Rebekah's back from fetching Jamie and Elijah has gone to persuade Bonnie to join them. It shouldn't be too hard, they took a nice photo of Jamie all tied up and bloody to show Bonnie. Caroline let slip to Nick that Bonnie was in love with Jamie, which made him the obvious choice to use. Bizarrely Kol can almost understand how using him might be as effective as threatening one of Bonnie's family members, and that's a thought he finds unsettling. Anyway, it makes Jamie pretty important in this whole plan. If Kol was Nick he wouldn't have sent Kol to retrieve the hostage either. Kol does have a tendency to become over excited when violence is involved and well, accidents do happen. Dead hostages aren't very useful to anyone, as hostages at least.

Right now Kol is in charge of guarding Jamie and he's been told not to touch him. Nick has promised that Kol will be the one who gets to hold Jamie while Bonnie does the spell, which is a win/win situation for Kol. He either gets his brother back or gets to kill Jamie. Hell, maybe he'll kill him anyway. He can't wait to have a use for the new knife he bought yesterday. It's so shiny and sharp and it's going to slice through skin and flesh brilliantly.

"That's the creepiest smile I've ever seen," comes Jamie's voice, "if you're trying to scare the shit out of me, it's working." Actually Kol hadn't been trying at all, he was just happy about the prospect of spilling some blood. Kol doesn't say anything, he just widens his grin and it has the desired effect, Jamie shrinks back and shuts the fuck up. Kol can barely contain his excitement; he almost wants Bonnie to refuse. It's been a while since he's killed and he is so looking forward to this.

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You can literally see the magic happening, the power pouring from one vessel into another. As Nick's shrivelled corpse begins to fill out, the opposite happens to Bonnie. She begins to fade and dry out and eventually she drops to the floor, dead as a maggot. Kol is still holding onto Jamie tightly, still holding the knife to his throat. It's worked; Nick's body is perfect as it ever was. Kol sinks the big blade into Jamie's neck and draws it forward, slicing through all those things that allow a body to move, swallow, breathe and transport oxygen. Jamie's blood gushes out, the hot liquid coats Kol's hands and the smell is delicious. Or at least it would be if it weren't for the undertones of digestive juices wafting up from Jamie's severed oesophagus. Some arterial spray hits Nick's coffin, it's like a toast to their triumph. Eventually Jamie stops struggling and Kol drops his twitching body to the floor. Kol takes a moment to admire the blood stained blade and then wipes it clean on his pants. Sometimes it's nice to use a knife, they are so much more precise than teeth or hands.

"Kol," Elijah reprimands, but there's no real anger in his voice, "was that really necessary? Look at the mess you've made."

"Better to tie loose ends up," Kol replies nonchalantly. "You wouldn't want him getting any silly ideas about revenge would you?"

"I suppose not," Elijah agrees, but his attention is already back on Nick. Nick's body stirs and he blinks. Tyler drops to the floor unconscious, or dead, either way it doesn't really matter to Kol. Nick climbs out of his coffin and they all breathe a sigh of relief, now things are exactly as they should be. Nick opens his arms and says "well come on then you lot, what are you waiting for? Group hug." He doesn't have to tell Elijah twice and Rebekah's pretty quick off the mark too. Kol's a little more reluctant, he doesn't really like this touchy-feely crap. But he moves forward anyway, so he's facing Nick and wraps one arm around Elijah and the other around Rebekah. He'll indulge them today, because nothing is more important than family.