Recap: Alaric's vampire life is now tied to Elena's. Bonnie ended up turning the desiccation spell on Klaus and Alaric is hunting down his body.
Adelina woke up gasping for air like she'd just had a nightmare; which she sort of did. Out of jealousy and spite, Kol tortured her. She laid back down on the pillows trying to rub out her headache,
"Morning," Kol smiled, he was lying down next to her, scaring the crap out of her.
"What the hell?" Adelina groaned, Kol sat up handing her a tall glass of blood.
"Drink up; it'll make the headache go away." He said,
"Who is it?" Adelina asked taking a sip, he heated it up and everything.
"Bartender from the Grill, she was delicious." He smirked, Adelina rolled her eyes at him, and "You're adorable." She said, finishing the glass, moaning as she felt the fresh blood heal the kinks in her neck. Her phone vibrated on the night stand, Kol looked at the phone, then back at Adelina who just let it buzz.
"Trouble in paradise?" Kol asked, Adelina got up changing out of her clothes.
"Aside from my homicidal, overbearing, obsessed husband? No everything is peachy." She smiled at him, grabbing her phone. He grabbed her arm as she pulled away.
"Don't get smart, wife." He threatened,
"Or what? You'll burn off my skin and inject me with vervain?"
"It was a lesson." Kol explained,
"I didn't need to be taught! Jeremy is my friend, something I haven't had in a long time. Yeah, so he has a little crush on me, so what? He's not a threat to you! You can't just torture me to prove a point! I'm your wife, not one of Klaus' sired hybrids!" This was the tipping point for her, yeah, Kol has his moments but this was low even for him. "But you just can't see past your own nose." Adelina grabbed her bag and went downstairs but Kol was in front of her blocking the door.
"You can't leave me." He said,
"The hell I can't," Adelina said, she wasn't scared of him, she knew how to be on her own.
"Where will you go?"
"Anywhere is better than here," She shoved past him, and sped away. She ended up at the community park, she settled under an old tree thinking about her life, how she ended up here.
"What are you stalking me now?" She said, hearing Jeremy walk up from behind her,
"Just passing through, what are you doing here?" He said, sitting on the park bench across from her.
"Thinking about how much easier life was when I was human." She smiled, this made Jeremy curious.
"When exactly were you human?" He asked,
"Cashing in on my long, complicated life story?" Adelina joked, Jeremy shrugged, Adelina decided to give in.
"About 1000 years ago actually, I grew up here as a matter of fact. This park used to be a meadow where I would play as a little girl. Turns out your ancestors never really founded anything." She joked at him. Those times were just a memory now.
"So you weren't lying when you said you grew up with Kol," Jeremy asked, Adelina shook her head, "Yeah, the Original family and I go way back, you could say I was a groupie."
"But you're not an Original?" He asked,
"I'm one of the first generations of vampires, very old, very powerful, had no idea what the hell I was getting myself into." She laughed at herself.
"So what is your story?" Jeremy asked,
"It was around 1140 A.D. my mother was a very powerful witch from Europe who knew Mikael and Esther when they lived there. After Esther and Mikael lost a child to a plague, my mother, Ayana told them of a land where there was no plague. They came together forming a small village. There the Mikaelsons had more children, and my mother had me." She explained,
"Were you a witch?" Jeremy asked,
"In training," Adelina joked, "The Mikaelsons and my family were close, Rebekah was my best friend,"
A young Adelina, almost 12 years old ran through the village with a young Rebekah, "Come on, Adelina, you have to tag me!" Rebekah yelled as her and Adelina ran through the forests.
"What sort of game is this?" Adelina whined, getting tired from chasing Rebekah, "You have to tag me, then I will chase you." Rebekah explained,
"This will be more fun with more people, let us find Niklaus and Kol." Adelina suggested, Rebekah rolled her eyes; Adelina was always fawning over Kol.
"Your courtship of my brother is never going to work," Rebekah told her, Adelina didn't listen, she would follow Kol to the ends of the Earth and back if he asked.
"No matter, you're it!" Adelina snuck up on Rebekah tagging her then running toward the village.
"I was smitten with Kol, he was older than me of course and had his sights on other girls, but I was naïve and in love." She sighed, going on to explain more of the story,
"After a few years, my parents knew of my obsession with Kol; Mikael and my father agreed that it would be best for Kol to be married, stop his reckless behavior. I was 17 at the time, soon after that Kol's brother Henrik was killed, that ended the truce between our village and the natives." She explained,
"And that was when Esther turned them into vampires," Jeremy said, Adelina nodded, "You've been doing your homework," She complimented.
"My mother knew what Esther did, and forbid me from seeing Kol, knowing the evil Esther had created. As a human, Kol was reckless, impulsive, had a temperament that could challenge Klaus; and as a vampire that got heightened. Unfortunately his feelings for me did not." She sighed, "One day, their family's blood lust got the best of them, and they killed almost half of the village. I was in the woods when I had scratched my knee on a rock, Rebekah actually smelled the blood, she left me in the woods to die, believe I wanted to.
"What I didn't know is that Kol has slipped his blood in my wine,"
Adelina woke up the in the woods, gasping for breath, the last thing she remembered was Rebekah attacking her. As she stood, her body felt weak, the sun hurt her eyes. It was dark, she stumbled through the woods finally making it back to the village. There was a fire, she saw Klaus, Rebekah and Kol burning bodies. She got back to her mother's house; Arianna pulled her inside, "Where have you been?" She demanded, smoothing away her tangles from her eyes.
"I was in the woods, I don't know what happened," Adelina said. Ayana came in, "Step away from her Arianna," Ayana said, Arianna looked at her mother, not understanding, but did so anyway.
"Mother I feel weak," Adelina said, Ayana just stood there,
"You are in transition." She stated,
"What do you mean?" Arianna asked,
"She is becoming one of them," Ayana explained, her tone serious and uncaring.
"Where's Papa?" Adelina wondered,
"He's dead," Arianna said, her voice cracked.
"N-No!" Adelina cried, as Arianna held her, Ayana came over grabbing Adelina's face making her look at her. "Adelina, you must not complete this transition, you must not feed." Ayana told her,
"What will happen, if I do not?" Adelina asked, fear getting to her, "You will die, but it is nature's way. I am so sorry, my love." Ayana kissed Adelina's forehead and left the room.
"My mother knew the consequences, but Arianna wouldn't let me die. As the days grew on, I got weaker, word got out that I was in transition. I was so tired, but Arianna wouldn't leave my side, she couldn't watch me die."
"She gave you her blood, didn't she?" Jeremy said, they had moved from the park and were now walking to the Grill.
"Yes, she did," Adelina answered, "After that my mother wouldn't invite me in, you can probably understand why. Arianna made me a daylight ring, against my mother's wishes, after becoming a vampire, everything about me was magnified. As a human, I was naïve, passionate, empathic; and as a vampire that was all heightened, especially my feelings for Kol. After he found me as a vampire, he offered to take me back to the Old World and he married me, for what reason I'm not sure why." Adelina laughed to herself.
"What about your sister and your mother?" Jeremy asked as they sat down at a table in the Grill.
"My mother stayed in the village and my sister went on to bear the Bennet bloodline." Adelina said,
"You're related to Bonnie?" Jeremy asked, shocked,
"I'm her Great Aunt about 100 times over." Adelina laughed,
"But if you spent 1000 years with Kol, and to have him treat you like he does, why didn't you leave sooner?" He asked, Adelina sighed,
"That's another long, complicated story for another day." She teased, "You wanna grab something to eat?" Jeremy offered,
"The kitchen's closed, unless you're offering?" Adelina smiled at him, Jeremy laughed, "I work here remember? Come on," He said, as they walked over to the bar, he went back to the kitchen, making them both sandwiches.
"Don't you love having me as a friend?" He said, handing Adelina her plate, she smiled looking at her BLT. Taking a half as her and Jeremy toasted with their sandwiches. Just then two beers were placed down next to them, "Hello Jeremy," A voice said, they both looked up to see Alaric, "We need to talk."
"I need to know where they're keeping Klaus' body." Alaric demanded,
"Even if I knew, why would I tell you?" Jeremy said,
"Elena's association with vampires nearly got her killed again tonight; or does that just not register with you? Seeing as you're having date night with one." Adelina glared at Alaric,
"Of course it does," Jeremy said, ignoring Alaric's last comment,
"Well Elena can't seem to cut them out of her life, and neither can you. But I can, and with your help, I can get rid of all of them." Alaric said,
"Well aren't you just the biggest oxymoron in history? The vampire that hunts vampires, now what are you going to do when you're the last vampire on Earth? Commit social suicide?" Adelina challenged, she wasn't afraid of Alaric, he was after Klaus, so she had time to kill. Alaric ignored her,
"Come on, Jeremy." Adelina said, grabbing Jeremy's hand, but Alaric grabbed his arm sharply, "Find out where Klaus' body is being hidden, I'll kill him, all his siblings and then when I die the world will finally be ridden of vampires." He promised, letting go of Jeremy, and pulling out the white oak stake. "This stake is the only thing that can kill Klaus; I will find him and when I do, be on the right side, Jeremy." Jeremy and Adelina got back to his house, to find Matt, Elena, Stefan and Elijah sitting at the dining room table.
"Elijah," Adelina greeted him, he turned around smiling at her, "Ah, Adelina, good of you to join us, Kol was just telling me about your so called betrayal." Adelina scoffed,
"Well he should learn the meaning of the word before he starts throwing terms around." Adelina said, "So is no one caring that Alaric has an eternal white oak stake and basically just flashed it out to Jeremy and I at the Grill about 10 minutes ago? Am I the only one concerned with that?" Adelina stated,
"All we need is to take that stake away from him. Once he had been disarmed and the weapon is in my possession my family will scatter to the ends of the Earth, and Alaric will follow us." Elijah explained.
"And you'll just run?" Stefan asked,
"We've done it before," Adelina stated,
"Rebekah and Klaus spent the better part of 1000 years running from Mikael, what's another half century while Elena gets to live out the rest of her natural life." Elijah said, Elena sighed,
"We finally stopped him, Elijah, after everything he's done to us; I can't just let you bring him back." Elena said, talking about Klaus who was rotting in a coffin somewhere with Damon.
"I give you my word, Elena, I will not revive Klaus within yours nor even within your children's lifetimes." Elijah promised, "Perhaps that will finally teach him some manners," Elijah said to himself.
"Why should she trust you? All you've done is screw her over." Matt said,
"And for that I am deeply ashamed, but know this, she could have been dead the instant I walked through that door; so I leave it to you, Elena, the decision whether to trust me or not."
"Not!" Damon's voice said from the speaker in Stefan's phone. "Hello?! Did that concussion give you brain damage?! His lunatic siblings will kill you the first chance they get!" Damon argued,
"Rebekah and Kol will honor the terms." Adelina said,
"If you return Klaus' body to us, Elena will come to no harm," Elijah negotiated, "Do we have a deal?"
"No! No,no,no,no, did I mention no!" Damon's voice yelled, Stefan sighed, "Elena it's up to you,"
"Oh come on!" Damon yelled,
"Why do want Klaus' body?" Elena asked Elijah,
"He's my brother, we remain together." He said simply,
"We have a deal." Elena said. Elijah sent Adelina to get Klaus' body with Damon and Bonnie, he took them to the storage units where he hid it. "I'm not half way out of Virginia and Elena sells our souls to the Originals?" Damon asked, Adelina shrugged, "It was her call."
"You know what else her call is? Everything bad ever." Damon said,
"Where's the body? As long as it's unspelled Alaric is one witch away from finding it." Bonnie explained,
"Okay, well I was gonna use unit 666, but I figured that would be a little obvious, so 1020. Minifridge, couple bird cages, box full of playboys." Damon said, lifting up the door to reveal a sleek black coffin in the middle of the unit. "One beef jerkyfied Original." They opened the coffin to see Klaus desiccated and wrapped in chains, suddenly his eyes opened staring at Bonnie.
"Woah, creepy." Adelina commented, Klaus never faltered from Bonnie, "I need a minute." Bonnie said,
"Just jam the witch locator, Bat-signal and let's get on with it Bonnie." Damon said,
"Elena and Jeremy lost Jenna and Alaric because of him, Tyler's a hybrid, my mother's a vampire; could you just give me a minute to just appreciate the sight of him like this?" Bonnie asked, getting kind of cryptic. Damon held up his hands in surrender as him and Adelina walked out of the unit, shutting the door.
"Rebekah should be here soon." Adelina said to Damon, putting her phone back in her pocket. The elevator rang, Alaric snuck up on Adelina snapping her neck, and he grabbed Damon in a choke hold. "Where is Klaus?" He demanded,
"In a storage locker, there's only about 1000 of them, have at it." Damon said, before Alaric snapped his neck. A few minutes later Damon and Adelina woke up, hearing the elevator ding. This time it was Rebekah, "Damon? Damon where are you?" Rebekah called, she walked around the halls, "Damon this isn't funny!" She called, she walked another corner when Damon grabbed her, holding his hand over her mouth. Adelina went to the locker and got Klaus' coffin, meeting Damon and Rebekah by the car. They were wheeling it out when Alaric flashed in front of them, smashing Rebekah's head into the side of the car, pushing her away.
Alaric did the same to Damon and Adelina, grabbing the stake and opening the coffin. "No!" Rebekah screamed, "No!" Damon and Adelina both yelled, Alaric opened the coffin and plunged the stake into Klaus' heart. "Nik, no!" Rebekah yelled Damon and Adelina held her back. Rebekah struggled against them as Klaus' body caught on fire, Alaric shut the coffin moving toward Rebekah, "Next," He said,
"Rebekah, run!" Damon yelled, Adelina and Rebekah both ran off, as Alaric followed after them. Rebekah went to tell Elijah, Adelina went back to the house to tell Kol. She got the mansion, walking in as a vase shattered against the wall beside her. "Kol!" She went over to him, he was like a kid throwing a tantrum, grabbing whatever he could find and hurling it against the wall. "Kol, look at me!" She grabbed his face in her hands, his eyes were filled with tears.
"He's gone, Nik is gone." He cried, she hugged him close, letting him cry. "I know, I know." She said, tears falling. Kol kept crying, he fell to his knees, wrapping his arms around her waist, crying into her stomach. Adelina held onto him for dear life, "I'm here, its okay, I'm right here." She reassured him,
"I'm so sorry, Lina." She knew he wasn't talking about Klaus; it was about everything else he had done, 1000 years of pain he'd caused her. Adelina got down on her knees in front of him, holding his face in her hands, wiping away his tears.
"It's okay, I forgive you. I will always forgive you." She said, crying just as much as he was.
"You were gonna leave me." He said,
"I could never leave you, I will never leave you, Kol. You and me forever, remember?"
Adelina stood watching as Klaus, Rebekah and Kol burned the white oak tree to the ground. "Where will you go?" Adelina asked Kol,
"The Old World, where Mikael will never find us." He stated, Adelina nodded,
"Then I guess this is goodbye," She said,
"No it isn't," He said, holding her hands, "Come with me, we can travel the world with my family, and we can be together, you and me forever, Adelina." Kol said, leaning down to kiss her.
"Forever."
A/N: Kol apologized! Yay! I liked writing for a softer side of Kol. Now I know a few people were telling me about Adelina being like a battered wife, I'm not trying to make her all weak and submissive. Kol is an Original vampire that is essentially spoiled rotten, so he's not used to people telling him no. But anyway, review and tell me your thoughts!