A/N: Wow this chapter had a lot going on! But YAY! I'm so happy about the reviews I got from my last chapter and the reception I'm getting as whole, seriously I thank you guys! I updated sooner because of the long wait you all got last time :) thinking of you guys! Haha but yes thank you a million times and keep them reviews coming!
Chapter Sixteen - Minions.
Day one:
Somewhere in Orlando Florida's amusement park...
The duo that consisted of Stefan and Matt had separated from everyone else - as Kol's plan suggested - and were strolling around the park – neither one of them knowing where to go first or what to say.
"I didn't think this place was going to be so – so big." The quarterback finally broke their silence.
"Have you never been here before?" Stefan asked as he was truly intrigued by Matt's sudden bewildered expression.
"I've never stepped foot out of Mystic Falls, until now that is." He almost smiled. Stefan's only reply was an understanding nod as he had no such words to form. A few more steps of silence past until he thought of a new conversation starter.
"So I heard you and Jeremy got – um - merry last night." He tried to make it sound more like a question other than a statement, however it wasn't easy when he already knew the answer. Matt hesitantly reached for the back of his head – as if Stefan's words reminded him of his brewing hangover - with an embarrassed smile.
"Let me guess, Caroline told you?"
"The one and only." The vampire shrugged with the slightest smirk.
"I'm sure out of me and Jer, he got the worse brunt of it. You should of seen him this morning – Caroline only had to mention the word Breakfast and he was chucking up his own!"
Stefan's face scrunched together almost immediately hearing about the unfortunate morning the young Gilbert had to endure. He was about to ask how much did they actually consume? But noticed Matt's attention was now elsewhere as now a certain attraction caught his eye.
"You fancy checking that out?" He pointed.
"Transformers 2..." Stefan read aloud the sign that hung a few meters away from where the both of them stood. He glanced at the quarterback not entirely convinced.
"Please don't tell me this is where you are going to say you don't know about Transformers." Matt stared at him wide eyed.
"I know what they are." Stefan scowled for less than a second before taking another glance at the sign.
"Anything is better than standing around here I suppose." He turned to his partner to imply a yes. Matt smiled apologetically – clearly in the know that it probably wasn't this vampire's sort of thing – as they stepped side by side towards the attraction.
"I wonder how everyone else is getting on." He muttered as they eventually got to the short queue forming from outside the building – god knows how long it was from the inside! Matt grimaced.
"I'm sure my brother is loathing absolutely every moment of it." Stefan hardly noticed the mischievous grin form across his face.
"And yet you don't seem to feel his pain?" Matt couldn't help but mimic a similar smirk.
"Hmm – I guess I don't." He shrugged in his lack of caring demeanor then his mischievous smile appeared again.
"Dude – I think we all might have got it deadly wrong who the evil brother is!" The quarterback chuckled as he held his stomach from his muscles contracting with each breath.
"Ah – no, by all means I'm the good brother." Stefan held his hand up in a small surrender also catching his breath from the chuckling.
"And that's why I like you more." Matt smiled and turned briefly to move up the queue.
"I sure hope the girls aren't having an awful time like you think Damon is." He added. Stefan's grin vanished almost instantly.
"Me too – because nothing is worse than pulling away three girls tearing each other's hair out. Especially -"
"When they're vampires..." Matt finished his sentence before giving an understanding sigh...
These two are insufferable together! Elena's mind raged about her comrades. The trio was sat on a bench away from most of the action around the amusement park in absolute hush. Elena was purposely in between the blondes while furiously shoving cotton candy into her mouth liking how it dissolved instantly on her tongue – it was kind of soothing unlike the circumstances.
Caroline studied her friend repeatedly as she ate the candy while staring off into the distance. She couldn't help but feel the guilt that she may have more than likely ruined her best friend's first day before it had even truly started.
"'Lena?" She now had the courage to speak to the irritated brunette. She didn't mean to anger her so however, that damned original Rebekah just doesn't know when to keep her big mouth shut!
"Hm?" She grunted a reply.
Elena was the one that demanded to sit on this bench after the girls continued to bicker about anything like: What ride to go on first? Or what time to go off for lunch? – They even argued about the color of cotton candy Elena should buy! Rebekah wanted blue where as Caroline persisted on picking the unusual purple style. Elena ended up getting so wound up that she chose red, paid the vendor and marched off and that was thirteen minutes ago!
"Could I have a piece please?" Caroline winced quietly. The brunette vampire shoved the stick in her face as an offer. Caroline briskly tore a piece of the red fluff, muttered her thanks before letting it disappear on her tongue.
Meanwhile, Rebekah knew Elena wasn't happy at this very moment but oh well at least she didn't have to talk to them both. Unfortunately the oh well very soon turned into an oh come on as she realized how long she had been sitting on this bench playing Candy Crush on her cell. She decided to compose a text message to send to Kol as she needed someone to blame for her boredom:
I HOPE DAMON IS MAKING UR
LIFE HELL RIGHT NOW! -_- -_-
She sent a couple of emoticons in hope Kol had listened to her during that time she taught him text talk and expressions.
She glanced up briefly once the message was sent to notice the tension between the girls and sighed – Her human emotions always did get the better of her.
"Where do you wanna go now?" She breathed blankly causing the other two, to startle and blink vacantly at her.
"Well don't all scream at once..."
Once again neither of them replied to an extremely impatient Rebekah.
"Ugh -okay let me put it another way..." She stood up before continuing, "This is me apologizing. Clearly this vacation means a lot more to you both then you actually let on and having me and my brothers as company wasn't what you entirely planned – trust me I know how you feel there but I waste enough energy fighting with my family and really don't see the point in wasting any more on you two."
She let out a gigantic breath as she waited for something to happen.
"I'm sorry too Rebekah." Elena smiled to prove she meant it. The original nodded and the two both turned to face Caroline who was startled by the random glares.
"Really? You want me to apologize – for what?" She frowned. The brunette furrowed her brows disapprovingly as Rebekah scowled.
"All right, I'm sorry..." She looked down to flick a pretend piece of dust off her skirt.
Rebekah surprised them both by grinning and clasping her hands together.
"Okay! So where we going then?"
"Well we could take a closer look at that E.T ride over there." Elena pointed. Caroline suddenly shuddered.
"Oh god no he ruined my childhood!" She squeaked and jumped out of her seat.
"Who ruined your childhood?" Rebekah seemed reasonably confused.
"E.T ruined your childhood?" Elena laughed at the ridiculous confession.
"Who is this E.T?" Rebekah hated not being in the know.
"He is this freaky looking alien what sounds like someone has punched him so hard in the throat, that his voice box is permanently damaged." Caroline described.
"An alien?" The original looked truly invested. "Are aliens even real?" Her eyebrows raised as she processed what she was being told. Elena chuckled.
"It's a kids film from the eighties, it's fiction."
"Oh." Rebekah muttered as she now felt quite foolish.
"Who says he isn't real! We are real and I thought vampires were just a work of fiction?" Caroline argued
"Firstly, Steven Spielberg is the one that says he isn't real and secondly, there might be aliens – who's knows with this world any more, but I'm pretty sure that harmless alien isn't real." Elena breathed.
"Wait so you are still scared of a kids film?" Rebekah tried to hide her amusement.
"No of course not." Caroline defended herself with a dramatic hmph.
"So what are we waiting for? After all this talking about this seemingly famous alien I might as well meet the sod!" Rebekah began to walk towards the attraction.
"Rebekah I did say he was just fict-" Elena called out but decided to leave it for ride to tell her that. She turned around to see Caroline hadn't moved from her spot.
"I will hold your hand while we are in there if you like Care?" She smirked.
"I'm not scared! I'm just preparing myself that's all."
"A vampire scared of a friendly, imaginary, alien – who knew?" Elena mocked.
"I said I wasn't scared..." Caroline glared.
The human and the witch were sat across from each other on a small outside table at a grille – in the park. They had just finished eating lunch and Jeremy was quite grateful his stomach let him after last nights experience.
"I like this." Jeremy gleamed as he took a sip of the soda in front of him. Bonnie smiled in an agreement and pursed her lips on her straw. Their morning of events couldn't have gone any better in Jeremy's book. Of course the first few minutes once the group split up was a bit awkward - and neither of them had clue where to look or what to say – but now it just felt right. Everything that had happened between them in the past few months were temporarily erased from their memories and they were once again enjoying one another's company. A new start Jeremy's mind wondered – that's what he wanted, a fresh new start with Bonnie Bennett.
"How's your hangover treating you?" She asked jokingly but was filled with concern.
"Actually, I feel fine." He smiled but it soon faded and she wondered if he was lying.
"Are you okay Jer?" She subconsciously placed her hand on top of his.
"Um – n-no I'm okay honest." He held his free hand up which suddenly made her realize where her own hand was. She flinched away and her cheeks began flowing with a warm rose color. Jeremy hid his disappointment as he continued. "I know today is far from over but I was wondering if – if me and you could do this again sometime? Just the both of us like this, perhaps dinner?" He was now the one slowly turning red. She smirked.
"You mean a date?"
"Yeah - I mean out of the resort of course!" He didn't want her to think he was cheap by taking her out to a free meal. "We could go somewhere in Orlando or maybe when we get back to Mystic Falls?" His smile was optimistic.
"I'd like that." She simply said and their hands like a magnetic force found there way to each other again.
"Jeremy!" A recognizable voice arose from thin air, pausing their moment.
Matt and Stefan were a couple of yards away from the grille they were still currently near. Bonnie let go of Jer's hand once more as they got closer.
"Hey Matt, Stefan!" He furrowed his brows.
"Hi Bonnie." Matt greeted once they were now standing beside their table. She smiled at both of them before taking another sip out of her straw.
"I see you two have stuck by the rules and are still together." Jeremy grinned.
"As are you mate." Matt winked and was rewarded with Stefan's chuckle.
"Have you two managed to get around the whole park yet?" Bonnie ignored the implication and aimed the question at Stefan.
"I don't even think we have got half way through yet." He sighed.
"Well we did go on that Transformers ride twice." Matt added. Abruptly Jeremy's ears pricked up.
"Did somebody just say Transformers?"
"I certainly did!"
"Are you also a fan?" Stefan asked with slight disapproval.
"Who isn't!" Jeremy retorted.
"Me..." The witch and the vampire both muttered. The humans gave them both a brisk look of disgust before smirking.
"You need to take me to this ride right now!" Jer demanded to his quarterback pal. Matt was more than happy to lead the way and they were both about to leave when Jeremy started straight at Bonnie for some sort of permission. She shook her head and laughed.
"Go."
"Thank you!" Without thinking he kissed her cheek and ran off with Matt like a couple of ten year olds on Christmas morning.
The remaining two stared in bemusement of how something can excite them so drastically Stefan was the first to look away and glance at Bonnie. He noticed her eyes were still staring off into the distance and had a permanent look of glee on her features.
"It looks like you're having a good day." He cheekily uttered. She slowly turned however her expression stuck.
"I suppose I am."
Damon seriously couldn't think his day could get any more lower than this. Walking around theme parks were tedious as it was and If he knew this was the price for inviting him and his brother to come, he would of stayed at home.
Serves you right. His conscience scolded him. It wasn't like his conscience to make an appearance so randomly? Why so sudden?
He decided to ignore it for now as it was the least of importance while he had probably the most infuriating original standing to his left side.
Kol was humming the tune to Jessie's Girl as the both of them walked around the amusement park like ghosts. Every now and then he would add a certain word to his humming what was beginning to irritate Damon quite a bit.
"Who sung that again?" Damon randomly asked as he was hiding his true emotion towards the original. Kol stopped momentarily to stare at the Salvatore with slight confusion.
"Rick Springfield or whatever the fellow's name is..." He answered.
"Exactly, so lets keep it that way..." Damon strolled off leaving the Mikaelson in utter surprise. Kol couldn't decide whether he wanted to break his neck or pat him on the back right about now but instead he smirked.
"Okay Damon one nil to you..." He muttered to his self before following the path the Salvatore just took...
Moments later the vampires still hadn't gone on any rides because the both of them were two stubborn to queue up with each other. Kol still had the Salvatore's sneaky comeback on his mind and was figuring out a way to readjust the score of one nil to Damon up to one all. Aha and there it was!
Kol noticed that they were very near a water ride and each time it went by, a lot of water would come gushing out onto the very path they were near. He looked at Damon to make sure he hadn't noticed and slyly smirked when he saw the Salvatore was to preoccupied with his mobile.
"Damon I think we are going back on ourselves. We should take this path." Kol innocently suggested. Damon glanced up from his cell to make a tutting noise before looking back down and following the way Kol was heading. He saw the ride was now moments away before opening a whole load of water above them both. The original discreetly moved out of aim and got his camera ready on his cell – you do need vacation memories...
Damon had now looked up wondering why Kol was so far away and why his cell was pointing straight at him?
"Kol what are you doing?" He glowered.
"Say, I'm thirsty!" Kol took a twist on the typical say cheese quote and Damon now looked deadly confused. Unfortunately he had no time to dwell on his confusion become something cold jolted him into utter shock. It took the Salvatore a moment to register what actually just happened but as he was now soaking wet he could easily take a stab in the dark. Kol on the other hand didn't look so phased and instead was in complete hysterics trying his best not to go tumbling over. He got the perfect photo.
"You-little-shit!" Damon roared and was about to use all his vampire speed and strength to attack him however, a family walked past as a current reminder that he could not.
"One all!" Kol cheered and Damon once again looked puzzled under his rage. The original's cell bleeped and Kol opened up the incoming text immediately – ignoring Damon as he came marching over:
Rebekah (12:42pm):
I HOPE DAMON IS MAKING UR
LIFE HELL RIGHT NOW! -_- -_-
Kol chuckled before typing his reply:
Oh I'm happy 2 say me and
Damon r getting along swimmingly ;)
He also added one attachment of the photo he just took and added the caption:
This might cheer you up.
"I am soaked Kol!" Damon hissed and interrupted Kol's texting session.
"Well done for stating the obvious buddy." He patted the drenched vampire's back before grimacing at how wet he really was. A low growl appeared from Damon and Kol sighed.
"It was only a bit of harmless fun – the sun will dry you off in no time." He uttered and strolled away to find some new entertainment.
Some time later...
"Kol can you please hold that damn toy straight! It's leg keeps hitting me." A much drier but still damp Damon commanded. The two of them were now accompanied by a new member – Kol had won a slightly large plush teddy of a Minion from the recent animated film Despicable Me. Of course he had no idea what it actually was however he won it and Kol liked winning.
"Well then hold it's legs and it will stop hitting you." He retorted.
"I will rip of it's legs." Damon mumbled.
"Oh no you won't!" Kol clutched the soft teddy tighter like a child being threatened with his toy. Damon simply rolled his eyes at how childish this thousand and something year old vampire could be. Also he reluctantly grabbed hold of the legs of the Minion trying his hardest not to just tear the toy into smithereens. The original noticed and smiled.
"You know what Damon you aren't as bad company as I thought you was going to be."
"All you've done is try everything to piss me off?" Damon frowned.
"Yes and by now someone would of either foolishly attacked me or simply walked away but nope you've stayed willingly." Another grin formed on his face.
Damon was about to remark however he had nothing to say because Kol happened to be right. He could of just walked away so why has he stayed with him this whole time?
"So I'm giving you the privilege of naming our new found friend." He distracted Damon once again.
"Huh? It's a stuffed toy."
"Yes and your point being? He needs a name at the very least Damon." Kol scowled.
"Okay fine how about douche-bag?" Damon breathed.
"An actual name!"
He glared at the Mikaelson unimpressed until one name popped into his head.
"What about Stefan?"
Kol snickered at thought how this could be an easy way to wind up the other Salvatore.
"Well then Stefan 2.0, welcome to club!"
"Niklaus we have been avoiding one another's company for half the day, could we please sort out the unfortunate event of last night and put it behind us?" Elijah pleaded to his brother as they both were sat on a basic picnic table – which they hadn't moved from for at least an hour. The both of them were in no mood for roller-coasters today.
"Ha! Unfortunate event." Klaus simply echoed his brothers words.
"Niklaus please."
"I'm sorry but I still have to put behind, you snapping my neck and getting me arrested or have you forgotten that already?" Klaus sneered lowly.
"So you grievously attack our brother twice within a week and he shrugs it off but you simply can't?" Elijah reminded Klaus that he wasn't the only victim.
"You and I both know Kol hasn't just simply shrugged it off – like you said before, he just gets even." Klaus strangely smiled.
"And you're just waiting for him to eventually retaliate? If he hasn't already, I doubt he will at all." Elijah once more was unknowingly sticking up for his younger brother. Nik suddenly shook his hands and head.
"Wait since when did this become about me and Kol, this is about you!"
"And you." Elijah added. "All I'm asking is for you to forgive my outlandish behavior and to let everything go."
Niklaus glared right into his brothers eyes as he thought deeply about what to do. He wanted to because this was becoming such a pointless headache – if he could get headaches that is – but the Mikaelson stubbornness was holding him back. His eyes became less narrowed and more open and Elijah was finally relieved to see he took his words on board.
"Okay I will let it all slide on one addition...Tell me the truth, was Kol the one who really got me arrested back at Orlando International?"
Elijah exasperated frustratingly as he knew if he told the truth this could cause a whole new table of events but he could not lie. He slowly nodded.
"I knew it!" Klaus jumped right off the bench and pointed accusingly. "Why did you say it was you?"
"Because I was fed up with how it was always about you Niklaus." Another sigh crept out from the eldest Mikaelson and his cell signaled an incoming SMS disrupting the intense discussion.
"Who is it?" Klaus asked. Elijah didn't hear as he was so fixated on typing his reply.
"Is it that anonymous caller who keeps on ringing you which you will not tell us about?" The hybrid was now grinning from ear to ear.
"I am allowed some privacy you know?" Elijah frowned as he slipped his phone back into his trouser pocket.
"The least you could do is give me her name?"
"Why does everyone seem to assume it's a she?" Elijah muttered more to his self than to Klaus but got a reply any way.
"Well if other people are assuming it then it more than likely is, isn't it brother?" Klaus was enjoying this a bit too much than someone should.
"Okay fine it's a female." Elijah placed his hands on the table in defeat.
"So my older brother has got his self a girlfriend and hadn't even had the decency to tell me?" He pretended to look offended.
"She isn't exactly my girlfriend Niklaus." Elijah couldn't hide his smile .
"I think I have an absolute right to know who this girl is!"
"No I can't tell you, not yet – soon - but not right now." His smiled disappeared as soon as it came.
Klaus was about to ask Why not? But randomly out of no where a man in a gigantic Minion suit came running over. The mascot was trying to get Klaus to dance with him while the background music in the amusement park played. Elijah noticed the irritation building within his brother and also saw a few children with parents slowly surrounding the mascot – oh this isn't going to end well.
"Look I don't know who you are or what in god names you are trying to be but leave me alone before you regret it." Klaus quietly threatened the jumping Minion but was totally ignored. He was now grabbing Nik's hands and the kids began to cheer at him to dance. The hybrid's eyes slowly darkened as the anger inside him heightened.
"Niklaus just walk away." Elijah muttered quietly from the little audience but was not heard.
"I said leave me alone!" Klaus roared before swinging his arm towards the mascot's stomach. The force of his strength made the man in the suit fly off the ground briefly before falling into the crowd. Kids began to scream in horror and parents gasped. Elijah was straight at his brother's side pulling him away instantly.
"I told you to walk away!" He hissed. A much calmer Klaus replied.
"Yes and I told him to leave me alone..."
A.N: Sorry not sorry... xD