So last chapter *sob*, [sorry it has took so long for me to get it up but its here!] thank you for all the support throughout this story, there will be no sequel to this – the story has come to an end. Thank you to Malone..BU, ShiloCoulter and kittykatt147 for reviewing! I really hope you like the ending – not giving to much away but (I think a lot of people will be happy with who she ends up with;))…
Do you remember the nights
We'd stay up just laughing
Smiling for hours
At anything
Remember the nights
We drove around crazy in love
When the lights go out
We'll be safe and sound
We'll take control of the world
Like it's all we have to hold on to
And we'll be a dream
-We The Kings ft Demi Lovato
Chapter 6 – 'It was right; this was what things were meant to feel like.'
"Alaric?" Elena asked outside the cell door with Esme.
"Yep. Still me" Alaric replied and the two girls walked in, unlocking the cellar door. "You know, you shouldn't be in here. It defeats the point of the whole being locked in a cellar thing.
"That's what I'm here for" Esme said cheerily. "Just in case you turn all psycho again" Elena hit her arm and Esme stuck her lounge out at her.
"Tact" Elena hissed. "God you are literally like the girl version of Damon" she huffed.
"I don't think I'm that bad" Esme mumbled.
"You still need the basics. Toothbrush, clothes, some boring books to help you sleep" Elena told Alaric ignoring Esme now, Alaric picked up the book.
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?" Esme snorted laughing and Elena turned to her.
"What? No, I grabbed…. Damon. Thinks he's hilarious."
"At least one of us still has a sense of humor" Alaric commented.
"Are you sure that you…? I mean you don't have to be kept in here."
"Ah, no, this is… this is the right place for me to be. At least until you guys can convince my highly uncooperative alter ego to fess up to where I or he hid the white oak stake."
"We looked everywhere. You…. the other you, hid it well" Elena said.
"You certainly did" Esme mumbled, fed up of looking for the stake already.
"What's Klaus gonna do if you can't find it?" he asked.
"It's the only thing that will kill him, so wage war, murder people, you know Klaus stuff" Esme told him.
"Listen, Stefan is gonna watch over you for a little while. Now that Klaus knows where Jeremy is, it's not safe so, Damon, Esme and I are gonna go to Denver to pick him up."
"Why do you say that like you're waiting for me to disapprove?" Alaric asked her.
"I don't know. Me and Damon. Traveling across the country."
"I guess I'm more curious to hear what Stefan has to say about it. And Esme is with you, why are you going?" Alaric asked her humor in his voice, knowing Damon will hate it.
"Boredom" she told him.
"Actually, it was Stefan's idea. He thinks that I have some unresolved feelings for Damon. And Esme wanted to tag along."
"Do you?"
"I guess that's why I'm going on this trip. So I can figure it out."
"Fun times" Esme said sarcastically.
-x-
"You hear from Klaus?" Damon asked Stefan.
"Not yet. I'm sure I will soon though. He's expecting me to deliver two stakes, I only have one."
"Well, that's gonna be disappointing for him."
"I'll get it out of Alaric. I just need some time" Stefan said confidently.
"I like that confidence, Stefan. I don't share it, but I like it."
"You don't think I can do what it takes?" Stefan asked.
"Well, you're good Stefan again. You're in control. Sorry, you might get the girl but you lose the edge. Speaking of…" Damon said as Elena and Esme walked into the room.
"Have you ever flown first class?" he asked Elena.
"Of course I have" Esme told him, sitting down and putting her feet up on his table.
"I wasn't asking you" Damon said annoyed. "Why are you even coming? Go annoy someone else."
"Who did you have to compel for that?" Elena asked him.
"Pft, please. I use miles" he said picking up the luggage.
"Stefan…" Elena turned to him.
"Be safe" Stefan told her.
-x-
"There he is" Elena said spotting Jeremy in one of the batting cages.
"Next time we compel him, remind me to make him better at baseball" Damon said, Esme nodded in agreement. Elena walked over to the cage.
"Hey Jer!" Elena called happily.
"Elena? What's wrong?" Jeremy automatically assumed seeing his sister, Damon started explaining everything.
"Katherine sired us, Rose sired Katherine, all we need to do is find out who sired Rose."
"So, you traveled across the country to get me to talk to a dead vampire?" he asked.
"Yes, so can you help us or what?" Esme asked.
"I can't. I could talk to Anna and Vicki because I knew them. I've never even met Rose" Jeremy informed.
"Well this was a waste" Esme grumbled.
"What good is you dying and coming back to life if you can't talk to a ghost when I need you to?" Damon asked.
"Rose spent a long time running from Klaus as well. She and Damon were close, so maybe we can use him as a connection" Elena said the only one offering a solution.
"Fine, fine, but can we do this later? My friend just got here and yes, Damon, I actually have some. I'll call you when I'm done" Jeremy said walking away, the three turn around to see Kol.
"Jer.." Elena began.
"Hey man" Jeremy said to Kol.
"Damon, it's Kol!" Elena rushed out. Kol hits Damon with a wooden baseball bat. The bat broke in half and Damon fall to the ground.
"What are you doing?!" Jeremy shouted.
"Jeremy, get back! He's an Original" Elena said worriedly.
"What?" Jeremy asked confused.
"No hard feelings, mate. But we're not buds" Kol told him grabbing an aluminum bat. "You know, I'll never get use to aluminum. But hey, at least it won't break."
Kol is about to hit Damon with the bat but Esme picked up the half broken bat, stabbing him in the heart with it. Kol falls to the ground.
"Did you kill him?" Jeremy asked shocked.
"Of course I didn't. But now we have a head start"
Damon grabbed Elena, who is shocked, and they leave the batting cages.
-x-
Elena, Esme Jeremy, and Damon got their luggage out of the car and started walking to their motel room.
"For the record, she's the one who wanted to stay in a motel, not me" Damon talked about Elena.
"So, where are we?" Jeremy asked.
"Corner of somewhere and nowhere where Kol can't find us" Esme told him.
"I can't believe Kol was a vampire" Jeremy said.
"He can be quite charming" Esme agreed.
"Well, didn't you find it weird that you made a friend so fast? Have you met you?" Damon said to him whilst Elena glared at Damon.
"Not helping" Elena told the two as they enter the motel room. "Well, this should work, right Jer?"
"Yeah, doesn't really matter" Jeremy said.
"Alright Whoopi, what do you need? Candles? Incense? Pottery wheel?" Damon asked sarcastically, drawing the curtains.
"That's not how it works."
"I know, I know. They push from the other side and you pull from this one."
"Alright, you uh- you got a picture of her?" Jeremy asked Damon.
"Picture? What, a trip to Disneyland? Come on Rose, you're not gonna actually make us wait, are you? I know you're obsessed with me" Damon spoke into the room, Elena scoffed and Esme watched Jeremy curiously. Never hearing of someone who could talk to the dead.
"Alright, uh- tell me something about her" Jeremy asked.
"Um, well she does this little thing with her tongue" Damon began.
"Something that matters, Damon" Elena scolded.
"She spent her last day in paradise. Soaking in the sun and reminiscing about what it means to be human. And when death came, she didn't fear it" Damon confessed.
"I was with her on her last day and she definitely wasn't in paradise" Elena said confused.
"It was in the dream he gave her. She's here" Jeremy told them, Esme looked around the room seeing nothing but Rose was sitting on the bed next to Damon.
"Is she lonely on the other side?" Elena asked.
"No. I enjoy it. I was running so much when I was alive, now I have the freedom to do whatever I want" Rose said to her but of course Jeremy was the only person who heard.
"She says not to worry, she's happy" Jeremy shortened.
"Is she still hot?" Damon asked Jeremy.
"Tell him he's still dripping with sex too" Rose said Jeremy stared at her. "Fine, tell him I miss him."
"She misses you" Jeremy told him.
"And tell him I'm rooting for him and Elena" Rose told Jeremy.
"She uh- she misses both of you" Esme's eyes narrowed at Jeremy knowing that wasn't all she said.
"Unfortunately, I don't have any news on the siring front. Klaus didn't sire me. No Original did. It was Mary Porter" Rose told Jeremy.
"She was sired by someone named Mary Porter."
"Uh – Scary Mary" Esme said shuddering. "Well, where is she?"
"I didn't keep track of her when I was alive, much less now. Tell them to sit tight, relax, I'll see what I can find out."
-x-
"So who are you exactly?" Jeremy asked Esme, whilst Elena and Damon were talking.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Esme joked. "I'm erm an old friend of Damon's" Esme said.
"So you're a vampire?" Jeremy asked.
"No shit Sherlock…So how can you talk to dead people? Are you like a human Ouija board?"
"Not quite, I died and came back to life, then started seeing my dead exes" Jeremy told her.
"Ah, it happens to everyone" Esme winked making him smile.
"You know you're not bad for a vampire" Jeremy told her.
"Why thank you, I'll take that as a compliment."
"Rose found Mary" Jeremy said all of a sudden.
"Well lets go tell Elena and Damon" Esme grabbed Jeremy's hand and the two walked out to find Elena and Damon kissing outside the motel room. Esme coughed awkwardly.
"Oh my God, Jeremy. I…"
"Rose found Mary. She lives in Kansas" Jeremy cut her off.
"Okay then. Let's go" Damon said.
-x-
Damon, Esme, Elena, and Jeremy pulled up to an old, abandoned looking house and got out of the car.
"This is the address?" Esme questioned looking at the house quite disgusted. "Even I didn't live this ruff in my ripper era."
"Looks about right" Damon said.
"Wait here" Elena told Jeremy.
"Why?! So you guys can make out some more?" Jeremy said angrily.
"Don't be a dick. Listen to your sister" Damon said to Jeremy, who scoffed and went back to the car.
"Sorry Jer" Esme said walking back over to Elena and Damon.
"Oof, like Vampire Hoarders" Damon said once inside the house.
"Who is this Mary person?" Elena asked.
"Scary Mary. She's really old, well my age, super creepy" Esme told her shivering.
"And how do you know her?" Elena asked.
"She was a bit of an original groupie, I kicked her ass when she made advantages on Kol."
"I dated her" Damon said and Esme gagged.
"Of course."
"What? She's creepy, not ugly" Damon shrugged.
A loud noise comes from another room. Damon, Esme and Elena look at the door where the noise came from. Esme followed by Damon and Elena went into the room. Elena moves the torch light around the room and the beam lands on a vampire who has been staked.
"Mary" Esme said wincing. The light came on in the dark room. Kol is sitting in a chair with a baseball bat.
"Quite contrary."
-x-
"Shame about Mary, she used to be a blast. Don't quite know what happened. I fear all the time she spent with my family might have ruined her. She was a bit of an Original groupie as Esme said."
"And were you her favorite?" Elena asked Kol.
"You mean, did I turn her? I think I did. But no, wait, maybe it was Rebekah. There was also a Klaus period. And let's not forget the Elijah affair."
"You would never of turned her Kol, I was with you during that time" Esme told him smugly.
"I wouldn't be so sure of yourself Esme. I spoke to my brother, I know you're trying to find out who you descended from. Now you never will. So, where did we leave off?" Kol hit Damon with the baseball bat. Damon fall to the ground and Kol continued to hit him. Esme rushed over to help.
"Kol stop please" Esme asked not able to touch him.
"Elena, get out of here!" Damon yelled, Elena ran for the door, but Kol blocked her way.
"According to my brother, you're off limits. Please don't test me" Kol throws Elena to the ground. Damon gets up and rushes towards Kol.
"Don't touch her" Damon hissed. Kol threw Damon off of him.
"Oh dear, I've hit a nerve. Relax, darling, I just want us to be even. You snapped my neck, you killed my brother, and then you humiliated me" Kol hits Damon with the bat repeatedly but Esme stood in front of Damon and on Kol's last and final blow Esme got the full force, crying as the bad connected with her.
"Esme you shouldn't have got in the way" Kol hissed but was clearly concerned about her.
"They're my friends Kol" Esme told him. "Elena you and Damon go, I'll catch up."
"I'm sorry, you shouldn't of got-"
"I know I shouldn't but I'm fine, you were going to beat him to death!"
"He's a vampire, I can hardly beat him to death" Kol scoffed. "I just wanted to get even and now I am."
"How have you been?" Esme asked him, stroking his pale face, looking closely he didn't look too good.
"How do you think I've been Esme, I've been miserable. Just knowing you chose Klaus, that you were with him, makes me want to stake myself. Knowing he was touching you, when it should be me and you. I haven't been eating; I haven't been sleeping because all I can think about is you and what I should have done better to keep you with me. To show you that I'm the better choice and that I love you so much it hurts. It hurts to know that you are no longer mine. When I woke up in my mind we were still together and I loved you just as much as I did the day we first met. It broke my heart when you chose Klaus because I'm so in love with you Esme that I feel like I can't go on without you" Kol told her choking up.
"Kol I didn't choose Klaus, Kol" Esme whispered
"Then why didn't you come with me" Kol begged for an answer.
"Because I've changed since you knew me, you were away for so long and I' scared Kol. I'm scared that you won't like the new me, that you will realize you have wasted your time with me all along and leave me. I can't lose you again Kol, it almost ruined me the first time."
"I would never leave you Esme! Never, I promise you" Kol was impossibly close to Esme, holding her cheek in his hands, Esme leaned into his touch.
"Me and Klaus aren't together… we didn't do anything like that. We kissed but it wasn't right" Esme put him out of his misery.
"You didn't" Kol said seeming to perk up slightly at this information.
"No you dofus, I can't believe you were stupid enough not to eat because of me. What were you going to do, starve yourself till desiccation?" Esme demanded bringing up the information he just shared.
"I don't know" he mumbled. "Where is your ring?" Kol asked holding her hand up, with the other hand Esme brought out the chain from under her top with the ring on and Kol grinned.
"You still love me too" Kol told her grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"No I don't" Esme glared but softened at his look.
"Yes you do" Kol said and kissed her. It was magical, sparks flew all around her. As he hugged her closer to his body, she fat perfectly there, like she was made to be there – made for him exactly. It was right; this was what things were meant to feel like.
"Yes I do."
It's the end…
Please still review I still want to know what you thought about everything and it will make me happy. I am making another story, which will be a Kol/OC but I don't know when it will be ready to put up. Soooo if you enjoyed reading this then please read that :D. Once again THANKYOU for everyone who has read and enjoyed this story.