Davina woke up to the earth shaking. She somehow ended up with her head in Kol's lap comfortably lying on her side.
"What is happening?" She pulled herself away from him and felt the hand that was on her hip slide away. She felt cold without that touch which should have been strange since he is a ghost but he felt warm to her touch.
"Not to worry, darling." He looked at her, "It's far away from here."
"What is? What's going on?" guess he will have to tell her the truth or something similar to it.
"It started a couple of weeks ago. I think. Time here feels like it moves so much faster, at least, it feels like I have been here for years. Whatever or whoever is doing it opens holes in this plane, sort of like a black hole that devours everything that is near. A lot of people got sucked in already. But I am really good at avoiding them and knowing how far away you need to be to be safe. As I said: not to worry, darling!" He smirked at her.
That calmed her down and she visibly relaxed once again and moved a bit closer to him. "This is not what I expected the afterlife to be like."
"You and me both, darling."
The ground was shaking again. This time, around Kol didn't calm her down. Instead, he took a hold of her hand and quickly stood up. He helped her up and dragged her towards the cave entrance.
"Are you mad?" Davina tried to get out of his grasp. That cave looked too dark and too small after the time she spent in the dark among the ancestors. She definitely didn't want to go inside. In fact, she wanted to stay far far away, even if she felt safe with him which was still too weird for her to deal with choosing denial as a tactic.
"It's too close, Davina! It will suck us in if we don't!" Those caves were a safe hideout like the once he and his family used in his youth to hide from the wolves. But he knew that Davina didn't want to go inside. He knew what it was like to spend too much time in a coffin. He did repeatedly and he could still remember the claustrophobia that followed each of those times his brothers decided he was to be put away.
He tugged her towards the cave once more and she went this time. Once inside he led her through tunnels further and further away from the entrance. She tripped over every stone because she couldn't see and if it wasn't for Kol she would fell flat on her face.
"How can you see anything?" She asked as she stumbled once again.
"Vampire senses, darling." He didn't even phase like it was a given.
She abruptly stopped and let go of his hand: "You said you were a witch."
"No, love. I said I used to be one. Mummy dearest had a different idea." Even to his ears, that sounded way too bitter. He hoped he would get the magic back here, but that was a lost cause. His magic was gone and he wasn't ever going to get it back.
"Your mother did this to you?"
"She was protecting us!" He spat out with hate. "The better way would have been to just kill father dearest."
"I am sorry." She realised in that moment that they probably had more in common than it seemed at first glance. She reached out her hand to the direction of his voice and he found it with ease.
"Long time ago now, love. Didn't stop me from trying to get the magic back, though. Studied every bloody magic on this planet."
They started walking again until they arrived to a small cave with a fluorescent pond in it. The pond provided enough light for her to be able to see again. She looked at Kol again and for the first time, he actually looked like the ghost he was.
"How long until it's safe again?"
"Probably not for a long time. A couple of hours before the rift moves again. Until then, we are stuck here. Don't worry, I would be able to hear it move." She let him lead her near the pond and sit down next to it.
There was a comfortable silence while Davina looked around the cave. Kol kept watching her. She was still like a puzzle he wanted to solve and the only thing that made him feel alive in months. The second he convinced her to bring him back, he is going to go back to Mystic Falls and finish what he started. After all, the Gilberts more than deserve his wrath.
"How did you die?" She asked softly, interrupting his thoughts, "If you don't mind me asking."
He looked at her. Well, what can he say without telling her who exactly he was? After all, Klaus wasn't her favourite person, not even by a long shot.
"I came to a town called Mystic Falls. I was there to help my family. Never should have returned, but my sister called and I came." The same sister that grieved all of 24 hours, "See, she was looking for a cure for vampirism."
"There is a cure?!" She looked at him like he just told her he is God himself.
He smirked: "Not anymore. There was only one dose. I am getting to that. Patience, darling."
"When I tried to help her, I found out that they were, in fact, other players trying to wake up Silas. An immortal being that was prophesied to raise hell on Earth. I couldn't have that. So, instead of helping my sister, I tried to warn them. When that didn't work, I tried to stop them. They killed me for it instead. And just as I predicted, Silas turned out to almost do just that. I died for nothing, trying to do the right thing for once in my life. And my family, their big grief lasted less than a bloody day." He spat the last part out with as much bitterness as he could manage.
"I am so sorry." She said and squeezed his hand. He just smiled at her sadly, not even his family managed to say those words to him, instead, he heard them from a girl that he hardly knew and was planning on using. It almost made him feel guilty.
"Ah, well. Not your fault, darling. Anyway, there is much more we can talk about." He smirked at her and suggestively rose his eyebrows at her, making her laugh.
"Why do I have a feeling you flirt too much?" she asked giggling.
"Because you are smart," He answered still smirking at her.
"Well, tell me a story then. You traveled the world and studied every magic available. I never stepped a foot outside of New Orleans."
And so he talked. Adventure after adventure. And he made her laugh and he made her breath stop with suspense. He has always been a good storyteller.
Soon this has become their routine. When the rift came, they would come into the cave and he would talk for hours. They would take walks around the forest and he would keep her away from everyone else. She was his and he wasn't bloody sharing. He would teach her magic and they would play mind games with one another. They would run from the black holes and Kol would try to keep her from seeing the true nature of this place. The trapped souls of all the supernatural beings, some of them wandering aimlessly others fighting but never really getting anywhere. They would hear the screams of those sucked into oblivion and whenever they would see another soul, exhausted one or angry one, all of them would be scared with that haunted look in their eyes that Davina saw on her own when Marcel saved her.
After a few days, Davina understood why Kol said he felt like he was here for a century. Eventually, the days blended together for Davina and she became more and more dependent on Kol until she realised one day, she couldn't go back and leave him behind. That day she decided that Kol was going back with her. She wasn't going to leave him in this hell. He was what kept her from falling apart in this place and he was what saved her all those days ago. All she really had to do was to link them together. And when she would pass, the ancestors will bring Kol without even realising it. She wouldn't even have to tell Kol.
And so, she waited until he was tired as well. Funny how you don't need to eat, but you need to sleep. He didn't have to sleep as much as she did, but he still needed to from time to time. The spell wasn't hard, a simple incantation and a little bit of a blood bond. Since Kol taught her that, she knew it was going to work. So, when Kol fell asleep, she kneeled next to him and started chanting. She only stopped when she felt the spell take hold. Taking the sharp-edged stone she found a day earlier, she cut Kol's palm. He didn't even flinch. Probably unable to feel the prick to his skin, being a ghost and all. She then proceeded to do the same with her own palm. She took his hand and muttered the last verses of the spell. All of a sudden, she could feel him. She could feel so much more. It was like her eyes were finally able to see. The whole world transformed in a matter of seconds. This must be what Kol saw the world like every day. It was amazing and it made her head spin. She lied down next to him and just watched him sleep for a while before she drifted to sleep as well, never letting go of his hand.
A/N: Well, I hope you liked. Again, let me know what you think.