Sophia's POV

I woke up letting out a sigh as I instinctively reached out to the bare side of my bed feeling the ache in my chest for the way Nik and I were behaving lately in these past couple of weeks but I wasn't ready to forgive and frankly didn't think I should have to considering I did nothing wrong where he had practically abandoned me and our unborn baby as soon as he found out just because of his selfish pride and I couldn't ignore it any longer or stand blindly by his side.

I hopped up heading into the bathroom attached to my room and jumped into the shower letting the warm water cascade around me enjoying the water for a good ten minutes before I finally washed myself off and my hair then got out walking to my dresser and pulled out a simple black grunge jeans, a black/white ombre singlet and pulled on a leather jacket before slipping on a pair of heeled boots then headed downstairs into the kitchen after some blood but instead I found Nik sipping at a glass of blood himself and let out a sigh.

"Morning, love" he spoke up making me frown and turned to him.

"Morning" I responded trying to be at least on a civil level with him, it's been like walking on eggshells whenever we were in the same room. "Any word from Elijah?" I asked opening the fridge since I expected him to be back by now, Nik had said that he'd gone back to help Rebekah find the cure since Silas had tricked him into handing it to him instead of giving it to Rebekah by using her face to get it from my noble brother-in-law.

"None" he replied and I frowned turning around the face him.

"Seriously?" I questioned since that didn't sound right since I figured Rebekah would be burning that place to the ground by now to get it back.

"He's probably been called away for another noble deed" he shrugged slipping past me to put his empty glass in the sink and I froze a little at his close proximity seeing him smirk as he clearly saw it before he left without another word right as Hayley walked in.

"Morning, did he have any word on Elijah?" she asked me as I smiled at her.

"No but I wouldn't worry about it Hayley, like I've already told you Elijah just had to do something back in Mystic Falls with Rebekah and I'm sure he'll be back soon" I replied quickly speeding around the kitchen making her a bowl of cereal and placing it in front of her watching her eyes widen in shock but she was carrying my child and I wanted her to eat well which was my main priority these past couple of weeks her and I have spent in this plantation house while Nik dealt with Marcel as it was decided I stay out of the picture for now with the deception that I was away as that is what Nik has told Marcel when he had questioned my whereabouts. "Trust me" I smiled at her before grabbing my blood bag and left the kitchen.

I walked back to my room sipping at my blood bag and grabbed my new phone off my bedside pulling it off charge frowning when it already had like a billon messages from just this morning as I had gotten the same number programed onto it so that I could at least contact Damon and Stefan should I ever need to...which granted I still had to tell them they were uncles but I haven't had the guts to announce it yet given it probably wasn't a good idea with the war we had been dragged into with the French Quarter Witches and Marcel.

Sophia Lillian Salvatore, answer your damn phone we need your help urgently and I'm begging you...sister please...you'll want in on this trust me – Damon, I frowned especially seeing my full name coming from Damon since he knew how much I despised it especially after our mother died and that it was a constant reminder of her so I scrolled through the contacts and found his number and called it listening to it ring...and ring...and ring before it rang out.

"That's odd" I called it again but got the same result and I don't know what it was but something felt off, call it our twin sense or whatever but there was definitely something up so I tried Stefan only to keep getting the same results from both their phones. "What have you two idiots gotten yourselves trapped up in now" I groaned pocketing my phone as I went to my dresser and began pulling a change of clothes out speeding around the room packing them in a small bag.

"Going somewhere" I froze turning around finding Nik in the doorway.

"Somethings wrong with my brothers" I admitted since I felt like I didn't have the time to beat around the bush, it was already going to be a long trip back to Mystic Falls and I didn't need him complicating it further.

"Slow down love, now is not the time to be rushing off-"

"You can't stop me Niklaus" I glared at him watching him glare back at his full name, I had not called him Nik once since our fight. "They need me, somethings wrong and I have to help them...I can feel it"

"What about your duties here, you're needed here Sophia" he argued making me frown.

"Hayley is quite capable of taking care of herself for a couple of days and should she need anything outside this house then I am leaving you to take care of her...of our child" I spat at him zipping up the bag and lifted it over my shoulder. "You know I want to trust you again Nik" I sighed letting the anger drop. "Take this as me extending you an olive branch, please...please look after Hayley"

"Sophia you don't even know what's wrong and your running off-"

"They're my brothers, I've already lost people close to me and I cannot...will not lose anyone else if there's a chance that I can help, I'll be back in a few days...I promise" I reached out and touched his hand. "I'm trusting you here, please...for me, for our child...take care of Hayley"

"I will love" he finally conceded reaching out and brushed his knuckles over the side of my face before sliding his hand into my hair pulling me forward a little until our foreheads were touching. "Be careful, not for me...for the child" he added a small smile gracing his lips making me lock eyes with him before they closed and I let out a heavy breath since he never said our child...it was always just 'the' child.

"I'll be back as soon as I can" I said pulling away before I left my room heading down the stairs seeing Hayley near the entrance so I smiled at her.

"Are you leaving?" she asked.

"Only for a couple of days, my brothers have gotten into yet another mess as they so love to do and of course I'm the one that has to bail them out, Klaus is here if you need anything and please for my sanity don't rile him up, just take care of yourself and stay out of the way of his business and you two will get along fine"

"Can you find Elijah while your there?"

"I'll find out where he is" I nodded reaching out to place my hand on her shoulder. "Your carrying the most precious thing in my world Hayley Marshall, I am trusting you with it while I'm gone so please eat 3 times a day, as well as snack whenever you feel you need to as the house is stocked with food to last you weeks and take it easy and stay safe" she nodded her head before I settled the bag further up my shoulder and left the house getting into my car and got in tossing my bag on the other seat before I pulled out onto the driveway and was on my way back to Mystic Falls.

The moment I drove into town I knew something was wrong as the wind was crazy and stronger than a damn friendly gale so I parked my car in the town square and pulled out my phone trying to call Damon but now it wasn't even ringing which told me that the phone towers were out but luckily some 20th century genius created the find my phone app and my twin brother wasn't a said genius when it came to passwords meaning his phone was easy to hack and get its location and I rolled my eyes when I saw he was at the Mystic Falls High.

"Nothing ever good happens at high school" I scoffed rolling my eyes as I put my car back into drive and went over to the school parking in the carpark getting out shielding my eyes from the harsh winds as I rushed forward getting through the doors out of the wind as soon as possible shaking the leaves from my hair and clothes before I listened out for any voices.

"...stop Bonnie from doing this spell and if you get all murderous and screw it up-"

"Is that really the reason?" I heard Elena reply to my twins voice and I rolled my eyes since of course the two of them are together and judging by the less edger and more whinier tone in Elena's voice she was back to being humanity switch-on Elena.

"As self-righteous as Stefan is, he has a point" Damon argued as I started to walk in that direction. "Behind that rage, there is a tidal wave of feelings...all of the guilt, all your grief, every emotion you've ever put off and killing Katherine's gonna let it all back in and if you can't handle it then we're back to square one" huh so the doppelbitch is here...I could get a two for one doppelganger here...I smirked at the thought.

"And if I can?" Elena argued making me scoff again. "What if killing Katherine takes away all that grief and guilt, what if killing Katherine lets me feel all the good things that I've lost" my glee dropped since she didn't deserve to feel any good things about the people she's lost...not when she killed my best friend and took one of the only good things in my life. "Damon...help me, as soon as I get over this hurdle, I'll be me, I'll be able to think clearly, I'll be myself and everything will go back to normal"

"Yes everything will go back to normal in perfect Elena Gilbert's life where she batts her eyelids and everyone around her ceases to matter, they cease to deserve to breathe and she decides who gets to live and die" I spat announcing my presence watching them both turn to me, with different emotions, there was Damon who was shocked and relieved and Elena who was shocked and seemingly annoyed which just made me smirk, one that would rival one of Nik's. "God knows none of us matter in Elena's normal, perfect little world"

"Sophia, you finally decided to grace us with your presence"

"Well when your idiot twin brother blows up your phone with calls and messages, going far enough to use my full name knowing full well how much and why I despise it so much then goes radio silent...that gets ones attention brother" I walked towards them. "As for killing the doppelbitch, I'm in since god knows how much that bitch deserves it and frankly it's probably gonna be my last chance to give it a go" I saw Damon's confused look but I wasn't going to elaborate any further especially in front of doppelwhore. "Now as for Katherine, she's strong and she's crafty and you'll probably die, so best leave it to the professionals baby vamp" I smirked towards Elena but next thing I know she had snapped a wooden stake she'd clearly had hidden and Damon and I both grunted out in pain as she stabbed us in the stomach.

"At least I'll die trying" she hissed out before speeding away and I turned towards Damon.

"You really pick 'em don't you" I growled out falling to the ground next to him reaching for the stake to pull it out when there was footsteps behind us before the person was kneeling down.

"Need a hand?" I frowned looking him up and down, Alaric Saltzman...he should be dead, we was dead but yet here he stood and he reached down pulling the stakes out of us making both of us groan in pain as I pressed my hand over the wound as it healed.

"I swear this is the last time Elena Gilbert stakes me..." I trailed off not missing Damon's confused look.

"So, this is either really good or really bad" Damon breathed out.

"It's good to see you too Damon" Alaric smiles at my twin while I roll my eyes and stand since what was I invisible...oh wait I just didn't get inducted into the Scooby Gang.

"I'd say the feeling was mutual, except a lot of people aren't exactly who they say they are around here"

"You think I'm Silas...are you kidding me?" I frowned since that's exactly what Silas would say and it wouldn't be the first time Silas has pulled this trick.

"Uh...see this puts us in a bit of a pickle, cause that is exactly what Silas would say" Damon argued as if reading my mind and Alaric's response was to stand upright and walk over to the lockers and punch the side of one making a locker pop open

"Now, would Silas know about locker 42?" he asks showing off the bottle of bourbon that was inside and I rolled my eyes while Damon laughs and embraces him making my eyes widen since he wasn't just a ghost if Damon could hug him.

"Hang on, if I can see you and I can touch you that means the little witch did it, she dropped the veil"

"Well not completely, it's only down inside the expression triangle, if I step outside of it it's back to ghost world" Alaric replied.

"Well where is everybody, I figure with the veil down it'd be like ghost-a-palooza" Damon argued and my eyes widened a little as I realized what this meant...the veil was down meaning any supernatural being that has died is able to come back...Kol.

"Not every ghost has a reason to come back to Mystic Falls, just the ones like me looking out for their idiot best friends" Alaric protested.

"I'm more worried about the ones looking out for their enemies" Damon deadpanned turning to me with almost the same train of thought I had, only he was less excited with the prospect but I knew if anyone had a reason to come back then it'd be Kol and more importantly who he'd go for.

"Excuse me gentleman I have a date with one psychotic maniac" I smirked waving before I sped off to find where Elena had gone since that is where I would find my psychotic best friend, I made it to the boiler room and nearly crashed right into my baby brother who steadied me with his hands on my arms.

"Sophia?" he asked shocked.

"Hey baby brother, any chance you've seen a whiny doppelganger around?" I asked looking around since this roof stank of Elena Gilbert's god awful perfume.

"Why?" he questioned, his voice wary making me roll my eyes.

"Not for what you think Stef, I'm actually after the psychotic maniac that's undoubtedly out there hunting her out for his revenge given the fact that Little Gilbert is already dead she'd be his next target"

"Why should I help you?"

"Because I'll distract him from killing her, all you have to do is help me find them and I'll do that" he let out a sigh before he nodded his head and told me that he told Elena to face her grief which easily led me to the graveyard since where else did one go to face grief.

"Now this is what I've missed, two people connecting" I heard stilling me to come to a stop as I was frozen from the sound of it...it was real, he was here. "It's lonely on the other side and I swear being invisible will drive you mad, the way you couldn't see me standing in front of you or feel my breath on your cheek as I whispered all the ways that I wished for you to suffer" I heard the sound of strangled breaths as he undoubtedly lifted Elena from the ground. "But alas now you can"

"Go ahead Kol, kill me...you'll be doing me a favor"

"As you wish darling" I heard Kol's whisper as I was close now and could see him holding up Elena by her throat and although I wanted nothing but to stand back and watch him rip out her heart or her head...I promised Stefan and luckily for me a stake was suddenly shot at Kol from behind making him drop Elena as he spun to catch it and I glared at the figure of Elena's little brother Jeremy holding a gun.

"How many times to I have to kill you?"

"Jeremy Gilbert, welcome back" Kol smiled at him juggling with the stake in his hands. "Now what's the saying...kill me once shame on you, kill me twice shame on-" I let out a sigh speeding forward and grabbed Kol snapping his neck since with the veil down he'd be back.

"That's enough of you Kol" I smirked down at him since that felt kind of liberating given he snapped my neck.

"Elena!?" Jeremy yelled and rushed towards Elena making me roll my eyes, she was a vampire meaning she'd survive. "Hey" they smiled and embraced each other while I almost gagged seeing Stefan showed up and he gave me a look, I nodded and grabbed Kol's body with his arm over my shoulder and sped off as far from the Gilbert's as I could get while remaining in the expression triangle.

I dropped him and perched on a tree nearby pulling out my phone to check in with Nik back in New Orleans but he wasn't really responding which hopefully meant that everything was fine but it still made me frown for the fact that we still barely talked, if things had been like they used to he'd be calling me every hour which meant we really needed to talk since I wanted that again, I wasn't going to forgive him but I at least wanted the passion and love that we used to have since Niklaus was my entire world.

Nik...when I get back I want to talk – Sophia, as soon as I pressed send I heard the dramatic gasp and looked down to see Kol sitting up.

"Hey wingman" I smirked down at him watching his eyes shoot towards me wide as saucers.

"Sophie?" he asked and I recoiled at the name since now I was just reminded of the witch back in New Orleans.

"Don't call me that" I argued as he stood up and brushed off his pants then looked around clearly taking note that we were not in the cemetery anymore. "I took pay backs and snapped your neck, I promised my little brother that I'd keep you from killing Elena"

"You did what?" he asked making me smile a little at the rage he was holding onto.

"You can hate me all you want for stopping your post-psychotic break from coming back to life but who knows how much time we have and I wanted to be selfish and steal you away from your revenge since we have so much to catch up on and I...I wanted us to actually have a goodbye this time"

"Soph" he walked towards me making me smile as his arms wrapped around me so I quickly wrapped mine around his shoulders pressing my face into his neck as I hugged back just as tightly as he was hugging me.

"I missed you so much Kol" I laughed through a small sob, there were tears rolling down my face and for the first time in my life I didn't care that I was unattractively crying.

"I've missed you too darling" he replied as we pulled apart. "So how's things between you and my brother, still trouble in paradise?" he asked and my face dropped a little at the reminder.

"It's complicated and I don't want to talk about Nik when we only have very limited time to spend together so lets not waste it" I reached for his hand but he pulled it away from my grasp.

"I don't intend to waste it, I intend to put an end to those that thought to rob me of my life"

"Kol-" I sighed stepping towards him. "Don't do this, don't go down that path again or all you'll do is spend what little time you have on this plane in a cement incased grave because that's what my baby brother had wanted to do to you-"

"And you would let him, wouldn't you darling?" he asked making me frown.

"Of course I didn't that's why you're here with me, I could be helping them put the world back into balance, the world that you wanted before you died-"

"I didn't die, I was murdered!" he exclaimed at the top of his lungs.

"I know I was there, I saw you burn Kol and I'd do anything to keep you here but you know it's not possible-"

"But it is" he argued making my eyes narrow at the scheming look in his eyes.

"Kol please, just don't do this"

"I'm sorry darling but I have to" my eyes widened as he sped towards me and I felt the sharp twist of my neck as everything went black.

I gasped awake sitting up quickly looking around but who knows how long I was out and I knew Kol was long gone by now even though he was restricted to the confines of the triangle so I quickly got to my feet and pulled my phone out of my pocket seeing I finally had cell reception back so I immediately called Damon to warn him since Kol would be going after Elena and Jeremy and even if I'd rather see them dead I wanted time with Kol still not to see him trapped in a cement grave since all time was all we were gonna have even if that was a game of snap and chase between us.

"Damon, Kol snapped my neck he's gone and he's going after the Gilbert's so keep an eye on Elena, if he shows up you call me" I huffed leaving him a message when it went to voicemail then sped my way towards the town to find Kol since whether he wanted me around or not, he had me.