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I drove for a little while trying to find an not as busy road to teach Kol how to drive. If I was being honest it got tiring and boring and he just had to learn how. He didn't seem to question it until I stopped the car, putting it in park.
"What are you doing?" He questioned watching me take off my seatbelt.
"I'm teaching you how to drive, get off and get on this side now" I demanded and surprisingly he did it without questioning anything. Once he got off all I did was jump into the passenger seat shutting the door he had left open while he got on the driver side.
"Well wasn't that easy for you..." he chuckled, getting settled in and shutting the door.
"Now put your seatbelt on I know we can't die but the ticking noice the car makes is annoying" I instructed and put mines on as well as him. "Okay now fix the seat to your liking just the same as you fixed this one and make sure you can see from this mirror and the other two on the side"
Kol did as told and when he was done he turned to me. "Now with this handle you will put in on D which means drive and press down on the pedal on your left" he did that as well then turned to me. "Now slowly take your foot off it"
When he did, the car started to move forward slowly. "The pedal on your right is the gas pedal. If you press it then it will start moving. I don't really follow the speed limit either but this road it's 30 mhs when you press on it make sure this doesn't go above 30"
Kol did as told, totally ignoring the speed I had given him and pressing the pedal all the way down. "Okay break!" He hadn't got the hang of it so I had to stop the car with magic. "Kol when I say break you're supposed to hit the brake pedal! It stops the car!"
"Oh..."
"Ok now try it again and don't press it all the way down just enough to get it going up to 30" I undid my magic letting the car go again this time him following the speed he drove like that for a while while I just made sure he was doing fine. "Stay in your lane you don't have to move the wheel at all just make sure it stays still"
He continued to listen until we reached a traffic sign. "Okay break '' Kol did as told this time making me smile. "See you got it! This is a traffic light when it's on red you stop when it turns green you go and we are going to turn so put your turn signal on"
"Where is that?" He questioned looking around.
"This one" I pointed to it. "Down is left and up is right pull it up we're turning right"
"This is easy" he showed off, making me chuckle.
"Yeah well there's many other rules but this is the basics now turn" he did as told totally hitting the curb.
"Okay that was okay just don't hit the curb next time..." I complimented and let him drive for a little more, letting him take us back to our hotel and now I had to teach him how to park. "Okay this is the easy parking you're going to park in between those lines just turn and make sure you're in between them"
He did as told, succeeding making me smile. "Good now I don't have to do all the driving!"
"That was awkward. I have never been taught something...you've been teaching me things ever since we got here" he smiled and I couldn't help but smile wider.
"Okay now turn the car off, TV is up next" I got out the car waiting for him to join me to head up to the room.
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Flashback 1950-
"Where did she go?! You have to find her now!" I hear the man shouting far away. My body did nothing but run. I was tired and weak. I have been ingesting vervain for god knows how long. Eventually I lost track of time.
Where was he? Where was Klaus? He should've searched everywhere for me by now. I've been trying to get away from this place for a while now. Every chance I get I try. It hadn't worked until today. When I managed to get up I ran non stop until I got far enough but they managed to find me.
"We know you're out there!" I hear the man shout again.
"What do you want from me!" I shout back while still running.
"She says you're the key," he says, making me stop.
The key for what? I've never been mentioned that before since the day I arrived here. They said a witch had a vision about me. I never really got to know them, they would put me out most of the time.
I kept running. I didn't know where I was going. A part of me was just wishing he would show up and save me.
When I got far enough I bumped into something. A man. I looked up and it was him.
"Klaus"
"Valeria"
I was relieved. He finally found me. I then feel someone take my arms.
It was all an illusion.
"No! Please let me go!" I cried trying to get out of the man's grip but he was stronger.
"Valeria!"
"Val!"
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"Val?!" I'm woken up by Kol shaking me awake. I gasped awake looking around. It was just a dream. A nightmare that I thought was long gone but must've been triggered after all the things I had been told today.
When I regained more consciousness I noticed I was in his arms causing me to immediately get off him. We had fallen asleep after watching a movie when I was teaching him how to work the TV. It was night time now.
"I should go to my room..." I got up from the couch but then felt his hand on mine pulling me back.
"What was that?!" He demanded an answer and I couldn't blame him if he had seen the dream. It was awful. I hated having them. I thought I had gotten rid of them.
"It was nothing" I replied back in a cold tone not wanting to tell him about it.
"Who were those people Val? And why were they hurting you?" He gets closer to me and cups my face with his hands. I remembered that feeling too well I felt so safe in his hold but I couldn't.
"They're nobody's" I take his hands off me and I go into my room slamming the door shut.
Not only did I not want to tell Kol about it but I just didn't want to talk about it. I hadn't told no one that Klaus knew what had happened but I never told him what happened there. It was a nightmare I had kept to myself and didn't dare to tell.
I got into some sleeping clothes and got inside the bed trying to fall back to sleep but everytime I shut my eyes I saw it again. Whenever I had nightmares like this I hated being alone it made me more scared but the only other person here was Kol.
I tried my hardest to fall asleep again but I just couldn't and finally gave in to the thought of going with Kol. I went to his room and when I opened the door he was already asleep which made me second guess my choice but I just couldn't be alone right now.
I walked over to his bed tapping his shoulder trying to wake him. I shook him a bit until he finally sat up.
"What's wrong?" He questioned turning his lamp on.
"Can I sleep with you?" I didn't really know how best to put it but that's what I wanted to do to sleep near him.
Kol laughs pulling the covers down. "Well if you wanted to do that all you had to do was ask darling"
"No! Not like that... I just when I have nightmares Klaus or Rebekah usually sleep in the room with me.." I say, embarrassed now regretting my decision. I looked down, messing with my fingers but was stopped when he put his hand on them.
"Come here..." he scooted over leaving me his spot and I crawled in next to him first facing him. I figured he would turn around but he didn't. He was looking at me and for a moment I was looking back at him.
I had gotten so used to sleeping in the bed by myself. Rebekah wasn't around as often and Klaus would sit far from me drawing or drinking waiting for me to fall asleep but with Kol it was different. It's like I craved being close to him or maybe I was just scared.
I reached back to turn the lamp off now barely being able to see him but we still faced each other I would feel his breath I shut my eyes wanting to see if it was better it had to be Kol was here nothing was going to happen I was out of there i was not in that place anymore.
I couldn't go back to the times where I couldn't get sleep because of that I hated it.
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The sun shined through the window causing me to wake up. It wasn't the best sleep of my life but I at least had made it through. I sat up to see how Kol was still sleeping.
There was something weird about me. I felt such an empty feeling that something was definitely not right. I hadn't checked my phone in a while. I didn't want any calls or apologetic text from my brothers but something told me I had to call them.
I snuck out of the bed and the room to go to mine, taking my phone leaving my door open while I dialed Damon's number and brought the phone up to my ear waiting for him to pick up.
"Ah! Finally you decided to answer my calls !"
"I'm sorry I've been busy but is everything okay back home?"
"..eh yea everything is...fine"
"You're lying...Damon what happened?! You know what I'll figure it out myself" I hung up and went back on my phone searching for another number.
"Everything okay darling?" I heard Kol's voice making me look up.
"Something is missing" I picked my phone up again, this time dialing Klaus' number while Kol waited to get an answer.
"Hello love everything alright"
"Hi I was just um.. I had a..."
"Nightmare" he finishes.
"Yea...I figured it was because of a couple things but I feel something is not right are you guys okay?"
"Your brothers got a hold of white oak and used it to kill Finn. He took his whole sire line down with him luckily we were unliked before it happened"
I took a pause looking up at Kol. One thing I knew about the Mikaelson's was that no matter how much they hated each other and how much they didn't get along at times they still loved each other one thing was to be daggered and another to actually be dead.
They're all they had and they figured that they would always be there. After all the fighting and betrayal of the world ever ended and they had themselves.
Kol might've not gotten along with Finn but I knew just as Klaus he was upset.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Stay put i have to deal with something first but you should get packing and find the first flight out here"
With that the call ended, making me pause trying to figure out what Kol was going through.
"Kol..." I approached him slowly, afraid of his reaction. It was my brothers after all that killed them.
"How did you know? How could you tell something was missing?" He questions trying to avoid any type of comfort. Typical Kol.
"When the witch linked me to you guys it allowed me to feel what you guys felt. Love, fear, happiness. The nightmare I had last night was caused by fear. Meaning Finn was scared. Then I felt him drift away." I explained reaching him.
I placed one of my hands on his arm then pulled him into a hug dealing his bare chest on my skin that was revealed from the tank top I had on. Kol needed comfort. I knew he was upset. I would be if one of my brothers ended up dead no matter how much we had been arguing and all the differences we had it didn't mean I wanted them dead.
"You can pretend you don't care all you want but deep down you know it hurts. I can feel it" he stayed in my arms for a few moments. I even felt him begin to hug back but I knew he didn't want to show his hurt. He hated doing that.
"I don't need your pity Val." He snapped, pushing me away. I felt his grip tighten on my arms. "You're lucky those bastards are your brothers. I would have ripped their bloody heads off by now" I only felt his grip getting tired while he shook me.
"And I will deal with them, I swear. But you need to calm down!" Eventually his grip softened on me and when it did I pulled him in for a hug again. This time he hugged back and let me comfort him, something I hadn't done.
Maybe I had built the trust again after showing my vournability the night before. Even if I hated that I had to go to him we both knew that we found comfort in each other no matter how much he hated my brothers at the moment he still felt safe with me.
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Kol and I got to mystic falls as fast as we could. I wanted to drop Kol off with Klaus first so I could head to my brothers knowing he couldn't see them. He was still too upset.
When we walked into the house Klaus was already there waiting for us.
"Watch him I have to go do something" I snatched my keys from Kol storming out the house.
Kols POV
I wanted to follow after Valeria. I wanted to give her brothers a piece of my mind as well but Klaus stopped me immediately.
"Ah stop right there brother, that's Salvatore business. I need you to go to Denver and find the Gilbert boy. We need leverage" he orders but I ignore him. I didn't want to look for some human boy. I wasn't going to be controlled by him, I had promised myself that.
"Someone told me he and Val had quite the thing for each other" he adds knowing he struck a nerve.
Valeria hadn't mentioned a thing to me about having a fling that was that serious for her to care for him. After the days spent together I thought that we had earned our spark back but there was still something holding her back and I'm guessing it was that human boy.
Vals POV
I storm into my house to see my brothers and Elena sitting down. I put my hands out making Stefan and Damon fly out their seats to the wall. Making both suffocate. Elena jumps out her seat walking towards me.
"Val stop!" Elena pleads, shaking me. All day I had felt this anger inside me. I was so upset about what they did and I just wanted to get it out.
I let my brothers down and I turned around putting my hand on Elenas throat, choking her. At this point I was just lashing out on anyone that tried to get in my way. She tries to get out of my grip but I don't allow her.
I'm then pushed to the ground by Damon.
"You guys are sick" I spat getting back up immediately.
"I'm guessing your little show was because we killed Finn" Damon states as he's checking on Elena.
"Like seriously have you guys lost your minds! You don't understand how lucky you are that you guys are alive right now!" I was not going to let them get away with this. They had done so many things that I just looked the other way for but this time they had crossed the line.
"Yea yea we get it val we messed up" Damon says trying to avoid any further argument.
"No You don't Damon. You know Klaus could've killed you for that!"
"And you would've let him just like you let him torture Stefan all summer" Elena speaks up making me glare at her.
"What I did to Stefan has nothing to do with what you guys did. Elena you do realize that if Klaus hadn't gotten Bonnie to unlink them every vampire in the world would've died including us" I argued back leaving her silent. They hadn't thought that far.
"Exactly but we didn't know that" Damon defended as if it made it even better.
"Well did any single one of you even think about what could've happened to me if every single one of them died?! I would've gone down with them!"
Everyone goes silent. They really hadn't even thought about me and that just hurt.
"Val we..." Stefan tried to intervene by getting closer to me.
"No Stefan, it's fine. I get it, I'm one of them. I can't be trusted" I snatch my hand off him turning around. "Can I at least know what's your next move because if this isn't your sign to stop I don't know what is"
"We are going to go get Jeremy so he can contact rose. She was the one that turned Katherine. Now we want to know who turned rose"
"You're still planning on it?" I question as if my words didn't mean anything.
"We want to know because Alaric's alter ego hid the remains of the white oak. If that ends up in the wrong original heart we're all doomed" Damon replies.
"Screw all of you! Especially you two you did it again you chose her I would've been dead again if it wasn't for Klaus and this time I didn't have a backup I would've just been dead" I paused for a moment they didn't say anything back if they did that was just messed up.
It was true they betrayed me once again. I could hear their conversations downstairs. The guilt was killing them. I looked around my room and took my bag, taking out the two books I had brought with me.
I hadn't read through them at all and decided to do it now to block out the noise until I was interrupted by a knock at my door. I really didn't want to hear apologies but I couldn't help but wonder what sad excuse of an apology they were going to come up with.
"Come in"
The door opens. It was stefan. Of course. He was the one who would apologize first; the guilt was bigger for him especially now that his emotions were back on. He came in and shut the door.
"Listen ...Val it was never our intention to make it look like we didn't care about you. We just never thought about the fact you guys were linked. We do care about you and trust me I was really upset about what happened with Elena letting Esther channel you "Stefan begins to apologize but he was horrible at it.
I didn't want to forgive them. It was tiring to watch them screw up over and over again but it was different this time. Something told me this was not Stefan's doing.
"Or maybe this was your attempt to get you revenge back" I add in a joking manner. One thing I had figured out a long time ago was that it was better to be on their good side than in their bad.
It helped best to know what they were up to so I could fix it.
"No, not at all I deserve what you did. It was my fault that you became a vampire. You just wanted to get even then move on. I get it. But let my emotions get in the way and now we're in this position" he continues. I knew something was bothering him.
"What happened when I was gone?"
He looks at me hesitating about telling me or not.
"Damon and Elena kissed. They can say they don't want each other but I know they have feelings for each other."
I looked at him, seeing all the hurt in his face. He didn't want to let it all in. It would destroy him. The betrayal was too much. That's when I realized it was all Damon. I knew he could be obsessive.
"What do you have here?" He asks, changing the subject pointing to my books.
"Oh um when I went to Portland I learned a lot. Like a lot. Apparently our mother cheated on dad. It's not like the man didn't have it coming but still. She screwed some guy from this crazy coven and that's where I come from." I explain pointing to the book page.
"Wait wait. It says here that mother was turned into a vampire, "Stefan points out from the book.
"Yea but I read more apparently she was stopped by the coven in 1903. I'm guessing they killed her.." I say turning the pages on the book. We're then interrupted by Damon bursting into my room.
"Hey little sister! So I was wondering maybe I could make it up to you by taking you on a field trip to see little Gilbert"
"I hope you and your human girl go to hell but I'm going I can't afford you screwing up again!" I shouted at him and he just walked out like the ignorant idiot he was.
I looked over to Stefan who frowned and got up to walk out as well leaving me alone.
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I had gotten in the shower to get my mind off of stuff. I put on some sleep clothes and I walk out the bathroom to my room drying my hair with a towel. Only to see someone laying in my bed.
Kol.
"What are you doing here?" I ask walking to bed sitting beside him.
"Just checking in making sure you were alright" he answers looking at me with a smirk. "And saying goodbye. Nik wants me to run a little favor for him I just wanted to stop by and give you one last look of my face so you won't miss it"
"Oh please you're so full of yourself" I chuckle, making him smile. We then look at each other. We kept trying to hide it but we both knew there was still love between us. But our pride was too big.
Me for not wanting to forgive him and him trying to prove he was fine with that.
"Val, just know that I'm not giving up on us, okay after these days I realized that losing you is losing too much." He says getting up closer to me, placing his hand on my cheek. "I will never give up until the day you love me again"
Our faces we're now close up. I could hear his heartbeat and I knew he could hear mine. I knew he wanted to kiss me but I just couldn't. It didn't feel right. I turn my head to the side, making him sigh.
"Like I said I'm not giving up" he repeats leaving a kiss on my cheek. He then disappeared.
I still loved him. I really did. But it didn't feel right just yet.
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