Safest Haven
Chapter 8: Eternal Flame
"Close your eyes, give me your hand, darlin'."
─ The Bangles
Coming back to his brother's mansion, Kol quickly sped up to his room, not wanting anyone to notice. This is the first time Kol felt something just staked his heart, it was feeling heavy and stuck when she complained at him although hit never happen before. Why would he feel such feelings that only most humans can feel? He caught himself dealing with his emotions, he can feel them. He can feel.
Before he could thought more, he was distracted when he sensed his sister was actually there in the room—some kind like sobbing, he couldn't tell. "Rebekah." He muttered quietly while turning around to face his sister. "You came back." Rebekah's tears streamed down her face but she was smiling at the same time. She noticed the difference with Kol's current appearance, his haircut, it was no longer slicked upward and gelled to the side. Missing him, she quickly sped across to hug her dearest brother who was gone, but he immediately pulled out the hug. "Was it you?" He asked darkly.
"What about?" Rebekah frowned at him. "Was it you who told Nik about the new doppelganger?" He replied while looking at his sister. "I didn't!" She spat but this time he sensed a big lie inside her. "Lies." He murmured sarcastically while turning away, causing his sister to raised her voice. "Fine. But Nik figured out himself. He found a picture of you and her." She answered with honestly, finally. "I tried not to tell him and avoided him, but he was about to kill me, Kol."
"She is in the town. She might be harmed if she stay here." Kol affirmed. No matter how mad he was earlier, he spared a space to think about the girl he thought he develop a feeling for.
Rebekah scoffed while tilting her head at him, who seemingly to act like he was still ignorant to his siblings. "Why can't any of us think about each other even just for 5 minutes? I tried once! But Nik obsessed over doppelganger's blood. Elijah always left for unknown purposes. And there's you, falling in love with a weak! I don't see Matt anymore just for my siblings. Because of your mocks! And now what? Go back staring at yourself. You're being incredibly hypocritical!" She protested loudly—she hated the fact how his brother had gone hypocritical.
"That's enough." A noble voice was heard. It was calm and tender, but a little bit strict. No other that was Elijah's voice. "Get out of these Elijah. I knew you saved her. But I suggest you should leave this one to me. You know nothing." Kol hissed while keeping his distance with his siblings. "I knew almost everything, Kol. Victoria is a doppelganger from Tatia's identical sister. Katherine was at the dungeon, telling me and Klaus about everything." Elijah replied with calmness and then looked at both his siblings who were standing inches away. "But I was not completely sure if she told us everything. When she said the doppelganger before Victoria was deceased a long time ago, she sounded nervous. I can sense it,"
"If you are not sure then the doppelganger wench must have been around, Elijah. Stop with the doppelganger stuffs." Rebekah suggested with a frown drew across her face. It wasn't easy for her, almost all the time her siblings were busy of their own personal business.
"That's the matter. I don't know yet. But I can make sure she's safe, Kol. The Gilberts are not threats." Elijah convinced once again. "You only need to worry about Niklaus. He might gonna take your lover next time. Although I'm sure Victoria's blood can't be used to make hybrids as she wasn't in Tatia's family line, he won't stop."
Kol breathed out, remembering his brother hadn't come back yet. He was worried if he would run after her again. He knew what Klaus gonna do once he was obsessed; he will do anything to get Victoria. And if failed, he will just gonna retry what he did or manage his plans all over again. Nothing can stop him when he was obsessed over something, especially this was the doppelganger, although no one can make sure if her blood was useful.
"Do you have any idea where is he?" He asked but none of them responded yet. Until then Elijah finally spoke, "I don't have any idea. But I will inform you if I see him somewhere."
Elijah slowly walked outside the room, and turned around before completely left the room. "And Rebekah,"
She turned to him waiting for him to continue his sentence. After a long pause, he smiled and continued. "Never think that we are going to be broken into pieces although each of us had our own business. We are family. Always and forever."
The Next Day
"Morning." Someone said with a tone, causing Elena to suddely pushing Victoria as she reacted rolling from the bed and fell onto the ground. When she looked up, she saw Damon was leaning on the wall with a playful smirk. "Oh my god, damn it, Damon!" She groaned quietly while trying to get back to bed. Damon's eyes flickered down to a book on the table next to her bed, because of his curiousity, he opened the book and started to read the contents. "Dear diary, is this supposedly called falling in love? I'm kind of attracted to someone who—"
Victoria quickly stood up and cut him off from reading by grabbing the book. "Don't! Seriously." She made a face while retorting at him.
"As you wish." Damon smirked and turned to Elena who was squeezing her eyes open and yawned. "Damon why are you in our room?!" Elena asked rolling her eyes in sarcasm. "Oh crap. I almost forgot my intention of coming here. Doppelgangers sleeping in one bed was too hot and it distracted my head!" Damon said like an innocent while then smirked at the end of his sentence.
"Damon." Elena snapped as Damon rolled his eyes before telling his actual intention. "We are going to the woods."
"What for?" She asked while standing up next to her twin and looked at Damon once again. "Hunting practice." He stated while slowly walked away from the bed. "Quick, hop on!" He commanded, walking for the door.
The two doppelgangers remained quiet still, Victoria was kind of excited when she heard they were heading for hunting practice. She don't even know what was the purpose but she was sure it was for self-defense. Elena looked at her twin and said, "Let's hop on."
"Well, are we gonna be involved into the practice too?" Victoria asked as she tied her hair after giving out the question to her twin. "It's up to your choice. Me personally is lazy this morning, so I don't think I'm in."
Victoria nodded as she followed Elena who rushed downstairs only to see the others were preparing the weapons they were going to use for the practice, even Caroline, Bonnie and Tyler came to pick them up and helped them for the preparations. Tyler was amused to see the two identical sisters walking together downstairs. "Hey Tyler." Victoria greeted with a wide smile. "Hm. Elena?"
"Wrong. I'm Victoria." She giggled with her brows wiggled and joined the others before leaving the house to the woods near Lockwood's old property. "Crap. You two looked exactly alike. I need to be more detailed when guessing, yeah?" Tyler smirked while rubbing Caroline's back gently.
"I guess the weapons are enough. We're ready." Jeremy looked at Alaric and then nodded at everyone. "Alright, we're leaving now." Damon confirmed while pushing everyone outside and locked the door. "Is it far from here?" Victoria mused.
"Sort of. Want a lift?" Damon teased as his eyes blinked a couple of times. "No thanks." She rolled her eyes as Jeremy took her by her shoulder before Damon could tease more. "Hey, Jer." Victoria greeted while looking up at Jeremy's face. "Hey. Sleep well last night? I was worried because you cried after meeting Kol... Last night. Just wondering." He questioned in concern but was more worried if it annoyed her.
"Yeah. I slept well. No worries! I'm incredibly fine. Just... Fine." She answered with a confident smile at someone she considered as an already brother. Jeremy reminded her of her deceased brother because he was much like him. "You are telling the truth right?" He asked to make sure.
"Of course." She nodded, glad she was now feeling better. Thanks to the diary Elena gave. "I'm telling you the truth. Ask Elena. I slept well."
"That's great. I just want to make sure you're fine." Jeremy slightly smiled while still following the others walking into the woods. She only nodded and breathed out. "You reminded me of my deceased brother." She giggled softly.
"Like... Really?" Jeremy raised a brow. "Yeah, he overprotected me and cared about me more than anything else. And you did. I have considered you like a brother. Like my real brother."
"Thanks Vict. I have considered you like my sister too. I considered you as Elena's twin sister." He smiled. Vict was the nickname Kol gave her. Again and again, she thought of the guy, although it wasn't completely causing her heart to feel heavy after all. "What?" Jeremy shrugged, looking at Victoria who was quiet for a minute. "Nothing." She confirmed with a hesitate smile.
After walking for almost a long period of time, they've finally arrived into the woods near the edge of the Lockwood's old property, where Alaric put on a carpet which was usually used for picnics on the ground and dropped a bag of some snacks and drinks onto it. Jeremy led his sister and her twin to the carpet as they sat there together with Bonnie and Caroline who were managing the snacks and drinks. "Look what we've got here." Caroline said slowly as getting the stuffs out of the bag. "What are they usually hunting?" Victoria asked to Elena who was sitting beside her. "Alaric used to hunt vampires. But he won't do more now. So this is mostly a practice to defend themselves from vampire or hunters attacks." Elena explained to her twin.
"Ah.. I see." She responded with a nod as then she grabbed a bread from the food box Caroline served. Tyler slowly walked over the carpet to approach his girlfriend and get something to eat. "I want to transform into my wolf form tonight after a while on wolf form hiatus. It's a full moon tonight anyway." Tyler said to the blondie while caressing her hair. "Whoa whoa. Wait. He is a..." Victoria turned around and frowned at him.
"Hybrid? Yes." Caroline helped explaining to her. "Well. I was a werewolf until Klaus turned me into a hybrid." Tyler explained while shrugging. "And I forced to drink Elena's blood to complete my transition that time."
Victoria let out a small gasp. Now she knew why Klaus asked for her blood earlier; he wanted to create hybrids of his own. Klaus might gonna take her blood until she drained of blood because he might gonna stock her blood at a later time. "Elena's blood?" She asked, pretending like she didn't know anything yet. "Yeah. My blood." Elena sighed. "Apparently Petrova doppelgangers blood is the only way for him to create more army of hybrids. His hybrids."
"That means..." She paused as her jaw broke open. Elena then continued, "He took you because you're needed. Your blood is."
"No. I mean... Elijah told me that their mother made them immortal with Tatia's blood. And then Klaus used her doppelganger's blood to create his hybrids bloodlines..." Victoria mused, tried to figuring it out. Caroline who was previously leaning her body onto Tyler suddenly sat up and frowned, "Wait. You're descended from another Petrova... So that your blood possibly can't be used to create more hybrids..."
"But she's however a doppelganger. Although she wasn't in Tatia's family line." Elena pursed her lips.
"Probably only Tatia's descendants bloods that can be used." Stefan said, joining the discussion while crossing his arms, until Damon suddenly joining in. "Come on. What's with the fuss?" He rolled his eyes. "You. You. And, you. Let's do some tutorial. Get your asses up." He commanded, pointing to Stefan, Caroline and Tyler.
They nodded and followed Damon to start showing tutorials about the practice while the two doppelgangers started eating the snacks from the food box and watched the tutors practising about how to attack and defend themselves from any attacks. Elena quickly turned to her sister as no one was actually paying for attentions although their vampire and hybrid friends might hear. "How can you fall for an original? I'm sorry I sounded like I was unsure about you and him but I was just wondering." She asked firmly. This invited Victoria to smile softly at her twin. "Something pushed me to let myself talk with him that night. And I wasn't regretting. He's so kind and he cared about me, especially my parents weren't around that time. He came on the perfect timing." Victoria told her while eating the sandwich and then looked back at Elena. "I caught myself thinking about him all the time. And there I think I'm in love. I knew him like only for a week...weird, right?" She scoffed at her own statement.
"No. Not really. Me and Stefan fell in love most likely after a week meet and talk." Elena giggled softly and then reached her hand into the bag to grab two bottles of freshwater. "Really?" Victoria raised a brow and brushed her hair to her back. "Yeah. We actually have a lot of things in common. Almost everything, I can say." Elena titled her head while chuckling softly.
When they were busy talking, Jeremy suddenly threw his watch onto Victoria as he needed to demonstrate how hunters usually attack vampires to Caroline, Tyler, Stefan and Damon once again with Alaric. "What the hell Jeremy? I didn't even prepared to catch." She said grabbing the watch from the carpet. "Sorry! It's urgent." He grinned at her and focused back onto the practice.
"Alaric was a hunter. Jeremy learned to be one. They're some kind like pros." Elena said pointing at them who was standing far away from the carpet they were sitting on. "They are demonstrating so that Caroline and the others know exactly how to avoid hunters attacks." She added while handing the bottle over to her.
Victoria only nodded as they continued watching the tutors practising, and this time Jeremy was demonstrating to Caroline how hunters gonna kill vampires as she became the model. "Be careful. Or I'll ask Bonnie to curse you into a chicken. For real." Caroline practically commanded to Jeremy as he started to shoot the wooden stake to Caroline but she catch them, and then Jeremy ran to get to Caroline and was about to drift another stake to Caroline's heart. But he stopped right before it completely stuck into her heart for real. "That's how usually hunters did. And Caroline did a good self-defense."
"He did a good job back there." Victoria giggled and pointing to Jeremy. "Yeah. Told ya he was like a pro." Elena wiggled her eye brows and then reached her lips onto the bottle to drink the freshwater. Now Damon was demonstrating how to avoid hunters as Alaric play the hunter just in case they were getting caught. "Damon's good." Victoria teased Elena with a smirk. "What?" Elena glared at her twin. "So far I see you and him are together. Something special, like special special?" Victoria wiggled her brows.
"Well. I don't know. Sort of." She admitted quietly and continued watching them again. "Don't lie, Lena. I knew there's something between you and Damon. You're not with Stefan anymore, aren't you?"
"Yep. She's not with Steffy anymore." Damon rolled his eyes and then sat next to Elena on the carpet, joining her and Victoria. "Steffy?" She chuckled. "You mean Stefan? You like to make nicknames? Oh god." She put a hand on her forehead and scoffed. "And you. I would call you... Mmm, Vicki. Oh no. That's Matt's sister. Victory. Victo. Vict. Victra. Victro. Vi—"
"Shut up. Damon. Enough with the plays." Elena retorted and offered the lunch box of sandwich, although he didn't have to eat. "I was just giving nicknames, Elena." Damon narrowed his eyes as he grabbed one piece of the sandwich. "Thank you." He sang in a tone.
"Why don't you two join the practice?" Damon questioned with his icy blue eyes looked at the twins. "I don't want to. Besides I had to accompany my sister. Ok, Damon?" Elena replied simply.
"Well. Ok." He grinned as he continued eating the sandwich and watched the rest were still practising together with Elena and Victoria.
Arriving home, Victoria immediately went upstairs and ran for the bathroom to start taking a shower as then the others were downstairs, chilling out and talking randomly. Elena was waiting for Victoria because she also wanted to take a shower just like her. The two shared almost same things in common and they had a lot of same things they liked. That was why they considered each other as twin sisters from now on.
When she was done with the shower and all her clothes, she quickly went downstairs while drying her hair with the towel and saw Caroline, Tyler, Bonnie and Jeremy were sitting on the couch talking about random things. "Hey." Victoria greeted, joining the conversation, as then Jeremy concerned. "You looked worried. What is it?"
"I missed my vampire... Frie—"
"Crush." Caroline continued practically even before she could do. "Friend." Victoria finished her sentence awkwardly and then sat beside Jeremy on the couch. "Caroline." Bonnie sighed again.
"Kol isn't just her friend, Bonnie. It's obvious. She crushed on him. He did the same too." Caroline spat with Bonnie as she turned at the blonde vampire bestfriend slowly. And before Bonnie could countered her, Victoria already cut her off. "Yes. I mean. Yeah. I missed him but I don't know what is this inside me, it keep ordering that I should get away from him for a while."
Caroline rolled her eyes as Tyler chuckled and kissed her head before she groaned at the statement. "Let's have fun. No being labile about feelings. No Kol. No originals. Free. Just for a day!" She suggested. "Sounds... Fun. I'll go." Victoria nodded her head lightly and agreed at the idea Caroline gave.
"How you're going to have fun?" Jeremy raised a brow at Caroline while then Elena walked downstairs from her quick shower. "We're going to Mystic Grill this evening." Caroline said with a smirk, giving it out to all of them. "Cool. I'm in." Jeremy titled his head.
Suddenly, the door was knocked. When Damon opened up, he saw Sheriff Forbes was standing there holding a plastic of something. "Hey, Liz. Anything up?" Damon did his eye stuffs.
"Is Alaric Saltzman here?" Liz asked while narrowing her eyes. When he heard his name was mentioned, Alaric immediately walked out of the house followed by the others. "What is it, Sheriff?" Alaric gave a questioning look, and so was the rest of the group. Liz was quiet for a minute, thinking if she should ask him or not, but it was obvious. She came with the prove. "Mom? What's the matter?" Caroline asked, tilting her head as her mom haven't answered yet.
"I found this at Mr. Freya's house. He was found dead with this weapon stuck into his chest. I thought it was yours; your weapon." Liz told him eventually while showing up the plastic of a sharp-shaped stake. "It was a weapon for your hunting needs, isn't it? So I came by and asked if you had any problem with him."
"What? No. This clearly isn't my fault! I didn't kill someone!" Alaric snapped while frowning at the sheriff. "I wasn't trying to arrest you. Lucky I found the weapon by myself, no one saw it. I can cover this case, Mr. Saltzman." She told him.
"I don't know what happened. I.. I.. I never knew I came to the man's house." He snapped again as Liz let out a sigh and nodded. "Well, I will cover this case. But you have to tell me soon. Is that clear?" Liz asked reasonably.
"Yeah. Will do. Thank you sheriff." Alaric nodded as the sheriff walked away to her car after glancing at her daughter. Damon then led Alaric inside with Stefan and Jeremy as the rest remained outside. "Alaric kills?" Caroline looked at her bestfriends and boyfriend. "How?" Victoria frowned. "Yeah. How come? Mr. Saltzman is a good guy." Tyler spat.
"No idea." Elena shook her head and placed her head on her hand. "I don't believe it's him. I think he was trapped or something. Someone tried to get rid of him."
"Well, whoever that is, must be a supernatural creature. But at least my mom can cover up the case though." Caroline countered and hugged her bestfriends and boyfriend before leading them inside. "I killed someone?" They heard Alaric frustratedly asked his own self. "Stay calm, Rick." Stefan suggested as he saw Jeremy patted Alaric's back. "How? This is my weapon. Yes it was obvious. It looked exactly like this. But me? Killing someone?" Alaric mused and dropped the prove on the table next to the couch.
"There's probably another person with a weapon like this. Maybe another hunter?" Elena helped to make a better situation. And there Victoria joined the conversation along, "But that does not explain Mr. Freya, Lena. Well, I don't know him but I've got the feeling that he is not one of supernatural beings. So none hunters would kill him. But I wasn't going to make it sound harsh! I didn't suspect Alaric as the murderer."
"I knew him." Alaric spoke lightly. "He is an old friend of mine. And he mocked me once. Probably I was angry."
"So.. There's another you, an angry you, inside you?" Caroline blinked a couple of times as he countered. "Possibly. I don't know. Do I have to call Dr. Fell to help me about my condition?" He asked and looked at every of them.
Elena hissed but then Alaric convinced her about Meredith, aka Dr. Fell. "Elena I knew you didn't like her. But she's good. Give her a chance? Please?" Alaric asked.
"Fine. Call her." Elena nodded. "Who's Dr. Fell?" Victoria asked confusedly. "A current high-ranked doctor in the local hospital. She used to come here almost quite often, before you came." Elena explained while sitting back on the couch and breathed out as Victoria sat next to her.
Later that evening, as Caroline promised, the group went to the Mystic Grill excluding Alaric, Stefan and Damon who were staying at the Gilbert's house. Right when they entered, they saw a crowd surrounding a stage as a band was playing music but then they walked through them and stood in the middle of them. They danced around to the music until then Victoria spotted Kol was at the bar drinking some shots of whiskey—she was no longer focused dancing with her friends; and they noticed that. "Ugh. Plan distracted." Caroline rolled her eyes looking at Victoria who was looking at the guy nearby the bar table. "Victoria. A day without the originals. Remember?" Caroline snapped as she grabbed her by her shoulder. "Well. Fate won't let me do so. Everytime I tried to get him rid of my head, something distract it. I miss him but I don't wanna talk to him. That's incredibly weird," she answered shrugging.
"Then don't." Tyler simply suggested while wiggling his brows at her. "I don't know... It's something. A feeling. I don't know. Labile." Victoria sighed quietly as then Caroline groaned. "Instead of you being labile, I'll sing."
"You're gonna sing like last year?" Elena raised a brow. Caroline only nodded and walked to the stage as the band was done; she grabbed the microphone and gave a speech before she started to sing. She immediately compelled the band's singer when he tried to get the microphone back and then whispered to his ears that she was going to sing Eternal Flame. "This song is for my beloved new best friend. Victoria. And well my only boyfriend.. Tyler." Caroline grinned while pointing at them, as Kol noticed Victoria was there.
Close your eyes, give me your hand, darlin'
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Is this burning an eternal flame
While Caroline started singing, she enjoyed it and then looked at Kol who was sitting at the bar's chair and was also looking at her. But then she looked back to Caroline on the stage and enjoyed the song. "She should be a real singer. I loved her voice!" Victoria chuckled and looked at her friends. "Yeah. Me too." Tyler smiled at Victoria before looking back at Caroline who was staring at him while singing.
I believe it's meant to be, darlin'
I watch you when you are sleeping
You belong with me
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame
Once again Victoria looked at Kol and still, he was still staring at her. She practically rolled her eyes and breathed out, musing about if she should confront him or not. Her heart beat faster and faster as everytime she looked at him, he was keeping an eye on her.
Say my name
Sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling, oh...
Victoria finally came across him with an embarrassed smile as she brushed her hair through her ears. "Hey." She took a deep breathe as Kol smirked at her. "Evening."
"Don't smirk. Just... For a minute." She practically commanded while closing her eyes as he chuckled at her. "Well, as you wish." He smiled.
She sat next to him as Elena, Jeremy, Bonnie and Tyler looked at her and Kol; although the whole plan was ruined, they were happy that now she didn't looked so depressed than earlier before. "I'm sorry for being rude... Yesterday. It was just me being labile. Unstable." She admitted with a scoff at her own self. "I caught myself thinking about you. You're my friend, but I acted like a bitch."
"At least you are not one." He smiled at her and dropped his glass on the table. He adored her eyes, it was beautiful; although Elena and Katerina has the same, but Victoria's was more adorable. "So do you forgive me now?" He raised his brows at her as she nodded lightly. "Well... I can't stay mad at you for anything. I don't have anymore reason to be. So yeah, I do forgive you." She replied as Tyler rushed himself to the stage and hugged his lover as Jeremy busy looking at Victoria and Kol. The crowds were shouting at the lovers but Jeremy, he was still scanning the two. "Were they just got reunited?" Jeremy frowned as Elena turned to him and saw Victoria and Kol. "Why you jealous?" She chuckled while looking back at the stage and clapped. "No. It's not that! I mean she's my distant sister too, as she's, somewhat, your distant sister. There's no jealousy in my dictionary!" Jeremy said. "But—"
"Let them be, Jer." Elena tilted her head while staring at him before leaving him with Bonnie to the table. "Love isn't about to force or to keep the couple away. When they meet, leave them be, let them rise their romance. Their love."
As they were confronting the table, and Jeremy did too, Kol pulled her hands and headed outside the grill while chuckling. Jeremy was about to spy them but both Elena and Bonnie blocked off his way. "What, I was just going for the toilet!" Jeremy spat.
"Okay. Go. I'm right behind you." Bonnie stared at him who looked surprised that she would follow. "You're not allowed to come inside." He raised a brow.
"No, but I'll be waiting outside." Bonnie giggled while looking at Elena who was smirking. "We knew you are going to spy her and Kol. Such a protective new brother, eh?" Bonnie teased.
At the Wickery Bridge, there was Kol and Victoria walking together and talked about Kol's activities while he was gone. Kol felt like he was back in New York, accompanying her until he forgot about time. As the day was getting darker and darker as it was late, Kol initiative to took her somewhere while talking a little bit more further about each other. "I'm thinking if I could take you somewhere? Trust me, darling, you will fancy the view." Kol glared at her, waiting for her to respond.
"Sure. Take me. I won't mind." She giggled as Kol carried her bridal style and sped into the woods in which she remembered she was near there last night. It was like 100 miles per second when he ran─and it was kind of breathtaking for her. "Woah. That was... Wow! God. I thought my heart left somewhere when you ran carrying me last time." She blinked, amazed by what she just through and laughed softly.
Kol only chuckled at her statement and then offered his back towards her. "Ride my back, hold on and close your eyes. I will show you something."
She smirked at the minute while thinking, and then immediately ran onto his back. "Ready darling?" Kol smirked. "Yeah." She nodded lightly as he started to climb up a tall huge tree in front of him. "Woah. Wait are we running again or?" Victoria smiled as she was still closing her eyes. "Incorrect answer. I shall punish you later." He joked.
"Not funny." She said practically as Kol was still climbing to reach the top of the tree. When they were arrived on the top, he dropped her next to him as he held her hands tightly. "Open your eyes now." He commanded. When she opened her eyes, she saw she was already on a tree in the middle of the forest, but she can also saw the town from there. "Oh my god. Kol.. We are on top of a tree!" She exclaimed and then stared at Kol. "You serious?"
"I am. Take a deep breathe and look around. If you scared, remember I'm holding your hands." He grinned. Victoria started to get a little nervous, but then she finally tried to do what he said. When she looked around, all she saw was a wonderful view, it was beautiful. "I made my point. It's beautiful. Isn't it?" He prove as he was still holding her hand, and then his other hand brushed her hair through her ears.
She nodded slowly as she was still amazed by the view up there. "Yeah. It is."
They spent hours there talking and joking until the moon was completely up on the sky. Kol decided to climb down the tree and walked back to the crowded street. Victoria was impressed that she actually was on top of a tree, and she was incredibly happy tonight. As soon as Kol was about to climb down, she wrapped her arm around his icy pale neck and climb onto his back and giggled. "Do I need to close my eyes?" She asked, raising her eye brows.
"Your choice." He smirked as he started to climb down the tree. She literally gasped when he began to climb down with his ability. "Oh god." She chuckled.
"Don't worry. Hold on me and you will not fall." He told her.
Along the climbing session, she let out a lot of small gasps and chuckles at the same time because of the new experience she through, especially the tree was huge and tall. But she was glad that now they were almost arrived down the ground. "This is the first time I got to through this new experience." She told.
Kol chuckled as he jumped onto the ground from the tree as it was no longer far from the ground. "I can bring you here everyday if you wish."
"No. You will just cause my heart to stop beating." She said while releasing her arms from his neck and walked with Kol along the way. But he stopped when he heard a growl from somewhere around them. "What?" She asked.
"I heard growl." Kol informed her as he backed her off behind him to keep her safe. Victoria gulped and stared at him, "A werewolf?"
He nodded and looked around until he found a black furred werewolf was near the tree across them. "There." He growled, causing her to look over the werewolf which was in wolf form as she remembered it was full moon tonight. "Wait. That's Tyler!" She told him. Tyler then jumped to Kol and accidentally bit his wrist before Kol threw him away. "Oh god, Kol!" She exclaimed while approaching him. She remembered when she read supernatural books, it was told that werewolf or hybrid's bite can result fatal death to vampires. "You will die..." She started to cry.
"I'm an original. It won't kill me but it will weaken me for a few hours." Kol said while looking at the bite on his wrist. "I might hallucinate for a while. Go home, Victoria. I fear I will harm you. Run!" He ordered loudly as he heard the growl was still around. She nodded and started to ran as fast as she could to get out of the woods but there was a rock that caused her to fell down.
"Victoria? What happened?" Caroline suddenly came and helped her standing up. "Oh crap. Blood." She frowned as she spotted a wound on her leg due to a sudden stracth when she fell.
"Tyler..." She panted as she tried to explain. "He bit Kol. He was weakened now. I'm afraid he can't do anything for a while."
"What? Hybrid bite takes effect on an original too?" Caroline asked Victoria. "Only for a few hours. He told me. He might hallucinate too. Caroline I'm afraid if something happens to him."
"Okay. Let me take you home first." Caroline declared while carrying her and started to ran to the Gilbert's. When they were arrived, Caroline dropped her right on the terrace and ordered, "I'm gonna get back to the woods to check the situation, alright? Go inside." Caroline ordered as she left in blur.
Victoria immediately knocked on the house's door as Jeremy opened. "Victoria?" He frowned while carrying her inside. "What happened?" Elena gasped and the others were paying attentions to look after her.
"Tyler bit Kol. He's weakened and possibly hallucinating. I ran and fell but Caroline was there and helped me." Victoria explained and Jeremy took her upstairs to her room.
"I thought it won't take effects on an original?" Elena grabbed a bowl of hot water and a tiny small towel while throwing her a frown. "It does take. It will weaken him for a few hours." Victoria explained.
"Does he need Klaus to cure his bite?" Elena asked as she started to dipped the towel into the bowl and wiped it onto her injured leg. "I had no idea," she whined. "I'm so worried of him, Lena."
"Hey. Hey." Elena whispered while still wiping her twin's injured leg to clean it. "Listen to me. He's an original. Nothing can kill him. Remember?" She comforted Victoria.
"Yeah. Okay." Victoria nodded.
Somewhere in Bulgaria
Katherine walked to a room slowly as she saw two servants were standing near the door. "Iskam da vidya sestra mi." She commanded the servants who quickly opened the door for her.
"Zdraveite, sestra." Katherine walked over a chair where a young lady that looked like her was sitting there. "Everyone in Mystic Falls started to notice your descendant's existence now." She informed while running her fingertips to the chair's body.
"Do you mean Victoria?" The lady started to sat and looked at Katherine. "Yes. What to do now, sister?" Katherine asked with a smirk. "I also told them that you died after giving birth hundred years ago."
Katherine's sister replied also with a playful smirk. "Nice job, Katerina. And now we go to Mystic Falls. I wanna see her so bad. Are you with me?"
"Ofcourse. I will be by your side as always." Katherine spoke manipulatively while hugging her sister. "Good. I'll get myself prepared. I'll get going in a day or two. Let's see if I don't have business to attend. Ok?"
"Ok." Katherine smiled and then sat on the chair as she watched her sister get packed. It's gonna be magical once her sister showed up and she can't wait for the showtime.
"Iskam da vidya sestra mi." = "I wish to see my sister."
"Zdraveite, sestra." = "Hello, sister."
Author's Notes: NEW CHAPTER YAY! It reached 6k+ words this time. :O Anyway, thanks for the reviews from previous chapters! :) I'm kind of excited when I was writing this chapter... So many unforgettable moments! :') Koria is back! Katherine has a sister who's actually Victoria's ancestor that was informed to be dead by Katherine earlier! ;) What do you think?! Please leave some reviews if you are enjoying? It will motivate me to write more chapters!
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