Above It All " SEQUEL TO ABOVE ALL ELSE "

Chapter 3

[Caroline 9:36 AM] There. Happy now?!

[Kol 9:36 AM] Much better. Yes. Now get the smell of sex off your body and get down here!

[Caroline 9:37 AM] You just don't know when to quit do you? Never mind. I'll be there soon.

[Kol 9:42 AM] You won't tell Nik about the naked sexting right?

[Kol 9:43 AM] Not that I'm worried or anything.

[Kol 9:44 AM] Really. I'm not.

[Kol 9:52 AM] But you won't right? I'd quite like to keep my liver today. Regenerating a vital organ is a bitch and a half.

[Kol 9:58 AM] Caroline?

[Kol 10:01 AM] I'm taking your silence as your way of saying, Of course I won't tell him Kol. Great! Thanks Darling! See you soon!

Caroline giggled, shaking her head as the notifications came across her phone while she waited for the water to warm in the shower. Her mind working out all the ways she could torture Kol as he worried whether she would tell Klaus about his harmless messages.

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"Eve!" Caroline smiled brightly at seeing the girl as she bounced into the backroom of the club that had been converted from a storage area into a little magic teaching workshop, rushing to give her a hug, "It's so good to see you! You look amazing and your hair! My gosh! I just love the curls."

Eve blushed under her bubbly praise. She had enjoyed the many phone calls and texts she had received from both Caroline and surprisingly Klaus while they had been away. Ever since that dark day of the battle they had both taken to making sure she was adjusting alright and doing whatever they could to help her. Though with only speaking through the phone she had forgotten how bright and full-on the blonde could be. Running her fingers through her long dark hair with the wide curls she just decided to try out this morning, "Thanks. I've thought about cutting it a few times but every time I do I just can't let myself."

"Well it's lovely like this." Caroline squealed in excitement as an idea came to her, "There's this hair style I've been wanting to try but it's so hard to get the right feel for it when I do it on myself. Maybe I can try it on you later?" Withdrawing her phone, she clicked open the video to show the young girl.

Kol threw his head back with a groan, "Yes. Yes. You both have gorgeous hair, but can we get back to the real reason as to why we are here? Magic lessons? Ring a bell to anyone?"

Caroline pouted her lips with a slight mischievous glint in her eyes, "What's the matter Kol? Do you want to finish up here, so you can get some drinking in before your liver is removed?"

She batted her eyelashes innocently at his muffled snarl before pressing her lips in a frown. Normally he would fire back with some inane quip which lead to them verbally sparing, something she had grown to enjoy in their odd brother-sister-friendship, "What's wrong Kol? I know all this weird tension you have going on isn't about our text messages or all the girly excitement over hair."

"Perhaps I'd just like to get on with the magic lessons before my tyrant of a brother swoops in acting like he knows more about the stuff than I do." Kol moved some things around on the table, prepping the area for the start of Caroline's lessons, "Pretentious one he is. Always assuming he knows more than anyone else."

"He went to Mystic Falls to oversee the movers and have a meeting with Elijah." Caroline said slowly, trying to figure out what was so off about Kol's mood.

"Wonderful! Any ideas as to where we are off to this time? Somewhere sunny perhaps? With scantily clad co-ed's prancing about in bikinis?"

"We haven't decided yet actually." Frowning slightly, while his choice of words sounded very Kol-like it was the way he said them, almost with too much enthusiasm, that had her crossing her arms with a demanding tone, "I know where we of going is not what's bothering you, so spill."