Weeks had passed without any word from Kol. Mia continuously tried calling him but got nothing but his voicemail, the only link to him. She missed the sound of his voice and would play the voicemail from time to time. "Don't worry, Mia. He'll come back sooner or later. I remember when we first became vampires and we learned of our mother's death, Kol threw a tantrum and left. He returned some few decades later" Rebekah tried to comfort her.
"Don't be so grumpy. We have work to do remember?" Rebekah encouraged.
"Do I have to do this? I'm not one for beauty pageants" Mia said.
"It's not a beauty pageant. It's the Miss Mystic Falls event. There's a big difference" Rebekah told her.
"It's still a pageant. Besides there's a dance and I don't have a partner" Mia complained.
"Then take Damon. You said so yourself that my big brother wanted you to do some soul searching" Rebekah reminded.
"Fine" Mia surrendered.
The day of the event...
Klaus was dressed in a suit and accompanied by his family. Klaus looked around the big hall, looking for Damon. He wanted to have a chat with that one. Considering he was the reason that Kol left in the first place. Rebekah was upstairs with Mia while she prepared and got into her dress, a dress bought using Klaus' credit card that Rebekah discreetly stole from him.
Mia was dressed in a dark blue dress and a silver chain with a single sapphire pendant with matching earrings. Kol would've wanted her to wear blue. If only he was her escort, she thought to herself. She hadn't quite forgiven Damon yet.
"Suck up the sadness and go break a leg. If you don't win and all my hard work was for nothing, I will end you myself" Rebekah joked but in a serious tone. Then the mayor called all the girls who were part of the event. Each girl was called up one by one by name. "Mia Bella Salvatore" the mayor called her name.
And she calmly walked down the staircase to see Damon waiting on her at the bottom, all dressed up and charming as always. When she reached the bottom of the staircase they made their way through the crowd and outside where they would do a dance.
She met his gaze, his intense blue eyes. She looked away as they danced to a sweet melodic tune. "You look beautiful" he complimented.
Klaus watched them from afar with the others gathered at the event. "That is touching. Except that boy...he looks familiar. I think I've met him somewhere or I've killed him before" a voice said behind him. Klaus turned around to see someone he hadn't seen in centuries. A young man with neatly cropped black hair and hazel tinted eyes. He had an expressionless face, unreadable. "Hello Antonio" Klaus greeted.
"Please do call be Tony. My full name is a tad bit too long and old for me" Tony spoke.
"What are you doing here?" Klaus asked.
"I heard through the grapevine that you were in town and so was my sister" Tony answered.
"I assume you're not here for the pageant. Unless you're looking for a tasty young beauty" Klaus said.
"You know me well my friend. I'm here for my sister, I've missed her"
"Last time you saw her you were glad to have her gone. Why the sudden change of heart?" Klaus asked, trying to find the motive. Even to this day he didn't trust Antonio. He heard through a certain grapevine that the vampire was working with Mikael before the original met his death.
"I have no heart Klaus. But my sister does. I heard about your brother, Kol was it. They've found themselves the perfect fairytale with love and all that. She's got a heart. I've come to break it" Tony said honestly. "Go ahead and warn her. But if you're smart, you'll stay out of my way or I'll kill you too" Tony said.
Mia was led onto a stage with all the other girls. It was time to pick the winner. "After looking over each contestant individually. The new Miss Mystic falls is...Mia Bella Salvatore" the mayor said and people clapped. Rebekah was almost jumping for joy. All her hard work was for something.
"Come on let's get a drink then" Rebekah practically pulled Mia off the stage and over to the bar counter. "Two shots of tequila please" Rebekah ordered.
"Young ladies like the two of you shouldn't drink" a voice said from behind them.
"Well we don't care about your opinion" Rebekah said.
"Even you, Mia Bella? Mother never allowed you to drink" Tony said.
Both girls turned around to see him. To Rebekah she was simply a very handsome man but to Mia he was a big brother who even now made her nervous. "Could you give me and my sister a moment alone please" Tony asked and Rebekah left them without thinking. Antonio smiled brightly to Rebekah and once she was out of sight the smile vanished from his face. "Long time, little sister" he greeted.
"What are you doing here?" Mia asked him.
"I missed my sister. Two glasses of champagne. We're celebrating" Tony said and ordered at the bar. The bartender handed Tony two glasses of fine golden coloured champagne. Tony handed one to her and he drank the other. She hesitantly lifted the glass to her lips and took a sip. It tasted sweet and honey like but mixed with vodka or wine.
"I hear you have a boyfriend. Where is he?" Tony asked.
"He's not here. And I won't tell you" she said.
"You don't know where he is. He left you" he said.
"Why are you here? Why now?" she asked him. She assumed it was to stir up trouble.
"You'll know in time" he said before walking away.
Mia didn't like the sound of that. She finished the champagne and thought over in her mind various reasons why he was here. If he wanted to see her he would've come months ago when she woke. Then she thought of Michael...and Damon. DAMON. He was here for Damon she suspected.
She took a quick stroll around the premises until she found Damon outside sitting on a bench in the garden. She came up behind him. "Hello sleeping beauty" he greeted and it reminded her of when they first met and he wouldn't stop calling her by that nickname. She sat down next to him. He felt he should wrap his arm around her or something but didn't. "Damon I have to tell you something. A secret" she said.
"I'm all ears" he said.
"When I was human I knew this boy. His name was Michael. I bore his child as a human which carried on the Salvatore bloodline. You remind me of him" she said.
"Was he also charming, handsome and completely hilarious?" Damon asked.
"You look like him. Damon you're a doppelganger, Michael's doppelganger" she told him.
Tony returned to the bar later that night. "Did she finish the drink?" Tony asked the bartender, the same one who served them earlier.
He was dark skinned with dark chocolate brown eyes.
"Down to the last drop. The spell is complete" the bartender said.