With a sigh, Kol took his phone away from his ear when Annabelle yelled, "I'm sorry, she did what?!" When Kol didn't respond to her yelling, Annabelle yelled, "I swear, if that bloody witch hurts you again, I don't care what happens to me! I will kill that witch with my own bare hands!"
Kol said to her, "Just calm down, Annabelle. What she did to me doesn't matter. What matters is that I need to find a way to prevent Nik's former blood bag from finding the cure and waking Silas. That's the only thing that matters to me."
After slowly exhaling through her nose, Annabelle asked, "Is there anything that I could do to help?"
Kol replied, "Unless you found a way to get into either the Gilbert home or the home of Damon Salvatore and break him out of wherever they're keeping him, then I'm afraid not."
Annabelle sighed before she said, "Fine. But if you ever change your mind, just give me a call. You know I'd gladly help you with anything that you ask."
Kol sighed once more before he said, "Let me guess. This is your attempt to get me to hand over the white oak stake because of your fear of losing me."
Annabelle replied, "Kol, I'm right in worrying about you because of this. That bloody doppelganger had already killed Finn. The last thing that I need is to lose you as well."
Kol told her, "Well, you don't have to worry. You won't be losing me any time soon."
She scoffed to herself before she said, "That better be the case, or I will—"
Kol replied, "Yes, I know. You won't rest until you find a way to either kill their friends and family yourself or have the witch you allied yourself with to do it for you. I've heard this a thousand times at this point." When Annabelle sighed and started to say his name, he said, "I appreciate the worry you're feeling. I do, but you have nothing to worry about. You and I both know that I can take care of myself just fine, so there's no point in you worrying about me."
She sighed before she said to him, "Fine. If you're sure."
Kol replied, "I am."
Annabelle sighed once more before she said to him, "Just be safe. I'll talk to you later."
Kol replied, "I will."
Then the phone call had ended.
* * *
As he stared at the ceiling of the cellar, Klaus said to Damon, "You know, none of this would be an issue if you'd have just done your job properly." After turning around to look at Damon once more, he said, "I was perfectly willing to let you train Jeremy."
As he tossed a plastic ball up into the air, Damon replied, "No, you weren't. Are you kidding? You got there on day two. Do you know how hard it is to get these X-Box brains to focus?"
As he paced around the inside of the cell, Klaus said, "And then when I turned a room full of barflies into vampires for him to slaughter, you let Kol kill them."
Damon replied, "Your brother problem, not mine, buddy."
Klaus asked him, "And whose bright idea was it to saddle Jeremy with a conscience, hmm?"
Damon told him, "Well, we couldn't have him trying to stake Elena in her sleep, now, could we?"
Klaus said to him, "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?"
Damon replied, "Some people are just more capable of forgiveness than others. Bet you score about a negative five-hundred in that realm."
Klaus said to him, "Come on. There must be a secret. It can't just be the sire bond. What is it? Compulsion? Manipulation?" After a couple seconds of silence, Klaus asked him, "What is it you say to her?"
It was then that Damon had caught the ball and turned to look at Klaus before he slowly sat up and said to Klaus, "I think this has something to do with a certain blond vampire. I think you murdered Carol Lockwood and I think you're worried that Caroline's never going to forgive you."
Klaus told him, "You've done worse."
Damon replied, "Debatable. 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. You do them to be a dick."
Klaus retorted, "Debatable."
Damon shrugged before he said to Klaus, "If you're gonna be bad, be bad with purpose. Otherwise, you're just not worth forgiving."
Just as Damon went back to tossing up the ball and Klaus started to eye him, they suddenly stopped when they heard a sigh from the entrance of the cell.
It was then that they saw Annabelle leaned against the entrance with her arms crossed over her chest and a blank look on her face.
Before either of them had the chance to say something to her, Annabelle asked Klaus, "Is this why you called me here? So that I could listen to your failure at getting yourself into a relationship with that bloody vampire? If that's the case, then I think that I'm needed elsewhere, so that I don't have to listen to this nonsense."
Klaus replied, "On the contrary, little sister. I called you here, so you could assist me in keeping an eye on Damon. After all, from what I heard, you're not exactly a big fan of him. Wouldn't you like to make him pay for being an accomplice in staking you?"
Instead of verbally responding, Annabelle merely tilted her head as she looked over at Damon with a wide smirk on her face.
And just because of that, Damon closed his eyes with a sigh and muttered under his breath, "Oh, brother."
* * *
While Annabelle repeatedly tried and failed to get a hold of Kol through text messages, Klaus said to Damon, "Your brother's lack of communication is infuriating."
Damon replied, "It's one of his trademarks, like his brooding and his hair."
Klaus said to him, "I don't understand what's taking so long. I mean, how hard is it to steal a dagger?"
Damon told him, "From the vampire who's been stabbed by it as many times as your sister, I'd say difficult."
Klaus only sighed before he lightly tossed a tube of blood towards Damon, who only said 'sweet' as he picked the tube up from the floor.
While Damon started to fiddle with the tube, Klaus said to him, "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."
Damon replied, "Well, I am compelled to kill Jeremy, so I figured it's probably smarter to sit in here and chit chat with you and your sister than try to bust out of here like the Hulk."
Klaus asked him, "How do you think Elena felt about that, by the way? 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?"
Damon told him, "She's met me. She knows impulse control is not my strong suit."
As he slowly walked towards Damon, Klaus replied, "Still, must be hard trying to live up to Stefan. I remember when I compelled him to feed on Elena, he fought so hard, he actually managed to resist. Now, that's love."
Damon asked him, "What do you know about love?"
Klaus told 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. All I see is Stefan and Elena. I think you see the same thing."
It wasn't until Klaus's phone had started to ring that Annabelle sighed as she mentally thanked whoever it was that was calling him.
However, the one thing that Annabelle didn't realize was that her relief wouldn't last long.
And while she thought about who could possibly be calling Klaus, Klaus said into the phone, "Well, if it isn't the happy homicidal maniac."
Kol asked him, "Do you know that your darling former blood bag and her brother are trying to kill me?"
It was then that Annabelle had immediately clenched her hands into fists and started to dig her fingernails into her palms, while Klaus said, "What?"
Kol replied, "Don't pretend like you're not in on it. Your obsession to find the cure clearly trumps any sibling loyalty you once felt."
Klaus said to Kol, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Kol told him, "I'm going to rip off Jeremy's arm and kill Elena just for sport. Then I'm coming for you." Before he hung up, though, he said, "Tell Annabelle I'll call her later, seeing as how she's the only person in our family that actually gives a damn about me and is willing to help me with ceasing this damned search for the cure."
Then Kol hung up, which got Klaus to quickly look at Damon before he sped towards the youngest vampire and slammed his back into the brick wall as he asked, "What the hell is going on?"
While Annabelle started to heavily shake as the boiling feeling of her anger grew worse and worse with each passing second, Damon replied, "I don't know."
Klaus asked him, "What is Stefan and Elena planning?"
Damon told him, "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."
While staring directly into Damon's eyes, Klaus said, "Tell me what you know."
Damon told him, "I don't know anything about a plan."
As he continued to stare into Damon's eyes, Klaus said, "Stay here till we return."
However, as soon as Klaus had turned around to exit the cell, he found that Annabelle was no longer there.
The only evidence to prove that she was even there at all were the small splatters of blood that lied on the floor.
* * *
After pulling out a knife, Kol simply walked towards the strapped down hunter as he said to Jeremy, "Now, like I said, I don't fancy the hunter's curse. So, I'm just gonna chop off your arm, but don't worry. I'll heal your right up with a bit of blood after." After holding down Jeremy's head with his other hand, he said, "Sorry about the sting."
While Jeremy simply lied on the counter as he breathed heavily, Kol took a step back and asked, "Now, which-which arm is it? Is it left or right?" After shaking his head to himself, he said, "I'll just chop off both to be safe."
Just as Kol was about to chop off one of Jeremy's arms, Elena quickly sped into the kitchen and threw herself at Kol, which got Kol to unintentionally cut open one of the straps that was holding Jeremy down.
While Kol let out yells as Elena shoved him towards the counter and pinned him against one, Jeremy took off the other strap before he slid off of the counter and grabbed the hose connected to the sink.
It was then that Jeremy had sprayed the water at Kol, who started to scream when the vervain-laced water had hit him.
While Kol simply screamed from the pain of the water hitting him, Elena quickly took the white oak stake out of his pocket and tossed it over towards Jeremy as she yelled, "Jeremy! Now!"
It was then that Jeremy had quickly walked towards Kol and shoved the stake right into his heart, which got Kol to scream even louder.
While the two of them slowly backed away from Kol, Kol continued to scream as he caught on fire before he stumbled his way towards the entrance to the kitchen.
Instead of leaving the kitchen, he simply fell onto the floor with part of his body under a table as his screams ceased all together.
Instead of saying anything, Elena and Jeremy shared a look, but before either of them could so much as say one single word to one another, a thud was heard coming from the outside of the home.
While Jeremy's eyes widened once he saw who was on their knees on the front porch, Elena's eyebrows furrowed before she asked, "Jeremy, what is it?"
Jeremy didn't respond.
He only continued to stare out the front door, which got Elena to slowly turn her head to see that Annabelle on her knees with tears rolling down both sides of her face as she stared at Kol's burnt body.
And while the two of them stared at Annabelle, they couldn't help but share a worried glance when Annabelle started to sob.
Before either of them could say anything to the relentlessly sobbing Original, Klaus was suddenly standing beside Annabelle and taking in the sight of his sobbing sister and Kol's dead body.
After a couple seconds of silence between the four of them– aside from Annabelle's relentless sobbing– Klaus asked them, "What did you do?"
Elena told him, "We-We didn't have a choice. He was trying to cut off Jeremy's arm."
Klaus said to her, "Lies. He never would've gotten inside if you hadn't have set a trap for him."
Elena replied, "You said you were gonna put him down, too."
Klaus yelled, "I was gonna make him suffer on my terms!" After sighing to himself, he looked around the outside of the house as he told 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."
Jeremy told him, "You kill us, you'll never get to the cure. You'll never be able to make any more hybrids."
Klaus replied, "You really think I care for an instant about my bloody hybrids? 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."
It was then that both Klaus and Annabelle had let out screams as Klaus fell onto his knees, which got Elena and Jeremy's eyebrows to furrow, only to stop when Bonnie had quickly walked past the two Originals and into the home.
However, their eyebrows furrowed once more when Bonnie told them, "Invite them in." When neither of them had said anything, she said, "Do it."
When they looked past Bonnie and saw not one but two unbelievably angry Originals, they remained silent for a couple of seconds and debated on whether or not they could outrun both Klaus and Annabelle before Jeremy said, "Come in."
Just as Annabelle and Klaus had started to take a step into the home, Bonnie pushed her hands forward, which got them to both fall onto the floor.
When Klaus remained on the floor, Annabelle quickly jumped back up onto her feet and sped after the two siblings, while Bonnie yelled, "Living room! Go!"
Just as Elena was about to enter the kitchen, she suddenly stopped when she was quickly tossed onto the floor and stopped herself from falling face-first before she looked up to see that Annabelle was heavily shaking from above her with her veins on display.
Instead of immediately standing up, Elena slowly backed away from Annabelle, only to stop when Annabelle had slammed her foot onto Elena's leg, which got Elena to let out a scream when a crack was heard.
As Annabelle's shaking had worsened, she quickly grabbed Elena's leg and picked her up off of the floor and shoved her hand into Elena's chest.
Just as she was about to rip out Elena's heart, she suddenly stopped when a severe pain had started in her head, which got Annabelle to clench her jaw before she felt her arm crack and she was sent flying away from Elena, whose heart had managed to remain in her chest.
After letting out a practical growl, Annabelle screamed, "I'll kill you!"
While Elena was dragged into the kitchen by Jeremy, she stared at the shaking and seething Original with wide eyes before her attention was brought over to Klaus, who ran into a barrier that had practically tossed him away from the kitchen.
While Annabelle had cracked her arm back into place, Klaus sped towards the entrance to the living room.
However, he could do nothing but repeatedly slam his fists against another barrier.
While Annabelle had glared at Elena and Jeremy with her veins on display and a murderous look on her face, Klaus said to Bonnie, "Witch, you can't do this to us."
Bonnie replied, "You have no idea what I can do now."
Klaus yelled at them, "I will hunt all of you to your end! Do you hear me?! Do you?!"
While the three of them had quickly exited the house, the only other thing that they could hear was Annabelle screaming threats after them as she tried her hardest to break free from the containment spell that Bonnie had cast.
And if it wasn't obvious before, it certainly was now.
Annabelle might have been bad before and had been seen as unstable, but this was the worst that they'd ever seen her, and they couldn't help but worry about what Annabelle would do the moment that she was out of her current imprisonment.
After all, Annabelle was the most bloodthirsty out of all her siblings and she didn't care if she got killed in the process of avenging Kol's death.
And that was exactly what made them so terrified of the unstable Original.