Kol drew the short straw. He can think of somewhere he'd rather be but someone has to dump the bodies. Stealing an idea from his favourite TV show, Kol heads for the cemetery. It's a sound theory; better to hide a needle in a stack of needles than hay. He just hopes someone else has recently died in Mystic Falls or he's going to have to dig three times as far. Kol parks Elijah's convertible as close to the cemetery gate as he can. He scouts the cemetery for a fresh grave and he's in luck, hooray for the high mortality rate in Mystic Falls. He digs the grave deeper, till it's deep enough to fit two bodies, well one-and-a-half at least. When that's done Kol retrieves the bodies from the trunk of Elijah's car, if you can even call it a trunk. What a ridiculous car, Kol thinks, as he reefs the twisted body of Jamie out. He really had to squish him up to make him fit in there. Like his father always said, it's better to do a job properly in the first place. Kol knows he should've chopped them up first but he was in a rush and now it's taken longer anyway. Bonnie's not so bad. She's all shrivelled up which makes her smaller, but she's kind of dried out too and not as bendable. Oops. One of her arms snaps off as Kol pulls her out. Maybe Elijah's right and Kol is just messy, but it's not like he means to be, most of the time anyway.

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Crap, Kol's in for it now. Unbelievable. What is it with Jeremy and this cemetery? Why is he wandering around here at three in the morning? Kol knew it was only a matter of time before he copped this off Jeremy but this is sooner than he'd hoped. And there's no denying what he's up to, what Kol and his siblings have done. The evidence is lying dead in a hole six feet beneath his feet. He tries to wipe the blood from his hands off on his pants but it's sticky and it's too late anyway; you could say Jeremy's caught him red-handed. Kol remembers a second too late that most mortals aren't accustomed to seeing death like this, and Jeremy looks into the grave. Jeremy's eyes widen and Kol grabs Jeremy by the arm and pulls him back. Thank God it's too dark for Jeremy to have seen the gory details. But Jeremy's seen enough to know that exactly what he feared would be the outcome of their plan has happened. Kol sees it as nothing more that collateral damage but Jeremy won't see it that way.

"How could you? Bonnie didn't deserve to die," Jeremy says and the accusation in his eyes cuts through Kol like a knife.

"We did it for Nick," Kol simply says. If Jeremy can't understand that then Kol isn't sure he can explain.

"There must've been another way," Jeremy says, a little desperately.

Kol can see Jeremy's struggling to rationalise this, it's a dilemma anyone who becomes close to a vampire faces. There comes a point when one has to accept that vampires are killers. Then it's up to each individual to decide what it means for them. Some can handle it and some can't. So Jeremy needs to decide whether the killer part or the Kol part of the vampire standing in front of him is more important. If Jeremy doesn't run now then maybe, just maybe, they have a chance at a real and lasting friendship. And as much as it irks Kol to admit it, that's something he wants.

"Bonnie was a stranger to me and Nick's my brother. Choosing between them wasn't really a choice at all."

Jeremy still looks uncertain and Kol says the only thing he can think of that will sway this decision in his favour, "what wouldn't you do for Elena?"

That does it. Jeremy fixes his gaze on Kol. He gives Kol a look that says he can't argue with that, shrugs and asks, "need some help?"