"kol and Caroline take hope trick or treating" –P.M

Sequel-ish to 'come to me, my sweetest friend'.

Kol Mikaelson was dressed as a snowman. Kol Mikaelson was dressed as that character from that damnable movie about snow and "letting shit go". Kol Mikaelson was losing all dignity. In other words, Kol Mikaelson was not happy.

"You look so cool, Uncle Kol." Hope smiled happily at him, dressed in her Queen Ice-Letting-Go-What-The-Hell-The-Name-Is costume. "Do I look pretty in my costume?"

She spun around, the sparkles on the blue gown almost blinding him against the lights of the foyer's chandelier.

He smiled back at her. "The prettiest, Hopscotch,"

"And you're like my Olaf," She giggled. "Except you don't melt!"

He really wished he would to the bottom of his black little heart but it wasn't happening. His parents were probably laughing at him from whatever portion of hell they were occupying. Though he suspected they'd already taken over management and when Kol finally joined them, his room would be all set up already. His parents were organized like that.

"Should I show my costume to mummy and daddy?" Hope asked.

And Kol bit back a string of filthy curse words. Hope's parents – surprise, surprise –were nowhere to around as the love circus was still going on. Rebekah had helped Hope get into her costume and snapped a hundred pictures before she had to go run the city again. This left Hope with Kol to take her trick or treating and Rebekah finally got centuries' worth of revenge on him by making him wear that godforsaken costume.

Kol scowled inwardly and maneuvered himself so he could kneel and look Hope in the eyes (which was hard because of the costume but he made it work). "You see, Hopscotch, your mum and dad already went out trick-or-treating. Because…there's a contest on who can get the most candy at the end of the night. Whoever wins gets a prize!"

Hope practically squealed. "A prize!"

"Yeah!"

He was going to hell for sure but at least it wouldn't be boring with all his family there. Finn was probably having a smashing time.

Later, Kol was walking down a neighborhood with Hope in hand as she looked at the other kids walking around in their costumes. He was trying to figure out what kind of vegetable one kid was supposed to be before Hope let go of his hand and ran towards something. He followed her immediately before stopping in horror at the sight of Caroline Forbes. He stared at her starting at him and he was dressed like a snowman.

Caroline let out a laugh before trying to conceal it, looking away with shaking shoulders before looking down at Hope who was hugging her waist. The blonde teacher was dressed like some kind of stripped thing with wings. A bee. Or a really bizarre looking beetle.

"Miss Car-o-line!" Hope started babbling at her. "Look, look, I'm Elsa! And Uncle Kol is Olaf and we don't have a Sven or Anna because Aunt Bekah was too busy to be Anna and Marcy didn't want to be a reindeer-"

"Marcy?" Caroline repeated, looking at Kol for answers.

He shrugged. "It's what she calls Marcel."

"-and you're like a bee and it's so cool!" Hope finished. "The coolest!"

"Literally." Both Kol and Caroline replied.

Hope moved on from hugging Caroline to greet the miniature Spiderman beside Caroline. The boy took off his mask and greeted the little girl back, apparently being classmates or something. As the two, pre-schoolers chatted away, Kol moved closer to Caroline, feeling ridiculous in his costume but still trying to be cool. He was cool Uncle Kol, after all.

"Who's the kid?"

"Bonnie and Matt's kid, Victor." Caroline smiled. "Both his parents had to work so I volunteered to take him trick or treating."

Huh. So they both were taking care of children not their own. Except Victor's parents had legitimate reasons not to be around while Hope's parents were just arses.

Hope went back to Kol and grabbed his leg. "Can we trick or treat with Victor?"

Kol looked up at Caroline who nodded eagerly. "Of course."

The two kids ran towards a house while their chaperones followed.

"So…should I call you 'honey' now instead of 'sweetheart'?" Kol quipped at the blonde as she rolled her eyes.

"Well, you are the coolest." She giggled as she looked at the sight of him in his costume again. "Literally."

He didn't let her teasing phased him though and moved closer to her.

"And you're the sweetest." He smirked. "Honey."