When Kol shows up in Mystic Falls a lot has changed. Everyone's saying that Nick's dead but he's not sure he believes that. Nick is way too smart to be taken out by a bunch of amateurs like this. And he doesn't feel like Nick's dead, he's feels that Finn's dead but not Nick. For the sake of all the losers that live here they'd better hope Nick's dead, because Elena's a vampire and Nick's gonna be royally pissed off when he finds out, there'll be hell to pay. That brings a smile to Kol's face, he might just stick around long enough to see that, it sounds like loads of fun. But for now he'll seek out the irritation that is Jeremy Gilbert. Unfortunately he can't stop thinking about the brat and the sooner he's dead the better.

Being fittingly creepy for a 1000 year old vampire Kol is sulking around outside The Grill waiting for Jeremy to finish his shift. At around 9:30pm Kol sees Jeremy exit the building and begin his walk home. Kol follows from a distance, waiting for the best moment to strike. The path Jeremy takes home is a predators dream, he even cuts through the cemetery but Kol doesn't make his move. There's something about the way Jeremy's walking, the set of his shoulders, his slow pace, the way he kicks at a rock every so often. Kol's spent enough time with Jeremy to know he's upset. Kol quickens his pace to catch up with Jeremy, to find out what's wrong.

Jeremy is obviously startled when Kol falls into step beside him and Kol offers him a smile, easily falling back into the role of friend. Jeremy's surprise is quickly replaced by hostility, "what the hell are you doing here?" Ouch.

"That's no way to greet an old friend," Kol says pleasantly.

"Friend? Yeah right," scoffs Jeremy. Kol is surprisingly hurt by that, he's never actually done anything but be a friend to Jeremy. So what if his reasons were a little questionable?

Jeremy quickens his pace but Kol easily keeps up.

"What's wrong?" Kol asks and again is surprised, he actually sounds like he wants to know.

"Nothing," Jeremy spits out, "apart from the fact that I fucking hate vampires." Jeremy stops and turns to face Kol. The fire in Jeremy's eyes, the hatred Kol sees burning there is strangely thrilling. But behind all that is pain, too much pain for someone so young. Kol reaches out to touch Jeremy's arm, to what? to comfort him? And the realisation that he cares about what this boy, this mortal, is feeling, hits him and it frightens him. It scares the absolute shit out of him actually. And so Kol runs, this was not at all how there reunion was supposed to go.