The following night Kol finds himself outside The Grill waiting for Jeremy again. It's ridiculous right? But here he is. Something Jeremy said is playing on his mind. I fucking hate vampires. It's understandable but Jeremy can't really mean it, can he? Elena is a vampire and Jeremy could never hate her. Kol's mind goes over and over these thoughts. God, it's so frustrating, why can't he get this crap out of his head? In a what-the-hell-am-I-doing moment Kol realises he's being stupid. He's standing out here waiting for a mortal, an annoying mortal, a mortal he'd rather was dead. Screw this, he's gonna go inside and sort this out right now. As Kol heads towards the door he passes Tyler and Caroline. Tyler has his arm around Caroline and a familiar smirk on his face. No way. Kol turns, continuing to watch them; it's him. Tyler turns back to look a Kol and when he winks Kol knows for sure it's Nick. A grin slides onto Kol's face, well done Nick, saved himself and got the girl.

Seeing his brother helps Kol remember who he is, what he is and with renewed determination to make Jeremy suffer, Kol walks inside.

Kol's going to rip Jeremy apart and he's going to enjoy it. He's going to make sure Jeremy lives long enough to see his own guts spilling out and then he's going laugh when Jeremy's eyes go dull and his blood runs across the floor. It's exciting. Just wait till he gets his hands on Jeremy, when he sees him he'll...smile and say hello?

"You again?" says Jeremy in reply and carries on with his work.

Kol finds himself following Jeremy to the bar and sitting down. Jeremy dismisses him and goes back to work. Kol watches Jeremy as he waits tables, it looks so boring. What Jeremy needs is some fun. They used to play baseball together for a bit of fun and Kol sees no reason why they couldn't do that again. Kol decides to ask Jeremy and as he walks towards Jeremy the strangest feeling overcomes him. Kol's stomach flutters and his memory is cast back a thousand years to when he was mortal. He knows this feeling, what is it? It comes to him just as reaches Jeremy. Nerves, he's nervous and that doesn't make any sense at all...except, what if Jeremy says no?

"Fancy a game of ball tomorrow?" Kol asks Jeremy as Jeremy turns away from a table he's just cleared. Jeremy frowns slightly in suspicion or maybe just confusion, either way, it's endearing.

"You wanna move out of the way? I'm working."

"Not until you answer my question." Kol says.

Jeremy rolls his eyes and tries to move around Kol but Kol steps in front of him. Kol blocks Jeremy's path which causes Jeremy to drop one of the plates he's holding. Kol swoops down and grabs it before it hits the floor and places it back top of the pile Jeremy is holding. Jeremy looks at Kol gratefully and Kol finds it strangely satisfying.

"So, I'll meet you at the park tomorrow after school?" Kol half asks, half tells Jeremy.

"Alright, fine. I'll meet you there tomorrow if you'll get out of my way now."

"Lovely," grins Kol and he steps aside to let Jeremy pass.

xxx

Bloody hell. What the fuck was that? This is far more serious than Kol realised. One look at the boy and all thoughts of hurting him dissolved in...what? Christ, how had he gone from lovely, murderous plans to arranging a bloody playdate in the park? He's seriously losing it. His siblings always said he was on the edge, maybe he's finally fallen over it, gone crazy. No, no. This must just be what they call temporary insanity. He's not crazy. Crazy people don't know their crazy, do they? Shit. He just needs to kill something, that'll make him feel better. Jeremy, he'll kill Jeremy. Tomorrow he'll have the perfect opportunity. When it's just the two of them and Kol has a baseball bat in his hand surely he'll feel inspired to crack Jeremy's skull.

AN: Thanks to everyone for reading this story. Just wanted to let y'all know that I will be away for the next week so I won't get a chance to post another chapter until around the 17th.