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Chapter 37: Betrayal And Death

"So what's the plan?" Caroline asked.

Everyone has gathered in the chemistry lab to discuss Mikael's imprisonment minus the originals. Even though Bonnie has finally located the papa original but they couldn't just show up there without a proper plan on how to take him down.

"Hold on, before we make an elaborate plan on how to take down Mikael, we should talk about who is willing to let Bonnie stop their heart first" said Damon. It was obviously a big concern for everyone.

"I'll do it." Shanyra said at once.

"Of course we'll have to dagger Kol first so he doesn't drop dead when my heart stops beating. I'm human so the Gilbert ring should bring me back, right?" Shae spoke quite nonchalantly about daggering Kol. To say that she wasn't pissed off at him for dancing so erotically with another woman would completely be a lie. Daggering him would be some payback.

"Have you lost your mind? You are not getting involved in this at all." Caroline said with firm tone of voice. Using her big sister power over Shae.

"I'm with Caroline on this. You maybe human but you've been linked with a supernatural being for a long time. What if it has some kind of side affect and the ring doesn't bring you back? It's too much risk. Not to mention Kol will kill us all if we dagger him and let you put your life in danger" said Emily.

"Besides, it's not just your life; you'd be putting Kol's life in danger too and I know you don't want that. Not when there's a chance of things going horribly wrong." Elena spoke the truth there. Shae maybe pissed off at Kol at the moment but she couldn't bear the thought of anything bad happening to him.

"It's completely out of question Shae" said Maggie at once.

"I'll not have you risk your life for me. I'd rather Klaus kills off Mikael and rid this world of him once and for all. I don't care if I die along with him." She said with determination in her voice.

"You'll not die Maggie and Shae you won't put your life in danger either. We'll figure something out." Stefan said confidently, putting an end to both their plans of sacrificing oneself and save the other.

"Speaking of Kol, where is he? I hope he's still not dancing with Miss Desperate." Emily inquired about him since he was absent. Kol should've been there with them, discussing the plan. Having an original on their side would've given them some advantage over Mikael. But alas, no one knew where he was or what he was doing?

"I don't know where he is or what the hell he's up to? He isn't even taking my calls." Shae said sighing out heavily, feeling something wrong in her guts.

"Also I'm really confused about Violet. The way she was acting with Kol. I've never seen her act like that before. She seemed, as if she was a completely different person. I'll find out what happened to her once we are done dealing with Mikael." She said that more to herself than to her friends.

"Anyway back to the previous topic, fine- I won't have Bonnie stop my heart. But if we're gonna go forward with this plan of desiccating Mikael then you'll need someone for the ritual." Shae stated the obvious.

"Leave that to me. I'll find someone." Damon said easily but everyone immediately disagreed.

"No not you. We know you Damon. You're just gonna kidnap someone innocent" said Caroline making him roll his eyes at her.

"Fine, I'll kidnap someone with a criminal record, happy Blondie." Damon said sarcastically. But then he looked at Shanyra.

"Actually I've a better idea. How about Ms. Violet? I think it was wrong of her to give our Shae a little competition. Having her heart stopped and then revived should teach her a lesson." He said waggling his eyebrows at Shae with a smirk on his lips. He was feeling proud to have come up with such an idea. But unfortunately, in return he received glares from Shae.

"First of all, she's Sam's sister so no one touches her. And secondly, Violet is not my competition. There must be a reason behind her weird behavior. I'll find out about it soon."

"Yeah whatever but I'll find someone to play ritual with." Damon deadpanned and then he said-

"Now, let's focus on taking down Mikael." They discussed the plan elaborately. Once everyone was okay with the plan and there was nothing left to discuss anymore, the gang decided to get to work fast.

"Stefan and I will go and check if Mikael is still where Bonnie located him and then keep an eye on him so that we don't lose him" said Caroline.

"Elena and I'll go get our human" said Damon.

"And we'll stay here and get bored." Shae said enthusiastically but she was obviously being sarcastic. Caroline gave her a look for that but then pulled her into a hug.

"Stay together and stay safe."

The adults left, and the trio stayed behind with each other. Shanyra tried calling Kol again but he didn't pick up like before. It started to get her worried this time. Why would he suddenly start avoiding her? What could've possibly happened with him?

"Kol isn't picking up his phone. What if he's in danger?" Shae said feeling scared for him.

"I think we should go and look for him." Emily suggested seeing her friend's worried face. Besides, it was indeed uncharacteristic of Kol to avoid calls from Shanyra. The three friends immediately headed out of the chemistry lab. They went to the parking lot first.

"Kol's car is still here. It means he's still inside the school building or somewhere around." Emily said and found it a little strange. If Kol was still in the party then why didn't he show up at the meeting. And most importantly why wasn't he receiving any calls?

"Let's go back inside then" said Maggie and the three of them rushed back inside again. They started searching for Kol everywhere.

"I think we should split up." Emily suggested.

"No, we should stick together. If anything happens, I'll be able to protect you two" said Maggie being the vampire and therefore being the strongest in the group.

"No, I think we should split up. We need to find Kol fast. I'm having a really bad feeling" said Shae. Hearing that they decided to split up and they went in different directions. Shanyra headed towards the gym area. She didn't find anyone there. Soon she got a text from Emily saying she didn't find Kol on the second floor either where she went looking for him. Shae waited to hear from Maggie but no call or text came from her. She and Emily met up again but Maggie was nowhere to be found.

"Where's Maggie?" She asked Emily.

"I don't know. I think she went to the field. Perhaps she found Kol over there. Let's go and find out." Emily said and then they headed towards the field.

Once they arrived there, the sight that greeted them, left them utterly speechless and paralyzed with shock. In the field, Maggie was lying dead. There was a stake embedded into her heart. And more shocking was, Kol was standing over her dead body. And even more shocking was that Violet was standing with him. As if that wasn't enough, while Emily and Shanyra were still standing there, still looking very much shocked; Kol pulled Violet closer to him and he started kissing her lips extremely passionately and erotically. Whatever was happening was beyond Shae's imagination. She couldn't believe her own eyes and wanted to believe that they were deceiving her. Emily was no less shocked than her friend after seeing that. What the hell was going on? Accidentally a gasp escaped her breath. Kol heard that immediately and snapped his head up in their direction. He and Violet both finally saw Emily and Shae standing there, looking horrified while staring at them with wide eyes.

They thought Kol would get shocked seeing them and step away from Violet immediately but something entirely opposite happened. He resumed making out with Violet. More passionately if possible. Shae started feeling dizzy in her head. Whatever was happening it was too much for her to handle. Her best friend was lying dead on the ground and the love of her life had another woman in his arms. Not to mention it seemed that he was the one who killed Maggie. Shae didn't know what was happening, neither had the mental strength or stability to figure it out that moment. How could things get so horrible within such short time? Everything was fine just early in the evening.

While Shanyra stood frozen on her spot, too shocked to react, Emily went to confront Kol but before she could reach him, he disappeared from there in vampire speed. And he took Violet with him as well. Emily couldn't do anything about that so she turned her attention towards her departed friend Maggie. Her corpse was looking grey which was the norm for vampires. Emily broke down with tears. On the other hand Shae collapsed too but she was completely silent. She didn't have tears in her eyes but they looked kind of dead. What her eyes witnessed it killed her inwardly anyway.

Shae wasn't in the state to call someone for help so Emily pulled out her phone with shaking hands and she called Tyler Lockwood. She could barely talk but she let him know what he had to know. After that Emily dropped her phone and started crying again out loud while holding Maggie's dead body.

Tyler arrived at the field as soon as possible along with others. Obviously he informed everyone about it. Caroline and Stefan were on their way over to Mikael's hidden whereabouts but they obviously had to turn around. They got to Shanyra and tried to talk to her but she didn't response to them. They decided to take her to the hospital. She seemed to be in a great shock. Sheriff Forbes and her officers attended the dead body and began investigating the murder. Meanwhile everyone began to question Emily since she could at least talk unlike Shae.

"Emily what happened? Please tell us." Tyler asked in the presence of Sheriff Forbes. Emily began talking with shaking voice. She told them what happened and what she saw with her own eyes. After hearing out everything both Tyler and Sheriff Forbes were shocked to no limits.

"Kol Mikaelson killed Maggie?" Tyler asked, as if for confirmation. Emily nodded her head slowly. She had no doubt about it.

"Emily are you sure?" Sheriff Forbes asked again. It suddenly pissed her off and she yelled out loud.

"YES I AM SURE! He and Violet were the only ones at the field when Shae and I found Maggie dead. And they even made out over her dead body." Sheriff Forbes had nothing to say or ask anymore. She was shocked and she realized it was best to let Emily be after what she just went through. Liz walked away with Tyler. When they were at a little distance, she looked at him and asked-

"Tyler, what the hell is going on? Do you have any idea?"

"Not a clue." He said. Truth to be told, Tyler was pretty shocked himself. Sheriff Forbes controlled her emotions. She has work to do after all.

"I've to get to the bottom of this. Could you please take Emily back home?"

"Yeah sure" said Tyler.

Emily left the crime scene with Tyler. Liz immediately called Caroline and told her everything that she found out. As expected Caroline got shocked too. She couldn't believe that Kol killed Maggie. And even if he was capable of doing that, how the hell could he cheat on Shae? That seemed very impossible and highly unlikely of Kol Mikaelson. Something must have happened to him. Kol couldn't hurt Shanyra like this. He didn't have it in him. But since he did hurt her, then the only question that remained was why?

After telling Stefan everything Caroline called Rebekah to ask her about Kol. Up until then the rest of the Mikaelson siblings had no idea about what happened in the dance. Rebekah was absolutely stunned after hearing out everything. She didn't waste any time to inform her brothers about it. She even tried calling Kol.

"Kol, come on pick up." She said while trying his number and pacing restlessly.

"Damn it. He isn't picking up."

"What has gotten into him?" Klaus asked more to himself than to his siblings.

"We must find him." Elijah said at once. "I've a feeling there is more to it than Kol suddenly losing his mind."

"I'll go with you" said Rebekah immediately. She looked at Klaus to know what he was going to do. But instead of giving an answer, he remained quiet. Klaus was thinking something.

"What are you thinking Nik?" She asked.

"Maggie is dead" said Klaus.

"Yeah we know and we need to find out why our brother killed her" said Rebekah.

"Yes but now we are free to kill Mikael without anyone having any objection about it." Klaus stated almost happily.

"Niklaus we can deal with Mikael later. We need to find Kol now" said Elijah.

"No, we must immediately kill Mikael before he turns someone else to create a problem for us again. I'm going after him right now." Saying that Klaus rushed out of the house. Elijah and Rebekah looked at each other. They silently decided to find Kol first then help Klaus kill Mikael. Once they put Klaus first and wronged Kol. It was time to prioritize Kol for a chance. They quickly got out of the house and got into a car parked at their driveway.

"Do you have any idea where he could be?" Elijah asked his sister.

"Let's try the Grill first." Rebekah suggested. But when they got there, Kol was nowhere to be found. After checking out some other places where he could go, Rebekah said-

"I think we should search for that woman instead of Kol."

"What's her name again?" Elijah asked.

"Violet. Kol had a thing with her when Shae was very young."

"Do you know where she lives?" He asked and Rebekah nodded her head. They went to Violet's house. When she had moved out of Mystic Falls, she didn't sell the house. She wasn't ready to let go of the place where she had so many memories of Sam. Elijah rang the doorbell knowing that the house wasn't abandoned. The door opened and revealed the owner of the house, Violet.

"Yes?" She asked politely and acted completely calm and normal.

"I'm assuming you're Ms. Violet?" Elijah asked.

"Yes I'm. What's the matter? And who are you?" She sounded a little bit concerned which seemed quite normal. After all she was speaking to a stranger who knew her name.

"Can we come inside? There is something we need to talk about with you." Elijah said very politely. Violet however gave him an uneasy smile.

"Sorry to be rude but I don't let strangers in my house ever since my brother was murdered. Whatever you need to talk about we can speak here." Saying that she stayed right inside her house where neither Elijah nor Rebekah could enter. The elder original smiled at her again.

"I understand your worries. I was wondering do you know Kol Mikaelson?"

"I danced with a guy named Kol at the decade dance but I'm not sure if he's the one you're asking about."

Elijah obviously interrogated her more but Violet answered every question very normally. There was nothing suspicious about her. In the end, Elijah was forced to decide that the news of Kol being with Violet and cheating on Shae was incorrect. Emily must've mistake about it.

"What do you think Rebekah?" Elijah asked while they were walking back to their car.

"She looked alright to me. And she wasn't lying for sure otherwise her heartbeat would've given her away. Her answers were clear. There was nothing confusing. I think whatever happened she wasn't involved" said Rebekah.

"I agree but Kol is still missing. Where could he be? Only he can tell us the truth." Elijah said and just as he finished saying that, suddenly he got a call from an unknown number. He quickly received it thinking it might be Kol.

"Hello."

"Elijah, it's me Katherine. Now listen to me carefully. Zuriel is possessing someone named Violet and she's going to strike Kol and Shanyra very soon. You must not let it happen."

With that the line ended. Katherine called Elijah because she couldn't call either Kol or Shae. She suspected they were being watched. And contacting them, would've given her away to the travelers. Elijah on the other hand was shocked. How were they fooled by the mother of travelers! Rebekah obviously heard everything. They ran back to the house right away and Elijah kicked the door open. Violet was still inside alright along with an unconscious Kol. Things didn't look good. It seemed that she was going to kill him. But the problem was Elijah and Rebekah couldn't enter the house.

"If you touch him I swear I will rip you apart." Rebekah threatened bringing out her vampire face as well.

"Do it. I'll just take another body." Saying that Violet-Zuriel laughed like a maniac. She looked back at Kol and traced a line on his face with her finger.

"Mmm such a handsome face." Then she leaned forward and kissed his lips.

"You know you won't get away with killing him" said Elijah. He was having a hard time controlling his anger and stay calm.

"I doubt that." Zuriel said confidently.

"Usually it takes a white oak stake to kill an original but my magic- is so powerful that I can destroy him just like that and the lot of you as well."

As if to show them proof, Zuriel started chanting. Suddenly blood started to come out of Kol's mouth. Elijah and Rebekah couldn't do anything but watch helplessly. They knew the mother of travelers could kill Kol and she would. All hopes were lost but suddenly a miracle happened. Suddenly Shanyra came over there with Caroline, Stefan, and Bonnie. Somehow she not only got out of her shocked state but also felt that Kol's life was in danger. She even knew where to find him. It was as if her soul guided her to him. Thankfully she got to Kol before it was too late.

Shae ran inside the house immediately before anyone could stop her and interrupted Zuriel from chanting. Kol was in pain, she knew it because she felt it too. It seemed he was barely alive that moment but thankfully he was still alive. Bonnie immediately started attacking Zuriel with her magic but the mother of travelers was too powerful. Bonnie was no match for her. Zuriel was killing her. The vampires were standing right outside the house but couldn't get inside and there was no way to invite them either. Having no other choice, Shae took a heavy showpiece and hit Violet on her head while she was distracted by Bonnie. The hit knocked her out immediately. Being in a human's body, the all powerful Zuriel couldn't do much when the body was unconscious. Afterwards, Bonnie and Shanyra carried Kol out of the house quickly. And then they left the place immediately. They all knew that Zuriel is going to attack them again and very soon. However next time they would be prepared for it.