Above It All " SEQUEL TO ABOVE ALL ELSE "

Chapter 3

"He saw Bonnie kissing some guy in front of the Grill this morning." Eve muttered from beside her when Kol stayed silent.

"Traitor." Kol snarled over his shoulder.

Caroline winced when she saw the flash of pain Kol tried valiantly to hide, "I'm sorry Kol. I know you had a thing for Bonnie..."

Kol's scoff cut her off, "Maybe it wasn't her that has me upset. Maybe it's the fact that baby Gilbert is alive and roaming around freely after he killed me. Lest you forget that little piece of history."

Caroline marched over to him, his brown eyes rounding as she placed a hand to his shoulder with an affectionate squeeze, "Don't do that Kol. Don't act all devil-may-care about your feelings. Not with me. I know you care for her, but Jeremy is her first love and after losing him the way she did she needs this time to sort all her feelings for him out. They weren't exactly in a good place when he died, and I think she needs to see what it all means now that he's back."

It amazed her to see the most untamed and chaotic of the Mikaelson siblings crumble into an insecure and downright lost little boy right before her eyes.

"You got over your Tyler phase rather quickly and he was your first love." Kol groaned in exasperation at his own feelings, running his fingers through his thick hair, "I've never felt this way about a girl before. I have been perfectly happy running amuck and enjoying whatever fruits came my way. Then in walks this goddess of a young witch who no matter how hard I would try would not fall under my charms and now I don't know what the bloody hell to do."

His brown eyes stared at her with so much depth and confusion, she knew he was waiting for her to say something that would offer him some sort of hope, she hesitated, not sure that she could. "I can't say what Bonnie thinks or feels but what I can tell you is from my own experience. I had to see things through with Tyler until the very end, even when I felt him slipping away from me, or I would have had regrets later. And while I pushed your brother away every chance I got during it all, it was nice, you know? Having this guy who seen me for who I was and was just there. Not pushing me into something I wasn't ready for but always there just on the edges of everything. Making me see things for myself instead of seeing things the way he wanted me to. I guess what I'm saying Kol is that you need to keep being her friend. Be there for her no matter what the outcome might be."

Kol tossed his head back with a groan, "Can't I just kill the boy and be done with it?"

"No." Caroline bit back a laugh at his antics, "You know that will only drive her away. I can't promise you anything here, and I really don't want to get your hopes up, but I can say that Bonnie did enjoy having you to talk to about all the magic stuff. She never had that before. I don't know if you two will ever have anything more than a friendship, but a friendship is a great place to start." She gave him a shove with a stern teasing smile, "So stop ignoring her calls."

A large grin split his face, giving him a boyish charm, "She told you she's been trying to call me?" Hope and excitement filled him at the realization that Bonnie had been gossiping with Caroline about him before his face fell into a hard mask at the cheeky grin she was aiming his way. "If you tell a soul about this..." He trailed off as his mind scrambled to think of a way he could get back at her without damaging himself in the end.

"Can't think of anything worth it enough to risk your brother's wrath?" Caroline teased before relenting, "Don't worry. Not a peep from me."

"Right then. Enough of this girly gossip," Kol made a face like he would vomit, turning on his heels to the table set up with various materials, spin back to her with a feather in his palm and a deadly yet excited glint in his eyes, "Time to float some feathers, darling!"