An Odd Morning:

Beth's eyes fluttered open to meet Kol's. He smiled down at her. "Good morning, beautiful." He greeted her. She smiled up at him, tiredly and laid back down on his chest, as he breathed in her vanilla like scent. And Kol wasn't arguing, he loved that she was so close to him too. Her head was pounding, but she tried to ignore it, though Kol could see the look of pain on her face.

"Morning." She replied. He continued to stroke her hair absentmindedly as she slowly tried to wake up, before remembering where she was and sitting up. "Oh God, what time is it?" She asked jumping out of the bed. She looked around and saw a clock hanging in the corner reading noon. "Oh no! Why didn't you wake me?" She asked as she scrambled to find her shoes. He had a smug grin at his face, that made her hit him with a pillow, making him chuckle. "Alaric is going to kill me. Why didn't you wake me up?"

"I was having too much fun watching you sleep."

Beth rolled her eyes and ran around trying to find her phone. "How is this fun? It's noon. I haven't called Alaric, who was supposed to come home today and I can't find my stupid phone!" She shouted frustrated as she began to look under the bed.

"I already, what is it called...texted the emergency numbers." He told her as he turned her phone in his hand. She looked up to see him looking at him with a perplexed expression on his face. "This history teacher and company are aware that you're all right and just slept in."

Beth kneeled back on the bed. "Wait, what? Since when do you know how to text? Or what texting is?" She asked him confused. From what she understood, Kol knew the minimum on how to work anything from this century.

Kol shrugged as he handed her, her phone back. "I hae Elijah do it. This thing is so bloody complicated. I would have had Rebekah do it, but similar to you, she didn't come home last night, the strumpet." He commented. Beth bit back a laugh and settled for hitting his arm.

"Bekah's not a strumpet, don't be an ass. You didn't have Elijah say that I was here, did you? Ric would have a heart attack." She told him, truthfully. If Ric knew that she was out with a guy, let alone an Original, she didn't even want to think about what he would do to Kol.

Kol chuckled at her worried expression. It always amused him when she started freaking out. He pushed back her hair from her face and kiss her cheek. "I told them that you were with the darling Caroline. Satisfied, love?"

Beth smiled and sighed in relief, before lying back down on the comfy bed. "Very. Thank you and I'll have to thank Elijah too. Why didn't you wake me up?" Kol pulled her back into his arms, and she laid down on his chest, making him smile.

"Because you looked too peaceful sleeping. It would have been a crime to wake you, especially after your nightmare." He told her, stroking her hair back, absentmindedly. She smiled up at him, remembering him taking away her nightmare.

"Thank you for that, by the way."

Kol kissed the top of her head. "It was nothing, darling. As long as you got the rest you needed."

"How long have you been up anyways?" She asked him curiously. If he had brought the phone to Elijah, she knew that he would have had to have been up for a while. He was even dressed in jeans and sadly, a long sleeve shirt.

"Only for about an hour." He shrugged. He didn't really notice the time when he watched her sleep.

"An hour? I would have woken up, if I had known." She told him apologetically.

"It's all right, darling. You needed to sleep, besides your cute when you're sleep." He smiled at her, making her blush.

"Stalker." She teased him, making him roll his eyes.

"It's considered sweet, love." He told her. She smiled and kissed his cheek, to assure him she was joking. "Please, just tell me that I didn't snore." She asked him hopefully. The last thing she wanted was to embarrass herself by snoring loudly with Kol besides her.

"No snoring, just breathing. I swear. Though, there might have been a bit of drool." He admitted with a smirk. Beth laughed and hit him, knowing he was kidding with her. He chuckled. "I don't blame you, darling. You must have been dreaming about me."

"You're so modest." She said sarcastically. He chuckled and winked down at her. "Thank you for last night though." She thanked him with a smile. Other than the nightmare, she actually got some rest and she knew it had to do with Kol being there. He kissed the top of her head. She slowly got out of bed and stretched. "I should probably get going though."

He stood up with a frown on his face. "You don't have to leave just yet." He told her as she looked around for her shoes. He spun her around and she fell into his arms. He had a wicked smile on his face. "You could always stay for a little bit longer." He gave her a small kiss and pulled back all too soon, making her want more.

She nodded. "I could, but I don't think you'd want me to stick around." She teased him and he smirked.

"Shall I convince you that I require your presence, darling?" He asked leaning in. She smiled as his lips crashed onto hers. Beth melted into the kiss as he pulled her closer to him, making her sigh and thread her fingers through his dark thick hair. Kol kissed her cheek and jaw, trailing kisses down her throat when the door slowly opened, making her jump away from him in surprise.

Kol groaned in irritation at the unwelcome visitor. It was who he expected would come into his room unannounced. Klaus. "Kol, I need..." He trailed off seeing Elizabeth blushing deeply, in Kol's shirt and Kol standing slightly in front of him looking obviously annoyed. Beth looked down seeing Klaus there. "Well, that didn't take long, did it?" He raised his eyebrows at Elizabeth, making her turn red.

She went to explain that she just slept, when Kol stepped in. "No, it didn't, brother." He agreed smugly. "Now, if you don't mind, Elizabeth could use some privacy while she dresses? I'll be down in a minute for whatever you need me for." He nodded and gave Beth a smirk before sauntering off. Knowing her, she wasn't going to sleep with him that night, but he did enjoy making her flustered. As soon as Kol closed the door, Beth slapped his arm harder than he though. "Ow! What the bloody hell was that for?"

"No, it didn't?" She repeated what she was saying. Swatting his arm again, furious, she crossed her arms and sat back down on the bed. "You made it sound like we slept together!"

"We, technically, we did sleep together, love." He grinned at her, making her roll her eyes at him. Leave it to him, to make it into a joke, like he always did.

"Yes, but you made it seem like all you had to do was compliment me and then I just hopped into bed with you."

Kol scoffed at that. "Believe me, I know that it would take far more than just that to get you even near the bed, in that way, love. Nik knows that as well as I do." He assured her. It was true, they both knew that Elizabeth wasn't casual that way. It was just nice to see the shock looked on his face.

Beth just rolled her eyes. "Then why did you say that?"

He sighed as he took a seat next to her. "Because he gets under my skin, Elizabeth. He makes it seem as though he's better than me, better for you and I can't help myself and prove him wrong." He told her truthfully. Beth was surprised at his admitting that. She never would have thought he would say something like that, he seemed all too confident.

"That's not true. You know it's not, Kol. Klaus can just be kind of an ass sometimes." She told him taking his hand with a small smile.

He gave her a sad smile, but shook his head. "It's always been that way, Elizabeth. I don't deserve you, but neither does he. I don't want him to tempt you to the point where, once again, I lose you again." Beth gently made him look at her.

"That's for me to decide. And you're not going to lose me, I can ignore Klaus, Kol. He's a friend though and your brother, so maybe you could get along too?" She asked him hopefully. He gave her a look of disbelief "And don't worry about him tempting me. I don't want to be with him, I want to be with you." She reminded him softly, making him smile at her.

Kol gently touched her face, making her smile. "I want to be with you, too Elizabeth." He leaned and slowly kissed her, making her smile into the kiss as she reciprocated it. "I'd like to take you on an actual date, if that's alright with you?"

"That's very all right with me." She replied with a smile.

He grinned at her. "I thought that it might be." She rolled her eyes at him, but smiled nonetheless. The vulnerable Kol was gone, replaced by the cocky, familiar Kol. He leaned down to kiss her neck, making her giggle as she gently pushed him off to get up.

"What are we going to do on this date?" She asked as she looked around for her phone.

"Baseball." He told her simply, making her raise her eyebrows, curiously. That was kind of random, but it somehow fit him. "We used to play all the time, before. It was one of out favorite pastimes. We'll do it soon." He promised. She nodded in agreement. He leaned into kiss her again, but she kissed him quickly before pulling back.

"Time to get up." She reminded him, making him groan.

20 minutes later, Kol had borrowed some of Rebekah's jeans to wear with his shirt, who mysteriously wasn't home yet, for Beth to wear and gave her privacy so that she could dress. She decided to wear that until Rebekah came back and she could properly ask for clothes. He waited downstairs for her to come out. Beth hoped that when she came downstairs, the brothers wouldn't be fighting or there wouldn't be a repeat of the previous night with one or both of their necks snapped out of anger.

As Beth was about to walk downstairs, her phone rang. "What is it, Damon?" She sighed. She really didn't want to talk to him, after how he was acting last night.

"Where are you? I need to talk to you?" Damon told her urgently. He wanted to make sure she wasn't with any of the original's. After hearing what Elena said about Esther's plan, the last thing she wanted was for her to get in the middle of that.

"I can't do this right now."

"El, stop being stubborn, just where are you?"

"None of your business and I'm being stubborn? You snapped Kol's neck last night, forgive me for not being overjoyed to talk to you. I have to go." She snapped at him, hanging up but no before hearing Damon getting mad.

Beth walked downstairs and stood in the hallway when she heard a familiar voice. "I told you, brother, that you have nothing to worry about. It won't happen again. I had no choice before." Klaus told Kol, and Beth could tell by the sound of his voice, he was gritting his teeth. She stopped in her tracks to hear Kol's response.

"Forgive me, if you're bloody promises aren't exactly reassuring. If you ever lay another hand on her, I may not be able to kill you, but I promise I will make you regret it." Kol snapped back. Beth was surprised by his viscous tone. Kol's playfulness was replaced by a protective and dangerous voice. It was the spine-chilling feeling you got when you knew that you didn't mess with that person, because you'd end up dead. Klaus knew that too.

"I won't. You have my word."

Beth decided to interrupt, before it got ugly. She walked into the living room, where Klaus was sketching on the couch and Kol was sitting across from him, he immediately smiled when he saw her, ridding any evidence that he was the least bit upset. "Afternoon, Elizabeth." Klaus greeted her, barely glancing at her and she walked over to Kol. "Enjoy your sleepover?" He asked, making her blush and stick her tongue out at him.

"I know that I did." Kol grinned at her. "Afternoon, darling. She rolled her eyes at him as he wrapped his arms around her waist protectively and pulled her gently into his lap. Beth didn't move, deciding she was comfortable there. Klaus barely looked a them. Kol placed his chin on her shoulder. "So, what's on the schedule for today, love?" He asked her.

"Um, I don't know. Did you just want to walk around the town and maybe go to the grill?" She suggested leaning back into his embrace as she yawned and covered her mouth. Somehow, she still felt a little tired from last night, even though she slept late. Klaus noticed that action.

"I don't suppose you got any sleep, love. Kol has a horrible habit of snoring."

Beth couldn't help, but giggle, making Kol glare at his older brother. "We were actually busy with other activities, brother." He informed him and Beth blushed. Before she could shed some light on the subject, Klaus replied.

"I think I would have heard said 'activities', brother and you know what? I didn't hear a thing." He told him

"Maybe you weren't listening, Nik."

"We're in a house full of vampires, Kol. Believe me, we would have heard you." He informed him. Inside, he was thankful that he didn't hear anything. He knew that Elizabeth wouldn't just sleep with his brother, but he didn't like seeing them so comfortable together either.

"Because nothing happened. Right, Kol?" She asked flashing a look over to him. They both knew that nothing did happen, but still didn't like the fact that he was implying that it did, even if it was just to Klaus.

He groaned, knowing she'd be angry. "Right, but not for the lack of trying,"

Klaus grinned at Elizabeth, who rolled her eyes at Kol. "Shot him down, sweetheart?" He asked and she couldn't help, but smile back at him. "That's my girl." Kol shot him a dark look that would scare a grown man.

"She's not your girl, brother."

"You're right, Kol. She's my witch." He smirked at his brother.

"Do you both realize this is the 21st century right? Women aren't just objects. I'm no one's anything." She shot at both of them. Klaus held up his hands in surrender, backing off.

Kol kissed her quickly. "Of course you aren't, love. That's what I was just about to tell my brother." He assured her making a smile creep up on her face as she rolled her eyes and gave him a small kiss back, letting her lips linger on his.

"No you weren't, but nice try."

He grinned up at her, making her smile, wider. "What can I say? You bring out the good in me, darling."

Beth smiled down at him, feeling the butterflies in her stomach once more as he looked at her. "Sucking up gets you nowhere, but again, nice try." She praised him as she gave him a quick kiss, but Kol pulled her back to him and deepened the kiss before pulling back, and making Beth feel slightly flustered.

Klaus' grip tightened on his pencil as he tried to concentrate back on his sketch instead of his brother and Elizabeth. Kol grinned. "Rebekah's here." He announced. He kissed Elizabeth's cheek before picking her up and placing her on the chair and standing up himself. "Well, well, well, there's our girl." He smirked as he stepped in front of Rebekah's path as she walked into the room, still wearing last night's green dress. She tried to move past, but he wouldn't let her.

"Get out of my way, Kol."

"Out all night, what a scandal/" He teased his sister and stopped her from leaving. "I trust you did better than that commoner, Matt, was it?" He antagonized her. Beth rolled her eyes at him.

"If you don't shut your mouth, the next thing to come out of it will be your teeth!" Rebekah snapped at her older brother. Klaus just smirked at his younger sibling's banter. Kol just grinned up at her, as she pushed him out of the way. "Don't start, Nik." She warned him.

"I didn't say anything." He smirked.

"I'm bored." He announced as he casually picked Beth up and sat her back on his lap as he sat down. He glanced at Rebekah and grinned. "Our sister is a strumpet, but at least she's having fun." He told Klaus. Beth hit his arm. "I need entertainment."

"What are you waiting for? Go on, have at it." He gestured towards the door. The last thing he wanted was to witness Elizabeth and Kol getting friendlier with each other, than they were already. Kol was about to agree and leave with Beth, when she threw him a look, saying to be nice.

He sighed dramatically. "It's no fun to go alone. Join us, Nik." He asked. Klaus barely looked at him. "Besides it's the least you can do after sticking a dagger in my heart." He told him. Klaus looked up at them and Beth smile over at him, hopefully. He sighed and laid down his sketch.

"Okay."

"I'll get you something to wear, you boys can wait here." Rebekah commanded her brothers as Beth stood up. Kol's eyes followed her as she left the room, a faint smiled appeared on his face in memory.

Kol walked down the hallway, near the library, stopping when he heard the familiar voice of his sister and Elizabeth. He stopped a few steps away from the door, eavesdropping on the conversation."Believe it or not, Rebekah, Your brother was surprisingly a gentleman. He didn't even try and bed me, like you'd think." Elizabeth told her as she sat down at the chair near the bookcase. "This is our 6th date together. What do you think his motive is?"

Rebekah laughed. "To get you to actually care for him, I would think." She knew her brother and he seemed to actually be trying to get Elizabeth to like him, Something that he hasn't really cared about in a while.

"Kol doesn't care what I think about him." Elizabeth shook her head.

"What does that mean for the two of you then?"

Elizabeth sighed. "I honestly have no idea, Beks. I mean he's all sarcastic and annoying one moment and then something just changed and he's all sweet and caring." She admitted. The attitude changed was different and unlike Kol.

Rebekah sighed dramatically. "Maybe because he has actual feelings for you and wanted to really try."

Elizabeth thought about that for a moment. "Nope, that can't possibly be it." Both of the girls laughed as Kol scowled and began to walk away before hearing Elizabeth speak again. "He did give me a rose, though, while we were walking about the lake."

"My brother seems to be trying hard to win your heart, Elizabeth." She smiled at her. Elizabeth hesitated, but nodded, still slightly unconvinced. "Trust me, Elizabeth. Kol may play with his food more often than he should, but it's different with you. He actually seems to be trying with you, and that's something he hasn't done with one of his games."

"You're probably right. You are his sister, you know him better than anyone. And I actually like him." She admitted softly. Kol perked up hearing that with a smile. Rebekah gave her a knowing grin.

"You do?"

Elizabeth blushed. "Yes. I don't know, Rebekah. He's sometimes confusing and purposely irritating. But there are those other times where he's genuinely sweet and charming and he makes me laugh, even when I'm upset. And there's hardly anyone one can do that."

Rebekah laughed. "You sound as thought you're in love, Elizabeth." She teased her, Elizabeth blushed and rolled her eyes, but didn't answer her friend. "You do love him, don't you? It's all over your face." She smiled excitedly.

"You're hallucinating. I'm not in love, Bekah." She told her.

"I know you're lying."

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, refusing to meet hers. "It wouldn't matter if I was anyways," She told her. Rebekah looked at her with a confused expression. "You know your brothers, Rebekah.. They don't really love." She had heard about Klaus' philosophy about love being a vampires weakness. As far as she knew Kol shared that belief.

Rebekah scoffed. "Kol is far from heartless. He's just better at hiding it than the others are." She explained. She had seen the way Kol was so taken with Elizabeth. "He likes you, in fact, I believe he loves you as well. He's protective of you and he hardly lets you out of his sight. After your dates with him, you should know that."

"My ears are burning. You must be talking about me, ladies." He grinned as he stepped into the library. Kol smirked over at a blushing Elizabeth as Rebekah got up, excusing herself from the room.

"Were you eavesdropping?" She asked him accusingly. He shook his head walking towards her.

"Maybe, were you talking about me?" He asked with a mischievous smile on his face. He walked closer to her and she turned around, afraid that she'd get lost in his eyes, like she often did.

"No, I wasn't." She insisted.

He chuckled as he walked up behind her and pushed her hair away from her shoulders and she let out an involuntary shiver. "You're lying." He told her truthfully.

"I'm not lying."

"Your heartbeat says otherwise, love." He reminded her of his vampire hearing. Kol placed a small kiss on her shoulder, before adding more to it. He kissed up her neck, taking in her sweet scent that he could never get enough of.

"What are you doing here, anyways?" She sighed.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm here to see you?" He told her before going back to kissing her neck and wrapping his arms around her and keeping her close to him, making a small smile appear on her lips.

"We should talk though."

"Right...talking." He agreed keeping his lips on her skin.

"Seriously." She told him.

He placed his head on her shoulder. His fingers lightly traced her warm arm, as though he was afraid to touch her. "Should we go somewhere private for this 'talk'?" He asked her.

She shook her head and walked over to close the open door to the library. As soon as it was closed, he pushed her up against the wall and attacked her lips and neck with his lips. "Good, I like here." She couldn't help but kiss him back as his lips connected with hers. He kissed her harder, more hungrily, before she had to break for air. Kissing Kol, made her dizzy, in a good way.

"Need a breather." She reminded him.

He chuckled and touched her cheek "Sorry, love. Yo're just too good to ket go of. You have no idea how long I've wanted to do that." He told her seriously. He was glad that she actually agreed to go on another date with him, it was more than he hoped for.

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about." She told him. "Don't get me wrong, I like you, Kol. I like being with you and everything."

"So what's the problem?" He asked about to kiss her neck again, but she stopped him.

"I just don't know if this is, you know, real or not. You didn't seem interested before."

"Of course it is. Believe me, I never try this hard." He told her seriously. He was telling the truth. No other girl, seemed to be this hard or he never would have even tried in the first place. "You were just too blind my advances before. Besides, Nik always had you with him as first. I could never be alone with you."

"Yeah, I know. He was actually the one who pointed it out. He said he found it odd, because you dont' really try to be in a relation ship, with anyone." She admitted.

Kol touched her cheek. "That's not a lie, I'll be honest, but it's different with you. I actually find myself having feelings for you." He told her, getting slightly nervous. He never actually said it out loud to her, but he didn't want to think he wasn't serious about them.

"You do?" She asked surprised and he nodded. "I find myself having feelings for you too." She admitted biting her lip. He grinned at her and kissed her quickly.

"I was hoping you would."

Kol was snapped out of his memory, but his brother's voice. "I didn't think you'd ask for me to come." Klaus told him truthfully. The dislike his brother held for him at the moment was apparent and rightfully aimed. He couldn't blame him, he deserved it, but he wasn't going to let him keep him away from Elizabeth.

"I didn't think you would come." He retorted. He hoped her would decline the offer, he only extended for Elizabeth's sake, but there wasn't a chance that he was going to let his brother have a chance to be alone with her again. He knew that Klaus had feelings for her, he always did. Kol wasn't going to risk losing her again.

"Why not?" He asked with a smirk. Kol rolled his eyes at him. "Besides, I didn't have nearly enough to drink last night, what with you trying to murder Rebekah's date." He reminded him as he walked in front of him towards the car.

"Yes, please go this house has enough men rolling around in it." His sister said snarkily to her two older brothers, as Beth and Rebekah, walked downstairs, with Beth in fresh clothes and Kol grinned at the sight of her and took Elizabeth's hand and pulled her away from his sister.

"Just like you, Bekah." He told her. Beth had to let out a giggle at that, but it only made Rebekah even angrier.

"Good riddance both of you!" She said throwing a show at them. Kol laughed at his sister's antics as they walked out of the house.