It was… truthfully, incredibly awkward. But it seemed as though the Mikaelson brothers had called a temporary truce of some sort, so Bea walked over to Kol and tucked herself under his arm, which he immediately tightened around her shoulders after pressing a brief kiss to the top of her head.

When she peered up at Kol with a questioning glance, he let out a stressed sigh before saying in a tight voice, "Nik wants to help us."

Bea considered that, assessing the hybrid closely as his face remained impassive. Klaus had killed her. Brutally. But after their conversation in the car when he'd brought her back to Kol - he'd brought her back to Kol. Finally, she spoke in a quiet, even voice.

"Okay. He could be useful. He knows the group the best."

Bea heard Katie mutter under her breath, "Their deaths are long overdue."

Klaus and Elijah both turned their heads to focus on her and Bea saw Katie tense, so unthinkingly she said, "Katie is off-limits."

The older two Mikaelson brothers turned back to her and looked intrigued for a second but were interrupted by Kol, who snorted and sounded surprisingly upbeat when he said, "I'd love to eviscerate Damon Salvatore."

Without a second of silence, Bekah immediately added, "I'd appreciate if the doppelganger wench could be saved for me. The bitch is awful."

Bekah's quick response made a flash of fondness hit Bea. The girl was lovely. And her moxie was fascinating after a millennium of being alive followed by nearly a century of being daggered. Of course the passion and interest in life wasn't new to Bea – Kol's own vitality had always entranced her and made her love him all the more. Briefly Bea began vaguely envisioning what Kol and she would do after they finished their business in Mystic Falls and were free to explore the world together.

Elijah opened his mouth and she had no idea what he was about to say – a defense of the teenager perhaps, or maybe calling dibs on his own member of the Mystic Falls group he'd like to kill. Bea cut him off in an offhand tone in case it was the latter when she said, "I've already taken care of their upstart little witch."

Klaus let out a loud laugh before saying in an appreciative voice, "Yes, you certainly did. If that's how you want to phrase a crushed skull, decapitation, and tearing out vital organs."

Kol twirled Bea around, a delighted smile taking over his mouth before he cupped Bea's face. With an equally wide smile she responded, "I put her head in the oven. It seems that after a century I still haven't gotten the hang of cooking."

Wide eyed, Kol stared at her for a moment before murmuring, "Shit, I love you – "

He cut himself off, tipping her face up and bending down to kiss her hard, apparently unconcerned with their audience. Bea could feel his fangs descend and blood well up from the small cuts he made on her lips, a gesture she repeated immediately. When he pulled away, she flicked her tongue over the remaining blood before whispering in a rasping voice, "The blood on the wall was one of my better paintings."

Kol's expression turned dark and he breathed out, "You're goddamn perfect," grabbing her hips and pulling her against him once more, grinding against her hard as their lips met again.

After a minute of licking at each other's mouths, Bea let out a low moan. They were interrupted, however, by Rigby, who let out a loud snort before saying, "You two are shameless."

Bea and Kol separated and without breaking eye contact with her Kol said, "We can postpone vengeance for a few hours. I'm borrowing a spare room."

Bea of course lifted her eyebrows and said in a challenging voice, "A few hours? Optimistic of you."

Instead of responding, Kol bent down and grabbed the back of her thighs before hitching her up against him and speeding up the grand staircase, throwing open a door to a nearby bedroom before kicking it shut.

Immediately Kol lifted her up a bit higher so her pelvis was rubbing against his stomach, putting her at a height that they could kiss. Pressing her against the wall just next to the door, he began rolling his body against hers, forcing a whimper from her throat. However, before anything got too heated he lowered her back down onto the ground.

"We should take a shower. You're likely wanting to wash away the vervain."

Bea nodded in response, though truthfully she'd actually grown accustomed to the slight sting her hair was causing as it fell down her back. Kicking off her shoes before shrugging out of her clothes only took a few seconds and Bea saw that Kol was now also naked. Pulling open a side door, Bea was relieved to see that it was indeed a bathroom with a shower that looked stocked full of bathing supplies.

Bea promptly turned the dial on to a comfortably warm temperature, momentarily ignoring Kol as she stood beneath the spray and let out a satisfied sigh. When he joined her in the shower, she was a little surprised that he didn't immediately move against her or kiss her. However, an immense wave of fondness overcame Bea when she turned and saw that he was reading the different labels of the bottles on the shelf, finally pulling out the shower gel before murmuring, "Come now, let's get you feeling better."

The two of them were silent, and tears came to Bea's eyes when Kol gently maneuvered one of her arms towards him and began slowly lathering her arms with the shower gel. He repeated the gesture on her other arm before turning her so she faced him. He kneeled slowly and did the same to both of her legs, traveling upward to lather her entire body, not at all sexually, simply caressing her softly.

Bea knew she would burst into tears at the tender expression on his face and if the atmosphere remained, so she quietly cleared her throat before saying, "I'll shampoo and condition. My hair is so long now; you'd probably bungle it."

Kol grinned at her, the mood lightening immediately when he responded, "Quite right, sweetheart." His expression turned positively wicked, and he had no shame when he leaned down to trail his fangs lightly over her collarbone, murmuring against her skin, "Be sure to hurry. If I remember correctly, I owe you an orgasm or two."

Oh.

Rebekah tried to remain composed while speaking to her brothers as well as Rigby and Katerina. She and her brothers were doing a reasonable job, but Katerina's amused smirk hadn't left her face for the last half hour and Rigby had started snorting with laughter multiple times before stifling it.

"Kol mentioned he'd called upon a few covens he still had connections with to do location spells for what is left of the little Mystic Falls coalition -"

Elijah was cut off by a high pitched moan the wouldn't have been audible to humans, but seeing as everyone in the room was a vampire it was all too easy to hear.

"Oh god, merde, please just like that -"

The sound was muffled by what must have been a pillow and Elijah tried to keep a straight face, but a small uncomfortable flinch took over his face and he stopped speaking.

Klaus was the one to break the silence, saying in a glib tone, "It seems Kol and Beatrix will not be joining us for a while. We should continue our planning without them."

Rebekah really, really hoped that her brother and sister-in-law would take a shorter period of time than 'an hour'.