AN: Thank you all to have reviewed, favorited & followed this story. It means a lot to me that you guys are enjoying it! Please note I haven't watched 412 yet, but I believe when everyone finds out the Hollow is in Hope is from that are the day after Kol and Davina's adventure began? Idk, but I moved it up a week from Davina's resurrection.
It had been one week since Davina's resurrection and they started on their adventure. Davina had talked Kol into taking her to Disney World before they left the United States and they'd really enjoyed themselves there.
Kol was surprised with how much he had enjoyed the modern day attraction. There were some things about modern times he enjoyed: the accessibility to music, the ease of traveling places quickly instead of taking months to make the same journey and many other reasons, but Disney hadn't appealed to him. He knew how much Davina liked Disney movies, almost as much as she did Practical Magic, which was her favorite movie of all time, so he wanted to try and enjoy it for her sake but by the first day, he was acting like a little kid himself instead of just one of many guys reluctantly at Disney World because of their partner.
Davina had been pretty surprised when she got Kol to agree to go to Disney World for a few days before heading out of the United States. She had really had a lot of fun at the park. She had felt like a little kid again… or maybe for the first time ever, she did, since her mother had treated her poorly even before the Harvest happened that never really allowed her to have the normalcy she had craved for so long in her life. She was accepting her life as a twice-resurrected Harvest girl (who was soon to be a vampire) with an Original vampire for a boyfriend was never going to be normal, but Josh's comments comforted her when she was saddened that her life would never truly normal like she had wanted. She was going to have a good life now. It shouldn't matter that she didn't get that chance at normal, but traveling the world with her boyfriend did feel pretty normal if she did say so herself, so she couldn't completely hate the fact that her life had never come to pass as the normal one she'd once wanted more than anything else.
She'd been sending a lot of pictures and goofy videos to Josh and Marcel while at Disney World, per his request to keep him updated with their travels. She'd had a lengthy phone conversation with and now they were on better terms again. He was upset she hadn't seen him before; which she understood, they'd been through so much together, but she promised she would see him next time she and Kol were in New Orleans and that seemed to satisfy him for the time being. Josh had been really happy that his always serious friend was able to let loose and have fun with her boyfriend, while Marcel was happy about Davina being resurrected and getting out of New Orleans, she felt like there was still some resentment about who she was completely in love with, but he didn't say anything about that, so neither did she.
Davina and Kol had barely been away from each other while they were at Disney World. They could barely keep their hands off of each other while at the theme park. They'd received some irritated looks from parents because of that inability, especially giving Kol the look, because he was the one usually starting something. He would lean on her shoulder, start tickling her or just a million different things that made her giggle, blush and more than a few times in the lines, moan. Kol had really been pleased with himself when he got her moaning in public, but it just made Davina turn bright red and apologize to the people who were giving them dirty looks about his behavior. "I can't take him anywhere," she'd say to them with a laugh before moving up in line.
Davina and Kol had been figuring out things about each other during their time at the theme park. Like Davina was a huge fan of the water rides and she couldn't get enough of 'It's a Small World', which annoyed Kol to no end because that was probably his least favorite ride in the entire park. He had grumbled about it the first time being beside Davina, but then he had opted to go and get food or figure out another ride to get in line for while Davina had her fun in the ride that she'd been in probably three or four times each day they'd been at the park. Kol had been a fan of the roller coasters and the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, even though he did have historical inaccuracies that he complained about and Davina had to quiet him down about when others started noticing him speaking a bit too passionately and knowledgeable about the subject.
Overall, they had had a marvelous time at the theme park, but they were both excited to go somewhere else now. Davina was just packing up her things in their hotel room in Disney World and finishing up a conversation with Vincent on the phone when Kol walked into the hotel room, also on the phone. She assumed it was Rebekah, since she was the one he'd been talking to the most, but once she hung up with Vincent, she looked at him and try and figure out what was wrong. She could tell by his expression something wasn't okay and it made her worry.
"Bex, what's the point in me going to New Orleans? You lot have all the help you need. Freya and Vincent can do the spell. Davina's not going to be involved and I'm not going back. Tell Nik he'll have to wait and shove the dagger in my chest another time," Kol said angrily before hanging up the phone.
"Kol, what's the matter with your family?" she asked, concerned. Davina might not have liked the majority of Kol's family, but family was family and she knew quite well how Kol felt about them, even if he didn't speak of it all that often.
Davina still hadn't been turned into a vampire yet. She was still a witch who was having awful nightmares, but she had just fully felt like her strength had been restored and she didn't want to transition at Disney World, when she could potentially loose control and slaughter a lot of innocent kids, so she figured she'd wait until the next place on their adventure around the world before turning.
"It's nothing for you to concern yourself with, darling. They've got it handled."
"Kol, I thought we talked about this. We're not keeping anymore secrets from each other. We've lost too much from kept secrets."
Kol knew what Davina was saying was true. He'd withheld about the death curse Finn put on him until hours before his death and he'd done basically the same thing with his second curse, only change was adding Lucien to the mix to tell Davina instead of Kol saying it to her, so he relented and said, "The Hollow's in Hope. They have to get her out soon or she'll be in her body permanently." He looked concerned, but not as bothered as he should have been about his niece potentially being lost forever due to some ancient witch coming back from the dead. He figured as he said, that his family would solve the problem before it actually happened. "Bex said Nik's still ticked I was helping the Hollow and I know what that means." Kol had started figuring out over his last couple of daggerings when he might have it happen and he always tried to get away, but Klaus and Elijah always got to him before he did except the one time he was able to reason with Klaus. Fox boy Mikaelson knew that Niklaus would have done the same thing had he been able to bring back Camille and there was no one who could have told him otherwise. "I'm not staying in a box for an unknowable amount of time when I could be showing you more of the world, Davina Claire," he touched her face and his looked softened as he spoke.
"But Kol –" Davina said with her signature weight of the world on her shoulder's look upon her face. She didn't feel good about this at all. Hope was innocent. If his family needed him, she wanted him to go. She could wait awhile on their adventure. "I wouldn't let you be in a box. I'd pull out in a second and make Klaus pay for daggering you for the billionth time."
"No, Davina. I'm not going. I promise you, I'm not worried about my family, they will figure it out on their own." His look and words slightly comforted her, but she still wasn't sure it was right not to go. "They don't need the leper of the family around to help them when my thanks will be a dagger. I've got you and I'm not abandoning our travels to go traipsing back to them and help out."
"If you're sure, I'll trust you on this, but if you change your mind, let me know and we'll be on the next plane to Louisiana."
Kol looked relieved as she relented. He kissed her cheek before saying, "I won't change my mind, darling, but thank you for the offer. Your kindness to my family with how much they've wronged you will never cease to amaze me."
"I love you, Kol, and I generally don't wish your family any harm, but don't make me out to be some saint, alright?" Davina knew she was no saint. She never claimed to be, but the ancestors liked reminding her every single thing she'd ever done that could be perceived as a bad thing to some, when others might think it'd be justified. Even when she had attempted to sacrifice Klaus for the greater good, she was still shamed for that by them. "I've done things to them too. Trapping Finn in his body, trying to desire Elijah and succeeding with Klaus… and just a lot. I understand why they don't like me, especially Klaus, but I'd never wish harm to Hope. She's innocent and something Klaus actually managed to do right in the world."
"You trapped Finn in his body for revenge, Davina. He deserved it after what he did to me – to us – the first go-round of our going steady. Elijah and Klaus –" Kol hadn't realized he'd put Davina up on a saintly pedestal until this conversation and the look on his face showed that it dawned on him in that moment, "Okay, I see what you're saying – maybe I do make you out to be a bit of a saint, but darling, compared to my family, you are innocent still by an extraordinary measure."
"All pedestals have to fall down sometime, Kol. Are you still going to feel the same way about me once it does for you?"
"Darling, it doesn't matter what you do, I will love you until the end of time. You know what I think of always and forever with my family – it's a load of bosh until they want to use it on me – like Rebekah just tried to do, but for once in my life, I have someone I believe in the 'always and forever' vow with and nothing will ever change the way I feel about you."
Davina leaned up and kissed him deeply once he said that. "You're my 'always and forever' too, Kol," she said once she pulled away.
Kol smirked happily and said, "Always and forever's never sounded so good." He moved away from his short girlfriend to go over to his bag and take something out of it discreetly. "I wasn't planning on doing this now, I had a pretty well thought out plan once we got to Monaco what I was going to do, but it feels right now," Kol said mysteriously as his girlfriend looked confused over at him, trying to figure out just what her original vampire boyfriend was up to.
Kol walked back over to Davina with a dark blue velvet box in his hand that the little witch spotted and her heart began racing as she figured out what he was doing.
"Davina Rose Claire, I never thought I'd ever find someone to love. I made fun of Rebekah countless times over the millennium for her attempts at finding it. It truly seemed like a pathetic way to try and cling to her mortally," he said the bit about his favorite sibling with a shake of his head. Even though he had Davina and believed in the idea of love his sister sought out for the majority of her mortality, he still didn't like how his sister made herself out to be a strumpet in order to try and find love.
"It didn't seem possible for someone to love me or them love me back, so I just went about my youthful misadventures and acted like that didn't bother me." Kol looked unbothered by this, but the passion in his eyes for the greatest love of his love was overwhelmed to Davina. She started forming tears somewhere around when Kol said it didn't seem possible for someone to love him. That broke her heart. She loved Kol more than anything and she had for a long time, much longer than she had been able to admit to his face for the first time when he was a ghost.
"I didn't care when I died the first time that I didn't have some great, epic love crying their heart out because of my death, but it broke my heart seeing you weep for me." He looked somber as he thought about his death in Kaleb's body, even after six years, Davina's crying face still lingered in his mind from that death. It was permanently etched in his memory.
"It seems crazy because we didn't know each other at all then, but from the moment I saw you bringing back to life those flowers outside the church, you gave me something I never knew I needed or that I truly wanted and I've not been able to get it off of my mind since then. It's only become more intense since I've come to know the person you are – the amazing woman who fights with all of her heart and being for what she wants. I've known far too much time without you and when I had you, I lost you, I don't ever want that to happen again. I'm in love with you, Davina, and it would be the greatest honor in the world if you say yes to this question I'm about to ask -" Kol said, going on his long speech and making his girlfriend cry in the process from happy tears. Even the wildest Mikaelson was forming tears in his eyes from the overwhelming feelings from the moment. It was something so special, something he was so certain would never happen to him, but Davina Claire changed everything for him.
"You don't need to ask me – yes, Kol, I'll marry you," she said quickly getting out the words before he was able to continue his own, bending down to kiss her new fiancé who was still bending on one knee for his proposal.
He kissed her back deeply and wiped her tears from her face while having the biggest grin he'd probably ever had in his life upon his face.
Kol slipped the ring on her finger and Davina inspected it. It was a vintage 14k rose gold engagement ring that fit perfectly on her finger. "It's perfect, Kol. Thank you," she said as she looked away from her ring to Kol, who probably would be unable to wipe the smile off of his face if he would make an attempt at it.
"I've carried the ring around since you resurrected me… well almost as long as since you resurrected me," he admitted. "That was one thing I did when I left you that morning. I found a ring shop and had them fix that one for you. It wasn't ready until the day of your funeral and I lost it after I went and picked it up when I realized you'd never get to wear it. My witchy sister got most of my rage, but it's not like she made it any better for herself with desecrating more of the dead when I came back."
"I'm glad you kept it, Kol. It's just… perfect. Just like you and me, it's just the right fit." Davina kept looking from the ring to Kol's face with this excited look like nothing else in the world mattered, but how happy she was right now. She then changed her look to one of more curiosity as something dawned on her, "What was your proposal plan for Monaco?"
"Now why would I go and tell you something I might still do?"
Davina looked at Kol with a puzzled look as she kind of laughed, "Why would you do that when you have me forever?"
"I'm used to making impulsive decisions," he started off by saying, "but I've had this in mind for years now and I think it'll be a much more spectacular story than me impulsively doing it now. You'll like it a lot better than telling everyone you got engaged in a Disney World hotel room. You're absolutely marvelous and you deserve a proposal as marvelous as you are," Kol caressed her cheek. He looked like he was in more bliss than he'd ever known in his life. He wasn't thinking about his family scrambling to get the Hollow out of Hope, all he was thinking about was the pretty blue eyed witch in front of him. "Maybe I'll just propose to you in every country we go to," he said in a tone that Davina was unsure if he was joking or not.
"Kol, I'm fine with this proposal," she said in a sure of herself voice. "You don't have to go out of your way with extravagant things to show me you love me. I know you do and I'm so happy I'm going to marry you."
"Davina, are you certain? You shouldn't have to be fine with a proposal when you could have the best of the best." Kol was mad with himself that he had ruined the idea he'd thought about since before his death in Kaleb's body, but was finally getting to put it to use now. He didn't want her to feel cheated out of a proposal because of his impulsiveness. He brushed a piece of Davina's hair back behind her ear. "I'm so happy you're going to marry me, Davina Claire." He looked really happy, Davina was certain this was one of the happiest times she'd seen him as he was certain the same thing of her.
She grabbed her phone and quickly took a picture of his happy look before letting it sink in what she had just agreed to. Marrying Kol, she was absolutely fine with, but with a marriage to Kol, she'd be officially taking on the Mikaelson name and their enemies and that was something else.
"Would you be alright if I kept my name?" she asked quietly. She didn't want to hurt his feelings. She loved Kol Mikaelson more than anything, but taking on the name of the family who'd hurt her so many times was a lot to consider.
"I was thinking I'd go by Kol Claire," he replied in a joking manner.
"Kol, this isn't the time for your jokes or our banters."
"But darling, our witty banters are one of my favorite things about our relationship."
"Not the time, be serious for five minutes and then we can have as many banters before we go to sleep as we can fit in."
Kol reluctantly relented on the banter to say, "I see why you're apprehensive of it. My family and their enemies would be a lot for anyone to take on, but I believe in us, Davina. None of my family's enemies will get to you or my family for that matter. Not with me around."
"So no way out of me taking your name?" she asked, not appreciating that he didn't answer her question and just gave her a roundabout answer.
"Davina, I'd like for you to take my name, but if you'd rather not, I can still call you Davina Claire and that does have a certain ring to it," he said, moving from where he was to sit next to her on the bed. "Davina Mikaelson has a nice sound to it too, though, don't you think?" he said, mumbling against her ear as he kissed her neck.
"How about a hyphened name? Davina Claire-Mikaelson? Will that be okay or will only Davina Mikaelson suffice?" she asked as she tried to focus on settling this over getting caught up in Kol's neck kisses.
"Davina Claire-Mikaelson, I like that a lot, love," Kol said with a smile against her neck before giving her more kisses.
"I do too," she said with a smile before giving in to Kol's kisses. They could make love on more time in the Disney World hotel room before leaving on their next adventure.