and began to kick it for a while. A few years ago she had taken an interest in learning most sports and English football happened to be her favourite. She kicked the ball around the green and was about to kick it to the wall, pretending it was a net when someone blocked the wall and caught the ball, kicking it to the other side of the green. Isabel looked to see who her opponent was, it was of course, Kol, some how she was was kind of happy he was here, she needed someone around her that wasn't anyone she thought she could trust.
"Why the long face, love?" Kol asked as he walked towards her as she went to retrieve the ball.
"Everything's fucked up, like this cure, Silas, Katherine, the Salvatores, everything! I just want to pack up and move away again, let Cara deal with this shit." Isabel admitted, and kicked the ball to Kol as soon as she got it.
"So why don't you?" Kol asked, she never expected anyone to ask her that before.
"No matter where I go my demons always follow me." She was surprised at how much she was confiding in him. "Exactly why I see you everywhere, my demons always follow me." She joked and he laughed, actually laughed, not sarcastically or anything. After kicking the ball a few more times they stopped and Isabel lay down on the grass, Kol joined her and lay beside her, she turned on her side.
"Have you every just wanted to up and leave though, just forget Mystic Falls?" Isabel asked curiously, she heard Kol sigh.
"Many times, but i can't leave my family, as much as we may hate each other so much sometimes we're family, always and forever. We have each others' backs, even if we try to stab them once and a while." Kol told her, she chuckled slightly at the last point, then she thought to her own family.
"Cara's the only bit of family I have left, I know as hard as I try, I'll never find out who killed my parents, it was over 500 years ago." Isabel turned to her side to look at Kol. She had never really noticed until now how attractive he really was, sure she noticed that he was kind of good looking but the way she was looking at him now was different. It was as if he had forgotten the amount of times they've fought, tried to kill each other and how much they hated each other.
"Like what you see, Izzy?" He asked cockily while looking at her with a raise eyebrow, she chuckled and punched his shoulder.
"You wish, Mikaelson!" This time is was his time to laugh, he rolled over on his side, also taking in the beautiful sight in front of him. She looked so fragile yet, he knew very well she didn't break easily. A strand of brown hair fell into her face and he pulled it back behind her ear, she smiled at him and he forgot all about why he hated her.
"You know in movies, this is around where the boy kisses the girl but before he can some sprinklers or something magically come on." Isabel informed him, he considered this thought, and slowly moved forward then stopped.
"Have any of the sprinklers come on yet?" He whispered, she giggled and shook her head.
"No, not yet." She whispered back to him, he smiled widely once more and leaned in closer to connect their lips. the kiss was much like all of their other kisses, passionate, electrifying and just plain confusing. Suddenly they hear a clash of thunder come from the sky followed by a flash of lightening and rain, they both pulled apart.
"Well, this is close enough i guess." Isabel commented earning another chuckle out of Kol, he wrapped his arm around her and held her close. Isabel wondered how long this would last, how long it would be until one of them tries to potentially harm the other.
"Do you hate me?" Kol asked, Isabel felt taken aback by this question.
"I don't know how I feel about you Kol, we tried to kill each other not even three hours ago and now we're cuddling on a green in the rain. I don't hate you but at the same time, I'll do whatever it takes to protect myself and my sister." Isabel answered honestly, Kol respected her honesty and he could admit he felt the same. Neither of them knew what was going on, they had no clue how they felt about each other, but they cherished these moments when they weren't at each others' throats. Who knows what could happen in the future, they could like each other, or they could turn on each other just as easily. Who knows?