"Can you tell me again why we have to wait until dark?" Kol complained as he followed me.

"Because it's easier to." I huffed out. I was in the middle of carrying my bag, the one I had I packed before leaving my house, into the room of the hotel we had stopped at.

The hotel was about a fifteen minute walk away from the National Archives Museum we were planning on breaking into. Of course since I'm with Kol, I could have him whisk us there in less than half of that time. We were currently waiting in this hotel, Marriott Marquis, because we had not only arrived too late to be able to stay there long enough, but because I wanted to access everything and anything. That last part requires us to wait since it'll be easier to have only a guard or two to compel rather than dozens of people that will be there.

"So what are you looking for?" Kol asked as he practically threw himself on one of the beds.

"I'm looking for records of my family and my birth." I sat on the other bed and opened up my laptop to try and memorize the way to the archives.

He gave a long sigh. "I thought you knew this already."

I pulled my eyes away from the screen in order to look at him. "Yes, but in order to understand what I am, I want to go further and gather as many connection to any family members that I can. Your mother obviously known something, but seeing as she disappeared, I can't ask her. Not that she would tell me anyway considering how cryptic she was."

Mentioning Kol's mother made me remember my own. I closed my laptop and put it to the side with a sigh. I hoped she wasn't too upset with how I just left, but then again it isn't like she hasn't done the same.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when I felt the bed sink behind me. I turned to see Kol who had an impish grin on his face. I raised an eyebrow towards him in question.

He moved closer to me to grab me from behind. He pouted at me as he placed his head on my shoulder. "I'm starved. Feed me."

"You're not a child, Kol. Can't you feed yourself?" I looked away from him and pulled out my phone to play some games.

I heard, and felt since he was still holding me, him chuckle. "I meant blood, darling."

"Oh." I blinked. I hadn't even thought of that. "Don't you have any blood bags or something?"

He squeezed me tighter and whined. "I don't use blood bags."

"Fine." I sighed and moved my hair to the opposite side of him. "No blood on my shirt, though."

"Of course." I felt him pull my shirt further away from my neck, and then there was pain.

It hurt more than when he drank from my wrist. I ended up grabbing and squeezing his arm that was pulling me against him in response to the pain. Finally, after who knows how long, Kol decided that he had enough and pulled away.

As I stood to look at the time, I started to feel lightheaded. "I think you took too much."

"Couldn't help myself. Oops." I turned to face him but only ended up stumbling. Luckily, I caught myself before I fell.

I groaned. "You suck."

"Of course I do, darling. I am a vampire remember?" He chuckled, and I weakly glared at him. "Oh, relax. Here, this will heal you right up."

I saw Kol bite into his wrist, then offer it to me. I hesitated slightly before sitting back down and pulling it to my lips and drinking. It was weird, the experience I mean. I expected to be utterly repulsed by the action, seeing as blood is usually coppery, but I both disliked the taste yet wanted to keep having more. Of course when I felt the awkward sensation of my wound closing, and realized his wrist had healed as well, I moved my lips away.

"You have a bit of blood left on your lips." Kol told me in what seemed like amusement.

I furrowed my eyebrows and looked down to see if I could spot anything as I tried licking my lips. As I did this, I heard Kol trying to smother in a laugh. I looked up and glared. "What?"

He was still chuckling slightly. "You made the most amusing facial expression. I don't believe I've seen anyone cross their eyes that way."

What he said caused my face to flush in embarrassment. I decided to change the subject. "It seems to be late enough; we should get going."

"Oh, but we were having so much fun." He was still grinning. I just rolled my eyes and walked towards the door.

Were were searching the archive for hours before anything was found. Kol was able to find my original birth certificate.

"You're middle name is Angelique?" He looked at me in amusement.

I pursed my lips in confusion. "I actually didn't know that."

I looked back at the certificate and scanned for my parents names. Father: Ethan Salvatore and Mother: Aurora Salvatore née Bennett. My mother's maiden caused my eyes to widen.

Kol whistled. "A Bennett witch. Now that's something I didn't think of."

My mind began to spin with questions. "Let's go further and see if anything else can be found." I quickly took a picture of the document with my phone.

"Look for your father then. I'll find your mother." Kol ruffled my hair, making me pout at him.

Not too long after, I was able to find my father's certificate as well. I took a picture of it before I looked at it. I then frantically searched the page for his mother seeing as his father was just another Salvatore. Then I found it. Mother: Allina Buchan. Her name was never changed. However, it wasn't one I recognized at all. Biting my lip, I acted quickly and began to search for her birth certificate. I couldn't find one. I was confused. It was as though she didn't exist at all.

"Eva." I heard Kol. I turned to see him coming to sit by me. "Your mother's parents were Anthony Bennett and Josephine LaRue. Anthony Bennett was the brother of a Sheila Bennett, who I have found to be the young Bonnie Bennett's grandmother. Now, Josephine LaRue, however, happened to come from a long line of powerful witches from New Orleans. I happened to know one during my time there."

"Did you take pictures?" I wanted to make sure. When he nodded, I exhaled in confusion. "So, I'm a witch then? But something doesn't add up. I mean, I was able to be compelled!"

"It seems that you have forgotten my mother mentioning some type of curse placed upon you." He just shrugged.

I bit my lip and thought about what I found. "Maybe there's more to it. It might have to do with my grandmother on my father's side. Her name was Allina Buchan, but I wasn't able to find a single document on her."

"I've heard of that name before." Kol looked pensive. "It seems my memory has escaped me, however. That's unusual."

I groaned. "Why can't anything be simple. Just for once is all I ask."

"The sun is close to rising." I looked at Kol to see him staring out a window. "We should leave, darling."

"Fine." I began to pout and started putting everything away. "Can you send me the pictures by the way?" My vibrating phone a few moments later seemed to be my answer.

About fifteen minutes later, everything was as it was. Making sure we had everything, Kol grabbed me and sped toward the hotel.

Once we were inside of the room, I felt the exhaustion settle in. I immediately go towards my bed, but pause when I was all of my things still laid over it. I groaned at the thought of having to clean it first. As I started walking towards it, however, I heard Kol mumble incoherently and soon after he pulled me onto his bed with him. He was holding my with my back against his chest. I felt as though I was a teddy bear with the way he was holding me to him. I thought about struggling to escape his grasp, but thought against it since, now only was I extremely comfortable, but I did not wish to have to fix the other bed. With that decided, I closed my eyes and relaxed.

I awoke the next evening to an empty room. It took me a few moments to shake the last remnants of sleep, but when I did, I noticed a folded paper on the table in between both beds. After a few moments of stretching, I sat up and reached for the paper. In the front was a neatly written, Eva, on it. Figuring it was from Kol, I opened it.

For such a tiny human, you have quite the grip, darling. -The most handsome Mikaelson, Kol.

I rolled my eyes and gave a slight smile at how he had signed the message, though I was confused on what he was talking about. I just decided to shrug it off, though, and headed towards the shower.

After I was finished in the shower and getting ready to leave, my phone began to ring. It was Rebekah.

"Hello?" I was leaving the room as I answered.

"Are you busy at the moment? I need someone to help rid me of my anger." I heard things smashing in the background.

I was in the elevator by now. "I'm actually not in Mystic Falls at the moment. But, you can just tell me everything that happened. It might help."

"That sounds like bloody therapy." She paused. "Also, you're telling me everything as soon as I see you."

"Just tell me anyways." I placed the key card at the counter and walked out of the hotel. "And I will."

"Damon Salvatore happened." She was seething. "He used me. He pretended to be interested in me, invited me over to his house for some party with Finn's lover Sage, and slept with me just so she could get into my mind!"

My eyes widened. "Why the hell would he do that?" I put the phone on speaker as I turned on my car and started to drive.

"The why doesn't matter. What matters is that he had found out that the Wickery Bridge was made of the White Oak tree I was telling you about the other day. He was going to use it to kill my siblings and me." She sounded as though she were in hysterics.

"Please tell me he didn't get it." I was worried for her and her siblings.

She sighed. "Though I loathe her, Sage does happen to be in love with my brother. When she found out we were linked the two of us burned the bridge."

I bit my lip. "Are you sure you burned all of it?"

"Yes." She sighed again. "I need to tell Klaus what happened. Be prepared for tomorrow." With that said, she hung up.

Rebekah's events seemed to make me even more exhausted than I already was. I couldn't wait to get back to Mystic Falls and rest, even if not for long.

The next morning, I am woken up by Rebekah. I look to see that the sun wasn't up yet and groaned. "Why are you waking me up this early?"

"You're going to keep my suicidal brother's horrible girlfriend company while I go with Klaus to find him." She was already picking out some clothes for me. "By the way, your mother left a note for you. Something about wanting to have a talk with you later after she's done with her errands."

"Ugh, alright." I reluctantly drag myself out of my bed and into my bathroom to shower and freshen up.

After I was done, we left my house and drove to hers. The beginning half of the ride was pretty uneventful seeing as I was half asleep, but the second half is when Rebekah decided her interrogation would begin.

"So, where were you yesterday?" She glanced at me for a moment.

"I was in D.C. trying to find a family tree of sorts. I figured it would help me know what I am." I forced myself to sit up; I didn't want to fall asleep on her.

"Alone?" She looked confused. "And what do you mean? Aren't you human?"

I pursed my lips. "No, I went with your brother. And as for what I am, according to your mother: I'm not human."

She swerved the car slightly due to her shock. "You went on a road trip with Klaus?! Why in the world would her just drop everything and help you? Unless it was Elijah that you went with?"

"Are you trying to kill me?!" I was wide awake thanks to her now. "And of course I didn't go with Klaus! I didn't go with Elijah either; I went with Kol."

"You went with Kol?" She turned to look at me as though I were insane. "First you dance with him even though you had just met him, then he's persistent with you being with him and Klaus, and now you went off together to another state. Is there something going on between the two of you?"

"Rebekah the road!" I looked at her with wide eyes. Once she looked back towards it, not without an eyeroll I might add, I decided to answer her. "I danced with him because I wanted to dance, and he asked. Also, don't ever tell him this, but he is very attractive." She made a face at that. "But to answer you question: no, there's nothing between the two of us."

Luckily this time she didn't turn to look at me. "So you have no romantic feelings towards my brother what so ever?"

I opened my mouth to answer, but paused. I bit my lip instead. Finally, after a few seconds, I answered. "I can't say that I don't."

"What?!" Her mouth dropped open.

I felt my face begin to burn. "Well, I may or may not be developing feelings Kol. It started as just thinking of him as attractive, but it may be more now."

"But he's my brother! Not to mention a homicidal, psychopathic, unstable, lunatic! He's not one to just fall in love, Evangeline." She screeched.

I winced as her voice got higher with each word. "I'm sorry? I can't exactly help it Rebekah. And I figured that he wasn't, Rebekah. I never said I was going to expect anything to come from this."

"Good!" I started pouting since she still seemed upset with me.

The rest of the car ride was silent.

By the time we went inside her house, things were still tense between the two of us. Luckily, either because he didn't notice or didn't care, Klaus didn't question anything once he saw us. After some time of silence, it was broken by a woman coming into the room.

She had mid-length coppery-red hair and blue eyes. She was beautiful, and of course tall like almost everyone else in this town seems to be. I assumed she was the love of Finn's life that Rebekah mentioned.

"So, are we doing this?" She seemed impatient.

Rebekah rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Nik and I will bring Finn here. You're going to stay here."

She stormed up to Rebekah, causing me to step away. "What?! No, I'm going with the two of you!"

Klaus seemed to have had enough. "You are staying here, Sage, and that's final. Eva here will keep you company."

As he motioned towards me, I pursed my lips and looked at her cautiously. I had no guarantee that she wouldn't try to kill me. It seemed she wouldn't as she just stormed upstairs somewhere.

"Rude much?" I heard Rebekah mumble. Then, she turned to me "We'll be leaving now."

I grinned. "If I'm killed you can have my things." Rebekah didn't seem to think it was funny if her glaring was any indication.

With a huff, she turned and left. As Klaus passed by me, he ruffled my hair and followed. With them gone, I decided to go upstairs and try to get to know Sage, at least. Might as well since we'll be here for quite some time.

It took me some time to find her, but when I did, she was in a bedroom sitting on a bed. Had it not been for some personal items on the dresser, I would have assumed it wasn't anyone's room. Considering how is was the one room Sage seemed to have sought out, I assumed that it was Finn's.

"Are you going to just stand there, or are you going to come in?" She turned her head to look at me standing in the doorway.

I hesitated slightly before walking over to stand near her. "I'm Eva, as Klaus mentioned before."

"Yes, well as you've heard: I'm Sage." She stared at me. "Why are you even here? You're only a human. They'll kill you eventually, you know."

"I'm here because Rebekah dragged me here. As for with them in general, Rebekah is a friend. And plus, I haven't even done anything to make them want to kill me, so I think I'll be fine." I wasn't going to mention how I wasn't just a human.

She scoffed. "Right. Rebekah's friend. Listen, I'm just here for Finn. Not to make friends with some random human girl who's stupid enough to hang around with vampire."

I glared at her as my temper rose slightly. "I'm not trying to be your friend. Quite frankly, the more time I spend with you, the more I find you utterly deplorable. I'm trying to pass the time by making polite conversation, but it seems you're incapable of that, so I'll be leaving."

With that said, I stormed out of the room and towards where I remembered Rebekah's room to be. Once I got there, I threw myself on her bed and pulled out my phone to keep me busy. I seemed to be hours later when I heard the door downstairs open.

"Finally," I mumble to myself as I head towards them.

As some thinking, I decided to lean against the railing next to the staircase. I wanted to watch how everything played out without being in the line of fire. The first thing I saw was Finn being thrown. Next were Rebekah and Klaus following.

Rebekah looked bored. "Gather your witch. Let's get his blood and get on with it."

"You can't force me to help you." Finn sounded different than he did when I met him at the ball.

"Oh, I most likely could, but why force when I can persuade?" Klaus pointed his hand towards the staircase where Sage was standing.

As she walked down, Finn stared at her. "Hello Finn."

"Sage." I couldn't see her face as her back was to me, but Finn got up and rushed over to her where they embraced.

"What do you know, true love prevails." Rebekah spoke sarcastically.

"It does occasionally have its uses." Klaus seemed almost amused. "Easier than torturing him."

I started to walk down the stairs as Rebekah spoke again. "I have something to do. What do you need from me for this spell?"

"Just your blood and your blessing. Where are you going?" Klaus seemed slightly curious.

"I have some unfinished business with Damon Salvatore. Ask Sage what he did to me. Then you'll understand why retribution is in order." With that said, Rebekah left.

Klaus turned towards me. "And how was your time with Sage?"

I stared up at him. "Please, don't leave me with her alone again. Ever."

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly. "Noted."

He then took out his phone and texted someone. I assumed it was the witch Rebekah spoke of. Looking around awkwardly some time after, I decided that it was time for me to leave.

Before I could, however, Klaus' voice stopped me. "I assume Kol behaved himself with you last night? And this morning as well, of course."

I turned to look at him, shocked. "What? How?"

He was smirking. "I have hybrids everywhere, sweetheart. One of them saw the two of you and decided to gossip a bit. Now tell me, shall I be calling you 'sister' any time soon?"

My mouth dropped open at his tease. "Nothing happened between us!" I scrunched up my face. "And calling me that would be weird."

"If you say so." He was chuckling now.

I pouted at him and went to leave. When I opened the front door to leave the house, I almost bumped into who I assumed was Bonnie Bennett.

"Oh, sorry." I decided not to tell her about what I had found just yet.

"It's fine." She gave a grim smile and waited for something. After a short second or two, I realized she was waiting for me to move.

"Oh! Right, sorry again." This time I moved out of the way.

"Right." She nodded her head and walked inside.

I stuck my hand out. "I'm Eva, by the way. I don't think we've met. You're Bonnie…right?"

"Yeah, that's me." She smiled slightly. "I think I heard about you from Matt and Caroline."

"Well, I'll be going then." I waved at her. "See you around Bonnie." With that said I turned around and left out the door.

I wasn't until I was on the sidewalk that I remember I had came here with Rebekah in her car. This meant I had to walk home, unfortunately.

As I walk into the living room of my house I noticed my mother standing in deep thought.

"Mom?" I was hesitant to approach her for some reason I couldn't comprehend. "What's wrong?"

"I had my suspicions about your new friends, but it was confirmed when the two Mikaelsons came to the house. See, at first I wasn't going to say anything, but then I saw what you were around today." It seemed as though her mind was somewhere else.

After that thought had passed, her last sentence hit me. "Wait, what? Did you follow me?!"

"I had to know if you were aware of what they are. After seeing that you do, I realized that they must have done something to you. Did they compel you?" I then heard her speak to herself. "It would have been safer if we had just not blocked what made you unable to be compelled."

Ignoring what she muttered for now, I began to become slightly hysterical. "I'm not compelled! How do you even know about these things?!"

"I see." She frowned. "I guess I have no choice then. You can't be mixed up with them anymore. Your parents gave you to me to keep you safe, and that's what I'm going to do."

She started to mutter in a language I couldn't understand. As soon as she started, it seemed as though the room began to spin. I tried to walk towards somewhere to sit, but I only stumbled and fell to the ground. Looking at my mother, I was horrified at the fact that she would do this to me. I started to crawl backwards to try and escape, no matter how feeble I knew it was. No matter what I tried, I could barely move anymore, which made it all the more frightening when she came towards me. In my frightened haze, I almost didn't notice something inside me stir. Suddenly, my mom started to hold her chest and scream in pain. Whatever spell on me quickly disappeared, so I took my chance to run out of the house and into my car.

Some time and driving later, as I was sitting in my car processing everything that has happened, my phone began to ring. I looked to see that it was Klaus. I answered it. "Hello?"

"Finn has been killed." My eyes widened as I heard this. "Because of this, there is something I need you to do."

Without any hesitation, I asked, "What is it?"