We all go a bit mad sometimes.
I woke up in the morning and stretched, Kol had snuck his way into my bed and was waiting for me to get up but I had zero intentions in acknowledging him.
I grabbed a change of clothes and spelled the bathroom door shut. I took a quick shower and washed my hair. I dried myself off and got dressed in the bathroom, I pushed the door open and Kol sat up in the bed watching the tv.
I rolled my eyes as I sat down in front of the vanity and got to work putting products into my hair. After another 30 minutes of silence I finally cracked.
"Why? Why are you here?"
"It's my house darling." He replied flashing me a cheeky smile. I pulled my hair into a ponytail and sighed.
"Yes but it's my room." I retorted, I grabbed my phone from the nightstand and checked the time."I'm meeting Caroline for breakfast, so bye."
"What do I have to do for you to stop acting like this?" Kol asked flashing from the bed directly in front of me. I put my phone into my pocket and took a step back.
"Nothing, I'm gonna act my relationship status and you act yours." I shrugged.
"So that's what this is about? This is your way of having the what are we conversation?"
"Oh no. We're past that." I stepped around him and left the room, Rudy hopped up from the couch and ran up to me. I smiled at the sound of his little nails scrapping against the floor. I grabbed my keys from the coffee table and put Rudy's leash back on. I opened up the front door and headed to my car, I sighed in frustration when I noticed Kol sitting in the passenger seat.
I opened up the back door and Rudy jumped into the back. I closed the door and climbed into the driver's seat.
"You're being annoying."
"So are you."
"I can be whatever I want." I hissed annoyed, I started the car and stared at him expectantly." Get out."
"It's my car."
"Great. Rudy and I will walk then." I unlocked my door but Kol hit the lock button immediately."I'm ready to dagger you myself."
"If I tell you I fancy you and want to go steady will you behave like the Alicia I know?" Kol asked. I sighed and leaned back against the seat torn. I could feel he was staring at the side of my face while I kept my eyes closed.
"That's not why I'm mad."
"Then what is?"
"I could've died yesterday and you were busy screwing girls. I wouldn't have been able to stay away if it were you." I replied, shaking my head.
"I would've killed the Hunter, you know that. That's why Nik promised a dagger in my heart if I went." Kol replied, I frowned at the thought of him suffering because he wanted to help me.
"That doesn't explain the naked women I saw."
"I had a bit of fun, but it didn't go any further than that." He shrugged. Kol & Klaus were known to wipe out entire villages. I don't know what I expected from him in modern times.
"I'm sorry." I sighed opening up my eyes and turning the radio on."I'm just being a girl."
"You didn't answer my question."
"You were being serious about that?" I asked shocked, I was content with what we currently had. I just was salty about what I walked into and immediately used it as a defense mechanism.
"I do fancy you."
"Is that what you want though? When we talked about it in Denver you were very much against it." I replied putting the car into drive. I already knew Caroline was planning on forcing Bonnie & I to talk. And Kol would be an excellent buffer.
"We basically are an item so why not?" Kol shrugged. I tried to hide the grin that slowly spread across my face. I put the car into drive and drove away from the mansion.
We stopped by my house and as expected Bonnie wasn't there. I filled Rudy's bowls up and took him off his leash and let him get comfortable.
We got back into the car and drove to a little cafe on the other side of town. The grill was still closed because of Connors antics so we had to go to this wack ass cafe that didn't even sell fries.
I parked the car and Kol & I got out, Caroline & Bonnie were sitting right in front drinking coffee. I sat down beside Caroline & Kol sat beside Bonnie.
"I hate this place." I commented picking up the menu."What kind of establishment doesn't sell fries?"
"One that's supposed to be fancy." Bonnie replied.
"This isn't fancy." I scoffed. I read over the menu and frowned even more."Next time we can just have coffee at my house."
"Why would you eat fries at 8 am in the first place?" Caroline asked, I scratched the back of my head shocked she'd question me like that right now.
"That's besides the point."
"So Bonnie I heard you've got a new witch loving friend." Kol said. I raised an eyebrow curious where he planned on taking this.
"His name is Shane. And yes." Bonnie replied with a small smile.
"And he's a weirdo." I added, Bonnie went from smiling to frowning."He's probably got some sort of twin-fetish."
"Alicia." Caroline said. I shrugged and took a sip of Caroline's coffee.
"I'd like to meet him." Kol replied. It truthfully wasn't a bad idea. If another person agreed with me that something was off about him Bonnie would see it too.
"And you can talk some sense into Alicia. He's helping me get my magic back." Bonnie said. I scoffed and put my head down.
"I could do that. You just need to meditate and tell the witches to suck it."
"She does have a point." Caroline agreed, the waiter came over and she requested another coffee and a chocolate muffin. They were clearly for me but since I had my head down Caroline took the liberty to order for me.
"Usually when a witch can't do magic there's blockage. You just simply need to unblock it." Kol explained a lightbulb went off over my head.
"If I let you borrow Kol would you really need Shane? What's 30 years of witchy knowledge when Kol has centuries of it?" I offered, I didn't have an issue with Bonnie per say my issue was with Professor Shane's lying ass.
"You'd help me?" Bonnie looked skeptically at the original, almost as if him showing up here wasn't enough of a reason to trust him.
"If that's what Alicia wants." He shrugged.
"Okay, great so you'll meet Shane if you don't like him and if you don't like him, you'll take Bonnie under your wing." Caroline nodded firmly. The waitress set down my coffee and muffin which I happily started to eat.
"You have my word."
"That's hot." I smiled up at him, Caroline & Bonnie exchanged a look."So Elena."
"What about her?" Bonnie asked.
"Probably going through rather horrific delusions right now."Kol answered casually.
"How do we fix that?" Caroline asked.
"That is a Klaus problem." I replied as if on cue my phone rang."Speak of the devil."
I pulled out my phone and answered it.
"Klaus how was Italy?"
"Absolutely wonderful, now why did I have to find out from you that my Hunter is dead?" Klaus asked, mildly irritated.
"Because Stefan's afraid of you since it's kinda his fault." I replied, shaking my head." I'm out with my friends who can actually hear you right now, so would you rather I come there?"
"Yes, love." Klaus replied hanging up. I rolled my eyes and started to put my phone away but he texted almost immediately.
Going to get Elena, meet me at my house.
I put my phone into my pocket and Caroline stared at me for a moment. I shrugged and she rolled her eyes the minute she opened her mouth I knew she was about to draw.
"So Kol."
"Oh god." Bonnie & I mumbled at the same time. Kol chuckled while Bonnie & I palmed our foreheads.
"You & Alicia." She trailed off a bit most likely looking for some sort of reaction."What exactly is this?"
"You don't have to answer." I said.
"Oh yes he does." Caroline replied with a large grin on her face, she rested her chin into her hand and stared at him expectantly.
"We've gotta go." I stuck my tongue out at Caroline and stood up, I grabbed Kol's hand and led him away from the table. I could faintly hear Caroline awing while Bonnie laughed."Don't mind her, she's always trying to get some good kink out of somebody."
"Oh she wanted to hear all the dirty details? I see why Nik fancies her so much." Kol laughed. I playfully rolled my eyes as we climbed into the car.
"Klaus wants me to help him with Elena duty, you're welcome to do something else if you want?"
"I could go have a chat with this Professor." Kol offered, I pushed my lips together and thought it over for a second. Part of me wanting to tag along but the other part of me knew I'd probably influence his opinion more than I thought.
"No, not yet. I want you to just keep an eye on what he does with Bonnie." I replied, she didn't have to mention it but I had a feeling she was gonna go meet with him later on.
"Okay, tell me where to find your sister."
I pulled over in front of Klaus' and sent Bonnie a quick message asking what she was doing today in case I needed her. She said something about an occult exhibit ran by professor Shane himself. I sent Kol the address and we both climbed out the car.
I didn't feel Klaus here but I felt a few hybrids. I frowned something was telling me Klaus had no doubt bought my hybrid back to town.
Kol walked me to the front door before he took off to go see what Bonnie was doing. I took a deep breath and pushed the front door open, two hybrids were waiting at the door when I entered. Tiana and another one I didn't actually know.
"Tiana." I grinned pulling the girl into a hug. She awkwardly hugged me back while the other Hybrid just watched."And you are?"
"Chris." He replies as Tiana & I pull apart. I look between the two closely. Why were the two of them standing here waiting for me?
"Why exactly are you two at the front door waiting for me? And why are you back in town?" I asked, Chris & Tiana looked at each other, she rubbed her arm awkwardly.
"We're on Doppelganger duty whenever Klaus gets here." Chris replied. I nodded and looked at Tiana, curious what her answer was.
"Klaus called us back."
"Right." I shrugged, I knew that wasn't the complete truth but she'd tell me when she was ready."Is there anything you guys are supposed to do?"
"Nope, we already took all the sharp objects out the room." Chris replied rocking on his heels."All we have to do is wait."
"You won't have to wait any longer." Klaus said startling the three of us, I turned around to see a passed out Elena in his arms. He walked past us before the three of us followed closely at his heels.
A few hybrids moved out the way as Klaus pushed the door to a tastefully decorated bedroom open, he laid Elena down in the bed and strolled out. I noticed the room didn't have any windows, I wasn't really sure what exactly this room was for.
"You can all go else where until she wakes up." Klaus said, I heard a faint whooshing sound before all the hybrids vanished into thin air. I shook my head as Klaus strolled out closing the bedroom door behind him.
"So what do you want to do about her?"
"Keep her locked up until we find away to cure it." Klaus shrugged, I felt slightly touched that Klaus would have a bit of compassion toward Elena despite the fact the cure was lost once again.
"That's nice of you." I commented peering at the closed door."Should I wait for her to wake up?"
"Yes. Your friends will try and rescue her even though it's the best thing for her." Klaus clasped his hands behind his back."At Least if she's with you they'll feel slightly less inclined to intervene."
"So what are you gonna do?" I called out while Klaus strolled down the hallway he turned and smiled at me deviously.
"Don't you worry about that, Love."
I rolled my eyes as Klaus gleefully disappeared from sight. I turned to push the door back open but paused slightly Tiana & Chris were hovering close by the door.
"Am I also being babysat?" I asked raising an eyebrow, Tiana looked from Chris to me and cleared her throat.
"No, we're not supposed to move from the door." She replied. I shrugged and pushed the door open, Elena was on the bed starting to stir.
I closed the door behind me and leaned against it just as the brunette shot up in bed.
"What? Where am I ?" She jumped out the bed and started moving around frantically, she had her hands in her hair and stared at me with wide eyes. I'd never saw Elena look so out of it so badly.
"Klaus', I've never actually been in this room before." I explained she took a deep breath and sat back down on the bed."How bad are the hallucinations?"
"I keep seeing Connor, and he's so angry." Elena whimpered putting her face into her hands."He wants me to kill my self."
"We won't let that happen." I replied leaning off the door and walking over to Elena, I took a seat on the bed beside her and put my arm around her."We're gonna fix this, just hang in there."
"How do you make it stop?" Elena asked she looked up, her eyes had a twinkle of hopefulness in them.
"I'm not sure, I'm gonna look and see if there's some sort of spell I can do." I stood up from the bed, Elena sighed and leaned back."So if anyone tries to come in here do not leave. Please stay. Fight it."
"I will." Elena promised. I gave her a small smile before heading back out the door. Tiana & Chris whistled innocently when I closed it behind me.
"Okay what the hell are you two up to?"
"Nothing. Do we look guilty?" Chris asked, I rolled my eyes and took Tiana's hand. I dragged her off to the bathroom and slammed the door behind me.
"Alicia?" Tiana asked, I held my fingers up to my lips.
"Mutus." I mumbled turning on the sink, Tiana went for the door but I used my magic to hold it shut."Nope, talk now. Whatever you're doing is gonna get you killed."
"I can't say anything they'll hear." Tiana whispered lowly, I shook my head. She scrunched up her face and looked at me confused.
"Silencing spell. Now talk."
"We're unsired." Tiana said after a moment of silence. I frowned, curious how they were able to pull that off. I was even more confused because if it was a secret why did she & Chris look so obvious.
"Tyler?"
"And Hayley." She replied, I raised an eyebrow. I hadn't heard that name yet.
"Who is Hayley?"
"The wolf staying with Tyler." She replied, ah so this must be the mystery girl Klaus was telling me about. If Tiana was unsired and working with Klaus then it would only be a matter of time before they asked her to do something stupid.
"Tiana if any of my friends ask you to do something. Say no." I said sternly she stared at me confused.
"Why would they?"
"They always want something." I replied turning off the water. I looked at myself in the mirror and checked my hair over."I'm gonna go find a spell please be careful."
"I will." She replied. I dropped both spells and she walked out the bathroom. I leaned against the sink and let out a sigh. I knew they'd end up collateral damage but I'll be damned if I failed that girl.
I left the bathroom and headed up to Kol's room as the witch enthusiast he'd had plenty of grimoires in his room. His book shelf was filled with them. I used that spell Bonnie had gotten from the Martins but none of the books budged from the shelves.
"That was my only idea." I mumbled frustrated. I turned away from the bookshelf to the trunk at the foot of the bed. I popped it opened and let out a squeal of excitement at it containing more grimoires.
I pulled out a random one and skimmed the pages, it was in a language I didn't know and the few drawings I could decipher looked ominous. Something told me these weren't spells I wanted to use. I placed it back into the chest and slammed it shut.
I pulled out my phone and dialed Kol's number, he answered after the fourth ring.
"Hey, Kol. You wouldn't happen to have any witchy insight on the Hunters Curse?" I asked sitting down on top of the chest.
"If I did you would have it already." He replied, I snorted at the fact he was right."Are you finished rifling through my belongings?"
"Yeah, I found your dark books and decided I'd call and ask." I confessed, Kol let out a chuckle as I swung my feet childishly."What is that by the way?"
"Expression, and I admire your instincts because you should stay far away from it." He replied, I raked my brain trying to figure out what Expression was but gave up. I wasn't taught it so it probably was something I didn't need to know about.
"Did you find anything funny about professor creepy?"
"He had some sort of bloody rock and was parading it around as something that belonged to Silas."
"What is it?"
"He's going off to talk to Damon & Bonnie, I'm gonna go follow them. I'll call you later." Kol replied quickly hanging up. I frowned and stood up quickly walking out of his bedroom. I made my way back downstairs and paused confused to what Tyler & Stefan were doing here.
"What is going on?" I asked walking right up to Chris, he looked sheepish while Stefan & Tyler stared at me."Leave Elena alone, she's better off here."
"We don't know what Klaus is gonna do to her." Tyler replied, I rolled my eyes. If Klaus wanted her dead she'd be dead."Last time she was here he tried to kill her."
"That was the one case where it would've made sense to kill her." I retorted, Stefan stared at me slack jawed."She was linked to a super powered vampire Hunter, she would've just had to die that day if I was in danger."
"Charming as always." Stefan said, I shrugged.
"Leave or I'm calling Klaus." I threatened pulling my phone out my pocket. It was literally the dumbest thing I could've done. Tyler grabbed my phone from my hand and carried me off. When we stopped moving we were standing in the middle of the woods."Ty what the hell."
"Why are you helping him?"
"I'm helping Elena! She will die if she goes back to them." I yelled, Tyler stared at me hard he didn't bother saying anything else to me. He rushed off leaving me there phoneless and alone.
I let out a scream and kicked the tree closest to me. I was gonna kick Tyler's ass next time I saw him. I used my magic to guide me back to the mansion but Tyler had did me pretty dirty by dropping me off this far in the middle of nowhere.
It would take me atleast an hour to find my way back and I was more pissed off than anything else.
By the time I got back to the mansion everybody was long gone. Tyler was nice enough to leave my phone on the table. I had a flurry of missed calls and texts mostly from Klaus and Caroline. I didn't bother reading any of the texts and called Klaus back. I grabbed my car keys and headed outside.
"Little Witch can you explain to me how they got Elena?" Klaus asked, he was clearly pissed off and I was more than happy to have had nothing to do with it.
"Stole my phone and ditched me in the woods, I had to walk all the way back to your house." I explained climbing into my car."Do you know where she is?"
"I don't know where she is but I know how to cure her. I'm on my way to Tyler's now, meet me there?"
"Just the Hybrid I wanted to see." I smiled putting the car into drive and pulling away from the mansion."I'd love to get even for that fuckery he pulled."
"Great, I'll wait for you to get there." Klaus replied. The two of us hung up while drove in silence, occasionally tapping on the steering wheel. I parked my car right behind Tyler's and hopped out.
Klaus was leaning on the car and grinned at me as soon as he saw me. I fell into step with him as he walked up to the front door just as the front door opened. Klaus flashed away from me and into the house, I started to run behind him but stopped when I noticed Stefan & Jeremy come to my sides.
"Fuck you." I pointed at Stefan and looked at Jeremy, he was carrying an Axe which should've been highly alarming but for some reason it wasn't.
"I didn't know he was gonna leave you in the woods." Stefan replied, sounding the farthest from apologetic.
"Where's Elena?" I asked in the same tone he used. He pushed his lips together and scoffed. I rolled my eyes and jogged away from the two and into the house.
Klaus had Chris pinned against the wall while Tyler & a beautiful brunette with pouty lips stood watching. I guess she was Hayley?
"I'm sorry! I won't fail you again." Chris cried out, Klaus shoved him back and glared.
"No you won't. Get out of here." Klaus ordered, Chris picked himself up and started to leave but Stefan appeared and stabbed him in the stomach. The Hybrid doubled over shocked and in pain, I jumped back not expecting Stefan to participate in hurting him.
"No!" Hayley shouted. Jeremy strolled in with his axe the three of us look at him alarmed.
"What the hell man!" Tyler yelled out. He tried to make a move to step in for Chris but Hayley caught his arm. I looked back at Klaus who watched everything with a smile on his face.
"I'm sorry." Stefan said, before any of us could even blink Jeremy chopped Chris's head clean & I let out a scream as the blood splattered and landed on my face.
I bolted outside and vomited into the bushes, I wanted to snap Tyler's neck sure. But I didn't expect to witness a decapitation instead. I wiped my mouth off and jumped into my car. I drove back to my house and ran straight to the bathroom vomiting a bit more before chugging some mouthwash.
"You okay?" I jumped and accidentally swallowed some when I heard Kol's voice. I spit out the rest and turned around he was standing in the bathroom doorway with a smirk on his lips.
"I'm great, Jeremy decapitated a hybrid." I replied, wiping my mouth off. I dried the back of my hand on the towel and grabbed his hand guiding him to the bed."What happened with you? You never called."
"The professor is very interesting." Kol replied I stared at him waiting for him to divulge more."I don't like him, he's definitely shady."
"Great, so starting tomorrow you'll be helping Bonnie." I replied throwing my arms around his neck. I smiled up at him while he rubbed the back of his head awkwardly.
"I want to speak with him first, he had a lot of interesting things to say. I'm curious how much he really knows." Kol replied, I pouted but nodded as long he got Bonnie away from the guy I was content.
"I need a favor from you?"
"What is it?" Kol asked staring at me while I slowly played with his hair.
"I'll need a plus one for Miss Mystic Falls."
