"The twenties was a magical time. Let's hope the dance is just as good" Rebekah hoped. It was the night of the decade dance and she was head of the committee. She planned the event. She stood outside the school with Mia, both dressed for the time period. Rebekah wore a cream coloured dress with strings of beads hanging off it and silk elbow length gloves with a feather broach in her hair.
Mia wore a similar dress but a burgundy colour with black elbow length gloves and a string of pearls around her neck. She was looking forward to this night, both of them were. "I haven't been to a real party in so long" Mia said as they almost raced inside the school and down the hall of lockers to the gym where everyone was gathered.
"Come one date let's get a drink" Rebekah suggested and linked her arm in Mia's and they walked over to a table where the punch was being served in red paper cups. "I wanted to get wine glasses with diamond studs but it would've cost a fortune...and Klaus hid his credit card" Rebekah explained.
Mia didn't care about what the cup looked like as long as someone already spiked the punch bowl then she was fine. Mia excitedly dragged Rebekah onto the dance floor in between the cluster of high school students. They were joined by a couple of humans, the ones on the cheer team. And when Rebekah was in the arms of some dashing high school football player Mia was on her own, or at least she thought she was.
"Can I have this dance?" a familiar voice asked from behind her. She cautiously turned around to see brown eyes, brown hair and a cheeky smile that belonged on Kol's face. She was too caught in surprise that she hardly noticed she was in his arms and dancing to a jazz like song, a slow beat meant for couples.
They said nothing during the dance but simply looked into each others' eyes. Then she spoke, "you came back". He kissed her on her forehead in reply. "I couldn't stay away. I couldn't abandon you" he told her. And just when everything seemed perfect she remembered that her brother was still lurking in town somewhere.
"You shouldn't have come back" she told him quietly.
"Why do you say that?" he asked her.
"My brother's here" she stated.
"That's not good is it?" he asked.
"No. I think he wants to kill you" she warned.
"Then let him try" Kol said.
"Are the grounds secured?" Antonio asked, accompanied by his warlock friend who nodded in reply. Both were dressed in old fashioned suits to blend into the occasion. "Do you have the stake?" the warlock asked. Antonio pulled it out from the inside of his blazer to show as proof, a sharp pointed oak stake. "You're certain that they won't be able to leave the school?" Tony asked. "Not unless I want them to" warlock said.
Mia excused herself from the gym to use the bathroom. The girls' bathroom was quiet for she was the only one there; perhaps too quiet. And the second she stepped out of the bathroom she was pushed into the metal lockers. Trying to fight back the attacker grabbed her by the throat.
"Antonio?" she asked. He smiled grimly at her and rammed her head into the locker she was pressed against. "Sorry sister, can't have you interfering" he said and pulled out a syringe of vervain from his pocket. He attempted to inject it into her but was interrupted by Stefan who pushed him aside and away from her. Antonio quickly got to his feet and was out of sight again. "You're welcome" he said.
"Where's Damon?" she asked.
"He's in the gym why?" Stefan asked.
"I think my brother's trying to kill him" she responded nervously but she kept her tone calm.
"Not just Damon. He wants to kill you" Klaus said.
Stefan and Mia rushed into the gym in search of Damon. Antonio could be anywhere. Then they found him by the punch bowl. "Damon you have to leave the school now" Mia ordered.
"Why? The night's just starting" Damon said.
"Damon listen to her if you don't leave you'll die" Stefan warned.
"What's going on?" Rebekah joined the crowd with Kol.
"Kol we need to leave now" Mia told him.
He could sense the fear in her voice and agreed with her. He held her hand as they exited the school gym and walked down the hallway. As they came to the main doors they pushed the doors open but couldn't step outside. "What the hell" Mia said. Outside they saw a dark skinned man step metres away from the door. He was chanting something. "Gotta love freaks of nature" they heard Antonio say.
The warlock was preventing them from leaving. Kol pushed Mia behind him as if shielding her from her brother. "What do you want?" Kol asked. Antonio casually strode over to him until they were face to face. "I want your head on a platter, you original dickhead" Antonio said.
Kol didn't take insults kindly unless they were from Mia. Kol pushed Tony away from them and down the corridor. And before Tony could get to his feet they were out of sight. They should've gone back into the gym but they ran in a different direction and down another hallway. They came to the cafeteria which had a padlock on it. Kol easily snapped it and they ran inside.
Kol pulled his cellphone out from his pocket and he quickly dialled Klaus' number.
"Hey where are you?" Klaus asked.
"We're in the cafeteria" Kol said.
"Where's Antonio?" Klaus asked.
"I don't know. He doesn't just want Damon dead, he wants me dead" Kol told his brother.
"And I'm saving the best for last" Tony spoke and made his entrance into the cafeteria; his eyes directly on his sister.
"You wouldn't kill your own family" Kol said.
"Yes I would. She shouldn't be alive, I shouldn't be alive. It'd time to end it, sister. But first I'm going to end you" Antonio said and he pulled out the white oak stake from the inside of his blazer. As Antonio came towards them, Kol pushed Mia to the side she hit into one of the tables.
She watched as Kol fought against her brother. "Run!" he told her. She didn't want to and she ran towards her brother and she pulled him away from Kol. For the first time she was standing up to him. Then she started running and Antonio chased after her.
This time she ran back into the gym and into the crowd of humans. She'd be safe in there. Kol followed and went back into the gym. He didn't like this. He knew Antonio was after Mia and she was young and fragile compared to her brother. Kol needed her to be safe, one hundred percent safe.
And he knew the one person who could ensure her safety. Looking for her face he monitored the people in the gym until he found her. Dark skinned with green eyes. The Bennett witch. He managed to get past the crowd of dancers to get to her. "I have nothing for you, original" she could sense him from a mile away.
"Actually you do. I need a spell" Kol said.
"What kind of spell?" she asked.
"A spell to link one person to another" Kol said.
Bonnie left the gym with Kol and they left to find privacy in one of the classrooms. She brought out her grimoire which she took everywhere with her. She skipped through pages and pages to find the correct spell. "There it's that one" she said.
"How do we do it?" Kol asked.
"I need something of yours and I need something of the person" Bonnie spoke.
Kol rummaged through his pockets until he found something of hers, her necklace which he took with him when he left. The locket she wore when he first met her. "Will this work? She wore it for a couple hundred years or so" he said.
"Yeah that should work" Bonnie said.
Using the locket, she had Kol cut his palm, spilling the blood over the locket it bound them somehow and with Bonnie's magical witchy incantation the spell was done. Kol assumed there would be flickering lights or something more but witches weren't so dramatic nowadays.