I thought I would update already because the chapter is done and there is no reason to make anyone wait.
I forgot in the last chapter but I wanted to say a real big thank you to for being my first ever reviewer on this story! And thankyou to , ShiloCoulter, kittykatt147, Newbie-Vampire and shockwave7 for reviewing chapter 2 and anyone else who favourite or followed!
So without giving anything too much away, if the song doesn't already enough, some of you may hate me for a little while this chapter…
All the pain you try to hide
Shows through your mascara lines
As they stream down from your eyes
And let them go, let them fly
Holding back won't turn back time
Believe me, I've tried
And I remember your eyes were so bright
When I first met you, how in love were we that night?
And now I'm kissing your tears goodnight
And I can't take it, you're even perfect when you cry
Beautiful goodbye (bye-bye, bye-bye)
It's dripping from your eyes (bye-bye, bye-bye)
-Maroon 5
Chapter 3 - 'I know I have no right to ask you this but stay with me?'
"Really Damon? Classy" Esme commented seeing Damon leading Rebekah to the door in the dress she wore last night.
"Hey Bekah, I haven't had a chance to speak to you properly since I came back, we need to meet up and catch up on the past 100 years" Esme said hugging Rebekah before she left. The original smiled and nodded, Damon opened the door to reveal Elena. Esme laughed and Rebekah had a smug look on her face.
"Are you off vervain?" Elena asked him once Rebekah had left.
"What do you think Rebekah had to compel me?" Damon scoffed.
"What's wrong with you? She tried to kill me less than 48 hours ago!" Esme shook her head, Elena was clearly jealous of Rebekah and Damon.
"Can we just move past that Elena?" Damon said and Esme tried her best not to laugh.
"So is that how it's going to be now? I hurt your feelings and this is how you lash out at me?" Elena's voice was clearly upset.
"Well maybe for once, something I did had nothing to do with you."
"You should know that Ester is planning on killing her entire family, she's linked them altogether with a spell, whatever happens to one, happens to all of them" Elena said.
"What!" Esme spluttered.
"That's great, Klaus will finally be dead we win" Damon said observing Esme.
"Yeah great" Esme mumbled.
"You said it yourself Esme you wanted revenge on the originals, this, this is your revenge. Don't back out now" Damon hissed.
"Yeah I wanted revenge Damon but that doesn't mean I wanted to kill them, especially Rebekah, she is my best friend and has done nothing wrong. Elena surely you can't let Ester go through with this, you may not like the originals but Elijah has helped you through everything" Esme protested weekly.
"Elijah doesn't deserve this" Elena agreed.
"I'm supposed to care about Elijah?" Damon said annoyed.
"Shouldn't you at least care about Rebekah?" Elena shot back.
"Two seconds ago you were pissed that she'd attacked you, it's a win win" Esme scoffed at Damon's words and went to walk out the room, Damon spurred in front of her threateningly.
"Don't do anything to screw this up Esme."
"He is right, Klaus has to die, they all do" Stefan appeared at the door.
Esme left quickly, she had to do something, didn't she? If not for Kol but for Rebekah and Elijah, they were her friends.
-x-
"He was gloating about her, like he was proud of sleeping with her" Elena complained, whilst Bonnie burned the sage. "Is it working?"
"It's not working, I can hear everything you say about Damon the vampire gigolo" Caroline entered the room from outside.
"I don't know, it's a tricky spell" Bonnie said.
"When Esther did it, she kept the sage burning. There was a lot more smoke" Elena told her and Esme rolled her eye at the clearly inexperienced witch.
"Alright" Bonnie said relighting the sage. "Try it again" Caroline huffed and left the room. "Speaking of Esther, you should know that she came to see me and Abby this morning."
"And all this time you let me vent about Damon?" Elena said in disbelief.
"I don't want you to worry."
"Okay, well, what did she want?
"She wanted to introduce herself. Abby and I helped bring her back. She's channeling our entire ancestral bloodline for power. I think she thought she was being polite."
"Okay, well, is there a way to stop her from channeling you?"
"Even if there was, why would I want that?"
"Because she is drawing power from you, hence you are weaker, she isn't channeling you. She is the original witch and has been locked up in a coffin for over a thousand years so he mojo isn't it's best, you are like a charger. She is going to kill good people Bonnie, Elijah has never done anything to you" Esme hissed at the witch.
"There's no time to change your mind, Esme. He'll be dead by the end of the night" Bonnie told her.
-x-
Esme walked through the Grill spotting both Kol and Klaus, should she tell them?
"Ah here come's Esme; she looks like a tasty little thing today doesn't she?" Klaus said to Kol.
"Say another word and I'll rip out your liver" Kol hissed.
"Esme" Klaus called her as Esme tried to walk past them.
"What Klaus?" Esme turned to them annoyed, she was trying to ignore them so she didn't spray out everything she knew.
"Join us for a drink?" Klaus asked.
"I think I'd rather die of thirst but thanks" Esme said cheerily and walked away from the two, Kol ran after her at inhuman speed and was in front of her outside in seconds.
"Esme please talk to me" he said softly tucking a stand of hair behind her ear.
"Why should I?" she asked him bitterly.
"I don't get it, Klaus daggered me, I didn't leave you intentionally. Yet you seem to be all chummy with him at the ball yesterday when you told me you were leaving" Kol said angrily.
"What are you talking about, god just stop lying Kol. Klaus didn't dagger you, I bet you two had a ball roaming round together."
"Yes Esme I had a ball locked inside a coffin for over a century" Kol commented sarcastically.
"So Klaus really did dagger you?" Esme asked him.
"Yes, I would never of left you intentionally Esme, especially a month before our wedding" Kol assured her, Esme looked down at the ring that was still on her finger, "You still wear it, you must still care about me, you wouldn't wear it if you didn't."
"I don't care about anyone period, this doesn't change anything" Esme said.
"Yes it does."
"Your mother is planning on killing you all tonight. Yesterday at the ball she had you all drink champagne that joined you all together so whatever happens to one will happen to the other. Finn is planning on playing sacrifice tonight and you'll all be gone…I'm sorry" Esme left him.
-x-
Esme entered the Salvatore boarding house and went straight to her room, locking the door as she went. She didn't know what to think anymore. She had spent all this time thinking Kol had left her, thinking that he had abandoned her for Klaus. Klaus had even told her he had. But he didn't, he was daggered by the very man who told her he had left her.
She had spent the rest of her existence hating him with everything in her. What was she to do now? She couldn't welcome him back with open arms. Too much had changed, she had changed too much.
She looked at the ring on her finger disgusted. Sliding it off her finger she threw it at the wall in anger. She slid down the door to her knees, hugging them to her chest.
It had finally happened; her walls were crumbling around her, crashing to the floor beneath her. all the emotions flooded inside her: the guilt, the loneliness, the anger, the disgust, the heartache, the sadness, the longing. It was all too much but she couldn't do anything to stop them. She didn't have the fight and strength left in her to build them back up, so she just let them fall. Let the tears stream down her face freely.
"You know someone should really get a human to live here" Esme looked up to see Klaus in her room.
"Klaus please just leave" Esme told him, he sat down next to her wrapping an arm around her.
"What's wrong?"
"Why did you lie to me? You told me he left me, you told me that he didn't want me anymore" Klaus was silent frozen by her words.
"You had no right, I spent all this time hating him, when it should have been you!"
"I was jealous, not only of my brother but of you. He had finally found someone, an amazing girl. You were going to get married and live happily ever after together. He was going to leave me for you. And then you paid no attention to me, caught up in my little brother. I suppose you had no reason to, I was obsessed with breaking a curse and had made no sign to you that I liked you in anyway. So when Kol came to help me visit Katarina, it was nice to have my brother back. But after a week we were going nowhere so Kol asked me if he could leave to get back to you. I was angry after coming up at a dead end so I freaked out on him. I told him he had to choose me or you. He choose you, so I daggered him" Klaus opened up.
"I realize now that it was wrong, I knew at the time it was wrong but I can't go back and change my stubborn ways now. But Esme I really do like you, everyone is leaving tonight, Elijah and Finn have already left and no doubt Kol will come and ask you to leave with him. I wouldn't be surprised if you do. I know I have no right to ask you this but stay with me, even just for a little while and then you can go back to Kol if you really want to. Just get to know me …please" Klaus kissed the top of her head and left.
-x-
Just as Klaus said Kol showed up at Esme's bedroom later on that night. She was in bed sleeping; he picked up the ring off the floor and placed it on her vanity desk. Kol looked at her peaceful sleeping, he stroked the side of her face, waking her up. She sat up and looked at him.
"You're leaving?" Esme asked him and he nodded.
"Come with me, we can start over again, the two of us. Run away with me" Esme looked up at him; everything seemed so similar to back when she was a human, him asking her to run away with him. She jumped at the chance back then.
"I don't know Kol, I just..."
"Please Esme; we can get married just like we planned all them years ago" Kol cut her off. "I know things will be different now but we have to try."
"No" Esme cut off his rambling this time. "No Kol, I don't want to run away this time, I'm not going with you."
Esme stood up and walked over to her desk seeing he had picked up her ring. She took it in her hand and walked over to him taking his hand in hers; she placed the ring in the middle of his palm and closed it.
"Is this it? It's finally over" Kol asked her tears forming in his eyes. Esme nodded not able to look at him.
"I think it is for the best, move on Kol, find another me – there are so many people out there who can love you better than I ever did and can. Give her this beautiful ring and be happy together" Esme told him, crying herself.
"I could never find anyone like you" Kol told her.
"Then live your life Kol, catch up on the past century or so, it's a pretty cool world out there" Esme told him.
"I love you" Kol said one last time and left, leaving the ring lying on her desk once more.
Esme couldn't help wonder had she just made the greatest mistake?
Please review, I know the majority of people want Esme to end up with Kol, and maybe she will maybe she won't. Once again without giving up too much (this is definitely not the last time we will see Kol ;))
Preview of Chapter 4 - 'We were a great love story, one of the best but every book has to end'
It was beautiful, like a place in a fairy-tale. A huge wild meadow stretched across the land being lit by the moonlight. The land ended, met by the surface of a lake that reflected the half-moon in its waters.