"In her hands is my heart . . .

She's the beast in my bones.

She gets everything she wants when she gets me alone,

Like it's nothing.

She got two little horns,

And they get me a little bit."

"Shit, Kol, I forgot my makeup!"

That was a silly thing to worry about, in retrospect, but I had never been completely naked around Kol. Even when he accidentally fell asleep in my bed that one night, and we woke up to the sound of Elena moving around outside of my door, I had fallen asleep with it on. It was a bit messed up, but it was still there.

I couldn't just leave it on for however long we were staying holed up in his new hotel room, just outside of Mystic Falls. It was far enough away that Klaus wouldn't even suspect a strange car he had never seen before, and no one in Mystic Falls would find it either.

He rolled his eyes as I took a large chug of the tequila he had in here. There were various bottles of alcohol inside of mini fridge, only the best quality of course, but I picked tequila. It usually got me the warmest of all of the alcohol types, so I imagined keeping clothes on was gonna be nearly impossible.

I was already stripped down to my underwear, so there wasn't much more I could take off.

"You act as if you need such things."

I snorted. "Right. You've never seen me without it."

His eyebrows furrowed. "Darling, the things that separate you from the other doppelgängers make you far more exquisite to me, but I have met doppelgängers, before makeup was ever even invented. I know what your face will look like without it, and believe me. You don't need it."

"I could have really bad skin, and makeup is the only way I have to hide it," I pointed out. "What then?"

"You don't because I would be able to see it, even with makeup covering it." He smirked. "Vampire eyes, remember?"

"Damn it." I took another chug of tequila, this time allowing my face to twist into a grimace. "Why am I not making margaritas with this?"

"I offered to make you one," he reminded me. "These past few days have been so horrible for you, however, that you just couldn't wait that long."

Normally, when I laughed, it was just that—a breathy laugh, usually not massive hysterics, but certainly not high-pitched giggles.

Maybe it was the tequila, or maybe it was the freedom we had again, even if for just a night or two, but I fucking giggled.

Until the song changed, to rather hot party song that I really enjoyed dancing to—Caroline asked how I possibly danced to a rock song, but I'm talented—I let the conversation die. I kept my gaze on Kol as he continued drinking the blood from the blood bag he also had his fridge stocked with, though he liked to put it in a glass.

While my hips moved along to the party beat, an idea that on most occasions wouldn't have even occurred to me took over my brain, and the next thing I knew, the carefree, half-drunk personality that was coming out of me had me up on the dresser in the hotel room, singing along and swinging my hips. I barely even noticed how cold the wood underneath my feet actually was, but I did notice because the rest of my body was warm with the taste of liquor.

"I set my friends on fire," I sang, after taking another gulp of tequila. "And now they're all lit up. Welcome to my empire, where everybody's fucked up!"

He had been watching me the entire time, with something more than just lust burning in his eyes. Obviously watching your girlfriend grind her hips while half-naked is gonna make anyone horny, but there was more to it than that, something much more real—maybe even the same thing I had realized that I felt for him, too.

It was hard to say for sure, as the alcohol was definitely getting to me, but it kinda looked like love.

"Remember that you're still breakable, darling," he said before finishing off the blood in his cup, standing up so that he could set it on the dresser opposite side of where I was still standing.

I nodded. "Yep, still breakable. You can't turn me either."

"You assume that I haven't found a way," he said.

My eyebrows rose. "Have you?"

"Quite a few," he said, and to my delight, he walked over to stand in front of me, his eyes glowing gain as he stood his body mere inches from mine. "I compelled Tyler to turn until he was no longer sired to Klaus, to see if it would work. If that works out, all I have to do is find a way to temporarily incapacitate my brother and get his blood to turn you. Elena intends to remain human, so you can always get a bit of her blood to transition. Just in case, she's given me what I would need to turn you."

My eyebrows furrowed. "You've really thought this through, haven't you?"

A small smile grew onto his lips, and he nodded a bit, looking up at me with that look of love instead of just lust. "Would you like to drink some more, or would you actually like to remember this night?"

Another giggle slipped out of me, but I didn't let myself get angry this time. Instead, I slid down off of the dresser and right into Kol's arms. His arms wrapped tightly around my body, all but crushing me into him, and despite the awkward angle of it, his lips found mine in an instant.

With my fingers weaving themselves into his hair, I ever so delicately flicked my tongue across the line between where his lips met, and he allowed them to part that very second. Sliding my tongue in between his lips, I hooked my tongue around his and pulled it towards me, into my mouth so I could suck on it. Neither of us were necessarily big on tongue play, but as much as he loved it when I sucked on other parts of his body, like his fingers or ear lobe, I imagined he would like this as well.

I arched my back to get closer to him, pulling my mouth away from his so that I could press my wrist against his lips instead. "Isn't it better warm? Straight from the vein?"

There was something that resembled a growl building up in his chest as his lips curled back away from his teeth. "You have far too much faith in me."

"You didn't kill me the other day," I reminded him. "Or the first day you met me."

He moved my wrist away from his mouth and tucked some hair out of the way of my neck, exposing the very spot that Kol mentioned was the absolute best to feed from. It was the first time he had to actually sink his teeth into my skin, and though it hurt pretty bad, it was easy to ignore as the blood was drained from my body, into his mouth.

I imagined that Elena would have some choice words about willingly feeding him my blood, but it didn't really matter what she thought about it all. If she didn't want to be fed from, that was fine; something in me did.

He ripped himself away from my neck after just a short bit, allowing his tongue to rub along the small spot where blood had gotten outside of his mouth. His eyes were like fire as he looked at me, the grip he had on me burning me as much as his eyes did.

"Oh how I have tainted you, Darcy Gilbert." He sucked in a breath of air and rubbed his tongue across the still open wound on my neck. "I can taste the alcohol in your blood."

"Oops." I bit down on my bottom lip to distract him, and it certainly did—until my hand slipped down his pants that is, grabbing onto his dick that didn't need any sort of foreplay to be ready to go. After that, all he could focus on was my hands wrapped around him, my nails ever so delicately scraping against the skin.

His teeth snapped together, a rough hiss pushing through them while his feet took a few steps back, leading us both towards the bed behind him. "You are so hot when you demand what you want."

"So give me what I want," I purred onto his lips.

That was something I didn't think he would ever say no to, especially when we wanted the exact same thing.

A/N: The lyrics at the beginning are from the song Horns by Bryce Fox. It was actually the song I listened to that inspired this whole story, oddly enough. It's my personal Bryce Fox favorite. :) Also, the song she dances to is the song Empire by Escape the Fate, the song that inspired this chapter. Haha

Let me know what you guys think! Big things are coming. :)