Falling For You Chapter 11: Just a Kiss, a vampire diaries fanfic

The Song I use in this chapter as Stasia's is Just a Kiss by Lady Antebellum

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When Kol arrived back at Stasia's he knocked on her front door and Alaric opened it.

"Is she ready?"

"I don't know but I'm sure she'll be in here soon," he told him. "I wanted to talk to you anyway."

"Oh," he said.

"So you promise you'll take care of Stasia in New York?" Alaric asked.

"Yes I promise," he said. "I'll take care of her as long as she'll let me." He added.

"Ok, I'll let her go with you."

"Really?" Kol asked surprised.

"Yeah, she trusts you but don't make me regret trusting you."

"I won't." he said as Stasia walked in the room.

"Hey," Stasia said.

"Hey beautiful," Kol smiled. "Are you ready"

"Yeah," she said. "See you later Uncle Ric."

When they got in his car Stasia looked over at him.

"So where are we going?"

"It's a surprise."

"A surprise because its that good or because you have no idea where we're going."

"Because its that good or at least I hope you think it is."

"Kol I told you I don't care what we do as long as I get to be with you." She told him. "So what do you have planned?"

"Have you ever sang in front of people?" he asked.

"No," she told him. "I get to nervous."

"You could sing for me," he said.

"Kol," she said.

"I have a piano at my house and everyone is gone," he told her.

"You promise everyone is gone?" she asked.

"Yes, if anyone is there you don't have to."

"Ok, if its just me and you, I'll try." She told him.

After getting Stasia something to eat Kol parked his car outside his house not much later and walked around to open the door for her and led her inside.

"I told you no one was home," Kol told her as he turned the lights on. "The piano is in here," he told her as he led her through the house and into a room. He turned the light in and Stasia saw a beautiful piano. She walked over and ran her hands over it. The carvings on it were beautiful and it looked like it could be really old or either it was new and crafted to look old.

"Its beautiful Kol," she said. "Are you sure its ok for me to play it?'

"Of course princess," he said. "Sit down," he told her and she sat on the bench and ran her fingers over the keys just to see how it sounded.

"Ok," she said. "Now you want to hear me sing," she said nervously and Kol saw her hands were shaking. He walked over and sat by her on the piano bench.

"Why are you so nervous?" he asked. "Its just me."

"Yeah just you," she said shaking her head as Kol placed his hands over hers. "You can be kind of intimidating Kol."

"Really?"

"Yeah you're so perfect," she told him.

"So what's the song called you're going to play?" he asked

"Just a Kiss," she told him. "Here goes" she added and took a deep breath and Kol listened as her voice filled the room.

Lyin' here with you so close to me
It's hard to fight these feelings when it feels so hard to breathe
Caught up in this moment.
Caught up in your smile

I've never opened up to anyone
So hard to hold back when I'm holding you in my arms
We don't need to rush this
Let's just take it slow

Kol sat next to her, watching her as she sang. Her voice was beautiful and she played the piano well and he could probably listen to her sing as long as she would let him.

Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight
Just a touch of the fire burning so bright
No I don't want to mess this thing up
I don't want to push too far
Just a shot in the dark that you just might
Be the one I've been waiting for my whole life
So baby I'm alright, with just a kiss goodnight

I know that if we give this a little time
It'll only bring us closer to the love we wanna find
It's never felt so real, no it's never felt so right

No I don't want to say goodnight
I know it's time to leave, but you'll be in my dreams

Tonight
Tonight
Tonight

When she finished playing she looked over at Kol.

"Sounded perfect to me," he told her.

"I think you might be a little biased." She told him.

"Maybe but I can also hear perfectly."

"Guess so." She agreed and Kol leaned over and kissed her.

"So do you write songs?" he asked.

"I try," she told him. "I wrote that one." She told him.

"It was good," Kol told her.

"Thanks," she said softly.

"Come on," he said and stood up and took her hand in his and pulled her up with him and led her out of the room and up the stairs. He stopped in front of a closed door. "My bedroom."

"Oh," she said. "Are we going inside or did you just want me to know where your bedroom is?"

"We're going inside I just…No girls been in my bedroom."

"Kol you are not a thousand year old virgin," she said.

"No not like that, I always go back to their place." He told her and opened the door. "You want to come inside?" he asked.

"Are you sure?" she asked quietly.

"Of course," he said and walked in his room pulling her after him and shutting the door behind him. "I used to think my bed and my room was something I would share with someone special."

"Oh," she said.

"There was one girl I thought was that girl but she didn't love me,"

"Kol I…" she said but he walked past her and sat on his bed. "Kol what happened with her?" she asked as she sat down by him. "you can tell me."

"Her name was Elizabeth and she was beautiful. Tall, brown hair, green eyes, perfect and I actually loved her and thought she loved me," Kol told her. "She was just using me, I should have figured it out because she never actually told me she loved me. She just liked all the stuff I bought her and that I could take her nice places." He sighed. "I finally realized she didn't love me."

"Kol," she whispered as she laid her hand against his cheek. "That girl was an idiot to not realize how great you are and that you have more to offer than just gifts and money."

"You really believe that?" he asked

"Yes." She told him.

"People say I'm crazy and psychotic…"

"That's what I hear but you forgot violent, egotistical and arrogant."

"They say that to huh," he said.

"Yep." She told him. "I don't think anyone has ever said anything good about you."

"Yet you haven't ran the other way," he said.

"No," she said. "And I don't plan to."

"I don't deserve you," Kol said as he leaned over and pressed his lips against hers.

"Well I say you do deserve me," she told him as she slid her arms around his neck. "I like you and want you exactly the way you are."

"Until you see who I really am," he told her and she shook her head. "I've killed people, a lot of people and I've never felt sorry about it," he added and stood up and walked across the room. "I enjoyed it, the way their heart sped up, the fear in their eyes, the way their voices would shake as they begged me not to kill them but I did anyway because I could." He told her. "They all called me a monster and they're right I am…"

"Kol…"

"And I'll still kill more people you know, I'm not going to change." He said. "So I hope you're not expecting me to change."

"Kol have I ever asked you to change?" she asked. "or gave you any indication I wanted you to change."

"Well no you haven't," he answered.

"Then stop telling me how horrible you think you are," she told him as she stood up and walked over to him. "I really don't care what you did before we met and I know you've killed people Kol," she went on. "I don't expect you to change, you wouldn't be the guy I like so much if you changed." She told him. "And stop trying to give me reason to not like you because you're stuck with me."

"Well I can't think of anyone else I'd rather be stuck with," Kol told her and she smiled as he leaned down and kissed her lips. Stasia slid her arms around his neck and she felt Kol pull her closer to him.

"I'm not trying to give you a reason to stop liking me," he told her

"I want to be with you," she told him.

"I want to be with you to, if you knew how much you probably would run away."

"I doubt it," she told him and walked past him. Kol turned and watched as she sat on his bed. He walked over and sat next to her.

"So can I ask you something?" he asked.

"Sure," she said.

"Ok, I know at one time you had a thing for Damon," he said. "Do you still?"

"Kol I had a crush on Damon but being with you has changed that," she told him. "You know he's tried to get me to stop seeing you but I don't want Damon anymore, not like that."

"You're really choosing me over Damon?" he asked.

"Damon and I can only be friends. You're the one I want. I wanted to tell you yes that day we met but I just…"

"You couldn't," he said. "And I usually don't get turned down."

"Oh I'm sure you don't and I'm glad you kept trying ," she told him as she stretched out on his bed. Kol looked down at her. He had only known Stasia a little over a week but he liked her a lot and as he looked at her lying in his bed he knew she could possibly be the only girl he wanted in his bed.

"So you were attracted to me that first day we met outside the grill," he said as he lay down beside her.

"Obviously," she said.

"But you turned me down."

"I politely turned you down," she said.

"Whatever," he said. "But you turned me down the next day to," he went on. "But I knew you were attracted to me because I caught you watching me walk away."

"Kol!" she exclaimed, embarrassed.

"No need to be embarrassed now," he smirked. "I knew you were interested for sure then."

"I thought you knew before then," she said.

"Well I thought you were, I could hear how your heartbeat sped up when I was around," he told her.

"Well I wasn't sure if you actually were interested in me or if you just wanted t sleep with me. I'd heard about you from other girls."

"You're sure now?" he asked.

"Yeah, I mean you haven't kicked Damon's ass just because I asked you not to," she told him. "And I can tell you wanted to and probably still want to."

"Well I don't like how he treats you and how you just let him get away with it." Kol told her. "You deserve to be treated better than he treats you."

"Kol…"

"You do princess," he told her and they fell silent. "I should get you home."

Kol parked his car outside Stasia's house not much later and walked her to the door.

"I really think you should work on that singing thing," he told her. "Even if its just one of those horrible karaoke things."

"Kol…"

"Princess."

"Kol it just makes me nervous, all those people staring at me, waiting for me to fail," she sighed.

"They're not waiting for you to fail," Kol assured her. "you sang for me."

"And that was hard enough Kol," she told him.

"Ok I get it but I will be with you the whole time, I'll rescue you if you freeze or something," he said.

"You promise?" she asked.

"Of course," he said and she looked away. "Hey," he said placing his hand under her chin, she glanced up at him. "I'll always be here to rescue you." He said quietly and leaned down and pressed his lips against hers.

"I'll think about it," she told him.

"Ok," he said as he leaned down and kissed her again. "I'll call you tomorrow."

"Good night Kol,"

"Good night," he replied and she opened the door and went inside.

When she went inside she heard her Alaric call her.

"Stasia," Alaric called out.

"Its me Uncle Ric." She said as she walked in the room and saw Damon was there. It seemed as if he was always here lately. "You need something?"

"No, you have fun?"

"Yes I did," she told him. "I'm just going to go to my room."

"Stasia," Damon said and she turned around.

"What?" she asked.

"I want to talk to you."

"Well I don't want to talk to you Damon, you asked me to choose between you and Kol," she told him. "I can't believe you would even ask me that and you've been nothing but a jerk to me lately," she went on. "I don't know why I'm so important to you all of a sudden, I mean we were friends but I never mattered much before," she told him.

"Stasia…"

"But now that I'm with Kol, its like I'm good enough for you all of a sudden, I was never good enough before."

"Stasia," Damon said as he stood up and walked over to her.

"I don't want to hear anything you have to say," she told him. "But next time Kol offers or wants to hit you I'm not going to stop him."

"Stasia you don't mean that," Alaric said shocked.

"Uncle Ric I 'm going to my room and I don't want to talk to Damon right now."

"Ok," Alaric said.

"Good night."

"Good night Stasia," Alaric said and she walked away

When Stasia was gone Damon walked over and sat down by Alaric.

"I really messed up."

"Yeah you did," Alaric told him.

"Its been a day already do you think she'll talk to me again?"

"Of course she will," Alaric told him. "But you have to stop acting the way you are and accept her and Kol are together." He went on. "I've seen them together, how he looks at her, how he talks to her and about her. He's not going anywhere anytime soon and the sooner you accept that the better."

"Do you think she meant it when she said she'll let Kol hit me next time?"

"I think the fact Kol hasn't hit you yet should prove how much he actually likes Stasia," Alaric told him.

"Ric I…"

"Damon just get over it and let her be happy, if you are going to continue to make her miserable and hurt her then don't talk to her anymore," Alaric told him. "And don't apologize unless you mean it."

"So are you telling me not to see Stasia anymore?" Damon asked.

"No Damon I didn't say that, I'm saying be her friend, not the jealous jerk you're being now. And let her come to you when she's ready to talk."

"I'll try Ric," Damon said. "So Kol treats her really well?"

"Yes he does Damon." He said. "So for the last time just be her friend."

Stasia went to her room slamming the door behind her. She grabbed her pajamas and went to the bathroom to change. She knew she was going to have to talk to Damon soon but not today. At least her uncle wasn't trying to make her talk to Damon, he knew to let her talk to him on her own time. Stasia went back to her room and sat down on her bed. A few minutes later someone knocked on her door.

"Come in," she said and it opened and she saw Alaric standing there. "Uncle Ric."

"You want to talk about it?" he asked as he walked inside her room.

"Well that depends, are you here to tell me I need to talk to Damon and forgive him?"

"No I'm not," he said.

"Ok then," she sighed as he sat down beside her.

"You know Damon does feel bad about what he did."

"So he does realize he did something wrong."

"Yes Stasia he does and he realizes he's been hurting you," Alaric told him. "I did tell him not to apologize unless he meant it and that he needed to accept you and Kol are together."

"Thanks Uncle Ric. I know you're not crazy about me dating Kol…"

"Stasia after talking to Kol and seeing you two together, I know you're safe with him and as long as he makes you happy then I can accept you two are together."

"Thanks Uncle Ric." She said. "Damon and I can only be friends, that's all we could have ever been I don't why I ever thought we could be more than friends." She sighed. "I see now we can't."

"I know Damon can be a jerk but just remember he has been there for you when it mattered when you really needed him."

"Uncle Ric that doesn't make standing me up all those times ok or the way he's been acting ok."

"I know it doesn't, but just think about if you want him completely out of your life or if you still want him to be a part of it." He told her. "Good night."

"Goodnight," she replied.