A/N: I can't believe how long this chapter took me to write! Also I'm sorry it wasn't up sooner, this chapter has so much going on. Do not ask about the M&M's haha I was eating them while writing this and I thought they should be involved. Also I imagined the flight to be like one of them two aisle planes so just letting you all know if you get confused with the seating arrangements. (Just want to add I got the words vacant and engaged muddled up sorry!) Thank you guys!
Chapter Nine - M&M's or Eminem?
Delta Flight 394, to Orlando.
The plane was filled with many passengers all wanting a quick getaway to Orlando. Caroline's five tickets were all seated next to each other towards the front of the aircraft, what meant Bonnie, Elena and Caroline got to sit together, while Matt and Jeremy were in the seats across. The Salvatores were only six rows back. Stefan made sure he got the window seat after a quick dispute with his brother, however it was all resolved once Damon saw a fiery red head sitting on the edge of their row. Finally the originals were the last to board. Their seats were positioned in the middle of the aircraft. Rebekah demanded she would have one edge near an aisle before any of her brothers would complain. Klaus promptly sat in the middle seat as Elijah sat behind them both on the final free chair. Kol looked intently at his eldest brother as he saw his seat was next to the Hybrid.
"Elijah can we swap places?" He begged. Klaus glanced up at him smiling.
"I don't bite brother."
Kol's eyes widened at his comment.
"Okay, there are so many flaws with what you just said, but seriously Elijah can we swap?"
Elijah rubbed his temples while deciding whether or not to give in.
"No." Was his reply.
"What?!" If Kol's eyes were not wide enough then, they certainly were now.
"I'm sick of you two acting like children, so no. You can sit there and enjoy each others company for the next two hours." He hissed and dramatically flung open the plane's magazine. Kol was about to say 'What sort of children do you see puncturing the other ones stomach?' however he decided not to dwell on it. Klaus on the other hand, was relishing in his brothers distress and patted the seat with his hand insisting him to sit . Kol glared at Elijah unimpressed as he grudgingly took a seat next to Klaus.
"See, now that wasn't so hard brother." Klaus teased him.
"I'm not your brother." Kol jeered and frustratingly settled his self into the chair.
"Nik, Kol, please!" Rebekah complained leaned over to glower at her brothers. Klaus chuckled knowing that this flight was going to be the perfect way to show his brother exactly what he's like. Meanwhile, Kol pulled out his headphones to block out Klaus, however he forgot all about the battery failure this morning.
"God damn it!" He cried.
"How far back are Stefan and Damon?" Elena asked the girls once she locked in her belt. Caroline turned around to take a look.
"One, two...Six." She counted.
"Six rows? I thought they'd be further." Bonnie added.
"Clearly not." Caroline uttered as she noticed Klaus only a few more rows behind the Salvatore's. He smiled sweetly at the blonde to which she tutted and swished back round.
"You okay there?" Elena mentioned.
"Yeah I'm fine just being irritated by a hybrid that's all." She folded her arms.
"Tyler?" Bonnie questioned. Caroline looked at the witch in complete shock.
"No!" She protested.
"She meant Klaus, Bon." Elena whispered.
"Girls can you be quiet? Klaus is probably listening in to what we are saying." Caroline muttered fairly annoyed.
"Well isn't Tyler irritating you as well?" Bonnie wanted to know what was going on in her friends love life.
"What makes you say that?" Caroline raised her eyebrows. Bonnie hesitated, not sure with what to say.
"Because for one reason, he isn't actually here with us Care?" Elena helped. Caroline was the one now hesitating and avoiding the girls contact.
"Just because I didn't invite him doesn't mean there is anything wrong?"
"You didn't invite him?" Bonnie looked surprised. Caroline knew she put herself in it now.
"Okay, me and Tyler are just going through a rocky time right now." She shrugged hoping this would end the interrogation.
"A rocky time?" Elena asked.
"Yes, come on Elena, you and Stefan had like gazillion of those." Caroline blurted.
"Caroline!" Bonnie argued.
"No it's fine Bon, Caroline is right." Elena smiled, however she hid that she was a bit peeved at her vampire friend for saying what she did.
"Sorry 'Lena..." Caroline uttered.
"It's cool." Elena patted her arm, "We are only asking because we care." Her smile was warm. Caroline gave in.
"I think Tyler is cheating on me..." She whispered so quietly to make sure none of the other vampires on board (Klaus) could overhear.
"Tyler wouldn't do that?" Bonnie assured.
"Who with?" Elena asked also toning down her voice.
"Haley."
Suddenly, both of the girls groaned at the blonde.
"Caroline not this again?" The witch complained.
"I thought this had already been resolved?" The vampire sighed. Caroline watched her two friends turn on her.
"Well thanks for the support guys..."
"Yes but you got paranoid over completely nothing last time." Bonnie replied.
"It wasn't over nothing! What would expect if a girl randomly appeared AND was strangely close with your boyfriend?... Wait didn't the exact same thing happen to you with towel girl?" Caroline once again snapped at her vampire pal.
"Her name was Lexi, and yes we understood about the last time, but we also know that nothing was going on between them, so what has changed your mind this time?" Elena continued to ignore the bitchy comments being thrown at her.
"Suspicious text messages." Caroline frowned.
"You looked through his phone!" Bonnie was utterly appalled.
"Don't give me that Bonnie, we've all done it." Caroline hissed.
"I certainly haven't." She disputed. The girls turned straight at Elena for her answer.
"Well, I wouldn't say I have never glanced over a couple of text..." She shrugged.
"Thank you!" Caroline finalized. Bonnie sat in her seat scowling at the other two.
"Hello and thank you for flying with Delta Airlines. Shortly we will be demonstrating our pre-flight safety instructions but for now would you all make sure your hand luggage are in the correct compartments and you are seated with your seat-belt safely fastened. Thank you." One of the air hostess announced through the intercom.
The girls made sure their belts were on before continuing their discussion.
"So, what kind of texts did you find?" Bonnie bravely asked.
"Can we please talk about this later? This is something I'd much rather chat about with a few cocktails in my system."
Approximately forty minutes into flight...
"Okay, who would you rather kill Klaus or Kol?" Jeremy asked his fellow human companion.
"What kind of question is that?" Matt laughed.
"Meh, I'm running out of questions. We've been playing this for half hour." Jeremy sighed with boredom.
"Has it really only been half an hour?" Matt now breathed in annoyance. Jeremy nodded and rested the back of his head on the seat rest and Matt followed. unexpectedly, the plane shook as it hit an air pocket.
"Man, I hate turbulence." The quarterback uttered as he took hold of the arm rests.
"Tell me about it. I hate flying in general." Jeremy replied. The two guys sat in silence for a few seconds before Matt spoke out.
"Kol." He remembered.
"Huh?"
"I can tolerate Klaus but not Kol, so I'd rather kill him." Matt shrugged.
"Ahh right." Jeremy smiled in agreement.
"My ears are burning..." Kol sing-songed as he appeared by Jeremy's side. Matt tensed at the sight of his enemy while Jeremy rolled his eyes frustratingly.
"What do you want? And you shouldn't be standing with all this turbulence anyway." Jeremy frowned.
"Turbulence?"
"The shaking of the plane?" Matt stared at him like he was stupid.
"Ohh." Kol pondered, "Perhaps I should be sitting down then." He sneered before taking his place in the free chair next to Jeremy.
"Seriously man?" Matt groaned and turned his head to look out of the window to ignore Kol.
"I'm having a feeling we all got off on the wrong foot?" He mused at the two uninterested humans.
"You've got that right." Jeremy scoffed. Kol leaned back in his chair amused.
"If I happened to apologize, would that help me in any matter?"
"No." Matt answered, still facing the window.
"Fine, then I won't apologize. Just warning you, it's a limited deal, once we get off this flight it will expire." Kol smirked as he rested his arms behind his head. Once again, the humans exchanged exasperated breaths towards the original. Kol noticed a oddly yellow colored packet on Jeremy's fold out table.
"What are they?" He asked. His questioned had both of their's attention.
"M&M's?" Jeremy raised his eyebrows.
"Rebekah told me that was some sort of musician?" Kol stared at him bothered. Out of the blue, Matt and Jeremy bursted into hysterics.
"Why are you two laughing?" Kol lowered his eyebrows, greatly angered.
"That's Eminem." Matt managed to say in between breaths.
"Yes, isn't that what I just said?"
"Not exactly." Jeremy said. Matt watched the original look deadly confused.
"You seriously haven't got a clue about much, have you?" He smiled smugly. Kol glared knowing the answer to the question.
"I know the basics..." He mumbled.
"Wow." The two guys muttered.
"You try entering a foreign world and having to learn everything you thought you once new, all over again?" Kol scowled before looking back at the M&M's packet. Matt and Jeremy looked surprisingly guilty after Kol's statement.
"Am I going to be told what these are or am I going to have to compel one of you?" He glared.
"They are a basically chocolate covered peanuts." Jeremy exhaled.
"How is that even possible?" The vampire grabbed the packet with his speed to scan the bag.
"I was going to say try one but have the whole bag instead then..." Jeremy sarcastically muttered. Kol looked inside the bag to see strange, colored pebbles inside.
"And you sure they are edible?" He sniffed the packet.
"Yes just eat one already." Matt cried.
Kol took a red colored pebble (his favorite color) out of the packet and examined it closely before placing it delicately on his tongue. Once he was satisfied the boys were not tricking him he bit down on the candy and chewed slowly.
"Well these are interesting." He smiled at the yellow packet once he ate his first ever M&M.
"You like them then?" Jeremy grinned.
"Mmm hmm." Kol hummed as he popped another one into his mouth. "Well, I'm afraid I must leave you two, I'm very busy you see?" Kol jumped up out of the empty seat as well as holding the M&M's.
"Huh?" Jeremy asked, confused about the dramatic goodbye, however it was too late as Kol was already walking back down the aisle.
"DUDE! He has my M&M's" Matt complained to Jeremy as he noticed his yellow packet was now in the hands of the vampire.
"What?" Jeremy looked back to see he was right, "Ouch sorry Matt." He shrugged apologetically.
"Definitely Kol..." Matt grumbled, "I would definitely kill Kol."
Stefan and Damon's row (An hour and fifteen minutes into flight).
Stefan had been sitting quietly for the past hour scrolling through the list of apps on his phone while he brother shamelessly chatted up the fiery red head who was now known as Lacey.
"So how long you going to be in Orlando for?" Damon purred to the woman. Stefan rolled his eyes at his flirting as he focused on beating his high score on Fruit Ninja.
"Just for the next few days, I'm on a business call." She smiled with an essence of I'm definitely interested in her tone. How did Damon easily manage to get any girl he wanted without even trying or even compelling? Stefan aggravatingly wondered.
"What kind of business?" Damon was pretty much whispering in her ear.
How can this girl be falling for it? He knew exactly how this was going to play out. Damon would mutter sweet-nothings continuously to her, she would go with it and then he would some how persuade her to meet him in the restroom behind and will have crazy, hot, plane sex! Stefan shook his head as he sustained on listening in on the seduction. The sudden exit of Lacy distracted Stefan from his game, causing him to miss his high score by forty points. Damon swore he heard his brother mutter foul words to his phone as he watched his latest mission strut towards the restroom.
"What are you so pissed about?" He asked.
"It doesn't matter." Stefan sighed and placed his phone back into his pocket, "Where's I'm on a business call gone." He air quoted the phrase with his fingers.
"Waiting for me." Damon smirked.
"Why are you not practically running to the restroom?" Stefan mocked.
"You ever heard of the phrase treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen?" His brother smugly replied.
"Well, I wouldn't treat her mean for that long, I'm sure she's just using you for the exact same thing." Stefan sighed.
"That's even better brother." Damon winked before stepping out of his seat, "I won't be long." He grinned before turning away to walk up the aisle.
"I'm sure you won't brother!" Stefan called out without looking behind as he pulled back out his phone to have a second go of beating his high score.
The girls' seats...
Caroline sighed with boredom as she flicked through a gossip magazine she had already read twice. Bonnie and Elena had been asleep for an hour now and it was beginning to take its toll. They sat there interrogating her before they even set up off the ground, they could of at least had the decency to stay awake!
Wondering what to do next, she sat up to look around. An idea floated around her mind. If she pretended to go to the bathroom quick, she could have a nose at everyone else. Her smile appeared deciding that, that is what she was going to do.
Caroline carefully edged herself away from her seat making sure she didn't wake her two companions. Once she was standing upright in the aisle she already had the hybrid's attention on the other end of the air-craft. She flicked her head away from him as she marched down to the furthest toilet - it was the only one she could approach by watching everyone else. Firstly, she glanced at Matt and Jer as they had the same bored and toneless expression on each others faces. Next, as she got further down (ignoring the fact Klaus had now risen from his seat), she noticed Stefan fixated with his phone on his own. She smiled sweetly at him, however suddenly she bumped into something very hard. Caroline looked up to see Klaus who was holding her arms preventing her from falling. She briskly stood back up and shooed his hands away.
"Move."
"Now love that wasn't very polite?" He smiled.
"Fine. Move please?" She replied through gritted teeth.
"Well, where you going?" He ignored.
"To the restroom, so can you please get outta my way?" She tried to step by him but he followed her exact move stopping her.
"The restroom to the front of the plane is closer to you? What are you really doing?" He smugly questioned her. Caroline hesitated momentarily before figuring out an answer.
"That one was occupied."
"It says engaged..." Klaus pointed at the green light above the toilet. She slowly turned knowing that she was busted.
"Klaus please, just move!" She screeched causing a few other passengers to look their way.
"Fine..." He muttered and stepped aside letting her past freely.
"And once again, she looks good walking away from you..." Klaus heard Kol's voice back in his seat, casually eating confectionery and watching the two of them. Rebekah giggled at the comment as she was also watching the confrontation.
"Shut up Kol." Klaus ground his teeth.
How could one vampire annoy her so much? Caroline asked her mind as she eventually reached the restroom door. She didn't even need to go to the toilet, it was just and excuse but she couldn't just turn back. The sign said vacant.
"Great." She mumbled. She waited for a minute before becoming annoyed. "Is anyone in there?" She whispered while leaning into the door. She got no reply and decided it was someone pissing around. With her strength she simply unlatched the door and flung it open.
"People have got to use the... Oh my god, Damon?!" She looked away mortified with the sight she just viewed. Straight away she slammed the door shut without looking and stepped away. Caroline shook her head vigorously to erase all images of Damon in quite a position with an unknown redhead she had just foolishly walked into, but it was no use. She was permanently scarred. Caroline sped as quickly as she could back to her seat while ignoring the odd looks from Stefan, Klaus, Kol, Elijah and a few other passengers on the flight. She finally to slumped back down into her chair what awoke the brunette vampire.
"Why do you look so flustered?" Elena yawned. Caroline argued with herself whether to tell her friend or not.
"I just caught Damon having sex with a red head!" She whispered.
"What?!"
The original's seats (towards the end of the flight).
Kol had been throwing the chocolate covered peanuts in his mouth only to purposely aim for Klaus.
"Kol how hard is it to get them into your trap?!" Klaus picked up a green M&M from his lap and flicked it at his brother causing it to hit him in the eye.
"Ow! You hit my eye, you fucking idiot!" Kol dropped the packet on his lap and reached for his now stinging pupil.
"Serves you right." Klaus simply remarked and sat back satisfied he was winning. Kol growled in his throat as he picked up the sweets again this time, furiously taking one out and charging it at Klaus. Unfortunately, due to the lack of having only one eye to see out of, he accidentally hit his sisters cheek.
"Ouch! Kol!?" She hissed and leaned over Klaus to whack Kol with a rolled up magazine.
"Stop it! I wasn't meant to hit you Rebekah." He pleaded.
"You still bloody did though?" She continued to swat at her brother as he tried to grab the mag from her grasp.
"Do you two mind not having a cat fight over the top of me?" Klaus began to shove his siblings hands. He was ignored and now all three of them were hitting and slapping one another. This caused Elijah to look up from a novel he was currently in mid-read. He was going to tell them to stop however decided to let them embarrass their selves.
"You do know, all three of you look like a bunch of fucking idiots?" He mentioned as he glanced back down to his book. The three siblings stopped as soon as they heard Elijah's voice appearing from behind.
"So, you all do listen to me then..." The eldest original smiled smugly while reading.
"Kol started it." Rebekah turned round to show Elijah her innocence.
"I wouldn't of thrown that M&M at you if Nik didn't hit me in the eye?" Kol protested.
"And why did I throw it in your eye in the first place?" Klaus retorted. Kol silenced aware that he was the one to blame for this. Rebekah pouted as she rubbed her cheek and unraveled the magazine to continue to read it.
"You're lucky the only thing hitting you was pieces of candy..." Kol grumbled under his breath to his brother. Klaus snorted.
"You and I both know your threats are meaningless."
Kol abruptly shot out of his chair and stormed away from his aggravating brother...
"You're back?"Jeremy gave an unhappy look at the original as he took the same empty seat next to him.
"Here." He threw the remaining lot of M&M's back on the open table before grumpily crossing his arms and scowling.
"You actually saved us some?" Matt grabbed his bag and checked to see how many was left. The humans noticed how Kol didn't have a snooty remark and knew something was up.
"And what is wrong with you?" Jeremy asked.
"Many things."
"Okaaay?" Matt dragged out his word. The boys sat there not uttering a word to one another for a good ten minutes as they waited to see if Kol would speak.
"You're not allowed weapons on board of a plane right? Like a gun?" He strangely came out with. Jer and Matt exchanged a look of confusion and anxiousness.
"What do you mean?" Jeremy hesitantly asked.
"Just answer my question, Gilbert." He glared.
"No you're not." He answered. Suddenly Kol's expression changed to a creepy smile.
"Oh he's gonna get it..." He uttered. The humans were now in disarray but the intercom distracted them.
"Could everyone please return to their seats and fasten their belts as we will be landing promptly. Thank you."
The plane had now landed in Orlando and Kol couldn't wait to put his payback plan into action. Overlooking the humans nervous gazes he jumped out of his seat as soon as the belt sign disappeared and strolled to the air-crafts first door.
"Thanks for flying with Delta Airlines Sir." The pretty air hostess smiled at Kol as he turned to leave the plane. He nodded his thanks and took one step forward however, he figured this was the lady he needed to talk to.
"I feel fairly guilty about telling one of you about this now and not earlier but you see that guy reaching out for his hand luggage with that permanent frown on his face, I think he was seated in row twenty-three?" He whispered, sneakily pointing to Klaus. The hostess nodded.
"I think he has a gun on board..." He pretended to look honestly scared and it rubbed off on the woman.
"Are you sure sir, this is a very serious accusation you are making?" She hesitated. Kol made sure she was looking straight at him before he replied.
"I am hundred percent positive. I also think you should do what you usually do when it comes to threats like this, I am not really sure how all this goes." He smiled, "Oh and one last thing, you won't remember me telling you this, thanks darling." He compelled the hostess before stepping aside to watch her do her job. She reached for the phone by her side and dialed frantically.
"Code 11 on flight 394. We have just landed need back up immediately " She told the person on the other line. Kol smiled knowing his plan was now under way and decided to step out of the door to walk down the steps (he didn't want to be in sight when his unfortunate tip-off unfolds). He waited outside in the Florida sun for the others to come down. Elena and Caroline were the first in his sight as they climbed down the stairs. He grinned at the girls as they took off their jackets due to the climate change.
"It's beautiful isn't it darlings." He held his arms out in the open air.
"It would be if you wasn't here." Caroline simpered. Kol chuckled to his self until he turned his body to see two very big security men running in their direction.
"You're wish is my command... For now." He winked at the ladies before disappearing from their sights. The vampires blinked in bewilderment as they saw the guards also running towards the aircraft.
"What was that all about and who are they?" Caroline questioned her friend.
"I don't know but this doesn't look good."
The air marshals flew past the two the girls and ran straight up the stairs barging the Salvatore's and Bonnie out of the way before they even got out of the door. Stefan saved the witch from falling to her death down the stairs.
Having seats in the middle of the plane was something Klaus had to remember never to endure again. He knew that he is going to be the last one out of this air-craft and wasn't impressed. Klaus glared in jealousy as he noticed Kol some how made it to the front and was the first one out.
"He's up to something." He told Rebekah as he grudgingly took his hand luggage as well as pulling down Kol's.
"He is always up to something to you..." Rebekah sighed as she snatched Kol's luggage away from Klaus knowing he wouldn't take it with him.
"I can't hear what he is saying to that hostess, he is whispering quietly on purpose." Klaus tried his best to listen but failed.
"Will you stop being paranoid Niklaus and walk forward." Elijah was now standing behind his brother waiting for him to move.
"Yes please move Nik?" Rebekah motioned her hand.
Without warning the originals could hear something happening outside. It didn't take long before a couple of huge guards entered marching in their direction. Rebekah was about to mutter something along the lines of 'Oh what have you done this time Nik?' as a joke however, it seems that he had done something because the guards took him by complete surprise and rugby tackled him to the ground.
Kol was standing against the huge window at the back of the airport watching everything unfolding in one of the small holes of the air-craft. He chuckled alone as he saw his brother forced to the ground by humans. He looked down momentarily to see the gang all standing outside. Half of them had expressions of confusion while others were listening in horror. Kol grinned from ear to ear but once he looked back inside the air-craft his smile faded. Elijah was staring from inside, right at Kol and he didn't look happy.
"Uh, oh..."
"Unhand me this instant!" Klaus raged as he effortlessly fought the men.
"Niklaus stop making a scene and act more human please?" Elijah whispered.
"What is going on?" Rebekah freaked. Klaus had now had enough of being tackled and threw the men to the ground - just like they did to him moments ago. Elijah noticed Kol already inside the airport watching in a distance with a glee.
"Kol what have you done?" He muttered frustratingly to his self, however his answered would have to wait because from no where one of the marshals took out what looked like a weirdly shaped gun. He told Klaus to calm down one more time before shooting him. The weapon shot out two wires that pierced into Klaus' chest and he instantly collapsed on the floor and shook vigorously. The other guard was now safe enough to hand-cuff the hybrid and stand him back up.
"We are arresting you on suspicious of a handling a dangerous weapon..." The one with the tazer began as they walked out with a half aware Klaus.
"Did they just electrocute him?!" Rebekah continued to freak while she followed the marshals.
"It appears so." Elijah replied as he also trailed behind.
Kol couldn't help but hold his stomach in hysterics as he saw Klaus be tazered by the guard. He only ever seen it in a few recent movies but actually seeing it in person and being used against his brother was pure class.
He snorted in success as he watched the marshals drag out his brother into the open. Kol thought Klaus looked a bit shocked with what just happened. He eventually sighed after seeing his eldest brother in sight and knowing he has a lot of explaining to do.
"Hurt me once brother, shame on me, but hurt me twice and I guess you get tazered..." He rearranged a familiar quote before leaving the large window's view to face a not so pleased Elijah, a startled Rebekah and an electrifying Klaus...
