I was in my room listening to music play from my speaker while on my laptop when I think back to what happened with my mother. I still couldn't understand what she was, or why she did what she did. The possibility of her being a witch crossed my mind, but her magic was different that what I have seen so far. Just as I thought this, I remembered Kol mentioning he was a witch before, not to mention he was about a thousand years old. He would have to know something. I brought out my phone and decided to ask Klaus for his number, when I saw his name already in my contacts labeled, 'Kol ;p'.
He picked up on the second ring. "Miss me already?"
I rolled my eyes playfully. "I would say yes, but then I would be lying." I paused in thought. "By the way, how when did you even put your number in my phone?"
"Ouch. And in Washington when you were asleep of course." He chuckled. "Something you needed then, darling?"
I bit my lip. "Can you come over? If you're still in town that is."
Suddenly, I heard a knock on the front door downstairs. I quickly went downstairs and opened it to see Kol.
"Already here." He smirked and hung up.
I was a bit surprised, though mainly suspicious, at how he was here as fast as he was. Either way, I still move out of the way of the doorway so he could walk in.
He raised an eyebrow at me. "You do remember that I'm a vampire who needs to be invited in, right?"
"Oh!" I felt my cheeks warm up in embarrassment. "Right, uh, come in, Kol."
He chuckled in amusement and walked in.
Ignoring my embarrassment, I started to lead him towards my room. Once we got there, he sat down on the bottom edge of my bed and made himself comfortable.
"Now what is it you needed me for?" He picked up a decorative pillow and started spinning it.
I sat down on the middle of my bed. "Apparently, my mother isn't human since she tried to do something to me with magic, but it didn't exactly seem like magic. I'm curious as to what she is, and what she did to me."
"So you called me?" He stopped the pillow and looked at me in amusement.
I grinned. "Well, you happen to be a walking witchipedia pretty much, so I figured: why not?"
He threw the pillow at me, which made me laugh. "Just tell me what happened."
"Well, she definitely knew your family. Then, she said something about having to keep me safe and started mumbling in some language, which I found might be Czech after I looked some things up. It was like as though I was injected with a tranquilizer or something. Somehow, I think I may have did something to her to where she fell in pain. When that happened, the spell's effects went away."
He scoffed. "You seem to have the misfortune of having a traveller as a mother."
"What the hell is a traveller?" I started picking at the pillow.
"A traveller is a subculture of witches that were cursed years ago due to the actions of two witches about 2000 years ago. The two witches, Silas and Qetsiyah, created the Immortality Spell, which is a known imbalance of nature." He picked up my phone and began to look through it. "They are known to be highly jealous and hateful towards witches since they're the ones who cursed them."
"What was the curse?"
"They're prevented from settling in once place for too long or using traditional magic."
"That seems harsh. To punish a whole race for the actions of only two."
Music suddenly started to play from my phone, but he quickly turned it off. "All of this seems to confirm you being a witch, darling. It would explain what you did to her and how you were able to overpower her. Just admit that I'm right."
"Oh shut it." I threw the pillow at back at him and laid down.
Kol looked at me with a smirk and the next thing I know, he's on top of me. With a grin, I pull him closer and placed my lips upon his. It was as though a barrier has been broken between us from the day before with how fervent our kisses became in comparison. Things quickly became heated once out tongues began to intertwine. Eventually, he pulled us both up and swiftly removed my shirt, then shoved me down for a deep kiss. As he moved to pulled away again, I caught his bottom lip with my teeth and gently pulled on it. Afterwards, he began to kiss downwards, going in between my breast and towards my stomach while I felt his hand trail up my thigh. Suddenly, his phone began to ring.
Cursing whoever was calling him in my mind as he lifted his head to look towards his phone, I groaned. "Just ignore it."
He grinned at me in response and began kissing me again. Without breaking the kiss, I flipped us over until I was the on top of him. His phone stops ringing as this happens. Kol then sits up to where I'm straddling him and pulls of his shirt. Biting my lip as I take in the view, I began to trail kisses down his neck and drag my nails down his chest and abs. Unfortunately, his phone began to ring again. Fortunately, however, he pulls me back up to kiss me again and ignored it. This time, it's him who kisses down my neck. At the same time, he roughly grabbed my hips and pulled me closed to him, making me grind against him. I tried to hold in my gasp by biting my lip, but only succeeded in causing it to bleed. Finally, the phone stopped ringing again. I couldn't dwell much on it much as his mouth moved lower until it was on my breasts.
One of his arms pulled me even closer, and the other moves towards the back of my bra. As he goes to unhook it, his phone began to ring again. Kol groaned in frustration and pulled away to grab his phone. I couldn't help but pout as I moved to get off of him, but he stops me which caused her to grind hard against him. I had to bite her lip in order to keep myself from making a noise since he finally answered his phone.
From being so close to Kol when he answered it, I could hear Klaus' voice from the other end. Kol mentioned that he happened to be a bit preoccupied at the moment. As he spoke to Klaus, I absentmindedly ran my nails on his skin in random motions. Eventually, Kol grabbed my hand to stop me, which made me look up at him. He seemed to be a bit annoyed at whatever he was being told.
Kol hung up with a scowl which led me to believe that Klaus just became the worst cockblock ever. He looked down at me and ran his hands down my sides. "Nik demands to speak with me immediately. I would normally ignore him, but it's apparently extremely urgent."
He lifted me slightly in order to get me off of him which caused me to pout again slightly. As soon as he put back on his shirt, I pulled him back towards me for one last kiss. As I reached behind my to grab my own shirt, he smirked at me. Raising an eyebrow at him, I put it back on.
Almost right after, he left. After cleaning up my room a bit, I decided to leave as well. I remembered the dance and how Rebekah was still cleaning, so I headed for the school.
Apparently, heading to the school was not the best thing to do at the moment. I was currently tied down to a chair with a now vampire Mr. Saltzman. Not to mention, it seems as though he lost his mind. Next to me was Caroline, who was staked down to the desk with pencils in her hands. She also had a cloth tied around her mouth like I did, except hers had been soaked in vervain.
Suddenly, he picked up his phone and called someone. As a few moments, I heard Elena's voice on the other end.
Whatever she said had him reply with,"Well, who else would it be?" After another short pause, he spoke again. "Listen closely, I'm at the school, I have Caroline and the other girl, Eva, as well, and if you want to keep them alive, I need you to get in your car and come down here right away. If you tell anyone where you are going, I will kill them."
He hung up without leaving Elena any time to reply. He then turned to look at both Caroline and me. Smirking, he took the cloth off of Caroline's mouth and dipped it into a beaker filled with liquid that I assumed have vervain. Caroline started to struggle and screech in pain as her retied it around her mouth. This made me cringe in horror at what was happening.
Thankfully, Mr. Saltzman didn't do anything else after that. He only sat at his desk and began to watch us. As he did this, I thought about what I had did to my mom and wished I could do it now. Unfortunately, whatever curse was placed upon seem to effectively hold back whatever it was unless during a situation such as before it seems. Luckily for both Caroline, Mr. Saltzman did not move for quite some time.
Suddenly, he spoke up. "Right on time."
Not too long after, Elena burst through the door. "Caroline." She turned and saw me as well, then turned to Mr. Saltzman."Let them go, Alaric!"
He motioned towards us. "Free them yourself."
Elena and Mr. Saltzman stared at each other intently. Then, Elena cautiously walked over to Caroline and kneeled before her. She stroked Caroline's arm soothingly to calm her down since she was in hysterics. As she starts to gently pull one of the pencils out of one of Caroline's hands, Mr. Saltzman went up to her and slammed the pencil back down into her hand. Caroline screamed piercingly, which caused me to flinch.
Elena turned to face him. "You said that you would let her go!"
He patronized her. "How many times do I have to tell you, Elena? Stop trusting vampires!"
He then dipped the cloth that was in Caroline's mouth into the beaker of vervain again. I looked at her to see that the skin around her mouth was very red and appeared to have peeled away.
Caroline started pleading as Mr. Saltzman walked back to her. "No, no more, please, no more!"
Elena had enough and got up. "Alaric stop!"
He only pushed her back into her seat. "Sit down! This keeps the vervain in her system. It's like inhaling razorblades with every breath."
He put the cloth back in Caroline's mouth , and her skin began to smoke and burn. Tears ran down her face as she screamed in pain.
Elena touched her arm gently. "Why are you doing this?"
"To make it easier on you when you put her out of her misery."Mr. Saltman picked up the white oak stake and walks towards Elena.
Elena was appalled. "What?! No!"
"Isn't this what you wanted, Elena? For me to teach you how to kill a vampire?" He held the stake out towards her."Well, here's a vampire, Elena. Kill her."
She shook her head. "This isn't what I want."
"Of course it is. All those hours you spent training, getting stronger, you could be a hunter, Elena. But you've never actually staked a vampire through the heart."He persistently held out the stake while Elena stared at it.
As they were talking, I was trying my hardest to attempt to untie the ropes that were holding me to the chair. Unfortunately, not only was it tied too tight for me to do much, the knots were tied almost expertly. I stopped, however, when I felt my skin had begun to turn raw.
When Elena made no move to take the stake from Mr. Saltzman, he began to pace in front of us.
Elena finally broke silence. "Why are you doing this?"
He paused in front of her. "Because you need me. Because you're an 18 year old girl without parents or guidance or any sense of right and wrong anymore."
"Look at you. How is this right?!" She motioned towards us.
He pointed towards Caroline with the stake. "She's a murderer. She told me she killed someone and liked it. Now how is that right?" He then moved it towards me. "This one, she's related to the to vampires you can't help but let go. Not to mention, she's probably screwing one of the Originals, which is foolish in itself. Listen, Elena, your parents led the council. It was their life's mission to keep this town safe. They weren't dead six months before you undid it all."
Elena glared at him. "You don't know anything about them."
"Why, am I wrong? Do you actually think that they'd be proud of you?"He kneeled down in front of her."If you don't side with the humans, you're just as bad as them. Now kill her."He held out the stake to her again."Or I'll do it for you, and I'll make it hurt. Get up!"
He grabbed Elena's arm and pulled her out of her seat. He then placed her in front of Caroline and forced the stake into her hand. When he pulled away, Elena stood there with the stake in her hand for a moment, then turned around and tried to stab him instead.
He grabbed her before she could. "I thought I taught you better than that."
"You did." Elena broke the beaker filled with vervain over Mr. Saltzman's head.
Suddenly, he screamed in pain and his flesh started to burn. Elena quickly released Caroline and me.
She urged us to leave. "Get help!"
Caroline rushes out of the room, and Elena and I were right behind her.
While Caroline managed to get out, we were stopped from leaving as Mr. Saltzman rushed in front of us. "Not so fast."
He threw Elena into a locker and grabbed her by the throat as he held her up against it. I couldn't stop the scream that escaped my throat. I tried to run away, but he grabbed me as well.
He was practically growling. "I should kill you, the both of you. I should gut you like Brian Walters, Bill Forbes, and all the other cowards I plan on ripping apart. You two are the worst offenders of them all. You don't deserve to live."
"So then, why am I still alive? There's obviously no humanity left in you, so what's stopping you, Alaric? If you want me dead then kill me." Mr. Saltzman's eyes started to become red and veiny as Elena said this. "Do it! Kill me!"
To my shock and confusion, his eyes became normal again, and he released us. Suddenly, Stefan and Damon rushed up to him from behind and grabbed him by his arms.
"Do it now!" I couldn't help but watch to see what they had planned.
Mr. Saltzman was able to push them off of him almost immediately. When he did, he broke Stefan's back, and he fell to the ground, temporarily dead. Damon rushed towards Mr. Saltzman, but his neck was snap, leaving him down for the count as well. Out of nowhere, Klaus rushed towards him and places his hand into Mr. Saltzman chest. I was in disbelief, however, when he pulled Klaus' hand out of his chest and threw him to the ground.
My shock grew even more when Mr. Saltzman grabbed Klaus and pushed him against the lockers in the hallway. He flipped him over and was about to stake him with the white oak stake, but Klaus struggled to keep it away as it was pushed towards his chest.
Elena yelled at them. "Stop!" Everyone looks at her to see her holding a knife against her throat. "Let him go, or I'll kill myself."
Mr. Saltzman did as she said. "Put it down, Elena."
"Why? Because you still need me alive? There's a reason why Esther used me to make you, isn't there? She didn't want you to be immortal, so she tied your life to a human one. Mine. That way you have only one life span to kill all vampires and then you'll be gone. So, when I die, you die too. That's it, it has to be!" I looked at Elena with a newfound respect with how she was able to figure it out, and how she was handling the situation at hand.
"You're wrong." Mr. Saltzman denied her claim.
"Am I?" She began to cut her throat open.
"Stop! STOP! STOP! STOP!" He became highly panicked, which made everyone realized she was right.
During this moment, Klaus took the opening and threw Mr. Saltzman off of him. After, he quickly rushed towards Elena, grabbed her, and left. Mr. Saltzman got up right after and realized that they were both gone. I cursed myself in my mind for being to frightened to move and run during that time. When he turned towards me, I squeaked in fear while backing up. To my surprise and relief, he tells her to leave. Without stopping to think, I did so quickly.
I cautiously went back to my house and saw that my mother wasn't home, luckily. As I stood in the silence near the doorway, I felt myself shake with nerves. I was terrified. Unlike before, I had no way to get out of the school alive. Had it not been for Caroline being there with me, or the fact that Mr. Saltzman was trying to lure Elena, I would have died. It was different from the other times because no one knew I was there.
The more I thought of this, the more I became frazzled. I was close to having a panic attack. Making a split decision, I sped to the kitchen and grabbed an unopened bottle of vodka from one of the cabinets. I wanted to drown myself to forget. I realized my mother could be back at any minute, though, so I took the bottle and went into my car. After aimlessly driving around town, I somehow ended up at the cemetery.
I stopped the car as I got there and began to drink in my car. After a few minutes, I made the rash decision of getting out and walking through the cemetery. I didn't know what I was looking for as I walked while drinking, but once I found a stone that read Ethan Salvatore, I stopped. I had never thought about the fact that her would be here, despite knowing that he was at it, I decided to just stay and lean against it. Continuing to drink, I felt my eyes sting and my throat close. I couldn't stop the tears from rushing down my face. I slowly slid down the headstone as I become more emotional and drank more frequently. I knew why I was crying, but at the same time, I didn't. I was confused. I was almost killed, thrice in one week, two out of those three times are people that are supposed to be family, though Damon made it clear he didn't care, and I'm bombarded with more questions than answers despite finding about about the rest of my family.
I looked at the bottle to see how much I had drank, believing my thoughts to have been from the liquor, and saw that it was about halfway. For some odd reason, I was immediately filled with a burning rage. I quickly stood back on my feet and threw the bottle as hard as I could. My vision began to swim at the fast movement, and I vaguely heard a crash in the distance, but as I moved to sit back down, I stumbled and blacked out.