Sophia's POV

I frowned looking down at my phone as I got another message from my husband who was getting angrier with each call and text I ignored but I couldn't answer given I was feeling extremely guilty for going against him and working with Kol who had called him and of course Nik bragged about his plan to complete Jeremy's hunters mark and I knew he'd hear it in my voice which is why I wasn't picking up...that and I was currently helping Kol carry bodies into the freezer of the bar which we'd tracked down the vampires all sired by said husband for Jeremy to kill and of course once Kol heard that he started killing and I of course had no choice but to help especially when they came after me.

"You just had to start killing them" I complained dragging the last body into the freezer and added it to the pile frowning at the large blood stain it left before I felt my phone buzz again and I pulled it out of my pocket.

Sophia answer the bloody phone – My Lover, I sighed scratching above my eyebrow looking up finding Kol's eyes on me.

"Niklaus again?" he asked and I frowned nodding my head.

"I've never gone this long without answering"

"Have some freedom Sophia" he argued just making my frown deepen but he pushed the bottle of bourbon in his hands towards my lips forcing me to drink some which I nearly choked on before rolling my eyes at his smirk.

"That's not funny Kol" I argued but before he could reply we heard footsteps approaching the bar before the door swung open so we sped to separate corners to hide without alerting our visitors.

"Something's not right" I heard my twins voice and I let out a silent sigh since this just got better and better, I peeked out and watched him and the little Gilbert with a crossbow head into the freezer undoubtedly finding all the vampires dead. "Looks like we're gonna have to find some new vampires, what a waste" Damon groaned and I smirked a little.

"What the hell happened?" Jeremy asked.

"I confess, I did it" I heard Kol say and rolled my eyes at him taking all the credit, I did help with half of them.

"Kol" Jeremy said recognizing Kol obviously from their fake friendship.

"Jeremy good to see you, mate, sorry about the mess it was a little crowded when I arrived and I prefer more intimate gatherings" I sniggered a little at Kol's words since he wasn't wrong about that since whenever we went to bars nearly everyone ended up dead. "We 4 need to have a little chat" he added and I smirked a little as I sped into sight and watched Damon's eyes widen at the sight of me as I grabbed the drink out of Kol's hand taking a swig before holding it out towards my twin.

"Care for a drink?" I smirked at him and Damon's eyes changed from shock to a glare of disappointment I'd guess.

"He's underage and I don't like him, so let's just cut to it"

"My brother bragged about his plan to complete Jeremy's hunter's mark, it was easy enough to track this lot down they were all hiding in the shadows, now killing young vampires is easy or old ones for that matter" Kol explained why we'd killed this lot and I turned to him for the last bit because no one was killing my twin, no matter what side I was on.

"Why, what's it to you either way?" Damon asked him but his eyes drifted over to me.

"Because you fools in your zeal to find the cure, you risk waking someone very dangerous

"Oh you must be talking about Silas" Damon replied and I let out a breath, this Silas person was kicking up such a fuss...correct that, the bloody cure was creating a fuss.

"What do you know of him?" Kol asked him.

"Nothing, don't want to, not our problem" Damon added purposely looking at me for the last bit making me frown.

"Isn't it?" Kol argued chuckling to himself. "A few hundred years back I came across a group that worshiped Silas, his followers told me that he would rise again and when he did he would trigger the end of all time, you know being an immortal you can see why I'm opposed to time's ending, so I murdered all of them and now here you are willing to risk raising him in your search for the cure, I can't exactly sit back and let that happen, can I?"

"We're not gonna back off the cure because you were told one too many scary bedtime stories, you idiot" Damon argued and Kol stepped towards him but I quickly got between them as Jeremy raised the crossbow pointing it at Kol and I turned my head to glare at him, I'll kill him if he pulls that trigger...curse or no curse I'm not losing my best friend no matter how psychotic he was at times.

"Jeremy, we were mates in Colorado, you're a smart lad why don't you call off this imbecilic treasure hunt?"

"I'm not calling anything off, mate" Jeremy shot back at him.

"Well, I could kill you but then I'd have to deal with the hunter's curse and I...I don't particularly feel like being haunted for the next century, better idea...I'll just rip off your arms"

"Kol!" I yelled too late as he lunged for Jeremy but Damon intercepted him and pushes Kol against a wall.

"Jeremy, run!" Damon yells at the teenager as he struggles with Kol while Jeremy takes off but he isn't a match for Kol who is stronger and when Damon tries punching Kol he managed to catch my twins hand spinning him around and strangles him from behind.

"Don't kill him" I warned Kol with a glare. "My brothers are off limits Kol"

"Alright darling, just for you" he twitched his hand and I heard Damon's neck snap before Kol let him go and he fell to the ground.

"Do whatever you want to Jeremy and Elena but don't kill my brothers or I'll hurt you" I spat at him before I left the freezer in order to grab myself a drink desperately needing one but right as I poured out a couple of tequila shots my phone rang again and I sighed pulling it out seeing NIK flashing across the screen with a photo I'd taken of him and frowned letting it ring out but a couple seconds later I was alerted to a voicemail.

'This is the eighteenth call Sophia, answer the phone or I swear I'll-' he was cut off when he ran out of time and I huffed hanging up pocketing my phone grabbing a shot downing it back with the next six following simultaneously before I heard Damon groan making me look up knowing that meant he was awake so I walked back into the freezer where I saw him sitting on a silver barrel staking himself in the gut.

"Really Kol?" I asked exasperated with this whole mess now.

"You asked that I not kill him darling, he's not dead" he smirked pointing at my twin making me roll my eyes.

"You know what I meant" I shot back at him walking towards Damon to release him but Kol's phone rang which stopped me in my tracks when he answered and I heard his voice.

"Little brother, just two days home and I'm told you've already gone and made a mess" I heard Nik's voice stealing my voice as I let out a silent gasp since I so wanted to talk to him and go home but I had to stay here and make sure Kol didn't kill anyone else.

"Come on Nik, I was only having some fun" Kol argued.

"Those vampires were for my hunter" Nik complained.

"Well make some more, there's no shortage of people" Kol protested and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Where's Damon Salvatore?" Nik asked and I frowned wondering why he suddenly cared about Damon, he never has before.

"I gave him a good and proper beating just for old time's sake" Kol smirked and I huffed under my breath.

"Yes well you've had your fun now let him go and come home and send my wife with him" I froze looking up towards the phone since how the hell did he know I was with Kol. "Avoid any more trouble, or you'll find yourself back in a box"

"Hey. No need to be nasty about it" Kol quickly protested.

"On the contrary, I find nastiness to be essential whenever my siblings try to sabotage me, listen closely Kol stay away from the Gilbert boy, understand?" Nik asked.

"Fine I won't touch him, you have my word" he finally hangs up and I glared at him since we'd all spent enough time with Elijah to know there was always loophole to that sentence and Kol clearly knew how to work around it as well.

"Kol..." I let his name hang in a warning as he turns and looks at Damon.

"Very good darling, now stab yourself a little bit further" he compels and Damon does as he's told and groans as he drives the piece of wood further into himself.

"If you're gonna kill me, do it like a man" Damon glares up at him.

"I don't want to kill you and your sister won't let me anyway, I just wanted to make sure you could be compelled"

"I'm gonna rip out your spleen" Damon threatened and I scoffed rolling my eyes, couldn't both my families just get along for once and not threaten to kill each other.

"You ought to be thanking me, you don't really want the cure found...you fancy Elena, I mean even more now that she's a vampire, admit it the last vestige of her humanity is her annoying little brother Jeremy and deep, deep down, I bet you want him dead, don't you?" Kol asked him circling around Damon.

"Nope" Damon argued and Kol scoffed.

"You're lying, I bet you'd love to rip his head right off...and I'm gonna give you your wish"

"Kol don't" I quickly protested since I'd just watched my little brother get his heart broken, I couldn't watch my twin get his before I changed his mind on Elena.

"You're not gonna remember what I say but you're going to find Jeremy Gilbert and when you do, you're going to kill him" he compels him before Damon walks out of the room in a trance and I frowned turning back to Kol.

"This isn't how you win this fight Kol" I spat annoyed before I headed out walking to the cars and held up a pair of keys I'd stolen from one of the dead vampires and pressed the button towards the cars until one of them unlocked before heading over getting in but before I could drive the passenger door opened and Kol slipped in, I frowned at him for a second before I started the car and drove back to Mystic Falls going back to the mansion. "You might want to wait out here for now, Nik is not gonna be happy with either of us especially together right now" I warned Kol before I got out and headed inside going straight into the parlor and poured myself a drink taking a sip as I felt the whoosh of air from a vampire. "Hello lover"

"What have you been doing?" he asked as soon as I turned around.

"Would you believe me if I say it's complicated?" I asked him but his look told me everything I needed to know and it was a 'no way in hell' "I know I've been ignoring you but it's not you but you have to listen to me, we have to stop looking for this cure"

"Why?" he asked and I frowned since saying out loud that I'd bought into Kol's craziness wasn't going to go over well with Nik.

"Would you believe me if I said its complicated?" I asked with a slight chuckle but again he wasn't amused. "Please believe me Nik I just have a really bad feeling about it okay, I know I barely trust my own...intuitions but this one feels real" he looked like he wanted to argue. "Realer than one's ever felt before, somethings going to go wrong" I placed my hands on his arms. "Please believe me" I begged and he sighed.

"I believe you but we still have to deal with my little brother" he replied and I lowered my eyes looking at his chest instead.

"About that, I kind of...told him I'd help him stop you all from finding the cure but now he's compelled Damon to kill Jeremy and he'll be cursed, which means I'm stuck on both sides of this stupid plight for this damn cure" I sighed and let my head fall forward so my forehead was touching his chest and his hand came up to entwine in my hair.

"Let me deal with my little brother" he replied and I smiled a little trusting him to do that and just as I started to get comfortable my phone started ringing and I sighed thinking it was just Kol but when I pulled out my phone I frowned at the unfamiliar number.

"Hello" I answered since only the Mikaelson's and my brothers has my number.

"Sophia" I growled at the sound of the doppelgangers voice, which ever brother gave her my number I was gonna torture him. "Please don't hang up it's about Damon-"

"Him being compelled to kill your brother?" I guessed.

"You have to stop him"

"I don't have to do anything for you doppelbitch" I spat angrily glaring at nothing, stewing in the rage that I felt just from hearing her voice. "Where is he?" I asked since while this wasn't for her, I had to protect my own brother from killing Jeremy and getting the hunters curse.

"We're in the old Lockwood tunnels, please hurry" she replied and I rolled my eyes pulling the phone away hanging up before I looked up at Nik.

"Well you deal with your brother, I have to go and stop mine from killing the little hunter" I sighed and he frowned but I didn't waste any time by letting him argue and quickly pressed a kiss to his cheek before I headed out forgetting about a car and sped straight for the old cellar running in hearing two gunshots go off from below ground right as I made it to the entrance to the tunnel.

"You're gonna have to shoot me Jeremy, in the heart" I heard my twins voice which definitely wasn't a good thing. "I'm not gonna be able to stop myself, Jeremy you are a hunter, you know you want to, do it...do it!" I heard another shot go off right as I entered the cellar and saw my twin crumpled on the ground with a hole in his head before my eyes fell on Jeremy.

"Nicely done little Gilbert" I scoffed for the hesitation but I was actually relieved but then my eyes dropped down to his hand where there was a cut bleeding and felt my eyes surface given I was a little hungry but I pushed it back looking up to see him staring at me in panic. "Get the hell out of here preferably to a place Damon can't get to you" I nodded my head for him to leave and he wasted no time getting to his feet and running.

"Ow" I heard Damon groan as he wakes up a couple minutes later and sits up pulling the bullet out of his head. "He shot me in the head, stupid idiot...borderline brain-dead moron, that was dumb Jeremy should have killed me when you had the chance"

"Don't tempt me big brother" I replied and he turned eyes wide to see me here but he turned and walked away with determination settling into his stance again.

"Damon just listen to me okay, you don't want to do this-"

"I have no choice because of you" he spat angrily and I felt his hands on either side of my head before the sharp twist and everything went black.

"Ugh...stupid brothers" I groaned waking up who knows how much later and quickly got to my feet and made my way out of the cellar pulling out my phone and called Damon's phone praying that he'd answer.

"Hello Sophia" I frowned pausing since that wasn't my twin.

"Stefan?" I questioned confused on why he was answering Damon's phone. "Where's Damon?"

"I have him back at home, he's locked up for now"

"You really like locking up your siblings don't you?" I scoffed before letting out a sigh. "Just keep him safe and away from Elena since you know he'll get desperate enough to use the sire bond against her while I'll deal with getting him de-compelled" I added before I hung up but straight away started dialing a new number into the keypad on my phone before putting it to my ear but frowned when it went straight to voicemail since that had never happened to before. "Kol what the hell, your sending my calls straight to voicemail..." I let out a breathe. "Please call me back, I need you to un-compel Damon...he's my twin brother Kol and I can't let him kill Jeremy and get the hunters curse...so please for me-" it cut out meaning the message reached its limit and I pulled the phone away from my ear frowning down at my phone.

If I truly am your best friend then you'll do this for me Kol – Sophie, I pressed send hoping he'd actually listen to my voicemail to know what I was talking about before I pocketed my phone and went back to the mansion walking in and kicking my heels off before I looked up and met Nik's eyes as he walked in from the parlor.

"Please tell me you've gotten Kol to un-compel Damon?" I asked him but his look told me exactly what I didn't want and I lowered my eyes with a heavy sigh. "He...he didn't answer my call, he never not answers my calls"

"He was here" Nik said and my eyes shot up to his face. "Rebekah cornered him with her dagger and he..." he trailed off like he wanted to hold something back from me so I glared at him and he let out a sigh. "He threatened her back with the white oak stake"

"He...he tried to kill her?" I asked appalled since I never thought Kol would do that, he wanted nothing more than to be accepted and loved by his family since he believed he was the unloved and odd one out when that wasn't true...he may think it was which is why we got along since I believed that too for so long but it wasn't true for either of us. "I need to find him, I have to convince him to come back and-"

"Sophia he won't change" Nik argued but I shook my head since I wouldn't believe that but he pulled a letter out of his pocket. "It was on the bed in his room that he used" he handed it to me and I saw that it was opened meaning Nik no doubt had already read it but I ignored that for now staring down at my name elegantly scrolled on the front in perfect cursive that was undoubtedly done by Kol's hand and I pulled the letter out and unfolded it.

My Darling Sophia,

I know your undoubtedly furious with me but I can live with that knowing that Silas will continue to be trapped away where he cannot rise and destroy the world we live in since I quite like this century...the only downfall this century has is that you no longer want to be my partner in crime, my wing-girl of mayhem as you've been sucked away by the false security of family.

I won't apologize to you for compelling your twin to kill Jeremy since it's all collateral damage in the grand scheme of things and you used to believe that but your family is clouding your judgements since the only person you can trust is yourself darling and one day perhaps you'll come to see it my way when Silas is never released from his prison and we're all still alive to see a brighter day and know that you'll always be a friend to me no matter how much you hate me because it means that I have succeeded in keeping you safe.

Remember what I said my darling Sophia, you can't trust no one but yourself...

Yours,
Always & Forever
Kol

"Soph?" I heard Nik say after I read the letter over and over and finally tore my eyes off it.

"He thinks he can just write a letter and everything's okay!" I yelled letting my anger boil over as I crumbled the letter up in my hand. "No, no freaking way is he leaving it this way, I will hunt his ass down and drag him back by his ankles if I have to, I'm not letting him leave Damon trapped away so that he doesn't kill Jeremy...he's not...he's not abandoning me!" tears were actually free-falling out of my eyes uncontrollably in an angry sort of cry that had me furiously wiping at them since I hated crying especially when I was angry.

"Sophia" Nik pulled me back when I started towards the door.

"Let me go!" I yelled but his arms locked tighter around my waist as he held my back to his chest.

"He's not thinking clearly Sophia and I can't let you go after him when he just tried to stake Rebekah"

"He would never hurt me" I argued lifting my legs as I tried to fight but that allowed him to pull me further away from the door and throw me over his shoulder. "Niklaus let me go right now or I'll never let you touch me again!"

"You can hate me if you want Angel but I'm not letting you run after my murderous little brother right now so accept it or I'll lock you up with your brother"

"I have to Nik, he needs me" I argued as he put me down in our room standing in front of the door stopping any escape plan I had.

"I need you, my love" he argued back and I glared at him for using both of my nicknames against me.

"I'm so torn, he's my best friend but I can't lose Damon again..." I fell onto the bed. "I wish things were back to normal...I wish we'd never came back her and apart of me wishes I never found my brothers because ever since then everything's changed so much" I pulled my knees close to my chest feeling the bed dip when he sat down beside me.

"I promised nothing will change between us, my love and it hasn't" he protested and I smiled a little remembering him promising me that when I arrived back in Mystic Falls the very first time.

"But it already did because of this town and like it or not I can't leave either knowing that my brothers are alive and selfishly I wish that wasn't true because I'd been okay, I'd healed from the pain of their death but having them back and the fear of losing them again just brings all that pain back which is why I'd helped Kol in the first place because I believed him about this cure, I have a bad feeling about it and its turning us all against each other"

"Alright, I believe you Angel" he smiled cupping my cheek in his hand brushing my hair back making me smile and lean into his hand as his thumb brushed across my cheek.

"I'm barely holding it together at times, I hate it when the people in my life fight because I'm always the one left hurt"

"Not this time" he promised and I smiled a little but I'd never truly be able to believe that since nothing has made me see otherwise so instead of answering I climbed towards him straddling his waist as I cupped his head in my hands.

"Just promise me that we won't turn on each other Nik"

"You are mine and I am yours, Always and Forever" he smiled vowing the same thing he had 100 years ago and whenever I needed the reassurance.

"Always and Forever" I vowed back before I leant forward and captured his lips, he was my rock at times like this and I thanked whatever being that brought him into my life because he was the best thing that had ever happened to me.