Hello, normally I wouldn't have posted a chapter until next Friday or around then but I wrote this up and couldn't wait. Unfortunately this is actually the last chapter to this story. I'm still trying to decide whether to write a sequel or not, I have got plans for a sequel but I'm still not sure whether or not I will write it up, please though tell me if you want one or not, it would help a lot to see if I should even bother writing one.
Thank you to Kol and Elena, hayleyb29, and xmmara for reviewing chapter 5! And thank youi to everyone who has been reading this story.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Vampire Diaries.
Chapter 6 - Run away with me?
Esme woke up feeling happy, for once in her life things just felt perfect. She had Kol and they both loved each other. She knew he was a vampire but she could accept that, she didn't want to push him away just because of that part for him. She stretched in her bed and sat up and let out a small squeal noticing a figure sitting in one of her chairs.
"Kol, you scared me! What are you doing here this early?" Esme asked him walking over and sitting in his lap. He wrapped his arms around her waist and she put hers around his neck.
"I needed to see you" he told her.
"Do my parents know you're here?" she asked him.
"No, one of the perks of being a vampire love, I came in through the window."
"How long had you been watching me?" Esme now asked laughing.
"About half an hour" Kol lied, honestly he had been there with her all night, he had been to angry about his latest discovery to sleep.
"You know that is kind of creepy" Esme told him laughing but his face was serious and he looked as though something was troubling him. "What's wrong?"
"I know about the abuse Esme."
"Oh" Esme stood up off of his lap and sat on her bed, she didn't want Kol to know about this.
"You should have told me Esme" Kol told her angrily.
"And what would you have done?" Esme replied back just as angry he didn't answer her and she laughed bitterly. "Exactly Kol, there isn't anything you can do!"
"But I would've tried; I thought you trusted me Esme" Kol told her hurt.
"I do but telling you would have brought nothing but more problems" Esme assured him.
"Run away with me?" Kol told her suddenly.
"Don't be stupid Kol."
"I'm not Esme, it is perfect. We could be together forever, I could turn you and we could runaway together. We could be happy, we could explore the world like you want. I would take you everywhere you have dreamt, show you everything, we would leave Mystic Falls and never look back" Kol insisted.
Esme took in his words, it all sounded perfect, it sounded like everything she wanted in one. But would it work. Could she truly leave Mystic Falls and never look back. She knew her father would have a search party for her as soon as she was gone. They would be found and hated. But if they did do it she would get away from her awful parents and Trent and her marriage. This could be her one chance to finally break free of it all.
"Okay" Esme whispered, Kol's face lit up excitedly.
"We will leave tonight, we won't have to tell anyone it will be just me and you Esme, forever" Kol left shortly after that and Esme sat down trying to take in everything.
Was this truly what she wanted, it all seemed like everything was going too fast for her to catch her breath. It scared her how Kol made her feel things she had never even dreamed of. She had only known him for a month and a little while and yet she had fallen for him face down, a hundred miles an hour and there was no stopping her. But was she really ready for this? Completely leaving her family and her whole town behind?
Of course she was, she knew she was. She had always said that she would seize any opportunity of getting out of Mystic Falls. So why was she hesitating?
-x-
Esme tried acting normal but it seemed almost impossible, she was awful at keeping secrets. She paced in the kitchen knowing it was the place that her mother would never be in.
"Esme what on earth are you doing in the kitchens?" Rebekah hissed coming in the over filled room.
"Escaping the world" Esme sighed and let her friend drag her out of the kitchens and into the hall, up the stairs and finally they arrived in Esme's room.
"What are you escaping from that made you feel the need to go to the bloody kitchens" Rebekah asked her.
"Everything" Rebekah raised an eyebrow waiting for her to explain. "I'm just a little intimidated by certain aspects of my life right now."
"I'm guessing this has something to do with my brother?" Rebekah asked her.
"Kol asked me to run away with him" Rebekah sighed.
"My brother can be a little full on especially when he falls in love, he falls hard and fast. So what did you say to him?"
"I told him I would go with him but I just don't know, what if we leave and we find out we hate each other then I'm left alone for eternity? What if we start arguing and I'm stuck in a relationship I can't get out of again? What if –"
"I'm going to stop you right there Esme. All I'm hearing is a lot of what ifs but you will never know unless you take the risk. Think of this what if you go and everything turns out perfect, you have the life you have always wanted with Kol and you get married in your own time and you are the happiest you have ever been" Esme thought over Bekkahs words she was right.
"So you think I should go with Kol?"
"Yes but at the end of the day it is up to you because you know if you chose Kol then you are choosing this life as well, our lifestyle it's a curse" Rebekah said seriously.
"I'm okay with that though Bekkah, how can never dying being able to spend eternity with the man you love be a curse. In my eyes it's a blessing" Esme protested.
"Some blessing" Bekkah scoffed. "I don't think understand Esme, it is a curse that makes you take human life, that gives you a hunger you have never felt before, a darkness within you didn't even know existed. I have lived for two hundred years Esme and I haven't ever experienced love, I have never had the chance to love."
"I've made my decision Bekkah. I chose Kol, I love him."
"I'm just trying to protect you Esme but if that is what you chose then I will be happy to have you as my sister."
-x-
Esme sat in her room looking at the blank parchment in front of her and twirling the quill in between her fingers. She thought she would at least leave them with some explanation, they deserved that much and she needed her chance to say goodbye to everyone in her own words.
Mother,
By the time you will have read this I will be gone away forever. I am running away with Kol, he loves me and I love him. I am going to explore the world with him mom like I have always wanted too and I know there is no chance of you being happy for me but secretly I wish you are.
You have always pushed me to do things, some I will always be grateful for and I knew you had my best interests at heart but others I will never forgive you for. When I agreed to marry Trent I did it for you, I know how much it meant to you for me to marry him. I know what you are like mother, when Trent courted me all you saw was more possibility's to make you look better somehow or to boost up you reputation even more. I am so happy that I have the chance to finally get away; if Kol wouldn't have come along I would probably be stuck in that nightmare of a marriage.
Even though you have never once acted like a real mother to me I will miss you. The gentler side of you, the one I seemed to have only ever seen when I was growing up, I used to wonder where that side had gone but I know it is still there just buried deep down inside you. I wish that you would forget about how you look to other people for a few minutes and allow time for my mother to come through.
I'm sorry mother but we both know that this isn't me, I'm destined for something bigger than a house wife!
-Esme
Father,
You've always put your job before me, before mother and everyone. I forgive you for that; it is what you do and what you love even if you do love it more than your own daughter.
You never pressured me into marriage like mother, you didn't disciplined me like mother, you knew I was meant for something. But you didn't care for that, you didn't stand up to mother for me. No that would mean getting on her angry side and we can't have that can we? I'm saying this but maybe you just didn't care for me enough to discipline me like you daughter or care about her marriage and happiness.
Well you should know this marriage that you let mother take off with is a heartless bottomless pit of darkness. Did you know Trent hit me? Then he blackmailed me into not telling everyone about it. You wouldn't would you because you don't pay attention for me for more than two minutes.
So farewell father, have a good life.
-Esme
Trent,
You don't even deserve to get a goodbye letter from me!
You are abusive scum. You have never deserved my respect for one second of your life. To me you are no worse than the dirt on my shoe. I hate you more than I have ever hated anyone. But you know what I want to thank you because as cliché as it sounds it just made me stronger. I will never be scared of people like you. I would never give you the satisfaction of my fear! It makes me so happy to know I will never have to hear you call me Esmeralda again because for one last time it is Esme or is that too hard for your miniscule brain to understand.
People are going to see you for who you really are now. You can't blackmail me because I am leaving now. Why would I feel the need to lie if I was gone? I can honestly say I hope you rot in hell.
I will promise you one thing Trent. I promise to never step one foot in Mystic Falls again, so long as you are alive anyway.
-Esme
Esme sealed the three letters and placed the three letters on her bed and turned to face Kol. He smiled at her and cupped her cheek.
"Are you ready love?" she nodded and pecked him on the lip.
"I'm ready."
So I hope you liked the ending, please review.
Sequel or no sequel?
~Hannah