February 2012
It was dark.
There were voices.
Male voices.
Two?
Yes, two voices.
Or were there four?
Two were close and two were far away. They sounded like they were in another room. They were arguing. The other two, they were close. Right above him.
He could smell them.
Vampires.
One was his brother. He was saying something to the other vampire.
"It shouldn't be long now."
"Just a few more minutes?"
He took stock of his surroundings. He didn't feel it. It wasn't there. The dagger had been removed from his heart. He was free.
He opened his eyes.
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Amneris bolted up in bed, gasping for air. She pressed her hand to her chest and felt for the dagger. She reminded herself that it was only in her dream. She didn't really have a dagger in her heart.
Her dream. She glanced down at her planner, resting at the side of her bed from where is spilled out from her purse. It was January 25 and Kol was going to wake up in February. February 2 to be more precise. It was going to be late at night when he awoke. Around midnight. His whole family would be there.
She needed to go.
Amneris had spent her whole life in Louisiana. Her mother raised her with a clan of fairies in New Orleans. She'd grown up around the supernatural, learning about the different species and learning about herself.
She'd known from a young age that there was a man out there destined to be her mate. Fairies dreamt of their chosen mate from a young age. They didn't learn the firm details until they were closer to their full maturity.
Amneris knew who Kol was three years before her maturity. She'd been seeing his face since she was fifteen. Heard his mane for the first time when she was eighteen. She first laid eyes upon him just months after her twenty-first birthday.
After he was daggered by his brothers, Amneris stayed where ever he was. In 1919, she followed his brother to the west coast. They stayed there for several decades before relocating to Virginia. She was never close enough for his brother to sense her. She always stayed about an hour away from where his body remained. She wanted to be close in case he awoke early.
Besides, his brother was always too concerned with his problems to notice a nearly extinct creature following him around for a century. She wasn't even sure if he even knew what she was. More than likely considering he'd been the king of New Orleans before he fled.
She checked her watch. It was three in the morning. She was an hour and a half outside of Mystic Falls. She had eight days until he awoke. She had eight days to gather the proper tools to protect herself from his unpredictable family. Eight days to find the appropriate place to stay and to figure out what she was going to say when she arrived on the front step of the Mikaelson mansion.
Elijah wasn't awake yet. She needed to wait for him to awaken before she traveled down south.
Elijah always seemed more reasonable.
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I'm aware of how long this chapter is not. It's kind of just a filler chapter. The next one is way better which is why I'm posting them at the same time. You're welcome! It's going to move pretty fast because the whole story is literally about Kol having a mate that's a supernatural species that people don't know a lot about.