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Bella felt the world crumble around her. Her heart raced hard in her chest and she felt frozen at the same time.
Damon framed her face, pulling her back to the moment. The emergency room was really loud and Bella was starting to shake. Her eyes were wide as tears slipped down her face. "Bella, honey, your mom is alive. She's going back to surgery. "
"Dad." Bella's lip quivered and she just hugged Damon, her face pressed into his chest as he cried.
Damon kissed the top of her head and held her tight. He closed his eyes. He was scared too, scared of losing his mate and the love of his life, but scared for Bella losing her mom. "You need to change. Come on. Klaus is going to take you home to get changed out of these clothes." He coaxed.
Klaus put a hand on Bella's shoulder. He was in shock too. He didn't know that is what they would stumble across when Bella got the call from her mom that she needed her to meet her. "Come on love."
"What about Caroline?" Bella suddenly thought about Caroline. "S-s-she was losing too much blood. I tried… I tried to stop it. Is she okay. Where is Caroline?" She was becoming frantic again.
"She's being treated. Honey, go with Klaus. I'll make sure to stay for Caroline and your mom." Damon coaxed again.
"Bella, listen to your father. It's going to be okay. Come now." Klaus tried with a soothing voice.
Bella wiped at her face and she nodded then turned to look at Klaus. "Klaus."
"I've got you love." Klaus said and guided her out of the hospital.
Bella was covered in Caroline's blood. She needed to change, she couldn't stay like this. She went with Klaus, got in his Tesla and they drove back towards the Boarding House to get Bella clothes.
[Two Hours earlier]
Bella sat with Elijah and Klaus in the parlor. Rebekah was gone from the manor and it appeared that Kol had disappeared too. "I don't know how to explain it. I know that I'm mated to Elijah and I'm your imprint." She didn't know how to describe the feeling inside. "I know that when I was out for three days, I spent all those days with Kol. We were in a dream like place. He helped me escape my biggest fears in there."
"Edward." Elijah confirmed.
Bella nodded. "His energy… or his presence. It was soothing. I learned a lot about your family. He told me he knew what was going on out here and he taught me how… how to access it. My conscious mind was awake, I just couldn't talk. I was just… trapped."
"But Kol kissed you and you woke up." Klaus said. He was irritated by that fact. He had kissed her before while she slept and so had Elijah. It didn't make any sense.
Bella swallowed. "Well. Kol… Kol is my other mate."
Klaus stood then walking towards the liquor cabinet. "That's impossible."
"I know… but… but he is. He's a different kind of mate."
"There are only two types of mate love. Wolf and vampire."
"Soulmate." Elijah said, his dark eyes studying Bella's blue ones. "He's your soulmate."
Bella nodded. "Yes."
"That's also impossible. Kol is a vampire."
"I don't believe you're all soulless." Bella said, standing now too. "But Kol… he's not just a vampire. He's also a witch."
Elijah nodded. "We all have the blood Bella, our mother was a witch."
"No, like he still has his powers. Well… some of them."
Klaus frowned, his brows furrowing at the same time. "You're telling me that after a thousand years, Kol has access to his witch powers and I'm just now finding out?"
"He said that they're not strong or anything. It's dampened. But, he's able to do little things." Bella explained. "Or that's what he said in the dreamland." She murmured.
Klaus was quiet. He was stewing. He was angry with his brother. He had kept this information from him for this long.
Kol walked in just then. "It's because you get dagger happy and put people in boxes when you're upset with them." He answered Klaus's inner thoughts.
"You can read minds. That's just fucking fantastic." Klaus grumbled and drank his bourbon.
"Kol." Bella faced him. "Thank you… for waking me."
"It's not a big deal." Kol said and pointed to the bourbon. "Can you fix me one of those too?" He asked his brother.
"Do it yourself." Klaus mumbled.
Elijah sighed. "Niklaus."
"What? Is he handicapped? Is he special? No. He can fix his own damn drink." Klaus said and left the parlor to brew more.
Bella sighed and looked at Elijah. "He's upset with me."
"He's not upset with you my love, he's upset with everything. He doesn't get you to himself and Kol was just added to the mix."
Kol cleared his throat. "Correction. Kol was not added to anything. I hold no rights to young Bella here."
"Young?" Bella raised a brow. "I'm older."
"Just physically." Kol said with a smirk. "Either way, I have no wishes to gallop in here and be a knight in shining armor. I am going to explore my new found freedom."
Bella frowned, feeling sad inside.
Kol set his drink down, feeling her sadness. "Wait. Bella, that's not what I meant." He knew she was feeling sad because she thought he desired to go sleep with women. "What I meant is I want to explore the world as it is. I have been stuck in a stasis for 45 years. I'm not going to sleep around. I might be the mad brother, but I'm not heartless."
Elijah stood, slipping his hand into his pocket. "Perhaps you should know more about Bella. Take time to understand her."
"We spent three lovely days together in the dream realm." Kol winked at Bella and she blushed.
Elijah looked at Bella. "You two… in the dream world?"
"No, not like that." Bella squeaked out, her cheeks reddening from embarrassment. Her phone rang and it startled her a little, but she slipped it from her pocket and saw it was her mom. "Hey mom I-"
"I need your help." Renee rasped out.
"What's wrong? Mom?"
"Something is wrong. I'm at the town border. I've slipped off into the ditch with the car." Renee said and then the phone cut out.
"Mom?"
Klaus flashed back into the room. "Come, we'll take the Tesla." He said. "Elijah, Rebekah requires assistance. Kol, I want to talk to you later." He said and he took Bella's hand in his and pulled her along to the garage to the Tesla.
"I can drive. You don't have to come with me."
Klaus shook his head. "I want time with just you and me. I need to be able to have a moment alone. I am overwhelmed." He said as he started the car and the garage door opened and he drove out, heading towards the town border like Renee had said in her phone call.
Bella felt bad. She was Klaus's imprint and he was sacrificing so much of himself for her. And she was being a terrible imprint. "I'm sorry."
"For what?" Klaus glanced over at her, but he reached over with his free hand and took hers in his.
"For… everything. I love you. You know that right?"
"Of course I do." Klaus said and then brought her hand up to his lips and kissed it softly. "I might be frustrated and upset, but it's never with you love. It's hard to accept Elijah and it'll be equally as hard to accept Kol. But… I want whatever you want. Always."
Bella swallowed. "I really like Kol."
"That's a first. Kol is not a likeable person."
"Some might say that about you." Bella teased him, feeling better to hear Klaus say that he wanted what she wanted.
Klaus smiled. It was perhaps the first time he smiled since they made love and before everything crazy happened. "I love you." He murmured and she smiled at him. Her smile was worth every hardship he would have to face. Her smiling at him, that was worth it to him. He felt at ease now that he was alone with her. He felt that they needed just this small time together. He looked back at the road and saw Renee's SUV slung down over into the ditch and smoke was billowing. He frowned, releasing Bella's hand as he came to a sliding stop on the side of the road. He was out of the car and flashing down to Renee's SUV. It was empty. "Where the hell?"
Bella looked around, spotting Caroline laying in the ditch, bloodied. "Caroline!" Bella ran down to her. Her hands shook as she placed them over the blood pouring out of her side. "Oh god, Care, hang on. Klaus call an ambulance!"
"Bella, I can give her my blood. Heal her." Klaus said but then flashing lights pulled off to the side of the road.
"We're going to have to rely on the human way." Bella whispered and she pressed harder against the wound. "Klaus, my mom was with Caroline. It's dark, please find her." She said and Klaus nodded and got to his feet.
A deputy was sliding down into the ditch. Luckily it wasn't Caroline's mom. "What happened?"
"I don't know. Me and my boyfriend. We came because my mom called. My mom was driving, I don't know where she is. My friend, she's bleeding bad. She needs an ambulance. Hurry!" She said quickly.
The deputy pulled at his radio and called in the accident while Bella looked down at Caroline's unconscious face.
"Please don't die." Bella whispered, closing her eyes as tears started to stream.
Bella managed to pull herself together, once she changed clothes at the boarding house. Elena and Stefan weren't there and likely still at the hospital.
Klaus rubbed his hands down Bella's arms. "Bella… talk to me. Please don't fade away."
"I'm okay. I'm here. Dad said that mom was going into surgery. How bad was she? Why couldn't you give her your blood?"
"Because she has the wolf gene." Klaus said. "I don't know what my blood would do to her. I was afraid I would… I would make it worse." He said and then kissed her forehead. "I don't want to be the one that cost you your mother."
Bella shook her head. "It's okay I understand. Caroline, she'll be okay right?"
Klaus's phone rang and he answered it immediately. "What did you find out brother?"
Elijah's voice filtered in through the phone. "Caroline died."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. I gave her my blood. She was healing. I walked away to talk to Damon. Rebekah and Kol are talking to the deputies at the crashsite. They're trying to figure out how that much damage happened with a simple slide off the road. I have a feeling that this wasn't an accident."
"If you gave her your blood…"
"Yes, she's going to transition." Elijah said. "I compelled the doctors here. They think she's just resting for right now."
Klaus blew out a breath. "Okay. Go find out more on Renee." He said and hung up.
Bella was looking at Klaus, with a worried expression. "What happened?"
"Elijah gave Caroline his blood." Klaus said.
"That's good. She'll heal and-"
"Something happened. She died."
Bella frowned and shook her head. "How is that even possible? Vampire blood heals right?"
"Someone killed her Bella. She died with Elijah's blood in her system." Klaus said gently.
Bella teared up again and shook her head. "Who would kill her? Why would someone do that?"
"Katherine. It's something she would do to fuck with everyone here." Klaus said and shook his head. "I promise you I will take care of her. I will make sure she can't hurt anyone else again."
"No. Killing her… it won't make any of this better. All the damage is already done." Bella said and ran a hand through her hair. "She wants something. What could she possible want from any of us?"
Klaus didn't know why Katherine was being so bold. "I don't know." And that was the truth.
