Kol returned to the gym with Bonnie. Mia was spotted in the middle of the crowd. Kol spotted Antonio waiting by the only other exit, the back door which he assumed she would go. But he had a good view of the front entrance so if she went either way he would catch her.
He found her and pulled her aside. He found Rebekah as well along with Damon and Stefan. "Rebekah I need you to keep an eye on Mia and stay in the gym until I lead Antonio away" Kol instructed.
"You mean we lead him away" Damon corrected. "The guy wants to kill me too so I'm in on the plan" he said. Kol walked casually out of the gym. Antonio saw and followed them. And as he followed them towards the front entrance, Mia and Rebekah raced the back exit which led them to a different section of the school. "What now?" Mia asked.
"We wait until your big brother's dead" Rebekah said.
"Hello gentlemen" Antonio greeted, taking the bait and following them out back into the cafeteria away from everyone.
"You're her brother? I thought you'd be taller at least" Damon cracked a joke.
"You're Michael's doppelganger. You know he died trying to run from me. And we are in a town where history repeats itself...just a word of warning" Tony said.
"Yeah maybe but there's two of us and one of you" Kol said.
"You honestly think I'm the only one? There's more where I came from...more haters, more stakes and they'll come if I die" Tony threatened.
"Which one of my siblings were you planning on using that dagger on?" Kol asked.
"Klaus... the one turned me. And in revenge for killing Mikael. He was quite the tutor" Tony said.
"You knew my father" Kol noted.
"Yes I did and he gave us a job-to kill all of you" Tony said which angered Kol and Kol sped up to him and punched him in the face. It was backed up by Damon restraining Tony in a headlock so he couldn't move. Antonio didn't fear whether they killed him or not.
"Go ahead kill me" he taunted. Kol picked up a wooden broom from the floor, left by the janitor. He snapped it in half, using the pointy bit to stab Tony in his stomach. Kol so badly wanted to end him now but first interrogation.
"How many more stakes are there?" Kol asked angrily.
"One for each original, that there is one of them" Tony said.
"How many others like you are there?" Damon asked.
"One for each original" he repeated.
"Is it just me or does this seem too easy?" Damon asked Kol.
"Yeah I suppose" Kol removed the broken sharp part of the broom from Antonio's stomach, this time placing it in his heart instead. He groaned but his body faded to a grey dead colour and his body fell to the floor.
Mia was sitting in an empty classroom with Rebekah when she felt a painful stab to her heart. "Ouch" she said under her breath. "What's wrong?" Rebekah asked. She got to her feet as she saw her friend fall, a deep red wound in the place where her heart was, and she saw the grey hue claiming her friend. "No" Rebekah said. How could this happen? She called out to her friend but Mia was lost and dead technically.
As tears fell down her face she heard footsteps approaching. Klaus appeared in the doorway to the classroom, looking down at his sister with her face red from crying and Mia's dead body in her arms. "What happened?" he asked softly.
"I don't know" she said in between sobs. "She's gone. And there was nothing I could do to stop it" Rebekah cried and Klaus knelt down beside her and hugged her. He knew how important mia was to her, like a sister. She was like a sister to him as well and he fought to hold back the lump that was forming in his throat and the tears that desperately wanted to fall down his cheeks. "Have you seen Kol?" Klaus asked. Rebekah shook her head.
Bonnie walked out to the front entrance. She wasn't a vampire so she could leave the building. She was met with the warlock. "Your vampire friend's dead. You can leave now but not until you remove the spell" she commanded. He chuckled.
"What makes you think I'll listen to you? A little girl" the warlock said.
"You can't take both of us. A witch and an original witch" Esther said from behind the warlock. "You will remove the spell or you will die, boy" she ordered. He cowered in her presence knowing how strong her magic was and he did as she asked.
Kol was wandering the premises looking for Mia and his sister. Then he ran into Klaus. "Brother I'm so sorry" Klaus said.
"What are you talking about?" Kol asked.
"Mia's dead. We suspect that Antonio's witch friend did a link spell" Klaus explained.
Kol couldn't find the right words. She shouldn't have died because she was linked to him. If she died he would've died or so he thought. Maybe Bonnie did the spell wrong. "Where's her body. I need to see her" Kol said.
Klaus showed Kol the body in the trunk of his car. Rebekah sat in the backseat, still upset and crying. Kol too had a few tears streaming down his face. Damon was next to him, also staring down at the body of the girl they loved. "She shouldn't be dead" Kol told him.
"What?" Damon said.
"Bonnie did a spell. She was linked to me not Antonio" Kol educated him.
They returned to the Mikaelson mansion. Mia was laid on her bed. The white oak stake was burned down to ash in the fireplace and gone forever but it wasn't the only stake out there. Kol sat at the end of her bed, a glass of whiskey in his hand. Now that the room door was shut and no one could see him he started crying. He didn't understand why it wouldn't work. SHE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE.
He heard the door creak open as Damon walked in. "Want a refill?" Damon asked, holding up the bottle of whiskey. Kol shook his head. "I thought I saved her. I thought her life would be spared" Kol confessed.
"Hey buddy you didn't do this. Antonio did" Damon said.
"I'm not your buddy. And I did do this. She was linked to Antonio, I killed Antonio therefore I killed her" Kol nagged.
Mia looked like the first time he met her, when he opened up that coffin, seeing a girl so beautiful even in death. A sleeping beauty, she was. Now she was Snow White- a dead beauty. And just like the first time they met the first sign was her shallow breathing, which he could hear now.
"Do you hear that?" Kol asked. Slow, steady breathing. Both men watched her intently for the next hour. "How is this possible?" Damon asked. Slowly she was returning to life. The grey colour was gone from her skin, her fair complexion was returned, and she woke with a loud gasp for air.
"Am I dead?" she asked.
"Honey, you're a vampire. Of course you're dead" Kol said and sped over to her and he pulled her into his arms. He understood now. Wood can't kill an original. It simply neutralizes them for a couple of hours unless it's white oak. She was linked to him so the regular wood didn't kill her it neutralized her.
Kol returned downstairs with Damon to let her sleep it off. The other original family members were in the sitting room. They looked to Kol when he entered.
"She's alive. She survived because of a link spell Bonnie did, linking her to me. The wood stake neutralized her" he explained.
"Where is she?" Rebekah asked.
"She's asleep but she'll probably want to see you" Damon said.
Damon and Kol were outside as Kol showed Damon off on his way.
"Clever move to link her to you. She'll be safe from anything" Damon stated.
"But not a broken heart" Kol said.
"And you won't be safe from the others if there are others like the big bro" Damon said.
"You love her just as I do" Kol said.
"Yes I do. I care about her" Damon said since Kol didn't want to avoid the subject.
"You should know that there was a reason why I left" Kol told him and he reached into his pocket and he pulled out a small black velvet box. He tossed it to Damon who opened it to see a gold ring with a diamond stud with smaller amethysts around it.
"You're gonna pop the question" Damon said.
"Yes I planned to propose to her tonight. I thought you should know that" Kol said.
"Sure sure I get it. You love her and you met her first" Damon said.
"But she did meet you first. She'll always have a different love for you, a special kind of bond stronger than simply being linked. She loved you first even if you didn't know it. You're the lucky man not me" Kol told him.