Sophia's POV
I was worried, Kol wasn't answering any of my texts or calls and it wasn't like him and I was worried that he was going to continue to do stupid things and it hurt that he wasn't reaching out to me but I also understood why since it's no less than I did to him whenever I didn't want him interfering in my plans.
Nik and I were heading to Rebekah's to convince her to help us but right as we were about to knock the door opened and my eyes locked onto my little brothers looking very guilty as it was clear he was sneaking out after a very intimate night and I narrowed my eyes towards him.
"Leaving so soon?" Nik asked him and his face fell knowing that he was caught and the commotion clearly woke Rebekah as she came out with a robe wrapped around herself with the same angry look as she glared at Nik.
"This is my place Nik!" Rebekah spat at him. "I don't appreciate you invading my privacy like some kind of creeping tom"
"Well I apologize for breaking up this sordid little tryst but I do have some urgent business or have you forgotten that our paranoid brother Kol is running around with a white oak state and homicide on the brain"
"He tried to kill me last night, I didn't forget" Rebekah spat back at him and I frowned since Kol was seriously off the rails right now.
"Yes well unfortunately he seems to have absconded with my set of daggers" Nik replied and I turned to look at him since he hadn't told me that.
"Oh poor Nik, however will you get your way without your precious daggers" Bekah remarked and I bit back a laugh since that was actually ironic and Nik turned giving me a small glare seeing it. "They were so handy when you wanted to end a conversation with one of us" she added and I crossed my arms glad that Nik could never pull that shit with me.
"Come on Beks, Kol's fear of Silas has pushed them over the edge" I tried to reason with her by being the voice of reason here.
"We need to put him down before he does any more damage, now I know you have the last dagger and I know you have some white ash so hand it over" Nik added and I rolled my eyes at him while Rebekah scoffed.
"Hmm and leave myself unprotected?" she spat bitterly at him. "You can file that request under 'no chance in hell' be gone by the time I've showered, lurkers aren't welcome here" she added before walking off and I watched her go before turning to Nik and gave him a look that read 'what did you expect?' since he had wronged her too many times and she was finally fighting back against him.
"I need that dagger Stefan" Nik said turning to my brother after we heard the shower start. "Talk some sense into her" Stefan scoffed at him.
"Why don't you talk some sense into her?" he spat back and I rolled my eyes since this was getting us nowhere. "I'm headed home to play prison guard to Damon" I looked down feeling guilty for my part in that. "He's on lockdown ever since Kol compelled to kill Jeremy last night, like my sister there knows all about"
"I never meant for that to happen Stefan" I argued snapping back at him.
"You see that's my point exactly, if you let Kol run free then Jeremy won't live to see his junior prom and we can kiss our map to the cure goodbye but if you help me dagger Kol, Damon will be un-compelled, Jeremy will be live and we'll all be on our merry way to a human Elena" Nik added and I frowned since I still didn't want to look for this damn cure, I still felt like something was going to go wrong.
Nik and I left Rebekah's place since we were clearly unwanted and as soon as we got outside I pulled out my phone and tried calling Kol but he was still sending me straight to voicemail and I let out a heavy sigh not bothering to leave another one since I'd already left him nearly 30 or so and I felt the same heavy feeling settle in my chest.
"I can't sit around anymore, I have to find Kol and he clearly doesn't want to be reached by phone but with Damon on lockdown I have a feeling he'll be desperate enough to go after Jeremy himself"
"No"
"I have to Nik, I'm the only one he'll listen to" I argued turning to face him. "You need to trust that I can get through to him, you have to trust me"
"I do trust you love" he sighed placing a hand against his cheek. "I don't trust Kol right now with you, please just wait...I know you have a bond with my brother but I can't trust that he won't hurt you"
"He wouldn't hurt me-"
"He'd never hurt Rebekah either but he threatened to stake her" he reminded me and I hung my head since I couldn't argue with that. "Just give me time before that it comes you and Kol teaming up again"
"I didn't team-" he gave me a look and I let out a sigh. "Alright fine, what's your plan?" I asked and he smirked meaning he definitely had one.
"Well I need Stefan to get the dagger from Rebekah which means you and I are on baby sitting duty" he replied and I raised my eyebrow at him since why did we both need to be on babysitting duty but then I realized, he wasn't just babysitting Damon...he was keeping his eyes on me as well so I didn't run off to find Kol. "No arguments my love" he said before I even had the chance to protest and I rolled my eyes.
"Not like I really want to babysit my twin brother" I huffed annoyed but followed him back to the Boarding House after he'd told Stefan that we'd watch Damon while he got the dagger from Rebekah.
"You coming to snap my neck again?" I heard my twins voice from the cellar where Stefan liked to lock us siblings up whenever we proved dangerous forcing me to roll my eyes. "Because I woke up feeling completely un-murderous and I'm pretty sure that it's safe to set me free" I bit back a scoff since it didn't work that way while Stefan throws him a vial of blood through the barred window in the door. "You practically bled me dry, at least spring for a bag or something, I'm thirsty" Damon complains but Stefan puts a bottle of water on the door. "Not exactly what I had in mind" he complained again as he gets up to take the bottle but spots Nik and I.
"Hello mate"
"What the hell are you doing here?" Damon asks and I fake hurt placing a hand over my heart.
"That's no way to treat your sister" I smirked at him and he glared at me telling me that I was not forgiven for standing with Kol when he'd compelled him to kill Jeremy.
"Babysitting" Nik added given Damon and I were just staring at each other.
"Give him a vial of blood every couple of hours so he doesn't desiccate, if he gets too much strength back or if he just annoys you, bleed him out again" Stefan instructed us handing over a couple of vials to Nik and I rolled my eyes since we knew what to do.
"Silent treatment uh?" Damon asked looking at Stefan before he turned to us. "He's still pissed at me for sleeping with Elena"
"Are you sure about that...because I caught him trying to sneak out of Rebekah's bed this morning, which would suggest to me that he's moved on" Nik replied and I rolled my eyes knowing he wouldn't have been able to resist throwing that in Stefan's face by telling Damon.
"Well, well...looks like my brother ripped out a page of my revenge sex handbook" Damon smirked and I practically gagged.
"Well, why don't you three enjoy your little...uh...villain bonding time, I'll let you know when I get the dagger from Rebekah" Stefan adds still ignoring Damon and his remark before he leaves.
"This is gonna be a long day" I sighed leaning my back against the wall. "I need blood" I quickly added and headed for the icebox where I knew my brothers hoarded their stash.
"Bring me back a bag?!" Damon called out after me and I rolled my eyes ignoring him as I headed into the opposite room where the icebox was but before I opened it I pulled out my phone and scrolled through my contacts finding Kol's and called it and my eyes widened when it actually rang through for the first time but it rang out.
"Kol listen to me okay, I know you think you have to do this but your going about it all wrong and it's not going to end well so before you get yourself killed which is exactly what's going to happen just call me back and we'll figure out a much less violent way to avoid Silas being freed" I hung up staring down at my phone for a couple seconds before I felt the presence in the room. "I'm really worried Nik, he's never ignored me this long which leads me to believe somethings wrong"
"Its not happening Sophia" he argued and I glared at him.
"There's no time for you to be jealous!" I exclaimed fed up with being treated like I couldn't handle myself of him not trusting Kol since that was half the damn problem here.
"I'm not doing this with you Sophia, your not going" he spat before walking off back to the room where my twin was and I frowned regretting saying anything as I followed him back into the other room seeing Damon laying on the cot bed with his hands behind his bed.
"Trouble in paradise?" he asked with a smirk which I glared at since I wasn't in the mood for his shit right now.
"You know none of this would be an issue if you'd have just done your job properly, I was perfectly willing to let you train Jeremy" Nik spoke up thankfully changing the subject before Damon could continue to annoy me.
"No, you weren't" Damon spat back. "Are you kidding you got there on day two, do you know how hard it is to get these X-Box brains to focus?" he asked.
"And then when I turned a room full of barflies into vampires for him to slaughter, you let Kol kill them"
"Your brother problem not mine, buddy" Damon shot back. "And your wife there was a huge help to your brother" Nik turned and set a look my way making me hang my head since yeah I'd enjoyed killing a few of them but I hadn't really thought it through at the time and had no idea that Kol was going to go more insane than usual.
"And whose bright idea was it to saddle Jeremy with a conscience, hmm?" Nik asked him ignoring Damon's dig at me.
"Well, we couldn't have him trying to stake Elena in her sleep, now could we?" Damon asked but I scoffed since I certainly didn't have a problem with it.
"Ah yes for the love of Elena, how is it that she manages to overlook every horrific thing you've ever done...is it willful ignorance or perhaps something more pathological?"
"Some people are just more capable of forgiveness than others" Damon replied and I didn't miss the fact that his eyes were on me. "Bet you score about a negative 500 in that realm" he added turning to Nik.
"Come on there must be a secret, it can't just be the sire bond...what is it, compulsion, manipulation, what is it you say to her?" Nik asked him and I turned raising an eyebrow at him in confusion wondering why he was so interested in learning about forgiveness.
"My sister still holding a grudge against you or something?" Damon asked with a smirk making me glare back over at him.
"Actually no, he's earned my forgiveness unlike a couple of brothers I know" I spat at him.
"I think you haven't forgiven him, you've kidded yourself into thinking you've forgiven him since he hasn't changed, he made you believe he was dead" Damon argued sitting up on the cot.
"Which is no less that you've done Damon" I spat bitterly at him.
"Debatable" Damon spat "See, I don't mind being the bad guy because somebody has to fill that role and get things done, you do bad things for no reason" Damon added looking back and forth between Nik and I. "You do them to be a dick" his eyes settled on Nik.
"Debatable" Nik spat back repeating Damon's word.
"If you're gonna be bad, be bad with purpose otherwise you're just not worth forgiving" Damon finished and I huffed rolling my eyes as I leant my back against the wall and pulled out my phone to check if I had any messages but still there was no word from Kol.
More time ticked by without word from Stefan about the dagger even if I didn't really like the plan to dagger Kol since I knew how much he hated it and felt he didn't deserve it but at the same time I had to save Damon from the hunters curse so all I had to do was go along with Nik's plan by daggering Kol until this whole plight for the cure was over and done with than I would un-dagger him, with or without Nik's permission since I couldn't lose Kol from my life again.
"Your brother's lack of communication is infuriating" Nik spoke up after checking his phone noting the lack of contact from Stefan.
"It's one of his trademarks, like his brooding and his hair" Damon remarked and I rolled my eyes and his dig at our little brother. .
"I don't understand what's taking so long, I mean how hard is it to steal a dagger?" Nik questioned.
"From the vampire who's been stabbed by it as many times as your sister, I'd say difficult" Damon replied and I hated to agree with him but getting that dagger from Rebekah was not going to be easy when she was so paranoid.
"You disappoint me Damon, you're not trying very hard to get out of here I expected more the daring escape artist, less the cell potato" I rolled my eyes at Nik since who cared if Damon wasn't trying to escape, it was a good thing.
"Well I am compelled to kill Jeremy, so I figured it's probably smarter to sit in there and chitchat with you than try to bust out of here like the Hulk" Damon replied and I smiled a little since that almost sounded mature for Damon for once.
"How do you think Elena felt about that, by the way?" Nik suddenly pressed him. "Your inability to overcome Kol's compulsion for a single moment, even though it meant killing the person she loves the most in the world?" he asked.
"She met me, she knows impulse control is not my strong suit" Damon argued.
"Still must be hard trying to live up to Stefan" Nik argued and I turned giving him a look to shut up right now since Damon and I have spent our whole lives living up to the saintly Stefan, who could never do any wrong but he ignored it. "I remember when I compelled him to feed on Elena, he fought so hard, he actually managed to resist, now that's love"
"What do you know about love?" Damon bit back and I turned my glare onto him.
"I know that you're in love with Elena but I think you're afraid of what might happen when we find the cure at the end of the rainbow, personally I don't see a fairy-tale ending for you?"
"Nik!" I exclaimed since that was uncalled for.
"All I see is Stefan and Elena, I think you see the same thing" he continues ignoring me before his phone suddenly rings and he wastes no time in answering. "Well, if it isn't the happy homicidal maniac" he greets and my eyes shoot over to him since he'd only say that to one homicidal maniac.
"Do you know that your darling former blood bag and her brother are trying to kill me?" I heard his voice reply and my eyes widened in shock and anger.
"What?"
"Don't pretend like you're not in on it, your obsession to find the cure clearly trumps any sibling loyalty you once felt"
"I don't know what you're talking about" Nik argues.
"I'm going to rip off Jeremy's arm and kill Elena just for sport. Then I'm coming for you" Kol replies before he hangs up and I immediately turn to Damon.
"What the hell is going on?" I demand glaring as I approached him.
"I don't know" he replies.
"What are Stefan and Elena planning?" Nik asks as equally as angry as me although I'm not at my full rage potential yet because if he was apart of this and has just been distracting us than I was going to rip out his heart myself.
"I don't know, I've been stuck in the penalty box with you since yesterday, Stefan won't talk to me and Elena won't come to see me, so maybe you're right maybe she's written me off" he replies and I roll my eyes when Nik speeds forward and strangles him but I wasn't sticking around waiting for the Gilberts to kill Kol and I turned speeding out of the room up the stairs and out of the Boarding House barely hearing Nik catch up to me as we both ran to Kol's aid.
"If Elena even touches him she's dead" I spat knowing Nik could hear me and he surprised me by not arguing as we ran.
The Gilbert House was in sight and I could hear the commotion inside but I was forced to stop at the threshold having not been invited in and my ears immediately zeroed in on the Elena's voice.
"Jeremy, now!" I heard her annoying voice yell out before I was forced to watch Jeremy catch the white oak stake from her and he stabbed Kol before we could even blink and I froze being able to do nothing but let out a silent sob as I covered my mouth watching Kol catch fire and scream before he fell silent and collapsed and fell to my knees clutching my heart.
"What did you do?" Nik demanded glaring at the Gilberts.
"We didn't have a choice, he was trying to cut off Jeremy's arm" Elena replied in the same 'poor me' whining voice she always spoke in.
"Lies" Nik protested while I stood up ignoring the ache in my heart and the tears that threatened to fall but I wouldn't cry in front of them.
"He never would've gotten inside if you hadn't have set a trap for him" I spat glaring straight at Elena knowing this was because of her, it was always her.
"You said you were gonna put him down, too" she whined looking at Nik.
"I was gonna make him suffer on my terms!" Nik yelled as my eyes drifted down to my best friend and felt even more tears welling up in them.
"I want to burn this house to the ground and then when you try to flee for your lives, I'll kill you both without blinking" I spat turning back to Elena since I was done pretending that I cared that my brothers thought they loved her, I was done letting her live.
"You kill us, you'll never get to the cure" Jeremy argued and I turned my glare onto him since I didn't give a damn about the cure, I never wanted it found anyway knowing that they undoubtedly planned to use it against Nik anyway. "You'll never be able to make any more hybrids" he added looking at Nik.
"You really think I care for an instant about my bloody hybrids?" Nik spat at them. "I want the cure so I can destroy it, I would've killed you all the second we dug it up but now I'm just gonna watch you burn instead" he added right before I felt the blinding pain in my skull and let out a scream as I fell to my knees hearing Nik beside me in the same predicament.
"Invite them in, do it" the teenage witch Bonnie said walking past us into the house.
"Come in" Jeremy said before they all ran and I wasted no time getting to my feet ignoring the pain in my skull as I sprinted for Elena ready to dig my fist into her chest and rip out her heart like she just ripped out a part of mine.
"Living room, go" Bonnie instructs them and they listen running for the lounge room with Nik on their heels while I wasn't as stupid and went the other way to cut them off and Elena's eyes widened when she saw me having rounded the corner and I grabbed her throat lifting her up.
"I warned you what I'd do if you hurt my brothers and now I finally get to fulfil that promise" I said before I dug my hand into her chest and she screamed out. "Do you know how it feels to have your heartbroken Elena, allow me to show you" I growled feeling the veins bubbling beneath my eyes.
"Elena!" I heard both Jeremy and Bonnie yell out before I felt the splitting pain erupt in my head again but I forced myself to ignored it just long enough to rip out this bitches heart but right as I started to jerk my hand out of her chest with my fingers wrapped around her heart I felt an excruciating pain in my back making me scream out.
"NO!" I heard Nik yelling as I let Elena go and turned to see Jeremy behind me with the white oak in his hand before looking down at the blood stain which was just left of my heart, he missed but...I could feel something pressing against my heart, a splitter most likely and I struggled to breath before I felt a magical force push me backwards and I fell onto my back which intensified the pain tenfold before I was lifted up into a set of arms.
"Love?" I looked up a Nik, my breathing coming out in short bursts as I tried to breath around whatever was blocking my airways. "Witch, you can't do this to us" Nik growled looking up at Bonnie who was standing just outside of the living room.
"You have no idea what I can do now" Bonnie replied and I turned seeing her glaring at him.
"I will hunt all of you to your end!" he yelled at them as they backed up to the front door, Jeremy supporting his sister who was holding a hand over her chest where my fist had been. Do you hear me, do you?!" he continued to yell as they cowardly fled out of the house.
"N...Nik, I can...I can't breathe" I choked out as soon as they were gone and his eyes snapped down to me. "I...I think there's a splitter scaping against my lungs, it's moving towards my heart"
"Just hold on love, okay" he replied and lifted me up making the pain worse and I yelled out a little. "Just listen to my voice and I'll get it out" I nodded my head mentally preparing myself for the pain by trying to breath around it only to scream out when I felt his fingers start digging through my back looking for the problem.
The pain was excruciating as he dug his fingers through my chest cavity for at least 5 to 10 minutes or so before I felt the relief as he pulled his hand out taking whatever obstruction had been stuck inside and I breathed in a heavy breath of air feeling the lung fill up the way it was supposed to as my healing kicked in but it was slow since I'd lost a lot of blood and being trapped here I knew I wasn't going to get any which meant I wasn't out of the woods and could still desiccate at this point.
"I'm gonna kill that bitch" I growled out slowly, I laid back against Nik who held me and I noticed the tears threatening to fall from the brim of his eyes. "Are you crying?"
"I thought I lost you, a centimeter to the left and-" I frowned at the way his voice broke a little as he stroked his hand across my cheek brushing him thumb along the bone beneath my eye.
"You won't lose me Nik" I soothed him but saying that just brought the reminder that while I was alive, Kol wasn't and my eyes turned looking over at where his burnt corpse laid and I sat back up despite the ache still in my chest and moved as far as the barrier in which the witch had spelled us to be trapped in and I felt the tears building up and this time I didn't try and hold them back. "I should have been with him, I never should have left him" I sobbed feeling Nik's hands on my waist and I sat kneeling down with my hand over my chest. "Its all my fault"
"It's not your fault Sophia"
"But it is Nik, I should have found him...I could have stopped him, I could have kept him away from the Gilberts...he was my best friend" I couldn't hold in the very unattractive sobs now as I completely let myself break down, let myself mourn for my best friend since now wasn't the time for anger and I swore that I'd get back to that, I will kill Elena Gilbert for this and I will make sure to drag it out painfully so she knew exactly what this pain felt like to have her heart crushed before her eyes but for right now I was mourning my best friend, my partner in crime and my wingman of mayhem with Nik's arms wrapped tightly around me suffering through it with me since he lost yet another brother.
A/N: I hated writing this chapter about as much as i hate watching the episode since besides Klaus i absolutely love Kol's character and hated the way he was done so dirty here by Elena and her heroes complex, I think it was so wrong how they killed him for absolutely no reason other than for her selfish brat like behavior. Anyway I wont rant on how much i hate Vampire Elena.
Hope this chapter was okay since I had a little trouble getting through it without bawling my eyes out myself.
