Just because Jeremy's forgotten their kiss doesn't mean Kol has. The memory of it is still tingling on Kol's lips. Kol's not used to not getting what he wants and he's definitely not used to not wanting to want what he wants. Does that even make sense? Shit, at this rate his head might explode. A distraction. That's what's required in a horrific situation such as this. Kol supposes it's too much to hope that one will walk right in through the front door. Kol is pulled from that thought when the front door opens and Tyler walks in. No, not Tyler, Nick. Nick walks in like he owns the place, wait he does own the place, anyway that's not the point. The point is that it takes him all of five seconds to start handing out orders and Kol is so relieved. Trust Nick to brighten his day with the promise of a devious plot. Elijah and Rebekah walk into the room. Elijah is not surprised but Rebekah demands to know what Tyler is doing in their house.

"It's Niklaus," Elijah tells her. Nick smiles and extends his arms toward her, inviting her to embrace him. Realisation dawns on Rebekah's face and she strides towards him. Just as she reaches him Nick's smile vanishes and he backhands her across the face, knocking her to the ground.

"That's for killing my doppelganger."

Rebekah looks up at Nick, anger in her eyes and says, "I did it to avenge you."

Nick sighs and his anger drains away as he extends a hand to help her up.

"I know. That's why all you got was a smack in the face." Rebekah takes Nick's hand and he pulls her up and into a hug. When she steps back Nick looks at all of them in turn and it's obvious he's in charge again. The three of them look at him expectantly, awaiting orders; it's a relief to all of them not to have to make the decisions.

"I want my body back," Nick states, "it's far better looking than this one."

They all nod vigorously.

"Ain't that the truth."

"Here here."

"I know, right?" The three of them say, all speaking over the top of each other.

"Well, now we've agreed on that," Nick says with a smirk, "what are we going to do about it?"

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The plan is actually quite simple as far as plans go. Retrieve Nick's body and get the witch to reanimate it. Then Nick will do his spirit jumping thing and voila, original Niklaus is back. Nick was pretty peeved when he found out that none of them had brought his body home but Rebekah had told them it burst into flame. Really, what did he expect them to do? How were they supposed to know he'd used magic to preserve it?

The hitch in this plan will come somewhere around the part where they have to get Bonnie to cooperate. The obvious way to get her to help is to threaten her friends but this time it's a little more complicated than that. The catch is that for Bonnie to reanimate Nick's body an enormous amount of power, of energy is needed. A witch would normally be able to pull this energy from the earth, from nature, but what they hope to achieve is wholly unnatural and it won't work. The energy will have to come from within Bonnie herself and that makes this spell very dangerous. For the witch at least. There's every chance this will kill Bonnie and she's a seasoned enough witch to know that. Kol has no moral qualms about doing this, he and his siblings learned the hard way that witches cannot be trusted and using them as tools suits him just fine.

As far as they know Nick's body is still in the storage facility which is over a hundred miles away and for Kol that means a road trip. He's learned to drive since he woke up, cars are so much fun. It'd be even better if Kol had someone to ride shotgun, maybe Jeremy would be up for it?

xxx

Nick and Elijah have gone off to discuss secret big brother business, leaving Kol and Rebekah alone.

"Nick's not dead..." Rebekah points out with delight and Kol knows a threat when he hears one.

"So it would seem," Kol says.

Rebekah grins at Kol, she thinks she's won, but Kol's got one card left to play.

"Don't forget Finn," Kol reminds her, he knows it's an easy thing to do.

"You got me there," Rebekah says with defeat, but the smile on her face is unnerving. Kol knows she won't tell, for now at least, but he's got a feeling it's got less to do with their non-event brother and more to do with pulling the wings off a fly before you kill it.