The Friendship Broken

It had been a few months since that night, every morning I woke up and sure enough, Kol was there. Jeremy, Kol, and I had become good friends. I had made it my mission to get Jeremy a girlfriend, but he didn't seem too excited about it, so far I have failed. However, I'm not giving up! Niklaus had contacted us only a few times over the months and I was happy with the assignment, I just prayed we didn't have to hurt Jeremy.

It was Friday afternoon after school, Jeremy, Kol and I were "debating" on where to go. We were walking to the bakery to get an after school snack, my idea.

"I wanna go to The Karaoke Bar, it'll be fun!" I say, intertwining me and Kol's hands.

"We want him to get out there, not get drunk and sing in front of other drunk people darling, we need to go to a club," Kol argues.

"Why don't we go to the batting cages? I don't NEED a girlfriend or a 'fun' buddy' or anything," Jeremy says.

"Yes you do and we're gonna help you, aren't we Kol?" I say, nudging him.

"Batting cage sounds great and we can watch Gigi run and dodge the baseballs," Kol says, as I punch his arm. "Ouch that really hurt, darling," he says with a fake pouting face. I roll my eyes.

"Hey, why don't we do all of those?" They both stop and stare at me. "What? We can go to the Batting Cages, then The Karaoke Bar, and end the night at some club."

They look at each other and shrug. Kol turns to me, gives me a light kiss, then says:

"You're a genious, darling." I narrow my eyes, then say:

"Yeah. . ." We go into the bakery and get a dozen doughnuts. "Sooo, to the batting cages?"

"Yes Darling to the batting cages," Kol says, "I'll go get my bat from home and meet you guys there?"

"Aw okay," I say, Kol kisses me, then Jeremy and I head over to my car (I park in the bakery parking lot :) ), and drive to the batting cage place.

When we get there, Jeremy goes to the batting cage. I watch for about 20 minutes, then decide to get some snacks.

"You want anything, Jer?" I ask him, getting up.

"Sure, a water," he saying, not turning around.

"Um, okay." I decide to get two bottles of water, a bag of chips, twizzlers, and some skittles. I get a bag for it all, open the twizzlers and walk back to Jeremy. I sense a vampire, it isn't Kol. I turn the corner and see Damon and Elena talking to Jeremy, who is putting his helmet up. Kol turns around the corner, I ran, at vampire speed, and peer around the corner.

"Damon, it's Kol." Elena says, taking a step back. Kol hits Damon right in the face with his baseball bat.

"What the hell are you doing?" Jeremy asks as I step in front of him.

"I'm sorry, Jer."

"Jeremy stay back, he's an Original."

"What?"

"No hard feelings mate, but we're not buds," Kol says, picking up an aluminum bat.

I run, at vampire speed, to my car and drive around the block and out of site. I'm not a coward but I know how to pick my battles, I call Niklaus and tell him what's going on. After they left I went back to Kol, pulled the baseball bat out of him and put him in the car, when he awakens I tell him about why Damon and Elena came into town, he left, not telling me where and told me to track them down. It took awhile but I was able to do it, I listened in on them, I could hear Rose and realized that she really was a ghost now. I learned that they wanted to go see Scary Mary, I knew where she was and I had a feeling Kol knew that too. I went back in my car and drove to Mary's, apparently Kol decided the best way to keep her mouth shut was to kill her. I gasp.

"Kol! Was that really necessary?" I say, putting my hands on my hips.

"Yes darling it was." He pecks me on the cheek, "And now we wait for them to get here."

It took a while, but they finally arrived. I slipped out of the house, once Elena and Damon entered the house I walked over to the car. Jeremy saw me and his face was mixed with surprise and anger.

"Why didn't you tell me about Kol? About you?" he asked, as I approached.

"Milord and Kol asked me to keep it a secret, they didn't want Elena to know we were with you, they didn't tell me why. However, they did suggest it was to keep an eye on you so they could make someone cooperate, I'm guessing it was Bonnie."

He looked at me with disbelief. "You mean Klaus? A-And how could you not know? I thought we were friends, but you were just using me!" I stepped closer to him but he stepped back.

"I wasn't using you, and I know Kol didn't mean it, when he said you weren't friends. I really do think of you as my friend Jeremy, but I owe Niklaus everything, so I do as I'm told."

"So you put your loyalty to him over our friendship?!" his anger was building.

"I had to! I owe him for saving my son's life! Me and K-" Jeremy grabbed me and hugged me. I stood there, in shock.

"Well then." His anger disappeared and was replaced with sadness.

"You don't have to repay him all your life, you know?"

"I don't know how else to repay him, are we. . .are we still friends?"

"I don't think so, Gigi."

I nod my head, put my hands on his shoulders and kiss him on the cheek. Kol runs past, toward my car. I turn and start walking away.

"Until next time. . .little Gilbert," I say and then I disappear.