Characters: Kol, Kat, Klaus, Rebekah, Davina, Esther, Elijah, Nadia, Tyler, Tatia, Trevor, Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Petrova, Elena
Summary: Set in S1, but let's pretend Kol is in his Original body. Katherine comes to New Orleans to find help and protection. Little does she know, she came at the worst time because of the family drama going on. She finds herself allied with Kol, which she never would have thought possible, considering his reputation. Will Kol be more than an ally to her; maybe become her greatest friend and her savior? What will happen between the two? Only time will tell.
Pairings:
Kolatherine
It was a dark night in New Orleans in the French Quarter as Katherine Pierce, newly turned human, came upon the Mikealson family compound, limping. She had come from Mystic Falls after causing a car accident when she and Jeremy had fought over the wheel. She only hoped they understood her need to survive. It was her instinct. Because of that crash, she was badly injured and had lost a lot of blood. She could tell due to having to fight to stay awake.
Once in front of the door, she knocked and then waited for someone to open it. And someone did.
"Well, well; If it isn't Katherine Pierce, apparently human due to the cure. What do you need?" Kol greeted.
"I need help and protection; please."
"I'd say that's an understatement, darlin'," he replied, seeing that she was injured and realizing the condition she was in.
A moment later, everything went black for her.
As she collapsed, he used vamp reflexes to catch her from hitting the ground. Only then did he realized how much she truly needed help. She had and was still losing a lot of blood. She looked worse than crap and she was alive but pale, injured, covered in blood, and her breathing was shallow. He could hear it with his vampire hearing.
He sighed, gently pulled her into his arms before getting to his feet and then blurred upstairs to his room.
One in his room, he gently layed her down in his bed and sat on her bedside. He bit his wrist and put it to her lips, making his blood go down her throat to heal and save her.
A few minutes later, he took it away and it instantly healed, as her wounds began to heal.
He rested a gentle hand on the right side of her face and looked down at her, hoping she'd be okay. She was human now; weak and vulnerable. He'd have to let his siblings know soon enough, though. He just hoped Klaus and Rebekah didn't harm her. Rebekah had wanted the cure and Klaus hated her.
When she woke up, she was in a room with Kol, Kol seated on her bedside looking down at her, looking like he cared about her.
"You're awake," he stated. "How do you feel?"
She slowly sat up in bed.
"Better. Thanks."
"You're welcome. Now what do you need help with, darling?"
"I need protection and a witch. I'm human now, so if my enemies find out, I'll be dead if I don't have protection. I need a witch, because the cure did something more to me than make me human. I'm dying of old age at a rapid pace. Time is catching up with me."
"Well darling, if you're on your best behavior, I'd be glad to assist you. It just so happens I have a witch at my disposal and I don't fancy watching you die. Besides, dying sucks as it is."
"I promise to be on my best behavior. Thank you, Kol."
"You're welcome, darling."
He gave her a smile and she smiled back.
He stood up.
"Get some rest. I'll go speak to that witch and tell my siblings that you're here," he told her, before leaving his room.
Half an hour later, he had informed his siblings downstairs and, as expected, Rebekah didn't much like the idea and Klaus hated it, while Elijah would do anything to save her. And at the end of the conversation, Klaus left and Elijah went after him, while Rebekah simply went to her room.
A few minutes later, he was speaking to Davina in the same room they had created the dagger that would temporarily put Klaus down if need be.
"I need a favor. Normally I wouldn't be asking, considering who it's for, but I do know a little of what she's feeling. Usually, this would be Elijah asking for help in saving her, but since she did come to me, I'm the one asking," he told the witch.
"Who's it for?" she asked him.
"Well, it depends what you prefer to call her as. I prefer Katherine Pierce. For you to understand her and why she wouldn't come to Elijah and most definitely not Klaus, I have to tell you her story."
"Okay; I'm listening," she replied.
"500 years ago in England 1492, after she was banished from Bulgaria by her parents for unknown reasons, she met Elijah and Klaus and a friend, Trevor, on Klaus' birthday at a ball. Trevor and Elijah fell for her, but she only loved Elijah. Things were complicated, because Klaus needed her to break the curse in a ritual my mother set upon him. She was Elijah and Klaus' first love's doppelganger; Tatia. She didn't know until Elijah told her though, and Trevor helped her escape to a cabin where she met Trevor's friend Rose. It didn't go well. Rose fed her her blood when she was willing to die, instead of Rose taking her back to Klaus. In the end, she killed herself and turned into a vampire and fled back to Bulgaria. That's where she found her family slaughtered by Klaus. She fled from Bulgaria and ran from Klaus for 500 years. She made herself a liar and deceiver and learned how to survive, all in fear of my brother.
Six months ago, after 500 years of claiming to love her forever, Elijah broke up with her. After that, apparently she had a fight with her doppelganger who shoved the cure for vampirism down her throat. Now she's dying of old age at a rapid pace. I know what it's like to be dying, so I promised her that I would help her. Besides, if I don't, no one else will. All the friends she ever made were all killed in a church in the 60's. She has no one. She's alone, human, and rightfully afraid," he explained.
After hearing her story and knowing what it was like to almost die, she said, "I'll do it. What kind of spell do you want me to look for?"
"Something to reverse what the cure did," he answered her.
"I'll see what I can do," she replied.
He left to head back to the compound, while she searched for what would help Katherine.
Half an hour later, he entered the compound where his siblings were, Elijah wanting Klaus not to harm her and Rebekah wanting the same, despite being unhappy that Katherine had become human instead of her.
Kol simply went to his room to check on Katherine, not wanting to have a brawl with his siblings.
He sat on her bedside and looked down at her and, for the first time, actually saw the aging. Wrinkled and a few gray hairs were showing, which he hadn't seen before. And even though he'd never met her as a vampire, he realized that being human had changed her. She was kind and didn't lash out anymore. He was actually beginning to see what Elijah saw in her. Though she was dying, he could see a glimpse of light in her; something he hadn't realized that she had even had.
She woke up to see him and she smiled up at him.
"How long have you been there?" she asked.
"Just for a minute. I spoke to the witch, Davina, and my siblings. She's working on saving you and they're working on it."
"Thank you, Kol."
"You're welcome, darlin,"
He gave a smile.
"Do you think you could let me walk around the compound, at least? I may be human and dying, but I don't have to stay in bed 24/7 for you to protect me."
"Of course. I just thought you could use some rest. You can go wherever you want, but let me know if you need any help."
"I will."
She got out of bed and, after a change of clothes and a shower, left his room to admire the compound.
He watched with a smile, as she left the room.
As she descended the stairs, she saw his siblings, so she went slowly. They were arguing over her and speaking of some family drama.
"She can't stay here. I won't allow it," Klaus growled at Elijah.
"Niklaus, she has nowhere else to go. She's not just some human. Despite what has happened, we do care. Do not cast her out."
"Fine. Then she may as well make herself useful and help take out our mother."
She approached them.
"I'm right here, Klaus. If there's anything you'd like to tell me, I'm all ears. I am dying though, so you best make it quick. But I do have a witch and at least three Mikaelsons on my side, so be careful what you say."
"I don't care what state you're in. If you're going to stay here, you're going to be useful."
"So, what has your mother done this time?" she said with a sigh.
"It's what she's trying to accomplish," Klaus corrected. "She's looking for me and Hayley's daughter. Hope is cloaked with a spell with help from a witch Rebekah enlisted. We need her destroyed."
"Then you need witches to come against her. That, or you need someone to distract her so one of you can destroy her. I promise to help protect your secret and Hope, but right now, until Davina finds something to help me, I'm dying. I'm too weak to help you as much as I used to be able to help. You know I hate admitting weakness, but it's true," she said to him, and then headed out of the compound.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"For a walk," she answered, not looking back, as she disappeared.
As Kat walked, she held in her emotions. She was still grieving for Nadia, her baby girl. She had been taken from her because of a werewolf bite, for the last time. She couldn't help but be envious that others got to keep their kids, but she wasn't able to.
A few minutes after she left, Rebekah went after her. She didn't like her much, but Katherine was human and she needed to be protected out on the New Orleans streets. And it wasn't like her siblings would do it.
When she caught up with her, she walked beside her and put a hand on her arm.
"Katherine, hey."
They stopped walking and the newly turned human looked at her.
"Let me guess; you're my protector if something happens out here."
"I am," she replied and then noticed that she looked upset. "What's wrong, Katherine? If it's Klaus, forget about him and his behavior. I may despise you, but you can still talk to me."
"None of you know why I came to England in 1492; why my parents banished me from the village. I had a girl out of wedlock and they disowned me because of it. I kept her a secret for 500 years. When I recently became human, we were reunited, only for Tyler to bite her. My fear of Klaus killed her."
Hearing this news made Rebekah feel sorry for her.
"I'm sorry for your loss. I'm here if you need me."
"Thanks, Rebekah."
She smiled at the Original, who then smiled back.
Suddenly, they were magically attacked. Rebekah was left in the ally, out cold, while Katherine was taken to the mausoleum in the cemetery.
Half an hour later, Rebekah woke up and called Klaus, as she began walking. When she couldn't get him though, she called Kol, who immediately answered.
"We have a problem. Katherine's been taken by mother."
"That is definitely a big problem," Kol agreed.
An hour later, Katherine finally woke up to see that she was chained by her wrists with chains that were connected to the rock ceiling; a lot like how she had done to Elijah not that long ago.
"You finally decided to join me," Esther greeted, though she wasn't in her Original body. She was in a witch's body.
"Esther I assume," Katherine replied. "What's your plan this time? Use me as bait? Torture me? Been there; done that. It's not going to work."
"Oh, it will," Esther replied.
A few minutes later, Esther had her under a sleeping spell, which made Katherine relive her past.
*1490 Bulgaria*
It was a dark night in her Bulgaria village, as she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, her mother seated beside her, the maid at the food of the bed. Then, finally, her baby was born.
"Please. Let me see her," Katerina asked of the maid.
The maid began to give her to her to see her, but then her father walked in and asked the maid what she was doing, which made the maid stop and look at him.
"Give the child to me," Katerina's father instructed, in which the maid did.
As he walked away with her baby, Katerina begged her father to reconsider with tears streaming down her face, saying, "No, Papa! Please!"
He stopped at the doorway to the room and replied, "No! You have disgraced this family!"
Katerina could only cry, as she watched her father disappear with her baby. That was the very last time she knew she would ever see her baby girl. She had screwed up and for that, her family had disowned her and she knew she would soon be banished from her home.
*1492 England*
It was a dark night in England at a ball, as Katerina followed Trevor who had said he wanted her to meet Lord Elijah and Lord Niklaus. It was an elegant ball, in which she had never seen or been to before.
Soon, he introduced her to Lord Elijah and Lord Niklaus who she did a courtesy for.
"Pleasure to meet you, my Lord," she greeted to Niklaus.
He kissed her hand and then said, "That's what my mother calls me. Please; call me Klaus."
When she had been acquainted further and Lord Klaus had been informed that she had no place to stay, she was told that she could stay with him at his estate, in which she obliged.
One day, after she and Lord Elijah had played chase outside, they sat down on a cement bench and spoke of love.
"I do not believe in love, Katerina," he said to her.
"I'm sorry, my Lord, but that's too sad for me to accept. If we cease to believe in love, then why would we want to live?"
He looked at her silently and she was silent as well.
*1492 Bulgaria*
After Trevor and Elijah helped her escape Klaus who was going to sacrifice her in a ritual, Rose who found out who she was said she would return her to Klaus, so Katerina took manners in her own hands by killing herself, which ended in her waking up in transition and killing the old woman who owned the cabin, which turned her into a vampire. Then she fled and headed for her Bulgaria village, only to see that her entire village and family had been slaughtered. There was a sword through her father's chest and he was hanging from the wall, while her mother lay on her back on the bed with her throat torn open.
"No! Ma'ma!" she said, going to kneel by her on the bed and cried over her mother's body.
When she could cry no longer, she fled Bulgaria to run from and hopefully escape Klaus.
*1498 Bulgaria*
When she had escaped Klaus for a while, she returned to Bulgaria in search of her daughter who, at the time, was only eight years old. She searched every village and town and city, but she couldn't find her, so she left Bulgaria, giving up on ever being able to find her daughter and be reunited with her. Little did she know, several years later, she would finally be reunited with Nadia Petrova.
*end*
Later that night, while Esther was up against Klaus, Kol took the chains off Katherine and gently carried her, blurring back to the compound. Then, once in his room, he gently layed her down in his bed and sat on her bedside, looking down at her, thankful she was still alive at least.
When they found out that she was under a sleeping spell because of Esther, Klaus got the cure that would wake her up and gave it to Katerina. He then left the room and soon after, she began to awaken.
"Welcome back, darling," Kol greeted, once she had come to.
She smiled and he smiled back.
"Thanks," she replied.
She slowly sat up in bed and looked at him.
"I know I don't need to say this, but I'm sorry for what my mother did. You don't deserve anything of what you got," he replied.
"You're right. You don't need to apologize for her; but thank you, anyway."
"What did you see, if I might ask?"
"If you must know, I relived my past."
"Well, I never heard of your past except for 1492 England. What is your past?"
"It's a long story, so go ahead; see for yourself," she invited, trusting him. After he had saved her twice, she trusted him with all of her heart. She trusted him with her life. Besides, she knew that he would never hurt her, no matter what.
He did as she asked and then, a few minutes later, came out of her memories and back to the present.
"I'm sorry for what you have endured. No one should have to go through any of that," he said.
"Thanks for the sympathy," she replied.
They looked at each other and it was such a moment that, before they knew it, they were making out in his bed with the door closed.