I hope everyone had happy holidays whatever you do or don't celebrate. Here's another chapter before the new year. Hope you like it and please review. So here you go :)
For the first night since Edward left I sleep without any dreams or nightmares. I feel myself waking up and buried my head in my pillow avoiding the light.
"Hey beautiful," chirps Kol.
"Didn't I tell you to knock?" I complain throwing my pillow in his general direction.
"Well Nik and I are going out for a drink and I promised to find you so get up you're coming. You've got five minutes before I come back with a bucket of water."
"You won't and isn't it a bit early to start drinking?" I said going back to sleep.
"Guess we will just have to find out. Four minutes." I settle back down and shut my eyes again then remember the day a few weeks after we found the chateau, he said he'd get a bucket of water, and he did. I shivered and got up remembering the cold water. I got dressed and walked down the stairs to the small lobby.
"Ahh she lives," Nik said mockingly throwing his hands in the air. I glare at him and walk over to where he and Kol are standing.
"So where are we going?" I ask Kol ignoring Nik. Kol shrugs and I sigh. "Come on let's go play some pool." I walk past them both and hold the door open I let Nik through but close it quickly after laughing when I hear the thud of Kol trying to push it open. I let him try again and then move away from the door counting on him to shove one more time. He does and comes flying outside. I frown at Nik when he trips Kol and then I help him up. I offer him a hand and he takes it I pull it away but he holds on swinging our hands back and forth between us. I give him a pointed disapproving look and he whistles innocently looking anywhere besides me.
I roll my eyes and reclaim my hand once we reach the grille. I walk over to an open pool table and choose one of the stick things while Nik sets up the triangle and Kol gets us some drinks from the bar.
"Will you ever forgive me?" Nik asks breaking the silence hanging between us.
"I don't know."
"Come on love, we were getting along just fine before my brothers joined us. I could always tell them to take a break and it'll be just you and me again," he said nonchalantly. I look at him.
"You forget that I can kill you."
"And you forget that it's possible to shove the daggered bodies of my brothers into the ocean before you do."
"But I guess that's the point. We believe we can rid each other of certain company but when it comes down to it, we love their company too much and it would be tearing a piece of ourselves apart to do so."
"Exactly love, you can kill me but you won't."
"And you could dagger your siblings again, maybe even dump their bodies in the ocean but you won't. A long time ago I thought you would dagger Elijah and throw his body in the ocean out of spite. Now I know that you wouldn't dare."
"Calm down ladies I come bearing gifts." Kol says handing both of us a shot. He winks at me and I shake my head letting the vervain laced liquor burn a path down my throat. Nik does the same and ends up coughing it back up because he's too confident to ingest vervain everyday to build up immunity.
"Will you at least stop looking at me like I killed your dog." I frowned raising my eyebrows at him.
"I never had a dog."
"C'mon sweetheart we were getting along just fine until my brothers were undaggered."
"You should be glad I haven't killed you for that okay? Get over yourself it isn't all about you."
"Shame it should be," said Kol from behind me.
"It isn't about you either captain 'no let's stay one more night'." I said to Kol.
"Fine we should have left when you said we should've, happy?"
"Only if I can break," I said smiling. Kol made a face and was about to argue but he was interrupted by an irritated Nik.
"Just let her break and get over the fact that your older brother put a dagger through your heart and will gladly do it again." The smile falls off my face and shatters. I turn to Nik daring him to make more threats.
"You won't do that unless you want your doppelganger killed, that pretty blonde's heart on a platter and every single hybrid in town missing their heads, if you're lucky, you may find out how I planned to kill you."
"Oh come on you two are like an old married couple," Kol said.
"I'm breaking," I said as I lined up the stick thingy. I never really cared abut learning all the technical names for the pool gear. I broke and two strips sunk so I smiled and took another turn. "You two are solids but you'll still need all the help you can get." As another stripe went down.
The game was over quick. I won by a lot much to their dismay. We walked over to the bar and I snorted and rolled my eyes as Nik quarreled with some vampire haters.
"Don't mind us, we're only here to let off some steam right Kol?" Nik said smoothly.
"Right," he said eyeing the brunette sitting next to the guy that spoke earlier with shaggy dirty blonde hair. I rolled my eyes again and ordered drinks. Sipping mine slowly laughing at Kol and Nik as they talked over villagers. I almost died when Caroline walked in.
"Caroline." He called out as she walked past me and Kol looked at each other and I covered my mouth to hide my smile.
"Oh it's you." She said disappointment clear in her voice. Kol and I grinned even wider.
"Join us for a drink?" I watched as Kol tried to look serious and hold up a drink.
"I'd rather die of thirst but thanks," she said a little overly perky.
"Isn't she stunning?" Nik said once she walked away.
"Well she certainly looks good walking away from you." Kol says.
"I'll order some ice." I said smiling at the determined face on Nik.
"I'll take that as a challenge," he said following Caroline out of the restaurant.
"Ten bucks she slaps him," I say once he leaves.
"Make that fifty." he said nodding in agreement before we both started laughing again.
"Okay so Nik's going to get his ass kicked tonight. You going to show him up? Again?"
"I'm his little brother it's what I'm supposed to do," he said walking over and flirting with the brown haired woman we saw earlier. I walked to the door and paused making sure I was sober enough to make this decision. I nodded and looked at where Kol flirted with the lady the guy getting off the phone and looking at him like he was gong to kill him. I just shook my head.
"Goodbye Kol," I said watching his eyebrows raise knowing he heard me I walked out of the bar. I saw Nik sitting on a bench with Caroline and smiled. Maybe he'd allow himself to fall in love for once. My eyebrows furrowed when I saw Nik stand up holding his chest.
"What did you do?" I heard him ask as I crossed the street to them. "What did you do!" he asked grabbing her shoulders.
"I didn't do anything stop it," she said worriedly not meeting his eyes. I pulled him off her and met her eyes.
"Kol," Nik gasped. My eyes widened and I took up where Nik left off.
"You may not have done anything but you very well know what happened!" I screamed at her. Nik took off and I stayed hissing, "if they die because of you, you can bet on my life that I'll kill you for it." Then I followed Nik to where the Salvatore brothers and the bar dude were pulling Kol's daggered body out of the bar. I smirked when Nik yanked the dagger out of Kol, and shoved it into Stefan and shoving bar dude into a wall.
"I should've killed you days ago," I mutter at Damon the only one standing as I kneel next to Kol, his color already returning.
"Do it, it's not going to stop Esther from killing you," he said as if he were actually intimidating.
"What did you say about my mother?" Nik asked his tone threatening.
"You didn't know I was friends with your mummy? Yeah we have a lot in common, she hates you as much as I do," he said in that sarcastic tone of his. Nik made a move to kill him but stopped when Elijah's voice rang out.
"Leave him, we still need him," he said to our furious expressions.
"What did mother do? What did she do Elijah?" Nik asked his questions going unanswered.
"You tell me where the witches are or I'll have my sister kill Elena right now."
"Seriously? My bloodline is still being used as hostages?" I mutter to myself getting up and standing between Stefan and his brother.
"You told me we had until after nine," Damon protested.
"You sound like a teenage girl," I said sweetly.
"Rebekah would be happy to start her work early."
"I can also kill your brother if you aren't motivated enough," I said tired of the silence.
"Where the witches were burned," he muttered.
"That's more like it," I said cheerfully helping the dazed Kol to his feet.
"Now I'd stop messing around, you don't have very much time," Elijah said turning and walking back up to the street leaving Kol, Nik, and I to follow.
"So finally decided your mother wasn't that into family bonding anymore?" I said sarcastically to Elijah. He clenched his jaw and took off at vamp speed once he saw Kol that Kol was able to.
We reached the witch's house and saw Finn standing in a pentagram of salt, with Esther outside the circle behind him.
"My sons, Tatia, come forward."
"Step aside Mum," Finn warned.
"It's okay, they can't enter," she said taking Finn's hand in the center.
"That's lovely, we're stuck out here while the favorite son plays sacrifice how pathetic you are Finn," Kol said his expression hard.
"Be quiet Kol, your brother knows virtue you cannot even imagine," Esther scolded her son.
"Whatever you think of us killing your own children will be an atrocity," Elijah said stepping up to where I stood next to Kol.
"My only regret, is that I did not let you die a thousand years ago," she shot back.
"Enough, all this talk is boring me, end this now mother, or I'll send you back to hell."
"Because you did it correctly the first time," I muttered to myself wanting to be the one to kill the hag that forced me into this life.
"For a thousand years I've been forced to watch you, felt the pain of every victim, suffered while you shed blood. Even you Elijah with your proclaim to nobility, your no better. All of you, your a curse on this Earth, stretched out over generations. If you've come to plead for your lives, I'm sorry, you've wasted your time."I saw Elijah's jaw clench and a flicker of an emotion that only those that truly know him would catch, regret. I immediately got defensive.
"You speak of good and evil as if it's black and white, and that you of all people are purely good. But let's remember who cursed us to this life and many others as well. Oh and by the way," I said glancing at the moon, "I know you're just stalling. But I guess that's what we're doing too." She glared hardly at me and then tensed.
"Sisters do not abandon me!" She shouted out and I smiled.
"Oh don't look so sad," I said stopping before following Kol, Nik and Elijah, "we both know it's me that you really need to kill." With that I took off following them back to the house.
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